The Prince is Everything Wrong with Adult Animation

The brand new adult animated comedy The Prince came out recently, and after deciding to check it out it just might be one of the worst cartoons I have ever seen, why is that? Let's find out!
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[@LSMark]

What did you think of The Prince if you've managed to check it out 🤔

[@user9780]

I didn’t watch it

[@bruhboat5800]

Watched it with my dad Pretty funny ngl

[@tntisbased]

when you get the first comment even before the creator

[@agent_w.]

nice

[@emisepic7733]

sadly never heard of it

[@bocodamondo]

its always ironic when most of these "adult cartoon"s are filled with the most childish and immature jokes you'll ever see

[@milktea6676]

Funneeee

[@ultimatelyawesomeultranigh384]

Also a bad case of adult cartoon characters looking as ugly as possible

[@MacenW]

Meanwhile kids shows like Jellystone have great humor

[@ddjsoyenby]

agreed it's boring.

[@firemiracle]

Meanwhile children shows like the owl house, amphibia, avatar, steven universe, Craig of the creek, and so many more have way better humor and pretty nice art styles. I don't get why adult animation needs to have stupid immature unfunny jokes and ugly character designs 😑

[@parappatherapper6742]

The “art style “ looks like a horrifying mix between Family guy and Big mouth

[@Flamefrosty]

Family mouth

[@Curlyheart]

@@Flamefrosty big guy

[@keziahaikpo1218]

THIS is so true

[@Elitus]

I hate dis

[@1nc0rr1g1bl3]

Makes a lot of sense lol.

[@TheLonelyGoomba]

I can’t believe it has that art style. For real it’s becoming a problem at this point

[@thegodofimagination]

I love your channel so cool seeing you over here

[@MeeMeeCandy777]

Hey!

[@johnbarrientosiii6586]

Ayyyeeee Lonely Goomba

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

@TheLonelyGoomba It's basically an immediate red flag. You see that art style and you know immediately the show is probably going to be absolute garbage. It's not absolute but it almost always is.

[@stevenjobswell]

Thought you were dead

[@JagoHazzard]

It feels like Spitting Image, if it was written by someone who had 24 hours to come up with something and their only knowledge of the Royal Family came from a souvenir stand at a British-themed amusement park.

[@ludi3444]

At least spitting image was funny from time to time

[@belot217]

At least puppets require some effort

[@manboy4720]

that's an insult to Spitting Image.

[@blkgardner]

It's basically parody written by someone who knows nothing of the subject matter and can't be bothered to do the slightest bit of research. That comparison is unfair to Spitting Image. I don't think it's even possible for a British person to write satire this oblivious.

[@NothingHereButMe]

Jago hazard spotted in the wild

[@ComicalRealm]

I kinda feel sorry for the royal children as they're mocked in a show they're not even old enough to watch.

[@johnremizeztomilloso158]

Top 5 KZbin commenters that are everywhere! This is the 30th time I said this 😑

[@randomcroissant930]

@its fine Girl we going to Islam?

[@randomcroissant930]

Also high-key hoping someone responds to this comment with a comment to something that has to do with the original comment..

[@bhf4972]

Just remove all the swear words and it will be e for everyone

[@quagstar]

I feel bad for the royal children in some ways. Sure, they live a very privileged lifestyle, but they are thrown into the gaze of the public and the media before they are old enough to realise what is going on or to consent to it. I know I would hate to be constantly under the scrutiny of the media. Shows like The Prince are making unlikeable characatures of children under 10 years old.

[@ShortHax]

I feel like this show is made out of all the scrapped and unfunny Family Guy jokes over the years

[@Moonlight_Soyuz]

Which says a lot considering Family Guy is ALREADY all the scrapped and unfunny jokes better shows didn't want.

[@Fi___]

@@Moonlight_Soyuz this show is made out of the scrapped scrapped jokes from modern family guy

[@Addictedcoolmos]

and the thing is, they made a british version of family guy in one episode. Dear god am i so fucking retarded I can't even spell family right?

[@MausOfTheHouse]

Says quite a lot, eh?

[@Fi___]

@@Addictedcoolmos Fanily guy

[@MiceWithLice]

“This is worse than the time I _____ with _____.” -almost every adult animated sitcom

[@AAZ-yu5ss]

“You know Lois, this reminds me of the time when adult cartoons used to have actual quality and decent writing in them.”

[@ARG0T]

Old Family Guy cutaway gags were great. Hell, I still sometimes go back and watch seasons 1-4 and find myself laughing at them. However, Family Guy ran their course 20 years ago, and now cutaway gags are the marks of lazy writing.

[@LucasDiblasio]

Modern Family Guy humor

[@lulugu3]

Yew think thit's bid? Rimimber the time I sang La Cucuracha with Paul McCirtney?!

[@knowah1556]

*fades into a cutaway gag* *cutaway gag happens* *fades back to character laughing which becomes a happy sigh* "Ah, the good old days" *camera shows another character who was previously off screen* "Where you even listening" *Insert random unfunny quote from main character that makes absolutely no sense*

[@smileguyanimations8776]

I can imagine the script like: “Ok so basically what’s gonna happen is that something surprising is gonna happen and Prince George is gonna say ‘woah that was surprising!!’” “GENIUS”

[@dontastodgh1067]

"Wow, that's surprising!" - The writers of this show

[@cradiculous]

It's pretty crazy how 95% of all adult animated shows look like flat, stilted garbage while the kids are over watching gorgeously-animated stuff like The Bad Batch. As an artist myself who just so happens to be an adult, I feel insulted by what they think is quality animation for adults.

[@rcmero]

No wonder some people think all animation is made for kids.

[@aaronpaul04]

U really think kids watch the bad batch

[@joshgroban5291]

@@aaronpaul04 star wars is incredibly popular, why wouldn't kids watch the bad batch

[@cradiculous]

@@aaronpaul04 Yes, actually, but I understand what you mean. It's common for adults to enjoy animation aimed at children more than adults the way things are made nowadays.

[@bullet6140]

@@aaronpaul04 Yes, indeed we do.

[@NerdzTM]

the characters seriously look just like how Family Guy portrays celebrities/important figures in a cutaway gag

[@pogcentral9055]

The whole show is just a Family Guy cutaway gag

[@FroyourHistory]

@@pogcentral9055 hopefully someone edits these into Family Guy as if they were legit cutaway gags.

[@pogcentral9055]

@@FroyourHistory I’ll do it

[@NerdzTM]

@@pogcentral9055 i mean it really is. i think someone who worked on Family Guy writes the show, actually i could be wrong but that's what i got from Cynical Reviews' video about it

[@icecreamhero2375]

Its longer than the Conway Twitty one and isn't very funny.

[@SonicBoss1991]

As a British person, I believe that if you're going to make "adult animation" based on the royal family, have British people write and voice it. If anyone knows the jokes and humour it's us. Most people just go: Tea lol

[@Spingerex]

Tea lol

[@evantanuwidjaja8017]

Tea lol

[@tomboz777]

*[C-c-c-combo breaker!]*

[@Nak597]

Tea lol

[@Mamaluigi13]

Tea lol

[@BlackghostLT]

This show feels more like "haha Bri'sh people" than an actual plot driven comedy

[@ThatOneToucan]

Well just go to Twitter for that

[@sarasamaletdin4574]

I haven’t seen this, but it feels like someone’s just trying to cash in on British royal falling being in the news. It doesn’t seem like they are meant to characters to be cared about but humor comes from us mocking them for being terrible. I could tell the servants were supposed to be likable just form the desings before it was said in this video (and that two people next to each other were gay because they were good looking lol, these shows are so predictable).

[@kayiscrispy]

there’s a reason Meghan is the only character that isn’t made fun of, after all 👀

[@hellomitchell]

can u make a vid on bojack horseman

[@dragonick2947]

This show is really the prince of bad adult animations.

[@LiIGremlin]

@its fine shut dafuq up, i'm watching a bad adult commedy 😤

[@cheeseburgerthe1st602]

Big mouth is the queen

[@ppleakage2785]

The terrible prince of adult animation

[@Brain_With_Glasses]

I'd say it's the Dark Souls.

[@admiralAlfonso9001]

This animation is overused and ugly

[@ianh.f3354]

The people who work on these shows don't seem to understand that the reason why adult animation is successful isn't just because of vulgar humor. The most important shows to come out of the genre (King of the Hill, Simpsons, Bojack, even Rick and Morty, and South Park) have a sense of heart in many of their stories, not to mention some clever writing as well.

[@ddjsoyenby]

agreed.

[@channel45853]

They take one look at family guy and see it as a dumb show with comedic bits and celebrity humor and think they can replicate it. But they watch the show, they don't understand it.

[@emmahollow8898]

You forgot about a few shows but I get what you are saying

[@joshlanfrank]

What are the odds we have the same pfp

[@emmahollow8898]

@@joshlanfrank what is that picture of? 😅

[@crazycoot647]

"I miss when adult cartoons weren't just Rick and Morty and Family Guy rejects" - A comment on a Black Dinamite video

[@funnyjoke9225]

This is so surreal, I just read the comment you're referencing like an hour ago

[@theshabs]

Same

[@sirGuy1995]

Thank god Tuca and Bertie got revived. Such a well needed breath of fresh air!

[@BShaw]

I just thought the idea of using the real life children, instead of fictional versions, was really bad taste, imagine being 8 years old and a bunch of people who’ve never met you make a cartoon about you being a brat. Shame on Sophie turner for voicing Princess Charlotte, when she threw a wobbler about the press taking pictures of her own child.

[@demetriuskafkoulas5005]

Cynical Reviews said it best: "You can tell this show was made BY Americans FOR Americans." Edit: You guys I'm an American too, why are you apologizing

[@thesodorengines]

begs the question why would you then have it be set in Britain about the royal family

[@keepyourshoesathedoor]

@@thesodorengines ikr like I don’t want this. I don’t really know who asked and I don’t care about the royal family.

[@nman551]

As an American, I’m sorry.

[@jamsanator0511]

As another American, I’m sorry.

[@monke4163]

Fr

[@agent_w.]

I don’t know why so many of the cartoons that are supposedly labeled for only “adults” are some of the most childish and immature shows on television. i think tv shows like Bojack Horseman is the example that all adult shows should follow that your whole show doesn’t have to be fart joke!

[@admiralAlfonso9001]

Yeah the animation is really overused and ugly too and is really unappealing

[@somik-i3x]

Most children cartoon are more mature than those adults cartoons.

[@show3rge1sussy46]

@@somik-i3x Ik lol. TAWOG has some really funny jokes and adult jokes too.

[@ddjsoyenby]

agreed or final space.

[@Extremezotako]

Ikr, the only good adult shows imo are Rick and morty, bojack horseman, simpsons, and the boondocks

[@MiceWithLice]

Peter: You think THAT’S bad? Remember that Royal Family cutaway that took up 12 episodes?

[@astralux_abandoned1099]

Its funny how kid cartoons went from being looked down upon to being the only really good cartoons

[@pyraffin]

Always have been (Kids cartoons be better than adults, that is)

[@mastermoye3915]

​@@pyraffin Moral Orel and Bojack Horseman are the exception, right?

[@Keyboardeater1]

Making fun of literal real life children in an adult cartoon just seems very mean spirited and cruel. Like, sure, the adult royals are public figures, and open to parody and satire (apparently the Queen has a good sense of humour about it), but making fun of actual kids who haven't done anything to criticize, to the point of creating an entire cartoon series about it just seems like a bad move.

[@sorryifoldcomment8596]

Can you imagine being 8 and finding out some creepy adults just stole your image and name and everything, made their cartoon "character" be literally you, then made their show a depiction of what you personally do - just in drawing form...but voice acted by someone doing your accent, etc. Like WTF, what a mind trip. What the hell

[@iloveutubesince3207]

That reinforces my opinion that "comedians" are glorified sociopaths.

[@iloveutubesince3207]

@Nobody comments are not funny you troglodyte Keep watching Family Guy clones and stand-up creeps parroting "muh victim status" over and over.

[@bigslurpee2078]

@@iloveutubesince3207 Pretty large difference between a stand up comedian and this show.

[@soulbrother5435]

Yeah, the idea itself turns me off. I know royal family has palaces and shit ton of money so they don't care but it's just bad taste. Not to mention stereotypes of british people. It's fun on memes but not on television. Hbo would be cancelled in a minute if they made same show about blacks

[@drag0nerd]

I wish that companies would realize that this art style doesn't look appealing anymore when 99% of adult animation is founded on it

[@camoking3609]

@its fine bot

[@hildahilda9468]

Yeah...its getting super old

[@user-yv3ke7mg2l]

This ain't no artstyle. This is what I call, ass-style.

[@ahopefor]

It never looked appealing to begin with.

[@drag0nerd]

@@ahopefor You know what, hard agree

[@aykay8917]

All the jokes boil down to an American guy saying “It’s chewsday innit bruv”

[@bt3743]

And just like an American. They keep repeating the same joke over and over until it loses whay little humour it had in the first place

[@KarlPHorse]

@@bt3743 On the contrary, the more it irritates you, the funnier it gets for us.

[@solen5529]

@@bt3743 I believe it's called "taking the piss" in the uk, like Karl P. Horse said it gets funnier and funnier the more it irritates you

[@ThwipThwipBoom]

@@bt3743 The point of us Americans saying it over and over again is to annoy y'all Brits and we get to laugh our ass off at you being triggered. We can make more original jokes obviously, we just prefer pissing people off by being annoying and laughing at the hate. Because in the end, there isn't shit anyone can do to us. ;)

[@_Baku]

@@bt3743 wow, seems like you really twisted some american panties with that one, lol. Maybe you didn't say it enough times for them to recognize the humor?

[@bartsimpson83]

The problem I have with "adult content" in general whether it's cartoons, movies or what have you, is that so much of it thinks that vulgarity for it's own sake is funny. It isn't. It's just stupid and cringe inducing. Vulgarity is fine if it serves the plot, as in Clerks 2 for example, but so often it's just there without any real reason. A good example of this is The Happytime Murders. Brian Henson WANTED to make a straight murder mystery but the studios wouldn't give him the money unless he changed it into an extremely vulgar "comedy", basically just because. Why? What purpose does that serve? All that does is insult the audience's intelligence.

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

So that's why the premise was interesting and there was this sorta gem inside of the mud feeling throughout the whole film but it still sucked

[@tornadodee148]

@@airplanes_aren.t_real OMG EXACLY I was like "this has so much wasted potential of mystery and lore" instead the comedy ruined it and almost made me turn it off!!

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

@@tornadodee148 to be fair it's not like Melissa McCarthy has been in any good movies lately so we should have probably seen it coming, hopefully the studio will do something more interesting in the future, I guess on the bright side the crew definitely had a blast during production as we see in the ending credits, kinda wished that more movies did that where they show the progress and how shit works during production

[@quietchap]

I agree with Mark about adult animation practically being forced to be comedies. Apparently unless you're Gendy Tarkofski, who was allowed to bring back Samurai Jack as an adult show, as well as Primal, then you're stuck with raunchy animated comedy shows.

[@alicev1500]

Tartakovsky has the experience and recognition to make what he wants. Execs know that his work will do well and it's low risk because of his reputation. But for someone less known making more artistic animation in the same vein, it's difficult.

[@ianhawke2203]

Agreed, even if a lot of animated adult comedies can be really good.

[@channel45853]

@@alicev1500 animation is about experimentation. Ecpsecially good animation. All the shows over the years we could've gotten that were vetoed by executives, all for shows like the one Mark just talked about. Why can't we have a stoo motion show, a beautiful or expressive 2d show, or a beautiful expressive 3d show. These shows are equivalent to early 2000's universal comedies. Good concepts, poor execution, over floods the market with so much trash that the genre slowly dies. Or has to mix with another to survive. Execs are shooting themselves in the foot.

[@icecreamhero2375]

You could watch anime.

[@omniwaffle3163]

I feel the Harley Quinn show has the best balance between adult animated comedy and action

[@lazarusthibodeaux]

The animation program that all these big companies are using is called: “Abused Koreans”

[@ghost_fueled_scarecrow]

Wait really?

[@BirthdayIsALie]

That wouldn’t have to be Rough Draft Korea, right?

[@ddjsoyenby]

ah my fave it works fast and cheap.

[@icecreamhero2375]

@@ghost_fueled_scarecrow Yep. Animation is too expensive to do in the US. The storyboards and the designs are done here and the actual animation is done overseas because its cheaper. One cartoon takes 9 months to make so they do about 26 at once a year in advance.

[@ghost_fueled_scarecrow]

@@icecreamhero2375 Jesus

[@o0sparky0o95]

I feel a big problem with adult animation is the fact that theyre not treating them like cartoons. Have things be exaggerated, send characters to weird places, make them do crazy things, play with direction so every scene doesn't look like a generic two camera sitcom. These things are possible to do without it being overly fantastical. If you're doing a super grounded sitcom style with an emphasis on writing as the primary content then you may as well just have everything be sock puppets

[@PolentaTaragnarock]

Bojack Horseman is grounded, yet it's one of the best adult cartoons ever. Emotional realism is vital and groundedness in adult fiction can be done amazingly.

[@wascho]

the creator of this show, Gary Janetti was a writer on family guy. that alone says everything we need to know about this entire show.

[@takeshitatnall5496]

This is the kind of animation that says "I hate everything about animation"

[@ultrachadstinctgoku7579]

"I hate my life and havent slept in 3 days."

[@Xploshi]

Do Chicago Party Aunt next there’s so much awesome terrible adult animation to digest 😍

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

Yo!

[@Curlyheart]

Hi Xploshi!

[@diegodunn-humphrey512]

Agreed

[@SlapstickGenius23]

Hahahaha, I Hope Chicago party aunt is better than the prince!

[@SnugWugs137]

wut dafuq

[@nonamesorry7135]

"Demi Lovato is nonbinary. You just hit me with your hat." I haven't seen this show, but these ain't even jokes, they're just... observations? And like... obvious observations? It's like I told someone "hey, you have blue eyes." and uhhh, expected them to laugh like yeah??? You have blue eyes??? Nice???

[@alexanderlane6115]

Maybe we're all missing that The Prince is a satire of shitty adult animation and intentionally makes non-jokes structured like jokes to make fun of how bad the comedy in some of them is Of course this hypothesis takes place in an alternate universe where the writers of The Prince understand comedy and artisic intention

[@lietofraudit]

I worked on this crap at Bento Box Atlanta. It was an absolutely horrific experience beginning to end. Management was abusive and the animation, background, and character teams were working mandatory 50+ hour weeks to keep up with the ridiculous deadlines. If you fell behind, you were yelled at and threatened with termination, which caused a good chunk of the team just to burn out. The “creative” higher ups in LA thought they were making “art”. They would constantly shit on “rigged” animation too (even though it’s a fact that rigged animation can look as good if not better then hand drawn… just look at anything Mercury does) and told us that they specifically wanted a “hand drawn” look to the show… translation, they want it to look like Family Guy where the characters are all standing around stiff as a board. Any and all attempts to add… actual animation… to the animation was crushed and the creators were always sending us condescending notes when they something we did didn’t fit their “artistic vision”. That being said, ALL the artists who worked on this are TOP NOTCH and were completely underutilized. I painfully remember the very first animation meeting for the show and the animation director told us that the mandate from the “creative” team (the higher ups, not the artists) in LA is that they wanted a “Family Guy” look to the animation. This was over Zoom but you could still “hear” the collective groan from the animation team. I remember that moment very clearly. Should have quit then but I rode it out… I regret not quitting. I also worked on Paradise PD, which was funny enough a much better experience! I can watch it without feeling horrible about my time on it. And I actually laugh from time to time. The management team was great and supportive and so were the creators! I never felt like I was killing myself on that show. They really appreciated the hard work the animation team put in and they let us know. Say what you will about PPD but they know their audience. They have no delusions of grandeur that the show will somehow be this great work of art. The humor is stupid and lowbrow and it’s proud of it. The characters exist to tell stupid dick and butt jokes. Not my cup of tea humor wise but it obviously has a fan base seeing as it has 4 seasons with no signs of stopping. So yeah, that’s my experience on Prince. I can happily say that I was ecstatic when I heard the show was not being renewed by HBO. Good fucking riddance.

[@MASF_]

Excuse me? The artstyle DOES NOT look like Mr. Bean the Animated Series. While that show looks odd, there is some charm to the caricatures and the animation is smooth, stretchy and bouncy especially with Bean's facial expressions and movements. This looks more like a Family Guy fan thought he could be the next Seth MacFarlane and hired the cheapest animators he can find to make a Family Guy clone based on the royal family.

[@Juply]

True.

[@stupidass69420]

Definitely! especially how the mouths move so rapidly and jarring in this show and (modern) family guy

[@channel4ripoffcompany404]

It’s funny you say that because the creator of this show was a producer/writer on Family Guy lol

[@GippyHappy]

I though for sure this was a Seth McFarlane show like the way the mouths move is exactly the same, the flat boring movement- everything. They even have Stewie!

[@gergelygalvacsy2251]

“The characters are just standing around waiting for their next queue” holy shit, this show was animated in The Sims 4

[@pussypussypussypussypussy]

some fan-made Sims 4 shows are much better than this

[@pepperhead7589]

11:58 As Lord Hater once said “Animation is so hard! People who do this for a living deserve more credit!” Ah what a legend

[@RockLikeABoss]

And respect, don't forget the respect

[@theanswerisa3758]

Why can’t we get adult animation that just focuses on dark concepts instead of gratuitous violence, swearing, and sex Besides bojack horseman that one is good

[@pyraffin]

Yeah like imagine if Legend of Korra was under adult animation instead of kid's, what horrors they could've explored (and been allowed to actually develop Korra and Asami's relationship on screen)

[@TechBlade9000]

Executives

[@RangoAnimations]

@@pyraffin there was moral orel

[@gamerman782]

@@pyraffin When a kid's show is darker than an adult show.

[@candycane1744]

Helluva boss kinda has those things but it offers more as well

[@creampuff4119]

“I enjoyed bojack horseman a ton” *smiles* “But that show never once managed to make me laugh” *slowly frowns*

[@Curlyheart]

Tv shows dont make me laugh because my humor is broken and baby villagers make me laugh

[@keziahaikpo1218]

The fact that I enjoyed it a lot and I was still able to laugh. It handled sadness and comedy very well

[@thatdanjamesguy.330]

I can’t argue with LS Mark here though, Bojack was way better at being a character drama than being a comedy. That’s why the first few episodes before the dramatic elements kicked in were less well received than what came later.

[@creampuff4119]

@@thatdanjamesguy.330 I agree that it’s more about the characters but it does have some really clever humor. I get saying it’s not the funniest show (bc it’s not really a comedy), but saying it’s never made you laugh just seems unrealistic

[@Tinky11221]

To be fair I also loved Bojack Horseman but the humor didn't click with me, it's one of the reasons Todd was one of my least favorite characters.

[@ForseeFantasy]

As an American, allow me to apologize to the British by saying, we Americans didn't like this show either.

[@adamp.3739]

"Modern shows are about pandering to as wide an audience as possible. Screw quality writing, unique animation or interesting characters - we gotta pander, pander, pander for as many dollars or quid as we can get!" - HBO, probably

[@nman551]

Indeed I too apologize on behalf of America.

[@channel45853]

I don't. We haven't wanted stuff like this for a long time.

[@jimmilton6644]

dont apologize i doesn't matter dude

[@digitalunity]

I refuse to apologize for something I have elected to disown

[@Impicide]

i like when character are assholes BUT only if they have improvement over time, specifically if its like just the one character

[@muffin1168]

Watch Kid Cosmic. The main protagonist can be annoying, and he doesn’t change that, except a little. But it does it in an impressive way. Watch Alpha Jays video on it. Edit: The show is on Netflix

[@Thot_Patrol_USA]

dude this show aged even worse when the queen died it already aged before it premiered because of prince phillips death but now the queen is dead too

[@CrunchyMotorsport]

I can't wait for the UK to make a 'parody' of the presidents.

[@stanstanstan2597]

HUR DUR HUR, WOOK AT DUH BAD ORANGE MAN

[@jamieshields5679]

Spitting image 🤢

[@keepyourshoesathedoor]

Hopefully it’s funny.😂

[@adamp.3739]

Oh wait, the UK HAS done that. Spitting Image, I wonder how that went... Huh? People loved the British critique of the US President? Yeah, we'll pretend we didn't see that...

[@ladyspicy6840]

There already is a cartoon called "Our Cartoon President" but idk if it's made by brits

[@Brain_With_Glasses]

Imagine Prince George getting bullied at school all because of this show.

[@elliepredator_fan1111]

I’m pretty sure he’s home schooled

[@NE0N0W0]

He'd probably buy the school lmao

[@howmuchmilk2586]

He’s not home school actually he goes to a primary school mixing with the public, but I’ll say one thing, I mean never NEVER have I seen lockets like that in any British school. You can tell the have never done their research 😂😂 it just hurts

[@stinkymart3173]

I don't think many British people will watch this show

[@QuarkGamingLLC]

Can't wait for season 2 where the Queen's ghost haunts the place but all she does is say fuck you to the people and they don't know cuz she's a ghost

[@videon6134]

Yeah about that (assuming you didn't hear) HBO canned this show in February.

[@littlegyro8340]

@@videon6134 Good

[@CringyBoi42069]

@@videon6134 Was this show removed in the HBO max purge because I hope it was

[@videon6134]

@@CringyBoi42069 I don't know

[@CringyBoi42069]

@@videon6134 Looked into it and yes it did survive the purge which makes the purge worse because shows that are actually good got removed but this shite stayed

[@nateowen1064]

A lot of cartoons aimed at kids are more clever than adult cartoons because they can’t rely on swearing, gore, and sex jokes

[@dankmemes8254]

Literary early cartoons and 2000's ones are the golden era

[@SSKJ64]

The animation is only a half-step above Go-Animate

[@MajinWeabuu]

Go-Animate videos are way more entertaining.

[@ShowCM]

At least some go animate videos are actually funny

[@SSKJ64]

@@MajinWeabuu yeah at least they are funny

[@SSKJ64]

@@ShowCM Exactly

[@theamazinghippopotomonstro9942]

Caillou, how dare you watch badly made cartoons about the royal family. That's it, you are grounded grounded grounded grounded grounded grounded grounded grounded grounded grounded grounded for 8487294900184778391 years. Go to your room right now!

[@quagsirestudios4606]

Pretty Much Adult Shows right now: "I say bad word, now laugh,"

[@positivea9111]

This is like KZbinrs being Loud=Funny,but the problem is being loud all the time doesn’t make it funny.

[@ericcartman7361]

@@positivea9111 basically Leslie Jones

[@dargle]

It's like they took the "chewsday innit" joke and made an entire tv show out of it

[@nyx8823]

Every "adult cartoon" nowadays looks the same...

[@sirchubbs9492]

Worst things about this show: The art style, it looks lazily made. It’s not funny at all. No story at all. Complete garbage

[@nxgua]

Lmao I bet you didn’t even watch the show

[@MausOfTheHouse]

@@nxgua You liked it?

[@sirchubbs9492]

@@nxgua :( I saw the first 3 episodes on hbo max

[@nxgua]

Nah I didn’t like it sorry I just assumed you didn’t watch it and based off your decisions off of mark

[@sirchubbs9492]

@@nxgua nah it’s fine a lot of people just listen to KZbinrs

[@lemmehitthatco2]

Honestly almost every new adult animations shows are either god awful or actually good, never in between

[@alexander2019.]

We’ve been getting a lot of awful stuff for some time

[@CyberLance26]

I hate how almost all American adult cartoons must be comedys and we very rarely get adult cartoons about other things like action, adventure, horror, crime and other stuff. Cartoons for kids that are not comedys is a rare thing nowadays too.

[@StrayGiaco450]

@its fine kzbin.info/www/bejne/p2rCfpZjf8dlrMU

[@batfang25animations39]

@@CyberLance26 not really if you ask me there’s actually quite a good amount that aren’t comedy and other things plus who cares if it’s comedy as long as it’s good

[@CyberLance26]

​@@batfang25animations39 The old Spawn show and Castevania are the only American adult cartoons that are not comedys that i can think about at the moment and i prefer action, adventure, horror and other things like that over comedys.

[@Big-Image]

I believe the reason kids cartoons are more sophisticated than adult cartoons because, like anime, they appeal to a wide variety of audiences regardless of age. I think when a piece of media leans too much on a single demographic, whether it's youngsters or adults, the whole thing falls apart.

[@crashy918]

Good news, everyone! The Prince has been cancelled!

[@raijinslider6837]

Every character design in this show looks like you walked up to a caricature artist at a local fair and asked them to draw the royal family

[@CosmicKeyframeProductions]

I remember Olan Rogers when talking about the latest season of Final Space, how he had to really push the network/executives to allow more drama and “not funny” episodes (which explains the whiplash of tonal shifts in the middle of the latest season). I wish streaming/television adult animation would take notes from animated short films and realize that the medium of animation can tell amazing stories outside of comedy. Half of Love Death and Robots is horror and existential concepts. Also I just don’t understand who the prince is…for? Royalists won’t like it, anti-royalists won’t care/ not like it cause it’s not British produced, and Americans know jack diddly about the royal family. Just, why?

[@ddjsoyenby]

yea.

[@channel45853]

It's like if they made a show about Joe Biden and released it where you live. You didn't want it or ask for it.

[@iwakeupandboomimarat]

honestly american execs feel like the general population care way more about the royal family than they probably do 💀

[@channel45853]

@@iwakeupandboomimarat we cared for a bit when the whole royal relationship between Prince Harry and Meghan (forgive me if I gotten that wrong) and then we all stopped caring after that. What was that, like two years ago?

[@iwakeupandboomimarat]

@@channel45853 oh yeah thats true, but even then im british and i struggled to recognize people in this show 😭

[@theirishstew]

This feels like a massive missed opportunity to do a Spitting Image and satirise a lot of the controversy the royal family have landed themselves in like the Oprah interview, Prince Andrew's shortcomings, etc. But no, we just get a bargain bin Family Guy.

[@lordfreerealestate8302]

YES! I would've loved to see them feature the recent contreversies and kind've "take the piss" out of the Royals. Instead, we got ... this.

[@chrishenniker5944]

If it was more like The Thick Of It, W1A, focusing on the bureaucrats, it could work.

[@YeezyGayBumSex]

Best part about recent events is that it destroyed any hope of a season 2

[@funky-k0ng770]

lmao

[@CynicalReviews]

How dare you steal my idea, sir. I demand satisfaction! Only pistols at dawn will suffice. Jk

[@mindshuffler3332]

No wait, I wanna see the cynical anthropomorphized dog duel with the child-looking animation!

[@foxpro3002]

Hey cynical

[@joojojoj956]

This is quite the british moment

[@Gentlemenpickleesq.]

"Sir I demand satisfaction! (glove slap on face) I challenge you to a duel! Are you a coward!?"

[@greenhowie]

It's always fun betting on who will get their review out on stuff like this first, Saberspark's lagging behind this time.

[@karatebat5156]

And unsurprisingly the show was cancelled.

[@jenniferivan5056]

9:39 This, did NOT age well.

[@Danominator]

Given the quality of Disney's animated shows as of late, it's really sad to see more garbage like this popping up all over the place.

[@YujiUedaFan]

Plus the good stuff gets cancelled a season or two too early.

[@RyanYeehaw]

yeah exactly, the Star Wars shows and What If...? are leagues above this nonsense

[@Jonathanest90s]

By Disney, you mean 20th Television.

[@deathmetalstudios434]

@@Jonathanest90s 20th television animation yes

[@GodOfOrphans]

Sorry to say but this trend is going to get worse before it gets better, course correction is long and excrutiating.

[@charlotte4440]

Family guy's art style cursed the world of animation of adult animated series

[@crunchdoof]

“Hey Louis everyone looks like me now!”

[@ThomasOwOD]

Fam guy is great,I have watched it all like twice

[@icecreamhero2375]

Family Guy looks better than this show.

[@ThomasOwOD]

@@icecreamhero2375 ikr fam guy is grwEa

[@Hermit__]

@@ThomasOwOD art is subjective. So i respect your opinion :)

[@RocknRoll301199]

Mark: The story is just "What if the royal family was mean?" People who lived in their colonies: "If?"

[@JohnnyDeere]

Big mouth marked the end of an era: when mature animation became bland and diluted. When your only options for format were family guy or big mouth. Mature animation became just sex jokes and unnecessary gore. What ever happened to being bizarre, wild, radical, out of the ordinary or exceeding expectations? Whenever I hear the words "adult cartoon" now, I just picture big mouth in my head.

[@itspunishmenttime6325]

The whole show is really just a bad Family Guy skit that was rejected so the creator chose to make an even worse tv series.

[@psychonaut1502]

Spitting Image parodies the Royal Family at times and it's actually really funny. It also doesn't go after the kids.

[@mealwheels3562]

Spitting image also does 1 minute sketches with the royals. They don’t do 22 minutes of just the royal family and they don’t target the children for the entire sketch like the promise of the show like the Prince.

[@franciscoorellana2733]

This whole thing seems like that part of joker when murray says "alright im waiting for the punchline" but just until that part, as if it never shows what happens after.

[@haventakalou6530]

A thing I’ve noticed in animation is that kids animated shows often have far better Comedy than adult ones. I think the reason for this is because while adult shows can just throw a few slurs about and call it a day. Kids shows don’t have that option and actually have to think about what their going to spit at us.

[@byzantineboi8345]

If this is what Prince George becomes then I shall revolt and Claim the crown for myself

[@stanstanstan2597]

Hell, I might do it, and I’m American

[@thegodofimagination]

A Byzantium on the throne of Britain well we had a Greek Prince till this year so makes sense

[@theotherjared9824]

Despite being on HBO Max, fox animation technically created and produced this show. This makes it yet another family guy clone, but disney finally put their foot down and passed it on to whoever would take it to avoid responsibility.

[@andrewmanchiraju8005]

I would say that the Castlevania Netflix show is one of the few adult animated shows that is not a comedy. It takes itself seriously but still has some humor in it.

[@therealparlemen]

0:28 BRUH i though the queen was talking

[@fruity3693]

Same

[@stproducciones9140]

There's something very weird and almost creepy about making fun of real actual children who have done nothing wrong (unless you're one of those schizos who thinks being born into royalty is already a sin worthy of mockery). Also, political shows like this and "our cartoon president" are the laziest form of satire you can make. Don't like someone? Make them into unlikeable cartoon character. It goes to show the creators are incapable of creating their own world and cast of characters.

[@sorryifoldcomment8596]

Yeah, they literally did not create "characters." These aren't characters...they are real life human people, whose exact forms they copied and pasted. All they've come up with themselves is the dialogue. What these people say, while in the settings the human beings are currently already living in and speaking in.

[@PolentaTaragnarock]

Just a problem: those people are assholes, not "Schizos". I don't see what Schizophrenia has to do with it.

[@jobdylan5782]

@@PolentaTaragnarock you are also a schizo

[@starkillersneed]

@@sorryifoldcomment8596 Not exactly. A lot of the way characters act in this show are nothing like what the royals are like. For example, the Queen irl acts like a very stereotypical posh, stuffy Brit, which could make for great comedic material (if not a bit cliché). In The Prince, they just went "LMAO what if this lady that looks like everyone's grandma was super rude and said bad words?", as if that wasn't just as much of dead horse trope. And I don't even need to say that the real Prince George isn't a Stewie Griffin clone either.

[@hollowwoods7130]

You can just say idiot. Why use a real mental illness to attack people you disagree with?

[@SwaggyG_2102]

This is why people need to understand that adult animation isn't just sex jokes, toilet humor, and vulgarity. There's some good adult animations out there that don't rely on the three tropes to be appealing towards its audience.

[@ddjsoyenby]

agreed a show like south park is clever in it.

[@ChisomagaIhezie]

And Bee and puppycat.

[@Good_luck_.]

I feel like the good adult comedies are aiming to relate the the actual struggles of adults but the bad ones just aim to relate to what children think adults are like when behind closed doors

[@theboi5584]

“I don’t see the appeal of a show where everyone is an a**hole 24/7.” Welcome to Family Guy.

[@Ganondorfdude11]

The jokes about Prince Phillip seem in poor taste now that he's dead. And he died before the premiere too, so it just seems awkward he's alive in the show.

[@mistydayremainsofthejudgment]

Prince Philip was a bad person

[@MASTEROFEVIL]

When the trailer said someone from Family Guy created this show I instantly knew it was going to be terrible

[@BugsyFoga]

I miss the 90's to early 2000s era of adult cartoons where they tried to be unique and creative rather than generic family guy clones.

[@karolinks5718]

I mean.... The prince is literally a family guy clone. It's worked on by the same people

[@onigames7309]

Even Striperella had heart.

[@micjimster4845]

Exactly it's why I liked clerks tas and undergrads so much I know people dunk on family guy for being ha ha ha unfunny pee pee poo poo jokes and while that's true for Morden family guy classic family guy had genuine fun and great character interactions im telling you Morden fg and shitty shows like the prince have made people think that fg was never good.

[@kittycheshire5099]

I'm gonna be honest, this show feels really disgusting. Mocking the Royal family is mostly fine, but mocking the kids? They haven't done anything yet, and they didn't ask to be born into the public eye. It feels so gross to misuse their names and image like this. Imagine growing up to learn that a show like this was made about you when you were eight years old, and some grown ass adults decided that they needed to make a mockery of you while you were still learning to read. Disgusting.

[@TadRaunch]

We should've let Family Guy die when we had the chance

[@crunchycrispychip3266]

Duckman, F is for Family,Rick and Morty, Bojack Horseman, Daria, Drawn Together (not the movie), Clone High, South Park, Futurama, Bob's Burgers, King of the Hill, The Boondocks, The Critic, Mission Hill, The Oblongs, Archer, Undergrads, Ugly Americans, Castlevania, Final Space, The Midnight Gospel, Solar Opposites, Invincible. These are all great adult animated shows if you're looking for something good to watch after witnessing whatever the hell "The Prince" is.

[@Keyboardeater1]

Tuca and Bertie too, but a lot of people missed it due to Netflix mismanaging the release.

[@natsuki7325]

@@Keyboardeater1 it’s super good

[@zachtheowlhousefanhall973]

Don't forget about Helluva Boss,Beavis and Butthead,Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal,Infinity Train and Harley Quinn(2019)as well!!!

[@MeeMeeCandy777]

@@zachtheowlhousefanhall973 But I don't like Infinity Train. It is boring to me. Sorry. I prefer to rewatch Total Drama series (not counting the second spin-off) and The Ridonculous Race than that show.

[@scoutman66]

Rick and Morty was not that great to me. The humor basically came down to "Haha we're funny because we're being overly complex and elaborate"

[@EnigmaticGentleman]

Modern Family Guy, but its the royal family. Also i have no problem with parody of public figures, but some of these kids are EIGHT AND YOUNGER. That will haunt them for the rest of their lives for stuff they had no control over just because the writers were too lazy to think of any other concept for Hulu's next adult show

[@gammawolfiechu3492]

_Man, this video hits different now_

[@eggsbenedict7711]

I gotta say, it's really sad that every time a new adult show is announced, it's usually just another modern family guy... over and over again...

[@blandpotato545]

They should have made a joke about the queen being immortal. Maybe that would have at least been sort of funny

[@randomprotag9329]

it feels like the show was a generic family gut clone given a royal family skin at the end of the writing process before any more specific jokes be added.

[@tornadodee148]

Eh, I feel that has been done to death too🤷‍♀️

[@randomprotag9329]

@@tornadodee148 the show is in such a state already that an over done joke thats more specific to its theme is better than generic mean joke

[@tornadodee148]

@@randomprotag9329 good point.

[@ajaxmaxbitch]

welp...

[@Obi-Wan_Kenobi]

This show also feels extremely unethical because it spends its entire runtime making fun of a real life 8 year old. Like this is borderline child abuse and the wrong doers are adults with a million dollar budget picking on a literal child. IRL kids cry when someone cyberbullies them with a mean email, I can't image how a kid must feel if an entire animated show is making fun of them and their family. It's one thing to make caricatures of adults in the royal family (although even then there's a big difference between thoughtful satire and jokes that are mean just for the sake it), but Prince George didn't even do anything wrong except for being born. It's not his fault he was born into this family and I've seen way too many kids get their lives messed up because the public couldn't be decent humans beings and just treat famous kids with the kindness they inherently deserve to be treated with. Disney stars get messed up when people make fun of them as teenagers, how do you think Prince George is going to fare when he's 8 and people are already making fun of him for no reason?

[@lordfreerealestate8302]

I'm critical of the monarchy for many reasons (Prince Andrew, IE). But yeah, doing this to a kid is punching below the belt.

[@sungexpression9093]

This is such a reach. It’s not about an 8 year old. It’s a parody

[@aelanarbrightfield6817]

@@sungexpression9093 Do you think a kid could fully comprehend that to such an extent as to be completely unaffected? If so I pity your understanding of human emotion and development.

[@sungexpression9093]

@@aelanarbrightfield6817 being offended by a comedy is such an unlikable trait

[@racool911]

@@sungexpression9093 Well when the comedy is basically making fun of how terrible of a person you are, I feel like being offended is valid, especially if you're an 8 year old

[@presidentbenjaminfranklin7207]

British reviewers getting mad about this show is the best part of the experience.

[@littlegyro8340]

He's Irish.

[@Oreoboi51]

- bad acting - terrible art style - terrible animation - immature humor - loaded with random cuss words - no character development - terrible plots Yeah sounds like every single adult tv show now

[@YeezyGayBumSex]

Thank the lord for Smiling Friends

[@michaelmcgrath6552]

When I was young, I've have a dream of making my own cartoon series since I enjoy the cartoons that I watch everyday and I want to do the same thing as well. But as time goes on, I realize that I'm not just following the dream because I want to, but because I have to. Since the entertainment industry (especially adult animation) has stagnated or has began to stagnate, the quality of animated cartoons are going down drastically. If the animation industry keeps going at the current rate it's going through, then it'll either become irrelevant or die out which are both outcomes many people would not like. I think at this point, I'm gonna have to be the one to create an animated series that'll both challenge what people think of adult animation and be it's own original series with little to no influence from other adult animations like the Simpsons or Family Guy. Hopefully I should be able to get a job in the animation industry after graduating from college. Wish me luck.

[@nightly145]

Same here, I’ve always wanted to make my own adult animated shows. I’ve already have a few that I’ve been working on since I was little, I want it to be independent so I don’t have to worry about companies taking over and changing things. But at the same time, I am always doubting myself about what if ppl don’t like it. The shows I’m creating are not going to be comedies considering there’s too many comedies in adult animation and I want them to be an actual adult show that tackles real life subjects, have relatable characters, and whatnot. I’m going to college soon to learn how to be an animator, so hopefully in the future, I can own my own inde animation studio to make it happen.

[@harlannguyen4048]

Good luck to you both.

[@Danimations2015]

Props to you, good luck!

[@DigiYF]

Good luck, both of you. Revolutionising an industry probably isn't easy, but it's impossible without someone willing to try; wish you the best!

[@weregretohio7728]

This series sounds like the end result of Family Guy's popularity.

[@A1t3ra]

2:09 this guy looks like a character that MeatCanyon would draw

[@emmanimate]

I feel so bad :( I’m an animation major in college and one of my friends was actually a PA for this show. Preeeetty rough. Usually I love supporting my friends but sheesh this was rough. Anyways, an unexpectedly great piece of adult animation was Q-force! Genuinely really funny.

[@CometCereal]

The trailer really didn’t do Q-force justice, I was very surprised when it was actually good.

[@emmanimate]

@@CometCereal I knowww! My friends and I are all in animation and like even we had very low expectations. Now I’m praying that there’s a season 2 😭

[@giantpinkcat]

Yet, ANOTHER example of how Early 2000s humor just doesn't blend well with Modern Audiences.

[@goldylover1000]

Hell, even early 2000s adult cartoons were funnier than this. Aqua teen hunger force Clerks animated Harvey birdman attorney at law. The problem isn't the early 2000s type of humor The problem with the humor is the family guy schtick done to death If there was another adult cartoon with clerks animated style of humor I would watch the crap out of that

[@giantpinkcat]

@@goldylover1000 I meant those from the Comedy movies where 99% of the jokes are about farting, swearing, lowkey Homophobia/Transphobia, etc.

[@goldylover1000]

@@giantpinkcat i agree But then again clerks animated was witty in its writing which this show is not going for. I await for more smart humor adult cartoons besides close enough and most of rick and morty (some episodes suck though. But season 5 despite 1 episode is better than seasons 3 and 4.)

[@subifyouhatetiktokandreddit234]

@@giantpinkcat 😂 The show is literally created by a gay guy, why do you assume just because a gay character is badly written it's Homophobic???

[@giantpinkcat]

@@subifyouhatetiktokandreddit234 They made George a little queen, which pretty much reinforces Gay stereotypes we've had since before I was conceived, and cancels out the diversity points for the gay couple in the show. Like I once said: Masculine Gay Men exist.

[@Foshifosho]

The problem with adult animation is that we don't talk about the weirder, more interesting shows like Primal, lazor wulf, midnight gospel, stone quackers, disenchantment, etc.

[@justasimplemanworkinghiswa1569]

Would you classify Invincible?

[@themfdoomguy]

Americans writing British characters doesn't work most of the time

[@RespectableRick]

I feel like the genre of "adult animation" is really just wasted potential. Here is a great opportunity to create cartoons with potentially more complex and adult themes and stories. Yet nearly 90% of the time, all they manage to come up with is mindless nonsense with ironically quite juvenile and childish humor.

[@KingJRool.]

This was the first animated show I felt bored watching, the humor was basically f-bombs and other childish stuff

[@sakurabloom4485]

Same and i like adult comedy

[@Kingdoge10564]

Why does it even exists in the first place????? I don’t really like Rick and Morty but Rick and Morty Beats this by a mile!!!!

[@markkenny3528]

Rick and Morty is a brilliant show compared to this.

[@antoinedesgagnes9969]

Having an adult animated series mocking the Royal Family would have been a good idea: - In the 90's - with a more nihilistic approach...including in the art style - made by people from the Commonwealth...or at least by people who have genuinely something to say about the Royal Family...or by using the Royal Family...I mean Alan Moore is English and had something to say when he put Nixon and Kissinger in Watchmen.

[@LudiusQuassas]

I still can't get over the fact that they turned Prince Philip, the sharpest wisecrack in the entire family, even straight-up roasting Charles on more than one occasion, into almost literally a still image. Sure, he was ancient, but if there was ONE royal made for a comedy, it was him. He was an absolute quote machine.