Top 10 Worst Cartoons of the 1980's (Part 1)

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[@jasonblalock4429]

I'm an 80s survivor and stumbled upon this. I just have to say, as a kid who was OBSESSED with all things Nintendo... I couldn't stand Captain N for all the reasons you mentioned. You're 100% right. The fact that it was made by people who clearly didn't give a crap about the games\characters was totally obvious, even to a ten year old.

[@Ghostlyking-tc3vu]

Jason Blalock I hated that show too

[@Ze_eT]

@@Ghostlyking-tc3vu As someone who never watched it and still likes Nintendo, the cartoon looks like BS.

[@lhaviland8602]

80's survivor lol.

[@WillieManga]

I didn't play much of the Megaman series. For some reason it wasn't as accessible likely because of Capcom's hiatus on making Megaman. And even I find Megaman's disservice in the show most unfortunate. That said, I grew up more with Castlevania which I still am a fan of to this day. I dunno; being a vampire hunter is just too cool a concept to pass up. The Belmonts aren't robots or angels, they are just kickass humans. So their portrayal of its characters is the one I am most offended by. I kinda get Simon was headstrong in Castlevania lore but that's no excuse to flanderize him like that. Dracula, or The Count is laughable compared to his video game counterpart. Alucard... oh boy. It was years before Symphony of the Night was released, I get it, but his Generation X elements are obnoxious and I feel like Wayne's World was a better representation of it. And there is also an old wizard who is apparently supposed to be Sypha... who is male here. Needless to say the Castlevania anime was a better representation of the characters. Hell, the Ruby Spears Megaman cartoon was better use of Megaman and Super Smash Bros was a better gathering of iconic and former Nintendo IPs. Ultimate even had Simon, Pit, and Megaman in the same game, which by the way is awesome.

[@spydersoup8447]

Well, at least Knox Robbins' Captain N reboot looks promising and definitely a much better improvement. Also for the fact that Pit (The character whom in the orignal show is named Kid Icarus. I'm surprised that Mr Enter didn't even mentioned this problem like most reviewers would when looking into the show. Although I saw a multiparter review of this show and although he mention the fact that the character's name is Kid Icarus when he's supposed to be named Pit, but he didn't even mention Samus Aran's absence in the show like Mr Enter did. So, I guess this is kinda no different here) is a lot more well known today than he was back in the 80s, mainly due to his return in Brawl and the popularity of Uprising that came out afterwards, so, including him as part of the main cast of this reboot is actually not a problem now.

[@bluedragon9925]

It's quite ironic that the decade in which the US government's "War on Drugs" kicked into high gear just so happened to have the highest concentration of shows that you could almost swear were made on drugs...

[@profesae]

BlueDragon992 20th century as whole was fucked up 💀

[@viviannemj4232]

Probably just the hangover.

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

On the second thought, the 60s was full of drug-addicts and hippies were everywhere. Animation in the 80s always manipulated by advertising until Ronald Reagan decided to put an end of this.

[@WillieManga]

Maybe that's part of why the war on drugs kicked off.

[@masterfarr8265]

that or tax evasion

[@dynad00d15]

The 70's : When LSD was the center of creativity. The 80's : The decade that became a PSA for LSD damage to the brain.

[@michaellovely6601]

The 80s is also a decade for the beginning of the D.A.R.E. program to encourage kids to avoid any type of reckless behavior.

[@sergiorubens8475]

Same for the 2010's and the 2020's

[@lightning_elextra]

I showed this video to my mother, who was born in 1977, and she told me that she legit thought Shirt Tales was a fever dream she had when she was 5 years old.

[@magicalranter224]

Literally about an hour ago, I was thinking “when’s the worst 80s cartoon list coming?”

[@Thewritingelf]

Okay I was totally thinking when was this coming out and here we go ! Let's dive in.

[@LikaLaruku]

I'm waiting for the worst cartoons of the 60s.

[@CAT-2323]

I'm just waiting for new Mr. Enter videos after this. I know he has his flaws but but I admire him and his videos anyway.

[@lilaniloxi]

@@LikaLaruku i dont think he's gonna do it,at least not now.

[@c.w.r.794]

The 1980’s. A decade of things happening for the sake of things happening.

[@TheAllSeeingEye2468]

wasn't it great? I mean apart the ones that sucked the 80s was a truly weird and wonderful time, nowadays Hollywood seems to be trying(and failing) at recapturing that magic. news flash that time is done time to make something new or at the very least do some research on what made that thing your trying to recreate I.E. don't do what the directors of gem and the holograms did

[@Ashkihyena]

Theatre Geek Still better then today, I'd much rather live in the 80s then the shit that is the 2010's.

[@kelleybowe4513]

The 80 were weird

[@BullworthGraduate]

@ kelley bowe - Weird, but not mundane.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

@@BullworthGraduate It's true even the 90s were less predictable then the last almost 20 years now. There was a definite specialness to the 80's it was before cartoons had ratings and they pushed it hard. There was definitely a lot of envelope pushing something I do miss, cartoons are very safe and sterile for the most part now. There's a real banality to it. The 80's had a spark that is and was undeniable.

[@averagebritishguy7082]

Fun Fact: Not only did the California Raisins get a cartoon, there were also plans for cartons based on Chester Cheetah and The Noid.

[@Hammerhead547]

The noid had a couple of cameo apperances on the california rasins show.

[@Vulpes_Ailurus]

I mean. If you’re going to make a Cartoon based off of a food mascot, you’d have to do Chester. Right after you do senpai Tony.

[@masterfarr8265]

Vulpes Ailurus no that can't be true. prove it

[@Vulpes_Ailurus]

Master farr there is no need to prove anything. Tony is the cereal daddy.

[@masterfarr8265]

Vulpes Ailurus i was talking about the chester cheetah cartoon

[@critica77y77]

This comment section: 10% People complaining about Mr Enter talking about the 80s 90% People complaining about people complaining about Mr Enter talking about the 80s

[@cloudlion1610]

Nailed it

[@pillowcasecorner7519]

Probably got buried

[@SorowFame]

Pillowcase Corner yeah, this tends to happen a lot, a bunch of people say something in the comments, then people react to that with their own comments which bury the old comments and make it seem like they're complaining about nothing.

[@makhdias6907]

@@SorowFame It's Called The Zitdentz Effect.

[@aaronlandry3934]

The 80s was a decade of throwing shit at the walls and seeing what would stick. The results were either awesome, hilariously ridiculous, or bat-shit insane.

[@Tornado1994]

Snorks,Gummi Bears, Chipmunks and Ducktales: ALL Awesome. Punky Brewster Cartoon, Care Bears, Gary Coleman Show: ALL hilariously ridiculous. Filmation's Ghost Busters, Captain N and Denver The Last Dinosaur: ALL Bat-Shit insane and Terribly Executed.

[@Wuzwrongwitdatdolla]

A creative trend that continued into the 90’s and 2000’s. That changed in the 2010’s when the trend changed to just rebooting something from the 80’s or 90’s.

[@bschuler6216]

They had some really sticky walls in the 80's.

[@BennyLlama39]

Speaking of things sticking to the walls... anyone remember Wacky Wall Crawlers?

[@mr.meloetta1939]

1980's? BRING ON THE *V A P O R W A V E*

[@leonardogomez8812]

Your name feels so right yet so wrong :|

[@SamanthaPortUkulele]

Vaporwave is 90s, you're thinking outrun.

[@mr.meloetta1939]

@@SamanthaPortUkulele _let me have my moment_

[@aeroblu2002]

Oh yes

[@dernekromantsino4109]

Retrowave > vaporwave

[@fredjones2170]

I love how Captain N had Mother Brain from Metroid as the main villain, but Samus - Metroid’s main character - never appeared once, because the writers “had never heard of her”. Just goes to show how laughably bad that show was

[@WillieManga]

If they said they didn't include her because they didn't know what to do with her, I'd be more fine with that but it would still beg to question why did they make Motherbrain the villain? Make Dracula the villain; he is awesome! Speaking of, it is clear that the producers didn't even play the games. Even Castlevania Judgement gave Simon a more likable personality than the Simon in the show. Sypha Belnades apparently appears as a Merlin knockoff. And they didn't seem to know what to do with Pit either. Yeah, his name was Pit in the games. And of course, Megaman looks nothing like himself and Rebeltaxi called him an "underage chain smoker" because of his coarse voice. And all the villains are as weak as Dracula's boss battle in Simon's Quest.

[@dynostretch9215]

While she didn't appear in the show, in the Valiant comics, they did a number of Metroid stories, including having Samus appear in a few Captain N stories. I actually think they did pretty well depicting her character. She's a tough customer, occasionally can rush into situations, but once she figures out her enemy she can come up with pretty devious tricks to fool them. In one Captain N comic she tricks Mother Brain out of 10 times her bounty, and in a Metroid comic she booby-traps her own blaster to fool a fellow bounty hunter when he tries to kill her with it. It's depressing when an American comic book company can make a more interesting Samus then her original creator could in Other M.

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

@@dynostretch9215 It's even more depressing that comic books in America are dying right now... all thanks to a blue-haired, obese protester who always complained that men ruined her life, along with minorities. So she wanted to ruin American pop culture to prove that white men have blood stains on their hands like exposing who they really are by shaming them. I'm not even American but letting the comic industry to die because they deserve it isn't going to be right at all.

[@masterfarr8265]

there was gonna be metroid cartoon where samus was a guy

[@WillieManga]

Oh, and they probably only just saw the box art for Mega Man at the very least because the quality of the "Blue Bomber's" design in the cartoon matches that quality.

[@styx6661]

So, comments section, not being in the 80s means you have no right at all to say something was or looked bad? Because that's sound logic.

[@American-Motors-Corporation]

not true many of the shows and cartoons from the 80's carried over to the 90's thats why technically today it's the same shows and movies that we have been watching for 30 years that is why hollyweird is dying!!

[@styx6661]

@@American-Motors-Corporation I'm not talking about Hollywood. I'm talking about cartoons. They're not connected in my statement.

[@American-Motors-Corporation]

@@styx6661 right you need to read then comprehend what you read!! because i mean that yes we do indeed have plenty of right to comment via we have been repeating the fucking 80's since the 80's!! logic!!

[@styx6661]

@@American-Motors-Corporation You never stated anywhere beforehand that what you said was to prove that you are allowed to comment on this video. And you don't have to act so hostile when someone tries to refute your reasoning, even if what I'm saying is wrong.

[@American-Motors-Corporation]

@@styx6661 not true many of the shows and cartoons from the 80's carried over to the 90's thats why technically today it's the same shows and movies that we have been watching for 30 years that is why hollyweird is dying!!

[@chipperviews]

80s let's just throw something at the tv and see what sticks

[@chipperviews]

Mike Burnsy yeah that sounds more accurate

[@KeybladeMasterAndy]

Bologna: the series.

[@davidhong1934]

Transforming...brick... science...cat... popsicle? Well, the darts have spoken!

[@LikaLaruku]

Just add that to the list of things the 80s revived from the 50s & 60s.

[@societysmostambiguousgirlb1495]

Let's just see what stickicus

[@squidge477]

In anime you die and get reincarnated as a vending machine. In the 80's you befteind talking rubix cube with a yoda face. *SHUDDERS IN WEIRDNESS*

[@alphamone]

Most of the weird Isekai stories (like the vending machine) aren't actually getting adaptations. I'll leave it up to individual opinion as to whether it is a good thing or a bad thing.

[@zombies4evadude24]

Why does “Reborn As A Vending Machine” even exist? I haven’t read the manga yet but I’m seriously interested to see where this all goes.

[@inky5574]

@@zombies4evadude24 And I thought the title "That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime" was odd (I haven't seen it, but I heard it's good)

[@jackofalltrades4753]

Guys please, he's not really saying the 80s was ALL bad. There is some good to it, and I'm sure he'd agree. But when its bad, its REALLY bad, and its the same for every generation. It just takes a reasonable person to distinguish between the good and the bad. So let's pick apart the bad stuff, shall we? 10. Well, off to a good start already. Was this necessary, a cartoon based on the RUBIX CUBE!?! If this is where we start, then we're in for a ride. 9. One of many Scooby Doo ripoffs, an advertisement based off something that didn't need a cartoon, and an overall bland show. What's not to like? 8. They had potential, and they messed it up. One of the ad cartoons that could've worked given their popularity, and they messed it up. They could've made the plots interesting, the characters a bit more recognizable, make the songs work, but guess what, they dropped the ball!!! 7. Ah yes, Captain N, its pretty much this show's fault (as well as the other video game shows at the time) that people are a bit more hesitant to do more shows based on video games. Thankfully they're at least giving them a try again, and with some effort. This on the other hand, I genuinely can't stand it. It got so much wrong on so many levels, and I'll never forgive it for that! 6. I was never really into sitcoms in the first place, animating them only makes them cash grabs, and bad ones at that. These are just nothing more than bland shows attempting to capitilize on the popularity the shows these are soullessly based off of in an attempt to grab kids' attention.

[@gman4736]

Don't I know you from some comments on Brandon Yates death battle OST's?

[@strawberryfieldswhenever]

I could understand people hating Enter if he criticized something like Ducktales or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mr. Enter actually stated that he likes the original Ducktales cartoon), but who would defend crap like Rubik the Amazing Cube, Captain N: The Game Master, or Gilligan's Planet?

[@dustycrustyhomelessman1648]

we have surpassed dead sea levels of salt in these comments

[@gman4736]

No, were past death battle levels of salt

[@ryanhoward3383]

No "Care Bears" or "My Little Pony?"

[@ycastro2003]

Fun fact: TMNT & Transformers actually first started as comics.

[@joeytheslimeboi8900]

yolanda castro thats true, while Harley Quinn was animated first

[@MrJohnffrey87]

And the original TMNT comics were not kid friendly.

[@otakon17]

Hate to correct you, but originally Tramsformers was an unrelated set of transforming toys from Japan that was marketed was what we know nowadays as the Transformers fiction.

[@joeytheslimeboi8900]

otakon17 to quote dunkey, “oh shit I forgot about that”

[@paulrippcord506]

If I remember correctly a Hasbro executive saw them at a toy convention and fell in love with them, made a deal with Takara to bring them over to the States, and brought in Marvel Comics to write a comic as well as give the characters biographies. The rest is history.

[@lordkaijux5262]

Wow.. This comment section. I have no words at all. To think that in an era where money-pumping toy making cartoons was such a vast cavalcade that touched the hearts of all. Most of the shows had cliches that everyone has seen time and time again. Hell shows like He-Man and Thundercats were mostly so bad it's good. Another thing to point out... The 90's wasn't exciting most of the time either yes cartoons became more interesting, fleshed out, and a spectacle to view countless times but that era had it's flaws as well. It's not surprising to say that every era of cartoon had their pros and cons. The 2000s had good and bad cartoons as well as recent years. Coming up with a cartoon takes effort and creativity for better or worse and those shows were the creators' goldmine for the companies. The next era will be no different too there's bound to have more bad than good cartoons for the upcoming generation to expect. For the people complaining about his disdain of the 80s shows are no better than to shit on his views it's called perspective we all have it.

[@sageforasennight]

This entire comment section leads me to believe that this hypersensitivity culture that we're currently living in didn't cultivate with the millennials. All of this emotion because someone has a different opinion of your era of cartoons! Let's be adults in the comments section like we are in real life. While the Eighties are a cultural goldmine, Y'all know full well that everything about it wasn't gold. MANY (not all) of the cartoons of that decade were merely vehicles to sell merch/toys, to capitalize on the popularity of a celeb at the time, or to ride the coattails of a popular movie (that many times, the original movies weren't even kid-friendly). These cartoons were cheap, painfully average and forgettable. I'll defend GOOD '80s toons only (even if they're vehicles for selling toys).

[@chrissysbaby]

I've spent the past 30 minutes laughing at this comment section. It's a fuckin goldmine lmfao

[@ZerryBerrytheSpaceRaccoon]

Let's be real here: The music is the best part of the 1980s.

[@spookyrosev6467]

Sage ForASennight I mean the opening line...the less said about the better ,but otherwise I agree. No decade is perfect! Literally none, even relatively good ones have its downfalls and even problematic ones have some progressive upsides or at the very least cool aesthetics to them

[@grugonk]

The Real Ghostbusters cartoon was great, at first.

[@timothymclean]

You mean that millennials _aren't_ a uniquely spoiled and horrible generation responsible for basically all of our society's ills since they were toilet trained?

[@vvadoicurbalvvadoicurbal8517]

Shirt Tales sounds like Shark Tales.

[@loganmansiongames]

They are both garbage.

[@loganmansiongames]

I heard that too.

[@zzz43344]

@@loganmansiongames Yup

[@tsarmikislav938]

Ones a horrible piece of poo And the other one is a masterpiece

[@tsarmikislav938]

@Marcus Straya in an ironic way

[@Filthnails]

Child of the early 80s here. Kid Icarus was probably part of the cast because he was still considered part of Nintendo's big names back then. You're low balling his popularity a bit from back then, despite the lack of sequel. Pitt, at least for the time, was still considered one of their big identifying characters, although below Simon and mega man. Fun fact, Captain N was originally going to be a cartoon with the main character being the kid from Paperboy, but they weren't pushing that at the time. You can still see prototype art online of the concept. As for Samus, she would appear in the comic version. As for the cartoon, cartoon studios downplayed having non damsel female characters because they believed their action figures wouldn't sell. Scarlet, Lady Jane, She Ra, and maaaybe April O'Neil were as close as we got to having action themed heroines in anything. And yes, the 80s were fairly bright and odd. Lastly, doesn't Rubix kinda sound like Foamy from Illwillpress? And mega man sounds like the Slurm aliens from Futurama imo.

[@Tornado1994]

80s child here to. Born in late '82. I watched Captain N during 1989-90, thought it was lame and corny. But am shocked today on how poorly this show has aged.

[@gracekim25]

Filthnails cool

[@DumpsterFire.92]

Lady _Jaye._

[@KnakuanaRka]

He seems to have regained his popularity for a while with the release of Uprising, so I guess a lot of people have forgotten that his first game was originally a pretty big thing.

[@aflhabalafhabab]

You’re not alone. I also noticed that Megaman sounded like one of the slurm slug aliens. I forgot what his name was... Glurmo?

[@b64stuff]

Toys, games, cartoons and music. The 80s.

[@blazeofglory4053]

80s music & games are pretty sick, though.

[@WilfredCthulu]

And as we can see by this video, one of those things in general did not hold up quite as well as the rest.

[@Reagan1984]

Ronald Reagan

[@tomservo8065]

I guess not much has changed in that regard, but the styles are so different.

[@Gtarox45]

Toys, games, cartoons, and music Literally any decade

[@MoteofLobross]

Haha! Gilligan's Planet! I remembered watching that on Saturday mornings when I was five years old. In later years when I told people about the show, they'd be like "What the hell were you smoking?". Then one day, we were trolling the VHS section of Movie Trading Company back around 2000, I found a tape of Gilligan's Planet and was all "READ IT AND WEEP, BITCHES!!". From then on for the next few years, we made it a habit to sweep flea markets, video stores, ect, for the worst of the worst old cartoons. I think a friend of mine in another state still has the collection we amassed. BTW Gilligan's Planet was Filmation, not Hannah Barbera.

[@BadWebDiver]

I wonder if this was before or after the animated series of My Favorite Martian. That one was half decent.

[@xxuberxjasonxx3456]

Somebody should brainstorm the parody version like "hey is that lil' Epstein on Gilligan's planet?" until I make my dad braindead 😂😂

[@chrissysbaby]

Woah what happened to these comments. It's like exactly two days ago, everyone who grew up in the 80s suddenly became aware of this video and decided to shit all over it because, for some reason, they don't understand this is specifically a list of bad cartoons lmfao

[@M644theawesome]

I have no idea where they all came from, talking about dumb things, even though there were a ton of bad cartoons in every generation, even the 80's, but i still have no idea what happened

[@lildaffy1695]

Its simple. They are either A. Nostalgiafags B. Hipsters from Buzzfeed C. *I WAS BORN IN THE WRONG GENERATION* kids i dont think people who lived through the 80s ever bother to read the comment section except "nostagic" millenials since most of them have fucking *smartphones* .

[@mikeymladi9279]

Nostalgia is OVERrated. Change my mind

[@LocalGooberGoobs]

Comments? I only see people who complain about the comments

[@a-s-greig]

@@LocalGooberGoobs YT buried the actual downer comments at the bottom. They're still there tho.

[@CantusTropus]

Aaah, Captain N. The videogame cartoon where none of the characters even remotely resembled their videogame counterparts.

[@meowtherainbowx4163]

Do you think it had to do with the characters being rendered in such primitive graphics on the NES? Maybe the artists just thought they could take liberties.

[@rathsilk456]

@@meowtherainbowx4163 box art never forget the box art

[@SporkSlayer]

Well excUUUUUUse me. *princess*

[@merrittanimation7721]

That wouldn't excuse Mega Man's color scheme. I'm not even sure he was ever green in any of the many terrible box art covers the franchise has had.

[@seanmyster6]

Yeah, The Super Mario Bros. Super Show at least deserves credit for making all the characters recognizable from their game counterparts.

[@HumphreyHorsehead]

"They're not even singing, they're just speaking in rhyme" It could be worse, 1 decade later and they would have been rapping.

[@ExtremeWreck]

Rap was a thing in the 80s too. It just wasn't as widespread.

[@greeeeenery]

the best thing about this video is all the old people getting offended in the comment section like go do something productive like your taxes instead of defending cheap animation. there is nothing wrong with feeling nostalgic for these things but yall are taking this video waayy to personal

[@M644theawesome]

Agreed, its like this is the first video they have ever seen with criticism, it's so stupid

[@Lambda_Ovine]

Who the fuck would defend that Rubik´s Cube?

[@dylanshort1661]

@@Lambda_Ovine yeah these shows are pretty bad its not like he's criticizing the Smurfs.

[@willowbarrelmaker8269]

powerstar 2028 ... This is the decade that brought us Adventure Time, Friendship is Magic, Bojack Horseman, Amazing World of Gumball, Regular Show, and tons of other brilliant cartoons. At least it wasn’t the 00s... *shudders*

[@anneson4724]

@powerstar 2028 okay boomer

[@redactedredacted1860]

Also, Enter, don't listen to the haters. You're just doing your job.

[@arielruh7773]

Yes thank you Mr. Enter rules

[@BugsyFoga]

The 80's : the decade where toy commercials were promoted as cartoons 😁👌

[@HackiePuffs]

Nathaniel Foga how come I see you everywhere 🤣

[@prestonfontana8416]

Still very much the same today.

[@ycastro2003]

At least G1 Transformers & TMNT 87 were ok however most of their successors are better.

[@foxtoons1999]

I don't quite get the hate for making a cartoon based on toys. It's just taking a toy and giving it a story. I'm sure most of you did the same when you played with your toys. I mean, even today with My Little Pony and Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse; just because a show is based on a toy doesn't inherently make it bad. (G1 MLP was decent and laid the foundation for the franchise.) That said, did a Rubik's cube cartoon really need to exist?

[@annana6098]

@@prestonfontana8416 I think many animators have bigger plans for their characters, but they have to fight with the networks. Generally, networks hate story arcs. They don't like continuity, they want to run episodes in random order, or the episodes that get the highest ratings, without having to worry about skipping the episode where the character gets mentored and gets the magic thingy he needs to finish the arc. Avatar the last airbender started out with a kind of "villain of the week" vibe, but then escaped it. Teen Titans was a quality show with story arcs, TTG is four spongebobs being so random, and cartoon network marathons the hell out of it.

[@totallynotjeff7748]

I clicked off of Kanye West meeting with the president to watch this.

[@technologyproductions-ye3px]

How could you?!

[@naught_.]

In all seriousness, though, Kanye West isn't as good of a Hip Hop artist as many people believe, let alone the "artist of a generation". Most of his music merely takes the most basic, surface level elements of other genres (like Rock, Electronica/Industrial) and adding little to no new perspectives on said genres. In general, his discography essentially adds up to nothing more than generic pop culture pastiches mixed with pseudo-philosophic ideas of divinity and omnipotence. Easily one of the most superficial, one-dimensional musicians I've ever heard.

[@totallynotjeff7748]

@@naught_. also he says stupid stuff on twitter.

[@paulrippcord506]

You just avoided two bloated egos frotting against each other.

[@Eronicavel]

I am now imagining a shitty 80's cartoon all about the adventures of Kanye West and Donald Trump.

[@fubukifangirl]

You have to admit that the California Raisins did have some good songs, even if they didn't fit the plot.

[@disneyfan8178]

Hanna-Barbera didn't do "Gilligan's Planet". That was done by Filmation.

[@GentleIceZ]

"Shirt tales is just a scoobydoo rip-off" Well, maybe it's not "The first episode has the characters tracking down a suit of armor that left a museum." ... Well, at least they're doing everything they can to hide it!

[@corncake4677]

“I hate my birthday. It reminds me that i’m different.”

[@roadhouse7597]

Idk why, but your profile pic oddly fits your comment.

[@roadhouse7597]

@Simple Weirdo Norwalk

[@VladamireD]

@@clarelabellerose Megaman was depicted as a robot in the cartoon, so his "birthday" wasn't actually a birthday (it was the day he was activated).

[@lugbzurg8987]

IT'S THE JUNKMAN!

[@1visualfxguy]

As a millennial, everything I know about 80s cartoons comes from Robot Chicken lol.

[@ZerryBerrytheSpaceRaccoon]

The 1980s: Amazing music Ridiculous fashion Bad cartoons

[@dylanshort1661]

@powerstar 2028 2010s had some really good cartoons

[@dcb99filmz]

Bruh it's more like a mixed bag...we had the awesome shit like Transformers, TMNT, etc....and then you have all the garbage on this list. did I mention the 80s gave us some badass anime like Fist of the North Star, Saint Seiya, Dragon Ball, Golden Warrior Gold Lightan, Zillion, Urusei Yatsura, Akira, Macross, and many others?

[@willowbarrelmaker8269]

dreamcastboy99filmz is back Anime is its own beast though, to be fair. Different culture.

[@dcb99filmz]

@powerstar 2028 same...

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

V A P O R W A V E

[@donutchan8114]

My sister overheard me start watching the rubix cube bit and didn't believe me that it was a rubix cube until I showed her the footage, and she just looked so confused, basically expressing WHYYY with her eyes.

[@donutchan8114]

@Finland If I had taken a picture and were able to share it would've made a bigger inpression. It was a face that needed to be seen.

[@ClunkerSlim]

The video is wrong about Rubik The Cube. He missed its most important aspect. It was one of the first depictions of Hispanic heroes in Saturday morning television. Even the theme song was sung by a semi-popular Hispanic band. It was a huge step forward in diversity at the time. But I can see how a white kid looking back 30 years might not be able to see that.

[@gulfgiggleanimations4472]

Was about to correct Enter on the whole calling Pit, “Kid Icarus,” but then I thought, “Wait ... NO! THEY CALL HIM KID ICARUS IN THE SHOW DON’T THEY!” Kind of makes me glad they didn’t have Samus in the show, she’d be a man and they’d call him Metroid.

[@Pinkanator]

Well, she was in the comic and came out fine... ...don't look up the Robot Masters or Kraid and Ridley though...

[@gulfgiggleanimations4472]

Considering what they did with Mother Brain, I prefer the changes they made to Kraid and Ridley ... also Cutman looks like he’ll cut you ... man ...

[@Pinkanator]

there's a full video on the Robot Masters, and they get worse and worse.

[@supersmashattack3888]

Poor Alucard had gotten it the worst..... that wasn't radical at all....

[@markcobuzzi826]

“Y cant Metroid crawl?”

[@njsullyalex2744]

7:22: Mr. Enter: "And the cube knows it, because, writing is hard!" Me: So I use a pointy pencil POINTY POINTY POINTY POINTY POINTY POINT I know, wrong time period...

[@kylemorello4787]

PU what's that horrible smell?

[@masterfarr8265]

Kyle Morello DRUM SOLO

[@Constructivecynicism]

I have a head It ends in a point POINTY POINTY POINTY POINTY POINTY POINT

[@njsullyalex2744]

@@Constructivecynicism THIS SONG IS OVER EXCEPT FOR THIS LINE _______________________________________

[@masterfarr8265]

NJ Sullyalex You win this round..... BROCCOLI

[@bcs9000]

Hanna Barbera used to be the Seth McFarlane from 80s, ripping its own franchises for creating "new stuff"

[@jgdsgh]

Ironically, Seth MacFarlane started off at Hanna Barbera

[@frankreasoning7993]

Hey man before I watch this I wanted you to know I really loved your "Eras of Animation" series. It was so interesting! It'll probably get less views than other content, but I think it's worth producing.

[@anonymousidea9119]

>title says 80's >hovers over video >Adventure Time good ol youtube.

[@isobelmiller7464]

What does "hovers over video" mean?

[@DELTARYZ]

It was used as an example to prove a point, with a visual aid. Is that a problem?

[@anonymousidea9119]

with the mouse @Isobel Miller

[@anonymousidea9119]

no, it's a joke @DELTARYZ

[@bobbyferg9173]

Honestly the whole “video preview” thing just doesn’t work for KZbin and they kinda just shoved it in their because they saw others doing it.

[@imp8684]

*3 months ago* Enter: 80s we’re pretty weird 80s kids: *_REEEEEEEEEEEEE_*

[@dudenamedzelda3179]

Also Teenage girls: *REEEEEEEEEEE*

[@tazinboor3913]

What’s *REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE* is that a new meme or something?

[@XanthinZarda]

Things like this make me glad that I was mostly limited to PBS shows.

[@adamkalb1]

It's too bad you had to wait until 1996 for Arthur. June 9, 2019, 12:07am

[@kotlolish]

Fun fact: Videoland is a rental store service herein the Netherlands... it's still around not renting but.. being a streaming service like Netflix. Anything Netflix doesn't bring to Europue they do insted :P

[@TheAllSeeingEye2468]

clifford had a tv show in the 80s? wow that kinda blew my mind

[@isobelmiller7464]

So did The Berenstain Bears. I've actually seen a couple episodes of the 80's Berenstain Bears cartoon because there are some episode tapes in a room at my grandpa's house. Each tape had two episodes; the first was based on one of the original Berenstain Bears books, the second was kind of bizarre and featured some talking animals (I don't mean the bears. There's episodes with talking catfish, talking bees, and talking termites)

[@carlosdavidg7]

It was actually one of the first cartoons i ever saw

[@tomtheconqerur]

I was expecting a red rocket from Clifford if you know what I mean

[@SgtTwilight]

@@tomtheconqerur You were expecting to see Clifford's penis?

[@Thewritingelf]

I found that out years ago and it still blows my mind.

[@shinkenger2011]

Quick fun fact: Pit (or, “Kid Icarus”) in Captain N is voiced by a young Alessandro Juliani, who some may know for playing Lieutenant Felix Gaeta in Battlestar Galactica and L in Death Note. Let’s just say... _puberty hit him like a friggin truckicus._ 😳

[@DJFalcoOfficial]

the fact he went from voicing Pit to L

[@stephanniemorin]

WHAT?!

[@carlycarmine3858]

@@DJFalcoOfficial at least L isn't obnoxious

[@edgyspaceunicorn7215]

Let’s take Simon Belmont, one of the most badass Video Game characters and turn him into the lamest and most useless character. Let’s take Megaman and turn him green and give him the voice you give comedic relief. Let’s take Mother Brain but exclude Samus, one of the only Nintendo characters to rival Belmont in Badass. Let’s instead of Samus use Kid Ikarus and make up a new really generic princess character.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

The 80's as a cartoon decade is interesting, mostly crap that people are too blinded by nostalgia to really see for what it is. I know I've tried to go back and watch and it's physically painful. A lots of stuff from that decade does not hold up at all. The problem with so many cartoons are there tied to the time they came out and all the trends and fads of the time. The best cartoons are always the ones that are good despite that or aren't filled to the brim with that kind of schlocky crap.

[@mrdzentertainment1062]

@John Doe Were you born in the 80's? did you see the cartoons on their original air dates?

[@originalcosmicgirl]

30 years from now, some kid's going to say the same thing about cartoons from 2000s and 2010s.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

@@originalcosmicgirl Yeah it just sort of happens that way a lot like how people think that people in the 80's actually dressed like people did in commercials and stuff I mean some people did I'm sure but it wasn't as widespread as they would have you think. History will be written by whatever media is most available at that time. The internet will probably decide what kids are talking about from this era, whatever is most prevalent in abundance is most likely what will survive the test of time not sadly quality.

[@michaelconnor1542]

No we knew what was crap. But there were some great gems.

[@carlamcderossi3770]

@powerstar 2028 2010s are fucking great for animation

[@briankentpirrie5228]

1985 mtv played music videos. 2022 mtv aired catfish the tv show jersey shore, ridiculousness.

[@kostajovanovic3711]

Really? Both returned?

[@briankentpirrie5228]

they still aired catfish the tv show and jersey shore.

[@briankentpirrie5228]

yes it is.

[@Launchpad05]

God Damnit! It's like the cool people who defined what awesome is on MTV were taken over by corporate douchebags who make abysmal shit that panders to the lowest common denominator just so then can spit on MTV's former fans, or on basic human decency. #FuckMTV.

[@briankentpirrie5228]

there's mtv classic.

[@criesincowboy9629]

That OG Gilligan's Island theme is unironically good tbh.

[@chesiregirl]

Watching this during the pandemic and wishing I was a small child in the 1980s, despite the fact that I was born in 95. At this point, watching Little Clowns of Happytown and Rubik The Amazing Cube would be better than dealing with COVID-19.

[@LinkieLinkGameing]

Welp... It was the 80s..

[@Handington]

I knew the Care Bears were based off of greeting cards, didn't know any other shows were too...

[@PokemarioThe2nd]

I knew about Care Bears and Rainbow Brite being based off cards, but I thought those were weird exceptions. I guess greeting card characters got shows more often than we thought.

[@MeganKoumori]

​@@PokemarioThe2nd "Strawberry Shortcake" and "The Get Along Gang" too. They started at "American Greetings" under the division called "Those Characters From Cleveland".

[@Handington]

@@PokemarioThe2nd Yeah. Also, I didn't know Rainbow Bright was in that list too

[@Handington]

@@MeganKoumori No way!

[@Tornado1994]

Rainbow Brite was based off a Hallmark Greeting Card line. Prior to Rainbow Brite's success in 1985-1986, was the obscure "Hugga Bunch" in 1984-1985.

[@Retroid84]

Anyone who never saw "Jayce & The Wheeled Warriors" then search for the intro on youtube, easily one of the best of the 80s!

[@zzz43344]

Sounds interesting

[@jakezubrod7906]

I love the 1980s, despite the fact that I've never grown up in the decade.

[@lavenderplace8591]

me too! and I was born in 2001!

[@duck966]

darn I just can't wait for when I'm going to be born in 1984 next week

[@greenghoul157]

Me either but if I could time travel I would like to visit the 80s, it seems like a really interesting and fun time period

[@jackgarrison8497]

@@lavenderplace8591 The California Raisins look more like Poop to Me eww

[@jackgarrison8497]

@@lavenderplace8591 Happy Days is A Terrible Show We don't need A POINTLESS Cartoon Spinoff

[@bigathegamer3067]

Look on the bright side, at least Smash Ultimate is gonna be the true Captain N reunion

[@DragunClips]

plz no i don't want to think about that tonight

[@dragonstormx]

The creators of Captain N pretty clearly only based their depictions of video game characters on brief moments of seeing other people play video games. They stated the reason why Mother Brain is in the cartoon but Samus isn't is because they never heard of Samus. And I could go into a ton of other shit that makes it clear they didn't care. For example when the show did depict Castlevania, it depicted Alucard as a rebellious teen who ultimately goes and sides with Dracula anyways, even though he was a hero in Castlevania III. Oh, and seeing Hanna-Barbera getting blasted was fun. I look forward to seeing them blasted for the shit they pulled in the 1970s.

[@ragnaricstudios5888]

dragonstormx no matter what decade a show comes out, you still want to care about what you’re making, and not make megaman green

[@kyragthecat177]

my thought so it’s basically draw together but not a reality show parody and for kids

[@KnakuanaRka]

Yeah, Mega Man being green was apparently because the creators saw his game being played on a malfunctioning TV with poor color balance or some such.

[@Reapermaskhybrid]

@@kyragthecat177 I even had an idea for a show where some gamer goes into games like Captain N but would have to adapt to and follow the game's rules to actually win, like an actual person.

[@theobserver4214]

K1naku5ana3R1ka fucking NTSC, am I right? I have a feeling had they played the PAL versions of the games they would at least look color accurate.

[@fzcbh4698]

Imagine 2010s pop culture made in the 1980s. I guess we will got: - Fortnite the Animated series. - Gangnam Style the Adventure of Psy. - Overwatch the Animated Series. - The Adventures of Fready Fazebear and the Friends. - The Magnificent Quest of the Memes. - Gatcha Life Adventures. - Roblox the Animated Series. - Undertale Adventures. - Pewdiepie and his Gammers Friends. - Meet the TikToks ..............

[@michaelamaya9032]

How... Can you have Mother Brain. WITHOUT SAMUS!?

[@arielruh7773]

Yeah

[@chocolixo]

She appears in the comics, also for a Nintendo cartoon is really weird that they fogot about a character, you know THEIR MASCOT, mario does not even make a cameo in this show

[@doctorawesomeness1997]

TV in the 80s was a drug-inducing trip.

[@SaintSentry]

The 80s is the definition of "What I'm doing is stupid, I know it's stupid, but I'm gonna do it anyway".

[@WillieManga]

Ah, classic Atlantis Squarepantis review reference. Yeah, I know he said it in other reviews aside from Squarepantis, but it's the first time I heard it. :)

[@Launchpad05]

That's the mindset of most commercials nowadays, and they still end up sucking because of it.

[@magicalranter224]

I read this in Enter’s voice

[@Launchpad05]

@Tiffanye Young And the ones that try to be better are few, and far between.

[@DeathShouldTakeMeNow]

Man I totally went through a California Raisins phase. I had the shirts, posters, figurines, I even taped the cartoons and shows and played them constantly. I even made my mom buy boxes of raisins which I eventually grew to hate. Thank god that was a short lived fad.

[@masterfarr8265]

you gotta admit, we did get some great shows here, the original dragonball transformers, ducktales, real ghostbusters, and especially Inspector Gadget to name a few

[@masterseal0418]

Especially Garfield and Friends.

[@m56214]

@@masterseal0418 Heathcliff wasn't bad

[@masterseal0418]

@@m56214 It's alright if you think so. The 80s were a wild time to be alive; but it gets better in the 90s!

[@m56214]

@@masterseal0418 Definitely the 90s were phenomenal there was Rugrats Ren and Stimpy Rocko Eek The Cat Batman The Animated Series X Men Gargoyles Dexter's Laboratory Pinky and the Brain Johnny Bravo The Powerpuff Girls Ed, Edd n Eddy Tiny Toon Adventures Animaniacs TaleSpin Darkwing Duck Superman The Animated Series Courage The Cowardly Dog The Angry Beavers Hey Arnold Recess SpongeBob best time to be alive

[@JCBro-yg8vd]

The 80's were a weird time for cartoons. If not for The Smurfs, I don't think Hanana Barbera would've ever recovered from their downward spiral in the 70's.

[@MeganKoumori]

Still love "Jem." Yeah it's pure 80's cheese and made to push a line of dolls that was cancelled before I was born, but damn it it's MY truly outrageous pure 80's cheese.

[@Launchpad05]

Better than that shitty movie. That's for sure.

[@Tornado1994]

@@Launchpad05 1000X times better than the shitty 2015 Pandering Piece of Shit Live Action film.

[@xsailor85]

For me Jem was on between Transformers & GI JOE. Either I was watch a girl cartoon or do some homework. Guess which I choose.

[@kmaru80]

My daughter and I still watch Jem on Saturdays. The music us still incredibly catchy and the voice acting is really solid for the time

[@richardranke7878]

Because of Jem, I met a girl who was my closest friend for years. We both saw Jem and both of us were thrilled to meet another fan. We became closer and closer-and we both recorded the Jem & the Holograms songs.

[@shadydurags5074]

Mega Man made my throat hurt.

[@TsukiCondor]

Mega Hi!

[@jooree7696]

Mine too

[@dcb99filmz]

I'd rather listen to his voice from 8. Thank Chin-Chin for Ben Diskin (the new voice of Mega Man, better known as Numbuhs 1 and 2 and Joseph Joestar)

[@RainbowMilk1996]

Fun Fact: Captain N's voice, Levi Stubbs, was the voice of Audrey II in "Little Shop of Horrors". Also the guys that made Captain N didn't even know Samus existed! Like, would it have been so hard to play a few levels?

[@Alberto9Herrera]

The 80s cartoons that were good and not advertisements were DuckTales, Mighty Mouse, Garfield, Heathcliff, Inspector Gadget, and the early Simpsons.

[@spongebobplushiestuff8612]

Only one episode of the Simpsons aired in the 80's, besides the Tracy almond show

[@tomtheconqerur]

Forgot about fist of North star

[@mcamman6193]

@@spongebobplushiestuff8612 The Simpsons did however start off with 2-3 minute short's in the last 3 year's of the 80's before it did become a full fledged show in 1989.

[@yotsubafanfan]

So the original Duck Tales, Chip and Dale rescue rangers, The Charlie Brown and Snoopy show, A Pup named Scooby Doo, and Bernstein bears are awful? Well I guess everyone has their opinion.

[@Alberto9Herrera]

Oh, yeah, DuckTales too.

[@zionkraze9965]

I have to confess; I've never even heard of Gilligan's Island before this.

[@isobelmiller7464]

I'd heard of it prior to watching this, but I'd never heard the theme song prior to watching this.

[@alecrutz6979]

same

[@80MWH]

Oh yes, loving you tearing into Hanna-Barbara. As a kid, I'd watch almost anything on television, but as I got older, i just got so tired of them delivering the same tired stuff. To me, H-B was the Illumination Entertainment of their day. People flocked to their stuff and just said, "it's not that bad!"

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

Tom and Jerry is great but yeah, I guess you're right. Hanna-Barbara always repeated their cartoons all the time, but Hasbro always trying to make something fresh.

[@laurenbonner2393]

Well, some Scooby knockoffs were okay, the others, meh. But I definitely get it.

[@juliagoodwin9510]

Agreed. Back in the day, we didn't have Cartoon Network so I'd have to watch it at my grandparent's place. This was when Cartoon Network still aired their classic Cartoons by the way. It was fine at the time, but over the years I've realized that Hanna-Barbera (and Ruby Spears) were bunch of hacks who kept recycling the same plots over and over and over again.

[@Donkeyearsa]

When there is only three stations to watch they can put what ever crap on the tv that they want and people will watch it because its that or its nothing. Its not like you can just turn on the computer and see what else is out there.

[@kurtisharen]

Here's the thing about "Captain N". The people in charge of the show were the epitome of "didn't care". Somebody asked about why Mother Brain was a villain but Samus was nowhere to be seen. The response? "What's a Samus?" They literally only looked at the names of the characters and went from there. Like you said, at least Mario and Zelda decided to embrace the cheesiness and go all-out with it. They knew it was stupid, and they chose to roll with it and have fun. I even have some old episodes of the Mario show on VHS, and I loved it because it was so goofy. Captain N was an idea that if they actually gave a shit back then when they were making it, it could have been absolutely amazing. Imagine all the ideas you could come up with by mix-and-matching video game heroes, villains, and settings! (Although the SMB3 show's "Super Koopa" had an awesome idea and followed through with it: "What if Koopa was able to not just create and use power-ups, but also combine them into things like a Fire/Tanooki/Kuribo combination, and fought the Mario Bros. in the real world so they didn't have any to fight back with?" The solution made perfect sense, too. They had Toad use a Toad House chest, gather a shit-ton of power-ups, and bring them to the real-world to fight back. For a kid who played the games, that was freaking awesome!)

[@ratnashdimera]

Samus was in the Captain N manga.

[@zzuxon]

I think I actually just came up with a good idea for a Rubik's cube cartoon: The cube is intelligent but doesn't have a face or limbs. It's just a flying cube. It has the power to connect it's own progress towards being solved with puzzles in the environment around it. So each episode the human main characters would get into some sort of situation that they need to think their way out of, and the cube would be like a visual metaphor for their progress towards solving their predicament. They can use the cube to judge whether or not they are on the right track to solve their current puzzle. What do y'all think?

[@isobelmiller7464]

I like that!

[@CatalinaAquarium]

I think you just came up with the show Ghostwriter

[@doejhonny]

Excellent idea! Just a few small tweaks though. The cube will be voiced by gilbert godfrey. No puzzles of any kind will be in the show. The main characters will progress along the story by buying toys. The cubes face will be modeled after whoopi goldberg.

[@inspectorjavert8443]

I think the "Good Show Prevention Alliance" is about to send a hit squad after you. You'd better come up with a bad reboot idea before they do to you what they did to the guy who pitched a Buffy spin off staring Faith.

[@runeanonymous9760]

I have an idea- it's yugioh but instead of playing card games, they solve Rubik's Cubes. Also it's the Indus Valley Civilization instead of Egypt, there's no magic DID, and the girl is a reincarnation of a princess. Or some other tournament type thing like that, or Beyblade or something. Or it's Solarbabies but not post-apocalyptic. Or it's a generic McGuffin with vaguely defined powers that the kids found one day and they have to solve it to use its powers, and whenever you use its powers it shuffles, so you have to solve it again if you want to use it again. The last idea is probably the best, but that also depends on the context.

[@overbanked]

Kids in the 80s didn't only watch 80s cartoons, we watched Tom & Jerry, Flintstones, Woody Woodpecker etc etc etc; cartoons from the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70, and 80s.

[@Spameggssausage]

the art style for captain N is HIDEOUS

[@MHS-us1qv]

It's almost like the writers at Hanna Barbara had a creative writing room filled with dartboards to combine random properties and topics... and they were drunk throwing the darts.

[@MysteriousJojo]

Mega Man was green because their TV was broken and was showing the wrong colours, no joke. That might explain why King Hippo is blue too. Also, they didn't know what Mother Brain looked like, so they had to bring a producers kid in to beat Metroid in front of them to get reference photos and then made something that looked absolutely nothing like the original.

[@57yearoldjamesbond]

Isn't that just a rumor, though?

[@trueblade3636]

I see more people complaining on people from the 80s complaining then actual 80s folks complaining

[@kenyaholloway-reliford8213]

I know right?

[@Clonekiller66]

the 90s / 2000s gave us a talking sponge that lives in a pineapple under the sea. You're calling Transformers weird?

[@loneshewolf74]

It's hard to believe I grew up in the 80's, and I'm not more messed up than I already am. I think Captain N was secretly created by people who really hated video games and made the protagonists as annoying and unlikable as possible to make gamers hate them, too.

[@bladeobrian2144]

In the words of Cracked.com “Animated Raisins are indistinguishable from animated poop”

[@andrewstallard6927]

As a child of the 80's, I can tell you we all knew the world was about to end in a nuclear blast so neither the producers or the audience actually gave a damn.

[@thesheeper0873]

People in the 2040s watching a video about the 2010s. Some of these people were insane when they made these memes?

[@kathleencampbell7471]

Fun Fact: Did you know that the villain of the show, Mother Brain was voiced by Levi Stubbs, lead vocalist of the Four Tops and also the voice of Audrey 2 from The Little Shop of Horrors

[@Princess-Pulcella]

*"I hate my birthday. It reminds me that I'm different."*

[@korrianimationbodyguard4683]

18:27 Hi, avid Punch-Out player here. Outside of King Hippo, they only reference the game like. two other times in the entire series, and they still managed to make it inconsistent between those two. Instance #1: Part of the Olympics episode takes place in the Punch-Out universe (which is simply called "Punch Out" instead of its canon name, the WVBA). Despite this, they don't use any of the Punch-Out boxers, instead just filling it with the standard villains and random mooks. The most we get of anything Punch-Out is a brief cameo from Glass Joe, who appears at the beginning of the scene getting knocked out by his own shadow, and then at the end where he gets eggplant slush thrown in his face (don't ask). Somehow, despite only being there for about 7 seconds, this is one of the most accurate depictions of an NES-era Nintendo character in the entire show, in terms of appearance and personality (although they made him extremely ugly). Instance #2: Idk which episode this was, but King Hippo summons an army of boxers who are very loosely based on the Punch-Out cast to help him wreak havoc on Mount Icarus. And by "very loosely", I mean I have no clue who half of them are supposed to be. Also, Glass Joe is depicted as a blue nerdy blob thing, even though in his previous appearance, he was a regular-ass human. All I can say is that I'm glad Super Punch Out and the Wii remake gave these characters justice, because holy hell.

[@christopherconard2831]

The most important thing to remember when looking back at the '70s. Cocaine. The most important thing to remember when looking back at the '80s. Better cocaine.

[@DarkLiger]

As a child of the 80's I've been looking forward to this review. Never knew the Shirt Tales were from greeting cards. As for Captian N, even as a kid I hated how they made Simon Belmont and Mega Man, one big reason my friends and I tuned in was to see what new games and characters they would be adding to Video Land and the crossover with Legend of Zelda. The show got even dumber when Gameboy became a charater...yes that is a thing that happened. Never watched the Rubiz show, or the three-way tie in the number 6 position and the only California Raisins show I remember was a claymation Christmas special

[@graphitetailgrace3870]

The 80's, more bizarre than meets the eye...

[@studiounknown9498]

To be fair, toy-based cartoons did lead to some amazing follow-ups and reboots. Beast Wars, Thundercats 2011, and a certain show you used to talk about a lot...

[@CommanderZaktan]

17:21 because one of the productor's TV was messed up and Megaman's color sprite was like in the show. So yea, Megaman's design was from someone's messed up TV.

[@mb778_]

The animation in your avatar actually looks better than the shows themselves...

[@legofan1014]

Uh... no, it doesn't.

[@librathebeautifulwarmonk1283]

On some of them yeah. Like Capatian N' s is so bad

[@lindenbree9188]

I guess not being animated at all looks better than bad animation Since... his avatar isn't animated

[@CJ-81-]

@Charles the Movie Guy So, in 20-30 years you don't think you'll be nostalgic? Guarantee you'll defend things from your generation as much as we defend stuff from ours. Go fuck yourself.

[@whiteglovian]

Captain n: *has bootleg dragonlord* Captain n as well: *no erdric*

[@Thedarksenshi]

Can you believe they had Matt Hill, the voice of Ed from Ed Edd N Eddy as that loser Captain N?

[@juliagoodwin3461]

I thought he sounded familiar...

[@Reapermaskhybrid]

@@juliagoodwin3461 He also voices Bass in Mega Man NT Warrior.

[@mattboggs6304]

If you were a kid in the 80's, it was a golden age. You'd watch your toys come to life on TV everyday after school and on Saturday mornings. Adults and maybe older kids today make it out like the 30 minute toy commercial cartoons were a bad thing, but for us kids at the time, it was fantastic. It's one of those things where I think you truly had to be there at the right age to really appreciate. When it ended I felt sorry for the kids who were born after us. You missed out on something special. Good choices for worst cartoons so far. I actually forgot some of those existed. A few I've never seen, and I'm not sorry I missed.

[@stewie17]

Mr enter, nickelodeon debuted in 1979. Are you doing a 40th anniversary video for it next year?

[@ArendAlphaEagle]

ShirtTales, Woo-oo! Everyday, they're out there making ShirtTales! Woo-oo! Tales of derring-do bad and good... what rhymes with ShirtTales?

[@whiterabbit75]

Hurt-fails?

[@kyragthecat177]

Shirt tales I thought he said shark tale

[@mrdzentertainment1062]

shtaaap

[@mrdzentertainment1062]

@William Schwartz Duck Tales but with an i instead of an u

[@ichiyacharendini-stewart136]

You know what's surprisingly funny? In Mysterious Mr. Enter's Worst Cartoons of the 1990s video, he predicted that he'd probably do his Worst Cartoon of the 1980s list in about 2-3 years. From the date his Worst Cartoons of the 1980s' video is released to when his Worst Cartoons of the 1990s wrapped up, he actually arrived here in a little over 1 1/2 years. Way sooner that he was expecting, am I right?

[@diecastcollector3034]

I’m a 80’s and 90’s kid and yeah those cartoons showed here are ones that did suck...