Dethroning Moment / Western Animation (Other)

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Examples

• JSB-ABC-132: 6teen - Now I really like this show, it’s very entertaining to watch, but the episode “Over Exposed” is one I despise. The reason is that Jen acts really out-of-character during the ending, which is the DMOS as she shows off a picture of young Jonesy naked in front of a crowd of people plus a celebrity which leads to him getting fired (this time for no other reason than because he’s Jonesy and shouldn’t hold down a job for more Ethan a few episodes). The real sad part is that Jen did this because Jonesy accidentally saw her naked while they were fighting for the bathroom (the keyword is accidentally), so in a way, this little act of revenge was in no way justified.
• Captain Tedium: I love the 1992 animated series of The Addams Family, but one moment I really can't abide is the scene in the episode "Jack and Jill and the Beanstalk" where Jack and Jill (represented in-story by Pugsley and Wednesday) grinned and remarked how their pet gator Snappy would do just fine after the Big Bad Wolf was implied to use Snappy to get inside the Three Little Pigs' house and kill them. I know that it's in the Addamses' nature to be morbid and macabre, but being happy about helping the Big Bad Wolf break into the Three Little Pig's house and murdering the porcine trio goes way beyond the pale.
• RippenFan33: I really hate doing this, as I love All Hail King Julien, even if its status as a prequel to Madagascar is somewhat questionable. It has good humor and rarely relies on Snap Back or Negative Continuity. However, the one thing about it I didn't like (though not enough for me to stop watching the series) was the Heel–Face Turn of Julien's Evil Uncle. Throughout the series, Uncle Julien frequently makes plans to destroy his nephew and regain the throne. Then, in "King Julien is Watching You," what happens? He suddenly reforms upon seeing Zora^note  A mountain lemur Mort had married followed the Exiled series once. Keep in mind, this is a guy who once tried to destroy all of Madagascar because one of his plans to kill Julien failed and kill his own nephew several times, yet he gives it all up because he experiences Love at First Sight with someone he'd never even met before that episode. I get that they needed to make Mort single again (since he was in the movie) and remove Uncle Julien as an antagonist, but this is an Ass Pull of the highest order. Even worse, Mort's reaction to having his wife basically just up and leave him? A Big "NO!" followed by "Dodged that bullet."
• Booplesnoot: I'm not a fan of the third season of Amphibia in general for a variety of reasons (a frustratingly inconsistent tone, Hop Pop becoming insufferable), but the final episode really cemented my dislike for this particular chapter of an otherwise good show. To recap, the second-to-last episode featured an evil salamander king and his army of robots rampaging through Los Angeles, blowing up buildings and cars and fighting the heroes in the streets. The final episode is a Distant Finale that takes place ten years later, and it's mentioned that apparently, people now think the whole thing was a hoax. What makes this a Dethroning Moment isn't just the fact that it broke my suspension of disbelief, but also that it went against one of the core themes that the show had, up to that point, been building towards— namely, that change is important and can't be reversed. What better way to illustrate that than to show Earth and Amphibia learning to coexist with each other, perhaps with Anne and her friends as ambassadors between the two worlds? But no, we don't get that. I know the ending to Star vs. the Forces of Evil got a lot of flack, but at least they understood that you can't just go back to the way things were after something like this!
• On Soaring Wings: Archer "Drift Problem" Malory stealing 8-year-old Archer's bike. Refusing to get him another (he thought for years someone else had stolen it) and never giving it back, all to "teach him a lesson" That alone would have been bad enough. But in the same episode, she takes it a step further by getting Archer a new spy car for his birthday and doing it all again to him. For me, this Kick the Dog moment was the absolute last straw. I stopped seeing Malory as a tolerable Jerk with a Heart of Jerk and started seeing her as the Karma Houdini she is. Frankly, if the series doesn't end with Archer snapping and brutally murdering her, I will be very pissed off. Archer is a total Jerkass, but considering his mother, who can blame him.
• Captain Lhurgoyf: Now, let me make one thing perfectly clear. I love Axe Cop, I love the animated series, and it really pains me to add it to the list, but there's no excuse for having the (male) bank robbers in "Zombie Island in Space" wear shirts that say "I <3 Men" on them. Even putting aside the Unfortunate Implications of making all the robbers gay, it was a pointless joke that didn't fit the tone of the show at all and had no reason to be in there, and I also found it very inappropriate to insert a crass homophobic joke into a show based on a story written by a child. The rest of the show displays a great sense of humor that fits the wacky-yet-innocuous feel of the comics perfectly, so why sink this low?
• Cyber Tiger 88: I'm a fan of Beast Wars, but the ending of the episode "Changing of the Guard" is flat-out painful to sit through. The episode has Rattrap and Silverbolt go retrieve the Sentinel program from their ship while dealing with Inferno, and Depth Charge battles with his arch-foe Rampage. It eventually leads up to Depth Charge crashing into Silverbolt, who has the module, leading to Inferno grabbing it, making the Maximals lose. This show is no stranger to The Bad Guy Wins trope, but that's because of Megatron's planning. In this episode, the Maximals lost because of a bone-headed collision that would make The Three Stooges proud. If the writers wanted the audience to like Depth Charge as a badass loner despite his jerkass-tendencies, they shouldn't have made him cost the good guys an episode's worth of effort and cause a flat-out cop-out.
• Kablammin 45: I remember little about the 1980s TV show they made of The Berenstain Bears, but what I do remember is that the opening of the adaptation of "The Berenstain Bears Forget Their Manners" bothered me. The episode opens at Sister and Brother Bear's cousin Freddy's birthday party... and The Bully Too-Tall Bear is there. Unless he and his Mooks sneaked their way in, why would Freddy invite a known bully to his party? Maybe he was just being nice, but still, this leads up to Too-Tall and his buddies causing the events leading up to Sister and Brother's nasty moods by doing things like stealing 98% of the party favors right before the siblings got any...and no one calls them out on it! They still leave with their ill-gotten gains without anyone stopping them. Not only do they totally mess things up at the party, steal things, and cause Brother and Sister Bear to become cranky and rude in the process, no one bothers to call them out for any actions at all. Just about anyone else would have done so...or better yet, just not invited known troublemakers to their party at all. I haven't seen the 80s series in years, and yet, this still comes up when I think about it, and it kinda irritates me.
• Mopete: For the most part, I like Bob's Burgers because it's a much more down-to-Earth animated family show than shows like Family Guy. However, the episode "Family Fracas" effectively turns Bob Belcher into a Chew Toy of Al Bundy levels. When their car breaks down, Bob is mocked by his rival, Jimmy Pesto. Later, they go on the titular show "Family Fracas" (an Expy of Double Dare (1986)) in the hopes of winning a new minivan, but despite winning multiple times, only constantly get the Consolation Prize of buckets of Fracas Foam. Eventually, the host, who already hates the Belchers due to an earlier incident that got a previous show he was on cancelled, gets Bob's family off the show by cheating with Jimmy Pesto. Of course, the Pestos win the minivan on the very first spin. Bob, suspecting that Chuck (the host of the show) helped Jimmy Pesto cheat, eventually takes it to "Pam's Court" (an Expy of Judge Judy). Just when a Hope Spot occurs where Bob thinks he finds a way to prove his case, the producer of both shows destroys the tape that was Bob's evidence in plain sight, causing Bob to lose the case. I know it's just a TV Show, but if that was done in a real courtroom, the producer would have gone to jail for evidence tampering. And to put the mustard on the terrible burger that was this episode, Bob can't even get any catharsis out of mocking Jimmy Pesto when his new minivan gets a flat, because everyone, including his own family, shames Bob for mocking Jimmy, despite the fact that Jimmy does it to him all the time, and even starts doing it while Bob's helping change his tire! This was just a whole bunch of crap (disguised as Fracas Foam) dumped all over Bob, and made for a very terrible episode.
• ianolivia: For me, the Breadwinners episode "Bad to the Duck Bone". SwaySway gets run over by a motorcycle if he doesn't take life-threatening drugs, takes life-threatening drugs that he knows are dangerous, changes his entire personality to seduce Jenny Quackles, a 10-year-old girl, licks her face in a disturbing manner without her permission, eats her, and when he stops being evil because Buhduece choked him, Jenny spits in his face and has him run over by a motorcycle because he isn't evil. Kill this episode with fire.
• Sam Max: I wish I had never laid eyes on Brickleberry. I never saw the entire series, but what I've seen of this Grossout Show makes even Family Guy look wholesome in comparison. It's not funny, and didn't they say it was supposed to offend? It does that too well for its own good. But I can't make entire series entries, so I'll just list the moment that defined the show for me. There was a golf game between two individuals (whose names I cannot remember), nothing special, but nothing terrible, either. Then comes a scene where there's a homeless person in the golfing area. What does one of the guys do? Spoilered for Squick: hit the ball into his mouth, and then the poor sap craps it out. Then one of the golfers eats it, and the other golfer tells him it might not be his ball. It was so disgusting I swore never to watch the series again if I could help it. Quite frankly, I question how it made it to TV in the first place.
• Maths Angelic Version: A scene from "The Great Race", a Care Bears 1986 episode. There's a race, and the prize is becoming King for a day. This concept is stupid, as evidenced by the fact that there's a villain out to win the race and abuse the power. Unsurprisingly, he cheats. The DMoS is when he pours concrete into a water pit and makes a bear fall into it. Once the concrete sets, he/she^note I don't remember the victim's gender, and frankly, I don't care can barely move. Wow. That's cruel. I know he's a villain, but this is supposed to be a cute children's cartoon. To make matters worse, the episode didn't make it clear that the victim ever recovered, so I assumed that he/she was stuck like that forever. This made such a big impression on my younger self that I never watched another Care Bears episode, and didn't even give Gummi Bears a proper chance simply because I associated brightly coloured cartoon bears with this stupid moment.
  • NoonboryKedabory: Responding to the above post; that was Cheer Bear, and later episodes show that she recovered from that incident without a scratch. Now for my Dethroning Moment: "Grams' Cooking Corner". The episode is set up like the characters are listening to a radio cooking show hosted by Grams Bear, except we keep cutting to Grams as if she's actually on TV, which is weird. Grams' dialogue is way too unnatural and makes her sound like a cookbook robot. We also get some painfully unfunny cutaways with Beastly (that villain, above troper) trying and failing to follow the recipe. In general, 80s Care Bears kind of got worse as it went along, and this episode is the absolute bottom of the barrel.
• Tropers/Nightfurywitch: Okay, I admit it. I was peer pressured into watching Centaurworld and ended up really liking it. Even in spite of the occasional fart joke or gag that just didn’t land, the show’s first season was pretty dang funny and had some AMAZING music. However, there is one bit from this season I haven’t been able to shake. In “Holes: Part 2” (Don’t ask about Part 1), the herd gets captured and arrested by a group of moletaurs that hold them captive in a corrupt trial. Long story short, Horse manages to get the judge to let them go, gets the key part they need, everything seems hunky-dory…aaand Glendale tunnels up from underground in a jailbreak. Yea everyone else just…forgot about her. I admit this scene is REALLY funny in the moment, but looking back on it it feels…wrong. I can buy most of the herd forgetting about Glendale (Horse seems like she really only cares about Wammawink as of now, Zulius only cares about himself, and Durpleton is….Durpleton.) But Wammawink????? Literally her main character trait when we’re introduced to her and the point of her arc in Season One is she’s INSANELY overprotective of her herd- I can’t buy her forgetting about Glendale, let alone shrugging it off this easily.
• Animeking 1108: Code Monkeys, I admit, was too good to last. However, I always skip the episode with Todd's brother because of a really painful scene. Todd's brother reveals to Dave that the reason Todd acts the way he does is that he has Asperger's Syndrome. That alone can be considered Unfortunate Implications, but then Dave precedes to insult Todd because of that. As someone with Asperger's, I tell Adam De La Pena to go fuck himself.
• Ctempire: I was a big fan of The Crumpets. It's clever, charming-looking, and funny from time to time, but it is plagued with protagonist jerks, or nice people and too many animals getting victimized. What pissed me off was in the season four episode "Gentil choléra", where Cassandra, a main character who usually serves as a nicer, if not devious foil to her best friend Caprice, loses her fit with her new puppy Cholera. Once, she actually threatens to make a pencil bag out of the puppy's skin and attempts to suffocate her with her hand. As dreadful as it may seem, it has become a plot point as Caprice films the incident and warns Cassie she'll show it to their male animal-loving friend Marylin. Combined with other vacuous animal cruelty humor (including Cassie hitting Cholera to the air after getting literally pissed by the dog), it's a huge disappointment for a show that was diminishing its negative portrayal of animals in the previous season (although Cassie did beat up T-Bone the dog in a Big Ball of Violence in that season).
• ANonagon9: While Dan Vs. is a great show, even the best shows can produce a dud sometimes, and "Dan Vs. The Wedding" has rightfully earned its place as the fan's least-favorite. First and foremost, the episode is uncomfortably cruel to Hortense, who didn't really do anything wrong. The age gap (and power gap) between Hortense and Jeremiah Burger brings an uncomfortable undercurrent, but it's hard to root for Dan either when his actions and motivations are strictly selfish. Dan Vs. works best Dan's rival has wronged him in some way, however indirect, and marrying someone else after growing apart does not make the cut. As a sequel episode to a much better episode, "Burgerphile," an already bad episode becomes particularly disappointing, and most of the jokes don't land either.
• Spinosegnosaurus77: I love Dinosaur Train, I really do, but "Dinosaur Camouflage" broke an Aesop (birds being dinosaurs) that's enforced in essentially every other episode of the series. DT is usually a pretty solid, composed kids' show; what went wrong here?
• Kenya Starflight: The Dragon Tales episode "My Emmy Or Bust," where Max goes to Dragon Land without Emmy for the first time to help his friends find a missing sea dragon. He spends the entire episode missing his sister, with all his friends knocking themselves out trying to help him feel better, and when he gets home he tells Emmy about his adventure... only for her to blow him off and accuse him of making it up. Um... what? First of all, Emmy has been to Dragon Land many times before and done far weirder things than looking for sea dragons, so there's no reason for her not to believe Max's story. Second of all, when the entire episode revolves around Max missing Emmy, setting things up for a possible Heartwarming Moment in the end, this comes across as a slap in the face to both Max and the audience. Yes, Max gets thrown a small bone in the final seconds of the episode, but it still cemented my dislike for Emmy once and for all.
• InsertCleverNameHere: The Drawn Together episode "Unrestrainable Trainable" where Clara has to tend to a sick Wooldoor (whose illness, mind you, is indirectly her fault), and she abuses him just so she can keep getting good publicity. I understand that this show's cast isn't meant to be likeable, but Clara's actions are just too much for me to find funny, and this episode and many other ones pretty much solidified my dislike for her.
• Psi 001: While The Dreamstone nearly always ran on an uneasy formula due to the Urpneys being Designated Villains, it could at least often be excused if you didn't think about the plot hard enough. There are episodes, however, where the heroes are just such priggish, sadistic little asswipes compared to the Urpneys, you wonder exactly why the writers thought they would look benevolent against the latter. "The Dream Beam Invasion" is a key example. The plot revolves around the Urpneys shrinking into kids' dreams and ruining them. While it's kinda sad on the little kids' part, it's as usual a pretty petty crime and one Frizz and Nug as usual had to be Press-Ganged into. When the heroes find out what they were doing, however? They too shrink into the dream, corner a pleading Frizz and Nug and give them a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown. It gets better though. They do it for so long that the two's shrink spell wears off and they turn giant compared to them. Despite the Urpneys not even bothering to attack them, the Noops run off screaming like pansies, unwilling to battle a real threat, and moan they are fighting dirty to the Dream Maker, who resorts to just magicing the bubble away so the Urpneys don't get the last laugh (which he supposedly could have done anytime, but where's the fun in that?). The episode makes the Noops equivalent to those nasty little bullies in the playground that pick fights with wimps to look big, and then run off sobbing bullshit to the nearest authority figure the moment they fight back. Note this is all played sincerely, complete with dramatic music, a huge Determinator speech beforehand, and of course, the Urpneys still being the butt of the final gag despite being far less odious and doing far less to provoke their punishment.
• RAZ: While DuckTales (1987) has been a childhood favorite of mine and still holds up surprisingly well decades later, I've found myself having trouble watching "New Gizmo Kids on the Block". Huey, Dewey, and Louie all get to hold the Idiot Ball and are reduced to petty, squabbling morons who can't work together all so Webby can be "Little Miss Perfect" and save the day like usual. What's really insulting though is how Fenton is treated: Previous episodes in the series cemented him as both a Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass who despite some of his eccentricities and the general abuse he receives could also be extremely competent even without using his Gizmo-Duck suit. Here, he's portrayed as being completely helpless and of no use to anyone as long as he doesn't have his suit. So that's four characters derailed all to make Webby look good.
• Krendall: An early episode of Dungeons & Dragons (1983) had the group fight a Beholder. The problem is, it's defeated by being near a flower! Even if Beholders hate beauty (a fact I've never read in any Monster Manual), there's no way something as simple as a basic flower would ever kill one.
• NoonboryKedabory: Fireman Sam impressed me with how good it was despite me not having seen it since I was a small child. However, Series 7 is definitely the worst season in my eyes due to it being boring and feeling like just a rehash of Series 6. The worst episode from this season, and my least favourite episode of the show, is "Elvis Sings the Blues". My first complaint is in regards to how Station Officer Steele acts here. I know that he and Elvis are meant to have a contentious relationship because of how different their personalities are, but here Steele is just a dick; the conflict is that Elvis breaks his leg in an accident, and the second he's out of the hospital, Steele is yelling at him because "a firefighter must always be ready and able", and sticks him with the fire station's light duty. No "are you okay", no "how are you feeling", No Sympathy whatsoever. Also, despite what he claims, he's never said this "ready and able" thing before this episode, and unfortunately, Steele making up bullshit mottos just to put Elvis down is not exclusive to this episode (see also: "Froggy Fantasy"). Also, Elvis isn't completely useless just because he's now in a wheelchair. Getting in and out of a vehicle may be more difficult, but working a hose or fire extinguisher should still be fine. You don't have to shut him up in the office all day! If this was a post-2014 episode, would he have treated Hannah the same way? How about Jodie? Anyway, that's not even the most completely stupid part of the episode. Norman gets his head stuck in a railing; okay, makes sense, he's a kid who doesn't know any better. Steele gets the genius idea to demonstrate how Norman did this to Dilys and gets his head stuck too; are you kidding me? He's a grown-ass man, and he seriously thought that would work out? This episode is a miserable slog all the way through, and fully cemented post-revival Steele as one of my least favourite characters in the show. I admire Elvis' heart of gold and patience with him, because if I were a Pontypandy firefighter and Steele treated me that way, my "fuck you, I quit" moment would have been years ago.
• WRM 5: From Generator Rex, Six's amnesia. So you've got a really awesome character who's been really well developed. He's wise, intelligent, and dedicated. He has a darker side which he put behind him because he knew it was wrong. What do you do with this character? Why, you hit the "Reset" switch on him, of course! Six's amnesia completely erased absolutely everything that made the coolest character on the show cool and is hands-down the worst thing the show ever did.
• PPPSSC: The Goof Troop episode "Inspector Goofy" could have been a perfectly serviceable episode, but the "Pete gets kicked out of his house" subplot makes it one of the weakest in the series. Not only is it completely unnecessary for the plot, but it results in both of the nicest characters in the cast (and one who is sometimes ruthless but ultimately altruistic) carrying massive Jerkass Balls. Goofy engages in Selective Enforcement after promising not to, Peg has no sympathy for Pete and taunts him with food, and PJ suggests selling Pistol to the circus to get Pete back in the house, which, in addition to being extremely out of character, serves no real purpose. The only purpose this subplot seems to serve is to turn a joke that's hilarious in moderation into a tiring Overly Long Gag. The only character in this episode who is remotely likable is Pistol, who barely does anything (Max isn't in it at all). I even find PJ (my favorite character on the show) completely unsympathetic in this episode, due to his uncharacteristic meanness, lack of focus, and surprising good fortune.
• flowerfun Helluva Boss' second season had already been on thin ice for me for a while up until this point but the moment where I officially lost my patience for this season came in the fourth episode, Western Energy, where it's revealed that Blitz and Stolas's conflict in Ozzies god resolved by...a blink and you'll miss it text message. Are you serious? We are resolving a conflict with this much depth in season 1 that looked like it could have been explored and developed more...with a text message??? This felt like such a slap in the face to the people who wanted to see where the show went with this conflict after the season 1 finale and what we got was THIS?! It was so infuriating and underwhelming that It was the moment I had officially lost my patience with this season.
• kablammin45: I have a bone to pick with two of the Inspector shorts, but since I can only put one, I'm going to have to go with the short with the shopping cart. First off, it doesn't even feel like an Inspector short, no action, not enough comedy, just... not-Inspectorish, the plot seems more like it would be more fit for the Pink Panther. It starts with the Inspector going home from the store, borrowing a shopping cart... and the Narrator manages to convince him that he has committed an abominable offense and is now a criminal. Sure, the Inspector isn't that bright, but he's not that stupid.^note  not to mention that people who live right across the street from a Wal-Mart can do that with little repercussions And later the Inspector activates a security system when he finally decides to just return the cart, and instantly the police come shoot at him without question and the short ends with the Inspector on the run with guns firing. Ummm, they just assumed that the Inspector would just do that? That's something you'd see in, yes, a Pink Panther cartoon where [1]s are common. The short was really poorly done and used before.
• CutieTabootie: Invader Zim is one of my favorite cartoons and pretty much every episode is fun to watch, with the one exception being "Gaz, Taster of Pork". The plot kicks off with Dib casting a spell on Gaz, wanting to test the effects of the spell before possibly using it on himself, which causes everything she eats to taste like pork. Right away, this just comes off as a really stupid move on Dib's part- even if he had good intentions and didn't think the spell would have that bad of an effect, he should know better than anyone else that Gaz is the last person to try that on. As he tries to find a cure, he informs Professor Membrane what's happening so he can take a look at Gaz, only for their dad to have the media treat her as a freak as he publicizes her condition as a disease called "pig mouth". On top of this and his invasive experiments on her while she's locked up in quarantine, he starts using her as his personal cash cow as merchandise and even a movie of her as "Pig Girl" is sold. Sure, Membrane may have had good intentions and it's been made clear through the series that his parenting skills are very lacking, but the entire "Pig Girl" montage just came off as more disturbing than funny. As much of a Jerkass Gaz is, she didn't really do anything that bad in the episode (yet) for any of it to feel like deserved Laser-Guided Karma. For the majority of the episode, Gaz continuously makes very horrifying and violent threats to Dib if she's not cured, and attacks him even after he finally finds a way to reverse the spell and frees her from her isolation tank. While in a sense, Dib does deserve some of what he gets in the episode for what he did, Gaz also comes off as too cruel and him too sympathetic for it to work. The kicker comes in the end of the episode, where they manage to go to the dimension where the spell originated from and Gaz easily passes the Shadow Hog's trial and has the curse lifted. Dib, thinking Gaz is in trouble, runs in to find her and despite being extremely remorseful over the whole ordeal, Gaz still makes the Shadow Hog punish Dib by making him clean his toilet (with his head). We end with Membrane giving Gaz a half-assed apology and Dib still cleaning the toilet, apologizing while sounding like he's crying. I know Invader Zim is a Sadist Show and in most cases, does it very well and ends up being hilarious every time, but this episode just felt like overkill and often came off as more uncomfortable than funny. Gaz is one of my favorite characters, and while I usually love when she gets a major role, she just came off as way too harsh here and the whole thing just left a really bad taste in my mouth (joke not intended).
• Halfstep: Iron Man Extremis goes hurtling off into stupidity in episode 2, which is basically an anvilicious speech given by Author Avatar Sal, who was a former professor of Tony Stark's and Maya's (It Makes Sense in Context... the previous pothole, not the speech). Obviously, this speech is aimed at people in the real world. The problem with it is that it is extremely contradictory, overgeneralizing, and doesn't apply to the two characters at all, save for a bit of foreshadowing that could have been done by Maya herself at a bar. The problem with the speech is this: Sal posits that Stark and Maya are basically working for the military-industrial complex, that nothing they've done has been really useful, that Stark is wasting his time and money doing what he is doing, and that Maya is being held down because she's a woman, and if she had the resources Stark had, she'd be doing far better. The only part of the entire speech that has any validity is that they are working for the MIC, regardless of what they would like to believe. That said, the whole thing kind of derails when Sal starts saying how useless the Iron Man suit is and how much more Maya could get done if she had Stark's resources. First off, not knocking cancer in the slightest, but in the Marvel Universe, Fin Fang Foom, Dr. Doom, and Galactus are real and present dangers, that kill or enslave quite a few people on a regular basis. These are not entities that the police or the army are equipped to handle. At all. Saying that the Iron Man suit is only good for beating these people up therefore, isn't as much of an insult or even rebuke as Sal intended: these are entities that need to be beaten up by Iron Man and whoever else, and it's kinda hard to say that their world would be a better place without Iron Man, seeing how there's a planetary invasion or mutant revolt or inter-dimensional cosmic horror attack every six months with Iron Man there and doing his level best to prevent such. In real-life terms, it would be like knocking someone for failing to cure cancer but reducing diabetes, heart disease, and auto accident deaths by 50%. As for Maya being better off if she had Tony's resources: the reason this doesn't work is because of in-universe ignorance that Sal has, that the readers do not: namely, we know that in almost every version of Iron Man, Tony Stark is kidnapped by some foreign combatants, after being gravely wounded, and is forced to make weapons for said combatants with anything from spare parts lying around to pieces of his own weapons. Stark then uses said pieces to create a war suit that saves his own life and allows him to escape his captors. Iron Man is about as self-made as you can get: if Maya hasn't done anything comparable, it can hardly be said that it is because anyone is "holding her back". Furthermore, why would Sal even want to see such a thing: he just got done mocking Maya earlier for "poking biological molecular constructs until they give up and do what she wants" (paraphrased). Wouldn't curing cancer just be doing the same thing? What's the difference between poking around for the MIC, and curing diabetes, hepatitis, and that weird disease that strikes 300 people in the world, and curing cancer? Is curing a disease shameful unless it has a name value to it? Really, the whole speech was bad and unnecessary, the whole thing boiled down to "You're a bunch of idiots. Why have you not followed the path I, the wise shaman, have laid out for you" by trivializing all of the good that both of them had done and oversimplifying a bunch of actions and motives into some pop-cultural mumbo jumbo that really didn't apply.
• NoonboryKedabory: Allow me to introduce you to Jelly Jamm's "One Eyed Bello". The basic premise is that Bello has to wear an eye patch to cover up a black eye. That alone doesn't sound so bad. The DMOS here is how his friends react to seeing his eye patch. They laugh at him and treat it like a joke. I'm not too mad at Rita (since she's really little and doesn't know better), or Mina (this incident was probably cathartic considering how much Bello messes up her experiments), but I really expected better from Goomo, since Bello is his best friend, and Gooms is normally the sweetest character in the show. And boy howdy, Ongo disappointed me this time around since he doesn't seem to care one bit that it was his fault Bello's eye is injured. He seemed more upset back in an earlier episode when he accidentally threw a water balloon at Mina! And to add insult on top of injury, this episode happens after the episode "Jammbo's Many Worlds", where Bello freaked out over Ongo being injured. Nice to see how much you care about your friend, you little jerk.
• Magnus Force: Jimmy Two-Shoes is a fairly fun show to watch overall, but there is one episode that I absolutely hate: "Heloise Schmeloise." So basically, Heloise creates a robot duplicate of herself. The episode falls apart shortly after that when Jimmy falls in love with the robot. Jimmy acts completely out of character by being a Jerkass to Heloise for no reason, and his idiocy is taken up to eleven (Not to mention Jimmy is supposed to be uninterested in love). The jokes are 90% Beezy shouting "Burn!" at Heloise while she is at the receiving end of all the harm as well. And to place the expired milk on top of the steaming crap, Jimmy is never punished, but instead, it's all directed to the innocent Schmeloise (she didn't seduce Jimmy just Jimmy noticed her). It was just way too mean-spirited toward Heloise for my tastes, and not to mention, Beezy is being obnoxious rather than funny for the entire episode.
• sudrictoon: Little Bill is a pretty good show despite Bill Cosby's actions, but one episode I hated since I was little is "The Promise". In it, April gives Little Bill her basketball trophy to bring to school, on the condition that he doesn't break it. Little Bill promises not to break it. At school, Little Bill's friends don't listen to his warnings not to touch the trophy, and end up breaking it. What also ends up broken is Little Bill's promise to April. This results in a very hard-to-watch scene where April yells at Little Bill and slams the door in his face, making him cry. What a great big sister you are, April. The thing is that it wasn't LB's fault in the first place. Kiku, Andrew, and Fuschia got off scot-free for breaking the trophy. This makes for a very muddy Aesop.
• demonfiren: The Lion Guard: So, you take one of Disney's greatest villains, and give him a Start of Darkness. Was Scar more than The Un-Favourite to his elder brother? Did he, like Claudius from the play the first film Disneyfied, possibly care more about his brother's wife than his title? Nope. He was just a dick, always had been a dick, but he turned even more evil because - a snake bit him. Seriously? No Slowly Slipping Into Evil, just some magical venom and Scar becomes lion Satan?
• Fivey: Looney Tunes: I love these shorts, but there are some moments that need to be addressed for obvious reasons. I haven’t seen all of the Censored Eleven shorts, but I have seen Frank Tashlin’s The Major Lied Till Dawn. It is mostly decent but then stops dead just to bombard the audience with more offensive stereotypes than you can count. There’s a Stephin Fetchit caricature, a gag about a native having large lips and one eating a banana peel might (and I could be reading too deep into it) might be a particularly nasty joke comparing him to a monkey. The reason I chose this scene is that it sours an otherwise enjoyable short. The Censored Eleven are rotten stereotypes from beginning to end, what could’ve been a classic stops dead in its tracks just to make racist 1930s audiences laugh.
• mariic: Though I've only read the book for it, I didn't like The Magic School Bus episode "The Magic School Bus S2 E12 "Cold Feet"". Quick recap: Liz was kidnapped, so the kids have to go and rescue her. Along the way, they learned a lot about warm and cold-blooded animals, but they almost died several times. But surprise! Mrs. Frizzle was in control the whole time, and they were never in any real danger. She said that she did it because it would have been a more effective teaching method. Seriously? Not only would that experience have most likely traumatized her students for the rest of their lives, her teaching method was comparable to the controversial, and downright illegal, Milgram experiment.
• Maths Angelic Version: The Mickey MouseWorks adaptation of The Nutcracker is in my opinion pretty good (at least on its own, as I've never seen the original), but it has one ugly moment: At one point, the Mouse King^note played by Donald Duck for some weird reason. Why didn't they give the role to Mortimer instead, which would've made so much more sense? traps the Snow Fairy inside his scepter. This in itself is fine because the Mouse King is evil and benefits from doing it. The DMoS is when the Mouse King ends up trapped there too, and it's revealed that neither will ever get out. It's supposed to be funny because the Snow Fairy annoys the Mouse King with his card games, but it's just nasty when you think about it. The Snow Fairy is stuck there for the rest of his life, and a Fate Worse than Death is entirely possible. Sure, he doesn't seem to mind at the moment, but card games can't entertain him for long. The short also seems to forget that he's stuck with the Mouse King, who is not happy about his fate and will probably take it out on the poor Snow Fairy. Thus a sympathetic character gets a horrible fate just so we can laugh at the Mouse King's annoyance - as if his being stuck in a tiny place for the rest of his life weren't bad enough already. Yes, he deserved it. I'm just saying that he could for instance have a comical fit of rage even without the Snow Fairy there to annoy him. Oh, and did I mention that even though the Snow Fairy helped the main characters, they don't even care that he's gone? Yes, I know it just happens in a dream, but it's still needlessly harsh, especially in a Christmas-themed short.
• Maths Angelic Version: While not enough to ruin the short for me, the ending of "A Very Goofy Christmas" is the most disappointing part of Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas. To recap the plot: Pete tells Max that Santa doesn't exist. After examining some facts, asking critical questions and not getting satisfactory answers, Max gloomily concludes that Santa probably isn't real. Goofy tells Max to believe in Santa and he dresses up as him, but the plan fails when a kid exposes Goofy, and Max gets angry as he believes that Goofy lied about Santa. Then Goofy tries to prove Santa's existence, only to become sad when Santa doesn't come. Max tries to cheer him up, and they eventually accept the fact that Santa probably isn't real - but they don't need him because they have each other. Then, the DMoS. It turns out that Santa is real after all, and he gives Max a snowboard. The critical questions Max had about Santa? Never answered, unless you count Goofy's Hand Waves as answers. Sure, it's nice that Max gets the snowboard he wanted, but the way to use an Ass Pull to ruin a good message about scepticism and render the whole "coming to terms with Santa's nonexistence" plot pointless.
• Regulas 314: Now, I love The Mighty B!, it's a very expressive and charming Nicktoon that goes back to Nickelodeon's roots. But I absolutely cannot stand the episode "Portrait of a Happy"! Basically? Bessie torments this photographer Fritz, she chases him all around San Francisco after she drives him to quit his job (which he hated anyway); all because Bessie wants a photo of her and her dog Happy. We are supposed to see Fritz as a villain because he refuses to give into Bessie's request after she repeatedly stalks him and ruins his life. I should also point out that Happy himself doesn't even want this photo, but Bessie does not care! After Fritz rightfully screams at Bessie and tells her off, get this? She starts crying and doesn’t stop for an entire day until Happy gives in and basically assaults Fritz for a photo, only getting lucky because his pictures come off as avant-garde reigniting his passion. Fritz isn’t a villain, he’s just a sad man who only wants his dignity but couldn’t even have this at his job. As annoying as Bessie is? She can usually be tolerable, but she just went too far in this episode. I’ve seen Bessie do some stupid things like assault her friends to try and get chicken pox or the time she wrecked Portia and her mom's lives as an apprentice but this? This was absolutely pathetic!
• Ralph 180: I removed my DMOS for Zig & Sharko's "Hair Story" because I still watch Zig & Sharko, and I decided to put another one: the "Bride of the Internet" from Monsters vs. Aliens. Now, unlike Zig & Sharko, Monsters vs. Aliens TV Series is a bad show. It made everyone look uglier (except for General Monger), made Monsters a dysfunctional team of lousy "heroes" who dick around the base, and added three cliched aliens: Sqweep, Coverton, and Sta'abi, who come off as insecure (Sqweep), lame (Coverton) or outright xenophobic (Sta'abi)! But what really made me quit this failure of a show is this episode. Basically, because of a video involving pickles on Susan's butt, Sqweep reveals that the Internet is an alien and is Sqweep's former classmate. Internet does erase the video, but he falls in love with Susan and even manages to change the American national anthem to a lame Justin Bieber-esque song that Susan loves. Now, Internet isn't that bad of a character and is probably the only sympathetic alien character in the show. My problem is about the juvenile internet jokes, the sheer stupidity of the whole Internet being an alien, and the writers think that humans are completely obsessed with the Internet, think that if a video doesn't exist, it doesn't exist, and that they love cat jokes. Also, the episode is annoying and the song is just irritating. To think that Dreamworks made this is disgusting, and this show thinks it's still relevant.
• Cabbit Girl Emi: I honestly like My Life as a Teenage Robot, but I have a hatred towards an episode that burns hotter and brighter than a dozen suns: "Love 'Em or Leash 'Em". Jenny falls in love with YK9/Kenny, but Dr. Wakeman forbids it because he was created by her rival. If that weren't enough, Ol' Nora has a rod so far up her butt about this that she grounds Jenny for it, which is so overblown even for her typical disagreements with her robot "daughter". Of course, Jenny goes and dates Kenny, only to find out that he acts like a dog (hence the "K9" part of his name). This all ends with Jenny getting humiliated to the point of considering a break-up, and Wakeman holding the Bitch Ball to scold Jenny again to rub salt into her circuits. Surely anyone can see why I hate this episode.
• Senor Cornholio: Since I am allowed to put one moment per work, I feel it only fitting that I give my two cents on something I recently decided to marathon. I actually bothered with the entirety of My Little Pony's 3rd generation and found myself... not as hateful towards it, at first. I'm definitely not a fan of this generation, but they at least seemed to have their own continuity for a time and even had some somewhat likeable characters (Thistle Whistle, Rarity, Lily Lightly, Kimono, and especially Minty come to mind). All in all, G3 was harmless. Then the Core 7 shorts were introduced and I finally began to understand why G3 has such a bad rep (Generation 3.5's "Twinkle Wish Adventures" notwithstanding). These shorts did nothing but pander, showing the ponies either getting ready for a party or having said party, on top of making some really major changes (Rainbow Dash doesn't have her trademark pseudo-British accent, Cheerilee's an earth pony instead of a unicorn, etc). However, what I'm mentioning is the absolute low point of Generation 3 (and after careful consideration, the entire My Little Pony franchise aside from the dreaded Newborn Cuties) is the "Special Day" series. There are two of these, but I decided to add both of them because they're equally terrible. These shorts centered around a special day for Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash that is never really explained. They mainly consisted of a still background with nothing but a waving rainbow and either Pinkie Pie or Rainbow Dash's official G3 artwork plastered on it before basically giving us a Whole Episode Flashback. The flashbacks were basically just the earlier Generation 3 specials, from "Dancing in the Clouds" to "Positively Pink", with no editing done except having Rainbow Dash's voice actress redo all of the older one's lines, sometimes even with new (re: worse) dialogue. It's especially notable when Fiesta Flair, a pony who was cut and replaced, keeps her speaking role in the "Ladybug Jamboree" flashback. Even if we count G3.5, that just makes it worse; what little continuity there may be is completely thrown out of whack since G3.5 shows the Core 7 as fillies hanging out together before either Butterfly Island (pegasi) or Unicornia (unicorns) were discovered. Because of this, Starsong and Sweetie Belle, two Core 7 members who are a pegasus and a unicorn, respectively, are now living plotholes because their races had not yet unified, yet here they are acting as though these conflicts never existed. Not only that but as previously mentioned, Cheerilee did a complete race change in between continuities, so none of this should even be in the same universe. These are mainly on here because they're just flashback episodes, but the other big reason is that now it can't decide which continuity it wants to have: the pre-Core 7 canon or the post-Core 7 canon. I know I'm getting worked up over what's considered the Audience-Alienating Era of My Little Pony, but the amount of laziness in these specials is just mind-boggling. I'd have put Newborn Cuties on here, but that was always horrible; this is where Generation 3 went from "meh" status to outright deserving some of the flak it gets. It could be seen as Jumping the Shark, but I'd say it was more like jumping the goldfish, to be honest. All I have to say after that is thank Celestia for Generation 4.
• Just Here To Comment: One of my favorite childhood shows is The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. However, one moment from the show has always bothered me, from the episode The Masked Offender. In it, Tigger becomes a masked crime fighter, similar to that of Zorro. However, in typical Tigger fashion, he makes things worse. The worst scene from the episode, and the show, is when Tigger destroys Rabbit's scarecrow, thinking it to be someone trying to attack Rabbit. Rabbit begs him not to do so, and when Tigger leaves, the crows show up to eat Rabbit's vegetables. Now, this is a Running Gag in the show, Rabbit having to deal with crows, but here, seemingly every crow in the Hundred-Acre Woods cover the garden and the surrounding land and eat everything in sight, leaving his garden as a barren wasteland that will probably never grow anything again. It's just a really mean-spirited Kick the Dog moment towards a character who did absolutely nothing wrong earlier.
• Deadpan Fly 2: I like Wartime Cartoons. I also like French animation. But I don't like the (allegedly) French Wartime Cartoon Nimbus Libéré. Here's what happens: a French family is listening to the BBC, which is apparently being broadcast by an incredibly offensive Jewish stereotype. Then some American bomber planes come in, apparently piloted by Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, Felix the Cat, and Popeye. Just when the French family is celebrating, an American plane bombs their house, killing them all. And the Angel of Death comes along and cackles. Apparently, this was created under pressure from the Nazis, who didn't want the Allies to liberate France. If you want to make the Allied liberation seem like something you don't want to happen, you gotta make it seem scary. Instead, it shows us a bunch of Western cartoon heroes. If I was a French person watching this cartoon back in '44, I would be cringing, and counting every second before the liberation of Paris. Let's just say that French animation got better over the years, to say the least.
• fluffything: Off the Air: I found the "Body" episode to be nothing but a huge disappointment feeling it was more along the lines of their usual immature humor than the brilliant series I've come to know and love. However, if I had to pick the absolute worst moment from the worst episode (of an, again, otherwise great series), it would have to be the "Hot Dog Stand" segment. Long story short, it involves a hot dog becoming sentient and saving his fellow hot dogs while brutally murdering the vendor and selling his body parts as food. Just... what? Ok, I know Off the Air can be on the completely insane side of things at times, but this was just terrible. I expect something like this from an episode of Family Guy (a latter-season episode of the show, to be specific), not from a brilliant series like this.
• Dghcrh: Oswald was a decent cartoon when I was young. The episode where Oswald stays overnight at Henry's is good for the most part, but there is a really annoying Running Gag about a tortoise trying to climb the stairs. Oswald passes by it several times when he wants to take something from his apartment, but all he does is say "Good evening" every single time. The tortoise obviously doesn't want to be greeted over and over again, it just wants to get on top of the stairs, but Oswald doesn't think once to help it. In the morning, the tortoise sighs in frustration after Oswald repeats the process, but with "Good morning".
• Be The Fire: The Owl House: "Sense and Insensitivity". King was an absolute dick in this episode. I know it's his thing, but one of the things that keeps him likable is that his dickish moments toward Luz are mild, fleeting, and few and far in between. Here, over the course of the entire episode, he insults her contributions, takes credit for her work, and expects her to collaborate with him for more writing while further insulting her contributions to her face. King is my favorite character and he's usually funny, so I was excited to watch a King-centric episode (unlike Hooty, he could carry an episode by himself) only to be disappointed. "Really Small Problems" follows a similar format (Luz and King spend time together, and King goes behind Luz's back to do something she wouldn't like), but he's much more likable there, given the circumstances. In fact, he was so nice in that episode, I wasn't entirely sure it was in character for him.
  • Loekman 3: The diary incident in Lost in Language made me really uncomfortable to watch (and not in a good way) and gave Amity a complete Jerkass Ball moment even for her. See, her older twin siblings guided Luz to her secret hideout where they plan to leak her diary entries to the public just to teach her a lesson and Luz upon realizing this snatched it way from them. Then come Amity and when she sees this, assume that Luz is on board with it, even having the gal to call her a bully, never mind that even ignoring the fact that she never bothered to let Luz explain herself, continually push her away even when Luz tried to befriend her. As for Edric and Emira? Not only did they not clarify the misunderstanding but pretty much left Luz to bear the brunt of her anger. However what made me truly upset about this scene is that this moment just gets completely glossed over. We never learned whether or not Amity realized the misunderstanding or Luz explained about it and the twins just gets Easily Forgiven the next time that we see them again. Frankly, there is no reason for the incident to be changed so that Amity learned of Luz defending her and made it the first time that she starts warming up to her with the Otabin moment to be the cherry on top.
• Generation81: I'm not a big fan of the series PAW Patrol in general, due to how incredibly stupid and useless people are in the show, but perhaps one that really infuriates me comes in the episode "Pups Save a Royal Painting," where one villain, Sweetie simply asks to be in the titular MacGuffin with a princess, but another character refuses; is it because she's a villain who tried to take the throne for herself and doesn't deserve it? No, it's because Only future queens are allowed in the painting and not pets! What kind of an excuse is that!? There are plenty of official portraits of monarchy that feature pets of them. With how they treat Sweetie there, is it any wonder she tries to ruin the painting for them?
• JMRS: Pingu is one of those shows which I have a love/hate relationship with. Some of the episodes I like include but are not limited to, the one with the Organ Grinder, the one where they go to the funfair, the one where Pingu and Robby play hide and go seek, and the one where Pingu introduces Robby to his school. Episodes I don't like include the one where Pingu breaks a vase, the one where Pinga keeps crying because her Dad accidentally drove over her Teddy Bear, and the one where Pingu tries to get revenge on one of his friends. But, in my opinion, the absolute worst episode of Pingu is the one called "Pingu Quarrels with his Mother". The premise for this one is that Pingu needs to bring in the firewood, but he wants to go and play with Pingo. His mother, however, won't let him go and play and orders him to chop more firewood. I'm sorry, but isn't Pingu a child? You're basically asking a child to wield a hazardously sharp object to do something which an adult should do. Heck, at some points, she even smirks at him when he clearly doesn't want to do any work. This leaves me with the impression that she actually enjoys watching her son suffer! However, the worst part of this episode has to be when Pingu gets frustrated and throws the wood everywhere, hurting his foot. Does his mother care? No! Look, your son hurt his foot! Tend to him! See if he's OK! After that, Pingu randomly decides to kick a table for no good reason. This last action prompts his mother to slap Pingu across the face. Only when Pingu runs crying into his room does his mother realise her mistake. Yes, you should feel guilty. No, scratch that, you should feel beyond guilty. I'm not entirely sure that you realise what you just did. I understand that the point of this episode is to show what a quarrel between a mother and son could look like, but even if you wanted her to act out of character, there's a limit and it's a few miles before this. Not even an admittedly heartwarming ending could save this episode from being the worst episode of Pingu, in my opinion. You know what the sad part is? There's actually a YouTube Poop of this episode which is much better than this episode! (The YTP in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxUNsxHRZ2g)
• Baronbeefdip: The Proud Family. For me, the episode with the "psycho duck" certainly qualifies. It starts out good enough with Penny rescuing a mallard duck who can't swim and having him stay at the house until he recovers. The duck keeps stealing Oscar's food, but no one but Oscar ever sees the duck doing so. This in and of itself would make for a hilarious episode... But, then the duck goes batshit insane for no reason whatsoever. Seriously, it's a random shift from an episode about Penny rescuing a cute yet mischievous (towards Oscar at least) duck to an episode about the entire family (and friends) being terrified of an insane power-hungry duck. Why? Also, the seemingly tacked-on ending where the duck is revealed to have belonged to a billionaire and that Wizard Kelly (himself already a multi-billionaire in the series) had returned Chester (the psycho duck) to his owner and gotten the million dollar reward. The ending has no real purpose other than to serve as a Yank the Dog's Chain moment for Oscar. Yes, Oscar is the Butt-Monkey of the series... but that was just cruel.
• Shadow 200: I've never been a big fan of The Proud Family but its reboot The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder angered me with the episode "The End of Innocence" with how they treated Zoey. A celebrity picks her to go on a date with him and it looks like she's being thrown a bone for once. Instead of being happy for her however, her "ahem" friends, including Penny who's supposed to be the nice one in comparison to the assholes known as Lacienga and Diijonay get angry and treat her like she's deformed and sub-human for being picked over them. Never mind that they've already got boyfriends and spend the whole episode treating her like dirt. And what is the real dethroning moment is that they prove to be right in the end as he only wanted to date her because he only dates white girls, thus bringing racism in as the cherry on top of a bad episode. Disney, what were you thinking about this? I'm almost tempted to cancel my Disney+ subscription. Go back to your drawing board and blow it up.
• Excelsior123: Ready Jet Go! is my favorite PBS Kids show of all time. Heck, it's one of my favorite shows of all time, and I will defend it to the death. However, the worst episode of the show by far is "Face on the Fritz". The kids are trying to fix Sunspot's pet house, and they try to get directions from Face 9000. However, Face 9000 starts malfunctioning. Jet's mom then takes him to get a repair. She then gives the kids an old Earth computer she found at a garage sale. Instead of the kids logically trying to find the start button to turn the computer on, they literally try to talk to the computer. I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried. The kid characters in the show are some of the smartest, most competent characters I've ever seen in a preschool show, yet in this episode, the writers are trying to tell me that they cannot do something as simple as using a computer? This results in Sean's mother teaching the kids about programming computers. Then the kids proceed to somehow use binary code to figure out how to build a pet house, when all it really takes is a relatively quick Google search! The episode description says "When FACE 9000 comes back, [the kids] have learned to appreciate him, as well as to be more independent thinkers.", yet when Face 9000 returns, looking all shiny and new, the kids show absolutely no signs of learning to appreciate him more! Screw this episode.
• jmac9345: For me, it's The Ren & Stimpy Show episode "Double Header". I agree with The Mysterious Mr. Enter for the most part: the bad episodes (namely a majority of the Games era) didn’t go too far, except for this one. The episode is about Ren wanting Stimpy to take a trip to Ursa Minor in order to get some alone time from him. And the line that kills this episode for me is when Ren says "Well, I just don't like you." It kills it for me because not only does it identify that Ren completely Took a Level in Jerkass, but it pains me because I know that Ren can have some incredibly heartwarming moments for such an angry character. Ren may be a jerk, but he has had numerous instances where he shows that he cares about Stimpy, like in “Son of Stimpy”. Outright saying that he doesn't like Stimpy is just too cruel and mean-spirited, even for Ren. While this may be the main reason I don’t like this episode, I don't like the plot that follows with Ren and Stimpy being combined into an Eldritch Abomination due to a car crash because of how John K. showed us in the Spumco episodes that he can sometimes be a caring person, and doesn't deserve this mean a treatment, even with his Butt-Monkey status.
• Iheartgod175: I love Hanna-Barbera cartoons, and one of my favorites are the Ricochet Rabbit and Droop-a-Long Coyote cartoons. Being that the show was made over 40 years ago, there are some weak episodes, and a few annoying ones ("Rapid Romance", "Will O' the Whip", and a few others), but it never made me go "What the heck, Hanna-Barbera?" There is one episode that made me do that, though, and that's the episode "Annie Hoaxley". In this episode, a dangerous criminal named Buzzard Bates comes to Ricochet's town, and Ricochet orders everyone to treat it as serious business. He ends up being fooled, however, when Bates dresses up as an old lady and ends up letting "her" get away. This plot has been done before, but that's not the DMoS. What makes this episode a DMoS is that Ricochet does find out that the "old lady" was Buzzard Bates thanks to Droop-a-Long fumbling Bates' disguise, but the minute the guy pulls out the helpless old lady act, Ricochet falls for it—twice. Basically, they gave Ricochet the Idiot Ball for the later half of the episode and let him run away with it for the sake of laughs, resulting in him acting seriously out of character. Out of the pair, I'd expect Droop-a-Long to do something like this, not Ricochet, who's normally the smart one and is a bit of a trickster himself. To see him act this gullible is kind of an insult to his character. This, along with the low animation quality, is what made this a DMoS for me.
• HeavyWeaponsPie: This isn't the worst episode of Robotboy, "The Revenge of Protoboy" is probably that, but "Runaway Robot" from series/season 1 is one that comes to mind when I think of episodes I don't like. It starts out fine enough with Robotboy being tricked by Bjorn Bjornson that he could make him into a human, which is stupid on his part, but it’s forgivable as he is naive, but it falls massively downhill when Bjorn tricks Robotboy into thinking that Professor Moshimo (Robotboy's creator) was going to make him a "robot slave", which leads to Robotboy superactivating... Guess what happens next? Does Robotboy flee so Moshimo can’t get him? Does catch onto the trick because he can’t superactivate if he were human? If you chose one of those two, you aren’t the writer of this episode. He tries to outright murder Moshimo! No really, he does. This could be forgivable when Tommy makes him see the truth, but he never even apologises for almost killing his creator, aka, basically his father! I know Bjorn tricked him, but it doesn’t excuse Robotboy for his horrible and frankly stupid actions. Oh and to make matters worse, during the fight with him and Bjornbot (his Superactive mode's last appearance), they both threaten Bjorn's Mother with guns, who unlike her son, is an actually nice person. I understand Bjornbot as he doesn't like her as much as his creator, but Robotboy? What was that about?
• fluffything: Scaredy Squirrel: The episode involving the robot vacuum had one of the most blatant, idiotic, and utterly god-awful examples of Karma Houdini I've ever seen. Basically, the episode involves Scaredy purchasing a robot vacuum from a crocodile salesman (No, he's not a villain, surprisingly) and absolutely adoring it. This causes Dave to become jealous (Despite Dave knowing Scaredy is obsessed with cleaning and organization) and spills his drink onto the vacuum. This causes the vacuum to go berserk and summon an army of robot vacuums to terrorize the city. Let's review exactly who is at fault here in the episode. Absolutely none of the problems that occurred would've happened had it not been for Dave. And, what sort of punishment does Dave get for not only causing the vacuum to break but for breaking his best friend's prized possession? Absolutely nothing! That's right. Not once is Dave even called-out for his actions in the episode. He gets away with his actions. Scaredy, erm, maybe you should find friends who don't blatantly break your possessions and cause a city-wide disaster!
• Cknowpursue: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: While I admittedly had a foot out the door since Frosta’s spontaneous character rewrite in season two, what really kicked it off the edge was Catra’s decision to flip the switch in “Moment of Truth”. Up to this point Catra had been portrayed as a sympathetic character, a woobie, and a general anti hero in the narrative. That moment ended the moment she decided to flip that switch. Because that switch just happened to be the “End all the world as we know it” switch, as both the audience and the characters knew. And that’s just straight up villain territory. And there’s no coming back from or reasonable justification for that, regardless of how far the narrative tried to stretch her backstory, causing it to look more and more Freudian by the moment and just didn’t add up. Especially afterwards where they still tried to play her character for depth and sympathy after purposefully trying to end the world, with little to no consequences in sight, and most characters waving off the consequences and events experienced as some sort of in universe Big-Lipped Alligator Moment, and a possible redemption arc in sight for her. The person that willingly and knowingly tried to destroy the world. Yeah, that broke my suspension of disbelief and I’ve sworn it off here since.
  • Capricious Salmon: My biggest problem with the show was how it ended with Adora and Catra getting together as a couple. I'm bisexual, so more LGBTQ rep, the merrier. But I never liked how it happened. The whole time I watched the show, I never felt as though Adora had a crush on Catra; Catra obviously had one for Adora, but Adora's love for her always felt, at best, platonic. There was never a moment where Adora realized what she was feeling for Catra was actually some kind of suppressed romantic attraction. And by the end of the show, Catra is pretty much past the Moral Event Horizon, and Adora doesn't care, because why? It feels like they only did it for Fanservice.
• fluffything: Skunk Fu!: My DMOS is how Dragon (the main antagonist) turned evil in the first place. See, sometime prior to the start of the series, Dragon was good. The Heavens decide to test Dragon's loyalty by causing a drought in the valley. Dragon asks if he can use his water powers to save the valley, and the heavens respond by saying nothing. Here's where it starts to get stupid. The Heavens then punish Dragon because he decided to use his water powers to stop the drought. They then accuse Dragon of being arrogant and remove his water powers causing him to be in constant, burning pain from his fire powers. Ok, even if Dragon was acting cocky about saving everyone, he still used his powers for good. That doesn't exactly warrant a punishment for disobedience. Plus, Dragon didn't know he wasn't supposed to use his powers. It seems rather unfair to punish something if they don't know what they did wrong. Oh, but it gets even worse. How? Well, it's then stated that The Heavens knew that Dragon was going to turn evil and swear vengeance on the valley. So they punish him for trying to save the valley effectively causing him to turn evil and want revenge on everyone that lives there? What? This isn't You Can't Fight Fate. This is more like "Too lazy to change fate". And not once did The Heavens or any of the animals in the valley (including Dragon's best friend, Panda) even consider trying to prevent Dragon from turning evil? There was nothing stopping them from turning Dragon mortal or giving him amnesia. Heck, if The Heavens feared Dragon was going to be such a threat, why not just kill him? Oh, and to make matters even worse, not once do any of the animals in the village ever stand up for Dragon. Not once do they try to reason with The Heavens or try to justify his actions. With Friends Like These... is it any wonder he wants revenge?
• Noodle Suarez: I love Sit Down, Shut Up. Really, I do. But some of the jokes go a bit too far. The episode "Best Teacher Ever" where Ennis makes the comment about a woman he had sex with claiming that "her mouth said no but her club foot said yes" implying Ennis to be a rapist disgusts me. Like I know the show is supposed to be off color and vulgar but... NO. IDK if he was making a disgusting joke to showcase is arrogance (Stuart referred to him as the "consensual sex master" but Stuart tends to be the oblivious one and the show doesn't always have positive continuity) or if he is truly a bastard but this joke left a bad taste in my mouth.
• Tiggerific: Sofia the First is a great show, and there's only one moment I can think of that's a clearly obvious ass-pull from the writers. In the season 4 episode "A Royal Wedding", it's revealed to everyone's surprise that Amber, not James, is the true heir of Enchancia, since she's the oldest twin. Now, I don't have a problem with the reveal in itself; it helps gender equality by disregarding the whole "only sons can inherit even if they're not the oldest" belief, and the episode proves that Amber is better suited for the role than James. What makes the moment stupid was the fact that they had to Retcon earlier episodes (James being heir despite Amber being older, Roland inheriting instead of his older sister, Tilly) to do it, which again wouldn't have been a problem - if they hadn't picked the dumbest reason ever why no one knew before now. Roland, the King, had no clue whatsoever about any of this. He thought it was the eldest son who inherited the throne, when it's in fact the eldest child, and his older sister didn't inherit because she didn't want to be Queen. They don't specifically say the exact reason why this was kept from him, but his mother says "we knew you wanted to be King" which implies that they didn't want to hurt his feelings. Because telling him "oh your sister was going to be Queen, but she doesn't want it so you're King now" would have hurt his feelings...how? Added to that, he's the King. He should know every law in the Kingdom, in order to avoid any misunderstandings exactly like the one they created. In not being told this, he built up James's hopes of being King, only to have them ripped away in the span of a day, hurting him so much that he tries to cruelly sabotage Amber to make himself heir again. It's just a uncharacteristically stupid move from both the Queen Mother and Aunt Tilly (not to mention how they somehow don't know that Roland named James his heir before all this). What's worse, is that there were far better ways for this reveal to happen; for instance, Amber started out the series as a spoiled Alpha Bitch, so it could have been a case of Roland simply not thinking she was fit to rule until he sees how much she's grown and how unfit James actually is, since he was struggling with his responsibilities in the same episode.
• Troperr 2016: Solar Opposites: The first episode of the show that I consider to be a huge ball drop is “The Apple Pencil Pro”. In this episode, the alien family gets accused of torturing a pig named Peter and are hauled off to jail. There they get assaulted and stabbed with shivs by the other inmates and none of the guards intervene. They escape to try to find evidence of their innocence only to find fake clues that make them believe they are monsters and they turn themselves in. They all get punished by being forced to place their hands in gloves filled with bullet ants and the big reveal was that Yumulack’s own teacher Miss Frankie orchestrated a Frame-Up against them as a Revenge plot against Yumulack for mutating her hands in an attempt to get out of a history test. Miss Frankie was such a Manipulative Bitch in this episode because she targeted the whole family for the misdeeds of only one of their members and Korvo and Terry did not deserve to be punished in this episode in any way. Even worse is that they never find out who framed them and Miss Frankie becomes a Karma Houdini cause she gets away with torturing Peter. The episode also made repetitive jokes about torture and barbecue ribs to the point where it got nauseating and the alien plot just ends with the family being tortured. I was so furious at how it ended. This episode is a Dethroning Moment Of Suck because it was an extremely mean spirited Korvo and Terry torture episode.
• Pyro Wildcat: In Spider-Man Unlimited, the end of "One is the Loneliest Number", when Dr. Yamato-Jones chews out Spider-Man for destroying her clinic. She had dealt with Spider-Man on numerous occasions (including several in which Spidey saved the lives of both her and her son), and has been shown to be okay with him. Which means that she should have had no reason to blatantly ignore the fact that the incident started by Carnage attacking the clinic, and he and Venom were obviously the ones who did all the damage while Spider-Man was trying to fight them off, especially since she's been shown to be a more reasonable character than that. This was blatantly another poorly shoehorned-in "Spider-Man will never be anything but a Failure Hero" moment.
• Numberguy6: My personal DMOS for Star Wars: The Bad Batch is in the Season 1 finale, when Omega jumps into the water to save AZI-3 after his Heroic Sacrifice. This is such a monumentally stupid decision: Omega is more than five meters below the water surface, and AZI-3 is made of metal, so she should know that there is no way for her to hold her breath long enough to bring AZI-3 up. In fact, the only reason that she and AZI-3 are still alive is that Crosshair saved them, which was a total shock to the rest of the Batch. But the worst part? Hunter doesn't scold or reprimand Omega at any point for risking her own life.
  • And it gets even worse in hindsight: in Season 2, AZI-3 is Demoted to Extra, making the scene in the S1 finale basically meaningless.
• savagegenius: I really think The Strange Chores is a great and underrated show, so much that although I consider some episodes mediocre, almost every episode has something going for it. That being said, like in my entry for Wander Over Yonder, there’s ONE episode in the entire show that I found bad; “Possess Charlie.” The plot is that Charlie needs help with a book report, and Que, in an effort to, prove how normal she is, possesses him and does it herself. That’s fine and dandy, but then the teacher announces the class election is coming up, and Que decides to run against Charlie’s will while having Pierce as her campaign manager. Now Que is usually my favorite character, what with me loving the creative possibilities of having a Japanese ghost character on the show, but here, she acts like a giant dick. She continually makes promises that she and Pierce are unable to keep while treating him as a slave, forcing him to dig a tunnel from school to his friends house and install lasers in it among other favors. All the while, Charlie is begging her to stop, but she repeatedly deliberately dismisses and refuses his pleas just so she can become normal. Now here’s where the dethroning moment comes in: Que’s antics eventually get to the point where she makes a deal with the teacher to rig the election in exchange for Charlie’s “weirdest kid in school” badge. Ignoring his pleas again, she hands the badge over, bringing Charlie to the brink of crying. And how does Que react to this? By wiping off his tears and not acknowledging his feelings. Wow, Que, just wow. I thought you cared for your friends and wanted to help them out like in the beginning, but nope! For this one episode, you treat one of your best friends like absolute garbage and constantly put him at your mercy for your own ego! Thankfully, the very next episode handled this topic in a much better way (Que instantly gets karma and she comes off more as desperate than outright uncharacteristic), but whoever you are, give back the real Que and fuck off!
• Shane La Fleur 9278: I generally adore Summer Camp Island. But there's one episode that I have a hard time watching..the episode "The Basketball Liaries". First of all, the whole "Gold League" concept comes out of nowhere, even in the context of the show. The possessive basketball character was way over the top and the moral seemed a little bit forced. The biggest thing for me however was the secret area for the gold team that Hedgehog showed Oscar after he got on the team..which featured all the cook perks that she didn't bother to share with him until that moment. It just made her seem selfish and way out of character to me. I expected Susie to keep things like that from Oscar but not his own best friend. There were many more issues I had with this one but that was the biggest issue for me. The episode just seems out of place in the context of the series as a whole.
• SampaCM: I'll start by telling I didn't have a good experience with the animated adaptations of my favorite video games, The Legend of Zelda, Mega Man (Ruby-Spears) and The Mario trilogy kept me from trying the actual games for years, because I was afraid of what I was going to find (For instance, I avoided playing Castlevania because I was concerned about meeting the cocky, goggles-wearing Simon Belmont from Captain N: The Game Master). However, there is one moment in particular that made me angry like anything else: The episode "A Little Learning" from Super Mario World. In this episode, Iggy and Lemmy Koopa (I refuse to call them their cartoon names) are attending school, run by Princess Toadstool, along with Yoshi and (*sigh*) Oogtar. As expected, there are fights between the two pairs, with the princess even blaming Oogtar for a fight that was clearly started by the Koopa siblings (She's technically correct, as Oogtar got them into trouble, to begin with). But the very worst moment comes at the end: at the science fair, Iggy and Lemmy built a volcano, which uses real lava! At first, it seems they know what they're doing, but goes out of control due to Bowser's meddling, so the school gets destroyed, and Iggy, Lemmy, and Bowser are thrown down a warp pipe back to the Neon Castle. Now that episode made me angry for various reasons: Iggy and Lemmy really wanted to go to school, but Oogtar, who was being more of a Jerkass than usual, got them into trouble with the princess, which is the reason why they decided to start a fight, and showing them off in the science fair, and in the end, they were expelled for an accident that was Bowser's fault, essentially ruining the chance of a Heel–Face Turn by the siblings.
  • SenorCornholio: Admittedly, these cartoons are sometimes a guilty pleasure of mine because of how So Bad, It's Good they can get. But even I can admit when a truly bad episode comes about. And I'm listing a moment from The Legend of Zelda here, mainly because it used to be part of the above show when it was called The Super Mario Bros. Super Show. It had the usual DiC Entertainment cheese, some interesting scenarios, epic monster designs reminiscent of the first two games that were out at that time, and a Zelda that was a genuine Action Girl compared to the Damsel in Distress she was in those games. However, the final broadcast episode of the show, "The Moblins Are Revolting", was just infuriating. The premise, of course, is that Ganon's minions revolt against him due to one too many failures, trap him in a bubble that can only be burst with the Triforce of Power, and throw him down a Bottomless Pit (go ahead, make your CD-i jokes). Their attempts to take the Triforce of Wisdom end as you would expect, without Link or Zelda fighting them. Seeing this, the two in question come to the conclusion that Ganon isn't home, and so go to take the Triforce of Power, which is guarded by a sole Dodongo that is soundly defeated. And here's where my moment starts: just as they're about to take it, Ganon arrives after figuring out how to escape the pit, but can't even do anything from inside his bubble. So instead of ignoring Ganon, or trying to keep him from the Triforce, Link decides to fool around and toss him like a volleyball, right onto the Triforce of Power, thus freeing Ganon and allowing him to resume his dark designs. Zelda is naturally pissed at him, to which Link tries to remedy the situation with an "Excuuuuse me, princess" and then after Zelda storms off, comments that "at least I still have a job". And then the series stopped until Captain N gave it a proper sendoff. I normally don't have that much of a problem with Link in this show, but here, I just wanted to slap him. He came across as probably less competent in that one scene than all of Ganon's minions combined and didn't even show any remorse for it. If the Triforce of Courage ever got introduced in this show before its untimely discontinuation, it'd take a miracle for me to believe this inept moron deserved it. Heck, CD-i Link, for all his Memetic Mutation, actually came off as more of a hero. And That's Terrible!
• Clown-Face: While I overall like Tangled: The Series, something I'm not a fan of is how Cassandra's redemption is handled in the Series Finale "Plus Est en Vous". Evil!Cassandra in general was handled rather poorly, but I in particular take issues with how her reformation is conveyed. For one, her Heel Realization isn't brought about by horror at all the people she's hurt, or realizing how her actions have damaged her bond with her former friends, but rather when she gets backstabbed by Zhan Tiri and has her powers taken away from her. All of her horrible actions (including demolishing the kingdom and rendering everyone homeless) weren't enough to convince her to pull a Heel–Face Turn; it's only when she personally gets screwed over that she decides to rejoin Rapunzel. But worse is the season's insistence that Cassandra is deep down a good person and friend who's "just" confused and misguided, and that Rapunzel simply needs to talk sense into her, all the while downplaying the severity of her actions. Even after Cassandra has remorselessly destroyed the kingdom, which could've easily killed dozens of people, Arianna continues to push Rapunzel not to give up on a person who's tried to murder her numerous times. I'm sorry, but when you've committed the crimes Cassandra has, and for such stupid reasons no less, you're not a lost and confused soul, you're a horrible monster, and no one is obligated to keep reaching out to you just because you used to be their friend. And she faces barely any consequences for her actions other than being depowered; she doesn't even have to deal with Rapunzel and the others not trusting her anymore, as they forgive her almost immediately. Her redemption perhaps would've worked better if she hadn't been let off the hook and actually had to work to regain Rapunzel and the others' trust, rather than the impetus being put on Rapunzel to not give up on their friendship. The writers may have been trying to send the message to not give up on your friends and that redemption is always possible but with the way it's applied here, it just comes off as "keep giving abusive and unstable people endless chances while also giving them more opportunities to hurt you and your loved ones", which is a terrible message to send, especially to young audiences.
• Josh 1999: My DMOS would have to be for the Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales episode "How Does Your Garden Grow" where the entire plot revolves around Tennessee Tuxedo finally getting the upper hand on Stanley Livingston but what ruined it was the ending with the ending where the mayor's wife going a vacation around the world for a year and Stanley turning back to his Jerkass ways again. This episode also made me stop liking Tennessee Tuxedo and made me hate the series because most of the episodes keep ending with Stanley Livingston always winning almost every single dang time while Tennessee always loses, that’s one of the reasons why I now dislike this cartoon.
• Kirby 0189: I enjoy Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy, but the show's version of Optimus Prime really rubs me the wrong way in his insistence to not kill Megatron even after all of the proof that he is complete scum (unlike say how Kira Yamato is a Technical Pacifist who recognizes when his enemies are beyond redemption or there is no other way and kills them, reluctantly for the latter scenario). The final episode of Earthrise solidified my dislike of this take on Optimus. Not long before my DMoS, Prime had seemingly come to terms with how Megatron is a piece of garbage who needs to die, so during their fight, he holds Megatron at gunpoint... and tells him to say that he forgives him before he shoots, giving Megatron the chance to turn the tables and steal the Matrix because Prime didn't just blow his head off. Are you kidding me? At least for the G1 movie where Optimus stupidly stops to comment on how odd it is for Megatron to beg for mercy (and thus stall while he sneaks towards a gun), it was clear that he was going to finally kill Megatron regardless, and for as overly-violent as the live-action film's take on him can be, he actually gets the job done against enemies who have proven themselves to be dangerous even if he shows remorse for several of the executions. This is just Optimus being an enormous idiot after he had seemingly realized what needed to be done and still screwed it up. Maybe if this Megatron showed a hint of compassion beyond being the Jerk with a Heart of Jerk he has proven himself to be or Prime had been given a more reasonable reason to be still reluctant to kill him besides needing to hear forgiveness from the monster who clearly doesn't have any (like maybe Megatron pretends to have reformed or there is a flashback to a previously-unseen moment that justifies Prime's refusal to kill him), I would be able to let it slide. Instead, I can safely say that this is my least favorite version of Optimus Prime thanks to this one scene being the straw that broke the camel's back.
• fluffything: T.U.F.F. Puppy: The episode where Professor Birdbrain discovers a parallel dimension where Booby Birds rule and live in paradise and wants to go there to have the biggest Yank the Dog's Chain I've ever seen. Long story short, Birdbrain kidnaps a monkey boy band (don't ask) and wants to use their singing powers to open a portal to the other dimension. Ok, apart from the kidnapping, his plans aren't really that evil. But, the DMOS comes in when Keswick reveals that traveling from one dimension to another causes the former dimension to be destroyed. I'm sorry... What? So, rather than just allowing Birdbrain to finally be able to find happiness and fly (his main goal), they have to throw in this utterly ridiculous twist? Again, apart from the kidnapping, Birdbrain's plans were not evil. He just wanted to go somewhere where he could fit in.
• Merseyuser1: I've only seen Uncle Grandpa now and then, but "The Fan", Season 2, Episode 7, is an episode that's a Broken Aesop, as the moral put forward is "Don't be a fan over-obsessed with things", but the ending where Uncle Grandpa melts all Nubert Nimbo's toys to make a molding of Nubert's mom is a low point; it seems to put forward the point "It's OK to vandalize other people's possessions to get someone out of an obsession", which contradicts the moral of the show. Yes, Nubert was socially awkward, but it doesn't excuse Uncle Grandpa's behavior. The moral of "there's more to life than a TV show" is a Stock Aesop, but this fell into Clueless Aesop mixed with Broken Aesop, and the episode is one to avoid if you think it's a jab at fandoms in general.
• hiiiiiiiiiiiiii: I am a big fan of Unikitty!, but there is one episode that pisses me off. The episode R & Arr. So Unikitty and Puppycorn want to be lazy because it's lazy Sunday. Richard wants them to do chores and they make everyone not do chores. Richard just wants them to help and they make him sink inside of the mess in Unikitty's room. Firstly, the characters are abusing the Woobie of the series, Richard. He already does so much and they never appreciate him. This episode is like a kick in the ass to him. Secondly, Unikitty and Puppycorn get absolutely no punishment for what they did. They made Richard freaking sink in Unikitty's mess in her room. Did I forget to mention this episode uses the Messy room cliché? Also, only Unikitty and Puppycorn get a good ending. Richard basically drowns and Dr. Fox and Hawkodile get stuck doing chores. I'm quite surprised that Unikitty and Puppycorn were doing this. Especially since they are both Nice to the Waiter and are both two of the sweetest characters in the show. This episode is an example of many of the Richard Torture episodes. I honestly expected better.
• Overlord347: I'm probably reading too much into this one, but one dethroning moment for me came in an episode of VeggieTales, in which Larry sings a song about his missing hairbrush. Now, from what I can tell, the song was about giving up things you don't need (like Larry's hairbrush since he has no hair) to someone else who does (like the Peach who does have hair). The problem with that is Larry never did give him the hairbrush; it was Bob the tomato. He basically just took the hairbrush without permission and gave it to the Peach on the grounds that he has hair and will make better use of it. His excuse for basically stealing from Larry? "Well, you don't really use or need it." That's it! It would be like if one of my friends had a stuffed toy that he no longer plays with and I just go ahead and take it to give to someone else simply because he doesn't use it anymore!
• InTheGallbladder: I absolutely love We Bare Bears, with the exception of "The Road". I don't like the cubs—they aren't well-written, and their actors were too young to have the necessary experience. Giving them the lead role for a whole episode was a dangerous decision; giving it a serious musical number was a suicidal one.
• Manwiththeplan: Cedric, being the final villain of the second/final season of W.I.T.C.H.. Greg Weisman, I love you, but just because you can pull off a twist doesn't always mean you should, especially when it means sacrificing satisfying end battles with two menacing, well-developed villains for a final battle against a horrendously unimpressive, underdeveloped one who we've seen defeated about 100 times already.
• fluffything: For me, it was during the series finale of X-Men: Evolution when Kurt and Rogue pretty much diss Mystique who is clearly trying to at the very least apologize for her behavior. Yes, Mystique is a villain, and yes, she has done horrible things to the X-Men (Kurt and Rogue included), but there's a difference between trying to destroy your enemies and trying to make amends with your own children. Now, I can understand Rogue refusing to accept her apologies, but Kurt? One of Kurt's main character traits is that he's compassionate, understanding, and forgiving. Not to mention that, earlier in the season, he was genuinely heartbroken when he thought his own mother had died. Way to be a great son, Kurt! Instead of forgiving your mother's actions and trying to start anew with her, just blow her off like a petty child!
• Danger Artist Nexus 60: The episode "Yin Yang Who?" had been bugging me for a long time for good reasons that got me into writing fanfics like Re: Yin Yang Who? or Yin Yang Yo! Forever, for example:
  1. The idiocy of the parents. Though justifiable due to short notice of Yin and Yang's rushed training against Eradicus and the experience their children had with the rabbits in the past sixty-four episodes, their response still made me feel like it was borderline unrealistic with emphasis on the 'un' prefix; I mean, look at Lena's father: he threatened to ground her even as he was being held in the swinging grasp of that Humongous Mecha instead of gasping for air.
  2. Master Yo being the father of these twin rabbits. While I've remembered about genetics, how does that explain his characteristics as a father?! It's mostly unjustifiable despite his mentors wiping his memories about them all together for good reason.
  3. The fact that it was the Series Finale! There were so many plot holes and new villains being churned out in a mere instant it was just downright uncalled for, not to mention the lies that followed afterwards on Wikipedia. No new episodes yet (Thanks, Michael Eisner).
• Nightfurywitch: Now, I, like a ton of other people, am a huge fan of Regular Show, so when J.G. Quintel's Close Enough came out on HBO Max, I was excited to give it a try, and I found it....fine. It was nowhere near as good as Regular Show, the references felt a lot more detrimental, and the gore honestly dampened most of the jokes for me. But overall, it's pretty okay. I wouldn't mind watching it every now and then. That is, minus one episode, "Logan's Run'd." Yes, they did steal the name from the sci-fi classic. The basic plot is Josh, Emily, and Alex feel like they're getting old and go to the hip new club in town, Logan's. When they get there, they soon discover that the club kills everyone there who's 30 or over. While, as I said before, the gore dampens the jokes, the basic plot is okay. What really gets me here is the side plot of their friend, Bridgette, the Loveable Sex Maniac of the group. She's hooked up with a Youtuber who she's really into until she finds out...he's a literal toddler. Alright, this is J.G. Quintel's humor, I can buy that, and she immediately freaks out. That is, until the end of the episode, where she's still seen lusting over him. Uh. Look, it's fine to have sex-positive female characters in media, this is really gross considering Bridgette is 20-something, and the Youtuber is a literal toddler. Combine this really scummy subplot with a lot of unneeded gore and a lot of really bad jokes about the adults trying to be "cool", it's just overall not a very fun episode.
• Bunny Star: While I do like Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, there's one moment in the season 3 episode "Wolf in Wolf's Clothing", where Benson and Dave both think that Margot literally wants to stab Wolf in the back. I'd expect Dave to believe this since he's a pea brain, but I'd expect Benson to be smart enough to know about figures of speech.
• OrdinaryTroper: I'm not going to pretend that Nexo Knights is peak fiction. In fact, I think it fails even at properly promoting the very toy series it was meant to promote, but I still have a soft spot for it. However, the series seems to have a trend of Lance Richmond acting like an asshole for an entire episode and not learning his lesson. While "The Golden Castle" ended with him getting payback and ultimately wasn't a bad episode, "Greed is Good?" from an otherwise good Season 2 is what I believe is the first truly bad Nexo Knights episode. To recap: Lance loses both his parents and the wealth when they are stolen by Lava Monsters, but couldn't care less for the former since they forced him to attend the Knights' Academy, and spends the episode whining about becoming poor and having to work for money (by selling his autographed photos). It's hard to root for his parents either, considering they spoiled their son rotten and then had the gall to call him a "disappointment". In short, not only the episode left a bad taste in my mouth, but it buried Lance's potential of becoming a complex and truly likeable character for the sake of more half-baked jokes.

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