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Neurotically Yours (2002)
Downfall.
I am an big fan of Newgrounds, even being an admin on the Newgrounds Wiki. I obviously had to find this show on some point due to its immense popularity, and I did.
Neurotically Yours was an very simple series, but not bad. The episodes were short, with regular animation, but they were interesting, mainly on the Foamy Rant episodes. However, John (Johnathan Ian Mathers, he goes for Jim but who cares) had the terrible idea of over-sexualizing the protagonist, Germaine. As this is an adult cartoon, obviously you are going to have some green humor and sexual references, and it had before! But, becoming it the point of the whole show was just abysmal, because it's an cartoon, not an porno. John even made Germaine an prostitute! And obviously, this let the show to lose its younger audience, which were kids and teens who just wanted to see something funny and not porno.
The first real controversy related to this show was when John decided to do an special about the hurricane Katrina on 2005. As you may think, If it is an special, would it have more quality on the animation? Absolutely no! Joe just pasted an image of the Louisiana map with an bubble speech of Foamy, with an audio of the angry squirrel ranting over. An similar special came out in 2006: And you would think, John tried to improve and make something more "special" this occasion? Absolutely no! Now on a Californian province, Foamy ranted about illegal Mexican immigrants on California stealing jobs. And he had an friend specialized on racial topics, wouldn't he call the guy or something? This flash got overwhelmingly disastrous reviews which let to the movie's eventual deletion, and it was pretty much forgotten until some years ago.
On 2011, John looked back at what he was doing, and rebooted the cartoon. Much like those crappy Cartoon Network reboots you think when you hear the word, the art style became uglier and he apparently wanted to remove an 60% of the sexual content, but, it was still sexual. On 2016, more the half of the whole movies got deleted, including that one Katrina special, and he started reuploading them on Newgrounds (why did he deleted him on first place, WHY???) and thanks to this, Tom Fulp added an option to remove awards from movies on 2020.
On 2017, Joe rebooted it for an second time, now the art style becoming more likely to the comic strips art style (which look like sketches). Neurotically Yours were already on YouTube since 2009, and he basically had moved to here, doing an new show calling Foamy the Squirrel (The only and original Foamy The Squirrel!)
On 2023, with the 20 anniversary of the show coming, Joe decides to make the show "chibi". It isn't Neurotically Yours anymore, it's Neurotically Yours BITS! 7 second funny clips of the show with an new art style. 7 seconds, with AI generated backgrounds, and another 20 seconds of an outro. So these instead of being on YouTube or TikTok, these were on Newgrounds! With the last one having 1/5.
So, Neurotically Yours has been an decadent show, becoming from an very much decent show to what it is now. Some episodes are still enjoyable, but it is clear this show is mediocre nowadays and episodes can't save it. What used to be the story of an squirrel that hates everything and her gothic owner is now the story of an annoying squirrel and a prostitute. Let's put as example the downfall of Family Guy or The Simpsons, shows running on one of the most watched TV networls, but now with an webtoon that one episode lasts 1 minute or less!
Skibidi Toilet (2023)
Not funny.
As most of things that get popular and eventually end up to kids, I thought this would be good, but it fandom was bad. But no. This sucks and it's fandom sucks. "Skibidi Toilet" was originally a Ohio joke (those are unfunny btw) but that ended as an full series. It presents an fictional war between "Skibidi Toilets" which are Toilets which head is only visible. Why skibidi? Apparently, they sing a lyricless song that sounds like skibidi, so yeah. And then, the "Camera man" or "Tv man" or "Speaker man" and more... They are guys with those systems as head who, for some reason, want to kill the skibidi toilets after they start invading humanity. Yet they are not humans, they're somehow mad the toilets are attacking. The first 3 episodes, just present the toilets singing and... Invading a city? And the rest is just senseless fighting. Explosions, viruses, colossus, and giants, but this all started because the mans (let's just call them all like that) wanted to fight and that's all? People talk so much about the lore, but, simply, there's not even a lore after all. Just senseless fight. How can kids like this? And worse, how can people find this funny?
The Fairly OddParents: Timmy's Secret Wish! (2011)
The Season that assassinated the show.
The Fairly Oddparents is probably the most popular and recognizable nicktoon, just under SpongeBob. Due to its sucess, it became Nickelodeon's money printer for years. The show would have easily ended at 2006, but they decided to (affortunately) end it 12 years later, on 2018, after Butch's Hartman retire from Nickelodeon. Some people say that Poof, Sparky, the live actions or Chloe killed the show. But the truth is that Poof didn't do really anything to the show, and Sparky, the Live Actions and Chloe came out when the show was dead already. I don't have any problem with Poof, neither with Foop, but for me, the season that condemned to death FOP, was the eight season. No segments, just 6 chapters, which actually 2 are occupied by this special so it's actually 5.
This special kills all the logic and the timeline of the series. Timmy is now considered the worst godchild ever, even if they know that there's even worse, like Mary-Ann that literally caused WW1 killing the Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
Apparently, now, 50 years have happened since the pilot. But didn't 1 year just gone on Abra Catastrophe? 49 years have now happened since that? From Season 3 to 8, 49 years have happened?
And also Crocker helps Timmy with no actually reason, he just helps him for the plot's good, Crocker absolutely made Timmy's life worse, giving him Fs and disturbing him asking all the time about his Fairies, and he's gonna help him, why?
And no, these are just a few of the plotholes this episode has, because oh God, this episode has so much plotholes.
ThunderCats Roar (2020)
Terrible.
This is not the average reboot, this is terrible in all ways. Bad animation, unfunny humor, and no respect for the source material. This is done for 6-12 kids, but, I can't even find one who likes this, infact my younger brothers who are that age absolutely hated it, even if they didn't watched the original, they know this is just an insult to the original. The animation looks so rushed and bad, it looks like an flash newgrounds or YouTube parody from early-mid 2000s, poor color palette and use of calarts. I don't even remember this show well, as it's broadcasting time was so short and it's only on Amazon Prime now (if somebody wants to buy this...)
A least you can have fun with an TTGO or Ben 10 16' episode if you try to ignore the original, but this, just inacceptable.
Mad (2010)
Most underrated show ever, change my mind.
Mad is an classic magazine. DC bought EC, the publisher of Mad on 1960, and Warner Bros-Seven Arts bought DC on 1969, and this company evolved to TimeWarner (now known as Warner Bros Discovery.) Mad had its first TV iteration on 1995, with MADtv for FOX, but my introduction to it was this show: Mad, by Cartoon Network.
Mad made parodies of pop culture, like icarly, avengers, but also made parodies of culture on general, like terminator or Cartoon cartoons. MAD presented an very crude humor for a primetime cartoon network show, which was one of the reasons spectators hated and didn't understood the show. I was just an kid, and despite that I found the show funny and enjoyable. Mad counted with different animation styles, from hand drawn to stop motion, and that is also good, because, despite some of them can be bad, other just look so clean, like the spy vs spy stop motion, which looks amazing. And about the Spy vs Spy: this was one of the best things about the show. The Black Spy, always tries to kill the White in the easiest ways, and the White is more ingenious, although sometimes his smart plans go wrong. Sometimes there are ties, or sometimes both team up, as on the 100 episode, which makes it more fun. On the First seasons it used an fast-paced 2D animation, but since the second, it became an very clean done stop motion. I didn't understood some of the jokes, but it was still fun to watch, believe me. One of the best 2010s cartoon network shows, along with Adventure Time, Regular Show, Gumball, and more. This show was very funny, but sadly overhated by some dweebs with the "old gold new eww" logic. And I hope some day Spy vs Spy can return on a movie or a new show.