Themes for each decade: The 1970s: Can you please stop copying Scooby-Doo? The 1980s: Can you not have less substance than this? The 1990s: Can you stop trying to make me throw up? The 2000s: Can you not be lazier than this? The 2010s: Who was this for?
Problem I have with the majority of “adult “ animation: adult subject matter not handled In an adult way. Going purely for shock value may work for a while, but at some point the audience will say “ ok. What else ya got?” Don’t believe me? Just ask Carlos Mancia
This is usually why I tend to prefer some childrens shows and family movies. Yes, they're kid friendly, yet we got shows like Steven Universe, Gravity Falls, Adventure Time, TMNT 2012, etc. and movies like Zootopia that are geared towards a younger audience, yet dwelve deep into subject matter that are considered more adult, but yet kids can understand things. They're ignorant, not stupid. There's a difference. I often find shows that are geared towards kids to somehow be more mature than most adult shows, for the most part anyways.
Unicorn Lover123 thats why I said “the majority “ as opposed to “all”. For every spawn(and so I’m clear it’s one of my absolute fav things ever), or maxx, or castlevania, or bojack horseman, South Park, heavy metal, spice city(so glad someone brought that up. Bakshi is my spirit animal)there’s about 10 or so brickleberrys, or nut shacks, or stripperellas, or neo yokios, or any dime a dozen edgy for edge lords shit. Look, I’m not asking for any of these things to be removed. They have a right to exist, just as much as their fans have the right to enjoy them. I’m just saying that going purely for shock value without offering anything else is not sustainable. You may grab some headlines for now, but a year later unless you have something else going for it, no one is going to care. Case in point: one of my absolute favorite games Witcher 3. Beloved by most gamers, lots of gore, lots of sex, lots of darkness , but there’s a beautiful story and astounding gameplay. People still praise it, and I guarantee it’ll be talked about for ages. By contrast, how many are still talking about hatred? How many folks actually remember that hatred even exists? I hope I’ve clarified my position to a satisfactory level .
Wow, what a brilliant analogy! I did not think of that pizza cutter comparison. In Better Late than Never, George Foreman taught me that anything played straight with no point is like a broken pencil. "Forget about it, it's pointless." October 9, 2020, 3:44pm
Brickleberry (and Drawn Together before it) is one of those TV shows that you hate to watch, but you can't stop laughing at the ridiculous things that you see. It's like watching a robber who falls down a lot. October 9, 2020, 3:45pm
The reason why I mentioned Drawn Together next to Brickleberry is because they are both Comedy Central programs that had 36 episodes in 3 seasons, and they were both #8 in the Top 10 Worst Cartoons of the decade in which they started. October 9, 2020, 3:46pm
He did say critique rhymes with weak. (Horrible btw. It just makes him look insecure -_-) So yeah he'll dismiss any critism and take as an insult no matter who he hear's it from. Not even from the industry as it seems. Ugh...friggin Butch Hartman.
Not in the way he said it. It is supposed to make you stronger because it makes you realize your weaknesses and gives you the incentive to improve. Butch, though, implies it makes him stronger because it makes the people that critique him look like weak crybabies. Which is a very toxic mentality to have
Sometimes. But other times it is because the critic is trying to prove their own intelligence and boost their own ego. Still other times, its because they are a professional critic, and need to say something to fill up space and continue to get paid and make rent on time.
The whole point of criticism is to help whoever person you're criticizing. Nowadays, practically nobody can do that. That is why people like Burch Fartman feel vindicated, and feel like they can dismiss criticism, even if it's actually legitimate.
The Nutshack tried to cash in on nostalgia? That would mean someone somewhere thought “Yes. People will be cheering with glee at the sight of The Nutshack coming back!”
"We can't impeach him because, I love him!" Wtf? That joke doesn't even make any sense. Since when has Pelosi ever expressed any positive sentiments towards Trump?
This is what happens when comedians who are supposed to know comedy don't tell jokes, live in a hugbox, and just want to go on a diatribe for the next 22 minutes.
The idea is that if Pelosi hated Trump so much she would have gotten him impeached on day one which I'm just going to blame instant gratification culture. Maybe some cancel culture too.
@@Talisguy Exactly. Hell, the show is dating itself so badly that even referencing it as a joke doesn't work because people will be goddamn lost on what the fuck this show is if anyone tries to make fun of it in the future. Never has a show barred itself from being riffed on solely because of collective amnesia--hell, the only reason I remember he made the thing is because I keep seeing it pop up on Kimcartoon when I'm pirating something due to a new "episode." Congratulations, Stephen Colbert.
"You're not like other black people, but why would you want to be?" As a black guy, this is definitely relatable in every aspect that I thought it was a bad thing. Almost like it knows me...
Eh, the season was a small improvement. "Slasher" and "El Bombadero" are actually pretty decent, there are less pervert jokes and there is only one REALLY HORRIBLE episode ("The Chaod Warrior"). The season was mediocre, but a HUGE improvement over the first one.
How ironic that the people who claim to want more representation, so as to move away from stereotypes, also rely on stereotypes like crazy. But really, that's something I've come to expect from those sort of people by this point. Their self-awareness levels would be in the negative numbers if such a thing were possible.
@@YamatoFukkatsu They've done studies where conservatives and leftists answered questions and then answered them again as if they were the other group. Conservatives were able to answer the way leftists did but the leftists had no clue how to answer like conservatives. Those stereotypes are the full extent of their understanding.
@@YamatoFukkatsu You're conflating ideas that are only superficially similar. Both evoke a feeling of ridicule, but with wildly differing contexts. There is a stark difference between stereotypes of social minority groups peppered throughout different genres, and stereotypes in the context of a satire. The latter examples serve a point and are woven into the framework of a satire, which includes exaggeration of reality. The problems arise when the point gets muddled and contradicts itself, as Enter pointed out with various examples, but that's a matter of execution, not the stereotypes. Put another way... there's a massive difference between Blazing Saddles and Our Cartoon President. The former stereotypes which are protested by those who call for representation, meanwhile, have no grander point to them and are not commenting on anything. They are generally not woven into a satire, and are more often than not born out of the writers' own flaws, in the sense that they're either an all-around dick, or they're actually attempting to be inclusive but are fucking it up. And then there are those who pretend to give a shit about representation but don't, and are only trying to make themselves look good and failing. I'd also question how you figure that those who call for representation are also the ones responsible for the stereotypes you're referring to. Seems like a claim with no empirical evidence. Unless of course you're just grouping everyone into "the left" category and going from there. Almost like you're... oversimplifying a group and their views to make it easier to go after. Almost like you're... what's the word? Ah, doesn't matter. But I feel it's quite... ironic, nonetheless.
I remember Enter did address this to an extent, something like "When people ask for total integration, you either have everyone being the same which kills the cultures, or you become the stereotype resulting in an insulting representation", and to quote someone else, "If you make a character based purely on their skin, you're gonna get a skin-deep character, and thus a shallow story". Let's hope the 2020s bring on the re-realization of these things
Saying Trump jokes is easy. Coming up with original material is difficult. Low hanging fruit but it’s a very plentiful and lack of variety crop. They all been done to death and when he provides new material (like the whole covfefe thing) it quickly becomes a dead horse. The delay due to animation time doesn’t help. As a cartoon a Trump type figure works best as a recurring character in a Simpsons or Futurama type show, like Mayor Quimby or President Nixon.
Funny enough, the only good Trump joke that I heard recently (that I laughed out loud about) was from a recent airing of a Simpsons episode that originally aired almost two decades ago; In that episode, Homer does some hand gestures on a balcony and Lisa tells him to stop imitating Mussolini (since the family is in Italy and that would reflect badly on them), to which Homer replies, "Mussolini? I thought I was imitating Trump!" Giving how some people view Trump now, I couldn't help but laugh.
I made some stories mocking politicians on both sides, granted I didn't base too much of their personalities on the real world counterparts' personalities, but still, the characters' names and appearances are similar. Example: Donald Trump's counterpart is based off of Haitian Jack (named Donald Jack), Hilary Clinton's is based off of Jimmy Henchman (Jimmy Hilary).
One of the best decisions that the creators of _South Park_ did was reduce the Trump jokes starting in season 21. According to Trey Parker, the Trump jokes were too overdone, and the writers "fell into the same trap that _Saturday Night Live_ fell into, where it was like, 'Dude, we're just becoming CNN now.'" They wanted to go back to focusing on "the bread and butter of _South Park_ : kids being kids and being ridiculous and outragous."
Also, making constant empty jokes about Trump is a _lot_ easier than, say, actually taking the time to think about the state of American politics and what about it actually led to Trump being elected. Moderates are afraid of critical analysis like that, because then they'll realize Trump isn't the problem, he's the symptom to a larger issue with the government and politics.
Bill Burr has said he will NEVER make a joke about the president cause its low hanging fruit..its done by comics who literally do not want to put in any effort at all to crafting a joke.
Because they ALL Are!!! THEY'RE ALL ONLY INTERESTED IN ONE THING; LINING THEIR POCKETS WITH MORE MONEY; IF THEY REALLY WANTED TO HELP THEIR FELLOW AMERICANS LIKE THEY SAY THEY DO; THEN THEY WOULDN'T BECOME A POLITICIAN!!
My brief thoughts on these shows: 10: I weirdly like 9: Adult Party cartoon’s cutting room floor 8: The Cleveland Show was more inventive with its comedy 7: an assault on sanity 6: I honestly thought that was fake
ok serious question does pickles stand for something more how should i say this nicely..illegal? alot of American censors use pickles and the subject of pickles to censor things they don't like while adding an extremely odd sexual nature to the scene that had none to begin with(See fire emblem fates as an example) Cause its starting to become a trend now.
The difference between George Lucas and Butch Hartman is that Lucas simply couldn't find people who pushed back and forced him to try better anymore, whereas Hartman wouldn't listen to those people and pushed them away.
Even George publicly admitted embarrassment for at least one of his works. Particularly Star Wars Holiday. If he had the time (and a sledgehammer) he'd track down every copy of that show and smash it.
The bad news is, Nickelodeon and Viacom rehired this bozo to work on a live action Fairly Oddparents reboot on Paramount+, despite his actions. And Oaxis came out in 2020 which turned out to be a scam.
Kinda ironic. They say Trump jokes are repetitive, then they go and spam the NPC meme with almost no creativity added to its initial joke. At least Colbert with try to put a spin on a old Trump joke when he gets the chance.
NPC repetitive....thats the joke..how the eff didn't you realize that its literally mocking the repetitiveness of the "jokes" being made by them along side how lazily made they are that C&Ping is harder than to make a NPC joke(hell half the time all you have to do is type NPC in response to people like this). Missing the point shows your mindset stupid, lazy, and highly politically charged.
The sole interesting thing about "Our Cartoon President" is the program that was used to animate it. Which was the then in development Adobe Character Animator. Which was essentially a digital puppet program. I've used it in a few of my reaction videos and I can tell you that even two years later, it still has a long way to go before it can really compete with industry standard programs like Toonboom and Animate. Mainly due to the fact that making convincing puppets that animate well is still going to take a lot of effort to draw and rig up. At which point you might as well just go into animate, and just do it all in there.
Animated political satire only works best either as single-frame political cartoons (whether in print or online) or short-form web animation which can get away with cheaper and/or cruder animation; FreedomToons would be an example of the latter. A 2 to 3 minute web cartoon can take about a week to make for a small team, but a 20 minute TV-quality cartoon, barring South Park, takes at least 6 months to do it right, considering that you have multiple animators, writers, editors, directors, etc.
I made some stories mocking politicians on both sides, granted I didn't base too much of their personalities on the real world counterparts' personalities, but still, the characters' names and appearances are similar. Example: Donald Trump's counterpart is based off of Haitian Jack (named Donald Jack), Hilary Clinton's is based off of Jimmy Henchman (Jimmy Hilary).
The only political show I enjoyed was Stone and Parker's "That's My Bush". Because it was more a sitcom parody starring Bush than trying to slam Bush constantly. Also because when they got criticism for the end joke "One of these days Laura, I'm gonna punch you in the face!" as a parody of Honeymooner's "One of these days... Bam! Zoom! Straight to the moon!" Their response? Changing it to "One of these days Laura, I'm gonna punch you in the face! Then the stomach! Then the face again!"
10. I kind of like this show. However, I definitely think this is a far cry from MLP’s quality. 9. I guess it gets interesting around Season 3, but the episodes are too unappealing and unfunny for me to give a shit. 8. The most bare-bones adult cartoon of this decade, PERIOD. Can’t believe the creators got to make the same goddamn show, “BuT tHIs tImE wiTH copS.” 7. Three minutes in, and my eardrums are already liquified. Thanks, Butch. 6. I haven’t really seen this show, but knowing how America handles politics, I’m just gonna assume that it’s filled the usual “orange man bad” jokes you’ll find on Twitter and late night talk shows that will most certainly not be dated in the next few years from now.
I know one episode in Season 3 of #9 had the sheriff being forcibly raped into beastiality. Seriously... that was a thing that people saw, and that might have very well been the point where people said "okay, I think we've have enough of this shit now." I know I consider it the worst of the 2010's for one of those reasons.
I honestly thought, number 6 was a CZcams web cartoon thing someone made up back in like 2016 or something when I first saw a clip of it. I had no idea it was a real cartoon.
King Bash our cartoon president isn't completely full of "orange man bad" jokes, but it does like to joke with trump by portraying him as a man child, and everybody else just sorta accepts it and tries to do their job.
MrNahual2099 I’m curious, are you inherently against androgynous female characters with masculine traits? Or do you only dislike it when it’s done to unfairly disparage traditional feminine traits and virtue signal for SJWs? I assume you don’t really have any issues whatsoever with androgynous or LGBT people, but just line me aren’t a huge fan of how social “progressives” are trying to inject their views into every kind of media they can and treat more traditional values and people as if they are literally fascism.
Not all fiction media is escapism, especially dystopia. Some people engage with fictional worlds not to get away from ours but to see how ours could be flawed from another perspective.
I think that's the problem with political fiction. There needs to be a balance between accuracy and symbolism. When a work is too accurate, it becomes boring, because you get the same amount of entertainment by looking out a window. When a work is too vague, it becomes confusing and frustrating.
Dystopia can still be escapism depending on it's implementation, such as playing a raider type character in post apocalyptic setting and reveling in the freedom and excitement that a world bereft of law and order provides, or a dystopian setting but playing the hero or the reformer and so on, or the overlord of of a dystopian society. Probably the best example I can think of for dystopianism would probably be Shin Megami Tensei, yeah the world is a monster infested Hellscape but you have the power to befriend and command monsters of your own to do battle and reshape the world according to your ideals through your actions, plus you can hit on and be hit on be various lovely (and not so lovely) monster women so yeah dystopian or not it's still very much escapism.
@@LuigiTheMetal64 The best example of anime that used a lots of real life reference but does not tries to be accurate but rather used it as the settings of the story and world building is naoki urasawa's monster.
I think the only Trump joke that ever got a snicker out of me was: „Why did Trump attend the Olympics?“ „He wanted to see how high the Mexicans jump.“ The reason why this joke works while most Trump jokes don’t is that it has multiple layers. There’s Trump and his memetic goal of „building a great big wall“. Then there’s the famous entertainment of the Olympics and a subversion of as to why someone would attend them. And then there’s a ridiculous mental image, that of people just jumping over this massive wall at the US border. That’s three jokes for the price of one and you don’t even need to have a certain opinion on Trump to find it funny.
*Also, the only times I recall a “let’s compare Trump to a pop-culture villain” joke actually being funny to me are these:* 1.) Andy Serkis reciting a Trump tweet as Gollum, since we actually got to see him immediately getting into character, while also hybridizing it with someone else’s personality, resulting in a funny performance. 2.) This one CZcams mashup titled “Donald Trump is a Dinosaur!” by Matt Orfalea, because he was able to get so many back-to-back clips, where the behavior of Donald Trump and B.P. Richfield is surprisingly uncanny. This is unlike other jokes, where Trump and the pop-culture antagonist have almost nothing in common other than being “evil”. Some of the resemblances between Trump and the corporate Triceratops have to be seen to be believed, especially because “Dinosaurs” came out decades before Trump ran for presidency, rather than “Our Cartoon President” which was obviously made after the fact and not that imaginative/coincidental.
@@markcobuzzi826 I made some stories mocking politicians on both sides, granted I didn't base too much of their personalities on the real world counterparts' personalities, but still, the characters' names and appearances are similar. Example: Donald Trump's counterpart is based off of Haitian Jack (named Donald Jack), Hilary Clinton's is based off of Jimmy Henchman (Jimmy Hilary).
“After Steven Marmel left the show in the 3rd season. The show dropped hard” Thanks for being one of few folks that really knows on why Danny Phantom went downhill after Season 2 :)
Shamaboy, Kuro the Artist also went on record on saying that Steven Marmel is what made Danny Phantom a perfect masterpiece instead of a mediocre/shitty cartoon series, and Danny Phantom went to shit after he left.
ReasyRandom OH YES! I won’t say what the joke was, but word of advice to anyone who claims to be a professional comedian, JOKES ABOUT PEOPLE WHO COMMITTED SUICIDE ARE NOT FUNNY!
As did I. Normally, I stand by my belief that there's nothing wrong with dark humor, but when it extends to the deaths of not only REAL PEOPLE, but to someone you literally KNEW, that's where I draw the line. It's extremely disrespectful.
One thing newer decades do a lot better than previous is preservation. The reason everyone is so split on whether or not the 2010's are the best or the worst is because most if not everything from it is a few clicks away, whether it's streaming or some archival site, and CZcams is a surefire way to keep bad stuff on the cultural zeigeist. The previous decades only remember the best of the best and the worst of the worst, while everything in between is just gone, so it looked like there were more quality shows, because you don't remember anything else.
i grew up in the 90s so i have to refute that. there were just more shows in general on the major networks. cartoon network aired their back catalog of hanna barbera shows and quality animation and action cartoons had gotten popular again. there were a lot of high risk shows from no-name creators that rarely get made today, especially on tv. if it weren't for streaming, we would have nothing but comedies here in the west. even if you watch some of the mediocre or even the bad offerings of the 90s, many of them are a lot more entertaining or creative than their 2000s equivalent. you just grew up too late and are nostalgic for your own generation.
Claudia Costea “there were just more shows in general” Well I’m not gonna count to check but there are definitely more shows in general now. OP is right. The chaff has fallen out to the point where the funny bad stuff will be remembered but the unmemorable stuff is gone.
What I hate about shows like Mr. Pickles and movies like Sausage Party is that, while on the surface they seem to subvert the idea that animation is for kids, they in fact accomplish just the opposite. Basically, the one and only joke upon which everything in Mr. Pickles and Sausage Party is based is as follows: "Animation is supposed to be for kids, so isn't it ironic that all this adult stuff is happening?" By creating an exception to the rule out of irony, they end up reinforcing the rule. All I want is animation for adults without a shred of irony, like what we got in the 70s and 80s.
thing is, the kind of animation you are talking about is essentially PG-PG-13 animation the kind you and your dad would sneak off into the family room to watch after he got home at 1 am on a saterday, Dragon Ball Z Gundam, Courage the cowardly dog, samurai Jack Batman TAS. If we want to talk movies, secret of Nim, The black cauldron, coraline. They just don't make those kinds of shows anymore. animation seems to fall into one of two categories. College level humor, IE South park & family guy or let's talk down to our audience simple. I blame our society that seems to think kids can't handle violence or complex nuanced issues without being wrapped under thinly veiled metaphors. Hate me if you want, but I really question if Steven Universe would near as popular as it is if it wasn't for the fact that all it's main characters fall under the lgbtq spectrum, and it's main protagonist being very effeminate, not saying that these things make them inherently bad or anything, but it's rather telling that a cartoon show about technicolor talking ponies becomes a cultural phenomenon simply because it does somthing unthinkable like not talk down to it's aduiance and doesn't surger code it's ideas. the times it DID try to do that, were considered some of the worst episodes of the show,
Of the godawful theme song of Mr. Pickles, I'd rather listen to the original version of Subhuman, Dante's battle theme from Devil May Cry 5 than Mr. Pickles' theme song.
I agree with most of the stuff you said about Trump, but there were a few things I should point out. Calling him orange isn't racist, because it's not like he's born orange. It's because he puts way too much spray tan on his face, which is something he chooses to do. It's still not funny, but implying its racist is kind of disingenuous.
The Trump thing reminded me a joke from the simpsons. The time when Krusty the clown sleeps with a female soldier who had the mission to kill Sadam Husein. Krusty stops her because if he wasn't alive, one of his jokes would be ruined.
Butch, if criticism only makes you stronger, then you must not be getting criticized hard enough because you have been going steadily downhill for over a decade at this point. You are definitely not stronger now than you were 20 years ago.
True, Butch Hartman could have learned that from having the opposite experience, but...criticism doesn't automatically give him better ideas. The best possible outcome is for criticism to help him rewrite the bad ideas he already has currently. March 14, 2020, 8:52pm
THIS IS DIFFERENT; BECAUSE THIS LIST OF THE 2010'S WORST CARTOON IS ONLY 2 EPISODES LONG; IT'S NOT 48 ****ING Episodes dedicated to 48 different ****ing Shows
Also Mr. Enter: For some reason, I only work on Animated Atrocities monthly and Admirable Animation even less times while delaying the second part of “Top 10 Worst Cartoons of the 2010s” for some reasons.
The biggest problem with the worst shows of the 2010s, and by extension any decade, is that they feel DATED. The original Powerpuff Girls was timeless despite parts of it now being outdated, but PPG 2016 is timely; the same thing can easily be said about Teen Titans (timeless) and Teen Titans GO! (dated).
When shows start using pop culture and other current events as punchlines, it ages them. Only show that gets a pass is South Park because it's purely satire and every ep is planned and animated the week before air date, so when it does air, it hasn't aged. When you got Fairly Odd Parents in it's later years making selfie and Trump jokes, it's just nightmarish...
Cute little girls with wonderful personalities who can kick your ass in style? Yes. That is very timeless and funny to watch. Little girls twerking their asses like spring break sluts? Totally dated.
henryca03 I’m not sure about that. Some of the best things ever are products of their time and better because of it. Movies like The Breakfast Club and Back to the Future are better because they have so much 80s character for example. I think there’s a particular beauty in products of their time. I think we’ll look back on smartphones and social media with nostalgia and respect for what was, something media this decade will help us do.
Did you just unironically put Teen Titans in the same category of TT: GO? Sure TT used anime stylings and such, but after re watching it recently I can't see how it has aged in the same manner.
The best quote I’ve seen about shows like our cartoon President is from some video talking about SNL; “Political comedy isn’t comedy because the point isn’t to make you laugh, it’s to make you agree.”
16:20 “If you had Brickleberry on in the background, you could probably clean your house, do taxes, get lobotomized, and even more within an hour.” Looks like someone’s been watching Bojack Horseman and seen the flashbacks of Honey Sugarman.
1:19 Let's not forget that the 2010's decade was also the evolution of high-definition television. As a result, some cartoons looked much better being produced in high-definition. Also, 2010 to 2012 was when standard-definition full screen television was slowly being killed off. Plus, some shows like SpongeBob SquarePants, The Fairly OddParents, Family Guy Season 8, and T.U.F.F. Puppy were still being produced in standard-definition in 2010, 2011, and 2012.
andykishore HD has been around for a little while, but you’re right that now everyone has a 1080p or better display, which definitely wasn’t true before. Pretty sure my family still had a CRT at the turn of the decade. Now it’s not hard to buy a 4K amoled.
6:09 You know how there's people with such a bad case of online politics brain, when they hear certain words, all they can hear in their heads is arguments? Well, anyway...
Y'know what I personally hate about DC Superhero Girls? Instead of creating a really fun, kick-ass scenario involving all of these awesome female superheroes and supervillains that some might hope for, the showrunners chose to use the tired and dated "quirky, adorable high school girl club" setup that everyone is SOOOO tired of at this point. This is, in my opinion, a little demeaning to these characters and kind of defeats the point of delivering a female-empowering message by resorting to decades-old stereotypes and tropes. They even go as far as to ruin favorite DC superheros like Wonder Woman and Zantanna by making them annoying and stupid teenagers, thus further alienating actual fans of the DC comics - including females who look up to these characters as feminist role models.
Oh, I hate that Lauren's art reached this barrel-sinking bottom too. Like, I was initially excited for Super Best Friends Forever, considering the last like 4 times they attempted rebooting DC Superhero Girls it crashed and burnt like Superman's cape on fire. And then they retooled it to what we have now, and I immediately jumped ship.
Fun fact about Legends of Chamberlain Heights, I tweeted your review of it, shit talked them, they responded with their official twitter account, insulted me, then followed me. That was a weird day.
The animated films, just up till the late-2010s. I'll give it that, Spider-Verse was groundbreaking but most animated films circa around that was the late-2000s of animated shows, despite some decent shows at that time like Chowder.
THANK YOU FINALLY someone else who thinks Mr Pickles is godawful, my housemate loved the show for all its gore but thats all it had, the gross out was terrible, even when they werent trying to gross you out they did just by the appearence of the characters and the whole concept despite being alright was executed horribly.
Trump's appearance in "Our Cartoon President" is so over the top, it almost doesn't even look a thing like him. He looks more like a lobotomized Veggie Tales character.
Having a good composer or singer still can't guarantee a good theme. The one that got #1 on your worst list, Shaggy & Scooby Doo Get a Clue, was written and sung by Mark Mothersbaugh. No joke.
Im starting to worry about Mr. Enter's mental health. I mean, at least with Nick-o-rama he watched some good shows, but there's still pretty awful shows, and now this.
@@LuigiTheMetal64 That's exactly what I did when I made my imdb user list for the Top 20 Worst Cartoon Episodes Ruined By a Heinous Ending. I can not resist to spoil that the #1 worst entry is Big Mouth's Requiem for a Wet Dream, because it took 3 viewings of it for me to wrap my head around the illogic of three plots being Andrew's dream and now being disconnected from the rest of the first season's storyline. March 14, 2020, 8:59pm
You do not understand how much seeing this in my recommendations made my day (well, night really). I started watching you 3 years ago, your Fish Tale review to be exact. I stopped watching you about 5 months ago, but I'm so glad that you kept going despite all the unjust harassment you seem to get from others in the animation review community.
Top ten best 2010's when? Joking aside, I enjoy seeing these retrospectives from anyone, and I'm excited to see the rest of this and if you're gonna do a top 10 best.
We could surely have another list for the best cartoon series of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. I know Enter can and probably will do them before his 100th Admirable Animation. March 14, 2020, 8:57pm
"It's because we want to forget the world around us, not have it shoved in our face, am I right?" THANK YOU. A lot of people are probably going to say "oh but media's always been political" and bring up The Simpsons, Murphy Brown, South Park, etc. Yes, past shows have done the socio-political thing, but they did it RIGHT. It was there, but it didn't come at the expense of, y'know, BEING ENTERTAINING. I was fine with the Trump jokes in the beginning because people did it to cope, but then it got old. We get it, you hate him, there's lots of good reasons to hate him. He's selfish, he's unintelligent, he's made a lot of horrible decisions that hurt the country, he's immature and makes a fool of himself on social media. But all the yelling about him is just giving him the attention he craves. Even the anti-Dubya crowd wasn't this noisy and performative.
Lynn D. Agreed. I’m sick and tired of creators forcing this kind of thing upon us. I watch them to get away from reality, stop shoving it in my face! Looking at _you_ , Marvel.
Then the issue you have is writing quality, NOT the existence of political commentary in media. I hate when these are conflated. Its perfectly fine to critique the execution of political commentary, but anyone that says it shouldn’t exist or that they should stop “shoving it in our faces” needs a better perspective of how politics has ALWAYS played a big role in media, no matter how small.
It’s a shame Bunsen Is A Beast along with the addition of Chloe in The Fairly OddParents was the final nail-in the coffin for Butch Hartman,he left Nickelodeon a year after the show debuted.
To be honest, calling him the M Night Shamalayn of animation is unfair. M Night doesn't pretend he's the second coming and we should all bow down in reverance. He's the Brie Larson of animation. Arrogant, bullheaded, and holier than thou.
@powerstar 2028 you know, it's just a matter of opinion. Things like Adventure Time, Regular Show, The Amazing World of Gumball, Steven Universe, star vs. The forces of evil, Gravity Falls, and several others are really popular. There are a lot of other good to show is too. If you want, I can go through a list of shows people like from this decade. Also, I personally liked amphibia.
@powerstar 2028 counter argument. Just because you don't like them doesn't make them bad. And besides that, many shows that are considered classics from the 90s on the 80s and the 70s and so on have not aged well at all. The art styles on most of them from the 80s and earlier feel stiff and dated. Jonny Quest ( not to be confused with Johnny Test) was a real hit at the time it was made. now, it's derivative storytelling and racist stereotypes are borderline garbage.
"If you think Bunsen voice is acceptable you need to schedule an immediate ear appointment" Me, Bracelety Fan: *i'm already 4 parallel universes ahead of you*
Glad rarely anyone talks about Our Cartoon President, it's a petty unfunny waste of time. It's just one of those shows that *needs* to be forgotten about.
Brain the Brian It looks like not even the most hardcore Trump haters are particularly fond of the cartoon. Heck, it got considerably negative reviews from news sites that usually don’t hesitate to post “orange man bad” articles. That’s how shallow and unfunny it is.
Charlotte Buff It gets pretty good during Season 3 (Because it goes from Trump satire to satire of all of the American political scene in general), but the second season is iffy and Season 1 is hot shit.
Here’s my advice for creating cartoons, just assume every single race, gender, culture, religion are equal, so that you don’t seem offensive. If you’re doing a political cartoon, then you have to do the *best research possible* otherwise you’ll end up like family guy which has the worst political messages possible.
"i'm not like X?" "no, but why would you want to be?" i kind of like the question. probably because i lay the focus on a different point. not in the way of 'you shouldn't want to be like X because X is bad' but instead 'you shouldn't want to be like X because you shouldn't want to be anything other then yourself'.
oh i understand. i'm not saying the episode can't be criticised for it. i'm just talking about the way that i personally do like a way the message can be read. since i'm big on the message of "fuck what other people say about you, just be you (as long as you don't harm anyone in the process)" it's just a message i enjoy.
On it's own I agree, but given that the rest of that MLP episode showed literally every other dragon as a bad guy and characterized the entire species as bad guys having them simultaneously be the metaphor for boys changes what that sentence means. It makes it mean they (boys) are bad so why would you want to be a boy?
@@New3DSLuigi364 Except being born male (or a dragon in this case) is an immutable trait. Being yourself would still mean you have something about yourself that you can't change that other people criticize you over for having. The idea of those shows is that gender stereotypes don't define a gender but no individual really gets to decide that so it's a problem you can't solve with some Saturday morning cartoon morality.
What bothers me isn't that there's socio-political messages in media. That's always existed. It's that socio-political messages have been inserted into EVERY piece of media. No one seems to care about telling a good story or being entertaining or being escapism anymore because now EVERYBODY has to push these messages. And, what worse, they don't even allow for audiences to draw their own conclusions. They have to tell people how to think and feel about things. Remember that episode of The Simpsons where Marge gets violence censored but then more parents get more things censored and the episode allows you to consider how much is too much and what the solution might be? If that episode aired now, it would pick a solution and cram it down your throat as the only one. One of the reasons ATLA/LOK were so good at presenting themes was that both shows presented more than one side on any subject and allowed their audience to draw their own conclusions. I know there are other shows that do that, but they feel buried under all the shows that don't. And, yeah. Maybe I'm weird, but I miss when media was diverse enough that you could just as easily watch something for entertainment only (like Darkwing Duck) AND a show with themes/messages (The Wild Thornberrys for example) AND a show with socio-political commentary (I'm going to go with Duckman since I already mentioned The Simpsons).
Does anyone think it is ironic that Lauren Faust quit MLP before EQG (an MH clone) and then went on to work on DC super hero girls (another MH clone by the same company that makes MH)?
If there's one thing this non-stop barrage of anti-Trump "comedy" has taught me, it's just how all these "comedy" shows that use him as a punch line are really just unfunny, untalented and unoriginal hacks that don't know how to write entertaining or even satirical material. Which is ironic, considering I didn't like the guy, let alone even vote for him, before 2016.
Me: I'm interested in seeing what Mr. Enter's worst of the decade is. *Sees #10 entry* Me: WOW! I actually felt my heart shatter into a million pieces!
Yeah DC Super Hero Girls really isn't a bad show and I just feel it's a knee-jerk reaction on Enter's part because it's a super hero show on CN produced by DC. Guys, its' a lot better than TTG.
Yea I agree with both of you his #10 is a pretty bad choice. Of course he can have his opinion, but number 10? REALLY? Also, this is the reason why I feel mrenter should have waited to make this list because that show is still airing and there is a chance that it might get better (I skipped past 10 cuz I didn't want to hear what he had to say)
I have ZERO idea on how DC Super Hero Girls is *worse* than Teen Titans Go! (that show only got a dishonorable mention in part two of the list) At least DCSHG has some good lessons, more action, and characters that develop, but TTG has the same one-dimensional characters, not a lot of battles, and teach children bad morals. Also, TTG pokes fun at fans of the original series while the only time the two versions of DCSHG collided is in a comic book about dimensions.
Part of the reason why South Park works is that the artstyle is too simple to really take seriously. If you try to stylize that, it falls flat, since it's just gross now and stops being appealing.
"Why would you want to be?" isn't necessarily a bad question to ask in itself, it all depends on what message you are trying to send and if it is well meaning, it is important to not follow up that question with bigotry or fallacies. The best follow-up to "Why would you want to be?" is asking if the other "thinks they would made happier if they were more like them and if so, why?" There is nothing wrong with wanting to be more like others as long as this isn't at the expense of your individuality and of what makes you happier. The message should be: there is nothing wrong with not fitting the norm if that means being true to yourself and you shouldn't change yourself if only to fit the stereotypes of your sexuality, your sex, your race, your social group... And this is the problem with most shows that tries to tackle such a topic. They don't know how to empower without demonizing and ending up drowning any inspiring message and good will they might have carried.
I actually really like DC's Superhero Girls but I will NOT argue with you on any of your criticisms against it, I was just as angry with it as you are. I really just like it because Supergirl's design gives her way more personality than her previous "Superman, but a girl!" design from the comics. But in all honesty I'm just projecting what I *want* onto the show instead of knowing what the show actually is because the character design is so good.
Not a huge comics buff but based on how she acts in Injustice 2 and what I've heard from others Power Girl is probably more of what you're hoping for, you can also watch some Justice League Unlimited episodes with Supergirl in them, she isn't in all that many but she's fantastic in all the ones she shows up in.
@@JuanGomez-ke5py I haven't seen much of RWBY yet so I really couldn't tell you one way or the other just from lack of a frame of reference, although Justice League came out way before RWBY so there's that to keep in mind.
MisterNinetySeven To me: ALL political jokes are horrible. I can't even listen to a song from THE LION KING without some dunce mentioning Trump or any political shit.
The only ones i ever laughed at were the non biased ones like space force because that is actually a real thing going on regardless of opinion and the lego city one.
The only Trump joke that actually got a laugh out of me (though more of a brief chuckle than anything) was a couple cheap shots regarding his toupee. Everything else was mostly centered around some red hat or talking down on somebody else for having a different opinion, regardless if it was about politics or not. It's all repetitive and pretty annoying.
Butch Hartman has explained that the extra characters were network decisions. He takes care not to say that they are bad, but I think he doesn't like them
10. Oh boy, what an interesting start. While I do like the show, the writing could/should be WAY better. 9. Completely forgot that this thing exists. 8. I'd rather watch the very worst of Family Guy than whatever this boring mess is. 7. How the mighty had fallen... 6. I hope Trump loses so that everyone can shut up about him and stops making "comedy" like this piece of crap.
Number six only.proves how out of touch creators are with the people. The people wanted trump, because they were tired of the direction of the country.
"People watch shows to escape from reality..." This is why I'm personally turned off by Melodramatic Angsty shows. When it feels like the writers are twisting the storyline specifically to torture me, it makes me want to disengage. I'm constantly stressed out as is, I don't want to see characters I love being beaten to a pulp by the writers. (I stopped watching Ducktales 2017 for this reason.) I don't want every show to be "Care Bears" or "Little Clowns of Happy Town", but there's a difference between "conflict" and "torture". (Disclaimer: I hyperempathize-I'm never going to be a doctor because even hearing about someone else's medical issues makes me pale. I get emotionally exhausted by shows that constantly put their characters through the ringer, even if I know they're going to be okay. My threshold for angst is likely lower than the average person and I understand that.)
I strongly disagree, the harder the struggle the sweeter the victory in my book, but I can definitely empathize with your position and I appreciate well articulated points.
@@GodOfOrphans I have to admit I can enjoy angst from time to time (I'm not always kind to my own characters), though sometimes it feels like writers are torturing their characters at the expense of the plot or just for the hell of it, if that makes sense? Like, they twist the plot like a pretzel just to come up with a contrived way of making the characters (and their audience) suffer as much as possible when there was more potential if they took a plot in a different direction? I'm glad you understand where I'm coming from though. :>
What do you think will show up for #5-1? I have a feeling Big Mouth, modern Family Guy (2010-2019), the Adventures of Kid Danger, and some repesentative(s) of the "Two Douchebags" cartoon trend will make the list. I also remembered that Mr. Enter said he should have been much harder on The Powerpuff Girls reboot and Sanjay and Craig (a "Two Douchebags" cartoon), so I wouldn't be surprised if they made the list.
@powerstar 2028 You're probably right, but I'm sure that it'll at least make the dishonorable mentions. Mr. Enter _really_ hated that show when he reviewed it for Nicktoons month. I can't imagine Mr. Enter letting off Sanjay and Craig that easy.
I thought for sure that Mr. Pickles would be in the top five. I was shocked that it was only number 9. And considering how much he hates Bunsen is a Beast (especially for its voice acting performances and overall annoyance), I was expecting it to rank higher too.
@@samuelesalvatico7259 I can't believe I forgot to include Problem Solverz! Yeah, Mr. Enter really hated that one, and he speculated/joked about it possibly ruining his vision. Yeah, I'll be shocked if that one doesn't make the list.
1:50 Do I smell some thoughts about the new She-Ra on the horizon? (I actually had a dream that he did an Animated Atrocities on it once, which was especially strange considering that I actually enjoy the show...)
I Was against the show ever since they showed HE-RA's Unfeminine Design off; AND I'M ALSO JUST NOT INTERESTED IN A SHOW CATERED TO GIRL-ON-GIRL RELATIONSHIPS
@Libra The beautiful War Monk I REALLY HATE HAZBIN HOTEL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!! Forgot Gordan Ramsey's Show; Hazbin Hotel is the TRUE HOTEL HELL; As it TAKES PLACE IN A HOTEL that is LITERALLY IN HELL!!!!
I just think the She-ra reboot is painfully average. Not terrible like PPG 2016 or TTG, but nowhere near as good as Ducktales, Thundercats 2011, or even Voltron.
This decade was a pretty fantastic decade for cartoons, transformers prime and cyberverse, Steven universe, Gumball,Scooby Doo Mystery Incorperated, the spongebob resurgence, Ducktales 2017, South Park seasons from this decade besides 19-21, Total Drama seasons 3-4, Robot Chicken, Samurai Jack season 5, The Loud House, and Tmnt 2012 to name a few.
"That's why we watch television, movies and read books. It's because we want to forget about the world around us." Said while the realest cartoon that made me face reality more than it made me forget it is edited in. I was worried watching season six of Bojack because of what it would show me. I had a panic attack towards the end of season three because I have relatives who had that same thing happen to them, and season five and the first half of six just kind of filled me with regret and... God it was tough and I knew I shouldn't have watched Bojack Horseman for this reason!
Let me drop this as a literature professor - people really mistake what escapism is. Escapism really doesn't let you cope by completely forgetting things, or the real world around you. Yes, it can do that for a while, but a large part of why escapism works is the fact that the narrative gently eases you back into looking at issues you are running away from. That initial moment of distancing from reality is supposed to give you grounding, and that grounding helps you then to analyze a situation in a calmer manner. You can make sense of your own emotions if you see a character going through something similar, or write a character like that, since it forces your mind to put it into understandable forms, and give you a detached experience. Not to mention it is outright cruel to say that political themes or feelings should not be put into shows. Not only does this cut away from vast opportunities at narrative and storytelling, and take away healthy way of escapism, it is just outright cruel to tell an author not to express their feelings via their work. It's basically telling them that they are just your mindless machine for entertainment production, and not a human being. If a theme of, let's say, poverty can be incorporated into a story, and weighs heavily on a creator's mind, it's inhumane to deny them that expression. Even still, many of them will do that subconsciously. I hadn't realized how much of my own experiences I put into my own works until years later. In my eyes, "remove your political views from your show" is a cruel and wrong message, and is often used for censorship. Yes, everything is political, and, for society to function, it kinda has to be. But, contrary to the popular belief, it is not a bad thing, not even close. It's healthy when media and shows connect to the real world, even better when they ease into it gradually. Things becoming more political is far from bad.
Honestly, considering Jimmy Kimmel has two characters on his talkshow that are basically "let's mock and laugh at the wacky foreigner", he has no room to reprimand others for being racist.
Themes for each decade:
The 1970s: Can you please stop copying Scooby-Doo?
The 1980s: Can you not have less substance than this?
The 1990s: Can you stop trying to make me throw up?
The 2000s: Can you not be lazier than this?
The 2010s: Who was this for?
Hopefully 2020s will be "Why didn't you do that earlier?"
*Accurate*
ReasyRandom We’ll be back in 2030 to see...
The 2020s as of now: It’s very great
Yeah! Mr. Enter, make a video about the general themes of cartoons in each decade please
Problem I have with the majority of “adult “ animation: adult subject matter not handled In an adult way. Going purely for shock value may work for a while, but at some point the audience will say “ ok. What else ya got?” Don’t believe me? Just ask Carlos Mancia
This is usually why I tend to prefer some childrens shows and family movies. Yes, they're kid friendly, yet we got shows like Steven Universe, Gravity Falls, Adventure Time, TMNT 2012, etc. and movies like Zootopia that are geared towards a younger audience, yet dwelve deep into subject matter that are considered more adult, but yet kids can understand things. They're ignorant, not stupid. There's a difference.
I often find shows that are geared towards kids to somehow be more mature than most adult shows, for the most part anyways.
@@unicornlover1237 and the Venture Brothers of course
Unicorn Lover123 thats why I said “the majority “ as opposed to “all”. For every spawn(and so I’m clear it’s one of my absolute fav things ever), or maxx, or castlevania, or bojack horseman, South Park, heavy metal, spice city(so glad someone brought that up. Bakshi is my spirit animal)there’s about 10 or so brickleberrys, or nut shacks, or stripperellas, or neo yokios, or any dime a dozen edgy for edge lords shit. Look, I’m not asking for any of these things to be removed. They have a right to exist, just as much as their fans have the right to enjoy them. I’m just saying that going purely for shock value without offering anything else is not sustainable. You may grab some headlines for now, but a year later unless you have something else going for it, no one is going to care. Case in point: one of my absolute favorite games Witcher 3. Beloved by most gamers, lots of gore, lots of sex, lots of darkness , but there’s a beautiful story and astounding gameplay. People still praise it, and I guarantee it’ll be talked about for ages. By contrast, how many are still talking about hatred? How many folks actually remember that hatred even exists? I hope I’ve clarified my position to a satisfactory level .
Indeed. Adult shows actually feel childish.
Ikr
Most "adult" animation is like a pizza cutter: All edge, no point.
Never could have said it better myself
Wow, what a brilliant analogy! I did not think of that pizza cutter comparison. In Better Late than Never, George Foreman taught me that anything played straight with no point is like a broken pencil. "Forget about it, it's pointless." October 9, 2020, 3:44pm
Brickleberry (and Drawn Together before it) is one of those TV shows that you hate to watch, but you can't stop laughing at the ridiculous things that you see. It's like watching a robber who falls down a lot. October 9, 2020, 3:45pm
The reason why I mentioned Drawn Together next to Brickleberry is because they are both Comedy Central programs that had 36 episodes in 3 seasons, and they were both #8 in the Top 10 Worst Cartoons of the decade in which they started. October 9, 2020, 3:46pm
Yeah... summed it up pretty well.
Butch: "Go ahead and critique, because it makes me stronger"
Isn't that supposed the be the purpose of critiquing?
Pretty much yeah. But there are still some critics that take critique as an insult. Like if it's not outright praise they don't like it.
He did say critique rhymes with weak. (Horrible btw. It just makes him look insecure -_-) So yeah he'll dismiss any critism and take as an insult no matter who he hear's it from. Not even from the industry as it seems. Ugh...friggin Butch Hartman.
Not in the way he said it. It is supposed to make you stronger because it makes you realize your weaknesses and gives you the incentive to improve. Butch, though, implies it makes him stronger because it makes the people that critique him look like weak crybabies. Which is a very toxic mentality to have
Sometimes. But other times it is because the critic is trying to prove their own intelligence and boost their own ego. Still other times, its because they are a professional critic, and need to say something to fill up space and continue to get paid and make rent on time.
The whole point of criticism is to help whoever person you're criticizing.
Nowadays, practically nobody can do that. That is why people like Burch Fartman feel vindicated, and feel like they can dismiss criticism, even if it's actually legitimate.
"Yes, Lil Dicky. We must save the Earth to protect the STDs."
MrEnter's best quote of the decade so far.
liamdude5 That would be like if during Ashes in the Rain, Bill Shontz said, “Hey kids! Make sure you get tested for herpes!”
I think he might be a fan of Todd in the Shadows :)
@@SongBird101 Collab on a musical atrocity
They could've done See Me, Feel Me, Gnomey together
What was the timestamp for that one again? Or do you remember which particular entry on this list he was talking about?
The Nutshack tried to cash in on nostalgia?
That would mean someone somewhere thought
“Yes. People will be cheering with glee at the sight of The Nutshack coming back!”
They made a new Shaq Fu. Truly there is an audience for everything.
I thinl they saw that old memes with the theme song amd decided to bring it back to cash in on the LoZ
@@lh757 also Bubsy has two new games that came out in the late 2010s
Ikr
@@gabrielneri2820 It came out before the memes. This was honestly willed into existence.
"We can't impeach him because, I love him!"
Wtf? That joke doesn't even make any sense. Since when has Pelosi ever expressed any positive sentiments towards Trump?
This is what happens when comedians who are supposed to know comedy don't tell jokes, live in a hugbox, and just want to go on a diatribe for the next 22 minutes.
@@EnigmaBarry Diatribe?
@@zzz43344 diatribe
/ˈdʌɪətrʌɪb/
noun
a forceful and bitter verbal attack against someone or something.
"a diatribe against consumerism"
The idea is that if Pelosi hated Trump so much she would have gotten him impeached on day one which I'm just going to blame instant gratification culture. Maybe some cancel culture too.
@@Talisguy Exactly. Hell, the show is dating itself so badly that even referencing it as a joke doesn't work because people will be goddamn lost on what the fuck this show is if anyone tries to make fun of it in the future.
Never has a show barred itself from being riffed on solely because of collective amnesia--hell, the only reason I remember he made the thing is because I keep seeing it pop up on Kimcartoon when I'm pirating something due to a new "episode."
Congratulations, Stephen Colbert.
"You're not like other black people, but why would you want to be?"
As a black guy, this is definitely relatable in every aspect that I thought it was a bad thing. Almost like it knows me...
Don't let anyone make you feel ashamed of your heritage. Be proud of who you are, and embrace your unique people and culture.
You sound insecure mr "black guy"
Same, I'm Mexican and people are always asking me why I'm not like other Mexicans
Does Blackish play off that trope or play it straight?
I don't get that show.
@@IllMatic97 Explain how I'm "insecure"....
WAIT THEY MADE A SECOND SEASON OF THE NUT SHACK?????
*Do you think god stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created?*
Yes, bringing the total episode count from 9 to 16.
At least there’s this line:
“Jack can’t die, it’s only the second season!”
I still can't believe that quote is from a Spy Kids movie. Like what the fu-
*Perhaps humanity has regressed over the years*
Eh, the season was a small improvement. "Slasher" and "El Bombadero" are actually pretty decent, there are less pervert jokes and there is only one REALLY HORRIBLE episode ("The Chaod Warrior"). The season was mediocre, but a HUGE improvement over the first one.
Shows with political messages would not be so bad if they actually understood what they are satirizing instead of basing it on stereotypes.
How ironic that the people who claim to want more representation, so as to move away from stereotypes, also rely on stereotypes like crazy. But really, that's something I've come to expect from those sort of people by this point. Their self-awareness levels would be in the negative numbers if such a thing were possible.
@@YamatoFukkatsu They've done studies where conservatives and leftists answered questions and then answered them again as if they were the other group.
Conservatives were able to answer the way leftists did but the leftists had no clue how to answer like conservatives.
Those stereotypes are the full extent of their understanding.
@@YamatoFukkatsu You're conflating ideas that are only superficially similar. Both evoke a feeling of ridicule, but with wildly differing contexts. There is a stark difference between stereotypes of social minority groups peppered throughout different genres, and stereotypes in the context of a satire. The latter examples serve a point and are woven into the framework of a satire, which includes exaggeration of reality. The problems arise when the point gets muddled and contradicts itself, as Enter pointed out with various examples, but that's a matter of execution, not the stereotypes. Put another way... there's a massive difference between Blazing Saddles and Our Cartoon President.
The former stereotypes which are protested by those who call for representation, meanwhile, have no grander point to them and are not commenting on anything. They are generally not woven into a satire, and are more often than not born out of the writers' own flaws, in the sense that they're either an all-around dick, or they're actually attempting to be inclusive but are fucking it up. And then there are those who pretend to give a shit about representation but don't, and are only trying to make themselves look good and failing.
I'd also question how you figure that those who call for representation are also the ones responsible for the stereotypes you're referring to. Seems like a claim with no empirical evidence. Unless of course you're just grouping everyone into "the left" category and going from there. Almost like you're... oversimplifying a group and their views to make it easier to go after. Almost like you're... what's the word? Ah, doesn't matter. But I feel it's quite... ironic, nonetheless.
Well, considering that "entertainment left" is not acting as left and obviously knows nothing of left ideology...
I remember Enter did address this to an extent, something like "When people ask for total integration, you either have everyone being the same which kills the cultures, or you become the stereotype resulting in an insulting representation", and to quote someone else, "If you make a character based purely on their skin, you're gonna get a skin-deep character, and thus a shallow story". Let's hope the 2020s bring on the re-realization of these things
Saying Trump jokes is easy. Coming up with original material is difficult. Low hanging fruit but it’s a very plentiful and lack of variety crop. They all been done to death and when he provides new material (like the whole covfefe thing) it quickly becomes a dead horse. The delay due to animation time doesn’t help. As a cartoon a Trump type figure works best as a recurring character in a Simpsons or Futurama type show, like Mayor Quimby or President Nixon.
Funny enough, the only good Trump joke that I heard recently (that I laughed out loud about) was from a recent airing of a Simpsons episode that originally aired almost two decades ago; In that episode, Homer does some hand gestures on a balcony and Lisa tells him to stop imitating Mussolini (since the family is in Italy and that would reflect badly on them), to which Homer replies, "Mussolini? I thought I was imitating Trump!" Giving how some people view Trump now, I couldn't help but laugh.
I made some stories mocking politicians on both sides, granted I didn't base too much of their personalities on the real world counterparts' personalities, but still, the characters' names and appearances are similar. Example: Donald Trump's counterpart is based off of Haitian Jack (named Donald Jack), Hilary Clinton's is based off of Jimmy Henchman (Jimmy Hilary).
I think john mulaney was the last person to make a great trump joke. Look up "a horse loose in a hospital" its gold.
One of the best decisions that the creators of _South Park_ did was reduce the Trump jokes starting in season 21. According to Trey Parker, the Trump jokes were too overdone, and the writers "fell into the same trap that _Saturday Night Live_ fell into, where it was like, 'Dude, we're just becoming CNN now.'" They wanted to go back to focusing on "the bread and butter of _South Park_ : kids being kids and being ridiculous and outragous."
Also, making constant empty jokes about Trump is a _lot_ easier than, say, actually taking the time to think about the state of American politics and what about it actually led to Trump being elected. Moderates are afraid of critical analysis like that, because then they'll realize Trump isn't the problem, he's the symptom to a larger issue with the government and politics.
Bill Burr has said he will NEVER make a joke about the president cause its low hanging fruit..its done by comics who literally do not want to put in any effort at all to crafting a joke.
"Trump is so bad that he actually made me consider voting for a woman." Good ol' Billy Baldhead
@@Risico16 That one isn’t too bad because it’s done less at the expense of Trump and more so at the expense of women.
Glad he was in F is for Family.
"It makes everyone in Washington seem corrupt or an idiot"
You may be on to something here...
Because they ALL Are!!!
THEY'RE ALL ONLY INTERESTED IN ONE THING; LINING THEIR POCKETS WITH MORE MONEY;
IF THEY REALLY WANTED TO HELP THEIR FELLOW AMERICANS LIKE THEY SAY THEY DO; THEN THEY WOULDN'T BECOME A POLITICIAN!!
Epstein's Island flight log will show you a good chunk of the corrupted people who are at the top.
These people were voted in, no wonder the Founding Fathers wanted to keep only landowner/property owners allowed to vote.
Well, that’s something that any reasonable person can agree with
The red gang: we're we wrong doe
I can't hear the words "Dragon Quest " without thinking about the RPG series.
me too
Same. I was confused until he said it was about mlp
It is honestly a better association than what he actually meant.
I just recently got into that series too. It's weird how once you get into something you start seeing it pop up all around.
Fun Fact: Dragon Quest is the very first non-Pokemon RPG game I ever played. And I never regretted it, even if I started with DQ 9
I actually thought "Our Cartoon President" was some CZcamsr show, had no idea it was a real thing.
Me too
There was one Trump joke I laughed at: "He has toupee for his crimes". Mainly just for the pun, though.
Yeah cause you can get offended by it wherever you stand politically which sadly is a must have for jokes now
My brief thoughts on these shows:
10: I weirdly like
9: Adult Party cartoon’s cutting room floor
8: The Cleveland Show was more inventive with its comedy
7: an assault on sanity
6: I honestly thought that was fake
I legit thought he broke his rule about internet shows.
yeah, i comment ealier that i might like it cause i´ve only watched shorts of episodes, why do you like it?
Itachi17509
There are 2 things that make this show for me, the beautiful animation and the dynamic of the characters.
@@zai24 i see, you know, I wonder when Mr enter make this vid, it might be when just a couple episode went release, maybe?
I think after watching this list tr I might go watch some of those shows one of these days
“Bad decade for pickles”
*cries in Pickles Deserved Better*
#picklesdeservedbetter
ok serious question does pickles stand for something more how should i say this nicely..illegal? alot of American censors use pickles and the subject of pickles to censor things they don't like while adding an extremely odd sexual nature to the scene that had none to begin with(See fire emblem fates as an example) Cause its starting to become a trend now.
snintendog oh i mean pickles from bojack. I love her wholeheartedly. But yeah it’s kinda a sexual joke aside from her
'Pickles Deserved Better'?
@@snintendog "Pickle" can be used as a euphemism for penis. Same for "hot dog", "weiner", "sausage", etc.
The difference between George Lucas and Butch Hartman is that Lucas simply couldn't find people who pushed back and forced him to try better anymore, whereas Hartman wouldn't listen to those people and pushed them away.
Even George publicly admitted embarrassment for at least one of his works. Particularly Star Wars Holiday. If he had the time (and a sledgehammer) he'd track down every copy of that show and smash it.
The bad news is, Nickelodeon and Viacom rehired this bozo to work on a live action Fairly Oddparents reboot on Paramount+, despite his actions. And Oaxis came out in 2020 which turned out to be a scam.
@@austinreed7343 his biggest (and naive) fuck up after selling to Bob Iger
@@k-trashradio5163What wouldn’t been the pun? 😂
Our Cartoon President should be renamed “Orangeman Bad: The Cartoon”, because that’s a way more fitting title.
Kinda ironic. They say Trump jokes are repetitive, then they go and spam the NPC meme with almost no creativity added to its initial joke. At least Colbert with try to put a spin on a old Trump joke when he gets the chance.
NPC repetitive....thats the joke..how the eff didn't you realize that its literally mocking the repetitiveness of the "jokes" being made by them along side how lazily made they are that C&Ping is harder than to make a NPC joke(hell half the time all you have to do is type NPC in response to people like this). Missing the point shows your mindset stupid, lazy, and highly politically charged.
Orangeman funny because I dont take anything he says seriously 🤣🤣🤣
snintendog Just because your mocking repetitiveness, is not a excuse to be even more repetitive.
Look, I don’t even do a lot of NPC jokes. It was just fitting in this scenario, ok? Now calm down everyone!
The sole interesting thing about "Our Cartoon President" is the program that was used to animate it. Which was the then in development Adobe Character Animator. Which was essentially a digital puppet program. I've used it in a few of my reaction videos and I can tell you that even two years later, it still has a long way to go before it can really compete with industry standard programs like Toonboom and Animate. Mainly due to the fact that making convincing puppets that animate well is still going to take a lot of effort to draw and rig up. At which point you might as well just go into animate, and just do it all in there.
Animated political satire only works best either as single-frame political cartoons (whether in print or online) or short-form web animation which can get away with cheaper and/or cruder animation; FreedomToons would be an example of the latter. A 2 to 3 minute web cartoon can take about a week to make for a small team, but a 20 minute TV-quality cartoon, barring South Park, takes at least 6 months to do it right, considering that you have multiple animators, writers, editors, directors, etc.
Also I didn't know it's executive producer was Stephen Colbert... that makes... too much sense
I made some stories mocking politicians on both sides, granted I didn't base too much of their personalities on the real world counterparts' personalities, but still, the characters' names and appearances are similar. Example: Donald Trump's counterpart is based off of Haitian Jack (named Donald Jack), Hilary Clinton's is based off of Jimmy Henchman (Jimmy Hilary).
The animation of "Our Cartoon President" looks like the animation from "The Nutshack."
Digital puppets can be done well. Sid the Science Kid was revolutionary for using motion capture CGI "puppets" in an animated educational show.
Who dedicates an entire show to making fun of a single politician? Didn't they learn their lesson with Li'l Bush?
They the only thing they learned was to do it in the first term and not the second.
The only lesson learned was to do it again and do it *harder* than Lil' Bush in the first term and not in the wailing death of his last one.
Those people dont know how look up anything.
It’s a show not meant to be taken seriously, but I suppose it didn’t need to be made. Could have been a collection of shorts.
The only political show I enjoyed was Stone and Parker's "That's My Bush". Because it was more a sitcom parody starring Bush than trying to slam Bush constantly.
Also because when they got criticism for the end joke "One of these days Laura, I'm gonna punch you in the face!" as a parody of Honeymooner's "One of these days... Bam! Zoom! Straight to the moon!"
Their response? Changing it to "One of these days Laura, I'm gonna punch you in the face! Then the stomach! Then the face again!"
If I have to hear "B-U-N, S-E-N, BUNSEN IS A BEAST" one more time I'm going to strangle Butch Hartmann until he admits that Kitty Katswell is hot.
Uhhh, okay...
Come with something harder, like making her your wife in-canon
@@1TheVelociraptor Not a bad idea..
B U N S E N BUNSEN IS A BEST!
Now please can you strangle Butch?
@@jooree7696 ON MY WAY
10. I kind of like this show. However, I definitely think this is a far cry from MLP’s quality.
9. I guess it gets interesting around Season 3, but the episodes are too unappealing and unfunny for me to give a shit.
8. The most bare-bones adult cartoon of this decade, PERIOD. Can’t believe the creators got to make the same goddamn show, “BuT tHIs tImE wiTH copS.”
7. Three minutes in, and my eardrums are already liquified. Thanks, Butch.
6. I haven’t really seen this show, but knowing how America handles politics, I’m just gonna assume that it’s filled the usual “orange man bad” jokes you’ll find on Twitter and late night talk shows that will most certainly not be dated in the next few years from now.
I know one episode in Season 3 of #9 had the sheriff being forcibly raped into beastiality. Seriously... that was a thing that people saw, and that might have very well been the point where people said "okay, I think we've have enough of this shit now." I know I consider it the worst of the 2010's for one of those reasons.
I honestly thought, number 6 was a CZcams web cartoon thing someone made up back in like 2016 or something when I first saw a clip of it. I had no idea it was a real cartoon.
King Bash our cartoon president isn't completely full of "orange man bad" jokes, but it does like to joke with trump by portraying him as a man child, and everybody else just sorta accepts it and tries to do their job.
@@LWolf12 I feel like I'm the only guy that knows that before this show came to light, it was just light skits on The Stephen Colbert Show.
@@crazyluigi6664 Thinking about it, that does make sense. Never been one for late night talk shows. Even back when it was Letterman & Leno
This is a product of a decade of suffering, I'm grateful for his patience.
The 2020's decade has been off to a bad start so far.
When was the last time I went to a video that didn't have your reply? Lol
andykishore this has to be one of the worst starts to a year/decade ever. It’s only been 3 months and shit has been absolutely insane.
@MrNahual2099 As long as it makes bigots like you cry it will remain forever
MrNahual2099 I’m curious, are you inherently against androgynous female characters with masculine traits? Or do you only dislike it when it’s done to unfairly disparage traditional feminine traits and virtue signal for SJWs? I assume you don’t really have any issues whatsoever with androgynous or LGBT people, but just line me aren’t a huge fan of how social “progressives” are trying to inject their views into every kind of media they can and treat more traditional values and people as if they are literally fascism.
Not all fiction media is escapism, especially dystopia. Some people engage with fictional worlds not to get away from ours but to see how ours could be flawed from another perspective.
I think that's the problem with political fiction. There needs to be a balance between accuracy and symbolism. When a work is too accurate, it becomes boring, because you get the same amount of entertainment by looking out a window.
When a work is too vague, it becomes confusing and frustrating.
Dystopia can still be escapism depending on it's implementation, such as playing a raider type character in post apocalyptic setting and reveling in the freedom and excitement that a world bereft of law and order provides, or a dystopian setting but playing the hero or the reformer and so on, or the overlord of of a dystopian society. Probably the best example I can think of for dystopianism would probably be Shin Megami Tensei, yeah the world is a monster infested Hellscape but you have the power to befriend and command monsters of your own to do battle and reshape the world according to your ideals through your actions, plus you can hit on and be hit on be various lovely (and not so lovely) monster women so yeah dystopian or not it's still very much escapism.
@@reasyrandom
How vague you can or should get depends on the target audience.
@@LuigiTheMetal64
The best example of anime that used a lots of real life reference but does not tries to be accurate but rather used it as the settings of the story and world building is naoki urasawa's monster.
True. But what is your point? How does our Cartoon President achieve that?
I think the only Trump joke that ever got a snicker out of me was: „Why did Trump attend the Olympics?“ „He wanted to see how high the Mexicans jump.“
The reason why this joke works while most Trump jokes don’t is that it has multiple layers. There’s Trump and his memetic goal of „building a great big wall“. Then there’s the famous entertainment of the Olympics and a subversion of as to why someone would attend them. And then there’s a ridiculous mental image, that of people just jumping over this massive wall at the US border. That’s three jokes for the price of one and you don’t even need to have a certain opinion on Trump to find it funny.
*Also, the only times I recall a “let’s compare Trump to a pop-culture villain” joke actually being funny to me are these:*
1.) Andy Serkis reciting a Trump tweet as Gollum, since we actually got to see him immediately getting into character, while also hybridizing it with someone else’s personality, resulting in a funny performance.
2.) This one CZcams mashup titled “Donald Trump is a Dinosaur!” by Matt Orfalea, because he was able to get so many back-to-back clips, where the behavior of Donald Trump and B.P. Richfield is surprisingly uncanny. This is unlike other jokes, where Trump and the pop-culture antagonist have almost nothing in common other than being “evil”. Some of the resemblances between Trump and the corporate Triceratops have to be seen to be believed, especially because “Dinosaurs” came out decades before Trump ran for presidency, rather than “Our Cartoon President” which was obviously made after the fact and not that imaginative/coincidental.
I laughed at a video where someone took his tweets and made an edgy 2000's emo song out of it.
@@Klonoahedgehog
"A small loan of a million dollars"
@@markcobuzzi826 I made some stories mocking politicians on both sides, granted I didn't base too much of their personalities on the real world counterparts' personalities, but still, the characters' names and appearances are similar. Example: Donald Trump's counterpart is based off of Haitian Jack (named Donald Jack), Hilary Clinton's is based off of Jimmy Henchman (Jimmy Hilary).
Also whenever PsychicPebbles does his Trump impression. He literally has everything including Trump’s breathing patterns down.
Here's a Trump joke.
What do you get when you cross Donald Trump and a rubber duck?
A Disney lawsuit.
I Don't get it
@@New3DSLuigi364 Even if you did you wouldn't think it's very funny, I bet.
@@New3DSLuigi364 take Donald and the last part of rubber duck
breezytoe5527 oh I get it now
@@ffjreviews9029 its kinda less funny when the joke has to be explained but meh
“After Steven Marmel left the show in the 3rd season. The show dropped hard”
Thanks for being one of few folks that really knows on why Danny Phantom went downhill after Season 2 :)
I thought most people knew.
I was once able to forgive season 3. With what I know now about Butch, season 3 is pure shit.
Shamaboy Eh, opinions, m8.
princessbinas Your opinión, buddy.
Shamaboy, Kuro the Artist also went on record on saying that Steven Marmel is what made Danny Phantom a perfect masterpiece instead of a mediocre/shitty cartoon series, and Danny Phantom went to shit after he left.
Bunsen is a Beast is the WORST Butch Hartman Cartoon Ever
Yup...
At least TUFF puppy is better than bunsen
@@yohanekogane2939 Not exactly high praise, all things considered...
M S at least TUFF Puppy wasn’t annoying
@@yohanekogane2939 Jerry Trainor should dub anime instead of voicing Tough Puppy.
I can say one good thing about Bunsen is a Beast: it doesn't hold back on Amanda's slapstick pain just because she's a girl.
It's too bad that her pain wasn't funny either
Yeah
I lost respect for Butch Heartman when he made that sick joke about Mary K Bergman.
Did he seriously make a joke about a colleauge who took her life?! That's a new low for him, and that's saying something!
ReasyRandom OH YES! I won’t say what the joke was, but word of advice to anyone who claims to be a professional comedian, JOKES ABOUT PEOPLE WHO COMMITTED SUICIDE ARE NOT FUNNY!
Something tells me that I should strangle butch Heartman but butch doesn’t DESERVE anything bad nor good!
As did I. Normally, I stand by my belief that there's nothing wrong with dark humor, but when it extends to the deaths of not only REAL PEOPLE, but to someone you literally KNEW, that's where I draw the line. It's extremely disrespectful.
There was also an issue with oaxis and a deal with Kuro the artist
One thing newer decades do a lot better than previous is preservation. The reason everyone is so split on whether or not the 2010's are the best or the worst is because most if not everything from it is a few clicks away, whether it's streaming or some archival site, and CZcams is a surefire way to keep bad stuff on the cultural zeigeist.
The previous decades only remember the best of the best and the worst of the worst, while everything in between is just gone, so it looked like there were more quality shows, because you don't remember anything else.
i grew up in the 90s so i have to refute that. there were just more shows in general on the major networks. cartoon network aired their back catalog of hanna barbera shows and quality animation and action cartoons had gotten popular again. there were a lot of high risk shows from no-name creators that rarely get made today, especially on tv. if it weren't for streaming, we would have nothing but comedies here in the west.
even if you watch some of the mediocre or even the bad offerings of the 90s, many of them are a lot more entertaining or creative than their 2000s equivalent.
you just grew up too late and are nostalgic for your own generation.
Claudia Costea “there were just more shows in general”
Well I’m not gonna count to check but there are definitely more shows in general now. OP is right. The chaff has fallen out to the point where the funny bad stuff will be remembered but the unmemorable stuff is gone.
What I hate about shows like Mr. Pickles and movies like Sausage Party is that, while on the surface they seem to subvert the idea that animation is for kids, they in fact accomplish just the opposite. Basically, the one and only joke upon which everything in Mr. Pickles and Sausage Party is based is as follows: "Animation is supposed to be for kids, so isn't it ironic that all this adult stuff is happening?" By creating an exception to the rule out of irony, they end up reinforcing the rule. All I want is animation for adults without a shred of irony, like what we got in the 70s and 80s.
Something like King of the Hill again.
thing is, the kind of animation you are talking about is essentially PG-PG-13 animation the kind you and your dad would sneak off into the family room to watch after he got home at 1 am on a saterday, Dragon Ball Z Gundam, Courage the cowardly dog, samurai Jack Batman TAS. If we want to talk movies, secret of Nim, The black cauldron, coraline. They just don't make those kinds of shows anymore. animation seems to fall into one of two categories. College level humor, IE South park & family guy or let's talk down to our audience simple. I blame our society that seems to think kids can't handle violence or complex nuanced issues without being wrapped under thinly veiled metaphors. Hate me if you want, but I really question if Steven Universe would near as popular as it is if it wasn't for the fact that all it's main characters fall under the lgbtq spectrum, and it's main protagonist being very effeminate, not saying that these things make them inherently bad or anything, but it's rather telling that a cartoon show about technicolor talking ponies becomes a cultural phenomenon simply because it does somthing unthinkable like not talk down to it's aduiance and doesn't surger code it's ideas. the times it DID try to do that, were considered some of the worst episodes of the show,
You want us to go back to the 80s? Granted, King of the Hill is good.
Of the godawful theme song of Mr. Pickles, I'd rather listen to the original version of Subhuman, Dante's battle theme from Devil May Cry 5 than Mr. Pickles' theme song.
3:49 DC Super Hero Girls
9:32 Mr. Pickles
13:46 Brickleberry
17:02 Bunsen is a Beast
21:12 Our Cartoon President
I agree with most of the stuff you said about Trump, but there were a few things I should point out.
Calling him orange isn't racist, because it's not like he's born orange. It's because he puts way too much spray tan on his face, which is something he chooses to do. It's still not funny, but implying its racist is kind of disingenuous.
The Trump thing reminded me a joke from the simpsons. The time when Krusty the clown sleeps with a female soldier who had the mission to kill Sadam Husein. Krusty stops her because if he wasn't alive, one of his jokes would be ruined.
Butch, if criticism only makes you stronger, then you must not be getting criticized hard enough because you have been going steadily downhill for over a decade at this point. You are definitely not stronger now than you were 20 years ago.
Apparently, praise made him weaker.
I wasn't wearing my glasses and thought you said bruh instead of butch and I was about to ask what mr enter did to you
Taking criticism maturely makes you stronger, what he's doing will only make his shows worse
True, Butch Hartman could have learned that from having the opposite experience, but...criticism doesn't automatically give him better ideas. The best possible outcome is for criticism to help him rewrite the bad ideas he already has currently. March 14, 2020, 8:52pm
@Matthew Chenault Everyone is an asshole lol
"Which proved to be one of the most divisive in United States history"
*Laughs in 1860 election*
"It makes everyone in Washington seem corrupt or like an idiot."
Probably the only accurate part of the show then.
Mr.Enter: After Nick-o-Rama...I think I need a break
Also Mr.Enter: Hmmm decade long list sounds great
artydomi I aint complaining
THIS IS DIFFERENT; BECAUSE THIS LIST OF THE 2010'S WORST CARTOON IS ONLY 2 EPISODES LONG; IT'S NOT
48 ****ING Episodes dedicated to 48 different ****ing Shows
Also Mr. Enter: For some reason, I only work on Animated Atrocities monthly and Admirable Animation even less times while delaying the second part of “Top 10 Worst Cartoons of the 2010s” for some reasons.
Kieran Stark I wish he would do his old schedule with one review per week..
@@ffjreviews9029 IKR! Why doesn't.he anymore?! What else COULD he be busy with?!
Here’s to another decade of bad cartoons, so that we can see people tear them apart.
So Enter is gonna be smashing politically charged cartoons?
...'Dis gonna be good.
"We want to forget about the world around us." That's one of the reasons I spend all day on CZcams.
Hell yeah Mr Enter, watching you ranting for 30 minutes is what i call happiness
my kinda afternoon too
We love a good rant video!
The biggest problem with the worst shows of the 2010s, and by extension any decade, is that they feel DATED. The original Powerpuff Girls was timeless despite parts of it now being outdated, but PPG 2016 is timely; the same thing can easily be said about Teen Titans (timeless) and Teen Titans GO! (dated).
When shows start using pop culture and other current events as punchlines, it ages them. Only show that gets a pass is South Park because it's purely satire and every ep is planned and animated the week before air date, so when it does air, it hasn't aged. When you got Fairly Odd Parents in it's later years making selfie and Trump jokes, it's just nightmarish...
Cute little girls with wonderful personalities who can kick your ass in style? Yes. That is very timeless and funny to watch. Little girls twerking their asses like spring break sluts? Totally dated.
henryca03 I’m not sure about that. Some of the best things ever are products of their time and better because of it.
Movies like The Breakfast Club and Back to the Future are better because they have so much 80s character for example.
I think there’s a particular beauty in products of their time. I think we’ll look back on smartphones and social media with nostalgia and respect for what was, something media this decade will help us do.
Did you just unironically put Teen Titans in the same category of TT: GO? Sure TT used anime stylings and such, but after re watching it recently I can't see how it has aged in the same manner.
@@austinkasunic1291 He was saying just GO didn't age well. PPG is timeless, but PPG 2016 is aged, like Teen Titans (timeless) and TT: GO (aged)
The best quote I’ve seen about shows like our cartoon President is from some video talking about SNL; “Political comedy isn’t comedy because the point isn’t to make you laugh, it’s to make you agree.”
16:20 “If you had Brickleberry on in the background, you could probably clean your house, do taxes, get lobotomized, and even more within an hour.” Looks like someone’s been watching Bojack Horseman and seen the flashbacks of Honey Sugarman.
1:19 Let's not forget that the 2010's decade was also the evolution of high-definition television. As a result, some cartoons looked much better being produced in high-definition. Also, 2010 to 2012 was when standard-definition full screen television was slowly being killed off. Plus, some shows like SpongeBob SquarePants, The Fairly OddParents, Family Guy Season 8, and T.U.F.F. Puppy were still being produced in standard-definition in 2010, 2011, and 2012.
I still own my 20" TV/VCR/DVD combo from 2004 and it still works.
andykishore HD has been around for a little while, but you’re right that now everyone has a 1080p or better display, which definitely wasn’t true before.
Pretty sure my family still had a CRT at the turn of the decade. Now it’s not hard to buy a 4K amoled.
High definition wasn't really that common for middle class people back in the day
@powerstar 2028 that also
@powerstar 2028 I remember that as well
I never thought I'd see... with my own eyes...
MR ENTER'S TOP 10 WORST ANIMATIONS OF THE 2010'S!
(Thunderous applause ensues)
Yup
Crazy that I've been watching MME since late 2013
6:09 You know how there's people with such a bad case of online politics brain, when they hear certain words, all they can hear in their heads is arguments? Well, anyway...
Y'know what I personally hate about DC Superhero Girls? Instead of creating a really fun, kick-ass scenario involving all of these awesome female superheroes and supervillains that some might hope for, the showrunners chose to use the tired and dated "quirky, adorable high school girl club" setup that everyone is SOOOO tired of at this point. This is, in my opinion, a little demeaning to these characters and kind of defeats the point of delivering a female-empowering message by resorting to decades-old stereotypes and tropes. They even go as far as to ruin favorite DC superheros like Wonder Woman and Zantanna by making them annoying and stupid teenagers, thus further alienating actual fans of the DC comics - including females who look up to these characters as feminist role models.
Oh, I hate that Lauren's art reached this barrel-sinking bottom too. Like, I was initially excited for Super Best Friends Forever, considering the last like 4 times they attempted rebooting DC Superhero Girls it crashed and burnt like Superman's cape on fire.
And then they retooled it to what we have now, and I immediately jumped ship.
@@eatatjoes6751I'm Glad They Don't Air It On Cartoon Network Anymore
Fun fact about Legends of Chamberlain Heights, I tweeted your review of it, shit talked them, they responded with their official twitter account, insulted me, then followed me. That was a weird day.
Pretty sure they were ironic.
"Oh no a CZcams cartoon reviewer insulted my TV show, whatever will I do"
I’d say on the whole, the 2010s was a good decade for animated shows and movies.
The animated films, just up till the late-2010s. I'll give it that, Spider-Verse was groundbreaking but most animated films circa around that was the late-2000s of animated shows, despite some decent shows at that time like Chowder.
True.
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THANK YOU FINALLY someone else who thinks Mr Pickles is godawful, my housemate loved the show for all its gore but thats all it had, the gross out was terrible, even when they werent trying to gross you out they did just by the appearence of the characters and the whole concept despite being alright was executed horribly.
Trump's appearance in "Our Cartoon President" is so over the top, it almost doesn't even look a thing like him. He looks more like a lobotomized Veggie Tales character.
Come on man, Veggie Tales was actually decent, for a preschooler semi-religious show. Don't insult it like that.
It's the caricature they so desperately want him to be, but simply isn't.
*And it shows.*
@@JimBobJourneyer Mhm
@L. Wolf. Lol, sorry. To be candid, I watched quite a bit of Veggie Tales myself back in my younger days.
@@duglife2230 Heh it's cool, I know Doug, the creator, dislikes some of it because of the limitations he was put under.
Having a good composer or singer still can't guarantee a good theme. The one that got #1 on your worst list, Shaggy & Scooby Doo Get a Clue, was written and sung by Mark Mothersbaugh. No joke.
Looked it up and god why did I do that
Most of these theme songs are soooo stupid heh heh heh.
almightycinder Who’s that guy?
@@beta511ee4 Mothersbaugh? Lead singer for Devo, and has scored many big budget Hollywood movies.
@powerstar 2028 W A B U U I S L I F E
Im starting to worry about Mr. Enter's mental health.
I mean, at least with Nick-o-rama he watched some good shows, but there's still pretty awful shows, and now this.
At least hes planning to do a top ten best at some point, might as well rip the band-aid off first before eating the candy.
hypn00s197 this is a test of mental fortitude for him.
@@markguyton2868 Fucking hell man 😂😂😂
He's a critic. He should be able to handle it. Especially since he himself acknowledge that there's a lot more shit than gems in the world.
@@LuigiTheMetal64 That's exactly what I did when I made my imdb user list for the Top 20 Worst Cartoon Episodes Ruined By a Heinous Ending. I can not resist to spoil that the #1 worst entry is Big Mouth's Requiem for a Wet Dream, because it took 3 viewings of it for me to wrap my head around the illogic of three plots being Andrew's dream and now being disconnected from the rest of the first season's storyline. March 14, 2020, 8:59pm
I honestly can't imagine that there are shows in the 2010's that are even worse than "Our Cartoon President" in your eyes.
I didn't though he was gonna find 8 shows worst than mr pickles, and yet here we are
You do not understand how much seeing this in my recommendations made my day (well, night really).
I started watching you 3 years ago, your Fish Tale review to be exact.
I stopped watching you about 5 months ago, but I'm so glad that you kept going despite all the unjust harassment you seem to get from others in the animation review community.
Top ten best 2010's when?
Joking aside, I enjoy seeing these retrospectives from anyone, and I'm excited to see the rest of this and if you're gonna do a top 10 best.
Same here.. It's like a cool throwback of sorts.
Joseph France it would be the same list as many others
We could surely have another list for the best cartoon series of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. I know Enter can and probably will do them before his 100th Admirable Animation. March 14, 2020, 8:57pm
"It's because we want to forget the world around us, not have it shoved in our face, am I right?" THANK YOU. A lot of people are probably going to say "oh but media's always been political" and bring up The Simpsons, Murphy Brown, South Park, etc. Yes, past shows have done the socio-political thing, but they did it RIGHT. It was there, but it didn't come at the expense of, y'know, BEING ENTERTAINING.
I was fine with the Trump jokes in the beginning because people did it to cope, but then it got old. We get it, you hate him, there's lots of good reasons to hate him. He's selfish, he's unintelligent, he's made a lot of horrible decisions that hurt the country, he's immature and makes a fool of himself on social media. But all the yelling about him is just giving him the attention he craves. Even the anti-Dubya crowd wasn't this noisy and performative.
Lynn D. Agreed. I’m sick and tired of creators forcing this kind of thing upon us. I watch them to get away from reality, stop shoving it in my face!
Looking at _you_ , Marvel.
Lily Orchid: 👀
South Park was born to make a parody of reality, so they're excused.
Other adults shows however just try to copy South Park like Family Guy.
Then the issue you have is writing quality, NOT the existence of political commentary in media. I hate when these are conflated. Its perfectly fine to critique the execution of political commentary, but anyone that says it shouldn’t exist or that they should stop “shoving it in our faces” needs a better perspective of how politics has ALWAYS played a big role in media, no matter how small.
Lynn D. And Hillary was the Anti-Christ, so I'm glad she didn't get elected.
It’s a shame Bunsen Is A Beast along with the addition of Chloe in The Fairly OddParents was the final nail-in the coffin for Butch Hartman,he left Nickelodeon a year after the show debuted.
*before
To be honest, calling him the M Night Shamalayn of animation is unfair. M Night doesn't pretend he's the second coming and we should all bow down in reverance. He's the Brie Larson of animation. Arrogant, bullheaded, and holier than thou.
The 2010's: A great decade for Animation with a few minor and major hiccups along the way
I... Actually kind of agree with Mr Enter. This decade was a double-edged sword that had really good cartoons, but also really bad ones.
@powerstar 2028 you know, it's just a matter of opinion. Things like Adventure Time, Regular Show, The Amazing World of Gumball, Steven Universe, star vs. The forces of evil, Gravity Falls, and several others are really popular. There are a lot of other good to show is too. If you want, I can go through a list of shows people like from this decade. Also, I personally liked amphibia.
@powerstar 2028 counter argument. Just because you don't like them doesn't make them bad. And besides that, many shows that are considered classics from the 90s on the 80s and the 70s and so on have not aged well at all. The art styles on most of them from the 80s and earlier feel stiff and dated. Jonny Quest ( not to be confused with Johnny Test) was a real hit at the time it was made. now, it's derivative storytelling and racist stereotypes are borderline garbage.
@powerstar 2028 okay then, what decade do you think had good cartoons?
@powerstar 2028 Honestly, that is just your opinion, and I disagree.
Oh, I forgot about "Orange Man Bad: The animated series". So, that happened. lol
PikaTheProsperous Trump Derangement Syndrome the show.
MGM Shows, celebrities, a lot of things, ugh.
Orange Man is bad
And I forgot about Mr Pickles.
And I also learned today that it ran four seasons in five years, instead of having only one season in 2014.
Wait that's a thing???
"If you think Bunsen voice is acceptable you need to schedule an immediate ear appointment"
Me, Bracelety Fan: *i'm already 4 parallel universes ahead of you*
Glad rarely anyone talks about Our Cartoon President, it's a petty unfunny waste of time.
It's just one of those shows that *needs* to be forgotten about.
Yeah
We can't forget about it. If we do it will happen again.
Yeah. But we’re talking about it now which probably unleashed a thousand year old curse
Brain the Brian It looks like not even the most hardcore Trump haters are particularly fond of the cartoon. Heck, it got considerably negative reviews from news sites that usually don’t hesitate to post “orange man bad” articles. That’s how shallow and unfunny it is.
I'd never even heard of it before
And that’s how I found out someone actually made “Donald Trump - The Animated Series”.
Charlotte Buff It gets pretty good during Season 3 (Because it goes from Trump satire to satire of all of the American political scene in general), but the second season is iffy and Season 1 is hot shit.
Heres what I think of these shows
10: Hated it
9: Hated It
8: Never heard of it
7: Never watched it (thank god)
6: this is real?
Nice pfp
Here’s my advice for creating cartoons, just assume every single race, gender, culture, religion are equal, so that you don’t seem offensive.
If you’re doing a political cartoon, then you have to do the *best research possible* otherwise you’ll end up like family guy which has the worst political messages possible.
Or just don't focus on the current events or even better... Don't even bother at all.
I'm pretty sure that even people on the left think that Our Cartoon President is baaaaaad
"i'm not like X?"
"no, but why would you want to be?"
i kind of like the question. probably because i lay the focus on a different point. not in the way of 'you shouldn't want to be like X because X is bad' but instead 'you shouldn't want to be like X because you shouldn't want to be anything other then yourself'.
But many still use it as the former.
oh i understand. i'm not saying the episode can't be criticised for it. i'm just talking about the way that i personally do like a way the message can be read. since i'm big on the message of "fuck what other people say about you, just be you (as long as you don't harm anyone in the process)" it's just a message i enjoy.
Exactly
Don't try to be something you're not; as Long as nobody else is physically harmed by it; Be true to yourself!!
On it's own I agree, but given that the rest of that MLP episode showed literally every other dragon as a bad guy and characterized the entire species as bad guys having them simultaneously be the metaphor for boys changes what that sentence means.
It makes it mean they (boys) are bad so why would you want to be a boy?
@@New3DSLuigi364 Except being born male (or a dragon in this case) is an immutable trait. Being yourself would still mean you have something about yourself that you can't change that other people criticize you over for having.
The idea of those shows is that gender stereotypes don't define a gender but no individual really gets to decide that so it's a problem you can't solve with some Saturday morning cartoon morality.
“Every Episode was Dragon Quest”
OH MORE SYLVANDO. DARLINGS I’M GRATIFIED
P U F F
P U F F
*Yangus noises*
But thou must!
I misread that as Slylandro, mostly cause I can't get Star Control off my mind.
Don’t forget Dave
The 2010s was definitely the most experimental decade. Unfortunately not all experiments are successful.
He said the same thing about the 90s. However, it was easy for the 90s to have final thoughts
What bothers me isn't that there's socio-political messages in media. That's always existed. It's that socio-political messages have been inserted into EVERY piece of media. No one seems to care about telling a good story or being entertaining or being escapism anymore because now EVERYBODY has to push these messages. And, what worse, they don't even allow for audiences to draw their own conclusions. They have to tell people how to think and feel about things. Remember that episode of The Simpsons where Marge gets violence censored but then more parents get more things censored and the episode allows you to consider how much is too much and what the solution might be? If that episode aired now, it would pick a solution and cram it down your throat as the only one. One of the reasons ATLA/LOK were so good at presenting themes was that both shows presented more than one side on any subject and allowed their audience to draw their own conclusions. I know there are other shows that do that, but they feel buried under all the shows that don't. And, yeah. Maybe I'm weird, but I miss when media was diverse enough that you could just as easily watch something for entertainment only (like Darkwing Duck) AND a show with themes/messages (The Wild Thornberrys for example) AND a show with socio-political commentary (I'm going to go with Duckman since I already mentioned The Simpsons).
SunnysFilms I just wish they weren’t done so shite.
Wow! This first comment I've read in while that I agree with completely!
I wish DC Super Hero Girls was actually good, I love the art style so much D:
I agree that aesthetically it is an improvement over some of the networks other shows. But as a show it is not so much.
It is
Agreed.
Nika it’s good. I have no idea what enter is talking about.
Real Zombie I’m curious, how much action does that show have? Does it have fight scene like shows such as Kim Possible, PPG, and MLAATR?
you pretty much perfectly summed up how I felt with all this political stuff, especially at the end with the trump cartoon.
Does anyone think it is ironic that Lauren Faust quit MLP before EQG (an MH clone) and then went on to work on DC super hero girls (another MH clone by the same company that makes MH)?
If there's one thing this non-stop barrage of anti-Trump "comedy" has taught me, it's just how all these "comedy" shows that use him as a punch line are really just unfunny, untalented and unoriginal hacks that don't know how to write entertaining or even satirical material. Which is ironic, considering I didn't like the guy, let alone even vote for him, before 2016.
It should be easier to make jokes about him than, let's say, Hilary. All you need to do is to look at his Twits. That's all
Hearing you talk about Lil Dicky's "Earth" caught me off guard! 😆
@brandon roberts STDs should be saved. Got it! Thanks, Lil Dicky!
My favorite cartoon of the decade is the 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
It's a lot better than the 2018 Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon.
The worst was its bastard successor.
Shit taste confimerd.
MINE TOO
You are literally the only person other than my own father to recognize the concept of "The Bigotry of Low Expectations".
Sadly I think the absence of that understanding in modern socity is putting some folks (and some places)on a rather dark path.
@@ATFADL Absolutely.
"From Executive Producer Stephen Colbert"
The absolute kiss of comedy death
Me: I'm interested in seeing what Mr. Enter's worst of the decade is.
*Sees #10 entry*
Me: WOW! I actually felt my heart shatter into a million pieces!
Yeah DC Super Hero Girls really isn't a bad show and I just feel it's a knee-jerk reaction on Enter's part because it's a super hero show on CN produced by DC. Guys, its' a lot better than TTG.
Yea I agree with both of you his #10 is a pretty bad choice. Of course he can have his opinion, but number 10? REALLY? Also, this is the reason why I feel mrenter should have waited to make this list because that show is still airing and there is a chance that it might get better (I skipped past 10 cuz I didn't want to hear what he had to say)
yup
I have ZERO idea on how DC Super Hero Girls is *worse* than Teen Titans Go! (that show only got a dishonorable mention in part two of the list) At least DCSHG has some good lessons, more action, and characters that develop, but TTG has the same one-dimensional characters, not a lot of battles, and teach children bad morals. Also, TTG pokes fun at fans of the original series while the only time the two versions of DCSHG collided is in a comic book about dimensions.
he said there was gonna be controversial opinions, and everyone might not like his choices, but it IS his list
At least South Park looks somewhat appealing
Part of the reason why South Park works is that the artstyle is too simple to really take seriously.
If you try to stylize that, it falls flat, since it's just gross now and stops being appealing.
"Why would you want to be?" isn't necessarily a bad question to ask in itself, it all depends on what message you are trying to send and if it is well meaning, it is important to not follow up that question with bigotry or fallacies. The best follow-up to "Why would you want to be?" is asking if the other "thinks they would made happier if they were more like them and if so, why?" There is nothing wrong with wanting to be more like others as long as this isn't at the expense of your individuality and of what makes you happier. The message should be: there is nothing wrong with not fitting the norm if that means being true to yourself and you shouldn't change yourself if only to fit the stereotypes of your sexuality, your sex, your race, your social group...
And this is the problem with most shows that tries to tackle such a topic. They don't know how to empower without demonizing and ending up drowning any inspiring message and good will they might have carried.
BjornV1994 In the end it just replaces one repressive social norm with another.
Jeremy Rowley got himself an Annie award specifically for his performance as Bunsen. Wrap your head around that.
I actually really like DC's Superhero Girls but I will NOT argue with you on any of your criticisms against it, I was just as angry with it as you are. I really just like it because Supergirl's design gives her way more personality than her previous "Superman, but a girl!" design from the comics. But in all honesty I'm just projecting what I *want* onto the show instead of knowing what the show actually is because the character design is so good.
I Know, He Made Bad Decision Ever Made
Not a huge comics buff but based on how she acts in Injustice 2 and what I've heard from others Power Girl is probably more of what you're hoping for, you can also watch some Justice League Unlimited episodes with Supergirl in them, she isn't in all that many but she's fantastic in all the ones she shows up in.
@@GodOfOrphans will they turn Supergirl into not yang
@@JuanGomez-ke5py I haven't seen much of RWBY yet so I really couldn't tell you one way or the other just from lack of a frame of reference, although Justice League came out way before RWBY so there's that to keep in mind.
@Rosen Zatara ) well said.
THANK YOU for saying what you said about the Trump jokes. They are DOG AWFUL and HIGHLY OVERRATED. People keep sharing them anyway which is ludicrous,
Whilst I can't say they weren't uncalled for, given the utter tool he is, I can say that they were pretty much dead on arrival.
MisterNinetySeven To me: ALL political jokes are horrible. I can't even listen to a song from THE LION KING without some dunce mentioning Trump or any political shit.
The only ones i ever laughed at were the non biased ones like space force because that is actually a real thing going on regardless of opinion and the lego city one.
The only Trump joke that actually got a laugh out of me (though more of a brief chuckle than anything) was a couple cheap shots regarding his toupee.
Everything else was mostly centered around some red hat or talking down on somebody else for having a different opinion, regardless if it was about politics or not.
It's all repetitive and pretty annoying.
They will never shut up about Trump whether he gets voted out or not. He is the media's public enemy number one.
Butch Hartman has explained that the extra characters were network decisions. He takes care not to say that they are bad, but I think he doesn't like them
10. Oh boy, what an interesting start. While I do like the show, the writing could/should be WAY better.
9. Completely forgot that this thing exists.
8. I'd rather watch the very worst of Family Guy than whatever this boring mess is.
7. How the mighty had fallen...
6. I hope Trump loses so that everyone can shut up about him and stops making "comedy" like this piece of crap.
Agreed, he's become a black hole of comedy...
@@admech590 so do many "comedians" these days
Number six only.proves how out of touch creators are with the people. The people wanted trump, because they were tired of the direction of the country.
That’s what I’m wondering. How will so many of these lousy comedians make a living when Trump’s gone?
Laura trying to make lightning in the bottle to twice
"People watch shows to escape from reality..."
This is why I'm personally turned off by Melodramatic Angsty shows. When it feels like the writers are twisting the storyline specifically to torture me, it makes me want to disengage. I'm constantly stressed out as is, I don't want to see characters I love being beaten to a pulp by the writers. (I stopped watching Ducktales 2017 for this reason.) I don't want every show to be "Care Bears" or "Little Clowns of Happy Town", but there's a difference between "conflict" and "torture".
(Disclaimer: I hyperempathize-I'm never going to be a doctor because even hearing about someone else's medical issues makes me pale. I get emotionally exhausted by shows that constantly put their characters through the ringer, even if I know they're going to be okay. My threshold for angst is likely lower than the average person and I understand that.)
I strongly disagree, the harder the struggle the sweeter the victory in my book, but I can definitely empathize with your position and I appreciate well articulated points.
@@GodOfOrphans I have to admit I can enjoy angst from time to time (I'm not always kind to my own characters), though sometimes it feels like writers are torturing their characters at the expense of the plot or just for the hell of it, if that makes sense? Like, they twist the plot like a pretzel just to come up with a contrived way of making the characters (and their audience) suffer as much as possible when there was more potential if they took a plot in a different direction?
I'm glad you understand where I'm coming from though. :>
That's why most people hate the post movie episodes of SpongeBob
@Enimo;
That AND Protagonist-centered Morality
@@New3DSLuigi364 and flanderisation
Considering how dire some of these shows are, I am impressed at how bad entries 1 to 5 must be.
What do you think will show up for #5-1? I have a feeling Big Mouth, modern Family Guy (2010-2019), the Adventures of Kid Danger, and some repesentative(s) of the "Two Douchebags" cartoon trend will make the list. I also remembered that Mr. Enter said he should have been much harder on The Powerpuff Girls reboot and Sanjay and Craig (a "Two Douchebags" cartoon), so I wouldn't be surprised if they made the list.
@powerstar 2028 You're probably right, but I'm sure that it'll at least make the dishonorable mentions. Mr. Enter _really_ hated that show when he reviewed it for Nicktoons month. I can't imagine Mr. Enter letting off Sanjay and Craig that easy.
I thought for sure that Mr. Pickles would be in the top five. I was shocked that it was only number 9. And considering how much he hates Bunsen is a Beast (especially for its voice acting performances and overall annoyance), I was expecting it to rank higher too.
@@strawberryfieldswhenever Problem Solverz too, probably
@@samuelesalvatico7259 I can't believe I forgot to include Problem Solverz! Yeah, Mr. Enter really hated that one, and he speculated/joked about it possibly ruining his vision. Yeah, I'll be shocked if that one doesn't make the list.
Glad to see Mr. Enter knows about Vivziepop.
Wait, you hate DC super hero girls?
I’m not gonna say that show is a masterpiece and it does have its flaws, but it isn’t that bad.
Decade long reminder, he might find bad what you find good and what he finds good you find bad. This list is very opinionated.
powerstar 2028 and back to your original point. And with that, I repeat; this list is very opinionated, it was said in the intro.
Teen Titans Go is 1,000,000% worse than DC Super Hero Girls. Enough said.
@powerstar 2028 To me, it is. Here's why: czcams.com/video/LLjCdqT6db4/video.html
you are right the number 10 is not that bad
1:50 Do I smell some thoughts about the new She-Ra on the horizon? (I actually had a dream that he did an Animated Atrocities on it once, which was especially strange considering that I actually enjoy the show...)
I Was against the show ever since they showed HE-RA's Unfeminine Design off;
AND I'M ALSO JUST NOT INTERESTED IN A SHOW CATERED TO GIRL-ON-GIRL RELATIONSHIPS
The show is like Hazbin Hotel for me: I don't have an opinon on it and people either violently hate it or obsessively love it.
@Libra The beautiful War Monk
I REALLY HATE HAZBIN HOTEL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!
Forgot Gordan Ramsey's Show; Hazbin Hotel is the TRUE HOTEL HELL; As it TAKES PLACE IN A HOTEL that is LITERALLY IN HELL!!!!
I just think the She-ra reboot is painfully average. Not terrible like PPG 2016 or TTG, but nowhere near as good as Ducktales, Thundercats 2011, or even Voltron.
you have dreams?!
This decade was a pretty fantastic decade for cartoons, transformers prime and cyberverse, Steven universe, Gumball,Scooby Doo Mystery Incorperated, the spongebob resurgence, Ducktales 2017, South Park seasons from this decade besides 19-21, Total Drama seasons 3-4, Robot Chicken, Samurai Jack season 5, The Loud House, and Tmnt 2012 to name a few.
SpongeBob got good again and then Stephen Hillenburg died in 2018.
Hey, I liked South Park Seasons 19-21
Fireboy good for you
South Park Season 19 was fucking great tho idk what youre talking about
Finally someone who think that total drama season 3 and 4 are one of the best cartoons of the decade!
"That's why we watch television, movies and read books. It's because we want to forget about the world around us."
Said while the realest cartoon that made me face reality more than it made me forget it is edited in.
I was worried watching season six of Bojack because of what it would show me. I had a panic attack towards the end of season three because I have relatives who had that same thing happen to them, and season five and the first half of six just kind of filled me with regret and... God it was tough and I knew I shouldn't have watched Bojack Horseman for this reason!
I just don't like the uncanny...ish of the main character being an anthropomorphic horse with human's hands.
@@growlie2676 That too. That part kind of made me reluctant as well.
At the very least he could've had the phone actually up to his ear.
CallMeFreakFujiko Does the very concept of Bojack contradict that ideology?
Let me drop this as a literature professor - people really mistake what escapism is. Escapism really doesn't let you cope by completely forgetting things, or the real world around you. Yes, it can do that for a while, but a large part of why escapism works is the fact that the narrative gently eases you back into looking at issues you are running away from. That initial moment of distancing from reality is supposed to give you grounding, and that grounding helps you then to analyze a situation in a calmer manner. You can make sense of your own emotions if you see a character going through something similar, or write a character like that, since it forces your mind to put it into understandable forms, and give you a detached experience.
Not to mention it is outright cruel to say that political themes or feelings should not be put into shows. Not only does this cut away from vast opportunities at narrative and storytelling, and take away healthy way of escapism, it is just outright cruel to tell an author not to express their feelings via their work. It's basically telling them that they are just your mindless machine for entertainment production, and not a human being. If a theme of, let's say, poverty can be incorporated into a story, and weighs heavily on a creator's mind, it's inhumane to deny them that expression. Even still, many of them will do that subconsciously. I hadn't realized how much of my own experiences I put into my own works until years later. In my eyes, "remove your political views from your show" is a cruel and wrong message, and is often used for censorship.
Yes, everything is political, and, for society to function, it kinda has to be. But, contrary to the popular belief, it is not a bad thing, not even close. It's healthy when media and shows connect to the real world, even better when they ease into it gradually. Things becoming more political is far from bad.
Honestly, considering Jimmy Kimmel has two characters on his talkshow that are basically "let's mock and laugh at the wacky foreigner", he has no room to reprimand others for being racist.