TV ► Shows you love that everyone else hates

[BufferAqua]

I loved both the original and Shippuden, but the original has a vastly superior soundtrack for sure.

 

[2 quid is good]

Captain N: The Game Master. I can't defend the show, it is badly written rubbish. But it's rubbish I grew up on and was basically SSB a decade we even had SSB. And frankly, given how strict Nintendo, Sega, and other companies are these days, I can't help but be nostalgic for a time when shows had more creative legroom, even if they didn't make the best of it.

I loved that show soooo much. The channel I used to watch a lot as a kid had this block in the evening and I don't remember what it was called but it had Captain N, Super Mario Bros and AoStH on it. Even though I was a major sonic fan and my dad had successfully instilled a hatred of Nintendo and Mario in me, I enjoyed those 2 shows wayyy more, especially Captain N. I just think it's neat!

Since game shows seem to be on our radar: Sonic Underground.

It was the first new Sonic show to come out during my long life as a Sonic fan. I got into Sonic in around 1997/98, when the hedgehog's initial early 90s popularity had cooled down and he just didn't have much of a mainstream presence anymore, and all I had to satisfy my obsession was my Mega Drive games, the latter half of StC, and a single AoStH VHS with two episodes on it.

Under that context, Sonic Underground was a Godsend. I ate that shit up, I recorded it every week.

There are definitely better Sonic shows, but this cheesy little oddity holds a special place in my heart.

Someone somewhere needs to go through all those Sonic Underground songs and work out what songs they're parodying. Some of them are fairly obvious but yeah, I watched this show so damn much those songs are permanently seared into my brain, especially this one:

They're not great songs but they are catchy

 

[WaltK]

Someone somewhere needs to go through all those Sonic Underground songs and work out what songs they're parodying. Some of them are fairly obvious but yeah, I watched this show so damn much those songs are permanently seared into my brain, especially this one:

They're not great songs but they are catchy

Are they meant to be conscious parodies?

 

[Launchpad]

I loved both the original and Shippuden, but the original has a vastly superior soundtrack for sure.

agreed like you wouldn't fucking believe. imagine trading in a COMPLETELY original rock/traditional japanese fusion sound that becomes completely synonymous with the name "Naruto" for... generic small orchestra themes. That original soundtrack was so synergistic with Naruto as a series, they never recovered after that point. There is no iconic theme from Shippuden. It's all terrible, genuinely terrible.

 

[2 quid is good]

Are they meant to be conscious parodies?

I think pretty much all of them are

 

[WaltK]

I think pretty much all of them are

I guess, as a kid, I always thought "Society Girl" had a touch of Barbie Girl about it.

 

[shadywinters]

To start with a mainstream example:
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This is a show with what I like to call a "phantom fanbase". People obviously loved the show enough for it to get consistently high ratings and to go for twelve whole seasons. But good luck on actually finding those fans. The show is openly despised by what seems to be a majority, with the amount of vitriol it gets on social media.

But me? I simply don't get the hate. It was my mum that got me into it, and I was initially reluctant specifically because of how hated I knew it was, but I happened to be there when she watched an episode, and I loved it. It's particularly special to me because it's one of few shows that me and my mum both love, and even after the show ended, we still binge it at least once a year. We both agree that it got better when Amy and Bernadette came into it.

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Now for an older and more obscure example:
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Whenever I see people talking about Angela Anaconda, it's usually from people who like to forget it existed, from people who absolutely despised its, ahem, peculiar art style, who think Angela is an awful character with an annoying voice, etc.

I've heard that the show was actually more popular here in the UK because we tend to be more accepting of the kind of offbeat, mean-spirited humour that the show embodies, to quote TVTropes. And, yeah, I can see where they're coming from. It should go without saying that this show was and still is my jam. It was a Cartoon Network show over here, and it was a major part of their lineup when I first started getting the channel in my home in early 2001, so the show has a super special place in my heart for embodying that awesome time.

The only other thing I can mention about the show is; yes, we still had that Angela short that opened the Digimon Movie. I can only imagine how many kids back then were confused as to why a character from, from our perspective, a Cartoon Network show, was opening a movie based on a Fox Kids show, haha.

I absolutely love both of these shows so much! I don't normally come across a lot of fans for both of these, especially Angel Anaconda.

 

[Sonofjafar]

when it comes to Sonic shows, my personal favorite will always be The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog. It’s not just for the memes either. I just like the idea of a video game cartoon giving us the 90s equivalent to Bob Clampet cartoons

 

[shadywinters]

I'm likely gonna repeat a handful that were already mentioned, but...:

• Angela Anaconda: I love quirky shows with interesting art styles.
• Sonic Underground: My guilty pleasure Sonic show, and now I always see Sonic as a triplet and Aleena as his mother. The songs were corny, and the writing cringeworthy, but I still love it.
• Loonatics Unleashed: It's the Looney Tunes, but edgy. And boy do I love me some edginess as an elder emo/scene kid.
• Big Bang Theory: My mom actually got me into this show as well, and we even watch some episodes together.
• My Little Pony-Friendship is Magic: Now it depends on who you're talking to. If you're outside the fandom, people are going to see this as childish and deemed not appropriate for grown adults (esp grown men, which makes up a majority of the fanbase). But if you talk to someone who is open minded and within the fandom, they'll love it for it's character development, overarching storyline, vast array of lovable characters and wondrous music. Also yes I'm a Pegasister! IYKYK

 

[WaltK]

It's been a while since I've seen it, but I remember liking Dragon Ball GT as a kid. I quite enjoyed the initial space adventure saga and found it be a nice change of pace from DBZ's longwinded story arcs.

I'm a Brit, so I grew up with the Canadian Blue Water cast. To this day, Zoe Sluser is the voice I associate with kid Goku.