The weakest cartoon characters

that is going to be hard to beat.

is this a good time to mention I HATE Mr. Magoo?

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I think Fearless Fly looks like it could be OK!

How about shit Scooby Doo knock-off Fang Face?

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Mickey Mouse: Crappy Cartoon Character?

Pauly Shore?

Deputy Fuzz from Bravestarr. What a useless shit.

http://www.80scartoons.co.uk/bravestarr/bravestarr_fuzz.jpg

shit, Bravestarr...i barely remember that but i had an action figure of the bad guy

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lol melton

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Some please photoshop Fearless Fly onto a turd.

I'm guessing Poochie doesn't really count.

http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/s/r/srr120/poochie.gif

Weinstein: Uh, a dog? Isn't that a tad predictable?
Lady: In your dreams. We're talking the original dog from hell.
Oakley: You mean Cerberus?
-- Does he drive a `Persephone'? "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show"

Lady: We at the network want a dog with attitude. He's edgy, he's "in
your face." You've heard the expression "let's get busy"?
Well, this is a dog who gets "biz-zay!" Consistently and
thoroughly.
Krusty: So he's proactive, huh?
Lady: Oh, God, yes. We're talking about a totally outrageous
paradigm.
Meyer: Excuse me, but "proactive" and "paradigm"? Aren't these just
buzzwords that dumb people use to sound important?

Really, Hanna-Barbera ftw.

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-- Ward Fowler, Monday, 4 February 2008 20:17

Naaaaahhh... Touche Turtle was JOKES.

"Someone"

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Fearless Fly was cool.

Gummi Bears was a great show.

The theme to the gummi bears cartoon was hilariously close to the perfect strangers theme song.

Gummi Bears fucking rocked. Someday there'll be a live-action version where Matthew McConaghey plays Gusto. And there were ORCS in it. I'd never have imagined the candy living in a D&D-styled world, but there they were, fighting orcs and whatnot.

gummi bears, bouncing here and there and everywhere

high adventure that's beyond compare

Someday there'll be a live-action version where Matthew McConaghey plays Gusto

srsly wtf

I'll bet Sunny Gummi is currently responsible for a whole lot of 30-year-old furries.

Haha, all I can remember about the Gummi Bears is the theme song.

me too
and sometimes they hopped into wormholes?

SRSLY NABSICO WTF

!!!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=loUNoy0Qub0

gummi bears was terrible and for babies. the weakest cartoon character was Man At Arms. wtf @ him.

you seriously remember the names of the bears?!?!

chaki which was the best he-man character in your opinion?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodak

Zodak!

There was this Punky Brewster cartoon and she had a magical sidekick named Glomer or something like that, I shit you not.

I think that character might apply.

You think you know somebody and then one day you catch him practically declaring they'd give it up for Gummi Bear trim. It's like that Sailor Moon thing all over again.

Though he was kinda copied from DC's Phantom Stranger, but I didn't know it back then.

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twat!
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Yes, everyone wants Scrappy Doo dead, this is not news.

Unlike Chaki, I was once a baby

Dan: Sunny, while cute, is both underage and a bear, both of which are dealbreakers

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That's the one where they find Gusto, trapped on the island!

lololol

to be fair the female mouse from rescue rangers was kind of---oh why am i bothering hahahaha

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Funny, endearing, and fascinating show, 21 January 2005
Author: ajolipa (ajol✧✧✧@m✧✧✧.c✧✧) from USA

Whenever I mention watching Gummi Bears, people can't help making the oh-so-witty comment "Huh? You actually watch a show about little candy bears?" "No," I patiently explain, "They are not the candy. They are Gummi Bears, members of an ancient medieval civilization with advanced technology, culture, morals, history, traditions..." By that point whoever I'm talking to has usually raised their eyebrows and started to back away slowly, or to laugh.

But it's their loss, because the Gummis are anything but little candy bears. This show goes further than any other Disney Afternoon show that I've seen in truly developing a whole mythology and culture that the viewer can actually learn from, while watching witty and entertaining plots involving adventures around the kingdom of Dunwyn. The show revolves around the Gummis of Gummi Glen, which used to be the center of a thriving Gummi culture that coexisted with humans, until the humans began to clash with the bears forcing them to flee overseas. A few were left behind in hiding, however, with the duty to protect the kingdom of humans from greedy people who might want to take it over (eg Duke Igthorn, a bitter exiled Duke who covets the throne), and to keep Gummi Glen functional until the other Gummis can return, at a time when humans will once again accept them without conflict. At the time of the show, the group living in Gummi Glen is composed of: Gruffi, the practical and cynical one who believes in hard work, living each day "the Gummi way", and not going out of his way to help silly humans (although in the end, he'll always go along to help); Grammi, whose work as the woman of the house cooking and cleaning and mending clothing hides an adventurous and daring nature; Zummi, the absent-minded and wise keeper of the library and ancient Gummi wisdom, including magic--which he is forever screwing up, in a truly endearing way; Tummi, whose name reveals his great love of food, although he also loves to garden and work on various crafts projects, and who has a patient and generous nature, sometimes to the extent that he can't say no to anything even when he should; Sunni, who's energetic and romantic, always dreaming of being a princess, but at the same time she's spunky and determined, and learns a lot as she grows up; Cubbi, who dreams of becoming a great knight and defending justice, and also just loves to play and to annoy Sunni; and finally Augustus, aka Gusto, who joins them later and doesn't live in Gummi Glen--he's an artist who doesn't believe in living life by strict rules and discipline, and so of course is constantly on Gruffi's nerves. In addition, there's Calla, Sunni's best friend, the princess who would rather be a tomboy or a knight, and Cavin, Cubbi's best friend, a page at the castle.

So that's the basic cast, plus a few others. Every character is multi-dimensional, and in particular, the development of their relationships is fascinating and complex and often touching. But in addition to the individual characters, the whole Gummi culture is well-developed and interesting. They are more advanced than the humans of their time, with wisdom and technology that the medieval humans have lost, now that they're in this era of rejecting the Gummis as silly myth. There are Gummi holidays and traditions, as well as sayings--my favorite of those being: "Though the first step is the hardest, and the last step ends the quest, the long steps in between are certainly the best." And of course the spells are great, with poor Zummi never picking up on the simple language they're written in. (One funny line is when Zummi's trying to create a small tornado, and misreads his paper: "Wumind Blumow Humere!" And then as the tornado suddenly starts up right under him: "I mean, Thumere!!") There are other centers of Gummi culture other than Gummi Glen, such as Ursalia, an ancient deserted city now inhabited by "Barbic" Gummis whose culture conflicts with the Glen Gummis' ideas of civilized culture, and also Gummadoon, the city that's under a spell to reappear for a day every hundred years. And of course, there's Gummiberri juice, the juice made from the secret recipe that allows the Gummis to bounce around, and makes humans extremely strong--hence it had better not fall into the wrong hands!

But not everyone will find a made-up culture of colored bears all that interesting. Even if you don't, the shows are well worth watching simply for the wit and entertainment of their plots and character interactions. The dialogue is sharp and amusing, the background music is charming, and the plots are sweet and entertaining. In my opinion, this is one of Disney's most intricate and well-developed and truly endearing shows. Highly recommended to anyone of any age who's willing not to be cynical about it.

Nabisco, are you ajol✧✧✧@m✧✧✧.c✧✧ in disguise?

No, I don't have cool stars in my email address

Dan: Sunny, while cute, is both underage and a bear, both of which are dealbreakers

-- nabisco, Monday, February 4, 2008 8:47 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

hey, it's more than 20 years later! she's practically a cougar by now

cougar bear

A clockwork smurf.

nabisco on the gummi

nell carter was the weakest cartoon character

i'm sure you could find an ilxor equivalent for every one of those smurfs

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Weakling Smurf is a Smurf with very low self-esteem who thinks he's worthless.

Gummi Bears are caca poo shit. It was such crap compared to the holy Disney trinity of Duck Tails, Tail Spin and Darkwing Duck.

"i'm sure you could find an ilxor equivalent for every one of those smurfs"

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The weakest cartoons

I think the Smurfs functioned as this amoeba-like community, whose members reproduce by cloning themselves via mitosis. They only have one member who appears to be female, so I think that sort of rules out sexual reproduction. Also, the clone theory is supported by the fact that they all look alike, except for Smurfette, who must be a mutation. As for why Papa Smurf is the only old Smurf, I think the Smurf community goes through a life cycle where the new generation, once it's all grown up, cannibalizes the previous generation, letting only the strongest memeber of it live, and he then becomes the new leader.

tail spin had a really unique retro 30's-40's look.

Duck Tales and Tailspin were MILES better than Darkwing Duck.

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ugh, Tuomas

Dear Tuomas: Smurfette was created by Gargamel in order to tear the Smurfs apart. I'm not sure how she was meant to do this, since they had no sexes up until then, so it's not clear why they'd suddenly be interested in her. But Papa Smurf changed her to be non-evil, and now everyone wants to get on her.

I don't know if that's a pleasant life for Smurfette or not, being the first woman in a village full of Smurfmen. That's a lot of attention to deal with

Well okay, that doesn't disprove my theory though.

P.S. I liked Tailspin OK, mostly due to lots of stormy/rainy color schemes, but ech, Duck Tales, whatever, give me my Gummis any day

I'm so glad we get to hash this out now, it's been burning inside me since 5th grade

and now everyone wants to get onsmurf her.

P.S. Tuomas no one is trying to disprove your precious theory

P.S. I liked Tailspin OK, mostly due to lots of stormy/rainy color schemes, but ech, Duck Tales, whatever, give me my Gummis any day

you were one of those kids

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will someone make vin diesel blue and give him a hat please
it's destiny calling

I LIKED ORCS / KNIGHTS / CASTLES ETC.

Holy fucking shit!

hahahahahahahahahaha

i think tailspin might have been STEAMPUNK

wow i have retained almost zero knowledge of plot and character names re old cartoons. i only remember some scenes and some images and music.

nabisco's other jam

i don't think talespin was steampunk, it's something else..like whatever the Rocketeer and that Sky Captain Movie were

Miyazagi's Porco Rosso too.

i think all that stuff is at least bordering on steampunk

steampunk is more victorian era/late 1800's though!

some other name needs to be thought of for this quasi-aesthetic.

Indiana Jones and Casablanca both also in the Talespin-vein

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I dunno maybe something to do with the art-deco stuff?

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check out the comic book type @ the top :D :D :D

I think those 1910s/20s airplanes are the last around which you can built these sort of romanticized retro fictions. After that airplanes become too ordinary, associated either with mass culture and tourism, or mass death (WWII and latter war planes anonymously dropping bombs = not as cool as the Red Baron having a one-on-one fights with British pilots), which isn't very good for romanticism.

oooh jw don't forget those old fleischer Superman cartoons!

I'll bet Sunny Gummi is currently responsible for a whole lot of 30-year-old furries.

This is probably really really otm.

latebloomer -- TINTIN!!!!

Although later Tintin was very Bond

The general representation of Zodak is that he is a neutral character, a cosmic enforcer who participates little in conflict but can aid either the heroic or evil sides in their hour of need. But to properly understand Zodak's position in the mythology, it is necessary to consider the many different portrayals of him within the different incarnations of Masters of the Universe
(Wikipedia)

Loving the implication that properly understanding Zodak's position within the Masters of the Universe mythology is some kind of worthy scholastic goal.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e3/Snork_01.jpg/250px-Snork_01.jpg

How low can you go when you're ripping off the Smurfs? Unsurprisingly, Hanna Barbera were also somewhat responsible.

they are the gummi BEARS

I like Dom's answer a lot - I wasn't really keeping track of Daria regularly by that point, but I never saw what the blandola rich boyfriend character added to the show. On paper I like the idea of Daria and Jane in conflict and having to grow up a little, and Daria having to let down her screen of cool some (see the comic version of Ghost World) but as it played out on screen it just seemed...dull.

The Snorks had Junior (the orange one) as a main character. He was a jerk and he did bad things. The Smurfs weren't like that.

I think those 1910s/20s airplanes are the last around which you can built these sort of romanticized retro fictions...
-- Tuomas, Monday, 4 February 2008 21:49 (Monday, 4 February 2008 21:49) Bookmark Link

I'd argue that you can probably still do this with aircraft all the way up to the early jet age planes. They have a certain Heath-Robinson charm about them.

Some time around the mid-to-late 50s, I think, military aircraft form suddenly started to follow function and so when you looked at them there was no way of ignoring the fact that these things were very specifically designed to kill fuckloads of people in a real hurry. It's hard to romanticise that kind of efficiency.

http://www.clivebanks.co.uk/Moomins/Moomins%20Pictures/Moomins%20Logo.jpg

You dare slag the Moomins?

It's hard to romanticise that kind of efficiency.

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DavidM you are mental

The Snorks were an unholy cross of Smurfs and Jabberjaws, falling far short of both their inspirations.

I can't believe nobody has brought up the Monchichis:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MppEZvhLm5g

Monchichis are not weak, they are just despicable.

they are cute.