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Archive for July, 2009
TV Corner with ctizz36 Chalkzone
Author: CraigJul 16
When it comes to interesting concepts in cartoons, this one takes by a long shot for sure. In the show, an avid artist name Rudy Tabootie comes across an entire world of chalk and the various things that were drawn on a chalkboard including his own creations like his father, his “superhero”/friend Snap, his first creation Blocky and a Grandma in a bathtub… okay this kid has problems, I mean who draws a naked Grandma anyways. This kid clearly has problems if this is what he drew in his spare time. But I digress, he is also accompanied by his Friend Penny Sanchez, who is the brains of this group and also the killjoy making everything dull and bland at the same time. In each episode, the trio have many zany adventures, but one stands out the most out of all of them… that one is called “The Smooch”. For some odd reason the trio are in search of a rare bird called the Smooch with feminine features and are accompanied by three Jamaicans and go through the entire episode singing and it just gets weirder from here on out. Despite the weird stories and “music videoes”, this show did have an interesting concept and I can see why they gave it a cartoon series in the first place, but with zany plots and offbeat characters it made the show less enjoyable to watch overall.
I give this cartoon a C-
TV Corner with ctizz36 My Life as a Teenage Robot
Author: CraigJul 16
Alright, let me start off by saying I’m going to review this with a critic’s viewpoint and not as a male reviewing a female cartoon. With that in mind, the show My Life as a Teenage Robot also started off from Oh Yeah! Cartoons as My Neighbor’s a Teenage Robot and when the sow was picked up for a series the animation was drastically change. First off, we have our hero named XJ-9, or Jenny Wakeman, as the series goes through her artificial life as, you guess it, as a Teenage Robot. Jenny is voiced by Janice Kawaye whom may know from other cartoons that have an Asian character like Gi from Captain Planet, Kim and Kam from the short-lived Class of 3000, or even from the video game series Ninja Gaiden’s Ayane. There are other character that are human like her mother Dr. Wakeman, her neighbor friends Brad and Tuck, and rivals the Krust sisters. But, the one character who is the most “interesting” would be Sheldon, who is in love with Jenny. I believe Robot Chicken said it best in the segment with the Highly Advanced Robot “Can you F*ck it?” that says it all. Apart from freaky robot fetish that is Sheldon Oswald Lee, the cartoon has some decent themes like the teenage angst we all go through and the prejudices of being completely different. As for the stories in the show, they aren’t that great, in my opinion. They seem to be just the same thing over and over again with Jenny saving the world or fitting in society or both at the same time. In the end, the show was okay and it even lasted for several years, but it is just for the female demographic and no one else.
I give it a C
TV Corner with ctizz36 Fairly Oddparents
Author: CraigJul 14
Let me start off with an old show called Oh Yeah! Cartoons, which was basically a cartoon series to showcase various cartoon shorts. Some of which were good and some were just awful, but there a distinct few that stood out from the rest and earned their own series on Nickelodeon. One of them included the show Fairly Oddparents which is about a ten year old boy named Timmy Turner, who has a lousy life of inattentive parents and evil babysitters, but that soon changes when he is given two fairies named Cosmo and Wanda who are called his Fairy Godparents that can grant him his wishes. I will admit the show had a unique premise and was Worthy of their own show. They had weird and bizarre story that defy all TV logic, but that is what most cartoons do. Much like Dexter’s Lab I like this show… until it went through a hiatus and added a new fairy baby called Poof and ruined the show for me. It seems that babies in Nickelodeon destroy the good show and causes the show to spawn a spin-off… kind of what they did to the Rugrats. I digress and in the end, thisshow is good and even though now it isn’t what it was several years ago it still is a worthy watch for anyone that enjoy the humor that is the Fairly Oddparents.
I give it a B-
TV Corner with ctizz36 Bobobo-bo bo-bobo
Author: CraigJul 5
I thought I’d change things up and review an anime… and not particularly a good one to say the least. The anime I’m referring to is Bobobo-bo bo-bobo and if you think the title is weird you haven’t seen nothing yet. To start off this review I’ll tell you the premise… THERE is not one at all it is just pure randomness to anime cliches and parodies to the good animes that are out there. The story is about a young girl name Beauty, she should have been called Cute, and she is trying to escape the villains who cut peoples hair to make them… bald… yeah I’m not joking the villain wants to create a world of baldness probably to fit in with everyone else… I don’t know I don’t put much logic in these weird animes. She is then saved by a muscle-bound, blonde Afro assailant named Bobobo-bo bo-bobo not from using his fist or even his feet like in all kinds of other animes, but his nose hairs for his fighting… Alright it is true, this show is seriously messed up. In the end, this show has lame characters like one of them has an Ice Cream Head and one has the ability to use farting as a weapon and the list still goes on to Pokemon ripoffs to the blue version of the Michelin Man. Although, to this anime it does address the over occurrence cliches in both anime and manga and do a decent parody on the Japanese culture, but that does not change my opinion on this terrible anime.
I give this a D- and I keep wondering… why was this even popular in the first place? I guess we will never know.