Board 8 > The 100 Dumbest Events In Children's Television History- Part 2 (The Top 30)

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MysteriousStan
07/09/23 7:37:40 PM
#252:


"Worthy" number one for sure.

But yes, great topic! Even with shows I wasn't familiar with I learned something and the writeups were great!
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Dark_Young_Link
07/09/23 7:38:58 PM
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Sailor Moon dub was bad, but it (And DBZ) got me into anime and into magical girls in general so... I'll always have a soft spot for it. Like a three legged puppy, I just can't bring myself to hate it.

And yeah... #1 slot is well earned. Holy shit.

And yeah, thank you for making this topic. I enjoyed reading it (Well, most of it. But it's not your fault some of the more fucked up entries happened)

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most_games_r_ok
07/09/23 7:41:05 PM
#254:


Actually did not have a clue about #1 but yeah, no way it couldn't be anywhere but #1 now that I do know.

Fun list for sure!

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PerfectChaosZ
07/09/23 8:05:51 PM
#255:


Really enjoyed reading through these
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skulltrumpets
07/09/23 8:12:26 PM
#256:


this was such an interesting topic to read over! im a bit passionate about children's television, especially animation, so there was quite a few facts that i learned. nice variety of topics ranging from "silly" dumb to actually harrowing (fuck dan schneider all my homies hate dan schneider) keeping the topic fresh and keeping me on my toes.
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Paratroopa1
07/09/23 8:12:53 PM
#257:


Fun topic, thanks for sharing!
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Mega_Mana
07/09/23 8:27:40 PM
#258:


I love your lists! Thank you for your time and amazing effort.

Honorable mentions:
- Ghostwriter: Gooey Gus - Traumatic creature who boils and seals the Ghostwriter team in purple goo, somehow scarier (IMO) than anything from Goosebumps or Are You Afraid of the Dark

- Power Rangers Turbo - While the Peace Conference is so much worse, Turbo is so much dumber. Between Rocky leaving the cast at the outset, Justin becoming the new blue ranger, Bulk & Skull as chimpanzees or invisible for the entire first half, Alpha 6, the producers getting rid of Tanya and Adam when Tommy and Kat were leaving despite them wanting/planning to stay on, and Divatox/Demitria stuff. Just all around a bad, bad start to a season that ended up being really good once the new rangers settled in (and helped make In Space one of the best seasons ever).

I want to say All Grown Up becoming a series, but that episode of Rugrats was an event and despite it not being good made complete sense to do.

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-hotdogturtle--
07/09/23 8:31:06 PM
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WazzupGenius00 posted...
The Boston Mooninite Incident would probably qualify as #1 dumbest on an expanded list of all television since 2003 or whatever. An entire city government just doubling down on being wrong step after step after step, and nobody with power or influence being willing to say this is fucking stupid so they all continued to go through the motions as if this had real legitimacy as a plausible terrorist attack.
This.

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scarletspeed7
07/09/23 8:32:28 PM
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Fantastic topic, thanks for the effort and time in putting it together!

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Xeybozn
07/09/23 8:34:56 PM
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Great list, thanks for all the work it must have been.

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XIII_Rocks
07/09/23 8:35:52 PM
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I found some of these very interesting

Nice to see a list covering quite a specific criteria done with expertise

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Cody11533
07/09/23 9:21:57 PM
#263:


scarletspeed7 posted...
Fantastic topic, thanks for the effort and time in putting it together!


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BlueCrystalTear
07/09/23 9:38:46 PM
#264:


Johnbobb posted...
why would you do this
It's certainly getting to the foot of the problem. It's also toeing the line.

I could go all night but I think I'll stop there. Good #1 - and it's shocking how he was allowed to go on for that long.

As for #2, Pokmon is an example to the contrary, as only a few episodes were skipped, and some things were westernized only to keep the humor (for mass appeal) or avoid incensing censorship groups. It also was a kids show in Japan (save for two banned episodes), while some of the others mentioned were for teens or adults. The attitude toward dubbing anime has changed a lot - retain the original as much as possible, but change the jokes to preserve the humor. References to Japanese culture vary by series. It's better this way, usually.

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BlueCrystalTear
07/09/23 9:41:51 PM
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scarletspeed7 posted...
Fantastic topic, thanks for the effort and time in putting it together!
Also this

Mega_Mana posted...
I want to say All Grown Up becoming a series, but that episode of Rugrats was an event and despite it not being good made complete sense to do.
That episode was great - one of the best in years. I get why they did the series after. They just dropped the ball with writing it.

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TeamRocketElite
07/09/23 9:46:22 PM
#266:


BlueCrystalTear posted...
As for #2, Pokmon is an example to the contrary, as only a few episodes were skipped, and some things were westernized only to keep the humor (for mass appeal) or avoid incensing censorship groups. It also was a kids show in Japan (save for two banned episodes), while some of the others mentioned were for teens or adults. The attitude toward dubbing anime has changed a lot - retain the original as much as possible, but change the jokes to preserve the humor. References to Japanese culture vary by series. It's better this way, usually.


Pokemon got it better than most of the other shows of the time. But, there were still silly things like the dub killing off Brock's mom only for her to show up again later because she was never dead.

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BlueCrystalTear
07/09/23 9:59:35 PM
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TeamRocketElite posted...
Pokemon got it better than most of the other shows of the time. But, there were still silly things like the dub killing off Brock's mom only for her to show up again later because she was never dead.
Yeah, that was a mistranslation of an implication. Easy to justify that she was presumed dead, but wasn't. Not sure where she was since I don't think that was ever explained. The Brocklings are numerous, so it's clear she was stressed out, but where did she go? Why did nobody find her? This was explained with Flint, who adopted an alias and hid in plain sight, but not with Lola.

Translating can be hard when little details get contradicted later.

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Underleveled
07/09/23 10:10:42 PM
#268:


Jelly donuts

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TeamRocketElite
07/09/23 11:31:31 PM
#269:


Nothing beats a jelly filled donut!

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Nanis23
07/09/23 11:33:08 PM
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Never posted here but I have to say this is one of the most enjoyable lists I have ever read. Your amount of knowledge is astounding.
I read most articles but sadly I don't know much/care much about Children's Television, but still you managed to make it such a interesting read regardless.
If you ever decide to make another list and make it about something like video games it would be fantastic!

As from what I consider to be the dumbest events...
As I said I don't know much, but I always found those two to be annoying and they hurt me personally-
The sudden ending of Spider Man 1994, not knowing the fate of Mary Jane. And in general all the multiverse stuff that happened in the later episodes just felt out of place
And the Red Sky Seasons in TMNT. What the hell happened there? what is this change of tone? this is like Prince of Persia Sands of Time -> Warrior Within level of change

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HaRRicH
07/10/23 12:17:40 AM
#271:


Jakyl25 posted...
Also shout out to A Pup Named Scooby-Doo as my personal 90s revitalization of the IP

This was great TV years ago.

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Jakyl25
07/10/23 1:24:07 AM
#272:


The thing that really damns Schneider for me is that no one really defends him or tries to explain away his actions

Maybe I just dont know about it but Ive not heard of anyone who worked with him coming out to say they believe these allegations are false

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Anagram
07/10/23 3:18:11 AM
#273:


Great topic, thank you for it.

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MariaTaylor
07/10/23 4:48:01 AM
#274:


half of the characters in that poster look like they are ON drugs in the photo

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bryans7
07/10/23 5:38:25 AM
#275:


Awesome topic, and you blew through the entries quickly. Thank you so much!

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Underleveled
07/10/23 8:23:58 AM
#276:


Nanis23 posted...
If you ever decide to make another list and make it about something like video games it would be fantastic!
I was kinda thinking of doing this myself actually. Inspired by thistopic, of course.,

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HaRRicH
07/10/23 10:58:25 AM
#277:


Terrific topic, feel like I didn't know most of it.

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Leonhart4
07/10/23 11:00:36 AM
#278:


HaRRicH posted...
This was great TV years ago.

The culprit must be...Red Herring!

Voiced by Scott Menville, who is also Robin in the aforementioned Teen Titans (and Lloyd Irving)

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redrocket
07/10/23 12:27:46 PM
#279:


Good topic

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masterplum
07/10/23 12:52:42 PM
#280:


I am in for 100 dumbest video game moments

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masterplum
07/10/23 12:53:15 PM
#281:


Actually I am $5 in. I will patreon that shit

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hombad46
07/10/23 12:55:26 PM
#282:


I wonder how high all of Blizzard's shit in recent years would go on a video game list. Could just lump it all together under Bobby Kotick's reign

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MoogleKupo141
07/10/23 12:59:15 PM
#283:


thats another one of those things that is really dicey to rank properly

is rampant sexual harassment dumber or smarter than the ouya

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_Keeby
07/10/23 2:05:11 PM
#284:


I guess you could rank things based on how much damage they caused to the video game industry or in general. The Ouya was an expensive failure and a bad idea from the start but is otherwise forgotten by most. Blizzards actions have had serious consequences.
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Leonhart4
07/10/23 2:06:44 PM
#285:


599 U.S. Dollars

It's RIIIIIIIIDGE RACERRRRRRR

So there's this giant enemy crab

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hombad46
07/10/23 2:07:13 PM
#286:


Someone else that deserves to make the list: Jack Thompson

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Leonhart4
07/10/23 2:08:32 PM
#287:


Kojima is worthy of at least one spot on the list with the Raiden switcheroo

Also Konami abandoning all their games for pachinko

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BlueCrystalTear
07/10/23 2:09:42 PM
#288:


Leonhart4 posted...
Also Konami abandoning all their games for pachinko
How is this stupid? It's made them billions.

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Leonhart4
07/10/23 2:11:27 PM
#289:


BlueCrystalTear posted...
How is this stupid? It's made them billions.

I mean if "stupid" only equates to "lost them money" then I guess it doesn't count

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RyoCaliente
07/10/23 2:11:40 PM
#290:


Xbox One reveal will be an easy top 5.

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hombad46
07/10/23 2:12:58 PM
#291:


The Wii U could make it, but... Virtual Boy

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MrFuzz111
07/10/23 2:16:10 PM
#292:


Theres room for more than one thing from each company, I dont see why the Virtual Boy would block the Wii U from being included. At bare minimum both the Virtual Boy and Wii Music as their big E3 announcement would deserve a spot.

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MartinFF7
07/10/23 2:16:50 PM
#293:


Leonhart4 posted...
599 U.S. Dollars

It's RIIIIIIIIDGE RACERRRRRRR

So there's this giant enemy crab

more like 100 greatest video game moments

"hit its weak point for massive damage"
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Leonhart4
07/10/23 2:17:49 PM
#294:


The Wii Heart Monitor

My body is ready

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hombad46
07/10/23 2:18:35 PM
#295:


MrFuzz111 posted...
Theres room for more than one thing from each company, I dont see why the Virtual Boy would block the Wii U from being included. At bare minimum both the Virtual Boy and Wii Music as their big E3 announcement would deserve a spot.

I had a gif in that post that didn't load properly. I meant to say that the Virtual Boy is worse and thus more likely to be higher

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HaRRicH
07/10/23 2:55:31 PM
#296:


masterplum posted...
I am in for 100 dumbest video game moments

Same!

hombad46 posted...
Someone else that deserves to make the list: Jack Thompson

I talked with him on the phone before and would be comfortable saying yes, agreed.

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Isquen
07/10/23 4:19:00 PM
#297:


masterplum posted...
I am in for 100 dumbest video game moments

Likewise. And I hope Starbound early access woes make that list.

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Snake5555555555
07/10/23 4:24:15 PM
#298:


I didn't comment throughout but I just wanted you to know I absolutely loved the hell out of this countdown!

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Underleveled
07/10/23 4:28:00 PM
#299:


Game Boy Micro could be an early entry. Not horribly offensive but there was absolutely 0 reason to release that thing by the time they did.

PETA attacks Pokemon could be a top 10 contender.

Uno on XBox Live would definitely be up there (IYKYK)

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FoolFantastic
07/10/23 4:28:39 PM
#300:


I also greatly enjoyed this thread

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hombad46
07/10/23 4:32:21 PM
#301:


Something that might finally be starting to (slowly) change is Nintendo's treatment of legacy content.

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