5 & 5: Best and worst cartoon characters
This one might be a bit biased. I went with characters that I enjoyed as a child or still enjoy today. This isn’t an official poll so you won’t see 60s and 70s characters on the list because they stood the “test of time”.
5 BEST CARTOON CHARACTERS
5. He Man: This is a sentimental favorite. I loved He Man and the Masters of the Universe as a child and myself, Keith, and Joe Dyer would watch it every morning before going to school (of course one of the worst on the list was also watched before school). He Man was just one cool cat; and speaking of cat what about Battle Cat. Now I know that Prince Adam wore pink and it did knock him down a few points but as He Man, he was 100% professional ass kicker.
4. Starscream: One of the original Transformers, Starscream was the ultimate villain. HE was physically weak and generally ineffective, yet was willing to stab anyone in the back for his own benefit, including Megatron. While the first Transformers movie only passed over his issues with Megatron, the second movie (and you can read my review of Transformers 2 below), the second movie actually did a good job of showing Starscream as he was.
3. Peter Griffin: This show has slowly become a classic after its initial cancellation by Fox. Since its comeback, it has becuase a cult hit and millions watch it each week. What makes it fresh is the wittiness and randomness of it all. Peter is, by far, one of the best characters on tv today.
2. Mr Burns: The Simpsons has been on so long that I was in high school when we first got Fox and was introduced to all of the great characters in the Simpsons universe. Now yes, it has become stale but it has been on for 20 years now. This could have gone to any of the characters but I decided to put one of the men who run the town.
1. Voltron: This was probably one of the best cartoon shows in the 80s. Watching them now, not so much but back then, it was the bees knees. This inspired many other Japanese shows and one day this will be made into a feature film. (by the way, it must be the Lions and not the cars)…..”I’ll form the head”
5 WORST CARTOON CHARACTERS
There is no real order for these as they can be interchanged
5. Gleep and Gloop. These will offend Craig as the Herculoids were on his list of great toys but these two were…LAME. “Oh oh, someone is falling off a bridge, Gleep…Gloop, turn into a blanket and catch them.
4. Boo Boo. I just don’t like sidekicks, especially one that has no actual use like Boo Boo. Stop cleaning the dingleberries off of Yogi’s backside and get a life.
3. Wonder Twins. Watch the Family Guy episode where Peter forms a tampon. It says it all. Why create a set of superheroes without any use. Didn’t they have Aquaman for that already?
2. Hoot Kloot. This show was so bad it only lasted 17 epidoses. Joe and Keith used to watch this before school and loved it. If you check Wikipedia, you will see that the plot is really deep.
“A lawman named Mr. Kloot and his horse (both voiced by actor Bob Holt) end up in a series of mayhem in the old west when going after bad guys.”
1. Smurfette: She isn’t the worst character on cartoons but she was definitely the unluckiest. I mean one girl and a lot of boy Smurfs…sausage party. I wasn’t a big fan of this show, as it was quite annoying that the Smurfs switch every other word with “smurfy” or “smurftastic”.
Thanks for reading this and please feel free to post who you think belongs on these lists.
Date: September 10, 2009
Categories: 5 and 5, Comics, family, Film and Television, History
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