Nothing beat Saturday morning cartoons when you were growing up.
That feeling of waking up stupidly early so you could sit cross-legged and transfixed on the TV for hours on end is hard to beat.
Sure, as adults, we have sex, sleep-ins and cars to entertain us during the weekends – but are they really as good? OK, yes, they are, so we won’t labour the point.
Anyway, cartoons are great. But, let’s face it, some of the cartoons and cartoon characters they used to inflict on us were just terrible. They were tantamount to child abuse, seriously. You know which ones we mean – and we can only assume the people who created them had miserable childhoods.
They hated children and wanted to get back at us for some hideous playground incident back when they were nine. How else do you explain Lisa Simpson? Or even Scrappy Doo? We can only live in hope that the person responsible for Scrappy Doo will spend their after-life in the ninth level of Hell – alongside Hitler, Stalin and the guy who played Jar Jar Binks.
Anyway, here are the cartoon characters which annoyed us the most – please feel free to suggest your own,
Enjoy!
21. Tweety Bird
From: Various cartoons
How cute: a little canary with a New Jersey accent. Please eat him Sylvester and floss with his birdie bones.
20. Pebbles and Bam-Bam (especially when they grew up)
From: The Flintstones
Seriously, what was the point?
19. Teddy Ruxpin
From: The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin
Could he be more earnest and annoying? You’re a bear for God’s sake, go nick some picnic baskets or kill something!
18. Porky Pig
From: Various cartoons
A pig with a stutter – just great! Genius! What next? A hare with a harelip? A monkey with a drug habit? A hedgehog who fantasises about having sex with rhinos? Actually…
17. Pepe Le Pew
From: Les Adventures de Pepe Le Pew or something
A French skunk who smells and is a bit of a sex pest. Now, we are no fans of our neighbours over the Channel, but that’s some serious stereotyping going on there. He should have been lazy, eat anything that isn’t tied down and carried a white flag with ‘strike’ on it too. Wait a minute!
16. Olive Oyl
From: Popeye
So why were they fighting over her again?
15. Luigi
From: The Super Mario Brothers Super Show
Luigi was the halfwit brother of videogame icon and fellow plumber Mario. He also was one of the main reasons Mario Bros the cartoon sucked.
14. Gazoo
From: The Flintstones
Whatever the Flintstones creators were on when they came up with a snotty, tiny green alien who only Fred could see should be banned immediately.
13. C-3PO
From: Droids: The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO
George Lucas – you are going to Hell
12. Rubik
From: Rubik, The Amazing Cube
Even more annoying than a Rubik’s Cube. Do you know anyone who has actually solved one without cheating? Geek.
11. Angelica Charlotte Pickles
From: Rugrats
Whoever unleashed Rugrats on an unsuspecting world deserves being tortured by Jack Bauer.
10. Dungeon Master
From: Dungeons and Dragons
Can anyone be more smug? Or have worse hair? Put it this way: would you trust someone with that hair who calls himself ‘Dungeon Master’?
9. Uni
From: Dungeons and Dragons
While we are on the subject of Dungeons and Dragons, were we the only ones who wished that bloody unicorn and that annoying noise it made would die a horrible death?
8. David the Gnome
From: David the Gnome
A gnome. Named David. Thanks for this one, continental Europe.
7. Roadrunner
From: Roadrunner or something like that
Were we the only ones rooting for the coyote?
6. He-Man
From: He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
Stupid and stupid voice – some hero.
5. Bonkers D. Bobcat
From: Bonkers
Highly annoying Roger Rabbit rip-off – without Jessica Rabbit.
4. Snarf
From: Thundercats
Cursed with the most annoying voice on the planet, this alien cat nursemaid (now that is just odd) was simply a pointless character.
3. Orko
From: He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
We all wished He-man’s court jester would make himself disappear.
2. Lisa Simpson
From: The Simpsons
Yes, we know she plays an important role in the show, but did they really have to make her so annoying?
1. Scrappy -Doo
From: Scooby-Doo
Whoever came up with idea of Scrappy-Doo was a lonely, bitter person. He brought misery to millions of children. We hope you are happy.
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On the one hand, spot on.
On the other, you’re totally f**king wrong. Orko, Snarf and Dungeon Master ROCK.
OMG don ya be disrepskking my man chris brown yo, he never hit lisa simpson that b1tch deserved it she giv him a std yo fuk y’all!!!!!!!
Let us not forget:
almost every character DePatie Freleng ever came up with, especially that fucking Aardvark.
also-
Deputy Dawg
fucking Droopy
everybody in Inspector Gadget
Belle AND Sebastian
7-zark-seven
fucking Droopy (worth two mentions)
Look, here’s a link to Dan Markstein’s Toonopedia -
http://www.toonopedia.com/index.htm#toons
there’s about a million more there to recall with horror as the doors into your Saturday morning past are blown open and all the nostalgic shine turns out to be gilt over plastic. Poisonous plastic full of PCB’s and teratogens that gave one of your mates at school triangular balls.
Fucking Droopy. God, I hate that bastard.
Oh, the worst ever has to be the pink panther. Why? Why, God, why did you permit The Pink Panther. It’s not clever, it’s not even funny. It is without reason.
As long as I live, I will never understand why you gave a pass to Potato Head Kids.
what does david the gnome has to do with spain? it all sounds pretty dutch to me
you guys come off as rather snooty in this list. i didn’t enjoy it.
Spongebob squarepants
Yea, this guy didn’t even know what he was talking about when he made this article. Should of named this article shit i HATE (by Francis)
This is the lamest list I have ever seen. None of your comments were funny, they were all just “look at this, I think it’s stupid.” What a waste of time (my time, not yours, you obviously took very little to make this)
Whoever wrote this:
GO FUCKING DIE!!!
You got your wrongs seriously fucked up! How the hell do you think Road Runner is bad?! You go to hell, you go to hell and you burn!
This list is god tier trolling at it’s finest.
8/10 I raged so hard.
We used to laugh so much at uni. We couldn’t believe someone would actually get paid to make that nasally naying.
Lisa Simpsons is the best, So is ORKO, Roadrunner and Angelica. Please do your homework before you post inane articles like this, MORON.
That robot cat from the Jetsons…
The stupid pets from [the latter] Super Friends…
Penelope Pitstop…
This list was lame.
Every Hanna-Barbara character
I always hated Savoir Faire, the French-Canadian rodent nemesis of Klondike Kat.
Yeah I have to agree with thepurplejesus. And there were really no reasons. Like Pebbles and Bam-bam. what’s wrong with them? they’re “pointless”? So are all cartoons!
whoever made this list is an f’n idiot – there are a few good picks but some are WAAAAAAY off…
What are you? A Republican? They are the only kinds of people who would make this list and be serious about it.
Them, and the Nazis.
LAME LIST… I think you may be the only one who feels this way
jajajaj you are right!!!
I totally agree with Scrappy do. I always wanted to wring that mutts neck. I do like Angelica though…
If it helps David meets an unfortunate end at the end of the series.
I watched David the Gnome a couple of times when I was a kid. Good Show, perfect for a small child. Most of what you wrote about these characters is in the opinion of an adult that knows more than a child. It only stands to reason that an adult would not understand.
WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sure there may be one or two that I agree with but I loved the rest of these characters. Plus you don’t even give any reasoning for why you think these characters sucked.
You dumb ass, how could you dare put he-man on the list, i bet he arouses you and you know you cant have him so thats why you dont like him, He man rocked, with his rock hard abs and his big sword and he had that hot chick with him. OMG i wanna be He-man
Dumb list.
Such passion for little hand-drawn things. Bless.
always HATED that tweety thing
Oh… my… god…
Is this the other half of the internet to the half who are obssessed with RhiannaChrisBrown?
Ninja scares me.
I think He-man arouses ninja.
Sailor Moon, the entire show of Winx, and all of the stupid ass Fry Kids from the Ronald McDonald cartoons…
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Lisa’s my favorite character on the Simpsons, and I used to love watching David the Gnome. I have to agree with most of the others, especially Scrappy Doo. That freaking dog should have been shot in the first episode.
Oh, and Spongbob and Patrick should be on this list.
HOW COULD YOU PICK ON DAVID THE GNOME!?
He was amazing.
I LOVE Pepe Le Pew, but otherwise this is a solid list
The main omission I see is the Wonder Twins from Super Friends
Listen, there’d be no Sylvester without a Tweety. No Coyote without a Roadrunner. Frankly, no cartoon has ever approached the mastery of the characters out of the old Warner Brothers studios. That was before political correctness, and was when both adults and children were the audience. It was also when cartoons were an art form and not a means to sell a product. You had real writing and acting talent.
The only cartoon series I saw that even came close to (but never achieved) the entertainment value of the classics were the Spielberg produced ones (Animaniacs, Pink and the Brain, etc.)
Porky Pig shines when he has Sylvester to work with.
The Coyote and Roadrunner shine with the original Chuck Jones releases and not the lame mid-80′s attempts. All the Roadrunner needs to do is allow the coyote to destroy himself.
What’s really sad about all of this is unless you are over 40, you’ve never seen these cartoons unedited as they were intended.
Wow, what a life you have. Honestly, you have nothing better to do with your time then cut down cartoon characters? Seriously.
What, no Bubsy the Bobcat? DX
What about that Dogtanian twat, he used to drive me mental?
lol!! what a dickhead, so many of these characters were the most popular of all time!
This is the shittest article I’ve ever read. Basically, you’ve taken cartoon characters and written one line of crap about it, there’s nothing witty or justifiable about any of it. “Stupid and stupid voice – some hero.” That’s in no way funny, clever or a just reason for to be one of the worst cartoon characters. We may think they’re bad now but at the time they were created they were mostly all cherished.
I agree with everything (especially Scrappy-doo, Orko and Uni -The D & D crew should have roasted that annoying thing!) However, the Roadrunner ROCKED! And how could you leave out that snickering mutt, ‘Mumbly’? That worthless annoying dog should have been euthanized! And what about that insufferable laughing horse from the Pink Panther cartoon?!?!? Turn him into glue!!
Wow. This is a crappy list. I agreed with like two of them, but unlike you I have reasons why I didn’t like them. Horrible article. Period.
hey now i loved david the gnome when i was little and his fox Swift… awesomeness
NO! I also do agree that SOME of those cartoon characters on your list suck, but these are some of the most popular characters of all time that you have added – so leave them alone!
Anyway, why didn’t you add the two robots “Digit and Fidgit” – from the remake of Inspector Gadget called “Gadget And The Gadgetinis”? They are BY FAR the worst characters to come out of any cartoon EVER! (Seriously…)
And to the person who nominated “SpongeBob” to be up there, seriously “how old are you”???
Dogtanian was rubbish. Same goes for that young cat who used to hang around with Sylvester (his son or whatever). Mickey Mouse. Add everyone apart from Dungeons & Dragons except Venger and that multi-headed dragon.
If Pepe Le Peu is a stereotype, then why isn’t Speedy Gonzalas on this list? Seems to me you have a serious double-standard here. Maybe Hey Zeus was right about you.
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