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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To Stabby McGee – Do you really think that Mickey Mouse is one of the worst characters of all time? Why? Aren’t you two-years old anymore?
And my sister is really mad that Tweety is on your list David – she loves the “Tweet” little thing… Too bad you aren’t a girl, or a teenaged Teeny Bopper! Maybe then you would have a different opinion.
(Relax dudes.. I’m just funning you).
Perhaps someone can help me find a cartoon character that I saw only once. It was a little duck in the shape of the human mid brain. I think he was supposed to be a duck or a chicken. Angry little guy that always had bad things happening to him. I have no idea where I saw this other then it was late night television. It may or may not have been on some cable station.
This is driving me nuts because nobody else has seen this cartoon. I hope someone on this site saw and remembers what this was.
Thanks in advance
Procedamus in pace
(proceed in peace)
Cum Angelis et Pueris
(In the company of Angels and Children)
Dave
Pretty sure u may be referring to Duckman – esp. if you saw it on late night.
Lisa Simpson is not a bad character. Neither is bam bam and pebbles.Neither does Angelica. and Luigui rocks. u suck. so does this list.
i think you guys forgot to put jabberjaw on here
Hey, I like Jabberjaw! He talks like Curly and Rodney Dangerfield! Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk!
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA im bored
I know someone else mentioned the Wonder twins, but everyone forgot the most annoying cartoon character of all time: the Wonder Twins mutant pet monkey, Gleek! At least I think that’s what it’s name was. As bad of a cartoon as “the Super Friends” was, this “shoddy attempt at comic relief” monkey made it even worse! Superman should have drop-kicked Gleek, along with those half vulcan, half moron Wonder Twins, into a raging volcano!
Don’t forget:
7-Zark-7: Two words – Sandy Frank
Cobra Commander: Nobody, but nobody, can be that breathtakingly stupid a military “commander.”
Wendy & Marvin: I wanted to smother Marvin with his own cape.
The Smurfs: The whole Smurfing bunch of them. Add the Snorks while you’re at it.
The Carebears, Strawberry Shortcake, Rainbow Bright — and all those other stomach-churners…
Right? Should have just left the classic loony tunes characters out of it when there’s plenty of shitty rip-offs. It’s like saying the model-T was a crappy car.
This is so rude! I don’t get why u even have this website! It is your opinion. It is NOT right. I love scrappy
(You could have put better ones on there anyway)
Characters that should not be on the list:
Tweety
Pebbles and Bam Bam
Porky Pig
Pepe Le Pew
Luigi
David the Gnome
Roadrunner
Bonkers D. Bobcat
Snarf
Scappy Doo
Seriously, what the hell were you thinking when you wrote this? These were some of my favorite characters of all time. I also loved Sylvester, Daffy and Wiley. I agree about the rest though, they sucked.
I Agree .!
This was not lulz worthy.
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Some of those things like Twetty bird and Scrappy do wernt bad! I loved Scrappy and Tweety!
great list those characters where so deserving of their place in worst list but god i miss some cartoons of my youth …. captain caveman legend!! godzilla but only with godzuki and finally topcat, am i really turning into my old people when i say cartoons were better in my day???
what about Hong Kong Fooy
What about Hong Kong Phooey? I like him. He’s one of the H-B’s best!
Oh yes. They all deserve to be on there.
Lisa Simpsons only redeeming factor is that she plays a mean saxophone solo.
But what about The Carebears? They were bad.
You need to do a list of the best cartoon characters ever, and it better include Count Duckula.
Hmmm…I detect a conspiracy. No Disney characters? True, they weren’t on Saturday morning but still…
I was always creeped out by those large cat/dog things that kind of looked like Goofy.
Donald Duck was also a turn-off. His WB counterpart Daffy managed to pull off the manic duck character but Donald – with his Navy cap, shirt and no pants – was just annoying. Plus he’s spawned a couple million annoying Donald Duck imitations over the years.
Haha! I agree with Donald being a little akward… Fact: Donald duck cartoons were banned from Finland cause he doesnt wear pants lol!
Bonkers is a Disney property – he appeared along with Marsupilami, Darkwing Duck & other new Disney characters in the early 90′s.
So there is no “DISNEY” Controversy!
Now as for BAD cartoon Characters –
10: Bravestar – He man as a western sheriff (Come On!)
09: Mr. Cool – From the Happy Days Cartoon – a Fonzi Dog from the future?
08: Blue Falcon – Why?
07: Dynomutt – Scooby meets a robot – again Why?
06: Glomer – Punky Brewster had jumped the shark when it went to cartoons
05: Snorks – HB’s ripoff of the Smurfs
04: Silverhawks – Thundercats as cybernetic human space birds
03: Pac Man – I mean after the 1st 2 episodes, where else does this go?
02: SHE-RA – Did He-man have to have a sister spinoff?
01: Herbie the Robot – FANTASTIC FOUR (2nd Edition) – Just because you could not show the “Human Torch” in the 80′s is no excuse to create comic relief in a Robot who’s voice (Frank Welker) would be so anoying that you so wanted the Thing to just pummel it to a flat piece of aluminum!
I saw that you put Teddy Ruxpin a nice Illiop. You will say to you. “Be nice.”
I pick to worst cartoons.
1. Drack Pak
2. Powerpoof Girls
3. Johny Brovo
What the hell is the matter with you!? Johnny Bravo,Powerpuff Girls!? Bad? You got some Frickin Problems
” my little ponies”
-.-
Mystic Dave, I think you are talking about DarkWing Duck.
I HATED Teddy Ruxpin!!! When we were little, my cousin had the talking doll (cassette tapes went in the back) and it freaked me out so badly that I taped the mouth shut before hiding it. I didn’t understand how the thing worked… so it just seemed demonically possessed, and I couldn’t sleep anywhere near it!
Never liked Porky Pig. Tweety especially annoys me because his likeness is on lots of ugly apparel that people buy in box stores! In my opinion, nothing says “I don’t care about looking attractive OR being taken seriously” like a frumpy Tweety bird sweatsuit.
Angelica Pickles was a great character! An only child with a yuppie dad and corporate executive mom (always shown talking on her cell phone and too busy to pay attention to her), Angelica is a flawed character prone to envy and selfishness, is mischievous, but overall has a good heart. Feeling valued and accepted does not come as easily for her as it does the other characters, and she seems very lonely at times. I think that many could relate to her, or knew a kid like her.
Luigi is a loveable character, Lisa Simpson is the voice of reason in her world, and David the Gnome is a great, beautifully animated series.
I agree with you about Bonkers, Scrappy-Doo, and Olive Oyl. I really don’t think Olive is worth fighting for. I don’t know why Popeye even stays with her, because she always falls in love with Bluto and other men. I’d dump her if she were my girl. As for Scrappy, I think he’s the worst thing to ever happen to Scooby-Doo. He’s so annoying, and oftentimes, it’s hard to tell whose side he’s really on. He should be put to sleep.
I beg to differ, though, about the Warner Bros. characters, Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm, and the Great Gazoo. I like Gazoo, and I think he was funny.
You know who I really can’t stand? 1) Lucy of the Peanuts cartoon. I think she’s an absolute b****, and I don’t know why Charlie Brown hangs around her. I’d avoid her like the plague. 2) Helen Lovejoy on the Simpsons. If you ask me, they should’ve killed her off instead of Maude Flanders. She calls herself a preacher’s wife, yet she’s the queen of gossip and judgement.
Oh, yeah, I agree about Angelica Pickles, too. Not only is she so mean and annoying, she’s so badly drawn.
What about Jem/Jerrica? HUH?
you know in jen and the holograms.
What about Marvin from Office Space you dismal twats?
You lack any historical knowledge of the cultural and entertainment impact of many of these characters. You’re like a drive-by shooting with a keyboard. You seem to have anti-white malice and classic American animation feature-phobia. Are you even an American? I mean, really?
Lisa Simpson is annoying. Especially in when someone beats her, gets too overworked.
Good Characters on this list
Bam-Bam/Pebbles
Scrappy Doo
He-Man Characters
Luigi
Tweety
Porky Pig
Olive Oil
Roadrunner
Pepe Le Pew
Angelica Pickles
C-3PO
and Gazoo you Bitchin Dum-Dum!
rofl I almost peed my self when I saw that scrappy doo was number 1
i’m so glad scrappy is #1 – god he gave me the shits as a kid
are you kidding me????? >:-I NO loony tune character should be on this list, ESPECIALLY porky. porky MADE loony tunes, not bugs. you want bad cartoon characters, i’ll give you bad cartoon characters.
BIRDMAN- lame ass 1960′s superhero who shouts his name every 5 minutes, and is THE only superhero whose weakness is SHADE.
MA’ TI from captain planet. all the planeteers have rings with cool powers: wheeler can shoot laser beams and burn stuff. gi can create tsunamis. linka can create hurricanes and tornadoes. kwami, the coolest one, can cause earthquakes, avalanches, landslides and volcanoes. ma’ ti, what’s his power. EMPATHY! he can calm the emotions of people and animals and communicate telepathically through his ring! LAME!!!!!!
PATRICK- dumbass starfish from SPONGEBOB and very bad fat stereotype. it’s because of this retard spongebob gets into so much trouble and constantly drives poor squidward nuts. spongie’s gullible as hell, but at least he has some common sense. patrick’s so stupid it hurts.
INDIAN CHIEF- super friends’ token native american superhero. what’s his power? when he shouts “ENUK-CHUK!!” he can make himself really big. aaaaand… that’s it.
BIKER MICE FROM MARS: ALL THREE- muscle bound alien mice from mars who ride harleys and sports bikes. uh, no.
GRAPE APE- big stupid purple ape who keeps repeating “grape ape grape ape!” every time he completes a sentence, and has a talking dog master.
CARE BEARS- cringe-inducing cute, er, “bears” who live in the sky, drive cloud cars, and fight evil by shooting rainbows from their chests. and why are they called BEARS when there’s a bunny, a sheep, a pig, an elephant, a racoon, and a lion, who’s the leader, amongst them? that’s prejudice.
ROGER RAMJET- secret agent fighter pilot who fight rogue agents. before each fight, he takes a proton energy pill, which gives him the strength of 20 atomic bombs for 20 seconds! um, isn’t that steroids?
The Great Gazoo: Granted, he was a Deux Ex Machina for when Fred & Barney messed up, but the two screwed up often, hence the need for his existance.
To put any Looney Tunes character on this list–especially Porky, whose iconic stuttering made Looney Tunes about as much as Bugs & Daffy did, hence why “Roger Rabbit” (the ONLY Warner/Disney cross-promotional film that wasn’t some morality-preaching PSA for sheltered kids, but an adult-themed murder mystery) closed with BOTH Porky’s signature tagline and TinkleBell’s sprinkling of pixie dust–is a slap to the Golden Years of animation. You should be ashamed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQp_G9nDuIM
Pebbles Flinstone & Bam-Bam Rubble: They were there to round out the nuclear family (two parents and one-to-two children).
Teddy Ruxpin: God forbid a toymaker turn his marketable idea into a hit franchise, especially one that truly interacted with the children through the admittedly creepy doll itself & taught morals through the cartoon. Not all cartoons had to be violent, sexy, or similar to thrill-rides, you know.
Olive Oyl, Lugui, & C-3PO: These can be blamed on the personalities their creators gave them prior to their becoming animated (through Segar’s comic, Nintendo’s game, & Lucas’ film saga).
Angelica: She was actually a relatable character for her time, since many three-year-olds DID act like her at times, especially if they–like her–were lacking in siblings. Plus, she did grow to become less bossy & mean as the show progressed. It was just that her being a constant threat to her fellow ‘Rats happened to be the tough outer shell that hid an insecure–and sometimes, sweet–inside, as part of the key aspects defining her character.
The rest though, I could take or leave with a grain of salt.
any of you guys ever heard of this EXTREMELY stupid cartoon that aired on adult swim called “bo bobo bo bo bobobo”? Jesus Christ. WTF do they smoke in Japan?????? i watched one episode out of curiousity, and i could have sworn i was on acid. this show makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. NONE. it literally defines the term “non sequitor”. even one of the characters doesn’t know what’s going on.
ALL of the characters on the show should be on this list. i can tolerate talking, upright walking animals who wear clothes and drive cars, but a guy who fights using his nose hairs and talking boogers (i’m dead serious), another guy whose head is made of strawberry ice cream, adude whose body consist of jello, a chick whose body is LITERALLY “da bomb” (actually a torpedo), and a talking sun with arms and legs is too much.
i’m sure youtube has it. i dare you to watch.
dude…luigi is the $hit. I like him better than Mario! and david the gnome was great art, and better than 90% of the crap that kids watch nowadays. i DO agree with some of this list, but some of it is downright blasphemy to any child of the 80s.
David, project much? If you had trouble during your childhood (I know I did) that’s your problem.
Perhaps this list might read better as: cartoon characters I dislike as an adult that I didn’t understand when I was a child.
I will agree with one or two of them: Scrappy Doo, Gazoo, any small, annoyingly-voiced sidekick character is simply there to please the censors.
But Pepe lePew? Hello? I think perhaps you need to just let go of your bad childhood issues and maybe look up some other animated stuff to fill in the ‘bad parts’.
Ok, I agree with some of the characters like Scrappy as well as some of the 80s characters, but leave the Looney Tunes characters off the list! Especially Porky! If there was no Porky, there would’ve been no Bugs or Daffy!
And as for Olive, that was the joke. You have this skinny, fickle, unattractive character, yet guys always seem to fight over her. Plus when you’re as ugly as Popeye, you can’t afford to be picky when it comes to women.
Seems most of the people commenting here take themselves waaaay too seriously. I laughed hystarically through most of the list. Even though I liked some of the characters on it. But so what? The commentary is funny and it is one persons opinion; no one said you have to agree.
Come on!! The Looney Tunes don’t deserve to be here…
your list sucks
you suck so hard
lame ass list
The wonder twins were useless, and just plain pathetic creations.
No offense,but half the characters on this list are actually considered some of the BEST cartoon characters. Like Tweety, Porky Pig, He-Man. If Porky wasn’t popular, then how has he survived so long? Why is he the one who ends the Looney Tunes cartoons with his “that’s all folks”? He coined that phrase. And Tweety is popular because of his sheer cuteness. And He-Man was one of the biggest crazes I knew grewing up. If these are just YOUR opinions on the worst cartoon characters, you should state that it’s your opinion. Passing personal opinion off as fact is information dishonesty.
how odd ..
I disagree only about Looney tunes characters (that must mean how good LT actually are)
1) Tweety – yes, annoying, but that’s the characters essence – even though Sylvester is ought to be the bad guy, we actually root for him. Simple as that.
2) Pepe le Pew – hmm.. looks perfectly good character to me. Has it’s own gags, can cause sympathy for being such an unfortunate pick up artist. If you watch all Pepe’s episodes in a row, it might get annoying, but the musical parts and funny idioms will save even that.
As for stereotypes… come on.. Fear from being a bit politically incorrect has ruined 99% of good shows/cartoons.
3) Roadrunner kicks ass. I have no other arguments here
Everyone else – yes – bad. Especially that Gazzoo from flintstones. He should have died after the first appearance. We could probably add up some more examples if we wanted to.
Wow this list sucks!
First of all, Looney Tunes are off limits. They were all great. Second, how can any list of bad characters exclude any King Of the Hill? Most of those characters made my skin crawl.
However, among popular cartoons I do agree, Scrappy is the worst of all time. Scooby Doo is in the top 5 best of all time shows to me, and I refuse to watch any with Scrappy guest staring, or those retarded ones that Scrappy is part of the series. What were they thinking?
21. tweete is the most adorable thing on earth
20. pebles and bam bam are also adorable
18, 17, 7 >:( you just wanna hate on the loony toons don’t you
15. luigi kicks ass
14. oh no you dint
11. okey shes a little mean but not anoyning
1. fuck you scrappy is da bomb
(go to hell you evil cute little forist creature eating asshole i hope you get cancer in your eyeballs cuz if you cant see how awsomne these charictors are then you might as well not have any site at all)
I’ve seen in recent times a cartoon character that is a guy who walks around with his arms straight up in the air and has eyeballs in his fists. I’ve been trying to find out what his name is and what the emsemble those cartoons are called. Can anyone help? I find him a really disgusting character, but I really need to find out who he is.
that description sound like Krumm fom an old ninties cartoon called Ahh real monsters that is still sometimes shown. He walks around with a purple devil rabbit looking thing named ickis and a upside down black and white candy cane shaped monster named Oblina.
That list is horseshit, and you didn’t even try to find at least at your best to find good parts.
You suck. Worst most wrong list ever.
Add little einsteins as the 22 cuz they underestimated the MiG-29
People who should not be here…
Scrappy
Olvie Oil
Lugi (Well better than the small, fat mario.)
Pepe the pewe
Pebbles (Other kid should be there)
He-man
Porky Pig
People who should be on here:
Red Menace (League of Super Evil)
Patrick Star
Mr. Krabs
And, the most annoying specimin…
SANDY (Spongebob Squarepants bitch, no poitn, I know this is a show with talking sponges and other unrealistic stuff but a squirrel scientist was a bullshit idea.
How’s come Tweety’s on the list & Sylvester’s not? I think he’s much more annoying than Tweety. I’d also like to know, for the same reason, why Olive Oyl’s on the list & not Popeye.
I remember all of those and the care bears (the worst of all). My sisters watched the care bears religiously, i even missed Doctor Who a few times because of it, and this is how i turned out for missing Doctor Who, I could have been so much more….It’s a good thing i never missed Super Saturday Morning on ABC….
I don’t agree with everything on this list…
Mama Luigi is the best character on that show.
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