While it's not my personal least favorite from the series, a lot of people really hate "High Steaks" from Tom and Jerry. Personally, while I perfectly understand why that short is so widely disliked, I don't think it's the worst Tom and Jerry cartoon (personally, I dislike "Calypso Cat" more). Maybe if I ever try making cartoon reviews myself, I'll give that short a more in-depth review to give my perspective on it.
I agree, but I’m always surprised when I see her on examples of how the early 2000s was sexist. I’ve seen this take by several successful feminists, but I think the episode works well and it’s opinion may be muddled nowadays by bad faith reactionaries who use the episode to say “this is how extreme all feminists are”
@@Colby2D There's good feminism and there's bad feminism, that's how I always interpreted it as a kid. Calling out extremism, double standards, and such is fine, as long as you don't go overboard, or become everything you hate. I do actually see fake-feminists online that make feminism look bad by being openly biased against men, which isn't what feminism is originally about. This is unfortunately why feminism gets a bad rap nowadays. The writer of the ep Lauren Faust stated she regrets that episode, because she thinks it's too complicated a subject for kids. I don't think double standards and extremism is something kids can't understand as some kids have experienced it.
I didn't know Equal Fights was a hated episode. I thought it was a good lesson to tell the difference between real feminism and extremist. Plus, it was a fun way to teach about Susan B Anthony.
Yeah I agree, I’d say the hate I see is some feminists arguing it’s a strawman of feminists, or more alt-right people annoyed at its “wokeness” and/or just using the episode as a gotcha moment for well-meaning feminists. That and comments to Lauren Faust on Twitter
@@charliecoccia8875 Town and Out is actually one of my favorite episodes. I like how they realistically poked fun at superhero stuff. As for Moral Decay... come on, it's a fun episode with a good morale. I mean, when it's the protagonist that makes horrible mistakes and then amends for it, it's way more impactful for a young watcher. When kids see a villain doing bad things they approach it with "Well, they're a villain, it's what they do". But when a hero does something bad, and then admits for their wrongs... it educates kids that even if they think themselves as nice kids, they still can do something bad out of addiction (Buttercup's "Moral Decay") or for noble reasons (episode where Blossom stole golf clubs), and teaches them to admit their mistakes. Also let's not forget that PPG writers mostly were Gen X-ers, and they're much more crass and sarcastic with their approach to humor and writing.
@@Colby2D Every time I hear someone says "gotcha" (just another way of saying "got you") when referring to an argument that logically corners someone, I cringe a little inside. It's almost as if their ilk can't just read a dictionary. Now if "checkmate" was the word used, then I could get behind it.
One thing I've always liked about Arnold betrays Iggy is that they don't have Arnold forgive Iggy at the end. Even though you could understand where Iggy's resentment was coming from, the episode makes it clear that he is in the wrong for treating Arnold poorly even when its clear that Arnold is genuinely sorry, he was the one who went too far by having Arnold wear the costume, and even though we see that he immediately regrets it, the damage is done. I like that the episode by the end has Arnold unable to forgive Iggy and the episode does a good job showing why
While you make a few valid points about Arnold Betrays Iggy and Equal Fights, but with Everybody Hates Bendy, Frankie and Mr. Herriman should know that Wilt, Coco and Eduardo would never blame someone else for their wrong actions since they're not troublemakers like Bloo!
I agree, I think wilt and Eduardo not being believed is one of the weirder issues or oversights. Coco makes sense because she tried to take a bite of the cake right before bendy did
That makes sense, I haven’t really seen MLP so I don’t know a lot about common trends in her work, but I think it’s funny she did Equal Fights AND Bendy
@@Colby2D Lauren Faust stop being involved around season 2 but there was an episode in season 1 that what is about the us western expansion. And the native Americans were represented as Buffalo. And they didn't just stopped at being Buffalo they had the feathers in the headbands and teepees and everything. Lauren does not do subtlety.
Real world issues were never supposed to be subtle, but because the human race has evolved (or rather, devolved) to latch on to their delusions, we have to tiptoe around these kinds of topic. We're walking on eggshells with the politically woke individuals of the internet because we know damn well that they can hurt us if we're not careful enough. People have been driven to suicide by the woke cyberbullies of the internet, especially Twitter and Tumblr.
Fun fact: the voice actor of bendy in foster home was voiced by Jeff Bennett, the same voice actor of Johnny Bravo, Dexter Dad in dexter laboratory, Brooklyn in Gargoyles, Hamster in Stich the movie, Monkey Boy in Samurai Jack, mole in Modifyers pilot, ace in the powerpuff girls, ghoose goose in adventure time, Mr Boss in Knd: code name kids next door, raj and samson in camp lazlo, Peppermint larry in adventures of flapjack, prowl in transformers animated, boog in fanboy and chum chum, hi five ghost, coach Pacowski in loud house, and joker in 2008 Batman Brave and the bold.
Oh that’s really cool! I made a video about camp lazlo a few weeks ago and when talking about Raj I was surprised he had the same voice actor as Johnny bravo especially!
Speaking of hated cartoon episodes, there’s this one episode in the Jimmy Neutron fandom that’s hated called “Carl Wheezer, Boy Genius”. The entire episode was about how Carl was lying about being a scientific genius, like Jimmy was to impress his famous pen pal girlfriend, Elke. Carl begs Jimmy to pretend to be his lab assistant (which he didn’t want to do) and Sheen being the failed experiment (which he was fine with). Throughout the episode, Carl tries to impress Elke by using one of Jimmy’s inventions, but causes a disaster each time since he didn’t know how to use any of Jimmy’s inventions. Its infamy stems from Carl’s mistreatment of Jimmy despite his own wrongdoing and the fact that he still gets the girl in the end (when she admits she was lying about being famous). I’d likely have a similar opinion on this episode if I had just seen this one episode, but since I’ve seen all of Jimmy Neutron, I don’t. It’s just an okay episode, not standing out from the rest of the show’s banger lineup. I find it funny the fandom criticizes Carl for mistreating Jimmy in this episode because a simple counterpoint can be made to it. In previous episodes, Jimmy had no qualms about using him as a guinea pig and dragging him into unwanted situations. In a nutshell, I had no issue with this episode, and it really showed us how Carl feels about being treated like a guinea pig.
The subtle lesbian joke in Equal Fights was clever. Cow & Chicken’s was outrageous and made me laugh when it shouldn’t have (it was still funny though !)
I feel like “Arnold Betrays Iggy” is widely hated because of the rumor that Craig Bartlett himself hated the episode and forced the writers of the episode to line up and apologize for making it, even tho Craig later confirmed this was false. Quite frankly I liked how the ending was not happy, I think it’s important to show kids that sometimes there is no happy ending, could help them cope with lows in life
It was crazy that the rumor happened but Craig’s response to the “107 facts” video by Frederator that he said “was more fictions than facts” or something along those lines.
I wasn't bothered by it as a kid, I even kinda liked the karma Iggy got with him trying to beg Arnold for forgiveness and trying to make up for it, thereby putting himself in the position he put Arnold in. So I felt he got what he deserved, and I like role reversal jokes.
@@nevaehhamilton3493 He was NEVER a relevant character. Hell, they probably used him for this episode specifically because they didn't want to do it with a character who actually mattered.
The big problem with Arnold Betrays Iggy is that they set up Iggy as if we should've known him as the cool kid but he'd only had 4 speaking lines in the series up to that point and those were all in a crowd. Nobody ever talked about him and he didn't command "respect" like he said he worked so hard to get. He was a background character with no interactions. By that point most of the others had at least some character defining moments or even an episode about them. If Iggy and Arnold were shown to be doing things together, hanging out or being friends then the whole thing would've at least had some weight to it but as it is it's "This hereto unnamed background character is the coolest guy in school trust us."
Yeah like it’d be interesting if they swapped iggy with gerald for example and seeing how the episode would play out, but Gerald would definitely be too nice for this. An episode it kinda reminds me of is the one where Arnold has 24 hours to live before he gets beat up
@@Colby2D I was thinking that too. Even someone like Sid would've fit a lot better. Sid's got another episode I'd consider one of the worst where he tries to repay Arnold for saving his life and after spending most of it trying to tell him he doesn't like it, Arnold gives in and let's him be a servant then suddenly Sid acts like Arnold's the bad guy. Like even when he gave in Arnold clearly didn't like it cuz in the montage he was shown going along with it, not asking for things.
I think it has a lot more to do with kids looking down on other kids for watching cartoons. If you were around 11 back in the 2000s at least people would make fun of you for liking "kiddy" stuff in general.
@@thabluetails this is true. I always defended my love for SpongeBob though. I'm 31 years old and I'll still defend SpongeBob because I still watch it lol
For 'Arnold Betrays Iggy' it kinda feels like the whole POINT is for it be a frustrating episode to watch. It's a hard truth parable, one of those cases where it's telling kids there will sadly be circumstances where you just CAN'T WIN. Not everyone plays fairly and logically, especially kids. Most of them are fickle vindictive little backstabbers like in that episode. I actually give credit to that episode for keeping consistent, and didn't end up skewing the moral like 'Girl Trouble' did. Equal Fights had a decent idea, we don't get enough 'What's REAL equality?' morals, especially in terms of feminism, but it was just too ham fisted and expositional. They needed a more creative way to express it than the characters just spelling it out to us with little action.
Totally agree with both of your statements. One episode I thought about covering as well was the Recess episode where the kid hates TJ and they try to convince him to like TJ the whole time. I thought it was actually very real that people will just kinda hate you for no reason, especially as a kid. But all these episodes made me think of similar situations from my childhood, and I thought they were all pretty real in some way, even if they’re not the most satisfying episodes
I don't necessarily think the problem with "Equal Fights" was that it handled it's message poorly, as I do think the episode provides good commentary on not only radical feminism, but also abusing the concept of feminism as a justification for committing criminal acts. If anything, I think the biggest downfall of the episode is that it writes the girls out of character in order to get it's message across.
That’s interesting because I really like other episodes when the girls have been pretty upset, and I thought it made sense for them to be kinda angry, impressionable, and vigilant here since they’re impressionable superhero kids. Like the episode “boogie frights” when bubbles wanted to prove how brave she was I thought was somewhat similar to the attitudes here
If I recall, there was an episode of Baby Loony Toons like the bendy episode where tweety kept blaming daffy for things. That one felt more like what the bendy episode lacked and had some really heartbreaking moments.
I hated the Goofball episode more than the Bendy episode. It made me think that the crew wanted to replace Frankie with Goofball with how much she suffered. Damn, I feel so cringy when I said she suffered, because at the end of the day, they're just cartoons. This video kicks ass, man
Lauren Faust talks about the goofball episode too, and how when making the episode it was planned for him to be significantly older, but they were told to make the kid younger to make it more relatable to kids. It may not be a huge difference, but there could maybe be other aspects changed as a result. Thanks for watching!
My biggest problem as a kid with the Bendy episode was simple People somehow actually thought Wilt, WILT OF ALL PEOPLE, would ever lie He physically is incapable of lying. That alone should have been like 50 red flags
@@Colby2D for the sake of the episode it absolutely is! But even if the status quo is always reset, he was already set up as incapable of lying or at least hating it But taking the episode just itself, it's sorta easy to forgive. Although Coco EASILY could be seen as a prankster in or out of that episode
Like many of you out there, I dislike "Everyone Knows it's Bendy". The episode's logic makes no sense; Wilt, Coco, and Eduardo have all lived at Foster's for years. They know all the rules and obey them, so why would Frankie and Mr. Herriman believe someone they only just met over three longtime well-behaved imaginary friends? Plus, while Bloo may have a bit of a reputation as a troublemaker, he doesn't normally go around blaming someone he only just met for his own bad behavior. Lauren Faust deeply regrets ever having written EKiB, and she wrote Bendy off the show as a result. I think that was a wise decision, because if she hadn't, Bendy would likely have become the Megan Parker of Foster's. Megan is worse than Bendy because like him, she's a jerk and a karma houdini who gets a sick kick out of torturing the main characters, but unlike Bendy, who was a one-time character, Megan is in EVERY! SINGLE! EPISODE! of Drake and Josh.
Finally I can come out and say it, Bendy wasn’t *that* bad because at least he tortured Bloo who was just as annoying. But that goofball kid with the clown nose torturing Frankie was my most hated character from Fosters. Also, even as a little girl, I understood and loved the anti-misandry message of Equal Fights.
@@Colby2D I think Bendy became more infamous because big cartoon review channels ranted about him but never mention the Goofball episode which I remember being more frustrating 🙃
My main rant about Equal Fights is that Susan B. Anthony was a notorious racist because she wanted equal rights for only white women and despised how more unequal white women were than black men. I'm sure that the people behind the episode probably didn't know at the time. I still like the episode, but I dont like that they used Susan B. Anthoy as an example of feminism. Maybe they made Anthony as an example because that is how FF is in the episode.
That’s really interesting, I never knew or considered that. There could be some overlap of using her because of femme fatale’s more radical views, that, and money is a pretty clever literal overlap of a woman and money/power
You got the idea of the Powerpuff Girl episode wrong. The point of the Susan B. Anthony wasn't some weird criss cross of messaging, it was about accountability. Both women both the law, only one woman choose to pay the price even if it was unjust, however in contrast Femme Fatal refused to take responsibility for doing unjust crimes. In the end it has the message Feminism is about freedom of choice, and responsibility for those choices.
I’m surprised Equal Fights was hated. This was my first memory of PPG and Ms. Bellum’s strong words to the girls made me so happy and the reason I’m fully supporting of Women’s rights. These are kids and of course they’re very impressionable. Ms. Bellum was my favorite character BECAUSE of this episode and d giving the girls and kids at home a dose of reality and what it really means to have Equal Rights and Girl Power
The episode has not been hated for 20+ years. It's only recently getting called out. Ironically, it took this generation for people to open their eyes and see that the cartoons they watched almost always had a political agenda to follow.
@@yunidai16 Right like rewatching a lot of my old cartoons I realized how many morals and political messages there were and realizing why I am the way I am. Most shows did in fact have wild stuff ( Ed Edd n Eddy taught me THAT ) But most of the original CN productions had a lesson to teach that I just love
@@jtwatts7990 This is not saying that having a political position is inherently wrong. This is pointing out that for a long time, whatever dislike or criticism had been harbored is now coming out of the closet now that the climate has adjusted.
I think the problem is that the radicals/grifters became the public face of moderate feminism. Since they've come to represent feminists as a whole, their vocal dissent makes a very moderate take seem more controversial than it actually is.
wow even back then it was CN's fault,bloo could've had character development but CN said fuck off to that idea,I love old cartoons from CN cause I watched them everyday since the 90's but I guess as a company they were always turning down ideas
It’s honestly news to me and eye opening on the company side. The hate I have for Bloo has definitely lessened after the video and more so just feel bad now. Bloo isn’t a POS because he wants to or looks like it like Bendy, he’s like that because CN didn’t even give him the chance. It makes senses now. Coco is still a lil hard for me to like sometimes, IDT her craziness is justified all the time
Arnold Betrays Iggy was a great episode. It was a very real situation kids could get into, where someone keeps milking their guilt and won't accept an apology. It teaches the lesson in a great way, by making the audience frustrated at Iggy for continuing to demand more and Arnold for not refusing to do anything else after he'd done the chores like they agreed. And in the end, nobody walks away happy. The fact that it stuck with people for so long means it taught the lesson well.
Great video! That background music from Billy Hatcher omggg. I have not heard that in so long. The nostalgia of the song with the cartoons is so crazy!
I understand the anger and prejudice that Iggy feels towards Arnold because I, too, would find it very suspicious that Stinky and Sid would somehow come to the idea that Iggy was wearing bunny pajamas. Even if it's in the context of Arnold saying, "It's something he was wearing.", you can say Arnold could have done a better job of guarding the secret.
"Equal Fights" I still dislike from the original PPG. As both a kid watching it initially and as an adult revisiting it. My feelings have not changed much. The Arnold in rabbit PJs episode on the other hand? I didn't realize it was one of the worst Hey Arnold episodes by fans until this point. I remember watching the episode and it was okay for what it was. When you make a promise for anything, you have to keep it. You break it, so will with the trust of the other person/people.
On the topic of stolen food, you can always just try to go for that one thing you like that most people don't. In my case, I LOVE spicy food and I have a higher tolerance than most (my Asian girlfriend kept teasing me about how I probably can't take spice because I'm a white European and when we ended up eating spicy food together she was almost crying from the pain while I casually ate away). Like this you get to teach the person a lesson, or even better, keep your food untouched.
That is a great analogy for appealing to your niches and audiences lol. I can’t handle spicy food, the spiciest thing I can handle is tajin covered lollipops
I heard somewhere that Bendy was intended as a full length episode, but it didn’t happen, so the characterization suffered. Which lines up with Craig being jerked around by the network.
That makes a lot of sense, McCracken and Faust have mentioned production notes on several of the episodes that are more disliked, but they have a nice view of the production as more of a “necessary evil” the shows couldn’t be marketed without, even though sometimes their decisions are dumb lol
Arnold Betrays Iggy is the reason I don't wanna have friends like Arnold! Because they're cruel Especially Helga! Despite she has worst parents in her life! She needs to be in detention after the events of Girl Trouble!
I think those are the bad episodes that are hard even for me to defend when people are just kinda mean or cruel, I may have to give it a watch out of curiosity! I watched the show quite a bit, but don’t remember off the top of my head
honestly i personally hated more the episode where the power puff girls are power scaled against a parody of the justice league i dont know why i just really hated how predictable that episode was --- and i dont even like marvel or dc
I honestly agree with Arnold Betrays Iggy and Equal Fights. I took Arnold Betrays Iggy as a lesson to never try buying forgiveness because if they won’t forgive the first time, they’ll never forgive at all and that’s not on you but on them. Hey Arnold had lessons in episodes about forgiveness, so this one was an interesting approach to it. Maybe the execution wasn’t perfect, but maybe had there been a follow-up where Arnold finally forgives Iggy after he comes to terms with how ugly and bitter he acted toward Arnold, then the message would have been better delivered. Iggy would learn to not to hold in bitterness and Arnold would learn to not buy other people’s forgiveness. Equal Fights is one I feel had potential to be way ahead of its time. It’s clearly teaching the lesson about extremism and how it creates more discrimination than solve real issues. This one is a pretty easy fix. Fem Fetel doesn’t have to be a 3 dimensional character or anything. She just has to be treated as a criminal who just happens to be a female using her gender card to justify her actions. I feel the episode tried to do it, but as someone pointed out, “Lauren Faust isn’t subtle.” In this case, Fem either needs more dimension or else just be treated by the show itself that she is a ruthless criminal using her feminism to get what she wants. For instance, while robbing the bank, she clears out the bank like any other robber (no need to only getting Susan B Anthony coins) but justifies it by claiming that the bank is ran by men because most of the employees are men. She attacks the cops, because they’re all dirty rotten men that hate women. That kind of thing. However, the Power Puff Girls learn that the owner of the bank Fem Robbed is a woman and some of the cops she attacked were women. These same women would also have been in the background of the scenes where Fem attacks. In this way, Fem is still extreme, but because she keeps using the female social Justice card with cops and bankers that are mostly men before seeing the women behind them, it doesn’t make her a strawman, since she isn’t wrong to say they’re mostly men either. The beginning would show that Fem may be extreme but seems to have a point and showing the women she attacked for trying to stop her shows the conclusion of those extreme attacks and how they end up hurting the women working in those places instead of helping.
I think those are good points! With the powerpuff girls, I reel femme fatale actually hurting women in this case kinda takes away from the scenario of her crimes, because it gives us as the audience an easy out to know she’s clearly wrong. I think keeping the victims as men, keeps the episode much more relevant by preserving her initial motive. I think the episode structure wise was really good, and I like the episode, but there’s not a lot of situations I can think of where extreme feminists actually end up directly hurting women with their actions, like in this episode
nah the arnold episode is horrible, not only because is bad but because is not funny at all. Like im supposed to laugh because the entire town is humilliating Arnold who is a local hero?
I think disliking the episode because it’s unfunny is one of the more valid criticisms, but there’s a lot of episodes I love that I think are more somber than funny, like pigeon man, chocolate boys addiction episode, and some others
The ending of the Equal Fights episode is very memorable to me. It taught me as a kid to not take anything for granted, and to just not be entitled. Which might be an odd listen to take from it, but hey, that is what I got from it. Just treat people how you want to be treated regardless of gender. The one point of the episode that bugged me though is how they couldn't think of any female super heroes aside from Wonder Woman that didn't have more counterparts. That NEVER made any sense this was around the time Teen Titans and Justise League was popular, in those shows alone we had Starfire, Raven, Zatana, Bumble Bee, the list could go on, and those where just on the same network!
When you see Avatar the Last Air Bender you know that not everyone was on board with none character development, which was a great thing. Also I think the biggest problem with Iggy is that he never got the chance to redeem himself.
Yeah it was so cool to have a show like avatar that wasn’t a Saturday morning 4kids show with a continuous plot and development. It would’ve been cool if Iggy was redeeemed, but it also makes this episode feel more realistic how it panned out
I had no idea equal fights is considered a bad episode. I really liked this episode and as a kid, not only for its entertainment value, but also because I was able to learn about something that I probably would have never heard of at that age. So for that alone, I'm grateful that that episode exists. Besides, if you're ask me I can name episodes from the original Powerpuff Girls that are much worse than that episode.
I like to bring this episode up whenever I feel it's appropriate, and for once, I think I can put the blame on the writers and not the executives. Mainly because the credited writers of the episode, My Little Pony's "Yakkity-Sax," wouldn't write for another episode afterwards. If you would like to hear what I think, I would be willing to discuss it.
@@Colby2D This episode came during the show's eighth season, a season that is infamous as it is for some of the worst portrayals of the main characters, and was also infamous for introducing a new status quo so late into the game that not much was done with it. This episode is a perfect example: taking a character whose biggest desire in life is to make people happy, whether it be showing sincere empathy, enjoying her time with them, or sometimes through innocently insensitive behavior. Here, she throws all that away once she gets her hooves on an instrument that she is so bad at, that not only does it hurt everyone else's ears, but it also causes all sorts of property damage. And said instrument has become her new purpose in life, to the point where we see her giving the thing bedroom eyes, stroking it and talking in an allured voice while doing so, and when her friends tell her that she's not good at it... She breaks down into a manic depression, complete with her moving out from her home to the civilization where she inherited the instrument from, because apparently without that instrument, "her life had no meaning." And it's only when she gets to play the instrument in front of a crowd that can appreciate it that she turns back to normal. It's that depression psr that makes me loathe it the most. Yes, some people who have depression can only feel worse from the slightest negativity towards them, but here, this is someone who we see is positive, happy go lucky and maybe even a bit insane, both in and out of public, breaking into depression over her instrument being dismissed. And this is an instrument she only just got from a culture that she only became an honorary member of over the course of three episodes that served no greater purpose than to introduce yaks into the pony world. Last time she acted like this was, of course, the first season of the show, when she started to lose her mind and have mood swings because she was led to believe that her friends wanted nothing to do with her at all, something more in line with her desires in life. And to top it all off, her depressive behavior causes her to treat sundaes like alcohol, complete with addict mood swings, alongside just refusing to cooperate with anything that doesn't satisfy her instrument obsession... And from what I know, depression cannot be solved just by being given validation. It's not that everything she does is inaccurate to how people with actual depression can act, but it's how it becomes the center of a conflict about something so petty and is resolved as unrealistically as possible, and is also based on something that goes against her entire character... THAT'S why I hate it.
The annoying thing about "Arnold betrays Iggy" was Arnold kept his word. He didn't really betray him and Iggy just held a grudge. I think the whole point was to never hold a grudge. Because once Iggy heard the truth about what happened it was too late and Arnold was justified in his anger to Iggy. Equal Fights was about as subtle as a sledgehammer to the face. If it was about equality, why didn't they say that men are needed as both men and women need each other? Everyone hates Bendy though just shows Bendy being an insufferable cunt and teaching that actions don't have consequences. Now Bloo has his moments but he still has some redeeming qualities and sure he's annoying and selfish but he always gets punished or suffers some backlash for his reckless or plain stupid behaviour. In fact Bendy was so hated, Lauren Faust apologised to fans of the show and had Bendy scrapped from ever appearing again. Sort of like Scrappy doo but the right thing was done earlier.
While the bendy episode always makes me seethe, I can say, an episode like that can make contrasting ones that much better. I just wish there was a retribution episode or smth lol
They could have had bendy learn his seconds in like 20 seconds and the episode probably would have been ok but it’s just tough when the episode ends with no one caring that he did all those things. Getting mad at bloo was funny, but if they both got grounded for it it at least would have been a little ironic
I don't see a problem with liking El Tigre. that series was lit and I would go to a public place and say "YO, I like that cartoon series called El Tigre!" just because I like it.
8:04 Characters like Batgirl , and Supergirl are called Expies or exported character , Characters that based on another Characters , this is to avoid copyright or trademark infringement issues , they make female versions of popular male Characters so they can make money , this is why She-Hulk was made , as The Live Action Hulk was made they fear one of the producers may make a female Hulk Spin-off like they did with The MILLION Dollar Man , so Marvel made She-Hulk first for Trademark reasons , also Characters like Black Lighting have many exported characters due to DC not wanting to pay the Creator , Black Lighting first time in animation was in Batman The Brave and The Bold from 2008 , so yeah I said the real reason they make Characters like Batgirl , or Supergirl
I hated that Powerpuff Girls episode. Because girls are being mean to me for being a boy. That's not fair. Girls if you have guy troubles. Just come and talk to a guy who really cares about you. Nice guys would stand with you and give you hugs in the end
The people who hate the episode "equal fights" are the same people that claim you can't be sexist to men. Susan B Anthony is a way better person to put on the 20 than Harriet Tubman. You know what woman deserves to be on the 20? Mary Ludwig Hays aka Molly Pitcher, the artillerywoman. Look her up.
I had never heard of her before now, that’s really interesting! Love the part I read about a cannonball being shot at her that tore a piece of her dress and she said “well that could’ve been worse” lol
The reason I hated the bendy fosters home episode so much is because I have middle child syndrome with 3 siblings and no matrer how bad my little sister acted she got all the attention it felt like as a kid. Even though our family had its issues my parent after one person was being blamed though, especially for something they dont normally do they wouldnt just believe them out right and ask what actuslly happened and try to get to the bottom of it so when cartoons didnt believe the innocent character it used to grind my gears so much However for a second or two i did feel nad for him and wish he could have got character development and stopped his evil shenanigans
I still did like the Danny Phantom episode with Ember Spectra and Kitty (Shadow) showing their interpretations of feminists, even though season three is sometimes pitiful due to cancellation because of Nickelodeon for low ratings back then.
The only one of these I never knew was hated until years later when JAR covered it was Equal Fights. And even after watching his review, I still feel like this is one of those classic cartoon episodes SJWs need to watch as it basically points out everything wrong with their warped definition of equality.
To be fair wasn't that bendy episode a short episode? They probably got half way through the idea, didn't know how to end it, just spit something out then moved on
Funnily enough it was a 13 minute episode, it aired with a shorter episode before it, the one where wilt can’t watch the game because he’s forced to help people all day
@@Colby2D WOW! Thinking about it in my head I don't see how they can make that one joke for that long and think, "yes perfect! In fact, let's make it a longer episode!"
I was not aware Equal Fights was disliked (though considering anything involving female characters is controversial compared to males it's no surprise) but there are WAY worse PPG episodes with worse messages. Moral Decay, Cover Up, Night Mayor, Town and Out, Sweet N Sour, Daylight Savings and Fallen Arches come to mind. I also never really got the hate for the Bendy episode, like yeah, it's a bad episode. But it's just bad in a very dull way and with how its written its clear it feels cut in some areas. If you ask me Fosters has WAY more annoying or bad episodes Imposters Home For Um.. Make Em Up Pals is an infamous one, it's basically just the Bendy episode done worse in every way with one joke repeated constantly and how Frankie is treated borders on abusive. At least Frankie and Herriman work together there, compared to episodes after where he comes off as an abusive hypocrite. Other bad Fosters episodes would include Duchess of Wails, I Only Have Surprise For You, Jackie Khones and the Case of Library Crook, Fosters Goes to Europe, Ticket to Rod, The Big Cheese, Setting a President, Let Your Hare Down, Nightmare on Wilson Way. I also find other episodes from shows to be annoying people don't talk about such as Send in the Clones from Jimmy Neutron (or other bad episodes from that show like The Incredible Shrinking Town, The Science Fair Affair, Love Potion 976/J, Lights Camera Danger) Or other CN shows too! When it comes to Hey Arnold, I personally think Curly's Girl, Girl Trouble and Bag of Money are worse.
Make ‘Em Up Pals is a great example because Lauren Faust talks about wanting to exaggerate the impostor more but got network pushback, which I think is such a good example of the difficulties and balance with production. Although they seem to have kinda messed up the episode, Faust had a really cool down to earth perspective on the whole situation talking about it on Twitter
Y'know man. I didn't knkw what to expect on this video. Tbh I thought you were gonna be super contarian and just say "no these bad episodes are good actually" and instead you had a pretty even handed take on these eps while playing devils advocate in what you belive the best take of these creators and writers are. Your take on the Powerpuff girls was very similar to my take on the ep. Anyway, great video! I think you deserve at least 10X as many subs as you have!
Thanks very much! One of the big reasons I wanted to make my channel in the first place was kinda in response to a lot of the angry rage bait to episodes and just kinda be like “nah they’re ok”so I really appreciate that you enjoyed!
I think the thing a lot of people miss about Femmfatale is that she's not supposed to be a strawman for all of feminism, only the unhinged extremists, and it was to show how even a very positive idea like female empowerment can be used to do evil if pushed to its absolute limit
I agree, I think it’s a good idea and episode but a lot of people very pro-feminist and anti-feminist kinda hate her, when in reality it’s just a fine episode
I’ve always really liked and respected ‘equal fights” for delivering a unique if somewhat confusing message. I mean obviously the vast major of problems that women encounter are caused by men or at least the male dominated society that so many cultures have set up as the norm. also, yeah 99% of feminists are about equality and would never do what “fem fatal” would do. ill even give that it seems like she the misconception that non feminists have about feminists. However, I’ve have seen a LOT of annoying “girl power” episodes for shows and while I don’t think any of them would count as the worst episodes from them… they were a about a dime a dozen. One of the girls wants to do something but can’t cause she’s a girl the boys in the episode are sexist idot and need to learn that girls are equal wash rinse and repeat. I just really liked that the show pointed how that “fem fatal” was wrong and that there is no justification for it. please take this with a grain of salt as it only my opinion and well I’m a guy so I don’t understand how a women would feel about this subject
I remember finding that episode very unsettling, but not hating it back then, but it was probably one of my least favorite episodes of the proud family growing up (but proud family was still one of my favorites!)
I’ve seen a lot of complaints about her, even on laura Faust’s Twitter I see people leave comments saying they didn’t like the episode, or a video Anita sarkeesian made where she calls femme fatale pretty bad representation. I’d have to find what Faust has said again
The powerpuff girl episode i dont remember hating, i didnt love the fact her costume was the female symbol but it also kinda grew on me. That and i learned who susan b anthony was which was pretty awesome
For me, I'm think equal rights ep is what really happened with so many people people are so biased that they turn anything wrong Into this day and age most things people complain about moat disney princess and heros female victim of anything and lists go on they always talk about men wrong is gotten so had that man can't do anything without getting labeled as toxic or sexist when a woman do it right they love to blame men everything wrong with the world but not also the women do does crap like that
Equal Fights was always one of my favorite episodes, because even as a little girl in the middle of the " girl power" 90s I could see the negative lens a lot of fake/angry feminist use to manipulate young girls into thinking men are our enemy's.
Didn't know that some people hate on some episode😅 But look at it this way,at least some of the show it a bit decent compare to ladybug and cat noir,i think some people still hate it when Chloe goes back to being a selfish bully and Adrien didn't get a chance to fight hus father Gabriel let alone not knowing that he is Hawkmoth and it was not the writers fault. They try to have Chloe to have a redemption arc but no,mister i don't want this girl to change qnd want her to stay the same. As for Adrien,he is supposed to be the second lead character, IT'S IN THE TITTLE! (Sighs)Sorry about that😅
@@Colby2D oh trust me, you might get frustrated, probably confused or something like that because of the show but I still watch it because it might get better...? Not sure 😅but good luck watching it,I like to know what you think of the show.👍😊
Those are really similar episodes of “side character pretending to be smart and insulting the main character”, but man the Carl one annoyed me a lot as a kid
Yes, that episode is one of my least favorites from the show. But the thing is, Carl’s actions were in-character for him. Throughout the show, there were hints that Carl wants to be Jimmy Neutron. In a episode, Carl has a dream where he and Jimmy switch places-where he’s the boy genius beloved by his parents (which gives some perspective on Carl’s creepy crush on Jimmy’s mom) and the town, and Jimmy’s the “dumb monkey boy sidekick.” So I can see Carl pretending to be a genius to impress his pen pal and treating Jimmy terribly as his way of living out his dream.
I don’t think I’d ban any of them. I don’t think any of the episodes are inappropriate, but bad episodes can at least be thought provoking, or I’m at least happy they took a risk and went for something even if it didn’t work out!
I had no idea this Bendy character which i didnt even remember was hated, my take is hes just a chaotic prankster like a joker. In fact i thought this video was cheese the yellow dude, he has that terrible archetype of retarted funny like fred fredburguer which had too much screen time.
I didn't know that equal fights was a hated episode. I always thought it was a genius introductory-level commentary on the differences between actual Feminism and blatant misandry used as a tool for women getting their way
To be fair, there are Feminists these days that are similar to Femme Fatale(Feminist Frequency for example). As for Bendy, I like that episode but it should have began with Bendy getting blamed by his kid creating ambiguity on if it was him or not.
When you see Bendy’s actions more as a victim continuing the cycle I feel he’d be a lot less hated, but they don’t really show the moment where bendy changes from being blamed for everything, to blaming others, and without that people start to think “maybe he was guilty all along”
@@Colby2D truthfully, it's a situation that I feel should have been open to interpretation. I mean I prefer villains like Skeletor, Mumrah, Princess Morbucks, villains who are not also victims, however with Bendy I feel like they should have gone a way about it where you can choose to believe the kid if you want or not and fill in the gaps. For example no need to show who took the cookie but have evidence shown on both sides.
