The Prince is Everything Wrong with Adult Animation 

What did you think of The Prince if you've managed to check it out 🤔

its always ironic when most of these "adult cartoon"s are filled with the most childish and immature jokes you'll ever see

The “art style “ looks like a horrifying mix between Family guy and Big mouth

I can’t believe it has that art style. For real it’s becoming a problem at this point

“This is worse than the time I _____ with _____.” -almost every adult animated sitcom

I kinda feel sorry for the royal children as they're mocked in a show they're not even old enough to watch.

I feel like this show is made out of all the scrapped and unfunny Family Guy jokes over the years

This show feels more like "haha Bri'sh people" than an actual plot driven comedy

It feels like Spitting Image, if it was written by someone who had 24 hours to come up with something and their only knowledge of the Royal Family came from a souvenir stand at a British-themed amusement park.

Making fun of literal real life children in an adult cartoon just seems very mean spirited and cruel. Like, sure, the adult royals are public figures, and open to parody and satire (apparently the Queen has a good sense of humour about it), but making fun of actual kids who haven't done anything to criticize, to the point of creating an entire cartoon series about it just seems like a bad move.

Adult animation is the embodiment of "Here is a joke, now laugh or else."

I can imagine the script like: “Ok so basically what’s gonna happen is that something surprising is gonna happen and Prince George is gonna say ‘woah that was surprising!!’” “GENIUS”

"I miss when adult cartoons weren't just Rick and Morty and Family Guy rejects" - A comment on a Black Dinamite video

This show is really the prince of bad adult animations.

It's pretty crazy how 95% of all adult animated shows look like flat, stilted garbage while the kids are over watching gorgeously-animated stuff like The Bad Batch. As an artist myself who just so happens to be an adult, I feel insulted by what they think is quality animation for adults.

As a British person, I believe that if you're going to make "adult animation" based on the royal family, have British people write and voice it. If anyone knows the jokes and humour it's us. Most people just go: Tea lol

All the jokes boil down to an American guy saying “It’s chewsday innit bruv”

the characters seriously look just like how Family Guy portrays celebrities/important figures in a cutaway gag

I wish that companies would realize that this art style doesn't look appealing anymore when 99% of adult animation is founded on it

I just thought the idea of using the real life children, instead of fictional versions, was really bad taste, imagine being 8 years old and a bunch of people who’ve never met you make a cartoon about you being a brat. Shame on Sophie turner for voicing Princess Charlotte, when she threw a wobbler about the press taking pictures of her own child.

Peter: You think THAT’S bad? Remember that Royal Family cutaway that took up 12 episodes?

The animation program that all these big companies are using is called: “Abused Koreans”

The people who work on these shows don't seem to understand that the reason why adult animation is successful isn't just because of vulgar humor. The most important shows to come out of the genre (King of the Hill, Simpsons, Bojack, even Rick and Morty, and South Park) have a sense of heart in many of their stories, not to mention some clever writing as well.

Its funny how kid cartoons went from being looked down upon to being the only really good cartoons

"Demi Lovato is nonbinary. You just hit me with your hat." I haven't seen this show, but these ain't even jokes, they're just... observations? And like... obvious observations? It's like I told someone "hey, you have blue eyes." and uhhh, expected them to laugh like yeah??? You have blue eyes??? Nice???

I can't wait for the UK to make a 'parody' of the presidents.

Excuse me? The artstyle DOES NOT look like Mr. Bean the Animated Series. While that show looks odd, there is some charm to the caricatures and the animation is smooth, stretchy and bouncy especially with Bean's facial expressions and movements. This looks more like a Family Guy fan thought he could be the next Seth MacFarlane and hired the cheapest animators he can find to make a Family Guy clone based on the royal family.

The problem I have with "adult content" in general whether it's cartoons, movies or what have you, is that so much of it thinks that vulgarity for it's own sake is funny. It isn't. It's just stupid and cringe inducing. Vulgarity is fine if it serves the plot, as in Clerks 2 for example, but so often it's just there without any real reason. A good example of this is The Happytime Murders. Brian Henson WANTED to make a straight murder mystery but the studios wouldn't give him the money unless he changed it into an extremely vulgar "comedy", basically just because. Why? What purpose does that serve? All that does is insult the audience's intelligence.

Why can’t we get adult animation that just focuses on dark concepts instead of gratuitous violence, swearing, and sex Besides bojack horseman that one is good

Cynical Reviews said it best: "You can tell this show was made BY Americans FOR Americans." Edit: You guys I'm an American too, why are you apologizing

“I enjoyed bojack horseman a ton” *smiles* “But that show never once managed to make me laugh” *slowly frowns*

the creator of this show, Gary Janetti was a writer on family guy. that alone says everything we need to know about this entire show.

I feel a big problem with adult animation is the fact that theyre not treating them like cartoons. Have things be exaggerated, send characters to weird places, make them do crazy things, play with direction so every scene doesn't look like a generic two camera sitcom. These things are possible to do without it being overly fantastical. If you're doing a super grounded sitcom style with an emphasis on writing as the primary content then you may as well just have everything be sock puppets

This is the kind of animation that says "I hate everything about animation"

I don’t know why so many of the cartoons that are supposedly labeled for only “adults” are some of the most childish and immature shows on television. i think tv shows like Bojack Horseman is the example that all adult shows should follow that your whole show doesn’t have to be fart joke!

I worked on this crap at Bento Box Atlanta. It was an absolutely horrific experience beginning to end. Management was abusive and the animation, background, and character teams were working mandatory 50+ hour weeks to keep up with the ridiculous deadlines. If you fell behind, you were yelled at and threatened with termination, which caused a good chunk of the team just to burn out. The “creative” higher ups in LA thought they were making “art”. They would constantly shit on “rigged” animation too (even though it’s a fact that rigged animation can look as good if not better then hand drawn… just look at anything Mercury does) and told us that they specifically wanted a “hand drawn” look to the show… translation, they want it to look like Family Guy where the characters are all standing around stiff as a board. Any and all attempts to add… actual animation… to the animation was crushed and the creators were always sending us condescending notes when they something we did didn’t fit their “artistic vision”. That being said, ALL the artists who worked on this are TOP NOTCH and were completely underutilized. I painfully remember the very first animation meeting for the show and the animation director told us that the mandate from the “creative” team (the higher ups, not the artists) in LA is that they wanted a “Family Guy” look to the animation. This was over Zoom but you could still “hear” the collective groan from the animation team. I remember that moment very clearly. Should have quit then but I rode it out… I regret not quitting. I also worked on Paradise PD, which was funny enough a much better experience! I can watch it without feeling horrible about my time on it. And I actually laugh from time to time. The management team was great and supportive and so were the creators! I never felt like I was killing myself on that show. They really appreciated the hard work the animation team put in and they let us know. Say what you will about PPD but they know their audience. They have no delusions of grandeur that the show will somehow be this great work of art. The humor is stupid and lowbrow and it’s proud of it. The characters exist to tell stupid dick and butt jokes. Not my cup of tea humor wise but it obviously has a fan base seeing as it has 4 seasons with no signs of stopping. So yeah, that’s my experience on Prince. I can happily say that I was ecstatic when I heard the show was not being renewed by HBO. Good fucking riddance.

i like when character are assholes BUT only if they have improvement over time, specifically if its like just the one character

I agree with Mark about adult animation practically being forced to be comedies. Apparently unless you're Gendy Tarkofski, who was allowed to bring back Samurai Jack as an adult show, as well as Primal, then you're stuck with raunchy animated comedy shows.

As an American, allow me to apologize to the British by saying, we Americans didn't like this show either.

11:58 As Lord Hater once said “Animation is so hard! People who do this for a living deserve more credit!” Ah what a legend

Can't wait for season 2 where the Queen's ghost haunts the place but all she does is say fuck you to the people and they don't know cuz she's a ghost

“The characters are just standing around waiting for their next queue” holy shit, this show was animated in The Sims 4

Do Chicago Party Aunt next there’s so much awesome terrible adult animation to digest 😍

It's like they took the "chewsday innit" joke and made an entire tv show out of it

9:59 man dont even compare masterpiece such as MR Bean cartoon with an abomination as this

Imagine Prince George getting bullied at school all because of this show.

The animation is only a half-step above Go-Animate

A lot of cartoons aimed at kids are more clever than adult cartoons because they can’t rely on swearing, gore, and sex jokes

Every "adult cartoon" nowadays looks the same...

Honestly almost every new adult animations shows are either god awful or actually good, never in between

Pretty Much Adult Shows right now: "I say bad word, now laugh,"

dude this show aged even worse when the queen died it already aged before it premiered because of prince phillips death but now the queen is dead too

This feels like a massive missed opportunity to do a Spitting Image and satirise a lot of the controversy the royal family have landed themselves in like the Oprah interview, Prince Andrew's shortcomings, etc. But no, we just get a bargain bin Family Guy.

Worst things about this show: The art style, it looks lazily made. It’s not funny at all. No story at all. Complete garbage

How dare you steal my idea, sir. I demand satisfaction! Only pistols at dawn will suffice. Jk

I believe the reason kids cartoons are more sophisticated than adult cartoons because, like anime, they appeal to a wide variety of audiences regardless of age. I think when a piece of media leans too much on a single demographic, whether it's youngsters or adults, the whole thing falls apart.

Good news, everyone! The Prince has been cancelled!

I remember Olan Rogers when talking about the latest season of Final Space, how he had to really push the network/executives to allow more drama and “not funny” episodes (which explains the whiplash of tonal shifts in the middle of the latest season). I wish streaming/television adult animation would take notes from animated short films and realize that the medium of animation can tell amazing stories outside of comedy. Half of Love Death and Robots is horror and existential concepts. Also I just don’t understand who the prince is…for? Royalists won’t like it, anti-royalists won’t care/ not like it cause it’s not British produced, and Americans know jack diddly about the royal family. Just, why?

Every character design in this show looks like you walked up to a caricature artist at a local fair and asked them to draw the royal family

Best part about recent events is that it destroyed any hope of a season 2

“I don’t see the appeal of a show where everyone is an a**hole 24/7.” Welcome to Family Guy.

There's something very weird and almost creepy about making fun of real actual children who have done nothing wrong (unless you're one of those schizos who thinks being born into royalty is already a sin worthy of mockery). Also, political shows like this and "our cartoon president" are the laziest form of satire you can make. Don't like someone? Make them into unlikeable cartoon character. It goes to show the creators are incapable of creating their own world and cast of characters.

Family guy's art style cursed the world of animation of adult animated series

This whole thing seems like that part of joker when murray says "alright im waiting for the punchline" but just until that part, as if it never shows what happens after.

And unsurprisingly the show was cancelled.

Given the quality of Disney's animated shows as of late, it's really sad to see more garbage like this popping up all over the place.

The whole show is really just a bad Family Guy skit that was rejected so the creator chose to make an even worse tv series.

Big mouth marked the end of an era: when mature animation became bland and diluted. When your only options for format were family guy or big mouth. Mature animation became just sex jokes and unnecessary gore. What ever happened to being bizarre, wild, radical, out of the ordinary or exceeding expectations? Whenever I hear the words "adult cartoon" now, I just picture big mouth in my head.

9:39 This, did NOT age well.

Spitting Image parodies the Royal Family at times and it's actually really funny. It also doesn't go after the kids.

This show also feels extremely unethical because it spends its entire runtime making fun of a real life 8 year old. Like this is borderline child abuse and the wrong doers are adults with a million dollar budget picking on a literal child. IRL kids cry when someone cyberbullies them with a mean email, I can't image how a kid must feel if an entire animated show is making fun of them and their family. It's one thing to make caricatures of adults in the royal family (although even then there's a big difference between thoughtful satire and jokes that are mean just for the sake it), but Prince George didn't even do anything wrong except for being born. It's not his fault he was born into this family and I've seen way too many kids get their lives messed up because the public couldn't be decent humans beings and just treat famous kids with the kindness they inherently deserve to be treated with. Disney stars get messed up when people make fun of them as teenagers, how do you think Prince George is going to fare when he's 8 and people are already making fun of him for no reason?

A thing I’ve noticed in animation is that kids animated shows often have far better Comedy than adult ones. I think the reason for this is because while adult shows can just throw a few slurs about and call it a day. Kids shows don’t have that option and actually have to think about what their going to spit at us.

I would say that the Castlevania Netflix show is one of the few adult animated shows that is not a comedy. It takes itself seriously but still has some humor in it.

They should have made a joke about the queen being immortal. Maybe that would have at least been sort of funny

I miss the 90's to early 2000s era of adult cartoons where they tried to be unique and creative rather than generic family guy clones.

Mark: The story is just "What if the royal family was mean?" People who lived in their colonies: "If?"

The jokes about Prince Phillip seem in poor taste now that he's dead. And he died before the premiere too, so it just seems awkward he's alive in the show.

If this is what Prince George becomes then I shall revolt and Claim the crown for myself

Yet, ANOTHER example of how Early 2000s humor just doesn't blend well with Modern Audiences.

0:28 BRUH i though the queen was talking

We should've let Family Guy die when we had the chance

This is why people need to understand that adult animation isn't just sex jokes, toilet humor, and vulgarity. There's some good adult animations out there that don't rely on the three tropes to be appealing towards its audience.

When the trailer said someone from Family Guy created this show I instantly knew it was going to be terrible

_Man, this video hits different now_

2:09 this guy looks like a character that MeatCanyon would draw

Despite being on HBO Max, fox animation technically created and produced this show. This makes it yet another family guy clone, but disney finally put their foot down and passed it on to whoever would take it to avoid responsibility.

Audibly screamed “what the fuck?!” hearing George’s voice.

I'm gonna be honest, this show feels really disgusting. Mocking the Royal family is mostly fine, but mocking the kids? They haven't done anything yet, and they didn't ask to be born into the public eye. It feels so gross to misuse their names and image like this. Imagine growing up to learn that a show like this was made about you when you were eight years old, and some grown ass adults decided that they needed to make a mockery of you while you were still learning to read. Disgusting.

I feel like the genre of "adult animation" is really just wasted potential. Here is a great opportunity to create cartoons with potentially more complex and adult themes and stories. Yet nearly 90% of the time, all they manage to come up with is mindless nonsense with ironically quite juvenile and childish humor.

This show just looks like a family guy ripoff and looks very bad.

It seems like these shows were written by a bunch of 5th graders instead of actual fully grown adults

I feel so bad :( I’m an animation major in college and one of my friends was actually a PA for this show. Preeeetty rough. Usually I love supporting my friends but sheesh this was rough. Anyways, an unexpectedly great piece of adult animation was Q-force! Genuinely really funny.

Americans writing British characters doesn't work most of the time

Duckman, F is for Family,Rick and Morty, Bojack Horseman, Daria, Drawn Together (not the movie), Clone High, South Park, Futurama, Bob's Burgers, King of the Hill, The Boondocks, The Critic, Mission Hill, The Oblongs, Archer, Undergrads, Ugly Americans, Castlevania, Final Space, The Midnight Gospel, Solar Opposites, Invincible. These are all great adult animated shows if you're looking for something good to watch after witnessing whatever the hell "The Prince" is.

When I was young, I've have a dream of making my own cartoon series since I enjoy the cartoons that I watch everyday and I want to do the same thing as well. But as time goes on, I realize that I'm not just following the dream because I want to, but because I have to. Since the entertainment industry (especially adult animation) has stagnated or has began to stagnate, the quality of animated cartoons are going down drastically. If the animation industry keeps going at the current rate it's going through, then it'll either become irrelevant or die out which are both outcomes many people would not like. I think at this point, I'm gonna have to be the one to create an animated series that'll both challenge what people think of adult animation and be it's own original series with little to no influence from other adult animations like the Simpsons or Family Guy. Hopefully I should be able to get a job in the animation industry after graduating from college. Wish me luck.

I gotta say, it's really sad that every time a new adult show is announced, it's usually just another modern family guy... over and over again...

3:38 Oh my god... that animation... His animations are visible on a loop... Like they took a placeholder and just copy and pasted... I haven't even finished watching this video and I'm appalled at how this was allowed into the final product...

This series sounds like the end result of Family Guy's popularity.

Modern Family Guy, but its the royal family. Also i have no problem with parody of public figures, but some of these kids are EIGHT AND YOUNGER. That will haunt them for the rest of their lives for stuff they had no control over just because the writers were too lazy to think of any other concept for Hulu's next adult show

Western Adult Animation has been leaning on the same stale old raunchy sitcom/Simpsons/South Park formula for well over thirty years by now, and I think most audiences are burnt-out on it and turning to anime for their fix of "serious" adult animation. There should be fewer shows like The Prince, and more serious adult animated shows like Invincible and Castlevania, and Hell even The Venture Bros.