Ugly Cartoons 

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The dude who made big mouth is the son of a billionaire. That’s why it keeps getting renewed for more seasons.

We really lost The Cuphead Show and Inside Job just to get another Big Mouth season. WHY?!

Netflix after cancelling a good show to give Big Mouth its 47th season:

It Kind of sucks that these ugly adult cartoons gets more popular than the actual good ones. I wish they would stop making those.

Big Mouth makes me reconsider if I have been too harsh on Hazbin Hotel's character designs

Breadwinners? Their animation is decent but they couldn’t go 45 seconds without having 16 fart jokes in it

still don’t know why big mouth is so popular 😭

Always hated that artstyle which had perfect Round eyes, no lineweight and no shading. American dad, Rick and morty, bigmouth etc.. Its just made to be easily pumped out because it needs zero talent and can be recreated by ANY new employee after the old one quit.

American animation used to be top notch, how did we go from Iron Giant to this?

Hot take: I don't see the point in drawing ugly characters most of the time

Code Lyoko honestly wasn't that bad. The foreheads are weird, but it helped it to stand out. A show with an even worse artstyle imo is Angela Anaconda. That show used to freak me out as a kid 😂😂😂

Xavier Renegade Angel is an amazing show. Oddly it has “ugly” characters that aren’t ugly. They feel like they should be ugly but it’s more like the animation is ugly than the style. They just look surreal more like, which fits for the show, and they’re mostly easy on the eyes

i hate big mouth , regular show better

I'm not gonna lie, like 60% of the reason I watch anime is because most cartoons are either ugly as sin or don't have a real plot.

The dudes who made uncle grandpa and the show you showcased by those same creators, problem solvers, regularly show, adventure time, gumball, and all of the other classics are kinda when I think Cartoon Network peeked.

An artstyle can make or break an animation. If it looks ugly, people are less likely to give it a chance, even if it's actually good.

When I was really young, for some reason I was confused on Double D's gender; then some time passed and my lil brain finally connected the dots that his name is Edd lmao

I love code lyoko but ig the 5 heads are pretty crazy

I thought Darwin was a girl cuz he had eyelashes when I was little 😭

4:19 Bro looks more like the Giant Coffee Bean from Regular Show.

Code Lyoko was really good and still is. I wish they got a rework but instead, Cartoon Network gave us the abomination that is TTG. Also, I guess I never paid attention to the foreheads as a child because I actually have a big forehead as well.

I think an example of the ugly cartoon done proper is smiling friends. Not every character looks ugly, in fact some look cute or attractive. The difference is that it uses the ugly for comedic effect or to contrast a character with the colorful smiling friends and uses the unflattering nature of certain shots as the butt of the joke. Take for example front-facing Charlie, the shrimp after he puts on his new outfit, pre-blibly control Desmond and his mom, and more. The show leverages the ugly for comedic effect, the show itself does not look ugly

Give Hazbin some credit, it's insipring adult cartoons to not be ugly as sin.

Early 2000s French animation was such a weird time. We had shows like Oban, Galakatik Football and Code Lyoko with all 3 of them using a mix of 2D animation outside of action scenes and then they blast you with early 2000s tv show budged CGI.

Shows like Bricklezaridise P.D and Big Mouth are not actually for adults, they're for teens that think they're more mature or edgy by watching shows with swear words and genitals. An actual adult that's mature wouldn't find these shows very entertaining.

When I was a kid I always used to watch cartoon shows often but when I try to find new cartoons I always used to determine if the cartoon is good or bad by the artstyle I LITERALLY DIDN'T EVEN LOOK AT THE PLOT AND I WAS LIKE "nah I'm not watching this shi"💀💀

I will not tolerate Destroy build Destroy slander. The show was for me

I think the point is because anime and stuff is just trying to look extremely perfect and glamorous all the time and these shows are going in the complete other direction to show that things can look ugly but still be good. Unfortunately they usually fail at the being good part. But I am kind of sick of people drawing “the ideal human” for all of their character designs, like it’s just funny to draw a stupider uglier looking person because it’s just showing that we don’t have to look perfect all the time (my friend who constantly watches anime has started to point out that every girl that he sees that doesn’t look like a freaking model is ugly which is why I think it’s healthy to have stupid shows that don’t take themselves super seriously). now big mouth on the other hand doesn’t lean into it enough to make it a statement. But I really respect something like meetcanyons animations just for doing this

I know it isn't an excuse, but I guess the ugly character styles of bigmouth do make sense, considering its about puberty and the awkward stages of life.

"You can't judge a book by it's cover." Now I can.

The concept for bigmouth is like good but then when you watch the show your just like “🧍🏽‍♀️yep I’m probably on the fbi watch list now”

Ngl i was about to get pissed when he brought up Code Lyoko but he was lowkey speaking facts about the foreheads though.

A cartoon with an ugly art style that somehow makes it work really well is Xavier Renegade Angel

I have nothing against fictional stuff but Big Mouth... The shit that goes on in that show and the way it looks just screams the creators are pdfs. If it didn't look so ugly and that stuff was occasional but not as intense it would be different. But it being ugly just serves the purpose of making you think they're just joking and aren't pdfs. Yet there was news where the creators turned out to be pdfs.

2:27 me, this show was for me, as i kid I loved building things and explosions, also i was familiar with Andrew W K because his music was used in some MLP fanimations back in the day

2:11 Nah, DBD was peak. I used to love taking apart random junk from around the house and cobbling it together. So, maybe it was only me and like 5 other 10 year old boys with a special breed of the 'tism, but I loved it.

code lyoko is ugly in a very attractive way, that's why I never forgot about it

The giant foreheads is exactly what kept me from watching Code Lyoko as a kid lol

Disgusting art in kids shows is the worst offender as it can have a lasting impact on a child's psyche. Sort of like if all you see is shit you start feeling like shit.

Problem Solverz distresses me and I have no earthly clue as to why

Whenever code looked came on at my old house I used to jump up and down on the couch, I loved that show when I was a kid, AND DRAGONBALL IS THE GOAT FOREHEADS ARE PEAK

6:39 if it helps you, when I was a full on toddler, I couldn’t tell if Buttercup from PowerPuff Girls was a boy or not. Maybe because she had a “deeper” voice than Blossom and Bubbles or because she had shorter hair? No idea

Oh yeah, odd was so confusing to me as a kid. I couldn't understand if he was a boy or girl completely until the end of me watching the show

And then there is the entire filmography of Bartosz Walaszek but his works have the excuse of being made by one guy and are probably the most popular cartoons in Poland

These shows make me miss inside job

Ngl, I first thought Code Lyoko was a Korn music video

I was one of the people who had confusion too, in fact, until recent times I wasn't aware of what gender-ambiguity was

Funnily enough in the Spanish dub the boys from the main cast were all voiced by guys and Odd got the deepest voice, so no one had problems knowing what he was.

These shows are the smell of vinegar in visual form

that first girl in code lyoko looks like vegeta

Let people have big foreheads bud. We deserve respect

I genuinely like how The Problem Solverz looks, idk why. It's so chaotic in a weirdly good way

Still looks better than the "I fixed you art" artstyle

The unusually large foreheads in "Code Lyoko" seem to be as iconic of a design quirk as the characters in "As Told by Ginger" (which is otherwise an amazing, underrated gem) having their lips dangle onto the tips of their chins (Miranda is an exception, though).

I hate when these videos explain the simplicity of a joke like thats a actual criticism of the joke. You can do that to nearly any joke ever and get the same results. "He is a epic wizard who is destroying a mountain and you would expect him to have a epic name like Gandalf or Dumbeldore but hes named Tim.". "The black knight keeps losing limbs and acts like nothing is wrong even though we can clearly see something is". Look at that i can criticize one of the best comedy movies of all time like that. I swear none of these "critics" think about what they are saying for 5 seconds as it makes no sense.

0:58 this would have been better if the adult said something like "i kinda want this to be its own thing, but don't be surprised if we end up going Rick and Morty." P.D: Big mouth characters look like pleco fishes; those ones that clean aquariums by sucking.

Most adult swim shows are always like this but some of them are good or a lot

That THING in problem solvers is Domo’s long lost autistic brother

Big mouth is gonna end with 7 season

Have you ever seen goat, cricket, banana, chicken on nickelodeon i think

I don't think Hazbin Hotel deserves credit. Although the art style is nice, I find it unfunny and poorly written with lack of effort put into it. (Just my opinion.)

Yeah anime explains Code Lyoko because anime is famous for character designs with tiny eyes. Yeah that checks out totally

I was fine until I heard the Code Lyoko theme drop, and I said out loud "Don't you dare talk trash about their sevenheads"

I am an intermediate artists and I personally thought that I was drawing too many appealing or good looking characters… But then I realized that shit like this exists and now I don’t feel so bad…

I'm crying rn because I didn't expect to ever find the title of Code Lyoko which was a fever dream for me and this show made my childhood

The second I saw Code Lyoko, I had a feeling it was only gonna be about their big ass foreheads. In CGI, it works fine, but in 2-D it can be distracting at times.

How did Nick Kroll go from Kroll show to Big mouth?😑

Smiling Friends was the first adult swim cartoon I ever decided to seek out, and a big part of why I enjoy it so much is that the art style is appealing to look at. Pim’s design sparks so much joy. Biggest confusion I had on genders for cartoons was definitely Linny from Wonder Pets and Wubbzy from Wow Wow Wubbzy. Like I know Linny is a girl now (which was still the biggest plot twist of my childhood) but Wubbzy?? What are you. Why are you.

I thought Tails from Sonic was a girl for years when I first saw him.

So Nick Roll is rich so that explains how that shit is still around and my best guess is either the dude has some "connections" or he bribed the higher ups like he was the bootleger that constantly bribes the police during the prohibition

One that still haunts me to this day is Mr. Pickles…. No idea how that show got to 3 seasons before it got canned

Big Mouth is not a series I'd invest my time in. As for the content itself, I do personally feel disgusted by it. Nevertheless, at least it isn't real unlike "Cuties".

I’m not much of a cartoon expert but one I hated as a kid was fish hooks because it just looked gross to me and I didn’t find anything funny, maybe because I was constantly repulsed but probably not.

thank god big mouth finally stopped getting new seasons 😭

4:45 he knew his neck was in the noose

I remember big mouth came out when I was 14... i watched it mildly amused but didnt find it the craziest or funniest thing. Childish "hah omg sex" mindset but there was actual lowkey 'educational' and helped me better understand how to express how i felt about body changes and relationships and how people change when those two mix. But that was like season 1 and that rarely happened lmfao lets be real. Im 21 now and for the life of me can NOT sit down and watch it... It's like ugly, animated euphoria that had a baby with family guy. Ive seen shows cancelled and unfinished but this show got a spin off and more episodes?? Who is this demographic for again... Just cancel this weird shit.

Dude I Remember watching Secret Mountain Fort Awesome And The Problem Solverz on CN and I remember thinking "Huh. Welp, I'm watching this now"

ugly artstyles and character designs actually makes me back up from those show, i HATE those

1:25 which Nassau County? The one in New York or Florida?

Code lyoko will always be in my heart as my first cartoon that I have watched from first to last episode in English (for young Poland girl it was achievement since English wasn’t my language 😅

Code Lyoko didn’t have that ugly in terms of animation. And besides, it’s one of the few blend of 2d and computer animated shows that’s not an eyesore as the computer animation in the world of Lyoko does look good, despite the graphics looking like they belong in a PS2 game, but the idea of that show was a video game simulator.

I'll say even Invincible can have some pretty ugly and flat designs. It's mostly on the faces especially the eyes were some characters will have heavy bags or the eyelids are more pronounced.

I remember this old cartoon that had monsters in a high school and like one of them held his eyes in his hands? Really gross.

I knew when code lyoko came up you were gonna go in on the foreheads 😂

I legitimately thought this channel already had like a million subscribers, but great work! Also what was that British show called?

7:44 yeah. It’s my dad. Idk either.

How the hell is the Nutshack not here?????

Listen kid you either knew about Andrew W.K. for his banger music or you knew him for Destroy Build Destroy

Me, destroy build destroy was made for me PARTY TILL YA PUKE!!!!

i loved SMFA, Problem Solverz and DBD 😭😭😭

Adult cartoons have by fat the worst art style. They are always hilariously unfunny

Another show that I would like to bring up that probably wasn’t in this video was the show “housebroken” , that show is a good example on why ugly art styles just don’t work , instead of going for a expensive art style or doing something to help It stand out , (could of even had the art style somewhat be in a similar vain as the secret life of pets since the shows about pets going to therapy )instead it tries to copy the art style of family guy so the shows art style comes off as weird, bizarre, uncanny, unnerving , and even sometimes just downright creepy. The art style of that show is so bad that I short of have PTSD from that show.

What was that British show with the bright colors and excessive violence? It looked cool

for code lyoko, i have NOT watched the original series as it never had reruns in my country however after looking at them, I do like the designs. Their foreheads ARE big, but it's not straight up distracting like some designs. For me since it is consistent across all characters I was able to easily get used to them and i just cannot let one small thing overshadow how good the rest of the art direction is, with their CGI sections looking EXTREMELY awesome especially for 2000s cartoons

3:45, where is that from?

I understand Squidbillies had a following, but that art style was the very definition of "budget cuts in the office" mixed with a gallon of bleach.

You’re not alone, man. I initially thought Garnet was a guy as a child. I don’t know what the fuck I was thinking back then.

One thing is having your character being ugly for a stylistic choice (Anxiety from Inside Out) and other is having character being ugly because your style is ugly (everyone in Big Mouth)

6:31 bro same but because he wore pink and purple which severely confused me as a kid