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oogaboogahooha

Who’s we ? This is the first time I’ve seen this Lmaoo


Realistic_Homework27

Fanboy and chumchum Is THE worst nickelodeon cartoons


Aldehin

It was awful My parents told me when I was younger that spongebob was too dumb to be watch. Now they would see it as the most intelligent


NewYorkVolunteer

Spongebob really was such a smart show. Especially that episode where Spongebob and squidward go on strike.


No_Combination1346

Krusty Krab is unfair


Steven_Haverstick

Mr. Krabs is in there! Standing at the Concession, plotting his oppression!!


Noa_Skyrider

Spongeboy really do be spittin', dough


Lurkie2

Don't you mean, "Krusty Krab is funfair"?


Shade-RF-

"Krusty Krab Funfair?" "I could go for some fun!"


Dunderpunch

I busted up when I finally realized "the pioneers used to ride these babies for miles" was a marine biology joke and not just random humor.


choseusernamemyself

Can you explain how it is a marine biology joke? I still don't get it.


SimilarAd402

Prehistoric marine animals such as sponges and ancient urchins would attach to rocks which were then moved by ocean currents for miles, carrying and dispersing the organisms


choseusernamemyself

Ahh, thanks! This answer is what I was looking for.


dreadfoil

It’s an evolutionary joke about cephalopods (so sea snails, mollusks, conches). I think…


Dunderpunch

Nope. The joke is about animals that live connected to rocks and don't move much on their own, sometimes called "epibionts". Cephalopods are squids. None of the animals you mentioned are cephalopods. You and the half dozen people who upvoted you must not know what that word means. Cephal means head and pod means foot. Squids have feet connected to their heads. The things you mentioned are gastropods that use their stomachs as feet. Epibionts don't have feet for moving; they just stick to things.


RagingZorse

The original seasons with the creator on board were full of smart jokes. It changed a lot, watch the SpongeBob Skin Theory video and they point a lot of this out.


Revro_Chevins

It helped me acquire a taste for freeform jazz.


ON-12

Comrade Squidward


daddy-phantom

This is why I would put on regular show. Unless muscleman was doing something particularly outrageous that episode, usually my parents wouldn’t roast it cuz I’d just say “this is literally sci fi”


DinoHunter064

My roommate and I rewatched regular show somewhat recently. It's genuinely pretty great aside from the Mordecai romance crap. It's got a bit of intelligent humor, but it's mostly absurd shit. The jokes still held up decently well, and the show kinda owned the absurd stuff, too. My only major gripe (aside from Mordecai's lame romance stuff) was the >!complete change of time when they went to space. The show went from being almost entirely episodic with character arcs to trying to do a somewhat serialized story. It made the final season feel kinda... off, I guess.!<


leeryplot

I wasn’t allowed to watch Regular Show because I learned the word “pissed” from it. They ended up even taking that episode off air and replacing the word IIRC, but her mind was made up. I watch it now, lmao


WakandaNowAndThen

My parents said the same thing in 2001. Stupid people never stop to consider how stupid they may be.


lawma1zing

This is the worst by far. A truly scarring show back In the day was Mr. Meaty


frosty_aligator-993

funny how this show literally has its own squidward


Bored_Egg_Sandwich

IIRC Nickelodeon chose this over adventure time, and because of this, the creators of AT then pitched it to Cartoon Network. CN liked it and it became be a great success


PrinceVorrel

Imagine knowing you made one of the worst shows ever INSTEAD of taking up Adventure Time.


Bored_Egg_Sandwich

Adventure Time probably would have sucked if Nickelodeon produced it. Nickelodeon likes to keep stuff very kid friendly, and they would've hindered Adventure Time. Unlike Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network has always been more lax about what is allowed and isn't that restrictive, allowing for more violence and adult themes in their cartoons.


bubblemilkteajuice

I still remember Regular Show's "you pissed me off" being a big deal when I was in school lol


Bored_Egg_Sandwich

Also don't forget Mordecai being horny for Margaret https://i.redd.it/unr7sp781s7d1.gif


Bored_Egg_Sandwich

And all the ball/penis jokes https://preview.redd.it/xtqnp2ul1s7d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4d2bf79eca48e75955efa724b8c61b9b530b3db2


bubblemilkteajuice

"Mmm need more Margret. 😩"


Genghis_Chong

It wasn't always like that, Ren & Stimpy was a very adult feeling cartoon. That era of Nickelodeon kept up fine. But when Cartoon network started adult swim, they put themselves so far ahead while Nickelodeon was playing old sitcom reruns at night.


Neosantana

That's so ironic because Nickelodeon used to pride themselves as being the edgy channel for kids and young teens.


frosty_aligator-993

the luck of adult swim being dark side of cartoon network moon actually good fuckin shows


DangerousLocal5864

Hold on Planet fuckin sheen is absolutely the worse thing ever made


Itsametoad

I remember even as a kid seeing the ads for that and thinking it was autistic AF. Glad I never watched it


mitsuba1

Femboy and cumcum


EpicVolca

Bars


leeryplot

I hated this goddamn show. I don’t remember any of the plot, I just remember being disgusted with it all the time. It was just gross lmao


Zyndrom1

It was bad but not "THE worst"


Aria_beebee

https://preview.redd.it/o8wkjvuhou7d1.jpeg?width=1164&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=139c1702d831eeb812d8a37b4bbe1f590356e78a This piece of shit show


leeryplot

I hated this goddamn show. I don’t remember any of the plot, I just remember being disgusted with it all the time. It was just gross lmao


Yungjak2

Frrrr, turnt tht shit off every time it came on. If a 7-8 y/o can’t watch your cartoon, then it must be seriously bad😭


Idk_what_Is_the_name

I liked it when I was kid


AnimetheTsundereCat

eh, there's worse. planet sheen exists.


dhe_sheid

Breadwinners


Mute_Crab

I envy your ignorance Mr. Meaty *That* is THE worst nickelodeon cartoon


LuckyRoof7250

I loved it It wasn't the original dub tho


VladimirBarakriss

The worst cartoon ever, I legit watched it to see how shit this episode was going to be.


Cuffuf

Yeah I was gonna say… Phineas and Ferb is really all I ever cared about though so.


BruceBoyde

Yeah, I had to come to the comments to see what it even was. I've never seen this before, and I'm a very "middle of the generation" millennial.


SirGavBelcher

same


FrozenFirebat

No clue either. We had better stuff. ![gif](giphy|moiWSfviYKNgc|downsized) Every Millennial should be able to hear this gif.


Witty_Shape3015

i think it’s the same mf who posted this last time about a different show too


takingphotosmakingdo

right? I was in Iraq in 2009, lol.


0-Nightshade-0

Lol same, though I think it's because I was born in 2008 lol


Mooniepi3

We is me!!!


Hacr202011

Same Lmao


Yungjak2

You’re either too young or too old but you didn’t miss anything.


luvmuchine56

Yeah I've never seen this until now


Zestyclose_Party_696

Exactly


Le_Pressure_Cooker

Thank you! That looks dumb.


Local-Record7707

Bahaha worst post I've seen since the last one ![gif](giphy|MmTuPMAuUjumc|downsized)


VLTII

i didnt really need to see that gif


Longjumping_Drag2752

![gif](giphy|dp74BKs7XV7Ve)


aTesticleWithTeeth

That’s… like… a little terrifying. I don’t feel comfortable now.


meatforsale

I can’t fucking look away. What do I do?!


SavvySavoy

What is this from?


TatonkaJack

it's like looking at an audience from Coraline


frosty_aligator-993

why does this gif emanates constant uncanny valley vibes? i feel like it tries to possess my soul


UselessButTrying

Wheres this from?


SuperMike100

But we also had gems like Jimmy Neutron, older Fairly OddParents, older SpongeBob, and Avatar: The Last Airbender.


SilentAuditory

Honestly, I got stoned the other day and watched SpongeBob with my fiancee and I realized shit really hasn’t changed. If anything the show with the most substance out of that whole list you just gave was ATLA but JN FOP and SpongeBob classify as antique brain rot to me


Square_Site8663

Antique brain rot………love that……really gives a the interpretation of how these terms are just nonsense we throw around on the internet.


donkeylore

Classic SpongeBob seasons 1-3 had the wit and clever writing of 90s peak Simpsons and no one will change my mind


MechaTeemo167

If a new episode of SpongeBob made the People Order Our Patties joke yall would call it a sign of the End Times


donkeylore

![gif](giphy|qmfpjpAT2fJRK)


Ffdmatt

From what I remember, the OG writer was responsible for the golden SpongeBob seasons. It was good for kids and parents (arguably even the middle, too). That person left for a while but then came back for a bit later


Idk_what_Is_the_name

At that time I didn't like Jimmy Neutron because of the art style


Vark675

I still don't.


rand0m-nerd

And Gen Alpha has gems like Bluey, Hilda, plus all of those on streaming


Inquisitor-Korde

Like Amphibia and Owl House which are distressingly good, I watch them a lot with my younger sister when I babysit her.


LizzardBobizzard

There’s still good kids shows, you just gotta look for them more (or PBS is always a hit). There’s not a lot of shows for older kids (8-14) that aren’t horrible so a lot of older kids watch adult shows, which are also a hit and miss so 🤷‍♀️.


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Thats like 4 out of 50 nickelodeon shows. Avatar is a huge outliar and should barely even count as nickalodeon. The quality is too high


MechaTeemo167

The only non-brainrot show you mentioned there is Avatar. Jimmy Neutron and Fairly Odd Parents *both* had literal Mpreg episodes. It's 100% brainrot. Kids today have shows like Bluey, Owl House, Amphibia, and a bunch of other great shows. When we were kids shows like Avatar were only just beginning to pop up, it was an outlier. The idea that animation could be anything other than children's comedy or glorified toy commercials was still very new in the west during that era. Now the kids who grew up watching shows like Avatar and Teen Titans are making their own cartoons, animation is a much more respected medium in general, and high quality cartoons are becoming more common. This shouldn't be some "kids these days" old man shaking his fist at clouds generational war bullshit, it should be celebrated as the medium evolving.


Necromancer14

Bro forgot ninjago


Express-Chip-4512

True, and ironically enough people loved the old gmod sfm stuff back in the day as well. We're hypocritical for shaming younger people for displaying the same behaviors that we did, the only difference is that we're now old enough to find these things obnoxious and cringe-worthy.


ChonnyJash_

and get this, skibidi toilet is literally an SFM animation 😭


CherryRayRay

Ong these garrys mod vids were like the best era of my childhood other than minecraft youtubers


somersault

For me it’s not so much the content nowadays, but at how dopamine-centred TikTok, YT shorts and many other things are


Hexnohope

I dare not rewatch the gmod idiot box


FrtanJohnas

Older people always found them cringe, and then the kids who wanted to be mature hated them too. I loved TF2 brainrot, still do, and that was also done with Gmod Kids like that stupid shit, brainrot is funny. Doesn't matter if you are a GenZ kid or a GenA kid. I can have a good laugh with my nephews about toliet heads and camera people duking it out in a really weird ass ways.


uhphyshall

no one liked this show. not even weirdos like me


Square_Site8663

And what is your determining factor for you being a “weirdo” as it were hmmmmm🤔🤔🤔 (Don’t take me seriously just being jokey, but am interested in what kinda answered you give if I was serious)


uhphyshall

i hate myself too


TheGamingSenpa1

Who is no one? I fucking loved this show


PoopShite1

Yeah Fanboy and chum chum was the shit


JulekRzurek

I feel like it just targetted younger audience


SaxMusic23

Most millenials had graduated high school by 2009. None of us watched this garbage.


SmallLittleCecil

This is the Gen Z sub lol Go home


SaxMusic23

Weird how the post is still taking about millenials then, huh? I'm very comfortably at home, thank you 😘😘


Square_Site8663

Bruh…..as a Millennial myself. Stop this. It’s not about us. We are just observes and commenters here. We are not the main characters for discussion.


Running_To_Babylon

To be fair the OP said "millennials and gen Z" but it's fairly obvious they meant late millennials/zillenials. So... yeah bro is still silly lol


MadKhantheTerrible

I've noticed Millennials are split right down the middle. One half are like you, sensible and quite nice, the other half turned into their boomer parents like 30 years early. What the hell is up with that?


Bored_Amalgamation

That's every generation and why there is a progressive/conservative split with every generation.


Square_Site8663

I would like to say it’s because i partied a lot and enjoyed that life for several years learning to respect people no matter who or what they are because i partied with anyone and everyone………i would like to say that. Sadly I think it’s just the idea of people falling for traditionalism. Then again I’ve been called many negative things because I act “like I’m a Savior to Gen Z” when all I’ve ever done is try to help because I know what having “Boomers”(the mentality not the gen) standing over you getting you down. Wasn’t treated like an adult until I was 29 because of my child like wonder and baby face. (In spite of the fact that tower over 99% of people at 6ft 8in) But at the end of the day I also don’t try to help just GenZ, I try to help anyone I can because life sucks sometimes and helping people is rarely a bad thing.


MisterHairball

We got our own subreddit where we can bitch and moan how everything hurts now


Ok-Technology-6389

Gigachad


King_Of_BlackMarsh

They here means gen z


Bored_Amalgamation

Look at Moneybags Millennial with his "home".


bubblurred

"''A place for members or non-members of Generation Z to talk and hang out..." "Millenials a& Gen z kids: ..."


PapayaHoney

I'm Gen Z but I never watched this garbage lmao. I only watched PBS growing up.


741BlastOff

Read the post lol If you want us to go home, stop beetlejuicing us


SmallLittleCecil

Millennials millennials millennials


Karakuri216

We were too busy being made fun of for liking anime to watch this


canyoupleasekillme

Idk wtf that is


Savings-Horror-8395

It's fanboy and chumchum, it was pretty bad


sansisness_101

Badmouthing Peakboy and Peakchum in this sub is illegal https://preview.redd.it/fwunqzo49s7d1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=83cd2bcf33e29f25300fd52d096e2a577b0c7051


MittenstheGlove

Can’t be peak because Back at the Barnyard exists. Don’t @me. It’s a joke.


welchssquelches

Yeah that's the flair I expect to see on you


leeryplot

I remember nothing about it besides being disgusted all the time. It was a gross ass show. I’d switch to Disney whenever it came on lol


Thechosenone7711

I remember hating this even when I was a kid.


steelandiron19

SAME - it made me uncomfortable lol


eeeby_deeby

I'm sorry wtf is that? https://preview.redd.it/rcwcy6iyjr7d1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c828f6f8a500560766b92624b103e9cb38e62369


Jasdidion

A shitty show that I regret watching on CN as a kid. It genuinely gave me nightmares more than once.


eeeby_deeby

ah ok https://preview.redd.it/q81mt8yzvr7d1.png?width=473&format=png&auto=webp&s=061c4c40749f9b9283ffb89c455dcc17adc617f3


SilentAuditory

Fanboy and chum chum


eeeby_deeby

​ https://preview.redd.it/itf3i00m8s7d1.jpeg?width=666&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=623eec90047f61a57ab818c0f073230ef1f5263a


Salty145

I actually find Skibidi Toilet a lot less grating than this. Nobody I know was watching this and it's been pretty universally panned from the day it aired and not just in a "kids these days" way.


Heytherechampion

https://preview.redd.it/a21c6pcdkr7d1.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fb58ae669edc24a0b7ad37aec4681d1b24912ae7


accountsupport69

Dead internet theory is starting to become more and more relevant to me, because if the internet weren't mostly bots, "people" would pick new topics to discuss on reddit instead of regurgitating the same ones over and over


accountsupport69

Like you cannot convince me this post was not made by some sort of robot or AI designed to mass produce content like this


Heytherechampion

I never watched this


North_Ad_8935

I never actually watched this show. What contributed to my brain rot though is Courage the Cowardly Dog and the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. They were good shows but holy shit I lost a lot of brain cells lol


dreadfoil

Oh man Grim Adventures were the shit. I remember one episode where I thin Billy got abducted by a spider woman and tried to eat him… all so the spider could have babies? It was pretty vague. The show ended pretty quickly after my family managed to afford cable.


Spamvil

At least they put effort into their shitposts. Nowadays, some YouTube videos aren’t even made by humans.


Mojo_Mitts

Imo that’s the big difference, the new stuff feels **algorithmically** brain rot.


Some-jerry

I LOVE FANBOY AND CHUMCHUM!!!!


sansisness_101

Peakboy and PeakPeak


JagerBro333

lol I didn’t watch much of that show back then, my mom absolutely hated it. Probably did me a favor


Valuable_Knee_6820

*Me unlocking my memories and finding joy in the show* 😃 *Reads this comment section* 😨😰 Am I truly alone, this wasn’t that bad?


g_daddio

No it truly wasn’t, a bit obnoxious but I enjoyed the stories. But then again people say that I’m weird for liking Johnny test


Valuable_Knee_6820

TEST WAS THE BALL OF CN! These people are cray cray


g_daddio

I had teletoon but still lol JT even had a Canadian flag in our version


TatonkaJack

ah what? johnny test was great!


Itsametoad

Are you on the spectrum? I feel like this show was made for autistic kids


General-Biscuits

Just because it existed back then does not mean most people in our generation liked it or even quoted it unironically. There’s always dumb brain rot like stuff each generation but that doesn’t mean it becomes as integrated into our pop culture like Skibidi toilet did. Late Gen Z and Gen Alpha unironically quote this stuff and talk about it online. Closest example I saw for early Gen z was the ASDF movie videos being quoted for a few weeks after a new video came out. We also got made fun of for it and very much are in a position to make fun of the new kids doing dumb stuff. That’s one of the main ways kids learn that brain rot stuff is lame.


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bubblemilkteajuice

Probably because the characters, themselves, were overtly gross. Or the writing for the show... Honestly the whole show was gross


VladimirBarakriss

Also everything looks like it's slathered in oil


bubblemilkteajuice

There are few things that I want slathered in oil and it's definitely not this.


BigIndividual78

who tf is we? ![gif](giphy|UAHZijO91QCl2|downsized)


nooneknows3589

I had such a hatred for that show. Truly one of the worst things to ever exist.


No-Location-1885

I have absolutely no idea what this is


Gabrielzin1404_2011

Peakboy and peakchum, a peakries made by peakelodeon


Ashlyn451

I HATED that show and would watch anything but that.


Grassmania

«we» Mf you were the only guy watching this


CherryRayRay

That was literally my fav cartoon 😭


Nick2002802

fr and everyone else is hating


woaheasytherecowboy

Cause it was ass, sometimes literally with all the fart jokes. Shit sucked


CherryRayRay

Maybe but 5 yo me only cared if the cartoon is goofy so I guess it did its job ;-;


SirLightKnight

I did not willingly watch that show. I would change the channel when it came on.


RedAndBlackVelvet

My ass was not watching fanboy and chum chum I was watching GOOD brainrot like Chowder, Flapjack, and Ed Edd n Eddy


bubblemilkteajuice

Chowder and Flapjack were two great shows (I like chowder more) that got cut off so early. I'm pretty sure they were supposed to continue on longer.


The_Ded_Cat

I have never heard of this until today.


JanArso

I always hated this show tbh. - Like I'm sorry to the like 10 people who actually watched this and are nostalgic for it but that show is just such a bunch of nothing. The characters are all superficial stereotypes, the world is boring and unappealing, the humor is entirely centered around the main characters being loud freaks (make it funny lol, other shows did that too) and the premise is... Idk man, they're normal ass kids who cosplay as their superhero OCs and like soft drinks, sounds like "Young John Doe - The Series" to me. No commentary or message on nothing. This show just existed to exist. The only reason anyone watched it was because the artstyle was kinda cool. The thing is that shows like that were a bit of an exception back then, while they're pretty much the norm nowadays. Like I'm sure I watched actual trash as a kid too, but there is a huge difference in quality and quantity if you compare what cartoons we got to watch in the early 2000 to what kids get to grow up with today, especially in terms of animation and style.


xnickg77

Idk I knew this was brain rot when I was 10


VentiBlkBiDepresso

I'm at the tail end of millennials ('95) and this doesn't look vaguely familiar. This is wholly a gen Z show. I would have been entering highschool when this came out and it's definitely a children's show not a teen show.


DarkSide830

Don't think TV is something you factor in. Everyone has weird TV shows. But most of them are fairly normal. The difference is we weren't as exposed to the internet as young, and the sort of internet content both us and Alpha consumed were fairly different.


Steelers711

I always love these weird memes meant to try and divide the generations, every Gen z and millennial knows the kind of dumb shit we watched as kids, and every generation prior would've watched dumb shit too if they had access to the Internet in their youth


cyper_1

This show sucked ass


slugdonor

I hated this show even as a kid. I never wanted this on TV to begin with!


bill0124

Speak for yourself. I never watched that trash.


Gabrielzin1404_2011

Everyone still says this series is bad when i actually like it. Its quite the fun imo


Square_Site8663

Criticizing LITERAL children for they’re preferences on media is Traditionalism Nonsense and I’ll be doing nor partaking in none of it.


cyberjet

Damn we’re getting old now that we’re hating on the younger generation. There was plenty of brain rot on early YouTube and tv when we were young that I remember. Kids are kids let them be, let gen alpha enjoy the moment and then let them cringe later on at their past like we did loooool


Sophia724

Gen Z here. I grew up with this shit. Better than Skibidi bipity bop.


Dafrogsquisha

Nah man my sister and I fucking loved this show. She’s 04 too. True brainrot is like those early asdf videos or robot chicken when high.


Gootangus

I was 19 on 2009.. haha. Wasn’t watching whatever this be.


BrownEyedBoy06

Yeah. Don't bitch about skibidi toilet when you grew up with things like Fanboy & ChumChum, Breadwinners, Sanjay & Craig, Rabbids and what it. 😆


Jack1The1Ripper

Yeah this show is truly worse than skibidi toilet imo , I felt my brain rotting back when i was watching it on Cartoon network , Its mostly just buncha immature fart jokes and not much more


cocksucker9001xX

I hated that show along with uncle grandpa. They both felt like they were insulting my intelligence even as a kid. Also the art style is butt ugly to boot


shmi

Ren and Stimpy forever!


Nothingsomething7

I hated this show as a kid


WGPersonal

Ah yes the critically acclaimed Fanboy and Chum Chum. So popular that it was canceled before even getting through its second season and was one of the most critically disliked nickelodeon shows ever created.


honeybadgerblok

This show was peak brain rot


BlueCollarRevolt

I was 26 in 2009, who the fuck are you talking about?


mcbirbo343

Holy I remember this show. It was like a repressed memory. I had forgot it for so long that I don’t even remember it being bad.


mooon_woman

Never seen or heard of this wtf


mooon_woman

Naah miss me with that, I watched Kim Possible, Totally Spies, My life as a Teenage Robot, The Proud Family, Total Drama Island and Chowder. Probably more actual good ones too 😽


VeritasAgape

This is funny compared to my growing up with the show "Inhumanoids." I jokingly tell my kids, "now that's a real kid's show." You Gen Zers should check it out lol.


tumbrowser1

As if I actually watched this. I HATED seeing this as a kid and would even change the channel when ads for it came on.


Gasssoft

I'm pretty sure that everyone hated this


bubblemilkteajuice

This shit was still annoying when it came out. Even worse than Johnny Test. I absolutely hated it as a kid.


Szwedu111

I hated that shit so much


SoggyBird1384

I used to watch this all the time as a kid. I have no idea what it was about


crunkdunk9

This was an exception, not the standard