When you’re doing a cartoon series you can go as crazy or surreal as you want and it will all somehow makes sense. But try to do the same type of show with real people and the results are far more disturbing…
Rugrats
A reality show follows four real babies and a slightly older girl in hopes of capturing all types of wacky yet endearing adventures. Instead, the babies cry, scream, and poop nonstop as the little girl spends the entire show staring wide-eyed into the camera asking, “Where are our mommies?” Then most of the babies get their heads caught in boxes, stair banisters, or the mouths of passing dogs until social services arrives and arrests the entire TV crew in the final episode. The cast later returns in the sequel “All Grown Up!,” sporting tattoos they got while serving time in juvie.
Spongebob Squarepants
An underwater camera crew films a sponge, starfish, crab, and squid that they try to get to interact by way of traps, gentle foot nudging, or just stacking them one on top of the other. Meanwhile, the voice actors have to ad lib dialogue for the unmoving, uninvolved characters with such lines as “I think I’ll take a nap,” “This looks like a good place to hide under sand,” and “Help! The current is taking me away!” In an attempt to liven up the series, the producers give the crab a whale for a daughter, a move they immediately regret when she yawns and accidentally swallows the entire cast.
CatDog
In a series that would ultimately knock off ”clowns” and “clowns riding sharks” as the ultimate childhood nightmare, a doctor fuses the fronts of a cat and dog together thanks to a very peculiar research grant. While critics despise the show and parents demand the network yank it off the air, little kids keep tuning hoping that this will be the day in which one of the animals has to go to the bathroom. That episode—“Here It Comes!”—proves to be a ratings smash, but also results in every viewer vomiting nonstop for six hours, making it impossible for them to concentrate on the commercials and resulting in the show’s cancellation.
Dora the Explorer
An abandoned girl wanders the woods alone, speaking in both English and Spanish so she can feel like there’s another person with her. Soon she is joined by an adorable monkey who attacks her every chance he gets, forcing her to run deeper into the unknown as he swings from the trees, shrieking and clawing. This proves so traumatic that the little girl eventually loses her mind altogether and begins to have conversations with her backpack, her map, and a boy she calls “Diego” but is in reality a pine cone she attached some of her own hair to, all the while demanding a grasshopper, a snail, and a frog she captured to keep on singing.
The Fairy OddParents
”Poor Timmy Turner,” the doctors all say as the boy spends his life in an institution asking two goldfish to make him invisible, send him back to Camelot, or rewrite astrophysics by jumping inside a book. Meanwhile, the doctors monitor Timmy’s progress, try a series of highly experimental drug treatments that eventually cause him to think the goldfish gave birth to a baby fairy, and ultimately decide to lock him away for good in a hilarious Christmas special.
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
Watch as a supremely intelligent 11-year-old with access to every type of technology possible accidentally blows up the entire world before the first commercial break.
Would you watch any of these shows? What cartoons would you like to see a live action version of? Let us know in the comments!
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