Animated Atrocities pretending to be Admirable Animations

Animated Atrocities #11 (Town and Out)-The premise was to show what a real town would be like if it was affected by the collateral damage of the Powerpuff Girls' battles. It fails at that because everyone else in Citiesville is already mean to the Powerpuff Girls before they even caused any damage to stop a pair of robbers from escaping when they destroyed a bridge that cost more than the amount of money the bank robbers stole.

Animated Atrocities #20-Sweetheart wants her friends to see what she sees in Teddy, that he is a nice pony, but doesn’t realize he was being passive-aggressive by putting her down so he could bring her back up.

Animated Atrocities #68 (Are You Happy Now?)-It’s the antithesis to Squidward torture episodes by having Spongebob help Squidward by giving him happy memories and actually shows concern for Squidward when he gets depressed, but Squidward acts like he has never been happy and almost attempts suicide twice, so this story is unusually depressing to swallow in a usually cheery show like Spongebob.

Animated Atrocities #90-It’s a sweet film about a living dog poop with stupendous animation, but it's also about learning to accept death or finding purpose in nature.

Animated Atrocities #96-Stressed Eric has a lot of biting-the-hand humor and satire on cruel modern society, as well as the British health care system when Eric is not a priority case after suffering so many injuries. I am surprised that there were so many people who liked this show in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Even if you find a lot of the stupid or annoying regular cast members like Maria, Ray Perfect or Paul Power any funny, Stressed Eric is always dreadful to watch as everyone in the universe punishes Eric at all costs, and this episode wants us to suffer the same pain as him with all the ear-grating sound effects that we get in the hospital. The basis of every single joke is that everyone and everything is cruel to Eric. Not even the later seasons of Family Guy and Spongebob Squarepants had that much sadistic humor in them, and they both started one year after Stressed Eric. In 1998, Mega Babies was Ren and Stimpy's gross-out trend gone foul, but in the same year, Stressed Eric was Rocko's Modern Life's torture porn trend gone foul. Gross-out may have been the worst animation trend in the 1990s, but torture porn was the worst animation trend in the 2000s, if all of the Squidward torture porns and Patrick's a Prick episodes from Spongebob Squarepants didn't give you that hint. Which trend is the greater of two evils? You decide, but I'm going with the Stressed Eric trend being worse for now.

Animated Atrocities #141 (Book 1)-This is a wonderful spiritual successor to Avatar in a new era with intricate storylines the Avatar franchise is known for having, but it has tons of plot holes, world-building problems and annoying characters addressed in this review. Korra is an annoying "girl-power" Mary Sue tomboy stereotype, and in the Season 1 finale she still has her Avatar powers after they were taken away from her.

Animated Atrocities #143-

An episode-length embodiment of the #1 worst cliche from Animated Atrocities #145-It truly is one of Bojack Horseman's greatest and most emotionally intense and introspective episodes, like its other penultimate season finales, but so much more. Bojack Horseman reconnects with his deceased family members and fellow actors. He thinks he is having that dream again where he has dinner with his deceased buddies, but when he can't wake up from it, he fears that he might really be dead when he looks at a shadow of himself in his swimming pool. After Bojack says "See you on the other side", Herb says "Oh, Bojack, no. There is no other side. This is it." which makes Bojack even more scared of dying when the black liquid comes out of the magic door on stage to consume him. Bojack runs away, finds a landline phone, and shares one last phone call with Diane Nguyen, the last person he talked to before falling in the pool, before the black liquid covers him entirely.

Over the credits, a hospital flatline starts beeping, indicating Bojack is still alive. The first minute of the next episode still gave us two more Bojack death fake-outs, and to make matters worse, one of them is a joke recycled from the first episode when Bojack watched the final Horsin' Around episode in the hospital. It would be a cop out to have Bojack kill himself after all he went through in the previous 2 episodes, but it is an even bigger cop out to make a whole episode to lie to us that he really did that. If the Season 3 finale had Sarah Lynn overdosing and dying, why would the Season 6 finale back out with its cowardice by not having her Horsin' Around co-star die karmically the same way as her at the end of the series? I did not want Bojack to die. I'm just asking for some way, in some world how the emotional stakes and tension in this masterpiece of a nightmare could not evaporate instantly if Bojack survived. Otherwise, do not make this episode at all if you really want him to live through it. And that is why the long face. I still think having Bojack survive in the end works since it gives him another chance to sober up again, but I am a bit worried that some people will feel the opposite way.

Animated Atrocities #147-The Simpsons are supposed to be glad they still have each other on Christmas when the other Springfieldians stole their stuff to get back at them for scamming them, but it’s done in the wrong way because they let the other characters get away with robbing them, and even though it was wrong of the Homer and Marge to lie about being robbed after Bart burned down their Christmas tree, the real villains of the story are the rest of Springfield for suddenly turning on the Simpsons when they learn the truth after they opened their hearts out to them, and showing no empathy for the Simpsons when they really did need their help, even though they were not robbed.

Animated Atrocities #148-It’s about the Mane 6 telling the crowd who criticizes them that they wouldn’t be who they are without their flaws, but it also tells us that they don’t need to grow and change and it’s okay for Fluttershy to keep learning the same lesson, like some real people do, when that is not the example you want to set for real people to be taught for that reason.

Animated Atrocities #156-It was incredibly obvious that Brian would be back after Life of Brian somehow, and while this had some genuinely heartfelt moments, with Stewie giving a sincere goodbye to Vinnie and wishing Brian a merry Christmas after saving his life, this is not as impactful as it should be because Vinnie only appeared in 3 episodes and we did not get to know much about him as a character. That is not to mention that Christmas Guy had another pointless plot to artificially extend it in which Carter cancelled the Christmas carnival and Peter tried to get Carter into having Christmas spirit by making him drink a bunch of gross eggnog. It was a bit cowardly of Bojack Horseman to tell us Bojack didn't really die from an overdose like he thought, but at least it didn't wait another 2 episodes to retcon the past when the retcon plot barely filled the second half of the episode.

This plot could work better if we spent another whole year with Vinnie before rescuing Brian became Stewie's subplot in The 2,000 Year-Old Virgin, which only thought he had another plot about exchanging presents with Rupert. If Seth MacFarlane didn't want Brian back from the start, he could have Ted Jessup write The 2,000 Year-Old Virgin to bring Brian back a year after fans got tattoos to commemorate Brian's passing, and that could be the Christmas to which Stewie traveled forward in time for his Jolly Farm playset. Chap Stewie, the Season 12 episode where Stewie makes a new time machine, can happen later in Season 13. It would be nice for Tony Sirico to have 20 episodes instead of 3, because Vinnie could at least bring something new to the show that distinguishes himself from Brian, and we could have some stories to know more about Vinnie instead of Brian's a Bad Father, Herpe the Love Sore and Brian the Closer, Brian's worst episodes yet.

Animated Atrocities #164-The controversial episode banned for strobe lights and religious themes. It was one of the Top 11 Things Mr. Enter would never review back in 2015, because he actually considered making both an Animated Atrocities and Admirable Animations video for the same episode. In 2019 he settled on the Animated Atrocities side of things. It has a cool variety of songs in an ambitious episode where almost every line is sung, but the story also has some contradictory moments, like the Powerpuff Girls still having their powers when they decided that what they gave up their powers for wasn't worth it. The ending musical number "Why can't we all get along" should be answered by the previous musical number where they say "There's no good without the bad."

Animated Atrocities #169- (I need to watch Enter's review of it first)

Animated Atrocities #TBA-It teaches Morty an important lesson about the scale of the universe and ripple effects when his desire for a date rape drug to get Jessica turns over-consequential, but it hits him and us with too many nightmares and a downer ending that makes us think Rick solved the problem at first. It is clearly a Morty torture porn that made me wonder why I should watch this after everyone in the Earth sans his family tried to rape Morty, he had to bury his dead alternate self from another universe, and Beth didn't even miss him and Rick when they left. It's not funny or deep or thought provoking, it's just sad and disgusting for Rick and Morty to flanderize the darkest aspects a thousand times like Animated Atrocities #52. Like Miracle on Evergreen Terrace, it subverts certain cliches in such a bad way for us to thank them for showing us why they exist to keep a story from getting too sad because they ended in disaster without them, and punish us for caring about Bart and Morty when they get hit with worse than they deserved.

Animated Atrocities #TBA-It could have made an interesting story akin to Rick and Morty's The ABCs of Beth, where a character who acts normal now was a scary kid before, but nothing is ever done with that. It only thinks Anais just being born is an excuse to have her character be 100% different with no plausible transition to who she is now. If the writer wanted to make a point about some babies not being born innocent, s/he didn't need to drop the same characters into a different out-of-place story for it! It's a straight-up creepy pasta that dumps on and contradicts The Choices beyond the point of dropping characters into any situation with no rhyme or reason. It is only A Pal for Gary, from 8 years ago, rewritten with The Amazing World of Gumball characters where baby Anais is the Puffy Fluffy. The only thing that makes A Pal for Gary better is that Gary ended up on top and he knew Puffy Fluffy was bad the whole time.

After Gumball and Darwin lose Anais because she tried to murder them 2 times, they try to get her back because she is still their sister. It could be a good moment of redemption for demonic Anais, if she started to like her brother after he rescued her, and this ending shot that opportunity in the foot by having her try to kill them again and saying "Gumball did it!" I guess writing a disturbing storyline for the wrong sort of show is so unforgivable that any unearned moments of sentiment are pointless. The Rival also ripped off Toy Story 3 in their climax, and that came out the same year as A Pal for Gary. Not only is this episode detrimental to every Gumball character that appears in it, it's just a hodge podge of 3 different scary stories that were done much better on their own about 3 decades before A Pal for Gary, and most of it is child's play, such as Child's Play.

Animated Atrocities #TBA-It had a creative concept by having Bart in a coma and meeting ghosts who seek revenge. However, the makings of an Admirable Animation are ruined by Lisa being too out of character cruel, the story forgetting to established that Lisa snapped after Bart pranking her for 28 seasons in a way that could justify Lisa's torment of Bart, making Bart too nice to deserve what he got, Bart being punished for caring about losing his dad and trying to save Homer's life after Maude's ghost wanted him to kill Homer for revenge, and Lisa being sorry way too fast and too transparently.

Animated Atrocities #TBA-While it was a good idea to show how Steven could develop as a character beyond the movie, after he crumbled the Diamonds' empire and helped Spinel change for the better, and to address the lasting trauma that all of this danger adventuring could have on him, it is a bad idea to repurpose his whole childhood this way. The final 3 episodes (or 6 segments) make Steven's dad Greg look maliciously neglectful, to the point where Steven wished to have the same restrictions as his dad did growing up, and may have attempted to kill them both by crashing their van. If it was not bad enough that Steven Universe Future wasted opportunities it brought up for a lot of side characters to develop after The Movie (such as Volleyball, Bluebird, Jasper, Bismuth and Spinel) because everything must focus on Steven, which led to one occasion where he is surprised that Lars and Sadie worked things out without him, it thinks that teen angst is not a bad excuse to murder the kind, well-rounded person Steven used to be. Not to mention, they lost out on a massive opportunity for Spinel to help Steven in Homeworld the same way he helped her in The Movie. Steven Universe Future is so bad, it is not the same show as Steven Universe, and Steven is not the same character he was before. If he is an optimistic guy who can stare down any threat with an act of kindness and never had any trauma that lasted for more than 2 episodes, then why did it suddenly get to him 2 years later? Were all of the adventures with Greg and the Crystal Gems really just child abuse?

Steven Universe Future dealt with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder about as poorly as Family Guy dealt with domestic abuse/violence in Screams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q and The Amazing World of Gumball dealt with crime and punishment in The Finale: By transcending 9/10ths of reality, exaggerating something that should never be exaggerated as a joke, not fleshing the conflict out at all, and solving it in the quickest way imaginable. Most mentally ill teens are not as psychotic as Steven! Something is clearly wrong with Steven, but either the people and gems around Steven ignore him, or when they do try to help Steven, he turns down their help, like telling Spinel not to give him his own advice. Every time Steven gets mad, he turns pink and gains new powers as the plot demands. After he crashed Greg's van, he picked a fight with Jasper and shattered her, but this is easily resolved with a bath of diamond shampoo. Homeworld Bound was pointless because there was no natural Segway for showing the Diamonds repurposing their powers for good. Everything's Fine wastes more time before Steven turns into a monster, but nothing important really comes of it. None of the damage Steven caused to anyone has any lasting consequences. How does Steven Universe Future resolve Steven's post-traumatic stress? By having everyone he ignored before hug him and blame themselves. He finally goes to therapy, but it happens offscreen because Rebecca Sugar wants to give Steven privacy because she does not know how to solve this and she does not know the first thing about mental health. The last episode is a Quibi of half-hearted goodbyes, and it is not a good time for Steven to leave and see what is out there because if he was worried about his friends leaving him before in Little Graduation, then how will Steven leaving himself fix the problem? It just felt like the end of a normal season, not a big series finale that has been building up for 6 years. That makes the last episode all the more disappointing, and the fact that this insulting story arc was allowed to air on Cartoon Network really upsets me. If Steven really wants the emotional support of his friends, he needs to stay with them before he is ready to explore the world on his own.