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What a Piece of Garbage


Why Does Nickelodeon make these crappy shows. Allow me to haze this cartoon pice by piece

1. The Concept of this stupid cartoon is not only gimmicky, it's unoriginal (See Porky in Wackyland, 1938, Bob Clampett used a Half Cat-Half Dog in Wackyland as a throwaway gag)

2. The Animation sucks. The Colors are bright enough, but it's like a ty-dye piece of feces.

3. The Characters. A Dopey Dog attached to a wimp cat. And a bunch of even worse characters, most being one-dimensional caricatures

I'm Glad Nick had the sense to Cancel this piece of horse dung.

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Something's wrong with all of the haters. They seem to spend all of their time talking about how stupid the show is! Uh, okay, you hate it. Quit writing about how much you hate it. WE GET IT.

I have to say that those who think it's stupid are the ones who really haven't given it a chance. Even if they've sat down to watch it, they're probably telling themselves to hate it the whole time, so they're not even giving it a chance while watching it!

The characters are actually very complex. Cat can seem conceited, but he's really very insecure. Dog might seem like he's just stupid, but he can be very observative and is always empathetic to others' needs (except when he's in an instinctive trance, like when he's chasing the garbage truck!) I think Dog shows he's not ignorant very often; a character in tune to others' feelings like Dog is cannot be called a genuine "dope". Cat isn't always courageous, but there are many times when he steps up to the plate. He can be a strong individual when a cause motivates him.

You're saying the animation sucks, but I don't see how.

And just because a cat and a dog were attached in an old cartoon doesn't mean OMG THE WHOLE THING IS UNORIGINAL. Wtf, that cat and dog being attacked lasted for what, a second? And just because of that one second, the concept of CatDog is unoriginal? The plots are creative! Really, they are. So creative. Spongebob and CatDog both have creative plots; you don't see that much.

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I get what you're saying about the animation, but it was still good. Maybe in your own certain way it sucked to you, that still doesn't mean it wasn't any good though.

This was a decent show, the one big turn-off for me growing up watching this was how depressing it could be in a way. The darker colors, the dreary place they live in with a gang of bullies who constantly want to beat them up, Rancid Rabbit always being an oppressive authoritative figure, living with a mouse who patronizes you, being attached to someone thus getting no privacy - add that up with bad personality traits and we have ourselves a not so stellar show.


Greatest picture of All Time
http://cdn.static.ovimg.com/episode/26055.jpg

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