Thread 150081325

In Cartoon Network's shows back in the day, all the casts of every show (that weren't action shows) had to hate each other.

No

My Gym Partner's a Monkey doesn't deserve to be on this list that show just felt like it was straight up CatDog levels of nasty and unpleasant at times.
There's a definite difference between it and the Billy and Mandy kind of mean spirited
also the Foster's mean spirited meme needs to die

Yeah
I unironically like it that way, caused more conflict and jokes and the characters eventually still liked each other when all things were said and done

>>150083574
EEnE, doesn't need to be described. They are genuinely friends despite the rest of the neighborhood hating them, just watch Big Picture Show
Billy and Mandy is hard to describe because everyone there is an absolute asshole and demented, but there's moments were Mandy sucks it up and saves Billy even when she doesn't need to. Maybe it's an ownership thing.
I don't think Foster's and MGPaM really fit on here. Foster's Home is just full of assholes who trip over each other, not really hating each other

>>150081325 (OP)
sorry OP but it was too MEAN SPIRITED

>>150081325 (OP)
How is Whatever Happened to… Robot Jones? not on that list
The main character gets shat on by almost everyone in his school

>>150081582
Fosters had some good episodes.

I thought OP was implying there was some sort of network rivalry between these shows and was utterly baffled

>>150081325 (OP)
Conflict drives narrative, whether that be internal or interpersonal. I don't think people Hated eachother so much as they were able to be Annoyed without it being the end of the world.
Eds are always trying to scam the other kids in the culdesac, so naturally that earns them some enmity, but they also keep coming back for more so who's really to blame?
Mandy has this smoldering hatred for mankind, yet gets along amicably with Billy. Billy's hatred burns like firecracker: fast and loud, over in an instant, and doesn't happen too often. Anytime someone else gets pissed off AT them it's usually some idiot villains like the Keebler Elves or Headmaster Toadblatt who Deserve some comeuppance.
Bloo is a lovable prankster who the audience is meant to empathize with so you WANT to see him get out of jams like with Squeakerboxxxx or the Ice Charades. ACTUAL problem characters/plots like Goofball or Bendy are one-and-done outliers. If you got pissed off at Cheese, that's just your autism grating against his.
I barely remember anything about Gym Partner, most of the conflicts there were generic fish out of water gags from Adam not being used to an Animal School, weren't they? And he usually came on top at the end by learning how to integrate. Jake being annoying is kinda the premise of the show, what are you gonna do make him NOT get up to monkeyshines?
Honestly, some relatively recent shows have been kinda worse about this than the old school ones:
>Steven Universe
Ronaldo, Lars, & (especially) Kevin constantly get shit on, Lars only getting redeemed after he fucking DIES.
>Teen Titans GO!
Every other episode makes a buttmonkey out of Robin for being the downer straightman of the group.
>The Amazing World of Gumball
That family is getting into eachother's hair so often I'm surprised they haven't divorced with joint custody.
There are probably other recent examples I'm unaware of because I stopped watching CN in 2021.