This show is just....... Well let's just get to the point. Firstly, this show has a downright unappealing and disgusting visual style. The character designs don't make it any better, they're just as ugly. Really pains me to look at it, not very nice on the eyes. It's different, I'll give it that, but it's not a positive different. And the animation of the characters is very slow and delayed, like frames are outright missing sometimes. It's animation is MUCH better than Breadlosers, but still, pretty below average and mediocre. The humor is also an issue: GROSS OUT HUMOR EVERYWHERE. Often revolving around butts, it's unnecessary and forced in. It's not as bad as Breadlosers with it, but still, it's everywhere. The characters themselves are one note and not very likable. Look at Pig for example, the jokes revolving around him are pretty annoying. His shtick is to constantly eat up things and mess up. Like, he constantly throws gross out humor to the audience, and his stupidity isn't very charming like say pre-movie Patrick or Edd from Ed, Edd, N Eddy. Like, OKAY!!! I GET YOU LIKE FUDGE BUBBLES. I GET YOU LIKE PICKLES!!! Can you give me another reason to even care about you? He's a mixture of SpongeBob and Patrick, optimistic and dumb. And his voice is pretty grating too. On to Goat, she's somewhat of a sarcastic ill-tempered know it all. She doesn't really have a personality and is very bland. Her shtick is to sing horribly, and get angry and start yelling gibberish. She's just like Sandy. Now for Banana. He feels like he's trying too hard to make the audience laugh. He's pretty self absorbed and he's arguably the worst in terms of likability with the exception of Pig. His lines sound awfully forced and he's a pest to the others. And he has quite repetitive humor, like, HOW MANY TIMES DO YOU HAVE TO ASK FOR WIFI? It's OK to have a catchphrase, but to have constant humor revolving around it, is just really monotonous. He's a mixture of Squidward and Mr. Krabs, sarcastic and manipulative. And on to Cricket. The most likable character out of the four, and he's pretty BORING. Like, nothing about him is interesting. He's a nerdy disrespected inventor. He's basically Plankton. As you can see, these characters seem like cheap copies of the characters from SpongeBob. Could they have at least came up with some original personalities? Nope, SpongeBob's popular, so we have to copy it so we can be popular too. So I watched the first episode. It was about the characters freaking out after Pig unleashes fudge bubbles created by Cricket. The plot feels awfully clichéd, like an charmless version of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. And the show isn't very entertaining. I got so bored that I literally lost attention rapidly and found myself browsing on Google. while watching. This show also suffers from a disjointed narrative. Scenes will randomly switch and pick up on another character, in situations not even closely related to each other. There's no sort of flow or connection in these plots. Can you make a plot that incorporates all the main characters at once?? Hell, it's almost as bad as Family Guy in that aspect. And the episode kinda overstays it's welcome. Like, if the episode was gonna be this boring, could it have at least been 15 minutes? But the episode is extended to 30 minutes. Overall, this show doesn't look like it's gonna be very successful. Unlikable characters, hideous visual style, boring plots, it just doesn't have that much going for it. I find it worse than Sanjay and Craig, but it's not as abysmal as Breadlosers. It's a shame too, because this show comes along right in the wake of the critical success of Harvey Beaks, a WONDERFUL show and the best cartoon Nick has had in years, and the newest SpongeBob episodes, which were pretty darn good (I mean, they're the first episodes Stephen Hillenburg worked on since Season 3). People, don't watch this show. There's so much better options, like Harvey Beaks and We Bare Bears. But I'm giving it 5 stars because it's a HUGE IMPROVEMENT over Breadlosers.
Review of Pig Goat Banana Cricket
