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Dino Squad (2007)
Bad writing, bad animation, bad science.
This is probably one of the worst shows I have seen in a long time. Everything about it is just bad. The five teens in the show are supposed to be geniuses, yet the science that their ideas are based off of was obviously thought up by a high school dropout that got a D+ in every science class he ever took. It's a little on the pathetic side at time, the characters sling around words that were obviously included because they sound big and "sciencey", yet it's obvious that the writers didn't have the slightest clue what the words meant.
Other than that, the show doesn't offer much more than the standard fare of feel-good pseudo-environmentalism that seems to choke kids programming lately. It feels a lot like Bruce Smith and Al Gore got really drunk one night and decided to make a crappy cartoon together. The writing is horrible, the animation is worse, and the science brings it all together into a very nice hat trick.
Life with Derek (2005)
So long to family values!
Everything about this show is grating on me. You have the parents, who are irresponsible, self-centered yuppies who are so proteanly useless that that show actually makes story lines around their total ineptitude as parents. I know that it's become clichéd as hell to make wisecracking, obnoxious anti-authoritarian kids in sitcoms, but Derek is so over the top that it is completely unbelievable. My first time watching this show I was absolutely repulsed, I was sure that at the end of that episode that what Derek really needs is to be backhanded from time to time. However, the show seems to be all about not having to take responsibility for your actions - Derek consistently gets away with anything he wants, disobeys his father and stepmother on a whim and is never punished for his actions. This is not surprising, seeing the waste of life that their parents are.
This show is totally void of anything remotely resembling family values, I wouldn't even consider allowing my kids to watch it.
The Proud Family (2001)
Could they have found any more obnoxious stereotypes?
There are only a few Disney channel shows that I do not allow my kids to watch, and this heads the list of them. Chief among my complaints is that the only member of a household that it's still politically correct to lampoon is the fathers, and BOY does the proud family capitalize on this. The show portrays the husband and father of the house and a imbecilic moron who provides no purpose whatsoever aside from producing a paycheck. The mother, on the other hand, is seen as the driving force behind the household, she's competent and her character's entire shtick is proving how irrelevant her husband is to the household. Aide from this fact, the show is blatantly racist to the point that I can't watch it without being disgusted. Every single obnoxious black stereotype is covered here in perfection. The entertainment industry still seems to not get that the success of the Cosby Show was partly due to that fact that nobody WANTS to see every single television black family as slang-slinging, hip-hop listening, ghettofied bags of what the entertainment industry perceives as 'blackness'.