Howdy!
"THE PLAY OFFFS"
Hey, let's face it, animation is expensive.
All those pastels, colours, scripting
editing and voice acting, that costs MONEY
that Nickelodeon is not willing to spend! What we need
is something QUICK! EASY! And with
flashy effect and unfathomably bad acting!
But most importantly, CHEAP!
Enter the dreaded Nickelodeon sitcom!
A place where teen actors go to read out painfully
unfunny scripts, followed by a barrage of
SO MUCH canned laughter you will be likely be driven
to question the maddening terror that is your life within
15 seconds of watching. And of course, all
actors are contracted to give the absolute worse acting
performances of their lives, it takes a special kind
of awful to make this list.
The Nickelodeon sitcom generally has to be of such cataclysmically
poor quality, that it somehow lowers the
quality of life of the viewers watching
and any teenagers acting in it,
While there has been occasionally been some nick sitcoms over the years
that has brought us memorable, enduring
unique character, with relatable teen stories,
these mostly consist of well...
Drake and Josh, Victorious and iCarly
So lets check out the top 6 Worst Modern Nickelodeon Sitcoms
if the Nick sitcom is made after 2010, it's allowed on the list
and to keep things fresh, I will be excluding
all the Nick sitcoms I've talked about before
and to any actors of the show, please understand
I am not criticising you as a person, just the shows you're acting in
Maybe you had bad directors or you had to do it in one take
I don't know, But I hope that you can keep trying and go on to do
to do better, greater things. Anyway
Anyway onto the countdown
Nicky, Ricky, Dicky and Dawn
Ok, seriously, what kind of horrible
parent names there kid... Dicky.
That's like a even worst name for your child then Nigel
Now... you may claim I'm a complete
JERK for making fun of sitcom with child actors
And... well... your probably right! But the acting
from these kids is just so
mindblowingly terrible
Its like watching a friends son/daughter school play, except rather than reciting
the declaration of independence, all the kids are yelling
and trying to be funny at the same time
[Ricky]: WILLY NILLY! WILLY NILLY"
You may want to smile, but you are so
enveloped by a sea of awkwardness, that all you can do is countdown the minutes until this cruel and unusual torture
is over! So the story is that these four kids are
trouble making quadruplets and.. that's it really.
Most of the time we are watching these 11-year-old
awkwardly spout poorly-written dialogue and get up
to INCREDIBLE antics like...throwing
foam at each other
would anyone beyond a 7-year-old ...
actually laugh at ...
throwing foam?
There's no comedy timing to it, there is no
cleverness to it, its just ..throwing foam
And occasionally, if you are really lucky,
you might get a scene of a building for a few seconds not
trying to act. And they are sweet, sweet
moments of peace from the torture.
Now, I know they are only kids but surely, SURELY
child actors don't have to overact so BADLY
that you feel like gnawing your own arm off
within 20 second of there performance
[Dawn] Sounds like quality family time to me. Am I right?
[Dawn] Up top!
(Cat music plays)
Every time they yell or
try to act and the soul-less canned laughter plays
without a seconds hesitation, I just can't stop asking how
any audience will not find this torture.
Dispite Nicky, Ricky, Dicky and Dawn
being among the worst Nick sitcom acting I have ever seen,
this one is at the start of the list because...
well... they are only kids
Game Shakers. Game Shakers is well remembered
by many by being a milestone in... [Glozell] Scream (everyone screams)
The downfall in Dan Scheinder's career
It's not as offensively bad as some of the others
but Scheider's original comedy timing is gone
and the character, as hard as they are trying, just don't have that
former Schindler memorability. As
for positives, well... the acting... is better than
Ricky, Nicky, Dicky and Dawn??? Though I
suppose that like saying that a searing oven is cooler than an inferno
If exposed to either, both are likely to leave
permanent damage
Game Shakers honestly feels like a cut-down
inferior version of iCarly, and that's the
problem with this one. The skits and scene all feel
rehashed and leave no impact
I've watched the first few episodes twice and I can barely remember anything
beyond a kid rolling around in peanut butter
and a rapper jumping on a trampoline
I actually don't mind the characters in Game Shakers, because
it feels like they are actually trying, and there is a certain
warmth to this one that does redeem it a bit.
The story's basically some seventh graders start a new
game app company called Game Shakers, they partner
with a rapper and usual Scheinder antics ensue
I don't hate this one because honestly
The characters are much more charming than someone like Henry Danger
some are still annoying and its not greatly acted,
but it's an improvement over Henry Danger.
I think that its OK if this one sticks on the network but,
I won't be tuning into it anytime soon
[Babe] we gotta use the bathroom
[Character] All three of you have to use the bathroom together
[Babe] Hudson need our help
[Hudson] I get confused
How To Rock!
Well... lets start with the performances ,
I wouldn't normally draw so much attention to the acting
but the problem with these 2-cent Nick sitcoms is that
the acting is so appalling , that you can't help but focus
your attention on it
[Character Name] I still think she looks kind of ..Ow!
[Character Name] perfect!
[Character Name] You look perfect not ow!
And that's a frustrating part of these! Whenever I try and focus on
The concept or the story of
the message of these shows.
These excessively blinking, heavily breathing teen actors
keep bombarding me
with the most cringe-worthy performances possible.
The story of How To Rock is that a
popular girl named Kacey loses her popularity
after she has to wear braces but regains that
respect by becoming a ....pop singer
[Kacey] (singing) "You feeling fabulous put your hand up"
"You can be you, I can be me "
The songs themselves are average at best
and they feel far more
like an attempt for Nick to cash in on selling iTunes singles
than an artistic addition to the show. I
don't mind the message of an unpopular teenager for being judged
for who she is rather than by appearance, but the problem is
that this message is not subtle
Like most of the teen sitcoms, the message is shoved
down our throats until we gag and drown in our own phlegm!
I feel like this setup could be done well,
But the problem is that the characters are written so flat and
2 dimensional, that i don't think that the teen actors could make a good
performance out of these roles. You've got the mean
shallow girls, the dull pretty boy
love interest, the two comic reliefs and a goofy
white guy. And poor Chris O'Neal, despite,
in my opinion, giving the best performance on the show,
feels like he is the tacked on, token African American
I don't mind How To Rock's concept, but it's still got
All the sins of a sins of the standard, dreaded
Nickelodeon teen sitcom in spades
[Kevin] (Tarzan scream)Hi Kacy!
Bella and the Bulldogs, There is little about
Bella and the Bulldogs that doesn't fit in a
has-been stereotype show.
Bella leave the cheerleaders and joins the football team and
*gasps* what a shock! Because she is a girl!
Would the football team accept her?
Haven't we got pass this, weren't female footballer
only unusual in the 90's maybe?
And like any other terrible Nick sitcom, the laugh track
of course lingers like a bad smell
seriously, what was funny about that
was there any valid reason to have the laugh track there
at all?
It wasn't even a well delivered line. Again
the acting is still...marginally better than
Ricky....
But what bothers me so much is the way the show continually
SLAMS its week "girl empowerment" message
into your face with no room for subtlety.
[Coach Russell] And see gonna bat her eyelashes
] and tug at you heart strings the way that you
females are so good at
[Coach Russell] FOOTBALL
is too dangerous for a girl!
If anything, it feel like its talking down to young women,
not crediting its demographic with the intelligence to pick up
subtle messages. While Bella and the Bulldogs
isn't going to cause any harm, I think both women and men
deserve better
[Phantom Strider] Hello *audience laughter*
Bucket and Skinner's Epic Adventures
[Bucket] Sup
[Skinner] How you doin'?
Urgh.. this one, imagine the most annoying. loud class
clowns in your old high school. Now give them
red cordial, a bunch of humiliating costumes
and tell them to... yell out
whatever the feel on camera. At least THAT
scenario would be REAL and not
BADLY acted at the same time.I dont actually think
Bucket and Skinner were asked to act, I suspect the
director just asked them to stare at the camera
looking constipated for 22 mins and..just...filmed the results
Most of the skits aren't even ATTEMPTS at
dialogue-driven humour, half the time they're just
dressing the poor teens up in embarrassing getup's
and then just telling them to jump around frantically
Even the Disney sitcoms know that "the idiot" is not
a legitimate character that can drive a sitcom!
Nowadays the idiot comic relief is so over done
that it barely makes for a minor character
Let alone giving us two idiot characters with no
depth or substance to dominate the entire show
I feel bad for the viewers, I feel
bad for the actors involved, the whole thing just feels like
a sad attempt to remake Drake and Josh, with
NONE of the original charm or clever writing
And before we get to number one, we have the Honorable Mentions and one
UNMENTIONABLE. And the unmentionable is
of course, FRED: THE SHOW
which will not be discussed In this video. Because honestly,
I feel like jailing myself for discussing Fred: The Show
more than once. Fortunately, that's all Lucas
ever did on Nickelodeon. And the honourable mentions are
True Jackson VP
[True Jackson] True Jackson VP was filmed in front of a live studio audience
Yes! and actual real live
studio audience that shows actual
emotion and expression, I still suspect they are
laughing at gunpoint but, hey its a start. Hats off to you
True Jackson VP.
I really hate the canned laughter
in this on particularly, and the jokes are criminally unfunny.
In my opinion, it's actually much worse than Game Shakers
But i already talked about it before, so i left it off the list
Make it Pop! A pretty average Nick sitcom about a bunch of high school girls forming a K-pop band
It's not engaging at all but do you know what I DO
appreciated about it, NO LAUGH TRACK
HOORAY! You have no idea how wonderful that
respectful silence is after the jokes
THUMBS UP NICKELODEON
You can do it if you try!
Honestly, I like Ariana and Jenette from Victorious and iCarly. but when you put them together
apparently the writing quality has to be halved as well
Some people have nice memories of this one, But personally
It certainly wasn't one I liked
Anyway, on to number one
[Marvin] Greetings fellow Klootonians! (record scratches)
Hang On! Hang On! We said no FRED-The Show
He had a spin-off
I remember know alright fine, fine!
Let's give it a look because honestly, nothing
else can fit Number One than this...
[Marvin] Hello, I'm Marvin the human boy (slaps face)
I have got to slow down a bit with this one because
well...maybe it will be more entertaining
for me to launch into a tirade about how terrible,
obnoxious,
self-adulating and stupid this show is and
don't get me wrong, they are all these things and more. but honestly,
the main problem with trying to review this one is
every time i want to watch an episode, within 30 second
i feel deep revulsion, emotional exhaustion
and I have lost some of my faith on the future of children's entertainment
This show just saddens me that it ever existed,
though I am comforted at least it was cancel after the first season
You see, there is a big void within a part of
Nickelodeon's reputation . A void that is far less greater
than the absolute worst of Spongebob,
The worst of Fairly Odd Parents, and avoid even
greater than any other of the Nick sitcoms.
The worst of these show are all supreme
compared to the empty , vapid, pointless existence
of Marvin Marvin. It's like Lucas'
entire presence on Nickelodeon tapped into this
primal side of the child viewer's brain
He screamed, pranced around
bathed in the glory he got for all this
popularity with children, and essentially combined
the worse of Nick sitcom tropes with the worst of YouTube.
And what we end up getting is something so
ugly, pandering and stupid to watch
that I honestly summon up the enthusiasm
to tear it apart. So I
hope you doing mind if I am a little more mellow for this one.
I think Lucas' continued popularity is finally
broken me a little
[live action] *deep breath* Its not the size of the audience that matters
what matters is each individual you affect
So lets chill and take a look at this brief pile of
dumpster trash together. So the story is
Marvin is a 580 year old teenage
alien from planet...Klootoon. He has superpowers
*sighs* including the ability to freeze, shape shift,
float, hell why don't we call him Lucas-Jesus!
Lucas-Jesus has been sent down to earth
by his parents for protection. It's like
ET, but everyone wants the alien dead. Aside from
Marvin Marvin being dominated by one of the most
annoying personality on the internet
[Marvin] Good one, up top
It also manages to have
the worst writing in all of Nickelodeon. The jokes
rely on mostly potty humour, vomiting
burping and Lucas talking about his butt.
I mean I know that there are kids out there
who like this
me first, self-indulgent mentality of Lucas
but for the most part
I think Nickelodeon should lead they way in offering smarter
more creative children entertainment
And to be honest, in recent years, I think
I think Nickelodeon is trying to do that more
because the top 3 airing shows on Nickelodeon are : Spongebob,
Loud House and Paw Patrol
They make up a good 60% of Nickelodeon's current line up
and I consider all three of these quality cartoons,
and it's good to see young actors at least
get a shot at shining, some young viewers just
care about seeing something kinda relatable, and the morals of
most of these shows are fine, so at least
it's not teaching kids anything bad. And if you were an actor
on one of these shows good on you for trying. I hope
you keep practising and go on to better greater things.
And as always thanks for watching,
and I'll see you next time