nothing bludgeons us over the head with
the cartoons premise quite like it's
opening
sometimes those catchy energy-packed
first 40 seconds can be the most
exciting part of the cartoon then again
sometimes they can be the equivalent to
a screeching cat being raped over a car
alarm
these theme songs might have zero beat
make zero sense have zero effort put
into them or worst of all they might
just be straight-up noise so let's check
out the top 10 worst cartoon theme songs
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covering some old ground in this video
with cartoons I previously may have
talked about but I'll try to give a
fresh different perspective on each one
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countdown number 10 oh man oh this is
just the best kind of bad the lyrics
make no sense they don't rhyme they
don't even sync up in any way it's silly
it's campy it's it's got its own so bad
it's good charm I like this song too
much to call it anything other than
charmingly abysmal in this deke
animation 90 sweats
cartoon sten MC Hammer's real name
apparently gets given magic talking
shooters making him into the Hammond
heir who fights monsters with magical
talking dance shoes jeepers this was
actually a real concept for a real-life
cartoon this song really doesn't sound
like it was written by MC Hammer it
sounds like it was written by a geek
animation employee who was never written
a song yet alone a coherent English
speaking sentence in their entire life
although we get a magic I toilets well
background looks like someone lost their
lunch it's a real testament to him his
charisma that he could actually somehow
still make this horrendous song charming
and he can tell hammers trying he's
really trying
great effort MC Hammer but even you
can't save a deke animation show and
peanuts what's interesting about pickle
and peanuts opening song is it supreme
lack of song in Disney Channel's
attempts to be trendy I guess they
created that pretentious mindless a
grating style of music that I like to
call wobb wobb music I sometimes hear it
in some modern pop songs from artists
who I personally think survive on their
momentum rather than their quality
instead of a harmonious changing and
moving of the pitches like in a normal
song you instead get this continual lazy
unchanging wob wobbuff ease with no
meaning or harmony whatsoever in this
case pickle and peanuts idea of an
opening of song is a continual listing
of random items while speaking and ugly
digitally sped up and slowed voices all
while the dreaded wobb wobb thee pounds
into your ears pickle and peanuts early
on on the list though is it doesn't tend
to aggravate me nearly as much as the
latest songs honest
and the eight worse cartoon theme song
is the wacky world of Tex Avery this
intro
there's just no defining this one other
than a completely nonsensical straight
60 seconds of ear assault this is gonna
be a painful video you have this
boisterous voice combined with continual
armpit noises looming for our speakers
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who came up with this and thought yeah
this is what people want to hear
slamming through their surround sound
speakers at full volume if you've heard
the first two seconds of the song's
lyrics congratulations you now know the
entire song of Tex Avery in case you
haven't listened to two seconds of its
and I don't blame you I will now present
you the theme songs lyrics
welcome to the wah-wah wacky wacky
wah-wah world of Tex Avery and the
seventh worst cartoon opening this nut
shack oh it's the nut shack all right
the only thing you will learn by the end
of the song is that this cartoon is
called the nut shack there is a lot of
lyrics it's just the nut sack as I
mentioned before this really sounds more
like a continual mantra' that your
friends repeat to you continually in the
car for hours on end to try and annoy
you the visuals give us a very clear
indication of the wrong cheap garbage
we've signed up for and worst of all
it's hard to get rid of this one it's
really catchy
it's the nut shack and I want no part of
the nut check once was enough for me
number six Shaggy and scooby-doo get a
clue
again I feel like I'm not really
listening to any harmonious combination
of pitches that make a song I feel like
I'm just listening to the singer yell at
me for a minute straight in fact the
singer the song actually sounds like
he's getting progressively more furious
in the recording booth as he yells the
somme house
[Music]
I'm not exactly sure what I did wrong
but by the end he's yelling at me with
such tenacity and ferocity but I get
slightly terrified
so Shaggy and Scooby dance around in the
shadows and progressively worse monkey
dances as we get a random guy yelling in
us a song that sounds the equivalent to
a backseat are we there yet mantra only
one thing was clear by the end
apparently Shaggy and Scooby most
definitely get a clue what's constant
opening is almost naked animals almost
naked animals is more like a mantra' of
insanity than an actual song the
overhyped singer just blares out the
name of the show continually which I
guess is actually a favor to us maybe
the creators are secretly warning us of
the lousy cartoon we're about to lay our
eyes on and deep down maybe a part of
them is telling us get out now it's not
too late and judging by the ratings I
don't think all of us took that advice
and the number four Scaredy Squirrel
ah the familiar vehement whale but
ear-splitting screech this intro was so
bad that it lowered the standards of the
rest of the cartoon by its mere
existence in fact if you take away the
intro from the cartoon well it's still
bad but it's considerably less bad to
describe scaredy squirrels lyrical whale
is a disservice to through horridness of
this opening intro in order to truly
convey the irritation to you
I must actually subject you to scare
Dee's weaponized ear torture for a brief
moment I apologize in advance
[Music]
ok heard enough we're moving on and the
third worst cartoon theme song is fanboy
and Chum lyrics that include baa baa baa
baa are generally not in the classier
category of cartoon openings in this
case fanboy and Chum Chum bombard us
with 30 straight seconds of how wacky
wild and mattingly annoying they are I
guess there's some lyrics I mean they
tell us they don't care and asked us to
look at their underwear
Oh Who am I kidding there's no saving
this one it's just mindless hyperactive
babble fan boy and Chum chums opening
easily pulls into the worst list then
the second worst cartoon opening is
without a doubt
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Angela anaconda is there anything that
pierces the ears quite like Angela's
voice I can barely even classify it a
song
[Music]
a song will have some sort of
consistency and melodical harmony this
is just butt-ugly paper cutouts sing
talking it's cheesy it's horribly
off-pitch
it's just auditory torture even if we
could somehow look beyond Angela's
noxious singing voice all that's
happening is mostly just Angela
attacking the school bully the best part
of Angela's song it is mercifully quick
and before we get to number one I have
two quick unmentionables mega babies I
hate this song and this cartoon so much
it's an unmentionable I I don't even
want to talk about it it's not the
absolute worst but it's pretty close
breadwinners this one would probably go
to number two but I post from previous
videos that I would lay off this series
now there's cancer but honestly there
was only one cartoon I thought had an
objectively worse intro anyway I'm
number one and I have no doubt the
number one bus cartoon opening is Happy
Tree Friends this is perhaps the closest
cartoon on this list to what I
personally define as rotten not because
it's got violence and gore but because
it uses violent deaths in the most
realistic ways possible in an attempt to
shock and horrify the audience I guess
to be edgy and how does the opening hold
up this introduction is basically just
listening to 20 obnoxious teenagers
squeal into your ear in their juvenile
attempt to be edgy for 30 seconds but
that thirty Seconds will feel like an
eternity
the lyrics are nothing but a bunch of
repeated gibberish squeals being belt
Shadia speakers I honestly find it hard
to even listen to this song without
having to stop as I realize my heart
rate is beginning to rise in anger this
is the only cartoon intro I can imagine
that would commonly give people blood
strewn flashbacks while irritating them
simultaneously the song has zero sense
of
almani zero effort to convey meaning and
has zero complexity to it it purely
exists to make you so annoyed of the
characters so you can be angry enough to
enjoy their realistic decapitation and
mutilation this cartoon is all about the
unapologetic obnoxious demanding of a
person's attention using gratuitous
shock value realistic death as a tool
these visuals are worse than if they
were gory a child can walk through this
introduction having no idea a rabbit was
about to get as I violently gouged out
of its socket with a vacuum cleaner
resulting in a pool of gore I can have a
sense of humor about all these other
cartoon introductions in their silliness
I mean Angela doesn't mean any harm but
this is the only cartoon intro I know de
that isn't just annoying beyond coherent
reason it is the only opening that is as
rotten as Accountant it represents I can
comfortably call Happy Tree Friends the
most rage-inducing
triggering annoying soulless gibberish
for a vaulting cartoon opening of them
all pardon me if I did get a bit overly
serious while talking about this opening
it's just the only cartoon opening on
this list that makes me lose my sense of
humor yeah but you know for a lot of
these we had to go back decades post
2010 cartoon interests tend to be far
less obnoxious and have a much keener
sense of timing they're not always as
catchy but many of them modern cartoon
intros I could listen to a hundred times
and I have they've set the tone of what
I'm about to watch and get me excited
and if you think I missed a particularly
terrible cartoon opening feel free to
leave your own thoughts in the comments
and as always thanks for watching and
I'll see you next time
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