Official Match Thread Season 39, Round 11: Fighting Furies v East Side Hawks at rfctigerarmy's hippodrome

[PhenomenalV1]

YO IT'S YOUR BOY PHENOMENALV1 FROM WATCHMOJO DOT COM AND TODAY WE'RE COUNTING DOWN THE TOP 20 CHEEZ TV SHOWS OF ALL TIME

 

[serial_thrilla]

Tarkyn_24 would you like to trade PhenomenalV1's out of the Hawks to help put a stop to these lists?

 

[PhenomenalV1]

Cheez TV Shows: Worst to Best


#20





Digimon Frontier


OK, get this: what if instead of the humans controlling Digimon, they were the Digimon? Also a magic train transforms their phones. Must've been an interesting board meeting.

In the climax, they end up fighting Satan. What's not to love?​

 

[eth-dog]

Cheez TV Shows: Worst to Best


#20





Digimon Frontier


OK, get this: what if instead of the humans controlling Digimon, they were the Digimon? Also a magic train transforms their phones. Must've been an interesting board meeting.

In the climax, they end up fighting Satan. What's not to love?​

Probably the most underrated Digimon series. Disappointed it's not top 10

 

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[serial_thrilla]

Probably the most underrated Digimon series. Disappointed it's not top 10

The word "disappointing" sums up this list so far.

 

[eth-dog]

The word "disappointing" sums up this list so far.

Nah, been pretty good as a Cheez TV fan

 

[PhenomenalV1]

Cheez TV Shows: Worst to Best


#19





Duel Masters


What do you get when the dubbing licensee knows they're working with a desperate cash-in on a recent trend and decides to go against what they should be doing? You get the Duel Masters dub.

Duel Masters started life as a Magic: The Gathering manga that took significant creative liberties with the game it was meant to be portraying, to the point where it spun off into it's own rip-off version of the original. Here's where the fun begins. Plastic Cow Productions, a dubbing company brought in by Hasbro to localise the anime adaptation into English, decided against taking the easy route of making the dub a glorified commercial like the original. Instead, they opted to take the piss out of the source material with unserious dialogue, and had the characters poke fun at shonen battle anime tropes, and the game of Duel Masters itself. It's ****ing brilliant.

...Actually, that predates Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series doing the same thing on YouTube. Huh. Interesting.​

 

[eth-dog]

Cheez TV Shows: Worst to Best


#19





Duel Masters


What do you get when the dubbing licensee knows they're working with a desperate cash-in on a recent trend and decides to go against what they should be doing? You get the Duel Masters dub.

Duel Masters started life as a Magic: The Gathering manga that took significant creative liberties with the game it was meant to be portraying, to the point where it spun off into it's own rip-off version of the original. Here's where the fun begins. Plastic Cow Productions, a dubbing company brought in by Hasbro to localise the anime adaptation into English, decided against taking the easy route of making the dub a glorified commercial like the original. Instead, they opted to take the piss out of the source material with unserious dialogue, and had the characters poke fun at shonen battle anime tropes, and the game of Duel Masters itself. It's ****ing brilliant.

...Actually, that predates Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series doing the same thing on YouTube. Huh. Interesting.​

I mean. Come on. This was dogshit.

 

[PhenomenalV1]

Cheez TV Shows: Worst to Best


#18





Garfield and Friends


Before Pokemon, Dragon Ball and all the others, Garfield was Cheez TV's first cornerstone show.

I like Garfield. He loves lasagna and hates Mondays. Just like me FR.

Seriously, although Garfield was only created so Jim Davis could make money, I think the classic Garfield show holds up pretty well overall. I even got a few laughs from the Orson's Farm segments.

serial_thrilla is the Jon Arbuckle of Sweet.​

 

[ShaunDuggan]

First time drunk in about 4 years last night.

Forgot how shit hangovers are.

****.

 

[PhenomenalV1]

Cheez TV Shows: Worst to Best


#17





Phantom Investigators


No, they're not looking for an incel who lives under the Palais Garnier.

I'm actually really impressed by this one. I love the blend of two different types of stop-motion for the bulk of the animation. The use of mixed media and level of detail in the physical sets is incredible. Makes you winder if the animators for Smiling Friends have been taking notes.

While there are some shortcomings to the writing (i.e., I'm 29 and don't get a kick out of jokes made for children), I'm amazed that Phantom Investigators doesn't come up more often in discussions on nostalgic TV.​

 

[The Majestic]

Cheez TV Shows: Worst to Best


#17





Phantom Investigators


No, they're not looking for an incel who lives under the Palais Garnier.

I'm actually really impressed by this one. I love the blend of two different types of stop-motion for the bulk of the animation. The use of mixed media and level of detail in the physical sets is incredible. Makes you winder if the animators for Smiling Friends have been taking notes.

While there are some shortcomings to the writing (i.e., I'm 29 and don't get a kick out of jokes made for children), I'm amazed that Phantom Investigators doesn't come up more often in discussions on nostalgic TV.​

I cannot remember this one, but doesn't look half bad once you start watching.

 

[PhenomenalV1]

Cheez TV Shows: Worst to Best


#16





The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers


It's rare that something on Cheez TV could be considered "ahead of it's time". Galaxy Rangers is one of those rare somethings.

In a way, this is kind of the Avatar: The Last Airbender of the 80s. A group of outlaws fighting back against an oppressive expansionist imperial force. The difference being that while Avatar is an homage to anime and East Asian cultures, Galaxy Rangers is a Sci-Fi Space Western, even more so than Saber Riders. I'm honestly impressed.​

 

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[PhenomenalV1]

Cheez TV Shows: Worst to Best


#15





The Adventures of Sam and Max: Freelance Police


Thankfully we're glorifying barely competant vigilante PI's here instead of actual police.

Sam and Max are criminally underrated, both in video game form and in animation. The TV show is pitch perfect in adapting the tone of the games, albiet toned down a little for a younger audience. Seriously, you've all been missing out if you've never heard of the franchise before this post.​

 

[eth-dog]

First time drunk in about 4 years last night.

Forgot how shit hangovers are.

****.

Yeah, they aren't great...

 

[The Majestic]

First time drunk in about 4 years last night.

Forgot how shit hangovers are.

****.

Oh yikes doesn't sound fun at all.

 

[PhenomenalV1]

Cheez TV Shows: Worst to Best


#14





Totally Spies!


Girliepops stay winning, yasss~

France finally gets a win on the board with Totally Spies. All they had to do was lean into the middle grade spy fiction trend of the 00s, pay homage to anime with their animation style, and deliver us three femme fatales with pretty good characterisation who embrace their girly-ness while kicking baddies in the face. Cool stuff.

However, Totally Spies is kind of infamous for its modern day reputation as "The Writer's Barely Disguised Fetish: The Show". Half the episodes involve Clover, Alex or Sam getting into a wide variety of situations that resemble kinks of you squint. Kind of sus given that our heroes only turn 18 halfway through the show. Still, why do I get the feeling that Totally Spies was a key part of Bonz's sexual awakening?​

 

[The Majestic]

Cheez TV Shows: Worst to Best


#14





Totally Spies!


Girliepops stay winning, yasss~

France finally gets a win on the board with Totally Spies. All they had to do was lean into the middle grade spy fiction trend of the 00s, pay homage to anime with their animation style, and deliver us three femme fatales with pretty good characterisation who embrace their girly-ness while kicking baddies in the face. Cool stuff.

However, Totally Spies is kind of infamous for its modern day reputation as "The Writer's Barely Disguised Fetish: The Show". Half the episodes involve Clover, Alex or Sam getting into a wide variety of situations that resemble kinks of you squint. Kind of sus given that our heroes only turn 18 halfway through the show. Still, why do I get the feeling that Totally Spies was a key part of Bonz's sexual awakening?​

I actually forgot about that, I haven't fully watched it just a bit here and there but wow.

 

[PhenomenalV1]

Cheez TV Shows: Worst to Best


#13





Teknoman


The first anime to break through into being a Cheez TV staple, Teknoman is kind of a big deal in terms of breaking it's medium into the mainstream (never mind that SBS was airing Evangelion in prime time in the late 90s, but shush).

Really cool setting, really cool aliens to fight, it's deserving of its status.​

 

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[Tarkyn_24]

dogs105 is on the list, so I guess it can't be to bad.

I am not making any qualitative assessment here.

But if I were; I’d counterpoint that NaturalDisaster is also there…

 

[Tarkyn_24]

Tarkyn_24 would you like to trade PhenomenalV1's out of the Hawks to help put a stop to these lists?

I have not been trusted to wield such power for a long time

 

[serial_thrilla]

I have not been trusted to wield such power for a long time

Callums_Guns would you trust Tarkyn_24 as captain?

 

[The Majestic]

Cheez TV Shows: Worst to Best


#13





Teknoman


The first anime to break through into being a Cheez TV staple, Teknoman is kind of a big deal in terms of breaking it's medium into the mainstream (never mind that SBS was airing Evangelion in prime time in the late 90s, but shush).

Really cool setting, really cool aliens to fight, it's deserving of its status.​

Forgot about this one.

 

[PhenomenalV1]

Cheez TV Shows: Worst to Best


#12





Digimon (Adventure/02)


Is this maybe a little low for the OG Digimon, especially considering how beloved it is? (To the point where it got an OVA distant follow-up series 15 years later)

Well...I liked Digimon. I enjoyed that little attempt to sell me Tamagotchis for boys (no seriously, Digimon started out as a marketing brand for Tamagotchi), but I was following the story in the comics at the back of K-Zone magazines moreso than watching the show. Digimon the anime is just a little...off? Like, it's the same thing I was reading, but something was just off.

That said, one of my fondest anime convention memories is being in a screening room full of losers like me, watching the first few episodes as a nostalgic exercise. That's gotta count for something.​

 

[The Majestic]

Callums_Guns would you trust Tarkyn_24 as captain?

He wouldn't trust me though, with good reasons probably.