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I actually like Fetch as the title because it’s a show with a dog for a host, and dogs tend to fetch stuff. Also, it’s a scavenger hunt show, so the dog is telling the contestants to “fetch” him stuff, which is backwards and therefore subversive to how the act normally goes.
It also helps that it's a spiritual successor to a previous PBS Kids show called Zoom! Granted, that one was more of a live action variety show of sorts, but I digress.
Just realized how cool of a title "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy" is. Like it's obviously a variant of the "X and Y" titles, but labeling it as the "grim adventures" sets a great kind of mood before going into the show, while also being a pun off of Grim the character
It's also when having ordinary names actually works, as they provides somewhat of a grounding to the more supernatural and obscure "Grim" element, like the characters do in the show.
3:12 You would have a field day with Light novel titles. Given most of them have to stand out immediately in the usual japanese website were most of them come from. A LOT OF THEM basically have their synopsis as a title. And sometimes when they get imported to outside of japan, the translations mercifully just shorten the titles (and even then, the original japanese fandom of those lightnovels prefer to sometimes just call the light novel by a shorter nickname)
"the time i woke up reincarnated as a sentient cellphone in a medieval fantasy world but somehow still ended up with magical powers and a harem of demons"
Though from that tradition of ridiculous and long light novel titles, you also have "Is it wrong to try to pick up girls in the Dungeon?", or Danmachi. The question is just so odd you have to check it out, and the story delivers exactly what you'd expect: and RPG-style fantasy with a harem element. Also, the anime is better, btw. Not hearing Bell's thoughts on everything makes the story more bearable.
And let's not forget how some of them just seem to pile even more words onto their already wordy title just for the sake of it. For instance, Yu-shibu, which has the full title of "Yuusha ni Narenakatta Ore wa Shibushibu Shuushoku wo Ketsui Shimashita" (I Couldn't Become a Hero, So I Reluctantly Decided to Get a Job). If you think about it, even if you wanted to go with such a descriptive title, was the "Shibushibu" (Reluctantly) part really all that necessary? Though ironically, that particular word also happens to be one of the only parts that's used in the shortened version. As an aside, there's also something to be said about the amusing way some of these light novel titles get shortened. I mean, you'd be pretty hard-pressed to figure out how the hell "Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai" can turn into "Haganai" if you didn't know a lick of Japanese (and moreso how "wa" is actually written in Japanese).
One title convention that really annoys me, and that I'm surprised you didn't touch on, is reboots just using the original title with a new date. That's especially annoying with TMNT where three of the four shows can only be distinguished by the date they came out on
I also have a bit of peeve with cartoon titles named for the protagonist(s), but it usually depends on the show. BoJack in particular, he isn't even my favorite character in the show, that would be Princess Carolyn. I read somewhere that the show had an alternate title of "Tales of Fur and Loathing", which I personally prefer.
I still think the title works, at least functionally. One, Bojack is still the main “main character” of the five. And two arguably even the other characters’ arcs and stories are in some way still tied to Bojack. PC is Bojack’s agent and on-again-off-again lover, and her story is realizing that do in part to her relationship she wasted her life, and wanting to take control again. Diane ghost-writing Bojack’s novel is what kicks off the show
@@rexventura4603 I'll admit that titles like these encourage me to want the title character to improve, which the show comes off as wishy-washy about especially in the last 2 seasons. I haven't even finished season 6 yet because of my own personal issues that I had, which I would rather not discuss.
@@emiliebennett15 You’re under no obligation to disclose and I get personal experiences can get in the way of certain things. In terms of the wishy-washy-ness of(I’m assuming) Bojack’s character arc, I feel it’s an intentional thing for “realism”. Realistically a person, even if they want too, don’t change easily and often times mess-up a lot. Again if that’s not your cup of tea or for personal reasons don’t like it, that’s perfectly understandable.
@@rexventura4603 I actually really like the show, and it actually helped fix my anger problems. But I can't seem to completely love it for one reason or another.
I think the Bojack title works in its favor not only as he is the main protagonist but also that it's more ambiguous and less on the nose as the alternate title you brought up. The beauty is that no one going into the show expects it to be that dark.
I used to get a bit disappointed when genius titles were forgotten because the "main characters' names" style is so common. Nearly everyone I knew irl called The Fairly Oddparents "Timmy Turner" 😂
A good name gives you enough to be interested and remember it. "The Magic School Bus" gives you pretty much everything you need to know about the show. "Darkwing Duck" gives you a little less, but as soon as you've seen anything at all from the show, you understand the title and will remember it. "Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!" is a lot of words, and it isn't hard to guess at what a *few* of them mean for the show, but is anybody that hasn't seen it actually going to know what the heck that show is going to be? It's basically "Power Rangers" with a much worse title.
Curiosity got the better of me, and I looked up "Kissyfur" and "Lolirock" on Wikipedia. Kissyfur is a circus bear and his father who leave the circus after a train wreck to live in the wild. Given that the pilot episode opens with Mama Bear being taken away in a casket, and the train conductor almost certainly dying in the wreck, it seemed like it had it's moments. Lolirock is a French magical girls show; skimming the article I didn't see anything sketchy about it besides the title. It did have a couple of MLP alums in the English dub, for what it's worth.
@@danielsurvivor1372 According to the show's creator, the title is actually a play on "LOL," "i" as in the Spanish conjunction "y" meaning "and", and "rock." So, it basically translates to "LOL and Rock". But yes, in English that title is *very* unfortunate.
I still love the title of Adventure Time, is so simple and just sounds awesome, there could be no better title than Adventure Time for this show, I remember when this show came out and I just loved the title so much it makes you want to go on an adventure, specially when they say it in the show with a fist bump between Finn and Jake. This title isn't just a title, is also part of the iconic line "What time is it? Adventure Time!", is a title that comes with a catch phrase it's amazing
In its first season, the series was often billed as "Adventure Time with Finn & Jake" (or "Adventure Time with Finn and Jake") because the producers were unsure at the time whether or not they could secure the rights to the simpler title "Adventure Time."
A simple title I think is perfect is The Mandalorian. If you know Star Wars lore, you know the mandalorians, so the title immediately tells you what to expect. Then there's the use of "the". There are many mandalorians in SW lore, but they're just A mandalorian. This show is about THE mandalorian, the one that will set themselves apart from all the others. And finally, there's the suprise twist in expectations that most people don't even realize is there. Baby Yoda love blew up fast, everyone knew he was in the show and the mandalorian was protecting him, but try to think about it before the show aired. Mandalorians are all about war, "weapons are their religion" and all that, so you'd expect the show to be nonstop action and shootouts of a one man army taking on the galaxy. But the first episode ends with subverting that, the target he was going for and having shootouts about isn't some other action star, signaling the inevitable but epic final battle in the finale. It's a child, and suddenly the Mandalorian is no longer about the mandalorian, it's about someone that lost it all as a kid offering help to another kid who lost it all. Also, Over the Garden Wall is a terrible title, especially with the character designs. I thought it was a dumb cartoon about gnomes leaving their garden before I gave it a try.
*Grogu, actually. But yeah, The Mandalorian is a fantastic title, and it sets up what to expect from Din's adventures. I actually saw the first two episodes, and I think the show's style of self-contained adventures tied by continuity and characters is a perfect fit for the Star Wars galaxy (Classic/Legends or Disney)
Arthur and Cyberchase has the best cartoon title especially for a PBS kids show! The Loud House, SpongeBob, and Fairly Odd Parents have cool titles. I feel Nickelodeon does the most unique cartoon titles!
Still at the start, but: The title of Jimmy Neutron is "The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius", so using that as an example of cartoons doing "just the name" and then "Everybody loves raymond" as Live Action doing "something more" is a bit odd. Also, "no other medium does this"? Books like Jane Eyre or Tom Sawyer, comic strips likes Hagar the Horrible, Blondie or Cathy... I don't think it's just the medium of Animation.
"Some might say that _Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends_ was a bad show." ENTER NO YOU'RE STILL JUST BARELY OUT OF YOUR LAST CONTROVERSY ...That said, yeah, it...wasn't great. But it still holds immense nostalgia for me...if only because I remember that I used to play _The Minish Cap_ while it played.
The only Cartoon Network shows that genuinely hold a place in my heart are _Ed, Edd n Eddy_ and _Courage the Cowardly Dog_ There was just something about those shows that make them special among the other shows.
@@0deadx21 Aye. _Ed, Edd, 'n' Eddy_ was just good, stupid fun. _Courage the Cowardly Dog_ had a lot of meaningful moments, and sometimes the soundtrack could be awe-inspiring.
The only thing I remember about Foster's is the Party Is Such Sweet Soiree episode, the Store Wars, the Starving In The Hallway episode and, like, the zombie prank episode.
9:03 How about M*A*S*H, many don’t know what it stood for (these days at least), but I will instantly go “Mobile Army Surgical Hospital”. It tells you what it is about.
0:22 That show is called Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (The name of it's franchise being Scooby-Doo!), as well as The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius being the title for the Jimmy Neutron show that aired in the 2000's.
I do agree Kappa Mikey is a forgettable name, but it does explain the actual show pretty well. Also to be fair, the theme song still buzzes through my head from time to time... like right now as I'm typing this.
There’s one episode that explains why his character is named that way in the first place, other than the fact that it’s a pun on the Japanese dish, kappamaki.
I always thought The Berenstain Bears was a confusing title (Mandela Effect aside) because the titular bears aren’t actually named Berenstain (at least I don’t think they are), it’s just the names of the creators.
Mr Enter touched on how dominated the names Phineas and Ferb are by the characters. This is the One Mario Limit (the reason why we have no problem accepting the Mario franchise).
Tom and Jerry was a popular drink back in the day, and was especially popular during Christmas time. I actually like the title, because "Tom" as in "Tomcat" is a name that can be associated with cats. Tom and Jerry drinks are served to this day, but they were better known at the time the "Tom and Jerry" cartoons became popular.
Arthur can afford to have such a simple/nondescript title because it's on network television. Doesn't matter what it was called all of us kids were watching it 🤣. Anyways, good video. Been watching your videos for yours.
I always liked when shows that went on for a while would constantly changed the titles to fit the theme of the show or reflect a crucial element of it. Like Power Rangers would change up the name to fit theme or something crucial in each season, power rangers Zeo was about the new power source the rangers would take on after the original powers were destroyed, Lost Galaxy was about exploring the galaxy around the series, S.P.D was about the new space police space patrol delta and there adventures, the worst seasons had some of the tittles that came out of nowhere and didn't fit the theme of the show like operation overdrive or “Super Mega Force”.
Though not strictly a cartoon, the Sam & Max series is one of the worst offenders for bad titles. The names are so common & the characters don't have last names, so when talking about them out of context i have to say "max of the freelance police." Which sounds nonsensical to anyone who doesn't know what the Sam & Max series is (which is most people). Why they never titled it just "Freelance Police" is beyond me.
To be fair, the cartoon’s full title is Sam and Max: Freelance Police, and that’s usually what it’s called on DVDs or streaming services, so it doesn’t suffer from this issue
So... does "Fetch with Ruff Ruff Man" technically count as a cartoon? I mean, sure, it has an animated host, but most of the interesting stuff is live action. The animated parts were more for comical commentary and building points for the real life contestants.
as for anime, you tend to get mostly good titles as long as you arent getting an overly wordy one. even on the rare occasion of character name titles, if you know a naruto in real life, it was probably the result of someone naming their son after the character. you also have "jojo's bizarre adventure", which immediately intriguing because of how weird the word choice is of "bizarre". translated titles usually do a good job or are at worst a direct translation. sometimes the title is in english as well, like dr. stone or spy x family or hunter x hunter. speaking of which, dr. stone is both an apt title and a "roll credits" moment later on in the story, and if you pretend the x isn't there in the others it explains what the show is about without saying too much. hunter x hunter is also a wordplay title, gon wants to become a hunter to hunt down his father, who is also a hunter, making him a hunter hunter. now, anime can have subtitles too, but you usually forgo them in casual discussion. code geass: lelouch of the rebellion is just shortened to code geass, which is a decent title. demon slayer is about slaying demons, food wars is about cooking competitions, etc. sometimes you do lose stuff in translation. haikyuu is apparently derived from the kanji, so in those cases you cant really blame anyone. that, and most anime watchers arent browing based on title alone, mostly the reception. i dont mind long titles for anime, though. sometimes you get funny ones like "science fell in love so i tried to prove it", which is intriguing based on how silly it sounds.
For reference, the Japanese have this weird habit of using the letter X to represent blank space or a break between words. "Hunter X Hunter" is actually just "Hunter Hunter", but the X apparently looks better to them than just a blank space. Similarly, XXXHolic is actually just "Holic", but shifted to the right by three spaces for some inexplicable reason.
@@CantusTropus god damn i cant believe mega man x is just mega man or just (blank space). (yes i know that doesnt apply to everything just the thought of x not having a name is funny to me)
I love W.i.t.c.h., it was one of my favorite shows growing up, even though I got made fun of in Elementary school because it’s a “girls show” So glad to see it brought up, now if only it was available on Disney Plus
I remember when they made fun of the powerpuff girls, they even did it in the show itself with the announcer almost mistakenly calling them the powderpuff girls and I think other characters said it at times and it was kind of funny at the time.
One word titles bother me a lot because it doesn't really describe what the media is. I didn't know what 'Mulan' meant until I saw the film. It's such a weird system of naming stuff. I'm not in love with the kind of Anime titles that are a whole sentence, but they're really funny. I recently learned of this strange Anime from the '80s by the name of 'Twinkle Nora Rock Me'.
I don't like live action shows but there are a few I can name with the characters name in the title Sam and Cat, The Sopranos, House M.D., FRED, Icarly, Nurse Jackie, and Dexter. There are more Live Action shows then Animation so I think people just forget live action shows faster then animation. But overshadowing can be another factor. Live action also has more constraints with it's titles because there are more of them so you have to get creative with the titles. Like if your gonna make a Zombie game, movie, show or book in the 2010's they had to get creative so we got titles like Left for Dead, The Walking Dead, CoD: Nazi Zombies, 28 Days Later, Dead Snow and Resident Evil (though this one is older in fairness). But if your making the only animated show about an anthropomorphic horseman in Hollywood you don't really need to think of a pop out titles to separate it from all the other anthro horseman shows. Titles are important to an extent and do have an effect. I remember people not giving MLP:FIM a chance because of it's title or bronies not wanting to say the title.
This was a very enjoyable video! It's an interesting topic to think of. There's certainly a lot you can glean from an interesting title alone; there are some shows I can just tell are not for me based on their titles alone (like the random words titles.) Also, Uncle Grandpa is that show that I absolutely refuse to watch based on the title alone. A show I personally think has a great title that made me immediately intrigued to check out (and which became my second favorite cartoon of all time) is Infinity Train.
Here's a funny thing about uncle grandpa: they keep the name and the exact puns about being both uncle and grandfather in languages where it doesn't work. In Portuguese, Uncle-Grandfather is an actual parentage: it's for your grandparent's sibling. Yet the show continues to make the same joke about the absurdity, despite making perfect fucking sense
I think the movie and show titles are often about the adventure of some sort, while the cartoons with character name titles often evolve around, wouldn't you know, the character.
This video just reminded me of the fact that there is a game called... *breathes* Attack Of The Mutant Zombie Flesh-Eating Chickens From Mars, starring Zappo The Dog.
Lolirock is a major oof of a title. For anyone who actually is interested on what it's about it's a magical girl show about girls in a rock band and I have no idea why they decided to call it that.
Can't believe he never mentioned Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go! LMAO.... when it comes to Cartoon titles, this lives rent-free in my head. Especially since he went on a tangent about "Pig Goat Banana Cricket" and such. Its a good show, just a ridiculous title
I actually know what lolirock is, it's not as bad as it sounds, but it's basically a sailor moon type of show with three girls with powers who are also in a band. I remember a family member of mine used to watch it but that's about it. From what I remember it wasn't inappropriate, as it seemed to be a kids show. Hope this helps the curious.
I've been noticing a lot of anime titles (at least the English version.) are less of a "Title" and more like a short sentence. The time I got reincarnated as a Slime, Didn't I say to make my abilities average in the next life? , Is it wrong to pick up girls in a dungeon?, The maid I hired is mysterious. High school prodigies have it easy even in another world, My mental choices are completely interfering with my school romantic comedy.
I never got "Angry Beavers" because they were rarely angry, and more zany or goofy. Rocko's Modern Life was a pretty good name for the show. A show I never watched because of the title: Butt-Ugly Martians
I grew up watching the show Franklin, which is about a turtle who has a childhood, goes to school, and has friends. He is the only character in that show who has a normal name - everyone else is named after the animal that they are (like Bear, who is a bear - Beaver, who is a beaver - Snail, who is a snail - Fox, who is a fox - Rabbit, who is a rabbit). Not only is this very lazy in naming your characters, but it’s very inconsistent with the rest of the show. Even as a kid, I always hated it when shows did this. Another example is the show Little Bear, which is also a good show and a show I recommend for kids. I just hate the naming of the characters. Little Bear’s friends are named Owl, Cat, Hen, Duck. People who write these shows need to give their characters real names, and those are not real names.
"Really? There's a show with a name so bad you refuse to watch it? Come on, what name could possibly be that bad? Lose interest sure, but you refuse to watch it? .... Oh, that's the name. Yeah, I get it. In fact, I agree. I only know the name, and I refuse to even look into that show."
Now that I think of it, American Dad should've been the title to King of the Hill. C'mon, King of the Hill is way too patriotically American to have the word " King " in the title
Wait, what about the cartoons which are named after the places the shows are set in? Like chaotic, Gravity falls, final Space, amphibia, Jellystone? Or lets Even include Anime and mention others like One Piece
Those are one of a kind places, so it's okay, unlikable the many movies and shows whose title is a real place. What do the titles _Montenegro_ and _San Francisco_ tell you about those films.
Also alliteration/assonance/rhyming tend to help. Nobody would care much about a show called Ed, or called Eddy, but the strangeness of a title like Ed, Edd and Eddy makes one more curious.
This isn’t limited to cartoons, but my pet peeve with titles is when a reboot of an old show uses the same name as the original, so you need to distinguish each version based on the year it came out. Like with Rugrats, PowerPuff Girls, Ben 10, DuckTales, etc.
Someone also needs to tell Hollywood that adding "The" at the beginning of your title isn't enough to differentiate it from the original i.e. "The Predator" and "The Batman" (especially considering that there's already an unrelated cartoon named "The Batman"). I can understand naming a movie the same thing when it's supposed to be a remake (like with Rob Zombie's "Halloween") but not when it's intended as a sequel to the original ("Halloween" 2018: try explaining to somebody not familiar with the franchise that it's a sequel to the original "Halloween").
It's not a perfect show. It brought to the network the annoying catch phrase character that isn't even a main character in the show. Cheese, and Fred Fredburger (who were both used in advertising as if they were main characters). Characters who the show would probably be better off without if they remained in their single episodes. Bloo is also a really annoying character most of the time. I can somewhat forgive that and Mac because well, I'd assume Bloo and Mac are both about the same age and kids do act like that, but, honestly, a lot of parts of that show seem like they would have been a lot better without Bloo and Mac. I enjoy the show but there's a lot of stuff I have problems with, even back when I saw it premier, these issues stuck out to me. I can't say I'm a fan of the trend of "YELL AND MAKE LOUD NOISES AND FUNNY FACES IT'S FUNNY!" that spawned around that era of cartoons. If Fosters was about Wilt, Eduardo, Frankie, Mr. Hareman, Mrs. Foster, and maybe an imaginary friend of the day, I think the show would have been better. You can write children characters who are annoying to everyone else but not annoying to the audience, and that takes skill. But yeah, a good amount of episodes would have been better off without Mac and especially without Bloo. It'd be like if Ed Edd n Eddy only had Eddy as the main character. I don't think that show would have done nearly as well if Eddy was the only main character. I'd probably have to watch it again but I really remember not liking a lot of episodes that I thought had fine concepts, but Bloo and Mac drug it down. There were also other bad episodes like that one where a new Imaginary Friend resident is doing all this stuff and getting the main cast in trouble because Frankie and Mrs. Foster and Hareman turned off their logic centers of their brains. I can't think of a single episode I liked where Cheese was present. I never found him saying I LIKE CHOCOLATE MILK funny. The show has problems, it has a lot of charm, but from what I remember, there were more than a few episodes that made me wish Mac would stop coming back so Bloo could get adopted. I had similar issues with Billy and Mandy, Billy and some of the other non Mandy/Grim characters ruined a lot of episodes. Just my two cents, and purely from memory.
I wouldn't say it's bad but it's definitely a show with a few oddly cursed moments, like maybe the show's aim at comedy was geared toward a style that was way more common in the early 2000's but it's aged just enough to where some scenes played up for comedy are sometimes unnerving. There are plenty of these scenes but I can't remember any of them confidently enough besides the worst one imo where Bloo finds a pair of Frankie's bras while rummaging under her bed and makes a sick face.
Really surprised there wasn’t a mention of “Adventure Time”, which I think is a fantastic title. It’s memorable, and the thing it makes you remember is a freaking adventure!
i feel like the title undermines some of the more serious storylines though, "adventure time" sounds pretty childish even though finn is an adult by the end and they kinda stop having random adventures and more serialized events
@@Crabgar the show wasn't meant to be so serious to begin with. I do like some, if not most, of the episodes and arcs later down the line, but many characters and elements of the show couldn't work now in this atmosphere.
@@darthkhan29x98 I binged this show over the summer, having seen about half of it while it was airing in my teen years. The first couple seasons were pretty random, sometimes moral or joke moral focused which was no longer the case in later seasons when they'd finally built up a magic system, elemental significance, parenthood of the leads, and endgame scenarios. It's not quite so drastic that I'd call them different shows, and the theme of having an adventure with friends follows Finn to his adulthood. He can be silly as a young man. I'm ok with that. I really enjoyed revisiting this one.
Titles don't always make or break a show. "Squid Game" is literally named after a Korean children's game that nobody knew about outside of Korea. Even in the show, an American says it's an "odd name". Despite all that, it became Netflix's most watched show and a worldwide sensation!
Well, I really like Lolirock given that it's a magical girl series about a pop star band that are princesses from other planets stopping evil, inspired by stuff like Sailor Moon and the name itself is like the word Lollipop which might inspire the title despite many people being questionable about the name itself though it's a shame it ended with a cliffhanger. But if it's one thing I can say about titles, it's cartoon titles from franchises when they usually change things up a little to be different. For example, the Transformers series can be a bit too simple on their titles like Transformers Armada, Transformers Cybertron, Transformers Animated, Transformers Prime, two RID series being the 2001 version which is the dubbed version of Car Robots and the 2015 version which is it's own thing but they had to be used on their year number to not be more confusing. Transformers Cyberverse was recent but it was used before as a toyline for smaller TF figures during Prime. I do like Earthspark being the upcoming Transformers series having a different name instead of borrowing it from a line of toys or a simple name used for TF media.
12:38 I will always remember the joke they made on the Steven universe/uncle grandpa episode. Pearl: “So that would make him Greg’s brother and his father?” Garnet: “That explains a lot.”
I find it rather amusing that you were complaining about cartoons only using their names, saying "even live action shows with the star's name will have more to it like Everyone Hates Raymond." You said all this while the title card for "Scooby Doo: Where are you?" is on-screen. I don't think your editor double-checked the footage they were using for your examples.
@@itsjoshua2508 Either it's because Wander could be a bit overbearing at times or the ultimate evil in the universe is...a teenage girl. It's Katie Kaboom all over again!
@@CTback I... I mean... I would actually say that the ultimate evil in the universe in Wander Over Yonder is... Misanthropy...? It's not Dominator herself that's necessarily the issue. Dominator is kinda just designed to be a distaff counterpart to Hater. Rather it's her approach and motivations that are what truly makes her a threat and evil. If someone else had her motivations, they too could be just as evil and despicable as her. But absolutely NO ONE else in the show has the kind of contempt for living things that Dominator has. Dominator just has a dislike of anything living and therefore wants all living things to either suffer or die. And because she has this contempt for all living things, her mind will never be changed. If Dominator decided that she didn't want to destroy planets anymore, she could still act as a villain, but she wouldn't be nearly as evil. If Hater decided to destroy planets rather than try to rule them, then he could become the 'ultimate evil' too. It's less the who, but rather the why.
For anyone who has finished the video, Lolirock is about a teenage girl who tries to join an all-girl band, but....her singing is LITERAL MAGIC, and she is actually a Princess who has to save her homeworld of Ephedia.
It's bad if you only look at THOSE connotations. Lolita is a very popular fashion style in Japan, and magical girls often go for that style in their costumes.
I ASSUME they were going for a play on 'Lollipop' as in the candy. but replace 'pop' with 'rock' because they are both types of music. unfortunately....
@@spriterkid1997 that actually makes the show's name make less sense. Because I don't remember any references to Lolita fashion in the show. A lot of the dresses are pretty sleek, shiny and modern.
Lolirock is actually pretty good. It's a magical girl anime from France about a girlband also called Lolirock. Though loli is an unfortunate title, makes discussion about lolita fashion very difficult.
My guess is they borrowed the term Loli from Japan, thinking it meant doll clothes or something similar, without realising that it has a completely different connotation in English (they're French after all).
@@zachariahjonahmaldonado5897 Japan got the "Lolita" name from the original source, the Russian novel of the same name. I'm pretty sure that the French know about that too, it's a pretty famous book. Even if it WAS a term native to Japan, they'd probably STILL know about it because France is one of the world's biggest consumers of anime and manga.
I'm guessing Mr. Enter hasn't seen much of recent anime. The titles alone would be enough to give him an aneurysm. Reincarnated as a Sword, Summoned to Another World for a Second Time, Delicious in Dungeon, Lycoris Recoil, The Vampire Dies in No Time, Goblin Slayer, Mob Psycho 100, One Punch Man, March Comes in Like a Lion, The Devil Is a Part-Timer! Just to name but a few.
i don't see how mob psycho 100 is a bad title. it's catches your eye because of the number and has a surprising amount of meaning. the character is nicknamed mob (which is japanese for background character, because the main character lacks presence i.e. part of a mob), psycho because he has psychic powers, but it's also how you pronouce the japanese word for "the best" (saiko) as he's the strongest psychic in the show and 100 refers to him being the strongest, his emotional bar that goes up to 100 and the manga has 100 chapters.
@@Crabgar I wasn't implying that Mob Psycho 100 was a bad title. The point I was trying to make was that titles for anime and manga are often wild and wacky, sometimes too esoteric to comprehend and other times too on the nose. But in the end, they do catch your eye with how bizarre they can be. Mob Psycho 100 is a great title. If you've never seen the show before, you'd take one look at the cover and begin asking, "Who or what is Mob? Why is he Psycho? And what is the significance of the number 100?" That's the power of a good title.
@@DawnOfTheOzz i think an aneurysm is generally seen as a bad thing and less wacky but yeah, the trend of way too descriptive titles and weird english translations of japanese puns makes for some interesting names i will never forget bobobo bo bo bobo
(since you used aneurysm wrong, as those are very good tittles...) There are also titles that will give you a headache because for how long they are. "What Do You Do at The End of The World? Are You Busy? Will You Save Us?"
Avatar the Last Airbender is an absolutely fantastic title. It's about the Avatar, Aang which is the one who must learn all four elements: Air, Water, Earth and Fire, which he is named the last Airbender, which he is the last airbender alive where the story takes place. Amazing title for such an amazing show.
@@gamerhero9559 I mean people are named Dick which is short for Richard so Dicky's full name is probably Richard but wait that's probably also Ricky's full name
What about "Randy Cunningham 9th Grade Ninja"? The title may seem too long and a mouthful but the premise delivers what the title promised: it's about a boy named Randy Cunningham, whose in 9th grade and he is a ninja. Although, you could argue that the title gives away the plot of the show, but it doesn't go into too much detail, especially when the plot of the overall series is given to us in the first ten minutes of the first episode.
@@J1P2K I think that's simply because that show has a lot of Japanese influence, if you looked at many shows in Japan, they typically have long names like this. Hell, look up the original title for Sailor Moon, it was even longer than this
@@bobi200samatar6 And I just thought of another example: Wordgirl. Yes, that's an educational cartoon but it's still a good show and it's another good example. It's a really short title, only one word long, but this show also delivers what the title promises: this sounds like a superhero name, the show is about a girl called Wordgirl who is a superhero and one of her super powers is having an extensive encyclopedic knowledge of the definition of words. In every episode, she tells the audience the definition of a new word, two words actually. Even for an educational cartoon, this is works perfectly. In fact, it can be surprisingly self aware about it's premise and that's what makes it so smartly written
@@DarthZ01 Yeah, but Rule 34 gets everyone. So you can't use it as any sort of argument about any given show, since basically any half-popular show will have people drawing art of characters in... "compromising circumstances of their own accord or otherwise."
Hey- are you eventually gonna give “Butt Ugly Martians” its own atrocity? I ask because that show has a pretty… interesting title (haha “butt” XD) and thus would be relevant to the video. I’m honestly shocked it wasn’t mentioned.
@@Soufriere84 He reviewed the theme song; it was #19 on his top 20 worst cartoon themes list. He also referenced it in his Cool Paw Howie review. Saying “[Almost Naked Animals] is a name that goes beyond ‘Butt-Ugly Martians’…” However, I was referring to it being given its own atrocity
Yeah, W.I.T.C.H is just a cool title. I wish nothing but the best for Will, Irma, Taranee, Cornelia and Hay's legacy. Come to think of it, the 1990s and 2000s were just a goldmine for obscure cult comics and cult comic adaptations.
Team Umizoomi, looking back on it, has one of the weirdest titles. Like, it pulls you in to figure out what makes this team of “Umizoomis” But then once you see an episode, they kind of obviously do not explain its meaning. Reply to me if any of you know what an Umizoomi is? It gets weirder when the town is named Umi City. Then I have to ask the question of “What in God’s name is an Umi?” But it sure will lead to some parents accidentally finding Umibouzu.
To be entirely fair, “Spongebob Rectangularpants” doesn’t really roll off the tongue anywhere near as well.
cleaninginstrumentbob 4sidedrightangledpolygonpants
bright how did you get acess to the internet do we need a new monkey
not to mention his pants are still made of right (aka square) angles
A 3D rectangle is called a "rectangular parallelepiped".
Spongebob Rectangular Parallelepipedpants!
@@pikminman13 I've never heard right angles being called square angles.
I actually like Fetch as the title because it’s a show with a dog for a host, and dogs tend to fetch stuff. Also, it’s a scavenger hunt show, so the dog is telling the contestants to “fetch” him stuff, which is backwards and therefore subversive to how the act normally goes.
Not to mention pretty much everyone calls ot "Fetch! with RuffRuffman" or at least i do. I know they just call it Fetch! in universe of course though
Can we mention how damn catchy the theme is
Fetch wasn't even really the full title. It was "Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman"
To be fair, just calling it Fetch! might make people think you’re talking about Mean Girls.
It also helps that it's a spiritual successor to a previous PBS Kids show called Zoom!
Granted, that one was more of a live action variety show of sorts, but I digress.
Just realized how cool of a title "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy" is.
Like it's obviously a variant of the "X and Y" titles, but labeling it as the "grim adventures" sets a great kind of mood before going into the show, while also being a pun off of Grim the character
It's also when having ordinary names actually works, as they provides somewhat of a grounding to the more supernatural and obscure "Grim" element, like the characters do in the show.
cartoon titles be like: “main character and supporting character”
3:12 You would have a field day with Light novel titles. Given most of them have to stand out immediately in the usual japanese website were most of them come from. A LOT OF THEM basically have their synopsis as a title. And sometimes when they get imported to outside of japan, the translations mercifully just shorten the titles (and even then, the original japanese fandom of those lightnovels prefer to sometimes just call the light novel by a shorter nickname)
"the time i woke up reincarnated as a sentient cellphone in a medieval fantasy world but somehow still ended up with magical powers and a harem of demons"
One of my favorites is "Strike the Blood!" Can you get any edgier?
Though from that tradition of ridiculous and long light novel titles, you also have "Is it wrong to try to pick up girls in the Dungeon?", or Danmachi. The question is just so odd you have to check it out, and the story delivers exactly what you'd expect: and RPG-style fantasy with a harem element.
Also, the anime is better, btw. Not hearing Bell's thoughts on everything makes the story more bearable.
And let's not forget how some of them just seem to pile even more words onto their already wordy title just for the sake of it. For instance, Yu-shibu, which has the full title of "Yuusha ni Narenakatta Ore wa Shibushibu Shuushoku wo Ketsui Shimashita" (I Couldn't Become a Hero, So I Reluctantly Decided to Get a Job). If you think about it, even if you wanted to go with such a descriptive title, was the "Shibushibu" (Reluctantly) part really all that necessary? Though ironically, that particular word also happens to be one of the only parts that's used in the shortened version.
As an aside, there's also something to be said about the amusing way some of these light novel titles get shortened. I mean, you'd be pretty hard-pressed to figure out how the hell "Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai" can turn into "Haganai" if you didn't know a lick of Japanese (and moreso how "wa" is actually written in Japanese).
Was about to make this comment. Especially when you have things like "Do you love your mom and her two-hit multi-target attacks"
One title convention that really annoys me, and that I'm surprised you didn't touch on, is reboots just using the original title with a new date.
That's especially annoying with TMNT where three of the four shows can only be distinguished by the date they came out on
Regular Show’s not called Mordecai and Rigby. Thank God for that!
I also have a bit of peeve with cartoon titles named for the protagonist(s), but it usually depends on the show.
BoJack in particular, he isn't even my favorite character in the show, that would be Princess Carolyn. I read somewhere that the show had an alternate title of "Tales of Fur and Loathing", which I personally prefer.
I still think the title works, at least functionally. One, Bojack is still the main “main character” of the five. And two arguably even the other characters’ arcs and stories are in some way still tied to Bojack. PC is Bojack’s agent and on-again-off-again lover, and her story is realizing that do in part to her relationship she wasted her life, and wanting to take control again. Diane ghost-writing Bojack’s novel is what kicks off the show
@@rexventura4603 I'll admit that titles like these encourage me to want the title character to improve, which the show comes off as wishy-washy about especially in the last 2 seasons. I haven't even finished season 6 yet because of my own personal issues that I had, which I would rather not discuss.
@@emiliebennett15 You’re under no obligation to disclose and I get personal experiences can get in the way of certain things.
In terms of the wishy-washy-ness of(I’m assuming) Bojack’s character arc, I feel it’s an intentional thing for “realism”. Realistically a person, even if they want too, don’t change easily and often times mess-up a lot. Again if that’s not your cup of tea or for personal reasons don’t like it, that’s perfectly understandable.
@@rexventura4603 I actually really like the show, and it actually helped fix my anger problems. But I can't seem to completely love it for one reason or another.
I think the Bojack title works in its favor not only as he is the main protagonist but also that it's more ambiguous and less on the nose as the alternate title you brought up. The beauty is that no one going into the show expects it to be that dark.
I used to get a bit disappointed when genius titles were forgotten because the "main characters' names" style is so common. Nearly everyone I knew irl called The Fairly Oddparents "Timmy Turner" 😂
My family calls "Cars" McQueen.
what the hell, who the heck doesn't know the name of the show Fairly Odd Parents
@@wariolandgoldpiramid I didn't really know the English name until now.
A good name gives you enough to be interested and remember it. "The Magic School Bus" gives you pretty much everything you need to know about the show. "Darkwing Duck" gives you a little less, but as soon as you've seen anything at all from the show, you understand the title and will remember it. "Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!" is a lot of words, and it isn't hard to guess at what a *few* of them mean for the show, but is anybody that hasn't seen it actually going to know what the heck that show is going to be? It's basically "Power Rangers" with a much worse title.
Haven’t finished watching but remember the show W.I.T.C.H. ? It’s a cult classic but the least search engine optimized title in cartoon history.
8:56 oh.
That is spoooky you must obviously be a witch xD
Curiosity got the better of me, and I looked up "Kissyfur" and "Lolirock" on Wikipedia. Kissyfur is a circus bear and his father who leave the circus after a train wreck to live in the wild. Given that the pilot episode opens with Mama Bear being taken away in a casket, and the train conductor almost certainly dying in the wreck, it seemed like it had it's moments. Lolirock is a French magical girls show; skimming the article I didn't see anything sketchy about it besides the title. It did have a couple of MLP alums in the English dub, for what it's worth.
Kissyfur probably refers to Furry community and something sussy about them.
Lolirock is Loli... And rock together. This is a red flag
@@danielsurvivor1372 According to the show's creator, the title is actually a play on "LOL," "i" as in the Spanish conjunction "y" meaning "and", and "rock." So, it basically translates to "LOL and Rock". But yes, in English that title is *very* unfortunate.
I still love the title of Adventure Time, is so simple and just sounds awesome, there could be no better title than Adventure Time for this show, I remember when this show came out and I just loved the title so much it makes you want to go on an adventure, specially when they say it in the show with a fist bump between Finn and Jake.
This title isn't just a title, is also part of the iconic line "What time is it? Adventure Time!", is a title that comes with a catch phrase it's amazing
In its first season, the series was often billed as "Adventure Time with Finn & Jake" (or "Adventure Time with Finn and Jake") because the producers were unsure at the time whether or not they could secure the rights to the simpler title "Adventure Time."
This is like something Scott the Woz would talk about if he did cartoons instead of video games.
Only difference is that Scott the Woz is actually sane
If your definition of "sane" is having every version of Madden 08, then sure lol
A simple title I think is perfect is The Mandalorian. If you know Star Wars lore, you know the mandalorians, so the title immediately tells you what to expect. Then there's the use of "the". There are many mandalorians in SW lore, but they're just A mandalorian. This show is about THE mandalorian, the one that will set themselves apart from all the others. And finally, there's the suprise twist in expectations that most people don't even realize is there. Baby Yoda love blew up fast, everyone knew he was in the show and the mandalorian was protecting him, but try to think about it before the show aired. Mandalorians are all about war, "weapons are their religion" and all that, so you'd expect the show to be nonstop action and shootouts of a one man army taking on the galaxy. But the first episode ends with subverting that, the target he was going for and having shootouts about isn't some other action star, signaling the inevitable but epic final battle in the finale. It's a child, and suddenly the Mandalorian is no longer about the mandalorian, it's about someone that lost it all as a kid offering help to another kid who lost it all.
Also, Over the Garden Wall is a terrible title, especially with the character designs. I thought it was a dumb cartoon about gnomes leaving their garden before I gave it a try.
*Grogu, actually. But yeah, The Mandalorian is a fantastic title, and it sets up what to expect from Din's adventures. I actually saw the first two episodes, and I think the show's style of self-contained adventures tied by continuity and characters is a perfect fit for the Star Wars galaxy (Classic/Legends or Disney)
Fun fact: Uncle Grandpa was banned in my house because of the implications of Incest
Arthur and Cyberchase has the best cartoon title especially for a PBS kids show! The Loud House, SpongeBob, and Fairly Odd Parents have cool titles. I feel Nickelodeon does the most unique cartoon titles!
I love the fact some of the Nicktoons' names can be translated into many languages
@@Trist233 especially in other countries, Nick uses foreign language names of their Nicktoons, they localize the titles with the same font!
Still at the start, but:
The title of Jimmy Neutron is "The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius", so using that as an example of cartoons doing "just the name" and then "Everybody loves raymond" as Live Action doing "something more" is a bit odd.
Also, "no other medium does this"? Books like Jane Eyre or Tom Sawyer, comic strips likes Hagar the Horrible, Blondie or Cathy... I don't think it's just the medium of Animation.
Dude scared of a little magical girl show lol! 😂 XD
"Some might say that _Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends_ was a bad show."
ENTER NO YOU'RE STILL JUST BARELY OUT OF YOUR LAST CONTROVERSY
...That said, yeah, it...wasn't great. But it still holds immense nostalgia for me...if only because I remember that I used to play _The Minish Cap_ while it played.
The only Cartoon Network shows that genuinely hold a place in my heart are _Ed, Edd n Eddy_ and _Courage the Cowardly Dog_ There was just something about those shows that make them special among the other shows.
@@0deadx21 Aye. _Ed, Edd, 'n' Eddy_ was just good, stupid fun. _Courage the Cowardly Dog_ had a lot of meaningful moments, and sometimes the soundtrack could be awe-inspiring.
Still a bad show though.
The only thing I remember about Foster's is the Party Is Such Sweet Soiree episode, the Store Wars, the Starving In The Hallway episode and, like, the zombie prank episode.
9:03 How about M*A*S*H, many don’t know what it stood for (these days at least), but I will instantly go “Mobile Army Surgical Hospital”. It tells you what it is about.
0:22 That show is called Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (The name of it's franchise being Scooby-Doo!), as well as The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius being the title for the Jimmy Neutron show that aired in the 2000's.
I do agree Kappa Mikey is a forgettable name, but it does explain the actual show pretty well.
Also to be fair, the theme song still buzzes through my head from time to time... like right now as I'm typing this.
There’s one episode that explains why his character is named that way in the first place, other than the fact that it’s a pun on the Japanese dish, kappamaki.
I never found it forgettable actually, maybe because it's just kinda fun to say. And yes it is genius if one looks into it more.
7:41 That one second of Fetch made my day
I always thought The Berenstain Bears was a confusing title (Mandela Effect aside) because the titular bears aren’t actually named Berenstain (at least I don’t think they are), it’s just the names of the creators.
Mama Bear, Papa Bear, etc. If they have a family name it's Bear.
Mr Enter touched on how dominated the names Phineas and Ferb are by the characters.
This is the One Mario Limit (the reason why we have no problem accepting the Mario franchise).
Tom and Jerry was a popular drink back in the day, and was especially popular during Christmas time. I actually like the title, because "Tom" as in "Tomcat" is a name that can be associated with cats. Tom and Jerry drinks are served to this day, but they were better known at the time the "Tom and Jerry" cartoons became popular.
Arthur can afford to have such a simple/nondescript title because it's on network television. Doesn't matter what it was called all of us kids were watching it 🤣.
Anyways, good video. Been watching your videos for yours.
I want to bet that Enter will watch and review LoliRock by this time next year.
I always liked when shows that went on for a while would constantly changed the titles to fit the theme of the show or reflect a crucial element of it. Like Power Rangers would change up the name to fit theme or something crucial in each season, power rangers Zeo was about the new power source the rangers would take on after the original powers were destroyed, Lost Galaxy was about exploring the galaxy around the series, S.P.D was about the new space police space patrol delta and there adventures, the worst seasons had some of the tittles that came out of nowhere and didn't fit the theme of the show like operation overdrive or “Super Mega Force”.
🤟🏻🤩🤟🏻The best way to have a awesome cartoon title is to make it cool and outstanding. To make it like the show is worth watching!
I love the fact that you mentioned birdz of all shows. I didn't think anyone but me would remember it even existed.
When I was a kid, my aunt didn't want me to talk about Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi cuz it had/has a "crazy name".
Though not strictly a cartoon, the Sam & Max series is one of the worst offenders for bad titles. The names are so common & the characters don't have last names, so when talking about them out of context i have to say "max of the freelance police." Which sounds nonsensical to anyone who doesn't know what the Sam & Max series is (which is most people). Why they never titled it just "Freelance Police" is beyond me.
To be fair, the cartoon’s full title is Sam and Max: Freelance Police, and that’s usually what it’s called on DVDs or streaming services, so it doesn’t suffer from this issue
i get the dog and rabbit mixed up all the time
I love, love love Billy and Mandy to the point where every Monday is Mandy Mondays
So... does "Fetch with Ruff Ruff Man" technically count as a cartoon? I mean, sure, it has an animated host, but most of the interesting stuff is live action. The animated parts were more for comical commentary and building points for the real life contestants.
I'm surprised there was no mention of Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! That cartoon had a pretty long title.
as for anime, you tend to get mostly good titles as long as you arent getting an overly wordy one. even on the rare occasion of character name titles, if you know a naruto in real life, it was probably the result of someone naming their son after the character. you also have "jojo's bizarre adventure", which immediately intriguing because of how weird the word choice is of "bizarre". translated titles usually do a good job or are at worst a direct translation.
sometimes the title is in english as well, like dr. stone or spy x family or hunter x hunter. speaking of which, dr. stone is both an apt title and a "roll credits" moment later on in the story, and if you pretend the x isn't there in the others it explains what the show is about without saying too much. hunter x hunter is also a wordplay title, gon wants to become a hunter to hunt down his father, who is also a hunter, making him a hunter hunter. now, anime can have subtitles too, but you usually forgo them in casual discussion. code geass: lelouch of the rebellion is just shortened to code geass, which is a decent title. demon slayer is about slaying demons, food wars is about cooking competitions, etc. sometimes you do lose stuff in translation. haikyuu is apparently derived from the kanji, so in those cases you cant really blame anyone. that, and most anime watchers arent browing based on title alone, mostly the reception.
i dont mind long titles for anime, though. sometimes you get funny ones like "science fell in love so i tried to prove it", which is intriguing based on how silly it sounds.
For reference, the Japanese have this weird habit of using the letter X to represent blank space or a break between words. "Hunter X Hunter" is actually just "Hunter Hunter", but the X apparently looks better to them than just a blank space. Similarly, XXXHolic is actually just "Holic", but shifted to the right by three spaces for some inexplicable reason.
@@CantusTropus god damn i cant believe mega man x is just mega man or just (blank space). (yes i know that doesnt apply to everything just the thought of x not having a name is funny to me)
I love W.i.t.c.h., it was one of my favorite shows growing up, even though I got made fun of in Elementary school because it’s a “girls show”
So glad to see it brought up, now if only it was available on Disney Plus
I remember when they made fun of the powerpuff girls, they even did it in the show itself with the announcer almost mistakenly calling them the powderpuff girls and I think other characters said it at times and it was kind of funny at the time.
I had no idea Andre 3000 had a cartoon 0_0
One word titles bother me a lot because it doesn't really describe what the media is. I didn't know what 'Mulan' meant until I saw the film. It's such a weird system of naming stuff.
I'm not in love with the kind of Anime titles that are a whole sentence, but they're really funny. I recently learned of this strange Anime from the '80s by the name of 'Twinkle Nora Rock Me'.
Would you review Class Of 3000 or an episode of it?
Looked up kissyfur and got the show and nothing else and yes my safe search is off.
Also looked up lolirock. Based on the art style it's looks like a cheaply made show
I remember hearing aqua teen hunger force for the first time and it sounded so stupid and irrational then i watched the show and i got it lmao
I like w.i.t.c.h it was a shame we never got season 3
I don't like live action shows but there are a few I can name with the characters name in the title Sam and Cat, The Sopranos, House M.D., FRED, Icarly, Nurse Jackie, and Dexter. There are more Live Action shows then Animation so I think people just forget live action shows faster then animation. But overshadowing can be another factor. Live action also has more constraints with it's titles because there are more of them so you have to get creative with the titles. Like if your gonna make a Zombie game, movie, show or book in the 2010's they had to get creative so we got titles like Left for Dead, The Walking Dead, CoD: Nazi Zombies, 28 Days Later, Dead Snow and Resident Evil (though this one is older in fairness). But if your making the only animated show about an anthropomorphic horseman in Hollywood you don't really need to think of a pop out titles to separate it from all the other anthro horseman shows. Titles are important to an extent and do have an effect. I remember people not giving MLP:FIM a chance because of it's title or bronies not wanting to say the title.
This was a very enjoyable video! It's an interesting topic to think of. There's certainly a lot you can glean from an interesting title alone; there are some shows I can just tell are not for me based on their titles alone (like the random words titles.) Also, Uncle Grandpa is that show that I absolutely refuse to watch based on the title alone.
A show I personally think has a great title that made me immediately intrigued to check out (and which became my second favorite cartoon of all time) is Infinity Train.
Uncle Grandpa is a pretty good show, although it’s humor relies entirely on wacky, random nonsense= funny jokes and cartoony slapstick.
2:16 >.> Is this a sneaky hint your gonna be talking about Edgar and Ellen?
I wonder what is the longest title for a cartoon
my guess be WB's "The Cat&Birdy Warneroonie PinkyBrainy Big Cartoonie Show "
If you're talking exclusively Western, I don't know. If you're including anime, there's a long list.
Wait until you see Light Novel titles
Here's a funny thing about uncle grandpa: they keep the name and the exact puns about being both uncle and grandfather in languages where it doesn't work. In Portuguese, Uncle-Grandfather is an actual parentage: it's for your grandparent's sibling. Yet the show continues to make the same joke about the absurdity, despite making perfect fucking sense
I remembered when regular show first started airing its tag line was it's everything but.
Is this the reason why the "Billy and the Cloneasaurus" movie has been delayed again?
I think the movie and show titles are often about the adventure of some sort, while the cartoons with character name titles often evolve around, wouldn't you know, the character.
This video just reminded me of the fact that there is a game called... *breathes*
Attack Of The Mutant Zombie Flesh-Eating Chickens From Mars, starring Zappo The Dog.
2:48 gotta love that kiss cartoon logo on the top left
Lolirock is a major oof of a title. For anyone who actually is interested on what it's about it's a magical girl show about girls in a rock band and I have no idea why they decided to call it that.
Either the lollipop pun or
@@kalkuttadrop6371 honestly lollipop would have been a better title (even though it still wouldn't be fitting)
Can't believe he never mentioned Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go! LMAO.... when it comes to Cartoon titles, this lives rent-free in my head. Especially since he went on a tangent about "Pig Goat Banana Cricket" and such. Its a good show, just a ridiculous title
Speaking of recurring titles, try finding a fantasy title that doesn't use "of" in its name.
I actually know what lolirock is, it's not as bad as it sounds, but it's basically a sailor moon type of show with three girls with powers who are also in a band. I remember a family member of mine used to watch it but that's about it. From what I remember it wasn't inappropriate, as it seemed to be a kids show. Hope this helps the curious.
I've been noticing a lot of anime titles (at least the English version.) are less of a "Title" and more like a short sentence. The time I got reincarnated as a Slime, Didn't I say to make my abilities average in the next life? , Is it wrong to pick up girls in a dungeon?, The maid I hired is mysterious. High school prodigies have it easy even in another world, My mental choices are completely interfering with my school romantic comedy.
Don't forget "Location" Saga
I never got "Angry Beavers" because they were rarely angry, and more zany or goofy. Rocko's Modern Life was a pretty good name for the show. A show I never watched because of the title: Butt-Ugly Martians
They used to be angry in the development phase of the show, but then they changed the character personalities and kept the name anyway.
I don't know if I should feel proud or ashamed to already know about Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese.
I grew up watching the show Franklin, which is about a turtle who has a childhood, goes to school, and has friends. He is the only character in that show who has a normal name - everyone else is named after the animal that they are (like Bear, who is a bear - Beaver, who is a beaver - Snail, who is a snail - Fox, who is a fox - Rabbit, who is a rabbit). Not only is this very lazy in naming your characters, but it’s very inconsistent with the rest of the show. Even as a kid, I always hated it when shows did this.
Another example is the show Little Bear, which is also a good show and a show I recommend for kids. I just hate the naming of the characters. Little Bear’s friends are named Owl, Cat, Hen, Duck. People who write these shows need to give their characters real names, and those are not real names.
Yeah, show titles can really make a difference.
my sister loves lolirock and it's worst then you think way worst then you think something truly terrible
"Really? There's a show with a name so bad you refuse to watch it? Come on, what name could possibly be that bad? Lose interest sure, but you refuse to watch it? .... Oh, that's the name. Yeah, I get it. In fact, I agree. I only know the name, and I refuse to even look into that show."
Wow. Enter praised an aspect of Family Guy in this video. Even if its just the title of the show. Thats something you dont really see anymore.
Now that I think of it, American Dad should've been the title to King of the Hill. C'mon, King of the Hill is way too patriotically American to have the word " King " in the title
King of the Hill is also a child's game.
i saw my 10 year old sister watching lolirock and it damn near gave me a heart attack
Wait, what about the cartoons which are named after the places the shows are set in?
Like chaotic, Gravity falls, final Space, amphibia, Jellystone? Or lets Even include Anime and mention others like One Piece
Those are one of a kind places, so it's okay, unlikable the many movies and shows whose title is a real place. What do the titles _Montenegro_ and _San Francisco_ tell you about those films.
Don't forget Eerie, Indiana - it plays in a town in the USA, which also happens to be the place of many eerie adventures.
Is "Growing Around" a good title?
Well it is a pun title
@@Gamebuilder2000 Even better.
Imagine if they called Primal, Spear & Fang.
Beavis and Butthead is another “and” title that actually works.
There aren’t a lot of people named Beavis, and especially Butthead.
Same with Ren and Stimpy
And while it's long there's also Super Robot Monkey Team hyperforce go
That's a mouthful
Also alliteration/assonance/rhyming tend to help. Nobody would care much about a show called Ed, or called Eddy, but the strangeness of a title like Ed, Edd and Eddy makes one more curious.
Unless you hate you child
@@jimmytheechidna it's long but the name flows well
This isn’t limited to cartoons, but my pet peeve with titles is when a reboot of an old show uses the same name as the original, so you need to distinguish each version based on the year it came out.
Like with Rugrats, PowerPuff Girls, Ben 10, DuckTales, etc.
Even Looney Tunes Show
What do you mean you don't like to add the release year to the movie's title when you google it? That's the most fun part!
Same with movies.
Someone also needs to tell Hollywood that adding "The" at the beginning of your title isn't enough to differentiate it from the original i.e. "The Predator" and "The Batman" (especially considering that there's already an unrelated cartoon named "The Batman").
I can understand naming a movie the same thing when it's supposed to be a remake (like with Rob Zombie's "Halloween") but not when it's intended as a sequel to the original ("Halloween" 2018: try explaining to somebody not familiar with the franchise that it's a sequel to the original "Halloween").
@@allegedlyfalse6779 Thank you. That's why "the" has become my least favorite word in movie titles in recent times.
"Some would even say Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends is a bad show"
Let me at them
It's not a perfect show. It brought to the network the annoying catch phrase character that isn't even a main character in the show. Cheese, and Fred Fredburger (who were both used in advertising as if they were main characters). Characters who the show would probably be better off without if they remained in their single episodes. Bloo is also a really annoying character most of the time. I can somewhat forgive that and Mac because well, I'd assume Bloo and Mac are both about the same age and kids do act like that, but, honestly, a lot of parts of that show seem like they would have been a lot better without Bloo and Mac.
I enjoy the show but there's a lot of stuff I have problems with, even back when I saw it premier, these issues stuck out to me. I can't say I'm a fan of the trend of "YELL AND MAKE LOUD NOISES AND FUNNY FACES IT'S FUNNY!" that spawned around that era of cartoons. If Fosters was about Wilt, Eduardo, Frankie, Mr. Hareman, Mrs. Foster, and maybe an imaginary friend of the day, I think the show would have been better. You can write children characters who are annoying to everyone else but not annoying to the audience, and that takes skill. But yeah, a good amount of episodes would have been better off without Mac and especially without Bloo. It'd be like if Ed Edd n Eddy only had Eddy as the main character. I don't think that show would have done nearly as well if Eddy was the only main character. I'd probably have to watch it again but I really remember not liking a lot of episodes that I thought had fine concepts, but Bloo and Mac drug it down. There were also other bad episodes like that one where a new Imaginary Friend resident is doing all this stuff and getting the main cast in trouble because Frankie and Mrs. Foster and Hareman turned off their logic centers of their brains. I can't think of a single episode I liked where Cheese was present. I never found him saying I LIKE CHOCOLATE MILK funny. The show has problems, it has a lot of charm, but from what I remember, there were more than a few episodes that made me wish Mac would stop coming back so Bloo could get adopted.
I had similar issues with Billy and Mandy, Billy and some of the other non Mandy/Grim characters ruined a lot of episodes.
Just my two cents, and purely from memory.
Also I'm aware Fred is from Billy and Mandy, my post kind of makes it sound like both are from Fosters.
Gladly.
I wouldn't say it's bad but it's definitely a show with a few oddly cursed moments, like maybe the show's aim at comedy was geared toward a style that was way more common in the early 2000's but it's aged just enough to where some scenes played up for comedy are sometimes unnerving. There are plenty of these scenes but I can't remember any of them confidently enough besides the worst one imo where Bloo finds a pair of Frankie's bras while rummaging under her bed and makes a sick face.
Foster's was brought down by Bloo, the deuteragonist, being tirned into an obnoxious c*nt as soon as he's allowed to stay at the home.
Really surprised there wasn’t a mention of “Adventure Time”, which I think is a fantastic title. It’s memorable, and the thing it makes you remember is a freaking adventure!
Yeah, as long as adventure is around every corner, the show could star anyone (despite the fine print limiting itself by adding "With Finn and Jake")
@@darthkhan29x98 Which has utilized another duo on special occasions, and added on to the theme for the mini arc seasons.
i feel like the title undermines some of the more serious storylines though, "adventure time" sounds pretty childish even though finn is an adult by the end and they kinda stop having random adventures and more serialized events
@@Crabgar the show wasn't meant to be so serious to begin with. I do like some, if not most, of the episodes and arcs later down the line, but many characters and elements of the show couldn't work now in this atmosphere.
@@darthkhan29x98 I binged this show over the summer, having seen about half of it while it was airing in my teen years. The first couple seasons were pretty random, sometimes moral or joke moral focused which was no longer the case in later seasons when they'd finally built up a magic system, elemental significance, parenthood of the leads, and endgame scenarios. It's not quite so drastic that I'd call them different shows, and the theme of having an adventure with friends follows Finn to his adulthood. He can be silly as a young man. I'm ok with that. I really enjoyed revisiting this one.
I already know he’s gonna rant about the “X and Y” titles
You called it, dude!
Well. They kinda suck when it is the main characters names.
Haha 2 minutes in
This maybe meta by now. How do you land in so many comment sections to channels I'm subscribed to?
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Pokémon X and Y
Titles don't always make or break a show. "Squid Game" is literally named after a Korean children's game that nobody knew about outside of Korea. Even in the show, an American says it's an "odd name". Despite all that, it became Netflix's most watched show and a worldwide sensation!
OI! Bellend! Don't you FUCKING DARE shill for Netflix's overhyped mediocrity!
Well, I really like Lolirock given that it's a magical girl series about a pop star band that are princesses from other planets stopping evil, inspired by stuff like Sailor Moon and the name itself is like the word Lollipop which might inspire the title despite many people being questionable about the name itself though it's a shame it ended with a cliffhanger.
But if it's one thing I can say about titles, it's cartoon titles from franchises when they usually change things up a little to be different. For example, the Transformers series can be a bit too simple on their titles like Transformers Armada, Transformers Cybertron, Transformers Animated, Transformers Prime, two RID series being the 2001 version which is the dubbed version of Car Robots and the 2015 version which is it's own thing but they had to be used on their year number to not be more confusing. Transformers Cyberverse was recent but it was used before as a toyline for smaller TF figures during Prime. I do like Earthspark being the upcoming Transformers series having a different name instead of borrowing it from a line of toys or a simple name used for TF media.
I am sure the creator/producers knew what they were doing.
@@NotOrdinaryInGames especially with making a cliff hanger
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12:38 I will always remember the joke they made on the Steven universe/uncle grandpa episode.
Pearl: “So that would make him Greg’s brother and his father?”
Garnet: “That explains a lot.”
*Game of Thrones theme starts playing*
I forgot about that 😂
I find it rather amusing that you were complaining about cartoons only using their names, saying "even live action shows with the star's name will have more to it like Everyone Hates Raymond."
You said all this while the title card for "Scooby Doo: Where are you?" is on-screen. I don't think your editor double-checked the footage they were using for your examples.
Wander over Yonder is never mentioned and I'm pissed off because no one talks about it.
@@itsjoshua2508 Either it's because Wander could be a bit overbearing at times or the ultimate evil in the universe is...a teenage girl. It's Katie Kaboom all over again!
@@itsjoshua2508 that's actually a pretty good title that doesn't actually tell you the character's name.
@@CTback I... I mean... I would actually say that the ultimate evil in the universe in Wander Over Yonder is... Misanthropy...? It's not Dominator herself that's necessarily the issue. Dominator is kinda just designed to be a distaff counterpart to Hater. Rather it's her approach and motivations that are what truly makes her a threat and evil. If someone else had her motivations, they too could be just as evil and despicable as her. But absolutely NO ONE else in the show has the kind of contempt for living things that Dominator has. Dominator just has a dislike of anything living and therefore wants all living things to either suffer or die. And because she has this contempt for all living things, her mind will never be changed. If Dominator decided that she didn't want to destroy planets anymore, she could still act as a villain, but she wouldn't be nearly as evil. If Hater decided to destroy planets rather than try to rule them, then he could become the 'ultimate evil' too. It's less the who, but rather the why.
@@jamainegardner4193 ? His name was Wonder wasn't it.
“This is probably the most pointless vid on the internet”
There’s more pointless :P
For anyone who has finished the video, Lolirock is about a teenage girl who tries to join an all-girl band, but....her singing is LITERAL MAGIC, and she is actually a Princess who has to save her homeworld of Ephedia.
The name is god-awful though you have to admit.
It's bad if you only look at THOSE connotations. Lolita is a very popular fashion style in Japan, and magical girls often go for that style in their costumes.
I ASSUME they were going for a play on 'Lollipop' as in the candy. but replace 'pop' with 'rock' because they are both types of music. unfortunately....
@@mr.fluffyface431 Put another L in the title, problem solved. "Lolli" doesn't have any negative connotations.
@@spriterkid1997 that actually makes the show's name make less sense. Because I don't remember any references to Lolita fashion in the show. A lot of the dresses are pretty sleek, shiny and modern.
Lolirock is actually pretty good. It's a magical girl anime from France about a girlband also called Lolirock. Though loli is an unfortunate title, makes discussion about lolita fashion very difficult.
It’s like Lolipop
My guess is they borrowed the term Loli from Japan, thinking it meant doll clothes or something similar, without realising that it has a completely different connotation in English (they're French after all).
Does the word "rock" make it more dirty?
@@zachariahjonahmaldonado5897 It doesn't even really make sense, since the lead is 15. Not an adult, but not a "Loli" either.
@@zachariahjonahmaldonado5897 Japan got the "Lolita" name from the original source, the Russian novel of the same name. I'm pretty sure that the French know about that too, it's a pretty famous book. Even if it WAS a term native to Japan, they'd probably STILL know about it because France is one of the world's biggest consumers of anime and manga.
I'm guessing Mr. Enter hasn't seen much of recent anime. The titles alone would be enough to give him an aneurysm. Reincarnated as a Sword, Summoned to Another World for a Second Time, Delicious in Dungeon, Lycoris Recoil, The Vampire Dies in No Time, Goblin Slayer, Mob Psycho 100, One Punch Man, March Comes in Like a Lion, The Devil Is a Part-Timer! Just to name but a few.
i don't see how mob psycho 100 is a bad title. it's catches your eye because of the number and has a surprising amount of meaning. the character is nicknamed mob (which is japanese for background character, because the main character lacks presence i.e. part of a mob), psycho because he has psychic powers, but it's also how you pronouce the japanese word for "the best" (saiko) as he's the strongest psychic in the show and 100 refers to him being the strongest, his emotional bar that goes up to 100 and the manga has 100 chapters.
@@Crabgar I wasn't implying that Mob Psycho 100 was a bad title. The point I was trying to make was that titles for anime and manga are often wild and wacky, sometimes too esoteric to comprehend and other times too on the nose. But in the end, they do catch your eye with how bizarre they can be. Mob Psycho 100 is a great title. If you've never seen the show before, you'd take one look at the cover and begin asking, "Who or what is Mob? Why is he Psycho? And what is the significance of the number 100?" That's the power of a good title.
@@DawnOfTheOzz i think an aneurysm is generally seen as a bad thing and less wacky but yeah, the trend of way too descriptive titles and weird english translations of japanese puns makes for some interesting names
i will never forget bobobo bo bo bobo
(since you used aneurysm wrong, as those are very good tittles...)
There are also titles that will give you a headache because for how long they are. "What Do You Do at The End of The World? Are You Busy? Will You Save Us?"
Avatar the Last Airbender is an absolutely fantastic title.
It's about the Avatar, Aang which is the one who must learn all four elements: Air, Water, Earth and Fire, which he is named the last Airbender, which he is the last airbender alive where the story takes place.
Amazing title for such an amazing show.
I never would've thought to review cartoon titles
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And I never thought I would need to hide a certain toy under my bed, but it's actually a very pretty shade of blue
I never thought he would either.
Lucky you, you never heard of Nicky, Ricky, Dicky, and Dawn.
I don't know why Nick would make that show lol. No one's kid is every named Dicky. That's asking for trouble.
@@gamerhero9559 I mean people are named Dick which is short for Richard so Dicky's full name is probably Richard but wait that's probably also Ricky's full name
Or how Dawn isnt called Vicky .
You are the only UA-camr in my subscriptions that YT actually notifies me the second you upload, which I appreciate.
What about "Randy Cunningham 9th Grade Ninja"? The title may seem too long and a mouthful but the premise delivers what the title promised: it's about a boy named Randy Cunningham, whose in 9th grade and he is a ninja. Although, you could argue that the title gives away the plot of the show, but it doesn't go into too much detail, especially when the plot of the overall series is given to us in the first ten minutes of the first episode.
Yeah I was thinking of that too.
Try "Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go!"
@@J1P2K I think that's simply because that show has a lot of Japanese influence, if you looked at many shows in Japan, they typically have long names like this. Hell, look up the original title for Sailor Moon, it was even longer than this
@@bobi200samatar6 And I just thought of another example: Wordgirl. Yes, that's an educational cartoon but it's still a good show and it's another good example.
It's a really short title, only one word long, but this show also delivers what the title promises: this sounds like a superhero name, the show is about a girl called Wordgirl who is a superhero and one of her super powers is having an extensive encyclopedic knowledge of the definition of words. In every episode, she tells the audience the definition of a new word, two words actually.
Even for an educational cartoon, this is works perfectly. In fact, it can be surprisingly self aware about it's premise and that's what makes it so smartly written
It’s funny, when I think of a show called “lolirock” I’d think of a group of (clothed for god’s sake) Lolis in a rock band
i would think lolipops first
Does Babymetal count?
even if they are clothed, i doubt rule34 will let them remain that way.
@@DarthZ01 Yeah, but Rule 34 gets everyone. So you can't use it as any sort of argument about any given show, since basically any half-popular show will have people drawing art of characters in... "compromising circumstances of their own accord or otherwise."
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Making titles is hard as you have to either make it short and snappy or long and meaningful in order to make them more memorable.
Hey- are you eventually gonna give “Butt Ugly Martians” its own atrocity?
I ask because that show has a pretty… interesting title (haha “butt” XD) and thus would be relevant to the video. I’m honestly shocked it wasn’t mentioned.
@HypnoSpace Outlaw You mean “so bad it’s good” or genuinely good? Because I like the show in an ironic way.
I thought he already reviewed Butt-Ugly Martians years ago, and he (or whoever reviewed it) DID rant on the title.
@@Soufriere84 He reviewed the theme song; it was #19 on his top 20 worst cartoon themes list. He also referenced it in his Cool Paw Howie review. Saying “[Almost Naked Animals] is a name that goes beyond ‘Butt-Ugly Martians’…”
However, I was referring to it being given its own atrocity
Yeah, W.I.T.C.H is just a cool title. I wish nothing but the best for Will, Irma, Taranee, Cornelia and Hay's legacy.
Come to think of it, the 1990s and 2000s were just a goldmine for obscure cult comics and cult comic adaptations.
Kinda sad shows with good titles in my opinion couldn't get a mention: Chaotic, FINAL SPACE, and Gravity Falls
Team Umizoomi, looking back on it, has one of the weirdest titles. Like, it pulls you in to figure out what makes this team of “Umizoomis” But then once you see an episode, they kind of obviously do not explain its meaning. Reply to me if any of you know what an Umizoomi is? It gets weirder when the town is named Umi City. Then I have to ask the question of “What in God’s name is an Umi?” But it sure will lead to some parents accidentally finding Umibouzu.
"Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese" seriously looks like it was generated by an AI based on the CalArts style meme.
Lolirock was probably meant to be a play on Lollipop.
I say probably because this was the same team that did Totally Spies….
You mean the same show that was the source of countless fetishes?