I get a bit of Johnny Test feels too like that, but at least some of my appreciation for it was ironic, and I left the show after they changed Dookie's voice. Robot Boy was something I thought was cool as a kid, but it doesn't hold up either.
Same here. Although I actually remember it being somewhat decent. Granted, I was a teenager at the time, so I was really only watching Adult Swim at that point. But of the few scenes I saw...it was okay. Enter is clearly hating it WAY more than I expected. IMO, Cramp Twins and Squirrel Boy were WAY worse than this. Cramp Twins was unpleasant and Squirrel Boy was forgettable...this is neither.
I actually kinda liked this show when it was on. Call it a "guilty pleasure." But even I have to say it's aged very badly. So looking forward to you tearing into it
I liked the later seasons, where things started getting a little bit...weirder. I also enjoyed the fact that the show was actually creative with its premise, and even managed to do some legitimate research on animal biology and behavior--for example, the obligatory "nerd club" made up of all the smartest kids in the school consisted of a dolphin, a pig, a parrot, a squid and an elephant, five of the smartest animals in real life.
Three things I learned today: 1. Adam and Jake are in an abusive relationship. 2. There's a banned episode where Jake gets an apocalyptic butt spasm. 3. Mungus the Giant didn't know he was supposed to clean his house.
Yea, to me i think bloo is a better character because he has more personality, has at least shown to care about Mac deep down inside and has a purpose also he's more memorable and funny.
At least with Mac and Bloo there was the fact that their "friendship" was born from Mac literally inventing Bloo because...imaginary friend. Bloo was an idealized version of whatever Mac thought would make a "cool" friend at the time of creation but while Bloo didn't really change or become a better person, Mac became a very nice kid that refused to ditch his brain-baby. The other shows don't really much of an excuse, though. Not unless they just wanted to show what a dysfunctional and kind of toxic friendship looked like.
@@lukelichtenthal5407 It's not an excuse. Just an explanation for why Mac still spends time with him, at least at the beginning of the series. If they ever drift apart, it'll be Mac's growth as a person, not Bloo's. For an abusive fictional friendship, at least there's a logic to their affiliation.
I definitely felt the whole "2000 cartoons 'friends' being borderline abusive" growing up. It confused me, I personally questioned if anyone really thought/acted like that quite a few times.
I am only noticing in hindsight, but bloo's behaviour post flanderization makes me wonder why Mac imagined him in first place ? (sure some episodes imply mac can be as destructive or as mischivious as bloo, but that feels like an overcorrection toward the wrong direction) Especially given some early episodes almost implied bloo was a "trollish but well behaved enough even if childish and sometimes he had weird logic to do stuff" BUT JUST WATCH some of the fist 20 episodes and you could think foster traumatized him (basically the pilot, that first episode post pilot with so many rules, then that episode where they get lost at foster's upper levels, or that one where he gets sick for playing in the rain and hey confuse him for a ghost and try to "Bust" him by trapping him in the vaccuum cleaner). Is like if bloo's flanderization was a way to move away that implications of foster traumatizing him and just shifting blame on bloo having always being like that
@@ianr.navahuber2195 It's kind of implied that the imaginer is only in control of the friend's appearance, not personality (Eduardo was imagined to protect his imaginer, and he's afraid of his own shadow). Though, then again, that still makes it a wonder that Mac kept Bloo around for longer than most children.
I noticed that in Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, the first season had Grim get tortured a lot more. Later seasons made it seem like he, Mandy, and Billy were genuinely friends. I was glad for that change.
That single line in the intro 'My gym partners a Monkey. Monkey! Monkey! Monkey!' Was such a damn ear worm that even today It still goes off in my head.
@@Neku628 Wish they did more with that, but the cartoon quo is usually that the main kid dude doesn't get the girl. They'd have a good enough chemistry; could even do a silly double date / school dance plot that pairs Jake with Lupe as well.
Y'know, Cats Don't Dance used this same idea as a running gag. And that movie managed to both be decently entertaining and have an actual moral lesson about segregation.
I liked Frollo because he was evil. Very evil. Probably too evil, honestly. Evil to the point where you start thinking "Wait, this guy was in a Disney film?"
Because Frollo was such an awful person it built up the viewers hope that he'd die. But at the same time Frollo was so incredibly vile he was good at his role as a villain so you could love to hate him.
Yeah. He's so detestable yet has an overwhelming charisma on account of Tony Jay's awesome acting. He made for a fantastic bad guy and the movie made it clear through his actions that his way would not be a good one. Same goes for Ursula; intentionally evil character, charismatic performance. Jake is supposed to be one of the protagonists. Yet it's baffling how much of an A-Word Jake is.
The one episode I remember the most from this show was the one with all the animals chanting ‘pretty pretty, shiny shiny’ and admittedly my brother and I still quote that to each other like 15 years later
I remember that and the one with the eggs... I both love and hate the egg episode because it's so cliche but at the same time strangely amusing... by the standards of this show..
I did revisit this show and it isn't bad as most people say and Mr enter to be, Its not bad or good, just average, but I still enjoyed it than most of the the awful modern CN shows.
@Laura Birdwell Thanks. I'm surprised someone actually agrees with me on something, so thank you, sir/ma'am. I do think it would've made more sense too, but the show just sucks, so I don't know if even having a better theme would've helped. I mean, they had Tom Kenny on the show, and IT STILL SUCKED.
@Laura Birdwell Thanks again. Yeah, one lyric in a terrible song wouldn't have done much, you still got a monkey playing the bongos with his ass while shouting the word monkey. The show's still annoying. I hated growing up with the show, when I was a little boy. Still hate it.
@Laura Birdwell Take it from me, sir/ma'am, it's as annoying as it looks, if not somehow worse than I remember. Just avoid it. It's not the worst show ever, (because of toddler titans), but it's still awful. Watch something classic like Clasd Of 3000, or Samurai Jack, or the Teen Titans from 2003 instead. Much better shows. I mean, watch whatever show you want, but those are just suggestions, from me, because I loved those shows growing up. You know, back when cartoon network was worth watching, like when they had the Cartoon Cartoons.
@@corundumkrabble5035 the line line is "Bullshark, porcupine, I don't know what. Going to this school's a pain in the -" the line is clearly butt, hence why its so stupid they won't say it
That reminds me of when I found a Spanish-language dub (I want to say it was actually from Spain, but I could be wrong) of The Smurfs. I told my brother, "If you thought Brainy Smurf was bad, wait until you hear Spanish-language Brainy Smurf!"
And their friendship feels so real, that, even though they could squabble with each other from time to time, there was no doubt any one of them would go through hell and back for their teammates.
Doesn't the ending entirely nullify the point of it being a slur, meaning the A-word isn't a slur at all, within the context of the show? A slur is usually something very negative, but the final scene makes it not negative.
But for the entire episode leading up to that point, the episode did its best to make the audience _think_ that it was bad, so it's effectively the same thing.
@@elsie8757 But doesn't it just circle back to the beginning of the episode where it seemed like a slur, when in reality, it actually wasn't? This show baffled me when I was a kid, and it still baffled me how it ever got aired in the first place, dude.
Speaking of which, I was looking back at Donkey Kong 64 to go down memory lane, and I just noticed that one of the power-ups you collect actually is a crystal coconut. Apparently someone behind the development of Donkey Kong 64 watches the TV show. 🤔
Hey to be fair, there was a pretty substantial amount of episodes that portrayed Mac and Bloo as friends, especially early on (sometimes Mac even pissed Bloo off). It was everyone else in the house that Bloo antagonized.
Yeah, that example kinda bugs me. Sure, Bloo is clearly a narcissist and a compulsive troublemaker, but he rarely ever goes out his way to intentionally make his friends’ lives a living hell (ignoring episodes like “I Only Have a Surprise for You” or “Cookie Dough”). And he has occasionally shown that he does care about those around him (like in “Read it and Weep,” where Bloo completely broke down in tears when he thought Eduardo had been killed by hunters).
Also, the 3 Eds from Ed Edd n Eddy. Despite them being very different in personality and having a sort of 3 Stooges dynamic, they are friends with a shared motive; Jawbreakers!
The writers didn't seem to understand that in order to form a good friendship with someone, most people look for nice or attractive qualities in other people. A real and logical person is able to recognize when a friendship is toxic. Here's what I think would happen if Adam was realistic: Adam: "Jake, this is bullshit!" Bull: "Sorry, I couldn't make it to the toilet." Jake: "What are you talking about?" Adam: "Our friendship, if you can even call it that. I've tried my best to be a loyal bestie, but you always act like a dick to me. The hell did I ever do to you? For two years, I've basically acted like a doormat and let you step all over me. I've had enough of this horseshit!" Horse: "Does it really smell that bad?" Jake: "Huh? Oh, sorry Adam. I was just painting smiley faces on my buttcheeks." Adam: "And what the fuck is up with all the butt stuff? You always talk about your ass like it's the best thing in the world. It's pretty disgusting and creepy how much you shove that thing in my face." Jake: "Not my fault my butt is certified comedy gold." Adam: "I swear, whoever animates this show probably has some strange monkey butt fetish. Like, remember that time you literally inflated your ass? That was like something straight off of DeviantArt." Jake: "Well, if you don't like my ass, you can kiss it." Adam: "Dude, nobody genuinely likes you. At this point, we only hang out with you out of pity. If it weren't for me, Windsor, Slips, Lupe, and Ingrid putting up with your stupid butt shenanigans and other shit, you'd be by yourself. I'm surprised I didn't realize this earlier, with how many times you've made an ass of yourself." Donkey: "Hey, that's deeply insulting! I'll have you know that I have a wife and she a smokin' hot dragon." Adam: "I'm not going to put up with your monkey business anymore. The time I spent at this school was the worst thanks to you always dragging me into your foolish and dumb plan or scheme of the week. Well, time to put an end to that." *Adam starts to walk away* Jake: "Wait Adam! I've got something to show you!" Adam: *sigh* "Let me guess, oh what could it be? It couldn't be your ass. I'm smothering in my own curiosity." Jake: "DING DING DING DING! IT'S MY BUTT! Ha, that never gets old." Adam: "What a shock. A real fuckin' knee-slapper." Jake: "Hey, Adam! Wanna stare at my butt? Wanna touch it?" Adam: "Go spank your monkey." *Adam walks out of school*
That contains a lot of curse words you can't say on My Gym Partner's a Monkey, but it was funny how random animals suddenly appear when Adam makes references to them. September 3, 2019, 8:20pm
Now that you mention it, yeah, lots of cartoons did have these incredibly toxic, exploitative, one-sided friendships that we were supposed to buy into! It also occurs to me that this is thankfully much less of a thing in modern cartoons (at least the ones I watch and/or am aware of).
Technically, humans can be classed as a form of primate (of which is a group apes and monkeys fall under), given they evolved from apes, so I guess it kind of makes sense to say that they're apes in a sense.
@@retrogamelover2012 Yeah but like I said, if this show considered humans a type of ape (and therefore an animal), then there would be no reason to segregate human and animal schools.
Unless there's something more insidious going on in the background. Like a more twisted, martial law take on the bible passage on how man was given dominion over the plants and animals of the earth.
My biggest problem with My Gym Partner's a Monkey was that the main character Adam was actually sympathetic and the show felt the need to punish him with slapstick and humiliation like he's somehow wrong for wanting to be back in a human school.
Yeah, South Park (first season aside) seems to be the only show that makes toilet humor even remotely funny to me. Apart from that, tho? Can’t stand it >.
@@Ryda124 But I think kids kind of have like a sense of it,they somehow know. I mean it was like that with camp lazlo too. Even at that time I wasn't super into exactly who the voice actors were but man when I started getting into it and learning who all these people were it blew my mind. I remember when I found out all the characters from animaniacs were people I had heard for decades in stuff like The Simpsons and tiny toons and other things from the 80s and 90s.
Me too dude. Great show, great songs, great acting, it was funny, well drawn, and the songs were written and performed by an actual, talented musician, Andre 3000. Why the hell would anyone cancel such an amazing show? They also mistreated Teen Titans, twice, by canceling the original cartoon and then bringing it back as "toddler titans go fuck up what made the Teen Titans amazing in the first place". Yes, that's the actual, full title of the show. And, sorry for bringing up bad memories, dude. I loved Class Of 3000 as well. And, I loved listening to OutKast too. There was literally NO reason to cancel either Teen Titans or Class Of 3000. At least the Teen Titans was given a movie and Raven, Cyborg and Robin were put into Injustice and Injustice 2.
@͔ Ok. I only liked Class Of 3000 from the shows on that list, but ok. Like those shows if you want to. I don't care about squirrel boy or my gym partners a monkey. Not sure why I ever watched those shows when I was a little boy, but I didn't think very highly of them, sorry. But I stil wish Class Of 3000 were still on. But like that other dude in the comments said, it was canceled because of budgetary problems. The show was just too good for a greedy company like cartoon network. Too good for ANY of the 3 greedy cartoon companies, nicklelodeon, and especially NOT disney.
I do like the idea of the shark character having water headphones over his gills so he can move freely around without having to be confined to a giant tank as a gag. That's actually a clever concept
Except that's not how gills work. Basically, Fish breath oxygen. They inhale water through their mouth and nose. The gills are an outlet for the water after their lungs extract the oxygen. Putting water in through the gills can make a fish drown.
01:29 Let’s not forget that Pickle Rick somehow won an Emmy last year despite that fans of Rick and Morty thought there are other episodes that are way better to be nominated than Pickle Rick. To be fair, this show is a bit of a guilty pleasure. Sure, it has some flaws and you did have a point that sometimes the jokes and humor can be annoying but I still find it funny at times. Plus, compared to shows like Squirrel Boy and Out of Jimmy’s Head, this show (outside of Jake Spidermonkey) is at least watchable compared to those shows. Interestingly enough, the creators of this show eventually end up becoming the showrunners of the current Littlest Pet Shop on the Hub, which is decent.
Afro Shinobi I’m not saying the episode’s bad but I think there are other episodes that could’ve been nominated for the Emmy than Pickle Rick like Tales From the Citadel. I felt like that Pickle Rick got nominated because of the whole meme thing and the Emmys assume it was worthy for one.
Yeah, I actually remember looking for its scheduled run times and AVOIDING The Cramp Twins even. Plus it actually explores it's universe, which is what I loved about the show. I remember one episode centered around the water zones in the school.
What would've made it better, was if Jake assumed that the concept of a Shark going Ape obviously made him assume that there's a conspiracy of Apes going around in Shark Suits. And Jake decides to go around and sleuth, and winds up harassing Bull Sharkowsky. While Adam and his other friends are trying to explain the figure of speech to him. But the twist is that there are in fact, Apes going around in Shark Suits. We don't find this out until the end when one of the sharks comes forward. Boom, fixed the plot. Do I get a cookie?
Mac and Bloo (Fosters) Ed, Edd n Eddy (show of the same name) Billy and Mandy (Grim Adventures) (Irwin is also treated like complete shit by Billy) Flapjack and K'nuckles (Flapjack) BONUS: Master Shake, Frylock, and Meatwad (Aqua Teen Hunger Force)
One of the best parts of Ed, Edd n Eddy Big Picture Show was the acknowledgement that Edd was in an awful friendship with Eddy (Ed is at worst amorally stupid and never means harm) and how well they tackled it
@@thef.b.i2705 I don't think anyone was. But as soon as I heard Adam's voice in this, I was immediately thinking Luna Loud. Not a good choice for an awful show like this, which dragged down the quality of both Tom Kenny and Nika Futterman's acting by playing nasally voiced, squeaky voiced annoying characters whom everyone hated. But at least both actors involved with this went on to do better in great shows, like the loud house and Spongebob even though Tom was already doing that voice at the same time as this show. He was also Eduardo from Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends. Another good show.
15:00 Actually Enter, My Gym Partner's A Monkey came out in December of 2005 while Class of 3000 came out in November 2006 which is almost a year. On a side note, most mid-2000s Cartoon Network shows don't hold up well. While Camp Lazlo, Foster's Home and the aforementioned Class of 3000 are good, there are the kind of shows like Squirrel Boy, Robotboy, Cramp Twins, Johnny Test (though I have heard it was good on Kids WB), and of course, My Gym Partner's A Monkey. Many of those shows have assholes as well, which i'll list myself: Robotboy: Gus and Tommy's brother Squirrel Boy: Rodney Johnny Test: Almost the whole cast! MGPAM: Jake
Zootopia: Has a small tongue-and-cheek joke about calling bunnies "cute." MGPsaM: Makes an entire episode dedicated to someone using "ape" like an insult. I just want to say that if they made a similar joke in Zootopia they'd probably have Judie or Nick say "ape" just for an ape to say "I'm right here you know." That would actually be funny. It wouldn't make one of your characters look like an entitled asshole and the other one look like a scapegoat for everyone's problems. Which to be honest: I've only seen a few episodes of this cartoon and "scapegoat" is easily the most accurate description for Adam. *Edit - Wow that was the most copout ending fucking possible. I actually had to pause the video and exclaim "Wait. WHAT?" out loud when I saw that ending.
I watched the episode back when the show was airing and even as a kid I was frustrated. I was like "What just happened??" The innuendo flew over my head but I couldn't believe that Jake was envious of Bullsharkowski. Like, what the fuck, Jake? What are you even talking about, man??
Im glad someone is actually talking about the abusive nature of 'friendships' in mid 2000's shows. Ive personally been abused by friends in the past. It starts off and you think its fun banter. You think your balancing each other out and its this really cool thing and eventually you'll both find equilibrium. But no. If your a naturally more "Submissive" (thats the best word for it, not implying anything sexual here) person, being around someone who is so violently domineering is like walking a tight rope. Some of my best friends where more outgoing, stand up, in your face kind of people. But that was only AFTER I was able to learn to stick up for myself against them if things got to far. BEFORE I learned that skill, I was abused by someone who claimed to be my friend. And I do partially blame these shows for glorifying that dynamic. It works, sometimes, but you have to be able to fight back.
There's like only 3 CN shows from that era with ''bad friendships'' Fosters Gym Partner Squirrel Boy And Re-Animated if we're counting movies But otherwise pretty much every other shows airing on CN around that time had none of these issues especially shows like Class of 3000 and Camp Lazlo
I remember being in the 2nd grade and our teacher asked us if we knew who Charles Darwin was. One girl genuinely thought that CD was the guy who created My Jim Partners a Monkey.
I feel like the "this school is a pain in the bu-" line is supposed to be like when a show has a character about to swear, but then gets cut off by something comedic. But here's the problem....BUTT is not a swear word, it sounds like a christian cartoon trying to discourage swearing. Now, if they had changed the lyrics to something like "trying to avoid all these crabs, going to school's a pain in the a-", then that would've worked.
Here's an excerpt for a song segment in a cartoon I'm planning to make in the future: "Work Deleter was unenthusiastic. She said, 'Let's make this fast! I've got an important project nearly due in History class! History's my worst subject; must get this done if I wanna pass! Enough chit-chat! Let's go! This cat is gonna kick your-"
Art Artsa, in terms of the stock music: As if the show wasn't bad enough, their background music budget was pretty much just all stock music! And I've actually been devoting time during the last 2 years helping identify library music tracks from the show for a blog: gympartnermusic.wordpress.com/ I've also been uploading MGPAM tracks on my channel, and have been making "Music only" re-creations of episodes (which just proves my point even more about the music!)
Honestly while the mid 2000s had a lot of bad friendship dynamics, one that I appreciated was the one between Lil D and Eddie in Class Of 3000. While there was definitely a bit of clash between the two, in episodes where the two were paired, like Eddie's Money, it was made clear that the two are genuinely friends. Lil D taught Eddie many tricks while they were stuck on the street. And while there was one joke about Lil D knowing that he would outrun the dog if he could outrun Eddie, he did in turn help Eddie into the dumpster to hide with him, so it's not like he just abandoned him. You can tell that while Lil D is a slightly arrogant street wise kid, and Eddie is a gullible, sheltered boy instead, the dynamic they have works seamlessly and I honestly wish they had more episodes about just the two of them. Their duo was a lot better than anything else the channel gave us.
It's even a lot. There's like only 3 CN shows from that era with ''bad friendships'' Fosters Gym Partner Squirrel Boy And Re-Animated if we're counting movies But otherwise pretty much every other shows airing on CN around that time had none of these issues especially shows like Class of 3000 and Camp Lazlo
I've truly tried my hardest to give this show a chance when it first came out. I really wanted to enjoy this show, and while I wasn't expecting this to be as memorable as truly funny slapstick cartoons like Rocko's Modern Life, Ed Edd n Eddy, Animaniacs, and early SpongeBob, I was at least hoping I'd get some enjoyment out of this. But the more episodes I watch, the more redundant the antics get. None of the characters are likable (except for Windsor, the only interesting character of the whole show), the gross-out humor was repetitive and tedious, and the concept made no sense at all. Look, I'm not one to judge the concept of a cartoon show since some can work if executed correctly, and I don't ask for logic and nitpick every single detail or foible the show has, but there always have to be a legitimate explanation behind it, because while there doesn't have to be logic in everything, too many enigmas for a concept cartoon can confuse the audience. You want to make them laugh, not confuse the fuck out of them. In this show's case, why would the teachers at Adam's old school automatically send Adam to a school replete with animals? He clearly looks like a human, and nobody has even bothered to run some tests on him (or anything similar as such) to determine he's part animal. Also, if Adam was aware of his named being misspelled, why hasn't he done anything to change the error? As for the characters, Jake is honestly the most unlikable character on the show. He's basically a carbon copy of Bloo from Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends, only with less redeeming qualities and no punishments received whatsoever. Plus his obsession of his own ass isn't funny in the slightest. It's repetitive as fuck and gets old very fast, especially since that the only joke that revolves around him. I wouldn't say he's as unlikable as Johnny Test (I thought the show was decent. Just the main character himself is unlikable), but he's still the most despised character in the show. The other characters are just one-dimensional stereotypes with little to no depth and not worth discussing, with Windsor being the only character who had more of a personality and interesting quirks. As mediocre as Camp Lazlo was, it as least had some memorable characters and enjoyment to back it up. This show is just flat-out poor, and there's a reason why it isn't memorable for anything other than nostalgia.
I did not ever realize as a 6 year old with Autism back when this show was a thing, that Jake had such an obsession with his ass, he combines inflation at the same time, with BUTTS! CN humor in the mid-2000's is beyond wack, I cannot find a word myself that defines how badly sick the repetitive butt humor is in that show! Also, love that timed usage of JonTron, many thanks for making me laugh for 10+ minutes!
Also autistic here, I avoided this show any time it aired. I didn’t like it at all then as a twelve year old and I still don’t like it now. Hope he reviews the movie, that was an awful thing.
"Every type of joke, no matter what type it is, has diminishing returns. The more that you use it, the less funny that it gets." Gee, isn't that the concept of "Ripped Pants"? If only Tom Kenny brought that up while voice acting this but hey, you're paid to talk not to talk back as an actor so I can't blame him.
I remember the "special" they had where Gilbert Gottfried guest stared as a platypus and even as an easily amused kid I still remember finding it so... Just DULL. The whole premise of the episode was everyone thinking the new platypus kid was an alien and was mainly Gilbert yelling "BRAIN JUICE" and freaking everyone out. Like, Gilbert was my favorite voice actor as a young kid just cause his voice was so instantly recognizable, but even he couldn't save the episode. This show just does not hold up at all...
Ooh, that was repetitive. I of course don't blame Gilbert for how bad it turned out, and I know you don't either, but of course I blame the direction and script. Also, I feel bad for him. Dying relatively young and not being able to play as Iago in the Aladdin remake.
I rather have an episode where the freaking humans at the school Adam used to be at found out that the mistake they made was idiotic and took him back!
To be honest I think this has the same issue Foster's Home did; most of the characters were fun enough, but the main character's "Best Friend" was completely intolerable.
If Bloo was "completely" intolerable, Mr. Enter would not have said Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends was (mostly) good from start to finish, with the exceptions of Everyone Knows It's Bendy, Imposter's Home for Make Em Up Pals, Foster's Goes to Europe, and I Only Have Surprise For You. March 5, 2020, 9:31am
And Stressed Eric would still be on, too! To some (not me), it is bad enough that Family Guy and Spongebob Squarepants are still on in 2022. September 18, 2020, 3:38pm
replace the "A" word by the real world "N" word.......... yeah, if your friend gets mad at you for calling a slur to a person, its because you actually called that person by a compliment and your friend is actually jealous!! good lesson for kids!! (*thumbs up*)
I remember this episode. I also remember thinking something like "You know, the premise of this episode wouldn't actually be terrible if it wasn't done so fucking incompetently."
I'm so glad you finally did this! I've been wanting to see you talk about this show for a long time! I hated this show when it came out, even though I kept watching it. It was so needlessly mean. I always felt so bad for Adam, and hated Jake, and hated pretty much all the other characters. I recall in your earlier videos you came up with the trope, Megward the Wizard. Gym Partner is a show where the main character is Megward the Wizard.
The only thing about this show I remember was trying to see the tall giraffe girl's face. There was one episode where they all jumped off a cliff, and the giraffe's head stayed off screen the whole way down lol
I'm 22 and I still remember that episode and I'm laughing about it all the time with my brother, who's 20. We also like shouting out "LOOK OOOUUT! LOOK OOOUUT! SCHOOL BULLY COMING THROUGH!" or "GRRRRL power!"
I actually liked this show when I was younger. I guess it doesn’t hold up after all. My god that butt obsession episode and the inflation... that looks lie something ripped right out DeviantArt.
It's kinda a thing a lot of reviewers do as they slowly review more and more stuff. They run into something that's worse than anything they've ever seen and claim that it's the worst thing ever. But they don't realize how far the rabbit hole of badness goes, resulting in them constantly revising what their "worst thing ever" is for a while. Eventually though they start compartmentalizing their "worsts" into being the worst of certain groups of thiings rather than being the worst thing overall
I think it would be clever if they called the school, "E.. R. Burroughs Academy," or some variant of that as it could play into the Tarzan-esque situation. After all, Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote the Tarzan stories. While it may not be something kids would necessarily get it would make for a good literary reference.
@@mainstreamerchannel9919 that just shows how lazy Cartoon Network got with their online games in the 2010's. Look at the website now, it's a literal mess.
That's because Jake IS played by the voice of Spongebob, Tom Kenny. But Tom played Spongebob first. He's played a lot of voices. He was also Ed from Foster's Home For imaginary Friends too.
I remember this damn show, and I can't think of ANYTHING positive or redeeming to say about it. I was a sophomore in high school when it came out, and I remember it being THE cartoon that turned me off of cartoons in general for quite some time. Yeah, the mid to late 2000s were NOT a good time for Cartoon Network. I think the only good show I remember from this era was Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, but even then, Foster's was good, not great.
Ed Edd n Eddy, Kids Next Door, and Billy & Mandy were at least still airing new episodes in the mid 2000s. The Cartoon Countdown also had scattered reruns of older shows.
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This is the show I think of when I hear “Show you liked as a kid, but does not hold up.”
yep
I think of iCarly, but I’m sure I can think of more, given the time. Like this one...
Homura Akemi iCarly is good...
To me
@@homuraakemi103 iCarly had some good episodes, but it did go downhill and became a parody of itself.
I get a bit of Johnny Test feels too like that, but at least some of my appreciation for it was ironic, and I left the show after they changed Dookie's voice. Robot Boy was something I thought was cool as a kid, but it doesn't hold up either.
This show is a fever dream for me. I remember it vividly but i didn't remember if it was decent or not.
omg same.
Me too. I just watched the shorts.
I will never forget the charleston dance scene
Same here. Although I actually remember it being somewhat decent. Granted, I was a teenager at the time, so I was really only watching Adult Swim at that point. But of the few scenes I saw...it was okay. Enter is clearly hating it WAY more than I expected. IMO, Cramp Twins and Squirrel Boy were WAY worse than this. Cramp Twins was unpleasant and Squirrel Boy was forgettable...this is neither.
Same here.
I actually kinda liked this show when it was on. Call it a "guilty pleasure." But even I have to say it's aged very badly. So looking forward to you tearing into it
Same
What aged bad about it? Sorry, I guess maybe I'm not seeing the big picture.
More or less,I watched pretty much most of it as it was during the era of live action but there was so many better cartoons
I liked the later seasons, where things started getting a little bit...weirder. I also enjoyed the fact that the show was actually creative with its premise, and even managed to do some legitimate research on animal biology and behavior--for example, the obligatory "nerd club" made up of all the smartest kids in the school consisted of a dolphin, a pig, a parrot, a squid and an elephant, five of the smartest animals in real life.
yeah, same with Squirrel Boy
At least people _remember_ this show. I've never even heard of the Cramp Twins.
I remember seeing it around as a kid but never learned what the name was. I didnt enjoy it anyway
@@nitromagilou597 yo code lyoko is my jam
mintaka mothkind because it was a British exclusive show
The only reason I remembered it was because of the butt inflation episode. I don't think you could ever forget an episode like that.
Well I only ever heard of it from that fight for the fox box special by 4kids
Three things I learned today:
1. Adam and Jake are in an abusive relationship.
2. There's a banned episode where Jake gets an apocalyptic butt spasm.
3. Mungus the Giant didn't know he was supposed to clean his house.
Mungus the Giant was a minor character in Dragon Tales.
Yea, to me i think bloo is a better character because he has more personality, has at least shown to care about Mac deep down inside and has a purpose also he's more memorable and funny.
@@marvinthemaniac7698 I know, but what does Mungus have to do with anything?
@@Arigriphantua Carson brought him up, not me.
@@marvinthemaniac7698 Sorry. Still a good question for him, though.
At least with Mac and Bloo there was the fact that their "friendship" was born from Mac literally inventing Bloo because...imaginary friend. Bloo was an idealized version of whatever Mac thought would make a "cool" friend at the time of creation but while Bloo didn't really change or become a better person, Mac became a very nice kid that refused to ditch his brain-baby. The other shows don't really much of an excuse, though. Not unless they just wanted to show what a dysfunctional and kind of toxic friendship looked like.
Oh god remember Sidekick?
@@PoppyBrosMusic uh oh. Sidekick.
GreyScaleAnon Still doesn’t excuse Bloo’s atrocious behavior.
@@lukelichtenthal5407 It's not an excuse. Just an explanation for why Mac still spends time with him, at least at the beginning of the series. If they ever drift apart, it'll be Mac's growth as a person, not Bloo's. For an abusive fictional friendship, at least there's a logic to their affiliation.
GreyScaleAnon Thanks for proving my point. It still doesn’t excuse the way he treats everyone else.
I definitely felt the whole "2000 cartoons 'friends' being borderline abusive" growing up. It confused me, I personally questioned if anyone really thought/acted like that quite a few times.
I am only noticing in hindsight, but bloo's behaviour post flanderization makes me wonder why Mac imagined him in first place ? (sure some episodes imply mac can be as destructive or as mischivious as bloo, but that feels like an overcorrection toward the wrong direction)
Especially given some early episodes almost implied bloo was a "trollish but well behaved enough even if childish and sometimes he had weird logic to do stuff" BUT JUST WATCH some of the fist 20 episodes and you could think foster traumatized him (basically the pilot, that first episode post pilot with so many rules, then that episode where they get lost at foster's upper levels, or that one where he gets sick for playing in the rain and hey confuse him for a ghost and try to "Bust" him by trapping him in the vaccuum cleaner).
Is like if bloo's flanderization was a way to move away that implications of foster traumatizing him and just shifting blame on bloo having always being like that
@@ianr.navahuber2195
It's kind of implied that the imaginer is only in control of the friend's appearance, not personality (Eduardo was imagined to protect his imaginer, and he's afraid of his own shadow). Though, then again, that still makes it a wonder that Mac kept Bloo around for longer than most children.
@@ianr.navahuber2195 What I don't get is why the grandma thought Bloo was a true friend
I didn't really see this as a kid.
They got me to root for the lead characters, and I did not see their behaviours as bad.
I noticed that in Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, the first season had Grim get tortured a lot more. Later seasons made it seem like he, Mandy, and Billy were genuinely friends. I was glad for that change.
"Every joke, no matter what type it is, has diminishing returns. The more you use it, the less funny it gets."
*Ahem*...
MY CABBAGES!
MY LEG!
Running Gags are great if done well
Dick jokes.
@@davidhong1934 They don't use that joke multiple times in every single episode.
*Tohru Adachi has entered the chat*
That single line in the intro 'My gym partners a Monkey. Monkey! Monkey! Monkey!'
Was such a damn ear worm that even today It still goes off in my head.
I forget that this exists now i do
Me too, the one thing I remember of the show is the episode of the glass doorknobs: "Pretty, Pretty, Shiny, Shiny"
@@nicholasroche4484 Oh god damn it now i'm remembering that to
Watch some Pink Panther. Nothing has been able to override that theme playing on loop in my head for all these years.
Tiny Toon Adventures is another ear worm.
Isn't "going ape" a shortened/tv-friendly version of "going ape-shit"? How is that a compliment?
"insult? "hole" is the ultimate orifice compliment!"
Are you.a gorilla?
I mean... sounds vaguely sexual.
Kind of rough sexual, but still sexual.
The episode makes even less sense when you realize that humans are a type of Great Ape.
Maybe it’s a phrase that exists in both human and animal societies but means something different for animals?
I hate that the main character Adam is just 2 dimensional wimp that whined about everything and never stood up for himself.
I hated him, but I hated the monkey more. He was *extremely* insufferable.
He is your average middle school
Adam, I guess is a biblical reference and that giraffe girl has a crush on Adam.
@@Neku628 Wish they did more with that, but the cartoon quo is usually that the main kid dude doesn't get the girl. They'd have a good enough chemistry; could even do a silly double date / school dance plot that pairs Jake with Lupe as well.
Yeah, but couldn't like 95% of the student body one shot him?
Camp Lazlo was certainly my childhood favorite. Reminded me of all those years of summer camp and the friends I made along the way.
Hidden Desire the only thing i remember is when they stacked the beans for some reason lol
Adam: *Bull Sharkowski went ape on me!*
Jake: _please say sike_
Y'know, Cats Don't Dance used this same idea as a running gag.
And that movie managed to both be decently entertaining and have an actual moral lesson about segregation.
Steve Irwin Middle School. Jane Goodall Middle School.
Not that hard to come up with better names.
I think the former one would not only be too soon, but also tarnish the name of a good person.
Ultimate Welder How about Noah’s Ark Middle School? It’s not a name but it fits.
Kraft Middle.
Even Temple Grandin Middle School. Actually Ronald Reagan Middle school since his acting partner was a monkey.
Harambe's School
Oh, wait...
Oh my god, I didn't even know that MrEnter owned a shotgun!
q455frodomar “Sarge” from “Red vs Blue” would be very proud of him.
q455frodomar He’s an angel with a shotgun
He owns a heat ray
Peter Cross I think captain planet took that away
holy hell didn't know you watched MrEnter
I liked Frollo because he was evil. Very evil. Probably too evil, honestly. Evil to the point where you start thinking "Wait, this guy was in a Disney film?"
What's the problem with that? :( :(
okay who asked?
@@theshockinglyeloquentdog9945 It's a reference to THIS REVIEW!! Mr. Enter mentioned Frollo as a GOOD Example Of A Villain!!
Because Frollo was such an awful person it built up the viewers hope that he'd die. But at the same time Frollo was so incredibly vile he was good at his role as a villain so you could love to hate him.
Yeah. He's so detestable yet has an overwhelming charisma on account of Tony Jay's awesome acting. He made for a fantastic bad guy and the movie made it clear through his actions that his way would not be a good one. Same goes for Ursula; intentionally evil character, charismatic performance. Jake is supposed to be one of the protagonists. Yet it's baffling how much of an A-Word Jake is.
The one episode I remember the most from this show was the one with all the animals chanting ‘pretty pretty, shiny shiny’ and admittedly my brother and I still quote that to each other like 15 years later
same here. That is the only thing I remember
I remember that and the one with the eggs... I both love and hate the egg episode because it's so cliche but at the same time strangely amusing... by the standards of this show..
Was that this show? I still quote that and completely forgot that it's from this
@@noahkarpinski1824 ua-cam.com/video/T8OefkPLlWA/v-deo.html&ab_channel=CompleteUtterChaos
my memory was it was more robotic, but heres the clip
I remember the episode when he kept flirting with the girls “What’s cooking good looking?” “Cooking!? Where!?!?!” Lol
In today's episode of "Things I Enjoyed as a Kid but once I revisited as an Adult I Realized How Bad it Was"
I knew this show was bad
Looking back, I can agree it is a bad show.
Antasma1 Eh, I thought it was ok.
I agree. This show as a kid was my favorite. Now as an adult.... why..... just what?
I did revisit this show and it isn't bad as most people say and Mr enter to be, Its not bad or good, just average, but I still enjoyed it than most of the the awful modern CN shows.
In danish it was called "My best friend is a monkey"
Sounds like A big fat lie. Not because I don't believe you, but it's because of what happens in the show.
Hi dragonman
Im Danish and i can't stop thinking about the theme song: Min beste ven er en abe, Abe ABE ABE!
The version for Spain was “There’s a monkey in my class."
In Arabic it's also called "My best friend is a monkey". Ironic how they didn't seem like good friends.
I remember the original lyrics being "tuna fish, bass, my gym partner's a pain in the- Adam! What? I was gonna say neck."
@Laura Birdwell That also should've been on a better show. But probably not. Still awful though.
@Laura Birdwell Thanks. I'm surprised someone actually agrees with me on something, so thank you, sir/ma'am. I do think it would've made more sense too, but the show just sucks, so I don't know if even having a better theme would've helped. I mean, they had Tom Kenny on the show, and IT STILL SUCKED.
@Laura Birdwell Thanks again. Yeah, one lyric in a terrible song wouldn't have done much, you still got a monkey playing the bongos with his ass while shouting the word monkey. The show's still annoying. I hated growing up with the show, when I was a little boy. Still hate it.
@Laura Birdwell Take it from me, sir/ma'am, it's as annoying as it looks, if not somehow worse than I remember. Just avoid it. It's not the worst show ever, (because of toddler titans), but it's still awful. Watch something classic like Clasd Of 3000, or Samurai Jack, or the Teen Titans from 2003 instead. Much better shows. I mean, watch whatever show you want, but those are just suggestions, from me, because I loved those shows growing up. You know, back when cartoon network was worth watching, like when they had the Cartoon Cartoons.
@Laura Birdwell Good to know.
“DON’T SUE US!”
-Principal Pixiefrog
Relevant especially nowadays
That quote is actually pretty relevant nowadays.
I'm about to go ape on you!
@@Chimcharlover13 that's APEcist xD
He was my favorite character.
No no Cramp Twins was Worse. Way worse that this.
At this could be funny at times
Nah
Also atleast it has pleasant colors.
Cramp twins was way less effortless, but at the very least it is not a gross out/unfortunate implication.
Opinions vary
Someone can trip and find a valuable gem, that doesn't make them a jeweller
I always thought the joke was that he was gonna say “pain in the ass” ... and he couldn’t say ass in a kid’s cartoon
Same here honestly
@@corundumkrabble5035 the line line is "Bullshark, porcupine, I don't know what.
Going to this school's a pain in the -" the line is clearly butt, hence why its so stupid they won't say it
That would actually be funny if the lyrics before it rhymed with ass instead of butt. HOW DO YOU FUCK UP A SWEAR WORD CENSORSHIP JOKE?
@@theleonpasta7336 Like that grass line in “Shrek” LOL
You haven't heard grating voices until you hear Jake's portuguese voice
It's like the VA has respiratory problems
That reminds me of when I found a Spanish-language dub (I want to say it was actually from Spain, but I could be wrong) of The Smurfs. I told my brother, "If you thought Brainy Smurf was bad, wait until you hear Spanish-language Brainy Smurf!"
Weirdly enough, the Spain dub has the opposite problem. Jake's voice sounds WAY too deep in that dub.
@CN Brasil - Vinhetas, Promos e Continuities Brazilian.......are you the oficial Cartoon Network Brasil account?!?
Humans are Apes. Monkeys are not. This fact makes the episode even worse.
Not necessarily. While scientifically inaccurate, it still uses the common misconception for a plot, which is okay.
Knight of Psychosis well it’s a common misconception you would expect a show about animals to have a basic understanding of biology
@Hannah Papernick-Yudin they're the same order, not family.
@@theoriginaldemiurge
Looney Tunes.
Tom & Jerry.
SpongeBob SquarePants.
Knight of Psychosis what does this even mean?
The best friendship on CN in the 2000s was the KND...five best friends fighting corrupt adults.
Man, I loved that show!
And their friendship feels so real, that, even though they could squabble with each other from time to time, there was no doubt any one of them would go through hell and back for their teammates.
I always knew that CN stood for Communist Nails.
The better show, of CN
That show was awesome!
Doesn't the ending entirely nullify the point of it being a slur, meaning the A-word isn't a slur at all, within the context of the show? A slur is usually something very negative, but the final scene makes it not negative.
But for the entire episode leading up to that point, the episode did its best to make the audience _think_ that it was bad, so it's effectively the same thing.
@@elsie8757 But doesn't it just circle back to the beginning of the episode where it seemed like a slur, when in reality, it actually wasn't? This show baffled me when I was a kid, and it still baffled me how it ever got aired in the first place, dude.
Well at least he's not singing I'll shower you with coconut cream pies
Sooner or later, someone will find this comment and make it happen.
AN ABSOLUTE ZERO, I'M NOBODIES HERO!
I still can't get over how they got an actually singer to sing for DK
that would have improved the show tho
Speaking of which, I was looking back at Donkey Kong 64 to go down memory lane, and I just noticed that one of the power-ups you collect actually is a crystal coconut. Apparently someone behind the development of Donkey Kong 64 watches the TV show. 🤔
Six seasons? Mr Enter, you've come a long way.
Hey to be fair, there was a pretty substantial amount of episodes that portrayed Mac and Bloo as friends, especially early on (sometimes Mac even pissed Bloo off). It was everyone else in the house that Bloo antagonized.
Yeah, that example kinda bugs me. Sure, Bloo is clearly a narcissist and a compulsive troublemaker, but he rarely ever goes out his way to intentionally make his friends’ lives a living hell (ignoring episodes like “I Only Have a Surprise for You” or “Cookie Dough”). And he has occasionally shown that he does care about those around him (like in “Read it and Weep,” where Bloo completely broke down in tears when he thought Eduardo had been killed by hunters).
I T ' S H O T I N T O P E K A
Also, the 3 Eds from Ed Edd n Eddy. Despite them being very different in personality and having a sort of 3 Stooges dynamic, they are friends with a shared motive; Jawbreakers!
@@Cure_Hana I say he was fine earlier on but got worse as the show progressed.
@@WillieManga Plus the movie is a perfect closer for the main characters
Did something happen to your art, dude? It's all compressed n' junk.
JPEG->JPEG->JPEG->JPEG->JPEG->JPEG->JPEG->JPEG->JPEG->JPEG->JPEG->JPEG->JPEG->JPEG->JPEG->JPEG
@@technobabble7702 Nah, then the rarer stills would look better than the common ones, it's just an editing issue.
i was wondering the same
He's looking extra crispy
@@technobabble7702 I just want a picture of a gosh dang hotdog!
The writers didn't seem to understand that in order to form a good friendship with someone, most people look for nice or attractive qualities in other people. A real and logical person is able to recognize when a friendship is toxic. Here's what I think would happen if Adam was realistic:
Adam: "Jake, this is bullshit!"
Bull: "Sorry, I couldn't make it to the toilet."
Jake: "What are you talking about?"
Adam: "Our friendship, if you can even call it that. I've tried my best to be a loyal bestie, but you always act like a dick to me. The hell did I ever do to you? For two years, I've basically acted like a doormat and let you step all over me. I've had enough of this horseshit!"
Horse: "Does it really smell that bad?"
Jake: "Huh? Oh, sorry Adam. I was just painting smiley faces on my buttcheeks."
Adam: "And what the fuck is up with all the butt stuff? You always talk about your ass like it's the best thing in the world. It's pretty disgusting and creepy how much you shove that thing in my face."
Jake: "Not my fault my butt is certified comedy gold."
Adam: "I swear, whoever animates this show probably has some strange monkey butt fetish. Like, remember that time you literally inflated your ass? That was like something straight off of DeviantArt."
Jake: "Well, if you don't like my ass, you can kiss it."
Adam: "Dude, nobody genuinely likes you. At this point, we only hang out with you out of pity. If it weren't for me, Windsor, Slips, Lupe, and Ingrid putting up with your stupid butt shenanigans and other shit, you'd be by yourself. I'm surprised I didn't realize this earlier, with how many times you've made an ass of yourself."
Donkey: "Hey, that's deeply insulting! I'll have you know that I have a wife and she a smokin' hot dragon."
Adam: "I'm not going to put up with your monkey business anymore. The time I spent at this school was the worst thanks to you always dragging me into your foolish and dumb plan or scheme of the week. Well, time to put an end to that."
*Adam starts to walk away*
Jake: "Wait Adam! I've got something to show you!"
Adam: *sigh* "Let me guess, oh what could it be? It couldn't be your ass. I'm smothering in my own curiosity."
Jake: "DING DING DING DING! IT'S MY BUTT! Ha, that never gets old."
Adam: "What a shock. A real fuckin' knee-slapper."
Jake: "Hey, Adam! Wanna stare at my butt? Wanna touch it?"
Adam: "Go spank your monkey."
*Adam walks out of school*
That contains a lot of curse words you can't say on My Gym Partner's a Monkey, but it was funny how random animals suddenly appear when Adam makes references to them. September 3, 2019, 8:20pm
@@Adamkalb1 It's still funny to imagine Nika futterman swearing.
@@Adamkalb1 That part was legitimately amusing.
Gotta love when Enter pulls out an animated atrocity for an ENTIRE series. They're some of his best works.
Except he likes to claim his opinions as fact which should not be the case
@@gojizard704
Not really
He’s just stating them
Now that you mention it, yeah, lots of cartoons did have these incredibly toxic, exploitative, one-sided friendships that we were supposed to buy into! It also occurs to me that this is thankfully much less of a thing in modern cartoons (at least the ones I watch and/or am aware of).
Better ending:
"Dude, I'm an ape! Humans are apes."
If the show made that distinction, then wouldn't there not be any need to separate human and animal schools?
No they aren't
Technically, humans can be classed as a form of primate (of which is a group apes and monkeys fall under), given they evolved from apes, so I guess it kind of makes sense to say that they're apes in a sense.
@@retrogamelover2012 Yeah but like I said, if this show considered humans a type of ape (and therefore an animal), then there would be no reason to segregate human and animal schools.
Unless there's something more insidious going on in the background.
Like a more twisted, martial law take on the bible passage on how man was given dominion over the plants and animals of the earth.
Okay, I can't ignore this. Mr. Enter, why is your avatar blurry/pixelated in this video?
Extra shading and extra thin outline
Someone needs to make a vector drawing of his avatar so that it can scale properly with no artifacts :/
So he can throw us back to the 2000s.
I was wondering the same thing
What’s wrong with your avatar? It looks kinda low resolution and blurry
I have very poor vision, so I had to put it on my HD TV, and i can confirm his avatar in this videio looks like a low res trimmed out JPEG image.
Very noticable
I'm going to assume he lost the original file and it just cutting this out of one of his videos.
is it a joke because the animation is so low quality????
Crappy avatar, crappy show.
The one line my dad remembers from this show: "Don't make me bite you on the buttocks!"
"Do I need to bite you on the buh-tocks?" actually.
😂😂😂 most memorable line. Especially with that thick southern drawl
My biggest problem with My Gym Partner's a Monkey was that the main character Adam was actually sympathetic and the show felt the need to punish him with slapstick and humiliation like he's somehow wrong for wanting to be back in a human school.
God, I can’t stand toilet humor.
It's the laziest type of humor
I was gonna make this whole comment trying to defend toilet humor, but now I gotta take a shit.
@@jakespidermonkey1994 Holy shit,me too!
Yeah, South Park (first season aside) seems to be the only show that makes toilet humor even remotely funny to me. Apart from that, tho? Can’t stand it >.
Toilet humor can be good when executed correctly and timed right. Just look at Mr. Enter's choice for his #1 best episode of post-season 4 SpongeBob.
The only reason this show was popular is because of Tom Kenny.
Yeah and now it's known for Tom Kenny and Luna Loud
Nika Futterman and Animal School Musical
Luna Loud from The Loud House.
No kid watching it at the time was keeping up with voice actors my guy. I didn’t even know it was Tom Kenny until this video
@@Ryda124
But I think kids kind of have like a sense of it,they somehow know.
I mean it was like that with camp lazlo too. Even at that time I wasn't super into exactly who the voice actors were but man when I started getting into it and learning who all these people were it blew my mind.
I remember when I found out all the characters from animaniacs were people I had heard for decades in stuff like The Simpsons and tiny toons and other things from the 80s and 90s.
People: But it's my childhood!
Mr. Enter: It's bad.
Not to mention I can't stop imagining Luna Loud in Adam's place...
@@lilylopnco Oof but same
Children have very low standards.
@@fredricknoe3114 True
@@lisettegarcia7013 Which tells me a bit more about what era you grew up in, though.
Don't remind me. I'm still wish "Class of 3000" wasn't canceled :( .
Me too dude. Great show, great songs, great acting, it was funny, well drawn, and the songs were written and performed by an actual, talented musician, Andre 3000. Why the hell would anyone cancel such an amazing show? They also mistreated Teen Titans, twice, by canceling the original cartoon and then bringing it back as "toddler titans go fuck up what made the Teen Titans amazing in the first place". Yes, that's the actual, full title of the show. And, sorry for bringing up bad memories, dude. I loved Class Of 3000 as well. And, I loved listening to OutKast too. There was literally NO reason to cancel either Teen Titans or Class Of 3000. At least the Teen Titans was given a movie and Raven, Cyborg and Robin were put into Injustice and Injustice 2.
@@shawnfields2369
Basically budget
@@davidhong1934 Makes sense. Still a good show, though.
@͔ Ok. I only liked Class Of 3000 from the shows on that list, but ok. Like those shows if you want to. I don't care about squirrel boy or my gym partners a monkey. Not sure why I ever watched those shows when I was a little boy, but I didn't think very highly of them, sorry. But I stil wish Class Of 3000 were still on. But like that other dude in the comments said, it was canceled because of budgetary problems. The show was just too good for a greedy company like cartoon network. Too good for ANY of the 3 greedy cartoon companies, nicklelodeon, and especially NOT disney.
@@davidhong1934 Wasn't it because apparently it was plagiarized?
I do like the idea of the shark character having water headphones over his gills so he can move freely around without having to be confined to a giant tank as a gag. That's actually a clever concept
Some bad shows have little hints or quality here and there.
Except that's not how gills work.
Basically, Fish breath oxygen. They inhale water through their mouth and nose. The gills are an outlet for the water after their lungs extract the oxygen. Putting water in through the gills can make a fish drown.
Hey look, it's that Gym Partner show that isn't about camp.
Pretty pretty shiny shiny.
I thought i escaped this but PRETTY PRETTY SHINY SHINY
Oh god no I'm being sucked in PrEtTy PrEtTy ShInY sHiNy
@@franklinbonnefoy2295 Shitty shitty priny priny.
PRETTY PRETTY SHINY SHINY PRETTY PRETTY SHINY SHINY PRETTY PRETTY SHINY SHINY PRETTY PRETTY SHINY SHINY PRETTY PRETTY SHINY SHINY
The overusage of similar looking monkeys in media actually spilled over to games too. Just look at the game banana bugs.
Anyone not in the DK series or a Pokemon is outside my area of interest.
@@runningoncylinders3829 The game banana bugs just seemed to rip off the monkey/jungle aesthetic trend. DK practically created it
Also, Ape Escape could also count?
@@WillieManga Ape Escape is great though, but the 2009 cartoon was pretty poor
@@TerrorOfTalos There was a cartoon in 09? I thought Donkey Kong was the only video game cartoon about primates.
01:29 Let’s not forget that Pickle Rick somehow won an Emmy last year despite that fans of Rick and Morty thought there are other episodes that are way better to be nominated than Pickle Rick.
To be fair, this show is a bit of a guilty pleasure. Sure, it has some flaws and you did have a point that sometimes the jokes and humor can be annoying but I still find it funny at times. Plus, compared to shows like Squirrel Boy and Out of Jimmy’s Head, this show (outside of Jake Spidermonkey) is at least watchable compared to those shows.
Interestingly enough, the creators of this show eventually end up becoming the showrunners of the current Littlest Pet Shop on the Hub, which is decent.
That episode was great
Afro Shinobi I’m not saying the episode’s bad but I think there are other episodes that could’ve been nominated for the Emmy than Pickle Rick like Tales From the Citadel. I felt like that Pickle Rick got nominated because of the whole meme thing and the Emmys assume it was worthy for one.
@@apollorock3r244 Yea I feel ya. There were def better episodes. Jaguar is the best thing to come from that ep though lol
Yeah, I actually remember looking for its scheduled run times and AVOIDING The Cramp Twins even. Plus it actually explores it's universe, which is what I loved about the show. I remember one episode centered around the water zones in the school.
i swear the emmy just pick whatever is the most popular.
I bet they don't even watch the episodes
What would've made it better, was if Jake assumed that the concept of a Shark going Ape obviously made him assume that there's a conspiracy of Apes going around in Shark Suits.
And Jake decides to go around and sleuth, and winds up harassing Bull Sharkowsky. While Adam and his other friends are trying to explain the figure of speech to him.
But the twist is that there are in fact, Apes going around in Shark Suits. We don't find this out until the end when one of the sharks comes forward.
Boom, fixed the plot. Do I get a cookie?
Chocolate chip or snickerdoodle?
@@garretts6678 I am a chocolate purist, so chocolate chip it is! :)))
Congrats, you've just made a plot better than the show writers did. Enjoy your cookie. 🍪
I kinda want a list of examples of CN shows with terrible friendships
Mac and Bloo (Fosters)
Ed, Edd n Eddy (show of the same name)
Billy and Mandy (Grim Adventures) (Irwin is also treated like complete shit by Billy)
Flapjack and K'nuckles (Flapjack)
BONUS: Master Shake, Frylock, and Meatwad (Aqua Teen Hunger Force)
@@floating_mario_head Don’t forget Andy and Rodney (Squirrel Boy)
One of the best parts of Ed, Edd n Eddy Big Picture Show was the acknowledgement that Edd was in an awful friendship with Eddy (Ed is at worst amorally stupid and never means harm) and how well they tackled it
Tommy and Gus (RobotBoy)
@@floating_mario_head I thought Irwin treated Billy like total shit.
Jake sounds like a cross between Heffer and Spongebob. All of whom were voiced by Tom Kenny
While Adam is Luna Loud but without her British accent.
Lisette Garcia damn wasn’t expecting that
@@thef.b.i2705 I don't think anyone was. But as soon as I heard Adam's voice in this, I was immediately thinking Luna Loud. Not a good choice for an awful show like this, which dragged down the quality of both Tom Kenny and Nika Futterman's acting by playing nasally voiced, squeaky voiced annoying characters whom everyone hated. But at least both actors involved with this went on to do better in great shows, like the loud house and Spongebob even though Tom was already doing that voice at the same time as this show. He was also Eduardo from Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends. Another good show.
Please do an animated atrocity on George of the jungle
Junge of the Georgle.
The S2 was even worse, creepier, and unknown prior to that one video I saw on it.
I'd actually seen some of S1 on the CN. Pretty bad.
@@runningoncylinders3829 Season 3 was even more cringier
There is no way there was a season 3
The original animation wasn't bad, it's just dated. The second cartoon was to go with the movies, which were not bad.
15:00 Actually Enter, My Gym Partner's A Monkey came out in December of 2005 while Class of 3000 came out in November 2006 which is almost a year.
On a side note, most mid-2000s Cartoon Network shows don't hold up well. While Camp Lazlo, Foster's Home and the aforementioned Class of 3000 are good, there are the kind of shows like Squirrel Boy, Robotboy, Cramp Twins, Johnny Test (though I have heard it was good on Kids WB), and of course, My Gym Partner's A Monkey.
Many of those shows have assholes as well, which i'll list myself:
Robotboy: Gus and Tommy's brother
Squirrel Boy: Rodney
Johnny Test: Almost the whole cast!
MGPAM: Jake
Also, Foster's Home The Imaginary Friend also came out in 2005, too.
Mr. Friendship *2004
Class of 3000 was the only gem of Cartoon Network's mid 2000's block.
@CountryBeautiful I loosely remember them. Ben 10 sadly got the Toddler Titans treatment with its many spinoffs.
And the latter is one of the better shows of the 2000s.
Zootopia: Has a small tongue-and-cheek joke about calling bunnies "cute."
MGPsaM: Makes an entire episode dedicated to someone using "ape" like an insult.
I just want to say that if they made a similar joke in Zootopia they'd probably have Judie or Nick say "ape" just for an ape to say "I'm right here you know." That would actually be funny. It wouldn't make one of your characters look like an entitled asshole and the other one look like a scapegoat for everyone's problems. Which to be honest: I've only seen a few episodes of this cartoon and "scapegoat" is easily the most accurate description for Adam.
*Edit - Wow that was the most copout ending fucking possible. I actually had to pause the video and exclaim "Wait. WHAT?" out loud when I saw that ending.
Monkeys are not apes! Apes don't have tails!
I watched the episode back when the show was airing and even as a kid I was frustrated. I was like "What just happened??" The innuendo flew over my head but I couldn't believe that Jake was envious of Bullsharkowski. Like, what the fuck, Jake? What are you even talking about, man??
"They respected me for saying it."
~Peter Griffin
You know it's gonna be good when it begins with "This one was a long time coming"
Or something similar, like the case for the first TTG review.
Im glad someone is actually talking about the abusive nature of 'friendships' in mid 2000's shows. Ive personally been abused by friends in the past. It starts off and you think its fun banter. You think your balancing each other out and its this really cool thing and eventually you'll both find equilibrium. But no. If your a naturally more "Submissive" (thats the best word for it, not implying anything sexual here) person, being around someone who is so violently domineering is like walking a tight rope. Some of my best friends where more outgoing, stand up, in your face kind of people. But that was only AFTER I was able to learn to stick up for myself against them if things got to far. BEFORE I learned that skill, I was abused by someone who claimed to be my friend. And I do partially blame these shows for glorifying that dynamic. It works, sometimes, but you have to be able to fight back.
There's like only 3 CN shows from that era with ''bad friendships''
Fosters
Gym Partner
Squirrel Boy
And Re-Animated if we're counting movies
But otherwise pretty much every other shows airing on CN around that time had none of these issues especially shows like Class of 3000 and Camp Lazlo
This is one of those shows you repress and once you learn of it, you're glad it got repressed.
I was watching this when I was like 6 and our cat gave birth. We still have one of her kittens, who is now a cat. So, I definitely didn't forget it.
And then you remember you have to repress it all over again.
I remember being in the 2nd grade and our teacher asked us if we knew who Charles Darwin was. One girl genuinely thought that CD was the guy who created My Jim Partners a Monkey.
I’m sure the class got a good laugh out of it LOL
I feel like the "this school is a pain in the bu-" line is supposed to be like when a show has a character about to swear, but then gets cut off by something comedic. But here's the problem....BUTT is not a swear word, it sounds like a christian cartoon trying to discourage swearing. Now, if they had changed the lyrics to something like "trying to avoid all these crabs, going to school's a pain in the a-", then that would've worked.
Here's an excerpt for a song segment in a cartoon I'm planning to make in the future:
"Work Deleter was unenthusiastic. She said, 'Let's make this fast!
I've got an important project nearly due in History class!
History's my worst subject; must get this done if I wanna pass!
Enough chit-chat! Let's go! This cat is gonna kick your-"
What I remember fondly about this show: The smart gorilla, Tom Kenny showing his greatness again, and that wonderful stock music.
Windsor was the real hero of the show.
Art Artsa, in terms of the stock music:
As if the show wasn't bad enough, their background music budget was pretty much just all stock music!
And I've actually been devoting time during the last 2 years helping identify library music tracks from the show for a blog:
gympartnermusic.wordpress.com/
I've also been uploading MGPAM tracks on my channel, and have been making "Music only" re-creations of episodes (which just proves my point even more about the music!)
That weird drill sargent animal that always threatened the bitting of ass cheeks
Honestly while the mid 2000s had a lot of bad friendship dynamics, one that I appreciated was the one between Lil D and Eddie in Class Of 3000. While there was definitely a bit of clash between the two, in episodes where the two were paired, like Eddie's Money, it was made clear that the two are genuinely friends. Lil D taught Eddie many tricks while they were stuck on the street. And while there was one joke about Lil D knowing that he would outrun the dog if he could outrun Eddie, he did in turn help Eddie into the dumpster to hide with him, so it's not like he just abandoned him. You can tell that while Lil D is a slightly arrogant street wise kid, and Eddie is a gullible, sheltered boy instead, the dynamic they have works seamlessly and I honestly wish they had more episodes about just the two of them. Their duo was a lot better than anything else the channel gave us.
Class of 3000 is so underrated.
@@gallibon1319 I remember liking the music a lot as a kid, and finding it quite funny.
It was hyped so much that I don’t get why it didn’t last long.
There also a lot of good friendship dynamics as well
It's even a lot. There's like only 3 CN shows from that era with ''bad friendships''
Fosters
Gym Partner
Squirrel Boy
And Re-Animated if we're counting movies
But otherwise pretty much every other shows airing on CN around that time had none of these issues especially shows like Class of 3000 and Camp Lazlo
God, Jake is an f-wording a-word. 😒
Also, loved the shade you threw at _Kamp Koral_ ! 😂
@@austinreed7343 It's fully 3D. One of the most exceptional things about Sponge Out Of Water was it being traditionally animated.
@@austinreed7343 Are you seriously asking this?
It pretty much killed the only stable source for traditional animation in theatres.
I think he passed that point a long time ago.
Jake is one of the few characters on which you are permitted to use the British C-Word.
mariic2 Fair point.
My Gym Partner's A Monkey: [gets 54 episodes]
Sym-Bionic Titan [gets 20 episodes and no resolution]
Yeah, that's fair.
I swear, I hate that Tom Kenny voice Jakes in this show.
I hate that Tom Kenny does too, because now every time I hear Spongebob, I'm gonna think BUTT.
Imagine hearing Heffer from Rocko's Modern Life and Dog from Catdog combined you get Jake.
I've truly tried my hardest to give this show a chance when it first came out. I really wanted to enjoy this show, and while I wasn't expecting this to be as memorable as truly funny slapstick cartoons like Rocko's Modern Life, Ed Edd n Eddy, Animaniacs, and early SpongeBob, I was at least hoping I'd get some enjoyment out of this. But the more episodes I watch, the more redundant the antics get. None of the characters are likable (except for Windsor, the only interesting character of the whole show), the gross-out humor was repetitive and tedious, and the concept made no sense at all. Look, I'm not one to judge the concept of a cartoon show since some can work if executed correctly, and I don't ask for logic and nitpick every single detail or foible the show has, but there always have to be a legitimate explanation behind it, because while there doesn't have to be logic in everything, too many enigmas for a concept cartoon can confuse the audience. You want to make them laugh, not confuse the fuck out of them.
In this show's case, why would the teachers at Adam's old school automatically send Adam to a school replete with animals? He clearly looks like a human, and nobody has even bothered to run some tests on him (or anything similar as such) to determine he's part animal. Also, if Adam was aware of his named being misspelled, why hasn't he done anything to change the error?
As for the characters, Jake is honestly the most unlikable character on the show. He's basically a carbon copy of Bloo from Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends, only with less redeeming qualities and no punishments received whatsoever. Plus his obsession of his own ass isn't funny in the slightest. It's repetitive as fuck and gets old very fast, especially since that the only joke that revolves around him. I wouldn't say he's as unlikable as Johnny Test (I thought the show was decent. Just the main character himself is unlikable), but he's still the most despised character in the show. The other characters are just one-dimensional stereotypes with little to no depth and not worth discussing, with Windsor being the only character who had more of a personality and interesting quirks. As mediocre as Camp Lazlo was, it as least had some memorable characters and enjoyment to back it up. This show is just flat-out poor, and there's a reason why it isn't memorable for anything other than nostalgia.
waters228 91 Your opinion, m8.
@@beta511ee4 Thanks for stating the obvious.
I did not ever realize as a 6 year old with Autism back when this show was a thing, that Jake had such an obsession with his ass, he combines inflation at the same time, with BUTTS! CN humor in the mid-2000's is beyond wack, I cannot find a word myself that defines how badly sick the repetitive butt humor is in that show!
Also, love that timed usage of JonTron, many thanks for making me laugh for 10+ minutes!
LarviStar -SLJ- couldn’t agree more.
Also autistic here, I avoided this show any time it aired. I didn’t like it at all then as a twelve year old and I still don’t like it now. Hope he reviews the movie, that was an awful thing.
I remember that show once and I never watched it again
Foster's, KND, Ed Edd N Eddy, Billy and Mandy and Class of 3000 were running in the mid 00s and they had good humor
"Every type of joke, no matter what type it is, has diminishing returns. The more that you use it, the less funny that it gets." Gee, isn't that the concept of "Ripped Pants"? If only Tom Kenny brought that up while voice acting this but hey, you're paid to talk not to talk back as an actor so I can't blame him.
Mr. Enter went APE on this show.
Lol, that's actually REALLY FUNNY! It ACTUALLY made me laugh! :) :D
Watch it; in the primate community, "Going Ape" is an innuendo.
Jake: 😱😭😡
“Monkeys in a cartoon is nothing special”
Dora the Explorer: am I a joke to you?
Turbo Steel U’m Yes you definitely are, after treating children like idiots.
@@firelightyear It does, but it's pretty harmless otherwise. Nowhere near as bad as Caillou.
@@firelightyear Agreed
@@MrChaotic4 Not exactly high praise...
Mojo JoJo: am i a joke to you?
I remember the "special" they had where Gilbert Gottfried guest stared as a platypus and even as an easily amused kid I still remember finding it so... Just DULL. The whole premise of the episode was everyone thinking the new platypus kid was an alien and was mainly Gilbert yelling "BRAIN JUICE" and freaking everyone out. Like, Gilbert was my favorite voice actor as a young kid just cause his voice was so instantly recognizable, but even he couldn't save the episode.
This show just does not hold up at all...
I remember that episode I recorded it and wrote a very detail script of it same for the other Invaded ones too
You'll catch Winsor swear saying "Thanks for the equipment beeping jerks." I thought that was pretty funny.
Ooh, that was repetitive. I of course don't blame Gilbert for how bad it turned out, and I know you don't either, but of course I blame the direction and script. Also, I feel bad for him. Dying relatively young and not being able to play as Iago in the Aladdin remake.
Why doesn't the show have more episodes, you know at a gym?! XD
I rather have an episode where the freaking humans at the school Adam used to be at found out that the mistake they made was idiotic and took him back!
@@lisettegarcia7013 that would be the finale
@@spongebobplushiestuff8612 ugh. I want it to happen immediately.
To be honest I think this has the same issue Foster's Home did; most of the characters were fun enough, but the main character's "Best Friend" was completely intolerable.
If Bloo was "completely" intolerable, Mr. Enter would not have said Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends was (mostly) good from start to finish, with the exceptions of Everyone Knows It's Bendy, Imposter's Home for Make Em Up Pals, Foster's Goes to Europe, and I Only Have Surprise For You. March 5, 2020, 9:31am
But that's just how blue is, he was made that way, so it makes sense why Blue acts the way he does.
@@kirinbobarcana his name was spelled "Bloo" by the way
@@mariofan1ish right, of course
Jake just sounds like a variation on Spongebob.
Should I say that Jake and Spongebob are voiced by the same voice actor?
Mr Enter. If this was the darkest timeline, then this show would still be on. And that's just the start.
Be glad Bubsy is just a dropped pilot! September 3, 2019, 8:19pm
@@Adamkalb1 Aw, come on! I was gonna say that. :(
@@WillieManga Then why did you wait 1 year and 15 days to do so? September 18, 2020, 2:41pm
And Stressed Eric would still be on, too! To some (not me), it is bad enough that Family Guy and Spongebob Squarepants are still on in 2022. September 18, 2020, 3:38pm
He was referring to the mid to late 2000s. Although to be fair he stated he wasn't a fan of the late 2010s either.
The fact that this show won an Emmy is extremely undeserved.
There was an entire episode where diminishing returns of a joke was the premise
Oh, yeah! "What are you looking at? Okey-dokey."-Yesterday's Funny Monkey
My gym partner is a monkey was my favorite kid show tho.
I still love this show.
I hated it as a kid, and I was six when it ended!
ok gamer
Zootopia ain't got SHIT on Gym Partner
Yeah that was my one of my childhood shows
replace the "A" word by the real world "N" word..........
yeah, if your friend gets mad at you for calling a slur to a person, its because you actually called that person by a compliment and your friend is actually jealous!! good lesson for kids!! (*thumbs up*)
I remember this episode. I also remember thinking something like "You know, the premise of this episode wouldn't actually be terrible if it wasn't done so fucking incompetently."
One thing I didn’t like about this show is that Adam seemed to be put through the wringer a lot.
... But we are apes. Great apes.
Also I unashamedly watched this exclusively for the giraffe and Nurse Gazelle.
The giraffe is named Ingrid.
The Emmy's for animation are always terrible.
I also hate the scumbag bestfriend trope it's all over the place the last 20 years.
Except when it was awarded to shows like BtAS
I'm so glad you finally did this! I've been wanting to see you talk about this show for a long time! I hated this show when it came out, even though I kept watching it. It was so needlessly mean. I always felt so bad for Adam, and hated Jake, and hated pretty much all the other characters. I recall in your earlier videos you came up with the trope, Megward the Wizard. Gym Partner is a show where the main character is Megward the Wizard.
The only thing about this show I remember was trying to see the tall giraffe girl's face. There was one episode where they all jumped off a cliff, and the giraffe's head stayed off screen the whole way down lol
The giraffe's neck being super long was a running gag in the show. I always found it very funny.
@@somesubs2778 It's grossly exaggerated! She's depicted as 65 feet tall, and yet we never see her full body and face in the same picture.
Ingrid's long neck is long enough to reach the stars
This is something I'd watch purely because it was on and I had nothing better to do.
Not gonna say it?
Okay I will...
*WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?*
*OKIE DOKEY*
FUCK, I FORGOT THAT - why did you bring it back...?
@@HexManiacQuinn
Because its been burned into my memory
I'm 22 and I still remember that episode and I'm laughing about it all the time with my brother, who's 20. We also like shouting out "LOOK OOOUUT! LOOK OOOUUT! SCHOOL BULLY COMING THROUGH!" or "GRRRRL power!"
I always disliked this show, specially the episode where a documentalist comes to the school.
Adam the piece of loser
I actually liked this show when I was younger.
I guess it doesn’t hold up after all. My god that butt obsession episode and the inflation... that looks lie something ripped right out DeviantArt.
Mr. Enter: This is the worst thing ever.
Me: You say that so often it’s lost all meaning.
He has made statements like that as far back as 2014.
He also stated:
"It can ALWAYS get worse".
Why TF isn't your comment at the top???!!!
It's kinda a thing a lot of reviewers do as they slowly review more and more stuff. They run into something that's worse than anything they've ever seen and claim that it's the worst thing ever. But they don't realize how far the rabbit hole of badness goes, resulting in them constantly revising what their "worst thing ever" is for a while.
Eventually though they start compartmentalizing their "worsts" into being the worst of certain groups of thiings rather than being the worst thing overall
No, he didn't say it was the worst. He said it was the 4th worst. No, wait, not the show itself, but JAKE was the 4th worst.
It's sad that I can think of several shows presenting friendship better than this while having best friends beat each other up constantly
Ive been waiting for this for a while! Thanks a lot Mysterious Mr Enter!
Who else hasn't heard of this man in forever and just randomly got this recommended to them?
I think it would be clever if they called the school, "E.. R. Burroughs Academy," or some variant of that as it could play into the Tarzan-esque situation. After all, Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote the Tarzan stories. While it may not be something kids would necessarily get it would make for a good literary reference.
It would be cool if Mr. Enter did a list of his guilty pleasures, if he wants to!
Yeah, I want to know what cartoons or movies that Mr. Enter would put in the "so bad, it's good" category.
I agree.
This was one of those shows where you knew it was shit but watched it anyway. Kinda like family Guy.
That's an insult to family guy
Studio CONGO4.0 It deserved the insult. It even taught fourteen year olds to kill themselves!
@powerstar 2028 Nope, The Oblongs was still worse than modern Family Guy, to some degree. I want Mr. Enter to do an animated atrocity on The Oblongs!
powerstar 2028 Have you seen anything past Season 12 or 13?
MichaelBlane Walker Dude, you’re taking that way too seriously.
ah shit, its finally happened. a show i liked as a child on animated atrocities
*_My Gym Partner A Monkey is basically an early version of Amazing World Of Gumball but with zoomorphic high school setting._*
Not to mention that they had some sidescrolling flash games with the same mechanics.
@@mainstreamerchannel9919 that just shows how lazy Cartoon Network got with their online games in the 2010's. Look at the website now, it's a literal mess.
@@mainstreamerchannel9919 For some reason, I kinda enjoyed both versions of the game even with the same game mechanics.
My biggest issue with Jake's voice is that it sounds almost exactly like Spongebob. I noticed this when I was a child and never got used to it.
That's because Jake IS played by the voice of Spongebob, Tom Kenny. But Tom played Spongebob first. He's played a lot of voices. He was also Ed from Foster's Home For imaginary Friends too.
@@shawnfields2369 I don't blame Tom Kenny for it, I blame the voice directing.
@@thisisawsome34253212 Me too.
I remember this damn show, and I can't think of ANYTHING positive or redeeming to say about it. I was a sophomore in high school when it came out, and I remember it being THE cartoon that turned me off of cartoons in general for quite some time. Yeah, the mid to late 2000s were NOT a good time for Cartoon Network. I think the only good show I remember from this era was Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, but even then, Foster's was good, not great.
I'd rather have bloo for a friend
Ed Edd n Eddy, Kids Next Door, and Billy & Mandy were at least still airing new episodes in the mid 2000s. The Cartoon Countdown also had scattered reruns of older shows.
The mis to late 00s had a lot of good shows airing actually