Hammerman

And I mean it when I call this the worst cartoon ever but possibly not for the reasons you think.

As far as the story goes it's pretty basic and dare I say it had a good message. It starred MC Hammer himself in a bunch of live action clips that would introduce and close out the show. Each episode dealt with some aspect of life and had a lesson to be learned. MC Hammer stared as Stanley, a young man who taught dance at the youth center. But one day was given a pair of magical talking shoes which turned him into Hammerman, a musical superhero. Again, not necessarily a bad premise.

But then why is this the worst cartoon ever? The animation, or lack thereof, is terrible. Sure it's stylized in that experimental 90's way that a lot of places were trying. But the animation is just so janky that it's impossible to watch it without getting a migraine. This honestly looks like the kind of stop motion animation you made as a kid but more colorful and angular. It looks cheap. The animation is choppy. It's nigh unwatchable.

This is an experiment that should never be repeated. Ever. There are episodes floating around on youtube and various streaming sites for free. Watch it only out of curiosity and then stop after maybe five minutes because it's starting to hurt your eyes.

Good idea. Terrible execution.

It was wonderful to remember my childhood memories because he is my favorite rap singer. I wanted to be like him when I was a young kid. I wanted to be like him for sing for microphone to dance all the time at my home when I was growing up.

I actually remember this as a kid (as it debut the same year as Darkwing Duck, another superhero cartoon I like). Hammerman is another in a long line of cartoons based around real life famous folk. The celebrity this one focuses on is MC Hammer, who everyone knows for hits like "Can't Touch This".

Basically, this cartoon tries to turn MC Hammer into a superhero. The origin story we get is in the theme song, as youth center owner Stanley Burnell is visited by Grampa, an elderly man who back in the 60's and 70's, fought crime as Soulman, wearing a pair of magic talking shoes to transform. Stanley is given the shoes, and when he puts them on, he becomes Hammerman, and with the power he inherits, protects the city of Oaktown from wacky supervillains themed after various crimes.

Yeah, we can already tell this is going to be a train wreck, as the series only lasted thirteen episodes before being yanked off the air. Basically, the series is another one of those preachy shows meant to educate kids on stuff (the pilot episode "Defeated Graffiti" teaches about how bad graffiti is, Rapoleon is supposed to teach about not picking on those smaller than yourself, etc). Sadly, they fall through. Each episode has a live action wraparound introducing the lesson the episode teaches, and at the end, it has MC Hammer himself lecture to the kids about what they learned. But when it gets to the animated segment (you know, what the kids want to watch), that is where it falls apart. The villains used are basically based on actual crimes (Defacely Marmeister, who debuts in Defeated Grafitti, is based on vandalism via graffiti, and has the power to turn graffiti into monsters, and Rapoleon is a Napoleon clone who wants to shrink Oaktown because, get this, people picked on him for his small size). Seriously, these villains sound like bad guys who would be either B-listers or C-listers. Also, the episodes do a horrible job teaching the moral, and the animation is a bit iffy (Defeated Graffiti is the worst, as it has static animation, making it look more like a pilot pitch than an episode for air). This is one stinker to avoid.

Yes there were some good things about this cartoon but it was obvious this was for MC hammer what Shaq FU was for Shaquille O' Neal or what Space jam was for Michael Jordon clear propaganda. I used to watch this show but that was 16 years ago and I would watch any thing on Saturday mornings back then. I remember it being pretty good hammer use his real name as a secret identity and had talking shoes that would turn him in to hammer man A rapping dancing super hero and their where two villains I knew of there may have been more there was also some friends who might have known he was hammer man and helped him out. MC hammer was one of the biggest stars back then but the show was canceled once hammers popularity faded their aren't even DVDs out of this cartoon.

I remember seeing this show on Saturday Mornings on ABC back in the early 90's. I actually liked the show then, but I later realized how bad it was. It was a cartoon starring MC Hammer who became a super hero. I think he became his superhero identity when he hit his shoes together or something. I also recall he wore the trademark Parachute pants when he was Hammerman. It was a riduculous premise, and all in all, the show was stupid altogether. Thankfully, ABC canned it in its first season, never to be seen again. As much as I liked Hammer back in the day(like everyone else), this show certainly wasn't contributive to his career. But then again, we all know where his career went after awhile. 0/10