Almost Naked Animals

I mean like the title suggests a show with partial nudity and revealing outfits but it being geared toward kids?! Almost Naked Animals would not be able to air today. The show is about animals who are shaved down to the skin. All the female characters also appear to have b00bs that stick out of their bras. Most of the humor is just toilet humor, gross out jokes, nut shots, and sometimes possible sexual interpretations. This show is basically Drawn Together for kids. The trend of having disgusting characters might have been considered old as of the 2000s but I guess not. Canadian tv isn't as strict as US tv. Somebody better have gotten fired for this.

Absolutely adore animation (something that most people know already) and have done as a child. Have always aimed to at least appreciate all kinds of humour, and have seen crude and gross out humour done well (the early seasons of 'Rick and Morty' for instances) and animated shows that broke boundaries and were ahead of their time (i.e. 'South Park'). Have though seen quite a number of bad and worse animated shows and too many instances of crude humour done terribly ('Breadwinners').

The lowest possible rating is a very rare rating for me these days, actually don't like giving it out, as somebody who tries to be as encouraging as possible and tries to see some good in the bad. Which has mostly not been an issue. There have been times where something is so awful to an offensive degree that it is impossible to do that. 'Almost Naked Animals' is one of those instances. Actually tried to see it when younger and hated it even then, back when this reviewer had a number of contrarian opinions, it's even worse through adult eyes.

First and foremost, the animation is at no time of appealing quality. There is no colour vibrancy, everything just looks flat and garish, editing is not tight enough and is often dizzying, the backgrounds lack imagination or smoothness, almost always looking static. The character designs fare the worst, some of the ugliest easily of any animated show (with heads too big for their bodies, which in themselves are ridiculously and jarringly out of proportion) and they just look rough and animated with little care. The music has very little memorable about it, it's loud lazy, and often over-obvious and not particularly well-placed (too random) complete with an instantly forgettable theme tune that annoys rather than charms.

One of the biggest problems is that it is not well written at all, that's being generous, and it is just not funny. It's very crude, random and weirdly absurdist, but also like those shows executes it very poorly, going well overboard with the toilet humour and childish-ness, often disgusting even, than funny. This viewer has no problem with this type of humour, but here it constantly felt lazy and like it was trying too hard, which made every obnoxiously cheesy and witless line of dialogue, puns that a vast majority of the time were so lazily obvious and lacking in taste it was groan-worthy and every increasingly predictable sight gag even more forced and contrived. It also depends whether any weirdness has a reason for being weird, but it came over very randomly more often than not and increasing in tastelessness.

Moreover, the target audience is constantly in question, because the constantly chaotic feel will see kids finding it too hard to take, and that it's embarrassingly juvenile and lacks any kind of edge or smart writing will irritate adults. The story lines, when they are ever distinguishable (the overload of childish and overly gross out humour too often completely override the story), are also heavy in contrivance, randomness and predictability and incredibly light in emotional resonance, fun or sense to the point all three are practically non-existent, with constantly uneven pacing, with some episodes in serious need of more breathing time and others feeling lazy as a result of the comic timing not being as sharp as it could have been. The characters are all extremely irritating and the voice acting is ear bleeding and like there was no effort being put into it.

Summing up, absolutely terrible. 1/10.

Thah show is disgusting is also the worst Cartoon Network show from 2011 next to The Problem Solverz and Secret Mountain Fort Awesome. Three disgusting shows i am so glad that Secret Mountain Fort Awesome got cancelled in 2012 while The Problem Solverz and Almost Naked Animals got cancelled the same year.

After reading some reviews of this show, I thought, 'What are these people thinking?' God, I still can't believe people actually like this show. I'd write a long essay on this show, but I don't want to waste anybody's time or mine on this garbage, so let's simplify it to this: it's an obnoxious show with stupid characters. I can't believe my little brother likes this show! I got so annoyed with this show, I forced him to change it to Cartoon Network to watch Johnny Test. I don't like that show, either, but at least it's a lot better than this! Now my brother wants to keep watching it and refuses to change the channel, so now I'm stuck listening to that show in the morning (yep, I do my best to not watch it, yet that's kind of hard, since the table I eat breakfast on is right in front of the living room/TV), and I have to use all my willpower to not go insane. Exactly who came up with this?! Animals wearing underwear?! God, what has the world come to?!

I'm going to review a Canadian cartoon called "Almost Naked Animals." This show is about a group of shaved animals (including a narwhal and an octopus for some reason) wearing their underwear. While running a hotel called the Banana Cabana. I'll tell you this I watch ytv, and when this came on when I was a kid, I didn't watch it. But since now I watched a couple of episodes, for this review. Its awful, and I will go on depth from here on.

So first lets look at the animation. Its bad flash animation. Probably not the worst I have seen, but still. But the animation can also get pretty gross. Like in the episode, "The Ear Wax Elf, "when Howie (the dog) makes a pile of ear wax, and then boogers. Now lets look at the writing. The stories are either way too nonsensical (I'm a fan of Spongebob you know) or too gross, like I mentioned earlier. An example of a nonsensical episode is when Howie gets a remote stuck in his head. Which then causes misery to the other characters. The jokes are the same thing as well.

Now lets look at the characters. The main character Howie is just an idiot. Not a charming one at that. Who makes bad decisions to the other characters. The rest of the characters are just bland. Although I think the rabbit, and octopus are likable characters. Due to how sensible they are. Although the Poodle who is the main antagonist of the show, and is Howie's sister. Is also a Plankton ripoff. The theme song is also pretty obnoxious. Not as bad as Scaredy Squirrel's theme song (which I plan to review). But it still is a pain to the ears.

So overall you wouldn't get a good cartoon from here. The animation is bad. The stories are nonsensical. The jokes are gross. Most of the characters are not likable. But the plus side are that some of the characters are likable. Mainly the rabbit, and octopus. Is it the worst Canadian cartoon. It's close. But it's still a thousand times better than Megababies. (Which I would not review). My overall score is a 2.5/10.