Crash Canyon

It's an awesome show, really funny. I like Vernon the most out of all the family and the rich people that have a mansion in the canyon, the mom LIKES her son and thinks her daughter is UGLY! The guy with the monkey assistant who used to work at Nasa is also pretty funny when he acts like he's a soldier (more like a scientist.) the torture lady TM (my personal nickname) who always hits that bear with her cane and talks like a man is extremely funny! (SPOILER ALERT) i like when the bear gets off the hook because her (HIS) husband comes back and the first thing she says to him when she meets him again is that "you still have chores to do." aahhh good times good times. So i think i made my point about it being really funny so if you haven't checked it out do it now! it's on Teletoon at Night on weekends.

Just binged the whole series... Still waiting to laugh at anything. That's not even the bad part. The animation is SO wonky! Characters flash white when they move and once you see it, you'll never not notice. It almost looks as if they go into "ghost mode" everytime they move. I noticed during the pilot episode and figured they'd fix it in future episodes... Nope. It's the same for the run of the entire series. After a couple episodes, it made me nauseous, and I had to look away for quite awhile then I could only watch in about 5 minute increments afterwards without getting physically sick. Never happened with another cartoon.

Lets get this out of the way first, aside from the various other cartoons it rips off, Crash Canyon is trying so hard to be Canada's Family Guy that it get very distracting.

The setting is very restricted. Being stuck down a canyon means this sitcom is stuck with the same situation which leads to the plots becoming very stale.

The jokes are the same as Family Guy: cutaways. And by the same I mean they use exact the same jokes as Family Guy. The worst thing is I think they know their humour isn't working so when they think the audience is supposed to laugh they put in an obnoxious musical cue. That's desperation.

The characters a bland. Again so many characters ripped off from Family Guy, Simpsons, American Dad, the list goes on.

And of all things the theme song is irritating beyond belief. So much high pitched singing!

Bottom line: It's crap. Limiting premise, failed jokes and poor animation. Wanna watch something exactly the same but funnier? Watch Family Guy.

Crash Canyon is definitely not as bad as the series is often said to be. Sure, there are more than obvious bonds to Family Guy and American Dad, but the original premise is fun. Do you know the situation when episodes appeared in the aforementioned cartoon classics that you had hoped the series makers would devote themselves to the topic in more detail? Crash Canyon looks like the Canadians clearly have this need. The premise is funny and personable, but not exploited enough. Instead, stories from everyday life are told, as they could have happened outside of the canyon. The animations are satisfactory, but significantly less detailed than the American greats of the genre. The characters are paler, but still sufficiently amiable and about every third episode makes you laugh or at least smile. The series is really supported primarily by the premise. The intro is short and cool, so no idea why so much is being hacked into here. The same goes for the simple but suitable background music.

I must say, that i did expect this cartoon to be of decent quality. After all, someone associated the slightest bit to The Simpsons is supposedly involved, so that sounded pretty good at start. After watching through the first and hopefully last, seasons episodes, i am loss for words how horrible this is.

Don't get me wrong, i am in no way some expert critic as regarding to shows on TV, or cartoons for that matter, but this show must have some of the worst played out stereotypical characters there is. The bored teenager, the one black family, the dimwit father, and the list goes on and on. I don't know where unoriginality ends and plagiarism begins, but this is quite close to plagiarism. The similarities between this, most characters of The Simpsons/Family Guy/Cleveland Show/American dad is unreal.

If i could, i would've given this show zero stars. But since it IS awful as the one star vote says, that's what it has to be then.