Breadwinners

I have lost faith in Nick because of this show. I mean, how could they have sunk so low? Lets see, the show is about two ducks, who look like flappy bird if he grew arms and legs and painted himself acid green, named Sway-Sway ((tall and thin)) and Baduce ((small and red)). ((Very creative names, am I right?)) They fly around in a blue rocket van, delivering bread, with names like pumper knuckle punch. Now, had the jokes been about the bread puns, considering the name is breadwinners, maybe the show would've been good. But what do we get instead? Fart jokes, butt jokes, and some very creepy moments. Like the love load episode, where Sway Sway is trying to get a girl duck, who isn't animated, but instead a photograph, ((Amazing world of gumball this show isn't)) and he is being a psycho about it.

Allow me to put this in perspective. Remember Hey Arnold and Rugrats? These shows taught kids very important lessons, such as gender roles, how people are different, ((the bird man episode of hey Arnold)) and accepting death ((Chuckie's mom on the rugrats)). Breadwinners tells kids to act like Sway-Sway and Baduce, creeps who feel like they can get away with anything.

I'll be up front, I kind of liked Fanboy and Chum Chum, it did get some chuckles out of me, and Sunjay and Craig got a few chuckles when it wasn't about poop or fart jokes, and Rabbids Invasion, based on one of my favorite video game series, is a really good show in my opinion. Breadwinners just combines the worst aspects of the new spongebob episodes, Fanboy and Chum Chum, and Sanjay and Craig, and thinks it can be funny, when really it's more like a little kid telling his friends the worst jokes over,

Nick rarely shows T.U.F.F puppy or any of its over good shows to give us this crap. It's obvious that Nick no longer cares about the viewers, they only care about pandering to children, and their bottom line. How this show is rated #1 for kids is beyond me.

My advise to you? Skip this show, it isn't worth sitting through, don't let your kids watch it, they may become dumber watching it.

The first time I saw this show, I knew that nick has lost it's marbles. The premise is ludicrous. You can tell that nickelodeon has gone nuts by green lighting a show takes the idea that ducks like bread and run off with it for TWENTY-FOUR episodes. The character names are absurd.

The humor in this show is half witted, often weak, and abuses butt humor.(e.g Twerking). It's a show about badly animated ducks cracking weak jokes, singing badly and all the while twerking frequently and delivering bread to stock images of ducks. The music is 80's arcade music on speed, and it's character design is laughable. (see below)

The animation? SwaySway's head is too big for his body to support, and his face is gargantuan and jarring. (in the pilot, of course.) The 2 main characters look like Flappy Bird recolors/rejects instead of ducks. At least with the creators of Allen Gregory they regretted making the show and canceled it. Here, nick believed it would be their redemption.

This show is mediocre and lazy, using stock images of ducks for every single other duck character, even the bread. It's lazy at best, and jarring at worst. (in this case, it's in between lazy and jarring.)

It's copying what 3 other series (Uncle Grandpa, Amazing world of Gumball, and even dick figures) did before it. It tries to be random and funny, and fails miserably. Randomness and Toilet humor aren't inherently funny. You have to make it funny. Same thing goes for pop culture references.

This show tries to be Fanboy and Chum Chum, Season 6-9 Spongebob, and Sanjay and Craig at the same time by believing that randomness and butt jokes. Never once do they get a laugh out of anyone above the age of 10.

(The fans are naive and immature, yes, but you can already figure that out by watching the show for longer than 10 seconds. Nick doesn't care, as long as it's making $$$ and is PG. The parents don't care, as long as it's PG. The plots? i've seen better plots from any modern YTP on the web.

Making Fiends and Invader Zim were good shows, and they didn't live to reach their apex. This show, on the other hand, lives to see a second season. This says a lot about nickelodeon's current standards. Sad much?

As for those who don't understand as to why we don't think it's awesome or want it canceled, it provides nothing of substance, doesn't follow a coherent plot, and it's humor is mostly toilet humor with Twerking thrown in.

Bottom Line, giving this show even a 1 would be too generous, and the arguments made in this shows defense are futile. Maybe the fans will develop a better sense of humor, and maybe this show will be cancelled, or hopefully forgotten, even.

RANT AHEAD: Let me just start off by saying when it comes to nick, originality is dead and ignorance is bliss. I gave up on nick awhile ago but I saw my little brother watching this and I said well I don't really watch cartoons besides Adventure time and Regular Show but I'll give this a try. I couldn't make it past 5 minutes. Even my brother ended up saying it was terrible and he's still a little kid. This is just a show filled with all the stupid bathroom jokes we wish would go away because they got old QUICK. Nickelodeon is messing up and I don't know how many more of shows they can allow to flop as bad as this one. They only thing keeping them afloat is there sitcoms it seems. As for there cartoons this is just becoming as repetitive as Justin Bieber songs. And it's not a good repetitive. They seem bent on that this formula of 2 brothers/friends going on pointless misadventures with no actual plot in sight is going to work, But it doesn't. Fanboy and Chum Chum, Robot and Monster, Sanjay and Craig, and now breadwinners. They all feel like the same terrible idea. Breadwinners in no different. No real plot. The main characters are both idiots as usual. There is no character development so far and judging by nick's past there will be none. The characters are unlikeable. The animation isn't too great either. It's not johnny test choppy, but it's not great. This show has no redeeming qualities at all. Nick needs to get itself together because they haven't aired a new good show in years now. Funny that they passed on Adventure time because it was pitched to them before Cartoon Network and whether you like AT or not, it's gotten great reviews and is successful. If you ask me, nick needs to take a page out of Cartoon networks book and make a show with a deeper plot that still has a lot of comedic and cartoonish elements. And stop using these washed up fart jokes that aren't funny to anyone anymore with a duo of characters that are complete idiots. My theory, if you like Breadwinners you IQ is equivalent to the breadwinners.

The Verdict: Breadwinners is not much else but 2014's Fanboy and Chum Chum. It's full of unoriginal jokes, poor writing, lackluster animation, and not really anything appealing about it. I would say stay away from this show.

Much like most of the critically hated cartoons, I've never expected to like it at all, I knew this was going to be horrendous from beginning to end, although to be fair, I was kinda hoping that I might laugh at this show for being so bad it's good or maybe so laughably bad, but my point still stands.

I was certain to have expectations for some of the cartoons from the 2010s that received higher scores then this and none of them delivered, for as bad as Breadwinners is, I at least understood what I was in for and wouldn't you know it, I've got exactly that.

It's just a generic first time cartoon with no thought or effort put into it, but that kinda grinded my gears even more considering the fact that it was a first time cartoon, how is that even possible?

The concept of 2 ducks working in a bread mine is nothing more than just generic as the show offers nothing new or valuable to the table, not only that but the breads they mind for are something that only Shaggy and Scooby Doo would dream of.

The humor and storylines are basically Looney Tunes and Ed, Edd N Eddy mixed together, it's the Ed, Edd N Eddy set up with some gross out humor and some of the Looney Tunes humor thrown in to create this monster and when I mean monster I mean nothing I would want to deal with.

The artwork and animation don't became much better than the stories and humor as they're basically stolen images and the Flappy Bird thrown into the character designs and that isn't what I would want, I think what the show is trying to by inspired by video games, but unfortunately though, due to poor visuals, that's where they fall flat.

How is the acting? Better, the characters were poorly written, don't get me wrong, but the voice overs did the best they possibly can here, which the show does get credit for, with that being said, that's the only decent thing about it.

My certain apologies if this review was extremely short, but this show gave me nothing to work with, I'm obviously giving Breadwinners 1 out of 4 stars, originally half a star out of 5, but I've decided to be nice since it's a first time, why I'll never know.

Final score: 1 out of 4 stars = 25%

Nickelodeon has been garbage lately, first Korra, then Sanjay and Craig, NOW THIS... What the crap is this? This sucked! Nickelodeon gave THIS a series, yet they rejected The Modifyers? All this show is is two ducks twerking and making unfunny butt jokes. There ARE a couple innuendos, but it's nothing you haven't seen before. This is an extremely poorly made cartoon. Bad acting, bad characters, bad plots, HORRENDOUS ANIMATION, and no redeeming factors. Any parent that lets their kids watch this waste of time should be shot. If you want a REAL funny but silly cartoon, check out Uncle Grandpa on Cartoon Network. Also watch Wander Over Yonder on Disney XD, stay clear of Breadwinners on Nickelodeon. Save yourself.