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Television series notable for negative reception, from around the world, either by published critics, by network executives or by audience response, can be judged based on poor quality, the lack of a budget, rapid cancellation, very low viewership, offensive content, and/or negative impact on other series on the same channel. In some cases, a show that is acceptable on its own merits can be put in a position where it does not belong and be judged "worst ever." In many cases, "worst television series ever" lists are slanted toward more contemporary shows, in recent memory. ==Animated shows== *''The Adventures of Paddy the Pelican'' – Created and Directed by Sam Singer who is known for low budget cartoons.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Worst Cartoons Ever! )〕 Six animated episodes of this series were produced, all bearing the date 1954, making it one of the first ever efforts at a made-for-television cartoon (which would not become commonplace until the late 1950s); the characters were originally from a local TV puppet show on Chicago's WENR-TV that began airing in 1950. It is exceedingly rare, but has gained some fame for appearing on Jerry Beck's "Worst Cartoons Ever." On the DVD, he states that he has not found any evidence that it was aired on TV. The show is infamous for its shoddy pencil-sketch artwork, reused animation, rambling voiceovers, muffled soundtrack, and general low-budget problems.〔 *''Allen Gregory'' – The Fox series was generally panned by critics and was cancelled after 7 episodes. Chris Swanson of ''WhatCulture'' gave the first episode a rating of 0.5 out of 5, stating he was "seriously disappointed" by the episode. Robert Bianco of ''USA Today'' also gave the episode a negative review, calling it "nasty and brutish," and "rarely funny." Metacritic has an overall review of 40% for the show.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Metacritic reviews: Allen Gregory: Season 1 )〕 *''Battletoads'' – The ''Battletoads'' video game franchise spun off a Canadian half-hour, traditionally animated television special produced by DIC Entertainment, airing in syndication in the United States on the weekend of Thanksgiving 1992. It is assumed that the series was an attempt to capitalize on the popularity of the ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles''. However, only the pilot episode made it to the airwaves; it was never picked up as a full animated series. The pilot served more as a prequel to the video game franchise. The comic with the backstory of ''Battletoads'', written by Rare employee Guy Miller, was also published in ''Nintendo Power''.〔(''Battletoads'' comic )〕 In 2008, ''Battletoads'' was given the #5 place on Topless Robot's list of The 5 Worst One-Shot TV Cartoons Ever Made.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The 5 Best (and 5 Worst) One-Shot TV Cartoons Ever Made )〕 According to Gawker, "Some say it was nothing more than a blatant Ninja Turtles rip off, but Shredder had nothing on the Toads' sexy nemesis, The Dark Queen."〔(Battletoads: Pilot – Gawker.TV )〕 *''Brickleberry'' – Another animated series from Comedy Central, (2012–2015) which aired on Tuesday evenings, about a gathering of ne'er-do-well forest rangers and their daily lives in the strange fictional Brickleberry National Park, and was executive produced by Daniel Tosh, met with utterly negative reviews. Dennis Perkins of ''The A.V. Club'' gave ''Brickleberry'' an F, stating that the show tries too hard to be offensive but instead falls flat with lifeless characters and talented voice actors wasted on the "dreadful writing".〔Perkins, Dennis. (Brickleberry debuts tonight on Comedy Central at 10:30 p.m. Eastern. ) ''The A.V. Club''〕 Brian Lowry of ''Variety'' also laments the show's eagerness to offend, comparing it unfavorably to ''South Park'': "Yes, ''South Park'' has long since established animation is a fine place to skewer sacred cows, but ''Brickleberry'' has nothing more on its mind than seeing how far it can push the boundaries of dick and handicapped jokes. As a consequence the premise—a second-rate national park—is purely incidental."〔Lowry, Brian. (Tosh's Tedious 'Brickleberry' Too Eager to Offend ) ''Variety''〕 IGN reviewer Jesse Schedeen gave the episode a 2.5/10, saying: "Comedy Central has enjoyed a long, successful history with animated fare () Brickleberry is like a slap in the face to that legacy".〔Schedeen, Jesse. (Brickleberry: Welcome to Brickleberry Review ) ''IGN''〕 Nancy Basile of About.com gave the show one star out of five, finishing her review by adding: "Brickleberry's Denzel pretty much sums up my feeling about the show, 'If you weren't so dumb, I might be offended.'" 〔Basile, Nancy. (Brickleberry – Show Guide and Review ) ''About''〕 *''The Brothers Flub'' – Critical reception for the show was largely negative. Joanne Weintraub of the ''Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel'' described the show as "a rare clinker with all the noisy hyperactivity of ''Aaahh!!! Real Monsters'' and little of the cockeyed charm."〔Weintraub, Joanne. "(Animals star in two winning kid-TV shows )." ''Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel''. February 23, 1999.〕 The ''Hollywood Reporter'' called it "a somewhat vacuous effort that lacks the charm and substance of much of Nick's other programming" but added "now and again (creators ) hit on some clever high jinks." Writing for the ''Lakeland Ledger'', Evan Levine thought that the show had a promising premise, but thought that its humor was mean-spirited. *''The Brothers Grunt'' – This 1994 series had a short run on MTV and was met with generally negative reception from critics. Kenneth R. Clark of the ''Chicago Tribune'' said that with the series, MTV "created the most repulsive creatures ever to show up on a television screen" and "accomplished the seemingly impossible." Charles Solomon of the ''Los Angeles Times'' called the show "an effortful, sophomoric half-hour that leaves the viewer longing for the refined good taste of Alice Cooper." In their book ''North of Everything: English-Canadian Cinema Since 1980'', William Beard and Jerry White called the series a "failure". *''Bucky and Pepito'' – Two episodes appeared on a compilation DVD of the worst cartoons ever made,〔 and it was described by Harry McCracken as setting "a standard for awfulness that no contemporary TV cartoon has managed to surpass". Like ''Paddy the Pelican'', ''Bucky and Pepito'' was produced by Sam Singer, a man notorious for his low-budget (but not stylized) animation. *''Clutch Cargo'', ''Space Angel'' and ''Captain Fathom'' – These three Cambria Studios productions were infamous for their use of Syncro-Vox, a shortcut that superimposed the mouths of the voice actors onto still frames of the characters, resulting in a near total lack of actual animation. A ''Captain Fathom'' episode is included on a compilation DVD of the worst cartoons of all time.〔 ''Clutch Cargo'' gained a tiny boost in recognition when the person at the center of the infamous 1987 Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion hummed its theme song during one of his non-sequiturs, then made reference to one of its episodes by stating that he could "still see the X". *''Family Dog'' – When the show had finally debuted after delays, it was roundly panned for its crude scripts and cheap production values, both of drastically lesser quality than the episode which had spawned the series. Brad Bird didn't participate in making the show because he did not believe the show's premise would work as a television show. The entire series was later released as a Laserdisc box-set, and various episodes of the show were released on VHS around the same time. *''Father of the Pride'' – The series was promoted heavily during NBC's coverage of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece and garnered above average ratings for the network, but the show received a negative response from TV critics, who considered it to be little more than a gimmick and a shill for other NBC and DreamWorks properties (two early episodes extensively featured ''The Today Show''s Matt Lauer and another featured Donkey – voiced by Eddie Murphy – from the DreamWorks movie ''Shrek'' and ''Shrek 2''). Also, many TV critics noticed that the show's humor was very similar to ''South Park'' (one episode had a character say "Screw you guys, I'm going home!"). Siegfried and Roy's reaction was more positive: "They laughed. A lot. They kept asking us to create more contradiction. Literally, one's blond and one's dark, and every aspect of their life is as black and white as that. They are always playful with one another, always playing tricks on one another. They encouraged us to have fun with that," said Katzenberg. The show's ratings began to decline, and by November 2004 it was pulled from NBC's sweeps line-up. In early December 2004, the CEO of DreamWorks announced that the show was canceled, a few months after it was initially aired. A DVD version of the show has been made available, containing the original pilot, an alternate pilot (which draws heavily on the original), an un-aired episode, and one episode that was voice-recorded, but was not animated, and therefore remains at the storyboard stage. *''Full English'' – ''Full English'' was almost universally panned by critics,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Full English )〕 most pointing out the show's poor attempt to emulate American animated shows, notably the uncanny character resemblances to ''Family Guy'', as well as the poor art designs of the characters in general. Ian Hyland of ''The Daily Mail'' wrote: "it's rather apt that they've called it ''Full English''. Because ''Family Guy'' and ''American Dad!'' would have it for breakfast.", while on the character designs, Harry Venning of The Stage wrote: "The animation is flat and uninteresting, while the characters' faces are ugly and unappealing." More positive reviews came from Sam Wollaston of ''The Guardian'', who wrote "I think it's hilarious." and ''The Metro'' describing ''Full English'' as: "It's rough around the edges but it does have the requisite dysfunctional family at its filthy heart". *''Stressed Eric'' – ''Stressed Eric'' was bought by NBC and adapted for American audiences. The BBC described it as "the first British animated sitcom to make it on to prime time US TV." Some episodes were shown in August 1998, but they were received poorly despite concessions such as replacing the lead character's voice with American voice actor Hank Azaria and changing the storyline to an American in London. Reviewers compared it unfavorably to ''The Simpsons'' and ''South Park'' such as ''Variety'' and ''USA Today''.〔(US piles stress on Eric ), BBC News, 13 August 1998〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of television series considered the worst」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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