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00:00 I've got a lot riding on this.
00:01 This is my chance for people to see me in a different way.
00:04 Welcome to WatchMojo,
00:09 and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 worst live-action kid sitcoms.
00:14 Did you hear? They're giving away free spaghetti in the cafeteria!
00:18 At this very moment, my brother, the one and only Nat Wolf,
00:27 is shaving for the first time ever.
00:29 A mockumentary for a sitcom is a great idea on paper,
00:32 but it really just wasn't well executed.
00:34 The show and its soundtracks were wildly popular.
00:37 The premiere was even one of Nickelodeon's biggest at the time.
00:47 But, as we all know, popular doesn't always mean good.
00:50 Plot lines and conclusions were often obvious and too on-the-nose.
00:54 What happened to all the soda?
00:56 I'm recycling them.
00:58 You haven't even drunk any.
01:00 You guys want to help, the polar bears are not!
01:03 Meanwhile, the characters were just a bit too goofy,
01:06 even for the series' target audience.
01:07 While the songs had serious potential,
01:09 they were actually hindered by the scope of the show.
01:11 At least we got Alex and Nat Wolf out of this.
01:13 Look at these guys.
01:15 Now their lives are passing them by, too.
01:17 You're right. I have to turn this tragedy into something positive.
01:23 The only good thing about this show
01:25 was the return of Kel Mitchell from Kenan & Kel.
01:27 You're very late.
01:29 Well, that's because I'm famous and I don't care.
01:32 (LAUGHS)
01:33 Even Mitchell was unfortunately not that great on the show,
01:36 but it offered a nice bit of nostalgia
01:37 for parents or older siblings watching along.
01:40 I'm about to take this cable and plug it into my Trionic arm.
01:43 And you're gonna take it and plug it into the computer and fix it.
01:45 The show is about a group of friends
01:48 who create a very successful gaming company.
01:50 But the problem is, their games are kind of lame.
01:53 What are you playing?
01:54 A cool new game - Nasty Goats.
01:57 There's no way their lukewarm ideas made them multimillionaires.
02:00 The performances are decent enough for such young actors,
02:03 but even that can't save the generally bad writing
02:05 and tragically boring storylines.
02:07 You ate my food!
02:09 I ate yours! (LAUGHS)
02:11 (LAUGHTER)
02:15 # If you move into a haunted house
02:20 # You've gotta try to work things out
02:22 When the Hathaways moved to New Orleans,
02:24 they discovered their new home is already inhabited
02:27 by a family of ghosts.
02:28 The conclusion we hope to see in Beetlejuice -
02:30 these two families learn to cohabitate.
02:33 We'll make it work.
02:34 Louie and the boys will stick to the attic and the living room.
02:36 You girls will stay in the bakery. Deal?
02:39 That'll work. Thanks, Ray.
02:40 It was nothing.
02:41 It's not a completely terrible premise,
02:43 and it feels like there's a lot to work with.
02:45 Unfortunately, the delivery is just off.
02:48 Look what we found trying to blend in out on the square.
02:51 Another human.
02:53 OK, copper, so you got me.
02:55 Got me good.
02:57 But this dame don't squeal or no fuzz, see?
03:00 Why do kids' shows so often feel like they need to dumb down
03:03 their dialogue and humour?
03:04 Young viewers are smarter than adults give them credit for
03:07 and appreciate when their media doesn't talk down to them.
03:09 The Haunted Hathaways could have had potential,
03:11 if not for this fatal flaw.
03:13 I gotta go. Little help?
03:15 (SLURPS)
03:17 (LAUGHTER)
03:19 (SLURPS)
03:21 Number seven - I Didn't Do It.
03:23 Hear us out.
03:25 The best thing this show had going for it was its form.
03:27 We'll get to the party.
03:29 And my ruined couch.
03:30 And why a goat is eating your mother's wedding dress.
03:33 In the first season, each episode would start at the end of the story
03:36 with all the characters in some crazy predicament.
03:38 Big house, subtract parents.
03:41 Add all my friends,
03:43 multiply by the power of my blue sequin jacket.
03:46 And then things would rewind,
03:47 and we would see how each character ended up in their unique mess.
03:50 I hate showing up to these things without a date.
03:52 Every party is better with a goat.
03:56 It was an interesting premise,
03:57 but this format was abandoned in season two,
03:59 and the show largely lost its intrigue because of it.
04:02 The stories all fell flat,
04:04 and the humour suffered a great deal.
04:06 Something terrible? I don't want anything to do with that.
04:08 Bye!
04:12 Number six - Bizaardvark.
04:15 Yes, this show gave us Olivia Rodrigo,
04:17 and that's about all it did.
04:19 What's up, guys? I'm Paige.
04:20 I'm Frankie.
04:21 And we're Bizaardvark, coming to you live from my kitchen.
04:24 The name of the series is incredibly appropriate
04:26 because it really was just bizarre.
04:28 Welcome back, Dirk.
04:29 What up, PK?
04:30 It's about two friends, Paige and Frankie,
04:36 who become famous internet stars
04:38 after their comedy music video channel blows up.
04:40 According to reviews of the show,
04:42 the two friends' funny music videos weren't funny at all.
04:45 # We want flying shoes
04:49 # We want shoes that can fly. #
04:53 The whole thing screams boomers, trying to pander to Gen Z,
04:56 with outdated comparisons to YouTube
04:58 and social media fame in general.
05:00 Frankie!
05:01 We hit 100,000 subscribers!
05:03 No-look high-five!
05:06 The thing about this is,
05:07 it's also kind of been done before.
05:10 I'm Carly Shay,
05:11 and this is our very first webcast of a little show
05:13 we call iCarly.
05:14 She's Carly.
05:15 She's Sam.
05:16 Sam I am.
05:17 Carly.
05:18 #5 Marvin Marvin
05:20 Nickelodeon probably should have learned its lesson with Fred,
05:23 but more on that later.
05:24 Yes, I'm looking for someone.
05:26 First name Harry, last name Butts.
05:28 YouTube star Lukas Kruiksjank played an alien named Marvin
05:31 trying to assimilate to life as an Earth teenager.
05:34 Hmm, where have we heard that before?
05:36 Mork and Mindy, Kyle XY, Superman, or even Alf
05:40 all did it first, and they all did it better.
05:42 I'll take you places, make you treats,
05:45 but first, a Klatonian back rub.
05:48 The slapstick-style comedy of Marvin Marvin
05:50 was difficult to find funny,
05:52 and while we can appreciate Kruiksjank's talents
05:54 and what he built on YouTube,
05:55 this character was just not it.
05:57 My force field is rather powerful.
06:00 Is it not, Dad Bob?
06:01 Seeing as it only lasted a season,
06:03 it seems audiences agreed.
06:04 In your face, Marvie!
06:06 Don't shut me off!
06:07 I'm too young to--
06:09 [grunting]
06:12 Number four, Out of Jimmy's Head.
06:14 This show was so bad, Cartoon Network
06:16 doesn't even have it on its own streaming service.
06:18 It's like they want to forget it ever existed
06:20 just as much as the rest of us.
06:22 We could be rappers,
06:23 since you have a really good rhyming skill,
06:24 and since I'm, like, really pretty.
06:26 That's perfect, we should totally be rappers.
06:28 One of the network's few live-action shows,
06:30 Out of Jimmy's Head, actually had an interesting premise.
06:33 It was just trying to do too much.
06:35 Jimmy, can you imagine always being surrounded
06:36 by animals like that?
06:38 I think I can, Dolly.
06:41 The titular Jimmy gets a brain transplant
06:43 and ends up with the brain of a famous cartoonist.
06:45 This allows him to see his world in cartoon form.
06:48 How could you hurt Tux's feelings like that?
06:51 You know he's a clown prince of Antarctica.
06:54 Well, I didn't plan it, all right.
06:55 Besides, Tux is a comedian, he knows I was just joking.
06:58 Unfortunately, the focus stayed on the novelty of the form
07:01 rather than the quality of the stories.
07:03 It's also hard to suspend your disbelief enough
07:05 to really get into the show.
07:06 Jimmy?
07:07 So you decided to come to school after all, huh?
07:11 Hello, Mr. Robert.
07:12 I mean, Jimmy's dad.
07:15 Number three, Jonas.
07:18 This one's going to ruffle some feathers.
07:19 Boom, broken heart.
07:21 Me and Kevin are there picking up the pieces.
07:23 Oh, it's Nick's broken heart.
07:25 Whether you loved or hated the Jonas Brothers back then,
07:28 there's no doubt that this show was a low point for them.
07:30 Nick Jonas even admitted in their documentary
07:33 that the series prevented them from growing as a band
07:35 and as people.
07:36 We reenact our home movies and then we videotape them.
07:40 Genius.
07:40 And I thought it was going to be
07:43 something completely ridiculous.
07:45 It was designed with a specific audience in mind,
07:47 ended up being little more than another dumbed down kids show.
07:50 The music only sort of saved it.
07:52 ♪ You're like driving on a Sunday ♪
07:55 ♪ You ♪
07:57 ♪ You're like taking off on Monday ♪
08:00 If the show did one thing though,
08:01 it was make us beg our parents
08:03 to install a fire pole in the house.
08:05 ♪ Friday ♪
08:09 Number two, Dog With A Blog.
08:11 The title of the show alone tells you
08:13 why it deserves a spot on this list.
08:15 With a concept this terrible, nothing could save the show.
08:18 Not good writing, not fun storylines,
08:20 not decent acting performances.
08:22 Oh wait, the show didn't have any of that either.
08:24 - Smells like rubber, tastes like rubber.
08:27 (dog squeaks)
08:28 Wow, it squeaked.
08:30 I did not see that coming.
08:32 - It's literally about a talking dog,
08:34 a concept that is not executed super well, we might add,
08:36 who writes blog posts about his rather mundane family.
08:39 - I was trying to be like a person
08:41 and they were being like dogs.
08:43 Maybe we're not that far apart.
08:45 So next time I drive,
08:46 maybe they'll stick their heads out the window.
08:49 (dog squeaks)
08:50 - This is one of those things you just know
08:51 was stitched together painfully around the title alone.
08:54 - Oh, he almost blew it for us.
08:56 Good thing no one believes a 42 year old.
08:58 - She's six.
09:00 - All right, I just don't get how you people count years.
09:02 - Unfortunately, even the title is really not that clever.
09:05 Plus, it aired long after blogs were popular
09:07 to an audience that probably learned what a vlog was
09:10 before ever knowing it was derived from the former word.
09:13 - I told you this dog would bring us closer together.
09:16 - Not sure it was worth it.
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09:33 Number one, Fred the Show.
09:36 How that purposefully annoying voice
09:38 ever got an actual show on a network is beyond us.
09:41 - This is perfect for my science fair project.
09:45 Yay!
09:47 - For short form funny videos online,
09:49 it worked as evidenced by its staggering popularity.
09:52 Fred was even the first channel
09:53 to hit a million subscribers on YouTube.
09:55 So credit where it's due.
09:56 With that said, the internet and cable TV
09:59 are two completely different worlds.
10:01 We're not sure how big a hand Lucas Cruikshank
10:03 actually had in the writing,
10:04 but we feel like it was very little.
10:06 - The lady and I would like cheese fries
10:08 out on the veranda.
10:10 - Yeah, well, whatever, Fred.
10:11 I don't have to do that. - Sweetheart.
10:13 (Fred screams)
10:15 - The jokes that made it meme-worthy online
10:17 did not translate into the show,
10:19 and none of the stories were ever anything of substance.
10:21 It just read as overall really immature
10:24 instead of a fun, silly time.
10:26 - Is that a robot monkey?
10:27 What?
10:28 (Fred screams)
10:31 - What do you think is the worst kid sitcom?
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