Greeny Phatom
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 Sony Wonder, Cinar (now WildBrain) and Sesame Workshop probably don't want to be affiliated with this at all.
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Greeny Phatom is an, independent "animated", web series created by Robert Stainton in 2008.
Why It Intentionally Isn’t Green
- The "animation" is just still drawings with voices. It feels like Robert wanted to make the show a comic book at first, but he decided to make it a cartoon, but forgot to add animation.
- The voice acting is terrible, the voice acting is just Speakonia voices, with the occasional appearance of Robert himself or a voice clip from a cartoon.
- Anachronisms run heavy throughout the cartoon. For example, song Pumped Up Kicks by Foster The People appears in one of the episodes, even though Pumped Up Kicks was released in 2011. Also, in the movie, the Children's Television Workshop logo is seen at the beginning, despite the movie being "released" in 2002, where Children's Television Workshop was known as Sesame Workshop. The Cinar logo is also the 1987 logo variant from the show The World of David the Gnome, even though the sky logo and space logo were being used at the time.
- The character designs look terrible, even for a web show. Special mention goes to Little Guy, who is basically a pink ant with a basketball for a head.
- The show cannot decide what kind of target audience it is supposed to be. For example, there was one scene where Little Guy sticks up the middle finger in the episode, "Little Guy Makes His Own Logos". It's like Robert forgot that this show is supposed to be for children.
- Speaking of Little Guy, he is incredibly unlikable and jerkish, and only cares about himself.
- Most of the episodes are basically just about about characters reading signs, mostly signs of logos, Windows errors, random video clips, which makes them repetitive and tiresome.
- Some of the drawings are so bad, they're incomprehensible. For example, in the intro, after Santed Sailor appears, Dr. Beanson's eyes become the word KO. What happened, is Santed Sailor killing Dr. Beanson?
- Most of the runtime is dedicated to logos, the Bananas in Pyjamas intro, or references to kids' media.
- Boring running gags, especially the logo gags like the Sony Wonder logo being beat up by Little Guy because no one likes the logo anymore, which gets old pretty quickly.
- Too much copyright infringement.
- It's also pretty xenophobic to Russians all because Little Guy hated them, because he didn't like one of their songs. This can be mentioned in the episodes "Geo Guy vs. The Fruit Salad Man", "Little Guy vs. Edward Gil", "Little Guy Tortures the World", "Greeny Phatom - CSI: Sing Along Songs with Doctor's New Foe", and a few more.
- Simlar to The Rodfellows Movie, it even got a feature-length movie in 2012, and the movie itself is not that remotely good.
Redeeming Qualities
- It can be "so bad, its good" to watch ironically.
- Sometimes the episodes are so bizarre, they're downright unpredictable.
- Overtime, the series has improved with the animation getting better, but its not saying much.
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