Mega Babies
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Mega Babies is a Canadian animated series created by the Tremblay brothers, Christian and Yvon, who previously had made the most famous and better Hanna-Barbera's well-liked and beloved fan-favorite cult classic SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron. It was produced by the infamous Canadian company CinéGroupe and Landmark Entertainment Group in association with Sony Wonder. The series was broadcast from 1999 to 2000 on Teletoon in Canada and Fox Family Channel in the USA. The show was also aired in the UK on Sky One's weekday mornings and later repeated on Channel 5 on weekend mornings between 2001 and 2002.
Premise
In a town called Your City, USA, a trio of babies fight off evil monsters and aliens. Their names are Derrick, (Cheep Yellow) Buck, (Weak Blue) Meg (Bad Pink) and their caregiver's name is Nurse Lazlo. After their birth, they are brought to an orphanage. When the entire solar system aligned itself, the babies and their nurse were struck by lightning. The babies were given super strength and other powers, and Nurse Lazlo's IQ rose.
Production
The show was announced in January 1999 as a co-production between CinéGroupe and Sony Wonder set to premier on the Fox Family Channel in the fall of that year. The show was created by Christian and Yvon Tremblay and Landmark Entertainment Group budgeted between $5.9 million (C$9 million) and $6.6 million for 52 10-minute episodes which were pre-produced in Montreal and animated in Asia then bundled into 26 half-hour daily shows.
Why It's Mega Garbage
- The show has some of the perfect examples of toilet humor. It shows an extreme amount of gross-out humor based on snot, vomit, feces, flatulence, drool, veins popping out of muscular parts, and various other bodily fluids coming from the characters.
- Heck, barely any kind of humor besides toilet humor is used.
- The babies even drool their vomit, which looks gross and makes no sense. In real life, a baby only vomits when it has eaten/drunk too much, also due to the sensitivity of its stomach.
- It feels like 2 Girls 1 Cup for children.
- Ugly and uncanny character designs that look like Ed Roth rejects. Also, the main trio barely looks like humans.
- The animation and color scheme are both extremely horrendous and ugly.
- The characters in the show, especially the babies themselves, are beyond detestable:
- Likewise, the Mega Babies have failed to be heroes, but rarely save anyone and mostly cause chaos instead. They never even get any consequences for the destruction they've caused, Instead, the Mega Babies are pure evil and implied to be generic doomsday villains.
- Nurse Lazlo is supposed to have been made super-smart after the alignment, yet there are a few moments where she's just a careless idiot, but even that, she is ultimately bland and uninteresting at best.
- For example, in one episode, "Inspection Insurrection", she acts completely out of character and behaves just like the babies, though to be fair it was established that was because she got amnesia. Still, again, that’s not how amnesia works. Instead, the person who is diagnosed with that disorder has rather forgotten a select number of memories and has to be educated more thoroughly.
- "Chewing the Fat" also has a moment in which Nurse Lazlo eats junk food and watches TV as she lifts a single barbell, yet she STILL doesn't know why she's the same size.
- Most episodes like "Journey to the Center of the Sewer" are extremely disturbing to watch.
- Bad episodes like "Poop Doggy Dogg" and "Beach from Beyond"
- Horrible writing that makes the writers look like they're on drugs.
- Pointless plots that often come off as filler in general.
- Ear-grating voice acting, especially from the babies.
- Disgusting sound effects, mostly from the gross-out humor.
- Very lazy, uncreative, and unoriginal name for the show's location; the town is called "Your City." Even the name of the city "Swellview" from Henry Danger sounds more like an actual city name by comparison, despite that show coming out after this.
- The theme song is insufferable beyond belief, as it is incredibly annoying, merciless, and extremely painful to listen to.
- There are pedophilia jokes in a kids' show. Especially in the episode "Balemtime's Day" and from Meg, who is only a baby and too young to flirt.
- Overall, the show is an atrocious combination of Rugrats, The Powerpuff Girls, Ren & Stimpy, and famously Akira (1988), except there is no charm that those shows or movies ever had.
Redeeming Qualities
- Nurse Lazlo, despite her flaws as stated in WIMG,TMT,ACOMLAMA#4 and even she is ultimately bland and uninteresting, is the only likable and tolerable character in the entire show.
- A few good or funny moments here and there, such as the hilarious quote "FIRE! Uh, I mean WATER!" in the episode "Poop Doggy Dog". Even the subplot of aliens landing in the orphanage in "Let It Rip" is entertaining, despite being filler.
- Even if the animation is really ugly, there are some moments where it can look smooth, especially when Mercury Filmworks and PIP Animation are in Season 2.
Reception
The show was universally panned by critics and audiences for its massive overuse of gross-out humor, especially for a television series aimed at kids. It currently holds a 2.5/10 on IMDb and a 23% on Google.
WatchMojo ranked the series #4 in their "Top 10 Most Embarrassing ‘90s Cartoons" list.
Video Game
Entitled with the same name, this video game based on the show was developed and published by Global Star Software in 2000, exclusively for PC.
Videos
Episodes with Their Pages
- Poop Doggy Dogg
- Let It Rip
- Beach from Beyond
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