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"The cockroaches were ultimate CROOKS! This is what happens when you ruin a movie and steal seasons 1 and 2's concept"
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Oggy and the Cockroaches is a French cartoon made by Jean-Yves Raimbaud and produced by Xilam and Gaumont Film Company. While Seasons 1-4 and 7-present have decently received, many have found that seasons 5 and 6 caused a major decline in quality.
Cockroached! Qualities
- The main problem about these seasons is that they purposed for cash-cowing kids with poorly executed episodes and plots, as far as to promote R-rated movies on their YouTube channel.
- Essentially, for the Z-Men episode, they falsely advertised Deadpool to even photoshop him on the thumbnail, despite the fact, there are no cameo or references to the said movie in the episode!
- In Z-Men to the Rescue, which was a parody of the X-Men, absolutely none of the costumes were changed, resulting in copyright infringement.
- The sudden change in art and animation style (while decently handled) is not only jarring but feels like an unnecessary downgrade. Essentially, instead of smooth rubbery animation, the show uses colored outlines for the characters (which the colors just darkened), and the animation, feels fully chopped and harder for the eye to catch with the quick and stubby movements.
- The roaches are more annoying than ever. They've gone from funny and goofy prankster antagonists to petty, evil idiots like Billy from the last seasons of Billy and Mandy levels. Unlike the film adaptation of the show, many Season 5 episodes did not customize the looks trio according to the historical themes and simply makes fun of it instead like the main cast (like having them wear bones tied to their antennae in the Stone Age segment of the film and the three prehistory episodes).
- Season 6 has a misleading opening theme and promotional poster (despite being good), which would lead to people thinking that it is going to contain episodes themed around different movies and films but it is instead remakes from seasons 1-2'.
- The sounds and voices aren't really great. Oggy's humorous groans, screeches and goofy laughs (provided by Hugues Le Bars) from the previous seasons are replaced with annoying stock sound effects of cat noises (Though a few of Oggy's archived recordings from Le Bars can be sometimes played but still).
- In season 5, there is a glaring flaw that all of the previous seasons did not follow - the fact Oggy and Jack, despite still likable, are treated like the lucky protagonists compared to the cockroaches, who are often the subject to slapstick and losing at the end. They rarely win, which makes this kind of bias repetitive and lackluster to watch and also similar to the Gene Deitch Era of Tom and Jerry.
- In addition, Marky and Dee Dee (the latter especially) dumbed down to clueless goons of Joey, with Joey, most of the real mischief with their help.
- Also, Marky beats up Dee Dee and vice versa twice, one of them did cause some problems, but it's pretty harsh for them.
- Season 6's episodes remake 43 episodes from season 1 and 35 episodes from season 2, resulting in nothing new.
- The first few remakes of Season 6 have an inconsistent art style and are ugly at times, some point, even reused animations from Season 3 which is even laziest.
- Some episodes are just plain bizarre, like Oggy Manga Star having Oggy making a manga about himself and the gang (excluding Jack) as ninja-humans (or something), it should noted that Olivia looks nothing like her actual counterpart.
- Some of these episodes even teach bad morals to kids and adults such as in "The Incredible Four" where it is okay to get revenge on your friends just because they are better than you and another bad one in Z-Men to the Rescue where it is okay to laugh at injured people (that is an extremely rude thing to do to anyone). Seriously, what kind of morals do you call that?
- At least they are not as bad as Teen Titans Go!, ThunderCats Roar, the sixth-eighth seasons of SpongeBob SquarePants, and Peppa Pig 's morals, which have some of the worst morals in television history.
- Most episodes are not as memorable as the first four seasons.
- Because of the similar tone, the soundtrack in Seasons 5, 6, 7, and Next Generation, while still decently handled, often hurt sensitive people's ears. These are due to the death of the previous composers.
- Also, the theme song for these, while good, has shortened now.
- In the 5th season, Jack gets treated more harshly a few times, like when some leaders threatened to execute him in a kids' show.
- Season 5 utilizes and steals several elements from pop culture that are never greatly altered for parody and only looks like a blatant way to insert Oggy and the cast in the pop culture element. For example, some episodes directly put the cast with Disney's following films; The Jungle Book, The Sword in the Stone, Aladdin, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and others. Some episodes also attempt to insert the characters into plots from other movies, like King Kong and Alien.
- The show (sometimes) tries to be hip and cool by making the cockroaches dab in some episodes. Yes, really.
- Not to mention there are more rehashed moments here than the first three seasons and to a lesser extent, seasons 4 and 7.
- These seasons have a good amount of mediocre or bad episodes (see the notable bad/mediocre episodes of these seasons section below)
- Season 5 is considered to be the worst season of the series mainly due to the unfair treatment.
- Overall, these seasons almost killed the reputation of the series until season 7.
Qualities that are a Big Hit with the fly swatter
- The sixth season is considered a slightly improvement over the fifth season. Despite it just remastering older episodes from the first two seasons, there can be a possible reason why it is just repeated and remastered episodes as most channels where Oggy is mostly broadcasted don't show the older episodes nowadays. However, the show redeemed itself in season 7 despite it still remastering episodes from Seasons 1 and 2 and having a couple of bad episodes. It also switches from teaching bad morals to teaching good morals again.
- Season 5, while mediocre/bad, takes inspiration from Oggy and the Cockroaches: The Movie, which is a great movie and is season 5 done right despite being a box-office bomb.
- The new animation and music from Xilam is okay, although jarring. Also, they seem to be slightly more careful with the editing there are fewer errors.
- Season 5 has the nicest CGI animation so far, arguably the best part of the Season.
- The humor didn't get a downgrade, and there are still good jokes featuring the cockroaches except for some lowbrow jokes or moments in which a character outwits another character.
- Season 5 had a unique concept with setting the characters in different historical periods even if it was poorly executed.
- The remastered episodes manage to faithfully re-create the older episodes.
- The show does still teach good morals during season 6.
- The idea on remastering original episodes is great because the animation (despite being good) is low-quality and season 6 (while mediocre) manages to fix the animation with a poor execution.
- The promotional poster for season 6 (while misleading) is great to look at.
- The seasons 5-7 theme songs are cool to watch despite being misleading and shortened.
- Olivia is a better character in the fifth season, as she is not anymore a constant part of the plot, but simply a goal (for example in some episodes he has to save her), while still being a clichéd love interest. Just like the latter part of Season 4, she no longer attempts to defend the cockroaches and will occasionally antagonize them, also, despite Olivia's development, the Cockroaches' treatment has improved from Season 4 as well, as they get comeuppances from their misdeeds instead of getting random hatred in some episodes.
- Season 5 started decently well with two episodes but went downhill a lot after the episode "Oggy on the Nile."
- Some good or decent episodes such as:
- The Great Pyramid Mystery (which began season 5 on a decent note)
- Oggy's Dragon
- Moonshot Movie (also known as the best episode from the era and is the highest-rated episode on IMDb)
- Chocolate Wars (aka "Bitter Chocolate")
- Crackdown on the Fridge (which began season 6 on a high note)
- Strong Coffee (aka "Shake Oggy Shake")
- Rock Bottom
- Oggy and the Grasshopper Cloud
- The Precious Panda
- Shift that Chariot, Oggy!
- Brain Control (aka "It's All Under Control")
- Under the Sun (aka "Heatwave)
- Bouncing Ball (aka Bugball)
- The Intruder from Space
- Cute Little Puppy (aka "A Dog Day Afternoon")
- Oggy and the Treasure
- Oggy's 1001 Nights (a great "Aladdin" parody)
- Oggy's Sister (aka "Love & Kisses")
- Christmas Spirit (aka "A Truce for Christmas")
- All the prehistory episodes (Color Conflict, Wheeling and Dealing, and The Big Move)
Notable bad/mediocre episodes from these seasons
Season 5
- Oggy Manga Star
- Z-Men to the Rescue (makes fun of X-Men)
- The Incredible Four (arguably considered to be the worst episode of these seasons and also teaches a bad moral)
- Gold Fever
- Oggy-Sumo
- Fragile Goods
- Baby Sitting for the Emperor
- In the glare of the sun
- Metalman (a bad Iron Man parody)
- Super Temor
- Emperor for a Day
- Oggy on the Nile (which started the downfall of the series)
- The Cockroaches' Awakening
- Oggy's Special Spa
- RodeOggy
- Oggy and the Tramp
- The Yak Festival
- Oggy, The King's Coachman
- Wanted
- The Roaches Seize the Castle
- A Touch of Genius
- Bananas of Wrath
- Morgan the Fairy (which ended season 5 on a mediocre note)
Season 6
- Mamma Oggy (aka "Nine Months and Counting")
- An Intrusive Neighbor (aka "Homebreaker")
- A Shockproof Denture (aka "A Tooth for a Tooth")
- A Rebel Bait ("The Bait Bites Back")
- Nature's Call (aka "Occupied")
- TV Addict (aka "TV Obsession")
- An Unwanted Customer (aka "Crazy Shopping")
- Green Trouble (aka "7 Minutes & Counting")
- Bad Sport (aka "Winner Takes All")
- Locked Out (Aka "The Piggy Bank" remake and not to be confused with the Season 3 episode "Locked Outside", the SML video & Kick Buttowski episodes of the same name)
- Good Night, Don't Sleep Tight (aka "Monster from the Mud Lagoon")
Reception
These seasons have received mixed-negative reviews by fans of the first four and seventh seasons.
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