The Adventures of Kid Danger

The Adventures of Kid Danger
If you thought that the first three seasons of Henry Danger were way better than the other bad shows that Schneider's Bakery spewed out, then you haven't seen the depths Nickelodeon has sunken into with this giant insult to television animation as a whole.
Genre: Comedy Action Superhero Animation Running Time: 22 minutes Country: United States Release Date: January 19 - June 14, 2018 Network(s): Nickelodeon Nicktoons Created by: Dan Schneider Distributed by: ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks Starring: Jace Norman Cooper Barnes Michael D. Cohen Riele Downs Sean Ryan Fox Ella Anderson Jeffrey Nicholas Brown Seasons: 1 Episodes: 12 (20 segments) Previous show: Henry Danger Next show: Danger Force

The Adventures of Kid Danger is a short-lived American animated television series created by Dan Schneider. The series first aired on Nickelodeon as a sneak peek on January 15, 2018, before its official premiere on January 19, 2018. Based on Henry Danger, it features the voices of Jace Norman, Cooper Barnes, Michael D. Cohen, Riele Downs, Sean Ryan Fox, Ella Anderson, and Jeffrey Nicholas Brown. It ran for only a couple of months before being cancelled, on June 14, 2018, after Dan Schneider's departure from Nickelodeon, two months before the series ended, making it the shortest lived show created by Dan Schneider, and even more so than Sam & Cat.

Plot

Henry Hart is a regular kid in eight grade who has a not-so-regular, part-time gig as Kid Danger. As a sidekick-in-training to Captain Man, Henry must keep the secret from his best friends, Charlotte and Jasper, and his little sister, Piper. Henry's new animated exploits unfold in The Adventures of Kid Danger, where he battles bizarre criminals and villains. Henry goes on all new adventures in all new areas of the superheroes' headquarters for the very first time.

Why It Doesn't Feel Good

1. The episodes' storylines are insanely boring, and mind-numbing, which is inexcusable, because the show could have opened up the possibility for storylines, that couldn't be done, in its live-action counterpart.
   • In, "Fish Talker", Captain Man continues to eat some sushi, even after finding out that it's made of human, which is nothing more than cannibalism.
   • One episode even makes a joke about the infamous Moonlight incident at the Oscars.
   • One episode references the dead, "Spooderman", meme. However, this meme has become less used in recent years.
   • In "Fails", Schwoz uses a device to make Invisible Brad visible, but instead he only made his belly visible, which is such a laughable joke that you can easily laugh at how bad the joke is and forget the fact that it isn't really that funny.
   • In the pilot episode, the "villain of the episode" was created by the heroes… by accident. Yes, really.
   • In one episode, the characters visit a tribe worships a demigod with very large feet, which is obviously a jab at Schneider's infamous foot fetish.
2. The animation and art-style are absolutely horrendous, incredibly stilted, and looks like a reject from an Neopets website, which is unacceptable, because the motion comic for Henry Danger, had better looking animation, than this show. It also suffers from constant frame rate drops.
   • To make matters worse, the show is animated by Powerhouse Animation, the same company behind Castlevania, and compare this thing, to that show's animation. Additionally, it was also animated by Saerom Animation.
3. Some of the characters designs are recycled, which is very lazy on the animators' part. For example, in, "Popcorn Monster", in the bus scenes, there are two models for the same little girl with hair in bunches, but one of them his a different skin-tone, and hair color.
4. Mediocre voice acting, especially from Jace Norman and Cooper Barnes, which is a shame, since they both do a good job portraying their characters in the original show.
5. No character development, unlike the original series.
6. Charlotte and Jasper have been dumbed down into punching-bag type characters, as they are always abused, when they don't deserve it. Ray/Captain Man, Henry/Kid Danger, and Schwoz, have also been turned into jerks, with the personality of Patrick Star from SpongeBob SquarePants. Other characters, such as Larvin also get treated like punching-bag type characters. Even Henry gets treated like a punching bag in "Flying Spiders".
7. Like the original series, some villains are terrible or just plain ridiculous, such as Daddy Longlegs and Wahoo Punch Bro.
8. The backgrounds have Dan Schneider's name placed everywhere.
9. As always with bad TV shows, it has some gross-out humor shoehorned into it in an attempt to be comedically effective.
10. It features some unfunny, brainless, and gross running jokes, such as the characters overusing the word, "wieners", in the episode "Texas Wieners", and even one of Captain Man having an obsession with Japanese toilets.
11. Like in Henry Danger, Kid Danger and Captain Man do some gross stuff, and almost never get their comeuppance for it.
12. The episode, "Popcorn Monster", features a random cameo from Doc Brown and Marty McFly from Back to the Future, and it isn't even a good cameo, either. Not to mention this had already been done, in its parent show's episode, "Ox Pox".
13. Combined with the firing of Dan Schneider that year, this show effectively put an end to his entire namesake Schneider's Bakery line of sitcoms.
14. Just like the spin-off Danger Force most of the dialogues in this show are incredibly annoying.

Redeeming Qualities

1. Unlike Henry Danger, this show has no laugh track, because it's the only Dan Schneider show, that's not a sitcom this time, it's also the only animated show he made so far, but it's a cartoon and most cartoons don’t have laugh tracks in them.
2. Catchy theme song.
3. The art style can also be nice to look at. Plus, at least the animators tried their best to make the character designs look faithful, to the original series. Even if Henry's hair from season 2 is a part of his design, even if this show premiered during season 4.
4. Drake and Josh as their cartoon counterparts made a cameo appearance in one episode.
5. It had one episode where Charlotte has humming the iCarly theme song, while she was using the bathroom.
6. Luckily, the series isn't official to Henry Danger. So, everything that happened in the show, didn't actually happen in the original's universe.
7. Despite the obnoxious voice acting, there are some, that are actually good, such as Dee Bradley Baker, Candi Milo, and Grey DeLisle-Griffin.

Reception

The Adventures of Kid Danger was met with overwhelmingly negative reviews from critics, audiences, and fans of Henry Danger alike. The show currently holds a 2.5 rating on IMDb, and is considered to be one of the worst Nickelodeon animated shows, ever made. It's currently the only Nicktoon, not counting, "Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon"", to be, "so bad, it’s horrible", by TV Tropes, which has very high standards at to what qualifies as truly horrible.

The show strangely received positive reception on Google, as it holds a 85%, which translates to a 4.25/5, though it's worth noting that several shows with similar reception have gotten these kinds of ratings on Google; Legends of Chamberlain Heights, Hoops, and Paradise PD are notable examples.

Trivia

• Nickelodeon made the show, because the actors from Henry Danger were gradually aging.
• This is the first, and only Dan Schneider show, to be animated.

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