Animated Atrocities: Balemtime's Day

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Show: Mega Babies
Episode: S3 E9
Year: 2000?

Writer(s): Kate Donahue, Scott Kreamer
Director(s): Kevin Patrick Currie


"I think we woked up on da uddur side!"

I've got to be dead and in hell: is there any OTHER explanation for how a show like this or The Nut Shack could come into existence!? This was created by the same brothers who make SWAT KATS for fuck sake! Personally, I don't think those two even DESERVE to have a kickstarter reboot of such an amazing cartoon after creating this abomination. This show is basically Madballs: Gross Jokes times a million! The designs of this show look stolen from Cow and Chicken, a much better copy of Ren & Stimpy! For most every single character, drool flies out of their crooked toothed mouths perpetually! I can barely understand what any character is saying at any given time, the voice acting and audio is just that terrible; it might as well be in baby gibberish! They can't go a minute without some form of gross-out, mountains of shit or puke everywhere! Not to mention a lot of the plots are bizarre or abhorrent like this one.


Basically, Meg, the pink abomination, is upset that she didn't get any Valentines; none of those freaks deserve accolades of any sort because of the damage and nightmares they cause! This hideous nerd, who is definitely not a baby, falls in love with that pink INFANT mutant! And this dumbass can't take a hint that she hates his guts. This infantophile, I guess, even starts stalking her in broad daylight! Ugly gross faces, EVERYWHERE! By the by, Nurse Lazlo is a HORRIBLE guardian letting the other babies, Derrick and Buck, go door to door to give out "Balemtimes". I'd say they could get molested, but let's be honest here: nobody would want to get near those freaks. If those freaks kissed me, I would burn my face off with acid and fire!


Apparently, this bile was creative enough to get continuity because one of the recurring villains, a hideous mutant male cow thingy alien, breaks into their "lair" to give Meg a valentine. What the fuck? Then this giant fucking tick shows up, and the two mutant freaks fight over an infant. I feel so sick right now I can barely keep down breakfast. Yep, Nurse Lazlo is a fucking horrible guardian. By the way, I'm pretty sure you shouldn't use Bok Choy in chocolates. Yep, every villain in the fucking city wants to basically make love to a baby! Even Meg’s own brothers Derrick and Buck! I should also point out the fight scenes in this show are animated worse than the Battletoads pilot by miles.


Apparently, from what I can gather, this is all a nightmare because Meg wants Valentines from boys who already have them. Even for a nightmare, there are places you just don't go in shows meant for children. I thought the nightmare in the Tom and Jerry short “Heavenly Puss” was disturbing; no, this is far, far WORSE! And this was broadcast on a show meant for children on FOX KIDS in the afternoon! When I was a kid, my aunt babysat me, and on rare occasions, I caught this show on TV with a bunch of other kids my age and OTHER BABIES AND TODDLERS SHE WAS WATCHING! If I could go back in time, I would actively keep my younger self from watching this dreck! Fortunately, this isn't one of the episodes I remember watching as a child. And considering this was all a nightmare, nothing of substance actually happened for most of this 11-minute cartoon! They just shoved a bunch of full-grown adult villains fighting over an infant for no good reason! They also have the testicular fortitude to reference The Wizard of Oz afterwards!


No, the people who made this legitimately don't deserve to reboot the one show that got them on top of the world! This cartoon went on for 4 13-episode seasons! EVEN LONGER THAN SWAT KATS! That's 4 too many! As much as I'd love to see a reboot of SWAT KATS, knowing what these guys made after Ted Turner pulled its plug, I think they fell into some sort of depression afterwards, and it's taken them almost 20 years to try and recover from it. That's the only other theory I can come up with personally. But considering they also created Loonatics Unleashed not long after this was canceled, I'm not entirely sure of what to think really.


Cringe-Inducing Audio: 7
Cringe-Inducing Visuals: 9
Lackluster Writing: 10
Annoyance: 6
Disturbing Content: 8
Unnecessary Cruelty: 9
Rancid Morality: 3
Low Production Values: 6
Unfortunate Implications: 7
Character Derailmet: 0

Final Score: 65/100

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