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Animated Atrocities: The Potty's Over

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Show: Mega Babies
Episode: 30
Year: 2000

Writer(s): Susie Geiser, Todd Rohrbacher
Director(s): Jeff Barker


You're probably wondering why I've decided to revisit Mega Babies, undoubtedly the worst cartoon of the 1990s and among the top 5 worst of the 2000s, I wanted to give this show the benefit of the doubt and see if the show itself actually had any potential whatsoever behind just being nasty as all fuck. I saw this thing when I was a CHILD and was bewildered by it. Admittingly the show does actually have a ton of potential, that it fails to use properly. The idea of kids with superpowers has unlimited potential, just look at the Powerpuff Girls as the best example of this idea used proper; heck having babies with superpowers could be cool when done well, Rugrats proved it with that Mega Diaper Babies episode. Actually, the children's book series Captain Underpants had a spin-off called Super Diaper Baby that used this concept really well.


This episode in particular feels like something I'd see in the Captain Underpants series; I believe they actually did a story about evil toilets rampaging through the city (I've never actually read the books but I know of them). I will say however that even before the villain takes control of all the Peter Potty toilets, Peter himself looks really creepy! Most of the frights in this show tend to come from the massive amounts of grossout or the character models that clearly streak from Cow and Chicken, but there's just something off about the potty himself, it's probably because the mascot is a corporate whore! Seriously he even advertises his own mercy in his potty training video!


And this bring me to the villain himself, Dr. Dupotski of Duposki's Diapers. Because diaper sales are down due to babies getting potty trained younger and younger ages, and that would actually kinda make a good point if it was going with that angle; instead they opt for the evil businessman plotting sabotage and forgoe this message entirely. Trying to say that not everyone can be potty trained at the right age? Why that's just crazy! And the way the Mega Babies themselves go about their training immediately with the potty and not training pants to get them used to it just doesn't sit right with me, it sends weird mixed messages in that area. Just, rip off your diaper and plop your ass on the toilet! I don't actually think this episode was trying to teach anything by it, but those signals are still there, not enough for unfortunate implications though.


The evil toilets honestly have a pretty wicked design, but that brings me to one of the biggest issues with the show; the grossout it provides doesn't mesh well this the shows bright and colorful palette. Whenever one of the babies shoots off snot or shits themselves it always looks the wrong kind of nasty and turns stomachs. In a show like Aaahh!!! Real Monsters! the grossout actually meshed with the shows own design very well, in fact the evil potties look like something straight out of that show! And the weird thing is, despite this episode being about a guy trying to force the world to wear diapers using really ugly demon toilets, is is one of the LEAST gross episodes of the show! Yeah I'm not sickened by this, I'm BORED!


Yeah, Dupotski basically plans to use these potties meant for little kids too scare EVERYONE into buying his diapers no matters their age. And you know what? I can actually see this episode working if it was tweaked better! A guy forcing the world into wearing diapers so he'll be the "diaper king" is a plot that I've surpsingly seen work believe it or not. You ever hear of the Diaperman comics? It's best described as the ultimate fetish comic about a guy with an ABDL theme alongside his sidekick the Sleeper (who also wears diapers) who protect the city from fetish themed villains. You should really check out the creators website here for more info:

twogargs.com


What was I doing? Oh yeah the episode! Like I said the episode does have the potential to work, if the animation and grossout wasn't so terrible. Beyond the Peter Potties looking a bit TOO creepy the animation ain't too good either. I wouldn't say it's the worst animated Canadian cartoon, but it's very stiff outside of the gross moments, which really holds this show back. The there's this comment Nurse Lazlo makes when she puts two and two together on Dupotski's plan:


"This guy is selling diapers to people who shouldn't ought to be wearing them, while potties run roughshank over the city!"


Now you could easily take that line the wrong way as the episodes way of saying anyone who isn't a baby who wears diapers or can't use the bathroom is weird, but I kinda get what she means by that. But Dupotski isn't entirely wrong with his idea either, and being he's the villain that's bad too. I could see Dupotski working as a well-intentioned extremist trying to get back at people for forcing their babies into potty training too young as a weird revenge because it happened to him too soon; in a way have him get the right idea, but go about it the wrong way. Instead they just opt for him wanting to sell diapers to everyone because money! They missed a big opportunity to teach that some people have different needs and everyone has their own way of going about growing up at different paces. I'm fairly certain this episode came out at a time when size 6 diapers were first introduced so the message if done well could've been stronger if they went that route!


As I said before, the animation is also pretty piss-poor, which makes the actual scenes where the Mega Babies fight the evil potties look really choppy. This kinda thing could've looked really awesome, but instead they opt for them getting smashed with very few frames In-between for detail. Instead of blowing up the giant robot potty, they just, flush Dupotski, somehow... You could make that really funny if it was animated better. There a lot of potential for a show like this, but instead of being funny or entertaining it just wanted to be gross and ugly in a style that doesn't let it be either of those things in the best of ways! On a sidenote this episode was one of the first to feature two same-sex parents, it's during the initial potty assault, but given the artstyle it's hard to tell what most of these people are supposed to be! And it's this grossness and wasted potential why it's the worst cartoon of the 90s and one of the worst ever made! Still, this isn't the worst episode of the show, y'know?


Cringe-Inducing Audio: 4
Cringe-Inducing Visuals: 5
Lackluster Writing: 7
Annoyance: 4
Disturbing Content: 5
Unnecessary Cruelty: 0
Rancid Morality: 0
Low Production Values: 6
Unfortunate Implications: 0
Character Derailment: 0

Final Score: 31/100


Mega Babies is owned by Sony Entertainment Pictures.

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Curiosity: This show was developed by the Tremblay Bros., creators of SWAT Kats, but later, after Episode 2, they left this show