Blog:Dippy Dudley

Dippy Dudley is a Canadian-American animated Comedy gross-out superhero television series created by Mack Schripple (who was previously one of the character designers and a technical director for another G3 series  Out Of The Curve (1998-2001) for the Nicktoons Network. The series premiered on YTV and Nickelodeon on February 8, 2009 and ended on August 2, 2016.

Summary
A fart obsessed boy wants to become the most popular kid in school. But when danger strikes right in to the town of Flemingville, it's up to him who can save the day.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) The biggest problem with the series is how stupidly obsessed it is with gross-out humor. In fact, almost every episode has at least one gross-out scene, making it similar to other terrible gross-out shows like Fleabag Monkeyface. But what makes it worse is that they use gross-out so much that it no longer becomes gross, and it's just annoying more than anything.
 * 2) *What's worse that it's also very mean-spirited as Rex McJuggernauts get a huge amount of torture leaving Dudley scot free from his gross actions.
 * 3) A bunch of frustrating and unlikable characters.
 * 4) *Dudley himself is an annoying, uncaring, backstabbing, selfish, moronic brat who will do anything to get what he wants, like abandoning his classmates (and even his neighbor Rex) on a desert island, sending the town citizens into space and trapping his best friend in a closet. He's also really gross, so, in all, he's basically a mix of Norman Price from Fireman Sam from Season 6 onwards, Peter Griffin, and mh:loathsomecharacters:Fanboy and Chum Chum. He also gets away from his actions leaving Rex getting beaten up, insulted like dirt, and getting grounded for the things he did not do, making Dudley a karma houdini. He also acts more of a villain than a hero in most of the episodes where he causes a lot of destruction in the town of Flemingville, and it doesn't help that his voice is extremely grating, much like Season 6-onwards Norman, It didn't help that Dudley was voiced by Tom Kenny, who is well known for voicing SpongeBob and other iconic cartoon characters.
 * 5) *Annabelle Dudley’s sister is just a huge Butt-Monkey and a punching bag who the world often beats down on. While this was always a problem, it has increased since season 3. Worst of all, Annabelle going through unnecessary torment is always used for the sake of laughs, and it feels like the writers just wanted to express all their unjustified hatred towards him, But Just Like Petey, Rex, And Emily, she wasn’t like the other characters.
 * 6) *Petey, while you can sympathize with him for how badly his friend treats him, is still a one-dimensional gross boy.
 * 7) *Mr. Dippy is a generic bumbiling dad who acts like a literal manchild who rarely acts his age and causes destruction everywhere he goes.
 * 8) *Mrs. Dippy is barely shown, but she’s become even more childish and immature, she often seeks enjoyment in humiliating and tormenting his own family and others with a gleeful smile. In one episode, she can't even tell his own son apart from a pathetically obvious robotic facsimile of him created by dash grab. She also tortures her husband by kicking him out of the house just for eating her burrito., and when her husband cheered for her, she put him into a toy truck and turned it on full speed, causing it to launch him into a wall, and also threw bricks at him thinking he was cheating on her, she also proven to be a horrible mother by acting like she has control over her family's life, is a massive hypocrite who calls her family  out on things she's guilty of and is very loud and obnoxious. You'd think that the show wants you to “like” her, but her "antics" are meant to be viewed as funny and charming, but they are anything but that, She's even a bigger Karma Houdini than Dudley.
 * 9) *Kyley P. is a typical "cool kid" stereotype.
 * 10) *Emily (while likable and relatable) wasn't a good love interest for Dudley, She can also be considered a Butt-Monkey, who is a character that gets abused throughout the entire show for no explained reason.
 * 11) * Rex McJuggernauts, Dudley's neighbor (while likable and relatable) is often treated as a punching bag by Dudley and the other characters in nearly every episode and it feels like the writers just wanted to express all their unjustified hatred towards him. He's also somewhat similar to Coop Burtonburger from Kid vs Kat, Squidward Tentacles from SpongeBob Season 6 and 7, Kyle Bloodworth-Thomason from Fanboy and Chum Chum and Todd from Wayside.
 * 12) *Dash Grab is a generic, stereotypical rich jerk villain who's a huge ripoff of Gideon Gleeful from Gravity Falls and Eugene/Bling Bling Boy from Johnny Test.
 * 13) The title of the series doesn't make sense at all. Seeing as Dudley's last name is Dippy, the series should be named Dudley Dippy, not Dippy Dudley.
 * 14) Dudley's songs are awful like "I'm a Farting Boy" and "The Scream Song".
 * 15) *The theme song is terrible, with lots of really annoying, disgusting and hilariously awful lyrics.
 * 16) Mediocre Flash animation that looks choppy, stilted, ugly and inconsistent.
 * 17) *Dudley and Kyley's character designs are terrible, who look like a giant thumb, and a stick-figure.
 * 18) *Even though the animation has gotten better since Season 4, with smoother movements and more consistent models, it still doesn't look appealing.
 * 19) The voice acting (while good) can be pretty irritating and obnoxious (especially when the characters yell at the top of their lines), particularly with Tom Kenny as the titular character, especially when he screams.
 * 20) Since Season 2, the series has tried to start being "hip" and "relevant" to kids, such as using words and phrases like "lit", "dank", "and I oop", "sksksksk", "boomer", "dope" and more.
 * 21) Laughable and cringeworthy names for the characters like McJuggernauts and Stoopedd.
 * 22) A truckload of horrible, gross and cruel episodes that's filled to the brim with Rex and Petey torture and that also focuses on cruel, mean-spirited and gross themes such as:
 * 23) *Fart Out of Town (a poor way to begin the series)
 * 24) * “Fartcast News”
 * 25) * “Barfiaster” (also infamous)
 * 26) *Petey's Party
 * 27) *Dudley Comes to Visit
 * 28) *A Bad Day For Rex
 * 29) *Silent Butt Deadly
 * 30) * “Emily Mine” (which started Emily’s Career On the show on a sour note)
 * 31) *Belch Jar
 * 32) *Kyley P. In Da House
 * 33) *Baby Boo-Boo
 * 34) *Barfer Bother
 * 35) *Gross Games
 * 36) *A Swell Smell (a horrible way to end Season 1)
 * 37) * “Guano In 60 Seconds” (Which Started Season 2 on a sour note)
 * 38) *Duhhhdley
 * 39) *Burrit-Oh No!
 * 40) * “Kyler’s Keliah”
 * 41) *Dippy Island
 * 42) *The Boomer That Went Boom
 * 43) *Trapped! (often regarded as the worst episode)
 * 44) * “UnBARFalevable” (A Dudley torture episode)
 * 45) * “Average Joke” (which proves that the creators see criticism as a bad thing)
 * 46) *SCREEEEEEAAAAAAAM!!!
 * 47) *Rex's Date
 * 48) * “Farts And Flowers”
 * 49) * “Mold Farts”
 * 50) * “It’s Snot Funny”
 * 51) * “Nocked Out” (also regarded as the worst episode and also having a 1.4/10 Rating on IMDB)
 * 52) * “Laff Quake”
 * 53) * “The Butt Of The Dud” (Which started season 4 on a sour note)
 * 54) * “Barf Lemonade” (also know to be the worst episode)
 * 55) * “Dip On The Barby”
 * 56) * “Stupider Sized Me”
 * 57) * “Breath Of Fresh Rex” (also regarded as the worst episode)
 * 58) * “Fart Time Job”
 * 59) * “Wrong Side Of The Plague”
 * 60) *Bye Bye Booty
 * 61) *'The "A" Word' (Also Counts as the worst)
 * 62) *Tooterella (a poor way to end season 4)
 * 63) * “The Night Before Fartmas'' (which started season 5 on a sour note)
 * 64) * “Hot Fartage”
 * 65) *Eebowed
 * 66) *At Last, A Lesson (Also Counts as the worst)
 * 67) * “Cutting The Cheese” (a torture episode for Annabelle)
 * 68) * “Side Snotty Stooges” (which Ended Season 5 on a sour note)

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Most of the voice acting is at least decent, with the exception of Dudley.
 * 2) As stated before, the animation did improve since Season 4 (although not much).
 * 3) Petey (despite his gross actions), Rex, Lester, Duffin The Dog, Emily, Lucy, and Officer Melody, Annabelle are likable characters.
 * 4) The show does have a fair share of good episodes such as:
 * 5) *“And They Were Five"
 * 6) *"The Coast is Neer"
 * 7) *“Pain Freeze”
 * 8) *"Chili Kon Karma"
 * 9) *"Fairweather Dudley"
 * 10) *'Non-Cannon'' (also considered to be the best episodes of the series and having a 8.2/10 on IMDB)
 * 11) *Wood Chase!
 * 12) *“Plague Time Jag”
 * 13) *“From Here To Dudmanity”
 * 14) *“200,000,000,000,000,000 Seconds To Meltdown”
 * 15) *“Scarf It Up” (which started Season 3 on a high note)
 * 16) *“The Gorgan"
 * 17) *"It’s Lean, It’s Mean, It’s The Dudlernator Machine!"
 * 18) *"RoseDud"
 * 19) *"Buck Up, Pup" (which ended Season 3 on a high note)
 * 20) *"A Man Named Dudley"
 * 21) * “Ice Cream Headache" (depending on your view)
 * 22) * “Poker Hoax”
 * 23) * “No Old Community Club For Young Men”
 * 24) * “Spaffy Taffed”
 * 25) * LoveBugs
 * 26) * Chicxy Poxed
 * 27) * Dud Nugget
 * 28) * Great White Snot
 * 29) * Sir-Dud-A-Lot
 * 30) *“Dog Goner”
 * 31) *“Glittering Is No Gold”
 * 32) *"Disaster Saucer, Dudley’s Toast" (a good way to end the show, despite ending on a cliffhanger)


 * 1) Season 5 is a slight improvement over the first four seasons  since the characters are somewhat more likable, the animation has an improvement, and has a few better episodes. However, these aren't saying a lot, as many of the few flaws remain from Season 1-4.

Reception
Dippy Dudley was critically panned by the majority of critics and audiences alike. It was criticized for its unfunny humor, gross out violence, annoying characters, Weak Flash animation, and bad morals. . It is considered to be one of the worst cartoons ever made. It sits at a 3.5/10 on IMDb and a 4.1/10 on Rating Graph. However, it seemed to have gained a cult following as of now due to its little obscurirty.

Emily Ashby of Common Sense Media assessed its reliance on toilet humor as questionable while giving credit to the strength of the protagonist. She enjoyed the gross-related puns sometimes uttered by the main character but acknowledged that "they're not likely to strike the same chord of hilarity with your kids." New York Daily News writer David Hinckley linked its style of humor as enticing to its target demographic. He ultimately stated that it "sprinkles in a few grownup jokes, particularly snot-related puns, but it aims mostly at the younger set."

Writing for the Los Angeles Times, Robert Lloyd found its visual style oddly pleasant and identified a slew of potential influences and references. While he saw the humor as "loud and often gross," the result was "basically genial." Tori Michel of About.com dubbed its use of mixed media interesting, yet headache-inducing for parents. While she called the concept and the characters "definitely original," she stressed that its crude humor may call for avoiding it altogether for some parents. Tom Conroy of Media Life Magazine wrote poorly of the show, finding it unfunny throughout. He specified its "noisy and violent" content as too much for little kids as well as being "too stupid for big kids."

Tom Kenny, who voiced the main character, stated that he does not like to remember voicing the character and that it was nothing more than a “Disgusting Fever Dream”.

Trivia

 * Gordon Stern, who voiced Lester McKinney, also voiced Jake Coopey-Anderson from Brandon Bott Gets Grounded (and its spinoffs Alec Behan Gets Grounded, Kelsey Rachelle Hewitt Gets Grounded and Roszina Head Gets Grounded) and the protagonist of Out Of The Curve Ollie McFarland.
 * Most of the recording is done in Toronto, Ontario, though they may have American voice actors like Gordon Stern.
 * the originally 20-episode fourth season was cut short to ten episodes, and the show went on a 6-month hiatus. The final ten episodes were branded as Season Five, and the short-lived fifth season aired throughout December 2012 to February 2013, after which the series was canceled for good.
 * This would later launch the voice acting career for KËNN, who would later play Zach from the Nickelodeon sitcom, Blockbusted!.