Blog:The HiT Show (Fake Show Collab)

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The HIT Show is a British/American/Australian/Canadian crossover cartoon created by Britt Allcroft, Keith Chapman, Rob Lee, Otmar Gutmann, The Wiggles, Phil Vischer, Mike Nawrocki and Sheryl Leach. It is a crossover of many shows created by HiT Entertainment, most notably Thomas & Friends, Bob the Builder, Fireman Sam, mh:besttvshows:Pingu, Barney & Friends, and many others.

Why It Sucks
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 * 1) Whilst the concept of making a crossover show with every HiT Entertainment coming together sounds like a cool idea on paper, in execution, it ends up having a pretty poor execution due to many problems, with the writing being all over the place, ranging from average, to flat out bad, it doesn't really help that the writers had little-to-no involvement with the actual shows that this show is based on, this leads to many character being flanderized and having random personalities that do not stay true to their original source materials:
 * 2) *Thomas the Tank Engine is now a completely grumpy jerk who complains about everything, he even acts rude to others when they are being nice to him.
 * 3) *Barney the Dinosaur is more happy-go-lucky and is nothing more than a giant Gary Stu who never has to suffer through any problem and is always happy and smiling, which can get very annoying quickly.
 * 4) *Bob the Builder became a lazy slob who never likes getting his jobs done, often leaving most of his construction jobs unfinished or even abandoning his machines at the construction place to do it all by themselves without any supervision, surprisingly, he never gets fired for doing this.
 * 5) *Fireman Sam had two flanderizations, his first flanderization in seasons 1-9 made him more overly serious about emergencies, but he was still likable, whilst his second flanderization in seasons 10-16 turned him into an overly serious edgelord who never smiles and or even acts remotely happy, and he always treats his life as if it's depressing, he's like a preschool version of Batman without any of the charm of the said character.
 * 6) *Angelina Ballerina, while likable and more closer to her book counterpart, seems to be more of a wimp than she originally was, often having many anxiety attacks when she is forced to do her ballerina dances live in front an audience, which doesn't make any sense because in the original source material, she never felt scared of performing live.
 * 7) *For some reason, Postman Pat is sometimes thrown into a couple of episodes of this show, despite not being a HiT property. The only reason why he was even thrown in was because HiT had once had a distribution agreement for Postman Pat and also distributed DVDs for the show in Spain.
 * 8) **Speaking of which, his appearances have no impact on any episode he appears in, all he ever does is do nothing but walk in at random moments and says a few one-liners.
 * 9) *The Wiggles were put in some episodes, due to HiT Entertainment distributing The Wiggles in the US, Canada, and the UK.
 * 10) *Some of the VeggieTales cast were thrown in a few episodes, due to HiT Entertainment only distributed a VeggieTales video and Lyrick Studios distributing VeggieTales for mass markets.
 * 11) *Alvin and the Chipmunks were special guests in one episode, due to HiT Entertainment had a distribution agreement for Alvin and the Chipmunks.
 * 12) *The Muppet characters appear as special guests in some episodes due to HiT Entertainment used to be part of the Jim Henson Company and they used to distribute Jim Henson's Animal Jam, Fraggle Rock, and The Muppet Show.
 * 13) Many of the morals that the episodes try to give always seem forced in, with them not being well-delivered or clear enough to the viewer on what it is meant to represent. In fact, some episodes even tell the complete opposite morals that are normally supposed to be taught to children:
 * 14) *A Real Boring Day teaches viewers that it's okay to self-isolate yourself from society.
 * 15) *Thom Thom teaches viewers that it's okay to take advantage of people's disabilities to constantly bully them.
 * 16) The show has had an abundance of bad-to-awful episodes that make the show's reputation even worse than it already had, including:
 * 17) *Thom Thom
 * 18) *Dizzy to the Rescue
 * 19) *Barney & Enemies
 * 20) *A Real Boring Day
 * 21) Many of the seasons got worse as the show progressed, ultimately leading into some jump-the-shark moments for the series:
 * 22) *Season 10 is usually considered to be the season where the show got it's infamousy, mainly because it abandons all of the good things from the first nine seasons and downgrades it to make it even worse than how it originally was. The most notable changes have to be the switch to CGI, which is a massive downgrade to the stop-motion animation and is just as bad as the animation in CGI Fireman Sam, and the removal of several characters from the main cast, most notably Kipper the Dog and the Rubberdubbers, while they do get an occasional appearance in a few episodes, it's very rare when it's the case.
 * 23) *Seasons 15 and 16 are arguably the rest seasons of the entire show, they're infamous for having all of the characters horribly redesigned and for removing even more characters from the main spotlight, to the point where there were only main characters in the show now, that being Thomas the Tank Engine, Bob the Builder and Fireman Sam. Due to the horrible changes, it caused a 17th season to never be greenlit, and the entire series died after the cancellation of the show.
 * 24) Both during its run and after its cancellation, it had three theatrical movies, all terrible:
 * 25) *The first one was The HiT Movie, which received mixed-to-negative reviews from critics and audiences, and suffers from a generic story about how Barney the Dinosaur doesn't feel like he fits in with the rest of the HiT gang.
 * 26) *The second one, being The Live-Action HiT Movie, received even worse reviews from critics and audiences, and was widely criticised for being a rip-off of The Smurfs and Enchanted, albeit using a different concept compared to the generic human character(s) meets new creatures and allows them to stay in their house trope.
 * 27) *The third one, The HiT Legacy, which came out in 2021, half a decade after the show ended, also received negative reviews from critics too, mainly due to it being a rehash of Space Jam: A New Legacy, with it relying way too much on self-promotion for HiT Entertainment and Mattel.

Redeeming Qualities
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 * 1) Pingu and Kipper still remained as likable characters, and are not flanderized at all.
 * 2) *Angelina Ballerina, to some extent, acts a little more likable compared to how she was in the actual TV series, and is more closer to her book counterpart.
 * 3) Not all of the seasons are completely bad, some of them are average or, at the very least, decent:
 * 4) *While not good, seasons 1-4 are not completely awful and have some effort put into it, most notably with the impressive stop-motion animation, some decent story ideas and how most of the characters weren't completely flanderized yet.
 * 5) *Seasons 5-9 are arguably the least bad out of all of the seasons of the show, as they seem to have more good episodes compared to the rest, and the animation also had a massive upgrade here.
 * 6) Decent stop-motion animation and traditional 2D animation in seasons 1-9, which is far better than the CGI animation beginning with season 10.

Reception
The HiT Show received mixed-to-negative reviews from critics and audiences alike. However, seasons 1-9 have gained a cult following in later years. UNDER CONSTRUCTION…