Blog:Henry’s Wonderful Life (seasons 5-7) (FAKE CARTOON)

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Henry's Wonderful Life is an American animated sitcom created by David & Melissa Spencer. During the first four seasons, the show was considered one of the greatest TV shows of all time. While Seasons 1-4 and 8-10 (1992-1996; 2002-2008) were well received, Seasons 5-7 (1996-2000) received negative reception by fans and critics.

Why These Seasons Suck

 * 1) The main problem with these seasons is that it doesn’t stay true to its original routes and it lack the charm and cleverness of the first four seasons. This is due to the fact that both David, Melissa, and the original writers all left the series to work on the second movie.
 * 2) Most of the main characters are now flanderized to the point of now becoming intolerable and lacking any of the charm they had back in the first four seasons:
 * 3) * Henry himself went from a energetic and somewhat mischievous, yet kind and optimistic protagonist who always tries to find the bright side of things and help his friends when needed to a outright obnoxious, selfish, and careless idiot who continuously mess up everything without any remorse for his actions. He is also extremely cruel to Harold for little to no reason whatsoever.
 * 4) ** What makes his flanderization even sadder is that he was actually starting to improve as a character and become much more helpful in Seasons 2-4 and the first movie.
 * 5) * Blattinly went from a simple-minded, but yet hilarious and charming best friend for Henry with a few moments of maturity to an unfunny and malicious idiot who became a huge jerk to everyone.
 * 6) * Harold in Seasons 6 & 7 went from a reluctant yet reasonable brother-like character for Henry and Blattinly to a completely sensitive wimp who constantly worries too much about every little thing. He would also become a butt-monkey mainly when he's around Henry and Blattinly.
 * 7) ** Also, similar to Henry, this would ruined his character development that was happening in the first movie and Season 5.
 * 8) * C.W. went from a snarky and grumpy yet relatable straight-man character to a massive punching bag who the world often beats down on. He also became much more grumpier, crankier, selfish, and heartless than he was in the previous seasons. However, his likability still lives inside him.
 * 9) * Sue went from a somewhat dimwitted yet good-hearted and funny father of Henry who tells interesting and entertaining stories to a moronic comic relief who only shows up to make terrible humor and bland stories.
 * 10) * Mary went from a strict and short-tempered yet likable and caring mother of Henry to an overly-strict parent who always gives Henry and Sue zero time to breathe.
 * 11) * Ben went from somewhat greedy yet rather good-hearted cool kid that cares about the people around him to a more greedy and generic character with little to no personality.
 * 12) * While she was never likable before these seasons. Tararina has been worsened in these seasons as she went from a just a typical tomboyish mean girl to an intolerable bully.
 * 13) * In general, the characters have had their personalities dumbed down, going from having multiple traits to just one.
 * 14) The writing and humor downgraded from being clever and unique to being very immature, unoriginal, stale, repetitive, and mean-spirited which is a real shame because it's what the other seasons are beloved and well-known for.
 * 15) These seasons are filled to the brim with bad episodes, such as:
 * 16) * High Mistakes, High Rewards (the worst episode of the series)
 * 17) * Henry's Silly Costume (also counts as the worst (which started the downfall of the series)
 * 18) * Candy Handy (also counts as the worst)
 * 19) * Blattinly's Broken Arm
 * 20) * A Boy Who Cried Monster
 * 21) * Henry's Big Party (which started Season 6 on a sour note)
 * 22) * Harold's "Birthday" Surprise
 * 23) * Liva's Experiment
 * 24) * Harold's Moving Out
 * 25) * The Greeny Pinch
 * 26) * Henry Down Under (depending on your view)
 * 27) * Henry's Girlfriend
 * 28) * Splinted Visions (also counts as the worst)
 * 29) * Blind Eyes
 * 30) * Henry and the Adopted Kid
 * 31) * The Greatest Burger That Ever Lived
 * 32) * Get Pranked!
 * 33) * Restraining Henry
 * 34) * A Slave for a Day
 * 35) * Christmas Disaster
 * 36) * Pain in My Voice
 * 37) ** Some of the episodes contains some unnecessary disturbing, disgusting, and/or violent scenes that was rarely present in the previous seasons, with "High Steaks, High Rewards", "Blind Eyes", "Henry’s Girlfriend", "The Boy Who Cried Monster", and "Splinted Visions" as the worst offenders.
 * 38) ** Most episodes are lazily written and feels like the writers didn’t bother trying to write the episode with "Henry’s Big Party" being the worst offender as it suffers from unnecessary filler, Henry acting very out of character, a generic story, and false advertising.
 * 39) ** Almost all of the episodes that center around characters like C.W. and Harold are just simply them getting tortured for little-to-no reasons.
 * 40) ** Some episodes in these seasons, almost all characters aside from just Henry or Blattinly are often depicted as acting like idiots than they were in the first fourteen seasons.
 * 41) While the soundtrack is mostly decent, it can get rather bland and annoying as it is mostly repeated.
 * 42) The animation in Seasons 6 & 7, while not terrible, is rather mediocre compared to the previous seasons. This was due to the fact that DS Animation would leave the studio after Season 5 and would be replaced with Dendersen Studios.
 * 43) * The color palette looks very dull, washed-out and uninteresting.
 * 44) * The animation is very restricted and lacks the energetic style of the other seasons.
 * 45) * The facial expressions can look very scary and off-putting in some areas.
 * 46) * The characters movements can look very jerky and shoddy in some aspects.
 * 47) Some of the episodes have a confusing or rushed ending like the ending to "Henry Down Under".
 * 48) One of the main criticisms of these seasons is that pretty much everyone tends to bully and torture C.W. for petty and unfair reasons to the point were it's completely understandable why C.W is usually selfish and short tempered: his "friends" are always being mean to him first.
 * 49) The voice acting, while just as great as in the previous seasons, can get obnoxious in these seasons due to some of the voice actors often screaming the majority of their lines.
 * 50) These seasons have little to no good character development, as a character usually learn their lesson in the end and apologize, only too revert to their old ways in the next episode. In the other seasons, whenever a character get character development, it always carries on by the next episode and the character never makes that mistake again. But here (with the exception of Harold in Season 5), they always forget that they even had character development at all.
 * 51) These seasons inadvertently encourage bad things, such as:
 * 52) * Bullying
 * 53) * Lying
 * 54) * Stealing
 * 55) * Framing people
 * 56) * Victimizing yourself
 * 57) * Being irresponsible
 * 58) * Being immature
 * 59) * Being a jerk
 * 60) * Being an idiot
 * 61) * Being ignorant and oblivious to others
 * 62) * Taking advantage of others
 * 63) * Breaking rules
 * 64) * Kidnapping
 * 65) * Not learning from your mistakes
 * 66) * Not using common sense
 * 67) Out of these three seasons, Season 6 is considered the worst out of the three as it contains most of the series worst animation, more notable flanderizations, and more infamous episodes.
 * 68) * Even Season 5 can just as bad if not worse than Season 6 in some aspects.
 * 69) These seasons did not even have any impact on the Henry’s Wonderful Life franchise as a whole as most of the events are ignored in later seasons.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) There are still some good episodes like
 * 2) * The Living Dummy (which ended these seasons on a high note)
 * 3) * The Falling Doofus
 * 4) * Henry’s Fair Scare
 * 5) * Pop Goes The Bottle
 * 6) * The Magical Pencil
 * 7) * I Love Harry
 * 8) * On A Blattinly Scale
 * 9) * C.W.’s TV Show (depending on your view)
 * 10) * Sand Wars in Wars
 * 11) * Harold’s 11th Birthday (which started these seasons on a high note)
 * 12) * Wrestling Henry
 * 13) * Field Trip
 * 14) * Swing You Ben (depending your view)
 * 15) * A Pie to Far
 * 16) * Back in Black and White
 * 17) Like in previous seasons, there are still some hilarious moments, that are worth a chuckle.
 * 18) Due to still being animated by DS Creative, the animation in Season 5 is just as good as the previous seasons.
 * 19) * Likewise, despite the downgrade in the animation in Seasons 6 & 7, it has some minor improvements such as slightly better background designs and improved lighting. The most notable examples of these changes are in episodes such as, "Henry Down Under", "Sand Wars in Wars", "Back in Black and White", and "The Living Dummy”.
 * 20) The voice acting is still great when there is no yelling or screaming.
 * 21) The soundtrack for and musical numbers, while repetitive, are still fun to enjoy just like the previous seasons.
 * 22) Some of the characters are still likable:
 * 23) * Liva and Barry are the only characters that weren’t flanderized and still kept their original personalities.
 * 24) ** Harold also had his original personality in Season 5 and would even get some character development. Sadly, he was flanderized in Seasons 6 & 7,
 * 25) * C.W. is also still tolerable in these seasons despite his aforementioned flanderization.
 * 26) Season 7 is the least bad out of the three seasons and is a slight improvement over Seasons 5 & 6 as it has better animation than Season 6, slightly better character chemistry, and less amount of bad episodes. Though, that still not saying much.
 * 27) * Likewise, Season 5 was actually decent in its first 7 episodes. It wasn’t until “Henry’s Silly Costume” that the season rot officially began.
 * 28) Thankfully, after the 2nd movie, the show would massively redeemed in its last three seasons.