The Shapies

The Shapies is an Australian children's computer animated musical television series that aired for two seasons spanning 27 episodes in 2002.

Plot
The Shapies are a band comprising of anthropomorphic geometric shapes that reside in a toy box in the bedroom of a boy named Zack. They become sentient by the Mirror Man whenever no humans are present. When brought to life from the toy box, they go on many adventures throughout Zack's bedroom among other places.

Why It's Misshapen

 * 1) This series has horrible and creepy CGI animation (even for 2002) where it looks unfinished with the movements being stiff and many of the characters looking like they came from the Uncanny Valley (especially Paul the Ball). Keep in mind this came out the same year as mh:besttvshows:The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius which looked way better than this.
 * 2) The series is a rip-off of the Toy Story series with the core concept of toys coming to life when humans aren't present as well as their owner Zack being a rip-off of Andy Davis in appearance and personality.
 * 3) The title characters are all stereotypical and flat:
 * 4) *Bob Oblong ( grey ) is a typical self-proclaimed leader who possesses an "I'm not scared" attitude.
 * 5) *Paul the Ball ( orange ) is a standard comic relief who is really unfunny and has a very grating voice as well as a tendency to hyperventilate.
 * 6) *Tammy Triangle ( green ) is pretty much a tomboy with a “take no prisoner” demeanor who often acts selfish.
 * 7) *Sammy Square ( blue ) is the smart guy and idea person who doesn't do much other than to muster up strategies.
 * 8) *Sarah Circle ( purple ) is just a female version of Sammy only dealing with friction with the other characters and speaks in technobabble at times
 * 9) *Starry Star ( yellow ) is irritatingly sweet who speaks in an indecipherable accent.
 * 10) *Sally Cylinder ( red ) is the vain fame obsessed type who is very prissy in a manner similar to mh:loathsomecharacters:Willie Scott and mostly just argues with Tammy.
 * 11) *Rex the Rectangle ( brown ) is a dog who is useless other than being the drummer of The Shapies.
 * 12) *Connie Cone, ( pink ) who despite being generally quiet, is sickingly cute especially during the times when she does speak.
 * 13) *Perry Pyramid ( white ) is the laid-back one who does not do much since he is the last Shapie to be found.
 * 14) Mr. Boo is a generic villain who's motivation is to overthrow The Shapies just so he can have Zack's bedroom all to himself. He also stangely resembles the title characters from Butt-Ugly Martians, another bad series.
 * 15) Mirror Man is a clichéd mentor for The Shapies.
 * 16) The plots are really unimaginative.
 * 17) The voice acting is pretty atrocious ranging from hammy (such as Bob Oblong and Mr. Boo) to downright annoying (such as Paul the Ball and Sally Cylinder).
 * 18) There are forgettable and pointless songs within the series. The Eggs (a show from the same network) had good and unforgettable songs than the ones from this show.
 * 19) *The theme songs for each member of The Shapies in particular are just there to pad out the runtime where three of them are played in each episode which interrupts the story in the process and having to hear the same songs as the series goes on can be tiresome really fast. The videos themselves constantly repeat footage and many of the song's performers don't sound like the characters such as Bob's song.
 * 20) The lost U.S. dub made in July 2004 aired on PBS Kids/Animania HD and was distributed by PorchLight Home Entertainment was quite pointless, that’s all. The dub ended in December 2004.
 * 21) *In Canada, the U.S. dub was replaced with the original Australian version on Treehouse TV.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) The idea of a band consisting of toy anthropomorphic shapes is interesting and had potential, but executed poorly.
 * 2) The Shapies have decent character designs.
 * 3) It has a creative way of toys coming to life where Mirror Man blows Zack's treasure chest toy box before it sinks into the ocean rug leaving the toys alone.
 * 4) The theme song is admittedly catchy, especially the instrumental version.
 * 5) The human characters' faces are not shown, especially given that the series is low-budget and that they could come across as more jarring than the toys themselves.