Blog:Lizardz (Fake TV Show (DJ2006))

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Lizardz was a British-American-Canadian adult animated sitcom created by Joel Issacs. It aired for two seasons from November 7, 2006 to December 12, 2007 for 18 episodes. It aired on ITV in the United Kingdom and on Adult Swim in the United States and Canada.

Plot
The show focuses on three teenage lizard triplets, Derek, Erica and Ricky, as they have adventures in the city of Fartonmyface.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) The show has some incredibly disgusting, horrifying, unpleasant, repulsive and disturbing  imagery. To list some examples, here we go. Warningː Read at your own riskː
 * 2) * Derek peeling Ricky's skin off with his teeth.
 * 3) * A long scene of Mayor Poop actually eating the slimy poop out of Farmer Grass' butt.
 * 4) * Another long scene of Mr. Smartypants peeing his pants for absolutely no reason whilst Principal Percy talks to him.
 * 5) * Derek crushing Ricky's skull by sitting down on it aggressively to the point where you can see a bone sticking out of his skin.
 * 6) * Mangled corpses drawn in an overly-detailed fashion.
 * 7) * Farmer Grass constantly feeding one of his pigs gammon, which is CANNIBALLISMǃǃǃ He even does it with his own mouthǃ
 * 8) * Actual (uncensored on the DVD version) footage of a naked woman drinking from a toilet and fishing out and squeezing poop between her breasts whilst she has a Spider-Man plush shoved up her butt with poop coming outǃǃǃ
 * 9) * Derek twisting, breaking and tearing Steve's hand off, all because he picked his nose and was about to put his finger in his mouth.
 * 10) * Erica slowly skinning Mayor Poop's head on-screen and wearing it.
 * 11) * Ricky getting slowly torn to pieces by a bear, with blood, guts other body parts being shown. Derek and Erica actually celebrate their own brother's death by the way.
 * 12) * Farmer Grass licking his sweaty armpits after getting his tongue replaced with Ricky's.
 * 13) * Erica pressuring Mayor Poop into doing "certain activities" with her, then knocking him out and undressing him.
 * 14) * Derek vomiting into Ricky's girlfriend's mouth.
 * 15) * Ricky getting his head torn off after Derek forcefully shuts the door as he's about to enter.
 * 16) Juvenile humour outside of the horrific imagery, including a bunch of pee, poop, flatulence or sex jokes.
 * 17) Awful, choppy flash animation with stiff movements, washed-out colours, badly-drawn backgrounds and a lot of gross, disturbing imagery.
 * 18) The character designs are weird. The three main characters look more like bootleg Yoshis than lizards and barely look different from each other (Erica looks identical to Ricky ignoring the fact that she has eyebrows and wears a bow on her head and Derek just has longer spikes and a chipped tooth), Mr Smartypants' head looks like a bottle, and Farmer Grass arms are bigger than his legs to the point where he could pretty much walk on all fours without issue.
 * 19) Poor voice acting, with almost everyone phoning their performances in.
 * 20) Absolutely no character (except for Ricky) is even slightly redeemable. Derek is a sociopath who abuses his siblings and others in incredibly horrific ways for no reason, and what's even worse is that the show tries to make him sympathetic, Erica is extremely disturbing with her crush on Mayor Poop to the point where one episode has her almost marry him, Mr. Smartypants is a stereotypical nerd who expects all of his students to be as smart as him and even goes as far as to torture them with his devices, Mayor Poop is a generic incompetent mayor who's so stupid that he makes Patrick Star look like Albert Einstein, and Farmer Grass constantly abuses his animals in realistic ways. What makes this worse is that nobody receives comeuppance for their actions, despite doing some downright illegal things.
 * 21) Ricky is a HUGE punching bag that gets abused in the most horrifying, nasty, cruel and uncomfortable ways. In fact, most of pointer #1 happens at the expense of him.
 * 22) Rancid morals, even for an adult cartoon. For example, the episode Christmas in Fartonmyface tries to make Ricky look selfish for trying to help a sick orphan live a happy life instead of helping his brother get cookies. This may have been ironic, but it doesn't work because there's no hint of self-awareness at all. The show may also encourage the followingː
 * 23) * Bullying
 * 24) * Lying
 * 25) * Potentially getting others in danger
 * 26) * Making fun of people that are different
 * 27) * Selfishness
 * 28) * Verbal abuse
 * 29) * Animal cruelty
 * 30) * Taking advantage of others
 * 31) * Kidnapping
 * 32) * Not learning from your mistakes
 * 33) * Lacking empathy and common sense
 * 34) The show tries WAY too hard to be edgy, but completely fails.
 * 35) There are some very one-dimensional stereotypes with only one or two traits. For example, the character Steve can be incredibly offensive to autistic people. There's also Chinkie Chankie, Greasy Meatball, Nathan the Great and Grandma Grace, who are stereotypes of Asians, Italians, black people and the elderly respectively.
 * 36) * The episode Welcome to Italy is basically comprised of Italian stereotypes, Rizardz basically has one joke about the main three characters becoming Asian and Wrinkly Raisin mocks the elderly.
 * 37) The theme song, although not bad in terms of beat, repeats the show's name over and over again and has random sound effects.
 * 38) Many, many bad episodes, such asː
 * 39) * The First Episode
 * 40) * Farmerz
 * 41) * Christmas in Fartonmyface (often considered the absolute worst episode in the show)
 * 42) * Happy Birthday Rickyǃ
 * 43) * My Poopy Valentine
 * 44) * Campin'
 * 45) * Into the Real World (another contender for the worst)
 * 46) * Derek Brings a Dinosaur Back to Life
 * 47) * Gammon
 * 48) * Welcome to Italy
 * 49) * Mayor Erica
 * 50) * Tongue Transplant
 * 51) * Derek in Love
 * 52) * Rizardz
 * 53) * Poopy Poop
 * 54) * Wrinkly Raisin
 * 55) * The Last Episode (Which feels more like a random episode rather than an actual finale)

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Somewhat nice background music.
 * 2) Ricky is the only character that's okay. While he doesn't do much outside of getting abused, it's hard not to feel bad for him as he does nothing wrong in the first place and is the only character with a moral conscience.
 * 3) Although still terrible, season 2 is marginally better than season 1, having slightly better pacing with filler being less common, not quite as much vile imagery, and even the animation becoming a tiny bit smoother from time to time.
 * 4) Derek vs. Smartypants is the one episode that's actually okay.

Reception
Lizardz was panned by critics and audiences alike and is considered one of the worst adult cartoons of all time, if not cartoons in general. The show currently has a 2.2/10 on IMDb and a 1.8/10 on TV.com.

Triviɑ

 * Season 2 was supposed to have eleven episodes just like the first season, but due to the negative reception, the show got cancelled and the season was cut down to seven episodes, with the eighth becoming lost and the remaining three being completely scrapped.
 * Even series creator Joel Isaacs hates this show and has gone on record saying that he wishes he never made it in the first place.