What was the worst Cartoon Network original?

[Eddy]

As we all know, Cartoon Network has had some amazing original programs throughout the years. But as we also all know, not everything original that comes from Cartoon Network is going to be of Ed, Edd n Eddy or The Powerpuff Girls quality. So, looking back on Cartoon Network's past and present, which CN Original do you think is the worst of the worst?

For a refresher, here are some that often seen brought up in a negative light:
My Gym Partner's a Monkey
Squirrel Boy
Camp Lazlo
Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi
Mike, Lu & Og
Problem Solverz
MAD
The Annoying Orange Show

I'm sure I'm forgetting a few. Whether they have slipped my mind or I blocked them from my memory. There have also been some CN Originals that I really didn't like but I know they had a sizable fanbase (Kids Next Door). So which is the WORST?

For me, I'd have to say it's a toss-up between Gym Partner and Squirrel Boy. As far as I can remember, neither show had anything redeeming going for it at all. Ugly characters, ugly animation, painful writing. I can't think of anything in either show that I even remotely liked. I don't like Lazlo, but I've made it through episodes of Lazlo. I don't think I've ever made it through an episode of Gym Partner or Squirrel Boy.

The Annoying Orange is fast approaching the rank of worst CN original too. Oh, and Problem Solverz too.

[Kiddington]

Annoying Orange.

For me, as bad (and in the case of Lazlo, horrendously disappointing) as some of that mid-Aught's stuff was, at least there was some semblance of quality that went into that work; very little for the most part, but at least some. The animation was still nice to look at, in most cases; I actually kinda like Squirrel Boy's animation style, as it's very similar to Duckman due to Everett Peck's involvement (why he couldn't actually make the show worth watching is anyone's guess, though). So at least most of these shows, sans maybe MAD or Problem Solverz, had at least one redeemable quality or another to work off of (usually being nice to look at, if nothing else) even if the series themselves, as far as characters and writing and the real meat of it, were still garbage.

Annoying Orange, on the other hand, has absolutely no redeemable qualities whatsoever, and the sheer level of downright suck that this show assaults upon its viewing audience is a lot more offensive than anything Gym Partner or The Puffy Twins could ever manage. In fact, I really question why it even exists. I don't know why CN is taking a page out of Nick's book and reworking crappy YouTube web series into actual television series (or, in Nick's case, the Fred movies), but the end result is just lazy shit with no sense of heart or effort being put into at all. It's a quick cash-in with a (semi) recognizable and established brand, and nothing more. Oh yeah, and not to mention that the writing, voice acting, and pretty much everything about it is fucking terrible, but I digress.

So yeah, that's my pick for worst. Barely a few months into this, and it's already managed to make the mid-Aught's offerings look God-tier in comparison. Way to go, CN.

[Foggle]

Totally forgot Mike, Lu, & Ogg was a thing.

It's a tossup between Out Of Jimmy's Head and Annoying Orange for me.

[Kiddington]

Totally forgot Mike, Lu, & Ogg was a thing.

It's a tossup between Out Of Jimmy's Head and Annoying Orange for me.

...are we counting live-action? Because if so, well... 

[Daxdiv]

Well, at least Out of Jimmy's Head/Re-Animated was part animation, so it kind of counts, unlike the CN Real stuff which has fallen off radar pretty quietly if I do say so myself.

[Eddy]

Oh yeah, I completely forgot about Out of Jimmy's Head.

As for Annoying Orange, I agree, it's easily one of the worst CN Originals. I think I've seen maybe part of one episode? And that's all I could stand. If anything it delivers what the title promises. There's an orange. And he is annoying as fuck. But being loud, obnoxious, and annoying doesn't = comedy and I'd like to know who decided it did. Stupid YouTube series should not be given their own TV show.

MAD seldom makes me laugh, or even chuckle, but at least some of their segments (mainly the Spy vs. Spy ones) are nice to look at am. Annoying Orange makes me want to vomit.

...Yeah, you're actually making me rethink my answer. Annoying Orange is just pure shit.

[gunswordfist]

Ugh, at MAD on the list. It's too good for that.

Besides Adult Swim drivel, I'd go with Mike, Lu & Og, I guess. Then Cow & Chicken would probably be my 2nd choice.

[Avaitor]

Yeah I've gotta go with Out of Jimmy's Head. It have live-action, but it's a hybrid, so I'm counting it.

But of all the others, I dunno. I haven't seen Annoying Orange or Problem Solverz, but Mad isn't really that bad. Spy vs. Spy is always fun, and the various animation styles are cool, but it does hurt from having nothing but bad ideas. It is what it is- Robot Chicken for kids. I do think it's a little better than it could be, but still.

Squirrel Boy and Camp Lazlo were distressingly annoying in that they were made by talented people with little effort put in. I don't know if Squirrel Boy had some of the other people behind Duckman, but Lazlo did have a lot of people from Rocko, even some of the ones who stuck around at Nick to work on SpongeBob with Hillenburg. And they were both just so... boring, and so... stupid. There's little love I can give them.

Gym Partner was one that I never thought was as awful as some people made it out to be, but it sure wasn't that good. Seeing some of it again has made me groan, enough to make me stop watching Cartoon Planet.

And Mike, Lu & Og really wasn't that bad. It wasn't that good, but it had its moments. Puffy was though. There's a reason they never acknowledge it anymore and that they stopped appealing to the girl's demographic like they did with this and PPG.

[Goldstar]

If we're including animation/live action hybrids, then my vote goes for Re-Animated/Out of Jimmy's Head.

This show had absolutely no idea what it wanted to be. On the surface, OOJH looked like Lizzie McGuire meets Who Framed Roger Rabbit, except that comparing OOJH to either Lizzie or Roger Rabbit would be doing a disservice to both shows. Many people hated OOJH because it was the 1st live action series to air on CARTOON Network, but honestly, the live action I could have dealt with, had the writing actually been good. No, OOJH failed because it was ill conceived, directionless and poorly written, not because it was live action. OOJH also failed because it was a clumsy attempt to merge several ideas/shows into one. The Appleday toons weren't even the focus of the show. It seemed like the Appleday Gang was only shoe-horned into the show in order to justify the shows' presence on Cartoon Network. OOJH tried to simultaneously be a school-centric tweencom, a kiddie cartoon with trouble prone kids and dopey adults, a sci-fi comedy (Jimmy's sister was a space alien, but she wasn't a toon nor was this in any way connected to the toon world; this was part of the "real" world), and a Roger Rabbit wannabe, and it didn't do any of them well.

I didn't see much of Squirrel Boy, but I didn't particularly like what I saw of it, despite the presence of Everett Peck, the creator of Duckman. Mike, Lu and Og wasn't that bad, but it wasn't that good either. Camp Lazlo mostly served to remind me how much better Joe Murray's other basic cable cartoon, Rocko's Modern Life, was and how I'd rather be watching that show.

[Spark Of Spirit]

Probably Problem Solverz for failing to even be coherent on top of having all the problems of the other shows.

[Eddy]

I'd agree that Mike, Lu & Og isn't what I would call the worst of the worst. I mean, it wasn't THAT bad. It wasn't that good either, but it wasn't that bad. It kind of just existed. The theme song was pretty catchy.

Camp Lazlo was bad because of how dreadfully disappointing it was. After Rocko's Modern Life you expected anything from Joe Murray to be gold. But gold Lazlo was not. It was just a boring, dull show that played it safe.

Out of Jimmy's Head was terrible for the reasons already stated. It was poorly written, poorly conceived, didn't know what it wanted to be, and the cartoon characters were obviously put in to justify it being on Cartoon Network.

Puffy was pretty bad. For some reason I watched it, though. I kind of liked Ami, Yumi, and Kaz but that wasn't enough to save the show from its bad writing, sloppy animation, and hideous secondary character designs. Plus, it was annoying at how popular they portrayed the band in the show, as if they were The Beatles, and referred to them as a rock group. First of, they were never that popular. They became moderately popular for a short period of time for doing the theme song to Teen Titans. And they're a J-Pop group, not a rock group. But yeah, it was pretty awful. I'm too lazy to go hunt down the exact quote but Lauren Faust said, after she saw the Puffy pilot, that "it was pretty dull" and that if it "doesn't go well it's going to be blamed on the girl demographic and Cartoon Network will never try to do a "girl show" again."

And, what do you know? She was right.

[Spark Of Spirit]

Camp Lazlo I just don't get. Watch Joe Murray's three shows, and look back at Lazlo and it is the clear outlier. I wonder if there was some sort of meddling going on with that show because there is no reason it should have been as bad as it was.

Puffy was just a bad show. No idea what they were thinking with that one.

[Avaitor]

The crazy thing about Lazlo was that if you ask Joe Murray, he thinks it's about as good as Rocko, and he's just as proud.

It's his tastes, man.

[Kiddington]

Well, I wouldn't expect him to actively tear down his own work, but yeah, it is rather frustrating whenever you read his blog and he's got like five Lazlo posts lined up.

It'd be better if he just didn't talk about it. Like, it all. Nobody really seems to like it that much anyway, so I'm not sure who he's pandering to whenever he brings it up. Whatever, though.

[Dr. Insomniac]

Maybe it's like he views it as his magnum opus or something.