This is the least educational show ever. It's nothing but dated (even for it's time) pop culture references, maybe a broad overview of something historical in the sense that it happened but it largely ignores any context, facts and well, history, of what actually happened.
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Honestly, anything that's world history is iffy, especially if it's anything from the 1900's forward. The politics and values of the time reflect today and one will easily be criticized by everyone for how you portray events and people. Not even simply about accuracy but if you were to showcase something like WWII, would it be appropriate to show the Katyn massacre even though it will make one of the Allies look incredibly bad?
Making things really silly is a good way of keeping to the comedy and not making it offensive except for the most die hard 'fans'. Mr Peabody and Sherman as well as Timesquad did pretty well with taking a historical figure and just coming up with something silly, like "Ada Lovelace is actually really scatterbrained" and "Honest Abe is now Dishonest Abe".
This show wasn't funny, but i still watched it.
This is basically what you get when you let Tom Reugger make a cartoon without Spielberg to keep an eye on it. You have the same quality visually and audibly, but writing wise, its like you said, pop culture references, but throw in some of the most obnoxious characters (Pepper Mills and the Loud kid) and way more toilet humor.
she was the best character, because she was how I feel watching the show.
In contrast, this is a Spielberg cartoon without Tom Ruegger. Which is better/worse?
Holy shit I had this on VHS as a kid and had no idea what it was. I also had this movie or show about old movie monsters fighting new movie monsters but I have no idea what it was called just that it was also on VHS
I think that was Monster Mash.
Holy shit it was thanks! I used to watch that and Alvin and the Chipmunks vs Frankenstein/The Wolfman and repeat
Toonsylvania is way better than Histeria. that's Bill Kopp working with Spielberg.
Big Fat Baby Holocaust didn't age well
What's funny is that this show was made to fulfill educational requirements
I can't help but wonder what "educational requirements" actually means. Did nobody fact check or was the fact that they were doing an "educational" show enough to just keep the suits at bay and they never actually watched it.
I remember watching an episode in school about Harriet Tubman and how relatively serious it was compared to the rest of the show
At least the songs were good.
I want to FRICK Aka Pella.
For me, it was Miss Information
For me, it's Big Fat Baby in the background lying on the sand.
eh, it was only made to fulfill FCC requirements. As a show on its own, it's pretty fun and I like the sketch comedy format a lot. People complain about "dated" references in media but a reference's date really doesn't matter as long as the joke behind it is funny (Animaniacs is a great example of that). This show is a pretty major comedown from Animaniacs, Freakazoid and Pinky and the Brain, a lot of the characters are fun but forgettable and one note, and they really tended to recycle certain segments a lot towards the tail end, but it's still pretty good. Better than anything WB is making nowadays anyways.
I think people in general were tired of Ruegger cartoons, he pretty much made the same cartoon 7 times. Not helping that he used the same music and sounds effects and hired the same voice actors everytime. Do we really need Tress MacNeille in every main role?
Man did this show have a crazy fanbase. When I first got internet in high school (this was around 2005, maybe early 2006), it was actually my first real experience with what an obsessed fanbase could be. I'd heard of furries and such, but never encountered anything like it first hand.
I gather it wasn't that popular when it aired, or maybe the fans it did have just wanted to "be there" in case it became as big as Animaniacs, but it was literally impossible back then to go on Wikipedia and not find reference to this show. I guess that would make sense given it was about history, but it was crazy how many articles would link back to it. The article for the Addams Family treated it's parody in one episode of this show as being more important to Addams' history than the 60s TV show or the movies.
I wish I could have experienced that fandom. I thought the show was always obscure.
Weird that a 90s show had such an active fanbase when it finished IN THE 90s
>>>/vp/
I remember liking this as the time.
I can see some little kid being into it because LOL FART but you learn anything beyond second grade history...
What's 2nd grade age like 8? That's probably the target age for the show
Like 6
This show and Rugrats are responsible for my diaper fetish. I used to have "Big Fat Baby needs a change" as my password but then I realized typing it in too often made it impossible for me to get a boner to the phrase.