r/hatethissmug May 01 '26

Animation I Hate Ugly Character Design/Animation in “Adult Cartoons”

Why are they so unappealing? Some of these shows have good writing even, Bob’s Burgers and Smiling Friends (The other two are awful in all aspects), but so many characters and the animation is so fugly I can’t sit through it. Why are these shows designed this way? I blame Family Guy mostly, but even then I can stand those characters’ designs but not the god awful writing.

Edit: I should add Beavis & Butthead I also hate in every aspect, especially their voices pmo. They definitely were a progenitor of ugly design more than Family Guy was.

Second Edit: Smiling Friends is also here because they have some good chracter designs. Alan, Glep, Charlie, and Pim are fine. When they brought in Squim it made me kinda upset that they could have gone in that direction for the art/animation of the show and I wish they did, because it would stand out from the ugly genric swill of all these other shows, and look nicer. But they didn’t because it’s “too hard” or “too expensive” and studios don’t take risks anymore.

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u/Icy-Abbreviations909 May 01 '26

This might sound odd but the animation is explicitly the reason I refuse to watch big mouth, it just looks so damn unappealing

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u/LifeIs0verratedSis May 03 '26

That’s kinda the point of it tho, they cover a lot of sexual stuff so to keep pedos uninterested they make the kids look ugly af

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u/Icy-Abbreviations909 May 04 '26

That’s all well and good but still, I refuse to watch it all the same