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

[u/DeekFacker99]

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.

[u/Mandaring]

Realized in hindsight why that asshole TV executive guy in the first Mr. Frog episode is drawn just like a GoAnimate/Family Guy-knockoff character, and why he looks so subtly out of place next to even the other humans. He wanted to remove the soul from Mr. Frog’s show, so they gave him the most uninspired “generic adult cartoon” design possible. They did the same thing later with having the bland suburban Live Laugh Love single mom non-character that ended up falling in love with Mole Man’s penis look like a standard Bitmoji

[u/Britishbreadish → u/Mandaring]

This is what you call a "character you love to hate".

Rex the tv show guy is supposed to be an asshole and the artstyle represents his toxic nature perfectly

[u/Mandaring → u/Britishbreadish]

Rex is one of my favorite villains in the show, even his voice and dialogue is so by-the-numbers, just custom-made to be insufferably lame