Oooooh, yeah, the Care Bears were unbearable, too. (Ha! Unbearable! I made comedy!)Dirge Eterna said:I detested the care bears and gummy bears type shows as a kid. My fav's were G.I. Joe, Transformers and He-man, but as a male child I would watch Gem but I always rooted for the bad guys in any show I watched. I just didn't like the overly happy life is great shows they made for kids, but compared to the drek I see on tv now it was miles better.
Compared to Transformers/G.I. Joe/etc., Care Bears never seems to get called out by the Nostalgia Police as the series of half-hour toy commercials that it was, even though it was just as blatantly merchandise-driven as the most cynical of the "Ninja Robot Mutant Squad" cartoons. Maybe it got away with it because everything about Care Bears was so soft and squishy and seemingly harmless (even though the characters were talking bears who smote their enemies with laser beams that shot out of their stomachs a concept they somehow managed to drain all the cool from.)
Oh, and as for the first live-action show I ever despised? FULL. HOUSE.