Gwen Stefani To Blast Hideous Cartoon Into Your Living Room
When I look now at all the great shows on television (mostly through cable and streaming) I’m blown away by the contrast between the quality of TV in 2016 and, say, 2004. Back then if you didn’t want to watch reality shows you were out of luck, because that’s all that was on. Animated shows were also sagging — Saturday Morning was gasping its last breaths, Cartoon Network’s output was increasingly cheap-looking, Disney was obsessed with depicting school, and Fox had cancelled most of their animated shows (for now). I had successfully suppressed these memories until now, but when I saw the preview trailer for Gwen Stefani’s new Nickelodeon show Kuu Kuu Harajuku, it all came rushing back. This cartoon looks exactly like it time-traveled out of 2004, when Gwen’s song Harajuku Girls first hit the iPods. Incredibly lazy Flash animation, hideous Bratz-y character designs, airhead dialogue…..I can’t imagine a kid sitting down to this now, not when there are so many better alternatives. 2004 was also around the time
