My Thoughts on Naughty Naughty Pets

Quite recently I've looked at a cartoon that is very over-looked and I can see why; if you guessed "Naughty Naughty Pets" than you're obviously human. Now I wasn't at all bothered when it actually came out infact I never really heard of it until now; it was really the art style that caught my attention because of how it remained me of the Cramp Twins a little bit; so I checked out the names of the producers assuming they would have worked on that same show. It turns out this show was based on a series of characters by illustrator/graphic designer Wendy Ann Gardner who started off creating her own plush toys in the same style; eventually she opened her own company where the plush toys would spawn into picture books and other merchandise. So it only made enough sense to give them their own cartoon series, I thought the right thing to do was to watch a hand full of episodes to see if these creatures are worth keeping as pets or putting down.

Lets start with the plot; the show is about this young girl named Wendy Woo (who is based on the creator herself) that has a part time job tending to a bunch of freaky pets that live in a hotel which hardly makes much sense but it's a cartoon so who's complaining. Anyway each episode would center around an animal character whether it's Sir Leo Licks a Lot, Dig Ivan Dig In, or Pretty Princess Vicky, Marty Cohen, and so on and so on; the pets would cause a lot of mischeif and havoc (well because they're called the "naughty naughty pets" after all) so the pets become a hand full for little Wendy. While the premise isn't all that great and theres not that much variety it's just one of those cartoons about anthropomorphic pets who get into many misadventures that we've seen a billion times before, but while those other shows are funny this isn't, maybe it is to kids but to an adult there isn't much to it.

Now we're done with the premise lets talk about the animation; I'll be truthful the animation isn't certainly the best I've ever seen but it's certainly not the worse. To Garder's credit the character designs are very original but there's something about them that looks kind of ugly in a way, they look more like side character for The Cramp Twins if you ask me. But with shows like "Beavis and Butthead", "South Park" and "Three Friends and Jerry" artistic integrity doesn't matter very much to people. Than again the colours really match the drawing syle perfectly. Also the movement of the characters come off stiff and choppy but at least it's more abstract than in Bobinogs.

Now to prove to you that I have watched the show i'm gonna talk about the episodes i have seen one by one. We'll start with the first episode I saw "Too Much of a Good Thing" Wendy goes to the kitchen to get Mitchell with a Twitchell Bunny a carrot only to find another bunny in the room so while she gets another carrot the two bunnies get to second base and multiply in a blink of an eye. This becomes a problem for Wendy as she literally gets a truck load of carrots to feed them. Soon the bunnies take up population of the whole world and the universe. The episode than ends with Wendy singing a diddy of how too much can not be always a good thing.

The next episode I watched was "Ivan digs Hamlet" which about Ivan digging in his room to find a skull 0-0 he holds the skull and does what most people would do if they picked a skull; quotes the famous line from Shakespeare's Hamlet...and that's it.
While I did like the idea being a shakespeare fanboy myself, I felt it wasn't really much to turn it into a whole 3 minute episode so it was very basic really.

The last episode I watched was "The Dog who Cried Wolf" it starts with Wendy opening a can of cat food for one of the pets. but then another pet named Jacques Rock Star informs Wendy that Marty Cohen has gotten into an accident, while Wendy's gone Jaques eats the can of food which turns out to be really spicy for him, so he goes in such a frenzy to get some water. Eventually he drinks from the toilet like most dogs but then he flushes himself by accident...charming.

So here are my thoughts on the episodes that i've watched of "Naughty Naughty Pets" and if you ask me the show is very meh to me!

Like I said it's definatley not the best cartoon I've ever saw but it's not by far the worst I ever saw. The animation isn't much eye candy but it has charm right? The characters feel rehased they dont seem to bring more to the show and so does the writing of each episode but to the producer's credit at least they tried!

Yeah it's pretty bad but it's certainly not god awful or unbearable, while I wouldn't recomend this to kids; at least they could enjoy it more then adults, especially ones who enjoy the books and own the plus toys. I do appreciate how the producers were willing to give value to something that had very less value at all. Overall Naughty Naughty Pets gets a 2/5 from me.