Mr. Meaty

Don't let the stars turn you away from this show. This is by far one of the funniest kids shows to watch when you are older. This show has some of the highest quality toilet humour you'll ever find.

Uhhh...who decided it was a good idea to put this on television? It's kind of hypocritical of me to write this because I saw little bits of it when I was a kid, and thought it was OK, but looking back, it just looks horrendous!

So, here's what happens: two lazy teenage boys work at a burger bar. That's it. OMG, was this plot written on the back of a postage stamp or something? Secondly, the characters are just ugly! They look misshapen Muppet rejects and are enough to give you nightmares for weeks!

I used to watch Sesame Street when I was little, and those puppets were good! This show, I can only assume it was aimed at teenagers. But what nihilistic teenager gets out of bed, turns off his Linkin Park and says, "Hey, Chris! I'm gonna need a rain check. That creepy Muppets/David Lynch show is on!"

In short, no words can fathom my horror towards this show. How it got conceived is beyond me. Avoid like the plague!

The show isn't great, but I feel like this show got hate based from the design of this show. Some people just assume a show's rating just by the visuals. Don't get me wrong, I do think the character designs are kind of ugly and weird, but the show does have a unique style of visuals. Obviously, the show isn't meant for kids under 7 because it could be frightening for them. I feel as though the show's design was trying to aim for kids 10 and older as it is tween or teen pandering. The visuals remind me of something from Comedy Central or Adult Swim.

For the show itself, it's not too bad. I've watched a few episodes, and I was mildly entertained. It's definitely not amazing, but some episodes were fairly decent. The comedy is decent, the stories are pretty basic, and the characters are okay. While this show isn't something you should watch right away, I think it's at least worth one watch for older audiences. This show is nothing special, but I do think it deserves maybe one watch for the older kids or teens.

UNIHORN! (Name of my favorite Meaty episode.)

I don't have time to enumerate all the great aspects of this show (the fellow from St. Petersburg wrote 2000+ words, so rely on him). Mr. Meaty, as ugly and ungainly as it appears, is one of the funniest kids shows I have ever seen. The precision of the Valley speak parody is dead-on, even though the name of the mall, "Scaunchboro" conjures up something out of Rhode Island or suburban Boston.

Jimmy Neutron may have more clever quips per minute, but its stories do not resonate with the authenticity of Mr. Meaty. The mullet-ed teenagers and posturing mall rats bring a lot of California memories for me (born in LA, raised in Sacramento).

I will be grief-stricken if they do not bring back Mr. Meaty. And I'm 42.

When the first few clips of Mr. Meaty started to run on Nickelodeon, I'll admit it looked incredibly stupid. Two weird main characters who seemed to spend all of their time making up stupid things to do when they were bored. But when the 15-30 minute shows started to air, I realized it was an incredibly funny and creative show. Generally most kid's shows are recycled plot lines (not that there aren't a few in Mr. Meaty) and bad jokes...but Mr. Meaty was pretty creative. The main characters are a pair of teenagers named Josh and Parker, who work at (where else?) a fast food place called 'Mr. Meaty'. Now, this isn't your deep philosophical statement about life...that would be ridiculous for a kid's show. But it IS fun, and worth watching several times over.