So, I guess Hanna Barbera got the Teen Titans Go treatment too. After the abysmal DC comics, I am not surprised.
The base idea could have been good - throw all the HB characters into one town and make it a sitcom. The Looney Tunes Show did that, and it worked well, because they did not significantly change the characters personalities and rather expanded on them.
Here though, the characters often share nothing at all other than the name of the originals. Yogi, Cindy and Boo-Boo for example, are now... doctors? HOW? WHY??? Yogi turned from "smarter than the average bear" (a sentence he never says on the show, btw) to Homer Simpson levels of dumb, while Cindy is an amoral super smart mad scientist. This feels so arbitrary, like the writers just put the names and professions in a hat and pulled them randomly.
The only characters who remain somewhat close to their original selves are Huckleberry Hound (now an unflappable and stoic mayor), Snagglepuss (now town reporter and talkshow host, with oddly all his gay trends removed) and perhaps Doggie Daddy who is now a worried helicopter dad for his daughter Auggie Doggie, Yakky Doodle,
Oh yes, daughter. See, Looney Tunes Show added existing or new female characters (Lola, Tina, Petunia, Granny) - this show went the lazy way, and genderswapped characters. A LOT of them. Just to list a few, Jabberjaw, Auggie Doggie, Loopy De Loop, Squiddly Diddly, 3 members of Top Cat's gang, 2 members of The King's gang (ridiculously, considering that gang had 2 female characters too who now do not appear at all), Chopper, Baba Looey.... they are all female now. Given also that their personalities are nothing like the old ones, would it not have been better to make new female characters instead?
Because the show basically just needed archetypes, and then the writers put the "skin" of some existing HB character on that. Jabberjaw is the vallye girl, for example, Loopey De Loop is now a jaded cynical snob (in contrast to his helpful and always optimistic personality). The Banana Splits are small time criminals. Wally Gator is implied to be a cannibal (WTF?) Magilla Gorilla is a clothes shop owner and fashionista. They could have literally made this show without using HB characters and nobody would have cared, so - like Thundercats Roar, or the new She-ra, they had to sell their product using an existing IP.
Now again, all this I could forgive if the humor was good. It isn't. It is unfunny or downright disgusting, and creepy. Our very first episode is basically, a vore one - Cindy solves Yogi's constant stomach aches by making him (against his will) an atomic stomach. Now however, Yogi is always hungry and will eat anything--- and anyone. So we get creepy scenes of Yogi stalking and devouring his friends, then feeling bad afterwards. Another episode has Cindy be late with his book club read, so to have time to read it, she invents a jelly gun that turns her best friends into jell-o. It gets out of control and she turns everyone in town to jell-o... Then she leaves them in this state for THREE YEARS and some even get pieces missing when she turns them back. Yet another one rips off Five Nights of Freddy as the Cattanooga Cats (now creepy animatronics) diner only admits parents with children, so Yogi pays Shag Rugg to pretend to be his son, only to get into argument and fight killer robots. Yet another has Shag, Yakky and Auggie pretend to be an adult with the old "three kids in a trenchcoat" method, but get mistaken for a lawyer and elected mayor, in the process letting a murderer go free and destroying half the town. Yet another has Jabberjaw constantly knock out Magilla to give him amnesia so he accepts her radical redesigns to his shops, almost destroying his memory and identity by the end.
A recurring theme as you notice, is characters being selfish, amoral and downright evil and usually, not learning their lessons. The show also has way too many disgusting scenes for a kids show, which it was advertised as, the last episode and Huckleberry's farts were the crowning achievement in this regard.
I can handle adult comedy with classic characters - Harvey Birdman is a show I love and often rewatch. But that show was, y'know, actually funny, and the characters were (exaggerated) versions of their own selves. This feels like Superman: Brainiac Attacks. I am watching familiar characters who look similar to the originals, but behave and act nothing like them.
If this was its own thing, I would maybe give this a 3-4, it would still be unfunny. Given how it shamelessly uses an existing IPs of a half a century old studio though, which is still beloved by many? I give this a 1. Avoid at all costs.
The base idea could have been good - throw all the HB characters into one town and make it a sitcom. The Looney Tunes Show did that, and it worked well, because they did not significantly change the characters personalities and rather expanded on them.
Here though, the characters often share nothing at all other than the name of the originals. Yogi, Cindy and Boo-Boo for example, are now... doctors? HOW? WHY??? Yogi turned from "smarter than the average bear" (a sentence he never says on the show, btw) to Homer Simpson levels of dumb, while Cindy is an amoral super smart mad scientist. This feels so arbitrary, like the writers just put the names and professions in a hat and pulled them randomly.
The only characters who remain somewhat close to their original selves are Huckleberry Hound (now an unflappable and stoic mayor), Snagglepuss (now town reporter and talkshow host, with oddly all his gay trends removed) and perhaps Doggie Daddy who is now a worried helicopter dad for his daughter Auggie Doggie, Yakky Doodle,
Oh yes, daughter. See, Looney Tunes Show added existing or new female characters (Lola, Tina, Petunia, Granny) - this show went the lazy way, and genderswapped characters. A LOT of them. Just to list a few, Jabberjaw, Auggie Doggie, Loopy De Loop, Squiddly Diddly, 3 members of Top Cat's gang, 2 members of The King's gang (ridiculously, considering that gang had 2 female characters too who now do not appear at all), Chopper, Baba Looey.... they are all female now. Given also that their personalities are nothing like the old ones, would it not have been better to make new female characters instead?
Because the show basically just needed archetypes, and then the writers put the "skin" of some existing HB character on that. Jabberjaw is the vallye girl, for example, Loopey De Loop is now a jaded cynical snob (in contrast to his helpful and always optimistic personality). The Banana Splits are small time criminals. Wally Gator is implied to be a cannibal (WTF?) Magilla Gorilla is a clothes shop owner and fashionista. They could have literally made this show without using HB characters and nobody would have cared, so - like Thundercats Roar, or the new She-ra, they had to sell their product using an existing IP.
Now again, all this I could forgive if the humor was good. It isn't. It is unfunny or downright disgusting, and creepy. Our very first episode is basically, a vore one - Cindy solves Yogi's constant stomach aches by making him (against his will) an atomic stomach. Now however, Yogi is always hungry and will eat anything--- and anyone. So we get creepy scenes of Yogi stalking and devouring his friends, then feeling bad afterwards. Another episode has Cindy be late with his book club read, so to have time to read it, she invents a jelly gun that turns her best friends into jell-o. It gets out of control and she turns everyone in town to jell-o... Then she leaves them in this state for THREE YEARS and some even get pieces missing when she turns them back. Yet another one rips off Five Nights of Freddy as the Cattanooga Cats (now creepy animatronics) diner only admits parents with children, so Yogi pays Shag Rugg to pretend to be his son, only to get into argument and fight killer robots. Yet another has Shag, Yakky and Auggie pretend to be an adult with the old "three kids in a trenchcoat" method, but get mistaken for a lawyer and elected mayor, in the process letting a murderer go free and destroying half the town. Yet another has Jabberjaw constantly knock out Magilla to give him amnesia so he accepts her radical redesigns to his shops, almost destroying his memory and identity by the end.
A recurring theme as you notice, is characters being selfish, amoral and downright evil and usually, not learning their lessons. The show also has way too many disgusting scenes for a kids show, which it was advertised as, the last episode and Huckleberry's farts were the crowning achievement in this regard.
I can handle adult comedy with classic characters - Harvey Birdman is a show I love and often rewatch. But that show was, y'know, actually funny, and the characters were (exaggerated) versions of their own selves. This feels like Superman: Brainiac Attacks. I am watching familiar characters who look similar to the originals, but behave and act nothing like them.
If this was its own thing, I would maybe give this a 3-4, it would still be unfunny. Given how it shamelessly uses an existing IPs of a half a century old studio though, which is still beloved by many? I give this a 1. Avoid at all costs.