Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Boy/Girl Meets World Scorecard

Boy Meets World
Season 1
Pilot: Okay
On the Fence: Decent
Father Knows Less: Good
Cory’s Alternative Friends: Decent
Killer Bees: Good
Boys II Mensa: Good
Grandma Was a Rolling Stone: Decent
Teacher’s Bet: Good
Class Pre-Union: Decent
Santa’s Little Helper: Good
The Father/Son Game: Good
Once in Love with Amy: Decent
She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not: Good
The B Team of Life: Decent
Model Family: Good
Risky Business: Good
The Fugitive: Okay
It’s a Wonderful Night: Decent
Kid Gloves: Good
The Play’s the Thing: Decent
Boy Meets Girl: Good
I Dream of Feeny: Good

Season 2
Back 2 School: Good
Pairing Off: Decent
Notorious: Okay
Me and Mr. Joad: Okay
The Uninvited: Good
Who’s Afraid of Cory Wolf: Good
Wake Up, Little Cory: Good
Band on the Run: Decent
Fear Strikes Out: Good
Sister Theresa: Good
The Beard: Okay
Turnaround: Good
Cyrano: Good
I Am Not a Crook: Decent
Breaking Up is Really, Really Hard to Do: Decent
Danger Boy: Good
On the Air: Good
By Hook or By Crook: Good
Wrong Side of the Tracks: Decent
Pop Quiz: Good
The Thrilla’ in Phila: Good
Career Day: Great
Home: Great

Season 3
My Best Friend’s Girl: Decent
The Double Lie: Okay
What I meant to Say: Good
He Said, She Said: Good
Hometown Hero: Okay
This Little Piggy: Decent
Truth and Consequences: Good
Rave On: Great
The Last Temptation of Cory: Okay
Train of Fools: Good
City Slackers: Good
The Grass is Always Greener: Decent
New Friends and Old: Good
A Kiss More than a Kiss: Good 
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter: Good
Stormy Weather: Good
The Pink Flamingo Kid: Okay
Life Lessons: Great
I Was a Teenage Spy: Great
I Never Sang for My Legal Guardian: Good
The Happiest Show on Earth: Great
Brother Brother: Amazing

Season 4
You Can Go Home Again: Good
Hair Today, Goon Tomorrow: Great
I Ain't Gonna Spray Lettuce No More: Good
Finding For Virna: Good
Shallow Boy: Great
Janitor Dad: Good
Singled Out: Okay
Dangerous Secret: Good
Sixteen Candles and Four Hundred Pounded Men: Great
Turkey Day: Great
An Affair to Forget: Good
Easy Street: Good
B& B's & B' N' B: Good
Wheels: Great
Chick Like Me: Good
A Long Walk to Pittsburgh (1)(2): Amazing
Uncle Daddy: Good
Quiz Show: Okay
Security Guy: Good
Cult Fiction: Good
Learning to Fly: Great

Season 5
Brothers: Great
Boy Meets Real World: Great
It's Not You ... It's Me: Okay
Fraternity Row: Decent
The Witches of Pennbrook: Good
No Guts, No Cory: Great
I Love You, Donna Karan (1): Good
Chasing Angela (2): Good
How to Succeed in Business: Great
Last Tango in Philly: Good
A Very Topanga Christmas: Great
Raging Cory: Good
The Eskimo: Good
Heartbreak Cory: Decent
First Girlfriends' Club: Okay
Torn Between Two Lovers (Feeling Like a Fool): Meh
And Then There Was Shawn: Great
If You Can't Be with the One You Love...: Decent
Eric Hollywood: Good
Starry Night: Good
Honesty Night: Decent
Prom-ises, Prom-ises: Good
Things Change: Great
Graduation: Great

Season 6
His Answer: Great
Her Answer: Great
Ain't College Great?: Good
Friendly Persuasion: Great
Better Than the Average Cory: Decent
Hogs and Kisses: Okay
Everybody Loves Stuart: Okay
You're Married You're Dead: Good
Poetic License: An Ode to Holden Caulfield: Decent
And in Case I Don't See Ya: Decent
Santa's Little Helpers: Good
Cutting the Cord: Good
We'll Have a Good Time Then: Great
Getting Hitched: Great
Road Trip: Decent
My Baby Valentine: Decent
Resurrection: Good
Can I Help to Cheer You?: Good
Bee True: Okay
The Truth About Honesty: Okay
The Psychotic Episode: Good
State of the Unions: Great

Season 7
Show Me the Love: Good
For Love and Apartments: Good
Angela's Men: Decent
No Such Thing as a Sure Thing: Great
You Light Up My Union: Good
They're Killing Us: Great
It's About Time: Great
The Honeymooners: Great
The Honeymoon is Over: Good
Pickett Fences: Decent
What a Drag!: Good
Family Trees: Great
The Provider: Good
I'm Gonna Be Like You, Dad: Great
The War (1): Decent
Seven the Hard Way (2): Great
She's Having My Baby Back Ribs: Good
How Cory and Topanga Got Their Groove Back: Great
Brotherly Shove: Great
As Time Goes By: Great
Angela's Ashes: Great
Brave New World (1) (2): Amazing

Girl Meets World

Season 1
Pilot: 6/10
Girl Meets Boy: 5/10
Girl Meets Sneak Attack: 4/10
Girl Meets Father: 7/10
Girl Meets the Truth: 5/10
Girl Meets Popular: 6/10
Girl Meets Maya’s Mother: 6/10
Girl Meets Smackle: 5/10
Girl Meets 1961: 6/10
Girl Meets Crazy Hat: 5/10
Girl Meets World of Terror: 8/10
Girl Meets the Forgotten: 7/10
Girl Meets Flaws: 6/10
Girl Meets Friendship: 5/10
Girl Meets Brother: 4/10
Girl Meets Home for the Holidays: 8/10
Girl Meets Game Night: 7/10
Girl Meets Master Plan: 6/10
Girl Meets Farkle’s Choice: 5/10
Girl Meets First Date: 4/10

Season 2
Girl Meets Demolition: 7/10
Girl Meets Gravity: 6/10
Girl Meets the New World: 3/10
Girl Meets the Secret of Life: 5/10
Girl Meets Pluto: 7/10
Girl Meets Mr. Squirrels: 5/10
Girl Meets the Tell-Tale Tot: 5/10
Girl Meets Rules: 6/10
Girl Meets Hurricane: 6/10
Girl Meets Mr. Squirrels Go to Washington: 7/10
Girl Meets the New Teacher: 6/10
Girl Meets Yearbook: 4/10
Girl Meets Semi Formal: 6/10
Girl Meets Creativity: 7/10
Girl Meets I Am Farkle: 3/10
Girl Meets Cory and Topanga: 5/10
Girl Meets Rileytown: 3/10
Girl Meets World of Terror 2: 7/10
Girl Meets Rah Rah: 6/10
Girl Meets Texas (1)(2)(3): 6/10
Girl Meets the Forgiveness Project: 6/10
Girl Meets Belief: 5/10
Girl Meets the New Year: 5/10
Girl Meets STEM: 6/10
Girl Meets Money: 6/10
Girl Meets Commonism: 6/10
Girl Meets the Bay Window: 5/10
Girl Meets Legacy: 7/10

Season 3
Girl Meets High School (1)(2): 5/10
Girl Meets Jexica: 5/10
Girl Meets Permanent Record: 6/10
Girl Meets Triangle: 3/10
Girl Meets Upstate: 5/10
Girl Meets True Maya: 6/10
Girl Meets Ski Lodge (1)(2): 4/10
Girl Meets I Do: 6/10
Girl Meets Sassy Haltertop: 4/10
Girl Meets Bear: 5/10
Girl Meets the Great Lady of New York: 8/10
Girl Meets She Doesn’t Like Me: 4/10
Girl Meets World of Terror: 7/10
Girl Meets Her Monster: 6/10
Girl Meets Hollywood: 5/10
Girl Meets a Christmas Maya: 6/10
World Meets Girl: 7/10
Girl Meets Sweet Sixteen: 7/10
Girl Meets Goodbye: 8/10

Saturday, February 11, 2023

Why Nicktoons Are the Best at Crediting Voice Actors' Roles?

Why Nicktoons Are the Best at Crediting Voice Actors' Roles?

         Back in the good old days, being credited for doing a voice role in animation was brutal. A voice actor's name is only credited while their role isn't listed unless you have a script. (This is still a widespread problem for some preschool shows and it's notoriously bad with adult animation) It wasn't until the 1990s that they finally get credited for voicing characters, even if it just for one line. However, as the years go on, I start to realize Nick Animation is the best at crediting voice actors' role as opposed to their competition. They always find a way to credit every single character in an episode. Of course, there are the occasional exceptions, so let’s look over at which shows doesn’t properly credit voice actors.

Not Crediting the Characters Roles


         Doug, the first ever Nicktoon, does not tell you who voiced a character, so you can tell it’s such a retro show. It might’ve been greenlit during 1989, since not showing the voice roles was still a common practice. Ren & Stimpy also did this practice sadly since it, too, was an old fashioned show. However, the only difference was the titular characters and guest stars only get the credits while the rest are limited to the “other players.” Since then, there has not been one Nicktoon to do this practice, except for the preschool shows, like Bubble Guppies and Blaze & the Monster Machines.

Additional Voices for Incidentals

          If you’re watching a Cartoon Network or Disney Channel show (produced within the past decade, though Disney is a tad worse at this) you’ll always notice the rest of the credited cast members that don’t voice a main or guest will be listed under “Additional Voices.” Very often it will be incidentals with only a line or two, but sometimes it can be used wrongly and credit a guest character under that category even if they play a major role in a particular episode. For Nick, the only times they ever caved in to the “Additional Voices” practice was Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Crediting Every Single Role


           This is what Nick's animated shows are primarily best known for. Rugrats is one of the first ever shows to credit a voice actor's role, and the success of that led to literally (almost) every subsequent Nicktoon to adapt this strategy. Rocko's Modern Life does this as well, but only with one or two characters, as the show had a very limited voice cast (the same handful voice actors are casted as recurring characters). But other than that, there's no major exceptions to the rule. 

        So yes, it's pretty obvious Nick wins when it comes to crediting voice roles (a couple of other animation studios have some strong competition). Sucks because Cartoon Network used to be okay with this until the 2010s. It's very important for shows to do the "crediting every single role" strategy. If not, you either need to look up a script consisting the voice cast or ask a voice director for the roles.