Before we start, take a look at these two images, from two different quizzes asking the same question:
What do you notice between the two of them? Does one quiz look particularly higher-quality or more interesting than the other? If you think so, you’re on the right track to identifying what makes high-quality quizzes so… well, high-quality.
If you are looking for ways to make your online quizzes better quality, these tips should provide you with easy steps to do so:
Use Good Grammar.
This one’s a simple one. You don’t have to have perfect grammar skills, but at least some correct grammar/spelling can make a quiz look professional and easy-to-read. This can be as simple as:
Correct common mix-up errors, including “your/you’re”, “their/they’re/there” and “a/an”.
Use apostrophes in your contractions. For example, write “don’t” instead of “dont”.
End your sentences in whatever is appropriate. Questions should end in question marks, interjections end in exclamation marks and pretty much everything else ends with a full stop/period.
Keep Answers Open-Ended
Try and keep the answers to a question broad and ambiguous, so that everyone can have a chance to accurately answer.
If I were to ask you what your favourite type of food were, would it be one of the following:
Chocolate cupcake with sprinkles
Ham, tomato and cheese sandwich
Steak
Pancakes
Mint Choc Chip Ice Cream
Is your favourite food in that list? The chances are slim that any of these answers describe your favourite food in an accurate way. Most people upon seeing this question would be forced to click whatever sounds the best to them, even if it isn’t anything close their actual favourite food. You could put an “Other” option for good measure, but that doesn’t look as professional as making the answers more simple and open-ended.
A better way to word this would be:
Desserts
Fruit/Vegetables
Meat/Proteins
Dairy
Grains/Breads
Other
This lists the different types of food. The answers are more simple and broad, and could be interpreted many ways. Almost any type of food could fit into one of these answers, thus leading to a more even, accurate result.
Be the right amount of descriptive
How descriptive you need to be depends on what part of the quiz. For example, the description of a quiz needs to be… well, descriptive and detailed, while answers should be kept more simple, broad and open-ended.
A quiz title should be short-to-moderate length. It depends on the type of title/quiz you’re going for, and what the quiz is about. Try and keep it brief. A good rule-of-thumb is to try and be as descriptive as possible in as few words as possible.
Generally, titles are usually written with every single word capitalised.
Good title examples:
What Mario Character Are You?
What Breed Of Dog Is Right For You?
What Type Of Dragon Are You?
What Colour Should You Dye Your Hair?
Bad title examples:
Mario Quiz
What dog should you get if you are new to owning a dog?
what type of dragon are u
What colour should u dye ur hair???
The question itself can be simple or detailed, depending on the question being asked, and the nature of the quiz.
Results and the quiz description should be descriptive. They don’t have to be super-long, as long as they are descriptive enough.
Use Images To Engage Audience (if it suits the question)
Got your attention? If you’re reading this, I presume so.
This is really easy, and a lot of people already to this. There isn’t much to be said about this, except for:
Images that relate to the context, at least somehow. For example, like I did above, posting a bizarre, attention-grabbing image to demonstrate the effects an image in the midst of plain text can have on readers.
So if you’re asking a question about someone’s favourite animal, don’t put some random picture of a pizza slice (unless that’s somehow relevant to the context of your quiz).
Images are pretty much optional, and you don’t have to use them a lot – only where you think an image could be used.
Do your research
If your quiz is a Star Wars trivia, no matter how much of a Star Wars pro you are, make sure you do some quick Googles to make sure your quiz is accurate.
This one’s self-explanatory.
Don’t put blatant dialogue in answers or question.
This is common in quizzes about fictional franchises, such as video games or cartoons, but it’s particularly annoying to see in general quizzes.
It can be annoying to see someone else’s opinions and conversations in the answers, especially if the quiz isn’t supposed to be about that sort of thing.
What I mean by this is:
Me: Hey guys its kittygamer2009 here. So first question… Mario: Whats your favourite colour.
Red (Me: Thats Marios favourite colour! Mario: Yes it is)
Orange (Me: Meh)
Yellow (Me: Yellows a bit bright but its okay)
Green (Mario: My brother Luigi likes that colour.)
Blue (Me: My second favourite colour!)
Purple (Me: Thats my favourite colour too.)
Pink (Me: Pinks kinda gross)
Black (Me: like my soul)
White (Me: Whites okay)
Like, nobody wants to hear Sans’ and Papyrus’ opinions on outdoors weather and candy bars in a quiz about cats. (If it’s a “story/roleplay” quiz or something that involves Undertale characters “speaking” to the quiz-takers, however, it would be different)
It’s even worse when the fictional character(s) or quiz-creator(s) opinion is longer than the answer itself. Example:
First question: Bendy: What type of ice cream do u like out of vanilla, chocolate and strawberry?
Vanilla (Bendy: Vanilla is kinda bland but I guess its okay. Boris: I like all ice cream so i’ll take any flavour. Alice: Vanilla is ok but I like chocolate best.)
Chocolate (Bendy: Yes! Chocolate is the best flavour there is! Boris: I dont like chocolate as much as others but its still yummy. Alice: My favourite flavour!)
Strawberry (Bendy: Not a big fan. Boris: Its ice cream. Yum yum, I love strawberry. Alice: Yuck i hate strawberry ice cream)
I’ve seen this sort of thing before, and believe me, it’s tacky.
I haven’t seen Toy Story 4 yet, but it’s dropped in theatres now. Recently my thoughts have been morely centered around avoiding Toy Story 4 spoilers! I really don’t want this film spoiled for me. I’m going to see it next weekened. When it comes out, I will put out my review of it, which I will either keep spoiler-free or give a really clear, thorough and good heads-up to turn away anyone who doesn’t want any spoilers.
Thankfully Toy Story 4 hasn’t been spoilered for me, however I have to wait about a week before I get to see it.
Dodgin’ those pesky dang spoilers!
I really can’t wait to see this film and I am super hyped for it. Someone I know in real life has seen it and they said it was really good and I will probably like it. I am REALLY hyped for this film and if it gets spoiled for me I’m gonna cry.
I’m too scared to even Google “Toy Story 4” for images to put in this article so I put this Toy Story meme I had saved to my desktop. Do you find it amusing? I hope so.
What doesn’t help is all the Toy Story 4 videos starting to emerge in my subscription box, which thankfully don’t give anything away via thumbnail or title – that’s not stopping me from thinking of quitting my internet presence for a few days just to avoid spoilers. Then again, dodging Endgame spoilers was kinda easy and I wasn’t even trying at all. And Endgame spoilers were more prominent than Toy Story 4 spoilers seem to be, which means less trolls running around intentionally spoiling it.
So, how do we avoid movie spoilers? I’ve done a bit o’ good ol’ research, and compiled my own lil’ listy.
Boycott the internet! Most spoilers come from the internet, and this is one of the best ways to avoid spoilers, however it’s not always possible for everyone. You don’t even have to completely avoid the internet – just only hop on for controlled and limited time. Go outside, exercise, do something productive. It’s a win-win!
Avoid media (eg: Youtube videos/reviews/theories) related to whatever movie it is. For example, avoid all reviews. Obviously, trustworthy and spoiler-free reviews/videos exist, though if you REALLY want to play it safe, avoid EVERYTHING. I’m avoiding anything with “Toy Story 4” in the title until I see the film. I’m avoiding all reviews no matter how “Spoiler-free” they are.
Avoid comments! This article says, quote-unquote, “Don’t even scroll down. I saw a ton of trolls spoiling The Last Jedi in YouTube comments. Just read/watch the review and close the window! You can read the comments later!” Stay out from under that bridge until you’ve seen the movie. There be trolls! Spoiler trolls!
Watch the movie ASAP – Watch the movie as soon as you can!
Don’t Google the movie!
If you have any friends in real life who may spoil the film, don’t speak to them, or at least try and ask them not to spoil the movie – My social skills are garbage so I don’t have to worry about this, but if you have an actual social life unlike me, keep an eye out. Moving on!
A spoiler-protection plugin – I have lots of plugins. Adblock, a plugin to censor + warn me of words I don’t want to see, a plugin that identifies the song playing in your browser, you get the point. But did you know you can get a plugin that blocks spoilers? Links: Chrome Firefox Apple Android
Disclaimer: This is all purely just my opinion and is not fact. Also, that title is exaggerated for comedic purposes. Don’t worry! 🙂
Any day, I’d prefer a humble, regular bagel with cream cheese over an Instagrammable deconstructed keto unicorn cragel served in a shovel. Seriously. THESE TRENDS NEED TO DIE IN HELL. I hate most food trends. I want my food to taste good, and usually the eye-burningly oversaturated stuff that looks like a unicorn tastes like crap (and to me, bright colours like the ones on the unicorn bagel pictured below just hurt my eyes in general so it’s a lose-lose). I don’t give a flying flipper over whether it’s “Instagrammable” or not. I just want my food to taste good. When it comes to food, taste should be the #1 priority. NOT looks. Just my opinion.
Overly-bright and saturated rainbow colours hurt my eyes to look at – I don’t like them. The plain bagel with the cream cheese looks delicious! But that unicorn one looks like Lisa Frank ate sprinkles, drank paint then threw up. Gross! Eye-burning! Stupid!
#7 – Charcoal Food Basically adding charcoal into food – for example, charcoal crossiants, charcoal ice cream, etc. Unless you’re a goth who likes the taste of bitter grit and you want your teeth stained black, I would stay away from this.
#6 – Unicorn Food Do you want to turn all your food into an eye-bleedingly rainbow-y abomination? Well, look no further than unicorn food! I think unicorns in general are overrated and I really am sick of them. Also, rainbow-y, oversaturated colours genuinely make my eyes feel weird and give me a headache if I look at them too long. I’m dead serious.
#5 – Food NOT served on plates/bowls/etc I like to eat my food off a plate, or from a bowl. I don’t want to eat out of slippers, off a brick, a gardening shovel, a picnic bench, a cap/hat, a book or a bookshelf. People have actually been served food on all of these items. I’m not joking.
#4 – Portmanteau Pastries(don’t know the actual name for these so I made up my own name) Cronuts. Cragels. Cruffins. Wonuts. What’s next? Cranuffinuts? That sounds like an uppity old-fashioned surname or something a 5 year old girl would name a cat. Or both.
#3 – Trend Diets I’m a meat-eating athiest but I’m perfectly fine with ethical diets, like vegeterian and vegan diets as well as religious diets (halal, kosher, etc). I’m also okay with diets for people that follow them for medical reasons – for instance, someone allergic to gluten living on a gluten-free diet. Keto was originally made for children with epilepsy (before hipsters took it over). However, I think that following certain diets (gluten-free, lactose intolerant, etc) when not necessary makes life harder for people who actually can’t eat any of that. Stop turning medical diets into some silly little trend – it’s not fair on the people who actually need those diets. Don’t go around saying “im lactose intolerant111!” unless you’re actually lactose intolerant. I’ve had people in my school do this before, then 2 seconds later I see them strolling along, sipping a chocolate milk they brought at the Tuckshop canteen! I’m actually sure most ACTUALLY lactose intolerant people are mature enough to not go around and likely don’t feel the need to flex on everyone. My point here is, stop ruining diets for people who actually need them.
#2 – “Instagrammable Food” Food should taste good. Most of the time, food that looks “good” tastes like trash while average-looking food tastes delicious. There are rare exceptions, however I would generally prioritise taste and practicability over looks. Any food that is “Instagrammable” means that the food tastes like absolute crap and should be avoided by anyone who doesn’t want to insult food.
#1 – Deconstructed Food Laziness at its finest. Is your barista too lazy to brew a coffee? Just serve all the ingredients up so that the customer has to do it themselves. Half the time it doesn’t even look that appetising. I’m pretty sure people go to restaurants to have food served to them ready-to-eat, not so that they have to assemble it themselves.
I’m a 2003 kid – I thought why not write an article talking about all the things most kids born in the Early 2000’s will recognise? Here we go…
1. Carving/drawing your rubber. In 2nd grade I drew a face on my rubber and named it Bob. The sleeve thingy on the rubber was his “clothes”. Once the teacher made some kids class monitors and left the room and they wrote your name up for every little thing you did – like they wrote people’s names up for coughing, etc. They wrote my name up for talking to my rubber. The teacher came back and thankfully when they said my name was up for talking to my rubber the teacher said it was a bad reason and allowed me to go to recess.#2 Windows XP – Me and my siblings each had our own “login” before our parents replaced them with their names instead. Then I tried to guess the password of my parent’s login based on the image. One of them had the chess pieces as their image so I guessed “chess” “king” “queen”, etc and for the parent that had the flower as theirs I guessed “flower” “rose” etc. The Bliss background for Windows XP in general makes me feel extreme nostalgia.#3 – Club Penguin – I was ADDICTED to this game. I remember also begging my parents for a membership and I did get the membership – I also used to call all the non-member penguins “nakeds” because non-members couldn’t wear clothes. But my penguin only had menu chat so I couldn’t actually say it. My igloo was the pink princess castle one and it was full of candy and every colour of puffles. This was back in 2009-2011 before the rainbow, golden, dog, cat, etc puffles were added. I also remember going into the pizza place and trying find Club Penguin boyfriends (and one time a girlfriend because I saw two female penguins sitting at a table and decided to do the same). Basically I would sit at a table, wait for some male penguin to sit on the other chair then I would spam heart emojis. (Speaking of emoticons I loved the fart noise that happened if you pressed both E+T at the same time – very funny.)#4 – Kid Pix – When I was really little – before I was even in school, I used to play 90’s/Early 2000’s Edutainment games on my grandma’s Windows XP as well as KID PIX. This game was a major part of my childhood when I around 4-5 years old. Of course I didn’t actually try and draw anything – I just put trippy nonsense all over the page and I have memories of putting squirrels all over the Eiffel Tower, then this clown face popped up and made a noise, and scared the livings out of me…#5 – Snake Puzzles – In 3rd grade, EVERY girl in my class had one of these. Me included.#6 – Scholastic Bookclub – I used to love getting books about cats, dogs and horses. And when I was in 2nd grade me and my siblings all wanted this book about making mini pizzas and we all argued over who could get it. In the end my sister got it and I got mad.#7 – Video stores like Blockbuster and Video Ezy – I loved going to this place on Friday Nights. There was also a Domino’s pizza next to our local video-renting store. Netflix sure is convenient but nothing beats the memories of seeing Teletubbies in the horror section and getting ice cream at the ice cream place within the store itself.#8 – Making these things. Made these all the time as a kid! Even before I was even in school.#9 – Smiggle. Or fancy stationary in general – bendy rulers, slap-bracelets, electric sharpeners, scented erasers, etc. All of it made you the coolest kid in the grade!#10 – IPods. I had a purple one.#11 – DS. Ah man, these are from SO LONG ago that I remember my mum saying all the time, “You have to be 8 years old to have a DS!” and now I’m almost 16!#12 – Moshi Monsters – I didn’t love it as much as Club Penguin but I did play it a bit. I even got a membership at one point!#13 – Cool Maths Games – This site is still up to this day. Literally EVERYONE in the grade knew and loved this site. Including me. I loved the Papa’s Restaurant games. While playing Papa’s Restaurant, I had two moods – either trying to get the customer’s orders as perfect as possible, or screwing them up on purpose, overdoing the whipped cream/sauce/etc to the point where it filled up the entire screen and even spelling out… words and pictures on pizzas with pepperonis.#14 – Rainbow Magic. Book series about fairies and these evil goblins trying to screw everything up. Loved these as a kid.#15 – Angry Birds – Remember when Angry Birds was the most popular video game ever? Then along came Minecraft, which was then succeeded by Fortnite…#16 – Wimpy Kid – This still holds up for me to this day. I still read these books, but the first one in the series was the OG.#17 – “Dynamite” by Taio Cruz – I THROW MY HANDS UP IN THE AIR SOMETIMES SINGING AEOOO GOTTA LET GOOOO! I WANNA CELEBRATE AND LIVE MY LIFE SINGING AEOOO BABY LET’S GOO CUS WE GO ROCK THIS CLUB, WE CAN GO ALL NIGHT, WE GO LIGHT IT UP, LIKE IT’S DYNAMITE! This song was EVERYTHING when I was in 2nd grade. I still know all the lyrics off the top of my head. Our school had this talent show thing every Friday and you could sign up by just getting your name down on a sign-up sheet – you could also request a song to be used in your act. I remember wanting to use this song, but this song was so popular they had to BAN IT for being overused! Also, Club Penguin music videos of Dynamite/Katy Perry = pure nostalgia.#18 – Katy Perry. I used to have a Katy Perry poster hanging up near my bed (and I usually preferred posters of animals over celebrities – she was the only celebrity poster I had). I used to listen to this album all the time. My favourite songs from Katy Perry were Hot and Cold, Firework and California Girls. And the Peacock one… and Teenage Dream… then I listened back to all the songs and realised how many sexual innuendos completely flew over 2nd grade me’s head. (though even 2nd grade me knew the Peacock one was kind of risque but I liked the birds and wanted it to be about the birds, not the…)#19 – GirlsGoGames – This one’s a tad obscure but I played this site all the time as a kid. There was a game called “Pony In The City” where you took a quiz every day and got a pony, you could sign up for an account which I did – my username was “kittylover200159” or something like that.
Weird cartoon shorts from my childhood. From left-to-right: Bernard, Leon, The Owl and The Dukes of Broxstonia
On ABC3 there were ads for upcoming shows (eg: “Total Drama – new episodes on Tuesdays at 7:30pm”) but no ads for actual products/toys/whatever. That meant they had to fill the space with these weird cartoon shorts instead. I remember four in particular, which are pictured above. None of them have talking in them – just the characters making grunting noises and onomatopoeia (eg: animal noises).
Bernard – This short is about a cartoon polar bear (NOT Ice Bear from We Bare Bears!) called Bernard. The shorts basically revolve around him trying to live his life but always messing up, like trying to play tennis or sports but the other animals keep beating him and laughing about it.
Leon – This short is about a cartoon lion (NOT Lion from Steven Universe!) I LOVED this show as a kid and I even had a DVD with all the shorts + shorts from The Owl on it and I watched it all the time! It’s basically about this lion and his life in the savanna. For example, one episode where there is this hippo who has a crush on him, and another episode where a monkey laughs and uses a giraffe like a robot to annoy Leon. And another episode where this zebra keeps screaming because it wants flowers, and at the end a piece of mountain crushes Leon, with the flower on top, then the zebra eats it. Poor Leon!
The Owl – This short is about a owl (NOT Hedwig from Harry Potter!) who tries to mind her own business but some other animals or interference come along, annoy her and then the owl always DIES/EXPLODES at the end of every episode. I LOVED this show too and had it on DVD too (I had a DVD with both Leon AND The Owl shorts on it) and I thought that the owl exploding at the end was funny… RIP Kenny Owl. (because just like Kenny from South Park, the owl dies at the end of every episode…)
The Dukes Of Broxstonia – This show is about a rock/metal/whatever band (NOT Loded Diper from Diary Of A Wimpy Kid!) and their crazy adventures. Very trippy show that looks like it should be on Adult Swim. It makes no sense whatsoever and I’m convinced that the animators, writers, etc were all on drugs while making this.
Good old ABC3. This channel was a big part of my childhood and I have so many fond memories of it.
If you’re American, or from some other country that isn’t Australia, chances are you might not know what I’m talking about when I mention “ABC3” (or you might). But I’m pretty sure most ‘Strayans remember this amazing channel before the atrocity known as ABCME took over.
The ABC3 website (now ABCME) was full of Flash games you could play. I remember playing a lot of them as a kid, and to this day you can actually still play some of the games from my childhood. Two of my favourites were Shaun The Sheep game “Home Sheep Home” and Haunt The House (perfect for Halloween!) Yep, if you go to those links, you can actually play said games. Honestly, both of them still genuinely hold up for me to this day, so feel free to check ’em out 😀
I went off-topic there with the mention of the Flash games, but it doesn’t matter. They’re part of my amazing Aussie ABC3 childhood I would have never experienced if I wasn’t Aussie. (Whew, I’m very patriotic today – or should I say, tonight since I’m staying up past my bedtime on a schoolnight!) Now let’s discuss some of the Aussie shows of ABC3, what they’re about and what I remember about them!
The Adventures Of Figaro Pho – This was a show about this guy and his robot dog and all the episodes cover different phobias/fears. It’s a creative concept but this show was disturbing to me as a kid, so I wasn’t a fan.
Behind The News – A news program for kids. I remember we watched this show back in 5th grade and learnt how to take notes from this show! It’s actually a good show – it maturely talks about world issues and news to kids in a way they can understand without being condescending or sugar-coated. This definitely holds up well.
CJ The DJ – This DJ girl and her friends. Never really was interested but at the same time I didn’t despise it either. I remember this episode where they were doing a performance and one of the characters tried to kill a cockroach, thus accidentally creating a dance called “The Cockroach” and winning the contest? Dunno.
Gasp! – Show about this fish called Gasp who has a crush on Ginger, a 10 year old girl who owns him (Yes…) a cat called Catflap, a dog called Dogbox and a bug/beetle called Beetlenick. I watched this show – I liked it back then, but these days most of the episodes are kind of forgettable.
Good Game Spawn Point – Two gamers, Hex and Bajo and a robot called Darren who talk about and review video games. I remember the running gag, “Darren is a noooooob” and the questions gamers sending in having facial emotes for Hex and Bajo to pronounce. (eg: “how do i make a nether portal in minecraft hex please pronounce these faces: ^-^ 😀 owo :P”). I used to like this show.
Prank Patrol – This guy called Scotty and two ninjas who go around and help some kid perform a prank on their friends. For example, I remember one episode had fortune cookies with true fortunes in them and another involved a dancing gorilla breaking out of its enclosure if I recall correctly. There was also running gags with the ninjas (one male, one female) pranking Scotty who would then yell “Ninjas!” My favourite part of the show were the ninjas and the “Recipe For A Prank” segments which showed a girl and boy pranking each other. I remember one of the segments was about putting boiled eggs in milk, and another involved the classic caramel onions disguised as caramel apples.
Almost Naked Animals – Flash cartoon full of gross-out humour and annoying characters. Plot twist: I LOVED this show as a kid and so did my siblings, but even back then the gross-out humour still made me feel nauseous. Show about this dog called Howie who runs a hotel called Banana Kabana with all these other animals. Looking back, this show is TERRIBLE and the animation/art style is ugly. One episode was about the “Earwax Elf” who brings you presents when you pull earwax out of your ears. Another was about a Venus Flytrap called Hank. That’s the type of humour this show has.
Camp Lakebottom – Teletoon show. That should immediately give you an idea of what the animation style and humour would be like. If you guessed Flash animation and fart jokes, CONGRATULATIONS! You’re correct! This is a show about McGee and his friends that go to a camp where the staff are a sasquatch, zombie and an old lady, all of whom look creepy but are friendly. I thought this show was a bit gross-out for my tastes but I didn’t mind sitting through it while waiting for something else. These days when it comes to camp shows, I’ll stick to Camp Camp. (Camp Camp is AMAZING but it’s not relevant to this list. Oh, and it contains swearing and stuff.)
Dani’s House – Sitcom about a girl or something. I don’t remember. I thought it was boring except for the aliens. The aliens were the best part in child me’s opinion.
The Day My Butt Went Psycho – Yep, we Aussies have an entire cartoon about talking butts! Based on the book series by Andy Griffith (I read a lot of his books growing up), this show follows adventures of Zack Freeman and his TALKING BUM Deuce and how they fight bums with toilet paper and stuff – “bumfighting” as they call it. I thought this show was actually quite funny back when I was little.
Deltora Quest – An Australian anime based off book series by Emily Rodda. I remember watching a full episode of the show in 4th grade at the end of the term when all our work was done and the teacher put movies and stuff on. I thought it was pretty decent though I never caught the full series.
Detentionare – Teletoon show about protagonist Lee who gets detention because of a massive prank at school. Never was interested in this but sat through it while waiting for other stuff.
Erky Perky – Show about two bugs who had a good LOIF AT HOTDOG STAND (Yes, it became a bit of a meme). I used to like this one, it wasn’t my favourite but it was good enough. However recently I rewatched it and now I don’t like it as much as I used to – I used to hate Margaret for being a grumpy old cow but now I think Margaret is the only sane character who is only grumpy because of all the other characters which are all incredibly annoying driving her bonkers. Especially Stinks. He is literally a fart joke on legs (he flies by farting and every 0.002 seconds he’s on screen, green fart gas and fart noises come out of him) and has the most annoying voice in the world. (He sounds like a nasally brat who inhaled a helium balloon)
Fleabag Monkeyface – The epitome of gross-out. Contains enough vulgar gross-out humour to make The Day My Butt Went Psycho! look like Steven Universe. Fleabag Monkeyface is DISGUSTING and I hated this show as a kid. It’s about a monkey who was born from a toilet who has fart, burp, booger and earwax-related powers. Plus the CGI is extremely ugly. AVOID THIS AT ALL COSTS! It’s probably one of the WORST shows to ever have been made.
Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids – Show that taught cautionary tales. This show was EXTREMELY DISTURBING but taught life lessons. As a kid I saw the episode about the “Spelling Bee” and a girl who put a bee inside her ear so she could pass a spelling bee, which turned out to be a queen bee and then in her sleep she left her window open and all these bees flew into her nostrils, ears, etc and took over and turned her body into a living beehive. Even to this day, that sounds like a concept that would give me nightmares and is actually disturbing me as I type this. The stories all had morals and they were basically made to scare kids into NOT doing the wrong thing (like not to cheat on exams) like fairy tales back in the day. And most of the kids were pompous jerks who made bad decisions.
Grojband – Show about four kids in a band. They also write songs by getting their sister’s diary. I loved this one.
Grossology – Show about gross-out stuff, but was apparently also educational. As a kid I hated this show.
Horrible History – Educational show which teaches about history. I hated this when I was little just because it took up the time slot of another show I loved but with that aside, this is actually a genuinely interesting show. I love how they leave all the gruesome information in rather than sugar-coating it like other media does.
Kid VS Kat – Teletoon decided they wanted their own Invader Zim, and thus this show was born. It’s about this alien cat who constantly gets the main character Coop in trouble. I used to like it, though these days it’s easy to see that the characters and animation are kinda… bleh.
Kobushi – Not much information online about this one but I remember it was this weird show about these sushi people who were constantly stalked by this weird cat who wanted to eat them and kept fantasising about eating the sushi people. But the sushi people always fought back. As a kid I thought it was stupid and I wanted the cat to succeed because the sushi people were just that one-dimensional.
MI High – Show about super agent school kids. Don’t know much about this besides that but yeah, I do remember it. Younger me only liked cartoons so I payed little attention to live action stuff.
Nerds and Monsters – Oh god that pterodactyl looks like that “MMM” Skeksis from The Dark Crystal. Hated this show. Stupid cheap Flash cartoon full of fart jokes. Also, nerd stereotypes.
Numb Chucks – Terrible show. Even as a kid I hated this garbage and always thought this show was stupid. The sheep is a Squidward ripoff and it’s full of fart jokes. I remember one episode revolves around Squidward the sheep farting in a jar and then the stupid beavers get lucky off the “Lucky fart”. Yeah, don’t watch this garbage.
Oggy And The Cockroaches – A cat called Oggy trying to kill these three cockroaches. Essentially, Tom and Jerry but with cockroaches. I loved Tom and Jerry as a kid, so I liked this too, though I didn’t love it as much as Tom and Jerry.
Pixel Pinkie – Annoying, unlikable genie that comes from a cell phone. Even when I was little, I thought Pixel Pinkie was annoying and unlikable. This show is terrible and you should avoid it at all costs.
Rated “A” for Awesome – Show about four kids trying to make things “awesome” instead of lame. The CGI is a bit strange but has a distinct style to it. A lot of bright oversaturated colours. Was mostly neutral on this show back in the day, but looking at it now it seems a bit bland and its TvTropes page even says some people find it to be a rip-off of Phineas and Ferb, so in my opinion, this show is Rated “A” for Awful.
Ruby Gloom – My favourite character was the black cat! This show was creepy yet cute and had a gothic/Halloween vibe to it. I liked it. Pretty good show. Also a lot of people seem to like this too.
Sally Bollywood – A detective girl and her incompetent white friend called Doowee. As a kid I hated this show because I thought it was predictable and had annoying characters, but looking back I think the Indian theme was pretty neat and it was good to have Indian culture/food (I remember an episode with samosas, an Indian food) portrayed in a kids cartoon because most protagonists in kids shows are white. Besides the cultural diversity (something I don’t notice in lots of kid shows) I thought this was just “meh” of a show.
Shaun The Sheep – A show about a bunch of sheep. It was made by the same people who made Wallace and Gromit. This show has a quirky, pleasant and distinctive art style, and shows the fun hijinx of a flock of sheep. Plus not to mention that super fun Shaun The Sheep flash game I mentioned earlier!
Spliced – Ah, another Teletoon show. A show about a bunch of animals spliced together. I used to watch it a lot, but the episodes were a bit disturbing at times. Apparently it was based off Ren and Stimpy.
Yoohoo and Friends – I used to love this show. My favourite character was Pammee. It’s about these people who destroyed the environment, so Father Time turns them into cutesy critters who have to collect gems to get a wish.
Those were just a few of the many shows I remember from ABC3.
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