11 Bizarre '90s Cartoons That Only Ran One Season

1. Little Shop Of Horrors

Dumb and Dumber may have looked cheap, but at least it's animation company had a history of entertainment with fast-and-dirty animation. There's really no excuse for the rushed, incomplete look of Fox's Little Shop.

It isn't that far of a leap to go from hit musical to animated series, and Frank Oz' adaptation of the off-Broadway show made it even more accessible. Roger Corman, who directed the original black comedy, even served as creative consultant. The show even intended to keep the musical aspect, with each episode featuring a number.

But nothing else is retained. The protagonist, Seymour Krelborn, is still working in a flower shop (the musical's ending, in which he and his love interest were eaten by the killer venus fly trap that then took over earth, was already changed in the theatrical film). However, he was thirteen now.

The plant was no longer voiced by The Four Tops' Levi Stubbs, nor did it feast on human blood. All of this would be a problem if the show wasn't horrendously ugly. The animation appears as if it were done with minutes to spare before airing, and the music was generally bad.

It was a show no one asked for, made in the laziest way imaginable, which didn't have a place in nineties kid's entertainment.

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