- [Announcer] They say imitation is the highest form of flattery. So I'm sure that animation studios are always very flattered when people blatantly rip-off
their original content and create terrible versions of art that they spend untold hours
writing and then animating. I can really only imagine
just how honored they felt by the following ten ripoffs. (comical music)
- Amazing! (comical music) - [Announcer] Number 10: The
Amazing World of Gumball. Writing and trying to come
up with jokes is pretty hard. I should know because I'm trying to do both of
those things right now. Creating original characters who have their own unique
look and personality is also pretty hard. Here in America, if you try and get around how hard these things are by copying someone too closely, so closely that a teacher
would definitely catch you, you will get sued so hard
you'll be back to buying the $1 loafs of bread that
dissolve in your mouth. But in China, where things
are a teensy bit looser, you can largely just ignore copyright law. And thus, Miracle Star was born. I mean just look at it. They swapped out cats for goats and your typical American suburban house for a big commie-blockish
Chinese apartment building, and that's just about it. It's such an obvious
rip-off that Cartoon Network actually made an episode
called The Copycats about the main characters
discovering a family that imitates them. Number nine: Gravity Falls. Meanwhile, in another country that doesn't have the strictest
of copyright laws, Russia, we have this pretty blatant
rip-off of Gravity Falls. You can tell just from watching the intro that it's basically the same thing. The story follows a young boy drawn in a very familiar looking but noticeably less fluid animation style who is sent off to a rural
village way out in the woods not to spend time with Uncle Stan, but so that he can learn
the Tartar language. And, obviously, so that he can
have paranormal adventures, as you can tell by his wacky interaction with this Groot looking guy. You've also got this chick,
who is obviously Mabel, I mean just look at the sweater. I'm pretty concerned about
what exactly is going on in this scene though. I would not get into a
motorcycle sidecar with that man. Possibly Russia has more lax standards on what can and can't be
in children's cartoons. Number eight: Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
has been around so long that they have a lot more
than just one rip-off. Take for instance, Kung Fu Dino Posse, which even kept the reptile
and Asian fighting style in the very title. It really is just the same thing, this bunch of young reptiles fights crime with the power of
martial arts in the city. You've also got the slightly
more creatively named The Adventure of T-Rex. Less creative though
is their animal choice. Whereas Kung Fu Dino Posse
at least had a whole posse of different kinds of dinosaurs, The Adventures of T-Rex
is straight T-Rexes, as you may have guessed. It's about a group of reptile brothers who fight crime at night and each have their own special color. Does this remind you of anything? The fact that you probably
never even heard of either of these shows
really goes to show that nothing can replace the original turtles. Maybe it really is the
irony of the fact that turtles in real life are slow
and don't know martial arts that really makes TMNT stand
out from the imposters. Number seven: Scooby-Doo. Do you enjoy shows that
feature a gang of teenagers and their talking dog solving mysteries, but are just sick and tired
of watching Scooby-Doo? Luckily for you, there's another
show that just so happens to fit this exact description:
Goober and the Ghost Chasers. That's not entirely fair, however, as there are actually
some major differences. For starters, Goober can turn invisible, making him way more powerful than Scooby. But the real thematic difference is that a lot of the time, the ghosts they catch do actually turn out to be real ghosts. So if you think about
it, the Ghost Chasers are way more powerful
than the Mystery Gang, since they're dealing with
real paranormal events and not just weirdos in costumes. They also drive a weird
military looking vehicle with six wheels instead of a groovy van. Could this mean that they represent the pro-Vietnam establishment of the 70s, and Scooby-Doo represents the hippies? I mean, probably not. What's also strange is that
Goober and the Ghost Chasers isn't exactly a rip-off,
since it was actually made by the same company as Scooby-Doo. Is it possible to rip-off yourself? I'm really not even sure. Number six: The Fairly Oddparents. A show about a kid who gets a magic being that will grant them wishes, but every episode their wish goes wrong and they have to fix it on their own. I've just described The Fairly Oddparents, but I've also just described the British, Canadian, Australian show Pixel Pinkie. In Pixel Pinkie, the main character Nina gets a phone on her birthday
that contains a digital genie that for some reason grants her wishes. Also, like Fairly Oddparents,
it must be kept a secret. There's no explanation for
why this happens though. To the credit of the Fairly Oddparents, there's a whole lore explaining
why Timmy got the fairies. This chick Nina just
gets a genie for free, she didn't even have to
suffer like Timmy did. Like most of these rip-off shows, you can tell that Pixel Pinkie
didn't have the same budget that Nickelodeon could afford
to give the Fairly Oddparents. Even one of the characters
on Pixel Pinkie, a guy named Coolest Luke,
was voiced by Nick Storr, who was also the sound
designer and audio engineer. I'm not exactly an insider
in the world of animation, but I'm pretty sure
that that's not normal. You kind of have to
respect the hustle though. Number five: Rocket Power. Honestly who even needs Rocket Power, that late 90s, early 2000s show about kids doing extreme sports,
which is pretty much all anyone was thinking about
during that time period. Who needs it when, in
2012, we got Wild Grinders? You probably think it's the same thing because it's a show about a bunch of kids doing extreme sports, and because it is actually the
same thing as Rocket Power. Well, take a closer look. Notice anything? That's right, the Wild Grinders, which I assume is what the main characters refer to themselves as, don't wear helmets except that one nerd looking
guy with the glasses. The characters on Rocket
Power are pansies who want to protect their skulls because
they're not really down with the hardcore extreme sports life. Wild Grinders might be a total rip-off, but they aren't afraid to die. Number four: South Park. Ever wish that there was a show that had South Park's art
style except slightly worse, and instead of being made in
America it was made in Kuwait? Block 13 is definitely the show for your bizarre taste in comedy. As you can clearly see, it is literally the exact same art style as South Park. But maybe that can sort of be forgiven because South Park itself is
pretty much the same art style as a kid playing on a felt board, right? Well the similarities don't stop there. Just look at this group
of kids right here. Seem a little familiar? We've obviously got Kuwaiti Cartman, wearing a traditional
taqiyah instead of a beanie. Then next to him we have
Kuwaiti Stan, I think, although I'm not sure
why he doesn't get a hat. Then there's who I'm going to say is Kyle, because his hat looks
more similar to Kyle's. The kid with the keffiyeh
covering his face is obviously Kenny. They even ripped off the joke of Kenny being inexplicably
killed in every episode. Does Block 13 also contain very topical satire of current events? I'm not sure, because I don't speak Arabic and there are no subtitled versions anywhere on the internet. Number three, Adventure Time. China's take on Adventure Time has given us the vague rip-off that is The Legend of Lucky Pie. The opening image alone should
make you very skeptical, since it features the
protagonist raising up his arm on top of a mountain toward
the title of the show. I wonder where they could
have gotten that cool idea. The animation style is
pretty similar as well, and you can see that the protagonist has got those classic
Adventure Time noodle limbs, as well as a backpack and very
square head just like Finn. Instead of Jake the dog,
he's got this talking horse, so at least that's different, although it may be worth mentioning that Adventure Time has that as well. Apparently there's no hard
feelings between the two shows, as Adventure Time storyboard
artist Steve Wolfhard called The Legend of
Lucky Pie cute on Twitter. Turkey also has their very
own Adventure Time rip-off, called Ibi, featuring the noodle-armed, backpack-wearing protagonist named Ibi and her animal companion, a turtle. Instead of a big whimsical tree house, she's got a big whimsical turtle house. In terms of actual story though, unlike The Legend of Lucky Pie, it's pretty different from Adventure Time. Ibi is about teaching kids
how to do math and stuff. There are still adventures,
but they're just excuses to get kids to learn about
numbers, kind of like Cyberchase. So I guess that's pretty different, although the style and character design is definitely ripped off. Number two: The Simpsons. There are dozens of different
dubs of The Simpsons that air all over the world
in all kinds of languages. But Georgia couldn't
just be a normal country and do that, oh no. Georgia just had to go ahead and create their very own rip-off of The
Simpsons, The Samsonadzes. Here's what the creator had
to say in justification of this three dimensional bizarre
take on the iconic show. In a way, it's actually
kind of respectable that he straight up admits
that the whole thing is a rip-off, not that
he really has a choice, because I mean, come on, just look at it. Everyone can tell anyway. And he's definitely not wrong about the show dealing with Georgian themes. One episode features a
shape-shifting Vladimir Putin, presumably something that the average Georgian has to
worry about occasionally. While it quickly became the second-most watched show in Georgia, apparently not everyone was into it. Maybe Georgian fans have just become jaded way faster than American
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on some amazing knowledge that could've filled your brain. Now, let's get back to it. Number one: Spongebob Squarepants Spongebob Squarepants, one of, if not the most popular
cartoon of all time. With its reputation being what it is, you just know that a rip-off was bound to happen at some point. And in 2006, the world got that rip-off, with Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island. You can pretty much
tell just from the intro what's going on. A tropical theme, even if it is on land
rather than underwater, and a cheery yet still
widely despised protagonist. Coconut Fred is kind of
like an unholy fusion of SpongeBob and The Annoying Orange. If that sounds like something you would rather not have
exist, you're not alone. The show was, like Coconut Fred on his island of fruit salad, not popular. So not popular that it
only lasted 13 episodes before getting canceled. - I hate this channel. - The voice of Coconut Fred, Rob Paulsen, has even said that it was nothing more than a shameless SpongeBob
Squarepants knockoff and that he didn't even like
thinking about the show. And, as a bonus, it's worth mentioning
the 2012 YouTube classic that some people have wrongfully promoted as a legitimate Chinese
copy: SpongeBob in China. It's kinda racist, kinda clever, and more of a parody than a rip-off, and may just be the most iconic piece of SpongeBbob-related internet meme-ery. If you haven't checked it out, you should! Are there any other weird
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