Too Gross For Most
Boogers, farts, and bugs are the prime ingredients in gross-out humor for kids. Nickelodeon’s Mr. Meaty went further, adding a dash of blood, cannibalism, and a girlfriend made of meat various DNA samples from multiple human girls. The show was aimed at older kids and teens but broadcast on several channels catered to a younger audience who hated it as much as their parents and the outraged vegetarians.
There wasn’t only one offending episode. The entire series is guilty of stomach-churning stories like their fast-food version of Alien that used a tapeworm as a way to school kids on the moral perils of gluttony and greed. It also felt grimy with the foam latex puppets always looking like they needed a tube of ChapStick and a bottle of Proactiv.