This is one of the stupidest shows ever. It is the perfect example of why you should not let cartoon channels get ahold of your movies: they will turn it into garbage like this. This show has some of the most cliched jokes ever (i.e. tons of potty humor, people smashing into stuff, stinky people) and I believe I lost several thousand brain cells while watching. If you do not want to be shipped away to a mental hospital, do yourself a favor and DO NOT watch this idiotic excuse for a show.
George of the Jungle
(Rated TV-G, Kids and animation, Starring Brittney Irvin, Lee Tockar, Paul Dobson, Where to watch: Cartoon Network)
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Dumb jokes, crass humor, dubious lessons.
Why We Rated This 
for Ages 5–8
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What Parents Need to Know
This review of George of the Jungle was written by KJ Dell Antonia
Parents need to know that this flashy, rapid-scene-changing cartoon isn't the best fit for very young children, who may be disoriented by the swiftly moving backgrounds and won't be able to follow the story. The show also includes plenty of consequence-free cartoon violence (clubbing, fighting) and gross-out potty humor on a junior level -- nose picking, butt slapping, toe licking (of George's own toes; it's silly, not sexual) -- without much in the way of redeeming qualities or positive lessons.
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What’s the Story?
GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE is nominally a remake of the classic cartoon series that ran briefly in the late '60s -- but other than the title and the hero's habit of referring to himself in the third person, it has little in common with its predecessor. This new George (voiced by Lee Tockar) has no Tarzan-like backstory, there are plenty of other humans in the jungle (mostly "jungle girls"), and other than in the opening credits, he never runs into a tree while swinging on his vine.
Is It Any Good?
George of the Jungle is set in a jungle whose inhabitants inexplicably include rabbits and pandas, as well as every "normal" jungle species. Given that they all talk, it's hard to see why the pandas should be so hard to swallow -- but somehow they're representative of the show's thrown-together approach to plot and humor. Even a mildly funny set-up -- George convinces the predators to eat vegetables while the jungle girls teach the smaller animals to be more assertive -- dissolves into a feeble pay-off, paying lip service to the need to restore the natural order but never managing to either do so or to be funny about it.
The primary trouble with George is that it's neither fish nor fowl -- it's meant for families to watch together, but it's too complicated for younger viewers and has little to offer parents. It's a hard balance to strike, and George has missed it.
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I rate this title on for age 2 and give it
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Really stupid show
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It's the best yet. My cousin watches it.
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What Chalkzone should of been like
Don't waist you time looking for "Chalkzone" on the schdule & Instead watch a smart dumb-people comdey comdey with better voice-acting, animation, & Plots. peace out & Chalkzone is a waist of Time
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This show is rated TV-Y7
Listen to the rating on top. This is not TV-G. Example: Once they said something like, so if we say think you, something bad happends to us. Have common sense commonsense media. This is a bad influence for younger children
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