Planet Drooper

Planet Drooper is an 2010-2013 American animated television series. It is the third television series in the Banana Splits franchise, as well as a spin-off of The Banana Splits Adventure Hour. The series was picked up for 26 episodes by Cartoon Network for its first, and only season. Carlos Alazraqui returned as the voice of Drooper the Lion, and Bob Joles and Frank Welker are the voices of Nesmith and Doppy. The series was done by Cartoon Network Studios. Planet Drooper premiered on Cartoon Network on October 2, 2010 in the United States. The series aired its final episode on February 15, 2013.

Plot
After sneaking into the laboratory and finding the new rocket ship, Drooper the Lion accidentally blasts himself into outer space when he disobeys Fleegle the Dog's warning note ("Drooper, do not press this button") and presses the button Fleegle mentioned in his note. 4,000,001 lightyears away, Drooper crashes on Zeenu—an odd planet inhabited by aliens called Zeenunians. Soon after the crash, Drooper wants to go home, but his rocket ship was smashed when he flew into a house belonging to a Zeenunian named Dorkus.

Dorkus (who was one of the chief advisers to the Emperor) is furious that Drooper destroyed his home, and stole his job as supreme royal advisor from him, and intends to destroy him alongside his minion Pinter. Unfortunately, the Emperor takes a liking to Drooper and thwarts his plans at every turn.

Much of the show is centered around Drooper fixing his rocket, working for the Emperor and annoying Dorkus with his antics and wild destruction, and Dorkus trying (and failing) to get back at him for it. While on Zeenu, Drooper makes many new friends, some of which include Doppy Doppweiler (a green alien who resembles Bingo the Gorilla), the Emperor (the grand head ruler of Zeenu, who firmly believes Drooper is a supernatural creature that will bring joy to Zeenu), Nesmith (an intelligent chimpanzee from Earth who excels in subjects such as math and engineering), Princess Oom (the emperor's daughter who develops a crush on Drooper, which he does not appreciate), and a Zeenunian girl named Aseefa who becomes Drooper's crush and knows how to yodel. Aseefa has a pet Choctow (the most feared and dangerous creature on Zeenu) named Chock-Chock.

Besides Drooper, none of the other Banana Splits characters appear nor are mentioned in this series. Bingo did make a cameo in a flashback and Fleegle was mentioned while Drooper was looking at the rocket but didn't appear either. It is unknown why Fleegle and the others didn't go looking for Drooper.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) The main problem with this series is that the idea of a series centering on a character like Drooper the Lion is unoriginal, lazy and not a good idea, since Drooper was designed to be a comic relief and not a protagonist.
 * 2) * On that topic, Drooper himself was also flanderized from being a supportive and actually funny animal that had a character, to being a rather annoying, aggravating, and unfunny animal with barely any character and with the personality of Jar Jar Binks from the Star Wars franchise.
 * 3) Laughable and forgettable theme song, which is all just random things being sung in a deep monotone voice.
 * 4) Despite the premise of Drooper attempting to return to Earth, Drooper actually doesn't have any concern with returning throughout the series. On that topic, Drooper decides to stay and live on Zeenu in the final episode, making it end on an obvious cliffhanger.
 * 5) * In fact, it also ends with Nesmith (the Butt Monkey of the show) getting a cold, only to get worse near the end of the episode.
 * 6) Aside from Drooper, none of the other characters from the original series are in the show.
 * 7) Very poor, uncreative, and laughable character names. For example, the main villain of the show is named Dorkus.
 * 8) The animation is cheap looking, poor and lazy for 2010 standards. Adding insult to injury, The Banana Splits Adventure Hour looks better than this.
 * 9) Mostly bad voice acting, even from actors such as Carlos Alazraqui and Fred Tatasciore. However, Bob Joles does give a good performance as Nesmith.
 * 10) Nesmith can be considered a Butt-Monkey, a character who gets hurt for no apparent reason. The same can be said for Dorkus, the main antagonist.
 * 11) Most of the new characters in the series are merely dumb replacements for the characters from the original show. For example, the character Doppy is basically Bingo the Gorilla but as an alien. He has the same body shape and eyes, personality and even the same current voice actor of Bingo, Frank Welker. In fact, The Mysterious Mr. Enter even just called him Bingo in his review of the show because of this. Oh, and did we mention he's basically an alien Bingo?
 * 12) This show has a lot of gross-out and toilet humor, which is unlike the original show where gross out humor was not common.
 * 13) * On that topic, the episode "Is This Cute?" features a pony with a rainbow mane named Boh-Rok who is feared by the aliens, shoots out snot and picks people up with his nose hair, all of which are disgusting for audiences.
 * 14) Outdated boyish and girlish stereotypes that are very annoying, especially the latter.
 * 15) Aseefa isn’t as good as a love interest for Drooper in here like Hooty the Owl in the original show was.
 * 16) It is most likely a franchise killer for The Banana Splits, which means, since the show's cancellation, there have been no attempts at making any continuation or spin-off of the series and that CN basically ignores the franchise. But as of 2017, Cartoon Network confirmed that The Banana Splits will indeed return.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) At least Drooper's voice actor, Carlos Alazraqui, reprised his role in the show.
 * 2) Drooper's character design is still identical to his original design and hasn't changed.
 * 3) Bingo does make a cameo in a flashback in "Is This Cute?".
 * 4) Again, Bob Joles gives a pretty good performance as Nesmith.
 * 5) At least some of the crew of the original show, including the creators, were involved in this show.
 * 6) The animation is good in plenty of episodes.
 * 7) The pilot episode was decent.

Trivia

 * There was originally going to be a television film finale, in which Fleegle, Bingo, Snorky, and Hooty go to Zeenu to find Drooper and bring him back to Earth, but it was cancelled due to the series' failure.
 * Bingo was originally going to be part of the series and it would've been about both Bingo and Drooper stealing the rocket, but it was changed to being just about Drooper due to executive meddling and so, Doppy was created.
 * The show wasn't going to be a spin-off and was actually going to be a show called "Red Acres"; the show was supposed to be about some random fast food worker who got launched into space and crash landed onto a planet with hillbilly aliens, but Nickelodeon didn't pick it up and it was moved to Cartoon Network and was retooled into this.