TV Rá-Tim-Bum

TV Rá-Tim-Bum is a Brazilian television channel founded on December 1, 2004, which belongs to the Fundação Padre Anchieta, dedicated to children. The initial proposal of the channel was to contain programming 100% composed of national productions focused on children and education, divided between children's programs that have already been shown on TV Cultura, own productions and co-productions with Brazilian animation studios from various states.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) The channel is nothing more than a shameless Discovery Kids rip-off.
 * 2) The channel is limited to Brazilian content only, ignoring any shows made in another country, in addition to being limited to educational content only.
 * 3) The original productions of the channel are all very lazy and cheap, especially when it comes to cartoons that have a very low budget.
 * 4) Many of the channel's original cartoons are always canceled in the first season and have very short episodes.
 * 5) The shows have excessive reruns, especially when it comes to the original shows that have few episodes because they have only one season.
 * 6) For a moment the channel even broadcast the infamous cartoons of Vídeo Brinquedo like: The Little Cars, Little Bees and Little Princess School.
 * 7) The channel was also responsible for the debut of bad shows like mh:terribletvshows:Simão e Bartolomeu and mh:terribletvshows:Newbie and the Disasternauts.
 * 8) Lack of originality in the creation of the characters as for example: DJ Cão is used as a Doki (Discovery Kids mascot) equivalent for the channel. Eugênio Pitanga (protagonist from the cartoons Isso Disso and Blog do Geninho) is a rip-off of Lewis Robinsons from Meet the Robinsons.
 * 9) In 2015 the channel tried to redeem itself by finally broadcasting shows from other countries, while mh:besttvshows:Pororo the Little Penguin was a decent debut for the channel also debuted the terrible mh:terribletvshows:Nutri Ventures – The Quest for the 7 Kingdoms. And unfortunately these were the only non-Brazilian shows that aired on the channel, since in 2016 the channel stopped showing foreign shows again.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) The name of the channel is a reference to the renowned 90s show mh:besttvshows:Rá-Tim-Bum (and by extension mh:besttvshows:Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum and mh:besttvshows:Ilha Rá-Tim-Bum) that served as inspiration for many children's shows on TV Cultura after 1994.
 * 2) The channel broadcasts reruns of great classic children's shows from TV Cultura as Rá-Tim-Bum, mh:besttvshows:Mundo da Lua, Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum, mh:besttvshows:Cocoricó, Ilha Rá-Tim-Bum, the Brazilian version of Sesame Street, mh:besttvshows:Qual É, Bicho?, mh:besttvshows:Catalendas, mh:besttvshows:X-Tudo, mh:besttvshows:Bambalalão, mh:besttvshows:Bambaleão e Silvana and others.
 * 3) Many of the shows are educational and teach topics such as arts, science, jobs, geography and other subjects to children.