The first season of this particular Fantastic Four cartoon, along with its sister show, Iron Man, sucked.
It contained god awful animation (provided by Kennedy Cartoons and the Wang Film Corporation, who apparently had little experience at handling action-adventure shows) and character models (Dr. Doom and Silver Surfer in particular, looked atrocious), cheesy and corny humor (like that obnoxious British landlady that was voiced by Stan Lee's wife), idiotic storytelling (for example, Puppet Master successfully disguises his blind step daughter as Sue Storm-Richards) that seemed to often be resolved by Reed's latest deus ex machina-like invention, and an extremely dorky (but admittedly bouncy) sounding theme song.
It just looked really piss-poor (it just came off as strictly a cheesy kids show, that felt more at home in the '70s) when compared to other superhero cartoons of that era like X-Men, Spider-Man, Gargoyles, and Batman: The Animated Series.
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