TV Rá-Tim-Bum

TV Rá-Tim-Bum is a Brazilian cable and satellite television channel. It launched on December 1, 2004.

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, such as:
 * 7) The Little Cars
 * 8) Little Bees
 * 9) Little Princess School
 * 10) The channel was also responsible for the debut of bad shows such as Simão e Bartolomeu and Newbie and the Disasternauts
 * 11) 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.
 * 12) In 2015 the channel tried to redeem itself by finally broadcasting shows from other countries, and while Pororo the Little Penguin was a decent debut for the channel, it also debuted the terrible mh:terribletvshows:Nutri Ventures – The Quest for the 7 Kingdoms. Unfortunately, these were the only non-Brazilian shows on the channel, and after this, the channel never aired non-Brazilian shows again

Redeeming Qualities

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