Great characters, great story, great voice actors. This show deserves a reboot on Nickelodeon or something!
4 Reviews
Outrageous Show!
aldeheid20 June 2000
Flying Rhino Junior High is the best show I had ever seen. It's funny and wild. It is funny and it's like a "Freaks and Geeks" meets "Jumanji" type show and it's good for kids and the whole family, too. Anyway, it doesn't have bad parts, it has only good, funny, and crazy parts, it can be a little bit insane because, it has parts that can freak me out like that little oompa-loompa like man with a hidden camera, but I wuv it.That girl in the pigtails is my favorite character and she's good and I hope she can talk to me. Ha. It's much better than watching "Arthur", "King of the Hill", and even "the Simpsons" too. It can be oh, so crazy that there would be animals in a junior high and a rhino as a principal, I would thought, "Is that creator insane? He's putting too much eerie-nous in his show, mmm. But I wuv it." It's funny and could freak me out. Although, it's like watching that PBS show, "Dragon Tales." It's cool and I wuv it.
Even your kids will hate this.
DakedoJones29 April 2011
I really thought I'd forgotten this show, since it last was televised when I was six years old, but it's beginning to be rerun on YTV. As well, when I noticed that this show only had one review on IMDb and that it was done by an over-enthusiastic child, I knew I needed to give my opinion.
Flying Rhino Junior High is one of those late nineties "educational" cartoons. As a kid I really had no idea what I was supposed to be learning, since usually the show will have a bit where the teacher with the starfish hair gives her class/you a lesson that The Phantom will eventually base his computer "hijinks" with. And I don't care if The Phantom's computer was magic or whatever...there is no way even in 1999 logic that a computer could do things like cause flesh and bone dinosaurs or enlarge preexisting bugs. The logic in this show is just so flawed that it hurts to think too much about it. And especially in this age of computers, some kid watching it is going to point out something like, "Wait, that's impossible!"
Nearly all of the central characters are intolerable, with the exception of Marcus, the good-hearted nerdy kid whom usually gets pushed around by the rest of the group. There's Billy the cocky and bland leader, Marcus's thoroughly detestable twin sister Ruby, and Lydia, an awkward-looking girl and Lisa Simpson clone. There's also this short ugly kid whom exists just to give off poop jokes, an archetypal dumb big guy who says "duh" a lot, and The Phantom's pet talking rat that I want to punch into the sun. All the character designs are made with geometric shapes, which was a good idea but looks repulsive when mixed in with the animation style.
This show had potential to be good. But jokes are thrown out only to fall with dull thuds, life lessons and educational segments are painfully forced, and the drawing style is painful to look at. I really can't believe Flying Rhino is being rerun again, since there's so many amazing 1990's cartoons that deserve airtime but aren't getting it.
Flying Rhino Junior High is one of those late nineties "educational" cartoons. As a kid I really had no idea what I was supposed to be learning, since usually the show will have a bit where the teacher with the starfish hair gives her class/you a lesson that The Phantom will eventually base his computer "hijinks" with. And I don't care if The Phantom's computer was magic or whatever...there is no way even in 1999 logic that a computer could do things like cause flesh and bone dinosaurs or enlarge preexisting bugs. The logic in this show is just so flawed that it hurts to think too much about it. And especially in this age of computers, some kid watching it is going to point out something like, "Wait, that's impossible!"
Nearly all of the central characters are intolerable, with the exception of Marcus, the good-hearted nerdy kid whom usually gets pushed around by the rest of the group. There's Billy the cocky and bland leader, Marcus's thoroughly detestable twin sister Ruby, and Lydia, an awkward-looking girl and Lisa Simpson clone. There's also this short ugly kid whom exists just to give off poop jokes, an archetypal dumb big guy who says "duh" a lot, and The Phantom's pet talking rat that I want to punch into the sun. All the character designs are made with geometric shapes, which was a good idea but looks repulsive when mixed in with the animation style.
This show had potential to be good. But jokes are thrown out only to fall with dull thuds, life lessons and educational segments are painfully forced, and the drawing style is painful to look at. I really can't believe Flying Rhino is being rerun again, since there's so many amazing 1990's cartoons that deserve airtime but aren't getting it.
Memories
rebcl1 September 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Favorite show growing up as a kid. The storylines were clean, it was hilarious and the characters were very diverse. The theme song was also really catchy and I still remember it. Sad that the show only lasted two years, it deserved more attention and appreciation, it was original.
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