1. Tyrenol

Highly commercialized marketing crap created to dazzle the kids and make money from their parents. But this is more than just another hop onto the Pokemon bandwagon. The show had less "looks like Team Rocket's blasting off again" and more of what the original Pocket Monsters had been lacking all this time: SKILL.

Brought to the US with guns edited from out of the hands and seizure-causing special effects toned down; "Yu-Gi-Oh / King of Games" is about the young Yugi Moto and the "millenium item" which transforms him into a hard-edged card commando. He and his friends go through their adventures, straighten out their rivals, and defeat the bad guys by playing a card game with is now just as popular as Pokemom. It's brainless... But at least it doesn't send people flying to the sky every episode.