Teenage Fairytale Dropouts tells the story of three teenagers (well duh) who are related to popular characters from classic stories. We have Trafalgar (AKA high contender for worst name ever) who is nephew to Merlin, Jeremiah, who is the son of the giant from Jack and the Beanstalk, and Fury, who is the tooth fairy's daughter. And the gimmick behind these characters is that they each have something that doesn't make them as good as their fairytale relatives. Jeremiah isn't gigantic, Fury doesn't have fairy wings, and Trafalgar sucks at magic.
Stories base themselves on our main characters often getting themselves in trouble, and having to learn from their mistakes. For example, in the episode "Winged Fury", Fury thinks she's finally growing wings due to her back being itchy. This gains her popularity with the other rather jerkish fairies. However it turns out it's just a rash, and after more mayhem, all is back to status quo by the end of the episode. Each episode runs about two 11 minute episodes.
The show is far from horrible, or to the level most of my inductions usually get to. The characters do have their charms, and there's nothing that overall comes off as bad for kids to watch. But the problem is there really isn't much substance to this show to make you want more after maybe one or two episodes. The comedy isn't particularly all that strong, and the voice acting is okay at best.
On the animation side, it's very basic flash animation for a TV series. Understandable since the show isn't exactly on the biggest budget ever, but compared to better cartoons that have managed to do some excellent work with flash budget limitations, this looks inferior in comparison.
And in the end, the idea of fairy tale schools and even just schools with magic involved have been done in better cartoons. A good example being the often forgotten "Ultimate Book of Spells" cartoon that aired in the early 2000's. The concept is far from new or fresh, and this cartoon, while some of its concepts are interesting, just feels like the same old idea.
So is it crap? I don't think it's worth inducting since nothing about it feels like an atrocity. Trust me, I've seen worse with this type of story (ugh, Little Princess School). But it's also nothing fantastic either. So for my first one of these reviews, I give the cartoon in question "Teenage Fairytale Dropouts" a MEH rating.