Blog:Mateo Gets Grounded (Fake Series)

Mateo Gets Grounded (often abbreviated as MGG) is a web series created by Jibby (formerly JibbyAnimate from 2021 to Aug. 2022) and has aired on YouTube since October 15, 2021 and concluded November 8, 2022. The show is animated in Wrapper Offline (the GoAnimate/Vyond legacy video maker) and has over 8 Million views on YouTube.

Plot
12 year old Mateo Ryderson does "bad stuff" (from minor offenses like swearing at a teacher to serious stuff like starting a massacre to blowing up a school bus.) and gets grounded for long periods of time.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) This is probably the absolute worst grounded series that has ever been made, for a ton of reasons explained below.
 * 2) A lot of the characters are either unlikable or just plain boring.
 * 3) *Mateo Ryderson himself is a very unlikable protagonist and butt-monkey, as he did a lot of bad things such as blowing up a school bus and also started a massacre and killed dozens of people, he is also shown to be quite a bully at school.
 * 4) *Lance Ryderson, Mateo's father, is probably the worst character in the show and has no redeeming qualities, as he is a VERY abusive father to Mateo and also gives him violent punishment days. In one episode called "Mateo's Nightmare Punishment Day", he downright raped Mateo and caused semen to be all over the room. Not only does this count as incest and sexual abuse, it can also count as pedophilia since MATEO IS ONLY 12 YEARS OLD AND HE IS 35
 * 5) *Susan Ryderson, while not as bad as Lance, is also unlikable because she always sides with Lance and is also a terrible mother. She also called the police on her neighbors just because they're black, which implies that she is racist. She is also openly homophobic, as she beats up Mateo just because he like My Little Pony and was gay, and also banned Mateo from being gay and grounded him for 1000 years.
 * 6) *Ian, Mateo's 9 Year old brother, is unlikable due to him being a spoiled brat, he also redid the 9/11 attacks and blamed Mateo for it! what's worse is that the GOVERNMENT AND HIS FAMILY SIDE WITH HIM AND BRUTALLY KILL MATEO AT THE END. He also never gets punished for his actions, making him a karma houdini.
 * 7) The "voice acting", as if you would call it, is awful, as it's just a bunch of text to speech voices, just like most Vyond videos.
 * 8) The animation is atrocious, as it's done in Comedy World, the most common theme for grounded videos.
 * 9) The episodes all follow the same format: Mateo does something bad, he gets grounded for long periods of time.
 * 10) In some episodes, they would end with Mateo getting brutally executed (from lethal injection to getting shot by a police officer).
 * 11) Tons of unfunny and terrible episodes, such as:
 * 12) *Mateo Misbehaves At McDonald's (a lousy way to start the show)
 * 13) *Mateo Plays and Gets Banned from ROBLOX
 * 14) *Mateo's First Day Of School
 * 15) *Mateo plays GTA V
 * 16) *Mateo Catches A Cold (really?! you can get grounded for catching a cold?!)
 * 17) *Mateo Gets In Dead Meat
 * 18) *Mateo's Nightmare Punishment Day (by far the worst episode in the series.)
 * 19) *Mateo Steals Mario Party Superstars
 * 20) *Mateo Burns The House
 * 21) *Mateo Robs The Bank
 * 22) *Mateo Escapes Prison
 * 23) *Mateo Goes Nude In Pubic (Can also be counted as the worst episode)
 * 24) *As a matter of fact, all episodes are terrible (Except for Mateo's Revenge)
 * 25) Even the creator, Jibby, hated this series, but continued to make more episodes.
 * 26) Some of these episodes can even break YouTube's Guidelines! "Mateo's Nighmare Punishment Day" and "Mateo Goes Nude In Public" are the perfect examples.
 * 27) This series was so bad that Jibby cancelled the series after 2 seasons and 26 episodes, and only aired on YouTube for a year, before Jibby shut down his channel, which made the series impossible to find.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Thankfully, Mateo gets punished for his actions (despite his punishments being taken too far)
 * 2) Some likable characters like The Smith Family (Eric, David, Ivy, Kate and Diesel), PaRappa, Master Shake, Dan Hamming (Sometimes), and Mateo can be likable in some episodes (i.e. Mateo's Revenge)
 * 3) Some lines can be unintentionally funny, such as:
 * 4) *"It's Punishment Day!"
 * 5) *"Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!"
 * 6) *"OH MY FUCKING GOD HOW FUCKING DARE YOU CATCH A FUCKING COLD!"
 * 7) The finale: Mateo's Revenge is the only good episode in the series, as it ends with Mateo pressing charges against his family for all the bad things they did to him, it also ends with Mateo getting adopted by the Smiths, marries his Girlfriend in the future, and has children, which was really heartwarming.
 * 8) *On top of that, Lance and Susan were sentenced to life in prison and both got executed by lethal injection for killing Mateo multiple times throughout the series. Ian was also sentenced to 6 months at The Go!City Juvenile Corrections Facility and had to serve 38 days of community service until he was also adopted by The Smiths. Ian also began to change his ways and became a better person.

Episodes With Their Own Pages
"Mateo's Nighmare Punishment Day"

Trivia

 * When Jibby shut down his channel, all his videos were deleted, including MGG, which made the series hard to find, until they were reuploaded on January 27, 2023 on Internet Archive, including "Mateo's Nightmare Punishment Day"
 * Speaking of which, "Mateo's Nightmare Punishment Day" was removed after 1 month for violating YT's Guidelines.