I feel like this should be more of a rant, but oh well.
I know I'll sound like a right dimwit for bashing a kid's show I've never watched before, but I don't care. I've seen a few videos on YouTube of people reacting, criticizing and cringing at this show, so I guess I have the rights to say this is bad.
Anyway, Salty's Lighthouse was an animated cartoon that involves the adventures of an off-brand Dil Pickles and his sea life friends in a lighthouse where they learn pretty basic lessons, a song with a creepy, talking clock that is so hideous it needs to burn in a pit of acid and most recognisably, making up a story featuring footage of the late David Mitton's Tugs and butchering its characters in the worst way possible.
Now, tugs isn't really my thing, I'm more of a Theodore Tugboat boy, but I still find this show's redub of Tugs absolutely dire.

Now, for any of you who don't know what Tugs is, it was a British model show made by David Mitton in 1989 and is considered by it's massive cult of fans as a sister show to Thomas The Tank Engine. The series is set in the 1920s and was mostly targeted at older audiences. The series only lasted for 13 episodes and was narrated by the late great Patrick Allen. The show was even planned to have a second season, but it was sadly cancelled. The show's plot mostly involves the adventurous rivalry between our primary characters, The Star Tugs: Ten Cents, Big Mac, O.J, Top Hat, Warrior, Hercules and Sunshine; and their business rivals, the Z-Stacks: Zorran, Zebedee, Zak, Zip and Zug. One person I watch by the name of Steve Reviews did a video involving Tugs and mentioned it as being somewhat dark and he does seem to have a bit of a point with the episodes Ghosts and Munitions being full of creepy imagery, explosions and some episodes even having implied death threats (mostly the threat of being blown up by the navy, or being sunk). The show had a lot of other characters including Captain Star, Grampus, Bluenose, Burke and Blair, Billy Shoepack, The Fire Tug, Izzy Gomez, Sea Phantom, Boomer, Captain Zero, Lillie Lightship, Puffa, Little Ditcher, and Johnny Cuba.

Now our characters in Salty's Lighthouse as I have said include: Salty, our Rugrats reject who likes to use imagination, Ocho the tall octopus, Aunt Chovie, the owner of the lighthouse (with a very meagre pun in her name), Sophie and Sadie the twin seagulls, Claude the crab, five clams, a sentient pair of binoculars named Sea-more, a lightbulb with a face named Aurora who narrates the butchered atrocity which is the show's redub of Tugs and last of all, the nightmare fuel clock who announces song time segments.
The song time segments would play grayscale footage from Charlie Chaplin and Commando Cody and have a song sung by the voice cast of the show, with added animations being added to the Chaplin footage.

How did Salty's Lighthouse's redub of Tugs go? Well, there are lots of things that make it really bad.
Firstly, they changed the name of the place the series is set named Bigg City Port into Snugboat Harbour Then, they changed the names of many characters (due to some names being considered as copyright or not PC), such as Big Mac to Big Stack (Because the creators of Salty's Lighthouse thought they'd get into trouble with McDonalds), O.J to Otis (Because of the O.J Simpson trials, kind of understandable), Zebedee to Zeebee and other names like Burke and Blair the scrap boats becoming Mr. Boppo and Mr. Socko, the movie directing boats. They changed the genders of Sunshine, Captain Star and Little Ditcher and even decided to portray Sunshine and Ten Cents as siblings which I have to call bull because both of them aren't the same type of tugboat model and they aren't even related. Also, I don't want to make myself sound sexist, but Sunshine as a female character does not work. Plus, the Star Tugs and the Z-Stacks are all friends instead of rivals, (well maybe not Zorran).
Then we come to the footage, ugh god, so much reusing of the stock footage from the same two episodes, Trapped and Parade. Then of course, the edited footage has a constant use of the footage from the first episode, Sunshine; which would just confuse the child audience due to Sunshine wearing his original paintwork from before he joined the Star Tugs at the end of said episode.
But if that's bad, here's the worst thing they did with the footage, for some parts of the episodes, they would reverse the footage, sucking the realism dry with how bad they edited it. I mean, you can see the smoke retracting into the characters' stacks. They even minorly edited the original source material for some things like to hide O.J and Big Mac's names on their hulls (though they never did that with Burke and Blair).
Speaking of Burke and Blair, they even butchered their personalities with them being movie directors, pestering O.J (Oh I'm sorry, Otis) into being the star of their next film. but they weren't the only characters to have their personalities screwed around with, Johnny Cuba, the vile gangster was portrayed as a friendly sea vessel named Steamer who hated being lonely and they gave Izzy Gomez an American accent just to try and be Politically correct just because his voice made him sound to them like a stereotype to Mexicans.
And why did the creator's of the show make Tugs so butchered? just so they could make it kid friendly for younger audiences and to help follow along with the plot to their cartoon's story in the episode.
I guess the animation for the cartoon is okay and I guess the voice acting is fine, but I have no damn clue how either Kathleen Barr, Ian jams Corlett, Scott McNeil, or the late French Tickner agreed to be a part of the cast and I'm pretty sure they would've been happier being the cast for other shows they starred in like Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy or Transformers: Beast Wars.
Yeah, as I have already said, I may not have watched Tugs, or have much interest in it, but still. Salty's Lighthouse is a real bad show and I don't recommend watching it, go watch the original source material, Tugs, or Theodore Tugboat instead.
I hope you enjoyed reading this review/rant. It's not perfect and I could have even written a song based on the show's theme on how bad it is, but I have no ideas for the lyrics.
Well, again, I hope you enjoyed reading this.
Tugs belongs to David Mitton and Tugs LTD
Salty's Lighthouse belongs to Sunbow Entertainment