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I hate the corporate side of animation. Another one that's up there for Nick screwing an animated series is Making Fiends. Creator of Making Fiends (Amy Winfrey) got a Nick executives' attention of her Making Fiends shorts, and wanted to turn it into a full series, which Amy agreed to. Sadly Nick for no legitimate reason put it on Nicktoons and not the main network. Despite Making Fiends getting the most views on Nicktoons at that point (despite the stupid air times), Nick just ignored that, and ended Making Fiends 6 episodes in. Also Amy doesn't have the rights to Making Fiends, so Nick is just keeping it in purgatory along with many other shows.
Remember that SpongeBob episode where Mr. Krabs turned the Krusty Krab into SpongeBob stuff? That was what Nickelodeon was like during that time. If a Nicktoon isn't making any SpongeBob numbers, then it's gone. It's unfortunate that Harvey Beaks was one of the fatalities.
honestly same. when i was 9 i loved that show with all my heart cause of how much calmer it was compared to pretty much everything else on nick while still being genuinely funny. its so sad that a lot of simply charming and chill shows don't get the time of day anymore
Out of all, the cancelled Nickelodeon shows, Making Fiends, had it the worst, only getting 6 episodes. The show premiered on Nicktoons, the less popular channel of Nickelodeon, and despite good ratings, the executives still canceled it.
BHultra brought Making Fiends to my attention and when I heard that story and how Nick still owns the rights to the show even tho they cancelled it after 8 episodes, I was infuriated, but also not surprised.
Not only that, Making Fiends was a web series before it went on Nick, and after being cancelled Nick kept the rights and refused to let the author continue the web series. Nick essentially stole it from her and then burned it to the ground. So scummy.
I remember years before the show premiered my brothers and I watched the original web series on Turbo Nick. So when a TV series was announced we were excited. Seeing the intro theme to the tv series years later was so satisfying. It’s a shame what Nickelodeon did to the creator. She can’t do anything with it since doesn’t own the copyright 😔
Also I believe it was based off a web comic and the creator can’t create any more comics based off making fiends because Viacom owns the ip of a show they’re going to do nothing with that was last on tv 16-17 years ago
Infinity Train is the cartoon equivalent of blue balls for hyping us up forEVER and then vansihing of the face of the Earth. But apparently it had 40 episodes; it felt like 15 or less.
i feel like the show kinda lost its identity without tulip since she was literally the face of the show i dont ever hear anyone talking about the later seasons like 3 and 4 i feel like they could have developed the og story much further ..
@@dareen8671 I'd argue that that was always the goal. It was meant to be an anthology, with elements that each season shares. Also, you don't know about that one character's death in season 3? They got the life sucked out of them!
@@dareen8671 Idk i see a lot of people talk about season 2 and 3 (season 2 for its queer coding and season 3 for its genuinely dark ending) but yeah i get what you mean. i just wish we got the Amelia season
@@itsyaboy2789 im honestly so sad they didnt take amelias story since it made so much sense it could have added many layers to the present time line and introduced a lot of new ideas , i think the show struggled to keep the high quality of protagonists (main characters) that we came to expect because i genuinely loved the first and 2nd seasons cast 3rd season wasn't that bad thought there still was a lot of misssed opportunities s4 was my least favorite still a bummer that it got canceled it still has a ton of potential
@@NoHands46 i do totally agree , i personally didnt love s3 that much imo it could have gone better but nonetheless , the premise is simple but strong the thing is that the audience is so split between the seasons thats why you dont see it getting much traction .
Moral Orel is the ultimate show that ended too soon. It got canceled 4 episodes into season 3, got the episode count cut down from 20 to 13, and had to wrap up 2 3/4 extra seasons worth of story in 9 episodes after already releasing 4 episodes, recording one whole episode of lines, and writing 2 episodes worth of scripts. All for being “too disturbing” for a TV-MA series.
FR god it makes me so angry that it cancelled for portraying a dark topic with the gravity it deserved after being pushed to make things darker. can't believe we missed out on Orel's emo years
The second episode literally involved Orel impregnating women in their sleep for a joke. But then they tackled abortion seriously and the network went "Oh the horror, oh the travesty!"
@@adriansandlin556 The same can now be said about WB + CN. Though thankfully they are actually letting CH Greenblatt make his stuff and he'll be making a CN crossover with Jellystone which is worth of watch.
The lack of "toys sales" has got the be the most arbitrary reason to cancel a show. There're so many shows that has become successful with little to no merchandising.
That is true, like Teen Titans Go!, which had a toy line that was cancelled in 2015, yet it is still on the air (and I believe inspired Thundercats Roar, which only lasted one season, as other than the hate it got, Roar was basically nothing more than an attempt by CN to capture lightning in a bottle twice, seeing the success of TTG, and deciding to make a show similar to TTG, but using the Thundercats names and characters, making it sort of a reskin).
Your telling me, Last Airbender is super popular and the only merch i seen of it are fanmade products, POP figures and some arm bracers at the Renaissance Fair using the 4 nations symbols on them, yet you will keep Spongebob going cause his shirts fly off the shelves at every store that sells shirts
Even if you hate most of the cancelled shows mentioned, you can't not feel sympathy for the voice cast, the animators, the writers, the director and many of the crew who get put out of a job because executives didn't like it, not even because it wasn't profitable, just because they didn't like it. How so many creator have publicly admitted that they can't watch their own shows legally. That just sucks and it happens constantly.
I think the saddest thing about a show being cancelled to soon is that most likely the licence is no longer yours and the studios so all your ideas are locked in a vault never to be seen again.
@@LastAmericanHero911nice smiling friends reference. Thank you. But seriously that one line is the most relevant thing to have a corrupt media company ceo to say. It’s just too similar to the consistently poor treatment a shitload of video games, movies, and shows have received over time.
This is why indie creators have to be careful in deciding whether they should make a deal with a studio or not. Vivziepop had an issue on wanting to share her Hazbin Hotel trailer but A24 won't let her.
As much as I hate the team behind Brikleberry or however it’s spelt, I do gotta admire them for basically making the same show 3 times in a row when they were told they can’t make any more. It’s stupid but I guess it’s one way to solve that problem even if the end result is fucking awful
Wander Over Yonder in the thumbnail automatically ensures this video’s going to be great! I don’t make the rules, I just think of, enforce, and inform others about them.
8:06 The saddest part about this is that not even the original 4 series run of Ben 10 was safe from this. After Omniverse, it got the boot because of low merchandise sales which pisses me off to no end 😭
Honestly, that last point about Just Letting Some Good Things Die really spoke to me, I especially thank you for using Wander Over Yonder as a Good Example!
Actually, SpongeBob WAS an overnight success. One of the writers that worked on the first seasons mentioned that show was already making back its entire production budget by the second commercial break (Yet Nick refuses to pay residues)
I genuinely will never forgive CN for canceling Ok Ko so soon, I genuinely believe it had the opportunity to run as long as adventure time and regular show did, and it got freaking robbed from that 😢
To add salt to the wound years prior to the main reason why the show was cancelled, ian jones quartey was asked on Twitter why ok ko got cancelled, the he was told to keep it a secret.
Sym-Bionic Titan hurt the most since it had a major cliffhanger and was just an amazing show all around. I wish it had got pushed to Adult Swim like Samurai Jack S5 was since it seemed more appropriate for an older audience.
I watched all of the episodes of Megas XLR when it first came out, I even asked a relative to videotape one episode when I and my family went on vacation. That's the only time I ever recorded a show from TV, I was afraid of missing an episode That also reminds me, last Tuesday it was the birthday of Coop's voice actor from the Latin American Spanish version, since that's the version I watched as a kid, Jhonny Torres, he also voiced Brad in My Life as a Teenage Robot, though he's well know for voicing Flash is various DC animated productions, Genos in One Punch Man and Alphonse Elric in Fullmetal Alchemist
The most important thing is: If you love a show and it was too short, let it inspire you to create something of your own. It doesn't have to be exactly it, but people will probably vibe with whatever you are vibing with and wanted to see more. Unless it is more bigmouth, than, uh, please don't.
Imagine being SU and having to end early on season 5 only for the same execs who canceled the show to go “this show is making bank, here’s another season”
@@Ealais76 SU is sort of this middle ground of ending too early and going on when you consider the struggle the team had making it with executives. I'll tell you that you probably don't want your show relying on "Steven Bomb" as a desperate marketing gimmick because the company is jerking you around and you can really feel the weird pacing shift of finally getting access to Homeworld into suddenly time to resolve all the Diamond stuff at once. They clearly wanted to pace that a bit better.
@@Ealais76Yeah despite it having 100+ episodes the story wasn’t done yet. They still had plans for a couple more seasons before being cut short. Shows with more than 5 seasons exist
I’m so glad you mentioned MEGAS XLR and Sym Bionic Titan. Both of them were criminally underrated shows that never got a chance to complete their story.
Jimmy Neutron was SO ROBBED, it was cancelled because it was ahead of it’s time and the technology was too expensive for it to continue. It deserves a reboot like the Fairly OddParents got.
I will never stop being mad at how Nickelodeon treated Making Fiends. They doomed it from the start by airing it on Nicktoons (a sister channel that wasn’t available with a lot of cable packages), gave it SIX episodes before canceling it, and then locking it away in the vault forever without giving the original creator any rights to make more content with it. I thought I fever dreamed that show for ages until I found it (and the original web series it was based on) online. It was a cute show with a lot of personality and they never gave it a chance, nor do they ever talk about it. I remember a while back they uploaded a bunch of theme songs from their old shows, even more short lived ones like My Life as a Teenage Robot and The Mighty Bee, but no Making Fiends. It makes me so mad. If you haven’t watched it before, the whole series is available on RUclips!
Five seasons. Three season learning curve, peaks in the fourth, stumbles a bit in the last leg but ends gracefully before it loses the plot. The ideal length. it used to be the way of things but, now in this hellhole of a landscape, people have forgotten this.
@@roxygaming5968 well, maybe they could split their 40 episodes into 8 per season, rather than 20, I don’t know how many episodes the owl house had, but maybe if Disney let them keep their plans going, they could have split that into a 5 season run too.
@@Whyiseveryhandletaken6942 All you're doing here is splitting hairs. The number of seasons or even episodes in a show doesn't matter, it's how they utilize their time.
I’m still a little upset they abruptly canceled The Ghost and Molly McGee, while 2 seasons is nothing to scoff at, they had episodes written and planned for season 3 that Disney decided wasn’t worth making
I was kind of taken aback when that happened because the show looked like it was going to be the new “staple” of Disney Channel animation - the one that managed to stick around at least a little longer than it did, like three or four seasons. The worst part was that I was really starting to get into it at the time so I felt like I was in late-2002 getting into Firefly (not to mention felt bad for starting to really call myself a fan too late)
I didn’t realize that got canceled I didn’t know that I actually first saw that on a cruise and it was pretty good I’m actually disappointed that all the shows that have a fan base and people who want to see of it get throw out the window and get canceled
It ended well but at the same time I can't help but wonder why they would cancel something that was doing so well. It seems short sighted if anything, especially when they don't really have non franchise content like they should
El Tigre was such a good show. With the kid trying to decide whether to be good or evil. The people who made this series made a movie called The Book of Life. Which is an underrated gem. The art style they use is so memorable.
Animated shows getting cancelled too soon was a major problem for the late 2000s early 2010s. Shows would usually last 2 seasons on average before being cancelled, and it would be completely be up in the air whether it would get a conclusion or not if it was story based.
You have no idea how many superhero shows get cancelled before their time. Spectacular Spider-Man, Avengers: EMH, Green Lantern TAS, and Fantastic Four: WGH are just the tip of the iceberg. It's genuinely concerning.
I liked the ending to the 90's Spider-Man animated series, but even that one had a cut plans that never saw the light of day. At least the X-Men 97 continuation gave the series a payoff through an easter egg.
Avengers EMH is one of my favorite shows ever, but the season 3 plans sounded awful. I'm glad it ended how it did. As for Spectacular Spider-Man, if the show wouldn't have Peter get married by the end or do the Clone Saga like Greg Weisman wanted, I'd be happy with more. I do want more Green Lantern, though.
Wander over Yonder was a sad one. It had so much potential. Even though the crew wanted to keep working on it, because it was one Disney XD, its fate was sealed. Also on a side note, the ren and Stimpy reboot was pretty alright
I feel like the worst treated show by Nickelodeon was Making Fiends. It only lasted six episodes. And the show was treated very poorly. Only airing on nicktoons, having barely any advertising and having bad time slots but the show actually had the highest ratings for the channel and then it was canceled a month after airing.
And that show still managed to get decent watch numbers in spite of Nickelodeon actively trying to kill it. I firmly believe that show could've been hugely successful if it had a chance on the main network
@Spacemanball.s Would you have actually WANT it to be that big though?! Given how much Nickelodeon quickly regretted Invader Zim shortly after it aired & how MUCH Jhonen & his crew had to forcibly changed, censor or canned to just meet Nick's demands! Plus, remember what happened to SpongeBob & Fairly OddParents! Personally, I think I'm MORE than satisfied that Zim at least got a 6-Year Long Sequel-Comic Run & Enter the Florpus as the Tv Show's Finale!
And then there’s Futurama which got canceled and renewed 3 separate times with the most recent gap being from 2013 to 2023 and the show is still ongoing.
The creators said in an interview it was because The WB Execs wanted them gone after Buffy The Vampire Slayer aired and entirely changed the demographic of their network. It was far cheaper to make episodes of Buffy than Mission Hill and Buffy also got higher views.
Technically it got cancelled in 6 episodes. The remaining 7 only aired after Adult Swim picked up the show and they got the unaired episodes as a bonus, I guess.
My Babysitter’s a Vampire is a show that was canceled wayyy too early. They literally set up a truly compelling plot and everything and then wham, cancelled. I’d also say Uncoupled (very different vibe but still) because it got canceled, picked up and canceled again all before a second season and that show left on a cliffhanger as well.
I wish we could have gotten a second movie as a proper finale, cuz that cliffhanger was so unfair!!! Idk about Erica, but I know for a fact Rory would never leave the others behind that way!!
it feels like every cartoon either gets cancelled too soon or goes on too long and becomes a zombie, it's very rare when one hits that perfect balance, I would say Futurama but that show just got brought back from the dead for the like 4th time and honestly I'm not a fan of the new Hulu era, maybe regular show then?
Well it’s like what Fry said, don’t reboot a show if the quality isn’t gonna be there. Any TV show that truly cares about its audience that loves and respects them must be cancelled every few years, I don’t understand it to be honest, not every show gets that luxury.
Off the top of my head, Transformers Prime had a great, satisfying run all the way to the end. It had to make some compromises due to unexpected budget constraints during the 2nd season, but it still managed to pull through. Transformers Animated was planned to have a 4th season that sadly got cancelled, however I find the conclusion of its last season still a good note to end on.
I feel like regular show dragged on a bit in the middle but yeah they ended alot stronger then a lot of cartoons. I think the best ever example of one that managed to tell a good story with almost no wasted time is Gravity Falls
the Owl House’s situation really sucked; despite Dana and her crew knocking it out of the park with what little time they had to work with. Corporate meddling; a tale as old as toons.
I remember a gorgeous and extremely engaging show I watched a while back called Tron: Uprising. It came out with the Tron Legacy movie, and had everything going for it, beautiful visuals and worldbuilding, a very engaging story, and lots of dynamic and deep characters. Unfortunately, like anything Tron nowadays, it was canned because it didn't have enough viewership after being dropped on disney xd and Tron as a whole faded into obscurity because Disney refuses to capitalize on the potential that could come from making a Tron franchise. Luckily a new movie called Tron: Ares was just announced at D23, so I am praying that it does well and we can see the return of more Tron stuff.
I can't help but think back to a quote Rebeltaxi once said, "The better the show is the faster it gets cancelled. Live fast die young." The Clone High reboot really reflects that. The original was short lived, but we had it good with clone high content up until the reboot. Comparing it to a Monkey's paw moment was pretty fitting honestly. I'd love for shows like Freaks and Geeks, Wander Over Yonder or Harvey Beaks to return, but at the same time part of me thinks it's better they died young and still went out with a bang.
@@SprinkledCactus Oh it can definitely feel fast-paced and wacky a lot of times, but at the end of the day it’s a simple show with a simple message, to help others in need, and I really do appreciate it for that. I find that many of the main characters are easy to get attached to, and some other things I love are the world-building, the art styles, and its humor altogether.
The first two that I immediately thought of are Rise of the TMNT and Moral Orel. Both shows cancelled way before their time, before they could reach the peak of their potential. It honestly baffles me how the higher ups cancel the best shows and keep the most dogshit ones going for years, or run good shows into the ground to the point where they become the soulless husks of their creators dead dreams. Well, I know why. It's purely for the money, but it's still sad.
The more I learn about what the Rise crew had to cut, the more I hate Nickelodeon for canceling it. The movie was great, but it was only scratching the surface of what the crew intended to do
The one that I’m still super sad over is the death of Mao Mao, Parker Simmons poured so much of himself into that show, only to be denied their second season because of Discovery…
The stuff you said about Clone High is exactly how I feel about Animaniacs 2020. It started out promising, but in the end was an underwhelming disappointment. Not helping the fact they did this behind the creators back and hired new ones.
What’s funny is that Phil lord and Chris miller were involved in the reboot and wrote some episodes, but even they couldn’t save the show that they’ve spent years trying to bring. Hopefully they’ll make a clone high movie, as a proper way to conclude the series.
@@bowserbreaker2515 honestly I would’ve loved to see a theatrical animaniacs movie (if Tom ruegger the original creator of the animaniacs returned to write and direct) but with the Warner bros. (The company) current state i don’t think that’s ever gonna happen and this will the last time we’ll ever see of the Warner siblings.😔
I remembered when Harvey beaks first premiered after the 2015 kids choice awards and it was like a breath of fresh air from the legend who created chowder, It’s still disappointed that Nick treated it dirty. Not to mention making fiends to which got cancelled after only 6 eps on nicks sister network.
i’m not giving up all hope, X-Men 1994 got a continuation last year, and i know Sony owns the rights to Spectacular but i still think if the time’s right we could see a continuation…
I feel there is still potential in My Life as a Teenage Robot. The show kinda just ended randomly, with multiple popular characters only getting one or two episodes. They never even had a real end, so I feel it has potential for more if they don’t squander the retro sci-fi world with iPhones and modern jargon. Melody, Misty, and Glenn as characters could use more development, Cluster Prime and Vega could have more world buildings and fun scenarios, the show ended with a gag of Nora getting consumed by a tiger instead of an actual final episode, etc. Im starting to gain a bit of faith in reboots, but i’m still skeptical. If anything could be though, that show has so much to offer still.
I can’t believe even Learning with Pibby got cancelled. It had a trailer, amazing sneak peeks, but it still got cancelled for an unknown reason. Probably due to poor outcomes of production, and/or poor ratings. Edit: Another great example was that TV show from 2013 called “UTOPIA”. That show’s music was FIRE 🔥
the worst part of having a show cancelled as a kid is that I never knew that it was cancelled. it was just gone. I didn't even know the season was over. i just had to watch every day to see if it was back on. now i am understanding my tv addiction...
When I was a kid, I was obsessed with El Tigre. I had a special alarm set up on my phone to remember when the episodes would air. For some reason, El Tigre seemed a lot more relatable to me compared to all those "more universal" shows.
The Venture Bros. had an almost 20 year run and I'd still argue it was cancelled too soon. The way it went out was incredibly shady on adult swim's part.
I agree with you for the most part, but really it felt like it had maybe one more season in the tank, I feel like if we had gotten a full season 8 we probably would've got to see more development from characters like Brock, Force Majeure, Red Death, and more from Dean than we got from the movie, but at the end of the day I think really the movie was like a highlight reel of what we would have got from a season 8, so whilst somewhat jipped, we still got our conclusion. Go Team Venture!
The venture bros cancellation still makes me sad to think about, while the movie was good it felt like it was speedrunning plot points. I just hope one day it can return with a comic or something
To me, Making Fiends was the show that got cut way too soon. Not only did the executives pull the plug, but they never gave Amy Winfrey the rights to the show back, which really fucking sucks. I really do wish that show came back, as I wish folks would watch the web series too. That's just me, though.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU FOR MENTIONING WANDER OVER YONDER AFTER MANY MONTHS OF MY YEARNING. I WAS MERE DAYS AWAY FROM GOING MENTAL DUE TO THE LACK OF CONTENT FOR THIS SHOW. EVEN IF IT WAS LESS THAN 30 SECONDS, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TALKING ABOUT MY FAVORITE SHOW. 14:05 WILL BE A MONUMENTAL MOMENT IN HISTORY. WE NEED TO SAVE THIS ON THOUSANDS OF CDS AND TAPES AND STORE THEM IN A FIREPROOF VAULT UNTIL THE END OF DAYS.
Agreed. That's my favorite show of all time, and I really want just one more season. After hearing what the crew actually wanted to do, I really want to see it.
@@AniToonimationKawaii Those aren't very good, but I still enjoy them. Though I doubt he'll ever continue his fully animated version that is much better.
Jimmy neutron really deserved one more season. If DNA didn’t shut down maybe it could’ve been different. That car commercial had stellar animation. Imagine if season 4 had looked like that. It would’ve been incredible.
You want to know how little Nickelodeon cared about Teenage Robot? I have a big 2x3 ft poster of Jenny where my living room and dining room merge. It's one of the only things I can actually put on display in said area since most of this show's merch are just pins, DVDs and ONE figurine that was released last year. The saddest part is that it's a bootleg poster that you can't buy anymore and a fabric poster at that... I've been a fan of the show since it's debut and my main display of love for it outside of my room is a bootleg fabric poster that you can't even buy anymore... That's how much Nickelodeon cared about poor Jenny... Seeing you bring attention to the show is always appreciated Mark, from me and the community both!
Anyone still remember final space? I loved that show and then it was cancelled with a huge cliffhanger... Not only was it cancelled, but it was also used as a tax write off, meaning the show can't be streamed or aired anymore, the only saving grace is that the creator apparently managed to convince them to let him finish the story with a comic and looking at the point the story was in, it's no wonder that he wants to finish this. Like the situation in that show was literally "the main villain is free and we've exhausted every way to defeat him, in addition he just convinced one of our friends to betray us. What are we gonna do?" You can't just end like that. I'm also just glad we live in an age, where something this popular (hopefully) won't become completely lost media.
the only time i TRULY got mad at a show getting cancelled was The Owl House. It got such an unfair cancellation, having the third season get shortened to 3 episodes, all because of a gay kiss scene. i legit will never forgive disney for cancelling one of my favorite shows of all time.
@@valentinkambushev4968 meh, they support all manner of things, but homosexuality aint one of them. nor is having a cartoon last more than 100 episodes...
@@leithaziz2716Yeah, but it wasn’t Netflix’s faults on that one. That was around the time Disney started to invest on their own streaming service, therefore they saw no need to renew their projects with Netflix.
Captain Fall comes to mind. It's so disappointing. They even originally ordered the two seasons, then blindsided cancelled the second. It was supposed to be a two season show. Now it's just half finished.
Everyone likes to keep pointing the finger at Netflix, but considering they allow they also allow stuff like Arcane, Hilda, all the animes, etc, what they do doesn't even scratch the surface of the absolute murder of Warner Bros.
There are so many recent examples I can think of. A lot of people have already mentioned shows like Owl House, OK KO, Infinity Train, Mao Mao, Inside Job, Dead End Park, etc. Final Space getting their final season cancelled really hurt as that show genuinely surprised me and had so much amazing build-up only to have the rug pulled. At least it's getting a graphic novel the creator had to self-publish. Between the Warner merger and pretty much every new and original animated series getting axed too soon, my heart goes out to animation studios and creators trying to get their show out there or have a fresh idea. It seems like unless you're an already long established series like Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy or a merchandise and marketing cash-cow like Rick and Morty, most new shows are doomed to last any more than 2 seasons. You're constantly having to walk that tightrope.
It's sad to me that I never see any mention of Glitch Techs in these kinds of videos, that's probably one of the more recent cases of Nickelodeon doing a promising show horrendously dirty by dropping it on Netflix with next to no advertising.
Ed, Edd n Eddy is probably one of the best treated shows ever. Not just cartoon, but shows in general. They had very few bad episodes (at least comparing it to other shows), had a grand finale that perfectly ended the series and never had any shitty reboots or spin-offs afterwards. That’s really sad that this show was treated better than Avatar: The Last Airbender!
Watchint Mao-Mao get greenlit after massive social media support, get a full season, and then get cancelled despite plans for a second...makes me very sad.
Scrolling through the comments I only saw 3 mentions of MotorCity. It was a beautiful flash animated show created by Titmouse release from 2012-13, which was immediately shafted by Disney by being shoved into the AM time slots on Disney XD. It is incredibly rare so see it mentioned by anyone, despite its strong characters, plot, comedy, animation, and world.
4:26 I think the perfect example for this is Avatar the last airbender. It only had 61 episodes but had a proper ending and is widely regarded as on the best cartoons if not shows of all time.
In all honesty, yes, Steven Universe was cancelled too soon it really needed 1 more season to flesh out the Diamonds " redemption " arc. Another show I thought that definitely needed another season was the ducktales reboot since that also had a rushed ending. One show I can say in all honesty had the best continuation after being cancelled years ago was clone wars, I hope spectacular spiderman and teen titans get the same treatment.
7:27 The worst part about CN canceling shows because they weren't selling toys: The Green Lantern animated series, one of the shows affected by this, _had toys in the prototype stage that they just pulled the plug on._ I'm not a businessman and I don't know much about marketing and such, but maybe you'd see better toy sales if you tried _selling the toys?_
8:45 the first thing that comes to mind is those VHS and DVD box sets that were advertised a ton in the early to mid 2000s. I feel like the decline of those additional sources of revenue also made selling toys more important later on?
It always sucks that an animated show that gets off to an amazing start of the first or second seasons but ultimately gets cut short and ends up getting cancelled. Best example of this, Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes.
Man you hit all the points. I was super sad to hear about what happened with Harvey Beaks after finishing it. I absolutely loved it and felt like I have a closer connection to it after finding out the same dude behind it made another favorite of mine. OK KO is the same instances as well as Wander Over Yonder. It stinks, but it’s a possibility for every show we love. It’s a huge risk to see it revived, so I guess it is better to let these cartoons be, despite the endings they had being abrupt.
@@forrestannis909 Ironically, when you really think about it, such as ridiculous standard absolutely soiled any chances for potential future hits because a) Nickelodeon cancels the show before it can find its stride and b) creators will see the treatment and avoid Nick.
@@forrestannis909I had no idea that show existed and I looked it up… apparently it was cancelled before it even started because Nickelodeon thought a show with a female protagonist wouldn’t attract guys. Which is badshit ridiculous, because Nick has made shows starring girls, and they’re all bangers. Heck their newest show, Max & the Midknights, is a show about a girl. And critics loved that show.
Your point on the 2000s cartoons getting cancelled due to low toy sales reminds me on how earlier in the 90s they made certain cartoons as "extended commercials" for their toy lines. Main examples being: He-Man, Shera Princess of Power and TMNT. I'm not sure that's the mindset that they were on when making those cartoons you mentioned, though it just made me think about it.
Netflix committed a crime the day they canceled Inside Job. I personally am convinced that no show should be longer than 6 Seasons, if it's not an ongoing narrative that worked out on paper before (looking at you game of thrones) Bojack Horseman is the show that has the perfect ending at the perfect time. After 6 Seasons.
I'm genuinely shocked that no one literally no one brings up (FINAL SPACE) by olan rogers on the topic of cancelled shows the show was really well received by fans and everyone wanted more since it ended on a cliffhanger but it sadly got cancelled in 2021 cz of all the warner bros shenanigans its so sad to see such promising shows get cancelled by all these soulless corporations some times with no actual reason and dont even get me started on other shows such as .. ( infinity train , og teen titans , ok ko , close enough , and others you mentioned through out the video)
I'm a fan of some truly underrated shows literally almost no one has ever heard of, so cartoons getting cancelled too soon (to the point of leaving us on a cliffhanger) is unfortunately just something I've been prepared for. Cleopatra in Space, Hanazuki, Littlest Pet Shop: A World of Our Own, Molly McGee, Tuca and Bertie, Central Park, Glitch Techs, and 101 Dalmatian Street..... oh how I will miss thee
Glitch techs is one of the most sad cancellations of a cartoon for me, it was SO good and Nick actively wanted it to fail since the start so it got cancelled despite it literally building up a main mystery that now will never be resolved
Man, I rewatched Wander Over Yonder recently and GGRRRRAAAGGH ITS SOOOO GOOODDD. Never have I ever watched a show so full of optimism and hope. Maybe someday it’ll make a return for season 3 :]
I also hope it comes back, but seeing as Craig McCracken’s currently working on Powerpuff Girls and Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends reboots/halfboots (I don’t know what you’d call the Foster’s preschool show) for Cartoon Network, I don’t think a continuation, or one with him included, at least, will be greenlit for at least like… five or so years, unfortunately, assuming either one of those doesn’t become breakout hits that compel him to renew his contract with CN. And seeing as, if I recall correctly, PPG 2016 offered to have him on but he declined because he was under contract at Disney doing Wander Over Yonder, I doubt the alternative would be possible for a WOY reboot/revival. But even with that being said… I still genuinely *LOVE* the show and hope to see it come back in some form!! Just wanted to share some info to a fellow Wander fan! Thanks in advance!
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I wish el tigre could continue so that the book of life could have a reconsidered trilogy
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please do a phineas and ferb ranking
Harvey Beaks is such a sad case. I genuinely ADORED that show, but since it wasn't SpongeBob or Loud House, Nickelodeon took it out back.
I hate the corporate side of animation. Another one that's up there for Nick screwing an animated series is Making Fiends.
Creator of Making Fiends (Amy Winfrey) got a Nick executives' attention of her Making Fiends shorts, and wanted to turn it into a full series, which Amy agreed to.
Sadly Nick for no legitimate reason put it on Nicktoons and not the main network. Despite Making Fiends getting the most views on Nicktoons at that point (despite the stupid air times), Nick just ignored that, and ended Making Fiends 6 episodes in.
Also Amy doesn't have the rights to Making Fiends, so Nick is just keeping it in purgatory along with many other shows.
And forced ch greenblatt to apologize
Remember that SpongeBob episode where Mr. Krabs turned the Krusty Krab into SpongeBob stuff? That was what Nickelodeon was like during that time. If a Nicktoon isn't making any SpongeBob numbers, then it's gone. It's unfortunate that Harvey Beaks was one of the fatalities.
honestly same. when i was 9 i loved that show with all my heart cause of how much calmer it was compared to pretty much everything else on nick while still being genuinely funny. its so sad that a lot of simply charming and chill shows don't get the time of day anymore
@@spacesoccercowboy6091that last part is genuinely awful, I feel terrible for her
boy thank god we got amphibia, the creator wanted 3 seasons we got 3 seasons and an overarching story with a definitive beginning, middle, and end
It's such a shame that Owl House got shafted in their last season.
@CountD42, it still makes me upset to this day 😢
and it gifted us darcy, the pinnacle of disney villians
And well-paced character arcs from Anne, Sasha, and Marcy that were earned.
@@CountD42same with ducktales 2017 i think
Out of all, the cancelled Nickelodeon shows, Making Fiends, had it the worst, only getting 6 episodes. The show premiered on Nicktoons, the less popular channel of Nickelodeon, and despite good ratings, the executives still canceled it.
BHultra brought Making Fiends to my attention and when I heard that story and how Nick still owns the rights to the show even tho they cancelled it after 8 episodes, I was infuriated, but also not surprised.
It was actually a fire show
Not only that, Making Fiends was a web series before it went on Nick, and after being cancelled Nick kept the rights and refused to let the author continue the web series. Nick essentially stole it from her and then burned it to the ground. So scummy.
I remember years before the show premiered my brothers and I watched the original web series on Turbo Nick. So when a TV series was announced we were excited. Seeing the intro theme to the tv series years later was so satisfying.
It’s a shame what Nickelodeon did to the creator. She can’t do anything with it since doesn’t own the copyright 😔
Also I believe it was based off a web comic and the creator can’t create any more comics based off making fiends because Viacom owns the ip of a show they’re going to do nothing with that was last on tv 16-17 years ago
Shows getting cancelled too soon or going on for too long is basically like the saying
“Die a hero or live long enough until you become a villain”
Robert Downey Jr managed to do both
@@NationX He died a hero as Iron Man, left Marvel alone...
Now he's coming back as a villain, Doctor Doom
@@NationX he really did
@@CageBlack1443 yep
Well, a show can still go on for more than three seasons without becoming a villain lol. As should have been the fate of the shows Mark mentioned.
inside job getting cancelled after teasing the major plot of season 3 was a goddamn travesty and i'll never forgive it
Wasn’t it canceled in favor of two more seasons of big mouth?
Infinity Train is the cartoon equivalent of blue balls for hyping us up forEVER and then vansihing of the face of the Earth.
But apparently it had 40 episodes; it felt like 15 or less.
i feel like the show kinda lost its identity without tulip since she was literally the face of the show i dont ever hear anyone talking about the later seasons like 3 and 4 i feel like they could have developed the og story much further ..
@@dareen8671 I'd argue that that was always the goal. It was meant to be an anthology, with elements that each season shares. Also, you don't know about that one character's death in season 3? They got the life sucked out of them!
@@dareen8671 Idk i see a lot of people talk about season 2 and 3 (season 2 for its queer coding and season 3 for its genuinely dark ending) but yeah i get what you mean. i just wish we got the Amelia season
@@itsyaboy2789 im honestly so sad they didnt take amelias story since it made so much sense it could have added many layers to the present time line and introduced a lot of new ideas , i think the show struggled to keep the high quality of protagonists (main characters) that we came to expect because i genuinely loved the first and 2nd seasons cast 3rd season wasn't that bad thought there still was a lot of misssed opportunities s4 was my least favorite still a bummer that it got canceled it still has a ton of potential
@@NoHands46 i do totally agree , i personally didnt love s3 that much imo it could have gone better but nonetheless , the premise is simple but strong the thing is that the audience is so split between the seasons thats why you dont see it getting much traction .
Moral Orel is the ultimate show that ended too soon. It got canceled 4 episodes into season 3, got the episode count cut down from 20 to 13, and had to wrap up 2 3/4 extra seasons worth of story in 9 episodes after already releasing 4 episodes, recording one whole episode of lines, and writing 2 episodes worth of scripts. All for being “too disturbing” for a TV-MA series.
I cannot believe moral Orel got canceled for *checks notes* portraying female trauma in a serious and realistic way
FR god it makes me so angry that it cancelled for portraying a dark topic with the gravity it deserved after being pushed to make things darker. can't believe we missed out on Orel's emo years
@@JustA-Person checks notes is such a cringey meme
@@JustA-Person
Well, American Psycho was going to have an even heavier rating due to Patrick Bateman's 'guests' not enjoying themselves.
The second episode literally involved Orel impregnating women in their sleep for a joke. But then they tackled abortion seriously and the network went "Oh the horror, oh the travesty!"
Never forget, Nickelodeon forced C.H. Greenblatt to back down when he was rightfully angry over Harvey Beaks being cancelled.
Yep! Greenblatt even advised aspiring creators to avoid Nick like the plague.
Just when I thought I didn't hate Nickelodeon enough.
@@adriansandlin556 The same can now be said about WB + CN. Though thankfully they are actually letting CH Greenblatt make his stuff and he'll be making a CN crossover with Jellystone which is worth of watch.
Please, please, PLEASE, don't do that to New Wish. 🥺
They better not finally end The Fairly Oddparents when they just found relevance again!
@@kylemorello4787 Nick probably will actually let it continue another couple seasons because it's Fairly Oddparents IP.
The lack of "toys sales" has got the be the most arbitrary reason to cancel a show. There're so many shows that has become successful with little to no merchandising.
That is true, like Teen Titans Go!, which had a toy line that was cancelled in 2015, yet it is still on the air (and I believe inspired Thundercats Roar, which only lasted one season, as other than the hate it got, Roar was basically nothing more than an attempt by CN to capture lightning in a bottle twice, seeing the success of TTG, and deciding to make a show similar to TTG, but using the Thundercats names and characters, making it sort of a reskin).
Your telling me, Last Airbender is super popular and the only merch i seen of it are fanmade products, POP figures and some arm bracers at the Renaissance Fair using the 4 nations symbols on them, yet you will keep Spongebob going cause his shirts fly off the shelves at every store that sells shirts
Even if you hate most of the cancelled shows mentioned, you can't not feel sympathy for the voice cast, the animators, the writers, the director and many of the crew who get put out of a job because executives didn't like it, not even because it wasn't profitable, just because they didn't like it. How so many creator have publicly admitted that they can't watch their own shows legally. That just sucks and it happens constantly.
Did you say creators can’t watch their own shows legally?
Mao Mao getting canned broke me. Season 2 was confirmed and they animated a whole teaser for it and everything!
I remember that! Did they ever release S2?
@@cfan6716 nope. Got canned with the merger ;-;
I still think about it to this day… CARTOON NETWORK DID THAT SHOW SO DIRTY, I STILL HAVEN’T FORGIVEN THEM!!!
My bad. I just LOVED that show.
I swear that show’s cancellation was my Roman Empire I stg, I miss that show sm 😭💔
Yeah, I'm also thinking about this show too, I wish this show ends up on Adult Swim so that it can get the love it deserves 😭
I think the saddest thing about a show being cancelled to soon is that most likely the licence is no longer yours and the studios so all your ideas are locked in a vault never to be seen again.
IT’S THEIR IP TO SIT ON AND DO NOTHING WITH 😤
@@LastAmericanHero911nice smiling friends reference. Thank you.
But seriously that one line is the most relevant thing to have a corrupt media company ceo to say. It’s just too similar to the consistently poor treatment a shitload of video games, movies, and shows have received over time.
This is why indie creators have to be careful in deciding whether they should make a deal with a studio or not. Vivziepop had an issue on wanting to share her Hazbin Hotel trailer but A24 won't let her.
As much as I hate the team behind Brikleberry or however it’s spelt, I do gotta admire them for basically making the same show 3 times in a row when they were told they can’t make any more. It’s stupid but I guess it’s one way to solve that problem even if the end result is fucking awful
What’s also worse, some shows end on a cliffhanger which never gets resolved thanks to the whole being cancelled thing.
Wander Over Yonder in the thumbnail automatically ensures this video’s going to be great! I don’t make the rules, I just think of, enforce, and inform others about them.
Man I wish I had my own Sylvia.
@@Cubeytheawesome Honestly, yeah.
My boy Wander deserves more love.
I remember that show so fondly, watching it at my grandmas house was so awesome and loving the all of the characters, it sucks that it got cancelled
And then what we got was a 5 second mention of it ;-;
8:06 The saddest part about this is that not even the original 4 series run of Ben 10 was safe from this. After Omniverse, it got the boot because of low merchandise sales which pisses me off to no end 😭
Honestly, that last point about Just Letting Some Good Things Die really spoke to me, I especially thank you for using Wander Over Yonder as a Good Example!
Actually, SpongeBob WAS an overnight success. One of the writers that worked on the first seasons mentioned that show was already making back its entire production budget by the second commercial break (Yet Nick refuses to pay residues)
WAIT WHAT?
Is this cited from a podcast? Would love to discover it if it is
residuals. residues are sticky stuffs.
Of Course they Don’t Pay There People.
Source? Because I'm pretty sure thats just not possible unless the premiere was getting super bowl numbers.
I genuinely will never forgive CN for canceling Ok Ko so soon, I genuinely believe it had the opportunity to run as long as adventure time and regular show did, and it got freaking robbed from that 😢
I was a fan since day one. I cried when it got taken off Max.
At least that got to have a conclusion. Infinity Train was done way dirtier
To add salt to the wound years prior to the main reason why the show was cancelled, ian jones quartey was asked on Twitter why ok ko got cancelled, the he was told to keep it a secret.
Mao Mao too. They lied to us about the second season
@@Elvusmiwwelp guess somebody touched a kid. Only logical explanation
I wish Megas XLR and Sym-Bionic Titan never got cancelled, they had lots of potential
I still get so bummed that Sym-Bionic Titan got cancelled!! 😭 If they can bring back Samurai Jack, I hope someday they could bring that show back.
Sym-Bionic Titan hurt the most since it had a major cliffhanger and was just an amazing show all around. I wish it had got pushed to Adult Swim like Samurai Jack S5 was since it seemed more appropriate for an older audience.
I watched all of the episodes of Megas XLR when it first came out, I even asked a relative to videotape one episode when I and my family went on vacation. That's the only time I ever recorded a show from TV, I was afraid of missing an episode
That also reminds me, last Tuesday it was the birthday of Coop's voice actor from the Latin American Spanish version, since that's the version I watched as a kid, Jhonny Torres, he also voiced Brad in My Life as a Teenage Robot, though he's well know for voicing Flash is various DC animated productions, Genos in One Punch Man and Alphonse Elric in Fullmetal Alchemist
I think Megas XLR was one of the earliest memories in my childhood where I went "THIS IS HYPE!".
And Generator Rex 🥺
The most important thing is: If you love a show and it was too short, let it inspire you to create something of your own. It doesn't have to be exactly it, but people will probably vibe with whatever you are vibing with and wanted to see more.
Unless it is more bigmouth, than, uh, please don't.
10:02 I like how he says this as if Superbad isn’t considered one of the greatest teen movies ever made
The Superbad slander will not be tolerated
YOU?!
@@nicholas_cage_fan_nr.1 Yes, me
True that was a weird bit from him, all of those movies are indeed classics, why the sarcasm
Not to mention mark rated some of those movies highly on his Letterboxd
Imagine being SU and having to end early on season 5 only for the same execs who canceled the show to go “this show is making bank, here’s another season”
Yeah, thats how tv works...
“End early” with 100+ episode
Cancelled because the wedding episode
@@Ealais76 SU is sort of this middle ground of ending too early and going on when you consider the struggle the team had making it with executives. I'll tell you that you probably don't want your show relying on "Steven Bomb" as a desperate marketing gimmick because the company is jerking you around and you can really feel the weird pacing shift of finally getting access to Homeworld into suddenly time to resolve all the Diamond stuff at once. They clearly wanted to pace that a bit better.
@@Ealais76Yeah despite it having 100+ episodes the story wasn’t done yet. They still had plans for a couple more seasons before being cut short. Shows with more than 5 seasons exist
I’m so glad you mentioned MEGAS XLR and Sym Bionic Titan. Both of them were criminally underrated shows that never got a chance to complete their story.
The same goes for Mao Mao Heroes of Pure Heart, and they are all cartoon network shows.
@@x0electricspinel0x I'm pretty sure We Bare Bears haven't even got a finale.
Jimmy Neutron was SO ROBBED, it was cancelled because it was ahead of it’s time and the technology was too expensive for it to continue. It deserves a reboot like the Fairly OddParents got.
It was canceled because of The Ant Bully. Same production company. When it flopped hard, they went bankrupt, Jimmy disappeared
How cool would it be if Jimmy got a sequel series alongside FOP: a new wish? We could have another crossover with Jimmy and Timmy as adults!
It got cancelled because the studio behind it went bankrupt
I mean it was like 3rd place in the nicktoons catalogue behind spongebob and FOP, you would be lucky to even get near that spot now...
No it was cancelled because of D&A productions film The Ant Bully being a complete flop.
I will never stop being mad at how Nickelodeon treated Making Fiends. They doomed it from the start by airing it on Nicktoons (a sister channel that wasn’t available with a lot of cable packages), gave it SIX episodes before canceling it, and then locking it away in the vault forever without giving the original creator any rights to make more content with it. I thought I fever dreamed that show for ages until I found it (and the original web series it was based on) online.
It was a cute show with a lot of personality and they never gave it a chance, nor do they ever talk about it. I remember a while back they uploaded a bunch of theme songs from their old shows, even more short lived ones like My Life as a Teenage Robot and The Mighty Bee, but no Making Fiends. It makes me so mad.
If you haven’t watched it before, the whole series is available on RUclips!
Five seasons.
Three season learning curve, peaks in the fourth, stumbles a bit in the last leg but ends gracefully before it loses the plot. The ideal length. it used to be the way of things but, now in this hellhole of a landscape, people have forgotten this.
That’s what I’m saying.
Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.
The Owl House had two very well-planned seasons, and so did Gravity Falls. You're just being greedy.
@@roxygaming5968 well, maybe they could split their 40 episodes into 8 per season, rather than 20, I don’t know how many episodes the owl house had, but maybe if Disney let them keep their plans going, they could have split that into a 5 season run too.
@@Whyiseveryhandletaken6942 All you're doing here is splitting hairs. The number of seasons or even episodes in a show doesn't matter, it's how they utilize their time.
I’m still a little upset they abruptly canceled The Ghost and Molly McGee, while 2 seasons is nothing to scoff at, they had episodes written and planned for season 3 that Disney decided wasn’t worth making
I was kind of taken aback when that happened because the show looked like it was going to be the new “staple” of Disney Channel animation - the one that managed to stick around at least a little longer than it did, like three or four seasons. The worst part was that I was really starting to get into it at the time so I felt like I was in late-2002 getting into Firefly (not to mention felt bad for starting to really call myself a fan too late)
I didn’t realize that got canceled I didn’t know that I actually first saw that on a cruise and it was pretty good I’m actually disappointed that all the shows that have a fan base and people who want to see of it get throw out the window and get canceled
It ended well but at the same time I can't help but wonder why they would cancel something that was doing so well. It seems short sighted if anything, especially when they don't really have non franchise content like they should
and of course, the disney haters!
#allhopeisgone
Mao Mao deserved so much better than what it got. Honestly screw Warner Bros and Discovery
It's the only animated show I know of that got a 2nd season announced and greenlit, but never came out.
Hope Warner Bros gets a new ceo soon
@@jordanepalasol1209Agree with you or they should replace that CEO with Jason Kilar.
I will forever mourn the loss of this show 💔
I love the Wander Over Yonder mention, because that show is sooo good and nobody ever talks about it 😭
Everyone flocked to Gravity Falls and Star Vs. instead
@@liammcnicholas918Don't forget Phineas and Ferb
El Tigre was such a good show. With the kid trying to decide whether to be good or evil. The people who made this series made a movie called The Book of Life. Which is an underrated gem. The art style they use is so memorable.
Animated shows getting cancelled too soon was a major problem for the late 2000s early 2010s. Shows would usually last 2 seasons on average before being cancelled, and it would be completely be up in the air whether it would get a conclusion or not if it was story based.
You have no idea how many superhero shows get cancelled before their time. Spectacular Spider-Man, Avengers: EMH, Green Lantern TAS, and Fantastic Four: WGH are just the tip of the iceberg. It's genuinely concerning.
Spectacular Spider-Man getting canceled still hurts me to this day.
X-Men Evolution, Wolverine and The X-Men too
I liked the ending to the 90's Spider-Man animated series, but even that one had a cut plans that never saw the light of day. At least the X-Men 97 continuation gave the series a payoff through an easter egg.
Avengers EMH is one of my favorite shows ever, but the season 3 plans sounded awful. I'm glad it ended how it did. As for Spectacular Spider-Man, if the show wouldn't have Peter get married by the end or do the Clone Saga like Greg Weisman wanted, I'd be happy with more. I do want more Green Lantern, though.
The 2010s were just kind of a graveyard for animated action/superhero shows.
Wander over Yonder was a sad one. It had so much potential. Even though the crew wanted to keep working on it, because it was one Disney XD, its fate was sealed. Also on a side note, the ren and Stimpy reboot was pretty alright
You can go across a galaxy to return a sock, but people won’t care if you aren’t rich.
The galaxy has fallen
I feel like the worst treated show by Nickelodeon was Making Fiends. It only lasted six episodes. And the show was treated very poorly. Only airing on nicktoons, having barely any advertising and having bad time slots but the show actually had the highest ratings for the channel and then it was canceled a month after airing.
And that show still managed to get decent watch numbers in spite of Nickelodeon actively trying to kill it. I firmly believe that show could've been hugely successful if it had a chance on the main network
Wait that only had 6 episodes? I swear there was more
Wasn't that one based on a webshow?
@@damon2636 Yep, it was picked up because an executive's young daughter was a fan of the web shorts.
@@damon2636 Yep and since Nickelodeon own the rights the creator can’t make anymore episodes but have done a few parody episodes
Inside Job getting cancelled after two seasons still keeps me up at night...
0:32 NINJAGO DRAGONS RISING MENTIONED!!! Absolutely goated followup to classic Ninjago.
Invader Zim was canceled way too early, it could have been as big as Spongebob.
@Spacemanball.s Would you have actually WANT it to be that big though?! Given how much Nickelodeon quickly regretted Invader Zim shortly after it aired & how MUCH Jhonen & his crew had to forcibly changed, censor or canned to just meet Nick's demands! Plus, remember what happened to SpongeBob & Fairly OddParents! Personally, I think I'm MORE than satisfied that Zim at least got a 6-Year Long Sequel-Comic Run & Enter the Florpus as the Tv Show's Finale!
@@londonjackson8986 True
I agree, the grip that show had on me as a kid was insane
i'd argue bigger, but i imagine there would be pushback.
I’m sad that Glitch Techs, Mega XLR, My Life As A Teenager Robot, Infinity Train, El Tigre got cancelled because of the network
Did any of these shows end on a cliffhanger that never got resolved?
Sucks how Glitch Techs and Infinity Train got cancelled on Netflix & Max. Curse you Streaming.
Seeing Wander Over Yonder in the thumbnail is what surprised me and made my day! Sad it got cancelled.
Sylvia was always my favorite. I wish I had my own Sylvia
"Animation is so hard! People who do this for a living deserve more credit and respect!"
- Lord Hater
And then there’s Futurama which got canceled and renewed 3 separate times with the most recent gap being from 2013 to 2023 and the show is still ongoing.
Not to mention it’s not worth caring about anymore
0:09 I have the Better Call Saul theme as my phone ringtone, so when the sound was playing, I thought someone was calling me.
i also have that as my ring tone!
i don’t care
@@drago_TNSlol
@@drago_TNS no one asked if you cared
@@deadgurlswag i don’t care
It will forever baffle me how mission hill got cancelled after just 13 episodes is peak 😭
That and ugly Americans keep me up at night
Fr misson hill was so peak I wish there were more episodes or someone made a re animation of it or smth
The creators said in an interview it was because The WB Execs wanted them gone after Buffy The Vampire Slayer aired and entirely changed the demographic of their network. It was far cheaper to make episodes of Buffy than Mission Hill and Buffy also got higher views.
@@donaldandfriends4804wow it’s the famous channel Donald Duck and friends 🤯
Technically it got cancelled in 6 episodes. The remaining 7 only aired after Adult Swim picked up the show and they got the unaired episodes as a bonus, I guess.
My Babysitter’s a Vampire is a show that was canceled wayyy too early. They literally set up a truly compelling plot and everything and then wham, cancelled. I’d also say Uncoupled (very different vibe but still) because it got canceled, picked up and canceled again all before a second season and that show left on a cliffhanger as well.
Also! On the topic of Pushing Daisies, it’s so good. I recommend other Bryan Fuller shows :)))
I wish we could have gotten a second movie as a proper finale, cuz that cliffhanger was so unfair!!! Idk about Erica, but I know for a fact Rory would never leave the others behind that way!!
My babysitting vampire is series and movie masterpiece and my favorite sitcom.
I used to watch a bit of that show on YTV
Along with the Haunted Hour
Legends of Tomorrow too. At least they lived.
it feels like every cartoon either gets cancelled too soon or goes on too long and becomes a zombie, it's very rare when one hits that perfect balance, I would say Futurama but that show just got brought back from the dead for the like 4th time and honestly I'm not a fan of the new Hulu era, maybe regular show then?
Well it’s like what Fry said, don’t reboot a show if the quality isn’t gonna be there. Any TV show that truly cares about its audience that loves and respects them must be cancelled every few years, I don’t understand it to be honest, not every show gets that luxury.
Off the top of my head, Transformers Prime had a great, satisfying run all the way to the end. It had to make some compromises due to unexpected budget constraints during the 2nd season, but it still managed to pull through.
Transformers Animated was planned to have a 4th season that sadly got cancelled, however I find the conclusion of its last season still a good note to end on.
I feel like regular show dragged on a bit in the middle but yeah they ended alot stronger then a lot of cartoons. I think the best ever example of one that managed to tell a good story with almost no wasted time is Gravity Falls
Regular Show had a great ending. It last long enough.
Courage the Cowardly Dog comes to mind
the Owl House’s situation really sucked; despite Dana and her crew knocking it out of the park with what little time they had to work with.
Corporate meddling; a tale as old as toons.
I remember a gorgeous and extremely engaging show I watched a while back called Tron: Uprising. It came out with the Tron Legacy movie, and had everything going for it, beautiful visuals and worldbuilding, a very engaging story, and lots of dynamic and deep characters. Unfortunately, like anything Tron nowadays, it was canned because it didn't have enough viewership after being dropped on disney xd and Tron as a whole faded into obscurity because Disney refuses to capitalize on the potential that could come from making a Tron franchise. Luckily a new movie called Tron: Ares was just announced at D23, so I am praying that it does well and we can see the return of more Tron stuff.
I can't help but think back to a quote Rebeltaxi once said, "The better the show is the faster it gets cancelled. Live fast die young." The Clone High reboot really reflects that. The original was short lived, but we had it good with clone high content up until the reboot. Comparing it to a Monkey's paw moment was pretty fitting honestly. I'd love for shows like Freaks and Geeks, Wander Over Yonder or Harvey Beaks to return, but at the same time part of me thinks it's better they died young and still went out with a bang.
Thank you for including Wander Over Yonder, my favorite show ever. It’s great to see that people still remember it!
It’s like one of my main sources of inspiration for my cool stuff (don’t have anything set in stone yet, but it’s not going to be dark and gritty)
Does it get better over time? Tried watching it and it was eye bleeding mind torture for me 😭 maybe just too chaotic for my personal preferences
@@SprinkledCactus Oh it can definitely feel fast-paced and wacky a lot of times, but at the end of the day it’s a simple show with a simple message, to help others in need, and I really do appreciate it for that. I find that many of the main characters are easy to get attached to, and some other things I love are the world-building, the art styles, and its humor altogether.
The first two that I immediately thought of are Rise of the TMNT and Moral Orel. Both shows cancelled way before their time, before they could reach the peak of their potential. It honestly baffles me how the higher ups cancel the best shows and keep the most dogshit ones going for years, or run good shows into the ground to the point where they become the soulless husks of their creators dead dreams. Well, I know why. It's purely for the money, but it's still sad.
At least Rise got an awesome film as a last hoorah.
Well, I did love the final episode of Rise and I enjoyed the movie. I'm satisfied.
The more I learn about what the Rise crew had to cut, the more I hate Nickelodeon for canceling it. The movie was great, but it was only scratching the surface of what the crew intended to do
@@Commenter839 The final episode was also great. I wish we got more, but I adore what we did get, and I'm satisfied.
To be fair to Nickelodeon rise of tmnt was corny as hell so yeah
the Animated ThunderCats 2011 royally got done dirty all because of those dam toy sales :(
Then Thundercats Roar happened.
Fortunately it didn't stick around and was never seen again.
And what’s worst is that the show never got a chance to conclude its story
The one that I’m still super sad over is the death of Mao Mao, Parker Simmons poured so much of himself into that show, only to be denied their second season because of Discovery…
The stuff you said about Clone High is exactly how I feel about Animaniacs 2020. It started out promising, but in the end was an underwhelming disappointment. Not helping the fact they did this behind the creators back and hired new ones.
What’s funny is that Phil lord and Chris miller were involved in the reboot and wrote some episodes, but even they couldn’t save the show that they’ve spent years trying to bring. Hopefully they’ll make a clone high movie, as a proper way to conclude the series.
I hated Animaniacs 2020. There were things you could've done, but the original had 99 great episodes and a movie. We didn't need more.
@@bowserbreaker2515 honestly I would’ve loved to see a theatrical animaniacs movie (if Tom ruegger the original creator of the animaniacs returned to write and direct) but with the Warner bros. (The company) current state i don’t think that’s ever gonna happen and this will the last time we’ll ever see of the Warner siblings.😔
@@Granados07 Wakko's Wish could have released in theaters, but only of the crew had $5 million to market it.
@@bowserbreaker2515 honestly it would’ve been nice if they re-released it to theaters on the original’s 30th anniversary if you think about it.
I remembered when Harvey beaks first premiered after the 2015 kids choice awards and it was like a breath of fresh air from the legend who created chowder, It’s still disappointed that Nick treated it dirty. Not to mention making fiends to which got cancelled after only 6 eps on nicks sister network.
I will never properly recover from The Spectacular Spider-Man being cancelled.
Me neither.
Though his cameo in Across the Spider-Verse did make me feel a little bit better.
i’m not giving up all hope, X-Men 1994 got a continuation last year, and i know Sony owns the rights to Spectacular but i still think if the time’s right we could see a continuation…
I feel there is still potential in My Life as a Teenage Robot. The show kinda just ended randomly, with multiple popular characters only getting one or two episodes. They never even had a real end, so I feel it has potential for more if they don’t squander the retro sci-fi world with iPhones and modern jargon. Melody, Misty, and Glenn as characters could use more development, Cluster Prime and Vega could have more world buildings and fun scenarios, the show ended with a gag of Nora getting consumed by a tiger instead of an actual final episode, etc. Im starting to gain a bit of faith in reboots, but i’m still skeptical. If anything could be though, that show has so much to offer still.
I can’t believe even Learning with Pibby got cancelled. It had a trailer, amazing sneak peeks, but it still got cancelled for an unknown reason. Probably due to poor outcomes of production, and/or poor ratings.
Edit: Another great example was that TV show from 2013 called “UTOPIA”. That show’s music was FIRE 🔥
And yet the fucking Brickleberry guys got the chance to make 3 shows that are carbon copies of each other
I love how Brian is just a PNG in the thumbnail instead of an original art piece
LS Mark always finds a way to sneak in a Brian PNG into the thumbnail. It’s like an Easter egg hunt.
He’s been sneaking in a picture of Brian on some thumbnails like Where’s Waldo. He did it with his last vid too
The owl house being robbed of a full season 3 will always haunt me. 3 specials is not enough
the worst part of having a show cancelled as a kid is that I never knew that it was cancelled. it was just gone. I didn't even know the season was over. i just had to watch every day to see if it was back on. now i am understanding my tv addiction...
When I was a kid, I was obsessed with El Tigre. I had a special alarm set up on my phone to remember when the episodes would air. For some reason, El Tigre seemed a lot more relatable to me compared to all those "more universal" shows.
The Venture Bros. had an almost 20 year run and I'd still argue it was cancelled too soon. The way it went out was incredibly shady on adult swim's part.
I agree with you for the most part, but really it felt like it had maybe one more season in the tank, I feel like if we had gotten a full season 8 we probably would've got to see more development from characters like Brock, Force Majeure, Red Death, and more from Dean than we got from the movie, but at the end of the day I think really the movie was like a highlight reel of what we would have got from a season 8, so whilst somewhat jipped, we still got our conclusion. Go Team Venture!
I’m just glad the series went out on a high note. Quality was definitely going down.
At least we got the movie ending
@@mediaknightreally? Season 6 and 7 were as good as season 4 imo. Felt like it was ramping up for a big finale
The venture bros cancellation still makes me sad to think about, while the movie was good it felt like it was speedrunning plot points. I just hope one day it can return with a comic or something
Friendly reminder that Netflix cancelled Inside Job for 2 new seasons of Big Mouth
I’m never recovering from that
Is that how it really works? Because I sometimes see the "this show got canceled for this show" argument.
That's not how it works.
@@loifester thank you.
I fuckinghate Netflix of that. Inside job was a gem of a show, luckily the whole it left was filled by smiling friends
Watching an LS Mark video right after upload is like playing a game in early access
To me, Making Fiends was the show that got cut way too soon. Not only did the executives pull the plug, but they never gave Amy Winfrey the rights to the show back, which really fucking sucks.
I really do wish that show came back, as I wish folks would watch the web series too. That's just me, though.
12:20 This whole journey reminds me of a beatles song!
Which one?
i guess happines is a warm of a gun@@randomgamer625
Well it goes something like this…
THANK YOU, THANK YOU FOR MENTIONING WANDER OVER YONDER AFTER MANY MONTHS OF MY YEARNING. I WAS MERE DAYS AWAY FROM GOING MENTAL DUE TO THE LACK OF CONTENT FOR THIS SHOW. EVEN IF IT WAS LESS THAN 30 SECONDS, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TALKING ABOUT MY FAVORITE SHOW. 14:05 WILL BE A MONUMENTAL MOMENT IN HISTORY. WE NEED TO SAVE THIS ON THOUSANDS OF CDS AND TAPES AND STORE THEM IN A FIREPROOF VAULT UNTIL THE END OF DAYS.
Ok
I bet u could write a song off of this comment if u rly wanted to lol
Big deal. At least that show gets talked about, compared to Kick Buttowski.
AND IM HAPPY TOO THAT HE MENTIONED BEN 10! THAT MAKES BOTH THOSE SHOWS CLOSER TOO BEING RANKED AND REVIEWED!
Many years have passed, yet the cancellation of Transformers: Animated still hurts.
Till All Are One
Agreed. That's my favorite show of all time, and I really want just one more season. After hearing what the crew actually wanted to do, I really want to see it.
Which one
Yeah... at least there are fanmade storyboards of it by Keyan Carlile
@@AniToonimationKawaii Those aren't very good, but I still enjoy them. Though I doubt he'll ever continue his fully animated version that is much better.
Jimmy neutron really deserved one more season. If DNA didn’t shut down maybe it could’ve been different. That car commercial had stellar animation. Imagine if season 4 had looked like that. It would’ve been incredible.
The box-office failure of The Ant Bully suffer the Jimmy Neutron cancellation.
You want to know how little Nickelodeon cared about Teenage Robot? I have a big 2x3 ft poster of Jenny where my living room and dining room merge. It's one of the only things I can actually put on display in said area since most of this show's merch are just pins, DVDs and ONE figurine that was released last year. The saddest part is that it's a bootleg poster that you can't buy anymore and a fabric poster at that... I've been a fan of the show since it's debut and my main display of love for it outside of my room is a bootleg fabric poster that you can't even buy anymore... That's how much Nickelodeon cared about poor Jenny... Seeing you bring attention to the show is always appreciated Mark, from me and the community both!
Anyone still remember final space?
I loved that show and then it was cancelled with a huge cliffhanger...
Not only was it cancelled, but it was also used as a tax write off, meaning the show can't be streamed or aired anymore, the only saving grace is that the creator apparently managed to convince them to let him finish the story with a comic and looking at the point the story was in, it's no wonder that he wants to finish this.
Like the situation in that show was literally "the main villain is free and we've exhausted every way to defeat him, in addition he just convinced one of our friends to betray us. What are we gonna do?" You can't just end like that.
I'm also just glad we live in an age, where something this popular (hopefully) won't become completely lost media.
i'm still hoping for godspeed to happen..
Would love to see Mark cover Kid vs Kat, that is a great show that the studio ended too soon, let alone without a satisfying ending.
the only time i TRULY got mad at a show getting cancelled was The Owl House. It got such an unfair cancellation, having the third season get shortened to 3 episodes, all because of a gay kiss scene. i legit will never forgive disney for cancelling one of my favorite shows of all time.
Also, you know, supporting genocide and stuff, but who cares.
@@valentinkambushev4968 what? who supported genocide?
@@SprInGam3s Disney.
@@valentinkambushev4968 meh, they support all manner of things, but homosexuality aint one of them. nor is having a cartoon last more than 100 episodes...
@@UltimateGamerCC the loud house had homosexuality, and yet it didn't get canned!
Netflix is a huge example of cancelling shows before it could become something amazing
I don't trust Disney continuing the Daredevil series, but I remember being sad over it being cancelled after the 3rd season.
@@leithaziz2716Yeah, but it wasn’t Netflix’s faults on that one. That was around the time Disney started to invest on their own streaming service, therefore they saw no need to renew their projects with Netflix.
Captain Fall comes to mind. It's so disappointing. They even originally ordered the two seasons, then blindsided cancelled the second. It was supposed to be a two season show. Now it's just half finished.
Everyone likes to keep pointing the finger at Netflix, but considering they allow they also allow stuff like Arcane, Hilda, all the animes, etc, what they do doesn't even scratch the surface of the absolute murder of Warner Bros.
I’m sad to not even see a mention of Infinity Train, that show was amazing and WB used it as a tax write-off
There are so many recent examples I can think of.
A lot of people have already mentioned shows like Owl House, OK KO, Infinity Train, Mao Mao, Inside Job, Dead End Park, etc.
Final Space getting their final season cancelled really hurt as that show genuinely surprised me and had so much amazing build-up only to have the rug pulled. At least it's getting a graphic novel the creator had to self-publish.
Between the Warner merger and pretty much every new and original animated series getting axed too soon, my heart goes out to animation studios and creators trying to get their show out there or have a fresh idea. It seems like unless you're an already long established series like Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy or a merchandise and marketing cash-cow like Rick and Morty, most new shows are doomed to last any more than 2 seasons. You're constantly having to walk that tightrope.
It's sad to me that I never see any mention of Glitch Techs in these kinds of videos, that's probably one of the more recent cases of Nickelodeon doing a promising show horrendously dirty by dropping it on Netflix with next to no advertising.
I’m still amazed by that Frosty Mart reference
@@Cubeytheawesome NO WAY I need to see that for myself. It's been a while since I watched the show.
Even worse when your show is only mentioned as a punch line (sonic underground)
Every now and then you get a show like Ed Edd n Eddy, a great show from beginning to end that doesn’t go on for too long or too short.
Ed, Edd n Eddy is probably one of the best treated shows ever. Not just cartoon, but shows in general. They had very few bad episodes (at least comparing it to other shows), had a grand finale that perfectly ended the series and never had any shitty reboots or spin-offs afterwards. That’s really sad that this show was treated better than Avatar: The Last Airbender!
@@AJ-xc4qethe creator was given full creative control over the series on Cartoon Network, something that wasn’t offered to him on Nick
And it knew exactly when to end. The Big Picture Show is one of the best series finales in cartoon history.
@@AJ-xc4qeHonestly.....yeah production and quality wise Ed Edd n Eddy really is a freaking miracle, such a beautiful show
I lowkey wish they had the ability to finish S6, wouldve been a great season.
but im glad they didnt run this show to the ground lol
I'm a bit shocked Infinity Train was not mentioned since that pretty much fits the definition of being cancelled too soon.
Watchint Mao-Mao get greenlit after massive social media support, get a full season, and then get cancelled despite plans for a second...makes me very sad.
Scrolling through the comments I only saw 3 mentions of MotorCity. It was a beautiful flash animated show created by Titmouse release from 2012-13, which was immediately shafted by Disney by being shoved into the AM time slots on Disney XD. It is incredibly rare so see it mentioned by anyone, despite its strong characters, plot, comedy, animation, and world.
0:31 ninjago mentioned
I find it wild that it's still going to this day.
Scared me so hard when it appeared
Ninjago is better than ever tbh.
Let's gooooooo
8:01
4:26 I think the perfect example for this is Avatar the last airbender. It only had 61 episodes but had a proper ending and is widely regarded as on the best cartoons if not shows of all time.
Only for its sequel Korra to get fucked over by Nick.
Unlike the legend of Korra that should’ve ended sooner only to get worse
In all honesty, yes, Steven Universe was cancelled too soon it really needed 1 more season to flesh out the Diamonds " redemption " arc. Another show I thought that definitely needed another season was the ducktales reboot since that also had a rushed ending. One show I can say in all honesty had the best continuation after being cancelled years ago was clone wars, I hope spectacular spiderman and teen titans get the same treatment.
Teen Titans Go
@@LaDaleWatsonJr TTG is more of a spinoff than a continuation
7:27 The worst part about CN canceling shows because they weren't selling toys: The Green Lantern animated series, one of the shows affected by this, _had toys in the prototype stage that they just pulled the plug on._ I'm not a businessman and I don't know much about marketing and such, but maybe you'd see better toy sales if you tried _selling the toys?_
Fun fact
CH greenblat was not only forced to delete his upset post
Nickelodeon also forced him to DEFEND THE DECISION TO CANCEL IT
1:34 DINOSAUR KING MENTIONED!!!!
DINOSAUR KING IS WHAT I WANNA BE YEAH!
DINOSAUR KING IS YOUR DESTINY YEAH!
Peak fiction
I have literally haven’t seen anyone talk about it before
The way Making Fiends ended still makes me so upset. That show deserved way better
8:45 the first thing that comes to mind is those VHS and DVD box sets that were advertised a ton in the early to mid 2000s. I feel like the decline of those additional sources of revenue also made selling toys more important later on?
It always sucks that an animated show that gets off to an amazing start of the first or second seasons but ultimately gets cut short and ends up getting cancelled. Best example of this, Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes.
Man you hit all the points. I was super sad to hear about what happened with Harvey Beaks after finishing it. I absolutely loved it and felt like I have a closer connection to it after finding out the same dude behind it made another favorite of mine. OK KO is the same instances as well as Wander Over Yonder. It stinks, but it’s a possibility for every show we love. It’s a huge risk to see it revived, so I guess it is better to let these cartoons be, despite the endings they had being abrupt.
The Spongebob standard is probably one of the most unrealistic expectations Nick ever had.
One of the many examples of a show suffering from its own success.
@@forrestannis909 Ironically, when you really think about it, such as ridiculous standard absolutely soiled any chances for potential future hits because a) Nickelodeon cancels the show before it can find its stride and b) creators will see the treatment and avoid Nick.
Yep, have you heard of Phoebe & Her Unicorn? Another non-SpongeBob Nickelodeon show that got cancelled in favor of SpongeBob.
@@forrestannis909I had no idea that show existed and I looked it up… apparently it was cancelled before it even started because Nickelodeon thought a show with a female protagonist wouldn’t attract guys. Which is badshit ridiculous, because Nick has made shows starring girls, and they’re all bangers. Heck their newest show, Max & the Midknights, is a show about a girl. And critics loved that show.
Never heard of that.
10:02 keep the 40 year old virgin, superbad, step brothers and pinapple express out your mouth
Sure…….
Spectacular Spider-Man getting cancelled is a legit crime against humanity
FOR REAL!!!
One of the absolute best versions of the character, and it was canceled right when it was getting really interesting.
@@michaelstrong5383 and if im not mistaken it was caned just because of a change in copyright holders to boot.
@NSMITH8516 yeah
You get used to it
Your point on the 2000s cartoons getting cancelled due to low toy sales reminds me on how earlier in the 90s they made certain cartoons as "extended commercials" for their toy lines. Main examples being: He-Man, Shera Princess of Power and TMNT. I'm not sure that's the mindset that they were on when making those cartoons you mentioned, though it just made me think about it.
What about Thundercats?
Netflix committed a crime the day they canceled Inside Job. I personally am convinced that no show should be longer than 6 Seasons, if it's not an ongoing narrative that worked out on paper before (looking at you game of thrones) Bojack Horseman is the show that has the perfect ending at the perfect time. After 6 Seasons.
I'm genuinely shocked that no one literally no one brings up (FINAL SPACE) by olan rogers on the topic of cancelled shows the show was really well received by fans and everyone wanted more since it ended on a cliffhanger but it sadly got cancelled in 2021 cz of all the warner bros shenanigans its so sad to see such promising shows get cancelled by all these soulless corporations some times with no actual reason and dont even get me started on other shows such as .. ( infinity train , og teen titans , ok ko , close enough , and others you mentioned through out the video)
I'm a fan of some truly underrated shows literally almost no one has ever heard of, so cartoons getting cancelled too soon (to the point of leaving us on a cliffhanger) is unfortunately just something I've been prepared for.
Cleopatra in Space, Hanazuki, Littlest Pet Shop: A World of Our Own, Molly McGee, Tuca and Bertie, Central Park, Glitch Techs, and 101 Dalmatian Street..... oh how I will miss thee
Glitch techs is one of the most sad cancellations of a cartoon for me, it was SO good and Nick actively wanted it to fail since the start so it got cancelled despite it literally building up a main mystery that now will never be resolved
Nick should’ve had it aired on the network, then put it on Paramount+.
Man, I rewatched Wander Over Yonder recently and GGRRRRAAAGGH ITS SOOOO GOOODDD. Never have I ever watched a show so full of optimism and hope. Maybe someday it’ll make a return for season 3 :]
I also hope it comes back, but seeing as Craig McCracken’s currently working on Powerpuff Girls and Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends reboots/halfboots (I don’t know what you’d call the Foster’s preschool show) for Cartoon Network, I don’t think a continuation, or one with him included, at least, will be greenlit for at least like… five or so years, unfortunately, assuming either one of those doesn’t become breakout hits that compel him to renew his contract with CN. And seeing as, if I recall correctly, PPG 2016 offered to have him on but he declined because he was under contract at Disney doing Wander Over Yonder, I doubt the alternative would be possible for a WOY reboot/revival.
But even with that being said… I still genuinely *LOVE* the show and hope to see it come back in some form!! Just wanted to share some info to a fellow Wander fan! Thanks in advance!