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Gone before their time. Favorite short lived cartoons.
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Sir_Crocodile
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don't hotlink
Prof. Bathtub
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This, so much potential
To be fair, the creators admitted they really had no idea where it would go if they made more. Still, the world needs more one-off bits of excellence like this.
The Sam'n Max animated series that ran for a few episodes and got pulled. The ultraviolence and satiric humor might have had a chance during another time slot, but it certainly didn't belong in the Saturday Morning Cartoon slot. Aside from that, the episodes I watched were absolutely fantastic.
mechashiva
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Undergrads and Clone High are the two biggest to me
Clerks is there too.
More recently Symbionic Titan and Thundercats and like someone said probably Tron.
Exo Squad would be another for me though. It did get two seasons but felt too short.
Clerks is there too.
More recently Symbionic Titan and Thundercats and like someone said probably Tron.
Exo Squad would be another for me though. It did get two seasons but felt too short.
Dr.NoiseWater
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Am I the old one here?
And my personal favorite...
I think these shows were around 2 maybe 3 years.
And my personal favorite...
I think these shows were around 2 maybe 3 years.
slightconfuse
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I loved swat cats and new adventures of johnny quest.
This thread covers everthing and is sad
This thread covers everthing and is sad
Candeldandel
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First post, fuck and yes. This is one of my favorite cartoons of all time (still)!
Undergrads is also a great one
JCreasy
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Was going to add this too.
Only seventeen eps I think. Same as Aeon Flux, but I'm not sure it counts here. How long did Spawn run?
If we're looking for classics, I enjoyed:
Dragon's Lair
Silverhawks.
TURBO TEEN! ...actually probably better this didn't last too long...
You summoned Turbo Teen
RESPECT!
Also . . .
What? Had to figure out a way to get rid of his disease. Imagine all the mayhem he could cause trying to cure himself.
Invader Zim was too good and early for its time.
Also, I liked Clone High until I saw the last episode. I was completely done after that.
Triple Da G.O.D!
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Sheep in the Big City brought up...GOOD FUCKING JOB GAF!!!
To drop something nobody said yet is Invasion America.
Show was so good I read the novels they were based on to get the full story.
And the other was A.T.O.M. They stopped showing it right as it was getting really good. I gotta track down that 2nd season.
Other Mentions
Wolverine & The X-Men
G.I. Joe Extreme
To drop something nobody said yet is Invasion America.
Show was so good I read the novels they were based on to get the full story.
And the other was A.T.O.M. They stopped showing it right as it was getting really good. I gotta track down that 2nd season.
Other Mentions
Wolverine & The X-Men
G.I. Joe Extreme
Sir_Crocodile
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Hey, I wanted more Leonard Starr era thundercats
Dr.NoiseWater
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concur.
Darth Pinche
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We needed more hand drawn Clone Wars
And an ending for Samurai Jack
Genndy Tartakovsky, get your priorities straight!
And an ending for Samurai Jack
Genndy Tartakovsky, get your priorities straight!
Someone souls kickstart this!
My friends didnt like X-men Evolution but I really liked it.
And your post makes me think about another pattern with short lived cartoons: comics.
X-men Evolution
Wolverine and the X-men
New Batman Adventures
The Batman
Batman: Brave and the Bold
Spider-man Unlimited
Spider-man(MTV)
Spectacular Spider-man
Thats just off the top of my head and big name comics.
Also, unrelated to comics, but still relevant - My Life as a Teenage Robot.
Between Super Show, SMB3, and Super Mario World, there were 91 episodes. Hardly short-lived.Am I the old one here?
I think these shows were around 2 maybe 3 years.
Also, Lou Albano live action bits aside, it was horrible.
Some of those definitely got cut short, but others are well outside the purview of 'short-lived'. Brave and the Bold, X-Men Evolution, and The Batman lasted three, four, and five seasons, respectively. Those are very healthy runs for animated shows.Xiaoki said:
Definitely a trend. Just another example of how comic companies shoot themselves in the foot.
Count Dookkake
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I dream of a live-action version.
Razgriz-Specter
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yep thats what happened to Mystery Incorporated.
CN showed about half of season 1(had great ratings) unexpectedly stopped unannounced while Canada etc continued to air most of the rest. rarely repeats.
Over a year later it suddenly returned unpromoted(ratings dropped).
They wait over another year to start season 2 but this time decided to air it 1pm in the afternoon every weekday for the first half of the season.
Now we had to wait another year for the second half of season 2 this summer.
AdventureMike
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Man, that screen from 2002 He-man, I really loved that at the time and was excited to see more. I was so sad when it was cancelled.
The Omega Man
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I know, but that one episode was pure brilliance, not to have even 1 season of Korgor and this makes me really sad
Dr.NoiseWater
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But I didnt like the other two. That is why I only mentioned the one I liked. I would say it was short lived.
- He-man and the Masters of the Universe (2002)
- Symbiotic Titan
- Samurai Jack
- Megas XLR
- Motor City
- Avengers EMH
- Reboot (It should have ended after season 2. Season 3 mini movies left a horrible cliffhanger out there due to CN)
- Invader Zimm (since it was series of stand alone episodes, doesn't bother me so much, but it was still a strong show that could have went another season or 2)
Bubblicious
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This x1000. I loved how it parodied popular kids shows! Was sad that it was cancelled!
Host Samurai
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Anybody else a fan of Duckman? I really loved this when I was a little kid in grade school. I would always watch this on USA after Are you Afraid of the Dark and before Beavis & Butthead
I can say with a good degree of confidence that if you were to make any sort of effort to sit down and watch every episode, you wouldn't come out of the experience lamenting that there wasn't more.
This goes triple for basically any 80's action cartoons being listed. Great openings, mostly awful shows. And contrary to the thread title, they ordered unbelievable amounts of episodes per season due to weekday block syndication... For instance, Silverhawks only had one season that ran for a few months... but that season had 65 episodes!
Dr.NoiseWater
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Ok, I agree on the more part, but I would not say they were awful. I liked them as a kid.
Megas XLR said:
Batman of the Future said:
Symbionic Titan said:
Samurai Jack said:
No doubt there are more I couldn't think of off the top of my head!Jayce & The Wheeled Warriors said:
My friends didnt like X-men Evolution but I really liked it.
And your post makes me think about another pattern with short lived cartoons: comics.
X-men Evolution
Wolverine and the X-men
New Batman Adventures
The Batman
Batman: Brave and the Bold
Spider-man Unlimited
Spider-man(MTV)
Spectacular Spider-man
Thats just off the top of my head and big name comics.
Also, unrelated to comics, but still relevant - My Life as a Teenage Robot.
The Batman had like 5 seasons .. that is anything except short lived xD
I also loved stuff like the MiB cartoon and the Spawn HBO series ... but they too are far from short lived
Sir_Crocodile
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X-Men Evolution is the only marvel thing ever where I've liked scott summers
ShipTheCheese
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Again, pretty sure it didn't. Are you talking about the cliffhanger where Bob disappears? Because there are whole seasons dedicated to Enzo taking his place, then eventually finding him on the internet, and eventually they all go back for the final confrontation with Megabyte. Unless i was high on acid as a kid, im pretty confident thats what happened.
MisterHero
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Super Mario Bros. Super Show was really fun, and I argue that they had stories that were more fun than anything Nintendo has done with a mainline Mario game*. The Valiant comics were fun as well. SMB3 and World shows were way cheaper and worse.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer had a cartoon pilot... does that count?
*RPGs not included
Buffy the Vampire Slayer had a cartoon pilot... does that count?
*RPGs not included
Sir_Crocodile
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There's a season after that against daemon (a villain hyped during the enzo finding bob stuff from memory). That season ended on a cliffhanger.
Swat Kats still holds up pretty decent (animation could be better, but hey, it was the 90s).
They've been showing it at night on Boomerang, so I've actually been catching up.
Jesus...
Reboot
Sym-Biotic Titan
Transformers: Beast Wars
Korgoth (one episode is just a dicktease)
and finally...
Only a few episodes appeared in the US, and it was on at 6 am on some obscure channel in MD when I was 11 (channel 54, I think). Suddenly stopped airing, and I was left with a hole in my heart for the rest of my life.
I too remember this coming on television in MD, early Saturday mornings, but it was channel 13. I sought out the amazing orchestrated soundtrack for DQIII due to this awesome show.
Have you read the first volume of Astonishing X-Men? He's... not exactly likable but more understandable than in anything else. But yeah, Scott seems to only be tolerable when he's a teenager.
Typographenia
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Never heard or saw anything from this show before. Looked up something on youtube. Holy crap, it looked freaking awesome. Really sad it came and went without me knowing. : (
You all have blood on your hands.
DonasaurusRex
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This! Let me throw this into the mix too.
Hanna Barbera really tried hard during the 80's and 90's. So many good shows didn't last long at all. Swat Kats even had several episodes ready for production before it got the axe.
OMFG this so much potential.
DonasaurusRex
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what? the war did end, they started another arch in the last episode then the next season never happened. But the blonde guy that got killed got cloned, mars was restored, there was peace with the space pirates...the main arch finished. I like exo squad too though.
TheBaldEmperor
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I actually did that with the Super Mario Brothers Super Show recently and enjoyed it. Probably heavily influenced by nastalgia. I loved that show as a kid.
Rhomega Beta
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+1 for Megas XLR, my favorite show of all time.
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