History AdoredByTheNetwork / Nickelodeon

* The new mini-series, ''Studio 10'', is crammed into the program during any possible rerun. It's gotten so bad that Nick actually '''interrupts whatever show is playing''' to air ''Studio 10'' instead of waiting for the next commercial break!

* The new mini-series, ''Studio 10'', is crammed into the program during any possible rerun. It's gotten so bad that Nick actually '''interrupts whatever show is playing''' to air ''Studio 10'' instead of waiting for the next commercial break! And like CartoonNetwork's ''IncredibleCrew'' it is SoBadItsHorrible, so much so its like it was made to compete.

* {{Nickelodeon}} loves ''SpongeBobSquarePants''. The show runs at least ''eight'' times on an average weekday -- it's the first thing they show in the morning and the last thing they show at night, before turning into NickAtNite, and it's the only show that they run at all different hours of the day to get pre-schoolers, after-school kids, ''and'' evening teenager audiences. "Special" ''[=SpongeBob=]'' episodes are hyped up and promoted more often than the regular Nicktoons on the network. Some days, it gets more airtime than all the other Nicktoons still on Nickelodeon combined. During 2009-2011, ''repeats'' get higher ratings than the average that most kids' shows nowadays have. Don't believe me? Go on [[http://www.tvbythenumbers.com TV By The Numbers]], look at the top cable ratings for the weeks and check out how many episodes will be there. However, ratings for the show have lately dropped, probably due to daily overexposure.

* The new mini-series, ''Studio 10'', is crammed into the program during any possible rerun. It's gotten so bad that Nick actually '''interrupts whatever show is playing''' to air ''Studio 10'' instead of waiting for the next commercial break!

* The new mini-series, ''Studio 10'', is crammed into the program during any possible rerun. It's gotten so bad that Nick actually '''interrupts whatever show is playing''' to air ''Studio 10'' instead of waiting for the next commercial break!!!
** They've actually stopped doing this. But they say they're continuing it in April...

** They also seem to really like ''Film/ScoobyDoo'' (Yes, ''Scooby-Doo''. [[{{Irony}} Y'know, something that's often adored by]] [[Creator/CartoonNetwork Nickelodeon's competitor.]]

* The new mini-series, ''Studio 10'', is crammed into the program during any possible rerun. It's gotten so bad that Nick actually '''interrupts whatever show is playing''' to air ''Studio 10'' instead of waiting for the next commercial break!!!

* The new mini-series, ''Studio 10'', is crammed into the program during any possible rerun. It's gotten so bad that Nick actually '''interrupts whatever show is playing''' to air ''Sstudio 10'' instead of waiting for the next commercial break!!!

* The new mini-series, ''Studio 10'', is crammed into the program during any possible rerun. It's gotten so bad that Nick actually '''interrupts the show''' to air the show instead of waiting for the next commercial break!!!

* Nickelodeon likes airing ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}} in Paris: The Movie'' once every two weeks.

** Before ''[=SpongeBob=]'', it was ''{{Rugrats}}''. The show was {{uncanceled}} due to the ratings for the reruns being high and once the show was put back into production, it dominated most of the lineup and was running every day, at least five times a day. It was much like ''[=SpongeBob=]'' in regards to grabbing all sorts of audiences during the day. Plus, this also led to Nickelodeon using Klasky-Csupo (the studio behind ''Rugrats'') to produce at least six new shows for the network, including the ''Rugrats'' SpinOff ''AllGrownUp'' which was born from another over-hyped special that got Nickelodeon's highest ratings ever at almost twelve million viewers. Meanwhile, all the other Nicktoons were basically ignored or canceled outright. Though Rugrats was nowhere near as AdoredByTheNetwork back then, as SpongeBob is now.

** ''DragonBallZKai'' is shown multiple times every day with flimsy excuses for marathons. It's 11/11/11? They promise to show 11 hours of the show. It runs at least 4 episodes a day.

** This troper's two kid brothers (and one teenage younger brother) adore Spongebob. Sadly, this meant that the cartoon saw a lot of viewing hours in the house. It was also clear that at least 50% of Nickelodeon's screenings for the 2012 summer break were Spongebob or Spongebob marathons.

** ''DragonBallZKai'' is shown multiple times every day with flimsy excuses for marathons. It's 11/11/11? They promise to show 11 hours of the show. It runs at least 4 episodes a day.
* During 2003-2005, ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' was this. It got even more viewer ratings and attention from the channel's executives than '''Spongebob'''. But that soon died down around 2006 to 2007.

** ''DragonBallZKai'' is shown multiple times every day with flimsy excuses for marathons. It's 11/11/11? They promise to show 11 hours of the show. It runs at least 4 episodes a day.

** ''DragonBallZKai'' is shown multiple times every day with flimsy excuses for marathons. It's 11/11/11? They promise to show 11 hours of the show. It runs at least 4 episodes a day.
* For a while, ''WesternAnimation/FairlyOddParents'' was getting even higher viewer ratings than Nickelodeon's little bitch, Spongebob, and even had a huge slew of merchandise.

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* {{Nickelodeon}} loves ''SpongeBobSquarePants''. The show runs at least ''eight'' times on an average weekday -- it's the first thing they show in the morning and the last thing they show at night, before turning into NickAtNite, and it's the only show that they run at all different hours of the day to get pre-schoolers, after-school kids, ''and'' evening teenager audiences. "Special" ''[=SpongeBob=]'' episodes are hyped up and promoted more often than the regular Nicktoons on the network. Some days, it gets more airtime than all the other Nicktoons still on Nickelodeon combined. During 2009-2011, ''repeats'' get higher ratings than the average that most kids' shows nowadays have. Don't believe me? Go on [[http://www.tvbythenumbers.com TV By The Numbers]], look at the top cable ratings for the weeks and check out how many episodes will be there. However, ratings for the show have lately dropped, probably due to daily overexposure.
** This troper's two kid brothers (and one teenage younger brother) adore Spongebob. Sadly, this meant that the cartoon saw a lot of viewing hours in the house. It was also clear that at least 50% of Nickelodeon's screenings for the 2012 summer break were Spongebob or Spongebob marathons.
** Mostly, it airs first thing in the morning, but sometimes, another show airs. For instance, a TeamUmizoomi special aired on Martin Luther King Day 2012, and the {{Rugrats}} special "Babies in Toyland" was the first thing aired on December 25, 2011 (aka Christmas).
*** It is no longer aired anymore as the first thing in the morning, ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' now airs first.
** Same thing with it being the last thing aired every day: sometimes, the last show aired is either Series/ICarly, HowToRock, or FredTheShow, which usually occurs on Fridays and weekends.
** Before ''SpongeBob'' really took off and practically ran with this trope, ''TheFairlyOddparents'' was this for a while.
** ''DoraTheExplorer'' is the second most run cartoon on Nickelodeon, airing at least four times during the morning hours.
** Before ''[=SpongeBob=]'', it was ''{{Rugrats}}''. The show was {{uncanceled}} due to the ratings for the reruns being high and once the show was put back into production, it dominated most of the lineup and was running every day, at least five times a day. It was much like ''[=SpongeBob=]'' in regards to grabbing all sorts of audiences during the day. Plus, this also led to Nickelodeon using Klasky-Csupo (the studio behind ''Rugrats'') to produce at least six new shows for the network, including the ''Rugrats'' SpinOff ''AllGrownUp'' which was born from another over-hyped special that got Nickelodeon's highest ratings ever at almost twelve million viewers. Meanwhile, all the other Nicktoons were basically ignored or canceled outright. Though Rugrats was nowhere near as AdoredByTheNetwork back then, as SpongeBob is now.
** On 7/18/10, an unannounced twelve hour marathon of ''[=SpongeBob=]'' plagued the channel, before an airing of ''Adventures In Babysitting''.
** On 7/29/10, of the 11 hours Nickelodeon has minus NickAtNite and Nick Jr., nine hours were filled with ''[=SpongeBob=]'' and ''iCarly'' alone without any of their current Nicktoons showing and only two other shows aired.
** Same deal on 11/26/10, they played two episodes of ''ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'', then a six-hour ''[=SpongeBob=]'' marathon, followed by an ''iCarly'' marathon at 3, ending with ''iStart a Fan War'' at 7, and they wrapped it up with the premiere of the ''Victorious'' special, "Freak the Freak Out".
*** Apparently, Nick repeated this on July 21, 2012, when they aired a Spongebob marathon to promote the "Super-Spongey Square Games", an hourlong block of new episodes devoted to sports. They also aired the 1-hour special "Truth or Square" and the movie.
** There was also the three-day long marathon of nothing but [=SpongeBob=] in 2009 to promote the 10-year anniversary and the T or S special. Later during that week, Even ''Nick At Nite'' aired a special about the production of the show.
** Later, with a schedule change on April 2011, ''[=SpongeBob=]'' got ''over '''60''' airings that week''. It was even worse previously, where entire Saturdays and Sundays were filled entirely with the yellow sponge. ''iCarly'' took a close second, with ''{{Victorious}}'' and ''TUFFPuppy'' tied in third.
** On Australia's Nickelodeon, until recently at least (mid-2010), they had ''[=SpongeBob=]'' running from 12AM-6AM every night, for ''at least'' a year.
** On Latin America's channel, almost all weekends are 48 hour marathons of either SpongeBob or iCarly.
** There's more: The UK Nickelodeon had a whopping '''502''' hour marathon of Spongebob in Summer 2011, for the Clash of the Bottom competition, where kids had to vote for their favorite main character. To top that off, it was the second-longest TV show marathon ''of all time'', only being beaten by Boomerang UK's [[ScoobyDoo Scooby Summer]].
** Here is a sample of an average day of Nickelodeon, which relates to the show we are talking about. On Christmas Day 2011, they played the Rugrats special "Babies in Toyland", then an episode of WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents, followed by a 3-hour Spongebob marathon, then a one-hour marathon of Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, then an episode of Penguins of Madagascar, then after a few hours, they played a two hour Spongebob marathon a few hours later, making that 5 HOURS of Spongebob. In one day!
** As of May 18, 2012, Nickelodeon can now be called "The ''Spongebob'' and ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaLegendsOfAwesomeness'' Network. Why is this? Because Kung Fu Panda plays for 2 1/2 hours on weekdays, making it the second-most run show on Nick.
* Also, those marathon-special thingies must have meant that Nick had finally realized that ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' is such a ratings-topper. Its sister channel, NicktoonsNetwork, is also filled with Avatar now that the series has ended. However, the sequel series, ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' is being ScrewedByTheNetwork: Despite amazing ratings, it's only aired '''once a week'''. Miss an episode? Too bad, hope you have Tivo!
** Actually it is also adored as it was made to be a 12 episode miniseries but now it's set to run with 52 episodes! Now if that's not adored by the network then I don't know what is...
* The {{Nicktoons}} network currently (as of summer 2010) has ''DragonBallZKai'' and ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' as their frequently airing shows. In July, they started airing on weekdays along with [[InvaderZim a third show requested by popular demand]].
** Though they seem to be annoyed by marathons of the "original animated infomercials" ''NFL Rush Zone: Guardians of the Core" and ''Zevo-3''.
** They hardly even show ''InvaderZim'' like they did when it first premiered. They pretty much replaced it with massive, full 3 hour blocks of Zevo-3. The new, stupid 5 minute show "NFL Rush Zone: Guardians of the Core" has been [[{{Pun}} invading]] schedules of ''InvaderZim'', ''Avatar: The Last Airbender'', and even their revered love child Zevo-3.
** Let's not even ''start'' with ''FanboyAndChumChum''. Massive blocks on both Nickelodeon and Nicktoons, It seemed for a while that you couldn't go a single day of the week without seeing at least three episodes of it.
*** Often the same three episodes. Again and again and again. Seriously, for a while you could only see three to five episodes, total, of ''PenguinsOfMadagascar'' and ''FanboyAndChumChum'', even with the knowledge that other episodes probably existed. They would play them in hour blocks, yet you never seemed to catch a new episode.
*** Currently ''T.U.F.F Puppy'' is getting the adoration. Same situation as ''FanboyAndChumChum'', It's a new show that is being shoved down our throats, when ''[=SpongeBob=]'' has the day off.
** Though it's been slowing down lately due to the lack of new episodes, NickToons did like airing ''MakingFiends'' multiple times a day a majority of the week. ''ChalkZone'' appears often early in the day.
** ''DragonBallZKai'' is shown multiple times every day with flimsy excuses for marathons. It's 11/11/11? They promise to show 11 hours of the show. It runs at least 4 episodes a day.
* For a while, ''WesternAnimation/FairlyOddParents'' was getting even higher viewer ratings than Nickelodeon's little bitch, Spongebob, and even had a huge slew of merchandise.

* Actually it is also adored as it was made to be a 12 episode miniseries but now it's set to run with 52 episodes! Now if that's not adored by the network then I don't know what is...

** This troper's two kid brothers (and one teenage younger brother) adore Spongebob. Sadly, this meant that the cartoon saw a lot of viewing hours in the house. It was also clear that at least 50% of Nickelodeon's screenings for the summer break were Spongebob or Spongebob marathons.

** Before ''[=SpongeBob=]'', it was ''{{Rugrats}}''. The show was {{uncanceled}} due to the ratings for the reruns being high and once the show was put back into production, it dominated most of the lineup and was running every day, at least five times a day. It was much like ''[=SpongeBob=]'' in regards to grabbing all sorts of audiences during the day. Plus, this also led to Nickelodeon using Klasky-Csupo (the studio behind ''Rugrats'') to produce at least six new shows for the network, including the ''Rugrats'' SpinOff ''AllGrownUp'' which was born from another over-hyped special that got Nickelodeon's highest ratings ever at almost twelve million viewers. Meanwhile, all the other Nicktoons were basically ignored or canceled outright.

* Also, those marathon-special thingies must have meant that Nick had finally realized that ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' is such a ratings-topper.
** Its sister channel, Nicktoons, is also filled with Avatar now that the series has ended.
*** Also, ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' is starting to become this. Like the Flapjack example, they play it multiple times each day, although there are only a few episodes.
**** Sadly, it seems this wasn't meant to be - despite amazing ratings, ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' is only aired '''once a week'''. Miss an episode? Too bad, hope you have Tivo!

** As of this edit (11/9/11) ''DragonBallZKai'' is shown multiple times every day with flimsy excused for marathons. It's 11/11/11? They promise to show 11 hours of the show. It runs at least 4 episodes a day.

*** It is no longer aired anymore as the first thing in the morning, WinxClub now airs first.

** As of this edit (11/9/11) ''DragonBallZKai'' is shown multiple times every day with flimsy excused for marathons. It's 11/11/11? They promise to show 11 hours of the show. It runs at least 4 episodes a day.
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