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** Due to Creator/JohnKricfalusi's poor relationship with his co-workers and his failure to premiere episodes on time, the original show fell into one after Kricfalusi was fired from Nickelodeon after Season 2. While his replacement, Creator/BobCamp, made an effort to preserve the witty and gross-out humor that defined the show since its inception, it was clear that it was losing its edge by the final season, resulting in its cancellation in 1995.
** But seven years later, Kricfalusi was brought back to make an adult version of the show known as ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpyAdultPartyCartoon'', a re-imagining of the titular characters so horrible that fans and critics burned it to the ground just as it started. The show suffered from even more gross-out, a heavy heaping of shock humor, {{Overly Long Gag}}s which take up most of the episodes (to the point where one of the episodes is '''''40 minutes long'''''), and {{Flanderization}} of the main duo (Ren, in particular, became a heartless psychopath in contrast to his original hot-headed jerk from the original show), resulting in its cancellation after only '''three''' episodes (the other six were released on DVD due to failure in episode deliver), and the franchise has been stuck in dormancy every since.

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** Due to Creator/JohnKricfalusi's poor relationship with his co-workers and his failure to premiere episodes on time, the original show fell into one after Kricfalusi was fired from Nickelodeon after Season 2.2, and the show changed animation studios from Spumco to Games Animation (later known as Creator/NickelodeonAnimationStudios). Problems with the Games era episodes include weaker animation, replacing most of the voice actors (about half of the recurring characters were voiced by Kricfalusi), and Ren [[TookALevelInJerkass taking several levels in jerkass]] that he wasn't even funny anymore. While his replacement, Creator/BobCamp, made an effort to preserve the witty and gross-out humor that defined the show since its inception, it was clear that it was losing its edge by the final season, resulting in its cancellation in 1995.
** But seven years later, Kricfalusi was brought back to make an adult version of the show known as ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpyAdultPartyCartoon'', a re-imagining of the titular characters so horrible that fans and critics burned it to the ground just as it started. The show suffered from even more gross-out, a heavy heaping of shock humor, {{Overly Long Gag}}s which take up most of the episodes (to the point where one of the episodes is '''''40 minutes long'''''), and {{Flanderization}} of the main duo (Ren, in particular, became a heartless psychopath in contrast to his original hot-headed jerk from the original show), resulting in its cancellation after only '''three''' episodes (the other six were released on DVD due to failure in episode deliver), delivery), and the franchise has been stuck in dormancy every since.
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* ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' fell into one in the 2010s, when Viacom acquired the Rainbow studio and the franchise became a Nickelodeon property. The fifth and sixth seasons, co-produced with Nickelodeon Animation Studio, suffered greatly from character flanderization, poor writing aimed at a younger audience, and loads of plot-related retcons. Rainbow would go on to produce Season 7 solo, which was chided by fans for its childish writing and notoriously long Butterflix transformation sequences. Season 8, which premiered in 2019, would see the show retooled for a preschool demographic, and was criticized just as much for featuring return of a villain defeated in season 3 and giving another villain a backstory. This would be then followed by ''Series/FateTheWinxSaga'', a LiveActionAdaptation that was slammed by fans for, among others, turning a largely light-hearted series into a DarkerAndEdgier teen drama. It was cancelled by Netflix after two seasons, putting the franchise on ice until creator Iginio Straffi confirmed that the original series would receive a ContinuityReboot.

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* ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' fell into one in the 2010s, when Viacom acquired the Rainbow studio and the franchise became a Nickelodeon property. The fifth and sixth seasons, co-produced with Nickelodeon Animation Studio, suffered greatly from character flanderization, poor writing aimed at a younger audience, and loads of plot-related retcons. Rainbow would go on to produce Season 7 solo, which was chided by fans for its childish writing and notoriously long Butterflix transformation sequences. Season 8, which premiered in 2019, would see the show retooled for a preschool demographic, and was criticized just as much for having an art style nobody liked and featuring the return of a villain defeated in season 3 and giving another returning villain a backstory. This would be then followed by ''Series/FateTheWinxSaga'', a LiveActionAdaptation that was slammed by fans for, among others, turning a largely light-hearted series into a DarkerAndEdgier teen drama. It was cancelled by Netflix after two seasons, putting the franchise on ice until creator Iginio Straffi confirmed that the original series would receive a ContinuityReboot.

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