History ScrewedByTheNetwork / Nickelodeon

* Despite a small hiatus, ''WesternAnimation/ItsPony'' (once ranked as the fourth best-performing show on Nickelodeon, right behind ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', ''WesternAnimation/TheCasagrandes'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'') was one of Nickelodeon's favorite shows during 2020, but that all changed when "Bramley Holiday" aired on December 5th that year: The show disappeared from the network, and reruns only aired on the less popular Nicktoons Network. When it was finally about to come back in March 2021, Nickelodeon decided at the last minute to replace the premieres with more reruns of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''. New episodes eventually moved to the Nicktoons channel in October 2021, practically killing the show.

* Despite a small hiatus, ''WesternAnimation/ItsPony'' (once ranked as the fourth best-performing show on Nickelodeon, right behind ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', ''WesternAnimation/TheCasagrandes'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'') was one of Nickelodeon's favorite shows during 2020, but that all changed when "Bramley Holiday" aired: The show disappeared from the network, and reruns only aired on the less popular Nicktoons Network. When it was finally about to come back in March 2021, Nickelodeon decided at the last minute to replace the premieres with more reruns of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''. New episodes eventually moved to the Nicktoons channel in October 2021, practically killing the show.

* ''WesternAnimation/PlanetSheen'' only had one season that took no less than ''two years'' to air before it was pulled without any notice. Once the abysmal ratings and reviews for the first three episodes came in, Nickelodeon proceeded to air the episodes OutOfOrder after it was clear to them the series wasn't performing the way they hoped it would. By the time the final 13 episodes aired (in an erratic manner so that not many people knew the show was still on), the show had been banished to Nicktoons. Like ''Fanboy'', it's speculated Nick killed the show not just because of low ratings, but due to a poor response from its viewers (''WesternAnimation/{{Jimmy Neutron|BoyGenius}}'' fans, in particular).

* ''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp'' is an interesting example that, while wasn't as mistreated as the others, was still pretty mistreated. Episodes would air out of order for some reason, and only one episode aired in 2006 (most likely for the second ''Tales from the Crib'' movie). Although the show made a comeback a year later, to add insult to injury, premieres would only air at 6:30 AM, which pretty much meant that people who either didn't have a working DVR or weren't willing enough to sleep in early were out of luck. The show then went on another half-year-long hiatus and then aired the final three episodes out of the blue. Reruns continued to air, but only at 7:00 am on the weekends, which wasn't as early when ''WesternAnimation/ChalkZone'' aired, but was still kinda unfair. The show occasionally popped up on Creator/NickRewind every now and then.

* ''WesternAnimation/MakingFiends'': Nickelodeon told creator Creator/AmyWinfrey that it'd air on their main channel, but at the last moment they put it on sister network Nicktoons, which isn't carried by most cable packages compared to its parent network. While it was Nicktoons' most successful original show, it only lasted for six episodes. Amy Winfrey said that scripts for seven more episodes were made, but nothing came out of them. Despite being canceled, Nicktoons still occasionally aired and marathoned the six episodes that were released.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Catscratch}}'', despite getting decent ratings, received only one season, which was inexplicably stretched out for two years. During the early stages of it's run, new episodes would usually air on Friday nights consistently with reruns on late mornings to early afternoons on weekends. From November 2006 to June 2007, its reruns were relegated to Saturday and Sunday mornings at 6:30 AM (with an exception being February 10, 2007, where they aired a 2-hour marathon before the final episode). After that time, the show wouldn't air a single rerun until November of the same year, where the network showed the first episode of every Nicktoon ever, and ever since, that was the last time the show ran on the main network. (It was later moved to and rerun on Nicktoons under a similarly-brief timeframe before that network discarded the show completely. The show then randomly returned 6 years later as part of a Christmas marathon (at a great time too) although just for 2 time slots.

* ''WesternAnimation/BackAtTheBarnyard'', despite having a fairly decent run throughout the entirety of the first season and the first half of season 2, got screwed over pretty quickly after September 2010, whereas episodes stopped premiering. Even reruns would stop for a while too, as it would air more often on its sister channel, Nicktoons, even though the show was airing pretty consistently beforehand. Eventually, this led to being kicked straight to Nicktoons an entire year later in 2011, which of course also led to the remainder of the second season being burned off in one go in just 2 months during a dead zone night. Another thing to add is that the show made a comeback to the main channel shortly after its cancellation around late 2011-early 2012, only to air at 6:30 am in the morning (which meant that people who either didn't have a working DVR or weren't willing enough to stay up late or sleep early were screwed) up until November 2012 where it was completely abandoned from the channel altogether. However, reruns still occasionally pop up on Nicktoons, a rarity for pre-2010 Nickelodeon shows not named ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' or ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'' (''Jimmy Neutron'' and ''Avatar'' being the only other ones that regularly gets this treatment), and the series even got to air on Creator/TeenNick as part of Creator/NickRewind for a brief time in 2019.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Catscratch}}'', despite getting decent ratings, received only one season, which was inexplicably stretched out for two years. From November 2006 to May 2007, its reruns were relegated to Saturday and Sunday mornings at 6:30 AM (with an exeption being February 10, 2007, where they aired a 2-hour marathon before the final episode). After that time, the show wouldn't air until November of the same year, where the network showed the first episode of every Nicktoon ever, and ever since, that was the last time the show ran on the main network. (It was later moved to and rerun on Nicktoons under a similarly-brief timeframe before that network discarded the show completely. The show then randomly returned 6 years later as part of a Christmas marathon (at a great time too) although just for 2 time slots.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Catscratch}}'', despite getting decent ratings, received only one season, which was inexplicably stretched out for two years. From November 2006 to May 2007, its reruns were relegated to Saturday and Sunday mornings at 6:30 AM (with an exeption being February 10, 2007, where they aired a 2-hour marathon before the final episode). After that time, the show wouldn't air until November 2007, where the network showed the first episode of every Nicktoon ever, and ever since, that was the last time the show ran on the main network. (It was later moved to and rerun on Nicktoons under a similarly-brief timeframe before that network discarded the show completely. The show then randomly returned 6 years later as part of a Christmas marathon (at a great time too) although just for 2 time slots.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Catscratch}}'', despite getting decent ratings, received only one season, which was inexplicably stretched out for two years. It was later moved to and rerun on Nicktoons under a similarly-brief timeframe before that network discarded the show completely. The show then randomly returned 6 years later as part of a Christmas marathon (at a great time too) although just for 2 time slots.

* As noted above at the top of this page, Nickelodeon would go on to favor their highest-rated shows at the expense of everything else. In recent years, this has applied less to their live-action programming and more to their animation slate. While Nick still has many live-action shows in production, every Nicktoon not named ''[=SpongeBob=]'' and (eventually) the ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' would get screwed over without mercy.

Around the mid-2000s, a trend emerged wherein, if a show on Nickelodeon doesn't pull in ratings similar to either [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants the]] [[WesternAnimation/PawPatrol network]] [[WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse favorites]] or their [[Series/ICarly established]] {{Kid Com}}s during its first few weeks, it would be screwed over, cancelled quickly, and/or eventually moved to their spin-off channels to burn off the last episodes. [[note]]Creator/{{Nicktoons}} for animation; Creator/TeenNick for live-action; or Creator/NickJr, if you're either a preschool show or a cartoon aimed at younger children.[[/note]] In other words, the network doesn't have the patience to let a show flourish and find a audience. Any show that doesn't become an instant hit and pull in monster ratings right away (allegedly, there is an unwritten policy that if an animated show doesn't pull in the same ratings as ''[=SpongeBob's=]'' right off the bat, it's considered a failure) will be killed off by the network over time.[[note]]The secular decline of youth-oriented cable networks in the face of competition from [[Website/{{YouTube}} online]] [[Creator/{{Netflix}} services]] also doesn't help matters.[[/note]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' was [[AdoredByTheNetwork adored]] throughout its entire run, but was canceled in 2006 following Creator/DNAProductions shutting down after ''WesternAnimation/TheAntBully'' flopped, with the network refusing to switch to another CG animated studio for another season. While season 3 was a ratings success, Nickelodeon aired the entire season out of order, airing the SeriesFinale "The League of Villains" in the middle of the season.

* ''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp'' is an interesting example that, while wasn't as mistreated as the others, was still pretty mistreated. Episodes would air out of order for some reason, and only one episode aired in 2006 (most likely for the second Tales of the Crib movie). Although the show made a comeback a year later, to add insult to injury, premieres would only air at 6:30 AM, which pretty much meant that people who either didn't have a working DVR or weren't willing enough to sleep in early were out of luck. The show then went on another half-year-long hiatus and then aired the final three episodes out of the blue. Reruns continued to air, but only at 7:00 am on the weekends, which wasn't as early when ''WesternAnimation/ChalkZone'' aired, but was still kinda unfair. Fortunately, the show occasionally pops up on Creator/NickRewind every now and then.

* ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'' ranks among one of the most unfortunate and ridiculous examples. Several episodes from the third season were unaired and took ''years'' just to air. Two episodes were moved to Nicktoons, with one of them airing ''two years'' after the series ended. Four other episodes aired years later on Creator/NickRewind (although, in terms of fan service, it was a good choice).

* ''WesternAnimation/BackAtTheBarnyard'', despite having a fairly decent run throughout the entirety of the first season and the first half of season 2, got screwed over pretty quickly after September, whereas episodes stopped premiering. Even reruns would stop for a while too, as it would air more often on its sister channel, Nicktoons, even though the show was airing pretty consistently beforehand. Eventually, this led to being kicked straight to Nicktoons an entire year later in 2011, which of course also led to the remainder of the second season being burned off in one go in just 2 months during a dead zone night. Another thing to add is that the show made a comeback to the main channel shortly after its cancellation around late 2011-early 2012, only to air at 6:30 am in the morning (which meant that people who either didn't have a working DVR or weren't willing enough to stay up late or sleep early were screwed) up until November 2012 where it was completely abandoned from the channel altogether. However, reruns still occasionally pop up on Nicktoons, a rarity for pre-2010 Nickelodeon shows not named ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' or ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'' (''Jimmy Neutron'' and ''Avatar'' being the only other ones that regularly gets this treatment), and the series even got to air on Creator/TeenNick as part of Creator/NickRewind for a brief time in 2019.
* Nickelodeon tried various marketing strategies to boost ''WesternAnimation/BunsenIsABeast'''s popularity, such as crossing it over with ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', but ''Bunsen'' didn't receive the acclaim that ''The Loud House'' did and only had reruns on Nicktoons, where the final episode aired... [[FridayNightDeathSlot in a late night slot]]. Butch Hartman announced the series would end after one season due to his departure from the network.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{CatDog}}'' ended up being hit with this late in its run. After the GrandFinale TV movie "The Great Parent Mystery" aired in November 2000, Nickelodeon unceremoniously canceled the show. A fourth season was produced, but it wouldn't air in North America until 2005, four years after the show's initial cancellation. To add insult to injury, the post-movie episodes [[ShortRunInPeru aired in various other countries as early as 2002, almost three years before finally airing in the USA]].

** By 2005, the show had been canceled and only half of the fourth season had aired. The remaining episodes (which had already aired outside the US) wouldn't air until summer 2008, and even then at 6:00 in the morning without advertisement. Nick aired repeats in that time slot until November 2009 (with only one late 2009 airing being on kimcartoon), though Nicktoons continued to air the show until 2013 at an ''even earlier'' time, followed by two airings on Creator/TeenNick as part of Creator/NickRewind: the first being on November 12, 2016 in honor of Nickelodeon Animation Studios’s 25th anniversary, and the second being on February 28, 2021 to promote the Paramount+ streaming service (which includes the show).

** ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'' got a surprising case of this despite being adored by the network for 3 years. By late 2012, its premiere schedule would get slower and slower. Eventually reruns stopped on the main Nick channel and an entire year later, the poor cartoon got moved to Nicktoons. Reruns also returned to the main channel in September 2013, but of course they were buried under early morning time slots on Saturdays. But if that wasn't bad enough, it took an entire ''year and a half to finish its run''.
* ''WesternAnimation/ElTigre'' is another example despite receiving overall decent reviews and winning or being nominated for a number of awards. The next five episodes following "The Good, the Bad, and the Tigre" premiered very early in the morning, completely out of nowhere. After that, the remainder of the series was aired on Nicktoons, with little to no promotion. Even beforehand, the show was very prone to being shown once a week (and at some points around midnight or early in the morning), and even being pre-opted a few times by other shows, most notably ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''. However, it made a surprising comeback to television on May 5 when it aired a couple of episodes on Nicktoons to celebrate Cinco de Mayo. When asked about the cancellation, Gutiérrez and a couple of other staff members explicitly said it happened because the show couldn't beat ''WesternAnimation/{{SpongeBob|SquarePants}}'' in ratings. He even painted...quite the interesting [[https://www.instagram.com/p/BA7VK0DvDX9/ picture]] dedicated to the statement.[[labelnote:note]]Gutiérrez holds absolutely no ire towards the show itself (and is actually a big fan), just the circumstances.[[/labelnote]]

** In 2017, the show stopped airing on the main Nickelodeon channel and was moved to Nicktoons, which is usually ''never'' a good sign for a cartoon. It didn't help that the show had its animation budget slashed during production, resulting in a visual downgrade during the back-half of the tenth and final season. The show ended casually in July with no news of an 11th season, followed up with series creator Creator/ButchHartman leaving Nickelodeon seven months later in 2018. Given the show had already reached SeasonalRot at this point, many long-time fans see its cancellation was for the better.

** Thankfully, after years of heavy vocal fan support, ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnoldTheJungleMovie'' was finally greenlit for production in 2016, airing in November of the following year. However, while Nick promoted it very well and it was positively reviewed, it nevertheless did poorly in the ratings, convincing them to shelve the much-anticipated ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' and ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' one-hour specials, before they were ultimately aired on Creator/{{Netflix}} in 2019.

* Despite a small hiatus, ''WesternAnimation/ItsPony'' (ranking as the fourth best-performing show on Nickelodeon, right behind ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', ''WesternAnimation/TheCasagrandes'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'') was one of Nickelodeon's favorite shows during 2020, but that all changed when "Bramley Holiday" aired: The show disappeared from the network, and reruns only aired on the less popular Nicktoons Network. When it was finally about to come back in March 2021, Nickelodeon decided at the last minute to replace the premieres with more reruns of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''. New episodes eventually moved to the Nicktoons channel in October 2021, practically killing the show.
* Nickelodeon barely acknowledged ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam''. Its time slot was inconsistent, it received very little promotion throughout all four seasons it aired (with the exception of Henry and June hosting various blocks of Nickelodeon shows), and after its cancellation from low ratings in 2000 Nickelodeon did its best to make viewers forget this show existed. It reran on Nicktoons from 2002 (when the network was launched) to 2005, but with half of the episodes missing due to unknown reasons [[note]]though the episode "I Just Don't Get It" had an ''Action League Now'' short that was considered in bad taste following the 9/11 attacks[[/note]]. Even when Creator/TeenNick created [[Creator/NickRewind their '90s block]], they didn't air this show. To add insult to injury, the show is one of the ''only'' Nicktoons without any official releases on home video or DVD, with the series never getting an official release ''period'' until it was eventually added to Creator/ParamountPlus.
** Contrary to popular belief, this was not due to Nickelodeon having to pay royalties for the individual shorts--one of the creators of one short on a now-defunct fansite said that Nickelodeon owns all the rights to the individual shorts (even ''WesternAnimation/AngelaAnaconda'', which got a SpinOff on [[Creator/FoxKids a different, non-affiliated network]]).

** It also advertised a "marathon" that would begin a half-hour before its new time slot at 8:30. The "marathon" was only one hour long and consisted of two new episodes, ''Beginnings 1 and 2''. Immediately after those two episodes aired, ''the show was changed to yet another timeslot'', 8:00 pm. Amazingly, [[http://dongbufeng.tumblr.com/post/66028653225/the-guide-gets-2-473-million-viewers it worked!]]

*** A decision was originally made to only air the episodes on Nickelodeon and have ''zero'' digital options during the season. The lack of advertising meant that many fans of the show didn't even know it was back on the air until several episodes had already been broadcast and then had no (legal) options to see the ones they had missed.

* At first, ''WesternAnimation/MiddlemostPost'' was a decent success, earned a second season renewal, and got good ratings, even making it onto several top 150 cable shows lists. After Labor Day 2022, however Nick suddenly paused daily reruns and only did Sunday morning encores. They also stopped doing ads for the show. Come October 2022, John Trabbic III [[http://www.nickalive.net/2022/10/middlemost-post-creator-reveals-no.html announces]] that Nick pulled the plug on the show. At the very least, ''Middlemost Post'' aired its' entire run on the main channel and was never shafted to Nicktoons, which hasn't happened since ''Sanjay and Craig''.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheMightyB'' got shunted around the schedule shortly after it premiered in 2008, eventually got kicked across to Nicktoons in 2010, and finally had the remainder of the final season burned off in one go during a dead zone afternoon a year later. Reruns continued to air on Nicktoons (often in graveyard time slots) until February 14, 2016, but made a surprising return to television when the series gained a semi-regular spot on Creator/NickRewind on March 1, 2021 (which was not actually the first time the show aired on Creator/TeenNick, as it had a brief syndication run on the channel during its final months as The N in 2008), with the series even getting a special marathon taking up the entire block on June 26, 2021.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'' ranks among the worst examples. The first season was produced and completed in 2002 and [[ShortRunInPeru began airing in foreign countries that year]], [[TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment but didn't premiere in its home country]] until August 2003.[[note]]Almost a year after production on the season had wrapped.[[/note]] And once the first season actually managed air in the United States, it did have a fairly consistent timeslot, being aired every Friday at 8:30 PM. However, it was often preempted for other shows, although it did at least have a decent amount of promotion and reruns on the network. The second season, on the other hand, is when the series ended up being screwed over the most. The season was [[TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment delayed for a whole year]] and when it did air, it frequently switched timeslots, had minimal advertising, and new episodes were often delayed without any warning, although it did get tons of reruns on Saturdays. Due to low ratings, Nick canceled the series in 2005 and later [[TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment shelved the third season for three years]], shunted it to Creator/{{Nicktoons}} and occasionally on the main Nickelodeon network on Sundays at 6AM when broadcast, [[ShortRunInPeru despite first being aired in Latin America and Asian territories from 2006 to 2007]]. Thankfully, just like with ''All Grown Up!'', reruns still occasionally air on [=NickRewind=].
* Creator/NickRewind, when it came to anything [[WesternAnimation/CatDog besides]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}} their]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Doug}} most]] [[WesternAnimation/HeyArnold popular]] [[WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife Nicktoons]]. Even ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' is aired on and off, and will usually stay off the schedule for months, while ''Series/AllThat'' and ''Series/KenanAndKel'' are usually reserved for a couple episodes every other weekend, usually as some sort of special event (which is probably why the block's name was changed from ''The 90's Are '''All That'''.'') The network's social media posts will even reference shows that the block ''never airs'', not even on [=TeenNick=] itself anymore (such as ''Series/TheAmandaShow'').
* Since mid 2021, the Nicktoons channel seems to be afraid of airing any shows that ended production (other than ''The Fairly [=OddParents=]'' and the occasional return of the 2012 ''TMNT'' series, ''Sanjay and Craig'', and ''Breadwinners'') as the majority of its schedule consists of current running animated Nick shows (and the occasional live-action reruns). As of June 27, 2022, the current channel lineup has no ended shows airing on a daily basis, leaving ''It's Pony'' the only ended show left (even then, it only airs on Friday nights, counterprogramming the night of premieres on the main channel).
* Nick tried to support ''WesternAnimation/PigGoatBananaCricket''; it was given a second season ahead of the premiere, and was previewed after that year's Kids Choice Sports. But the series only pulled in 1 million viewers-- compared to the millions more that ''[=SpongeBob=]'' received, and had garnered mixed to negative reviews.
** The show first aired in the United Kingdom and Ireland ''two and a half years later'' and only aired new episodes at 6AM in the morning on weekends. It would eventually be pulled after a few months.
** The second season was booted to Nicktoons, where it aired until September 2017. The last 3 episodes (which already aired in Poland) premiered the following August, at ''4:30-5:15 AM'', meaning anyone without a working DVR or a willingness to go on illegal streaming sites was out of luck.

* ''WesternAnimation/PinkyMalinky'' was originally developed at Cartoon Network's European development studio, and was picked up by Nickelodeon in 2015 to be a full series. Other than promotional material and an early second season renewal, it seemed as if Nickelodeon did nothing but sit on the series for ''three years''. As part of parent company Viacom's new strategy of producing content for streaming services, it was announced that the series would instead premiere on Creator/{{Netflix}} in 2018. Even then, the series was supposed to premiere on August 17, 2018, but was delayed to ''January 2019''.

* ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'', despite high popularity and fairly decent ratings, was banished to Nicktoons as of October 12th, 2019, at the extremely awkward timeslot of ''10:30 pm''. The first season wasn't even finished when this happened. It got worse during the second season, where the show was abruptly canceled due to low toy sales. Additionally, this also caused the original 26 planned episodes to be cut down to only 13 episodes, resulting in a much faster pace that forced many of the show's subplots to either be rushed or [[AbortedArc outright ignored]], and the finale itself premiered with no advertisement or any kind of warning whatsoever.
* ''WesternAnimation/RobotAndMonster'' was the NetworkRedHeadedStepchild of 2012. As per usual for a Nicktoon that isn't ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''. It was given little advertising, was aired OutOfOrder, was denied a second season, and wasn't even fully aired. Creator/{{Nicktoons}} took over and showed a couple of the remaining episodes, but even they couldn't do them all. Eventually, the unaired episodes were then put on the Noggin streaming service of all places[[note]]Nick's streaming service for preschool programming[[/note]] in 2015.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', which was once AdoredByTheNetwork, suffered this as part of ExecutiveMeddling; Nickelodeon insisted the show would continue after ''WesternAnimation/TheRugratsMovie'' and even [[WesternAnimation/RugratsInParis its sequel]]. This resulted in Dil and Kimi being brought into the show after those films were released. Longtime viewers [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks were annoyed by them]] and tuned out. Then when new management came into Nickelodeon and their contract was about to expire, Nickelodeon and Klasky-Csupo couldn't agree on a price to produce ''Rugrats'' and their other Nicktoons. After this, Nickelodeon had effectively canceled ''Rugrats'' and the rest of Klasky-Csupo's other shows.

* In 2015, ''WesternAnimation/SanjayAndCraig'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Breadwinners}}'', ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBeaks'' and gradually more and more shows suffered this treatment. To start, Nick placed all three shows on a [[FridayNightDeathSlot Sunday evening]] premiere block, when not a lot of children would be watching television. Ratings did not fare well; Nick wisely stopped airing new episodes a few months later and placed them on hiatus. While there wasn't any word on when ''Breadwinners'' would come back, it was announced instead that ''Sanjay and Craig'' and ''Harvey Beaks'' would be returning for new episodes on Saturday, July 18, 2015, yet the network didn't even bother to promote them. Both shows were suddenly yanked off from Nick's schedule after two weeks of disastrous ratings. As expected, Harvey fans were not pleased by this [[http://www.cartoonbrew.com/tv/c-h-greenblatt-not-thrilled-with-nicks-treatment-of-harvey-beaks-116928.html and even C. H. Greenblatt wasn't too happy about the horrible treatment his show has gotten]].
** In September 2015, the network made a Friday night block with ''Sanjay'', ''Harvey'', ''WesternAnimation/PigGoatBananaCricket'', ''[=SpongeBob=]'' (from September to October; repeats of aired episodes lasted the rest of that block), and in January, the tenth season of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents''. Unfortunately, it had very little advertising, as it wasn't advertised until '''the Friday of the airing''' and low ratings kicked in. The network pulled the block in March, canceled ''Sanjay and Craig'' not long after, and screwed around with ''The Fairly [=OddParents=]'' for a little while before moving it and ''Pig Goat Banana Cricket'' to Creator/{{Nicktoons}}.
** Meanwhile, ''Breadwinners'' avoided the Friday night block and was paired on Sunday mornings with ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' starting in October. Unlike the Turtles, ''Breadwinners'' had absolutely no advertising, and would be shunted to Nicktoons by April 2016 and was later canceled in September of that year.
** In June, after ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' became a hit, ''Harvey Beaks'' was brought back to the lineup to air the last five episodes of Season 1, then started airing Season 2 immediately afterwards. Three weeks of new episodes, including the two-part "Steampunks" special, were aired before it was taken off the lineup. Then another week of new episodes was shown in late September, followed by the Halloween special on a Saturday morning paired with a Halloween episode of ''The Loud House'', all with zero reruns on the main network. Inevitably, ''Harvey'' was banished to Nicktoons. To add insult to injury, Greenblatt himself wasn't informed of the move until one of his coworkers posted about it on Twitter. At least ''Sanjay and Craig'' returned to Nick to burn off the remaining episodes.

** Another infamous example of the show being neglected is that certain episodes have had a year-long wait apart from their sister episodes. For example, "Gary Takes A Bath" took 2 years to air on Nickelodeon, while its sister episode, "Shanghaied", premiered two years earlier.

*** Nicktoons also only aired episodes from the first five seasons for some odd reason (this also happened with ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' until 2014, where they would air the first 6 seasons, sometimes 7). Since 2014, this practice has stopped. Although, "It's A [=SpongeBob=] Christmas" aired on the channel somewhere during December 2012, where Nicktoons was doing a Christmas marathon with various shows.

** An "Every [=SpongeBob=] Ever" marathon was held to celebrate the show's 20th anniversary on Nicktoons. However, during the Season 8 portion of the marathon, it stopped for regular programming without notice. Thankfully, this was averted when the marathon aired for a second time in February 2021, including the absolute final broadcast of "Mid-Life Crustacean" before Nickelodeon officially banned the episode that April due to its infamous "panty raid" scene.

* ''WesternAnimation/TakAndThePowerOfJuju'' suffered from this in a similar way that ''El Tigre'' did. It got canned after a season, due to horrific ratings. But if that wasn't bad enough, it was treated very poorly on Nicktoons Network. Reruns were handled decently until late 2009, where the show would often be seen hanging out in a graveyard time slot. The show would sometimes air outside of that time slot, however. But to make matters weirder, it is the only 2000 Nicktoon that didn't make it to the 2014 rebrand. But it at least got a somewhat proper dvd release that includes 10 episodes and a variety of bonus features.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'' (the first Nick-produced ''Turtles'' series since Viacom acquired the franchise) was a weird example. Despite starting off as a success for Nickelodeon, it was [[http://nickalive.blogspot.com/2017/09/nicktoons-usa-to-premiere-new-episodes.html?_sm_au_=iVVW7rvNQ7Pjr3kM shafted]] to Nicktoons to premiere its remaining episodes in 2017. Fans assumed this was to make room for the years-away ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' (which would ''also'' be moved to Nicktoons, but within its ''first season'').
* ''WesternAnimation/TUFFPuppy'' was unceremoniously dropped not long into its second season. New episodes were either aired or promoted sporadically, and, if they were, often got preempted with ''[=SpongeBob=]'' reruns. It was banished to Nicktoons where it aired its final episode on April 4th, 2015 and after that was usually only seen in the same early morning slots as ''Fanboy & Chum Chum'', until it was taken off the air in July 2016, but made a surprising comeback to Nicktoons on November 1, 2020, when it would gain a semi-regular spot along with ''WesternAnimation/BackAtTheBarnyard” until February 5 of 2021.
* After only nine episodes, ''WesternAnimation/WelcomeToTheWayne'' went on hiatus. It did get renewed for a second season, but the announcement was made half a year later, with the rest of the first season still not slated to return. Meanwhile, the rest of the first season premiered internationally, ahead of the U.S. broadcast. The second season premiered in fall 2018 in countries such as Turkey, and eventually in the U.S. during spring 2019 on Nicktoons. Since then, the series has disappeared without a trace.

** The second season itself was at least advertised slightly, however, it was clearly indicated that it was CutShort, as season 2 had 10 episodes compared to the first season's 20, explaining a bit of the slightly rushed pacing on some storylines.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheXs'' was one of the most mistreated Nicktoons that ever aired on the main network. Not only did the series suffer from InvisibleAdvertising and was constantly preempted by other shows, but reruns were almost nonexistent. The network dropped the show a year later and reruns were dumped on Nicktoons Network, who would often preempt it to air another show in its place. The last episode never aired on either network, and the series is considered one of the most obscure Nicktoons.

** Nickelodeon messed up a lot with the show during Season 3. Chris Viscardi and Will [=McRobb=] once said that while it was hard to get them to pick it for a third season, as the series didn't exactly have strong ratings (compared to monster hits like ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' and ''Series/TheSecretWorldOfAlexMack''), the guys at Nick loved the show and greenlit it. But the discrepancy between the original airings of the mid-season episodes must mean something ([[ScheduleSlip hopping from November 1995 to March 1996 and from April 1996 to November 1996]])...it also aired at Sunday at 1:00 PM, which is not an ideal timeslot.
** When Viacom shifted around some key executives at Nickelodeon, it did more than separate the friendly relationship of Viacom and CBS--it eventually resulted in several "Rewind" DVD releases being postponed and eventually cancelled, which included the DVD release for this show's third and final season. This forms the basis of an in-joke between the creators and cast that Viacom must have the [=DVDs=] in a warehouse around New York or New Jersey. Everything was ready to be released--audio commentaries and some extras had all been prepared, as had been an official DVD cover--until the plug was pulled.

* ''Series/BigTimeRush'' regularly got above 2 million viewers, but during its fourth and final season in early 2013, the new Thursday time slot had little promotion. As a result, most episodes aired rated with series lows, with the May 16th episode barely gaining above 1 million viewers.
* Australian import ''Series/TheBureauOfMagicalThings'' was hit with this after its premiere on the American network. After one episode, it got booted to [=TeenNick=] to premiere the rest of the episodes.
* Despite the fact that it was utterly loved on the main channel, even after its cancellation (before one final airing in December 2014), ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'' was treated pretty badly during its final year of airing on [=TeenNick=] (which was of course, this year). Reruns could only be seen on 10:30 AM on the weekdays, when the target demographic was still at school.

** Whenever Nickelodeon was in the mood to try out new things from the late 80s through the early 2000s, they would abruptly pull the plug on their existing game shows. Many times, the staff wouldn't be notified until new seasons were ready to begin production. Some shows found shelf life in reruns before Nick [=GaS=] was launched in 1999. Even still, [=GaS=] [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes didn't air the entirety of every series]]. The most commonly accepted reason for ''Series/DoubleDare1986'' and ''Series/FindersKeepers'' is a water leakage destroying pre-1990 master tapes. Of the former's original run, only the three ''Family Double Dare'' seasons have every episode accounted for.
** The two most recent revivals of ''Series/DoubleDare1986'' were treated harshly after both of their second production cycles ended. ''Double Dare 2000'' had it pretty bad where Nickelodeon burned off their remaining episodes and moved it to [=GaS=] by the end of 2000. The 2018 revival had InvisibleAdvertising for most of its second season with very little way of telling when new episodes would air.

* ''Hollywood Heights'', an attempt to create a telenovela-esque daily series, was supposed to be the big attraction of Nickelodeon's summer 2012 season. However, a confusing strategy which resulted it being branded as a [=Nick@Nite=] program by the time it started, along with an inexplicable looping of the first episode through the first week, which instead of attracting viewers, fatigued them from watching the series further, [[NetworkDecay and the usual complaints of why a teen soap opera was under the Nick@Nite label]] soured those plans. By the time it ended in August, it had been reduced to being stuck on [=TeenNick=] and only watched by diehards. Compare this to January 2014's ''Every Witch Way'', which received Nickelodeon's branding, a guaranteed weeknight timeslot, got a second season, and never changed its time slot in each of its month-long runs on Nickelodeon.
* ''Series/HouseOfAnubis'' got this pretty bad, possibly because it was made by the British version of the network. In the months leading up to the premier of the second season, they decided to re-show all the episodes of the first season. Fans were excited, as many episodes weren't on the Nick site, and so they haven't seen much of the show in a year. Well, after the first half of the season, they used up one of the episode slots to air the premier of ''Fred'' instead- and stopped showing episodes since. The third season got it bad as well. About six episodes in, they used the time slot to, instead, air yet another new show. It wasn't shown for two weeks until it was finally moved to [=TeenNick=]- a channel a portion of the fans didn't have, which caused ratings to drop.
* When explaining the cancellation of ''Series/HowToRock'', its [[WordOfGod executive producer]] talked about how Nickelodeon was "going through a transition right now". Said transition is also blamed for ''Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures'' and ''WebVideo/{{Fred}}: the Show'' also being cancelled after just one season each, as well as ''Victorious'' being axed during season 3. Nickelodeon wanted to stay in business with Lucas Cruikshank (the star of ''Fred''), but the poorly-received ''Series/MarvinMarvin'' was also canceled after one season too. While it was natural for Nickelodeon to cancel these shows due to low ratings (and mixed-to-negative reception), ''every show'' that premiered after ''How To Rock'''s cancellation got, in fact, worse ratings (such as ''Series/TheThundermans'').
** As for the "transition" referred to earlier, the network revealed in early 2013 that it was to air programming only for the ages 2-11 more, ignoring & alienating the 12-17 age group for now on. That response would lead to the tweens moving to arch-rival Disney Channel. By 2015, Disney was the #1 cable network in ratings while Nickelodeon's ratings were at an all time low.
* As noted above at the top of this page, Nickelodeon would go on to favor their highest-rated shows at the expense of everything else. In recent years, this has applied less to their live-action programming and more to their animation slate. While Nick still has many live-action shows in production, every Nicktoon not named ''[=SpongeBob=]'' and (eventually) the ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' would get screwed over without mercy.

* For the network as a whole, its incredible decline in ratings in 2011 can be mostly due to its odd treatment of its shows not named ''[=SpongeBob SquarePants=]'', ''Victorious'', ''The Penguins of Madagascar'', ''Series/BigTimeRush'' or ''Series/ICarly''. However, even ''Series/ICarly'' received some bad treatment by the series' end. From advertising two separate episodes as the "season premiere" (Website/TheOtherWiki hasn't even established when most seasons started, forcing WildMassGuessing as to where each season begins since the network won't tell them), to advertising the series to run back to back, only to stop that after 4 episodes. Episodes aired in weird time slots (like December 28 for the second blooper episode, or New Year's Eve for "iStill Psycho") with no advertising. Its ratings were hammered with several episodes dropping into the bottom 5 least-watched ever, and the series as a whole dropping the average ratings of the rest of the show by over ''a million'' viewers.

* ''Max & Shred'' originally aired between November 2014 and January 2015, but was suddenly removed. The remaining episodes then aired that summer. Canada's Creator/{{YTV}}, who co-produced the series, renewed it for a second season, but Nick shifted it to Nicktoons and gave up after eight episodes.

* ''Series/TheNakedBrothersBand'', which Nickelodeon would contribute to by the end of 2009. It quickly became one of Nick's most successful shows when it premiered in 2007. Despite this, by the end of the 3rd season, executives demanded more, urging Polly Draper and her family to lengthen the season from 13 episodes, to ''60 episodes'', for a show whose cast consisted mainly of kids and teens under 18. Obviously, Draper refused, citing a previous agreement that the shooting schedule would not interfere with the boys' personal lives. Nickelodeon, of course, did not conform to the demands.

* One of the earliest notable examples of Nickelodeon screwing their live-action department has to be the "SNICK Purge" of 2002, which saw [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_100_Deeds_for_Eddie_McDowd_episodes#Season_3_(2002) 100 Deeds For Eddie Mcdowd]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caitlin%27s_Way#Season_3_(2001%E2%80%9302) Caitlin's Way]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taina_(TV_series)#Season_2_(2002) Taina]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Amanda_Show_episodes#Season_3_(2002) The Amanda Show]] all get canceled '''within five months of each other'''; along with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Brothers_Garcia_episodes#Season_4_(2003%E2%80%9304) placing The Brothers Garcia on a year-long hiatus between seasons 3 and 4.]] This left ''Series/AllThat'' and ''Series/TheNickCannonShow'' as the only Nick comedies airing new episodes during the entire 2002-2003 season-and even the latter ended up being canned by March. By summer 2003 it seemed a foregone conclusion that [[Series/ThatsSoRaven Disney's]] [[Series/LizzieMcguire powerhouse]] [[Series/EvenStevens lineup]] was on the brink of killing off [=TEENick=] in its infancy-and it might have done just that if not for a certain [[Series/DrakeAndJosh midseason phenomenon....]]

** ''All In With Cam Newton'' and ''Jagger Eaton's Mega Life'' aired on Nickelodeon, but they were then shifted to the [=NickSports=] block. Unlike ''Paradise'' and ''Crashletes'', ''Cam'' and ''Jagger'' were both canned after one season each.

* In June 2018, ''Series/StarFalls'' was given the ''Korra'' treatment and all episodes of season 1 were released on the app. To make matters worse, the series was shifted to [=TeenNick=] and premiered the last 9 episodes of season 1 every Sunday in August to low ratings.
* ''Series/{{Taina}}'', for those unaware of it. It was about a teenage Puerto Rican girl who aspires to be a singer and actress. Other characters included a black guy friend that is sometimes the [[OnlySaneMan voice of reason]], a guy that sometimes plays guitar for Taina's performances, and another aspiring actress who acts mostly as a rival but sometimes a friend to the main character. [[TheyCopiedItSoItSucks And if none of that sounds familiar]], Taina is enrolled in [[Series/{{Victorious}} Manhattan Performing Arts School]]. It also received similar ratings to ''Victorious'' and was moved to Saturday nights for the second season (which aired from January to May of 2002) where ratings doubled. Aside from being a popular show, it was canceled that summer. Although there were rumors that Nickelodeon axed the show because they [[GirlShowGhetto thought it only appealed to girls]] (even though [[PeripheryDemographic guys did like the show as well.]]), It was revealed during a 2021 [[https://archive.is/bSRZm interview with the star of the show, Christina Vidal]] that the real reasons why Nick axed the show was because she got a record deal outside of the company (a conflict of interest for the network at the time) and she was also threatening to lawyer up due to the network execs trying to skirt around child labor laws with her.

* ''Series/{{Weinerville}}'' had this happen after its popularity allowed it to air on weekdays instead of Sunday afternoons. According to Marc Weiner, the series was not renewed for a third season because Nickelodeon wanted to change its lineup to include more action-oriented programming and ''Weinerville'', with its puppet atmosphere, was deemed too childish for the new direction.
* ''W.I.T.s Academy'', a spin-off of ''Series/EveryWitchWay'', ended its first season on a cliffhanger. However, before the series' producers could even think about doing another season, Todd Allen Durkin, who portrayed the role of Agamemnon, left the series to pursue an acting career.[[note]]Oddly enough, Nickelodeon would give him a role in ''I Am Frankie'' two years after ''W.I.T.s.'' ended.[[/note]] Nick found it infeasible to continue without him and simply canceled the series. It only got reruns on [=TeenNick=] in April 2016.

* One very noticeable thing that the channel tends to do is that once a show gets removed from the schedule, it doesn't come back (unlike Nicktoons, which has been recently bringing back a bunch of old shows as reruns, like ''El Tigre'', ''Barnyard'', ''Rugrats'', etc.). Shows such as ''WesternAnimation/NiHaoKaiLan'', ''Series/TheFreshBeatBand'' and ''WesternAnimation/LittleBill'' unfortunately suffered from this, with the latter having to leave the earliest. The worst part? The most popular shows such as ''WesternAnimation/LittleBear'', ''WesternAnimation/TheBackyardigans'', and ''WesternAnimation/WonderPets!'' had to deal with this in late August 2018 and even former network poster children ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'' and ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' suffered this in July 2019 and September 2020, respectively. And if you're wondering, ''WesternAnimation/GoDiegoGo'' wasn't saved from this either. Fortunately, all mentioned shows ([[OvershadowedByControversy with the exception of]] Little Bill) have been added on Paramount+.

** As of December 2022, neither the network nor block is rerunning any ended show, with the oldest show on the network being WesternAnimation/PeppaPig, which debuted in 2004 in its native UK.

* By the end of 2020, ''Abby Hatcher'', ''Butterbean'' and ''The Adventures of Paddington'' joined ''Corn & Peg'' as those who have not been renewed for new seasons since being banished to the 24/7 channel, with no announcement on whether it even was renewed or canceled. It seems this has happened to ''any'' show that gets the ChannelHop.

* ''WesternAnimation/BlazeAndTheMonsterMachines'' often falls into this territory from time to time despite being generally popular in ways and AdoredByTheNetwork. The amount of times the show runs daily has been reduced, with it now only airing once or twice on the Nick Jr. block or only 2-4 (sometimes 6) times on the Nick Jr. channel. The month after its debut, it was restricted to air only one to three new episodes a month, especially the first of these, and it never airs new episodes over the summer months (with the exception of June and most recently August 2019 for the fifth season premiere). By the end of the fourth season, episodes received almost no promotion and aired at ''9:00 AM'', and the show only aired on Nick Jr. on Nick once a day amongst an almost six-hour marathon of ''WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol'' throughout the summer of 2019. Thankfully, it is the only pre-2019 first-run show other than ''WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol'' and the now UnCancelled ''WesternAnimation/BubbleGuppies'' that didn't get banished to the Nick Jr. channel for new episodes.

* When ''WesternAnimation/ButterbeansCafe'' first aired, it was the highest-rated preschool premiere on Nick in 5 years (due to premiering after a Paw Patrol special, which was the highest-rated airing on Nick of 2018) and it was treated well by Nick for several months. However, the ratings started dropping and by fall 2019, it was already sent to the Nick Jr. channel. On August 17, 2020, it finally returned to the weekday afternoon hours.

* After [[WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer its predecessor]] was treated nicely for fourteen years, ''WesternAnimation/DoraAndFriendsIntoTheCity'' got this treatment. After "Dora Saves Opera Land" aired, the network decided to only air one episode of the show a month. When "Magical Mermaid Adventure" aired, that then changed to one episode every ''two'' months. Things got really bad in November of 2016 when they decided to air blocks of new episodes of the show against [[WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst shows that]] got higher ratings; the first of which aired on the same night as ''WesternAnimation/ElenaAndTheSecretOfAvalor''. It was quietly canceled in February 2017.

** As of 2022, WesternAnimation/TeamUmizoomi is the only show remaining in reruns on the network that has ended.

* ''Toys/{{Lalaloopsy}}'' premiered on the Nick Jr. block on Nickelodeon, which is only dedicated to showcasing the biggest hits, but it was quickly pulled and banished to the 24/7 channel. Both it and ''WesternAnimation/JuliusJr'' were surprisingly treated very nicely on the 24/7 channel, having several programming blocks dedicated to them (along with shows like ''WesternAnimation/ZackAndQuack'', ''Dino Dan'', ''Yo Gabba Gabba'', ''WesternAnimation/MiaAndMe'', and ''WesternAnimation/MikeTheKnight'') with tons of promotion, and we mean '''tons'''. Things took a bad turn in late 2014 and the rest of 2015, when Nick Jr. quietly cancelled both ''Lalaloopsy'' and ''Julius'' after two seasons and fifty-two episodes each, and burned off the rest of their episodes on weekends with InvisibleAdvertising. ''Julius'' was immediately taken off the air after it aired its last episodes, while ''Lalaloopsy'' had reruns (on Sundays only) until late 2016. All mention of it was erased off the Nick Jr. site, but ''Julius'' was lucky enough to stay on the site. Luckily, ''Julius'' is available to stream on Netflix, while the Lalaloopsy franchise was [[NetworkToTheRescue also rescued by Netflix]], picking up several of its movies, and creating a spin-off called ''We're Lalaloopsy''.

* An odd example with ''WesternAnimation/NellaThePrincessKnight'' and ''WesternAnimation/ShimmerAndShine''. Despite both of them being adored by the channel, ''Shimmer'''s ratings have declined over the years, while Nick Jr. had too much faith for ''Nella'' to succeed, since some of its episodes got less than a million viewers. Because of this, ''Nella'' and ''Shimmer'' only aired on Nickelodeon (which is preserved for the most popular shows) when they had new episodes. ''Nella'' actually started airing exclusively on the Nick Jr. channel on February 12, due to abysmal ratings.

** ''WesternAnimation/AngelinaBallerina'' is a subversion because Nick Jr. was an original broadcast network in the UK, but the 2009 series was suddenly shifted to Nick Jr 2. or graveyard slots in 2012, after being briefly pulled altogether in late 2011.

** Some PBS Kids shows have never made it to the UK at all due to the way Nick Jr. treats them. Notable examples include the seasons of ''WesternAnimation/DragonTales'' that neither Nick Jr. nor Tiny Pop aired, and the remaining seasons of ''Series/BarneyAndFriends'' that Creator/{{CiTV}}, Cartoonito, and [=TCC=] did not air (the latter, at least, got some of the DirectToVideo episodes released there and exclusive merchandise). It's a good thing that ''WesternAnimation/DanielTigersNeighborhood'' and ''WesternAnimation/PegPlusCat'' are lucky to be aired on other networks in the UK.

* Due to Creator/DreamWorksAnimation suddenly buying out the rights of all Chapman shows (save for ''WesternAnimation/BobTheBuilder''), Nick Jr. heavily advertised ''WesternAnimation/RoaryTheRacingCar'' but wound up airing ''WesternAnimation/MaxAndRuby'' at the last minute. Roary had been airing on Nick in the UK for ages, which was probably what made Nick think that they were in the clear to air the show. Prior to this, the show aired for a bit on Sprout (when it was a PBS Kids network).

** The show proved to be a hit and Nickelodeon pushed it as hard as they could, with rampant promotion, a second season renewal, and merchandise. But it wasn't as successful as fellow Spin Master show PAW Patrol. It was later shoved to the Nick Jr. sub-network, which is pretty much always a death sentence for a show. The show ended in May 2020 with little fanfare.

* ''WesternAnimation/TopWing'' was touted as the next ''PAW Patrol'', but when it failed to meet network rating expectations it was dumped on the Nick Jr. subchannel in September 2019 and quietly ended after two seasons in July 2020.

* Despite critical praise and much love from musicians, ''Series/YoGabbaGabba'' wasn't treated as nicely by Nick; it was canceled in 2015 after four seasons. But if that wasn't bad enough, the only time it would air would be very early in the morning, at 3:00 AM. It is also the first show that was pulled from Nick's PlayDate block the earliest.
* ''Zoofari'' was pulled from the main Nickelodeon channel after eight months in October 2020 due to poor ratings. Reruns ''did'' air on the Nick Jr. channel, but not for long.

* ''WesternAnimation/ALVINNNAndTheChipmunks'' was hit rather harshly: midway through the second season in November 2016, Nick pulled the series from its regular time slot and replaced it with reruns of ''The Loud House'', with the only reruns being at ''7 and 7:30 AM on weekends''. Nick was getting rid of [[WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug several]] [[WesternAnimation/KuuKuuHarajuku other]] imports at the same time. The series now only airs on Nickelodeon for new episodes, while all reruns were relegated to Nicktoons.
* Nickelodeon never finished airing all 99 episodes of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''. The show was also heavily edited, with the intro being shortened and altered (and the CouchGag changing to simply having Dot say "Nickel-aney" in every episode), random scenes removed for time, and references to other networks excised. After only three months on the air, it was moved from its 5:30 PM timeslot to a 6:00 AM weekend timeslot to make room for reruns of WesternAnimation/CatDog. It was later moved to Nicktoons Network a year after it launched, airing until August 2005.

* ''WesternAnimation/CornAndPeg'' was heavily hyped up for the month leading into its premiere, with a marathon and new episode of ''PAW Patrol'' being used as a lead-in. Despite this, the show had horrific ratings and was pulled at the end of May to make room for more ''PAW Patrol'', causing all premieres after "Let's Go Fly a Corn / Cattle Drive'', as well as reruns, which aired in the 6:30AM to 7:30AM time slot, to be moved to the Nick Jr. channel. The reruns then got pulled in April 2020 because they also got poor ratings. The show now only airs on the channel for new episodes. The finale aired on October 8, 2020 and the show was pulled from reruns one day later.
* ''Animation/DeerSquad''. Oh boy. Once the show premiered on the Nick Jr. block, the show was quietly moved to the channel. To make things worse, only 17 episodes of the show aired on the channel. By August, the show was completely removed from the channel... only for reruns to be added back in late October at 3:20am. By January 2022, the show was pulled again, and hasn't appeared on the channel since. Season two, which was dubbed in English ([[ShortRunInPeru as evident by UK airings]]) is probably [[NoExportForYou unlikely to air in America.]]
* ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'' was canceled by [=TeenNick=] in 2015, and while it did get a great send-off, it was canceled very abruptly ([[https://www.amazon.com/dp/1459739981?_encoding=UTF8&isInIframe=0&n=283155&ref_=dp_proddesc_0&s=books&showDetailProductDesc=1#product-description_feature_div as executive producer Stephen Stohn detailed in his book]]), leaving Epitome scrambling to find a home, which ended up being Creator/{{Netflix}}, but that didn't end up much better (see the Live-Action TV page for details).

* ''WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches'' is an unfortunate case. Despite getting little promotion on Nickelodeon, it did well on the 3:30 PM slot on weekdays before most kids got home from school, and was primed to push from the original "airing only because we have to" status (Viacom picked up the worldwide broadcast rights but had to air the season at least once in the US despite the show not doing well on Fox Family in 1999) to "airing because it's getting good ratings" and into a post-afterschool spot. However, that all came to an end with the broadcast of the episode "(Un)Happy Camper," which featured a particular scene containing a background picture of a topless, large-breasted woman at the beach (complete with cartoonishly oversized nipples). Once TMZ [[http://www.tmz.com/2015/03/14/nickelodeon-topless-cartoon-boobs-nip-slip-oggy-and-the-cockroaches/ caught it]] creeping through the censors, parents (about 99% who hadn't even watched the only airing and mainly sent a copy-and-paste boilerplate complaint letter from a parent's group; remember, this all happened '''after''' it aired and TMZ posted about it) barraged the network with complaints and angry letters, and the episode wouldn't air again and was removed from the website. Nick quickly capitulated, and the show was pulled from Nick the moment the season's last episode was aired, being quickly forgotten in favor of other shows (often the usual afternoon wallpaper that was ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' reruns). After only one month, Nicktoons pulled reruns of ''Oggy'' to wash their hands of it completely. The producers (who faced no backlash in France at all for the scene) quickly replaced the image in future airings worldwide with a beach scene (and probably had a stern meeting with the background artist), which would have likely been a more appropriate way for Nickelodeon to react.
** In Asia, the case was different. See, thanks to meddling from Malaysian satellite provider Astro, ''Oggy'' was already airing on Cartoon Network years before. Astro then somehow meddled with ''Disney Channel'' to air the show as well, resulting in two different networks carrying the show and backlash forming among the channels' older demographics, who see the show as lowbrow entertainment for simpletons (for some reason, Astro's meddling not only applied to the Malaysian feed but Southeast Asia-wide). When it was announced that Nick will become the third network to air the show (alongside CN and Disney to boot), backlash reached critical mass. Many Asian viewers, especially the aforementioned fans who don't like Oggy, would rather that Nick not air the show. Nick wisely stopped promoting it and started promoting ''WesternAnimation/ALVINNNAndTheChipmunks'' instead.
* While ''WesternAnimation/OlliesPack'' got a decent start with new episodes airing on weekday afternoons at 4:00pm for a few months, reruns were sparse, only airing when there was a week of new episodes. After airing most of the series in a bomb format throughout the summer months, Nick eventually started to give up on it. The show had a Halloween episode air on a Saturday afternoon in October and a planned week of premieres in December was pulled halfway through due to abysmal ratings. In May 2021, the show eventually got shifted to Nicktoons to air its final episodes. The kicker? They all aired at 3:30am, when no kids were watching, and were placed in the middle of the channel's all-night ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' marathons.

* Nickelodeon has been erasing ''WesternAnimation/{{Pelswick}}'' and his show out of their history. They don't even want to talk about Pelswick anymore. This could be due to the show getting ScrewedByTheLawyers: as soon as Nickelodeon lost the syndication rights to the show, everything went back to Creator/{{Nelvana}} and Nick couldn't do anything with the show anymore.

* ''WesternAnimation/RabbidsInvasion'': Nick rarely aired reruns after premiering new episodes of the show and only advertised a few episodes of the first season. After the Season 1 finale aired in December 2014, no new episodes aired until six months later. They didn't bother to stick with this acquisition for its entire run, eventually moving it to Nicktoons and shipping the fourth season to Creator/{{Netflix}}.
* ''WesternAnimation/RainbowButterflyUnicornKitty'', a third-party show from Funrise Toys, was doomed to fail. When the show was first announced [[TheyCopiedItSoItSucks many Unikitty! fans quickly called the show a rip-off]]. After the sneak peek premiere aired on Nickelodeon, the show would automatically be passed down to Nicktoons, with new episodes premiering at 9 PM, causing its ratings to plummet hard. Nick gave it another chance as it was actually added back to the main channel and was somewhat [[AdoredBytheNetwork adored]] for a couple of months. This didn't last long; it was shafted to Nicktoons once again after the 15th episode (giving RBUK the honor of being one of the few shows to be shafted to Nicktoons twice). Back there, it was only mentioned by its initials, the show's theme song was cut from airings and its segments now aired separately (excluding the last two episodes). By the time the season finale had aired, it disappeared from the network completely a week or two later; its time slots were preempted with reruns of ''WesternAnimation/SanjayAndCraig'' (and later ''WesternAnimation/ItsPony''), with no announcement of a second season. However, Nick still airs it internationally (except in the UK, Spain, and Portugal).

* ''Series/JacksBigMusicShow'', while wasn't as mistreated as its fellow puppet shows that came before and after it, had very few DVD releases (in total, 7 of its episodes were released on DVD), didn't air as much as other shows, would air once a month during Nick Jr.’s 2012 rebrand if you were lucky, was pulled from the Noggin channel after 2 seasons, and finally had its very last rerun buried under an early morning timeslot. The Noggin app did have several episodes in HD, but eventually removed them.

* Said rebrand has also caused ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' to go on auto-pilot. While Nick Pluto TV previously aired a variety of episodes from the first five seasons, they now usually only air the '''same few episodes''', all of which are from season 9, over and over again. The only exception to this rule so far has been on July 9, 2021, when Nick Pluto TV aired a "Patrick Takeover" marathon of episodes from seasons 1, 10, and 11 (in addition to 9) to promote the premiere of ''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow'' on the main Nickelodeon channel.

** Whenever Nickelodeon was in the mood to try out new things from the late 80s through the early 2000s, they would abruptly pull the plug on their existing game shows. Many times, the staff wouldn't be notified until new seasons were ready to begin production. Some shows found shelf life in reruns before Nick [=GaS=] was launched in 1999. Even still, [=GaS=] [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes didn't air the entirety of every series]]. The most commonly accepted reason for ''Series/DoubleDare1986'' and ''Series/FindersKeepers'' is a water leakage destroying pre-1990 master tapes. Of the former's original run, only the three ''Family'' seasons have every episode accounted for.

* Creator/NickRewind, when it comes to anything [[WesternAnimation/CatDog besides]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}} their]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Doug}} most]] [[WesternAnimation/HeyArnold popular]] [[WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife Nicktoons]]. Even ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' is aired on and off, and will usually stay off the schedule for months, while ''Series/AllThat'' and ''Series/KenanAndKel'' are usually reserved for a couple episodes every other weekend, usually as some sort of special event (which is probably why the block's name was changed from ''The 90's Are '''All That'''.'') The network's social media posts will even reference shows that the block ''never airs'', not even on [=TeenNick=] itself anymore (such as ''Series/TheAmandaShow'').

* Nickelodeon barely advertised ''Series/TheUpsideDownShow'' and rushed to air all of its episodes on Noggin within a month. ''Only one episode'' ("Art Museum") ever aired on the main Nickelodeon channel. In 2007, the Umbilical Brothers announced on their website that the show had been canceled after just one season.

** As for ''Ned's Declassified'' itself, there were plans for a sequel set in high school as soon as the show ended in 2007, but nothing came out of it, mainly because of the network's shift towards "tween" girls and the leads not having much appeal among the ''Tiger Beat'' crowd[[note]]Several years later, Lindsay Shaw (Moze) stated that the showrunners' insistence on avoiding any fanservice had an ultimately adverse effect on the careers of the show's cast, as they became regarded as "too infantilized" to be noticed by talent agents[[/note]], as well as the network increasingly favoring Schneider's Bakery/Nickverse shows like ''Series/Zoey101'' and ''Series/DrakeAndJosh''. Furthermore, it was assumed the show would get made until the actors signed for other projects in early 2009.

** As for ''Ned's Declassified'' itself, there were plans for a sequel set in high school as soon as the show ended in 2007, but nothing came out of it, mainly because of the network's shift towards "tween" girls and the leads not having much appeal among the ''Tiger Beat'' crowd, as well as the network increasingly favoring Schneider's Bakery/Nickverse shows like ''Series/Zoey101'' and ''Series/DrakeAndJosh''. Furthermore, it was assumed the show would get made until the actors signed for other projects in early 2009.

** In 2022, November was going to be a huge month for the franchise, airing episodes of the main show and ''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow'' throughout the month. However, all of the airings (with the exception of The Tidal Zone event) were canned in favor of the new ''Toys/MonsterHigh'' TV series.

* For the network as a whole, its incredible decline in ratings in 2011 can be mostly due to its odd treatment of its shows not named ''[=SpongeBob SquarePants=]'', ''Victorious'', ''The Penguins of Madagascar'', ''Series/BigTimeRush'' or ''Series/ICarly''. However, even ''Series/ICarly'' received some bad treatment by the series' end. From advertising two separate episodes as the "season premiere" (Wiki/TheOtherWiki hasn't even established when most seasons started, forcing WildMassGuessing as to where each season begins since the network won't tell them), to advertising the series to run back to back, only to stop that after 4 episodes. Episodes aired in weird time slots (like December 28 for the second blooper episode, or New Year's Eve for "iStill Psycho") with no advertising. Its ratings were hammered with several episodes dropping into the bottom 5 least-watched ever, and the series as a whole dropping the average ratings of the rest of the show by over ''a million'' viewers.

** Nickelodeon messed up a lot with the show during Season 3. Viscardi and [=McRobb=] once said that while it was hard to get them to pick it for a third season, as the series didn't exactly have strong ratings (compared to monster hits like ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' and ''Series/TheSecretWorldOfAlexMack''), the guys at Nick loved the show and greenlit it. But the discrepancy between the original airings of the mid-season episodes must mean something ([[ScheduleSlip hopping from November 1995 to March 1996 and from April 1996 to November 1996]])...it also aired at Sunday at 1:00 PM, which is not an ideal timeslot.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheCasagrandes'' seems to be slowly getting this treatment. Reruns barely air on Nickelodeon anymore, while several marathons air on Nicktoons. Only time will tell when it actually stays there.

* When explaining the cancellation of ''Series/HowToRock'', its [[WordOfGod executive producer]] talked about how Nickelodeon was "going through a transition right now". Said transition is also blamed for ''Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures'' and ''WebVideo/{{Fred}}: the Show'' also being cancelled after just one season each, as well as ''Victorious'' being axed during season 3. Nickelodeon wanted to stay in business with Lucas Cruikshank (the star of ''Fred''), but the poorly-received ''Series/MarvinMarvin'' was also canceled after one season too. While it was natural for Nickelodeon to cancel these shows due to low ratings (and mixed-to-negative reception), ''every show'' that premiered after ''How To Rock'''s cancellation got, in fact, worse ratings.

** As for the "transition" referred to earlier, the network revealed in early 2013 that it was to air programming only for the ages 2-11 more, ignoring & alienating the 12-17 age group for now on. That response would lead to the tweens moving to arch-rival Disney channel. By 2015, Disney was the #1 cable network in ratings (thanks to hits while Nickelodeon's ratings were at an all time low.

** As for the "transition" referred to earlier, as noted above at the top of this page, Nickelodeon would go on to favor their highest-rated shows at the expense of everything else. In recent years, this has applied less to their live-action programming and more to their animation slate. While Nick still has many live-action shows in production, every Nicktoon not named ''[=SpongeBob=]'' and (eventually) the ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' would get screwed over without mercy.