!!AnimeAndManga
->'''Shin:''' Hey, mister. Do you know where I can hide and no one would find me?\\
'''TV Manager:''' [[OtakuOClock 2 AM, Saturdays]]?
-->-- ''Manga/CrayonShinChan''

!!{{Film}}
->''"Watching television shows doesn’t create psycho killers. Canceling TV shows does! Series/TheWayansBros was a good show, man! It was a good-ass show, and we didn’t even get a final episode!"''
-->-- '''Ray''' (played by Creator/ShawnWayans), ''Film/ScaryMovie''


!!LiveActionTV
->"We had [[FridayNightDeathslot a lousy timeslot]]."
-->-- '''Raquel Westbrook''', ''Series/TheLAComplex''

->''"Starting now on Creator/{{Channel 4}} is a brand new show that we paid a ridiculous amount of money for which we'll launch in a blaze of publicity, and after a few weeks, we'll get bored of it and move it around the schedule where no one can find it, then we'll brand it a flop, take it off the air for six months, then reluctantly put it back on at three in the morning."''
-->-- ''Series/DeadRingers''

!!{{Web Original}}s
->''{{Creator/Fox}} is like Whedon's secretly abusive boyfriend; no matter how many times Fox hurts him, cheats on him, beats him down, Whedonalways believes Fox when they say it will be different this time.''
-->-- ''[=xxBirdMadGirlxx=] on [[Website/{{Fark}} Fark.com]]''

!!WebVideo
->"Once I beat you, your show will be cancelled faster than you can say 'created by Creator/JossWhedon'!"
-->-- '''Melvin''', ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries''

->''This promising new show which was being head by the legendary Creator/GenndyTartakovsky only lasted 20 episodes and was scrapped in 2011. Why? [[MerchandiseDriven Because the network could not acquire a toy license for it]], and decided to write it off as a loss in their taxes. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer ...I'm not kidding.]]
-->--WebVideo/SaberSpark talking about the cancellation of ''WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan''

->"Did you hear about a game called ''VideoGame/{{Devotion}}''?\\
It's not on Platform/{{GOG|DotCom}} because of [[BannedInChina Chinese commotion]]\\
Appeasing power is the Creator/{{CD|Projekt}} way"
-->-- '''[[WebVideo/{{Jimquisition}} Jim Sterling]]''', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUoo6vv0k2U A Song of Cyberpunk]]''

->'''Pan Pizza''': Tax write-offs.\\
'''[[WesternAnimation/MegasXLR Coop]]''': Huh?\\
'''Pan''': What this means that, if a show is considered a financial failure, the channel can write it off for tax deductions.\\
'''Coop''': Huh?\\
'''Pan''': Legally, both ''[[Anime/IGPXImmortalGrandPrix IGPX]]'' and ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'' can never air again on American Creator/CartoonNetwork, or Creator/AdultSwim.\\
'''Coop''': ...huh?\\
'''Pan''': [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes Those shows are gone.]] For, like, ever. If there was a maximum amount of evers, this would be four of them.\\
'''Coop''': ''Nooooooo!''
-->--''WebVideo/RebelTaxi'', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh6JjePEM84 Top 10 WORST CARTOON NETWORK MOMENTS]]''[[note]]Thankfully, the Creator/{{Toonami}} crew were able to regain the rights to ''[=IGPX=]'' for reruns and a DVD re-release. Unfortunately, ''Megas [=XLR=]'' as well as ''WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan'' are still stuck in this form of limbo.[[/note]]

!!WesternAnimation
->"You know, the guys in prime-time could have had this show, but no! They had 'better ideas!'"
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}''

->'''Peter Griffin:''' Everybody, I've got bad news. We've been canceled.\\
'''Lois Griffin:''' Oh no! Peter, How could they do that?\\
'''Peter:''' Well, unfortunately, Lois, there's just no more room on the schedule. We just gotta accept the fact that FOX has to make room for terrific shows like ''Series/DarkAngel'', ''Series/{{Titus}}'', ''Series/{{Undeclared}}'', ''Series/{{Action}}'', ''Series/That80sShow'', ''Series/{{Wonderfalls}}'', ''Series/FastLane'', ''Series/AndyRichterControlsTheUniverse'', ''Series/{{Skin}}'', ''Girls Club'', ''CrackingUp'', ''Series/ThePitts'', ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', ''Get Real'', ''Series/FreakyLinks'', ''Wanda at Large'', ''Costello'', ''Series/TheLoneGunmen'', ''A Minute with Stan Hooper'', ''Normal Ohio'', ''Pasadena'', ''Series/HarshRealm'', ''Series/KeenEddie'', ''Series/TheStreet'', ''American Embassy'', ''Cedric the Entertainer'', ''Series/{{The Tick|2001}}'', ''Luis'', and ''Series/GregTheBunny''.\\
'''Lois:''' Is there no hope?\\
'''Peter:''' Well, I suppose if ''all those shows'' go down the tubes, [[CueTheFlyingPigs we might have a shot.]]
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''

->''(grabs a stress ball)'' I need this now more than ever for its intended purpose! ''(looks closer at it)'' "''Sons of Tucson'' new on Fox"? When was this on? I watch Fox, I never saw this!
-->-- '''Roger Smith''', ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad''

->''Dear Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}- remember that time I created a tv show for you and it was fun but then you didn’t air it on your main channel or do any publicity and then years later you put a portrait of me on your "creator wall?" Love the painting but I’d rather you gave NEW shows a chance!''
-->-- '''Amy Winfrey''', creator of ''WesternAnimation/MakingFiends'', [[https://twitter.com/amywinfrey/status/1291490489196097538 in 2020]]

!!RealLife
->''I had [[Series/LateNightWithConanOBrien a show]]. Then I had [[Series/TheTonightShow a different show]]. Now I have a {{Website/Twitter}} account.''
-->-- '''Creator/ConanOBrien'''
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