History AudienceAlienatingPremise / WesternAnimation

* [[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfKidDanger The Adventures of Kid Danger]]: An {{Animated Adaptation}} based on a [[Series/HenryDanger then-still-airing tv show]] is not going to do very well in today’s climate. No thanks to countless [[Creator/HannaBarbera Hanna-Barbera]] shows from {{The Seventies}}, they’re almost always seen as cheap cash-grabs. That is why they are almost completely non-existent in the 21st century. Making things worse is that original series that this show is based on is rather divisive as well, meaning that the people who didn’t like the original show would immediately stay away from its {{Spin Off}}. The show did very little to distinguish itself from its parent series, which justifies its existence even less. It was cancelled shortly after it aired due to being nigh-universally panned.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bordertown}} '' is about a police officer who works at the UsefulNotes/{{California}}/UsefulNotes/{{Mexico}} border for border patrol. Along with his family, he [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin lives in a town at the border]] while having neighbors who are Mexican stereotypes. The premise alone came across as racist to many, especially since it [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump came out during a time when illegal immigration was considered a controversial issue]]. Combined with the show’s [[UncannyValley ugly character designs]] and [[Creator/SethMacFarlane Seth MacFarlane’s]] involvement, it’s not hard to see why it only lasted one season.

* [[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfKidDanger The Adventures of Kid Danger]]: An {{Animated Adaptation}} based on a [[Series/HenryDanger then-still-airing tv show]] is not going to do very well in today’s climate. No thanks to countless [[Creator/HannaBarbera Hanna-Barbera]] shows from {{The Seventies}}, they’re almost always seen as cheap cash-grabs. Making things worse is that original series that this show is based on is rather divisive as well, meaning that the people who didn’t like the original show would immediately stay away from its {{Spin Off}}. The show did very little to distinguish itself from its parent series, which justifies its existence even less. It was cancelled shortly after it aired due to being nigh-universally panned.

* ''WebAnimation/TheRedApeFamily'' is about a the titular family of primates moving to UsefulNotes/{{Mars}} after Earth had been been over-run by pollution. The cartoon revolves heavily around [[UsefulNotes/{{Bitcoin}} NFTs]], with the main apes even being based on the "Bored Ape Collection" of [=NFTs=]. However, since the product that the show was trying to promote is a heavily controversial practice, this means that the show was bound to gain controversy as well. Audiences were highly opposed to there being a cartoon that promotes a well hated practice, which explains why it was QuietlyCancelled after [[OneEpisodeWonder only two episodes.]]

* [[WesternAnimation/{{Bordertown}} Bordertown]] is about a police officer who works at the [[UsefulNotes/{{California}} California]]/[[UsefulNotes/{{Mexico}} Mexico]] border for border patrol. Along with his family, he [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin lives in a town at the border]] while having neighbors who are Mexican stereotypes. The premise alone came across as racist to many, especially since it [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump came out during a time when illegal immigration was considered a controversial issue]]. Combined with the show’s [[UncannyValley ugly character designs]] and [[Creator/SethMacFarlane Seth MacFarlane’s]] involvement, it’s not hard to see why it only lasted one season.

* [[WebAnimation/TheRedApeFamily The Red Ape Family]] is about a the titular family of primates moving to [[UsefulNotes/{{Mars}} Mars]] after Earth had been been over-run by pollution. The cartoon revolves heavily around [[UsefulNotes/{{Bitcoin}} NFTs]], with the main apes even being based on the “Bored Ape Collection” of [[UsefulNotes/{{Bitcoin}} NFTs]]. However, since the product that the show was trying to promote is a heavily controversial practice, this means that the show was bound to gain controversy as well. Audiences were highly opposed to there being a cartoon that promotes a well hated practice, which explains why it was {{Quietly Cancelled}} after [[OneEpisodeWonder only two episodes.]]

* [[WebAnimation/TheRedApeFamily The Red Ape Family]] is about a the titular family of primates moving to [[UsefulNotes/{{Mars}} Mars]] after Earth had been been over-run by pollution. However, the cartoon revolves heavily around [[UsefulNotes/{{Bitcoin}} NFTs]], with the main apes even being based on the “Bored Ape Collection” of [[UsefulNotes/{{Bitcoin}} NFTs]]. However, since the product that the show was trying to promote is a heavily controversial practice this means that the show was bound to gain controversy as well. Audiences were highly opposed to there being a cartoon that promotes a well hated practice, which explains why it was {{Quietly Cancelled}} after [[OneEpisodeWonder only two episodes.]]

* [[WesternAnimation/{{Bordertown}} Bordertown]] is about a police officer who works at the [[UsefulNotes/{{California}} California]]/[[UsefulNotes/{{Mexico}} Mexico]] border for border patrol. Along with his family, he [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin lives in a town near the border]] while having neighbors who are Mexican stereotypes. The premise alone came across as racist to many, especially since it [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump came out during a time when illegal immigration was considered a controversial issue]]. Combined with the show’s [[UncannyValley ugly character designs]] and [[Creator/SethMacFarlane Seth MacFarlane’s]] involvement, it’s not hard to see why it only lasted one season.

* ''WesternAnimation/BigMouth'': This show ran into major controversy due to it’s premise, which focuses on 12-13 year old children undergoing puberty and trying to understand in a very explicit fashion. This show explicitly depicts children masturbating, especially with pillows, shows their genitals graphically, and relies extensively on depicting private parts as characters. Several people hated this show for it’s premise, which was considered to be so obscene that they accused the show of promoting and depicting child pornography and demanded that the show be cancelled and banned from airing on Netflix and television.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrince2021'' is an American, ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''-style animated sitcom based off UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily, with the eponymous main character being Prince George, changed into a crass, adult-voiced Stewie Griffin {{expy}}. Right from the get-go, the show had to be delayed significantly [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents due to many of the jokes already becoming tasteless]], specifically the jokes of Prince Phillip as a decrepit zombie who constantly needs to be defibrillated, which -- even if the real Prince Phillip didn't die at the age of 99 before the show's premiere -- is the definition of a joke that wouldn't age well. Once it did come out, people just weren't interested in the caricature of ''a real child'' as the basis for a ShallowParody of the Royal Family (given just how private the life of the actual Prince George is ''and'' how publicly dysfunctional the rest of the family came to be in 2020-21, there's not a lot that can be meaningfully exaggerated), and otherwise, it's a low-grade knockoff of [[AnimatedShockComedy a tired adult animation formula]]. Given how [[InvisibleAdvertising remarkably surreptitious]] Creator/HBOMax was with its release (its actual release date was only announced the day prior), it's clear that even they knew nobody wanted to see a show about this [[CreatorBacklash and just wanted to just get it over with as soon as possible]].

* The 2015/2016 reboot of ''WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill'', to fans of the "classic" (1992-2005) series. Fans were extremely divided about the new character designs, and whether the switch to [[AllCGICartoon CGI]] animation was a good thing or not.
** To add insult to injury for fans of the classic series, they also changed most of the supporting cast. Blinky and Nutsy are still there, of course, along with Splodge, Marcia and Wombo... but [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome there's no Flap]], as well as [[EnsembleDarkhorse no members of the Dingo family]]. In fact, [[CanonImmigrant Marcia is the only original character from the classic series to return]], since Blinky, Nutsy, Wombo and Splodge all appeared in the original books from the 1930s.
** Replacing Flap is a frill-necked lizard named Jacko, who takes Flap's place as Blinky's sidekick. [[note]][[Characters/BlinkyBill A character named Jacko already appeared in the classic series, but he was a kookaburra, and there was also a frill-necked lizard, named Ruff.]] Jacko was also a kookaburra in the original 1930s books, so essentially changing his character to a completely different species was considered by the fans to be a huge middle-finger towards not only the classic series, but also to Dorothy Wall's books.[[/note]]
*** Due to all of these changes infuriating and alienating the fans of the classic series, as well as Australians in general due to said series being just as, [[AdaptationDisplacement if not more iconic than the 1930s books]], it's no wonder why Yoram Gross and Flying Bark made the decision to {{unreboot}} the series a few years later.

!!Genres
* [[ChristmasSpecial Christmas Specials]] and [[ChristmasEpisode Christmas Episodes]] are this in countries where Christmas is not commonly observed, such as UsefulNotes/{{China}}, UsefulNotes/{{Israel}}, and most [[UsefulNotes/{{Islam}} Muslim]] countries. Typically, these get the NoDubForYou treatment, but sometimes not. Ditto for [[HalloweenEpisode Halloween Episodes]] outside the Anglosphere and [[ThanksgivingEpisode Thanksgiving Episodes]] anywhere that isn't the US and Canada.

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!!Individual Examples

* ''WesternAnimation/AssyMcGee'' is about a CowboyCop named [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Assy McGee, who is literally a talking ass.]] Unsurprisingly, it suffered low viewership that got it cancelled quickly, and it's one of the few shows Creator/AdultSwim treats as an OldShame. (Ironic enough, one of their longtime reruns also once featured a similar type of show in-universe, "[[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Sherry and The Anus]]". And then there's [[WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty Hamster Butt World]]...)

** Replacing Flap is a frill-necked lizard named Jacko, who takes Flap's place as Blinky's sidekick. [[note]][[Characters/BlinkyBill A character named Jacko already appeared in the classic series, but he was a kookaburra, and there was also a frill-necked lizard, named Ruff.]] Considering that Jacko was also a kookaburra in the original 1930s books, essentially changing his character to a completely different species was considered by the fans to be a huge middle-finger towards not only the classic series, but also to Dorothy Wall's books.[[/note]]

* ''WesternAnimation/ClerksTheAnimatedSeries'' was an AnimatedAdaptation of a profane, low-key indie cult film with virtually no cursing and DenserAndWackier plots. It was a show that wasn't going to capture anything but the nichest of audiences (and especially didn't fit on a major network like Creator/{{ABC}}) and was unsurprisingly cancelled after only two episodes, though reruns on Creator/ComedyCentral and Creator/AdultSwim made it a CultClassic. Hell, one of the only reasons it was even greenlit was because ABC wasn't doing too hot in the ratings at the time and were ''desperate'' for any kind of potential hit series... but in the middle of production, ''Series/WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire'' became a smash success for the network and [[ScrewedByTheNetwork they quickly buried]] ''Clerks'' to give that show an extra half-hour.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheDayMyButtWentPsycho'', the AnimatedAdaptation of ''Literature/TheBumTrilogy'', was instantly met with vitriol the day it was announced due to its entire premise revolving around sentient butts. Because pretty much nobody gave the show a chance for that, it ended up getting shafted to Creator/{{Netflix}} for its second season. It certainly did not help that the original books it was based on fell victim to AdaptationDisplacement, meaning few people at the time were aware of the fact the show was originally a series of books with the exact same premise and similarly heavy usage of ToiletHumour.

* ''WesternAnimation/GaryTheRat'', in spite of the talented and acclaimed Creator/KelseyGrammer voicing the title character, still suffered from this. The plot has an AmoralAttorney [[KarmicTransformation transforming into his true nature of an anthropomorphized rat...]] [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane for whatever reason.]] In addition to living in a CrapsackWorld where there is virtually no one to root for (except for his elderly and sickly mother, who he hates for unclear reasons), Gary ''remains'' a self-centered asshole for the most part, [[IgnoredEpiphany apparently taking nothing away from his experience.]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And whenever we're treated to a flashback with human Gary, his face is always conveniently obscured.]] The failure of this cartoon, along with that of ''WesternAnimation/{{Stripperella}}'' and '''especially''' ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpyAdultPartyCartoon'' (see both examples below) caused whatever animation block Spike TV was hoping to create to end up dead in the water and effectively [[GenreKiller killed any hope of Viacom launching an adult animation block]] for several years.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pelswick}}'' was unable to gain much of an audience due to taking too many risks at once. It had a paraplegic protagonist, which is [[LeadYouCanRelateTo a pretty big risk by itself, unfortunately]], especially since it made the bold choice to have it not define his entire character. Then it was set in a FantasticComedy (the protagonist receives advice from a GuardianAngel only he can see), and some of the people who liked the reality aspect found the fantasy aspect [[MindScrew confusing to the point they couldn't enjoy it]], as well as having an unconventional art style which some people find off-putting in and of itself. For good measure, the show employed mature humor about political correctness and then aimed the series at kids, complete with a far-from-subtle [[AnAesop Aesop]] structure that older people were turned off by. All of this resulted in being cancelled after 26 episodes and not released on DVD with a handful of fans (Creator/{{Funimation}} wanting to focus more on ''WesternAnimation/MyDadTheRockStar'' certainly didn't help matters).

* Fox's ''WesternAnimation/PeterPanAndThePirates'' was a cartoon with some great writing and storytelling, that was surprisingly gothic and occasionally scary at times. Why didn't it do well? Well, it's about Franchise/PeterPan, and yet it takes itself deadly serious and has more mature storytelling than you'd expect given the source material. Hence, little kids who might be drawn in by Peter Pan got scared away, and older kids who'd enjoy the story took one look at who it's about and [[AnimationAgeGhetto decided it was kiddy]]. Note that the original novel was very dark in its way, as well (at the end, Tinkerbell is dead, and Peter is too childlike to remember, or care, who she was, for example). But, thanks to {{Disneyfication}}, anything that returns to the spirit of the original alienates ''everyone''.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrince2021'' is an American, ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''-style animated sitcom based off UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily, with the titular main character being Prince George, changed into a crass, adult-voiced Stewie Griffin {{expy}}. Right from the get-go, the show had to be delayed significantly [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents due to many of the jokes already becoming tasteless]], specifically the jokes of Prince Phillip as a decrepit zombie who constantly needs to be defibrillated, which -- even if the real Prince Phillip didn't die at the age of 99 before the show's premiere -- is the definition of a joke that wouldn't age well. Once it did come out, people just weren't interested in the caricature of ''a real child'' as the basis for a ShallowParody of the Royal Family (given just how private the life of the actual Prince George is ''and'' how publicly dysfunctional the rest of the family came to be in 2020-21, there's not a lot that can be meaningfully exaggerated), and otherwise, it's a low-grade knockoff of [[AnimatedShockComedy a tired adult animation formula]]. Given how [[InvisibleAdvertising remarkably surreptitious]] Creator/HBOMax was with its release (its actual release date was only announced the day prior), it's clear that even they knew nobody wanted to see a show about this [[CreatorBacklash and just wanted to just get it over with as soon as possible]].
* ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpyAdultPartyCartoon'' is extremely notorious in part because of this. It tried to simultaneously be a drama and [[AnimatedShockComedy a shock comedy that takes every single vulgar, offensive and tasteless joke imaginable]] and takes them even further, and failed at both. The drama was [[{{Narm}} too ludicrous]] [[{{Glurge}} and forced]] for the mainstream, and even if it wasn't, they would have still been turned away by [[TooBleakStoppedCaring the depravity]] and [[{{Squick}} overall grossness]]. Meanwhile, the comedy crowd didn't find any of the jokes funny. Unsurprisingly, this led to its extremely short run. An episode-specific example is by far the most well-known and polarizing one, the episode "[[Recap/RenandStimpyAPC1x02RenSeeksHelp Ren Seeks Help]]". For those unfamiliar: Ren engages in [[MoralEventHorizon multiple]], [[NightmareFuel highly disturbing]] [[ColdBloodedTorture acts of]] [[BlackComedyAnimalCruelty animal cruelty]] which are ''all'' PlayedForLaughs. [[SchmuckBait Watch at your discretion]]. So thoroughly was the audience alienation that even the announcement in 2021 that Comedy Central would revive the series once more (as well as ''Beavis and Butt-Head'') was met with mixed reactions, simply because they had the same characters.
* Similarly, there's ''WesternAnimation/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice''. The show's main humor was incredibly fast-paced {{dialogue}} to the point that adults can get lost, and unlike ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', there wasn't much in the way of {{Slapstick}} to balance it out -- the main duo were able to laugh off whatever AmusingInjuries they were subject to as if it barely happened. On top of that, it aired at a time when the AnimationAgeGhetto was only just starting to be broken, so most grown-ups wouldn't have expected much from what was to them another duo of {{Funny Animal}}s. Since the preexisting Franchise/SamAndMax franchise was a CultClassic, any veteran fans interested wouldn't be enough to sustain the show for more than a season.
* ''WesternAnimation/SheZow'' is an Australian/Canadian cartoon about a twelve-year-old WholesomeCrossdresser superhero. While the series became a minor CultClassic, this trope is believed to be the reason it never got a second season and faded into semi-obscurity after a very short run.

* ''WesternAnimation/AllenGregory''. The show is about a {{homeschooled|Kids}} 7-year-old played by Creator/JonahHill, who is forced to attend elementary school when his gay parents hit hard times, and thus has little idea on how to act like a kid. That could have worked very well... if not for the fact that both the title character and his father were unrepentant {{Jerkass}}es, especially to the daughter character (who was an unfunny and rather [[{{Deconstruction}} darkly]] [[AbusiveParents played]] [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Meg Griffin]] ripoff). Not helping matters was the fact that one of the parents wasn't actually gay but rather gave in to a gay relationship because the other wouldn't leave him alone despite several restraining orders -- this aspect already angered quite a few people in the gay community thanks to the UnfortunateImplications raised. It also contained a recurring subplot about Gregory attempting to date his principal, who is in her 70s, and his infatuation was portrayed ''far'' too sexually to be considered a PrecociousCrush. The show reeked of TooBleakStoppedCaring, was met with poor reviews, and canceled after just 7 episodes due to poor ratings. It says something when Fox deems it as an OldShame.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndTheMagicRailroad'', a tie in with WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends takes the rather grounded characters originally created for Literature/TheRailwaySeries and tries to jam them into a plot with magic, alternate worlds, a self-OC character voiced by TV series creator Brit Allcroft and an attempt to fuse the plot of the PBS series Series/ShiningTimeStation back into the main Thomas series thus leading to live action and model segments, all into a 1 hour 29 minute feature film. Sodor which was originally a fictional island off the cost of England in the original books and early TV episodes, becomes a magic alternate dimension which can only be accessed through special sparkly dust created by Lady a CanonForeigner; that for some reason resides in a cave in somewhere that resembles the exotic outlands of... Pennsylvania. It doesn't help that last minute edits to the film removed a human villain named Boomer, leaving many elements of the plot unexplained with a character completely missing from the story. For some reason Academy Award winning/nominated actors like Peter Fonda and Alec Baldwin are ''also'' a part of this mess.

* ''WesternAnimation/AllenGregory''. The show is about a {{homeschooled|Kids}} 7-year-old played by Creator/JonahHill, who is forced to attend elementary school when his gay parents hit hard times, and thus has little idea on how to act like a kid. That could have worked very well... if not for the fact that both the title character and his father were unrepentant {{Jerkass}}es, especially to the daughter character (who was an unfunny and rather [[{{Deconstruction}} darkly]] [[AbusiveParents played]] [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Meg Griffin]] ripoff). Not helping matters was the fact that one of the parents wasn't actually gay but rather gave in to a gay relationship because the other wouldn't leave him alone despite several restraining orders -- this aspect already angered quite a few people in the gay community thanks to the UnfortunateImplications raised. It also contained a recurring subplot about Gregory attempting to date his principal, who is in her 70s, and his infatuation was portrayed ''far'' too sexually to be considered a PrecociousCrush. The show reeked of TooBleakStoppedCaring, was met with poor reviews, and canceled after just 7 episodes due to poor ratings.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndTheMagicRailroad'', a tie in with WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends takes the rather grounded characters originally created for Literature/TheRailwaySeries and tries to jam them into a plot with magic, alternate worlds, a self-OC character voiced by TV series creator Brit Allcroft and an attempt to fuse the plot of the PBS series Series/ShiningTimeStation back into the main Thomas series thus leading to live action and model segments, all into a 1 hour 29 minute feature film. Sodor which was originally a fictional island off the cost of England in the original books and early TV episodes, becomes a magic alternate dimension which can only be accessed through special sparkly dust created by Lady a MarySue character; that for some reason resides in a cave in somewhere that vaguely resembles Pennsylvania. It doesn't help that last minute edits to the film removed a human villain named Boomer, leaving many elements of the plot unexplained with a character completely missing from the story. For some reason Academy Award winning/nominated actors like Peter Fonda and Alec Baldwin are ''also'' a part of this mess.

* This is ''the'' reason ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTales'' flopped. Fans of the usually fantasy-themed ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' franchise found the SliceOfLife elements dull and {{cliche}}; while most SliceOfLife fans couldn't get beyond the fact that the cast is all brightly-colored talking ponies. It's still a controversial topic in the MLP fandom decades later. As for the franchise in general, the central premise of brightly colored magical talking ponies is [[GirlShowGhetto a significant barrier to mainstream acceptance]].

** Wanting to get in on the popularity of anime, Creator/WarnerBros came up with ''WesternAnimation/LoonaticsUnleashed'' which re-invented ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' characters as intimidating crimefighters in a dark {{cyberpunk}}ish setting. Unfortunately, people who would've been interested in the ''Looney Tunes'' were turned off by the dark-looking setting and action emphasis, and people who wanted to see [[AnimalSuperheroes anthropomorphic superhero]] action were put on their guard by the fact that the characters were based on FunnyAnimal cartoons famous for {{zany|Cartoon}} {{slapstick}}. Due to backlash, the premise was changed into a much more standardized superhero cartoon that received mixed reviews at best. Further attempts were made to fix the show in the second season by [[LighterAndSofter lightening things even further]] and reintroducing nearly all the other classic characters, but despite that and angling even more obviously for another season, the show was cancelled after that season ran its course.
** To a lesser extent, this might also be the reason ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'' never became the smash hit [[Creator/CartoonNetwork the channel]] was hoping for. {{Sitcom}} fans were turned off by the FunnyAnimal cast and many ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' fans didn't care for the show throwing all the characters into the format of a sitcom set in suburbia. It didn't help that the first season [[UncertainAudience wasn't sure what style of comedy it wanted to lean into or even the age of its target audience]], meaning that by its more fully-realized and well-regarded second season, Warner Bros. was already working on a new ''Looney Tunes'' project to replace it.

* This is ''the'' reason ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTales'' flopped. Fans of the usually fantasy-themed Franchise/MyLittlePony franchise found the SliceOfLife elements dull and {{cliche}}; while most SliceOfLife fans couldn't get beyond the fact that the cast is all brightly-colored talking ponies. It's still a controversial topic in the MLP fandom decades later. As for the franchise in general, the central premise of brightly colored magical talking ponies is [[GirlShowGhetto a significant barrier to mainstream acceptance]].

* Wanting to get in on the popularity of anime, Creator/WarnerBros came up with ''WesternAnimation/LoonaticsUnleashed'' which re-invented ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' characters as intimidating crimefighters in a dark {{cyberpunk}}ish setting. Unfortunately, people who would've been interested in the ''Looney Tunes'' were turned off by the dark-looking setting and action emphasis, and people who wanted to see [[AnimalSuperheroes anthropomorphic superhero]] action were put on their guard by the fact that the characters were based on FunnyAnimal cartoons famous for {{zany|Cartoon}} {{slapstick}}. Due to backlash, the premise was changed into a much more standardized superhero cartoon that received mixed reviews at best. Further attempts were made to fix the show in the second season by [[LighterAndSofter lightening things even further]] and reintroducing nearly all the other classic characters, but despite that and angling even more obviously for another season, the show was cancelled after that season ran its course.
* To a lesser extent, this might also be the reason ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'' never became the smash hit [[Creator/CartoonNetwork the channel]] was hoping for. {{Sitcom}} fans were turned off by the FunnyAnimal cast and many ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' fans didn't care for the show throwing all the characters into the format of a sitcom set in suburbia. It didn't help that the first season [[UncertainAudience wasn't sure what style of comedy it wanted to lean into or even the age of its target audience]], meaning that by its more fully-realized and well-regarded second season, Warner Bros. was already working on a new ''Looney Tunes'' project to replace it.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrince2021'' is an American, ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''-style animated sitcom based off UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily, with the titular main character being Prince George, changed into a crass, adult-voiced Stewie Griffin {{expy}}. Right from the get-go, the show had to be delayed significantly [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents due to many of the jokes already becoming tasteless]] (specifically the jokes of Prince Phillip as a decrepit zombie who constantly needs to be defibrillated, which even if the real Prince Phillip didn't die at the age of 99 before the show's premiere is the definition of a joke that wouldn't age well), and once it did come out, people just weren't interested in the caricature of ''a real child'' as the basis for a ShallowParody of the Royal Family (given just how private the life of the actual Prince George is ''and'' how publicly dysfunctional the rest of the family came to be in 2020-21, there's not a lot that can be meaningfully exaggerated), and otherwise, it's a low-grade knockoff of [[AnimatedShockComedy a tired adult animation formula]]. Given how [[InvisibleAdvertising remarkably surreptitious]] Creator/HBOMax was with its release (its actual release date was only announced the day prior), it's clear that even they knew nobody wanted to see a show about this [[CreatorBacklash and just wanted to just get it over with as soon as possible]].

* ''WesternAnimation/BewareTheBatman'' struggled to gain fans thanks to its risky decision to not use any villains from Batman's iconic RoguesGallery, instead using lesser-known or outright obscure villains from the comics; even characters like the Joker or Catwoman were rendered absent. As many find said gallery to be part of why Batman is so memorable to begin with, many ''Batman'' fans chose to ignore the series. It did manage to get some fans and eventually brought in some more classic villains, but it got the axe before its first season had even concluded, with its remaining episodes being burnt off in a late-night slot.