History FranchiseKiller / WesternAnimation

* The failed 1999 pilot ''WesternAnimation/{{Curbside}}'' was the final nail in the coffin for the Creator/{{Terrytoons}} characters. Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} didn't pick it up and as a result, Creator/{{Viacom}} lost whatever interest they had left in the franchise. This was because the pilot was produced by a crew that, according to Jerry Beck (who ''originally'' headed the project), [[CreatorsApathy didn't know or care about anything involving the original Terrytoons shorts]]. There now seems to be an unspoken "No Terrytoons Projects" rule at Viacom because Beck tried to make a Sidney the Elephant cartoon for ''WesternAnimation/RandomCartoons'', only for them to [[ExectutiveMeddling force him]] to replace Sidney with another character[[note]]The short was completed under the title ''Hornswiggle''[[/note]].

* The failed 1999 pilot ''WesternAnimation/{{Curbside}}'' was the final nail in the coffin for the Creator/{{Terrytoons}} characters. Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} didn't pick it up and as a result, Creator/{{Viacom}} lost whatever interest they had left in the franchise. This was because the pilot was produced by a crew that, according to Jerry Beck (who ''originally'' headed the project), [[CreatorsApathy didn't know or care about anything involving the original Terrytoons shorts]]. There now seems to be an unspoken "No Terrytoons Projects" rule at Viacom because Beck tried to make a Sidney the Elephant cartoon for ''WesternAnimation/RandomCartoons'', only for them to force him to replace Sidney with another character[[note]]The short was completed under the title ''Hornswiggle''[[/note]].

* The end of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Madeline}}'' cartoon franchise tends to be blamed by fans on the 2002 feature-length TV movie, ''My Fair Madeline'', which was heavily criticized for its unpleasant plot involving Madeline being put through an unfair TraumaCongaLine after being blamed for causing a mess at an art museum, with not even Miss Clavell believing her when Madeline explains she was trying to expose an art theft, to the point that she is sent away from the old house covered in vines and away from her friends. A final feature-length production, ''Madeline in Tahiti'', was made in 2005, but was never released on DVD in the US, only finally getting a digital release in 2017, and with that the franchise ended.

* While a planned sequel got scrapped, Creator/DreamWorksAnimation had still made a few attempts to turn ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens'' into a multimedia franchise early on, with the movie getting animated shorts (''Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space'', ''Night of the Living Carrots'') and crossover video games (''VideoGame/MadagascarKartz'', ''[=DreamWorks=] [=SuperStar=] Kartz''), but the poor reception and failure of the short-lived ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens2013'' series ultimately killed any further projects the studio may have planned, and the series itself hasn't seen any major acknowledgement beyond the occasional multi-franchise crossover like ''[=DreamWorks=] Universe of Legends''. As of the present day, ''Monsters vs. Aliens'' is the only [=DreamWorks=] franchise to receive a show, but not during DWATV’s streaming era that began in 2013.