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* ''Series/NinjaTurtlesTheNextMutation'': Considering the show's infamously poor quality, one has to wonder why Fox Kids wanted this show to succeed as much as they did. The show premiered in September 1997 at 4:30 on Fridays and remained in that slot all the way through the following March-all the while being hammered by ''The New Batman/Superman Adventures'' eventually to the point of draining ratings from both ''Series/{{Goosebumps}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/LifeWithLouie'' by virtue of sharing the 4:30 slot with the turtles. They even tried giving it a second slot at 9:00 AM on Saturdays for a few months-only to similarly fail against ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries''. What gets the show its "screwed" status is when Fox Kids gave it a full 4:00 weekday slot in April 1998-despite having only produced ''26 episodes''. The resulting episode repetition alienated even the show's few fans-which combined with its new competition in ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' led to a quick death come June.

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* ''Series/NinjaTurtlesTheNextMutation'': Considering the show's infamously poor quality, one has to wonder why Fox Kids wanted this show to succeed as much as they did. The show premiered in September 1997 at 4:30 on Fridays and remained in that slot all the way through the following March-all the while being hammered by ''The New Batman/Superman Adventures'' eventually to the point of draining ratings from both ''Series/{{Goosebumps}}'' ''Series/Goosebumps1995'' and ''WesternAnimation/LifeWithLouie'' by virtue of sharing the 4:30 slot with the turtles. They even tried giving it a second slot at 9:00 AM on Saturdays for a few months-only to similarly fail against ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries''. What gets the show its "screwed" status is when Fox Kids gave it a full 4:00 weekday slot in April 1998-despite having only produced ''26 episodes''. The resulting episode repetition alienated even the show's few fans-which combined with its new competition in ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' led to a quick death come June.



* ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGoofs'': Intended as Fox Kids' answer to Kids' WB comedies such as ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', the show premiered in September in the prime time slot of 9:30 AM just before ''Series/{{Goosebumps}}''. It stayed there until December, when it was moved to 10:30 AM again sharing an hour with Goosebumps-only to be unceremoniously dropped in April and then return in September 1998 on Mondays at 3:00 PM. As if that wasn't enough, it was moved again in January 1999 to 7:30 AM on Wednesdays as part of an attempt to burn-off several failed series in that time slot. The show was gone from Fox Kids by March and moved to Fox Family for the spring and summer (now airing on Sunday mornings, no less) before finally being buried on Boyz Channel for that network's infamous ten-month run. The real kicker: This all happened just to get Season 1 out of the way! By comparison, the season only took one year to air on its native channel of France 3. Season 2 has yet to be released in the United States.

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* ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGoofs'': Intended as Fox Kids' answer to Kids' WB comedies such as ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', the show premiered in September in the prime time slot of 9:30 AM just before ''Series/{{Goosebumps}}''.''Series/Goosebumps1995''. It stayed there until December, when it was moved to 10:30 AM again sharing an hour with Goosebumps-only to be unceremoniously dropped in April and then return in September 1998 on Mondays at 3:00 PM. As if that wasn't enough, it was moved again in January 1999 to 7:30 AM on Wednesdays as part of an attempt to burn-off several failed series in that time slot. The show was gone from Fox Kids by March and moved to Fox Family for the spring and summer (now airing on Sunday mornings, no less) before finally being buried on Boyz Channel for that network's infamous ten-month run. The real kicker: This all happened just to get Season 1 out of the way! By comparison, the season only took one year to air on its native channel of France 3. Season 2 has yet to be released in the United States.
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* ''Series/{{Goosebumps}}'': After two seasons as one of Fox Kids' top-rated shows, a 4:30 weekday slot was inevitable. What ''wasn't'' inevitable was the show keeping that slot for itself-by November ''Goosebumps'' had been reduced to Tuesday and Thursday to make room for ''WesternAnimation/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'' (''Series/EerieIndiana'' got Monday and Wednesday). Even ''that'' only lasted until January when the show was put back to Saturdays-Only in favor of ''WesternAnimation/LifeWithLouie''. Fortunately, the show continued to perform well enough on Saturdays that it was still renewed for a fourth season despite all this. Sadly, that fourth season wound up buried at 4:00 and 4:30 on Mondays with little advertising. The show lasted all of four months in this slot before being dropped entirely in December. Oh yeah, and that final season only had 4 double-length episodes in any case.

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* ''Series/{{Goosebumps}}'': ''Series/Goosebumps1995'': After two seasons as one of Fox Kids' top-rated shows, a 4:30 weekday slot was inevitable. What ''wasn't'' inevitable was the show keeping that slot for itself-by November ''Goosebumps'' had been reduced to Tuesday and Thursday to make room for ''WesternAnimation/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'' (''Series/EerieIndiana'' got Monday and Wednesday). Even ''that'' only lasted until January when the show was put back to Saturdays-Only in favor of ''WesternAnimation/LifeWithLouie''. Fortunately, the show continued to perform well enough on Saturdays that it was still renewed for a fourth season despite all this. Sadly, that fourth season wound up buried at 4:00 and 4:30 on Mondays with little advertising. The show lasted all of four months in this slot before being dropped entirely in December. Oh yeah, and that final season only had 4 double-length episodes in any case.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SilverSurfer'': Premiered at 11:30 AM in February 1998 with the intention that it would carry over the ratings success of ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries''. When that didn't happen, Fox Kids wasted little time moving to show ahead to 11:00-directly against ''Animaniacs'' and proving once and for all just how invincible the Warner Siblings truly were.[[note]]For context, ''Animaniacs'' had already been ''canceled'' by the time of the move, it would take Kids' WB two seasons of reruns and ''Anime/MonsterRancher'' to finally kill the show.[[/note]]. The surfer wiped-out in May and would not ride again until ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperHeroSquadShow'' in 2009.

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* ''WesternAnimation/SilverSurfer'': ''WesternAnimation/SilverSurferTheAnimatedSeries'': Premiered at 11:30 AM in February 1998 with the intention that it would carry over the ratings success of ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries''. When that didn't happen, Fox Kids wasted little time moving to show ahead to 11:00-directly against ''Animaniacs'' and proving once and for all just how invincible the Warner Siblings truly were.[[note]]For context, ''Animaniacs'' had already been ''canceled'' by the time of the move, it would take Kids' WB two seasons of reruns and ''Anime/MonsterRancher'' to finally kill the show.[[/note]]. The surfer wiped-out in May and would not ride again until ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperHeroSquadShow'' in 2009.
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* ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' and ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'' were both screwed by Creator/FoxKids. Creator/{{Toonami}} was interested in both shows, but Fox Kids picked up both so that Toonami could never obtain them. What does Fox Kids do? ''They didn't do anything with them!'' Fox Kids basically sat on the broadcast rights to the shows until their rights expired and Toonami was no longer interested.[[note]]Not unlike what its successor, Disney XD, did to ''Naruto Shippuden'' years later[[/note]] ''Slayers'' has since been broadcast on the defunct International Channel, Colours TV, and the [[Creator/{{Funimation}} Funimation Channel]]. ''Rayearth'', on the other hand, was only broadcast in the San Francisco Bay Area by the local Creator/{{PBS}} station.

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* ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'' and ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'' were both screwed by Creator/FoxKids. Creator/{{Toonami}} was interested in both shows, but Fox Kids picked up both so that Toonami could never obtain them. What does Fox Kids do? ''They didn't do anything with them!'' Fox Kids basically sat on the broadcast rights to the shows until their rights expired and Toonami was no longer interested.[[note]]Not unlike what its successor, Disney XD, did to ''Naruto Shippuden'' years later[[/note]] ''Slayers'' has since been broadcast on the defunct International Channel, Colours TV, and the [[Creator/{{Funimation}} Funimation Channel]]. ''Rayearth'', on the other hand, was only broadcast in the San Francisco Bay Area by the local Creator/{{PBS}} station.
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* ''WesternAnimation/ActionMan2000'': Premiered in August 2000 in the cushy slot of 9:30 AM. Despite facing ''Anime/CardcaptorSakura'' on Kids' WB, the show still managed to somehow underperform and was later moved to 8:30 AM-once again against ''Pokémon''. Having already been renewed for a second season, Fox Kids chose to rush production of those episodes and moved the show to weekdays in January 2001-first at 4:00 PM and then at 3:00 PM by March. Action Man ultimately did continue into Fall 2001 but was now airing at 2:00 PM, and only on Fridays. (likely as a time filler owing to Woody Woodpecker not having enough episodes to fill a full weekday slot by itself).

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* ''WesternAnimation/ActionMan2000'': Premiered in August 2000 in the cushy slot of 9:30 AM. Despite facing ''Anime/CardcaptorSakura'' ''[[Anime/CardcaptorSakura Cardcaptors]]'' on Kids' WB, the show still managed to somehow underperform and was later moved to 8:30 AM-once again against ''Pokémon''. Having already been renewed for a second season, Fox Kids chose to rush production of those episodes and moved the show to weekdays in January 2001-first at 4:00 PM and then at 3:00 PM by March. Action Man ultimately did continue into Fall 2001 but was now airing at 2:00 PM, and only on Fridays. (likely as a time filler owing to Woody Woodpecker not having enough episodes to fill a full weekday slot by itself).



* A mild case with ''Anime/{{Medabots}}'': After managing a solid win against ''The Mummy'' during its first five months (as mentioned above), Fox decided to use the show's 9:30 AM slot to premiere ''Galidor'' and moved Medabots to 10:00 AM-seemingly dooming the show to become yet another victim of anime juggernaut ''Pokemon''. Fortunately, ''Galidor'' bombed and within six weeks Ikki and Metabee were back at 9:30 where they quickly deactivated ''WesternAnimation/TheZetaProject''-only to be moved back to 10:00 for Fox Kids' final summer. Luckily, ABC Family [[NetworkToTheRescue quickly picked up the series and eventually aired the final season.]]

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* A mild case with ''Anime/{{Medabots}}'': After managing a solid win against ''The Mummy'' during its first five months (as mentioned above), Fox decided to use the show's 9:30 AM slot to premiere ''Galidor'' and moved Medabots to 10:00 AM-seemingly dooming the show to become yet another victim of anime juggernaut ''Pokemon''.''Pokémon''. Fortunately, ''Galidor'' bombed and within six weeks Ikki and Metabee were back at 9:30 where they quickly deactivated ''WesternAnimation/TheZetaProject''-only to be moved back to 10:00 for Fox Kids' final summer. Luckily, ABC Family [[NetworkToTheRescue quickly picked up the series and eventually aired the final season.]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/ActionMan2000'': Premiered in August 2000 in the cushy slot of 9:30 AM. Despite facing ''Anime/CardcaptorSakura'' on Kids' WB, the show still managed to somehow underperform and was later moved to 8:30 AM-once again against ''Pokémon''. Having already been renewed for a second season, Fox Kids chose to rush production of those episodes and moved the show to weekdays in January 2001-first at 4:00 PM and then at 3:00 PM by March. Action Man ultimately did continue into Fall 2001 but was now airing at 2:00 PM, and only on Fridays. (likely as a timefiller owing to Woody Woodpecker not having enough episodes to fill a full weekday slot by itself).

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* ''WesternAnimation/ActionMan2000'': Premiered in August 2000 in the cushy slot of 9:30 AM. Despite facing ''Anime/CardcaptorSakura'' on Kids' WB, the show still managed to somehow underperform and was later moved to 8:30 AM-once again against ''Pokémon''. Having already been renewed for a second season, Fox Kids chose to rush production of those episodes and moved the show to weekdays in January 2001-first at 4:00 PM and then at 3:00 PM by March. Action Man ultimately did continue into Fall 2001 but was now airing at 2:00 PM, and only on Fridays. (likely as a timefiller time filler owing to Woody Woodpecker not having enough episodes to fill a full weekday slot by itself).



* ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersUnitedTheyStand'': Premiered in October 1999 at 11:30 AM-against ''WesternAnimation/TheSylvesterAndTweetyMysteries'', by then Kids' WB's longest-running original series-and also the initial opponent that claimed ''Silver Surfer'' [[HistoryRepeats in the same timeslot]]. The show was placed on hiatus in February despite having aired all but one of its 13 episodes. That final episode aired in March, and then the show was instantly removed to make room for ''Anime/FlintTheTimeDetective''.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersUnitedTheyStand'': Premiered in October 1999 at 11:30 AM-against ''WesternAnimation/TheSylvesterAndTweetyMysteries'', by then Kids' WB's longest-running original series-and also the initial opponent that claimed ''Silver Surfer'' [[HistoryRepeats in the same timeslot]].time slot]]. The show was placed on hiatus in February despite having aired all but one of its 13 episodes. That final episode aired in March, and then the show was instantly removed to make room for ''Anime/FlintTheTimeDetective''.



* ''WesternAnimation/BeastMachines'': Premiered at 11:00 AM and was expected to easily win its timeslot--nobody expected the so-called "competition" of Kids' WB's E/I-mandated ''WesternAnimation/{{Detention}}'' to pull in ''Pokémon''-level ratings. After seven months, Primal & Co. were sabotaged further by a move in April 2000 to 10:00 AM-''directly against Pokémon'', and keeping that slot when Season 2 premiered. No points for guessing what happened come February 2001. To add insult to injury, the show was replaced with second-run episodes of ''Series/TheZackFiles''.
* ''Series/{{Beetleborgs}}'': Specifically the ''Metallix'' season, which saw the show move ahead a half-hour from 4:00 to 3:30. Unfortunately, this was the same time Kids' WB expanded its weekday block to three hours (from one) and placed ''Animaniacs'' in the same timeslot. Needless to say, ratings tanked ''hard'' against the cartoon juggernaut and in February ''Metallix'' was moved ahead ''again'' to 3:00 against repackaged ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' in a last-ditch effort to save the series. Unfortunately, any ratings increase that would have resulted from the weaker competition was undone by the fact that the storyline was already ''at least'' half-over, leaving many would-be viewers confused. ''Metallix'' ended up banished to 7:00 AM come summer, and then to Sunday morning reruns on UPN the following season.

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* ''WesternAnimation/BeastMachines'': Premiered at 11:00 AM and was expected to easily win its timeslot--nobody time slot--nobody expected the so-called "competition" of Kids' WB's E/I-mandated ''WesternAnimation/{{Detention}}'' to pull in ''Pokémon''-level ratings. After seven months, Primal & Co. were sabotaged further by a move in April 2000 to 10:00 AM-''directly against Pokémon'', and keeping that slot when Season 2 premiered. No points for guessing what happened come February 2001. To add insult to injury, the show was replaced with second-run episodes of ''Series/TheZackFiles''.
* ''Series/{{Beetleborgs}}'': Specifically the ''Metallix'' season, which saw the show move ahead a half-hour from 4:00 to 3:30. Unfortunately, this was the same time Kids' WB expanded its weekday block to three hours (from one) and placed ''Animaniacs'' in the same timeslot.time slot. Needless to say, ratings tanked ''hard'' against the cartoon juggernaut and in February ''Metallix'' was moved ahead ''again'' to 3:00 against repackaged ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' in a last-ditch effort to save the series. Unfortunately, any ratings increase that would have resulted from the weaker competition was undone by the fact that the storyline was already ''at least'' half-over, leaving many would-be viewers confused. ''Metallix'' ended up banished to 7:00 AM come summer, and then to Sunday morning reruns on UPN the following season.



* Despite being well-received by audiences and ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' fans alike (especially compared to the [[Film/Godzilla1998 heavily panned movie that inspired it]]), ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries'' had the misfortune to debut just as ''Pokémon'' hit the airwaves. Months after its debut, Creator/FoxKids launched a counterattack by buying the rights to air ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' starting in August 1999. As a result, the second season of ''Godzilla: The Series'' (which started a month later) was plagued with preemptions (mostly by [[AdoredByTheNetwork new network darling]] ''Digimon''), timeslot changes (first 8:30 AM, then 9:30 AM by December, then 10:00 AM in February, and finally 11:30 AM in April), and episodes being aired {{out of order}}, with two of them never even airing in the U.S. Needless to say, it became impossible for audiences to find the show, and it was off the air by May 2000, replaced by reruns of ''WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons1983''.

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* Despite being well-received by audiences and ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' fans alike (especially compared to the [[Film/Godzilla1998 heavily panned movie that inspired it]]), ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries'' had the misfortune to debut just as ''Pokémon'' hit the airwaves. Months after its debut, Creator/FoxKids launched a counterattack by buying the rights to air ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' starting in August 1999. As a result, the second season of ''Godzilla: The Series'' (which started a month later) was plagued with preemptions (mostly by [[AdoredByTheNetwork new network darling]] ''Digimon''), timeslot time slot changes (first 8:30 AM, then 9:30 AM by December, then 10:00 AM in February, and finally 11:30 AM in April), and episodes being aired {{out of order}}, with two of them never even airing in the U.S. Needless to say, it became impossible for audiences to find the show, and it was off the air by May 2000, replaced by reruns of ''WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons1983''.



* ''WesternAnimation/TheMagician'': Burned off all 39 episodes in just seven months between February-September 1999. Even worse, its timeslot was Saturdays at 10:00 AM-earning the show the ''very'' dubious distinction of being ''Pokemon's'' first real victim.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheMagician'': Burned off all 39 episodes in just seven months between February-September 1999. Even worse, its timeslot time slot was Saturdays at 10:00 AM-earning the show the ''very'' dubious distinction of being ''Pokemon's'' first real victim.



* ''Anime/MonColleKnights'': Again, Saturdays at 11:00 AM isn't really that bad a timeslot-unless you happen to be preceded in that timeslot by ''WesternAnimation/TheRippingFriends''-whose infamous reputation proved an insurmountable strike against anything placed in its timeslot. Even Kids' WB competition of the equally ill-fated ''Literature/TheNightmareRoom'' wasn't much help.

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* ''Anime/MonColleKnights'': Again, Saturdays at 11:00 AM isn't really that bad a timeslot-unless you happen to be preceded in that timeslot time slot by ''WesternAnimation/TheRippingFriends''-whose infamous reputation proved an insurmountable strike against anything placed in its timeslot.time slot. Even Kids' WB competition of the equally ill-fated ''Literature/TheNightmareRoom'' wasn't much help.



* ''Series/MoolahBeach'': Not only did Fox Kids run this six-episode reality mini-series at 10:00 AM opposite both ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' ''and'' ''Series/LizzieMcguire'', they also had the show EditedForSyndication in order to fit inside a half-hour timeslot-as opposed to the unedited hour-long version that could be seen on Fox Family at 12:00 Noon-a mere ''two hours later!'' Needless to say, most viewers chose to wait it out for the good stuff-not that it mattered after Disney took over.

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* ''Series/MoolahBeach'': Not only did Fox Kids run this six-episode reality mini-series at 10:00 AM opposite both ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' ''and'' ''Series/LizzieMcguire'', they also had the show EditedForSyndication in order to fit inside a half-hour timeslot-as time slot-as opposed to the unedited hour-long version that could be seen on Fox Family at 12:00 Noon-a mere ''two hours later!'' Needless to say, most viewers chose to wait it out for the good stuff-not that it mattered after Disney took over.



* ''[[WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker The New Woody Woodpecker Show]]'': Premiered in May 1999 and ran for just four months on Saturdays before being promoted to the sweet slot of weekday afternoons at 4:30 PM-where it lasted just a single ''month'' before getting pulled in favor of ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy''. Season 2 would not premiere until September 2001, where it aired Tuesday-Thursday afternoons at 2:00 PM-when much of the target audience was still in school. The show was dropped again when Fox Kids abandoned its entire weekday block four months later and suffered another five-month hiatus before finally beginning Season 3 and returning to Saturdays in June of 2002, and at the early death slot of 8:00 AM to boot. The show disappeared with the block several months later.



* ''WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches'': Originally planned to air as part of a two-in-one series with ''Space Goofs'' on weekday afternoons, the show instead premiered on Saturday mornings at 11:30 AM as its own show. After four months of mediocre ratings the shows was moved to Fridays at 7:30 AM, as part of the same burn-off slot as ''Space Goofs''. The show was relocated to Fox Family in May 1999 as part of flagship afternoon block "The Basement", staying there until being dropped entirely in October, not even getting the privilege of joining its sister show on [=BoyzChannel=].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRippingFriends'': Premiered in September 2001, a month when terrestrial television faced countless pre-emptions owing to coverage of...well, you-know-what. By the time the season officially began in November, the show had already been moved to 10:00 AM-once again against ''Pokémon''. The show was dropped in February to make room for ''Series/{{Galidor}}''.
* ''Series/RoundTheTwist'': Premiered in July of 1997, arguably the worst month to premiere a new series due to being the right in the middle of summer. As if that wasn't bad enough, the show lost Fridays after just ''three weeks'' to make room for ''WesternAnimation/StickinAround''. Combine that with a 4:30 slot against ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', and you have a recipe for ultimate disaster. Needless to say, the Twists didn't make the fall season.

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* ''WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches'': Originally planned to air as part of a two-in-one series with ''Space Goofs'' on weekday afternoons, the show instead premiered on Saturday mornings at 11:30 AM as its own show. After four months of mediocre ratings the shows show was moved to Fridays at 7:30 AM, as part of the same burn-off slot as ''Space Goofs''. The show was relocated to Fox Family in May 1999 as part of flagship afternoon block "The Basement", staying there until being dropped entirely in October, not even getting the privilege of joining its sister show on [=BoyzChannel=].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRippingFriends'': Premiered in September 2001, a month when terrestrial television faced countless pre-emptions preemptions owing to coverage of...well, you-know-what. By the time the season officially began in November, the show had already been moved to 10:00 AM-once again against ''Pokémon''. The show was dropped in February to make room for ''Series/{{Galidor}}''.
* ''Series/RoundTheTwist'': Premiered in July of 1997, arguably the worst month to premiere a new series due to being the right in the middle of summer. As if that wasn't bad enough, the show lost Fridays after just ''three weeks'' to make room for ''WesternAnimation/StickinAround''. Combine that with a 4:30 slot against ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', and you have a recipe for ultimate disaster. Needless to say, the Twists didn't make the fall season.



* ''WesternAnimation/SherlockHolmesInTheTwentySecondCentury'': Premiered at 8:00 AM Saturdays, dropped after four weeks in favor of ''Anime/MonsterRancher'', returned in December at the same timeslot, then finally moved to Mondays at 3:00 PM in January. The show was dropped in June with nine episodes left unaired until the show entered syndication exactly one year later.
* ''WesternAnimation/SilverSurfer'': Premiered at 11:30 AM in February 1998 with the intention that it would carry over the ratings success of ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries''. When that didn't happen, Fox Kids wasted little time moving to show ahead to 11:00-directly against ''Animaniacs'' and proving once and for all just how invincible the Warner Siblings truly were.[[note]]For context, ''Animaniacs'' had already been ''cancelled'' by the time of the move, it would take Kids' WB two seasons of reruns and ''Anime/MonsterRancher'' to finally kill the show.[[/note]]. The surfer wiped-out in May and would not ride again until ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperHeroSquadShow'' in 2009.

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* ''WesternAnimation/SherlockHolmesInTheTwentySecondCentury'': Premiered at 8:00 AM Saturdays, dropped after four weeks in favor of ''Anime/MonsterRancher'', returned in December at the same timeslot, time slot, then finally moved to Mondays at 3:00 PM in January. The show was dropped in June with nine episodes left unaired until the show entered syndication exactly one year later.
* ''WesternAnimation/SilverSurfer'': Premiered at 11:30 AM in February 1998 with the intention that it would carry over the ratings success of ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries''. When that didn't happen, Fox Kids wasted little time moving to show ahead to 11:00-directly against ''Animaniacs'' and proving once and for all just how invincible the Warner Siblings truly were.[[note]]For context, ''Animaniacs'' had already been ''cancelled'' ''canceled'' by the time of the move, it would take Kids' WB two seasons of reruns and ''Anime/MonsterRancher'' to finally kill the show.[[/note]]. The surfer wiped-out in May and would not ride again until ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperHeroSquadShow'' in 2009.



* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'': A very rare example of a show getting screwed because the network loved it ''too much.'' After completing its run in January 1998, Fox Kids promoted its timeslot the following month from 3:00 to 3:30. Unfortunately, going from running against repackaged ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' to battling ''Animaniacs'' really doesn't do much for a show's ratings and ''doubly so'' when you're only airing reruns. However, Fox Kids still refused to give up on the web-slinger and moved it back to 3:00 for the 1998-1999 season-and learned the hard way that ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain''-itself in reruns by this point-is a nigh-impossible opponent. Even worse, Fox Kids still wouldn't quit and added a Saturday slot the following January against ''The New Batman/Superman Adventures'' which ''was'' airing new episodes and quickly started beating Spidey into the ground. Come summer Fox Kids finally realized the game was up and moved Spidey's weekday slot to 4:00, where the dynamic duo happily finished the job.

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* ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGoofs'': Intended as Fox Kids' answer to Kids' WB comedies such as ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', the show premiered in September in the prime time slot of 9:30 AM just before ''Series/{{Goosebumps}}''. It stayed there until December, when it was moved to 10:30 AM again sharing an hour with Goosebumps-only to be unceremoniously dropped in April and then return in September 1998 on Mondays at 3:00 PM. As if that wasn't enough, it was moved again in January 1999 to 7:30 AM on Wednesdays as part of an attempt to burn-off several failed series in that time slot. The show was gone from Fox Kids by March and moved to Fox Family for the spring and summer (now airing on Sunday mornings, no less) before finally being buried on Boyz Channel for that network's infamous ten-month run. The real kicker: This all happened just to get Season 1 out of the way! By comparison, the season only took one year to air on its native channel of France 3. Season 2 has yet to be released in the United States.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'': A very rare example of a show getting screwed because the network loved it ''too much.'' After completing its run in January 1998, Fox Kids promoted its timeslot time slot the following month from 3:00 to 3:30. Unfortunately, going from running against repackaged ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' to battling ''Animaniacs'' really doesn't do much for a show's ratings and ''doubly so'' when you're only airing reruns. However, Fox Kids still refused to give up on the web-slinger and moved it back to 3:00 for the 1998-1999 season-and learned the hard way that ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain''-itself in reruns by this point-is a nigh-impossible opponent. Even worse, Fox Kids still wouldn't quit and added a Saturday slot the following January against ''The New Batman/Superman Adventures'' which ''was'' airing new episodes and quickly started beating Spidey into the ground. Come summer Fox Kids finally realized the game was up and moved Spidey's weekday slot to 4:00, where the dynamic duo happily finished the job.



* ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGoofs'': Intended as Fox Kids' answer to Kids' WB comedies such as ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', the show premiered in September in the prime timeslot of 9:30 AM just before ''Series/{{Goosebumps}}''. It stayed there until December, when it was moved to 10:30 AM again sharing an hour with Goosebumps-only to be unceremoniously dropped in April and then return in September 1998 at Mondays at 3:00 PM. As if that wasn't enough, it was moved again in January 1999 to 7:30 AM on Wednesdays as part of an attempt to burn-off several failed series in that timeslot. The show was gone from Fox Kids by March and moved to Fox Family for the spring and summer (now airing on Sunday mornings, no less) before finally being buried on Boyz Channel for that network's infamous ten-month run. The real kicker: This all happened just to get Season 1 out of the way! By comparison, the season only took one year to air on its native channel of France 3. Season 2 has yet to be released in the United States.



* ''Anime/TransformersRobotsInDisguise'': Being the first six-a-week series since ''Monster Rancher''[[note]] specifically Tuesday-Sunday, the latter day on Fox Family.[[/note]]seems like a pretty swell gig at first-until you learn your timeslots are 2:30 PM Monday-Friday and 8:00 AM on Saturdays when most kids are at school and barely getting out of bed respectively. It took the failure of ''Series/{{Galidor}}'' to finally get the show moved to a more reasonable slot of 10:30-in March 2002, by which time it was already too late.

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* ''Anime/TransformersRobotsInDisguise'': Being the first six-a-week series since ''Monster Rancher''[[note]] specifically Tuesday-Sunday, the latter day on Fox Family.[[/note]]seems like a pretty swell gig at first-until you learn your timeslots time slots are 2:30 PM Monday-Friday and 8:00 AM on Saturdays when most kids are at school and barely getting out of bed respectively. It took the failure of ''Series/{{Galidor}}'' to finally get the show moved to a more reasonable slot of 10:30-in March 2002, by which time it was already too late.



* ''[[WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker The New Woody Woodpecker Show]]'': Premiered in May 1999 and ran for just four months on Saturdays before being promoted to the sweet slot of weekday afternoons at 4:30 PM-where it lasted just a single ''month'' before getting pulled in favor of ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy''. Season 2 would not premiere until September 2001, where it aired Tuesday-Thursday afternoons at 2:00 PM-when much of the target audience is still in school. The show was dropped again when Fox Kids abandoned its entire weekday block four months later and suffered another five-month hiatus before finally beginning Season 3 and returning to Saturdays in June of 2002, and at the early death slot of 8:00 AM to boot. The show disappeared with the block several months later.
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* ''WesternAnimation/KongTheAnimatedSeries'': [[https://kidscreen.com/2001/03/01/30799-20010301/ After abandoning its long-running Amazin Adventures/Bulldog TV block in 2000]],[[note]]This was due to declining ratings resulting from Fox, WB and UPN all having their own weekday cartoon blocks, leaving little room for syndicated shows.[[/note]]BKN latched itself exclusively to Fox Kids starting the following year, with ''KONG'' as the first of Bohbot's shows to air first-run. Fox Kids, for their part, proceeded to rub BKN's woes in their face by premiering ''Kong'' on '''Memorial Day Weekend''' and airing it at 11:30 against ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries''. Ratings were an obvious non-starter, and the show lasted all of 14 episodes (out of 40) before the new fall lineup took over. The BKN deal was then passed over to Fox/ABC Family[[note]]and ultimately to Toon Disney which is why they got ''WesternAnimation/UltimateBookOfSpells'' and later had ''WesternAnimation/LegendOfTheDragon'' air as part of Jetix.[[/note]], and it ultimately took ''Creator/{{Jetix}}'' until ''2005'' to finally complete the series.[[note]]And even ''that'' was only done to tie in with the 2005 Peter Jackson movie.[[/note]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/KongTheAnimatedSeries'': [[https://kidscreen.com/2001/03/01/30799-20010301/ After abandoning its long-running Amazin Adventures/Bulldog TV block in 2000]],[[note]]This was due to declining ratings resulting from Fox, WB and UPN all having their own weekday cartoon blocks, leaving little room for syndicated shows.[[/note]]BKN latched itself exclusively to Fox Kids starting the following year, with ''KONG'' as the first of Bohbot's shows to air first-run. Fox Kids, for their part, proceeded to rub BKN's woes in their face by premiering ''Kong'' on '''Memorial Day Weekend''' and airing it at 11:30 against ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries''. Ratings were an obvious non-starter, and the show lasted all of 14 episodes (out of 40) before the new fall lineup took over. The BKN deal was then passed over to Fox/ABC Family[[note]]and ultimately to Toon Disney Disney, which is why how they got ''WesternAnimation/UltimateBookOfSpells'' and later had ''WesternAnimation/LegendOfTheDragon'' air as part of Jetix.[[/note]], and it ultimately took ''Creator/{{Jetix}}'' until ''2005'' to finally complete the series.[[note]]And even ''that'' was only done to tie in with the 2005 Peter Jackson movie.[[/note]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/KongTheAnimatedSeries'': [[https://kidscreen.com/2001/03/01/30799-20010301/ After abandoning its long-running Amazin Adventures/Bulldog TV block in 2000]],[[note]]This was due to declining ratings resulting from Fox, WB and UPN all having their own weekday cartoon blocks, leaving little room for syndicated shows.[[/note]]BKN latched itself exclusively to Fox Kids starting the following year, with ''KONG'' as the first of Bohbot's shows to air first-run. Fox Kids, for their part, proceeded to rub BKN's woes in their face by premiering ''Kong'' on '''Memorial Day Weekend''' and airing it at 11:30 against ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries''. Ratings were an obvious non-starter, and the show lasted all of 14 episodes (out of 40) before the new fall lineup took over. The BKN deal was then passed over to Fox/ABC Family, and it ultimately took ''Creator/{{Jetix}}'' until ''2005'' to finally complete the series.[[note]]And even ''that'' was only done to tie in with the 2005 Peter Jackson movie.[[/note]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/KongTheAnimatedSeries'': [[https://kidscreen.com/2001/03/01/30799-20010301/ After abandoning its long-running Amazin Adventures/Bulldog TV block in 2000]],[[note]]This was due to declining ratings resulting from Fox, WB and UPN all having their own weekday cartoon blocks, leaving little room for syndicated shows.[[/note]]BKN latched itself exclusively to Fox Kids starting the following year, with ''KONG'' as the first of Bohbot's shows to air first-run. Fox Kids, for their part, proceeded to rub BKN's woes in their face by premiering ''Kong'' on '''Memorial Day Weekend''' and airing it at 11:30 against ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries''. Ratings were an obvious non-starter, and the show lasted all of 14 episodes (out of 40) before the new fall lineup took over. The BKN deal was then passed over to Fox/ABC Family, Family[[note]]and ultimately to Toon Disney which is why they got ''WesternAnimation/UltimateBookOfSpells'' and later had ''WesternAnimation/LegendOfTheDragon'' air as part of Jetix.[[/note]], and it ultimately took ''Creator/{{Jetix}}'' until ''2005'' to finally complete the series.[[note]]And even ''that'' was only done to tie in with the 2005 Peter Jackson movie.[[/note]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/SilverSurfer'': Premiered at 11:30 AM in February 1998 with the intention that it would carry over the ratings success of ''WesternAnimation/XMen''. When that didn't happen, Fox Kids wasted little time moving to show ahead to 11:00-directly against ''Animaniacs'' and proving once and for all just how invincible the Warner Siblings truly were.[[note]]For context, ''Animaniacs'' had already been ''cancelled'' by the time of the move, it would take Kids' WB two seasons of reruns and ''Anime/MonsterRancher'' to finally kill the show.[[/note]]. The surfer wiped-out in May and would not ride again until ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperHeroSquadShow'' in 2009.

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* ''WesternAnimation/SilverSurfer'': Premiered at 11:30 AM in February 1998 with the intention that it would carry over the ratings success of ''WesternAnimation/XMen''.''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries''. When that didn't happen, Fox Kids wasted little time moving to show ahead to 11:00-directly against ''Animaniacs'' and proving once and for all just how invincible the Warner Siblings truly were.[[note]]For context, ''Animaniacs'' had already been ''cancelled'' by the time of the move, it would take Kids' WB two seasons of reruns and ''Anime/MonsterRancher'' to finally kill the show.[[/note]]. The surfer wiped-out in May and would not ride again until ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperHeroSquadShow'' in 2009.



* ''WesternAnimation/XMen'': After airing its finale in September 1997, what had been roughly an even battle against ''WesternAnimation/TheSylvesterAndTweetyMysteries'' quickly transformed into a CurbStompBattle that lasted four whole months before the show was finally put out of its misery. The series returned in July 2000 in a 4:00 weekday slot, but ''Pokémon'' made damn sure that didn't last.

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* ''WesternAnimation/XMen'': ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'': After airing its finale in September 1997, what had been roughly an even battle against ''WesternAnimation/TheSylvesterAndTweetyMysteries'' quickly transformed into a CurbStompBattle that lasted four whole months before the show was finally put out of its misery. The series returned in July 2000 in a 4:00 weekday slot, but ''Pokémon'' made damn sure that didn't last.
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* ''WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches'': Originally planned to air as part of a two-in-one series with ''Space Goofs'' on weekday afternoons, the show instead premiered on Saturday mornings at 11:30 AM as its own show. After four months of mediocre ratings the shows was moved to Fridays at 7:30 AM, as part of the same burn-off slot as ''Space Goofs''. The show was relocated to Fox Family in May 1999 as part of flagship afternoon block "The Basement", staying there until being dropped entirely sometime before the end of the year, not even getting the privilege of joining its sister show on [=BoyzChannel=].

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* ''WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches'': Originally planned to air as part of a two-in-one series with ''Space Goofs'' on weekday afternoons, the show instead premiered on Saturday mornings at 11:30 AM as its own show. After four months of mediocre ratings the shows was moved to Fridays at 7:30 AM, as part of the same burn-off slot as ''Space Goofs''. The show was relocated to Fox Family in May 1999 as part of flagship afternoon block "The Basement", staying there until being dropped entirely sometime before the end of the year, in October, not even getting the privilege of joining its sister show on [=BoyzChannel=].
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* ''WesternAnimation/KongTheAnimatedSeries'': [[https://kidscreen.com/2001/03/01/30799-20010301/ After abandoning it's long-running Amazin Adventures/Bulldog TV block in 2000]],[[note]]This was due to declining ratings resulting from Fox, WB and UPN all having their own weekday cartoon blocks, leaving little room for syndicated shows.[[/note]]BKN latched itself exclusively to Fox Kids starting the following year, with ''KONG'' as the first of Bohbot's shows to air first-run. Fox Kids, for their part, proceeded to rub BKN's woes in their face by premiering ''Kong'' on '''Memorial Day Weekend''' and airing it at 11:30 against ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries''. Ratings were an obvious non-starter, and the show lasted all of 14 episodes (out of 40) before the new fall lineup took over. The BKN deal was then passed over to Fox/ABC Family, and it ultimately took ''Creator/{{Jetix}}'' until ''2005'' to finally complete the series.[[note]]And even ''that'' was only done to tie in with the 2005 Peter Jackson movie.[[/note]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/KongTheAnimatedSeries'': [[https://kidscreen.com/2001/03/01/30799-20010301/ After abandoning it's its long-running Amazin Adventures/Bulldog TV block in 2000]],[[note]]This was due to declining ratings resulting from Fox, WB and UPN all having their own weekday cartoon blocks, leaving little room for syndicated shows.[[/note]]BKN latched itself exclusively to Fox Kids starting the following year, with ''KONG'' as the first of Bohbot's shows to air first-run. Fox Kids, for their part, proceeded to rub BKN's woes in their face by premiering ''Kong'' on '''Memorial Day Weekend''' and airing it at 11:30 against ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries''. Ratings were an obvious non-starter, and the show lasted all of 14 episodes (out of 40) before the new fall lineup took over. The BKN deal was then passed over to Fox/ABC Family, and it ultimately took ''Creator/{{Jetix}}'' until ''2005'' to finally complete the series.[[note]]And even ''that'' was only done to tie in with the 2005 Peter Jackson movie.[[/note]]



* ''WesternAnimation/TheMagician'': Burned off all 39 episodes in just seven months between February-September 1999. Even worse, it's timeslot was Saturdays at 10:00 AM-earning the show the ''very'' dubious distinction of being ''Pokemon's'' first real victim.
* A mild case with ''Anime/{{Medabots}}'': After managing a solid win against ''The Mummy'' during it's first five months (as mentioned above), Fox decided to use the show's 9:30 AM slot to premiere ''Galidor'' and moved Medabots to 10:00 AM-seemingly dooming the show to become yet another victim of anime juggernaut ''Pokemon''. Fortunately, ''Galidor'' bombed and within six weeks Ikki and Metabee were back at 9:30 where they quickly deactivated ''WesternAnimation/TheZetaProject''-only to be moved back to 10:00 for Fox Kids' final summer. Luckily, ABC Family [[NetworkToTheRescue quickly picked up the series and eventually aired the final season.]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheMagician'': Burned off all 39 episodes in just seven months between February-September 1999. Even worse, it's its timeslot was Saturdays at 10:00 AM-earning the show the ''very'' dubious distinction of being ''Pokemon's'' first real victim.
* A mild case with ''Anime/{{Medabots}}'': After managing a solid win against ''The Mummy'' during it's its first five months (as mentioned above), Fox decided to use the show's 9:30 AM slot to premiere ''Galidor'' and moved Medabots to 10:00 AM-seemingly dooming the show to become yet another victim of anime juggernaut ''Pokemon''. Fortunately, ''Galidor'' bombed and within six weeks Ikki and Metabee were back at 9:30 where they quickly deactivated ''WesternAnimation/TheZetaProject''-only to be moved back to 10:00 for Fox Kids' final summer. Luckily, ABC Family [[NetworkToTheRescue quickly picked up the series and eventually aired the final season.]]



* ''Anime/MonsterRancher'': Debuting on Fox Kids in October 1999 after just ''one month'' of airing in syndication, Fox Kids proceeded to sabotage the series in the most unceremonious way imaginable. Being "promoted" from once to twice on Saturdays ''on your second week with the network'' should seem to indicate that the network had every intention of pushing for the show's success. The problem: it's slots were 8:30 and 10:00 AM-'''the same slots where Kids' WB was airing Pokemon!'''[[note]]Most likely the reasoning was that with both shows airing twice in the same slots, viewers would tune in to one airing or the other knowing they wouldn't miss anything.[[/note]] The show spent the next three months getting pounded into the dust before Fox Kids realized Genki was floundering and removed the 10:00 airing. Sadly, the 8:30 slot went unchanged and ''Pokemon'' continued decimating the show until it was removed altogether in August 2000. The show's weekday run (which began in November) fared even worse; airing at 3:00[[note]]For context, 3:30 belonged to ''Beast Wars'' reruns.[[/note]] and lasting less than three months due to a combination of low ratings and (likely) an angry phone call from BKN regarding Fox's weekday broadcast competing with their own syndicated edition (which had continued after Fox Kids bought the series). Fox tried the 3:00 weekday slot ''again'' in February 2001, but it lasted just ''one month'' before the show was permanently banished to Fox Family's sunday morning anime block.[[note]]Which itself lasted only three more months, the series would ultimately burn off it's last episodes [[http://web.archive.org/web/20011116205125/http://abcfamily.com/daytime/ on ABC Family in a lackluster 7:00 AM weekday slot.]][[/note]]

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* ''Anime/MonsterRancher'': Debuting on Fox Kids in October 1999 after just ''one month'' of airing in syndication, Fox Kids proceeded to sabotage the series in the most unceremonious way imaginable. Being "promoted" from once to twice on Saturdays ''on your second week with the network'' should seem to indicate that the network had every intention of pushing for the show's success. The problem: it's its slots were 8:30 and 10:00 AM-'''the same slots where Kids' WB was airing Pokemon!'''[[note]]Most ''Pokémon''!'''[[note]]Most likely the reasoning was that with both shows airing twice in the same slots, viewers would tune in to one airing or the other knowing they wouldn't miss anything.[[/note]] The show spent the next three months getting pounded into the dust before Fox Kids realized Genki was floundering and removed the 10:00 airing. Sadly, the 8:30 slot went unchanged and ''Pokemon'' continued decimating the show until it was removed altogether in August 2000. The show's weekday run (which began in November) fared even worse; airing at 3:00[[note]]For context, 3:30 belonged to ''Beast Wars'' reruns.[[/note]] and lasting less than three months due to a combination of low ratings and (likely) an angry phone call from BKN regarding Fox's weekday broadcast competing with their own syndicated edition (which had continued after Fox Kids bought the series). Fox tried the 3:00 weekday slot ''again'' in February 2001, but it lasted just ''one month'' before the show was permanently banished to Fox Family's sunday morning anime block.[[note]]Which itself lasted only three more months, the series would ultimately burn off it's its last episodes [[http://web.archive.org/web/20011116205125/http://abcfamily.com/daytime/ on ABC Family in a lackluster 7:00 AM weekday slot.]][[/note]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/SherlockHolmesInTheTwentySecondCentury'': Premiered at 8:00 AM Saturdays, dropped after four weeks in favor of ''Anime/MonsterRancher'', returned in December at the same timeslot, then finally moved to Mondays at 3:00 PM in January. The show was dropped in March with nine episodes left unaired until the show entered syndication exactly one year later.

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* ''WesternAnimation/SherlockHolmesInTheTwentySecondCentury'': Premiered at 8:00 AM Saturdays, dropped after four weeks in favor of ''Anime/MonsterRancher'', returned in December at the same timeslot, then finally moved to Mondays at 3:00 PM in January. The show was dropped in March June with nine episodes left unaired until the show entered syndication exactly one year later.
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* According to the copyright stamp, Saban dubbed ''Anime/FlintTheTimeDetective'' sometime in 1999, but did not premiere the show in the U.S. until the last week of March 2000. After only one month on the air, it was moved back a half-hour from 11:00 to 11:30-which wouldn't have been so bad if not for the fact that it was moved to make space for ''reruns of WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons1983.'' However, worse was to come in August when the show was moved to ''Fridays at 3:00'' as part of a failed attempt to replicate Fox Family's ''Anime Invasion/Made In Japan'' block. The block barely lasted six weeks, and Flint was subsequently banished from Fox Kids and began airing exclusively on the aforementioned Fox Family block-which itself amounted to airing two episodes on Sunday mornings, hardly an acceptable substitute.

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* According to the copyright stamp, Saban dubbed ''Anime/FlintTheTimeDetective'' sometime in 1999, but did not premiere the show in the U.S. until the last week of March 2000. After only one month on the air, it was moved back a half-hour from 11:00 to 11:30-which wouldn't have been so bad if not for the fact that it was moved to make space for ''reruns of WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons1983.'' However, worse was to come in August when the show was moved to ''Fridays at 3:00'' as part of a failed attempt to replicate Fox Family's ''Anime Invasion/Made In Japan'' block. The block barely lasted six weeks, and Flint was subsequently banished from Fox Kids and began airing exclusively on the aforementioned Fox Family block-which itself amounted to airing two episodes on Sunday mornings, hardly an acceptable substitute. [[note]]And as mentioned below, that block would itself be canned the following June, leaving ''Flint'' to be buried in weekday morning death slots (7:30 for the summer and then 8:30 come fall) until ABC Family finally pulled the show in March 2002.[[/note]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/NASCARRacers'': After managing a moderate win against ''WesternAnimation/MaxSteel'', the show won the rare distinction of a Post-1997 Fox Kids show earning a second season. Unfortunately, it also got a new timeslot of 11:00 now facing first ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' and then ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock''. After six weeks, the show was moved to 11:30 placing it back against ''Max Steel''. All went well until February, when Kids' WB shuffled its schedule[[note]]mostly to accommodate ''WesternAnimation/TheZetaProject''[[/note]] and moved ''Batman Beyond'' to 11:30. Even worse, Fox Kids refused to move ''NASCAR'' to ''Steel'''s new time of 8:00, having decided propping up ''Series/PowerRangersTimeForce'' was more important.[[note]]This was an encore airing, the ''official'' episodes aired at 11:00 against ''Static Shock'' thus necessitating the bonus slot.[[/note]]By April, Team Fastex had run out of ratings fuel and took their final pit stop-as a final insult the show was replaced with reruns of ''WesternAnimation/RoswellConspiracies''.

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* ''WesternAnimation/NASCARRacers'': After managing a moderate win against ''WesternAnimation/MaxSteel'', the show won the rare distinction of a Post-1997 Fox Kids show earning a second season. Unfortunately, it also got a new timeslot of 11:00 now facing first ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' and then ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock''. After six weeks, the show was moved to 11:30 placing it back against ''Max Steel''. All went well until February, when Kids' WB shuffled its schedule[[note]]mostly to accommodate ''WesternAnimation/TheZetaProject''[[/note]] and moved ''Batman Beyond'' to 11:30. Even worse, Fox Kids refused to move ''NASCAR'' to ''Steel'''s new time of 8:00, having decided propping up ''Series/PowerRangersTimeForce'' was more important.[[note]]This was an encore airing, the ''official'' episodes aired at 11:00 against ''Static Shock'' thus necessitating the bonus slot.[[/note]]By April, Team Fastex had run out of ratings fuel and took their final pit stop-as a final insult the show was replaced with reruns of ''WesternAnimation/RoswellConspiracies''.''WesternAnimation/RoswellConspiraciesAliensMythsAndLegends''.
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This is partly how Creator/FoxKids met its unceremonious demise, and it was all during the peak of their success. Thanks to the [[DisasterDominoes New World/Fox debacle of 1994]], many of the incoming Fox affiliates from New World passed on the block as they wanted stronger lead-ins to their newscasts, resulting in the block being relegated to either outgoing Fox stations or independent stations, many of whom would affiliate with either Creator/TheWB or Creator/{{UPN}}. And if that wasn't bad enough, both networks would set up their own children's blocks later on, resulting in Fox Kids programming being dumped to low-rated slots by the stations in favor of their primary affiliates' programming (a practice that intensified once Creator/KidsWB picked up ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}''). The ratings decline was so bad that several affiliates dumped the block entirely by 2000, or had given it to other stations, some of which had ''even lower'' viewership. Needless to say, when Creator/SabanEntertainment took over the block's operations in 1996, things only went further downhill, as these examples below show.[[note]] Any listed timeslots here have been [[https://kidsblockblog.wordpress.com/fox-kids/ confirmed by Fox Kids' section of the Kids Block Blog]].[[/note]]

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This is partly how Creator/FoxKids met its unceremonious demise, and it was all during the peak of their success. Thanks to the [[DisasterDominoes New World/Fox debacle of 1994]], many of the incoming Fox affiliates from New World passed on the block as they wanted stronger lead-ins to their newscasts, resulting in the block being relegated to either outgoing Fox stations or independent stations, many of whom would affiliate with either Creator/TheWB or Creator/{{UPN}}. And if that wasn't bad enough, both networks would set up their own children's blocks later on, resulting in Fox Kids programming being dumped to low-rated slots by the stations in favor of their primary affiliates' programming (a practice that intensified once Creator/KidsWB picked up ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'').''Anime/PokemonTheSeries''). The ratings decline was so bad that several affiliates dumped the block entirely by 2000, or had given it to other stations, some of which had ''even lower'' viewership. Needless to say, when Creator/SabanEntertainment took over the block's operations in 1996, things only went further downhill, as these examples below show.[[note]] Any listed timeslots here have been [[https://kidsblockblog.wordpress.com/fox-kids/ confirmed by Fox Kids' section of the Kids Block Blog]].[[/note]]



* ''Series/MoolahBeach'': Not only did Fox Kids run this six-episode reality mini-series at 10:00 AM opposite both ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' ''and'' ''Series/LizzieMcguire'', they also had the show EditedForSyndication in order to fit inside a half-hour timeslot-as opposed to the unedited hour-long version that could be seen on Fox Family at 12:00 Noon-a mere ''two hours later!'' Needless to say, most viewers chose to wait it out for the good stuff-not that it mattered after Disney took over.

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* ''Series/MoolahBeach'': Not only did Fox Kids run this six-episode reality mini-series at 10:00 AM opposite both ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' ''and'' ''Series/LizzieMcguire'', they also had the show EditedForSyndication in order to fit inside a half-hour timeslot-as opposed to the unedited hour-long version that could be seen on Fox Family at 12:00 Noon-a mere ''two hours later!'' Needless to say, most viewers chose to wait it out for the good stuff-not that it mattered after Disney took over.
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* According to the copyright stamp, Saban dubbed ''Anime/FlintTheTimeDetective'' sometime in 1999, but did not premiere the show in the U.S. until the last week of March 2000. After only one month on the air, it was moved back a half-hour from 11:00 to 11:30-which wouldn't have been so bad if not for the fact that it was moved to make space for ''reruns of WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons.'' However, worse was to come in August when the show was moved to ''Fridays at 3:00'' as part of a failed attempt to replicate Fox Family's ''Anime Invasion/Made In Japan'' block. The block barely lasted six weeks, and Flint was subsequently banished from Fox Kids and began airing exclusively on the aforementioned Fox Family block-which itself amounted to airing two episodes on Sunday mornings, hardly an acceptable substitute.

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* According to the copyright stamp, Saban dubbed ''Anime/FlintTheTimeDetective'' sometime in 1999, but did not premiere the show in the U.S. until the last week of March 2000. After only one month on the air, it was moved back a half-hour from 11:00 to 11:30-which wouldn't have been so bad if not for the fact that it was moved to make space for ''reruns of WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons.WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons1983.'' However, worse was to come in August when the show was moved to ''Fridays at 3:00'' as part of a failed attempt to replicate Fox Family's ''Anime Invasion/Made In Japan'' block. The block barely lasted six weeks, and Flint was subsequently banished from Fox Kids and began airing exclusively on the aforementioned Fox Family block-which itself amounted to airing two episodes on Sunday mornings, hardly an acceptable substitute.



* Despite being well-received by audiences and ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' fans alike (especially compared to the [[Film/Godzilla1998 heavily panned movie that inspired it]]), ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries'' had the misfortune to debut just as ''Pokémon'' hit the airwaves. Months after its debut, Creator/FoxKids launched a counterattack by buying the rights to air ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' starting in August 1999. As a result, the second season of ''Godzilla: The Series'' (which started a month later) was plagued with preemptions (mostly by [[AdoredByTheNetwork new network darling]] ''Digimon''), timeslot changes (first 8:30 AM, then 9:30 AM by December, then 10:00 AM in February, and finally 11:30 AM in April), and episodes being aired {{out of order}}, with two of them never even airing in the U.S. Needless to say, it became impossible for audiences to find the show, and it was off the air by May 2000, replaced by reruns of ''WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons''.

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* Despite being well-received by audiences and ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' fans alike (especially compared to the [[Film/Godzilla1998 heavily panned movie that inspired it]]), ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries'' had the misfortune to debut just as ''Pokémon'' hit the airwaves. Months after its debut, Creator/FoxKids launched a counterattack by buying the rights to air ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' starting in August 1999. As a result, the second season of ''Godzilla: The Series'' (which started a month later) was plagued with preemptions (mostly by [[AdoredByTheNetwork new network darling]] ''Digimon''), timeslot changes (first 8:30 AM, then 9:30 AM by December, then 10:00 AM in February, and finally 11:30 AM in April), and episodes being aired {{out of order}}, with two of them never even airing in the U.S. Needless to say, it became impossible for audiences to find the show, and it was off the air by May 2000, replaced by reruns of ''WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons''.''WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons1983''.
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* ''WesternAnimation/StickinAround'': Premiered in July of 1997 in the time slot of Fridays at 4:30 PM. In September the series was moved to Saturday mornings at 8:30 AM with little promotion (probably the logic was that it wasn't technically a ''new'' series due to premiering two months early), and this doesn't even mention the edits for content discussed in the show's own page. The show was gone by Thanksgiving and ultimately replaced by ''Space Goofs''.

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* ''WesternAnimation/StickinAround'': Premiered in July of 1997 in the time slot of Fridays at 4:30 PM. In September the series was moved to Saturday mornings at 8:30 AM with little promotion (probably the logic was that it wasn't technically a ''new'' series due to premiering two months early), and this doesn't even mention the edits for content discussed in the show's own page. The show was gone by Thanksgiving and ultimately replaced by ''Space Goofs''.''Ned's Newt''.
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* ''WesternAnimation/KongTheAnimatedSeries'': [[https://kidscreen.com/2001/03/01/30799-20010301/ After abandoning it's long-running Amazin Adventures/Bulldog TV block in 2000]],[[note]]This was due to declining ratings resulting from Fox, WB and UPN all having their own weekday cartoon blocks, leaving little room for syndicated shows.[[/note]]BKN latched itself exclusively to Fox Kids starting the following year, with ''KONG'' as the first of Bohbot's shows to air first-run. Fox Kids, for their part, proceeded to rub BKN's woes in their face by premiering ''KONG'' on '''Memorial Day Weekend''' and airing it at 11:30 against ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries''. Ratings were an obvious non-starter, and the show lasted all of 14 episodes (out of 40) before the new fall lineup took over. The BKN deal was then passed over to Fox/ABC Family, and it ultimately took ''Creator/{{Jetix}}'' until ''2005'' to finally complete the series.[[note]]And even ''that'' was only done to tie in with the 2005 Peter Jackson movie.[[/note]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/KongTheAnimatedSeries'': [[https://kidscreen.com/2001/03/01/30799-20010301/ After abandoning it's long-running Amazin Adventures/Bulldog TV block in 2000]],[[note]]This was due to declining ratings resulting from Fox, WB and UPN all having their own weekday cartoon blocks, leaving little room for syndicated shows.[[/note]]BKN latched itself exclusively to Fox Kids starting the following year, with ''KONG'' as the first of Bohbot's shows to air first-run. Fox Kids, for their part, proceeded to rub BKN's woes in their face by premiering ''KONG'' ''Kong'' on '''Memorial Day Weekend''' and airing it at 11:30 against ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries''. Ratings were an obvious non-starter, and the show lasted all of 14 episodes (out of 40) before the new fall lineup took over. The BKN deal was then passed over to Fox/ABC Family, and it ultimately took ''Creator/{{Jetix}}'' until ''2005'' to finally complete the series.[[note]]And even ''that'' was only done to tie in with the 2005 Peter Jackson movie.[[/note]]



* ''Series/LosLuchadores'': Which premiered in February 2001 at 9:30 and instantly got body-slammed by ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution''. After three months of this, it was moved to 8:00 where ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries''-of all shows-delivered the KO punch.

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* ''Series/LosLuchadores'': Which premiered ''Los Luchadores'': Premiered in February 2001 at 9:30 and instantly got body-slammed by ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution''. After three months of this, it was moved to 8:00 where ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries''-of all shows-delivered the KO punch.



* ''Series/MowgliTheNewAdventuresOfTheJungleBook'': Premiered in February 1998 and aired at 8:00 AM. While this was usually a death slot, Fox Kids figured the jungle boy would have no trouble against a weekend encore of ''Pinky and the Brain''. They then learned the hard way that Steven Spielberg's cartoons are an insurmountable force under ''any'' circumstances-and even worse, those kids which chose to wait until the ''official'' episode at 10:30 weren't watching either, having defected to ABC for ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatiansTheSeries''. ''Mowgli'' ended up airing only 7 of its 26 produced episodes before getting the axe in March.

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* ''Series/MowgliTheNewAdventuresOfTheJungleBook'': ''Mowgli: The New Adventures of The Jungle Book'': Premiered in February 1998 and aired at 8:00 AM. While this was usually a death slot, Fox Kids figured the jungle boy would have no trouble against a weekend encore of ''Pinky and the Brain''. They then learned the hard way that Steven Spielberg's cartoons are an insurmountable force under ''any'' circumstances-and even worse, those kids which chose to wait until the ''official'' episode at 10:30 weren't watching either, having defected to ABC for ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatiansTheSeries''. ''Mowgli'' ended up airing only 7 of its 26 produced episodes before getting the axe in March.



* ''WesternAnimation/WhereOnEarthIsCarmenSandiego'': In one of the worst cases of bad timing arguably any show has ever had, Zack and Ivy had the misfortune of getting hit by the regime change as they were preparing to start their weekday run. As the weakest of Fox Kids' four designated [[EdutainmentShow edutainment shows]][[note]]The other three were ''Bobby's World'', ''Life With Louie'' and ''C-Bear and Jamal''.[[/note]] they ended up in the death slot of 7:30 AM. Then Fox Kids realized that the three aforementioned shows effectively made ''Carmen'' redundant and dropped the show entirely in November (replaced with reruns of ''WesternAnimation/PeterPanAndThePirates'') after having aired only '''two episodes''' of the current season. The remaining seven episodes were aired in two blocks: three aired from March 30th-April 1st of ''1998''-a ''seventeen month gap'' between premieres-and the final four dumped onto Fox Family in December with the finale airing '''the weekend of New Year's Day 1999!!'''.

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* ''WesternAnimation/WhereOnEarthIsCarmenSandiego'': In one of the worst cases of bad timing arguably any show has ever had, Zack and Ivy had the misfortune of getting hit by the regime change as they were preparing to start their weekday run. As the weakest of Fox Kids' four designated [[EdutainmentShow edutainment shows]][[note]]The other three were ''Bobby's World'', ''Life With Louie'' and ''C-Bear and Jamal''.[[/note]] they ended up in the death slot of 7:30 AM. Then Fox Kids realized that the three aforementioned shows effectively made ''Carmen'' redundant and dropped the show entirely in November (replaced with reruns of ''WesternAnimation/PeterPanAndThePirates'') after having aired only '''two episodes''' of the current season. The remaining seven episodes were aired in two blocks: three aired from March 30th-April 1st of ''1998''-a 1998-a ''seventeen month gap'' between premieres-and the final four were dumped onto Fox Family in December with the finale airing '''the the weekend of New Year's Day 1999!!'''.1999.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'': A very rare example of a show getting screwed because the network loved it ''too much.'' After completing its run in January 1998, Fox Kids promoted its timeslot the following month from 3:00 to 3:30. Unfortunately, going from running against repackaged ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' to battling ''Animaniacs'' really doesn't do much for a show's ratings and ''doubly so'' when you're only airing reruns. However, Fox Kids still refused to give up on the web-slinger and moved it back to 3:00 for the 1998-1999 season-and learned the hard way the ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain''-itself in reruns by this point-is a nigh-impossible opponent. Even worse, Fox Kids still wouldn't quit and added a Saturday slot the following January against ''The New Batman/Superman Adventures'' which ''was'' airing new episodes and quickly started beating Spidey into the ground. Come summer Fox Kids finally realized the game was up and moved Spidey's weekday slot to 4:00, where the dynamic duo happily finished the job.

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* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'': A very rare example of a show getting screwed because the network loved it ''too much.'' After completing its run in January 1998, Fox Kids promoted its timeslot the following month from 3:00 to 3:30. Unfortunately, going from running against repackaged ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' to battling ''Animaniacs'' really doesn't do much for a show's ratings and ''doubly so'' when you're only airing reruns. However, Fox Kids still refused to give up on the web-slinger and moved it back to 3:00 for the 1998-1999 season-and learned the hard way the that ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain''-itself in reruns by this point-is a nigh-impossible opponent. Even worse, Fox Kids still wouldn't quit and added a Saturday slot the following January against ''The New Batman/Superman Adventures'' which ''was'' airing new episodes and quickly started beating Spidey into the ground. Come summer Fox Kids finally realized the game was up and moved Spidey's weekday slot to 4:00, where the dynamic duo happily finished the job.
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* A mild case with ''Anime/{{Medabots}}'': After managing a solid win against ''The Mummy'' during it's first five months (as mentioned above), Fox decided to use the show's 9:30 AM slot to premiere ''Galidor'' and moved Medabots to 10:00 AM-seemingly dooming the show to become yet another victim of anime juggernaut ''Pokemon''. Fortunately, ''Galidor'' bombed and within six weeks Ikki and Metabee were back at 9:30 where they quickly deactivated ''WesternAnimation/TheZetaProject''-only to be [[DudeWheresMyRespect moved back to 10:00]] for Fox Kids' final summer. Luckily, ABC Family [[NetworkToTheRescue quickly picked up the series and eventually aired the final season.]]

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* A mild case with ''Anime/{{Medabots}}'': After managing a solid win against ''The Mummy'' during it's first five months (as mentioned above), Fox decided to use the show's 9:30 AM slot to premiere ''Galidor'' and moved Medabots to 10:00 AM-seemingly dooming the show to become yet another victim of anime juggernaut ''Pokemon''. Fortunately, ''Galidor'' bombed and within six weeks Ikki and Metabee were back at 9:30 where they quickly deactivated ''WesternAnimation/TheZetaProject''-only to be [[DudeWheresMyRespect moved back to 10:00]] 10:00 for Fox Kids' final summer. Luckily, ABC Family [[NetworkToTheRescue quickly picked up the series and eventually aired the final season.]]



* ''Anime/MonsterRancher'': Debuting on Fox Kids in October 1999 after just ''one month'' of airing in syndication, Fox Kids proceeded to sabotage the series in the worst way imaginable. Being "promoted" from once to twice on Saturdays ''on your second week with the network'' should seem to indicate that the network had every intention of pushing for the show's success. The problem: it's slots were 8:30 and 10:00 AM-'''the same slots where Kids' WB was airing Pokemon!'''[[note]]Most likely the reasoning was that with both shows airing twice in the same slots, viewers would tune in to one airing or the other knowing they wouldn't miss anything.[[/note]] The show spent the next three months getting pounded into the dust before Fox Kids realized Genki was floundering and removed the 10:00 airing. Sadly, the 8:30 slot went unchanged and ''Pokemon'' continued decimating the show until it was removed altogether in August 2000. The show's weekday run (which began in November) fared even worse; airing at 3:00[[note]]For context, 3:30 belonged to ''Beast Wars'' reruns.[[/note]] and lasting less than three months due to a combination of low ratings and (likely) an angry phone call from BKN regarding Fox's weekday broadcast competing with their own syndicated edition (which had continued after Fox Kids bought the series). Fox tried the 3:00 weekday slot ''again'' in February 2001, but it lasted just ''one month'' before the show was permanently banished to Fox Family's sunday morning anime block.[[note]]Which itself lasted only three more months, the series would ultimately burn off it's last episodes [[http://web.archive.org/web/20011116205125/http://abcfamily.com/daytime/ on ABC Family in a lackluster 7:00 AM weekday slot.]][[/note]]

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* ''Anime/MonsterRancher'': Debuting on Fox Kids in October 1999 after just ''one month'' of airing in syndication, Fox Kids proceeded to sabotage the series in the worst most unceremonious way imaginable. Being "promoted" from once to twice on Saturdays ''on your second week with the network'' should seem to indicate that the network had every intention of pushing for the show's success. The problem: it's slots were 8:30 and 10:00 AM-'''the same slots where Kids' WB was airing Pokemon!'''[[note]]Most likely the reasoning was that with both shows airing twice in the same slots, viewers would tune in to one airing or the other knowing they wouldn't miss anything.[[/note]] The show spent the next three months getting pounded into the dust before Fox Kids realized Genki was floundering and removed the 10:00 airing. Sadly, the 8:30 slot went unchanged and ''Pokemon'' continued decimating the show until it was removed altogether in August 2000. The show's weekday run (which began in November) fared even worse; airing at 3:00[[note]]For context, 3:30 belonged to ''Beast Wars'' reruns.[[/note]] and lasting less than three months due to a combination of low ratings and (likely) an angry phone call from BKN regarding Fox's weekday broadcast competing with their own syndicated edition (which had continued after Fox Kids bought the series). Fox tried the 3:00 weekday slot ''again'' in February 2001, but it lasted just ''one month'' before the show was permanently banished to Fox Family's sunday morning anime block.[[note]]Which itself lasted only three more months, the series would ultimately burn off it's last episodes [[http://web.archive.org/web/20011116205125/http://abcfamily.com/daytime/ on ABC Family in a lackluster 7:00 AM weekday slot.]][[/note]]



* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'': A very rare example of a show getting screwed because the network loved it ''too much.'' After completing its run in January 1998, Fox Kids promoted its timeslot the following month from 3:00 to 3:30. Unfortunately, going from running against repackaged ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' to battling ''Animaniacs'' really doesn't do much for a show's ratings and ''doubly so'' when you're only airing reruns. However, Fox Kids stubbornly refused to give up on the web-slinger and moved it back to 3:00 for the 1998-1999 season-and learned the hard way the ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain''-itself in reruns by this point-is a nigh-impossible opponent. Even worse, Fox Kids still wouldn't quit and added a Saturday slot the following January against ''The New Batman/Superman Adventures'' which ''was'' airing new episodes and quickly started beating Spidey into the ground. Come summer Fox Kids finally realized the game was up and moved Spidey's weekday slot to 4:00, where the dynamic duo happily finished the job.

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* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'': A very rare example of a show getting screwed because the network loved it ''too much.'' After completing its run in January 1998, Fox Kids promoted its timeslot the following month from 3:00 to 3:30. Unfortunately, going from running against repackaged ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' to battling ''Animaniacs'' really doesn't do much for a show's ratings and ''doubly so'' when you're only airing reruns. However, Fox Kids stubbornly still refused to give up on the web-slinger and moved it back to 3:00 for the 1998-1999 season-and learned the hard way the ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain''-itself in reruns by this point-is a nigh-impossible opponent. Even worse, Fox Kids still wouldn't quit and added a Saturday slot the following January against ''The New Batman/Superman Adventures'' which ''was'' airing new episodes and quickly started beating Spidey into the ground. Come summer Fox Kids finally realized the game was up and moved Spidey's weekday slot to 4:00, where the dynamic duo happily finished the job.



* ''Anime/TransformersRobotsInDisguise'': Being the first six-a-week series since ''Monster Rancher''[[note]] specifically Tuesday-Sunday, the latter day on Fox Family.[[/note]]seems like a pretty swell gig at first-until you learn your timeslots are 2:30 PM Monday-Friday and 8:00 AM on Saturdays when most kids are at school and barely getting out of bed respectively. It took the failure of ''Series/{{Galidor}}'' to finally get the show moved to a more reasonable slot of 10:30-in March 2002, by which time [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption it was already too late.]]

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* ''Anime/TransformersRobotsInDisguise'': Being the first six-a-week series since ''Monster Rancher''[[note]] specifically Tuesday-Sunday, the latter day on Fox Family.[[/note]]seems like a pretty swell gig at first-until you learn your timeslots are 2:30 PM Monday-Friday and 8:00 AM on Saturdays when most kids are at school and barely getting out of bed respectively. It took the failure of ''Series/{{Galidor}}'' to finally get the show moved to a more reasonable slot of 10:30-in March 2002, by which time [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption it was already too late.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/BobbysWorld'': Initially an inversion of the trope in that the show managed to maintain healthy ratings after moving from Saturday mornings to weekday mornings in 1994.[[note]]It helped that ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers'' had aired in that slot for the 1993-1994 season.[[/note]] Then came the 1997-1998 season, which saw Kids' WB begin programming the 7:00 AM weekday hour and ultimately place reruns of ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' against Bobby. Fox Kids refused to move the show out of its slot, reasoning that 1). These ''were'' only reruns and 2). Kids' WB would be sharing Babs and Buster with Nickelodeon. This notion was almost instantly disproven as ''Tiny Toons'' proceeded to destroy the Generics in the ratings. To be fair, Fox Kids did attempt to save the show by moving premieres to Saturdays at 8:00 AM, hoping for an easy win against ''Channel Umptee-3''. As it turned out, ''Umptee-3'' did not premiere until November leaving Bobby to face off against ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' Needless to say, by Thanksgiving Fox Kids had completely given up on its longest-running cartoon and Bobby would spend the rest of the season as rerun filler until being dropped the following October and replaced by reruns of ''The Magic School Bus''. If that wasn't enough, the show's reruns on Fox Family were at 1:00 PM when children are invariably at school.

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* ''WesternAnimation/BobbysWorld'': Initially an inversion of the trope in that the show managed to maintain healthy ratings after moving from Saturday mornings to weekday mornings in 1994.[[note]]It helped that ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers'' had aired in that slot for the 1993-1994 season.[[/note]] Then came the 1997-1998 season, which saw Kids' WB begin programming the 7:00 AM weekday hour and ultimately place reruns of ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' against Bobby. Fox Kids refused to move the show out of its slot, reasoning that 1). These ''were'' only reruns and 2). Kids' WB would be sharing Babs and Buster with Nickelodeon. This notion was almost instantly disproven as ''Tiny Toons'' proceeded to destroy the Generics in the ratings. To be fair, Fox Kids did attempt to save the show by moving premieres to Saturdays at 8:00 AM, hoping for an easy win against ''Channel Umptee-3''. As it turned out, ''Umptee-3'' did not premiere until November leaving Bobby to face off against ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''. Needless to say, by Thanksgiving Fox Kids had completely given up on its longest-running cartoon and Bobby would spend the rest of the season as rerun filler until being dropped the following October and replaced by reruns of ''The Magic School Bus''. If that wasn't enough, the show's reruns on Fox Family were at 1:00 PM when children are invariably at school.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheMagician'': Burned off all 39 episodes in just seven months between February-September 1999.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheMagician'': Burned off all 39 episodes in just seven months between February-September 1999. Even worse, it's timeslot was Saturdays at 10:00 AM-earning the show the ''very'' dubious distinction of being ''Pokemon's'' first real victim.

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