Shows that have gone downhill

[Manzanas]

I think Simpsons has - the Family Guy crossover, the "beloved character" death...

Spoiler

Krusty's dad died. He's not even a main character, so it was a big disappointment.

The characters are just exaggerations of themselves, and have lost all their charm. The jokes are as bland as a glass of lukewarm water.

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Simpons hasn't been good since like...2003.

Spongebob and the Simpsons are the most obvious picks.
Simpsons has been going down hill since the 11th season, and Spongebob has been...meh after season 4.

Everyone I meet dislikes the new seasons. Why are the later seasons of "The Simpsons" successful when it seems that a lot of people hate them?

 

[mayor_zoe]

Everyone I meet dislikes the new seasons. Why are the later seasons of "The Simpsons" successful when it seems that a lot of people hate them?

I personally love the newer seasons more. Granted, I only started watching The Simpsons four or five years ago, but I still have seen every season and own most of them. Last season was probably one of my favorites, honestly. c:

I wasn't a fan of the crossover episode on Sunday, but that was mostly the work of the Family Guy writers anyways. (And it showed.)​

 

[n64king]

Everyone I meet dislikes the new seasons. Why are the later seasons of "The Simpsons" successful when it seems that a lot of people hate them?

I oddly enough rather like some of the newer episodes. I think 20th or 21st season was when it started to come back a little imo. For me I don't like seasons 13-19. They're boring. I don't know how even the fresh ideas were just like Ok. Obviously at the time all the creativity flew over to Futurama. Now they've gone back to the Simpsons.

 

[BerryPop]

Oh and Pokemon got really bad (To me, at least)when they decided to take out brock and make team rocket serious... I miss brock, but its getting better with X and Y. I also don't really like the Johto arc because i thought it was really just a bunch of filler episodes.

 

[n64king]

Lol I forgot that Pokemon would technically count for me too. But I fell off the pkmn anime bandwagon ages ago, I think it got too weird and childish for me during the Hoenn stuff.

 

[Motte]

I'd have to agree with this. I really like seasons 1-4, but struggled to watch the later seasons. I won't even comment on the final season or the last episode, I'll just say that it left MUCH to be desired and I walked away feeling annoyed that I had even bothered to watch the final season in the first place.

Yeah I was going to post about Dexter. I can't remember which season I started to lose interest... I know I totally skipped out on the entire biblical season. Also the season about the girls in barrels was pretty bleh.

Can't think of anything else. I think it's pretty easy to figure out if a show is bad early on / drop it before investing any more time into it.

Oh, The Bridge started off pretty good but once the first season revealed who the killer was it went to ****. I'm curious if the 2nd season is better.

 

[n64king]

I can't believe (unless I overlooked it) that no one mentioned dropping off of Dexter when the weird Deb + Dexter thing started. When I saw that I was like "lol there goes the fanbase"

 

[MeghanNewLeaf]

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Maybe this doesn't count, but Cartoon network in general? I mean, it just seems so lacking now a'days. I just can't see how shows like Jonny Test appeals to anyone, and I don't see why they cancelled shows like Symbiotic Titan. Or maybe I've just grown up too much to see what it offers....who am I kidding, I love cartoons.

Agreed! I personally liked the older Cartoon Network and Nick better.

 

[Watchingthetreetops]

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I've gotta be honest about pokemon....we lost cable as the third season came out, so I haven't been up to date on it in years.

 

[Motte]

I can't believe (unless I overlooked it) that no one mentioned dropping off of Dexter when the weird Deb + Dexter thing started. When I saw that I was like "lol there goes the fanbase"

Oh yeah lmao. That didn't even go anywhere. That British pyromaniac character came to mind as well.

 

[MagicalCat590]

Digimon, pretty much every incarnation of Scooby Doo, Avatar, and omg, the horror that was the last two seasons of That 70s Show.

 

[spCrossing]

I got back into the Pokemon anime around the Best Wishes series...and it was pretty fun throughout the adventure.
Although, the XY series is much much better....but lacks Oshawott.

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Digimon, pretty much every incarnation of Scooby Doo, Avatar, and omg, the horror that was the last two seasons of That 70s Show.

I've heard that Digimon Fusion was pretty good, though I don't have the heart to watch it.
The only incarnation of Scooby Doo that I enjoy is "A Pup Named Scooby Doo", loved that show for it's humor (Ironic since the same writers went on to do Tiny Toon Adventures) and visual gags.
Avatar did start a bit...well...not good at the start of Book 3, but it did end off great.
And...I never watched "That 70's Show"....unfortunately.

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Also, the last few seasons of Ren & Stimpy weren't as good as Seasons 1 & 2 to me.
It felt like it lost some of that Golden Age Animation touch to it as it went on...and it was less insane than before (Thanks Nickelodeon).

 

[thatawkwardkid]

Teen Nick (since I can't spell it the other way) in general. Every time a show ends, a new one comes along that is just as worst as the last one. Also, probably 90% of the shows on Teen Nick has the same background story/plot as past tv shows or movies. The same goes with Disney Channel about everything I just wrote.

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Also, even though this is a Disney show, That's so Raven got worse by each season. It got less and less funny and stopped getting funny by season 4.

 

[Lovelylexi]

Disney Channel and Nick are horrible these days, but I was pleasantly surprised by one of the newest shows on Nick (Nicky, Ricky, ****y and Dawn is the name of it, I think), it's actually pretty good and the characters have a certain kind of charm I haven't seen in any Nick shows for a while now. That might have to do with a case of good casting for once.

Glee is just awful these days. I was obsessed with the show when it first came out, but after season one it just kept getting worse as the seasons went on. Has it been cancelled yet? It needs to be.

 

[Zulehan]

Disney Channel itself has gone downhill since Wizards of Waverly Place, Suite life on deck, and Hannah Montana ended imo.

Ironically, I found a reason to care about that channel again this year when Girl Meets World aired.

 

[oath2order]

Also, even though this is a Disney show, That's so Raven got worse by each season. It got less and less funny and stopped getting funny by season 4.

Get out >=(

 

[mitzelflx]

Spongebob ;A;

 

[MagicalCat590]

I've heard that Digimon Fusion was pretty good, though I don't have the heart to watch it.
The only incarnation of Scooby Doo that I enjoy is "A Pup Named Scooby Doo", loved that show for it's humor (Ironic since the same writers went on to do Tiny Toon Adventures) and visual gags.
Avatar did start a bit...well...not good at the start of Book 3, but it did end off great.
And...I never watched "That 70's Show"....unfortunately.

I thought Digimon Fusion was too childish and lacked a compelling story arc unlike the original Digimon Adventure. I've always really hated A Pup Named Scooby Doo. The only Scooby series I dislike more than it is What's New, Scooby Doo? and that's actually considered one of the better series. As a for Avatar, I actually love the original series. I just really don't like the new Korra spin-off because Korra just comes off as really bratty and arrogant, IMO, and I'm not feeling the whole steampunk theme. My husband says that Korra has matured a lot since the first season is a lot more bearable, but I just can't bring myself to watch it.

Also does anyone remember X-Men: Evolution? I was always really disappointed by the last season of that when Rogue got all mopey over Mystique being her mom and Nightcrawler was all depressed. The whole thing was just, well, depressing and way too over-dramatic for a kids' show. Plus, I hated how they wrote out the sentinels and House of M arc.

 

[Gideon]

Well... The Following was a really good show, but the story began to decline after the first season/story arc ended (it's still good, just not the same). Sword Art Online has the same problem, I liked everything about it in the first arc basically, but everything after went downhill. Those are the only two coming to mind at the present.

 

[Solaeus]

SKINS (UK).
The first generation (Cassie, Jal, Michelle, ect + Effy) was great.
The second generation is just... I don't know.