Epic Shows That Died Too Soon

by **benji** on Tue Aug 30, 2011 7:39 pm

Really, this thread should be about Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn. But you can mention crap like Firefly, King of the Hill, Reaper, The Goode Family, MST3K, The Good Guys, Better Off Ted, etc.

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Too bad the quality of nearly every YouTube clip is so bad or I'd post more.

Aww who cares.

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omg at this second part. I remember this, so incredible.

Random fifth video that has good quality:

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Random one more episode this guy is the main guy uploading clips though, so props to him, tons of episode are up on his channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/sneakerpimpin2381

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Can you believe that Comedy Central wanted them to tone down the "racial topics, politics and vulgarity"? And felt the show was redundant because they already had The Daily Show?

Thankfully, Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld is, despite being sanitized and increasingly unfortunately more professional/serious, in some respects a version of it that has often had the same people on. (Jim Norton, RIch Vos, Greg Proops, etc.) And probably part of why I took to that show so easily. Plus often the same strange topics.

Bluesky · by **Andrew** on Tue Aug 30, 2011 9:39 pm

King of the Hill had a pretty good run. It deserved to go out with more fanfare but I think it ended at a good time for a long runner, before it got too stale, covered familiar ground all too often and wandered too far away from what made it a success.

If we can bring shows that never got a chance into the discussion, I'd nominate Lookwell, created by Conan O'Brien and Robert Smigel, starring Adam West. The pilot:

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by **Kenny** on Tue Aug 30, 2011 10:14 pm

This is a no brainer for me: Freaks and Geeks. Amazing show that was well written, funny and at times, quite moving... not to mention that it had an excellent cast. Died out during the reality tv boom.

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Bluesky · by **Andrew** on Wed Aug 31, 2011 9:59 am

Ah yes, definitely Freaks and Geeks. (Y)

by **el badman** on Wed Aug 31, 2011 10:59 am

Agreed for Better Off Ted, Reaper and The Good Guys, would have liked to see much more of those.

by **Oznogrd** on Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:16 am

Is there anything i can say about firefly that hasnt been said five thousand times?

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The movie just wasnt enough. With the time to build it up and really establish the 'verse? Epic for all time

Arrested Development, Better off Ted, Dead Like Me, Greg the Bunny, Pushing Daisies

by **[Q]** on Wed Aug 31, 2011 12:56 pm

i heard firefly was a time travel sort of show, like Journeyman on NBC. my roommate and i were fans of it and nbc expected more success from it with Heroes as the lead-in

we also liked New Amsterdam on fox. pretty awesome story about this dude that was immortal and saw New York City grow and change over time.

did anybody watch Flashforward on ABC? i thought it was pretty good but it suffered from the break in the season

I watched freaks and geeks earlier this year and was quite saddened because i loved it but knew there was only 1 season. Biff Tannen ftw

by **Kenny** on Wed Aug 31, 2011 3:55 pm

It's sad that Freaks and Geeks got one season, but I think the way it ended was a really nice touch. Another show I watched (and I'll probably cop a little for this) name Popular got cancelled right after a cliff-hanger.

Daniel Desario (James Franco) was probably my favourite character in Freaks and Geeks, but they were all great in their own particular ways.

by **Oznogrd** on Wed Aug 31, 2011 4:40 pm

Qballer wrote:i heard firefly was a time travel sort of show

not even fucking close. More like motley scifi crew dealing with the fucked up 'verse they live in.

by **benji** on Wed Aug 31, 2011 5:12 pm

Oznogrd wrote:not even fucking close. More like motley scifi crew dealing with the fucked up 'verse they live in.

Gorram I hate when people use words from shows.

YouTube · by **koberulz** on Wed Aug 31, 2011 5:45 pm

badreligionau wrote:Another show I watched (and I'll probably cop a little for this) name Popular got cancelled right after a cliff-hanger.

Same thing happened to Kyle XY. It aired months after the US here, so I knew it was coming, but it still sucked.

Bluesky · by **Andrew** on Wed Aug 31, 2011 8:00 pm

badreligionau wrote:It's sad that Freaks and Geeks got one season, but I think the way it ended was a really nice touch.

I'm usually not a fan of endings that are too open but given the circumstances and the way it was done, I'd have to agree. It worked for that series, it's just a shame it came to that.

I'd also have to mention The Critic. A very good, possibly underrated series that could probably hang with the rest of the top animated shows these days. It had cutaways that put Family Guy to shame.

by **benji** on Wed Aug 31, 2011 8:38 pm

The Critic was awesome, and got a second life on an entire separate network. A top tier comedy forever. There's a reason it's my youtube avatar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsmzxNm7fVA

by **jettdaking!** on Wed Aug 31, 2011 9:37 pm

VERY interesting thread. let the nostalgia begin

Bluesky · by **Andrew** on Wed Aug 31, 2011 10:03 pm

benji wrote:The Critic was awesome, and got a second life on an entire separate network. A top tier comedy forever. There's a reason it's my youtube avatar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsmzxNm7fVA

Jurassic Park 2: Revenge of the Raptors was one of my favourite parodies.

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by **Kenny** on Mon Sep 12, 2011 1:37 pm

Another show I loved that got cancelled was Veronica Mars. It was kind of a concept that wasn't going to last forever, but it was still a fun show nonetheless and it got cut without tying up any loose ends.

by **Laxation** on Mon Sep 12, 2011 3:10 pm

Faulty Towers

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by **buzzy** on Tue Sep 13, 2011 1:17 am

Arrested Development

by **Lamrock** on Tue Sep 13, 2011 2:04 am

Deadwood for sure. Had they had a fourth season to conclude the story, it would have gone down as one of the best shows ever

by **jettdaking!** on Fri Oct 14, 2011 12:18 am

Reaper, man, that show was something new, and it died.

YouTube · by **shadowgrin** on Fri Oct 14, 2011 12:24 am

Arrested Development

by **debiler** on Fri Nov 04, 2011 9:27 pm

I know it's been mentioned before, but dammit Firefly was beyond awesome!!!

by **benji** on Fri Apr 06, 2012 1:25 am

Watched Dilbert again because. One of the greatest animated series of all time. Should be a law that people have to watch it.

Guess I'll watch Kitchen Confidential just because it's on the same disc as the last of Dilbert.

Rocko is being tempting. It has been five years since I last watched that epic awesomeness. Which was like a decade or more since I had seen it before.

The Critic is in this same book, so much temptation.

Bluesky · by **Andrew** on Mon Apr 09, 2012 8:20 pm

Glad to know I'm not the only one who enjoyed the Dilbert animated series. Picked up the DVD set a few years back. The Critic is always good to dust off as well.

by **Lamrock** on Sat Apr 28, 2012 5:08 am

I have to second Freaks & Geeks, though Undeclared was the spiritual successor to it, and after starting out great, got kind of shitty towards the end of its only season.

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