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Titus routinely dealt with alcoholism, rape, abuse, and plane hijackings (OK, that only happened once), so it was never going to be a hit. To put that into perspective, if NBC followed this rule, Parks and Recreation would have been cancelled after season four’s “Live Ammo.” Disney has largely gotten rid of this peculiar guideline, which rivals the Disney Vault in stupidity, but not before it took down Lizzie McGuire, Kim Possible (which was eventually brought back), and Even Stevens. Basically, once a Disney Channel hits 65 episodes, it’s finished, no matter its popularity. OK, Even Stevens isn’t great by any means, but as far as Disney Channel shows go, it wasn’t that bad, and it did fall victim to one of the network’s oddest mandates: the 65-episode rule. The one saving grace: Wonderfalls‘ demise led to Pushing Daisies. After the third episode, Wonderfalls moved to Thursday, but Fox never told anyone about the switch, and it died after episode four. When it did finally make it to air, out of order mind you, it was slotted on Friday nights, at the same time as Joan…Yeah.

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Bryan Fuller’s wonderfully imaginative Niagara Falls-set series about a woman who speaks to animal figurines was developed for the 2003 season, but it didn’t premiere until a year later, in 2004, because Fox was afraid of launching it at the same time as the similar-themed Joan of Arcadia. There are many good reasons to hate Joan of Arcadia, but here’s the BEST reason: it killed Wonderfalls.

One of Nick’s conditions, however, was that Bartlett had to sign an exclusivity contract with them when he refused, Hey Arnold! was cancelled, and “The Journal” was left as a sort-of cliffhanger finale that never connected to the aborted The Jungle Movie. This pissed Bartlett off, but he continued to work on The Jungle Movie, as well as a project for Cartoon Network called Party Wagon.

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Creator Craig Bartlett wanted The Jungle Movie to be the show’s first theatrical feature, but Nick had other plans and made the Hey Arnold! team release Arnold Saves the Neighborhood, a.k.a. Hey Arnold! was arguably Nickelodeon’s greatest golden-era animated series, but it still suffered an ill-timed demise, courtesy of a cinematic dispute. Firefly never had a chance, and it was never heard from again. Then only 11 of Firefly‘s 14 episodes were shown before Fox said buh-bye and shuffled Mal off to Sci Fi. “The Train Job” went before “Serenity,” which didn’t air until the end of the show’s run, even though it was supposed to go first. You know the story by now: Fox hated the original pilot, so they made Joss Whedon and company write a new one, only giving them a single weekend to do so. Better Off Ted was to ABC as black people were to Veridian Dynamics. No promotion, a second season that didn’t start until December, an episode that aired on New Year’s Day, two episodes per night but only for two weeks, etc. Actually, let me rephrase, ABC paid more mind to The Bachelorette than they did Better Off Ted, so they treated it worse than sh*t. Speaking of beloved cult shows: Victor Fresco’s Better Off Ted came out of nowhere to become one of the smartest, funniest sitcoms of the 2000s, so of course ABC treated it like sh*t. Even Veronica’s Closet was treated better. That episode, as well as two others, wouldn’t surface until a year later, on Fox Family Channel of all places. Not only that, but NBC aired episodes out of order, including most infamously, “Kim Kelly Is My Friend,” which they refused to broadcast. Its competition: COPS, Early Edition, ABC Big Picture Show, and people having social lives. Freaks and Geeks was slotted into the doomed-before-it-even-began timeslot of Saturday at 8 p.m. The crown jewel of the network interference bunch. (Note: I left out The Tonight Show and Arrested Development, two shows that got boned, yes, but still have done pretty well for themselves.) So, as much as we might want to bitch about NBC’s treatment of Community, the Greendale Gang, who will soon begin their fifth season, has it easy compared to these 10 shows.

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These are but a few of the ways TV networks have been known to screw over their most beloved shows.

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