Top 20 TV Shows That Were Canceled After the First Episode

[@WatchMojo]

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[@diegoperezcotto7938]

Heil Honey I’m Home and Bubsy

[@joermnyc]

Many many reality shows.

[@heavyfromteamfortress2356]

Um Excuse Me Miss WatchMojo is it okay if you make top 10 or 20 list for the best Transformers or strongest or battles I just wanted to see if you can make a video of it sorry for wasting your time

[@dementedprophet4865]

It's watching...

[@cnfanldealt3]

Oh, come on. Not one mention of _1,000 Ways to Lie_ ?

[@ace1776]

Jackie Gleason is a legend. He makes a bad show, comes back to joke about how bad it was and gets hired back.

[@kenrickeason]

If a man is honest about his work he can get better at doing it..

[@Lexman509]

Man, I wish I could see the original version of Smokey and the Bandit 3: Smokey is the Bandit. :)

[@christianlorre]

He wasn't really hired back, it's more he was on contract for however long, so they had to keep him. And making a talk show is pretty easy.

[@sird2333]

@@christianlorre Making a talk show is easy? Tell that to Chevy Chase.

[@christianlorre]

@@sird2333 I mean it's easy to set up a desk and getting people to show up. Hosting would probably be easier if your nickname is The Great One.

[@diegoperezcotto7938]

Heil Honey I’m Home I bet the final episode would have been “Cyanide and Happiness”

[@TheDirtySouth404]

😂😂😂

[@krizwatcher]

Or "Bunker Down"

[@badbooking3221]

or 'D-Day'?

[@littlewing6231]

We never got to see the episode in the shelter at the end of the episode where Eva Braun does kegel exercises down below..... 😆 Hitler motivates her by screaming in her ear that his dead mother could do twice as many as she has done ....Such promise........😆

[@adamgorsky8422]

or "Whoopsie"

[@unsungno1]

You didn't mention "Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos"? It didn't even last one episode when the network owner, Kerry Packer, rang in and demanded "Get that shit off the air!" They went to a commercial break and never came back.

[@vladimirenlow4388]

I was wondering how they missed that. Then again, WatchMojo might not have been able to find sufficient footage.

[@MikeJBeebe]

This couldn't be any more Australian if it had an exploding koala and an airdrop of 200 cases of VB as its sponsor.

[@mareeeedensos6348]

It's probably lost media now.

[@SlapstickGenius23]

It aired in its entirety on channel 9 in 2008 instead, which was 3 years after Kerry Packer died.

[@someonerandom8552]

Lol I remember seeing that on a top 20 list type show that aired in Australia back in the day.

[@XdarzethX]

I remember seeing battle toads when i was younger and was so excited to see episode 2. But it never came out and i got so confused what happened to the show. I also saw public morals and wanted to see more of it.

[@drewdowns7128]

same!! they has an NES game too!

[@aaronatkinson3050]

And now you can play as rash in killer instinct and fight the battle toads as a secret boss in shovel knight and also we have a brand ne battle toads game but many people didn't like the game because of the artstyie and thought the gameplay wasn't fun but still I still think it's also good that the battle toads are getting some love and recognizen after all this time

[@FriendlySniperYT]

The battle toads was one of my favourite games om the NES/Gameboy.

[@issacphillips3740]

When the show was supposed to come on, did the first episode come on again? Or did another show come on instead?

[@bensnide5846]

I can't remember anything specific about the game, but I do remember being addicted to it and playing until I beat it. I remember being pumped about the cartoon as well, and then nothing.

[@lucasmarinho6816]

It's funny that this list has more views than any of these shows

[@WatchMojo]

LOL

[@m.l.tankesly2665]

Even funnier the only time I even heard of most of these shows was via this video.

[@jerrygil1965]

Congratulations, Watchmojo noticed you!

[@edmadison9573]

Real talk!!!!

[@BillyShoepackOfficial]

Yes

[@krisfrederick5001]

The first X-Men cartoon pilot episode was cancelled/rejected...Ironically Wolverine had an Australian accent. But then we all know what happened later...

[@pauulkubasek1815]

...the prophecy...

[@Morndue]

I saw that. The accent was utterly stupid. Must not have had anyone who could do a Canadian accept, eh?

[@thebrownbaldy]

Foreshadowing

[@cookscreativecorner]

@@thebrownbaldy Pretty sure he was voiced there by the guy that would go on to do the theme song for SpongeBob, Patrick Pinney.

[@fromthehaven94]

The first choice for the role of Wolverine was stuck filming another movie, so a actor/singer/dancer was found in his place.

[@TOPAZCAT1975]

Too bad that all reality shows were not cancelled after one episode.

[@tommybrown9534]

Agreed..I hate reality shows! Only 1 I actually watched n liked was Flavor of Love (Flava Flave)

[@plvmenace]

Only one I ever liked was Impractical Jokers.

[@EDifyer881]

i know right reality shows are boring lol

[@etherealbeauty_sf3799]

IKR? I can feel my IQ melting away when I just see an ad for one!!

[@EDifyer881]

@@etherealbeauty_sf3799 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@lessmoore2551]

Heil Honey I'm Home sounds like a Family guy's recurring gag

[@earlchatterton9133]

Sounds like it would make an awesome Monty Python sketch (John Cleese was an amazing Hitler on that show), but as an ongoing series, it sounds terrible.

[@kenrickeason]

Hell Yeah!! LMFAO 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😆😆 Love Family Guy..

[@pierobonanni5409]

"Heil Honey I'm Home". Come on, I can make a 10 seasons show in my mind with only that genius title

[@jjjjjjjjjjjmmmmmmm4461]

id pay to see this show

[@thesailormercury2]

@@jjjjjjjjjjjmmmmmmm4461 with what with blood money ?

[@rosstheboss6266]

I know right

[@tianapitesr8553]

smh

[@justlivin2499]

there's already been a 5 season show about Hitler, it's called WWII

[@diegoperezcotto7938]

Pryde of the X-Men 1989 Australian Wolverine was just a prophecy for Hugh Jackman

[@chayden153]

Which is unfortunate, because Pryde of the X-men looks kinda good

[@earlchatterton9133]

@@chayden153 Kitty Pryde is my favorite female Marvel character, and I remember seeing the show hyped up in Marvel comics at the time including Marvel Age. Probably time I check it out and be weirded out by Logan's Aussie accent!

[@johnkelsiemcnair7787]

When I first viewed Pride of the X Men I was sure it would be the beginning of a great animated series. Great episode.

[@kyliethelittlespider-mangirl94]

That one isn’t so bad, it’s actually decent. Plus it lead to the Xmen arcade game and the 1992 animated series!

[@119Agent]

It was a surprisingly good episode that lead to a pretty good arcade game and tv series.

[@ashesfrombones]

when damn fanboys say "you can't judge a show quality by just 1 episode"... apparently YOU CAN, and the whole world has been doing that

[@lls3676]

Dot Comedy was ahead of its time. Now we have Ridiculousness and Tosh.O

[@GeronFletcher]

Literally way ahead

[@EastsideSILENCER777]

I literally commented this too. If that were to air today then it would survive especially with how stupid people are nowadays.

[@sprinklesthecat4823]

Tosh is funny ridiculous ness is a show by a shitty skateboarder

[@COMPFUNK2]

@@sprinklesthecat4823 Not to mention that Rob Dyrdek is too old to be hosting a show like that.

[@Dante_Sparda_DMC]

Found the two haters ^

[@bonneville1285]

Doug Mulray and Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos absolutely deserved a mention. In the 90s it aired its debut episode, the channel owner took one look, spat his dinner out and said "get this **** off the air"... and Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos literally did not return from its next ad break.

[@Malor666]

I looked it up, Thanks for the recommendation... Cheers

[@Ted_Sheckler]

Battletoads was an awesome game. And when you pause the game, you get a catchy beat that's been stuck in my head for 30 years.

[@justinmburns]

Same Bulk. Same.

[@michaeldonaghy3423]

Buh cha buh cha buh cha cha cha cha

[@kenrickeason]

We want the Gold Sucker, Bulk Bogan!! We are coming for you Sucker!

[@charliedelacruz9091]

battletoads pumped up versions of teenage mutant ninja turtles

[@jonathanaugustin647]

It was part of Double Dragons.

[@exodia9817]

You clearly forgot about The Incredible Crash Dummies. Nelvana and Tyco tried making a show out of the popular 1990s Crash Dummies toys, but the pilot was never picked up as a series and it just aired on Fox Kids as special.

[@chrismeulen8108]

unsold pilot episodes that were not picked up as a series, is NOT what this list was about......

[@119Agent]

@@chrismeulen8108 There are literally dozens of those made every year. Like "Fox Force Five"

[@upland77]

Fox Force Five eventually became a two-part film series.

[@mrmusickhimself]

Battletoads lasted about as long as our patience while playing the NES game. We were just kids, we had NO idea of the hell we would face.

[@karlhans6678]

Havent played Battletoads since the 90s! I feel like trying it out now and see how difficult it is for me as an adult.

[@SirAsdf]

Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos, the program so naughty is was literally ripped off the air by the network's owner midway through and wouldn't be re-aired until 16 years later

[@diegoperezcotto7938]

Battletoads 1992 Basically they’re Ninja Turtles unclothed

[@joaquinporto4871]

14:31 this show attempted to be BROOKLYN-99 seventeen years too early 😅

[@ackbarfan5556]

I was just about to say that.

[@zyber-tube8930]

The Battletoads was actually a good pilot show.

[@ThunderWolfSUSYIMPOSTER]

My favorite arcade game

[@bradjeffords4451]

That game was so hard on nes

[@bernardoheusi6146]

Captain Obvious

[@8Bitorbust]

It was cancelled because it reminded people of friends they use to have before the game came out. 😉

[@TheWinstonSlip]

It’s nothing special. It’s not TMNT.

[@SonicMania2099]

I'm surprised "The Modifiers" didn't make the list. Cancelled too early, because Nickelodeon claimed they had too many female lead shows

[@JeyVGaming]

Then it got popular when one famous animator made the "greatest fan-made" episode ever.

[@m56214]

Which they didnt the only ones were The Mighty B The Wild Thornberrys As Told By Ginger and My Life as a Teenage Robot their just like making shit cartoons

[@elinbird00]

Ya but female lead shows are actually good lol

[@claymccoy]

Many may not remember but there was a game show called "Think Like A Cat" hosted by Chuck Woolery and sponsored by Meow Mix. The game show centered around contestant with their cats wagering what their cat would do. It was so bad that it was actually kind of funny how bad it was. Only one episode aired on Game Show Network.

[@nicoleknight9412]

Chuck should have stuck with "Love Connection"!

[@jasminehill6312]

That was a real show!!!😳

[@claymccoy]

@@jasminehill6312 Yup, look it up.

[@libradawg9]

I would watch the shit out of that.

[@pingidjit]

I think Battletoads and Rosie Live could have actually lasted if given a bit more of a shot. However I'm fairly certain that particular execs wanted them to fail before they got off the ground, and so they did.

[@fromthehaven94]

If Public Morals had been on a network not named CBS...

[@arielfangirlmendez]

Rosie live is a tv special

[@melanatedgod5337]

Rosey is garbage. I've always thought that.

[@nehemiahpouncey3607]

Rosie didn't give up so easily. Then came the rosie o donnel show.

[@CommanderZaktan]

What about Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos? Which was cancelled and pulled off the air halfway its broadcast.

[@humanimalhedgehog123]

Get that shit off the air!

[@ComaDave]

@@humanimalhedgehog123 Me (two minutes later, with a mouthful of dinner): "Hey! I was watchin' that!!"

[@Demonmack0]

I'm surprised it's not included as it's so famous.

[@taracarroll4218]

@@humanimalhedgehog123 The only reason I wish Kerry Packer was still alive to do the same thing with Married At First Sight.

[@I.am.Sarah.]

@@Demonmack0 I think it's only famous in Australia, doubt the rest of the world has heard of it

[@royalkyng5]

Watching these shorts clips was excruciating enough. Just imagine watching it all, I can't even.

[@Portugal2025]

I loved Cop Rock. It was definitely ahead of its time. Should not have been cancelled. Public Morals was probably pretty good too

[@19blaktop]

The Wayne's Brothers was a good show, man. AND we didn't even get a final episode!..

[@kamenanew9867]

-stab stab- 🤣🤣 classic, good stuff brother

[@kenrickeason]

We should have got a good goodbye..

[@simplyjuannie5128]

They always canceled a Wayans show without giving it a decent ending

[@twiggy6591]

Lmao no it wasn’t

[@kamenanew9867]

@@twiggy6591 ehh, yeah it mostly was

[@erics.czernecki7333]

Supposedly, the Bubsy pilot is one of the ONLY things voice actor Rob Paulsen has done that he admitted to hating. He was in *ALL 15* Land Before Time sequels, so that should say something.

[@donkeykong6426]

thats one reason why it was junked another, animation being too flashy and other voices declared annoying plus toxic cringe

[@MikeJBeebe]

Ring-ring; ring-ring; ring- "Hello, Gamestop here, how can I help you?" "Do you have Battletoads?" "Hang up the phone or I'm calling the cops, Moot."

[@dejanschindler6574]

What about Swamp Thing? It was cancelled after its first episode but still aired the full season just without a Season 2 coming?

[@daflen5445]

The answer is in the question. Perhaps because the whole season was aired and not the pilot only. Shame though, I liked this show

[@119Agent]

@@daflen5445 I don't know anyone who disliked that show.

[@Em-wk5ns]

If someone want to mess me up, i hit him and yell: "Eat my fist" 🤣

[@pdamn1975]

Reporter, "are you an addict." Mayor, " No." Reporter, "have you tried crack." Mayor. " probably in one of my drunken stupor." That is classic.

[@Diskoboy1974]

I've actually seen the two episodes of Turn-on that were produced. It WAS ahead of its time. Audiences of today would have no problem with the show. But 1969 is a whole other ballgame. The jokes flew at you from every direction. Instead of an audience or canned laughter, they used a Moog Synthesizer instead of an audience. The show didn't have an opening credits sequence. Instead, the credits were run after commercial breaks. Finally, the show didn't have an actual set. It was filmed in a big, white room and was designed to make viewers somewhat uncomfortable. The premise of the show was that it was all created by a computer. The second episode would've featured the first motion captured CGI. Do a KZbin search for Turn-on Dancer, and it should come up. It would've totally freaked out a 1969 audience.

[@G396]

Damn bro that dot comedy was way to ahead of its time just think of how many successful youtubers to exactly that. Props to them for being that innovative.

[@johnnytimestamp8224]

America's funniest videos

[@badvogue]

Ridiculousness is kinda based on that show too.

[@JDXWrestling]

@@badvogue Tosh.O as well

[@taylorheck3037]

Korgoth of Barbaria Fans actually tried to petition Adult Swim to un-cancel the show.

[@derekstein6193]

It was truly something. I would have liked it more than Superjail, honestly.

[@vladimirenlow4388]

I still think "Welcome to Eltingville" deserved more than its pilot ep. I suppose that kind of niche humor simply didn't work for mainstream, non-geek audiences.

[@VlvrdMlgm]

problem 1 with Battletoads: TMNT was a comic book at first, not a video game

[@119Agent]

I caught that too, but she didn't actually say that TMNT was a video game first, she just says that it WAS a video game like BattleToads. TMNT was a successful TV series, so they looked for other things that they could make into a TV series and found BattleToads the video game. TMNT was also a video game so that was the "if this works, that will work too" inspiration. I can see how it could be interpreted that the TMNT started as a video game. Edit: Besides, the TMNT video game was released two years after the tv series.

[@VlvrdMlgm]

@@119Agent well, after reviewing that part of the video (hey, it's been 3 months!), the narrator said "if the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were a big hit, why not adapt ANOTHER POPULAR VIDEO GAME?"; yes, TMNT did have some games, not that I remember hearing many good ones up to the period Battletoads aired, it wasn't primarily a video game property anyway

[@119Agent]

@@VlvrdMlgm the TMNT NES and arcade games were extremely popular in the 80’s.

[@BaccarWozat]

"You're In The Picture" was fabulously funny. Nobody could figure out what the scenes they were supposed to guess were supposed to represent, because they couldn't see them, and were too obscure to figure out even if they could. I might be interested in watching a game show that nobody could win, if they made it consistently funny and unpredictable.

[@montywh]

i remember some years ago, NBC tried to do a reboot for Musters, called Mockingbird Lane. they had an hour long pilot episode aired, and being a big fan of the series, i tuned in. updates about the pilot circulating online at the time reported that the set alone cost a million dollars, which made it the most expensive set for a TV show. i can barely remember it, as i found it online once years ago, and now need to find it again. all i remember was the pilot had poor ratings, and wasn't greenlit for a full series

[@droth1031]

I watched it on Hulu... it wasn't great, but it had its moments.

[@cs8768]

The show that came in 2nd isn’t the only show to be scrapped half way through an episode. In Australia we had an Adult version of Funniest home videos hosted by Doug Mulray. Kerry Packer the owner of 9 rang the station half way through the episode & told them to take it off the air & that was it for it.

[@DaleGoins]

There is one show they missed that should definitely be on this list - The Damn Show. It aired on Comedy Central and was pulled off the air about 15 mins into the first episode. They are available on DVD and some of the shows are worth a look.

[@RB01.10]

LOL How can you pull a show that fast? The fastest cancellation I saw was 1000 Ways to Lie. It was meant to be a spin-off of the popular show 1000 Ways to Die. But it sucked, came across as a cheap cash grab and was overwhelmingly panned so hard that after the pilot aired, no more of the show aired

[@Wellch]

WALTER could have been ok if he wasn’t in the Police Force but had the job when he left MASH.

[@robertgotschall1246]

Maybe something like The Office?

[@ThatJohnKillion1970]

You REALLY have to go out of your way to find a cast of TV reporters in Mexico that know NOTHING about soccer.

[@xm0ther_batx]

They put in effort to be awful 💀

[@diegoperezcotto7938]

Watchmojo:Number 1# Heil Honey I’m Home Me:This show was originally set to air after Hitler’s children show Mien Big Kampfy Couch

[@zanethomas6865]

I forget which entertainment magazine it was, but Emily's Reasons Why Not was the cover story a week or so after it was canceled. I remember Poochinski (Peter Boyle as a talking cop dog) and Where's Rodney?, an awful show where Rodney Dangerfield could be teletransported by the teen protagonist, were aired once but I think they were burn off pilots.

[@kathleensmith8336]

I was waiting for them to say something about "The Facts of Life." That was a crazy show. And, Molly Ringwald (who was fired after the first season, along with many of the other girls), is certainly doing just fine on her own.

[@chriskay1449]

Don't forget Helen Hunt. She was also a part of that first season She also is doing just fine on her own.

[@josephjennings3146]

the fact Dot Comedy is now Tosh.o (or 0) was like, mindblowing and makes sense.

[@waheedabdullah6371]

I'm still upset that Trick Moon got cancelled before it got greenlighted

[@scarletttyson4622]

yeah I would have gave that a try it looked interesting don’t know why it had to be Cancelled 🙄

[@moiramcevoy4786]

Trick Moon deserved better

[@HHog]

That certainly was an attempt at Dutch. Small tip: "Ein" is German. The Dutch pronunciation for the number 1 sounds more like the "ain" sound in "Spain" or "drain".

[@duncan3998]

Lul

[@BigFella117]

Whoever thought “Heil Honey I’m Home” was a good idea was probably drunk. Then smoked an acid joint, and had a concussion.

[@qasemrimawi568]

Best comment on KZbin thus far.

[@BigFella117]

@@qasemrimawi568 thx ☺️

[@kenrickeason]

I'm not PC and Even I was shaking my head in offense.. What the hell were they thinking?

[@BigFella117]

@@kenrickeason they weren’t

[@BigFella117]

@T Mitch that’s easy to answer. They weren’t thinking

[@whenfatkillsfat803]

I know a few of these thanks to DVDR Hell by Cinema Snob.

[@COMPFUNK2]

15:10-15:19 - Donal Logue and Kyla Pratt before they were stars.

[@diegoperezcotto7938]

Watchmojo:Number 0# Pride of the X-Men Me:The series predicted Wolverine being played by an Australian

[@MrBlueSkyof1607]

And I’m Javert!

[@digidv85]

While I’m not sure if they only aired a single episode or not, I was sort of expecting to see: The Geico cavemen, that show which starred Daniel Stern and The Million Dollar Money Drop. Have barely watched any television since the 2000’s anyway.

[@DanTheManCO2002]

"Girl Talk" 1989 was cancelled after it's pilot It should've featured on the list or the honorable mentions

[@PoseyMcGlynn]

There were more episodes that aired. I used to watch it every day after school. I think it only lasted a few months.

[@BlenderStudy]

Thank you for the update, WatchMojo..!! 6:39 I wonder what went wrong with Battletoads..(?)

[@TakumiTheFAUSTScientist]

3 words: *WHO'S YOUR DADDY?* God i still can't forget that Shit Show Lmao

[@penny.dreadful666]

Heil Honey, I'm Home would work better as a KZbin webseries. I would love to see more of that, honestly.

[@hushup8692]

Yal love nazi stuff don't yal ?

[@yootoobsuks4210]

@@hushup8692 Eizenfaust did nothing wrong.

[@mikemorgan2367]

So here in Australia one of our most infamous one was an adult version “Australia’s Naughtiest Home Videos” that within 20 minutes of its airing the head of The Nine Network (or Channel 9 as its more common name) was watching the show at home rang up the station and said and I quote "Get that shit off the air!".

[@logicallydashing]

Whoever wrote the script doesn’t seem to know that TMNT didn’t originate as a video game franchise.

[@denisgrind]

I agree David!

[@TheWinstonSlip]

I think the point was the video games were very popular

[@kenrickeason]

That part kinda bothered me and I don't know why but it did.. Everybody and my mother knows TMNT came from the comics where all of them had red everything not only Raphael..

[@TheWinstonSlip]

@@kenrickeason is it really? I always though it was the cartoons or movies people thought of first.

[@dreamguardian8320]

They should've added more cartoons that were cancelled very quickly.

[@Nay-kp6uu]

"Take your crickets and go shove em" "Urban crisis how I love em" I'll never understand what the hell broadway is even trying to be.

[@boomboom418]

Wasn't there a TV show in Australia that got canceled after its first commercial break? I heard a story that some TV executive hated it, called that station's master control and told the operator "Get this s*** off the air." So when the the commercials ended they came back to a rerun of Cheers.

[@colleen4ever]

Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos. Enough said.

[@madmartian1175]

There was a show called Quarter Life that was cancelled after one episode. It started as a web series

[@jamesharding322]

Sometimes it's best for a show to end in it's prime, instead of it dragging on and getting stale

[@119Agent]

Rosie Live had no prime.

[@natlenan6743]

Yeah the Simpsons should have been cancelled after season 10 11 or 12

[@midwestnostalgia4175]

TMNT was a comic book, turned tv show that made it popular. Then they created the video game. Battletoads was just a semi popular video game only that they tried turning into a tv show.

[@amyfisher6380]

Re Co-Ed Fever supposedly capitalizing on the popularity of “Animal House”, the movie did have an official TV spinoff called “Delta House” which aired in 1979 and featured some of the movie’s cast members. This one managed to last 13 episodes before ABC cancelled it.

[@vladimirenlow4388]

I've seen what little exists of the pilot elsewhere on KZbin. No one missed much. Personally, I think that terrible theme song (apparently sung by a dying cat) may have been the kiss of death.

[@molinalong3468]

Request Top 10 tv shows cancelled after season one

[@Negamare1]

Thundercats 2011?

[@t-doglive2071]

Already have that somewhere

[@m56214]

@@t-doglive2071 they should do Top 10 Best Cartoon Network Halloween Episodes or Top 20 Failed Cartoon Pilots

[@RyokoAsakuraLastFan]

I remember watching episodes of the will and liked it. It was like Survivor, but murder mystery too. The lowest ranked/voted contestant becomes a the next fake murder target and the people remaining has to figure out who done it

[@colleen4ever]

I think that was actually 'Murder in Small Town X"

[@Bobcat1438]

I can remember watching old VHS tapes as a child, a cartoon called The Fluppy Dogs a number of times. It was created by Disney and was intended to be made into an animated series but was axed after it's pilot episode; which aired on Thanksgiving 1986 due to underwhelming ratings. I very much liked this cartoon as a child.

[@KIRAMH1023]

I gotta say, Rebecca, you seriously kick some ass with the foreign language pronunciation. Spanish, French, German. You get them all right and make it sound effortless.

[@jremydeaton]

"Why not adapt ANOTHER video game into a cartoon"... Uhhh... TMNT was a comic before anything. And I am pretty sure TMNT was adapted into a cartoon (1987) before they were adapted into a video game (1989). Do your homework.

[@petew.1418]

Paula Poundstone had a hugely hyped show that never aired it's second episode.

[@bobthedopeman7327]

What about "Class-Holes" by Brian Griffin?

[@MdlAgedHeadbanger]

I've heard the legend of "Turn On" for years and it's intriguing to finally see some clips from it. There was a show on Comedy Central in the early/mid 90's that look very similar to the clips shown, a bunch of random short sketches against a white background. The only sketch I remember is a group of guys dressed up as a rock band yelling "are you ready to rock" with a response from the audience of "no, give us 5 more minutes." I only watch parts of maybe a couple episodes and think it lasted maybe 6-8.

[@joememe2395]

Nice picks Mojo!

[@COMPFUNK2]

There should be a list for television shows that were canceled before they were aired.

[@amberjohnson4820]

Wait, what about Viva Laughlin??!! The show was a musical crime drama set in Laughlin NV. It had HUGH JACKMAN and Melanie Griffith in it. It was based on the series Blackpool from the UK, with David Tennant, Sarah Parrish and David Morrissey. That one was a success. The US version, no.

[@fromthehaven94]

Hugh Jackman was better off trying to do a TV version of the Broadway musical he did in between the X-Men movies. At least before Les Miserables and Greatest Showman, anyway.

[@haba3000]

This list is for tv-shows, that where cancelled after first episode. Viva Laughlin was cancelled after that shows second episode.

[@theViperNL]

Watching this show casually on in the background when I suddenly hear ''Pak de Poen'' ''Wait was that Dutch?'' *rewinds* ''Yup that was Dutch'' *this belgian tv show* ah that explains a lot.

[@JohnnyBarbells]

I'm guessing "Anchorwoman" on FOX did'nt make the list because it aired 2 episodes back-to-back on it's debut, even though it was cancelled that same night. (I remember this because I used to be friends with one of the producers)

[@saahilsabi5152]

Imagine saying Good Morning to your neighbor with a funny moustache and he replies "Sieg Heil!"

[@diegoperezcotto7938]

The worst thing is that Bubsy was basically a copy of Sonic XD (thematically speaking: p)

[@abellewis3062]

Where's Coming To America? That show was cancelled after one episode. That show should've been on this list. Enough said.

[@corvus1374]

That was just a pilot that never got picked up.

[@abellewis3062]

@@corvus1374 That Hitler show was a pilot too.

[@asiajannea8806]

THEY TRIPPIN!!!! Battletoads looks awesome

[@joey_cordova_]

Battle Toads later aired weekdays at 5A either on TBS or TNT for while. They would play that, old Transformers, and some other 80's stuff.

[@Scallywag96]

I would have included "Pryde of the X-Men" since that was a failed pilot later retooled as a better series.

[@chrismeulen8108]

failed pilot is not the same thing as "having been canceled" (which this list was about) , Pryde of the X-Men, was simply not picked up as a series.

[@Scallywag96]

@@chrismeulen8108 but it did air on tv, just like Bubsy and Battletoads

[@curtiswilson4737]

I really want to see Dot Comedy, lmao 🤣! That cat had me dying laughing!

[@mattstando]

“Pilot’s license, what for?” -Bubsy

[@TitusRedwind]

I'm calling it. "Heil Honey, I'm Home" is gonna be on this list. It was a sitcom about Hitler living a normal life.

[@diegoperezcotto7938]

Arnold: I need to hide ! Bubsy:Then hide under the couch The twins:Were is Arnold ? Bubsy:He is hiding under the couch My favorite part

[@hannahmartin9705]

Bubsy: I couldn't resist

[@MChantal76]

I remember a pilot on CBS in 1990 called "Shangri La Plaza" that was a musical show set in a mini mall. It stared Melora Hardin, Allison Mack, Chris Sarandon, Savion Glover, and Terrence Mann. Someone uploaded it to KZbin if anyone wants to check it out.

[@diegovitteri]

Actually, I'd love to see "Heil Honey, I'm home" XD

[@chrismeulen8108]

you can, it's on youtube, last time i checked..... the full episode is like 26ish minutes in length.

[@cityhawk]

@@chrismeulen8108 I saw the pilot. You’re not missing much.

"Tagteam", a police actioncomedy serie with Jesse Ventura and Roddy Piper. Only the pilot were shown of that one, justifiedly so i might add. ;)

[@ThatBoyRashaad]

Battletoads and Bubsy had a TV show????

[@justapeacefulmanwhosbornin7291]

Mm-hmm. Too bad these animated shows didn't last long.

[@diegoperezcotto7938]

Watchmojo:Number 14# Battletoads Me:At least the Dark Queen is very pretty...

[@xm0ther_batx]

I thought the same thing 🤣

[@justboschma5047]

The way she said the name of the Belgian show made me laugh so hard, because it was so fucking terrible wrong lol

[@chrismeulen8108]

i thought that was actually done pretty well.... just the "ein" part was totally wrong..... but i guess saying "één" is probably not that easy, if you don't know how to say it in the first place, and you're main Language is English.

[@justboschma5047]

@@chrismeulen8108 oké maybe i was too harsh, but it is always funny. For none dutch speakers, all the "aa", "ee", "oo" etc. We have is difficult. But if you wanna laugh, make them say gracht and Scheveningen. Both those are almost impossible if you arent dutch or an expat in the Netherlands for a very long time.

[@nicholassupino8775]

Why isn't terrible shows with bad ratings and low viewership getting canceled today? I'll tell you... Woke politics.

[@MrWolfchamp-xi3cu]

TMNT wasn't a video game franchise adapted to tv

[@denisgrind]

I agree!

[@frankenviews4069]

A lot of them just boil down to being tone deaf and old tv producers out of touch with normal society. All these obvious bad ideas could have easily been caught well before even filming.

[@sasamichan]

Good list. I don't know how many episodes they got but some other shows that failed quickly, The Wayne Brady Show. Every attempt he made to make his own show filed quickly. Scorch the dragon, Little Rosey, Police Squad, there was one I can not recall the name of or find in for on that was set in a video game world where the father was a Mario-style character, the son was a looser nd the daughter was an anime school girl, ed grimley, the weird Al show, Morton & Hayes , $#*! My Dad Says, The Crazy Ones, jody loves chachi, my mother the car, Gloria, Mockingbird Lane , all of the heroes spinoffs, The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., eerie indiana , Galahad nd Pushing daisies I know got a few episodes as did Police academy the series and space balls. Proving Ground, Shuriken high, Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, hypernauts, WMAC Masters , Hey Vern, It's Ernest! Malcolm and Eddie, do over, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Time After Time, Aquaman, M.A.N.T.I.S., Alf's hit talk show, The Alan Brady show, Phyllis, angelica's school daze, Soul Man but over all you got the big failed ones I would have listed.