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The Ren and Stimpy Show. I can't imagine getting kicked off your own show. The whole story about the show is just... sad. And the adult version...
It was mostly a budget issue, but Nick wanted to put their foot down about creator rights. Nick has a history of HATING the heck out of creators, and that's where it started. You either played ball, or they screwed with your show. The Angry Beavers lost last episode (I'm starting to think more and more it was a prank), Zim... Nick
really turned on Zim. Now it's overly popular with the wrong crowd, and they're milking money off of Gir merchandise at Hot Topic, but they did their best to destroy that show when it was on. To be fair, JV wanted things that would never
ever EVER be in an American kid's cartoon. Like gory disembowelment. Stuff Family Guy barely gets away with.
I will say that recently, Nick was burning off shows left and right that weren't live action garbage. I'd love to see Catscratch make a comeback, but that's never going to happen. I guess there aren't any hard feelings, since Doug TenNapel apparently worked on the Spongebob stop motion Christmas special.