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Post by wildojinx on Nov 28, 2021 13:07:08 GMT -5
Speaking of Mike Judge: The Goode Family. After the first two episodes, they shunted it off to Friday night with two eps airing until it was over, but not back to back, as they stuck a Bob Saget sitcom in between the two episodes they'd be showing.
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Post by BRV on Nov 28, 2021 13:50:51 GMT -5
"King of the Hill" The show had a 13-season run, during which reruns grew in popularity during its syndicated airings on FX and Adult Swim. However, the series finale was planned to be the last episode of season 11 in May 2007, "Lucky's Wedding Suit," and was written as such, until Fox decided to renew the series at the last minute. So the show gets two more seasons in its normal Sunday night timeslot. Then things get truly strange. The show's second ersatz series finale aired in September 2009: a one-hour, two-episode special which was a part of season 13 even though that season had concluded four months earlier. The last episode of the night, "To Sirloin With Love," is truly a series finale in every sense of the phrase. Dale and Nancy are happy together, we learn Boomhauer's first name and job, and it ends with Bobby grilling alongside Hank as the show fades out on the Arlen water tower, the same scene that the series opened with back in 1997. It's been a long, winding road, but that's a wrap on "King of the Hill." But wait! Eight months later, four more episodes suddenly appear in syndication, premiering on four consecutive nights from May 3-6, 2010. These shows have no connective tissue to the series finale, and are just random throwaway episodes that aired (at least in the Boston area) after the late local news on Fox affiliates. Meaning, if you went to sleep before 11 p.m. that week, you missed the final four episodes of "King of the Hill." And with that, the embers of "King of the Hill" were truly, finally, once and for all, burned off. Wait, so you’re saying that there are four more episodes out there I’ve never seen before? I need to check hulu I wouldn’t rush. Much like the rest of the final season of “King of the Hill,” they’re quite bad. The basic summaries of each episode are: Hank’s mom goes RVing, Principal Moss moves in with Bill, Dale loses his mind over Joseph’s budding maturity, and Kahn is bipolar. They are each challenges to get through even though they are only 22 minutes in length. |
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Nov 28, 2021 14:28:43 GMT -5
"King of the Hill" The show had a 13-season run, during which reruns grew in popularity during its syndicated airings on FX and Adult Swim. However, the series finale was planned to be the last episode of season 11 in May 2007, "Lucky's Wedding Suit," and was written as such, until Fox decided to renew the series at the last minute. So the show gets two more seasons in its normal Sunday night timeslot. Then things get truly strange. The show's second ersatz series finale aired in September 2009: a one-hour, two-episode special which was a part of season 13 even though that season had concluded four months earlier. The last episode of the night, "To Sirloin With Love," is truly a series finale in every sense of the phrase. Dale and Nancy are happy together, we learn Boomhauer's first name and job, and it ends with Bobby grilling alongside Hank as the show fades out on the Arlen water tower, the same scene that the series opened with back in 1997. It's been a long, winding road, but that's a wrap on "King of the Hill." But wait! Eight months later, four more episodes suddenly appear in syndication, premiering on four consecutive nights from May 3-6, 2010. These shows have no connective tissue to the series finale, and are just random throwaway episodes that aired (at least in the Boston area) after the late local news on Fox affiliates. Meaning, if you went to sleep before 11 p.m. that week, you missed the final four episodes of "King of the Hill." And with that, the embers of "King of the Hill" were truly, finally, once and for all, burned off. Wait, so you’re saying that there are four more episodes out there I’ve never seen before? I need to check hulu I believe Hulu puts them before to Sirloin with Love so it remains the finale. Just Another Manic Kahn Day is the last episode to air. |
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Post by James Fabiano on Nov 28, 2021 14:42:37 GMT -5
Happened with some syndicated game shows, least in the NYC area.
Bill Rafferty Card Sharks and the 1986 Strike it Rich (UK's Strike it Lucky) started with afternoon slots. Then they rode out the last of their respective one seasons in the wee hours.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Nov 28, 2021 14:44:34 GMT -5
When Wrestling Society X got cancelled, MTV burned off almost all the remaining episodes at like 4 AM one morning. Wasn't 'til I bought the box set that I was able to watch everything. No idea what happened to the rest of the block it belonged to. I forgot that part... it was replaced in the schedule by a show with home video of skateboarders injuring themselves doing tricks (With required warnings not to do these tricks). WSX was pulled because MTV was afraid kids would try to copy what they saw, and replaced it with videos of kids getting injured copying what they saw... |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2021 15:08:47 GMT -5
Wait, so you’re saying that there are four more episodes out there I’ve never seen before? I need to check hulu I believe Hulu puts them before to Sirloin with Love so it remains the finale. Just Another Manic Kahn Day is the last episode to air. I lIke to treat Just Another Manic Kahn Day as the series finale. That's just how I am. "Tuck me in. Let me die." |
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Post by Cyno on Nov 28, 2021 15:37:04 GMT -5
NBC renewing Star Trek for a Season 3 after caving into a fan letter writing campaign to save the show. Only to give all those fans and the show itself the middle finger by putting it on the Death Slot (aka, Fridays at 10 PM). NBC was so hellbent on canceling the show that the writers didn't even bother putting any real effort into the show's episodes besides a few here and there. And then the show was abruptly canceled anyway with the awful, sexist "Turnabout Intruder" serving as a de facto series finale. Though Star Trek got the last laugh with being able to go into syndication and blowing up in popularity from there. When they first started airing, syndicated reruns of TOS actually got higher ratings than some first run episodes of primetime shows on the Big Three. That's nuts. There's a great story about how when NBC finally looked into the nuts and bolts of Star Trek's ratings it had been the highest-rated show NBC had ever had in the target demographics they considered most valuable. They'd simply never actually analysed the ratings because the overall numbers weren't great and assumed it hadn't caught on with any particular demographic. The people running NBC at the time were real idiots, so I'm not surprised.
The History Channel has a good series on Star Trek's history for the 55th anniversary of the franchise with Gates McFadden narrating. It's a good watch.
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Post by Dragonfly on Nov 28, 2021 16:15:19 GMT -5
Wait, so you’re saying that there are four more episodes out there I’ve never seen before? I need to check hulu I wouldn’t rush. Much like the rest of the final season of “King of the Hill,” they’re quite bad. The basic summaries of each episode are: Hank’s mom goes RVing, Principal Moss moves in with Bill, Dale loses his mind over Joseph’s budding maturity, and Kahn is bipolar. They are each challenges to get through even though they are only 22 minutes in length. Speaking as someone who struggles with their mental health, "Just Another Manic Kahn Day" is a legit top five episode for me. Having a TV show directly say "meds are necessary for some people, so don't judge" in a non-preachy way was huge. Plus the B-plot - Bobby's desperate attempt to figure out what makes Ray Jay Johnson funny - is absolutely inspired. "I want to hear more from the person that said 'hey Johnson.'" This episode actually got me to buy his disco record, "Dancin' Johnson.“ (It's better than you'd think.) The other episodes? Pretty terrible. |
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Nov 28, 2021 16:54:22 GMT -5
I believe Hulu puts them before to Sirloin with Love so it remains the finale. Just Another Manic Kahn Day is the last episode to air. I lIke to treat Just Another Manic Kahn Day as the series finale. That's just how I am. "Tuck me in. Let me die." It aired last. It’s the finale. You can tell by what finale means. |
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Nov 28, 2021 17:14:16 GMT -5
Cartoon Network did that for some of their shows, one example that sprung to mind was them airing the final five episodes of Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends in one block back in 2009. CN makes a habit of that Even the last few things of Adventure Time were relegated to little movies and blocks that came on without much advertisement |
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Post by Rave on Nov 28, 2021 17:15:50 GMT -5
When Wrestling Society X got cancelled, MTV burned off almost all the remaining episodes at like 4 AM one morning. Wasn't 'til I bought the box set that I was able to watch everything. No idea what happened to the rest of the block it belonged to. I forgot that part... it was replaced in the schedule by a show with home video of skateboarders injuring themselves doing tricks (With required warnings not to do these tricks). WSX was pulled because MTV was afraid kids would try to copy what they saw, and replaced it with videos of kids getting injured copying what they saw... Kevin Kleinrock did a two part interview on the subject of WSX and the difficulties he had with MTV years ago. The fireball wasn't the reason WSX got yanked. The entire block it belonged to got cancelled en masse due to low ratings. He outright begged them not to put WSX against WWECW and they did it anyway. I've found it hilarious that MTV never showed the season finale, considering they were gung ho enough about the gimmick matches that they wanted them on the very first episode. |
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Post by peaches1 on Nov 28, 2021 18:40:45 GMT -5
Murder She Wrote was moved to a different time slot so it could be killed off by the network and replaced with something else, I believe. It was moved to Thursday nights to be CBS's sacrificial lamb counter-programming for "Friends". I could be misremembering but I think the last season of Mystery Science Theater 3000 ran early Saturday morning (like 5am US CST) with a rebroadcast late Sunday night (maybe 11pm?). |
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Post by MrElijah on Nov 28, 2021 18:41:13 GMT -5
The Three Kings Arc of Yuyu Hakusho got put into an early morning slot(6AM, IIRC) for some reason and finished up there.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Nov 29, 2021 2:16:47 GMT -5
I forgot that part... it was replaced in the schedule by a show with home video of skateboarders injuring themselves doing tricks (With required warnings not to do these tricks). WSX was pulled because MTV was afraid kids would try to copy what they saw, and replaced it with videos of kids getting injured copying what they saw... Kevin Kleinrock did a two part interview on the subject of WSX and the difficulties he had with MTV years ago. The fireball wasn't the reason WSX got yanked. The entire block it belonged to got cancelled en masse due to low ratings. He outright begged them not to put WSX against WWECW and they did it anyway. I've found it hilarious that MTV never showed the season finale, considering they were gung ho enough about the gimmick matches that they wanted them on the very first episode. I stand corrected. |
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Post by Mozenrath on Nov 29, 2021 2:32:33 GMT -5
"King of the Hill" The show had a 13-season run, during which reruns grew in popularity during its syndicated airings on FX and Adult Swim. However, the series finale was planned to be the last episode of season 11 in May 2007, "Lucky's Wedding Suit," and was written as such, until Fox decided to renew the series at the last minute. So the show gets two more seasons in its normal Sunday night timeslot. Then things get truly strange. The show's second ersatz series finale aired in September 2009: a one-hour, two-episode special which was a part of season 13 even though that season had concluded four months earlier. The last episode of the night, "To Sirloin With Love," is truly a series finale in every sense of the phrase. Dale and Nancy are happy together, we learn Boomhauer's first name and job, and it ends with Bobby grilling alongside Hank as the show fades out on the Arlen water tower, the same scene that the series opened with back in 1997. It's been a long, winding road, but that's a wrap on "King of the Hill." But wait! Eight months later, four more episodes suddenly appear in syndication, premiering on four consecutive nights from May 3-6, 2010. These shows have no connective tissue to the series finale, and are just random throwaway episodes that aired (at least in the Boston area) after the late local news on Fox affiliates. Meaning, if you went to sleep before 11 p.m. that week, you missed the final four episodes of "King of the Hill." And with that, the embers of "King of the Hill" were truly, finally, once and for all, burned off. That network ain't right.  Although that sounds similar to what happened in the original run of Mystery Science Theater 3000. "Diabolik" was crafted to be the series finale (since it's the one where they finally escape and all) but technically the last episode that was first-run came a few months later with "Merlin's Shop of Mystery Wonders" because there was a big delay in finalizing the rights to air that movie. Glad it did come out, though, since that's a really funny episode. "Believe in magic..." "Or I'll kill you." |
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Nov 29, 2021 6:53:20 GMT -5
Speaking of Mike Judge: The Goode Family. After the first two episodes, they shunted it off to Friday night with two eps airing until it was over, but not back to back, as they stuck a Bob Saget sitcom in between the two episodes they'd be showing. Goode Family I thought was a missed opportunity. It may have worked better if they had put the hippie family in a weirder or harsher setting, like the Goodes dealing with Venture Bros or Aqua Teen type rivals and plots. B&B and King of the Hill were better able to write funny contrasts, like the normal people of Highland putting up with Beavis and Butt-Head or Hank’s discomfort with modern ideas. |
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