The Tick - the best superhero show of 2001, and it was killed off right out of the gate.
The Critic - I LOVED, LOVED, LOVED this show, and it showed what a versatile and gifted actor Jon Lovitz actually is. (I've never seen him do anything even remotely as dynamic and rich as this before or since, which is a shame. He showed a depth and range I never would have expected from him, and that was one of the show's strongest points.) Then a stupid FOX exec decided he didn't want it on the network despite its good ratings and loyal fan base, so he killed it out of spite. To this day, I still mourn this show's demise, and I sincerely hope they make a movie out of it at some point. That, and I still scream with laughter when Orson Welles says Rosebud Frozen Peas are "full of country goodness and green peaness!" (Don't bother with the short-lived webisode version of this; the showrunners gutted the webisodes of everything that made the series so great.)
Flying Blind - this show was just a riot. It was my first exposure to Tea Leoni and her brand of self-humiliating slaptick silliness, and the way she drove her boyfriend completely bonkers always had me laughing.
The Edge - Julie Brown, Jennifer Aniston, Tom Kenny...not a bad comedy team at all. Add Bill Plympton to the equation, and you got a pretty cool sketch comedy series. Too bad it got whacked.
So far, all the shows I've listed came from FOX (although The Critic had a short run on ABC), so it's only fair that I take a swipe at Cartoon Network:
Welcome To Eltingville - this was a fantastic pilot, pure geek heaven. Why the hell wasn't this picked up as a series? It's easily the best thing Adult Swim ever produced, and it still deserves to be revived. Hell, pair this up with The Critic and you'd have an unstoppable hour of quality comedy.
MYP's Masters of the Universe - hey, CN, think you buttheads could have jumped this around your schedule any more? This show was jumped and jerked around so much that it never had a chance to find its footing or build a stable viewership. And now it's gone, right along with the whole He-Man revival. Again, it's a shame, because MYP managed to take what was so good about the old series and improve on it to a degree. I loved seeing actual swashbuckling action for a change. *Sigh* Oh, well, I guess we'll just have to wait a while longer before He-Man and the gang come back for good....
EDIT: Forgot to add The Flash to my list. It was everything Lois & Clark should have been and wasn't, and it was snuffed by The Simpsons. Did CBS WANT this show to die on the vine?
Last edited by King Krypton; 2004-04-20 5:06 PM.
