Canceled Cartoons You Want Revived

Megas XLR- It was hella funny and I feel that it should have gotten at least 1 more season.

Sam & Max: Freelance Police- I really wish that Steve Purcell would revive this series in prime time, where it should have aired in the 1st place.

Dungeons & Dragons- I don't necessarily want another season of D&D, but I wish that the final episode where the kids finally got to go home could have been completed.
 
Legion didn't end on a cliffhanger per se, just an open ending, i.e., they clearly left the events open for a return appearance by Brainiac, but they may not have been planning for another whole story arc; he may have just become a recurring villain who showed up from time to time.
 
The later seasons seemed to hint that Arnold's parents were alive and that the show was going to end with him finding them. Shame they never got to do the Jungle finale, it would have been a really cool way to end the show.


I also heard that Craig Bartlett planned to do a spinoff starring Helga (set a few years after Arnold moves away to be with his parents), but I'm not sure if that information is true or if its just a fan-rumor. :confused:
Even if that rumor is true, the Helga spinoff would probably never happen. But it would be AWESOME if it did. :)
 
Anytime I think about this topic I think about MISSION HILL and CLERKS among many other deserving shows. There was also a show that went on Adult Swim for like one night the same night Mission Hill did. I thought it was hilarious but that one night all those years ago was the only time I saw it. The episode was about two nerds in a comic store duking it out trivia style b/c the winner would get a Boba Fett doll. I wish I knew what it was, to this day!

Speaking of Mission Hill, I think the core important thing to remember to prevent this from happening to future shows (not that they could potentially be as good! wakka wakka!) is to make sure you're marketing in the right places and to the right people! If it wasn't for Adult Swim I wouldn't have even known Mission Hill existed. The Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein names alone would have brought me in!
 
Here are my choices:

"The House of Mouse" - They could do many interesting things with this show. It is a shame, that it canceled.

"Lil' Bush: Resident of the United State" - This show was hilarious, what happened to it?

"Gumby" - I think it is taboo to bring back the classics, because what they are doing with cartoons nowadays, but if they brought back this show, it would probably be a classic.

"The California Raisins" - I apply the previous to this show, as well.

Some cartoons, such as "Rocko's Modern Life", "Hey Arnold", "Cat-Dog", "Aah! Real Monsters", "Ed, Edd, and Eddy", "the Powerpuff Girls" - These shows are classics, I believe that the final episodes of these respective cartoon shows do not make the shows final, I think they are many things left unsaid in the episodes, so it would probably be very interesting if they are brought back.

"Looney Tunes" - I can see a lot of stories happening that never happened. This show needs a revival. The same applies to the "Silly Symphones" and Mickey Mouse and friends cartoons.

There are probably many more, but these are my only choices for now.

Looneytunes/Disneytoons
 
The Powerpuff Girls and Ed, Edd n' Eddy isn't over just yet. A new half-hour special for the Powerpuff Girls is in the works. And a TV movie for Ed, Edd n' Eddy is in the works. Also, a new Goofy cartoon came out in theaters last December.
 
It simply stopped being relevant. Li'l Bush couldn't run for years and years; it could only last as long as Bush is President. Bush won't be President anymore come January, what would be the point of continuing it?

FTR, I thought Li'l Bush was awful.
 
There was a Gumby revival, The All New Gumby, 1988 (syndicated) when the series came back into popularity due to it's being parodied by Eddie Murphy on Saturday Night Live. The new series was just "eh" and clay animation has become a dinosaur due to the invention of CGI, so it's doubtful that Gumby would be revived again.

The California Raisins was a fad that petered out in the early 90s. Besides, the show only lasted a single season. What more could they do?

Well, I think that people tend to throw around the word "classic" a tad liberally, as many fans tend to describe every show that they happened to like as a "classic". Not every TV series made in the 90s-early 00s should be considered a "classic" and I certainly don't think that every one of those shows should continue forever. The last season of Powerpuff Girls was awful and if a revival would mean getting more of the last season, then I say that PPG should just stay buried.
 
Go tell that to the guys at Cuppa Coffee. Both The Wrong Coast and Rick & Steve use stop motion with hints of CGI to create interesting shows.

And lets not even mention Aardman.

Stop motion isn't a total dinosaur, it just needs to be combined with other techniques. That way you get the charm of old with the efficiency of the new.
 
I thought "Lil' Bush" was hilarious. It makes fun of the president and his crew in, how I should put this, appealing ways. If they cannot do the show anymore, because of the upcoming election, they could at least put the episodes onto DVD.

Maybe "the Powerpuff Girls", "Rocko's Modern Life", "Hey Arnold", "Cat-Dog", "Aah! Real Monsters", "Ed, Edd, and Eddy", "Catscratch", etc. are not classics to some people, but they are classics to me. I admit not everything was a classic in the 90's, but these shows were to me, anyway.

About "the California Raisins", it might have been a fad, but it was a cool fad, and they might not be able to do anything with the show, but they could at least air it again and put all of the episodes (and the TV specials) onto DVD. The same thing applies to "Gumby."

Other shows that I want brought back are:

"Tiny Toon Adventures"
"Hysteria"
"Beetle Juice"
"The Real Ghost Busters" (not "the Extreme Ghost Busters")
"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" (the original series)
"Ducktales"
"Chip and Dale: Rescue Rangers"
"Inspector Gadget"
"Garfield and Friends" (but not "Heathcliff")
"The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show"
"Care Bears" (I am not that big of a fan of the show, but it is a classic, the same applies to "Rainbow Brite" and "My Little Pony", also not a big fan of those shows either, but those shows are classics)
"Alvin and the Chipmunks"

Do cartoon movies count?

I have watched over a thousand cartoons, so I will probably think of some more, but I cannot think of any more right now.

Looneytunes/Disneytoons
 
Beetlejuice. It was an awesome cartoon when I was a kid, and it still manages to make me chuckle today.

Jem This was the show of my sister's generation, but she introduced me to it and now I think it's great. I'd love to see a new version of Jem, but given the state of animation today, it'll probably end up looking like WINX.

House of Mouse I watched this mostly for the character interaction between the cartoon shorts. I love the concept of all the Disney characters interacting outside their movies, so HoM was a favorite of mine while it was on.

PB & J OTTER. The characters were kind of fun. I thought it was entertaining, okay? SO SUE ME!

That's my list, pretty much.
 
Considering that Cookie Jar recently bought the Care Bears franchise for lots of moolah, it'd be stupid of them to sit on it and NOT make a new animated serie.

Hopefully one more like the first one where they went down to earth and helped kids with everyday problems rather than the one where they had to deal with (un)comically inept villains in their little house in the clouds. I thought it was more appealing when they would fly down on their cloud car to help kids and use their stare in imaginative ways.
 
Pepper Ann -I don't think there was a single thing (other than the theme song) that I didn't like and I would love to see more

Time Squad - There are so many more historical people they could meet.
 
Wow, there's a lot to work with, under this idea. Let's see...

Most of the ones I'd want back for at least a movie or a 'closure' episode have already been said:
Gargoyles
Samurai Jack
D&D
Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go. (I hate cliffhanger endings!)

And I'm adding Clone High USA to that list. This show was fantastic, but MTV treated it badly. It really was that good.

Also, Get Ed. Just wanted them to get Old-School back, then end the story.

Others could have been open-ended and still had more stories:
Fillmore
Megas XLR
Road Rovers (I dunno. I just thought this was funny)
The X's.
Dave the Barbarian

Some are for the personal nostalgic issue:
Bionic Six (Somewhere in my backbrain is vague ideas of updating this for the present day. Also, Scarab was such a whack job)
 
-the Raccoons: It could been interesting to see if Cyril Sneer could have softened more and if they could develop more deeper the characters of Bentley and Lisa

-Mighty Max: Imagine Max going with Norm and Virgil on all-new adventures, and Bea could join them more often.

other series wishing to be revived
-Grandizer
-Rocket Robin Hood (this one might have a remake instead of being a revived sequel)
-the Mask
-Teen Wolf
-Mighty Mouse
-Count Duckula
-Danger Mouse
-the Houndcats
-Kappa Mikey
-Wayside
 
Care Bears is back. They have a new series that's airing on CBS's KEWLopolis block.
And if you're not a big fan of any of these shows, why do you want them to come back?

Here's the thing: I like to remember stuff from my past also, but I never understood or followed the practice of worshiping all of the old stuff just because they're old, as if the shows from 1 bygone era are inherently superior to the shows of this or any other era. That smacks of the whole "Everything old is good, everything new is bad" mentality that I've never understood nor agreed with. Just being a product of the 80s-early 90s does not automatically make a show a "classic".

Who are "they"? If by "they", you mean the networks, there's no reason for anyone to re-air a canceled series based on a fad that fizzled out years ago, however, a DVD set is not an unreasonable request.
 
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