Five years Dreamworks Father of the Pride

I barely remember that show. They aired, what, 3 episodes before it disappeared? I didn't know what to make of it at the time.
 
I always thought it canceled because of the tiger incident. Then I realized any cartoon show airing during primetime that's not on fox is likely to get canceled anyway.
 
It was a great concept that was poorly executed. It was full of product placement, one episode revolved around a character craving a "Slurpee" from 7-11 and another episode involved the Donkey from Shrek. Not to mention it seemed as if the whole gimmick of the series was "Wow, look at us we are making a TV show with movie quality CGI animation, too bad our writing sucks!"

IIRC, it premiered to huge ratings and dropped off like a rock every airing after that.
 
This was doomed from the beginning. There was no way in hell to maintain that quality of animation on a TV budget for any length of time. Add the unfortunate tiger incident and the general lameness of the show, and it didn't stand a chance.
 
On the wiki article Father of the Pride was almost because the tiger incident, but Roy did recover from the attack and want to show to continue. I been wanting to watch it when it first air. I remember watch four of episodes.
 
The "tiger incident" happened in October 2003, almost a year before "Father of the Pride" premiered. I'm pretty sure it didn't have any effect on the show's ratings.

No, I think the show failed because it just wasn't very good. It felt like they were trying too hard to make it edgy, which they probably felt compelled to do because it's hard to sell an adult audience on a talking animal cartoon. And then they did that episode with Donkey from Shrek and I realized "Wow, four episodes into the first season and they're already fresh out of ideas."
 
http://www.platypuscomix.net/hollywood/nbcfails.html
^This pretty much says it all.

It was a show made in mind for families, had obvious executive input that was meant to attract family audiences...and had writing targeting towards adult audiences only.

The only reason it got huge ratings on the first episode was because NBC whored it out during the 2004 Summer Olympics like crazy. Once mom and dad dove head first for the remote after the first off-color, raunchy sex joke, nobody tuned in. Actual adult audiences who enjoy South Park and Family Guy didn't watch thanks to the marketing, and well, suffice it to say the families learned their lesson.

And what was it that kept it from becoming a cult-favorite like these types of shows usually do? It wasn't very good, plain and simple. A total disaster...a very expensive one, as well...
 
Heh, Teletoon actually started airing this show last fall, the same time as The Critic.

Couldn't be more opposite. Sure enough, this show was as bad as I remembered it being.
 
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