Shows that would have been more popular if they had come earlier/later?

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Teona

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What are some cartoons that would have been more popular if they either came earlier or sooner? For earlier i'd say Swat Kats. While it was popular, can you imagine the marketing push it would have gotten in the 80s (though it would still have to compete with Ninja Turtles, despite having a completely different tone). As for later, Exo-squad might have been more succesful if it had been made in the early 2000s and put on toonami, as there was more of a respect given for shows with deeper plot then (see JL/JLU).
 
I think a good portion of cartoons on Nickelodeon would have done well a decade ago, back when Nickelodeon didn't expect all shows to measure up to their top ones.
 
I think TMNT 2k3 would have done better if it started back in 1998 rather than in 2003.

Because back then a lot of the audience for the first Turtle show would have moved on to the second, despite it being a reboot.
 
American Dragon: Jake Long would have been more popular had it been introduced in the late 90's when extreme sports were more "the rage".
But there are other elements that make it good...
 
I think Invader Zim was slightly ahead of its time, and if it had come out in 2005-2006, it would have been a smash hit, especially moreso among the Hot Topic crowd. (Not that it wasn't-- but right now it's more of a cult hit.)
 
Once again, Mighty B. It really just seems more like a show that would appear on Nick years earlier. Same goes for Flapjack and Chowder, they seem like the alien shows in comparison to the rest of the CN programming.
 
I agree with you on MightB and Flapjack but Chowder seems like a 2000 show though and don't get me wrong all it's great that these shows are around today but still. Oh and Invader Zim...... wasn't it's time to come yet I think it should have came out in 2007 instead of 2001 because kids now wouldn't have been so scared.
 
Well, there's always a chance that some of these shows just aren't that good and would get passed over in any era. But assuming that we are right, and they are wrong, and people just need to be in the right move...

Road Rovers--I thought this show could have been the next Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Alas, it wasn't. Among other things, it has the misfortune of coming out just as light-hearted action/comedy shows were on the wane. The DCAU leading the trend towards more serious action, and the anime craze was poised to take over Saturday Morning. Lost between those two forces, Road Rovers was quietly canceled and forgotten about.

ExoSquad--as mentioned in the first post. I remember seeing this show on Saturday about noonins-when I should have been getting outside and doing things-and on weekdays at 7am before school started. Networks don't give timeslots like that to shows they respect... ExoSquad might have gotten better treatment if it had come out in the 80s, with all the other toy-centric toons. Ditto in the early 00s, when Gundum and other animes made animated space operas cool again. ...I still think it was a missed opportunity that this didn't get a second push-or even a dvd realease-during the gundum craze...
 
I think the Critic might have done better if it had come a couple years later. As it was, it was released right at the height of the Simpsons' quality and popularity, and I think a lot of viewers just weren't ready for another adult-oriented animated sitcom without making a lot of unfair comparisons.

Of course, a lot still aren't, as you can see in a lot of the Family Guy talkbacks. (-:

It probably wouldn't have hurt if it had started out on Fox, either-- when you watch the DVD, it's startling just how much more enjoyable the Fox episodes were over the ABC ones.

I know, I know: being on Fox might've been BETTER for a show? Al I can say is that it truly was a different world back then. (-:
 
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