Can anyone think of the last time the Big Bad Boogi-Syndication really effected how a show aired in relation to...

Can anyone think of the last time the Big Bad Boogi-Syndication really effected how a show aired in relation to everything else? Most of the things I've seen get the shit rerun out of them have less than 65 episodes and it's done either because it has the I/E rating or was a cheap enough piece of shit. Yet shows get axed by the end of 2 seasons over it.

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Cartoon Network has been weird with syndication these last few years. They've been doing less and less reruns for shows that aren't their chosen few. When a new show premieres they blow an entire season's worth in a month and then the show's removed from the schedule completely for months.

They stopped showing reruns of Regular Show, Adventure Time and Clarence before those shows were even finished in production. I remember when I was a kid cartoons would be in syndication for years after they concluded.

Yeah, old shows would fill the line up on newer channels. I remember when the Hub aired Batman Beyond and MIB to pad out their channel

I never realized those had less than 65 episodes. Just goes to show, the numbers really don't mean nearly what the execs seem to think.

Is there a way to watch this show on my Roku or PS4

52 is another threshold I've seen aside from 65. Both of those shows have about 52 episodes

Syndication is the reason a ton of the Old CN shows only had about 4 seasons with 52-65 episodes, Dexter, Rocko, Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken and Courage all suffered from this

Just shows people can draw the line wherever they want anyway. 52 is also the number that execs stop a show at because they think it prevents it from syndicating.

It's not that they think/thought having more than 52 would stop them from syndicating. It's that 52 episodes was the point at which they felt they had enough to not pay for anymore and just coast off reruns without it getting too repetitive.

I don't know why 52 was the magic number though. It's 52 weeks in a year but it seems like most syndicated shows get played daily, not weekly.

God, I wish a lot of the shows I liked even reached 52 episodes.

But those cost more than 5 cents to make, user!
Or would have started to!

Yeah. Honest to god, can you imagine what writers could do these days, or a few years ago, with a guaranteed 53/65 episodes? Imagine Young Justice or the like and day one they got "You're getting *at least* 65 episodes" etc.

Its kind of amazing to think about.

You're seeing something similar in anime as well. Shows used to get monster lengths in a season, but these days other than old holdovers that're kinda grandfathered in like One Piece most shows have pretty limited seasons now.

Tron: Uprising with five seasons would kill me

The prequel shit just needs to stop in general after Dark Crystal.

I know right? Now imagine shit like Symbionic Titan with that. Or really, most shows, even ones that got around that many episodes probably would have been way more stable and cohesive with a guarantee like that day 1.

I mean, the Dreamworks shows on Netflix do that. They all get specific episode orders between 52 to 78, and that's it, so they get to tell complete stories. Some shows completely blow it (Voltron, Turbo FAST), while others take advantage of it (Dragons, All Hail King Julien).

Remember when Generator Rex had such a horrible airing schedule that they just dumped the last few episodes online and never actually aired them?

it's cause the guy in charge of CN's scheduling is a lazy prick, he used to do the exact same thing when he was in charge of CN Asia's scheduling

The Dark Crystal prequel is kino.

They dumped them at 6 am. I remember because I woke up just to watch them

It really feels like they're throwing money down the drain by cutting down on reruns so harshly. Paying for the production of a show and then not rerunning it is like buying a thousand dollar couch and only sitting on it for a week. Are the ratings really so abysmal that they can't spare some of these shows even a single 11-minute slot per week?

Yeah, but by the end of it, the whole prequel thing will have completely worn out.