Arthur Cancelled After 25 Years

[SwagmundFreud]

To a real one

 

[old pig]

ahh damn it…I knew this pic would come back to haunt him smmfh

 

[Carlton Banks]

Arthur was an amazing young brotha. His spirit will live on eternally

 

[Vεnεficα]

I thought that they were mostly doing re-runs at this point. I had no idea they were still making episodes.

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

I thought that they were mostly doing re-runs at this point. I had no idea they were still making episodes.

A lot of those PBS shows are reruns at this point. Sesame Street too I believe as HBO Max gets dibs on new episodes first. Blame budget cuts in public funding for that one.

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

I may get negged but I'ma keep it a buck. I hated Arthur and the bald headed sick looking Callou

 

[Antwon Mitchell]

Classic low key back in the early-mid 00s PBS had a lot of good early morning/after school cartoons.

I would get out from elementary school around 2:30 pm just in time to catch Arthur coming on at 3 o'clock and mom would pop a Kid Cuisine in the microwave for a quick snack until dinner time those memories, bruhs.

 

[Eastside Get The Money]

PBS is rather weird with the production of their shows as they’ll literally pick back up production after years long hiatus. They also do this weird thing of where seasons are only like a few episodes long.

It’s rather strange.

It’s gotta be due to funding. Without ads you gotta give the people what they want now and cut the fat and pray that they donate.

 

[Stick Up Kid]

I thought it was cancelled 2 decades ago

yeah cuz u wasnt 8 years old anymore nikka

 

[Mike the Executioner]

Seems like it was PBS' decision to end it, which is fukked up if you ask me. It was one of the longest-running cartoons of all-time, in the same company as The Simpsons and South Park. You don't treat one of your most well-known shows like that.

With that being said, this isn't a huge surprise. The show had been slowing down in terms of production for years. I remember when I was younger, they did ten episodes every year in April and October. Then they started making three episodes a year. I also think moving to flash animation was the beginning of the end. The show had a distinctive, soulful look to it and flash animation took away a lot of that soul. I know it was to cut costs, but it made the newer episodes really hard to watch.

I saw that tweet from Binky's voice actor a while back and I thought it was weird at the time, but looking back, it makes sense. The least PBS could have done was give them a series finale, but at the end of the day, you can't erase 25 years of hard work. Rest in peace to one of the GOAT animated shows.

PBS is rather weird with the production of their shows as they’ll literally pick back up production after years long hiatus. They also do this weird thing of where seasons are only like a few episodes long.

It’s rather strange.

I notice that they don't just come out and say shows are over. They just quietly stop ordering new episodes and expect kids to figure it on their own. Nickelodeon pulled the same shyt back in the day. Animated shows weren't allowed to have series finales. They would just end and reruns would be shown constantly. They used to do the same thing with live-action shows, but then they stopped.

Going back to PBS, I recognize the pattern. Martha Speaks was just cancelled with no explanation. I remember looking it up and finding out on Wikipedia. There was also a three-year hiatus with Cyberchase. I'm guessing PBS was done with the show, but then changed their mind and revived it.

 

[DrexlersFade]

They say he's a violent woman beater bc he knocked dw on her ass, as he should have on that episode.

wait what?

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

It’s gotta be due to funding. Without ads you gotta give the people what they want now and cut the fat and pray that they donate.

Definitely because of funding. I don’t know they just didn’t do what Sesame Street did and let a streaming service buy the rights while still giving PBS access to the newer episodes after a certain period of time.

 

[AquaCityBoy]

It wasn't 'canceled.' They planned for it to end after season 25, and the voice actors already recorded the final season three years ago.



Still the end of an era. It was the longest-running American animated series after The Simpsons.

 

[Premeditated]

that shyt was still running?.

btw, I knew this one broad in middle school that looked like Maxine

 

[BelowTheMasonDixon]

Dammit man i can't believe I'm this late only took the 2nd post. congrats.