Which Cartoon Network low point year was the best and which was the worst? - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

TMC · 01-15-2025, 10:21 PM

While Cartoon Network has had its dark ages from 2007-10, 2015-21, and 2023-onward, there are four years seen as the absolute low points.

2009 as the first year since the launch in 1992 that Cartoon Network didn't premiere a new original cartoon (though Adventure Time was planned to premiere that year until it got delayed to April 2010), the year when CN Real and the live action reached its peak, and with how low the amount of original cartoons were at the time (only 4 by the end of 2009).
2017 as when the Teen Titans Go oversaturation reached its peak (especially on the final week of the year), when they started dumping new episodes of shows on the app early before airing on TV (sometimes sitting there for months before airing on TV), when they lost Pokémon, Regular Show and Uncle Grandpa going out on whimpers drowned out by little to no advertising and by Teen Titans Go marathons, being a poor way to celebrate their 25th anniversary, and other shows outside TTG and Gumball hardly got airtime anymore.
2020 being when shows from Cartoon Network Studios and Warner Bros Animation started premiering shows on Max instead of Cartoon Network, shows like Infinity Train and Summer Camp Island being moved to Max, first year since 2009 with no new original show premieres, and when they sorta started feeling like they were on autopilot.
2024 being when you could tell the Cartoon Network brand was losing relevance between losing all primetime hours to Adult Swim, shows like Invincible Fight Girl premiering on Adult Swim instead of the main channel as planned, the website shutting down, no new original series premiering with an all time low in originals (Craig of the Creek, We Baby Bears, and Prince Ivandoe are on their last legs and already finished airing everywhere else except USA Cartoon Network and Iyanu is the only upcoming original set to premiere on the main channel, assuming it isn't sent to Adult Swim too), lots of the CN originals getting removed from Max, and coming off as now being irrelevant (though the Discovery merger two years prior is definitely a reason for this).

Between 2009, 2017, 2020, and 2024, which was the best of these low point years and which was the worst of these low point years and why?

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01-15-2025, 10:21 PM	#1
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 126,954	Which Cartoon Network low point year was the best and which was the worst? While Cartoon Network has had its dark ages from 2007-10, 2015-21, and 2023-onward, there are four years seen as the absolute low points. 2009 as the first year since the launch in 1992 that Cartoon Network didn't premiere a new original cartoon (though Adventure Time was planned to premiere that year until it got delayed to April 2010), the year when CN Real and the live action reached its peak, and with how low the amount of original cartoons were at the time (only 4 by the end of 2009). 2017 as when the Teen Titans Go oversaturation reached its peak (especially on the final week of the year), when they started dumping new episodes of shows on the app early before airing on TV (sometimes sitting there for months before airing on TV), when they lost Pokémon, Regular Show and Uncle Grandpa going out on whimpers drowned out by little to no advertising and by Teen Titans Go marathons, being a poor way to celebrate their 25th anniversary, and other shows outside TTG and Gumball hardly got airtime anymore. 2020 being when shows from Cartoon Network Studios and Warner Bros Animation started premiering shows on Max instead of Cartoon Network, shows like Infinity Train and Summer Camp Island being moved to Max, first year since 2009 with no new original show premieres, and when they sorta started feeling like they were on autopilot. 2024 being when you could tell the Cartoon Network brand was losing relevance between losing all primetime hours to Adult Swim, shows like Invincible Fight Girl premiering on Adult Swim instead of the main channel as planned, the website shutting down, no new original series premiering with an all time low in originals (Craig of the Creek, We Baby Bears, and Prince Ivandoe are on their last legs and already finished airing everywhere else except USA Cartoon Network and Iyanu is the only upcoming original set to premiere on the main channel, assuming it isn't sent to Adult Swim too), lots of the CN originals getting removed from Max, and coming off as now being irrelevant (though the Discovery merger two years prior is definitely a reason for this). Between 2009, 2017, 2020, and 2024, which was the best of these low point years and which was the worst of these low point years and why?