Jim Samples first became president of Cartoon Network in late 2001. He did a pretty good job at first, but soon plunged the network into a deep abyss.
He cancelled/removed the following shows: Sheep in the Big City Courage the Cowardly Dog Robot Jones ToonHeads The Chuck Jones Show The Bob Clampett Show The Tex Avery Show The Popeye Show Bugs and Daffy Megas XLR Justice League Unlimited Sailor Moon Gundam Wing
And replaced them with total and utter crap: Camp Lazlo My Gym Partner's a Monkey Pet Alien Atomic Betty Live-action version of Cartoon Cartoon Fridays Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi Squirrel Boy Wulin Warriors Re-Animated Baby Looney Tunes Naruto Code Lyoko Totally Spies
What happened? Did he just go senile or something in 2004?
Xavier Ortiz
Camp Lazlo and Puffy AmiYumi ain't that bad.
Joseph Powell
>tfw you know 2005-2008 era of CN sucks but you still have a fondling memory of it because of nostalgia
Logan Bell
He went senile
Jace Turner
>They're all variants of orange and green What did they mean by this?
Wyatt Baker
>fondling Either you're really stupid, or you write a lot of smut on your phone. Either way, you have my sympathy
Tyler Martinez
>Sheep in the Big City I will never understand why people liked it.
Oliver Williams
>he doesn't like to fondle his memories You should be more sensible user. Have a heart.
Kevin Gomez
>Cancelled Gundam Wing You have got some brain problems here. They ran GW prominently for quite a while, but it was just on repeat.
Owen Powell
He probably meant Mobile Suit Gundam
Josiah Perry
My Gym Partner's a Monkey is freaking Patrician!
Gabriel Sanders
It's still funny to think that they thought a show that didn't catch on with kids in the 70's would somehow magically appeal to kids in the 00's.
Hudson Lewis
According to Demarco, they wanted Turn A Gundam on Toonami, but Sunrise told them to run MSG, they ran it on Toonami and it flops.
Brody Perry
Camp Lazlos only real soon was just being bland/boring. But yeah it wasn't absolute garbage at least.
Dylan Ortiz
*Sin
Jacob Morgan
>Camp Lazlos only real soon
What did he mean by this?
Zachary Anderson
It was too deep for you.
Jace Brown
Replace "soon" with "sin" and it'll make much more sense.
Robert Peterson
Nothing makes sense.
Cameron Cox
ToonHeads needs home video release.
Ethan Davis
I have fond memories of 2005-2006 CN, because CN City was still there, but not so much 2007-2008 CN. I hated Fried Dynamite replacing Fridays, CN City ending, Johnny Test, and the soccer ball-faced version of Toonami.
Carter Cruz
Changing tastes, corporate whims.
For instance, Michael Eisner, who ran Disney during the strong 90s Renaissance era, also ran them during the relatively weak period of 2000-2005. People, especially business suits, lose their touch over time.
