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* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' was this in the southern states of America, due to their racially diverse cast.
* ''[[Community]]'' was one of those rare cases where the alienating thing wasn't the premise ("Jerkass is discovered to have faked his college education, so he has to return to school and gets involved with a bunch of weirdos that teach him friendship", a ripe source for standard sitcom material), but the execution, full of obscure jokes and shout-outs, [[Continuity Lock Out]]s, numerous one-of-genre episodes, and a penchant on [[Biting the Hand Humor|insulting their very network]].
* ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'', via a combination of [[Continuity Lock Out|a very dense plot]] which touches subjects on finances and stock markets that most ordinary people knows nothing about; said plot being driven by a [[Big Screwed-Up Family]] filled with egotistical yuppies where the only person close to decency is the [[Butt Monkey]] [[Only Sane Man]] protagonist, the rest of the clan being conformed by [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]s, eccentric weirdos, self-centered jerkasses, lazy assholes, and ordinary people driven mad by the chaos; and a good amount of the jokes revolving around [[Incest Subtext]]. [[Acclaimed Flop|While it was a critical darling while it aired]], it didn't translate into ratings and was canceled after its third season. It became [[Vindicated by History]] and [[
* TV Musicals have a hard time. Only ''[[Fame]]'', ''Smash'' and ''[[Glee]]'' were the ones that weren't killed after their first season, and only because of those taking place in settings where the characters sudden burst into singing were justified, and, in the latter, ramping up the camp factor. The most infamous of failed TV musicals series were ''[[Cop Rock]]'' and ''Viva Laughlin'', musical comedy-drama series about policemen and crime — and the latter was an American adaptation of the British series ''[[Blackpool]]'' which was better received despite also being a crime mystery musical ([[British Brevity]] may have helped).
* ''[[Birds of Prey (TV series)|Birds of Prey]]'' tried to aim at both the comic geeks and the ''[[Dawson's Creek]]'' fans. Predicatively, it failed: the geeks were flabbergasted by the pointless drama, and the teenyboopers were very confused by the constant barrage of obscure and not-so-obscure references to comics. They also had bad timing of release (early 2000s, just when the Superhero boom was barely beginning) and being relatively unknown characters to the general public. Nearly a decade later, ''[[Arrow]]'', a series based on the ''[[Green Arrow]]'' comics that has the same premise and objective public as ''Birds of Prey'', actually found success, mostly because it benefited from comic superheroes now being mainstream and the character having been introduced in the very popular ''[[Smallville]]''.
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