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* [[Richard Williams]]'s animated epic, ''[[The Thief and
** To this day, Richard Williams does not want to talk about this film (possibly because of the way it ruined his career).
* Early silent cartoon series like ''[[Felix the Cat]]'' and [[Disney]]'s ''[[Oswald the Lucky Rabbit]]'' have many missing episodes, as the rights holders weren't careful about keeping track of the source materials. Of 150+ silent Felix cartoons, only about two-thirds have apparently survived the ravages of time. Of Disney's 26 Oswald shorts, they've released only 13 on DVD - this is seemingly all they were able to locate.
* Two highly anticipated second season episodes of ''[[
* After the [[Grand Finale]] movie to ''[[
* The original pilot for the sadly short-lived ''[[
** In addition to the pilot, three other episodes were produced but left unaired due to NBC's decision to cancel the series. One of them, like the pilot, ended up on Sky One in the UK.
** Some broadcasts omitted "What's Black, White And Depressed All Over?" from the lineup due to offensive content.
* ''[[
** A legitimate lost episode, entitled "Man's Best Friend", would have aired in 1992, but did not, due to an incredibly violent scene in which Ren beats his and Stimpy's new owner, George Liquor, within an inch of his life with an oar. It did not air in the United States until Spike TV aired it as part of the ''Ren
* Here's a missing segment of an episode: the ''[[
** Then how come they didn't get miffed about the ''[[Popples]]'' episode where Party said "The Almost-Greatest Show On Earth"?
* ''[[
** FOX banned the eighth season episode "Partial Terms of Endearment" because it dealt with Lois becoming a surrogate mother and choosing whether to abort her best friend's baby following her best friend's death. The episode was later released as a DVD-exclusive episode (like "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein" did before actually airing on TV), although it has aired in first-run in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.
* The [[Very Special Episode]] of ''[[
* Despite what fans may claim, the ''[[
** For some reason, the French dub omitted the episode where Rampage was introduced, meaning that French fans never got to find out his [[Backstory]] and had a new character apparently appear out of nowhere.
* The short-lived Nicktoon ''[[
* Numerous [[PBS]] affiliates have pulled the ''[[Arthur (
** WGBH and other affiliates have also banned "Arthur's Big Hit" from the airwaves due to a scene where a furious Arthur punches D.W. in the arm for destroying a plane he created. You can see that scene [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKxyaQFtXGg&feature=related here]
*** It is interesting to note that the scene itself has become a cultural internet phenomenon, as many YouTubers have parodied the scene itself.
** There's also an episode of the ''Arthur''
* ''[[The Simpsons (
** The later episode "New Kids On The Blecch" was removed from syndication in some areas, presumably because of the destruction of the Mad Magazine headquarters by naval seacraft. Though one may jokingly assume it's because of the backlash from having all five members of NSYNC as guest stars.
** The episode "A Streetcar Named Marge" was also pulled from syndication after Hurricane Katrina because of its references to New Orleans being a horrid, run-down hellhole. In the UK, the BBC did unknowingly air this episode around the time of Hurricane Katrina and ended up issuing a public apology for it after being barraged by complaints.
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*** Episodes involving lighthearted looks at medicinal use of drugs do seem to draw Sky's ire: "The Good, The Bad And The Drugly" (with its subplot about Lisa being put on anti-depressants after she freaks out over Internet articles predicting that Springfield will be a barren wasteland in 50 years) is also kept for after the watershed.
** In an attempt to prevent controversy from Japanese viewers, Fox never aired the episode "Thirty Minutes over Tokyo" in Japan or released on DVD there. The episode presumably shows the stereotyping of Japanese Culture and a scene which involves Emperor Akihito getting thrown into a box filled with "Sumo Thongs" by Homer.
* The images of high-rise buildings fallen over and leaning against each other were so disturbing in the post-9/11 USA that the ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (
** The original movie edit of "[[Five Episode Pilot|To the Rescue]]" hasn't been aired since 1989, and the five-part version was the one released on DVD.
** The show's later episodes (starting with "Good Times, Bat Times") still haven't been released on DVD anywhere, and it would take - theoretically - only one more release for the show to be completely on DVD (in a [[Screwed
*** To clarify, this is the real reason "A Lean on the Property" hasn't been released on DVD yet. The order of the episodes are in the same order as when they first aired, and "A Lean on the Property" aired after "Good Times, Bat Times". ''[[
* Political correctness seems to have forced the ''[[
** Another episode,"Flying Dupes", was banned because it had a terrorist-esque plot revolving around a bomb (possibly removed after 9/11).
** In Germany, ''[[
* In 1968, [[United Artists]] permanently pulled eleven ''[[
** A 1990 VHS called "50 of the Greatest Cartoons" that contains ''All This and Rabbit Stew'', one of the Censored Eleven. This cartoon is in the public domain and has been since the year after the list was made. (Two others were in the public domain ''when'' the list was made.) And this cartoon features ''Bugs Bunny.'' So, if you want a legal hard copy of that one (damn the racism, Bugs Bunny ahead!), look in your local dollar store -- you might get lucky.
*** For the record, that's the one that basically has a black version of Elmer Fudd. Actually, he's treated pretty much exactly the same as Elmer Fudd, which shows that Bugs Bunny doesn't discriminate.
** These cartoons are not to be confused with a number of [[Wartime Cartoons]] that Warners has also resisted releasing due to problems with depictions of Japanese characters, or Nazi imagery. One of these, ''Herr Meets Hare,'' (in which Bugs Bunny matches wits with Luftwaffe chief Hermann Goering, and marked the very first "[[Wrong Turn At Albuquerque|wrong toin at Alberquerque]]") was finally aired on the [[Cartoon Network]] in 2002 as part of a documentary special about World War II cartoons.
*** ''Head Injury Theater''{{'}}s Jared von Hindman wrote [https://web.archive.org/web/20130910101301/http://www.headinjurytheater.com/article27.htm an article] describing both the propaganda and the otherwise offensive cartoons.
* This trope even crops up in cartoons that you don't expect to be censored. One ''[[Dudley Do
* The 1980s ''[[Dungeons and Dragons (
** Until the script surfaced, there was a tinfoil hat theory that the last episode was suppressed due to it being relentlessly grim, with a not-suitable-for-children's-TV shock ending -- that the kids actually died on the roller-coaster and that what the viewer is actually watching is their souls in Hell. With the "radio-play" reading of the final script on the DVD set, hopefully those [[Epileptic Trees]] can now be put to rest.
* ''[[
* The ''[[
** Ironically, one episode, "Toons From the Crypt", was skipped over the broadcast order by FOX because they found the segment "Night of the Living Pets" too [[Nightmare Fuel|disturbing]]. The plot? ''Zombies that turn out to be Elmrya's pets out for her flesh''. It ''did'' air, however, three years later on [[Nickelodeon]]'s run of the show. (However, most fan-written episode guides forgot to update their entries of the episode to make note of this.)
** The "Tiny Toons Spring Break Special" aired only just '''one time''' when FOX ran the series, and was never shown again. Although the reason for this is unknown, it has been believed that the tape was either wiped or possibly never aired again due to music disputes. The [[Grand Finale]], "Night Goulery", possibly also suffered the same fate (although it did get a VHS release).
** Though they are not missing, two first season episodes did not appear in their original form on the Season 1, Vol. 2 DVD set, and so far only one edit (from "Tiny Toons Music Television") has been noticeable. [[Word of God]] supposedly says these edits may have been an error and a replacement disc program may be executed (though it has not been confirmed).
* The ''[[
** Other Beavis and Butt-Head episodes were banned or heavily censored for instances of Beavis saying "Fire! Fire!" or flicking a lighter ("Stewart's House", "Kidnapped"), animal cruelty ("Frog Baseball", "Washing the Dog"), inhalant and drug abuse ("Home Improvement", "Way Down Mexico Way") or anything that might be considered poor taste in the aftermath of Columbine and September 11th ("Heroes", "Incognito"). Many of these episodes have aired on Viacom-owned networks overseas unedited.
** There's also the music video segments. Who knows how many of them have been lost forever due to copyright issues? Fortunately, some of the rights have been secured, and over three dozen music videos have made it to the various [[Mike Judge]] collections.
* Fans of ''[[
** It should also be noted that, thankfully, the original masters of the show's episodes were used for the set; every episode was released in its original form (minus the music cuts, natch), ensuring that none of the episodes
* Comedy Central pulled the ''[[
** The episode "Pip" has only been repeated ''twice'' since its premiere in 2000. The reason? The crew doesn't like the episode that much (to be fair, neither did anyone else). Same goes for "Not Without My Anus", the infamous [[April Fools' Day]] Terrance and Philip episode, which has never been replayed outside of its original airdate, due mainly to fan outrage - it was aired in place of the conclusion of the previous season's cliffhanger finale. As of 2010, "Pip" started appearing on broadcast network syndication (and ''only'' in syndication, [[Comedy Central]] has yet to rerun it again).
** "Super Best Friends", an episode which actually shows the Muslim prophet Muhammad, was removed after the controversy regarding the depiction of Muhammad in a political cartoon published in a Dutch newspaper; eventually, the episode made its way back into rotation, then was pulled again (and yanked off the website) after the show's creators
** What really sucks is that the person in the bear costume wasn't even Muhammad, but in fact Santa Claus as the 201st episode revealed. The creators
** ...and the episode "Trapped in the Closet", which directly ripped the controversial group apart with damned-near pinpoint accuracy, was taken out of the lineup for obvious reasons (and it was rumored that a repeat of the episode just a couple of months later was pulled at the request of the group ''and'' the episode's main celebrity target, noted Scientologist [[Tom Cruise]]).
*** Actually, up until the night that "Awesom-O" premiered, commercials WERE advertising a Lemmiwinks sequel. Supposedly, The Return of Lemmiwinks wasn't funny, and was replaced with "Awesom-O". The episode opens with an announcement stating "Due to [[Noodle Incident|this week's tragic events in Hawaii]], the Lemmiwinks episode will not be shown."
** "200" and "201" were pulled from reruns immediately after the latter's premiere and are currently only available on the season 14 DVD set ([[No Export for You|In the US]]) due to their depiction of Muhammad (see above on "Super Best Friends", which was also pulled).
** Sky One skipped "Cartman Joins NAMBLA" (for its plots of Cartman Joining NAMBLA [[
* The ''[[Darkwing Duck (
* The original run of ''[[
** The pairing episode,
*** "Barbequor" has been show in
*** This troper has seen it in the UK on Boomerang's recent rerunning of the series, as well as Virgin's On Demand service.
** There was an episode called "Dexter's Rude Removal", the plot involved Dexter creating clones of himself and Deedee to do their chores but which do nothing but swear and other rude gestures
** The episode "Dexter Dodgeball" had been edited for a certain point in time; when Dexter gives the substitute coach a fake excuse the coach cries out "What's this [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|crap]]?" The offending word was muted in the edited version. Surprisingly, current reruns have kept the word intact.
*** The word "crap" in general seems to be viewed in a less negative light in recent years.
* ''[[
** Though the lost episode in question is currently available to watch on [[YouTube]].
*** The episodes "Inside Job" and "Conspiracy" were also omitted from the [[Disney Channel]] run of the series, as they both dealt with terrorist assasination plots.
* ''[[
** The pilot episode of the show was taken off the air and never seen again, because it shows Chicken smoking (and going to Hell for accepting a cigarette from the Red Guy, who openly introduces himself as the Devil).
*** Both of these episodes are
* ''[[Histeria
* ''[[Teamo Supremo]]'' had an episode with two segments titled "Will You Be My Valentine Bandit?" and "Uncontrollable Goopy Substance!", which [[Toon Disney]] aired only once, on the morning of March 13, 2004, and was never included in the show's rerun rotation. Confusingly, a few clips from "Uncontrollable Goopy Substance!" were used in the promotional spots for Toon Disney's ''New For You!'' show.
* ''[[The
* The 2000s version of ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003
** There is another episode called "Insane in the Membrane" which never aired in the US (though it's available on DVD and the 4KidsTV site). It involves Baxter Stockman cloning his old body and inserting his brain inside. It goes fine for a while but after a few months he begins to fall apart and constantly tries new ways to fix himself including chopping off limbs. Eventually he loses his mind and blames April for all that has happened to him. To be fair, the episode was [[Nightmare Fuel|quite disturbing]] for kids.
** "Nightmares Recycled" was never completed, due to similarly disturbing content. It apparently would've revealed Hun and minor villain the Garbageman were conjoined twins crudely
* 1970s British kids show ''[[Mr Benn]]'', in which the title character dressed up as various things and had adventures in that guise: the
* An example of a missing ''series'': the late 1960s animated series ''[[The Beagles]]'', created by Total Television (the makers of ''[[Underdog (
* Due to the studio making more episodes that the network had ordered, four ''[[
** "The Honeymooners": {{spoiler|Hank tries to stop his mom from getting married to a man she just met}}.
** "Bill Gathers Moss": {{spoiler|In a plot similar to the episode where Bill uses his house as a shelter for alcoholics, Bill once again uses his house to take in roommates, with Hank angry that Bill is being used. The B-story focuses on Bobby and Joseph hunting for ghosts at their school}}.
** "When Joseph Met Lori, and Made Out with Her in the Janitor's Closet": {{spoiler|Dale has himself committed to a mental hospital after failing to give Joseph the sex talk, and plots an escape to keep his son from going all the way with a girl he likes}}
** "Just Another Manic Kahn-Day" {{spoiler|Hank tries to get Kahn to stop picking up his medication at the pharmacy -- only to realize that Kahn is a manic-depressive who needs his medication to level out his mood. In the B-story, Bobby [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny|tries to find the humor in a comedy record that only appeal to his parents and other adults]]}}.
* ''[[
* Several episodes of ''[[Davey and Goliath]]'' were presumed destroyed by the [http://www.elca.org Evangelical Lutheran Church in America], the successor to the church that commissioned the series, due to racial and other material that today's mainline denominations would consider unfit for airing on a children's program. They were later found, re-edited and released on DVD.
* Because of a very limited VHS release and no DVD releases, it's virtually impossible to get a hold of any of the later episodes of ''[[Street Sharks]]'', especially the ''Dinovengers'' crossover season. A bit more mysterious is an episode which was said to involve an appearance by their missing father, who fights Paradigm to save a mutant held captive. It is uncertain as to whether this really aired or if it was originally planned but scrapped and modified into a different episode.
* HIT Entertainment pulled the ''[[Pingu]]'' episode "Pingu Quarrels With His Mum" off of [[PBS Kids]] Sprout's rotation due to the
*** Keep in mind that this episode is what led to ''Pingu''{{'}}s fall from grace. After the episode aired, The Pygos Group received threats from [[w:Schweizer Fernsehen|SF DRS]] that they would take legal action and cancel the series if any further inappropriate content was added to future episodes. The producers promised that season 4 would be completely "clean" and not feature ''any'' adult content. The results in the ratings were, shall we say, a [[Recipe For Disaster]].
** Numerous other ''Pingu'' episodes were also pulled or heavily censored in other countries due to other offensive practices, such as "Pingu Runs Away" (Pingu runs away from home after {{spoiler|ruining a pleasant dinner}}), "Pingu's Dream" (Pingu suffers a [[Nightmare Fuel|nightmare]] when {{spoiler|he encounters a giant walrus}}), the pilot episode "Pingu is Introduced" (Pingu is [[The Bully|bullied]] by his friends when they steal his ball), "Pingu's Lavatory Story" (Pingu drinks so much drinks at a local bar that {{spoiler|[[Potty Emergency]] he has to go to the bathroom}}, only to {{spoiler|[[Potty Failure]] pee all over the floor}} back at home) "Pingu at the Doctors" (Pingu causes his beak to bleed after chasing his sister). None of these episodes have ever appeared on US VHS (although "Pingu Runs Away" has gotten a VHS release titled "Antarctic Antics", and "Pingu at the Doctors" has aired on PBS Kids Sprout's rotation).
*** Initially, "Pingu is Introduced" was shown on the BBC and other non-Swiss networks where a moment when {{spoiler|Pingg repeatedly bonks on Pingu's head during the fight over the ball}} was cut to tone down controversy over the violence in the episode. This edit was not shown in Switzerland (as they showed the episodes uncensored due to the fact that the country was the origin of the character), and even in Cartoon Network in the U.S. However, in 2003, the censors eventually agreed that the edit made no sense at all, and decided to pull the episode off entirely (it has not been shown in Britain ever since), and was never reinstated in America when the show made it to PBS Kids Sprout.
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** For unknown reasons, two episodes made for the fourth season before the [[Grand Finale]] were made but never aired in the initial run on SF DRS. It was not until a year later that they were aired on a marathon of ''Pingu'' episodes (they were only shown once due to the cancellation of the show before HIT took over). Surprisingly, these episodes failed to appear on the episode guide for the Japanese ''Pingu'' website and were not shown on the Season 4 Japanese DVD.
** Also for reasons unknown, the second series (seasons 5 and 6) never seemed to air on Sprout at all, despite some Advertisements that showed clips from the seasons. It was not until 2008 when the second series finally appeared in the U.S. on DVD.
* ''[[The Tick (animation)|The Tick]]'' animated series, episode #11 was missing after 9/11 due to the image early in the episode showing the World Trade Center towers being destroyed by an as-yet-unseen force (which turned out to be Proto-Clown).
* ''[[The Fairly
** It was mostly due to the scenes in "Twistory" that portray [[George Washington]] as a crazy person constantly muttering "must..chop...WOOD!"
* ''[[Thomas the Tank Engine]]'' has had a couple of sort-of instances of this. Based on a single photo, a rumour had been going around that a story called 'The Missing Coach' was filmed but never aired. This was dismissed as speculation until [[Word of God]] from the technical crew confirmed that it had been half-filmed. The other was a number of episodes of a proposed spin-off called ''Jack and the Pack'' that didn't get picked up and which were eventually released three years later on DVD as part of the regular series.
* Two regular episodes of ''[[The
* An episode of ''101 Dalmatians: The Series'', "Alive 'n Chicken", was pulled from broadcast after 9/11 (it's sometimes shown outside the United States), due to a scene where Spot crashes her airplane into a windmill. "Prima Doggy" was also pulled, but that was only due to that it was paired with the episode and it wouldn't fill 30 minutes on its own.
* ''[[
** "I Just Don't Get it!" was the only episode pulled with a reason: In the ''Action League Now!'' segment, the Mayor is portrayed as a terrorist, and the segment was pulled from reruns in the United States after 9/11.
** "Just Chillin`!" only aired a few times in late 2000/early 2001 and was never seen again (and didn't air outside the US)
** "Ka-Fun!" was an episode produced and mentioned in a few TV guides, but never aired (at least in the US. There are rumors that it may have aired in Japan). Clips have appeared in Nickelodeon promos, however.
** The ''Life with Loopy'' Special, which many fans rumored to be "Episode 29" (Keep in mind that the information for "Episode 29" has been [[Jossed]] and the special is not part of the episode count) only aired once in 1998.
* ''[[
** In a more traditional fashion ("Made but rarely shown" vs. "not made at all"), there is the half-hour special "Vacation." Although originally released specially on VHS, it was still considered a regular "episode." However, it's not available on the compilation DVDs and, after being shown a few times, vanished from TV. There are likely a couple reasons for this: One may be rights issues associated with the opening using the song "Vacation" by [[
* The animated adaptation of ''[[The Mask (
** And speaking of "Flight as a Feather," when FOX Family (ABC Family back when FOX owned it) aired old reruns of ''The Mask'' in the late 1990s-early 2000s, "Flight as a Feather" was ''always'' skipped over because of that part with Cookie BaBoom (it would be easier to just edit out the entire sequence, but then that would ruin the continuity, because later in the episode, {{spoiler|1=Cookie BaBoom [clad in her trenchcoat] is seen in the angry mob that has The Mask cornered at the Bavariaville golf course}}).
* The artbook ''"[[
* Dialogue was recorded for an ''[[
** In addition to the unaired finale, ''six'' other episodes were left out from the original run, and they were not shown until the six episodes aired on Nicktoons (the finale, or parts of it, has yet to see the light of a day).
* The eighth episode of the first season of Canadian cartoon ''[[Kevin Spencer]]'' was only broadcast once, after a viewer wrote an angry letter to the CRTC (the Canadian equivalent of the FCC) over the episode's content. This content, including having Kevin's father getting his finger bitten off by an alligator, accidentally drinking the beer containing his finger and then vomiting it up, and finally getting into an extremely violent fight with the gator and ending up gashed and bruised, was apparently so <s>funny</s> offensive that it was never broadcast again.
* ''[[
** It's starting to happen again: "Alienated/The Otter Woman" was supposed to air in late 2010 but was pulled at the last second.
* Just ''try'' to find more than a select handful of episodes from ''[[The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat]]''. Only one VHS release was ever sold in the USA, and the only DVD release was [[No Export for You|marketed in China]] but not the country the show originally aired in; besides, many episodes weren't available for sale in any way, causing a majority of them to become [[Lost Episode|Lost Episodes]]. The surviving episodes are only kept in existence because some [[YouTube]] uploaders that had the foresight to record a few episodes continue to [[Keep Circulating the Tapes]].
* [[Word of God|Supposedly]] there are a number of [[Animaniacs
* The ''[[
** The pilot was never completed, although dialogue and animation were already produced. The unaired pilot eventually [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EZ54vXrcVU showed up on YouTube], save for the music and sound effects. A scene from pilot where {{spoiler|Robotnik tries to squish Sonic but gets himself squished}} was recycled for the show's ending credits.
* ABC's ''[[Sonic
* The 1980s version of ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987
** Ironically, ''[[Ninja Turtles:
* When the ''[[
** Political correctness seems to have kept the ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoon "His Mouse Friday" from re-airing on American television. The cartoon featured {{spoiler|Jerry in blackface [[Meat
** Meanwhile, "Mouse Cleaning" and "Casanova Cat" were left off the spotlight collections entirely, due to [[Blackface]] gags, and rarely if ever appear on TV (always edited of course). Someone at Warner promised they'd appear on the next Tom and Jerry DVD release, however.
* ''[[Teen Titans (
* The pilot episode of ''[[
** The episode "Procrastination", though otherwise complete, does have a missing scene. The last few years it has aired, there have been a few random seconds of
*** The scene where SpongeBob sees his friends outside has also been removed from reruns, though it's on the DVDs. It may have been cut out for more commercial time.
** The episode "Just One Bite" has a questionably blatant reference of dangerous gas materials. Nickelodeon must have been asleep at the censor switch, because the sequence aired at least until a year after the episode's
** In-universe example (see page quote): Patchy the Pirate laments that the "Lost Episode" is truly lost forever after his VCR spits out video tape while he is attempting to rewind the tape. (But of course, it's not really lost in [[Real Life]].)
** The season 2 episode "Shanghaied" was originally shown in 2000 and was aired as a Patchy the Pirate special (Despite the fact that it was the same length as the other
* The 1998 pilot for ''[[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron:
* There are three lost episodes of ''[[Ed, Edd 'n
* The ''[[Mighty Mouse the New Adventures]]'' episode "The Littlest Tramp" wasn't considered missing, but however ''has'' a missing part. After Mighty Mouse finds crushed remains of a flower, he begins to think about his girl ("I know someone else like that") and decides to sniff it, nearly inhaling it inside his nose. The creator of the show apparently did not want to air the scene, because he thought it inspired cocaine use. [[John Kricfalusi]] disagreed, stating that the sequence was harmless, and the episode aired without, initially without controversy, in 1987. A year later, [[Media Watchdogs]] accused the creator for the cocaine-inspired scene, and as a result, subsequent airings pulled the scene out of the episode. However, fearing that the show would lose popularity due to the scene, CBS axed the series after only 19 episodes.
* ''[[Captain N:
* The American broadcast of ''[[
* The (tragically) obscure Australian animated series ''The Adventures of Sam'' has yet to be released on DVD (and probably never will be), and the VHS edition is missing at least one episode.
* The ''[[House of Mouse]]'' animated short "Minnie Takes Care of Pluto", in which [[Mickey Mouse]] leaves [[Pluto the Pup|Pluto]] at Minnie's house while he is on vacation, and [[Good Angel, Bad Angel|Pluto's conscience]] convinces him that Minnie is out to get him. About halfway through the short, Pluto has a brief nightmare about him being buried alive by Minnie, who zips up his grave, and later imagines himself going to Hell. The offending short only aired on the ABC run and was never shown on Toon Disney or Disney Channel.
* Two final season episodes of ''[[Class of 3000]]'' were left unaired from the broadcast order. They are not (yet) available on DVD.
* Reportedly there is an entire second season of TV ''[[Making Fiends]]'' episodes; the show was [[Too Good to Last]] - abruptly ending after six episodes despite being the highest rated (original) program on Nicktoons.
* And according to fan rumors, more episodes of ''[[The Super Mario Bros Super Show]]'' were planned but was also [[Too Good to Last]]. It was cancelled after sixty five episodes (Mario and Zelda combined, which, quite honestly, seems to be enough).
* The ''[[
* The sixth season of ''[[
** Only the first two seasons made it in the Portuguese dub, and the Italian dub skipped half the episodes.
* The episode of the first season of [[Spider
* After''[[Time Squad]]'' was canceled soon after being renewed for its second season (early 2002), a few episodes were held back/misplaced from the [[Cartoon Network]] line up for a while for unknown reasons, including "Whitehouse Weirdness", a episode that parodied a ''Scooby
* [[Disney]]'s ''[[The Black Cauldron]]'' was the missing episode of the [[Disney Animated Canon]] for a while; because of
** It was originally going to be released to VHS in 1989 and it even had a tape master prepared, but it, among other things, was cancelled due to the success of ''[[
* Fans of ''[[Gravity Falls]]'' usually assume "Tourist Trapped" was the show's pilot, but show had an ''actual'' pilot, of which only a 46-second scene has been leaked online. The scene shows older-looking versions of Dipper and Mabel, plus an uglier version of Grunkle Stan eating a popsicle and getting it on his shirt, which Dipper and Mabel seem to mistake for blood. An outline for the pilot has surfaced too, showing the plot to be similar to "Tourist Trapped". When writer Alex Hirsch was asked if the unaired pilot would ever be released, he half-jokingly replied, "Oh lord, I hope not! That thing was a ''mess''! Haha. That would be like showing you awkward photos of my high school prom. [[Old Shame| We all have dark secrets; that 11 minute flash pilot was mine]]."
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