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* Season Three of ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' suffered from this due to [[Executive Meddling]].
* ''[[Total Drama Island]]'s'' second season, ''Total Drama Action'' was received quite poorly by its viewers, half the original fan base of TDI [[Fanon Discontinuity|don't watch it at all]]. Why? Well, for starters they removed almost ''half'' of the original cast, including [[Ensemble Darkhorse|popular characters]] (at the time) Cody and Noah, completely [[Flanderization|flanderized]] the remaining characters, kicked off most of the fan favorites (again, at the time) such as Gwen, Trent, and Bridgette early, oversaturated [[Creator's Pet|Owen]] ''again'', had Chris become such a huge [[Jerkass]] that it wasn't even funny anymore and overall, it lacked the charm that made TDI so popular.
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* Season 7 of ''[[Family Guy]]'', due to the amount of episodes [[Anvilicious|focused]] [[Writer on Board|on]] [[Author Avatar|Brian's political views]], as well as a few terrible episode premises (i.e. "Not All Dogs Go To Heaven"), massive [[Flanderization]] of the whole main cast (i.e. Peter's reckless behavior in "Baby Not on Board"), and, of course, [[Non Sequitur Scene|a five-minute long Conway Twitty cutaway]]. Part of the reason behind the seasonal rot can be attributed to the 2007-2008 WGA strike that plunged a lot of shows into getting canceled, going on hiatus, or suffering through seasonal rot.
*[[SpongeBob SquarePants]] experienced a steady decline in quality between the first and second movie after Stephen Hillenburg resigned as showrunner and was replaced by Paul Tibbet.
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** The decline finally got reverted in Season 9, especially when Stephen Hillenburg returned as showrunner for the second half of the season after the release of the second movie.
*Chris Savino's run of ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]'' (seasons 3 and 4) and ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' (seasons 5 and 6) were heavily criticized by fans due to the fact that these seasons made [[Executive Meddling|without the original creators]] after the shows were [[Uncancelled]] due to boring plots, ungodly amounts of [[Flanderization]], and a really unfitting art style. Plus, with ''Dexter's Laboratory'', they got rid of the Justice Friends and Dial M for Monkey segments.
*Fans of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' have wildly varying opinions on when the show went downhill. The first 8 seasons are generally considered to be the best, but the following seasons have a [[Broken Base]] among fans.
**Some pinpoint Season 9 and/or Season 10 as when the show went downhill, due to Mike Scully taking over as showrunner and the infamous episode "The Principal and the Pauper". However, others still consider Seasons 9 and 10 to be part of the show's "Golden Age".
**Most fans can agree that Season 11<ref>(For reference, this is the season that killed off Maude Flanders, had Barney give up drinking, made Apu and Manjula the parents of octuplets, and presented whimsically self-referential episodes like "Saddlesore Galactica", "Missionary: Impossible", and "Behind the Laughter".)</ref> was a turning point for the show, as it has a lot more outlandish plots and jump-the-shark moments as well as flanderizition of most of the characters. It's also considered around this time that the show killed the satirical, yet heartwarming humor of previous seasons in favor of being a [[Lighter and Softer]] (yet still wacky and crude) ''[[Family Guy]]'' clone. Season 12 has similar issues, but to a lesser extent than Season 11.
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