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* 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.
** SomeThe general consensus is that the show began to decline in quality pinpointaround 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" and the overuse of celebrity guest stars. However, othersa number of fans still consider Seasons 9 and 10 to be part of the show's "Golden Age".
** Most fans can agree that SeasonSeasons 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> wasand 12 are a turninglow point for the show,series. asThese itseasons hasare ainfamous for lotrelying moreon outlandish plots, andwhich jump-the-sharkcompletely momentsgoes asagainst wellthe asnormally flanderizitiongrounded ofand mostrelatable plots of theprevious charactersseasons. It's also considered around this time thatwhen the show killedhad abonded the satirical, yet heartwarming humor of previous seasons in favor of being a [[Lighter and Softer]] (yet still wacky and crude) ''[[Family Guy]]'' clone. For these reasons and others, this is considered to be when the show had [[Jumping the Shark|jumped-the-shark.]] However, Season 12 hasis similarconsidered issues,by butsome to abe lesserslightly extentbetter than Season 11, but that's still not saying much.
** Season 13 is considered to be somewhata bit of an improvement by some, due to Al Jean replacing Mike Scully as showrunner. However, this is still a debatable topic, as some consider Season 13 and the following seasons to be worse than Seasons 11 and 12.
** A number of fans feel that the show hit a new low when it transitioned to HD in the second half of Season 20, due to a downgrade in humor and a large amount of weak and forgettable episodes. However, Season 32 has shown some improvement, due to funnier and more clever writing, more well-received episodes and even containing some references to the earlier seasons.
* While ''[[Futurama]]'' is consistently good, it has an in-universe example in the form of ''Everybody Loves [[The Hypnotoad|Hypnotoad]]'', which has been going downhill since season three.<ref>according to someone immune to the mind control which is its main draw, anyway</ref>
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* ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' fans generally consider Season 3 to be this, since they changed the [[Big Bad]] from the awesomely creepy Slade, who was Robin's archrival but still had personal beef with the rest of the Titans, to Brother Blood, who started off perfectly menacing but spiralled into [[Villain Decay]] quickly, and had limited interaction with any of the Titans besides Cyborg, and having a weak story that only got two episodes and a two-part finale worth of exposure.
** And, to a lesser extent, Season 5, probably due to it coming directly after the extremely well-received Season 4. It's still generally accepted, though, mainly due to its awesome [[Grand Finale]] (the two-part final battle, ''not'' the [[Broken Base|controversial]] actual last episode.)
* Many fans of ''[[Thomas the Tank Engine]]'' feeltook that thea seriesconsiderable underwentdrop seasonalin rotquality after Season 7, the last season of the classic era, due to the loss of Britt Allcroft and other original crew members and HIT Entertainment outbuying the series.
** The New Series era, lasting from Seasons 8-12 tends to get a lot of flak. However, while Season 8 isn't too bad, Seasons 9-12 come under criticism for continuity errors, plot holes, incorrect portrayal of how railroading works, weaker writing, increasingly repetitive and formulaic storylines, like the infamous "three strikes formula", where one of the characters makes a mistake three times before realizing their error and setting things right and introducing a bunch of unnecessary characters just to sell toys, most of which only appear in one episode and are never seen again.
** Seasons 8-11 get some flak from fans, due to some inconsistencies, plot holes, continuity errors and some bad episodes, like the infamous "Edward Strikes Out". However, these seasons aren't necessarily considered bad and do have a handful of supporters.
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** Sadly, the rot relapsed during Seasons 22-24 (AKA "Big World! Big Adventures!") when a lot of changes were introduced to the series that didn't go over well with fans, like removing Edward and Henry from the Steam Team, the introduction of two new female characters Nia and Rebecca after complaints that the series was not diverse enough, having Thomas travel around the world (which, while not a bad thing in particular, was poorly handled), the introduction of imagination sequences, faster paced visuals, and the mix of cartoon physics with realistic physics.
** The trailer of the upcoming reboot, ''[[Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go!]]'' has received severe backlash from fans, due to the transition from CGI to 2D animation, change in characters, abadoning the series' original continuity, completely replacing realistic physics with cartoon physics, and completely dumbing down the series for very young audiences.
* To some, season two of ''[[X-Men: Evolution]]'' is this, thought YMMV. Over focus on romantic side plots, less focus on their battles and less action. Thought the ending managed to fix that by revealing [[The Masquerade]], leading to it [[Growing the Beard]] in Season 3.
* Even the most staunch of its fans will admit that so far, season 5 of ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' has been complete and utter garbage. Apparently, it's not enough to deter the execs, who have already ordered a season 6 against the wishes of many people who would rather see that time and effort put towards a second season of ''[[Titan Maximum]]'', the show Seth Green unceremoniously self-cancelled to increase his focus on ''Chicken''.
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