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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.
** Season 4 is generally considered to be the start of the decline. However, this season is still considered good, due to being [[Vindicated by History]]. In fact, a few fans even consider it to be part of the show's [[Golden Age]].
** Season 5 isn't too bad either, but it's a bit of a mixed bag. While it has some memorable episodes, like "Friend or Foe", "Roller Cowards", "Spy Buddies" and "Pest of the West", it also has some infamous episodes, like "Fungus Among Us", "To Love a Patty", "Atlantis SquarePantis" and "Whatever Happened to SpongeBob?"
** Season 6 was a turning point for the series. It took the decline to new levels of low, with massive flanderization of characters, an overuse of gross-out humor ("The Splinter" is a prime example) and is the first season where the bad episodes outnumber the good ones.
** Season 7 is considered to be the peak of the decline, due to having two of the most hated episodes of the series, "A Pal for Gary" and "One Coarse Meal", the writing becoming extremly mean-spirited and having a ton of other episodes that are memorable for the wrong reasons.
** Season 8 is considered to be a slight improvement over Seasons 6 and 7, due to some better writing and a few less bad episodes. Nevertheless, this season still gets a lot of flak, due to having a large amount of weak and forgettable episodes.
** 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 general consensus is that the show began to decline in quality around Season 9 and/or Season 10, due to Mike Scully taking over as showrunner, the infamous episode "The Principal and the Pauper" and the overuse of celebrity guest stars. However,
** No matter what your opinion is of Seasons 9 and 10, 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
** The series began to improve during Season 13 when Al Jean replaced Mike Scully as showrunner. Sadly, this didn't last long as the series went downhill again in Season 16 with a downgrade in humor and a large amount of weak and forgettable episodes. This decline lasted years before
* 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>
** Fans of ''[[Show Within a Show|All My Circuits]]'' are also split about Bender's run as Calculon's son. Younger viewers loved his [[Do Not Do This Cool Thing|glamorizing views on smoking and burglary]] while parents despised him as an [[Moral Guardians|antisocial rolemodel]].
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