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*[[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, most fans still consider this season to be good. In fact, a few even consider it part of the show's "Golden Age".
**While Season 5 is generally considered to be decent,
**Season 6 gets a lot of flak, due to massive flanderization of the main 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.
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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.
**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.
**Season 13 is considered to be somewhat of an improvement by some, due to Al Jean replacing Mike Scully as showrunner. However, this is still a debatable topic as some
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*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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*''[[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]] feel that the series underwent seasonal rot 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.
**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.
**Season 12 gets a lot of flak, mainly due to Sharon Miller taking over as head writer and the poorly done mix of CGI animation with a live-action model set. This season tends to have a [[Broken Base]] among fans. Some consider it to be on par with Seasons 8-11, while others consider it to be as bad as Seasons 13-16.
**Seasons 13-16 are a major low point for the series, due to a massive downgrade in writing and episode plots, massive flanderization of several characters, loads of bad episodes, like the infamous "Wonky Whistle" and the introduction of infamous characters, like the Logging Locos and Charlie. These problems and others are mainly due to Sharon Miller's run as head writer.
**Thankfully, the rot got reverted during Seasons 17-21 and the series returned to its former glory of the classic era when Andrew Brenner replaced Sharon Miller as head writer.
**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 divisive enough, having Thomas travel around the world (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, 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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