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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 [[The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie|first]] and second movie after Stephen Hillenburg resigned as show runner 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 andit has since been [[Vindicated by History]] to most fans.
** Season 5, while similarly not seen as bad, is where the series’ decline became more apparent, withand the episode quality became a hit and miss. While there beingare many fan favorites, there are also a handful of episodes that arebecame unpopular among fans (most infamously “Waiting”, with “Fungus Among Us”, “To Love a Patty”, and “Atlantis SquarePantis” considered to be the worst of the season. Nonetheless, andthe “Whatgeneral Everconsensus Happenedis tothat this is the last good season of the series until Season SpongeBob?”)9.
** Season 6 was a turning point for the series. Itand tookis seen as the declinefirst consistently bad season. The series’ declining quality had tohit new levels of low and worsened the problems of Seasons 4 and 5, with massive flanderization of characters, an overuse of gross-out humor ("The Splinter" isbeing a prime example) and is the first season where the bad episodes outnumber the good ones.
** Season 7 is considered to be the nadir of the series, due to having two of the most hatedreviled episodes of the series, "A Pal for Gary" and "One Coarse Meal", the writing becoming extremely mean-spirited and havingthe a tonFlanderization of otherthe episodescharacters thatreaching areits memorablepeak. 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 lessmore badwell received 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.
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