Vindicated by Cable: Difference between revisions

* [[Cult Classic]] ''[[Psychonauts]]'' is well, a Cult Classic. A [[Steam]] sale however managed to boost it to that week's number one (''By revenue''), beating out quite a few new releases. It generally occupies the top-seller space on Good Old Games when there isn't a sale going on.

* You could say this was the case for countless cartoon shorts from [[The Golden Age of Animation]]. After movie theaters stopped running cartoon shorts, series such as ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' and ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' went on to become Saturday morning staples and rose to even higher popularity than in their heyday, to the point where [[Older Than They Think|many people will be surprised when you tell them the cartoons came out in the 1940's.]]

** ''[[The Three Stooges]]'' went through a very similar process as cartoon shorts did as well.

* The 1980 live action movie version of ''[[Popeye (film)|Popeye]]'' also gained [[Cult Classic]] status thanks to HBO, as did the [[Camp]], glitzy, all-star movie musicals ''[[Tommy]]'' and ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]''.

* ''[[Wing Commander (film)|Wing Commander]]'' was a bomb at the box office, but video rental income has made good the production costs, and given its regular airing on cable channels (particularly non-US ones) even has something of a genuine fandom.<ref>as opposed to a [[So Bad It's Good]] one</ref>

* ''[[Step by Step]]'': Although only getting average (at best) ratings, reruns of the 1991-1998 sitcom spent nine years on ABC Family's schedule – far longer than reruns did in syndication.

 

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