This troper remembers when {{Invader Zim}} aired at 9:45 PM. Nickelodeon would also only air one segment of the show, and when Hobo 13 and Walk for Your Lives were supposed to premiere, only Hobo 13 was aired.

This troper, at the age of around 7, would wake up at 5:30 to watch {{Captain Planet}} and {{Digimon}}. Sometimes I even got up at 3 to watch Wacky Races, then went back to bed when it was over.

You too? I always tried to wake up early enough to watch Captain Planet, but I usually failed.

The practice of putting on anime shows ''way'' too early for small children happens in Australia too. ''This'' editor taped ''DragonballZ'' and watched it after school! (Shut up, I was ''ten''.)

Hey, I did the same thing with ''{{Pokemon}}'' until I was 13.

Not me. I woke up early enough to watch it normally. Hooray for being on the East Coast (where it wasn't ungodly early)!

This troper's FATHER did this for G Gundam and just about every anime that came on reguardless of channel.

And this one remembers having to force himself up at 4:30 in the morning for ''SamuraiPizzaCats''! Yeow! Although the extension of ''PowerRangers'' from a half hour to one...that probably had something to do with it.

I am no longer alone... I was getting up at 5 AM weekdays to watch Beetlejuice. Finally I could take no more... I abandoned my show for a paltry three hours' sleep... I am ashamed to call myself a fan.

But not, apparently, a Jagermonster.

The same happens in Spain too. I used to wake up at 7 AM to watch Pokemon when I was little. Today I often wake up at the same hour on weekends to watch WWE.

Actually, this happens to roughly maybe 40% of syndicated animation. They'd air at either 5 o' clock, which is too early, or at 7 or 8 weekday mornings, when most kids are already off to school. By the Eighth Grade, this troper had finally caught wise, and for years, would wake up early, or check the morning listings every few months just to see if anything sounded interesting. He caught ''{{Battletech}}'', ''HeavyGear'', ''BeastWars'', ''Roughnecks: StarshipTroopers'', and many others (including ''{{Pokemon}}'', which he just ''happened'' to catch on it's first episode) this way. For the late morning shows, he'd pop in a tape and leave it on record before heading off to school.

This Australian Troper remembers having watched both ''{{Robotech}}'' and ''Starblazers'' as perhaps the first animation he saw. In later years ''Starblazers'' came back.....for one episode, and ''Robotech'' also stopped again after a few episodes. Luckily it came back again but I had to record each episode while I walked to school (and I lived in the same street).

This American troper used to set his alarm for 6:20, set his clothes out for the next day before going to bed, and be up, dressed, and in front of the TV in the basement in time to watch {{Pokemon}} at 6:30. Then come upstairs at 7:00, eat, and get ready for school. He now finds it incredible that he could ever have had that much self-discipline or control over his sleep patterns.

Yeah, same here.

This Australian troper remembers getting up at 6am to watch Teknoman. It was awesome. Sitting in a pitch dark loungeroom eating froot loops in front of the fire with the TV on ultra low volume so as not to wake my parents as I got my dosage of surpringly uncut (considering other anime on TV was Sailor Moon and Speed Racer, this was pre-Pokemon and DBZ) mecha (or armor suit really) anime.

This Australian trooper also knows that they aired '''Naruto''' at 7 AM! '''NARUTO'''!! You can guess what they did to it.

This American troper started getting up at the crack of dawn to watch not only Sailor Moon, but Samurai Pizza Cats while in elementary and middle school. Naturally, this troper is very glad that all her favorite anime is (mostly) on bilingual [=DVDs=] now she doesn't have to pry her bleary-eyed butt out of bed and still only get to watch the {{Macekre}} version.

Fuck it, this troper is ''still'' pissed about how CBS treated ''{{Moonlight}}''. It was hitting a fantastic creative stride, was getting 7-8 million viewers consistently on ''Friday night'', vampires are the fad of the moment, and... they cancelled it. Thank god they at least got the OfficialCouple together, or this troper might have had a HeroicBSOD.

This *English* troper remembers a time when all England thought of as anime should be kept far from childrens' eyes, unless it was something rather sanctioned like Pokémon, and even then it was only the first half of the first series. So she remembers crawling out of bed at like 4 am to watch this wonderful thing of sailor collars and ribbon bows (aka Sailor Moon); that and also the decent version of DBZ, newer Pokémon, Noah's Island and some weird German love-the-environment show called Tabaluga that nobody else seems to have heard of. And five years before then - sunday mornings and Sharkey and George. Of those last three they seem to have disappeared into the ether forever - I can't even find the theme song to Noah's Island for love nor money.

This troper has never forgiven the WB for their "Big Kids Go First" lineup. The so-called "big kids" are the ones likelier to sleep in rather than get up at the crack of dawn. The so-called "big kids" are also the ones likelier to have stuff going on in the early morning if they ''are'' already up, so it was rather obvious to this troper at least that they did it to kill shows they knew the older demographic wouldn't or couldn't get up for. They have, however, seemed to learn their lesson. Most of the older demographic shows on their current 2008 lineup air past 9:30 am. Or not. They did cancel ''Series/{{Legion Of Super-Heroes}}'', but that was 4Kids! took over the air-slot.

You're not alone. A LOT of Freakazoid fans have never forgiven the WB for screwing it. This Troper more or less turned away from the WB afterward.

This troper knows of one local-affiliate station that put ''Jeopardy!'' -- yes, '''that''' ''Jeopardy!'', the ratings juggernaut -- at 2:30 AM. Yes, AM. That is not a typo. At least, that is not this troper's typo, though this troper suspects someone at the network made a typo. Or had a few too many Potent Potables to drink. Or had a grudge after losing to RalphWiggum on the show. One has to wonder how many people got fired for that.

WNBC in NY did that for the first year of its existance back in 1984. Then WABC started airing it at 4:30 in the afternoon and then 7:00 at night and has been doing so ever since.

This Troper is still butthurt about the loss of ''CodeLyoko'' and ''MobileSuitGundam'' and since no underground streaming video channel will run the former, may wind up going on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge in Atlanta...wait, Cartoon Network moved their main operations to Burbank. ''SHIT.''

Revenge? May I join you? I'm annoyed over that too. ...I'll never get to see how it ends! *sob*

This troper is still scarred by the constant tossing of {{Digimon}} around various networks, including its disappearance from TV all together for an entire year or two...

I'm still facepalming over Swedish network Tv4's handling of SailorMoon. We got to episode 23 (skipping two eps because the tapes got damaged) before their program block changed and it was removed because the producer thought it was a sick show filled with violence and karate kicks. Two years follow with nothing until they start showing it again. Most fans were happy (especially since the before mentioned two eps were shown)... until episode 34 was sent without the background song, removing a big chunk of the atmosphere even for us first-time viewers. People complained, especially after two more eps had no songs. This led to eps 49, 54 and 69, all with songs, not being shown. After some probing by the fans we found out the removed songs ''because Tv4 didn't want songs people couldn't understand in the background and had them removed'' and, rather than facing more complaints, decided not to send/dub those three episodes at all. Aside from this, things were still going well until late fall 2000 when we were promised a Xmas marathon of the last 12 eps of Sailor moon R. Xmas comes and goes, but nothing. Not until the summer of 2001, when they suddenly started reruns late mornings from ep 21, leading to new episodes being sent when most of the intended audience are at school. Alright, we just had to program the VHS... expect for some reason Tv4 thought it was a good idea to move around when it started so we'd miss 5-10 minutes of either the beginning or the end. Strangely enough it wasn't dropped because of bad ratings, but because their license ran out a few weeks after the last episode was finally shown.

Kanal 5 picked up Sailor Moon a year later and did a much better job. Aside from having to skip the non-dubbed eps they showed it daily, had six reruns and were willing to buy the rest of the seasons... only by now Toei had pulled the license worldwide. I'm still bitter about it.

{{Mr B}} here, this explains a lot if why i now in retroperspective can't make out why i haven't seen some episodes, this just ansvered some of my longest standing questions.

This troper Used to watch Pokemon Galactic battles (I think its called that) everytime He was waiting for the bus (Woken up at around 6:00 bus comes at 7:00), that was until Cartoon network decided to reschedule it to 7:00. FFFFFFUUUUUUUU. Oh well. atleast it avoids any {{Guilty Pleasure}} Moments.

If I happen to fall in love with a show, that show will die in a horrible manner soon after I discover it. Case in point: I start watching ''PhilOfTheFuture'' in the middle of its second season, it's canceled at the end of the season with no wrap-up whatsoever. ''TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' will probably not live to see a third season, despite it being hailed as the best animated Spidey adaptation by critics and fans alike, because of its move to DisneyXD and erratic airings. Oh, and I didn't even ''know'' about ''{{Firefly}}'' when that aired...it seems FOX looked to the future and said "Hey, this will become [this troper's] favorite live-action show and restore her faith in live-action television, let's nuke it!" (I'm a little bitter, yes.) Not to mention countless flash-in-the-pan cartoons I watched as a small child and loved regardless of their many flaws... ''Avatar'' was the only one to escape, but TheMovie will take care of that, of course.

When Transformers: Animated Ended, and I found out there will not be another season, I just got mad and go into rants every time about how they didn't answer all the questions!

When I first started watching ''Kings'' on NBC, my first reaction was, "Holy cow, this show is amazingly well-written, innovative, wonderfully acted, and visually stunning. It will never last." Sure enough, they're canning it in favor of more doctor/lawyer/cop shows.

This troper, upon hearing of the unnannounced schedule move for ''The Secret Saturdays'': "Oh no. It's happening again..."

I personally can say that finding out that SuperRobotMonkeyTeamHyperforceGo got cancelled '''right before the apocalyptic final battle''' really sucked, especially because I found out about it ''after'' waiting patiently for a rerun of the finale. ''For months''.

I'm pulling my hair out at the fact that KingOfTheHill was canceled to make room for a damned ''FamilyGuy'' '''SPIN-OFF.'''

Also, I'm pulling what's left of my hair at the fact that the only remaining cartoons on CartoonNetwork are {{Chowder}} and TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack, besides the PG shows by the Canadians. Then {{Chowder}} was announced canceled on the creator's blog. WordOfGod says it was all to make room for CNReal, as put by the creator of {{Chowder}} again. (But in a way so that he isn't exactly "revealing" it, most likely another move by the executives. Or I'm just a {{PsyCho}}.)

Well, technically, StarWarsTheCloneWars and Ben10AlienForce are still 'being published' but yeah, the way this is going, Flapjack is going to become CartoonNetwork's Spongebob.

At least we have RegularShow and WesternAnimation/AdventureTime now, which are actually good cartoons which are sure to last. Maybe.

If you set up ''ColdCase'' without padding the stop time on the DVR by at ''least'' 2 hours, you're just asking for a mid-episode cutoff most of the time. Why don't they just ''write the schedule'' with the 1-1.5 hour football overrun ''assumed''? If it doesn't, put in reruns or post-game, or something!

You usually don't have to do this if you live in the Mountain or Pacific time zones; CBS has usually ended football coverage by the time 60 Minutes starts.

To this troper, it was Art Attack, among many others. For many years it's been on air at late midnight, 2 AM, 6 AM, 9-something AM and 2 PM (one hour later in Disney Channel +1). I couldn't watch it unless I slipped into the living room at 12 PM, lowered toe volume to inhuman levels and was as silent/stealthy as a ninja. Sometimes I even fell asleep while waiting for the 2 AM and 6 AM shows.

This troper used to have to wake up at 6am to watch ''MewMewPower''. As you can guess, she didn't keep it up for long.

So did this troper! (Then I found out how screwed up the episode order was, and all that jazz.)

This troper has more than a couple of examples that still make him quite bitter, but the one that stands out the most was when I woke up, eagerly anticipating the newest season of ''Sonic the Hedgehog'', only to find it had been canned to make room for ''a flippin' Free Willy cartoon''. I ''still'' remember the reaction on my face, and if I could retroactively describe what words were going through my head, it would probably amount to '''''the flipping blue fuck is this shit!?'''''

The memories This Troper has of attempting to wake up at 5:00 AM to watch TransformersCybertron are not pleasant ones. Oh, the pure rage he acquired when Kids WB ended just as he began to get interested in the story.

In 1994, Fox Kids called for the Zord changes at the beginning of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Season 2 to come early. A decade later, this troper learns the first 10 of Lord Zedd's monsters were originally filmed fighting the Dino Megazord. Main Problem? Lokar was this troper's favorite character! And Lokar is said to have been involved in the Bloom of Doom's Zord fight! Argh!

This Troper has long held a grudge against sports programming preempting saturday morning cartoons—although he'll make grudging allowances for news broadcasts; like the time some guys in China were protesting something in a square on the ''one'' day I was trying to tape ''The Flintstone Kids.''-back from early childhood, up into the early years of this century. This isn't so much of a problem these days...mostly because Saturday Morning Cartoons, as such, have mostly gone the way of the dinosaurs. ''"Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean."''

''This'' Troper still refuses to watch televised sports because the programming would always happen to pre-empt ''Transformers'' when he was a kid.

This troper hated how CartoonNetwork treated some of the less popular shows he liked, such {{MAR}}. I remember how they aired the first episode...and then jumped straight to Episode 5 without any warning. They did start showing it in order a month later, and got pretty far in, but the damage had already been done; the ratings where lower than what they wanted, so they canceled it.

This Canadian troper remembers a fine anime block on YTV, which went by the name of Bionix. It aired all Friday Night, with shows like FullmetalAlchemist, DeathNote and InvaderZim (Not anime but seriously, who isn't a fan?), which brought him into anime years ago. However, YTV found an (unfortunate) love for reality shows. replaced Bionix, moved the anime to Saturday, only to be cancelled altogether for "favourites" like Next Star, Survive This, which American viewers should understand and the unlikeable Prank Patrol. Needly to say, "I'm not happy."

...I REMEMBER THAT. They had Inuyasha, too! Part that sucked? My family are CHRISTIAN. That means, back then at least, NO FANTASY. With it also being after dusk on Fridays? Doomed love. And THEN they put Bleach, Naruto and....that Galaxy Rangers thing on at three in the bloody morning! Galaxy Rangers was made by the people who did Totally Spies and Martin Mystery, which are ALSO never on anymore. FUCK YOU YTV. FUCK YOU TELETOON. Enough with your stupid reality shows, GIVE US OUR FUNNY BACK! I want to finish my homework, grab a soda and watch Inuyasha get sat, Martin getting whaled on by Diana, and the Spies being awesome. NOT STUPID PRANKS. I don't care if they have ninjas, they still are not funny at all. And bring back Sugar. She was so cuuute!

Sonic the hedgehog. SATAN. WHY? F*C* YOU POWER RANGERS AND NEW PRESIDENT OF ABC!

Watching episodes of Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh on the WB after school was this troper's ritual when he was younger. Then the network started announcing their impending name-change to MyNetworkTV. He figured this would not affect him and therefore did not care... until he tuned in the day of the switch, and discovered that his shows had apparently been kicked off the 4:00-5:00 timeslot and replaced with reruns of According to Jim. He was not pleased.

I'm not sure if this counts, but here goes: After buying the 1st Season of Gargoyles on DVD and falling in love with it (so did my other siblings), we bought the 1st of Season 2. We figured that it might take a few months maybe a year or two, for the next set to come out. The SBN comes in when we found out that Disney is not continuing the series on DVD, due to "low sales". But it took at least 3-4 years after we bought the first two sets to find this out.

Oh, oh, oh German channels screw up so horribly right and often...

Series/DoctorWho was first shown in March 2008, where it aired in two-episode bundles Saturday evening and to the exact same time as soccer was on the air. They made a respectable amount of advertisement, but seem to have completely ignored that regardless of what you air, if soccer is on, your programm could be a recording of paint drying. The ratings were miserable for three weeks and they put it on the air a few weeks later at Sundays as one episode per week, also around evening. The quotes got significantly better, but because it was already three months ago that they advertised the show, so it is still wondering how they got anyone watching who wasn´t a DW fanboy/girl. The show tottered around until series 2 finale and won´t be brought back because of high licensing costs. At least Torchwood seems to be more popular.

It also didn´t help to censor the episodes to senselessness. Episode 6 Dalek hit it the most: You see NOT A SINGLE ONE of the soldiers die. Most memorably is the censoring of how the Dalek killed the people with the fire alarm. It shot the alaram, hovered, aimed for the floor, sudden cut to Doctor/Van Statten being sad and the Dalek declaring he wants to speak with the Doctor. Just painfull to watch...

My name is Earl looked like it would be utterly annihilated with being shown at midnight in the night of Friday/Saturday. They cannceled it after a few weeks and it looked like they wouldn´t consider putting it on the air ever again, but they finally ended up airing it Saturday afternoon, two complete seasons.

Firefly got a much worse treatment here as in the USA. The premiere of the show was AUTUMN 2009 and showed it on SuperRTL (aka Disney cartoons and sitcoms). The firm also owned RTL2 (known for Sci-Fi Wednesday, which at the time consisted of 4 rerun episodes of Stargate, but whatever...). At least we got all episodes in normal order, but they really took their time to ham up the WallBanger with airing movie sequel Serenity on RTL2, Sci-Fi Wednesday, and then also several weeks later and censored (although it reran uncut at 1 am again).

You could say this about nearly everything what airs at weekend afternoons. Normally programms like Scrubs, How I met Your Mother, Big Bang Theory, and so on end up here and are always ignored everybody who isn´t already fan of them through fansites. Heidi Klum is host of Germanys next topmodel and made appearance on HIMYM. They could have wonderfully used this to promote both shows. Instead they made a trailer that only got shown once and that in the commercial break of the programme directly before HIMYM... It´s like they don´t want to let anybody know that they have programmes at weekend afternoons.

Now ''WarehouseThirteen'' is getting it, due to wresting overrun. ''Wrestling!!''. How the everlovin' hell does a scripted show overrun? Why is ''wrestling'' on SciFi anyway?

This troper (the same one as above, who also got up at 7:00am to watch ''Mew Mew Power''), when she was about 7 or 8 used to get up at 6:30am to watch Hello Kitty on ToonDisney. Then one day, they decided to stop showing it for whatever reason. I'm still sad about it.

When CartoonNetwork finally decided to air {{Reboot}} season 4 (guess which day they only aired it) it began to rerun the first three seasons. Wonderful right? Oh no, it's aired at 5am without the opening credits (probably because they had already chopped them all off for their {{Toonami}} bumpers).

If you live in south africa like me, be prepared to be dissapointed in a lot of channels. Our CartoonNetwork refuses to give us New Vestroia's second season and I doubt we'll ever get Gundalian Invaderswe also are never getting Ben10AlienForce or UltimateAlien.Our {{Animax}} also decided that it would be a great idea to show reality shows, and we only get (EDIT) '''six''' hours out of twenty five (Half or them are at midnight.) '''AND''' we only get EurekaSeven, NeonGenesisEvangelion, DeathNote and the first two arcs of {{Bleach}}, so if I want to watch any other anime, it's time to shell over for imported DVDs.

This Troper Always seemed to like the shows he's now discovered the syndication networks apparently hated. Throught middle and high school (and afterwards), he's realized that his favorite animated shows were usually the ones that came on at 5:00 AM on weekdays or weekends.

This troper feels your pain. Too many of his favorite shows were screwed over by the Malaysian TV cartel that one of his madness mantras has become ''Destroy NTV7 ForGreatJustice!'' To be fair tho, although NTV7 wasn't the only one screwing over shows, they just happened to be the one who screwed over most of the shows this troper loved.

I stopped watching YTV when Jacob Two Two and Martin Mystery were cancelled. Seriously, I had no idea that new episodes of Jacob Two-Two aired after "Jacob Two Two and the Wooden Nickel Knuckleheads", and most of my friends had no idea it existed. And now they are making new episodes? After almost 5 years? Martin Mystery? I had to record it.

This troper thinks they're doing this with SpongeBobSquarePants.

Ha. Now, what.

Try being in Canada, where MyLifeAsATeenageRobot got screwed over, more than once. The show debut in 2004, to good timeslots (Thursday 7PM and Friday 4:30PM), only to be removed for the summer, despite it's cult hit up here. YTV then brought the show back sometime later, at 8AM Sunday. When the second season arrived, the show got a Tuesday afternoon airing, only to be replaced by the subpar, CaptainFlamingo a couple months later. Eventually, the following fall, the Third Season was about to make it's way to YTV, airing weekdays (or at least Tuesdays to Thursdays) at 5PM. For a few weeks, it aired the third season, before the American Nickelodeon got to see. One month later, Being Ian took over all timeslots and Teenage Robot hasn't aired since...

This troper watched Unsolved Mysteries on Spike, but when I tried to record it,I'd sometimes end up recording CSI, because sometimes Spike would air a CSI marathon instead of Unsolved Mysteries on random days, then air the show late at night!There was no warning when they did this, no way to know that Unsolved Mysteries was airing at a different time, except for the TV guide! This troper has screamed in frustration several times because when did get a day off from school, CSI was airing instead of Unsolved Mysteries, and Unsolved Mysteries was moved to late at night! It's like Spike said, "You want to watch Unsolved Mysteries? Too bad!"

This tropette, who is too poor to have BBCAmerica, is usually frusturated by the fact that the SyFy channel has yet to air the Matt Smith episodes of Doctor Who while airing new episodes of those goddamn paranormal investigation programs.

This newbie troper lives up in Canada, and let me tell you, Teletoon and YTV screwed Chaotic and Being Ian badly. Sure, the latter cartoon came back from the dead almost instantly, but he can't get over it. Not to mention the former cartoon already being screwed over in the US, which just made it worse. I remember they put the two shows in the graveyard slot, right before the adult blocks, and I was screwing up my sleep schedule trying to watch the shows. Yeah. Not very pleasant to me.

Six words: ''OnePiece''. {{Toonami}}. April. 2008. ...****.

If there were ten words to describe how mad this troper was when this happened, they'd probably get me banned.

This troper remembers watching Sabrina The Teenage Witch - the animated version- and the show where Mary Kate and Ashley Olson were cartoon secret agents when I was little. One day, they just stopped showing both on Toon Disney's timeslot, which really pissed me off, as they were the only cartoons that I got ''hooked'' on at the time.