We all have those television shows that we absolutely loved; the shows that we rushed home to watch or just couldn’t get enough of. Unfortunately, not all shows get to stay on air for what feels like forever. Even more unfortunate is that some get canceled before they even have a chance to really go anywhere.
1. Freaks and Geeks
Freaks and Geeks: The Complete Series, $69.99 from Amazon
This show had so much potential, seriously though, the cast was everything they should have been. Who doesn’t love a show about about high school kids who just don’t seem to fit in? Even better, who doesn’t love a show that features a young and mischievous James Franco?
2. Boy Meets World
Boy Meets World: The Complete First Season, $19.98 from Amazon
Who didn’t love Cory Matthews and Topanga Lawrence? Seriously, they were like the perfect couple, and you know that you still want a love like theirs! As a kid the show was really educational; you could learn all the necessary life lessons from it! I completely understand why this show came to an end, but it was sad to see it go.
3. Daria
Daria: The Complete Animated Series, $72.99 from Amazon
Daria was my spirit animal. In high school I could have sworn we were the same person. This is the show is the only thing that MTV did right when it comes to not playing music. It was full-on satirical, as well as full of sarcasm and commentary on pop culture. It had the perfect amount of angst and carelessness.
4. My So-Called Life
My So-Called Life: The Complete Series (w/Book), $69.99 from Amazon
So maybe I wasn’t old enough to understand the show when it first aired, but you can’t deny, it was a great show. It dealt with issues that are relevant to teenagers’ lives. They didn’t do it by sugar coating the situations and the problems weren’t solved at the end of the episode, either. Also, I can’t be the only one that wanted Jordan Catalano to be my boyfriend!
5. Veronica Mars
Veronica Mars: The Complete First Season, $59.98 from Amazon
The cancellation of this show was so uncalled for! They didn’t even end it on a good note. There was still so many things that needed to be wrapped up, and questions to be answered! Though, I must say Kristin Bell is brilliant through it all and she really knows how to draw a person in.
These were some of my favorite shows that got the axe. What are some of yours?
rose / 802 posts
“Friday Night Lights” & “The Wire”
orchid / 242 posts
Um…FIREFLY?!
orchid / 184 posts
YES!!!! Daria and My So-Called Life are ESSENTIAL to life!!!!
daisy / 598 posts
Clone High. Who’s with me? I freakin loved that show! Anyone who gets Clone High references is tops in my book.
ranunculus / 3285 posts
The Chicago Code was one of the new shows this year that I enjoyed.
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I LOVE Daria! xx
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charmed… sabrina the teenage witch…..
sigh. i rewatch them from time to time!
daffodil / 1601 posts
I second Firefly.
Honestly, all shows have to end. But Firefly was murdered.
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I agree with Boy Meets World!
I dvr it every morning & watch it(: ahh good times!
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Boy Meets World and Daria!! <3
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BOY MEETS WORLD!!!!! <3 <3 <3
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pushing daisies, arrested development
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Actually… Some of those shows (specifically Boy Meets World) should have ended. They came to the end of their series. It was done. The story was made and told and shared with millions. It was time for the actors to move on.
One show that DEFINITELY ended PREMATURELY and should NOT have ended… is The Gates. Fucking LOVED that show… And they ended it after the first season… LOTS of loose ends… ugh… It disappoints me. Such a good show…
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Dollhouse and if cartoons count, then Magic School Bus. Haha.
dahlia / 2382 posts
2, 3 & 4 FTW!!! I was SO excited for the Daria DVDs & it’s better than nothing but I hate that they didnt get music clearance. Part of the reason Daria was so epic was the music! Alot of my favorite songs came from hearing the show. I cried when it ended. It started when I was in middle school & ended the year before I graduated high school.
As for My So-Called Life, that shit is Claire Danes fault!!! The show was a success & would have gone on but she said she didnt want to do it anymore. Idiot…
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Firefly, Arrested Development… of course Freaks and Geeks. Celebrity Deathmatch, it’s a shame it didn’t last longer. What about Dark Angel? Mm, Jessica Alba.
dahlia / 2382 posts
@vicdaily@xanga - The Magic School Bus was awesome!! I miss the days when educational TV was fun!
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Firefly!!! ha boys meet world! (:
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Agreed on all of these. Perfect list!
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@pentagrams@xanga - YES! Arrested Development!
orchid / 143 posts
Third to Firefly. And…I really enjoyed the first two seasons of Veronica Mars but halfway through the third season, I got really disenchanted. I agree about wanting it to end on a healthier note and that Kristin Bell is awesome!
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Boy Meets World and The Angry Beavers.
dahlia / 2012 posts
Firefly.
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@proudsmartypants@xanga - Agreed! Firefly should not have been canceled! I’m still in love with damn show and find myself quoting it a lot! Dollhouse was also taken before it’s time….stupid Fox….Rupert Murdoch is a bastard!!!
sunflower / 366 posts
Hey Arnold! Because Arnold and Helga were going to like finally profess their love for each other in the 2nd movie.
But seriously, No Ordinary Family. And Animaniacs.
cherry blossom / 28 posts
Pushing Daisies was a great show that ended way too soon. They wrapped it up nicely but I would have preferred a couple more seasons
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OMG DARIA!!!! I LOVED that show!!
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@vicdaily@xanga - I used to loooove Magic School Bus. Infact, it used to come on super early in the mornings when I would be getting ready for school around 10th – 11th grade, and I always watched it. My dad would make so much fun of me. He’d be like “… What grade are you in again? How old are you?”
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Nip/Tuck!!! And Daria, too.
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The ending to Veronica Mars was seriously THE WORST.
daisy / 658 posts
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT
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Definitely agree with Boy Meets World! It needs to be brought back!
orchid / 179 posts
KYLE XY!!
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oh… am I the only one? …ahhh….
sunflower / 355 posts
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT!
tulip / 12 posts
arrested development…party down…pushing daisies…hey arnold…scrubs, if you discount the ninth season…
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HEROES. that is all
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UH Dead like me!!!!!!! omg peopleeee dead like meeeeeee rawr and yes… i loved freaks and geeks ahhhhh!!!
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The Oblongs.
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FRIENDS! can’t believe it wasn’t mentioned!!
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Well, Boy Meets World lasted a long time. But, My So Called Life, Dark Angel, and Firefly are all shows I think ended too soon.
sunflower / 416 posts
@rabbitsarecool14@xanga - CLONE. FUCKING. HIGH. I was going to comment on here with that exact show! I loved that show so much! You know why they canceled it, right? A lot of Indians were offended with the depiction of Gandhi. Yup.
daisy / 598 posts
@not_your_concern@xanga - appropriate response: SAY WHUUUT???
Omg i wanna watch it now. it’s given me the best one-liners that no one ever recognizes.
sunflower / 416 posts
@rabbitsarecool14@xanga - “YOU MAKE ME SO MAD THAT I COULD KISS YOU!!” “What?” “I mean… piss… glue.”
Bahahahaha, so amazing. I think they have many, if not all, of the episodes on YouTube, by the way.
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daria was really good
daffodil / 1615 posts
@SuburbanSweetheart - The Wire is my all-time favorite show. I was so sad to see it end :(
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I know a lot of people didn’t care for this show, but I was devastated when Gilmore Girls got cancelled.
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Firefly and Lexx,..which was the perfect “anti-everything” television show,..full of satire and dark humor!!
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I agree about Daria. I love that show.
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Arrested Development, Oblongs, Boy meets World, and Daria!!!
rose / 795 posts
I think Boy Meets World ended on a good note at the right time, but I wish they would show reruns more. Full House should’ve had at least another season.
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Umm, why aren’t Kyle XY and the Seeker on this list?
Two most awesome TV shows EVER!
Actually, I’ve never watched any of the shows on this list, haha.
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Another vote for Firefly. Best cancelled show ever.
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i have no idea why freaks and geeks ended after one season it was good!
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@Murphy_Rants@xanga - Yeah, it was tragic. I also really liked another show from Joss Whedon, Dollhouse… Also cancelled after its first season.
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“The Black Donnellys”, “John Doe”, “Carnivale”, “Kyle XY”,
@kinamorata@xanga - Same here, “The Chicago Code was one of my favorites. Also, “Detroit 187″ was good too.
@vicdaily@xanga - I agree with “Dollhouse”, that show was brilliant. Joss Whedon should stop doing business with Fox, hopefully after he does a great job of directing “The Avengers” he’ll have a lot more options.
@blackspiders@xanga - ”Dollhouse” actually had 2 seasons, I’m glad Fox let Joss do a finale for it even though it was rushed.
@Cosmar@xanga - Yeah, Kyle XY was a very good show, it really pissed me off that it ended with a cliffhanger, there was no closure whatsoever.
*Xanga’s Batman Out*
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@x_damaged_yet_unbroken_x@xanga - Jordan is the singer in 30 seconds to Mars
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Gilmore Girls!!
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I loved Daria! Also Firefly and Pushing Daisies. Oh and Big Wolf On Campus. I wish it could have gone on forever.
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Friends ;[
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In total agreement about Daria.
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Wonderfalls, Pushing Daisies and Arrested Development. So tragic.
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VERONICA MARS WAS AMAZING. ):
tulip / 16 posts
freaks and geeks caught my eye (i’ve started watching it again! haha)
party down
arrested development
undeclared (though doesn’t have that same great feel-good feel that freaks and geek had.)
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FIREFLY!!!! I still secretly hope in my nerdy heart that they will bring the show back…and if wishes were horses, we’d all be eatin’ steak.
sunflower / 405 posts
yeah I sorta wish that they didn’t cancel freaks & geeks right away. But I also kinda like how it ended. all good things must end too.
my so-called life ended because the actress didn’t want to do it anymore. if they made more episodes it might not be as good because she’s not as into it as she was in the first season.
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CHARMED FTW!
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Definitely Veronica Mars. And Heroes. And Firefly. All my favorites are shows that were canceled without a real ending. It’s relatively annoying. It would be nice is the creators would post on the internet how the show would have gone, at least to give the viewers some closure. Kyle XY is another one I’d have liked to have a real ending to.
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Firefly and Legend of the Seeker. <3 <3
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@rabbitsarecool14@xanga - I refer to my dogs as Black and Tan sometimes.
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Kyle XY, Scrubs
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firefly!
I wish Scrubs with the original cast continued too. such a shame
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Firefly, Wonderfalls, Pushing Daisies, and am I the only one who watched The Lost World? They were all ended prematurely and didn’t allow the series to come to a close. Well… Serenity tried to tie up the loose ends of Firefly…
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pushing daisies and arrested development
also, DARIA RULES.
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Freaks and Geeks is amazing!
BIll is the shit.
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Uh, Battlestar Galactica?
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Roswell. can’t believe no one else misses that show.
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I think Golden Girls still had a few good years on them. Too bad they didn’t have a chance to do any kind of reunion, good luck to Betty White and all her endeavors.
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Ed, Edd, n Eddy should of never been cancled! That was the best show ever!
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@SuburbanSweetheart - Amen on the “Friday Night Lights” opinion!!!! I must say, Taylor Kitsch is HOOOOOT!
Others, the old western “Magnificent Seven”.. I caught it on Netflix instant view and there were only 2 seasons which totally stunk cause it was totally awesome!
And let’s say, “White Collar” had better last for a loooong time.
My family also liked “Sons of Thunder” and “Martial Law”.
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Firefly.
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ahhh boy meets world. <3
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@Niamh Hickey@facebook - I think they aired a few new episodes and canceled. They waited way too long to restart it.
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@rabbitsarecool14@xanga - yesssss!!!! It is still pretty much my favorite show. I swear I must find times to reference it almost everyday but have to refrain.
daisy / 598 posts
@lolly - Right?! “STAMOS!!”
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Wow, Daria…So long since I heard that. Now I’m gonna re-watch it XD….yay for procrastinating!
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@Mangonese@xanga - Ahhh, I’m just starting season 3…and I know I’m going to end up agreeing with ya
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@animechrisy@xanga - I miss that show so much. The DVDs aren’t enough. ;__;
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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OH MY GOD!!!!!! DARIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Was the essence of my world hahaha love it miss it and see the old episodes online now and then
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everwood (screwed over by seventh heaven), joan of arcadia (screwed over by ghost whisperer), tonight show with conan o’brien (screwed over by leno).
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I’m another Firefly person. Definitely ended wayyyyyy too soon.
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@rabbitsarecool14@xanga - haha yes!!!
My boyfriend and I loved this show and miss it
If i’m getting ready to go out somewhere he’ll start singing the make-over song haha
magnolia / 1066 posts
Hellcats. =(
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Daria and Firefly…RULED!!
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i agree with all but boy meets world… it was on forever wouldn’t they be like 30 now… i’m sure screaming babys and work would be so interesting it wouldn’t fit in with the type of show it was.
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I liked Boy Meets World, but I kind of hated how they changed the canon so much. In the first few seasons, the characters were pretty complex and cool and wise beyond their years. Then to get ratings, they cut down the characters into basic sound-byte components. They made Topanga bossy and domineering, Cory neurotic, Feeny soft, Shawn whiny, and Eric an idiot-savant. If they’d kept it up, it would have been even more two-dimensional than before.