Why These '90s Cartoons Really Got Canceled

The 1990s were a golden age of television animation. But cartoons are a business, and even the most beloved shows are sometimes cancelled to make room for more profitable programming. Here's the real reason these '90s cartoons were cancelled.

In the 1990s, Fox became the only place on broadcast TV where primetime animation could find an audience and flourish creatively. Following the success of The Simpsons, the network debuted another, very different show about a cartoon family in early 1997: King of the Hill.

Created by Beavis and Butt-Head mastermind Mike Judge, the low-key but hilarious series centered on Hank Hill, an extremely uptight family man from the town of Arlen, Texas, who loved beer, football, and selling propane. He often struggled to relate to his weird tween son, Bobby.

King of the Hill earned all kinds of Emmy attention and was a consistent hit with viewers: It remained on the Fox lineup for well over a decade. But after 259 episodes, King of the Hill was out of gas: Its final episode "To Sirloin with Love" aired just before the start of the 2009-2010 TV season.

King of the Hill helped further popularize network cartoons, but ironically the show was forced to step aside for a new animated series. Shortly after Fox announced its final order of King of the Hill episodes, it gave a full season pickup to The Cleveland Show, a spinoff of the hit cartoon Family Guy.

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