Why was it canceled?

The one thing I really actually liked about this show was the Son of a Bitch song. Either because it was funny to hear on a saturday morning cartoon, or because that particular episode was only aired uncut the first time.

Might also explain the show's cancellation. Oh, well…

This may have been alluded to before, but I'm going to say it anyway. I think the main weakness of the show was that its conflict was conflicting with itself. It used a lot of what you might call "higher" humor (as opposed to slapstick) in the form of irony, verbal humor, situational humor, etc. that you usually find in programs aimed at adults. It was also fairly topical in its humor. Let's face it, when Bill Clinton saw something going wrong and called for Hillary, barely any of the kids the show was aimed at could understand it (just as I'm sure many of the target audience couldn't get how hilarious Freakazoid's portrayal of Henry Kissinger was). Another example was "Hunter's Heroes" which had overtones of "The Great Escape" and "Hogan's Heroes"- both shows that most of the Fox Kids audience wouldn't know about, but I did and, therefore, appreciated the humor. Much of this humor is better suited with the same, more adult, audiences who watch Futurama, the Simpsons, and Saturday Night Live. There were also things like ongoing sub-plots. Take the Hunter/Colleen relationship, for example. How many other children's programs have a kind of love interest plot going where one character is genuinely hurt/upset by the actions of the other? However, much of the stylings were more child-oriented, such as the multitude of round, soft, "friendly" shapes and the incessant canine theme. Then there are issues like the character animations where the physical geometry of a character could change (Sometimes the sides of Exile's neck were vertical, giving him a head that looked like a husky's, and other times they bowed out, giving him a dome-like appearance).

I think the premise of the show, and possibly the show itself, could have been / could be resurrected; but I think it would need to follow it's humor, its strongest suit, dress up the animation, not be quite so goofy, and be more focused in regards to the audience it pursued- a chance that this great show was denied because it only got one season. I'm a cop now, and I have a very serious life; but I still like to take a moment now and then and think back to the Road Rovers.

Maybe it is a bit too early still for me to judge it, but I have been watching the first three episodes... and I'm not impressed with the show at all. While the style is cool and all, the story, the jokes, and the characters just are bad in my opinion. None of the characters are really likable and have the personality of a brick, the stories are nothing great and are rarely consistent with each other, the jokes are a hit or (most of the time) a miss for any age group, etc. And the show is so hardly believable; a bomb blows this guy's lab to hell and back, but he walks away just dandy... and in the same episode, a bomb goes off on this guy's lap, and it doesn't even wrinkle his clothing... Looney Tunes were more realistic that this show... and the catch phrases by some characters become annoying; "Don't be a weird boy" was alright the first time we heard it, but by the third episode they ran it into the ground and I got tired of hearing it already... and Blitz always wanting to kiss himself... At this point, I'm having a hard time wanting to watch the next episodes.

It's hard to believe though that I don't like a show like this, but I love Freakazoid and Animaniacs... those shows had heart though, while this show just seems so uninspired.

People are always wondering why it got canceled, but as I watch it I can't help but feel I know the answer to that; the show is boring. Perhaps it is a guilty pleasure at best, but nothing more.

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