Quantity over quality

Quantity over quality
Airing nothing but Teen Titans Go! for an entire week with perhaps a little bit of Steven Universe is not the best way to attract views. (Notably an example of Adored By The Network)
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Here is another example of quantity over quality, This time is about paid advertising.

Quantity over quality is a term used when multiple episodes of the show air that show little to no effort other than those big juicy numbers. There is also a similar term called Adored by the Network, which is when a show is loved & aired to death by a certain TV channel. We will also be talking about this term here.

Examples

Overall

• Johnny Test (2005, seasons 4-6) - Since Season 4, the show began to go downhill, but it went even further downhill in Seasons 5-6, with cheaper and more choppy animation and character movements, and poor and repetitive writing. These seasons lasted five years with a total of 78 half-hours. To make matters worse, Cartoon Network overplayed the show from late 2009 to 2014, attempting to become the next SpongeBob, which backfired and ended up being one of the prime reasons why the entire show (even seasons 1-3) was hated so much.
• Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir - This show became Disney's biggest cash-cow as it constantly airs on Disney Channel and takes up the whole schedule, additionally, similar to the last two seasons of The Fairly OddParents, these seasons added lots of unnecessary new characters, some of the characters have been badly flanderized and slight animation downgrade.
• Star vs. The Forces of Evil (seasons 3 & 4)
• Teen Titans Go! - The show started in 2013 and is still going to this day with no signs of ending. Many episodes, especially seasons 2 & 3, rely on gross-out jokes, and mocking critics, and the Titans were flanderized into unlikeable characters. And like Johnny Test, it was overplayed from 2014 to 2018, attempting to be the next SpongeBob.
• SpongeBob SquarePants - Ever since the 2004 film, Nickelodeon has been using the show as a cash cow and currently has no signs of ending. However, by Season 6, it ended up backfiring and many episodes flanderized most of the characters, and the show began to rely too much on gross-out and mean-spirited humor. However, it improved by the ninth season but got even better by Seasons 10-11. However, the Post-Season 10 animation looks weird, jarring, and distracting.
• The Simpsons (seasons 23b-31) - It went downhill in season 11 (particularly the 2nd half), however seasons 11-20 (and to a lesser extent, seasons 21-23a are still tolerable), it wasn't until season 23b when it became a shadow of its former self with Fox using it as a cash cow, and currently has no signs of ending. While Seasons 32-present has improvements, it still has yet to fully recover from The Principal and the Pauper.
• Family Guy (seasons 8-present) - Since Season 8, the show has become more mean-spirited and rotten, with overuse of gore, shock humor, violence, blood, and vomit. Also, this shows the worst case of flanderization. And to add salt to the wound, Seth MacFarlane is done with the series and wanted it to end, but sadly he couldn't due to Fox using it as a cash cow and currently has no signs of ending, hence resulting in the show to get worse and worse as the series progresses on.
• South Park - Despite being an overall good series, it has become a cash cow for Comedy Central. There are currently 322 episodes split between 26 seasons and counting. Season 20 is the most controversial. Season 23 onwards are the most divisive as these seasons begin focusing more on Randy Marsh, flanderizing the main boys, and having more mean-spirited moments. The modern seasons also have fewer episodes making these seasons feel rushed. It was also announced that the show will not air new episodes until at least 2025 due to political correctness being overused.
• American Dad! - Despite its perceived drop in quality, TBS won't let it end due to it being a cash cow. However, the series is still regarded as being good.
• Thomas & Friends: The original series had 24 series and 584 episodes. This caused the show to go downhill in the Sharon Miller era (seasons 13-16). While it did improve in the Andrew Brenner era (seasons 17-21), it again dropped in quality in Big World! Big Adventures! era (seasons 22-24), and ended the original on a sour note. The reboot All Engines Go! is controversial as it has caused the show to become a shadow of its former self.
• The Fairly OddParents (seasons 9 & 10) - From Seasons 6 to 10, Nickelodeon has used it as a secondary cash cow. It only got worse by Season 9, but the quality was so low in Season 10 that it killed the show for good.
• The Loud House - It replaced The Fairly OddParents as Nickelodeon's second cash cow and is about to beat that show and Rugrats. It also went downhill after its fourth season and even more in the fifth season. While Seasons 6b-present are slight improvements, these seasons may still share some of the issues mentioned. However, Season 1 also had the same problems as the seasonal rot seasons such as too much gross out humor.
• Barney & Friends: It lasted for 18 years, spawning over 260 episodes.
• Dora the Explorer: Became one of Nickelodeon's cash cows, running for 15 years (19 if counting the dates on which the last few episodes aired in the United States to promote Dora and the Lost City of Gold) and spawning 178 episodes.
• Peppa Pig: Despite having been claimed that episodes sometimes take "over a month to develop properly", the show has over 7 seasons and over 300 episodes in just 17 years. Not helping is that the show is a cash cow for Nick Jr, Channel 5 (UK), eOne and now Hasbro, and currently has no signs of ending.
• Blue's Clues: Despite being a good show, it spawned over 140 episodes in 10 years. This was because the show was Nick Jr's biggest cash cow between 1996 and 2001 when Dora the Explorer premiered. It even went little bit downhill during its final two seasons.
• Survivor: Although it's still a pretty good show, it had over 40 seasons in 20 years.
• Saturday Night Live: While not particularly a bad show. The show has been running for an EXTREMELY long time (even more than shows like South Park, Family Guy, and The Simpsons).
• Ridiculousness: Despite the show being poorly received, MTV milks the series to death and by now has produced over 41 seasons and 1,428 episodes since 2011! In recent times, it dominated the MTV network, as episodes air non-stop and take up a lot of the schedule, with many days airing nothing but the series, leading to the series' (and MTV itself) ratings dropping but the series significantly, towards the end of the 2010s, MTV has grown so fond of the show, that by 2019, MTV's weekend schedule was bombarded by Ridiculousness reruns, then it only grew from there; according to a Variety article, in late June 2020, a staggering 113 hours a week, out of 168, of MTV's schedule consisted of Ridiculousness. It airs so much that it could even give shows like Johnny Test (from 2012-2014), The Loud House (from 2023-present), SpongeBob SquarePants (from 2023-present), The Fairly OddParents (from 2013-2017), and Teen Titans Go! (from 2015-2018) a run for their money.
• Sesame Street: While nowhere near as bad as The Simpsons, Family Guy, and South Park, it ran for way too long since it began in 1969 and has been a cash cow for Sesame Workshop. While the show is always considered to be good, the recent seasons may be somewhat divisive for some viewers. However, the earlier seasons may also share some of the issues that the later seasons mentioned.
• PAW Patrol: While still a decent series overall, the Nick Jr channel has been spamming the show non-stop, to the point where it ran for way too long (premiered in 2013, and currently has 11 seasons and 262 episodes, no signs of stopping apart from there). To make matters worse, it even suffered through seasonal rot in season 6 onwards.
• Ryan's World and Ryan's Mystery Playdate - The former has over 1,000 videos and 30 million subs in six years. As for the latter, it has four seasons and 70 episodes in just two years.
• Bunk'd (seasons 3-7) - Since Season 3, the show began to lose its original charm, with the removal of several beloved characters and their replacement with new, unnecessary ones. The humor, once sharp and engaging, became dull and unfunny, starkly contrasting the first two seasons. The subsequent seasons, which dragged on for seven years, felt overly extended, especially given the show's noticeable decline after Season 2. Thankfully, the series finally came to an end in August 2024, marking the conclusion of its prolonged and increasingly lackluster run.
• The Wacky World of Tex Avery: Despite only running for one season over four months in 1997, it spawned 65 episodes.
• Fanboy & Chum Chum: Despite being hated, 52 episodes, including 100 segments of the show, were produced over three years.
• Shake It Up: Despite its reception, 75 episodes of the show were made in three years.
• The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!: Despite being only lasted for just one season over four months in 1989, it spawned 52 episodes.
• Chikn Nuggit: whilst a good series, has spawned over 547 episodes in the span of 4 years. Its sister series, The Land of Boggs has been running since 2018 and technically does the same.

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