>>114135100this. I liked Tim and Eric at the time (thought Tom Goes to the Mayor was better, however), but it gave wake to a bunch of very not funny, definitely not-cartoon shows. And some of the newer cartoons to me were not very funny. I stuck around for Aqua Teen, Robot Chicken (I know), Venture Bros, The Boondocks, Squidbillies, Metalocalypse, and some of the new action stuff like Blood+. But largely, wasn't interested in much else of the new content, especially the gimmicky shit like airing Pee Wee's Play House or whatever. Mostly it was me being like "Thank god they're airing a rerun of GITS and Champloo or Sealab and Home Movies rather than some awful new show"
When they lost Futurama, it all seemed to decline really quick, like Turner executives were throwing everything at the wall to replace it. Schedules were constantly moving around, tons of pilots came and went. All the new live action did nothing for me, more acquired network tv rejects (the fucking PJs) did nothing for me, the weird 80s parody British shows did nothing for me.
Around the time they picked up King of the Hill was the death knell for me. By that point they were on air for 10 hours a day 7 days a week, but it was largely reruns of FOX shows and the same Robot Chicken episodes night after night. Or always fucking Delocated and Children's Hospital and British show repeats. ATCN had been reduced to being 2 hours of Bleach premieres (just to burn off all the episodes they had bought because the block was tanking). You rarely saw any of the classics aired anymore (except for the Oblongs, which for some reason repeated the same episodes in an endless loop constantly).
I remember ~2010, I would tune in for the new episodes of Aqua Teen (final season with the original name - fucking hated it and turned me off the show for a few years), The Boondocks (thought it was decent, but not as good as the first two), and The Venture Bros. (still as strong as ever, imo). That was when I dipped out.
