>>94085251Frisky Dingo was a casualty of budget issues and network politics.
The show was critically acclaimed but ratings were bad. It was too serialized and adult swim refused to do merch for it outside of a vinyl figure of Killface as part of a short-lived blind box line of AS toys.
The biggest issue was season three was going to require a bigger budget because it was going to be yet another retool. Killface and Awesome X would trade places: Killface the spoiled royal prince who takes Xander hostage on his way back home with his son and Xander becoming "the villain", as far as fighting Killface and his family and their entire planet, to get home and save Earth.
They vetoed season three, canceled the show and Adam was told instead to do an Xstacles spin-off.
The plan originally sold to Adam, was that Adult Swim would give him time to do the two episode pilot special and air it at the same time that Frisky Dingo S2 would come out on DVD (S1 sold well and was the only reason S2 got greenlit.
This deal was quickly renegged upon and Adam had to rush to get the two episodes written and animated. Worse, one of the Space Ghost writers brought on against Adam's will to write the second episode (which revolved around a Rapier sword caring ape who every called Rape Ape).
Adult Swim then rushed the pilot special to air pretty much as soon as it was done, with Adam Reed himself not knowing it was going to air until a couple of days before it did. Oh, and just to add salt into the wound that was Frisky Dingo's cancellation for fans and Adam Reed, the Xstacles pilot opened with a bump that said "Tell us what you think, because you can either have S3 of Frisky Dingo or a full season of Xstacles!".
This was the final insult, because while Frisky Dingo's cancellation was known online to those following the show and Adam Reed's network issues, the cancellation was never announced on the air. So they were effectively trying to kill the spin-off before it even aired.
