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Save Danny Phantom!

This was pretty cool. Apparently, Nick is canceling Danny Phantom, and apparently, some people are upset about it. Some people were upset enough about it to stage a protest right outside the building today, complete with picket signs that were so awesome, I'm still not entirely sure this wasn't an internal publicity stunt. They gave out flyers and free candy, had televisions playing episodes of the show...amazing. The people protesting were a pretty eclectic group, so I'm assuming that they founded their cause online and only met each other this morning. They weren't all "FUCK YOU VIACOM" or anything, either. It felt a little bit more like a party, only they were celebrating something that pissed them the fuck off. Don't know how helpful it'll be, but I scored a single-wrapped LifeSaver out of it. Continue on for more pics...

I think I'll skip work the day they can SpongeBob.

Posted by Matt on 07/24/2006. E-mail me!



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1st X-E comment ever, and maybe it’s a 1st-poster. Cool.

Never been one for civil disobedience myself, but if I were to whip out a placard it’d probably have something to do with a cartoon cancellation or discontinuation of an item of food or drink.

Chestnuts roasted by Daniel85 @ 07/24/2006 11:19 PM

meh, far better has been cancelled and I didn’t start any public protest over it. Then again, I’m not really the type of person who stands up. Literally stand up.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 07/24/2006 11:29 PM

Save our ghost boy.

Chestnuts roasted by Phayke @ 07/24/2006 11:34 PM

Wow, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a protest over cancelling a cartoon. Good for them, although I had no idea who Danny Phantom was until I saw the pictures.

I should’ve started one when Cartoon Network cancelled Courage the Cowardly Dog. *sigh* I need those on DVD…

Is Pete & Pete Season 2 out on DVD yet?

Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 07/24/2006 11:34 PM

Weidest/funniest protest that ever happened in Iowa was a few years ago. The cable company dropped MTV and replaced it with Animal Planet. MASSIVE protests, complete with chants and everything. It was even on the local news.

They did bring it back about a month later, so now we have both channels.

There was also a small protest when the paper dropped Rex Morgan MD and replaced it with some unfunny piece of crap. They brought that back within a month also.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 07/24/2006 11:37 PM

Yeah I know that many a people hve already protested it’s cancellation, but they need to bring back INVADER ZIM!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Joker @ 07/24/2006 11:38 PM

AMAZING. I had no idea DP was that popular. You have the greatest workplace sights ever.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 07/24/2006 11:43 PM

I am glad it is beeing canceled, they need to make room for new stuff. These current cartoons almost all of them blow.

Chestnuts roasted by the80sruled @ 07/25/2006 12:07 PM

Never watched Danny Phantom all that much. In fact, the last time I tuned in to Nick, I saw a buncha cartoons that I’d never seen before. I think I’m outta the loop.

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 07/25/2006 12:24 PM

As far as Nicktoons, I only like FOP and Spongebob (although the newer episodes aren’t that great).

I wouldn’t be surprised if this is a stunt though. Nickelodeon always made Danny Phantom seem like a bigger deal than it probably actually is.

Chestnuts roasted by RewolfJ @ 07/25/2006 12:59 PM

I wish I could have been there. Danny Phantom and Fairly Odd Parents are really great toons. And both are CANCELLED! How FOP is being cancel I can not fathom, they seem 2nd only to the mighty Sponge.

Chestnuts roasted by Doc Scarealot @ 07/25/2006 1:32 AM

I love that "Save the Spirit of Nickelodean" poster. For me, Nick died years ago…sometime soon after "Salute Your Shorts" and "Hey Dude" and "Pete and Pete" were taken off the air.

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 07/25/2006 1:53 AM

It has been dead to me, too, for quite soem time. Maybe the cancellation of a number of these shows can usher in a new era of good.

Chestnuts roasted by Ragnarok @ 07/25/2006 2:44 AM

Oh, you have to love posters whose logic runs thusly: "it’s not my cup of tea, therefore, it sucks." Their I.Q.s? Gotta be in the single digits. Dan Quayle City.

New stuff? Retard, please. Kill an excellent, still-wildly-popular show for the sake of some trash like (just as an example) "Robot Boy," which steals from so many sources it makes one’s head spin? No thanks.

Superior toons "Kim Possible" and "Futurama" have been rescued from the grave by similar (albeit not so public) protests. Similar fights continue for "Teen Titans." In all cases, it’s people who appreciate a good toon versus boardroom Shemps who think they know better based on "focus group analysis" and horsecrap taught at business colleges.

More power to the protesters.

Chestnuts roasted by Happenstance @ 07/25/2006 2:50 AM

Wow, that was pretty condescending. I didn’t say that it sucked…I simply implied that for ME, Nickelodean was dead. I have no problem with the protestors. In fact, if they can bring a show back, more power to them. Hell, I’d love to be able to bring some of the older shows that I mentioned above back (or even "You can’t do that on TV").

I simply find the sign humorous, since MY Nickelodean, that I grew up with, has been dead for some time…No spirit to rescue! :)

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 07/25/2006 3:15 AM

As for me, I really like a couple of the shows you mentioned, but neither of them are Nick shows.

Chestnuts roasted by Ragnarok @ 07/25/2006 3:21 AM

I don’t even really watch Nickelodeon anymore, and most of those action shows put me to sleep. But the day they cancel Fosters is the day I rise up in arms.

Btw I just woke up from a dream about XE (its 8am in the UK). Rob Zombie was shooting a music video and everyone was walking around in sweet black samurai gear and I saw MattXE and was like "Yo, Matt! It’s Eddie Lightning Frog from the blog." He said "Hey" and then pointed out a bunch of other blog members. It was awesome!!

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 07/25/2006 3:32 AM

Good morning everybody. I haven’t posted on this blog for months at least. Anyway, i break my silence with this question for Eddie Lightning Frog: when Matt pointed out blog members to you in his dream, what did they look like, and how would you know what they look like since you’ve never seen any of them?

Chestnuts roasted by Hoverboard @ 07/25/2006 7:33 AM

Well, it’s 6:30 AM and I haven’t had any coffee yet. I suppose I could fit in with the cast of a Rob Zombie video right now.

The whole Fairly Oddparents thing is kind of sad, even though I haven’t watched it since high school. But one of my fondest memories is catching the world premiere of FO and Invader Zim in a hotel room in Las Cruces with a bunch of my friends on an FFA trip. It was something special, we quoted it incessantly for the rest of the week, and it led to a really tragic proportion of the in-jokes within my crew. Good times.

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 07/25/2006 7:33 AM

Hoverboard- That’s the weird thing. I know what Matt looks like from his old articles, but even he didn’t really look like himself. Everyone was in sweet, black samurai getups. But somehow I knew it was him, ya follow? The members he pointed out looked either like samurai or just like normal 20-something yr olds: jeans, t-shirts, etc. We were all on the floor of like an office building or upper tier of a mall, and Rob Zombie was on a dais in the middle, singing with epic wind blowing all around him. It was a really pumped dream the more I think more about it. Damn alarm had to ruin it :(

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 07/25/2006 7:49 AM

Cameron, I’m in the boat with you about Nick. It would be sweet to see a retro show on there every once in awhile, but…Nick is what it is.

The only cartoonish protest type thing I ever took a part in was signing internet petitions to bring Space Ghost to DVD back in like 99/2000. I meant it though.

Chestnuts roasted by Jessica Marie @ 07/25/2006 8:45 AM

Whoa, bummer that they’re cancelling FOP. I won’t miss Danny Phantom (only saw one episode), but do protests like this really work? Damn, we should have tried that when Fux cancelled Arrested Development!

Chestnuts roasted by Dr Sketch @ 07/25/2006 8:59 AM

They’re cancelling FOP? Isn’t that Nick’s (along with Spongebob) best show based on ratings? Glad they are canceling Danny Phantom. That show was utter crap.

I’m still pissed at Nickelodeon for being ambitious enough for starting the show 100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd knowing they probably weren’t going to finish it. 76 more good deeds to go….for life!

I’m really sad that they got rid of Nickelodeon Studios at Universal Studios, Orlando Florida. Not that much was going on in that building in the last five years but still. It was cool to sneak backstage and talk to some of the people that worked on the shows.

Oh, and what the fuck was Nick thinking when the canceled Legends?

Chestnuts roasted by Brett @ 07/25/2006 9:26 AM

I hate it when the alarm ruins a dream. I was having one once where I was fighting zombies and the alarm woke me up. Never even got to see anyone get eaten. :(

Chestnuts roasted by Deuce @ 07/25/2006 9:35 AM

I don’t make it a habit to watch cartoons, but I can understand someone being so attached to a show that they put together what looks like one hell of a protest. Sometimes, corporate America forgets that the consumer is the most important thing.

Chestnuts roasted by bitchpants @ 07/25/2006 9:36 AM

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