  One of my favorite TV shows was cancelled before I ever saw it. Invader Zim is comic genius, but I think it was too much for Nickelodeon to handle.
I've never really been a big fan of TV in general, but during spring semester I was tutoring a kid and he started telling me about Invader Zim. He had a few copies of episodes on his computer and let me watch them. Within a months time I had downloaded high quality copies of every episode available on the internet and had bought the DVD, and I'm looking forward to the second DVD. Why is it that awesome shows like that get cancelled after only a couple seasons? WHY?!! This isn't true for everything of course. The Simpsons has been running forever. I personally am not super fond of the Simpsons, but it does have it's good points. Look at some of the other great ones though: Animaniacs The Tick Eek the Cat Darkwing Duck Dilbert What's up with that? They're some of the best cartoons TV has ever seen and none of them lasted more than a few seasons. We need to have our cartoon companies rethink their policies. I know Warner Bros. and Disney have a standard setup where they come out with new cartoons every couple years and cancel the old ones.
Why can't they keep them going? It's not that they run out of material, Simpsons proves that. Zim was perhaps cancelled in part due to some of its creepier aspects, such as the entire Dark Harvest episode, but there is no reason for Eek to have been cancelled. And Zim was so popular when it was cancelled that Nick brought it back for a season because of all the petitions they received.
If you haven't seen Zim I highly recommend it. You can download them in high quality avi format using bittorrent from urlLink here . Start with The Nightmare Begins just because it explains what's going on in the rest of them. Also watch Tak the Hideous New Girl before you watch The Most Horrible Christmas Ever just because that's one of the only things where it's obvious which came first. Be sure to watch The Wettening as well. It's one of my favorites and is the one that got me hooked. I suggest buying the DVD as well just because it's better quality and enough people buying it should let them know they need to do more.
They're planning on a 2nd one. There are some episodes that were never aired in the US and can't be found on the Internet. If they're not on the 2nd one I think I'll be searching for petitions to sign again. Well, I'm sick of writing for now. Watch Zim! 
