Why invader zim got cancelled

Those years are just sorta buried with no real proof of your existence. I had to think it sounded fun. Some Eternal Sunshine stuff went down. They had time to see what Zim turned into and how it was still creating interest no matter how much time passed. For the most part everyone understood what they were signing on for. From what I understand, Nick producer Mary Harrington originally approached you about pitching a show to the network, after she discovered Squee!

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Because of this, it's likely the target demographic just never heard of or saw it. This rumor is false. It's one of the most widely-spread of the cancellation stories, and usually one of the most believed.

While there is truth to it-Nick did deny a scene with a bloody GIR, and the image was then snuck into one frame of each of the last fourteen episodes, Nickelodeon didn't actually discover any of them until after they had already cancelled it and it was off the air.

Therefore, while this story is based off fact, it's not true. While some witnesses say it was a distasteful joke, a lot of people today also cite this as the reason for cancellation. This one is a lot more plausible, as it happened before the show was cancelled and everything, but even if it was part of the reason why it was taken off the air, it's not the main one. I myself believe it wasn't cancelled at all because of this reason, but there's not enough for me to research.

This isn't really a widely-known myth or anything, but I thought I'd include it anyway in case some of you have seen it around. In it, he proceeds to tell a story of how his friend and fellow crew member did something tragic, and how the show was then shut down in turn. This story is completely false. If anyone knows Jhonen decently, they know he's always joking or using sarcasm, hyperbole, or something of the sort.

Everything he says about the event he describes is not true, and shouldn't be taken seriously. If you see it out there, just remember it's written by him. Now that we've got those out of the way, why was Zim really canceled? What we do know, however, brings us to this.

Due to Nickelodeon's neglect to the show, they failed to bring in the exact audience they were looking for. Couple that with the fact that Zim was fairly expensive to produce, and you have what can be considered the closest to the truth. It wasn't any easter egg or tragic accident: Nickelodeon's own failure to see what they had as well as market it correctly brought it down.