Disney Channel (pre-2009)

The Disney Channel is a kids' TV network that was first formed in 1983. It has been going downhill since 2009, when JONAS premiered.

Why It Once Sucked

 * 1) Disney Channel lost care for anything other than their sitcoms and their most successful animated series (most notably Phineas and Ferb), cancelling other shows after three seasons or moving them to spin-off channels (most notably Disney XD) to die.
 * 2) They ruined Wizards of Waverly Place in its fourth and final season.
 * 3) They made lots of bad shows, such as:
 * 4) The first two seasons of Bizaardvark
 * 5) mh:terribletvshows:Dog with a Blog
 * 6) mh:terribletvshows:Fish Hooks
 * 7) mh:terribletvshows:Shake it Up
 * 8) mh:terribletvshows:A.N.T. Farm
 * 9) mh:terribletvshows:Jonas
 * 10) mh:terribletvshows:Gabby Duran & the Unsittables
 * 11) mh:terribletvshows:So Random!
 * 12) mh:terribletvshows:The Buzz on Maggie
 * 13) Season 3 onwards of Bunk'd
 * 14) The BLAM!, Classic Cartoons, and Re-Micks segments from Have a Laugh!
 * 15) Due to running for at least 38 years, Disney Channel will often jump the shark.
 * 16) They stopped showing Mickey Mouse and the gang, apart from their shows on Disney Junior and Disney XD as well as the 2013 Mickey Mouse series (which did air on Disney Channel).
 * 17) They would oftentimes refuse to show non-sitcom live-action shows or non-Disney Junior animated series. Whenever they did, they often screwed those shows over by messing around with their timeslots, putting them on long hiatuses, and canceling them prematurely:
 * 18) Much like Wander Over Yonder, Gravity Falls was moved to Disney XD and later prematurely cancelled after two seasons in 2016.
 * 19) Wander Over Yonder was moved to Disney XD for its second season. In 2016, creator Craig McCracken announced the show was cancelled because Disney thought that "80 episodes were enough".
 * 20) After premiering, Rapunzel's Tangled Adventures only aired reruns weekend mornings after Disney Junior and weekdays at 7:30 am.
 * 21) The show's time slot was changed multiple times throughout its run, with premieres during Season 1 moving from Friday nights to Sunday nights and then to Saturday mornings:
 * 22) In January 2018, the show only aired on weekends at 8:30 AM. From January 28 to May 19 of that year, there were absolute ZERO Tangled reruns.
 * 23) The show underwent a long hiatus from August 2018 to March 2019 with no reruns and was moved to 7:00 AM after the hiatus.
 * 24) After the Season 2 finale, the show went on another long hiatus (with, yet again, no reruns).
 * 25) Season 3 premiered at 1:00 PM when the target audience would be at school (unless they had fall break). The show had little-to-no advertising either.
 * 26) The show was moved back to 7:00 AM in January 2020 and was canceled after its third season.
 * 27) Andi Mack was canceled after its third season. In addition, all Season 3 episodes had the character Ham cut out.
 * 28) mh:terribletvshows:Fish Hooks, despite its first-run episodes airing in decent time slots, only had reruns at 5:00 AM. Reruns were moved to Disney XD after the show ended in 2014.
 * 29) Phineas and Ferb was eventually moved to Disney XD late in its run, with reruns and episode premieres on Disney Channel being pulled entirely.
 * 30) The Owl House was canceled after its third season, and said season only consisted of three 44-minute specials.
 * 31) More recent animated series, such as Big City Greens, the 2017 reboot of DuckTales, and Big Hero 6: The Series, have oftentimes gone on hiatuses that last around 4-8 months. This is due to Disney Channel's new binge-watching strategy where the crew for each show is forced to finish producing ten episodes and then release them all at once in a "bomb" format week after week, which can take months or even half a year.
 * 32) The ZhuZhus (formerly called Polly and the ZhuZhus before Polly was renamed to Frankie) was often held off from airing for months, had its episode airings constantly delayed, and was almost completely forgotten by the network after it ended.
 * 33) The first season of Hotel Transylvania: The Series took over a year to air, likely because Disney Channel saw it as a seasonal show due to its themes, and the network stuck premieres during the second half of Season 2 in an early morning timeslot with no advertising.
 * 34) Their sitcoms from this era tend to have the following:
 * 35) Poorly executed or done parodies.
 * 36) Unfunny puns and/or jokes that drag on far too long, gross-out humor, and generally annoying humor.
 * 37) Insulting the intelligence of their audience and treating them like a bunch of idiots.
 * 38) Pure filler or padding whenever needed.
 * 39) Mean-spirited moments.
 * 40) Mediocre to bad acting.
 * 41) Bad morals, especially in Shake it Up!.
 * 42) Characters who are poorly-written stereotypes, such as:
 * 43) The character who has a best friend/a pair of best friends/multiple friends.
 * 44) The dumb and idiotic character.
 * 45) The smartass character.
 * 46) The country stereotype (Lou from Bunk'd and Amelia from Bizaardvark).
 * 47) The badass character who is female and is used to promote girl power.
 * 48) The grumpy character who is there just to hate the main characters.
 * 49) The high school student.
 * 50) The mean popular girl.
 * 51) Attempts to be hip, modern, edgy, and cool with the kids.
 * 52) Cheap and lackluster special effects, particularly in Season 4 of Wizards of Waverly Place.
 * 53) Little-to-no character development or redemption.
 * 54) Overuse of the laugh track.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) They used to be good before 2008.
 * 2) There are some good shows in the dark age.