10 GREAT TV Shows You Can't Watch Anymore

Sadly, great shows being lost to time because a company decided that they'd make more money from its destruction is not a new phenomenon. It just didn't happen nearly as often as it does now. One of the big ones of the 2000s was the fate of poor Megas XLR. 

This hilarious and biting parody of both late-90s mecha anime and early-aughts American geek culture was met with very positive reviews, but consistently low ratings. This is mainly due to the network constantly giving the show terrible time slots and never advertising it properly. After two seasons, Megas XLR was cancelled, and a few years later, was turned into a tax write-off.

Thus is Megas XLR's fate, lost to obscurity so that someone at WB could make some money. While fans have, in the years since, found and uploaded recordings to pirating sites, there is currently no legal way to watch this classic cartoon. 

Megas' fate sticks out to animation fans even today because, back then, this didn't happen to every show that got taken off the air. Tax write-offs are traditionally intended as a last resort, because why else would you throw away potential future profit off of an IP for a bit of money now? Megas XLR is proof that even in the animation golden age of the early-mid 2000s, this kind of chicanery still existed.