Fire Brian Robbins from Nickelodeon.

Fire Brian Robbins from Nickelodeon.

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October 9, 2023
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Nickelodeon Ariana Urbont and
Signatures: 181Next Goal: 200
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Started by McCrae Cook

I know Nickelodeon used to be a great kid’s channel who offered a variety of shows in the 1990’s and 2000’s such as memorable sitcoms such as Drake and Josh and ICarly,game shows such as Double Dare and Legends of The Hidden Temple, and Nicktoons such as Rugrats,Hey Arnold!,Ren and Stimpy,Avatar:The Last Airbender,SpongeBob SquarePants,and Invader Zim. But nowadays,they have become a fallen shadow of their former self when the whole downward trend began when Cyra Zhargami stepped in in 2006 and made things worse by ruining Nick’s strong branding and variety and turned it into a greedy,soulless company relying on SpongeBob and Loud House and only caring more about money than entertaining kids and variety(also the disrespect and mistreatment they had to other cartoons that aren’t SpongeBob and doing this thing for 17 years where you screw them over without love or care and kill them off on Nicktoons). But things really took a more darker turn for Nickelodeon when 5 years ago, Brian Robbins was appointed CEO and Chairman of Nickelodeon(as well as Paramount Pictures) and while he did a few good things such as having Middlemost Post end on the main channel and changed the network’s logo back to it’s iconic former orange glory,he made things even worse than Cyra did by continuing to milk SpongeBob and never giving it a break to end(along with making spinoffs without Hillenburg’s permission),killed NickRewind in 2021,made Nicktoons Network a channel of just current Nicktoons reruns,acted sexist by rejecting Phoebe and The Unicorn,made Nick focus more on streaming more than TV and variety,relying more on IP than original ideas,made Loud House a second cashcow to  SpongeBob after it’s creator was fired,cancelled shows too soon like the ICarly Reboot and Star Trek:Progidy, made crappy live action sitcoms based off Fairly OddParents and Loud House,showing a lot of disrespect to classic Nick shows and killed off the NickRewind block on TeenNick,stalled Glitch Techs because he didn’t want to do it and dumped it on Netflix,turned Nick into a movie kids channel by showing a lot of movies on the network, and did hardly nothing to improve Nick as a channel.

 

This whole unfair trend of screwing over shows such as El Tigre,Catscratch,Mighty B!,The X’s,Harvey Beaks,It’s Pony,and Rise of The TMNT by killing them off early without interest or love for not being as successful as SpongeBob or Loud House and dumping the rest of them on Nicktoons for their final episodes to kill them off(along with Brian cancelling Glitch Techs and dooming it to Netflix,because he didn’t want to be interested in it and stalled production by letting everyone go and Making Fiends and Random Cartoons premiering on Nicktoons Network),They could’ve been the next Rugrats-SpongeBob for the network,but instead you kill them off and doom them to Nicktoons as a death punishment because of the unfair way the network has treated them compared to the porous yellow guy and a boy with 10 sisters. You need to stop treating your other cartoons like poop and start focusing more on them than the sponge and The Loud House,and please forget about the ratings failure of the Jungle Movie and revive a few more old Nicktoons IP’s(like you did with Rocko,Zim,and Arnold in the late 2010’s) by bringing back the original creators and crew to make a El Tigre movie for Paramount+, revivals/reboot series of Jimmy Neutron,Invader Zim, and The Mighty B!(with Amy Poehler back as executive producer and voice of Bessie), have Eric Robles and Dan Malino continue Glitch Techs in graphic novels by you and Boom! Studios since the show deserved better with a second chance and Brian didn’t want to bring back the series,why not continue it in comics/graphic novels,apologize to Dana Simpson for acting sexist and revive and greenlight Phoebe and The Unicorn as a TV series,make more Danny Phantom graphic novels,and tell Ramsey Niato and Brian Robbins to stop relying more on SpongeBob as a corporate product and give other cartoons like Rock,Paper,Scissors a chance with more than 4-5 seasons instead of just 1-3 seasons and end this 17-year Nicktoons/Netflix death treatment for good. Also,tell Brian to give The Tiger’s Apprentice a theatrical release and not release them under the Nickelodeon Movies banner.

I know SpongeBob is a timeless pop-culture icon,but you been relying and milking this yellow guy for nearly 25 years and can’t you just end the series already with a hour-long special or a fifth movie being a sequel to the first movie(that would be a potential finale to the show),everyone is getting tired of Nick relying too much on Stephen Hillenburg’s absorbent yellow icon and I’m really upset Brian disrespected Hillenburg’s wishes by making these spinoffs happen because Stephen never wanted spinoffs since he said SpongeBob is the core element of the show. Another rule Hillenburg made for SpongeBob you broke is that you made Krabby Patties real at the NFL Wild Card game last year,since he never wanted Krabby Patties to be real. Also,you need to end The Loud House already and let it die after Season 7 since the show has already ran it’s course and went down in quality around Season 4 and have Michael Rubiner and the crew make a series finale with the Louds all grown up and having their own families and careers that would’ve ended the show on a high note(along with the reunion photo at the end being a callback to the original 2014 pilot episode). I know SpongeBob got a 15th season recently and you always let him win favorite cartoon every time at the KCA’s(please let another cartoon like Rugrats(2021),Looney Tunes Cartoons,or Loud House win that award instead of letting SpongeBob rig it) and Loud House is in it’s 7th Season and has a live action spinoff and Halloween special currently,but please find a way to end SpongeBob and Loud House in the future already,so,they would end peacefully by leaving a impact and you can reboot SB in future iterations and let the crew create their own successor shows to SB and Loud House after these shows end to continue the legacy and impact of SpongeBob and Lincoln and The Loud sisters.

So,I am sick and tired of the way Brian is failing to improve Nickelodeon as a main channel and relying on IP,not to mention making other horrible choices such as ruining Nicktoons Network,still screwing cartoons over,acting sexist towards Phoebe and The Unicorn,still milking and exploiting SpongeBob and Loud House,having it’s schedule become stagnant,focusing more on streaming than variety and television,and not to mention he was friends with that sexual predator,Dan Schenider. Because of his actions,Brian rightfully deserves to be fired from Nickelodeon due to his horrible choices,relying on cashcows,not giving SpongeBob a chance to end as Hillenburg wanted after the first movie,and other bad choices he’s done to Nick, and replace him with a new CEO that shows respect to Nickelodeon more than just SpongeBob,can revert and restore Nick’s fortunes and make it focus on both TV and streaming,not let it rely on SpongeBob and Loud House as cashcows and give them a chance to end peacefully and let them leave a impact(with SpongeBob ending with a fifth movie being a sequel to the original 2004 movie or hour-long episode grand finale since Steve Hillenburg wanted SB to end after the first movie and end The Loud House with a time-skip ending with the Louds grown up and having their own families and careers,along with cancelling the live-action LH series,SB spinoffs. and future two movies),revive a few old and modern Nick IP’s with reboots/revivals of El Tigre,The Mighty B!,My Life As A Teenage Robot,Clarissa Explains It All,and Invader Zim on Paramount+,continue and revive Glitch Techs and more Danny Phantom in graphic novels,and bring not only Nickelodeon to being a variety TV channel again,but also revive Nicktoons Network back as a channel for both old and new Nicktoons reruns now.

if anyone who has grown up watching Nickelodeon as kids and missed the good old days of Nickelodeon in the 80’s-2000’s,then we must support,share,and sign this petition to bring Nickelodeon back to being a variety kids channel it once was and not become a greedy, soulless company relying on cashcows,preschool,and live-action Nickcoms and not air movies a lot and on special occasions. Also,bring Nicktoons back into a channel for both old and new Nicktoons reruns and show respect to classic Nick Ip’s again,by getting Brian Robbins rightfully fired for Nick for good since he has really made things worse for the company than Cyra Zhargami did before except for a few good things and doesn’t rightfully deserve to be CEO of Nick(along with showing disrespect to classic Nickelodeon content,but he can still keep his CEO job at Paramount Pictures,but not Nickelodeon,cause he doesn’t deserve to run the company at all and let someone else run the network that can bring it back to being a variety tv channel for kids and get tv ratings again,alongside doing stuff for both TV and streaming.

 

 

 

 

 

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Decision Makers

  • Ariana UrbontNickelodeon
  • Thamar RomeroNickelodeon
  • David BittlerNickelodoen