Did you realize Cartoon Network canceled the children’s favorite animated series titled ‘Clarence’? Do you want to know why Cartoon Network decided to cancel children’s favorite animated series?
Created by Skyler Page, the series became available for the public on April 14, 2014, and went off the air after three successful seasons on June 24, 2018. Children were brokenhearted after one of their favorite animated shows went off-air.
Produced by Curtis Lelash and Jenifer Pelphrey, the series had five beloved characters, including Clarance Wendle, who was voiced by Skyler Page. He was a 10-year-old-wide eyed optimistic child.
Jeffery Randell, who was voiced by Sean Giambrone, was Clarence’s best friend with a level head personality, Ryan Sumouski who was voiced by Tom Kenny, Clarence’s fearless friend with a crude and drastic approach to life, Mary Wendle who got voiced by Katie Crown, Clarence’s supportive and loving mother, and Charles Caswell who got voiced by Eric Edelstein, Mary’s husband and a father figure for Chad.
The animated series focuses on Clarence and his two friends, Sumo and Jeff, in Aberdale. It follows the daily adventures these friends go on to solve, daily life problems they encounter throughout their day. The series showcased the thought process behind solving real-life situations and problems that everyone encounters once in their lifetime from a child’s perspective.
The animated series gained media traction and attention after featuring a gay couple in one of its episodes. The series gained popularity as children’s and viewers felt that the cast was oddly likable with different personality traits.
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Why Was The Beloved Children’s Animated Series Clarence Cancelled?
Spencer Rothbell, the voice actor behind the voice of everyone’s favorite 10-year-old character Clarence, confirmed via Twitter on April 4, 2017, about the cancellation of the series. Spencer stated the series will go off-air and won’t be renewed for a fourth season. This left the fans wondering about the reason behind the creators’ decision as the series received great views and was being loved by people and children.
Spencer wrote that there will always be ideas and routes they wished they would have been able to incorporate into the series, but the final season has some stellar episodes expanding on the series’ universe and its characters.
Clarence came into the limelight after a Cartoon Network employee, Emily Patridge, came out accusing Skyler Page, series creator, of sexually assaulting her. The accusations came after the series’ first season aired on Cartoon Network. Emily wrote Skyler about groping women without their consent. She also said she heard of Skyler’s quirky behavior but didn’t know he was a fucked-up person until he groped her.
These allegations led to the network making the decision to fire Skyler from Clarence, and the series continued for a while without the creator. The reason behind the series getting canceled after the third season isn’t clear or revealed by the network, but one of the main reasons behind this decision can be viewership.
For any series to continue, there is a requirement for views as it is the reason behind generating revenue for the series. The viewership for the series may have decreased after continuous allegations against the creator of the series, which led to his departure. The interesting stories were a product of Skyler’s mind which changed after he departed from the series.
The creators continued for two seasons after the allegations against Skyler due to the demand and to give their fans closure from their favorite characters. Overall the reason could’ve been the series not doing as well as the network expected it to do after the success of the first season alongside the sexual assault allegations.
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