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Fleeting Demographic
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A show intended for a certain audience with a clearly defined demographic. Essentially, this means the audience may begin to watch the show at a certain age, but at some point will abandon it later, presumably in the future. This applies to many shows for children. The "original" target audience simply outgrows the show. Such shows usually do not provide any deliberate treats for a Periphery Demographic. Because anyone watching will not do so for a long time, the showrunners can be tempted into repeating many premises they know the current audience will consider "new". If the show is particularly long-running, it's not unusual for one generation of viewers to grow out of it, then years later they have children who become fans of the show themselves. The parents may tune in for the first time in 10+ years and claim that the show was better in their time, even though it still pleases the target audience, a clear case of Periphery Hatedom. Often a consequence of the work being a Unintentional Period Piece. Contrast Growing with the Audience, when the series/franchise matures as its audience matures. If the franchise tries to appeal to a current generation and fails somehow, that's Totally Radical. Examples |
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Astro Boy gets a new series roughly every 20 years. | |
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In-show example: Bye Bye Birdie has a scene where a barely-teenage girl is sad because by the time her idol Conrad Birdie comes back from the army, she'll be too old for him. | |
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In the UK, tween/teen dramas Grange Hill and Byker Grove both had this. Both shows ran for long enough that their original target demographic became utterly periphery, but never completely left the show behind. Unfortunately, the BBC execs decided to shift the target demographic down towards even younger children, resulting in a complete loss of interest from all demographics, and the eventual cancellations of both shows. | |
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Power Rangers: Although the show does have its older fans, the general demographic is young boys who will grow out of it after a few years. This is probably the reason why the show opted to have each season starting with Power Rangers Lost Galaxy be its own self-contained series rather than the continuing storyline of the first six seasons. Power Rangers' Japanese counterpart, Super Sentai, had been doing that all along. | |
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The comic strip Marvin, about the exploits of an ill-behaved redheaded baby, is designed to appeal to one group and one group only: young mothers. This allows the strip to recycle ideas every few years, and has also lent to its poor reputation among comics fans (this is one of those strips that people love to hate). | |
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Superman comics in the 1950s and 1960s used to repeat the same plots every three to five years, since that was the average length of time a child would read comics. The introductions of Mon-El and Star Boy in the Legion of Super-Heroes are well-known for outright copying earlier stories, to the point where the story that became the Mon-El story was most likely reprinted in the Superman in the 50's book specifically because this made it famous. | |
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MAD has lasted fifty years by being read by the newest crop of preteens who initially fall in love with the publication and then a few years later finally grow out of it to complain that "it isn't as funny as it used to be". | |
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The Pretty Series tends to have a new series every four years or so because of this trope. | |
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Doraemon remakes its anime series and, occasionally, movies every decade or so for precisely this reason. | |
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Non-TV example used as a plot point in Pinky and the Brain: Bil Keane's The Family Circus cartoon seems to fall squarely in this section. | |
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Treasure Chest, by definition, as it was distributed exclusively through Catholic parochial schools. | |
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Mexican-Venezuelan sitcom La CQ was popular among kids and young teens due to its cartoony situations in a live-action environment. However, once the original fans of the series grew up, they look back with embarrassment due to its immature humor and use of high-school clichés. Not helping was the fact that it aired at Cartoon Network at the peak of its Audience-Alienating Era. | |
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Up until around 2007 or so, The Disney Channel had an explicit policy of cancelling shows – animated and live-action – after 65 episodes, regardless of popularity. The first show to avoid the episode-limit cancellation was Kim Possible due to huge fan outcry (and, allegedly, the contract with the German network that ran the show). This concept was an idea held over from the 1980's and the rise of syndication and the early children's cable networks: 65 was the number of episodes you needed for a show to be successfully syndicated,note The idea is that another network would buy the syndication package and run one episode every weekday for three months (one calendar season). Other "magic syndication numbers" include 52 from the Saturday-Morning Cartoon days (one episode every Saturday for a year), and the ubiquitous 100 and kids will probably watch repeats anyway so why make more? Also, since kids' tastes change so fast, they expected that no child would stick with a show for more than three seasons regardless. | |
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The CollegeHumor video EVERY YOUTUBE VIDEO EVER discusses this: | |
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Archie Comics works on the same premise of recycled plots as Superman, etc; they have kept the Riverdale gang in high school for over 65 years now. About 80 percent of any given new Archie Comic will be stories lifted directly from earlier issues, although with some dialogue and panels edited to prevent Values Dissonance. Strangely, it seems that the majority of its readers nowadays are people who have been reading it ever since they were kids. | |
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Chikn Nuggit: Discussed in one short, where Sody Pop claims that he's too old to find fart jokes funny. Chikn Nuggit plays a fart sound on his mobile phone, to which (the presumably older) Slushi struggles to retain her laughter. | |
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Much of the longevity of Pokémon: The Series can be attributed to the target demographic cycling through about every five years, so the fact that the same general plot is used every generation only serves to annoy some older fans (mostly outside Japan) and no one else. This was taken to its utter extreme in Pokémon: Genesect and the Legend Awakened, where the legendary Pokémon Mewtwo was featured. Although the series had a pre-established and unique Mewtwo character, this movie chose to introduce a brand-new Mewtwo and have no connection to the original, presumably to make things easier for the young children of the day to understand. Yet they brought back Ash's Charizard from the same era anyway. | |
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