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Sometimes a show, performer, or franchise, for some reason or another, doesn't last too long. Perhaps Executive Meddling reared its ugly head and it was Screwed by the Network, perhaps someone Died During Production, or maybe it was simply ahead of its time. However, a few years down the road, the genre that it belonged to explodes in popularity, and when you interview the creative minds behind the genre, they ALWAYS put that particular work front and center as their biggest influence. Quite simply, it was a Short-Lived Big Impact. This trope is about something having left a noticeable impact on its genre, even though the work/artist was cut short. Short works that were great but have not influenced their genre a lot yet don't go here. In serial media (comic books, anime, western cartoons, etc.), this trope can manifest as a work that was cut short or simply not meant to be a Long Runner, but the impact it left on the genre is still felt. In music, this is not a One-Hit Wonder: a Short-Lived Big Impact musical act might actually have multiple hits before they left the scene, or even no hits at all. One Hit Wonder usually refers to an artist or act that left no impact beyond the popularity of their one hit, a Short-Lived Big Impact's effect on their genre is still felt. Can overlap with Dead Artists Are Better, Too Good for This Sinful Earth and Too Cool to Live. May be the subject of a Celebrity Elegy. Some of the examples in One-Book Author fit here too. Contrast Small Role, Big Impact, which is where something is only in a work or series of works for a relatively small amount of time, but ends up being very important to the work as a whole. See also Too Good to Last. |
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Watchmen - a 12 issue monthly comic that ran for just over a year, and initially protected by an editorial mandate from DC forbidding anything from anything else from being written in the same universe (though that ceased being the case in 2012), yet perhaps more than any other comic it made or codified everything about The Dark Age of Comic Books. | |
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Puella Magi Madoka Magica may have lasted 12 episodes, 2 compilation movies, and a sequel film, but to most anime fans (especially in the West), it is one of the most memorable (still very popular up to this day) and successful anime of all time, probably due to it being a Darker and Edgier take on the Magical Girl genre, the complex plot, the memorable characters, and the fantastic soundtrack. It also turned Studio Shaft and Gen Urobuchi into Household Names among anime fans. | |
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The Far Side ran for exactly fifteen years, from 1980 to 1995 (including a sabbatical in 1989). During that time it had a tremendous impact on comics, paving the way for more surrealist humor (which had been completely absent from the papers since Krazy Kat). It also served as an inspiration to scores of scientists who loved creator Gary Larson's biology-based jokes; academics eventually named a species of louse and a butterfly after Larson, and "thagomizer" (taken from a joke about a stegosaurus) has become an accepted scientific term. | |
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The Davy Crockett cultural phenomenon of the 1950s was so huge and pervasive that it's easy to forget that the Disney series that kicked it off was altogether only five episodes within a larger show. | |
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The original, prime-time version of The Jetsons ran for just one season in 1962–63, but syndicated reruns on Saturday mornings kept it popular enough for a revived version in the '80s and Jetsons: The Movie in 1990. It is still the go-to reference for newscasters in the US when discussing "futuristic" concepts such as the High Speed Rail, despite the property currently being one of the least utilized in the Hanna-Barbera library. | |
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Hawkeye's costume in The Avengers. | |
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Chappelle's Show only lasted two seasons, but it's right up there with South Park as one of Comedy Central's most popular shows, to the point that it's still aired regularly in syndication and on its home channel, and its sketches have reached memetic status. The show was highly influential even after its run (spawning more than a few imitators) and some people regard it as one of the greatest sketch comedies ever made. | |
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Jonathan Larson died at the age of 35 of an aortic aneurysm, the night of the final dress rehearsal for the Off-Broadway production of RENT, but the show became a cultural phenomenon that ran on Broadway for over ten years and inspired many other musicals. | |
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The X-Men plot line Days of Future Past only lasted for two issues in 1981, yet it is considered one of the most popular and influential plots in the entire series. | |
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Sable's time at the top lasted a lot less than one would think. While she was around as a valet and on-screen character for a couple of years, her big push didn't come until 1998. Her first match was WrestleMania XIV and by the next year's event, she was already on her way out of the company. Yet she was popular enough to get WWE to resurrect its women's division, revive the Women's Championship and bring in more female wrestlers to feud with her. She sadly also popularised the idea of hiring a non-wrestler to be a Ms. Fanservice and pushing her at the expense of actual trained wrestlers, which wouldn't fully level off until the 2010s. | |
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Not counting his time in OVW, Muhammad Hassan's career in WWE lasted from December 14, 2004, to July 24, 2005. Over a decade later, he still has a small but dedicated fanbase and pretty much every YouTube video that features him has countless comments with variations on "I want him to come back." | |
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Japanese Spider-Man ran for only one season (41 episodes and a movie), but ended up being the show that established Humongous Mecha as a standard trope of subsequent sentai series. This essentially means that Super Sentai and Power Rangers wouldn't exist — or at least wouldn't be the shows we know today — if Japanese Spider-Man didn't exist. | |
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Kent Rogers, a voice actor who worked for Warner Brothers, MGM, and Walter Lantz, he originated the roles of Beaky Buzzard, Henery Hawk, and Junyer Bear for Looney Tunes, was the second voice of Woody Woodpecker, and among other roles he voiced nearly all the male celebrities in the short Hollywood Steps Out, he joined the Air Force in World War II and tragically died in a plane crash at the age of 20, many of the characters he voiced continued to appear long after his death, and he’s inspired many voice actors over the years including Rob Paulsen, Maurice LaMarche, and Tom Kenny. | |
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Both The Falcon's design and the Triskelion in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. | |
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Beavis and Butt-Head's initial run lasted for just four years (1993-1997). Despite this, the show has became a pop culture icon, and has been credited for pushing the envelop for adult animation even further than The Simpsons did a few years prior. It also served a big influence on South Park. The show helped MTV expand their horizons beyond focusing exclusively on music (even though the show still featured music video segments, with the titular duo's commentary). Their popularity has lead to two full-length films, and two revivals (2011 and 2022-present). | |
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Mr. Bean only ran five years (1990-1995) and fifteen episodes.note Or seventeen, if you're including the two unaired sketches. However, well over two decades after it ended, it and the series' eponymous character still remain a memorable fixture in pop culture, with two films, an animated version and numerous subsequent guest appearances throughout the years (including the 2012 London Summer Olympics) under its belt. Furthermore, it is seen as one of the breakout series of the UK that allowed international audiences to embrace the country's style of television, along the likes of Doctor Who, The Benny Hill Show, The Office (UK), Blackadder (another series that featured Rowan Atkinson) and Absolutely Fabulous. | |
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Devin Grayson's work with Roy Harper and his daughter Lian amounted to a one shot issue, a four issue miniseries, and roughly twenty issues of Titans (1999). She nevertheless developed Roy's backstory of growing up with a Navajo foster father in Arizona and fleshed out Lian's personality beyond being a cute child, giving her a huge amount of emotional maturity and depth. While Grayson remains notorious for her handling of Nightwing, her take on the Harpers has long been considered the go-to for most fans. Indigenous fans of Roy have long since clamored for DC to do something to make Roy Native by blood descent ever since Grayson's handling of his upbringing under Raymond Begay and the way he passed those teachings onto Lian. It's widely agreed upon that every writer to take on the characters after Grayson haven't come close to expanding on their development like she did. A recent example of this is how her story in the Green Arrow 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular was applauded for being one of the first stories in almost 10 years to feature Roy and Lian together, in retrospect to her story in DC Pride 2022 and she portrayed Damian as being almost borderline homophobic and the general "sugarcoating" of the Stonewall riot (to the point that it had to be edited once it was published in collected format). | |
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An example contained within a single series can be found with the Kirby series: while the franchise has trucked on continuously since 1992, the Dark Matter Trilogy, as the nickname implies, only occupied three games: Kirby's Dream Land 2, Kirby's Dream Land 3, and Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards. Despite this brevity, the three games have had a tremendous impact on the Kirby series since their release, introducing a greater level of "show, don't tell" storytelling, emphasis on more intricate puzzle-solving (compared to the Sakurai-directed games' action-oriented approach), and willingness to delve into surprisingly dark and disturbing imagery and subject matter that later games would follow. This is most noticeably displayed with Kirby's Return to Dream Land and the games that followed its example, which despite orienting the games back in a Super Star-esque direction owe much of their puzzle-solving elements, atmosphere, and storytelling styles to the template that the Dark Matter Trilogy first set. | |
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Similarly to Mother, the Half-Life series only consists of three mainline entries (discounting expansions) spread out over a non-indicatively large timeframe. However, the first two of those games had a profound effect on first-person gaming and the wider cultural landscape, especially online, where the popularity of mods, memes, and fanworks result in a wide-reaching influence that's still visible to this day. Likewise with Valve's other two signature IPs, Team Fortress and Portal, which each only had two mainline games yet are still juggernauts in terms of their online presence and cultural influence (with the second installment for all three series being the most prominent in terms of legacy). | |
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Arrested Development only lasted three seasons (at least, before being Uncancelled) but those first seasons had a huge impact on sitcoms, causing them to become more continuity heavy and meta. | |
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Spaced: Two batches of 7 episodes apiece, for a total of 14. | |
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Calvin and Hobbes. Short-lived by newspaper comic standards, running from 1985 to 1995 (with a year and a half of that time spent on sabbatical). Yet almost three decades after Bill Watterson's retirement, it remains one of the most beloved and revered modern newspaper comics of all time. | |
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Ultra Q, even more so. This was the series from which Ultraman spun off from. Thus, it was an even bigger influence on Japanese popular culture due to its massive success when it debuted in 1966. Yet it only ran for 27 episodes (with the final episode being delayed for months) in the span of half a year. | |
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Cowboy Bebop. Much like Evangelion, this is a 26-episode series which is frequently hailed as one of the best anime ever created, if not the best, even by those who don't like anime. | |
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Neon Genesis Evangelion only lasted 26 episodes (which is only half of what most other mecha anime would get at the time), but is widely considered one of the greatest and most iconic anime series in existence. Its success after first airing actually saved the anime industry from the verge of bankruptcy (there had been several high profile box office failures beforehand), and it inspired a wave of more ambitious original anime projects in the years to come. | |
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In the early years of video game FAQ-writing, one username stood out above the rest as a good model of how to properly detail gameplay, both in the long form needed for RPGs such as Final Fantasy VII and the short form used for such genres as fighting games: Kao Megura. Sadly, he passed away in 2004, but his influence is seen in FAQs to this day. | |
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Chaucer died having finished only a quarter of his greatest work, The Canterbury Tales. His work popularized English as the language of writing after centuries of obscurity as a commoner's language. | |
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The Evil Dead film series is considered one of the big names of horror, despite consisting of only five movies (the original trilogy, made between 1981 and 1993, a controversial reboot from 2013, and a fifth movie in 2023), compared to other big horror franchises which often go well into the double digits. | |
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Although Krazy Kat ran in some form or another for nearly 30 years (note that that is still not a very long time in this medium), the part that is most-remembered – the full-colour full-page Sunday strips – ran for less than ten – a brief stint in 1922, and then from 1935 until George Herriman's death in 1944. It was unpopular during its original run (surviving only because William Randolph Hearst himself was its biggest fan), but has since become widely recognized as the most important newspaper strip ever made, serving as inspiration for nearly every cartoonist to follow, most notably Charles Schulz of Peanuts fame, and Bill Watterson (who counted both Herriman and Schulz among his influences). | |
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Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers continues to endure in public consciousness, even when the franchise has run for far more seasons and is still ongoing. Even that series itself just had three seasons. But the most remembered line-up - Jason, Zack, Trini, Billy and Kimberly (with Tommy later joining as a Sixth Ranger) - were only in the first season. A few episodes into the second, the first three were Put on a Bus and replaced with Rocky, Adam and Aisha, and Kimberly departed in the third to be replaced with Kat. Theirs is the line-up most often rebooted or adapted in comic or film form, and the first one is likely to think of whenever Power Rangers is mentioned. Tommy is more remembered for being the Green and White Rangers in that line up - even though he spent more time as a Red Ranger in Power Rangers Zeo and Power Rangers Turbo. | |
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Bucky Barnes being an adult and childhood friend (rather than a Kid Sidekick) of Steve Rogers in Captain America: The First Avenger. | |
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The Ultimate Warrior's original run in the WWF started in late 1987 and ended at Summer Slam 1991. In that short time, his amazing physique and unique style of promos catapulted him to victories that won him the Intercontinental and Heavyweight Championship titles. At WrestleMania. Pinning Hulk Hogan. Clean. | |
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Lucha Underground lasted only four years (due to a combination of poor management, unfair contracts, and budget complications), but nevertheless proved an incredibly popular promotion in its prime, with its legacy still being felt throughout the rest of the wrestling world. In addition to introducing the world to talent that would move onto WWE, All Elite Wrestling, and ROH, Lucha Underground is widely recognized as the codifier of the "cinematic match" — transcending the usual crowd-based wrestling spectacle to frankly superhuman levels with over-the-top characters, action, and storylines more akin to a superhero movie. | |
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The 'Four Horsewomen of NXT' - Charlotte Flair, Bayley, Sasha Banks, and Becky Lynch - are recognised as the four hard-working women whose matches and feuds with each other showed that WWE was finally taking women's wrestling seriously. The era is recognised as having begun in 2014 when Charlotte first won the NXT Women's Championship and all four started feuding with each other. Just only a year later, three of the four were called up to the main roster (Bayley being the lone holdout). Becky hadn't even been on NXT for a full year when she was called up. | |
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The Ultimate Marvel line is comparatively much smaller and less-read than Marvel Comics' mainstream output, having ceased publication after "only" fifteen years, but nonetheless has proven very influential in both the film and TV adaptations since the 2000s. It'd take too long to list all of them, but just to name a few Ultimate elements that made it into other media: Bucky Barnes being an adult and childhood friend (rather than a Kid Sidekick) of Steve Rogers in Captain America: The First Avenger. Electro's more practical look in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Nick Fury being Race Lifted as a black man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Hawkeye's costume in The Avengers. Both The Falcon's design and the Triskelion in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Eddie Brock's status as Peter Parker's Childhood Friend, and the very existence of the character Kenny Kong (a Canon Foreigner in the Ultimate universe) in The Spectacular Spider-Man. |
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When the TV documentary film Big Fun in the Big Town was first broadcast on Dutch television in 1986 it had a huge impact on its viewers. It is credited with popularizing Hip-Hop in the Netherlands and inspired the Dutch language hip-hop acts that would follow from the late 1980s, early 1990s on. Amazingly enough, this entire broadcast is only 40 minutes long! | |
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The Young Ones only lasted two series and twelve episodes, and influenced a whole slew of Britcoms after it, as well as MTV era sketch comedies, such as The State, and Mr. Show.* Your Show Time lasted six months in TV's early days (Jan-Jul 1949), yet its premiere telecast won the very first Emmy Award. | |
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The Morton Downey Jr. Show only lasted two years (1987-1989) but it started the whole "trash television" craze. It also helped establish the "angry, loud-mouthed, uncaring right-winger" stereotype that has persisted to this day. | |
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Lizzie McGuire only lasted for 65 episodes (the cutoff for Disney shows at that time) in two seasons, and one movie, but it helped to codify much of the formula for Disney Channel kidcoms for the next fifteen or so years,note along with the much longer-lasting That's So Raven opened up the teenage demographic to the channel, and helped to make Hilary Duff one of the biggest teen stars of her time. | |
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John Severin quit halfway through the comic-book days, but still had a lot of notable roles in the few issues he illustrated. He later became the flagship artist for rival Cracked. | |
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Eddie Brock's status as Peter Parker's Childhood Friend, and the very existence of the character Kenny Kong (a Canon Foreigner in the Ultimate universe) in The Spectacular Spider-Man. | |
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Many contributors to MAD have been this: Basil Wolverton only appeared in nine issues from 1954 to 1970. In spite of that, he's regarded as one of the top artists to appear in the publication, being dubbed "The Michelangelo of MAD Magazine" by The New York Times. MAD XL, a separate magazine reprinting older articles from the main publication, even named him an "Idiot of the Issue" in 2004. Founding artist Will Elder and artist/writer Harvey Kurtzman left in 1958 (except for a brief return in 1984-88), but their prolificacy in the early days (when it was more of a comic book than a magazine) was what helped get the mag off the ground. John Severin quit halfway through the comic-book days, but still had a lot of notable roles in the few issues he illustrated. He later became the flagship artist for rival Cracked. Frank Kelly Freas did most of the cover art in the early days of the magazine era but stopped contributing in 1962. Despite this, he was one of the main illustrators next to Norman Mingo to help codify Alfred E. Neuman's design. |
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The Robotic Operating Buddy only had two games, Gyromite and Stack-Up. However, it allowed Nintendo to market the Nintendo Entertainment System as a toy rather than a game console, quelling consumer worries due to The Great Video Game Crash of 1983. This let Nintendo gain enough traction to establish themselves as the video game company. | |
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Azumanga Daioh only ran for three years (1999 to 2002, resulting in only four volumes' worth of material), and the anime adaptation had only 26 episodes. It's still considered a classic, with it being well known for influencing the Slice of Life and Moe genres as well as being the Trope Codifier for Schoolgirl Series. | |
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Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures managed just 19 episodes before it was shut down in a controversy fueled by Moral Guardians and isn't widely remembered by non-animation historians. However, the cartoon was highly influential on later animated series, including John Kricfalusi's The Ren & Stimpy Show (which itself would go on to spawn its own imitators and become the Trope Maker for Grossout Show). Additionally, it was one of the first examples of "creator-driven animation"note — shows that held the Creator Thumbprint of a specific artist (in this case Ralph Bakshi) or team of animators — on American television since the birth of the Saturday-Morning Cartoon format almost three decades prior. | |
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That Was the Week That Was was broadcast for just over one year in the UK, with a US version that lasted two whole years. Credited with being one of the most important topical satirical comedy sketch shows, and for being one of the first programmes on The BBC to criticize the political establishment. | |
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Jeff Minter's (the same man behind Tempest 2000 and its sequels) Virtual Light Machine (VLM) was a series of music visualizers produced for home video game consoles. The original iterations had the very unfortunate luck of being built exlucively into commercially unsuccessful platforms (Version 1 was stuck on the ill-fated Atari Jaguar CD, meanwhile Version 2 was stuck on the even worse-fated Nuon platform) but were very influential in the software field, with the first iteration directly influencing Winamp's built in music visualizer. Afterwards, music visualizers became standard in video game consoles like the PlayStation and even desktop computers. Minter's VLM software would finally see a wider audience when the third version, by this point rebranded "Neon", was built into the Xbox 360. This was also the final version released to date as Minter focused on game development. | |
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The Attitude Era is recognized officially as beginning on the Raw episode after WrestleMania XIV and ending at WrestleMania X-Seven, and unofficially as beginning at the 1996 King Of The Ring (more specifically, Steve Austin's "Austin 3:16" promo) and ending no later than Survivor Series in 2001. In other words: it lasted roughly 3 to 5 years, yet revolutionized how wrestling was seen in the '90s. The product was Darker and Edgier and broke into the mainstream for the first time since the heyday of Hulk Hogan in The '80s, leading to a period when seemingly everyone was a wrestling fan, or at least knew about it in some way. | |
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Joe Dougherty was the original voice of Porky Pig. However, due to having a very real and uncontrollable stutter, recording dialogue for him was very difficult. As a result of this he was fired after only 2 years and 21 shorts, being replaced by Mel Blanc who could better replicate the stutter and get lines down in fewer takes. Porky Pig went onto become a massive sensation in animation, with Dougherty barely remembered for even being the influence for his titular stutter. After which he made scant appearances in film and television before his death in 1978. | |
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Jeff Barnaby only made two features before his death, Rhymes for Young Ghouls and Blood Quantum, but those movies proved to be highly influential in Canadian First Nations genre cinema, to the point where in 2023, a grant was established in his name to fund such projects. | |
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Twin Peaks had only two seasons and 30 episodes, almost half of which are considered dubious by fans. It popularized the Quirky Town genre in American television, having descendants such as Picket Fences and Northern Exposure that ran much longer than Twin Peaks itself. Also, the amount of surrealism, eccentric humor, and horror in it were highly exceptional for a mainstream American drama series of its era, but such elements became much more common in television in its wake in the 1990s and 2000s. It also popularized the use of the Myth Arc in television drama, and David Lynch's active involvement in the show helped break the stereotype that television production was the equivalent of the farm leagues to movies as opposed to a full-on competitor. | |
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Considered one of the most popular and influential television series ever, The Honeymooners lasted for only one year.note "Honeymooners" sketches were performed on television programs before and after the series aired, but the series is the one which has aired regularly in the decades since. | |
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Bloom County was not a particularly long-lived strip either (December 8, 1980-August 6, 1989), but its mix of topical political humor, surreal fantasy, and memorable characters left a huge impact, with other comics such as The Boondocks clearly taking influence from it. It was also loved enough to receive two spinoff strips (Outland from 1989-95 and Opus from 2003-08, both Sunday-only strips) before getting Un-Canceled in 2015. | |
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The Office: 12 episodes plus a Christmas special | |
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Press Your Luck only lasted three years, not a terribly impressive run for a Game Show, but it's still one of the most recognized in the genre, and often regarded as a Cult Classic even to only casual fans. Many remember the show for the colorful animated Whammys and for notorious contestant Michael Larson, who memorized the board's light pattern to hit them up for over $100,000, and whose life after that was a tragedy worthy of William Shakespeare. The phrase "Big bucks, no Whammys!" has entered the public lexicon, and the show is a constant fixture on the rerun circuit (1987-1995 on USA Network, and 2001-09/2012-present on GSN). GSN also launched a revival, Whammy! The All-New Press Your Luck, in the early 2000s and ran a documentary on Larson's episode, and ABC launched another revival in 2019. | |
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A Pup Named Scooby-Doo only lasted a 3 season run of 27 episodes from 1988 to 1991. Despite this, its brand of self-referential humor would have a huge impact on many cartoons going forward, particularly ones the season 1 staff would work on (Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, and Freakazoid!). | |
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To Kill a Mockingbird was Harper Lee's only published novel for most of her life, yet it remains a popular and influential one. | |
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The Spectacular Spider-Man only lasted 26 episodes and series lead Josh Keaton voiced the character only in said series and one video game, but has become as much of a Sacred Cow casting choice as Kevin Conroy as Batman, who has a much more extensive tenure as said character. Tex Avery's tenure at Warner Bros. was brief, only lasting seven years. However, in that short period of time, he spearheaded the studio's transition from lackluster Disney imitator to pioneering cartoon studio with its own identity. Along the way, he mentored up-and-coming talents like Bob Clampett and Chuck Jones and created and/or developed the studio's biggest stars: Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, and Bugs Bunny. Speaking of Looney Tunes, there's two characters named Marvin the Martian and Tasmanian Devil, appearing in just five Golden Age shorts each, but later became mainstays to the franchise. Taz would become the first Looney Tunes character to get his own full-fledged TV show, discounting earlier compilation shows like the The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show. Both would also be extensively featured on Looney Tunes merchandise. Whenever one thinks of Looney Tunes today, both characters, especially Taz, are usually among the handful of characters to come to mind. Michigan J. Frog as well, who appeared in only one Golden Age short, which would eventually get a sequel in 1995, 40 years after the original. But Michigan became the mascot of the WB network, and while he's not quite as popular as Marvin or Taz, he's still very popular for someone that has only starred in two shorts. |
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Also premiering in 1966, Star Trek: The Original Series originally lasted for just two seasons, being renewed for a third season before dying completely. It's also a cultural icon, having an immense influence on science fiction, as well as western culture as a whole. Good luck finding someone who doesn't recognize Captain Kirk and Mister Spock, even if they were born long after the series was first aired. | |
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Thunderbirds: Was cut short after just 32 episodes, mainly because it failed to get picked up by an American network, but back when it aired it was the most popular children's show on British television, and to this day it managed to retain a loyal fanbase. Likewise, it's still considered Gerry Anderson's best work, and other shows still contain references to it. | |
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It can be argued that if it wasn't for Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot, Toei would never have considered giving any hero a giant robot period. The show only ran for one 26 episode season, but it was considered by Toei to be their first modern tokusatsu employing all the tropes they still use to this day on Super Sentai and Kamen Rider. It also served as the inspiration for the now more well known Giant Robo: The Day The Earth Stood Still anime OVA which is widely regarded as one of the best mecha OVA's of all time. | |
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In-universe, in Punch-Out!! for the Wii this is the end result of the "Mac's Last Stand" mode, in which Little Mac takes on an endless stream of challengers and then retires after three losses to go out in a blaze of glory. In the grand scheme of things, his career was very short-lived, but it was still the stuff of legends considering just how many people he took on and beat, especially considering all of them have height and weight advantages over him, and even after he does retire he's considered a Living Legend, enough to have an entire wall in a museum dedicated to his short career. Punch-Out!! can also qualify as an out-of-universe example, with only three mainline consoles games; the NES game in 1987, Super Punch-Out!! on the SNES in 1994, and the 2009 self-titled game that came out on the Wii. Yet, the series, particularly the NES game, is among the most iconic in all of gaming. Its protagonist, Little Mac, would not only make his way to the Super Smash Bros. series, but was a Guest Fighter in the GameCube version of Fight Night Round 2, a game that otherwise has a roster made up of real-life boxers. |
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Dateline's "To Catch a Predator" segment only lasted from 2004-2007 when it was abruptly canceled due to a would-be predator committing suicide to avoid being arrested. Nonetheless, it gave way to greater awareness of internet safety, especially for children, inspired plenty of parodies or knockoffs, made its host Chris Hansen a household name (although he had been an anchor with NBC for over a decade by then) and was referenced in several other television shows, including MADtv (1995), The Boondocks and The Simpsons. | |
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The network version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, hosted by Regis Philbin for ABC, lasted only three years. Yet it was huge in its day, prompting legions of big money game shows and a brief yet obvious revival of a slowly dying genre. While a syndicated version lasted for many years afterward, it was the original (for the US, being adapted from the UK) ABC version that had the biggest impact on the genre despite a short life. | |
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Herk Harvey only directed one feature film — Carnival of Souls — but that one film is one of the most influential and acclaimed cult classics of all time, directly inspiring the far more well-known Night of the Living Dead (1968) and earning a spot in The Criterion Collection. | |
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Brodie Lee's run with All Elite Wrestling spanned just fourteen matches across seven months, from his debut in March 2020 to losing the TNT Championship in October, after which he was absent from the company until his death. In that short time, he challenged Jon Moxley for the World Championship, successfully captured the TNT Championship from Cody Rhodes, and helped elevate The Dark Order into a credible heel faction following their rocky start in 2019. The influence of his AEW run continued even after his death, as the kindness and respect that AEW showed to him and his family made waves in the industry. Notably, CM Punk cited AEW's classy handling of his illness and death (they had been aware of his illness for months leading up to his passing, but successfully ensured that not one word was leaked to the dirtsheets) as the final deciding factor that convinced him to end more than 7 years of retirement to join the company that had treated Brodie so well. | |
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The Greatest American Hero: The show only ran for about 2.5 seasons, but is still more or less the go-to show for Superhero parodies. The show lives on today in a comic book, as well as many shoutouts in everything from Seinfeld to The Big Bang Theory to Robot Chicken to Homestar Runner to The Cinema Snob. Of course, having an awesome theme song will do that for you. | |
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The Rose of Versailles was serialized for only a year and a half (May 1972 to December 1973), but it was the first shoujo manga to achieve mainstream critical and commercial success; beforehand, most shoujo manga series were simple stories aimed at elementary school-aged girls, but Berubara proved that teenage girls and young women were also a viable demographic for manga. | |
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With the exception of Kamandi, most of Jack Kirby's works for DC Comics in the '70s were short-runners, with O.M.A.C. lasting eight issues, the Demon for sixteen and his New Gods series lasting eleven (both New Gods and Forever People) or seventeen for Mister Miracle. Yet they all became colossal influences on the creators to come and the characters became a staple of DCU, with Darkseid being considered one of DC's greatest villains of all time. | |
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Fawlty Towers: Two batches of 6 episodes apiece, produced several years apart, for 12 episodes total | |
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Also premiering in 1966, The Monkees TV series only lasted for two seasons, while the band itself lasted just five years (the original lineup didn't last far past the end of the series), but managed to produce many bestselling albums and singles, introduced the hippie counterculture to prime time, influenced many made-for-TV pop groups (animated and live-action), and introduced mainstream audiences to Tim Buckley and Frank Zappa. The show also helped pioneer the music video and popularized the Moog synthesizer through Micky Dolenz's use of it in the promotional clip for "Daily Nightly". | |
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"Black" Bartholomew Roberts, sometimes described as the most successful pirate captain with over 400 successful captures, and his flamboyant, fancy, and heavily made-up look inspired the likes of Jack Sparrow. Operated for three years as a captain before being killed in battle. | |
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In Living Color! was a predominantly black Sketch Show lasted for only four years from 1990 to 1994, but still served as a Spiritual Predecessor to MADtv (1995), inspired rival show Saturday Night Live to bring in more minorities and not underuse them and launched the careers of several of their cast members and writers, such as Keenen Ivory Wayans, Damon Wayans, Tommy Davidson, Jim Carrey, Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Lopez, David Alan Grier, Kim Coles, and Larry Wilmore. | |
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Betty Boop debuted in 1930 and lasted only nine years before The Hays Code struck. Despite this, she remains as one of the most iconic characters of The Golden Age of Animation and is regarded as the first example of Ms. Fanservice in the medium. | |
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The Chrono games. Despite only consisting of three installments (Chrono Trigger, Radical Dreamers, and Chrono Cross) and spanning a grand total of four years from 1995 to 1999, Chrono Trigger is considered to possibly be the best JRPG on the Super Nintendo (which is no small feat, considering that it shares a console with Final Fantasy VI, Dragon Quest V, Secret of Mana, EarthBound, and Super Mario RPG), as well as one of the greatest of all time. And while Chrono Cross' status as a sequel to Chrono Trigger has caused some debate, it's still considered to be one of the best PS1 JRPGs alongside Final Fantasy VII, Xenogears, Star Ocean: The Second Story, Final Fantasy Tactics, and Suikoden II. However, barring rereleases of games in the series, the IP has been inactive since 1999 with no new installments, and this remains unlikely to change given Square Enix's focus on Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest and Kingdom Hearts. | |
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For that matter, Blackadder itself. This icon of British television comedy only lasted for 4 seasons of 6 episodes each (24 episodes total), plus two specials and a made-for-TV movie. And the first season isn't usually counted. | |
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Super Mario World lasted 13 episodes before falling victim to NBC's Saturday morning lineup overhaul. Its status in YouTube Poop form has become legendary. | |
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Dear Brother only ran from March to September in 1974, and the 1991 anime adaptation is only 39 episodes long (though it also greatly fleshes out the plot and characters compared to the manga). Despite this, this series has still had a considerable influence on both shoujo and yuri works (especially works where both overlap). | |
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The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack is a cult classic at best, that lasted only 3 seasons and 46 episodes. However, three of the storyboard artists went on to create three shows (Adventure Time, Over the Garden Wall, and Regular Show) that not only brought Cartoon Network out of its Audience-Alienating Era, but also renewed interest in Western Animation in the 2010's. Additionally, Gravity Falls creator Alex Hirsch also worked on the series as a screenwriter and storyboard artist. | |
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Ultraman only ran for 39 episodes from 1966 to 1967, but was so popular that it spawned an entire franchise that continues to produce new content, influenced hundreds of Japanese creators, and gets referenced everywhere in Japanese popular culture to this day. Ultra Q, even more so. This was the series from which Ultraman spun off from. Thus, it was an even bigger influence on Japanese popular culture due to its massive success when it debuted in 1966. Yet it only ran for 27 episodes (with the final episode being delayed for months) in the span of half a year. |
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The Mother series only spanned three mainline games plus a Compilation Rerelease before series creator Shigesato Itoi decided to call it quits, with its long timeframe (1989-2006) being solely the result of how long it took to develop the second and especially third titles. Nevertheless, the series makes up one of the most widely acclaimed trilogies of RPGs, and has been cited as a major influence on a large number of creators across media, from indie developers to let's players to Trey Parker and Matt Stone. The series' nontraditional approach to the RPG genre also had a noticeable influence on later bigger-name games in the field, with urban settings, offbeat writing, and deviations from and expansions upon the gameplay template Dragon Quest set becoming an increasingly prominent element in series from Persona to Pokémon to Nintendo's own Super Mario Bros. RPGs. | |
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The Munsters lasted two seasons and 70 episodes. Thanks to viewer demand prompted by a rapidly expanding syndication market in the mid-1960s, it managed to become an American pop culture icon. | |
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2 Stupid Dogs did not last even two years in its original run on TBS, but managed to endure a healthy syndication life on Cartoon Network and Boomerang and its formula served as a Spiritual Predecessor to the successful and long-running Cartoon Cartoons. As of late, it's been popular to create charts demonstrating how many shows over the years have roots that date back to this show in some form. | |
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The Prisoner (1967) only lasted seventeen episodes, yet it remains a landmark of science fiction television, influencing Twin Peaks, The X-Files and Lost. | |
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John Kennedy Toole died of suicide at 31 without publishing anything. Years after his death, A Confederacy of Dunces got published, received a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and became a canonical work of Southern Literature. You'll still find plenty of references to it around New Orleans. | |
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Stieg Larsson, author of the Millennium Series, died from a heart attack in 2004 before finishing what was supposed to be a five-book series. The series became a phenomenon, and many a modern author is already showing influence from his books, especially amongst the Nordic countries. | |
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The Heart of Thomas was serialized for only seven months (May to December 1974) and wasn't well-received at first, but it became one of the most popular manga in its magazine by the end of its run. It was also a huge influence on shoujo manga as a medium, with many of its stylistic and narrative hallmarks becoming staples of shoujo manga going forward, as well as being an early landmark of the Yaoi Genre. | |
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Nick Fury being Race Lifted as a black man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. | |
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God Nose was a one-shot, self-published title done by Jack "Jaxon" Jackson in 1964. It was only a one-shot but paved the way for many other Underground Comics such as the work of Robert Crumb and was even the first real underground comic. | |
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FLCL, from the same studio that made Evangelion, consisted of only a six-episode miniseries prior to the airing of its equally-short pair of sequel series in 2018, but it's often cited by American anime fans as probably one of the best anime comedies thanks to its memorable characters, impressively high-quality and experimental animation, and a catchy soundtrack. [adult swim] also often states that FLCL is probably their favorite anime (thanks to the show's humor being somewhat in line with what Adult Swim likes to do with their own shows). | |
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Eddie and the Cruisers is an in-world example: the eponymous band is hailed as the forerunners of modern rock even though the band disbanded after the sudden death/disappearance of their lead singer/songwriter. | |
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Gravity Falls only lasted two seasons and a total of 40 episodes, which is short for a Disney cartoon. Nevertheless, the series is one of several that contributed to the revival of Western Animation during the 2010's after an infamous dark age during the 2000's, and set a high bar with its tightly serialized narrative that future cartoon series would follow suit. The series also helped launch the careers of successful animators such as Matt Braly (creator of Amphibia) and Dana Terrace (creator of The Owl House). | |
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