# Damn ABC, the rat bastards

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-abc-the-rat-bastards/484491>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 4, 2009, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-abc-the-rat-bastards/484491 "2009-02-04T23:18:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-abc-the-rat-bastards/484491/1 "2009-02-04T23:18:30Z")

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_Pushing Daisies_ is gone from their list of shows. I’d heard a rumor that they were going to show the last three episodes online, but I guess not.

Any word on if and when the DVD will be released?

So, except for _Scrubs_, there’s nothing now I watch on ABC. I gave up on _Lost_ and _Desperate Housewives_.

I weep, I bewail, I rend my clothes. I am in mourning. :(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(☹

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**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-abc-the-rat-bastards/484491/2 "2009-02-05T02:46:29Z")

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Anything original, interesting, well-done, and engaging–just doesn’t seem to last on television.

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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-abc-the-rat-bastards/484491/3 "2009-02-05T02:54:10Z")

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Last I heard, they were planning to burn them off over the summer. But that was a couple weeks ago, an eternity, or a career, for a TV executive.

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**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-abc-the-rat-bastards/484491/4 "2009-02-05T04:50:14Z")

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At this point, I will wait for the DVD set - and then there will be a marathon of season 1 and 2.

The only way I will watch them on ABCrap is if the DVD release itself isnt in the forseeable future.

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**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-abc-the-rat-bastards/484491/5 "2009-02-05T06:23:27Z")

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Piemaker, we hardly knew ye.

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**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-abc-the-rat-bastards/484491/6 "2009-02-05T20:18:34Z")

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I wonder if Brian Fuller will try his hand on HBO or something for his next show? Can you imagaine _Pushing Daisi_es on HBO? Sigh…Ned getting out of the shower. Mmmmmm…