# Did they cancel "Jesse"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 1, 2000, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-cancel-jesse/39263 "2000-11-01T16:53:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![howardsims](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e8c25b/32.png) [@howardsims](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/howardsims)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2000, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-cancel-jesse/39263/1 "2000-11-01T16:53:09Z")
Did they cancel the tv show “Jesse”? It was usually in the top 10 (probably thanks to the lead in from Friends). ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2000, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-cancel-jesse/39263/2 "2000-11-01T16:55:07Z")
Yes. The show was staggering by the end of last season (with or without the help of Friends) and got swept out with a lot of other young, single attractive-people comedies, to be replaced with a bunch of new young, single attractive-people comedies. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2000, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-cancel-jesse/39263/3 "2000-11-01T17:06:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by howardsims \* > \*\*Did they cancel the tv show “Jesse”? \*\* My guess would be that it was cancelled because it sucked. Sucked big time. Like a sucking chest wound. ---
**Author:** ![howardsims](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e8c25b/32.png) [@howardsims](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/howardsims)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2000, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-cancel-jesse/39263/4 "2000-11-01T18:37:32Z")
Sucked??? How could anything with Christina Applegate suck? Ok, so “Don’t tell mom the babysitter is dead” did suck… But I mean… umm… Well, she was good on Married With Children… ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2000, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-cancel-jesse/39263/5 "2000-11-01T18:44:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by howardsims \* > \*\*Sucked??? How could anything with Christina Applegate suck? > Well, she was good on Married With Children… \*\* At some point you have to turn up the sound. That is the point where _Friends_ lost me. ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2000, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-cancel-jesse/39263/6 "2000-11-01T19:29:26Z")
It was cancelled after they had made the cliffhanger ending, where Diego married Linda to stay in the US. Now we’ll never know what happens… ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2000, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-cancel-jesse/39263/7 "2000-11-01T19:54:22Z")
That’s how I felt about that old show “V” and they cancelled it after Elizabeth boarded the shuttle with the Leader and Diana confessed to planting a bomb on board. Grrrr, now I’ll never know! ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-cancel-jesse/39263/8 "2000-11-02T01:42:39Z")
There was a show called “Jesse”? ---
**Author:** ![3waygeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/e95f7d/32.png) [@3waygeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3waygeek)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-cancel-jesse/39263/9 "2000-11-02T03:31:19Z")
If you really miss the show, you can catch reruns on USA Network weekdays at 10AM. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-cancel-jesse/39263/10 "2000-11-02T06:11:01Z")
NBC is in a critcal period now. By moving Fraiser off of Tuesdays to Thursdays they shook their hold on Tuesdays. Fraiser while still winning was not nearly up to Seinfeld Now remember audience numbers are falling Seinfeld even at it’s biggest was no where near what Cosby had been. (In fact in terms of sheer numbers not percentage) Lavern and Shirley peaked in the late 70s (before Cable became widespread) Now NBC still remembers A Different World. That show was so dependent on COSBY it BOMBED big time after Cosby left. It was totally incapable of suppporting an audience without a lead in. Jesse and others are like that. They get good numbers but cannot support them w/o a lead in. So if Friends cancelled. Jesse couldn’t keep it’s numbers if it moved into a lead show and NBC would have to find a 7:30 show that in all likelyhood would be even weaker than Jesse. ---
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-cancel-jesse/39263/11 "2000-11-02T06:37:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by 3waygeek \* > If you really miss the show, you can catch reruns on USA Network weekdays at 10AM. It would be safe to say that any shows on USA during their USAM thing are cancelled. I’m kinda ticked off they canceled **Ned and Stacey** though. Actually I never watched the show when it was on… that… one… channel… but watching it on USA, I find it damn funny only because of Thomas Hayden Church, although Debra Messing… yum! ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-cancel-jesse/39263/12 "2000-11-02T13:30:37Z")
BTW, the girl who played **Linda** on _Jessie_ is now employed over on _Yes, Dear_. She’s basically playing the same character: blue-collar, tough, kinda ditzy, bit of a floozie, but warm-hearted. Sort-of a **Laverne DeFazio** for the 00’s. My $.02 ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-cancel-jesse/39263/13 "2000-11-02T14:09:57Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by adam yax \* \*\* > [@](#): > > My guess would be that it was cancelled because it sucked. Sucked big time. Like a sucking chest wound. \*\* Oh, my God- I just laughed out loud at work and almost got in trouble. That’s a great phrase. Zette