# The Last(?) Cleveland Show
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-cleveland-show/658773
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [May 19, 2013, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-cleveland-show/658773 "2013-05-19T23:52:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2013, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-cleveland-show/658773/1 "2013-05-19T23:52:18Z")
5/19 is the season finale for The Cleveland Show. Despite the fact that (a) it is not on Fox’s announced fall schedule (but then, Fox has a habit of not listing anything for Sundays between 7 and 8 other than its NFL coverage), (b) there are no known episodes in any stage of production, and © Fox did not ask for any more episodes, Fox claims that the show is “not cancelled.”
Does anybody else have theories (crazed or otherwise) as to what is going on?
I can think of two reasons why Fox would not “pull the plug” just yet:
First, it gives Fox a backup plan in case _Murder Police_ crashes and burns _Sit Down Shut Up_-style (although even if Fox were to order more episodes tomorrow, I doubt they would be ready before next March) - after _King of the Hill_ “ended” the first time, Fox noticed it had nothing to put in its place and had to scramble to get everybody back together to make more episodes, so they’re telling the TCS staff not to make other plans just yet.
Second, once Fox does “officially” cancel the show, I have a feeling Cleveland is on the next moving van back to Quahog, so Fox has to be absolutely sure about it.
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### Author:  [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2013, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-cleveland-show/658773/2 "2013-05-20T02:59:21Z")
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> 5/19 is the season finale for The Cleveland Show. Despite the fact that (a) it is not on Fox’s announced fall schedule (but then, Fox has a habit of not listing anything for Sundays between 7 and 8 other than its NFL coverage), (b) there are no known episodes in any stage of production, and (c) Fox did not ask for any more episodes, Fox claims that the show is “not cancelled.”
If all these are true then _The Cleveland Show_ is history :(. I know they eventually brought _Family Guy_ back, but they never brought \*Futurama _back, and_ King of the Hill \*was merely stopped part-way into what was supposed to be its last season (Fox didn’t even bother broadcasting the last four episodes, they premiered on Adult Swim).
Fox essentially lies when shows like these are ‘cancelled’ simply because they know that it will incur the wrath of us internet fanboys. So they just let them fade away instead…
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### Author:  [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2013, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-cleveland-show/658773/3 "2013-05-20T04:03:48Z")
Yeah but are there any actual fans of The Cleveland Show?
good riddance I say
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2013, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-cleveland-show/658773/4 "2013-05-20T10:34:49Z")
Hulu Plus is describing last night’s episode as the series finale. “In the series finale, Cleveland has a heart-to-heart with his dad.”
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### Author:  [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2013, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-cleveland-show/658773/5 "2013-05-21T04:30:09Z")
> [@PSXer](#):
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> Yeah but are there any actual fans of The Cleveland Show?
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> good riddance I say
I was an outspoken **hater** of the first ‘block’ of The Family Guy, the ones that ran from '99 to '03 or so before it got cancelled. Even though I’ve come to like the show since its resurrection I stand by my dislike of the early seasons, those episodes were simply terrible. The characters were simplistic, annoying, unfunny, two dimensional stereotypes, the performances were similar: wooden, stilted & cliched, and the scripts were predictable, lame, uncreative, un-witty and just plain bad (it was nothing more than an incredibly awful Simpsons ripoff).
It’s amazingly ironic that ten plus years later and The Simpsons have degraded into lame, un-witty crap while Family Guy has matured into an innovative, fleshed-out, edgy and genuinely funny show. Doubly ironic that this season’s Simpsons finale’s funniest joke was a line spoken by guest Seth McFarlane’s character (_“That was you?!”_) Anyway, since Family Guy was brought back all his subsequent shows have been similarly well made, American Dad & Cleveland. I’m sorry to see it go.
Of course none of them even comes close to being as good as Bob’s Burgers…
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### Author:  [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2013, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-cleveland-show/658773/6 "2013-05-22T18:16:44Z")
I say just put Cleveland back on Family Guy.