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#60: Everyone Drops The Ball On Class Of 3000

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Cartoon Network's Class of 3000 was a collaboration between the network and Outkast member Andre "3000" Benjamin, focused on a class of talented young musicians in Atlanta. Featuring a wide variety of fun characters and an eclectic mix of animation and unique music, the show proved to be a critical success, though its ratings didn't quite match the reception it received. Regardless, it did well enough that most believed it would get at least three seasons, and it cultivated a small but quite enthusiastic fandom, who were eagerly awaiting news on the show's third season going into 2008. Unfortunately, that third season never happened, and though some attributed the cancellation to the show's slowly declining ratings, the real truth is an unfortunate tragedy of errors that forever left a bitter taste in the mouths of the fandom. The show was, in some ways, a victim of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Mooninite "bomb" scandal, which led to a regime change at Cartoon Network that removed Jim Samples, who'd been one of the show's biggest champions. In addition, Andre 3000 himself found himself too busy to submit new music for the show, leading to costly production delays that ultimately made Class Of 3000 too much of a liability to hold onto. Had one of those things not happened... the Mooninite incident, Andre 3000 being too busy, the low (but not too low) ratings, Class of 3000 might've survived. The show fell victim to one of the most unfortunate combinations of factors in modern television history, and ultimately fell into a degree of obscurity, leaving its fandom carrying the torch for one of the most unique shows to ever air on Cartoon Network.