Last Saturday, I was at my friend’s Lisa and Kevin’s house, and we were watching the movie Armageddon. Three-quarters of the way through the movie, I remembered that at 10:00pm, Justice League Unlimited was on Cartoon Network, so I asked if I could go into their bedroom to watch the two back-to-back episodes – because I can never get enough of that show.

Yesterday, the show was supposed to be on again, so I flipped through my cable company’s digital programming guide to see what episodes would be airing. To my surprise, the show was not on – in fact – it was cancelled…

…and replaced with a show called BoBoBo-Bo Bo-BoBo.

Besides being furious that my favorite animated television show was cancelled, I was even more shocked by its replacement. When Greg The Bunny was cancelled by FOX and replaced with Cedric The Entertainer – I thought that was bad – but this certainly takes the cake. Besides the absolutely ridiculous and annoying name of the show, it’s premise is even worse: “Bo Bobo is a man with the incredible power of hearing the voices of hair and using his own to fight. He uses his power to fight off the Margarita Empire and all of Emperor Tsuru Tsuruiina’s minions who are stealing the hair off of anyone they find to power up their emperor.”

Right.

So a cartoon that contains some of the most recognized, popular and important comic book characters in history is cancelled and replaced with a show about a guy that can hear hair? Quite frankly, I don’t even know how to respond to that. I understand that the children of today are being sucked into this sickening Anime phase that has plagued our nation – but this is too much. I have had the “pleasure” of seeing a few Anime cartoons – and I think they contain nothing but over the top graphics, incomprehensible storylines – and brainwashing marketing techniques. How anyone who watches this garbage can understand it, let alone want to watch it again is completely beyond me. So besides being forced to stomach this crap – it, of course, has to replace my favorite cartoon show.

I am so upset at Cartoon Network for canceling Justice League Unlimited that I am going to send them a copy of this column – not that my writing will put the show back on the air – but it will at least make me feel better that hopefully – someone will be aware of my disgust. I am also going to refuse to watch Cartoon Network anymore – because their entire programming roster is slowly converting to nothing but shows that will do nothing to future generations but what our parents always told us the television would do – melt their brains.

Oh, and did I mention that Bo Bobo’s weapon of choice is his nose hair?