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Anyone ever hear of a now-non-existent show called "Wonder Falls"?

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A friend of mine told me about this show a month or so ago and got me all excited (I rarely watch TV except for The Simpsons and Gilmore Girls and Smallville, and even then I don't catch every episode. I also look for the latest Buffy re-run because I never followed it or gave a rat's ass about it when it was on the air, but now think it was weirdly wonderful).

Anyway I kept idly looking for Wonder Falls by turning on the TV to FOX and waiting for the promos, but their weren't any. Then I Googled it and found out FOX had cancelled it after airing four episodes (two of which were in a lousy Friday night time slot) even though 13 episodes had been filmed and were ready to go.

I was just talking to my friend about this tonight and she was all heart-broken about it and saying "TV is dead," etc. She's one of the smartest and most creative people I know -- and she watches TV less than I do -- so her reaction plus what I've read about the show itself (it sounded great) have made me depressed about missing a show I never even saw.

Anyone seen it? Should I be as depressed as I am?

But Wonder

― jewelly (jewelly), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 01:29 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah there was a thing in usa today about this (i was bored is why i read it); network tv peepuls idjits per usual

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 01:33 (twenty-two years ago)

From what I gathered it had something to do with talking lawn ornaments/novelty stuffed bears.

and probably no, you shouldn't.

― Camtron (Cameron), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 01:34 (twenty-two years ago)

be depressed (that is)

― Camtron (Cameron), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 01:34 (twenty-two years ago)

See also Wonderfalls

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 02:39 (twenty-two years ago)

It was supposed to have been moved to Thursdays, but even that seems bleak now. Some of it missed, but the first episode was quite good.

― Leee O'Gaddy (Leee), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 02:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't understand why a network wouldn't show episodes it already has paid for. Toss them on at midnight to kill space if nothing else. They did it with Firefly, too.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 03:05 (twenty-two years ago)

There was a guy on AM radio around midnight the other night complaining that FOX had cancelled it. He mentioned some website: www.savewonderfalls.com maybe?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 03:11 (twenty-two years ago)

it was cancelled, there was a cnn article about it, of all things.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 03:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw a petition site: http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/wonderfalls

― Leee O'Gaddy (Leee), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 03:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I never saw it, so it was mostly noteworthy for having an Andy Partridge-penned theme song.

― Simon H., Wednesday, 14 April 2004 04:35 (twenty-two years ago)

it was the best show i'd seen since buffy ended. i'm pretty peeved about its cancellation, but i guess i should have expected it. they're petitioning fox to release the episodes on dvd, but i kind of doubt it will happen considering that only four episodes got aired and relatively few people saw it.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

It was pretty good -- I didn't expect to last, since it was shown on Fox.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...
I just started watching this. It was so good! I am very sad to have missed out. The DVDs are available, but for those of you that don't want to buy it, LOGO is showing the episodes.

― rocknrolldetox (rocknrolldetox), Thursday, 22 September 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

Good show.

― jeffrey (johnson), Thursday, 22 September 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

Old chap.

― O'so Krispie (Ex Leon), Thursday, 22 September 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

yo yo yo let me speak on dis

yo see the faux network is holdin down tha black man fo sure. that why when they be seein gangsta andy partridge be composin tha theme song they be all shuttin down dis show. all because of tha a-train that bein me yo.

it was a wicked theme song too mah homies. it be like "yo wonderfalls / dis bein about a ho seein freaky shiznit on tha crack / lotta bitches yo yo / what a nigga be doin in niagara"

well biatches xtc krew aint nothin to fuck with im gonna bust a cap in rupert murdoch's ass yo gangstaz

― gangsta andy partridge, Thursday, 22 September 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

I think they showed them all on Sky One over here (UK), except I kept forgetting it was on. The few episodes I saw looked good.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 22 September 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

I seen it all and was mostly impressed. It had potential, pity it died. RIP Wonderfalls.

― algorhythm (uzumaki), Friday, 23 September 2005 10:40 (twenty years ago)

They showed it before enterprise on sky one for about three weeks then they moved it to around about midnight on different days of the week. Which was very annoying as it was just getting interesting

― Greig (treefell), Friday, 23 September 2005 10:42 (twenty years ago)

I don't understand why a network wouldn't show episodes it already has paid for.

Heh, maybe the fact that they plan on selling the DVDs eventually is the reson they do this, except for two things: 1) I'm not sure they assume everything is going to go to DVD and 2) I'm not sure how many people are going to buy it just because of the new episodes, especially if it's being shown on TV somewhere.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Friday, 23 September 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

Pretty good, I am 4 eps in. I wish there was more tv characters (or real life people) like the main character girl in this

― gravity explodes (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 30 December 2010 02:47 (fifteen years ago)

this show is so awesome. Pushing Daisies made me a Bryan Fuller stan but Wonder Falls might be my favorite of his shows now.

― hann am0n tana (some dude), Thursday, 30 December 2010 02:55 (fifteen years ago)

This was the first 'random series' I picked out when I started w Netflix. I liked it to start with but it became a bit much and I lost interest.

― Not the real Village People, Thursday, 30 December 2010 03:02 (fifteen years ago)


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