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Flowgo Series
Flowgo, also known as Intermix Network, and several other names, was a series of Flash videos which consist of parodies of pop culture, as well as other satires. The site was very popular in the early 2000s, and just like another site like Zango, it had involved in a controversy regarding malware, etc. Today, the channel that hosted the Flowgo videos, is running as Parentally.

However, it itself had humor that barely aged well, even for internet standards back then.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) Terrible humor, which consists of song parodies except with baby gags and toilet humor as well.
 * 2) It mocked Michael Jackson and Britney Spears, especially in their music parodies. In their parody, When a Stranger Stranger Calls (a parody of When a Stranger Calls), Michael Jackson is the one doing it.
 * 3) The Flash animation is mediocre as it also consists of real people's faces on drawn characters. Couple that with the fact that their animations tend to reuse assets from other animations.
 * 4) Terrible voice acting in their animations, which consist of obvious pitch edits and unlikable singing.
 * 5) Although the series seem to try to appeal to younger kids; it doesn't know whether it wants to be a kids' animation web series or not, especially in more inappropriate animations like mocking terrorists and other stuff.

Original Shows
This does not take in mind acquired programming or reruns from TeenNick/Nick@Nite.

Why It's No Place for Moms

 * 1) The concept of a nighttime block, as seen with Nick @ Nite, Adult Swim, and the N, while can be good, but on a preschool channel; NickMom pushes itself way too seriously. While the predecessor, The N (also known as TeenNick) on Noggin worked out because it also targeted tweens and teens, who were a big part of Nickelodeon's audience, NickMom begun as an attempt to get more viewers by pandering to the adult female audience, who weren't really a big factor in Nickelodeon's target demographic and more of the Paramount Network/CBS at the time.
 * 2) * Nickelodeon already had Nick@Nite and TeenNick, which considering that many of the programming later on the NickMom block was reruns of TeenNick/Nick@Nite shows, didn't help on the Nick Jr. channel, which effectively turned the block into another Nick@Nite but on Nick Jr. instead.
 * 3) * They actually reran Rugrats, which pretty much defeated the purpose of the NickMom block itself. However, it should be noted that the final deathnail was when Instant Mom, the last NickMom original, aired on Nick@Nite the same time it aired on the block, which for the next 2 years would slow to a crawl until the airing of Guarding Tess, where afterwards Yo Gabba Gabba would air with no signoff from NickMom.
 * 4) The block only ran for four hours, which left very little room for any new original shows. Because the Nick Jr. channel ran only a single feed, NickMom would start at 4pm in Hawaii and end at 8pm, which is only afternoon-to-evening times.
 * 5) Just like CN Real, it didn't feel like something that would belong on Nickelodeon and rather other Viacom-owned channels, such as CBS and Spike TV at the time.
 * 6) Viacom sank a ton of money into it, planning over 30 shows (note that barely half of it aired on the block) and probably it's own channel that may or may not have been Nickelodeon-branded. They even ran ads for this starting on May 2012 on the Nick Jr. channel, which left many children confused upon watching these ads.
 * 7) It was released at a time when Nickelodeon was on a downward spiral, with shows like Fred: The Show, Marvin Marvin, and the Nick Studio 10, which hurt their reputation in 2012-2013.