By Beemerboyz803
Nickelodeon fans are disappointed after
the announcement was made that Nickelodeon's popular series, Sam and
Cat, has been cancelled. The show, despite its Favorite Show win at the
Kid's Choice Awards in March, has been scheduled to air two additional episodes
before going off the air.
Sam and Cat first aired on June 8,
2013, and was the result of Nickelodeon's popular iCarly ending in
November 2012 and Nickelodeon's cancellation of Victorious in
February 2013. Sam Puckett, portrayed by Jennette McCurdy, was the crazy,
rowdy, butter sock-swinging daredevil on iCarly. Nickelodeon fans also
found humor in Cat Valentine, an adorable, charming, sweet, redhead, portrayed
by Ariana Grande, who went to Hollywood Arts High School in Los Angeles
alongside Tori Vega in Victorious. After both shows ended within a
four-month time span, fans were outraged at the programming on Nickelodeon.
Fans still missed their favorite characters, so Nickelodeon's famous Dan
Schneider, who created both shows, ordered a pilot for Sam and Cat, a
show merging Victorious and iCarly's Sam Puckett and Cat
Valentine.
On the show, Sam and Cat meet in Los
Angeles after Sam saves Cat's life when she gets thrown into a garbage truck.
Cat's grandmother, better known to viewers as Nona, moves to a nearby
retirement home. Sam becomes Cat's roommate, as she has nowhere to go, and they
become babysitters, taking Cat's neighbor, Dice, and Dice's friend, Goomer, on
their wild adventures. Through the show's 30 episodes, guests have watched Sam
and Cat take a creepy doll to a rock concert, watched two of Sam and Cat's old
friends fall into a tank of deadly tuna, watched two little British con artists
take advantage of Dice and Cat, watched Dice fight with a girl who reportedly
saw her lost dog appear in their babysitting commercial, and watched Cat
receive a huge surprise from Sam after her favorite show is cancelled.
There is an ongoing debate, about
50/50, about whether the show deserved its cancellation. The 50% who say the
show's cancellation was well-deserved have evidence to back them up. For
starters, the show has been in hot water since March, when McCurdy did not show
up at Nickelodeon's KCAs in 2014, when she was scheduled to. Also, McCurdy
slammed Nickelodeon for how they treated her on Twitter the Sunday following the awards. Grande was slammed by her fellow costar about
how she was treated, and how her salary was bigger than McCurdy's. Also, the
show was given a small hiatus after wrapping up production for their 40-episode
season, now shortened to 35. As of July 2, the hiatus was made permanent.
For the other 50 % that disagree, they
also have evidence to back them up. iCarly and Victorious, the
two shows that merged into Sam and Cat, were also high-rated Nickelodeon
shows that won "Favorite Show" at Nick's annual KCAs. Sam and Cat is
also a high-rated Nickelodeon show, garnering almost 3 million viewers per
episode, and another "Favorite Show" winner at the KCAs. Ariana
Grande also won "Favorite TV Actress" at the KCAs in March.
Personally, we don't want to take
sides. I think evidence from both sides are truthful, but we believe the show
should stay on. We've watched all three shows, and all of them have entertained
us.
Sam and Cat's final episode is
scheduled to air on July 17, 2014, and its
second-to-last episode is scheduled to air on July
12. The spinoff, much like the two shows that formed Sam and Cat,
will be missed by many watching Nickelodeon. But as Michael Corcoran sang in
the show's theme song, "we're all gonna be just fine".
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