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By:: AM Smiley

May 23, 2015

22 Beloved Franchises (That Totally Lost It)

Franchising is a funny a thing. Sometimes, you strike gold and still remain faithful to the product -- even improving upon it. But mostly people are too eager to suck every single dime they can from an idea, until it's withered and unrecognizable in a wet gutter.

To help us illustrate this, we tapped on our favorite image wizard AuntieMeme to help us show you the worst offenders in pop culture history.

22 Entry by AM Smiley

MAXIMUS, FROM THE MOVIE GLADIATOR, ALMOST FORREST-GUMPED HIS WAY THROUGH HISTORY. Since Maximus is dead and buried at the end of Gladiator, the script

21 Entry by AM Smiley

SUPERMAN COMPLETELY THROWS OUT HIS MORAL CODE IN SHPERIAN AT EARTH'S END. He grows a crazy hobo beard, kills the hell out of the bad guys with a giant

20 Entry by AM Smiley

Family Matters went utterly insane from the fourth season on. It started out as a show about a cop's middle-class family and their wacky neighbor. Mid

19 Entry by AM Smiley

In 2006 Disney explored the relationship between single deer parents and their kids, with PTTURES PRESENTS Bambi ambi Il When the original Bambi was i

18 Entry by AM Smiley

The writer of ET. immediately wrote a horrifying sequel. It was called Nocturnal Fears, and featured a race of white extraterrestrials who kidnap and

17 Entry by AM Smiley

One of the 101 Dalmatians becomes the British Prime Minister, in the sequel to the book. The Starlight Barking is the story of Cadpig, one of Pongo's

16 Entry by AM Smiley

In Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures. Pac-Ma and the Ms. live in a house and have kids. So instead of running through mazes and 72 fighting ghosts, you ge

15 Entry by AM Smiley

THE ORIGINAL KING KONG WAS A GIANT GORILLA WHO WAS SO INTO BLOND HWMAN WOMEN THAT HE CARRIED ONE TO THE TOP OF A SKYSCRAPER. IN 7986's KING KONG LIVES

14 Entry by AM Smiley

IN 1994, MEGA MAN TOOK A BREAK FROM FIGHTING ROBOTS TO PLAY SOCCER Mega Man Soccer for the SNES pitted Mega Man against his enemies in a fight to the

13 Entry by AM Smiley

Mrs. Robinson her uses cougar powers to help The Graduate's kids in Home School. That's right, the woman THE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL TO THE GRADUATE who s

12 Entry by AM Smiley

Beaver Cleaver returned in 1983 with Still the Beaver. Leave It to Beaver was a '60s sitcom about a precocious kid nicknamed Beaver and his family-War

11 Entry by AM Smiley

Ghe Phantom of the Opera runs a Coney Island sideshow in Love never Dies. The sequel is another musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The title seems to be

10 Entry by AM Smiley

IN 1990, LINDd BLaIr REPRISED Her MOST Famous ROLE WITH a COMEDY caLleD REPOssessed. LINDA BLAIR NED BEATTY LESLIE NIELSEN REPOSSESSED Blair plays a L

9 Entry by AM Smiley

DONKEY KONG JR. MATH WAS JUST AS WRETCHED AS IT SOUNDS. EXERCTS1E + 0 00 O 00I + 00 0O 00 oxo SELECT 01o + 00to CD OD 8 X O The 1985 NES game featured

8 Entry by AM Smiley

Clarissa in Clarissa Enxplains it AI Was cynical, colorful, and snarky. Clarissa in Clarissa Now was perky, drab, and naive. Oddly, the spinoff series

7 Entry by AM Smiley

IN 1982, tHe PrOFeSSor WHO COULdN't patcH a boat buiLt a Space SHiP out OF Wood aNd FLEW tHe castaways to GiliGaNs PLanet. The show was cancelled afte

6 Entry by AM Smiley

Casablanca nearly had a terrible sequel. In the movie, called Brazzaville, we learn that Rick and Louie were actually spies all along, and the roguish

5 Entry by AM Smiley

Bewitched, the movie, was insanely meta. Rather than remaking and updating the '60s TV show, Bewitched! is about a remake of the '60s TV show. Still w

4 Entry by AM Smiley

In the final season of The Flintstones, Fred and Barney met an alien. His name was Gazoo, and he could teleport, time travel, and make objects appear

3 Entry by AM Smiley

RIPLEY THE ALIEN HUNTER GETS CUDDLY WITH THE XENOMORPHS IN ALIEN RESURRECTION. Since Aliens 3 killed Ripley off, this film brings Ripley back as a clo

2 Entry by AM Smiley

THe UPCOMING BeeTLejuice secuel IS aCTuaLLY THe SECOND oNe IN tHe WORKS. In 1990, the studio nearly made Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian. It was a retread o

1 Entry by AM Smiley

A BOY NAMED SUE WAS ACTUALLY ABOUT INCEST. In the song, made famous by Johnny Cash, the title character learns that his father named him Sue to make

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