Sailor Moon almost fell into the hands of Saban. If DiC hadn't come along, the Sailor Moon you currently watch Mondays through Saturdays (Sundays, technically) would not even exist. You see, Saban would have completely scrapped the anime in favor of an Americanized animation. Second, Saban, fresh off its "stellar" premiere of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers a year earlier, would have made Sailor Moon a MMPR for girls. The show would have included five multi-ethnic (including one in a wheelchair), live-action girls that transform into animated heroines which seemed to step out of the She-Ra school of design. Other major differences included a white, fluffy Luna (gasp! What would Artemis think?), no meatball-haired Sailor Moon, the girls gliding around on air sailboards (in valley-girl mode, "Schah, that's where the Sailor in Sailor Moon comes from," not even knowing what's the real reasons for the costumes) and basically all of the cast acting completely flighty and ditzy. Not even a sign of Tuxedo Mask. You know, even though this series was completely scrapped (THANK GOD!!), elements from this series could be seen in shows like Jewel Riders and Tenko and the Guardians of The Magic.

Saban's involvement and co-ownership of Fox Kids Worldwide have allowed them to clutter their networks (other than the Fox Kids block, which in recent years have gotten a life of its own, FKW owns Fox Family Channel, and soon, the gender-specific channels bChannel and gChannel) with unaired pilots ("Walter Melon," "Monster Farm," and "Bad Dog") and shows that failed to click in syndication like "BAD - Bureau of Alien Detection" (the first time a show's been honest about its content). 

Plus, they're single-handedly destroying Marvel characters in animation form like X-Men (wasn't that final season just atrocious), Spider-Man (ditto, now they've recreated the show in an alternate universe), Silver Surfer (crude animation doomed this series), Captain America (which was apparently so bad, it never air), and The Avengers (no Cap, no Iron Man, no Thor, just the scrubs). The new Marvel shows were bad, but Xyber 9 was actually watchable. Too bad they cancelled it. I don't know if I'll ever see this Infinite Loser the same way again.

2) Studios USA
(dba USA Network, Sci-Fi Channel, and Studios USA Television) 

I was a little hesitant to add this one to the top three list of Infinite Losers, but then I looked at the big picture: 

- They cancelled USA Cartoon Express two years after Cartoon Network was launched (two years later, CN began appearing in numerous households). 

- They cancelled USA Extreme Team, which highlighted shows like Street Fighter, Savage Dragon, Mortal Kombat, and in its final season, Mighty Max, Sailor Moon, and Gargoyles. 

- They cancelled Sci-Fi Channel's Animation Station, which had popular shows like Transformers, Robotech, Gigantor, Galaxy High School, Ronin Warriors, Ewoks, Droids, Bionic Six, and others (think Toonami plus a truckload of domestically-made shows). 

- They cancelled Sci-Fi's Saturday Anime twice before placing it in the late, late night shift on Sundays (remember, it used to come on Saturday mornings). 

- They released a statement that they will NEVER air animation on its USA Network unit again. Yet on their Sci-Fi Latin American feeds, they aired two episodes of Bionic Six, Exo-Squad, and Teknoman every Saturday. 

- In that same statement, they will only air a vast majority of their shows from their own Universal/Studios USA library, which apparently don't include the Universal/Studios USA-owned-and-produced Bionic Six, Exo-Squad, Savage Dragon, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter and Wing Commander Academy animated series. 

Well, I now see why Studios USA is an Infinite Loser with no chance of redemption. 

3)DiC
(A subsidary of Buena Vista Entertainment [read: Disney])

Animation critics mock the studio's name and call it "Do it Cheaply." However, a majority of its productions in the 80's such as Inspector Gadget (a robotized Get Smart), Beverly Hills Teens, The Littles (loosely based on The Borrowers), The Real Ghostbusters, Dennis the Menace, Heathcliff, ALF, Captain N: The Game Master, and Legend of Zelda were hardly cheap in quality. Unfortunately, once the 90's began, and the studio's ownership limited its production, DiC has become a "how NOT to run an animation studio" manual (the first season of "Captain Planet," the Saturday-only Sonic The Hedgehog, and the Alien Productions shows "ALF" and "Space Cats" were the exception to the rule in the 90s). DiC's badly produced shows are amongst the worst in animation history. 

When Toei wanted one of its hit series Sailor Moon to come to the States, they wanted a well-known (but not well publicized) company to distribute it. Saban and DiC were the two. Even though in the past they worked together, they both wanted to become bigger. After viewing Saban's mutilation of the series, DiC was Saban's obvious choice. DiC's treatment of the show and somewhat reluctance to dub new episodes hasn't made the studio any new fans. Glittery effects, changed genders, UNAIRED episodes, and excessive edits are all too common on Sailor Moon. Plus, DiC couldn't convince networks to air it at a reasonable time, not even on a spot on its parent company's network ABC. The show was popular everywhere in the world, especially in Canada, where it aired in major afternoon slots every day of the week (it still does, I think). Unfortunately, when DiC realized that the show wasn't as popular in the States, they hesitated to dub any more episodes (of course THAT could have been attributed to the episodes that dealt with two Senshi that had a, um, unique relationship, but I digress) When DiC's parent company Capital Cities/ABC was bought out by Disney, Disney seemed to have given up on Sailor Moon. 

Thank goodness for the efforts of The Program Exchange, which syndicated the series and sold the American rights to USA (who cut it up even more than DiC!) and Cartoon Network (which only cuts the opening). DiC has been laying low, and its Infinite Loser status remains untouched.

For now. 

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