Shows like Deadwood, Arrested Development, Firefly, and Freaks and Geeks get cancelled WAY too early (in some cases they don’t even get a full season) while shows that appeal to the lowest common denominator stay on the air for the better half of a decade.
It really does speak volumes about our society when one of the two smartest and funniest comedies to ever grace network television gets canned after 3 seasons, while a show like two and a half men has been on the air for almost a decade.
To quote the maitre-d’ from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off: “I weep for the future.”