star wars, for sure. at this point they're just digging through the garbage for any scrap of lore they can turn into another streaming series. it's less 'new content' and more 'extended universe, but legally distinct.'

Jurassic Park, the last like 5 have been the same rehashed ideas along with “big dinosaur how we kill it?”

MCU has really run its course. They’ve jumped the shark

CSI (and other shows that distort the public’s understanding of the criminal justice system—see the CSI effect).

Fucking Grey's Anatomy. Idk if it really counts as a franchise though but it's on season 22 and hasn't been good in years. It needs to end. I keep waiting for an asteroid to hit the hospital because that's pretty much the only disaster that hasn't hit that hospital yet.

Rupert Murdoch.

All of them. How about some new shit for once?

Fast and furious.

Every. Single. Fucking. EA Sports franchise

They ought to be arrested for it, but players are somehow still buying it.

How about a bit different perspective?

What long running franchise should be taking out of the hands of idiots and given to people who are actually talented and creative?

The one exception is the MCU, that is definitely one that needs a break. I feel I've been watching the same movie over and over since the second Avengers.

The worlds of Star Trek and Star Wars are so vast that there are tons of stories that could be told. It just needs to be in the hands of someone that is actually good at their job and not a profit crazy committee.

Trump / MAGA

Five Nights at Freddy's has only been running for 11 years and is a corpse of its former self that seems to have been ironically put into a machine to make more money.

I love Star Trek dearly, I just don't think we're ever going to get a show that hits like TNG/VOY/DS9 (and even ENT/TOS) again - largely due to capitalism and the dramatic shortening of TV seasons. SNW is watchable and has some good bits in it, but it is forced to operate at a mile-a-minute pace, and either forced or poorly chosen by the showrunners to be Action Action Action about 90% of the time. I just need some breathing room!

That being said, Lower Decks and Prodigy both hit on a lot of what I love about Trek. Their cancellations (and the new ownership of Paramount, and Section 31, and SNW only getting 6 episodes for their last season) do not bring me any hope for the future.

Tomb raider.

Or, wait, capitalism. Damn that's not a franchise, too bad.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say South Park.

They're just terrible satire. Even when they have a clear target for their satire instead of making fun of everyone in the episode, they get the freaking message wrong a lot of the time.

Like the wall-mart episode. What's the big baddy? Is it the economies of scale, and that allowing massive companies that get every benefit from that scaling compete directly with mom and pop shops? No, it's the customers who like convenience and low prices!

They're just ... shit at their job most of the time. The first couple seasons are waaaay better because they're just stupid juvenile stories having fun for the most part. The more political they attempt to get, the worse their satire gets, and I'm someone who generally agrees with what they're attempting to make fun of. (with many glaring exceptions, like directly calling the act of cleaning up the environment and using green energy "gay", making fun of trans people, etc)

They're seriously just... bad satire that ultimately only succeeds in normalizing being rude to each other.

The Simpsons. Used to be sensational but isn't anymore.

Futurama. I think it's the best 30 minute show of all time but it's time for it to go. It's OK. Good things are allowed to end.

IDK if it's still popular anymore or just tax write off slop, but definitely Scooby Doo.

I would have absolutely been in the minority back when it came out, but as someone who grew up watching it through reruns on Boomerang, I personally like some of HB's other attempts that didn't stick better.

As the lyrics to Running Under Water by Pain goes:

Me and my friends get no respect.

What does Scooby do that we neglect?

Currently the SC franchise is pretty much a walking corpse with the extremely formulaic plot of "the gang loves xyz and are going to see them/experience event" with little to zero prior showing that they care. Perfect example is literally the KISS crossover movie that came out maybe less than a decade ago. A basically dead band that's been out of the spotlight for a long time and a franchise that went creatively bankrupt decades ago are a perfect match for each other... Except they had to suddenly transform the gang into KISS fans for anything to make any sense.

Edit:

I think it's actually called Running Under Water and not Jabberjaw...

Literally all long running franchises. There is a clear downward trajectory over the lifetime of franchises. It doesn’t have to start immediately, but goddamn if it’s not true for everything. Go out on top. Don’t go out floundering about the lower-middle (at best).

Simpsons

Doctor Who.

James Bond

Bond.

Half of the plot points from all the movies have been enacted, attempted or discussed in the first year of Trump's presidency by his cabinet, handlers, backers or string-pullers or funders. Fictional supervillains as entertainment are a distraction, dangerously so when the real thing is happening as we speak.

Videogame Time

Call of Duty
Battlefield
Modern Warfare
Uncharted
Assasin's Creed
Dark Souls
Tombraider
Final Fantasy
Tales Of
Zelda
Street Fighter
Mortal Kombat
God of War
Deus Ex (pretty much dead already thanks to Square Enix doing a shit job)

McDonalds.

Saw

SpongeBob, Simpsons, Family, American Dad

Call of Duty and Pokémon.

It will actually be a sad day when Fast and Furious eventually ends. No more Family jokes. No more wacky titles.