What if MLP:FiM was even better?/TVTropes Adored by the Network page

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, due to its unexpected popularity with both kids and adults of both genders, fell into this rather fast and quickly became the new SpongeBob SquarePants in terms of overexposure. Unsurprisingly, this led to it becoming one of Cartoon Network's most popular shows. By 2015, ratings were extraordinarily high, often surpassing that of not just Nickelodeon and Disney Channel, but even shows on the big four networks. So of course the network went on to give it lots of attention. Later on, it became something of the default "filler" show whenever there wasn't a new episode of another series (which is quite often) or when Adult Swim wasn't on, quickly pushing other popular shows except The Amazing World of Gumball (and even that's debatable) off the schedule almost completely (resulting in a few such as Uncle Grandpa and Clarence being unceremoniously canceled due to poor ratings, spawning conspiracy theories that Cartoon Network was run by Moral Guardians who deliberately sabotaged any series they found inappropriate for kids by using MLP to artificially manipulate ratings to justify cancellation). During the summer of 2015, MLP was practically the only thing that was played aside from what few live-action movies CN still held the rights to, new episodes of original and acquired series, Warrior Cats, The Amazing World of Gumball, and the Adult Swim block. It's been given its own page here because it's one of the most noteworthy and conspicuous examples of any TV series, animated or otherwise, being overexposed by its network.

The history of MLP's status as this below is in roughly chronological order unless otherwise indicated:

(TBA)