While it didn’t help that the latter half of the inspiration for this series, Siegfried & Roy, was mauled by a tiger before the show premiered, NBC’s Father of the Pride didn’t even make it through the first full season. Twelve episodes aired, but three remained unproduced, quite possibly, because each episode produced cost the CG-series close to $3 million and really the show was poorly-constructed from the get-go. For example, despite the show airing in primetime and being aimed squarely at the 18-49 male demographic that The Simpsons owned at that point, someone thought it would be a good idea to have “Donkey” (Eddie Murphy) from Shrek show up as a guest star. That’s the equivalent of having the characters of Sheriff Callie’s Wild West show up on South Park. 

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