Clerks, the animated series.
The movie Clerks is a no-budget comedy about two schlubs working retail and yapping. Kevin Smith & Scott Mosier pitched a quirky adult cartoon, back when that was reasonably novel. They offered it to everybody. UPN offered 13 episodes. Smith went with a surprise offer from ABC, whose audience was mostly children and old farts. They wanted to widen their demographics to young adults. So naturally they did a test screening consisting entirely of children and old farts, who haaated it.
Exactly two episodes were aired, out-of-order, and then it was cancelled. I watched both live and had no idea at-the-time I’d seen the entire broadcast run. The premiere was a fake clip show. All six episodes were dumped onto DVD, then aired once on Comedy Central to fulfill contractual obligations.
Most of the dumb shit in Kevin Smith movies would honestly work better in episodic television. Even people who can’t stand Mallrats would be more amenable to a short format with a sillier tone and no ability to use vulgarity as a punchline. They had the right brand of deliberate stupidity. It’s not mindblowing, but it was a working substrate for a writer who cannot shut up and several excellent deadpan comedy actors. ABC suffered a petit version of the development / broadcast disconnect that saw Fox snuff out a dozen promising shows for not being The Simpsons.
And I guess Korgoth Of Barbaria never got picked up.