Obscurity, much?/Viacom

ViacomCBS/Paramount Global and its predecessors CBS Corporation and Viacom (both incarnations) could be known for putting several series into obscurity.

A few restrictions on this subpage:

* A show doesn't automatically become a candidate for this trope just because it got pulled from Paramount+. There needs to be evidence of low viewership before it can be documented.
* With the exception of legacy examples (documented before January 1st, 2023), only ended/cancelled shows can be documented.
* Several shows were brought into obscurity due to Viacom suing YouTube, so please don't put examples of those shows just because of that.

* Let's just put this in perspective: MTV obscured more of their animated fare than Disney could their Playhouse Disney series. In fact, prior to the launch of MTV Classic, all of MTV's animated fare (except *Beavis and Butt-head* and *Daria*) were obscured.
	+ However, Undergrads is still obscure in America, while it's still popular in its native Canada.
	+ *Daria* is Snarktastic enough to gain a cult following among 90s MTV fans. However, prior to the 2010s, the only *Daria* material released to physical media were the two TV movies.
	+ *Clone High (2002)* became fairly obscure due to MTV being threatened with a ban in India. Over time, MTV Classic, Retro Rerun, and the confirmation of a reboot caused The Colbert Effect to occur, making the show bump up to a semi-cult hit in the US.
* Remember Nickelodeon on CBS? Chances are that if you avoided CBS between 2000 and 2007 (or only watched it once), you won't remember the block at all.
* The Twilight Zone (1985) is fairly obscure. Most of the episodes are on YouTube, not to mention CBS' legal team doesn't seem to be taking them down, nevermind the fact that it's a spin-off of the original Twilight Zone.
	+ The Twilight Zone (2002), however, is *completely obscure*, and in some countries, is completely forgotten.
* Any Nick Jr. mascot that isn't the 1994 Face (his 2003 redesign failed to take off, and Piper O'Possum lasted on the block for only three years before being canned too) is prone to this. The only reason why Face continues to have a cult following is thanks to the numerous VHS releases of Nick Jr. shows, as well as YouTube Poop. The 90s are All That even acknowledged Face because- let's face it- his original design was first used in 1994.
	+ Every Nick Jr. show done in the 90s that isn't named Blue's Clues was prone to this. The only shows that managed to continue in reruns after Noggin became the Nick Jr. channel were the aforementioned *Blue's Clues*, *Little Bear*, and a few others, like *Gullah Gullah Island* and *Little Bill*.
		- Speaking of *Blue's Clues*, it's so far the only 90s Nick Jr. original show to get a reboot. (*Muppet Babies* also got a reboot, but on a rival channel.)
* Speaking of Nickelodeon, it has a lot of obscure shows, from Nicktoons such as The X's and Catscratch, to live-action shows such as... anything that didn't last more than a season (excluding the stuff reran on TeenNick). To put this in perspective, any Nicktoon in the 2000s and later that isn't *SpongeBob SquarePants*, *The Loud House*, *The Fairly OddParents*, or related to the turtles will suffer this en-masse (see *The X's*, *Catscratch*) and/or end before its prime (see *Invader Zim*, *My Life as a Teenage Robot*) (unless it's *Avatar: The Last Airbender* or *The Legend of Korra*).
	+ Nicktoons doesn't have this reputation, although most of its originals (Kappa Mikey, Three Delivery, Speed Racer: The Next Generation, the Edgar & Ellen cartoon, etc.) were semi-obscure at best (and episodes of Kappa Mikey and season 2 of Edgar & Ellen found online most likely are TV rips).
	+ KaBlam! never got a VHS or DVD release, *not* because of this trope (actually, it was considered a staple of 90s Nickelodeon), but because of legal issues preventing it from doing so without shortening the cartoons down.
		- According to The Mysterious Mr. Enter, the only VHS release was in partnership with Tombstone Pizza. But seeing as this was a promotional stunt, it couldn't count.
	+ *Pinwheel*, despite being the longest-running Nickelodeon original series by episode count, has fallen into this. Not even *NickRewind* acknowledges it. To add insult to injury, it has no official releases. Ironic that, of all Nickelodeon original shows, this was the first to run on the network when it launched in 1979.
	+ As of 2021, not even *SpongeBob* can escape this fate, at least as far as broadcasts on Nickelodeon go. Thanks to cord-cutting (which only skyrocketed in the wave of COVID-19), the sponge has been getting less and less ratings on Nickelodeon. On the other hand, its third movie and a spin-off are CBS All Access/Paramount+ originals, so it doesn't look like SpongeBob will truly go through this trope anytime soon.
* South Park is Comedy Central's most popular original animated series. Naturally, every other post-1997 Comedy Central animated show that didn't start off on another network tends to get cancelled and somewhat obscure after 3 seasons at the most.
	+ South Park itself tends to parody stuff like this. For example, that "award-winning paper" Cartman "wrote" was nothing more than "Walden" by Henry David Thoreau; nobody is shocked to find out about it.
	+ Mentioning cancelled (and sometimes obscure) Comedy Central shows has become routine on Tosh.0.
	+ Of the numerous animated Comedy Central originals, few Comedy Central animated series (aside from acquisitions that continued on Comedy Central) were released on DVD. Those shows were Shorties Watchin' Shorties, Drawn Together (yes, including its movie), Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, Freak Show, South Park (obviously, considering its popularity compared to other Comedy Central animation), and Lil' Bush. That accounts for six out of thirteen Comedy Central animated series produced between the debut of Dr. Katz and November 2017.
	+ South Park and Drawn Together are the only two Comedy Central animated originals to even get a movie (the *Beavis and Butt-head* movie *Beavis and Butt-head Do America* doesn't count, considering the movie was made when the show aired on MTV, a current sister network to Comedy Central). Ironically, Comedy Central refused to fund the Drawn Together movie.
* CSI: Cyber got cancelled after just one season. Not even the original CSI is that obscure.