Disney Channel/Headscratchers

• Why is the channel now running every one of their animated series that isn't Phineas and Ferb from 1:00 to 6:00 AM? It's really inconvenient to have to stay up till 2 AM just to watch Kim Possible or The Replacements. Who do they think is awake at that time?!
  • Probably because they want to take them off the air due to low ratings, the shows are already cancelled, so no big deal.
• Why does Disney Channel interrupt shows with commercial breaks when they don't air any actual commercials (just promos)? If you're not going to use the space to make money, why not just run the show uninterrupted?

1. 1. Most shows these days are filmed with commercial breaks in mind these days anyways. Disney puts its promos in there instead.
   2. Promotions for other shows and Disney stuff still count as advertisement.
   3. When a lot of these shows get dumped to ABC or whatever there will be actual commercials involved.

• • The Disney Channel is on basic cable. This means that, unlike HBO or Showtime, they make very little money from subscriptions. Most basic cable stations make their profits from advertising. Disney doesn't allow other advertisers on their station, but they do get to advertise all of their own productions. The entire point of Disney Channel is the ads. If it costs X dollars to advertise a movie during a half hour program, then all Disney has to do is make a tv show that costs less than X to produce. Then their "profit" is in saved advertising dollars.
  • This: "(Brand Name) is a Proud Sponsor of Disney Channel." It counts, despite the channel's "No Ads" policy. (Portal 2 was once a Disney Channel Proud Sponsor).
  • Also the reason why there's no ads is for the channel to make more short segments like Disney 365, Radio Disney Total Access, and more.
• Exactly what was the point of changing Playhouse Disney's name to Disney Junior? Aside from changing the interstitial segments between the shows, there's no difference.
  • To make it more of a Nick Junior Counterpart.
• Why does Disney Junior start at 4:00 in the morning? Is anyone in the block's target audience actually awake at that time? This is another reason why they should not have dropped the overnight cartoon block.
  • Some kids are awake at that time. For example, my brothers always wake up at 3 AM. When Mom can't get them to go back to sleep, she plops them down to watch Disney Junior. SOME kids are awake, apparently enough to keep Disney Junior airing at 4 AM.
• So, this is for one of the Zenon movies that Disney Channel used to air. The title character (who I believe is from a base in space or something) is in a school on Earth in a science class, and the teacher gives the class a temperature to heat a beaker to. She heats it to whatever that is in degrees Celcius. The beaker explodes, and the teacher berates her by saying, "Here on Earth, we still use Fahrenheit." This is a science class. You always use metric measurements in science class. Not to mention how this totally ignores the fact that there's only one country in the entire world who doesn't have the metric system as their standardized system of measurement, thus rendering the teacher's statement extremely ignorant. This isn't even Hollywood Science, this is Critical Research Failure.
  • The movie takes place in the future. It's entirely possible that people don't use the metric system anymore.
    • ...but it's not even that far in the future. A year that all things considered isn't even that far off. And it's not exactly logical that the entire world would abandon a system that works and always has worked when only one country in the whole world uses a different one and when they still use the metric system in outer freaking space.
  • So? It's still the future, for all we know the metric system caused some horrible disaster and they hadn't alerted the space stations to stop using it yet.
• I kinda wonder and bugs me that Lizzie McGuire doesn't get referenced in other Disney Channel shows today (save for an episode of Hannah Montana where the show's actress' name is mentioned (Hilary Duff), and almost all shows just reference That's So Raven in its place. Lizzie was the show that catapulted Disney Channel to the top, and yet they snobbed it for Raven? It's kinda sad that shows like Hannah Montana and Shake It Up don't even do homages or at least references to this great show, making people believe that Lizzie is DEAD in the eyes of today's viewers while Raven isn't.
  • As a general rule, the Trope Codifier tends to be referred to more often than the Trope Maker.
  • Lizzie also isn't from It's a Laugh Productions like the other sitcoms.
• Just recently it made me wonder: Why does Disney Channel don't air shows with a TV-Y7-FV rating? The only one that got through was one part of a two parter premiere of Aaron Stone and the prologue episode for Tron Uprising. They didn't even did this when Disney still had Power Rangers. Kim Possible and American Dragon: Jake Long got aired, but I don't know if they had that rating. Is Disney that afraid to show violence in their channel?!
  • If I recall, Kim Possible and American Dragon Jake Long were rated TV-G...
• Why was Playhouse Disney re-tooled into Disney Junior? The bumpers and name for Playhouse Disney were much more appealing and cute.
• Why doesn't Disney Channel do shows about Grade Schoolers ala Recess? I mean for the entirety of the channel's lifespan, they haven't done a single show about life as a Grade School kid (live-action wise). Most of the channel's shows and original movies are mostly set in High School, with the nearest one to said level being Middle School. The nearest we got for kids in Grade School is The Suite Life of Zack and Cody and A.N.T. Farm (since the 3 main kids are at Grade 5 to Grade 6 age), but it's still set in High School level.
  • You beat me to asking. Seriously. Whenever I watch a live-action disney show I look, and look,and look,and LOOK for a character who is A. Younger than 10. B. Not a brat. and C. Is heavily entwined with the plot in the good kind of way. What have I found? Zilch. I, girlofawesome the tropette of the brave, have tried to forge an answer. Nine-year olds do not have crushes. Therefore, they are not interesting. Unfortunate Implications. That might not be true, so try to email Disney with this question. If they reply, copy and paste it here so we can read. I REALLY WANT TO FIND OUT!
• Why doesn't the channel refrence Marvel Comics? They own them and there's not much attention to it.
  • That's Disney XD's job, although the company did appear in one Disney 365 segment (Complete with Joe Quesada being interviewed by Shake It Up's Adam Irigoyen).
• This one's for another DC outside of the US: Why does Filipinos have to share a feed with Malaysia? I mean come on, we see promos and contests that are only open to Malaysia and Singapore viewers of the channel (So Syok Holidays!- Seriously?! at the Pinoy children's eyes?) and they show us Malaysian shows there like Bola Kampung, Upin and Ipin (fortunately, there were dubbed in English for the sake of understanding) but to show us a live-action Malaysian Kid Com in Bahasa Malaysia language- subbed in English instead of dubbed on the channel- THIS IS INFURIATING! Why won't Disney-ABC Cable Networks give us a "For the Philippines" only feed of the channel? The Philippines is not like Malaysia. Not to mention some "That should not be there" shows like Totally Spies! which should be on Cartoon Network Philippines, some DC shows having some missing scenes (due that this feed is based on the UK feed of the channel), and out of the 4 Youth channels, only 3 (the aforementioned CN, Nickelodeon and Animax) have their own Philippine feeds, but none for DC. Disney-ABC Cable Networks International, please tell DC Asia to stop force feeding us Malaysian content on Filipino throats...
• It's a bit of a headscratcher why they took so long to create a 24/7 network for their preschool-targeted shows in the United States. Playhouse Disney had been airing as a 24/7 network in a number of non-U.S. markets for years and with networks like Nick Jr. (originally Noggin), PBS Kids Sprout and Qubo having been around in the United States for so long, one would think Disney would have wanted a piece of that pie sooner.