The Rise and Fall of Alvin and the Chipmunks (1983): Why the Series Couldn’t Survive

Listen up because this one is going to hit different if you grew up in the 80s. There was a cartoon that owned Saturday mornings so completely that kids were waking up before their parents just to catch it. A show built on three singing chipmunks that somehow became one of the biggest animated franchises on American television. It ran for eight full seasons on NBC. And then one Saturday morning in December 1990 it was just gone. No big goodbye. No final episode event. It simply stopped airing and most kids did not even realize what had happened until weeks later. This is the complete story of why Alvin and the Chipmunks could not survive.before we dive into video please subscribe to our channel.