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The 2000s MTV Show That Got Canceled After Protests Over Gandhi

The animated series made Gandhi into a junk food-loving party guy, and the backlash got big enough to threaten MTV’s business in India.

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In the censored Internet era, it’s hard to imagine a world so brazen, especially when it comes to film and television. Pretty much everything was on the table in the 90s and early 2000s—they lived for the shock value. MTV was a master of this, releasing several shows under its banner that probably wouldn’t pass today.

However, Clone High didn’t even pass in 2003 (at least with some).

The show centered around a high school populated by “clones” of popular historical figures—President John F. Kennedy, Cleopatra, Abraham Lincoln, Joan of Arc, and........

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