R.I.P. The WB

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Mary Cherry Becomes Popular
Via grotesque and profane Southern belle Mary Cherry (Leslie Grossman), co-creator and future Nip/Tuck daddy Ryan Murphy gave a well-manicured middle finger to The WB's trademarked poignant teen angst.

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Everwood Has Daddy Issues
''Everwood sucks.'' That was the thrust of the very first argument witnessed by viewers between widower Andy Brown (Treat Williams) and his angry son, Ephram (Gregory Smith), about moving to the tiny Colorado town. More fights would follow — about Andy's love life, Ephram's musical ambitions, the late Mrs. Brown — but that initial ''I hate you!''/''Well, I hate you right back!'' row in 2002 set the tone for Everwood's heartbreaking (and very un-7th Heaven-like) emotional frankness. In failing to pick up television's best family drama, The CW has already made its first mistake.

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Mary Trashes the Gym
In a 1999 7th Heaven episode titled ''Sin...,'' Jessica Biel's Mary vandalized her school's gym after her coach canceled the basketball team's season. Along with marking the prissy drama's loss of innocence, it branded Mary as a bad girl, which, mirroring Biel's unhappiness with the show, later led to her exit from the series.

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Cleghorne!
The 1995 show brought us the genius of the comic exclamation point.

SURE, WE'LL MISS UPN, TOO
Five moments that put TV's other netlet on the map — for better or worse

Star Trek: Voyager
How to attract viewers to your new network? One word: nerds! This female-captained Trek beamed up UPN's largest audience ever — 21.7 million people — with its debut episode in 1995. Although fans soon began jumping ship, Voyager lasted seven seasons.

Smackdown!
UPN wasn't interested in just geeky male viewers; it wanted thuggy ones, too. The weekly pro-wrestling extravaganza was unveiled in 1999, becoming the network's most-watched series for four straight seasons — and proving that a pile driver has its rightful place in prime time.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Who says that UPN doesn't have good taste? (Well, we kinda do. See the next two entries.) In 2001, its execs raised the stakes — and industry eyebrows — by outbidding bitter rival The WB for the last two seasons of Sarah Michelle Gellar's (oc)cult fave.

Homeboys in Outer Space
The 1996 sci-fi comedy about two brothers cruising the galaxy in a ''Space Hoopty'' set the precedent for awesomely bad sitcoms with even worse titles (see 1998's The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer, 1999's Shasta McNasty, and 2003's The Mullets).

Chains of Love
When the reality genre took off, UPN almost single-handedly brought it down with this 2001 dating show, in which contestants were shackled to four potential suitors. Also involved: a shades-wearing dude called the Locksmith, who might have been better off on Shasta McNasty.