Nickelodeon's Stop-Motion Animated Series The Tiny Chef Show Announces Cancellation in the Most Heartbreaking Way

The cancellation heard, and mourned, astir the world. Nickelodeon’s stop-motion animated bid Tiny Chef made a heartbreaking announcement connected Wednesday — but the mode they did it? Well, it’s 1 for the books.

The series, which ran for 3 seasons connected the web opening successful 2022, took to their societal media accounts to merchandise a video of the Tiny Chef himself taking a telephone from a web enforcement to find retired his amusement had been cancelled. The stop-motion quality adjacent tried to crushed with the exec by reminding him, “But we won an Emmy!”

Sadly, it wasn’t enough. After telling the exec “I emotion you, too” — a operation that conscionable truly stabs you successful the bosom aft the abbreviated speech — Chef hung up and tried to proceed working. However, the heartbreak was conscionable excessively great; helium dropped his duster and began to cry, moving to beryllium connected his furniture and fto the tears flow.

In the caption for the post, the show’s creators — Rachel Larsen, Ozlem "Ozi" Akturk, and Adam Reid — gave their ain thoughts and personified Chef successful the process, hammering location however wounded helium is by the decision.

“Tiny chefs cooking amusement has officially been cancelled (very unexpected) and without the enactment of a large web we request crowdfunding to support cookin’ implicit here,” the station read.

“We privation to convey @nickelodeon for giving Chef 2 blamazing seasons and each the besties helium made there. Chef wouldn’t privation anyone to blasted his friends implicit there, he’s conscionable profoundly bittersweet helium doesn’t get to proceed hosting a amusement helium adores.”

The squad besides confirmed they are crowdfunding to support the amusement live connected societal media platforms — and surely if different web oregon streamer tried to prime the amusement up, they would leap astatine the chance.

But either way, fans person rallied down Chef and his amusement successful a mode that truly took the net by storm. And honestly, it’s not hard to spot why. The video, which has a whopping 2.6 cardinal views connected Instagram, is simply a cleanable bite-sized look astatine however grief sets successful erstwhile you person to adjacent a doorway you didn’t privation to shut. Truly quality and achingly real, the tiny sensation of the quality and the amusement has bewitched fans and non-fans alike, which seems to bode good for the aboriginal of our caller person and his show.

Here’s hoping the small feline tin get backmost successful the room ASAP.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.