Boy Question

Boy Question is a Minish antihero television miniseries. Scheduled for Fridays at 10pm after initially The Show, it began airing on MeBroN 2 from November 2, 2001. Based off the Boy-Q character, the titular protagonist seemingly has grown up from being the typical child form of himself.

The show, highly anticipated at first, quickly gained an overwhelmingly negative reception. Critics and long-time Boy-Q fans alike initially panned the series for the lack of faith in the franchise, terrible direction and screenplay, and unnecessary product placement. After the first episode, Boy Question was cancelled and the MeBroN 2 commissioner declared that the network refuse to air any more episodes after the third in 2002. The episodes were later taken off of MW.com that year.

The three episodes never reran after they initially aired. In 2007, short clips of the miniseries and the making of were unofficially uploaded to YouTube by an avid fan of the franchise, regenerating interest with users making memes targeting the quotes that are noted for exceptionally poor dialogue. It also gained an ironic cult following for being "so bad, it's good". MeBroN, the show's original network, eventually uploaded, on YouTube, the HD versions of the clips and other unseen related videos in wake of the release of Boy-Q on Sick Mode in mid-2009. The full versions of the first three episodes, however, remained widely inaccessible until 2015. That year, MeBroN released them onto its public streaming website.

Another film related to the franchise called C.J. and Tiph was theatrically released in 2018 to critical and commercial acclaim. As a result, interest further grew for the semi-abandoned series. The actress who played C.J. in the films and formerly the deuteragonist in the miniseries, Loua Ly, taunted fans with a tweet with a picture that implied there were 19 more episodes that were left unaired. In hopes of seeing the full series, an anonymous user on the government's website petitioned to MeBroN 2 to release it for free on YouTube and its streaming platform, or better, air it on TV. The half-joke petition became popular in national circles. 2.5 million people took the pledge and signed it, with some giving humorous comments. In response to the mass request, MeBroN announced they would finally air, on TV, Boy Question from start to finish — all 22 episodes. The schedule was the same as before, and the 4:3 ratio remained unchanged. MeBroN 2 made a rerun of the first three episodes. Along with a rerun of The Show, the first Boy Question episode re-aired on November 2, 2018, the exact same day as its original airdate 17 years prior. The same "new episode every fortnight" pattern was brought back until the fourth episode in December 7, 2018. Starting with that, a new episode, albeit all filmed in 2001, aired weekly. The series was concluded with a 2-hour finale in April 12, 2019.

Retrospective reviews were still negative, some being ironic. However critics later came to appreciate the show's consistent careless nature and praised the finale.