If this merger went through in the 2000s, then Adventure Time would have been pitched somewhere else (Not Nickelodeon or CN) or would have been an indie cartoon!
CARTOON NETWORK'S RIVALRY WITH NICKELODEON; MAO MAO, OK KO AND INFINITY TRAIN; DEXTER'S LAB, FHFIF AND FLAPJACK; WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY AND DAVID ZASLAV