60 Movies and TV Shows Disappearing From Netflix in March

Thanks to licensing deals, content is constantly being added to and deleted from Netflix each month. The streaming service doesn't actively advertise which flicks are getting the axe, but there is a list. Here's a quick look at the geekier selections that will be wiped from Netflix in March, and the full list below. If any of these movies or TV shows have been on your watchlist for a while, carve out some time for binge watching in the next few weeks. Netflix is also adding more than four dozen selections in March, which should help ease the blow.

Adventure Time: Season 1-4 The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy: Season 3-4 Ben 10: Season 1-3 Robot Chicken: Season 1- 2 Childrens Hospital: Seasons 1-2

These are just a few of the Cartoon Network programs taking a powder. It's surprising it took this long—Cartoon Network claimed back in 2013, just after much of its catalog started streaming, that Netflix was hurting its ratings. It's bad enough to lose modern animated classics like Adventure Time, but this removal includes Carton Network's late-night Adult Swim title Robot Chicken, the greatest stop motion animation since Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer, and Rob Corddry's hilarious Children's Hospital. Other titles getting pulled: Cow and Chicken (Season 2), Dude, What Would Happen (season 2), Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy (Seasons 3-4), Johnny Bravo (Season 2), Regular Show (seasons 1-4), and Samurai Jack (season 2). Ouch. The only upside is that you have until March 30 to stream them all.

RoboCop 2 (1990) and RoboCop 3 (1993) - March 1

Um, this one doesn't sting as much. Thankfully, the original 1987 Robocop is still streaming, as is the 2014 Robocop remake, both of which are better than the sequels by a mile. (Seriously, they couldn't even get Peter Weller to come back for the third one. Weep no tears.)

Seven (1995) - March 1

David Fincher, who recently gave the world Gone Girl and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, was just getting started in when he did SE7EN (that's the preferred spelling if you make movie posters. (We won't hold Alien3 against him.) It was an instant classic among serial killer flicks, and still shocks anyone today who doesn't know what's in the box. (Seriously, what's in the box, Kevin Spacey?). You have until March 1 to catch it. If you want to watch something else Fincher, well, don't look on Netflix. His only other streaming film was Panic Room, which gets pulled on Friday, Feb. 28, just a day ahead of Seven.

The Muppet Movie (1979) – March 5 Muppet Treasure Island (1996) – March 11

You get a few extra days in March to relive a couple of Muppet classics. The Muppet Movie is the flick that started it all—if you don't count decades of working in the TV trenches of Sesame Street and The Muppet Show. It's as great today as the first time a giant Animal stuck his head out of the top of a Doc Hopper's French Fried Frog Legs. The second one—the fifth Muppet flick and the second to see them reduced to supporting roles in their own franchise, after Muppet Christmas Carol (thanks, Disney)—may be best known for getting sued by Hormel Foods for having a pig character named "Spa'am." Imagine how Hormel feels about your email. (Hormel lost the lawsuit.)

Here are the rest of the streaming treasures to say good-bye to in March. For suggestions on what to watch next, check out PCMag's roundup of The 50 Geekiest Movies Streaming on Netflix and The Top 50 Geeky TV Shows Streaming on Netflix (as of Dec. 26)

Gone on March 1, 2015
3 Ninjas: Kick Back (1994)
Air Bud (1997)
Anaconda (1997)
Arachnophobia (1990)
Brokedown Palace (1999)
Cheech & Chong's Nice Dreams (1981)
Cool Runnings (1993)
Desperado (1995)
Dumb and Dumber (1994)
Emma (1996)
Evita (1996)
Fireproof (2008)
Freaky Friday (2003)
Fright Night (1985)
Girlfight (2000)
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
Jackass: Number Two (2006)
Lords of Dogtown (2005)
Old Yeller (1957)
Ordinary People (1980)
Out of Time (2003)
Pretty in Pink (1986)
Rachel Getting Married (2008)
Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)
Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)
Saving Silverman (2001)
Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
The Baby Sitters Club (1995)
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
The Graduate (1967)
The Possession (2012)
The Sweetest Thing (2002)
Troop Beverly Hills (1989)

Gone by March 5 (or sooner):
The Preacher's Wife (1996)
Uptown Girls (2003)

Gone by March 11 to 22:
Flubber (1997)
The Grey (2012)
House on Haunted Hill (1959)
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997)
The Tale of Despereaux (2008)

Gone by March 31:
Legends of the Fall (1994)

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