Competing TV stations began doing copycat shows, and the novelty wore off. Moreover, the show was criticized in the press for its weak plots. After four years on the air, it was dropped, on the grounds that it "disrupted the normal routine of agricultural and indus trial work and thus shook the foundations of the nation."
好景不長的是，在三台布袋戲輾轉抄襲、日漸缺乏新意，再加上輿論認為劇情荒誕，播出四年後，便在「妨害農工正常作息，動搖國本」的「罪名」下遭停播的命運。