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The Simpsons. The current episodes are honestly a bigger fall from the quality of the show 10 years ago than the Simpsons 10 years ago was from it's golden era. It's been on eh for most of it's existence but Plusaversary is when it died if you ask me. That short is borderline symbolism for why Simpsons sucks now.
South Park. I don't watch the show anymore because it violates one of my non-negotiable values, but I also don't subscribe to the "SOUTH PARK RUINED THE WORLD" mindset that much of media criticism circles does (largely because I think South Park was a symptom if anything, and also a lot of those articles describe bad South Park clones better than South Park) and I'm not above admitting media I disagree with is well-made (but still, South Park is transphobic and generally promotes a Libertarian [as in US Libertarian Party] mindset.) But before I stopped watching...it started to feel like the creators understood their show through what media (media that was positive about the show) built it up to be rather than what it was. Pretty much every episode became politics (when their pop culture criticism was often funnier honestly) and it started to feel like the characters were just pawns for political issues instead of real characters. It's like they stopped writing an animated sitcom and started writing an edgier version of standup, and stopped being funny in the process. I think Stick of Truth was probably the last glimpse of what South Park was.