Cartoon Cartoons
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Cartoon Cartoons was a collective name for Cartoon Network original series. These cartoons were originally produced by Hanna-Barbera and Cartoon Network Studios, but over the years, studios like a.k.a. Cartoon, Kino Films, Stretch Films and Curious Pictures produced these series for Cartoon Network. Any and all Cartoon Cartoons have been featured as a part of Cartoon Network's Friday night programming block, Cartoon Cartoon Fridays. In 2003, Cartoon Network stopped using the Cartoon Cartoon moniker for its original animation. Many original animated series that have premiered from 2003 until present have aired on the Friday night block (now called just Fridays), but are not officially called Cartoon Cartoons. Additionally, the UK Cartoon Network has a late 1-hour Cartoon Cartoons block going from 11 p.m. to 12 a.m, starting with Dexter's Laboratory, ending with Billy and Mandy.
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[edit] History
Cartoon Cartoons were first showcased as World Premiere Cartoons and later in The What a Cartoon! Show, a series of comedic animated shorts produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions guided by Fred Seibert, who founded the Nickelodeon-based Frederator Studios years later. The first series to spin off from What-A-Cartoon! was Dexter's Laboratory in 1996. A year later, Johnny Bravo and Cow and Chicken joined Dexter on the Cartoon Network lineup. The Powerpuff Girls became a Cartoon Cartoon in the fall of 1998. Ed, Edd, n Eddy came later as the first Cartoon Cartoons series not to be introduced in a What-A-Cartoon! short.
More shows premiered bearing the Cartoon Cartoons brand, airing throughout the network's schedule and prominently on Cartoon Cartoon Fridays, which became the marquee night for premieres of new episodes and new shows.
As of September 2005, the name is primarily used for The Cartoon Cartoons Show, a half-hour program featuring episodes of older Cartoon Cartoons that are no longer shown regularly on the network, and Cartoon Cartoon Top 5, which is an hour long program featuring a countdown of the week's five "best" Cartoon Cartoons from the older lineup.
[edit] Cartoon Cartoons Logo and Continuity
Originally, the Cartoon Cartoons logo was designed the Cartoon Cartoon bumper comprised of a blue background with squiggly animations in the front (sometimes haveing nothing to do with the cartoon it was bumpering) and actual logo breaking out looking like the Cartoon Network "checkerboard" logo. Around 1998, when The Powerpuff Girls premiered, a similar beginning was used, but a new red and yellow logo drawn on to the bumper background and a character from the show would come out of the second "O" in the first "Cartoon" and say, "Cartoon Cartoons."
When the new version of The Cartoon Cartoons Show premiered, when the main theme for the bumpers was the characters featured in a three-dimensional version of each of the show's worlds which became the network's continuity image after it relaunched in June 2004, only the female continuity announcer would say the quote, and the music remixed. The Cartoon Cartoon logo would be more three-dimensional and would be drawn "on" the sky. The Cartoon Cartoons Show is now the only place to find the Cartoon Cartoons name and logo on Cartoon Network.
The background music used during the Cartoon Cartoon bumps is still in usage as it is played over the production logo at the end of some Cartoon Network originals. The graphics are now simply the pre-2004 logo with a black background, and the subtext "A Time Warner Company" ("An AOL Time Warner Company" on shows between 2001 and 2003). It can also be seen on the DVD releases of the shows.
[edit] Cartoon Cartoon Top 5
Cartoon Cartoon Top 5 is a one hour series that showcases episodes from Cartoon Network's Cartoon Cartoon range each week. It currently airs on Saturdays and Sundays at 8:00AM and 4:00PM[1] on the Cartoon Network channel. Some shows such as Courage the Cowardly Dog have been moved exclusively to this series, though there is also some overlap with shows that already have regular half-hour slots outside the series.
[edit] What are not Cartoon Cartoons
Cartoon Network has produced original animation since Dexter's Laboratory. However, not all original animated series are Cartoon Cartoons.
- Although Samurai Jack and Star Wars: Clone Wars premiered on Cartoon Cartoon Fridays, they are not Cartoon Cartoons, as they are action oriented series.
- Megas XLR is not Cartoon Cartoon, as they are primarily action-oriented series and is not broadcast during the Friday night programming block, and therefore is restricted to Toonami.
- The shows produced by Warner Bros., like Teen Titans, Justice League, Justice League Unlimited, What's New, Scooby-Doo?, Duck Dodgers, ¡Mucha Lucha!, and Krypto the Superdog aren't Cartoon Cartoons.
- Episodes of What's New, Scooby Doo?, and ¡Mucha Lucha originally aired on the Kids' WB! programming block on The WB stations.
- Teen Titans also aired as part of Kids' WB, and new episodes premiered during the Toonami programming block.
- The series that led to Justice League and JLU (Superman: The Animated Series and Batman: The Animated Series) also originated on Kids' WB. Also, Justice League and JLU never aired during the Friday's programming block; they were primarily aired during Toonami.
- Atomic Betty was produced by the Canadian animation studio Atomic Cartoons, without association to Cartoon Network, who only owns international distribution rights.
- Robotboy, although a co-production of French animation studio Alphanim, France 3 and Cartoon Network, is not a Cartoon Cartoon as it is French program and was first aired in 2005 in United Kingdom, even though it airs on Friday nights on the American Cartoon Network.
- Zixx features live-action actors and scenes and was originally produced for Canadian television station YTV, and is therefore not a Cartoon Cartoon.
- IGPX, another original animated series, is a Toonami original series and is dubbed as such officially. It also has never aired on the Friday night programming block.
- Preschool-oriented series Baby Looney Tunes is not a Cartoon Cartoon.
- Although considered Cartoon Cartoons, many original animated series that premiered after 2003 and air during the Fridays programming block (Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Camp Lazlo, My Gym Partner's a Monkey, Squirrel Boy, Ben 10, etc.) have not been dubbed by Cartoon Network as Cartoon Cartoons.
[edit] List of Cartoon Cartoons
[edit] 1995
- The What a Cartoon! Show (1995 - 1997)
[edit] 1996
- Dexter's Laboratory (April 28, 1996 - Semptember 26, 2003)
[edit] 1997
- Johnny Bravo (July 7, 1997 - February 14, 2003)
- Cow and Chicken (1997 - 1999)
- I Am Weasel (July 17, 1997 - September 16, 1999)
[edit] 1998
- The Powerpuff Girls (November 18, 1998 - March 25, 2005)
[edit] 1999
- Ed, Edd n Eddy (January 4, 1999 - Present)
- Courage the Cowardly Dog (November 18, 1998 - November 22, 2002)
- Mike, Lu & Og (May 7, 1999 - August 18, 2000)
[edit] 2000
- Sheep in the Big City (November 17, 2000 - April 7, 2002)
[edit] 2001
- Grim and Evil (2001 - 2003)
- Time Squad (June 8, 2001 - November 26, 2003)
[edit] 2002
- Whatever Happened to Robot Jones (July 19, 2002 - November 14, 2003)
- Codename: Kids Next Door (December 6, 2002 - Present)
[edit] 2003
- The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy (August 24, 2001 - Present)
- Evil Con Carne (2003 - 2004)
