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The Cartoon Cartoon Show

Overview

World Premiere Toons was an animation project conceived and produced by Fred Seibert, the original creative director of MTV and Nickelodeon who served as the president of Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc., prior to founding Frederator Studios. Its mission was to return creative power to animators and artists, by recreating the atmospheres that spawned the great cartoon characters of the mid-20th century. Each of 48 short cartoons mirrored the structure of a theatrical cartoon, with each film being based on an original storyboard drawn and written by its artist/creator.

Each of the shows' creators worked with the internal Hanna-Barbera "Creative Corps" Art Director Jesse Stagg and designer Kelly Wheeler to craft a series of High Quality, Limited Edition, fluorescent Art Posters. The Corps launched a prolonged Guerrilla mailing campaign, targeting animation heavyweights and critics leading up to the launch of World Premiere Toons. The first poster campaign of its kind introduced the world to the groundbreaking new stable of characters.

Shorts

The first World Premiere Toon broadcast in its entirety was The Powerpuff Girls in Meat Fuzzy Lumpkins, which made its world premiere on February 20, 1995 during a television special called the World Premiere Toon-In (termed "President's Day Nightmare" by its producers, Williams Street). The special was hosted by Space Ghost and the cast of Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, and featured comic interviews and a mock contest with the creators of the various cartoons. The Toon-In was simulcast on Cartoon Network, TBS Superstation, and TNT. The special, without the Powerpuff Girls cartoon or any of the clips from the other WPT cartoons featured in the special, was later included in the Space Ghost: Coast to Coast Volume 3 DVD. The version with the other WPT cartoons was eariler included on Cartoon Network Video videotapes. Most of the WAC shorts that were voted into shows had more than 1 short. In fact, Cow and Chicken and Courage the Cowardly Dog were the only exceptions. Shake & Flick (a WAC short set in Rome about a conceited poodle and a ferocious flea) was nominated for a run by Cartoon Network, but it was Johnny Bravo that won the contract. Shake & Flick, however, still received popular reception even though it never went past being a one-shot, and Cartoon Network never found the proper way to continue it past its WAC pilot.

The What a Cartoon! experiment introduced many of today's top animation talent and was repeated several times. The Big Cartoon DataBase cites What a Cartoon!/World Premiere Toons as a "venture combining classic 1940s production methods with the originality, enthusiasm and comedy of the 1990s." A similar program, also created by Fred Seibert, was introduced on Nickelodeon in 1998, titled Oh Yeah! Cartoons. Two years before in 1996, another Nickelodeon show premiered similar to the show known as KaBlam!.

The What a Cartoon! shorts ended with silent clips of the cartoons squeezed in with the credits and sometimes the cartoon's full title would show up along with the clips above the credits. A vast majority of the shorts have never received their own runs as series on the Cartoon Network schedule (especially if the short only had one original What a Cartoon! pilot). In fact, some shorts were even created as the type that were better off as one shots and would never perform well beyond stand alone status (like Awfully Lucky which centered around a pearl that granted Good Luck, and bad luck following each moment of good luck it brought). However, Cartoon Network launched I Am Weasel in 1997 and Ed, Edd n Eddy in 1999 with no What a Cartoon! short making them, the 2 only all original Cartoon Network programs during the 90s not to be introduced through an original short. More recently, the pilot shorts appearing on Cartoon Network's viewer's poll, which lost votes (excluding Whatever Happened to Robot Jones?) were retconned into The Cartoon Cartoon Show anthology.

Episode list

Animator

Episode title

Characters introduced

Plot synopsis

Additional information and/or release date

Joe Orrantia & Elizabeth Stonecypher

Podunk Possum - One Step Beyond

Podunk Possum, Major Portions

A possum named Podunk acquires an abandoned farm with 3 chickens to lay eggs for him, and has to defend them from a fried chicken titan, Major Portions. However, he is unaware of a major alien conspiracy.

July 1, 1997

Genndy Tartakovsky

Dexter's Laboratory

Dexter, Dee-Dee, and Mom

Dee-Dee and Dexter battle turning each other into animals, using Dexter's latest invention.

February 26, 1995

The Big Sister

Dexter prevents giant Dee-Dee from attacking the city.

Marked First appearance of Dexo-Robo. Released on March 10, 1996. It was also shown on the VHS release of Cats Don't Dance.[citation needed]

Old Man Dexter

Dad

Dexter wants to be older so he can stay up late watching TV with his family.

March 17, 1996

Dimwit Dexter

Dexter has a mental lapse due to brain exhaustion and acts like a baby.

April 14, 1996

David Feiss

No Smoking

Cow, Chicken and the Red Guy (originally known as the Devil).

Chicken is saved from damnation of smoking by Super Cow, who is his sister, Cow.

Released in November 12, 1995. This episode has been nominated for an Emmy.

Lost Cat

A crazy talking purple cat is reeking havoc in town.

May 18, 2000

Van Partible

Johnny Bravo

Johnny Bravo.

Johnny Bravo tries to score with a zookeeper girl by capturing a runaway gorilla.

March 26, 1995

Johnny Bravo and the Amazon Women

Johnny Bravo is left stranded in an island filled with beautiful tall women, and their bodyguard elephant.

January 1, 1997

Mr. Monkeyman

Jungle Boy, King Raymond.

Jealous King Raymond stains the hero Jungle Boy's reputation by impersonating him and causing mayhem.

October 9, 1996

Craig McCracken

Meat Fuzzy Lumpkins

The Powerpuff Girls, Fuzzy Lumpkins.

The Powerpuff Girls fight to stop Fuzzy Lumkins' plot to turn everything into meat.

February 20, 1995

Crime 101

The Amoeba Boys

The girls aid bumbling Amoeba Boys in becoming able criminals.

January 28, 1996

Butch Hartman

Short Pfuse

Pfish and Chip.

Pfish and Chip (A carefree shark and a short tempered lynx) attempt to stop their foe, The squeaky laughing Mad Bomber. The only problem is their chief needs to take his nap and demands quiet.

Blammo, the Clown

The bomb squad face a clown bomber, with several gag bombs. They also find themselves taking care of the chief's Teddy Bear while hes at the circus with his mother.

Hillbilly Blue

Eustace and Mordechai.

Crawdad Eustace is fed-up with being treated as food and goes with possum pal Mordechai on a cross-country trip to New Orleans and being "served" in royal fashion.

Features several appearances by Elvis, a notable trademark in Hartman's The Fairly Odd Parents. Released on August 21, 1996.

Gramps

Gramps, his grandchildren.

Gramps tells his grandchildren about his battle against invading aliens, and gets corrected by the children repeatedly.

Seth MacFarlane

Larry and Steve

Larry and Steve.

Steve, a homeless dog, is adopted by dimwit Larry (the only man to understand what he's saying), and lives disaster after disaster when Larry takes him shopping.

Style developed into MacFarlane's Family Guy. Released on April 20, 1997.

John R. Dilworth

The Chicken From Outer Space

Courage the Cowardly Dog

A fearful dog tries to stop an alien chicken's plans to invade Earth while in his owners' farm.

Nominated for Oscar. Released on December 31, 1995.

Zac Moncrief

Lost Control

Godfrey and Zeek.

A giraffe and a pig leave their zoo home and visit a residual water treatment plant to retrieve the remote control they accidentally flushed down the toilet.

1996

Paul Parducci, James Giordano & R.J. Reiley

Home Sweet Home

Zoonatiks, Mr. Hackensack.

A bear named Bill, a monkey named Knuckles and a turtle named Shelby try to enter the all-star Hackensack Zoo and fit their accommodations.

This short is animated in style of the 1990's Nick at Nite bumpers.

Jon McClenahan

Drip Dry Drips

Fat Cats.

Brothers Louie and Elmo set a laundry business, expecting to earn some cash. They get a request from the President, but accidentally destroy his suit.

September 10, 1995

Mikhail Shindel

Mike, Lu & Og

Mike, Lu, Og.

A cast away girl named Mike asks for native inventor Og to build a car to get across the island. He also builds a specially improved model for princess Lu, which runs too fast for her.

Released in 1996 (estimate).

William Hanna

Wind-Up Wolf

Updated versions of the Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf.

The Big Bad Wolf uses his robot minion to finally get the Three Little Pigs.

The Jetsons make a cameo in this short. Released on May 14, 1995.

Hard Luck Duck

Hard Luck Duck, Crocodile Harley.

Hard Luck Duck, after venturing away from Crocodile Harley's watch, is a hungry fox's target to be cooked.

Slight similarity to Yakky Doodle. Released on April 16, 1995.

Joseph Barbera

Stay Out

The Flintstones' Dino.

Dino tries to keep the house cat outside for the night.

The Great Egg-Scape

Dino takes care of a baby dinosaur, and tries to prevent him for growing more.

Robert Alvarez

No Tip

Pizza Boy.

A delivery boy must deliver a pizza to Antarctica safe and sound and before times runs up, or else, he will receive no tip. After going through no end of danger to deliver it, he gets no tip and goes insane.

School Daze

Tumbleweed Tex.

A Wild West outlaw needs to finish the fourth grade, and deal with his obnoxious class rival, little Timmy.

John McIntyre

Kitchen Casanova

A first time cook is preparing a dinner for his date, but trouble arises when the wind flips the pages from his cookbook.

December 31, 1996

C. Miles Thompson

Boid n' Woim

Boid, Woim.

A worm hitch-hikes in the middle of the California Desert alongside a Bird that secretely wants to eat him.

Mike Milo

Bow Wow Bucaneers

Bloo's Gang, conformed by Bloo, Simon and Scully

Bloo and his dog friends sneak out of their owner's houses at midnight to set on a pirate adventure in the city.

Ignoramooses

Sherwood and Pomeroy

Two mooses (called Ignoramooses by a watching specialist) believe they're going to be adopted by a rich hunter, and wreak havoc in his manssion.

Ralph Bakshi

Malcolm and Melvin

Malcolm and Melvin

Melvin is an alienated loser, until he meets Malcolm, a trumpetist cockroach.

Babe, He Calls Me

Melvin's saga continues, as his partnership with Malcolm is compromised by an urban superhero's intrusion. Meanwhile, Melvin's mother aids a criminal after being unable to meet with her son.

Bakshi disowned both shorts upon release.

Rob Renzetti

Interlude with a Vampire

Mina and the Count

The Count (presumably Count Dracula) is forced to play with a 7 year old girl in her room, after a mix-up in the schedule with his victims.

Sequels to this cartoon would be featured on season 2 of Oh Yeah! Cartoons making it the only short to appear in both cartoon variety shows.

Greg Miller

Whatever Happened to Robot Jones?

Robot Jones

Robot Jones collects information about students.

August 25, 2000

Eddie Fitzgerald

Tales of Worm Paranoia

Johnny, the worm, and Sally, his girlfriend

Johnny is a peaceful and forgiving worm until a human steps on him repeatedly. As a result, the worm becomes paranoid and angered at the human race, seeking revenge.

Style reminiscent of John K's Ren and Stimpy

Patrick A. Ventura

Short Orders

Yuckie Duck

Yuckie Duck works as a cook and waiter in a dirty restaurant, and delivers unappealing orders to the demanding customers.

March 5, 1995

I'm On My Way

Yuckie Duck

Yuckie Duck works as a paramedic, but does more harm than good to his patients

Out and About

Sledgehammer O'Possum

A troublemaking possum frustrates a dog's plans to enjoy a quiet summer day out.

Sledgehammer O'Possum appeared in another short, What's Going On Back There?

Look Out Below

George and Junior

A bird crashes a light bulb so it doesn't disturb his sleep and sits in the empty socket. George and Junior, the building's janitors/engineers, are sent to fix it.

This short was a re-imagining of the original George and Junior cartoons

George and Junior's Christmas Spectacular

George and Junior are forced to deliver Santa's presents to the kids, as they fail to deliver one of Santa's letters.

August 6, 1995

Meinert Hansen

A Clean Getaway

Captain Buzz Cheeply, Slide

Captain Buzz Cheeply and his robot sidekick, Slide, must escape a planet whose inhabitants have abnormally sized foreheads but small sized brains, while finding a place to do their laundry.

Jerry Reynolds and Russ Harris of Perennial Pictures Film Corporation

Rat in a Hot Tin Can

O. Ratz, Dave D. Fly

A rat and his fly companion try to find a place to stay for the night during winter in the city.

Don Jurwich, Jerry Eisenberg and Jim Ryan

Yoink! of the Yukon

Yoink

The mounted police of the Yukon has its uniforms stolen. Yoink and Sergant Thumbsworth Tharplung is sent to retrieve them.

Eugene Mattos

Raw Deal in Rome

Shake and Flick

A flea named Flick has a personal agenda with a local performer, a Dog named Shake, in an anachronistic Rome setting.

Art direction by Butch Hartman. Was nominated to be adapted into a series, but lost to Johnny Bravo. Released on June 19, 1995.

Mike Wellins

Strange Things

A robot finds a job as a janitor, but winds up working for an obnoxious police officer. He also must remember that if it says "Dont Touch", don't touch.

A CGI short, the only one in the series. The character designs and storytelling somewhat resemble those of the Disney/Pixar Movie Wall-E. Released on January 22, 1997.

Jeret Ochi and Victor Ortado

Snoot's New Squat

Snoot and Al

Snoot, the flea-like extraterrestrial whos can imitate pop culture, finds a new home at a pain-suffering dog Al (Who drives his doctor crazy).

Art direction by Butch Hartman, hence Snoot's commander bears similarities to Jorgen Von Strangle, the boss fairy from Hartman's Fairly Oddparents. A reference to the popular movie Forrest Gump is made by Snoot when Al runs away and he morphs into a girl and shouts the same way as Jenny does to Forrest.

Bruno Bozzetto

Help?

Jof

A cat that pinches his finger while sewing asks for help at the hospital, but its ruthless personnel offer only pain.

May 6, 1997

External links

The Cartoon Cartoon Show at the Internet Movie Database

The Cartoon Cartoon Show at TV.com

What a Cartoon! at Frederator

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Cartoon Network

Regions

United States  Australia  Europe  India  Italy  Japan  Latin America  Nordic (Scandinavia)  Pakistan  Philippines  Southeast Asia  Turkey  United Kingdom and Ireland

Original Series

Cartoon Cartoons

Codename: Kids Next Door  Courage the Cowardly Dog  Cow and Chicken  Dexter's Laboratory  Ed, Edd n Eddy  Evil Con Carne  The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy  Grim & Evil  I Am Weasel  Johnny Bravo  Mike, Lu & Og  The Powerpuff Girls  Sheep in the Big City  Time Squad  What a Cartoon!  Whatever Happened to Robot Jones?

Cartoon Network Studios

Originals

Ben 10  Ben 10: Alien Force  Camp Lazlo  The Cartoonstitute  Chowder  Class of 3000  Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends  The Life and Times of Juniper Lee  The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack  Megas XLR  My Gym Partner's a Monkey  Samurai Jack  The Secret Saturdays  Squirrel Boy  Transformers Animated

CN Real Live-Action Series

The Othersiders  BrainRush  Destroy Build Destroy  Dude, What Would Happen  Bobb'e Says

Upcoming series

Adventure Time with Finn and Jake  Ben 10: Evolution  Generator Rex  Regular Show

Co-Productions

European

co-productions

The Cramp Twins  Fat Dog Mendoza  Robotboy  Skatoony  Spaced Out

North American

co-productions

George of the Jungle  Out of Jimmy's Head  Storm Hawks  Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi  Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003  2008)

Made-for-TV films

Dexter's Laboratory: Ego Trip (1999)  The Flintstones: On the Rocks (2001)  Party Wagon (2004)  Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: House of Bloo's (2004)  Codename: Kids Next Door: Operation Z.E.R.O. (2006)  Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo (2006)  Class of 3000: Home (2006)  Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Good Wilt Hunting (2006)  Re-Animated (2006)  My Gym Partner's a Monkey: The Big Field Trip (2007)  Camp Lazlo: Where's Lazlo? (2007)  The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy: Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure (2007)  The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy: Wrath of the Spider Queen (2007)  Ben 10: Secret of the Omnitrix (2007)  Ben 10: Race Against Time (2007)  Codename: Kids Next Door: Operation: I.N.T.E.R.V.I.E.W.S. (2008)  My Gym Partner's a Monkey: Animal School Musical (2008)  Underfist: Halloween Bash (2008)  Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Destination Imagination (2008)  Scooby-Doo 3: The Mystery Begins (2009)  Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show (2009)  Ben 10: Alien Swarm (2009)

Games

Cartoon Network: Block Party  Cartoon Network Racing  Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall  Aqua Teen Hunger Force Zombie Ninja Pro-Am  Samurai Jack: The Shadow of Aku  Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends  Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Imagination Invaders  George of the Jungle and the Search for the Secret  Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law  Ben 10: Alien Force  Ben 10: Protector of Earth  The Powerpuff Girls: Bad Mojo Jojo  The Powerpuff Girls: Paint the Townsville Green  The Powerpuff Girls: Chemical X-traction  The Powerpuff Girls: Relish Rampage

See also

Cartoon Network Video  Cartoon Network Invaded  Williams Street  Boomerang  Cartoon Network Too  Cartoonito  Toonami (Toonami Jetstream)  Adult Swim  Cartoon Cartoons

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Ralph Bakshi

Feature films

Fritz the Cat  Heavy Traffic  Coonskin  Wizards  J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings  American Pop  Hey Good Lookin'  Fire and Ice  Cool World

Unfinished

Last Days of Coney Island

Theatrical shorts

The Fuz  Mini-Squirts  Marvin Digs  Mouse Trek

Television series

The Mighty Heroes  Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures  Spicy City

Television features

Christmas in Tattertown  The Butter Battle Book  Cool and the Crazy

Television shorts

This Ain't Bebop  Malcom and Melvin  Babe, He Calls Me

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