'What a Cartoon!' (later known as The What a Cartoon! Show and The Cartoon Cartoon Show) is an American animated anthology series created by Fred Seibert for Cartoon Network. The shorts were produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions; by the end of the run, a Cartoon Network Studios production tag was added to some shorts to signal they were original to the network. The project consisted of 48 short cartoons, intended to return creative power to animators and artists, by recreating the atmospheres that spawned the iconic cartoon characters of the mid-20th century. Each of the shorts mirrored the structure of a theatrical cartoon, with each film being based on an original storyboard drawn and written by its artist or creator.
The series first aired on February 20, 1995, and the shorts were promoted as World Premiere Toons. During the original run of the shorts, the series was retitled to The What a Cartoon! Show and later to The Cartoon Cartoon Show until the final shorts aired on August 23, 2002. The project served as the launching point for multiple Cartoon Network animated television series, including The Powerpuff Girls, Dexter's Laboratory, Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Mike, Lu & Og, Sheep in the Big City, Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?, Codename: Kids Next Door, Grim & Evil, and Megas XLR, as well as Fox’s Family Guy.
The series is influential for birthing a slew of original Cartoon Network hits and helping to revive television animation in the 1990s. Once it had several original shorts, those became the first Cartoon Cartoons (a collective term for retro Cartoon Network original series). From 2005 to 2008, The Cartoon Cartoon Show was revived as a block for reruns of older Cartoon Cartoons that had been phased out by the network.
Show Description
Episode List
| Premiere Date | Ep No. | Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Powerpuff Girls: Meat Fuzzy Lumkins | |
| 2 | Dexter's Laboratory: Changes | |
| 3 | Yuckie Duck: Short Orders | |
| 4 | Dino: Stay Out! | |
| 5 | Johnny Bravo | |
| 6 | Sledgehammer O'Possum: Out and About | |
| 7 | George and Junior: Look Out Below | |
| 8 | Hard Luck Duck | |
| 9 | Shake & Flick: Raw Deal in Rome | |
| 10 | The Adventures of Captain Buzz Cheeply: A Clean Getaway | |
| 11 | O. Ratz with Dave D. Fly: Rat in a Hot Tin Can | |
| 12 | Pfish and Chip: Short Pfuse | |
| 13 | The Fat Cats: Drip Dry Drips | |
| 14 | George and Junior: George and Junior's Christmas Spectacular | |
| 15 | Yoink! of the Yukon | |
| 16 | Yuckie Duck: I'm on My Way | |
| 17 | Mina and the Count: Interlude with a Vampire | |
| 18 | Cow and Chicken: No Smoking | |
| 19 | Boid 'n' Woim | |
| 20 | Jof: Help? | |
| 21 | Podunk Possum: One Step Beyond | |
| 22 | The Powerpuff Girls: Crime 101 | |
| 23 | Wind-Up Wolf | |
| 24 | Hillbilly Blue | |
| 25 | Courage the Cowardly Dog: The Chicken from Outer Space | |
| 26 | Pizza Boy: No Tip | |
| 27 | Gramps | |
| 28 | Dexter's Laboratory: The Big Sister | |
| 29 | Bloo's Gang: Bow-Wow Buccaneers | |
| 30 | Jungle Boy: Mr. Monkeyman | |
| 31 | Godfrey & Zeek: Lost Control | |
| 32 | Tumbleweed Tex: School Daze | |
| 33 | Buy One, Get One Free | |
| 34 | The Kitchen Casanova | |
| 35 | The Ignoramooses | |
| 36 | Johnny Bravo: Johnny Bravo and the Amazon Women | |
| 37 | Pfish and Chip: Blammo the Clown | |
| 38 | Awfully Lucky | |
| 39 | Strange Things | |
| 40 | Snoot's New Squat | |
| 41 | Larry and Steve | |
| 42 | Sledgehammer O'Possum: What's Goin' on Back There!?` | |
| 43 | The Zoonatiks: Home Sweet Home | |
| 44 | Swamp and Tad: Mission Imfrogable | |
| 45 | Dino: The Great Egg-Scape | |
| 46 | Malcolm and Melvin | |
| 47 | Tales of Worm Paranoia | |
| 48 | Malcolm and Melvin: Babe! He... Calls Me |
