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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.
- Cartoon Network
- Gary Lionelli
- February 20, 1995 –, November 28, 1997
- 16 episodes (48 segments) (list of episodes)
What a Cartoon! Original title: The What a Cartoon Show. TV Series. 1995–2002. TV-Y. 30m. IMDb RATING. 8.4 /10. 850. YOUR RATING. Rate. Animation Short Action. Various original cartoons by some of today's top animators. Creators. Patrick A. Ventura. Butch Hartman. Eugene Mattos. Stars. Jeff Bennett. Dee Bradley Baker. Kath Soucie.
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Origins and production
Fred Seibert became president of Hanna-Barbera Cartoons in 1992 and helped guide the struggling animation studio into its greatest output in years with shows like 2 Stupid Dogs and SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron. Seibert wanted the studio to produce short cartoons, in the vein of the Golden Age of American Animation. Although a project consisting of 48 shorts would cost twice as much as a normal series,Seibert's pitch to Cartoon Network involved promising 48 chances to "succeed or fail", ope...
The What a Cartoon! staff had creators from Europe and Canada (Bruno Bozzetto), Asia (Achiu So), and the United States (Jerry Reynolds and colleague Seth MacFarlane). The crew also contained young series first timers (like Genndy Tartakovsky, Craig McCracken, Rob Renzetti, Butch Hartman, and John Dilworth), but veterans as well (like Don Jurwich, J...
The first cartoon from the What a Cartoon! project broadcast in its entirety was "The Powerpuff Girls in Meat Fuzzy Lumkins", which made its world premiere on Monday, 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 Sp...
Dexter's Laboratory was the most popular short series according to a vote held in 1995 and eventually became the first spin-off of What a Cartoon! in 1996. Two more series based on shorts, Johnny Bravo and Cow and Chicken, premiered in 1997, and The Powerpuff Girls became a weekly half-hour show in 1998. Courage the Cowardly Dog (spun-off from the ...
The showcase aired on Boomerang at some time in the 2000's. It also aired on the Latin American network, Tooncast. On April 2020, 4 shorts of What a Cartoon! were available on the Cartoon Network streaming app as part of an old school Cartoon Network section for a limited time. The series was officially released on HBO Max in Latin America on Decem...
An argentinian YouTuber named Elvis Del Valle shown interest on creating his own revival to What A Cartoon! under the name of Cartooncalypse which was also going to be based on Oh Yeah! Cartoons. The concept for the revival was to create a "cartoonverse" focusing on several cartoon characters living in the same universe. At diference from the origi...
Some pilots, like Dexter's Laboratory, Johnny Bravo and Codename: Kids Next Door, were paired as regular episodes outside What a Cartoon. Some others, like The Powerpuff Girls and Courage the Cowar...
5.22K subscribers ‧ 19 videos. This channel is primarily dedicated to finding and uploading original versions of the What A Cartoon! Show shorts. archive.org/details/yt-WhatACartoon...
Nov 23, 2021 · The What a Cartoon!™ Show™: 48 Classic Cartoons From 1995 to 1997 in the Public Domain From 2022 to 2025! by William Goldman. 4 videos 41 views Last updated on Nov 23, 2021. These 48 What...
What a Cartoon! 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.
