Cartoon Cartoons

For the TV series after 2003, see Cartoon Network Original Series and Movies.

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The Cartoon Cartoons' logo.

Cartoon Cartoons is 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, Blanky Blook 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 were aired on the Friday night block, but are not officially called Cartoon Cartoons. Additionally, in the United Kingdom Cartoon Network and Cartoon Network TOO have late night Cartoon Cartoons programming blocks containing most of the productions made in the 1990s along with Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends. Recently the Cartoon Cartoons block in the UK Cartoon Network was taken up with episodes from Chowder, Ben 10: Alien Force and the Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack. In the United States, Cartoon Network moved its comedy-cartoon block, Har Har Tharsdays to Monday nights.

History

Cartoon Cartoons were first showcased as World Premiere Toons and later in 1995 on What a Cartoon! Show, a series of comedic animated shorts produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and Cartoon Network Studios guided by Fred Seibert, who founded the Nickelodeon-based Frederator Studios years later. The first series to spin off from What a Cartoon! Show 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. I Am Weasel and Ed, Edd n Eddy were the first two Cartoon Cartoons series not to be introduced in a What a Cartoon! Show 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.

Cartoon Cartoons logo and continuity

• July 7, 1997 - November 17, 1998: This was the first Cartoon Cartoons intro, which features the original Cartoon Network logo, showing animations of characters from a Cartoon Cartoon series, then exploding, and the words "Cartoon Cartoon" is shown (in the same "Eagle Bold" typeface, yet all letters represent a checkerboard pattern), later, someone would say the phrase. The voice is not from a Cartoon Cartoon character.
• November 18, 1998-January 3, 1999: This bumper revolved around The Powerpuff Girls. Over a white background, the Powerpuff Girls float on the top right, while a red worm-like object creeps in from the left. Blossom charges towards it, and gets stuck, with Buttercup following suit a second later. Bubbles frees them by kicking the space between where they are stuck, and the screen zooms out, revealing the red "worm" to be part of a cursive "Cartoon", except the "n" is not completely formed (which Bubbles easily fixes by punching it). From the bottom, Blossom flies up with the word "CART", and Buttercup does the same with "OONS". Blossom and Buttercup slam the two segments together, with a blue background with circles beaming forward appearing behind when the logo is formed.
• January 4, 1999-October 2, 2003: The Cartoon Network logo zooms up over a blue swirly background, accompanied by circles (probably meant to represent broadcast signals), then, after a few seconds, it thrusts itself forward. This is followed by red and yellow ribbons curling to form a cursive "Cartoon", followed by the letters in "CARTOONS" zooming out one by one (the "OO" zooms out together). A character from the upcoming show pops out of the first "O" in "CARTOONS" and says, "Cartoon Cartoons!" There are some variants, such as for Sheep in the Big City, when Sheep says, "Baa! Baa!" due to his inability to speak. Also, on first-run episodes of Grim & Evil, Grim would pop out of the first "O", with Boskov following suit with the second "O" a second later.
• Characters who say the line:
  • Dexter's Laboratory: Dexter
  • Johnny Bravo: Johnny
  • Cow and Chicken: Chicken
  • I Am Weasel: I.M. Weasel
  • The Powerpuff Girls: Bubbles
  • Ed, Edd n Eddy: Eddy
  • Mike, Lu & Og: Mike
  • Courage the Cowardly Dog: Courage
  • Sheep in the Big City: Sheep
  • Time Squad: Otto
  • Grim & Evil: Grim, Boskov and Hector Con Carne
  • Whatever Happened to Robot Jones?: Robot Jones
  • Codename: Kids Next Door: Numbah Five
• At the end of shows, it would show the aforementioned blue background with Cartoon Network logo (this time zooming out) accompanied by a voice saying "Cartoon Cartoons!" (the voice was not from the preceding cartoon, and in the afternoon, this was sometimes preceded by the same animation on a green background, followed by an iris-out leading into the aforementioned blue background.) But the green background was only seen on season 2 of Dexter's Laboratory.
• Cartoon Cartoon Fridays: The Cartoon Network logo zooms out, and the letters in it quickly flash on the screen one by one, followed by squares containing Cartoon Cartoon characters swirling away. This is followed by four squares covering the screen (they may or may not contain at least one character from the upcoming show), which in turn is followed by the curling ribbons (these ribbons, however, curl like the regular ones, but from bottom to top instead of left to right, and they are light and dark blue on black). Sound bars containing Cartoon Cartoon characters appear to the beat of the music, and when they clear, the CCF logo forms. A character from the upcoming show pops out of the second "O" in "CARTOON" and says "Cartoon Cartoon Fridays!", as circles beam forward from behind. Codename: Kids Next Door, Grim & Evil, and Time Squad did not have CCF bumpers, and instead used special versions of the regular bumpers. Later on in September 2002, Time Squad, Whatever Happened to Robot Jones?, and Codename: Kids Next Door got their own CCF bumpers. Grim and Evil, unfortunately, did not have one due to the fact that the two shows would get spun off into their own series in 2003.

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. It was not seen on The Powerpuff Girls Movie.

List of Cartoon Cartoons

Main Cartoon Cartoons are in bold.

#	Title	Premiere date	End date	Season count	Episode count
1	Dexter's Laboratory	April 28, 1996	November 20, 2003	4	78
2	Johnny Bravo	July 7, 1997	August 27, 2004	4	65
3	Cow and Chicken	July 15, 1997	July 24, 1999	4	52
4	I Am Weasel	July 29, 1997	September 16, 1999	5	79
5	The Powerpuff Girls	November 18, 1998	January 19, 2009	6	79
6	Ed, Edd n Eddy	January 4th, 1999	November 8, 2009	6	65
7	Mike, Lu & Og	November 12, 1999	August 18, 2000	2	26
8	Courage the Cowardly Dog	November 12, 1999	November 22, 2002	4	52
9	Sheep in the Big City	November 4, 2000	April 7, 2002	2	27
10	Time Squad	June 8, 2001	November 26, 2003	2	26
11	Samurai Jack	August 10, 2001	September 25, 2004	4	52
12	Grim & Evil	August 24, 2001	October 18, 2002	1	13
13	The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy	August 24, 2001	November 9, 2007	7	79
14	Evil Con Carne	August 24, 2001	October 22, 2004	2	15
15	Whatever Happened to Robot Jones?	July 19, 2002	November 14, 2003	2	14
16	Codename: Kids Next Door	November 1, 2002	January 21, 2008	6	78

See also

• List of programs broadcast by Cartoon Network
• Nicktoons
• The Cartoon Cartoon Show
• Cartoon Network

External links

• Fridays at ToonZone.net.