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What a Cartoon!(TV show/series, 1995-2002)

7min per episode | Genres: Comedy, Animation

Scripted Reality in 3 seasons with 82 episodes

What a Cartoon!Rating: 3.6/5 (with 9 votes)
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 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. Three of the cartoons were paired together into a half-hour episode. What a Cartoon! premiered under the World Premiere Toons title on February 20, 1995. The premiere aired alongside a special episode of Cartoon Network's Space Ghost Coast to Coast called "World Premiere Toon-In", which features interviews with animators Craig McCracken, Pat Ventura, Van Partible, Eugene Mattos, and Genndy Tartakovsky, as well as model Dian Parkinson. 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 t... ()
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About What a Cartoon!

Various original cartoons by some of today's top animators.

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What a Cartoon! Seasons and Episodes

08/22/2002Season 3 - 8 episodes
Rebranded as "The Cartoon Cartoon Show."
#1 | 08/23/2002Commander Cork: Space Ranger
Commander Cork is an enthusiastic and overzealous, though not very bright, do-gooder. When he meets Peggy and Petey Paddle, a brother and sister duo who share a fascination with outer space, he decides to bring them with him on his wacky space adventures.
#2 | 08/23/2002LowBrow: Test Drive
During a routine trip to the garbage dump, suburban misfit Coop discovers an advanced robot from the future. Coop brings the treasure home and retools it to suit his modern-day slacker needs.
#3 | 08/23/2002Longhair and Doubledome: Where There's Smoke... There's Bob!
In their second animated cartoon outing, Longhair and Doubledome discover fire. Having never before seen fire, Doubledome concludes that the blaze must be his son, Bob.
#4 | 08/23/2002Jeffrey Cat: Claw and Order — All Dogs Don't Go to Heaven
Jeffrey Cat has never met a crime he couldn't lick. A surge in the pet population raises the need for a pet investigator. Jeffrey Cat, the sergeant on all pet-related cases, makes it his mission to safeguard the rights of all of the pets in the community. When a friendly dog is accused of attacking a neighbor, Jeffrey Cat smells a rat.
#5 | 08/23/2002Fungus Among Us
Keeping clean is a dirty business, as the animated mascots from cleaning product commercials well know. Fungus Among Us follows the trials and tribulations of the fungus who must coexist with the cleaning agents that have been created to destroy them.
#6 | 08/23/2002Colin Versus the World: Mr. Lounge Lizard
Colin is a color-blind chameleon whose life is full of mishaps and blunders. While working as a shelf stocker at Cheapway's Supermarket, Colin passes the days with dreams of becoming a Lounge Lizard in Las Vegas.
#7 | 08/23/2002Maktar
Slashing through our gassy universe, hurtling through our own Milky Way, an invader from the far reaches of Space comes knocking upon our atmospheric door. Sent by Zen and his Space Council, Maktar's mission is to conquer Earth. But, Maktar, a sniveling middle manager and galactic pushover, couldn't invade someone's privacy let alone conquer our Great Blue Planet.
#8 | 08/23/2002Bagboy!
Parker is a typical 14-year-old with the usual adolescent trials, except when he is a Bagboy. Carefully selected by the elite intergalactic council, known as the Bagi, Parker moonlights as a powerful superhero.
11/05/1998Season 2 - 26 episodes
02/20/1995Season 1 - 48 episodes
09/24/1999Specials - 2 episodes

Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 3 languages: English (EN), Spanish (ES), Portuguese (PT)
Status: Ended
First episode released on: 02/20/1995
Last episode released on: 08/23/2002
Creator: Fred Seibert
Executive Producer: Buzz Potamkin, Larry Huber
Composer: various artists
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"The Cartoon Cartoon Show"
"The What a Cartoon! Show"
"World Premiere Toon-In"
"World Premiere Toons"

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WatchPlayStream ID: SHOWS:10529, Added: 05/12/2018, Last updated: 03/27/2024