Kids' WB Specials
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| Type | Saturday morning cartoon block |
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| Country | United States |
| Availability | National |
| Owner | The CW Network, LLC (CBS Corp. - 50% / Warner Bros. - 50%) |
| Launch date | September 9, 1995 |
| Affiliations | The CW (USA), Nine Network (Australia), WIN Television (Australia) |
| Former affiliations | The WB (1995-2006) |
| Website | www.kidswb.com |
Here are some of Kids' WB!'s most notable specials:
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[edit] Special programs
[edit] Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer
Main article: Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer#Television
This Christmas special originally aired on Kids' WB! on Monday, December 23, 2002 at 4:00 PM. It aired in The WB's primetime slots beforehand. Both entities have rebroadcasted it, usually around Christmas time.
[edit] The JammX Kids All-Star Dance Special
One of Kids' WB!'s live-action programs, the JammX Kids travel from school to school to rap about drug awareness and the like. These originally aired the Sunday in The WB's primetime slot before the March 18, 2006 and March 25, 2006 at 11:00 AM when Kids' WB! showed encored of them.
[edit] The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon
Main article: The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon
This is the one-hour tenth-anniversary special of the Pokémon franchise, and it aired in the USA before anywhere else, even Japan. Kids' WB! first aired on April 29, 2006 at 10:00 AM, and it was the first Pokémon program dubbed by Pokémon USA, and the only program dubbed by Pokémon USA to air on Kids' WB! Kids' WB! ran a promotional sweepstakes during it to win Pokémon Tenth Anniversary merchandise.
[edit] Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys
Main article: Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys
Kids' WB! aired the world premiere English-language version of this movie on January 22, 2005 at 10:00 AM. However, it was edited due to time constraint The full-length movie was released on DVD February 15, 2005. Before the movie, during the preceding programs, they rolled out the red carpet to meet the stars of the movie.
[edit] Wakko's Wish
Main article: Wakko's Wish
This two-hour Animaniacs movie originally aired on Kids' WB! on February 22, 2000.
[edit] Zolar
Kids' WB!'s first ever original movie, and one of their only live-action programs in history, debuted on May 29, 2004. It featured a sport-competing alien named Zolar, from another planet. His catch phrase was "Blue-yah!" During the movie, Kids' WB! ran a sweepstakes to win a year's supply of buttered popcorn.
[edit] Notable promotions
[edit] Halloween Duel of Screams
In 2002 and 2003, toward Halloween, Kids' WB! would do a promotion similar to the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game pitting Kids' WB! characters against one another in a duel, but this time with screaming kids. Whoever had the most screaming kids that could affect others won the duel. It was always done in tournament style, but in 2002, Todd "Toad" Tolensky from X-Men: Evolution was disqualified for eating The Flea from ¡Mucha Lucha!, Ash Ketchum from Pokémon almost lost to Joey Wheeler from Yu-Gi-Oh!, and Jade Chan from Jackie Chan Adventures beat Yugi in the final round. In 2003, Yugi defeated The Masked Toilet from ¡Mucha Lucha! in the final round and won.
[edit] Holiday Sock Party
The Holiday Sock Party is an ongoing event since 2001, and has always taken place the second Saturday in December. During this, the Kids' WB! mascot, the Holiday Sock, usually goes inside of the Kids' WB! promotional watertower, with other characters, doing Christmas-related things. In 2001 and 2002, the sock was the sole host, but in 2003 The Flea from ¡Mucha Lucha! co-hosted. In 2004 the sock granted the wishes of viewers who wanted to "turn into something" on TV. In 2005, the set was moved to the Fruit Salad Island from Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island! with Coconut Fred as the co-host, and was about granting wishes again. This does not seem to be happening in 2006, instead it is being replaced with a singalong.
[edit] Kids' WB! Backlot Tour
Kids' WB! had its Kids' WB! Backlot Tour in the parking lot of The Centre Ice Rink at the Delaware State Fairgrounds in Harrington, Delaware, July 20 to 29, 2006, during the Delaware State Fair. It featured the best of Kids' WB programming, Xbox 360 gaming, and other fun activities. It is a nationwide traveling show, usually at Six Flags Theme Park.
[edit] Mad Mad Mad Monkey Summer, Ooh Ooh Ahh Ahh (Just For Kids) Island, Gotta See-ee-eeh Falls
Beginning June 5, 2004, Kids' WB! gave their lineup a monkey-based theme, entitling it "Mad Mad Mad Monkey Summer". They did promos such as "1001 Uses For a Banana" showing a Kids' WB! character in need of a banana (usually where it doesn't help or makes things worse), "Stump the Monkey!" where viewers could go online and ask the monkey, "Professor Oo-oo-oo" questions, and pranks where someone in a gorilla costume would pop up randomly in a public area, scaring someone. Also, beginning June 14, 2004, Kids' WB! gave their weekday lineup a monkey-related theme to go along with "Mad Mad Mad Monkey Summer" and entitled it "Ooh Ooh Ahh Ahh (Just for Kids) Island". As a special, until July 30, 2004, viewers could enter online to be the Monkey King of the day and have their picture on a monkey's body on TV. This promo lasted longer than Mad Mad Mad Monkey Summer (which ended August 21, 2004, Ooh Ooh Ahh Ahh ended October 22, 2004) and beginning September 17, 2004, Kids' WB! entitled the Friday lineup "Gotta See-ee-eeh Falls", as they showed encore episodes of ¡Mucha Lucha! and Pokémon from the previous Saturday, and encore episodes of the new series Da Boom Crew and The Batman, as well as other things, such as new "lost" episodes of MegaMan: NT Warrior which were either skipped or dubbed out of order. However, this only went until October 15, 2004, a week earlier before it was originally scheduled to, when the network did a last-minute schedule change to prepare for November sweeps, replacing the scheduled encore of The Batman with an orderly rerun of Yu-Gi-Oh!.
[edit] Pillow Head Hour
Main article: Pillow Head Hour
The Pillow Head Hour began on June 4, 2005, as Kids' WB! was showing the final episodes of Jackie Chan Adventures, it was a full hour at 8:00 EST (7:00 CST/PST), where they did promos featuring what Kids' WB! characters' "Pillow Head Hair" would look like (what their hair would look like if they had just woken up from bed). The Pillow Head Hour was discontinued on June 25, 2005, when the network did a last-minute schedule change replacing Jackie Chan Adventures on July 2 with Teen Titans and The Batman. However, KidsWB.com made "Pillow Head Reports" featuring Gisselle, the Pillow Head Reporter for Kids' WB!, talking about things such as entertainment and media. Because of this, starting January 7, 2006, when Saturdays were extended to five hours, the Pillow Head Hour was reborn at 7:00 a.m., featuring Giselle and a full hour of a randomly selected Kids' WB! show, and numerous guests talking about their "Pillow Head Hair". The Pillow Head Hour was discontinued once again on July 8, 2006, where Kids' WB! made their "Sizzlin' Summer Lineup" with two Yu-Gi-Oh! episodes in the former Pillow Head Hour's slot. On September 23, 2006, the Pillow Head Hour was reborn and changed again to feature two programs which follow federally mandated E/I requirements; Gisselle's "Pillow Head Reports" will be kept. [1] Right now Krypto the Superdog is airing in it.
[edit] Top of the Tower Win-a-Rama
During the 2002-03 season, from time to time, Kids' WB! would run a contest, usually during weekdays when they had them, where each day they gave you a code to enter on KidsWB.com and be drawn to win some merchandise, usually relating to a Kids' WB! show. The first one was for Yu-Gi-Oh! in the week of September 16, 2002. Sometimes it coincided with the week as a show was given a special airing, such as the "Weekday Shift" that aired Rescue Heroes the whole week, or the special weeks of catching up on The Mummy: The Animated Series or the week of new Cubix: Robots for Everyone episodes.
[edit] Zany Insany April
Ozzy from Ozzy & Drix hosted Kids' WB! in April 2003, and named it "Zany Insany April". For the occasion, every week in April, at 3:30 p.m., Kids' WB! aired a show that would normally air on Saturday, such as Ozzy & Drix, The Mummy: The Animated Series, Static Shock, ¡Mucha Lucha!, and X-Men: Evolution. Saturday promos included the "You Rhyme It, We Rap It, Rap-a-Thon", where viewers could make a rap about a Kids' WB! show and Scooby-Doo and Shaggy from Scooby-Doo would get some other Kids' WB! character to perform the rap on TV, or the "Burpalicious Belchathon", where viewers could compete with Kids' WB! characters to see how loud they could burp.
