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What a Cartoon!

The What a Cartoon! Show logo
Genre Variety show
Running time Approx 0.30 (0.07 per segment)
Creator(s) Fred Seibert
Starring Various voice actors
Country of origin Flag of United States United States
Original channel Cartoon Network
Original run 1995–1997
No. of episodes 63 (21 shows)

What a Cartoon! (originally known as World Premiere Toons, now known as The Cartoon Cartoon Show), was the mid-1990s animation showcase that appeared on the Cartoon Network. It served as the launching point for several original cartoons including Dexter's Laboratory, Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken, The Powerpuff Girls, Courage the Cowardly Dog, and Mike, Lu and Og. The Big Cartoon DataBase cites What a Cartoon!/World Premiere Toons as a "venture combining classic 1940s production methods with the originality, enthusiasm and comedy of the 1990s."

World Premiere Toons was an animation project conceived and produced by Fred Seibert, the original creative director of MTV and Nickelodeon who served as the president of Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc., prior to founding Frederator Studios. Its mission was to return creative power to animators and artists, by recreating the atmospheres that spawned the great cartoon characters of the mid-20th century. Each of 48 short cartoons mirrored the structure of a theatrical cartoon, with each film being based on an original storyboard drawn and written by its artist/creator.

Each of the show creators worked with the internal Hanna-Barbera "Creative Corps" Art Director Jesse Stagg and designer Kelly Wheeler to craft a series of high quality, limited edition, fluorescent art posters. The Corps launched a prolonged Guerilla mailing campaign, targeting animation heavyweights and critics leading up to the launch of 'World Premiere Toons. The first poster campaign of its kind introduced the world to the groundbreaking new stable of characters.

The first World Premiere Toon to be broadcast in its entirety was The Powerpuff Girls' Meat Fuzzy Lumpkins, which made its world premiere on 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 Space Ghost and the cast of Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, and featured comic interviews and a mock contest with the creators of the various cartoons. The Toon-In was simulcast on Cartoon Network, TBS Superstation, and TNT. The special, without the Powerpuff Girls cartoon or any of the clips other WPT cartoons featured in the special, was later included in the Space Ghost: Coast to Coast Volume 3 DVD.

There were also a large number of animated shorts created by several cartoonists such as: Genndy Tartakovsky (Dexter's Laboratory (4 cartoon shorts)), David Feiss (No Smoking, which introduced the siblings Cow and Chicken), Van Partible (Johnny Bravo (2 cartoon shorts)), Craig McCracken (Meet Fuzzy Lumpkins, which introduced The PowerPuff Girls, and Crime 101), Butch Hartman (who did a number of one-shot shorts, including Pfish and Chip and Gramps), Seth MacFarlane (Larry and Steve, which were prototypes of Peter Griffin and Brian of Family Guy), John R. Dilworth (whose Oscar-nominated Chicken From Outer Space introduced Courage the Cowardly Dog), Zac Moncrief ("Godfrey and Zeek"), and countless others. Also included were works from veterans like William Hanna (Wind-Up Wolf and Hard Luck Duck), Joseph Barbera (shorts featuring The Flintstones' Dino), and Ralph Bakshi (Malcolm and Melvin).

The What a Cartoon! experiment introduced many of today's top animation talent and was repeated several times. A similar program, also created by Fred Seibert, was introduced on Nickelodeon in 1998, titled Oh Yeah! Cartoons.

Contents

[edit] Episodes

(3 episodes per show)

[edit] What a Cartoon!/World Premiere Toons

  1. The Powerpuff Girls in: "Meat Fuzzy Lumkins"
  2. Yuckie Duck in: "Short Orders"
  3. Dexter's Laboratory
  4. Johnny Bravo
  5. Shake and Flick in: "Raw Deal in Rome"
  6. Dino in: "Stay Out!"
  7. George and Junior in: "Look Out Below"
  8. Hard Luck Duck
  9. The Adventures of Captain Buzz Cheeply in: "A Clean Getaway"
  10. Courage the Cowardly Dog in: "The Chicken from Outer Space"
  11. O. Ratz with Dave D. Fly in: "Rat in a Hot Tin Can"
  12. Pfish and Chip in: "Short Pfuse"
  13. The Fat Cats in: "Dry Dry Drips"
  14. George and Junior's Christmas Spectacular
  15. Yoink! of the Yukon
  16. Yuckie Duck in: "I'm On My Way"
  17. Mina and the Count in: "Interlude With a Vampire"
  18. Cow and Chicken in: "No Smoking"
  19. Pizza Boy in: "No Tip"
  20. Jungle Boy in: "Mr. Monkeyman"
  21. Godfrey and Zeek in: "Lost Control"
  22. The Powerpuff Girls in: "Crime 101"
  23. Dexter's Laboratory in: "The Big Sister"
  24. Tumbleweed Tex in: "School Daze"
  25. Buy One, Get One Free
  26. The Kitchen Casanova
  27. The Ignoramooses
  28. Sledgehammer O'Possum in: "What's Goin' On Back There"
  29. The Zoonatiks in: "Home Sweet Home"
  30. Swamp and Tad
  31. Dino in: "The Great Egg-scape"
  32. Malcom and Melvin
  33. Tales of Worm Paranoia
  34. Dexter's Laboratory in: "Old Man Dexter"
  35. Bloo's Gang in: "Bow-Wow Buccaneers"
  36. Wind-Up Wolf
  37. Podunk Possum in: "One Step Beyond"
  38. Sledgehammer O'Possum in: "Out and About"
  39. Gramps
  40. Boid 'n' Woim
  41. Hillbilly Blue
  42. Dexter's Laboratory in: "Dumb Like Dee Dee"
  43. Jof in: "Help"
  44. Johnny Bravo and the Amazon Women
  45. Pfish and Chip in: "Blammo the Clown"
  46. Awfully Lucky
  47. Strange Things
  48. Snoot's New Squat
  49. Larry and Steve
  50. Mike, Lu and Og
  51. Kenny and the Chimp in Diseasy Does It! or Chimp 'n' Pox
  52. Dial "M" for Monkey: Magmanamus

[edit] Cartoon Cartoon Weekend

  1. Courage the Cowardly Dog in: "Courage Meets Bigfoot"

[edit] Cartoon Network's Big Pick

  1. Whatever Happened to Robot Jones?
  2. Longhair and Doubledome in "Good Wheel Hunting"
  3. Lost Cat
  4. Prickles the Cactus
  5. Trevor!
  6. Nikki
  7. Foe Paws
  8. Uncle Gus
  9. Lucky Lydia
  10. Lowbrow (Megas XLR)

Total Episodes: 63

[edit] Trivia

  • Cartoon Network's What a Cartoon! project, which was assembled into a half-hour series, The What a Cartoon! Show (later re-named The Cartoon Cartoon Show), featured over 52 new seven-minute cartoons, starring 42 new characters.
  • The short "Mina and the Count" are also in Nickelodeon.

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Codename: Kids Next Door • Courage the Cowardly Dog • Cow and Chicken • Dexter's Laboratory • Ed, Edd n Eddy • Evil Con Carne • The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy • Grim and Evil • I Am Weasel • Johnny Bravo • Mike, Lu & Og • The Powerpuff Girls • Sheep in the Big City • Time Squad • What a Cartoon! • Whatever Happened to Robot Jones?
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