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Cartoon Cartoons is the name given to Cartoon Network's comedic animated series and shorts. These cartoons were originally produced by Hanna-Barbera/Cartoon Network Studios, but over the years, studios like a.k.a Cartoons, Kino Films, Stretch Films, Curious Pictures, and Renegade Animation produced these series for Cartoon Network.

History

Cartoon Cartoons were first showcased in the What-A-Cartoon! show, a series of comedic animated shorts produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions guided by Fred Seibert, who founded the Nickelodeon-based Frederator Studios years later. The first series to spin off from WAC 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 Cartoons series in the fall of 1998. Ed, Edd, n Eddy came later as the first Cartoon Cartoons series not to be introduced in a What-A-Cartoon! 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.

Cartoon Network has produced original animation since Dexter's Laboratory. However, not all original animated series are Cartoon Cartoons. Although Samurai Jack and Star Wars: Clone Wars premiered on Cartoon Cartoon Fridays, they are not Cartoon Cartoons. Other action-oriented shows like Teen Titans, Justice League, Justice League Unlimited, What's New, Scooby-Doo?, Duck Dodgers, ¡Mucha Lucha!, Atomic Betty, Megas XLR, and Ben 10 aren't Cartoon Cartoons. IGPX, another original animated series, is a Toonami original series and dubbed as such officially.

Preschool-oriented shows like Baby Looney Tunes and Krypto the Superdog also aren't Cartoon Cartoons.

As of September 2005, the name is network brand 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.

Cartoon Cartoons Logo and Continuity

Originally, the Cartoon Cartoons logo was designed the Cartoon Cartoon bumper comprised of a blue background with squiggly animations in the front (sometimes haveing nothing to do with the cartoon it was bumpering) and actual logo breaking out looking like the Cartoon Network "checkerboard" logo. Around 1998, when The Powerpuff Girls premiered, a similar beginning was used, but a new red and yellow logo drawn on to the bumper background and a character from the show would come out of the second "O" in the first "Cartoon" and say, "Cartoon Cartoons."

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 An AOL-Time Warner Company. It can also be seen on the DVD releases of the shows.

List of Cartoon Cartoons

1995

What-A-Cartoon!

1996

Dexter's Laboratory

1997

Johnny Bravo
Cow and Chicken

1998

The Powerpuff Girls

1999

Ed, Edd n Eddy
I Am Weasel
Mike, Lu & Og
Courage the Cowardly Dog

2000

Sheep in the Big City

2001

Grim and Evil
Time Squad

2002

Whatever Happened to Robot Jones
Codename: Kids Next Door

2003

The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
Evil Con Carne

2004

Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi

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