Line #118 WesternAnimation/WhatACartoonShow


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4	The ''What A Cartoon! Show'' (originally known as ''World Premiere Toons'', and later renamed ''The Cartoon Cartoon Show'') was an anthology show on Creator/CartoonNetwork running from 1995 to 1997, with a few scattered shorts airing towards the end of TheNineties. Created by then-president of Creator/HannaBarbera Fred Seibert as a throwback to theatrical studio cartoons from UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation, it was described as "48 chances to succeed or fail" at potential original programming. The premiere of the project was on a special hosted by WesternAnimation/{{Space Ghost\|CoastToCoast}}.
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6	True to Seibert's word, 48 cartoons were produced by a generous handful of creators (mostly Hanna-Barbera staff), each reflecting [[AuthorAppeal the artist's individual style and sensibilities]]. Five of the shorts -- ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'', ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'', ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'', ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerPuffGirls'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheChickenFromOuterSpace'' (which became ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'') -- would go on to be the network's first original shows, or Creator/CartoonCartoons. One wound up being the prototype for a much more popular toon later on (''WesternAnimation/LarryAndSteve'' would serve as one of the inspirations for ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''). Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera themselves got back in the director's chair to create "Hard Luck Duck" and two shorts featuring Dino of ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'', respectively. Others, such as ''Yoink of the Yukon'', ''Pfish & Chip'', ''Yuckie Duck'', and ''Shake & Flick'', were not as successful, but have gained a strong cult following from classic CN fans.
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8	After the show's initial 1995-97 run, Fred Seibert would leave Creator/HannaBarbera to produce [[WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons a counterpart series]] for {{Creator/Nickelodeon}} at his own production company, Creator/FrederatorStudios. In the meantime, CN would retool the series into ''The Cartoon Cartoon Show'', with then-vice president of Cartoon Network Sam Register now serving as producer. The rebranded anthology series now showcased new episodes and reruns of the network's full-series cartoons in addition to premieres of new pilot episodes. Three new shorts were made in 1998 and 1999, those being ''Kenny and the Chimp'', ''WesternAnimation/MikeLuAndOg'', and ''King Crab: Space Crustacean''; the second of these would be greenlit into a series. In 2000 and 2001, Cartoon Network would take a more direct approach with "The Big Pick", in which viewers got to vote for brand-new series from that summer's collection of ten pilots. The winner of the 2001 "Big Pick" was ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', with runner-up ''WesternAnimation/WhateverHappenedToRobotJones'' also getting picked up.[[note]]The original ''WesternAnimation/SheepInTheBigCity'' short was aired as part of that "Cartoon Cartoon Summer" as well, but had already been greenlit.[[/note]] In the summer of 2002, the winner would be ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'', with runner-up short ''Lowbrow'' also getting the greenlight to become ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR''.
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10	In the late 2000s, a spiritual successor was being produced in the form of ''WesternAnimation/{{Cartoonstitute}}'', and was to be headed by Creator/CraigMcCracken and [[WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot Rob Renzetti]], both of whom got their start on ''WAC''. It never came to be due to both financial issues and the channel's [[NetworkDecay live-action push at the time]], although of the shorts that were completed, two of them (''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' and ''WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa'') went on to be successful series in their own right. In the years since the failure of ''Cartoonstitute'', while Cartoon Network continues to publicly showcase new pilots online (under the name ''Cartoon Network Minis'') in order to gauge viewer response in a similar way as all these prior shows, they no longer are packaged into an anthology series of any kind.
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12	On April 15, 2021, [[https://www.animationmagazine.net/tv/cartoon-network-debuts-cartoon-cartoons-shorts-program/ Cartoon Network announced that they will be creating a brand new anthology series of shorts titled, ''Cartoon Cartoons'']] (Named after the network's [[Creator/CartoonCartoons original brand name for its animated shows]]).
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15	!!List of shorts featured:
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18	[[folder:What A Cartoon! Shorts]]
19	Shorts that would later serve as pilots for official CN series are highlighted in '''bold'''.
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21	[[index]]
22	* '''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls: Meat Fuzzy Lumpkins'''
23	* '''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls: Crime 101'''
24	* '''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'''
25	* '''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory: Old Man Dexter'''
26	* '''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory: The Big Sister'''
27	* '''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'''
28	* [[WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo Jungle Boy]]: Mr. Monkeyman
29	* '''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo and the Amazon Women'''
30	* '''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken: No Smoking''' (a.k.a "Cow and Chicken Go to Hell")
31	* '''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog: WesternAnimation/TheChickenFromOuterSpace'''
32	* [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Dino: Stay Out]]
33	* [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Dino: The Great Egg-Scape]]
34	* Various shorts created by Pat Ventura:
35	** Yuckie Duck: Short Orders
36	** Yuckie Duck: I'm on My Way
37	** Sledgehammer O'Possum: Out and About
38	** Sledgehammer O'Possum: What's Goin' on Back There?!
39	** George and Junior: Look Out Below
40	** George and Junior's Christmas Spectacular
41	* Hard Luck Duck
42	* Wind-Up Wolf
43	* Shake & Flick: Raw Deal in Rome
44	* Captain Buzz Cheeply: A Clean Getaway
45	* O. Ratz with Dave D. Fly: Rat in a Hot Tin Can
46	* Shorts created by Creator/ButchHartman of ''WesternAnimation/FairlyOddParents'' and ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' fame:
47	** Pfish & Chip: Short Pfuse
48	** Pfish & Chip: Blammo, the Clown by Creator/ButchHartman.
49	** Gramps
50	* Fat Cats: Drip Dry Drips
51	* Yoink! of the Yukon
52	* WesternAnimation/MinaAndTheCount: Interlude with a Vampire (Would later get a second chance on Nickelodeon's ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'')
53	* Boid n' Woim
54	* Podunk Possum: One Step Beyond
55	* Hillbilly Blue
56	* Pizza Boy: No Tip
57	* Bloo's Gang: Bow Wow Buccaneers
58	* [[Creator/BrunoBozzetto Help?]]
59	* Godfrey & Zeek: Lost Control
60	* Tumbleweed Tex: School Daze
61	* Buy One, Get One Free
62	* Kitchen Casanova
63	* The Ignoramooses
64	* ''WesternAnimation/AwfullyLucky''
65	* Strange Things
66	* Snoot's New Squat
67	* WesternAnimation/LarryAndSteve by Creator/{{Seth MacFarlane}}. This short and ''The Life of Larry'' ([=MacFarlane=]'s animation school short that is pretty much the first two episodes of ''Family Guy'' bookended with scenes of Creator/SethMacFarlane sitting in a leather chair in a study room with a scotch and a cigar) are considered the pilot shorts for ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''.
68	* The Zoonatiks: Home Sweet Home
69	* Swamp and Tad: Mission Imfrogable
70	* [[Creator/RalphBakshi Malcolm and Melvin]]
71	* [[Creator/RalphBakshi Babe, He Calls Me]]
72	* Tales of Worm Paranoia
73	[[/index]]
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75	[[/folder]]
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77	[[folder:Cartoon Cartoon shorts]]
78	Shorts that would later serve as pilots for official CN series are highlighted in '''bold'''.
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80	[[index]]
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82	* [[WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor Kenny and the Chimp]]: Dis-easy Does It
83	* '''WesternAnimation/MikeLuAndOg: Crash Lancelot'''
84	* King Krab: Space Crustacean
85	* '''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy: Meet the Reaper'''
86	* '''WesternAnimation/WhateverHappenedToRobotJones'''
87	* Trevor!: Journey to Sector 5-G
88	* Nikki
89	* Foe Paws by Creator/ChrisSavino.
90	* Prickles the Cactus by Denis Morella who'd go on to make ''WesternAnimation/HigglytownHeroes'' and ''WesternAnimation/SheriffCalliesWildWest''.
91	* Lucky Lydia: Club Lydia
92	* Longhair and Doubledome: Good Wheel Hunting
93	* Lost Cat by David Feiss of ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'' and ''WesternAnimation/IAmWeasel'' fame.
94	* Uncle Gus: For the Love of Monkeys by Lincoln Pierce of ''ComicStrip/BigNate'' fame.
95	* '''WesternAnimation/SheepInTheBigCity: In the Baa-ginning'''
96	* Thrillseeker: Putt 'n' Perish
97	* WesternAnimation/CaptainSturdy: Back in Action!
98	* Yee Hah & Doo Dah: Bronco Breakin' Boots
99	* IMP, Inc.
100	* My Freaky Family: Welcome to My World
101	* Major Flake: Soggy Sale
102	* Utica Cartoon: Hotdog Champeen
103	* '''[[WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor Kids Next Door]]: No P in the OOL'''
104	* Swaroop: Bovine Bliss
105	* Ferret & Parrot
106	* WesternAnimation/AKittyBoboShow: Cellphones
107	* Uncle Gus: Not So Fast!
108	* Commander Cork: Space Ranger
109	* Jeffrey Cat: All Dogs Don't Go to Heaven
110	* Longhair and Doubledome: Where There's Smoke... There's Bob!
111	* Maktar
112	* Fungus Among Us
113	* [[WesternAnimation/MegasXLR [=LowBrow=]]]: The pilot to ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR''.
114	* Bagboy!
115	* Colin Versus the World: Mr. Lounge Lizard
116	[[/index]]
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118	[[/folder]]
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121	!!Tropes featured:
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123	* FiveFiveFive: In the title card for "Lost Cat", the lost cat sign has the phone number 555-1234 written on it. In the episode proper, the phone number is 555-9603.
124	* AllCGICartoon: "Strange Things" was the only short featured on this programming block that was made entirely using computer animation.
125	* AllForNothing: In ''Pizza Boy in "No Tip"'', the titular character is tasked with delivering a pizza to the North Pole in 5 minutes of less to be guaranteed a big tip. He managed to pull this off after a series of insane mishaps and injury, but gets no tip because of the damage to the pizza and ignored the "no anchovy" request. He loses it.
126	* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Melvin from ''Malcom and Melvin'' suffers this in spades. No one in the city cares for him, and many consider him either annoying or perverted. The only one who is even remotely worried about him is his own mother. And all this before Malcom the Cockroach comes to sympathize for him.
127	* AnimationBump:
128	** "Help?", which was lavishly animated by Creator/BrunoBozzetto and his team in Italy.
129	** "Tales of Worm Paranoia". Inevitable, being animated by both Creator/KennedyCartoons and Creator/CarbunkleCartoons.
130	* ArtisticLicenseHistory: This is acknowledged in ''Gramps'' when the grandkids keep pointing out the errors in Gramps' story about how he actually lived his life. For example, when he mentions meeting the President, who's depicted as a statuesque woman, they point out that America never had a female President.[[note]]The President briefly changed into UsefulNotes/RichardNixon.[[/note]] He then begs them to let this part remain unchanged, which they reluctantly do.
131	* BananaPeel: Holds the title of "The Most Dangerous Thing on Earth", according to ''Strange Things''. The chief of security explains it's what the scientists at the institute he works at had come up with at the time, yet they continue to look for something more lethal.
132	* BattyLipBurbling: The king in the "Swamp and Tad: Mission Imfrogable" has lip burbling as part of his name, which is mostly a sequence of sound effects and a dance for unexplained reasons.
133	* BitingTheHandHumor: The short ''Captain Sturdy: Back in Action'' shows a Cartoon Network satellite being obliterated by Moid's death ray.
134	* BizarreAlienReproduction: Parodied in "King Crab: Space Crustacean" with the alien found inside Zesty Relish's Mr. Burp can. First it emerges as a vaguely humanoid blue creature with an elephant's trunk-like snout, which asks if it can "hug" Zesty's face until its next mutation. When he agrees, it latches onto his face, shoving its trunk down his throat to [[ChestBurster lay something inside his stomach]], before detaching and then melting into sludge. [[spoiler: Then Zesty takes ill, graphically explodes, and from amongst the gore emerges a GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe -- who then asks if she can hug King Crab's face until her next mutation, before revealing she's actually Zesty's mind reincarnated in this new female humanoid alien's body.]]
135	* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: In "Commander Cork" we see some flashbacks of bad experiences in the past: Him getting mocked for bathing in underwear at the communal showers; him eating fish, with her mother saying they can't revive the fish; and him trying to revive a fish at the communal showers.
136	* ButtMonkey: Yuckie Duck's shorts both have him get the short end of the stick in the end, being made into duck soup for messing up a customer's order in "Short Orders" and his stint as a paramedic ending with him requiring medical attention himself in "I'm On My Way".
137	* TheCameo: WesternAnimation/TheJetsons have a brief cameo in ''Wind-Up Wolf.''
138	* CaptivityHarmonica: In ''Pizza Boy in No Tip'', after getting sent to prison for assaulting the Eskimo couple for not giving him a tip, Pizza Boy is seen playing the harmonica after relating his tale of woe to the prison parson.
139	* CassandraTruth: In ''Gramps''. Despite what details Gramps changed, it seems he really did save the world from an alien invasion as the alien leader testifies to his own grandchildren.
140	* TheCastShowOff: Most of the shorts were created by Creator/HannaBarbera staff, given free range to create whatever they wanted.
141	* ChestBurster: Parodied in "King Crab: Space Crustacean"; when Zesty Relish purchases a soda from an alien vending machine, his chosen 'beverage', Mr. Burp, produces a small, blue, elephant-trunked alien that asks if he can hug Zesty's face until his next mutation. Being a naive idiot, Zesty agrees, whereupon the Mr. Burp creature turns into a blue BlobMonster and adheres to his face, resulting in King Crab hastily retrieving him to the ship's medical bay. The creature lets go of Zesty after King Crab asks politely, promising to be Zesty's friend... but then up and dies. But before it dissolves into lifeless slime, it tells Zesty that it left a "little reminder" of itself growing inside of Zesty and absorbing his DNA. Sure enough, no sooner have they flushed the remains than Zesty takes ill, blurting out that his guts are on fire before fainting and experiencing horrible discolorations. [[spoiler: Right before the short ends, Zesty explodes, revealing a [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe cute blue retro-style alien girl]], who lets King Crab be smitten before revealing she has Zesty's mind inside the new body.]] Just in case the viewer needed it to be more obvious what they were doing, the first 'soda' in the vending machine is literally ''titled'' "ChestBurster".
142	* TheChewToy: Poor, poor Shake from ''Shake & Flick'' is a quite literal example. Nothing saves him from Flick abusing him and chewing him up.
143	* CraniumChase: Happens to the dog in ''Sledgehammer O'Possum: Out and About'' and ''Wind-Up Wolf''.
144	* ChristmasEpisode: ''George and Junior's Christmas Spectacular'' had George and Junior tasked with delivering a Christmas present on Santa Claus' behalf as punishment for delivering the letter asking for it late.
145	* CreatorCameo: The superhero in the "Malcolm and Melvin" shorts was voiced by Creator/RalphBakshi, who created the shorts and disowned both of them after they aired.
146	* DerangedAnimation: Anything directed by Pat Ventura: ''Yuckie Duck'', ''Sledgehammer O'Possum'', and ''George and Junior''. Also ''Buy One, Get One Free'', which has visual influences from ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' (not hurt by a few staff members who worked on that show).
147	** Also the two Creator/RalphBakshi shorts ''Babe! He Calls Me'' and ''Malcom and Melvin'', and ''Tales of Worm Paranoia'', directed by Eddie Fitzgerald.
148	* DomesticOnlyCartoon: Being a Cartoon Network program, most of the shorts were made by either Hanna-Barbera or Cartoon Network Studios and animated overseas, but there have been exceptions.
149	** "Help?", which was produced in Italy.
150	** "Babe, He Calls Me" and "Malcom and Melvin", which were produced by Bakshi [=ZooToons=] in New York.
151	** "Strange Things", which was made by Sensible Shoes Productions in the U.S.
152	** "O Ratz: Ratz in a Hot Tin Can", which was made by Perennial Pictures Film Corporation in Indianapolis.
153	** "The Chicken From Outer Space", by Stretch Films in the U.S.
154	** "The Adventures of Captain Buzz Cheeply: A Clean Getaway", produced by Buzz Image Group in Canada.
155	** "Journey to Sector 5-G", which was made by Cuppa Coffee Productions in Canada.
156	* DoomMagnet: "Awfully Lucky" has a con artist taking a pearl that an old man tosses away so he can sell it to a museum for a large sum of money. HilarityEnsues and a series of bad luck forces him to abandon this and toss away the pearl himself..
157	* DownerEnding: "Tales Of Worm Paranoia" ends with Johnny losing his mind after getting trampled by the human again.
158	* DroppedInTheToilet: In "Lost Control", Godfrey and Zeek accidentally flush their TV remote in the toilet, forcing them to tour the sewage treatment plant to get it back. However, they get so bored with what's on TV that they deliberately flush the remote again so they can go back to the sewage plant to find it again.
159	* EitherOrTitle: "Kenny and the Chimp in: Disease-y Does It or Chimp-n-Pox"
160	* {{Expy}}: The superhero seen in the "Malcolm and Melvin" shorts vaguely resembles Franchise/{{Batman}}.
161	** Hard Luck Duck from the short of the same name is an almost exact clone of the earlier Creator/HannaBarbera creation WesternAnimation/YakkyDoodle. Both are naive ducklings who have to be protected from being eaten by a hungry fox.
162	* TheFaceless: The President in ''Fat Cats in Drip Dry Drips''.
163	* FrothyMugsOfWater: {{Averted}} in ''Captain Buzz Cheaply: A Clean Getaway''. The titular protagonist bribes an alien into sparing his life by offering him beer and we later see a whole bunch of signs that read "beer".
164	* FurIsClothing: At one point in "Shake & Flick in: Raw Deal in Rome", the fur covering the lower half of Shake's body falls down like pants to reveal boxer shorts.
165	* GenderBender: Mixed with ChestBurster (yes, really) in "King Crab: Space Crustacean". [[spoiler:After Zesty Relish [[ChestBurster violently rips apart]] to reveal the GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe that he was impregnated with, she then reveals she actually has Zesty's GeneticMemory (and thus personality), so he's effectively been transformed into her.]]
166	* GirlsLikeMusicians: All Malcolm in "Malcolm and Melvin" has to do is play a few notes on his trumpet for girls to fall for him. His female neighbor breaks down his door admitting she's [[InstantSeduction in love with whoever playing it]] and runs along to put on a [[AllGuysWantCheerleaders cheerleader outfit]] for him when Melvin says it was him. When Malcolm starts playing again in the end dozens of women run towards the source.
167	* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: "King Crab: Space Crustacean" has two. The ship's medical officer, Dr. Drew Deli, looks like a beautiful Indian woman with a fleshy antennae sticking out of her forehead and mind-reading powers. The second is a beautiful, scantily-clad blue woman with retro-style alien antennae on her head and two-toned pink and white hair. [[spoiler: Created in a parody of the ChestBurster trope.]]
168	* GroinAttack: ''Fat Cats in Drip Dry Drips'' features a scene where Louie accidentally hits the President in the grapes when he was doing his measurements.
169	-->'''Louie:''' Oops, sorry Mr. President.\
170	'''President:''' ''([[InstantSoprano high-pitched voice]])'' No problem!
171	* GrossUpCloseUp: Johnny's acid-scalded face in "Tales of Worm Paranoia". As if once wasn't bad enough, they cut to it ''three times''!
172	* HereWeGoAgain:
173	** In "Awfully Lucky", after all the suffering due to the curse, the main character decides to throw the cursed pearl into the sea, but actually falls in a fisherman's boat, who immediately fishes a treasure chest, followed by apparently being crushed by a large falling object.
174	** The ending of ''Godfrey and Zeek''. After all the trouble the two go through to retrieve the TV remote from the sewage plant, the two get bored with what's on television and Godfrey decides to flush the remote down the toilet so they can get the remote back again.
175	** "Swamp and Tad: Mission Imfrogable" had the titular characters retrieve a package from Earth for their king that turned out to be a pizza. The duo is then told that they have to go back to Earth to retrieve more pizzas, much to Tad's dismay.
176	* HumansAreCthulhu: ''Tales of Worm Paranoia'' is about a worm named Johnny being terrified of a human that obliviously injures him constantly. Unlike most other examples, it's a straight up CosmicHorrorStory.
177	* InstrumentalThemeTune: Both theme songs (the heavy metal ''WAC'' theme and the sillier ''Cartoon Cartoon Show'' theme) were lyric-less.
178	* InterruptedSuicide: In "Malcolm and Melvin", Melvin tries to off himself by jumping from the window ledge, but he changes his mind when he hears Malcolm's trumpet-playing.
179	* {{Jerkass}}:
180	** Luther from "Awfully Lucky". The very beginning of the short has him steal a man's sandwich, tease a dog with the last bite before eating it in front of the pooch, and steal a baby's milk bottle to wash it down. It is clear they wanted to make him as unsympathetic as possible when the curse of the Paradox Pearl continuously gives him good luck only to follow with bad luck so that his misfortunes wouldn't seem unfair.
181	* KidHeroAllGrownUp: ''Captain Sturdy: Back in Action'' has Captain Sturdy's grown-up sidekick Ultra Boy.
182	* KidWithTheLeash: ''WesternAnimation/MinaAndTheCount''.
183	* LaughingMad: The Mad Bomber in the first Pfish & Chip short.
184	* LineBoil: The characters in ''The Kitchen Casanova'' squiggle slightly.
185	* MadBomber: ''Pfish & Chip'''s stock in trade is to catch these guys. The villain of the first short is actually named Mad Bomber.
186	* MimeAndMusicOnlyCartoon:
187	** ''Help?'', which has no dialog aside from Jof's "Help!"
188	** "Shake & Flick in: Raw Deal in Rome", which has no dialog aside from a few screams.
189	* MinorInjuryOverreaction: Jof in ''Help?'', who runs to the hospital after he ''pricks his finger while sewing''.
190	* NightmareFace: The titular Podunk Possum can apparently deploy a monstrous one of these at will, [[spoiler:scaring an entire alien fleet away from Earth]].
191	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: ''Podunk Possum'' featured the psychotic ghost of a Colonel who owned his own chicken restaurant who is clearly based on Kentucky Fried Chicken's founder Colonel Harlan Sanders.
192	* NoOshaCompliance: Parodied in ''Strange Things''. The short is set at the "Institute of Dangerous Research", where scientists specialise in discovering, isolating and categorising "The Most Dangerous Thing on Earth".
193	* NoodleIncident:
194	** Whatever happened to Grandma in ''Gramps''. According to Gramps' grandchildren, it was a result of their refusing to listen to one of his stories. "SHE WAS DEAD WHEN I GOT THERE!!"
195	** In ''Kenny and the Chimp'', Prof. Triple-Extra-Large warns Kenny that he doesn't want a repeat of what happened last time they visited his lab, and Kenny tries to defend himself by saying "But Chimpy was the one who put the sardines in the..." before the professor cuts him off.
196	* ObliviouslyEvil: The truth regarding the human in "Tales Of Worm Paranoia". Johnny himself thinks the human is being intentionally evil, but as the title suggests this is his paranoia getting the best of him: [[DramaticIrony the audience]] is shown the human is a perfectly friendly guy who is just dopey at worst and simply doesn’t notice Johnny.
197	* OldSuperhero: The premise of "Captain Sturdy: Back in Action", where the titular superhero has to go out of retirement after learning that the official retirement age for superheroes has been changed and as a result his pension has been cancelled.
198	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In "Larry and Steve" they get into a store and meet a employee that is always smiling and never loses her cheerful personality, except when Larry proposes putting a super-powerful light bulb on a normal lamp, foreshadowing what a bad idea this is.
199	* PostScriptSeason: Sort of. 48 cartoons were contracted for 1995-97, but more were made after that including ''WesternAnimation/MikeLuAndOg'', ''Kenny And The Chimp'', ''King Crab: Space Crustacean'', and the Big Pick shorts from 2000-02.
200	* PsychoPoodle: Subverted in ''No Smoking''. Cerberus, a hellhound who is TheDragon and pet of [[{{Satan}} the Red Guy]], has the body and one head of a poodle. However, he shows hardly any malice, and seems like a PunchClockVillain more than anything else.
201	* PunctuatedForEmphasis: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcNexLXRres&feature=related The opening theme]]. "WHAT! A! CARTOOOOOOOOON!"
202	* RampageFromANail: The lion in the second Yuckie Duck short "I'm On My Way" gets a tack stuck in his rear end.
203	* SadistTeacher: Mr. Fitzgibbon in the short "Trevor in Journey to Sector 5-G". He deliberately tries to stump his students by coming up with extremely hard math problems and even withholds recess until they answer correctly.
204	* SayMyName: From "Dry Dry Drips": "EEELLLMOOOOOO!"
205	* SkewedPriorities: Captain Buzzy Cheaply puts getting his laundry done over rescuing his robot sidekick and repairing his ship.
206	* SlasherSmile:
207	** The aforementioned psychotic Colonel Sanders Ghost from "Podunk Possum" wears a perpetual one while smashing eggs and delivering completely nonsensical catchphrases. Chickens are terrified of him for good reason.
208	** Johnny from "Tales Of Worm Paranoia" manages an impressively demented and huge grin after his first SanitySlippage.
209	* SouthernFriedGenius: In "Hillbilly Blue", Eustace talks and acts just like any other of the hillbilly characters, but he normally cannot stand stupidity, and apparently likes to talk about physics in his spare time.
210	* TheSpeechless: Shake & Flik. Though Shake often screams a lot. Even the opening doesn't have either of them saying "What! A! Cartoon!", instead has Flick's roar ("What!"), Shake's scream ("A!"), and Flick's belch ("Cartoon!").
211	* SpinOff: Famously, ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'', ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'', ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'', and ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' (and, to a lesser extent, ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' and ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'') are all series derived from shorts on this programming block..
212	* TastesBetterThanItLooks: In "The Kitchen Casanova", a man attempts to cook a lovely dinner for his visiting girlfriend; however, a series of different comical mishaps in the kitchen result in every dish he tries to prepare getting ruined. Even attempting a salad ends in failure. Finally, he presents her with a gross-looking mound of mush consisting of various different animal parts (and presumably human as well). The man finally has an emotional breakdown, so the woman samples the dish out of sympathy, but she finds it to be tasty, much to his surprise. The more they eat, the more animalistic they become. They finish the dish and eat up the plates, silverware, and even the table.
213	* ThemeTune: There were two of them. The first was a heavy metal piece. Reruns of the show used the Cartoon Cartoon Fridays theme.
214	* ThickLineAnimation: Some of the cartoons utilized this design style, such as ''Boid n Woim'', ''Sledgehammer O Possum'', ''Pizza Boy in No Tip'', ''Godfrey and Zeek'', ''The Powerpuff Girls'', and ''Dexter's Laboratory''.
215	* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: The Colonel Sanders-expy ghost in "Podunk Possum" who keeps bothering the title character by trying to serve him fried chicken, scaring Podunk's chickens, and smash their eggs.
216	* ThreateningShark: Completely averted by Pfish in the ''Pfish and Chip'' shorts. He's a shark, but he's a friendly, clueless, eccentric who has feet and is somehow able to live on land.
217	* ToServeMan: ''Gramps'' {{lampshade}}d this when a character runs to Gramps with a book reading "To Serve Man" and exclaiming that it's a cookbook before he is hit with a golf club by Gramps, exclaiming, "[[ItsBeenDone It's been done!]]"
218	* {{Troll}}: The titular character of ''Sledgehammer O'Possum'' spends both of his shorts messing with someone for no good reason. He torments a dog trying to enjoy a drive in "Out and About" and he screws with a postal worker named Ethel for trying to evict him from a mailbox in "What's Goin' On Back There?"
219	* UrineTrouble: In "Swamp and Tad: Mission Imfrogable", Tad tries to spy on a dog by disguising himself as a fire hydrant. The plan backfires when the dog starts sniffing him and then raises his hind leg.
220	* VisualPun: In "Larry and Steve", Larry gets distracted while driving and Steve notices a sign saying "Fork Ahead", when he sees the road, there are two lanes to follow, and a giant fork between them.
221	* VitriolicBestBuds: O. Ratz and Dave D. Fly
222	* WeAreNotGoingThroughThatAgain: In "Help?", after injuring his finger while doing a needlepoint, Jof goes through medical hell in an attempt to get treatment. At the end of the short, he's doing another needlepoint, only to end up injuring his finger again. But this time he outright refuses to even yell of pain, deciding to just remain home.
223	* WideEyedIdealist: Yoink, even though he doesn't die.
224	* WithThisHerring: In "Gramps", a grandfather tells his grandchildren a tale of how he supposedly saved the world from an alien invasion. The President asked for his help and told him to choose between door number 1 or door number 2. Had he chosen door number one, he'd have received several big weapons but he chose door number 2 and received his mule.

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