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1	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic
2	** The hard rock opening and closing theme from the shorts' original run. That slightly-out-of-tune electric guitar lets you know right away that this is going to be wild and weird.
3	** The variation of the ''Cartoon Cartoons'' theme used in reruns is pretty catchy, too.
4	* OlderThanTheyThink: "Wind-Up Wolf" was originally devised by Creator/TexAvery as a pitch presented to Creator/HannaBarbera for a potential series before his death in 1980. It was passed over in favor of Avery's ''WesternAnimation/TheKwickyKoalaShow''. With the ''What a Cartoon Show'' fifteen years later, Bill Hanna dusted off the unproduced pitch to make into a short for the series and directed it himself.
5	* OneEpisodeWonder: While a couple of shorts got sequels, nearly every one that wasn't ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'', ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'', ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' or ''WesternAnimation/TheChickenFromOuterSpace'' became a one-shot cartoon, and everyone has their favorites.
6	* NightmareFuel: Johnny's SanitySlippage in "Tales Of Worm Paranoia", capped off when his girlfriend Sally desperatly tries to talk him out of resorting to violence.
7	--> '''Sally''': Johnny, dont do it! You'll go to prison!!
8	--> '''Johnny''': glass shatter sounds as Johnny's fragile sanity ''literally'' breaks ''DON'T TOUCH MEEEE!!!'' CAN'T YOU SEE MY SOUL IS ON '''FIRE?!?!'''
9	** In the same short, Johnny gets disfigured with the acid he was planning to use for his revenge. His scarred face is shown with a GrossUpCloseUp.
10	* TearJerker: For as crazy as Mama Mia is in "Foe Paws" you can't help but feel sorry for her when she breaks down and starts singing in Italian.
11	* ValuesDissonance: ''Hillbilly Blue'' features more shots of the Confederate flag than one might be comfortable seeing in a cartoon meant for young audiences after TheNewTens, when the flag is now universally considered an image of white supremacy and any non-negative depictions of it are all but banned from American TV.
12	* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Some of the shorts (Such as ''Malcolm and Melvin'' and its sequel, ''Babe, he calls me'' by Creator/RalphBakshi) had plenty of adult content, such as suicide jokes and lots of suggestive moments, yet the show never got any content rating higher than "TV-Y7" and is considered a family show.
13	* TheWoobie:
14	** O Ratz from "Rat In A Hot Tin Can". All he wants to do is find a place to stay warm cause he's freezing, and he gets trampled, beaten and abused throughout the short. Although because of his bitter attitude, he can also be seen as a bit of a JerkassWoobie, when he loses pretty much everything at the end of the episode, there's no denying he needs a good cuddle.
15	** Johnny from "Tales of Worm Paranoia", who wants revenge on the human who trampled him, but only injures himself as a result. When he tries to apologize to the human, he gets crushed by the door as a result and ends up the NervousWreck we see at the beginning of the cartoon.

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