Trivia / What A Cartoon! Show

• Acting for Two:
  • Dee Bradley Baker provides the voice of both Wind-Up and The Big Bad Wolf in Wind-Up Wolf.
  • Seth MacFarlane plays all of the male characters in Larry And Steve while Lori Alan plays all the female characters.
• Adored by the Network: This series is practically the conception of Cartoon Network's original programming as it became known. While this project was not part of the original pitch reel for the channel, it was one of its most known and celebrated projects.
• Banned Episode: The Kitchen Casanova received limited airing due to the scene where the main character accidentally chops off his finger and blood spurts from the stump.
• Channel Hop: An interesting example, in which further Mina and The Count shorts were made for Oh Yeah! Cartoons instead of What a Cartoon.
• Creator Backlash: Ralph Bakshi disowned the two shorts he produced for the show immediately after they aired!
• Dueling Works: With Oh Yeah! Cartoons due to both blocks consisting of various pilots for potential cartoon shows, though not until the late '90s.
• Executive Meddling: Mostly averted, but there were exceptions.
  • Ralph Bakshi's Malcom and Melvin shorts were deemed too inappropriate for broadcast by Cartoon Network executives, and were thus heavily edited behind Bakshi's back, leading to him disowning both cartoons.
  • A more minor example came in the form of The Powerpuff Girls, which according to the documentary Who, What, Where, How, Why... Who Cares?, had to be changed from The Whoopass Girls after a cable operators' convention where an unknown cable buyer took offense to the original name.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: There has never been an official collection of the shorts released by Cartoon Network. Some have appeared on either the DVD collections of the shows based on them or as extras on various VHS collections of classic Hanna-Barbera shows (roughly 1995-1996), while the rights of many of the others have returned to the original creators, who have uploaded them either to YouTube or their personal websites. HBO Max briefly hosted four shorts as part of their "Old School" section, but that section and all its contents were later removed.
• The Other Darrin: Sledgehammer O'Possum was first voiced by Faizon Love (who was on the 1990s WB sitcom The Parent 'Hood) in Out and About. Then, in his second cartoon, What's Goin' on Back There, he is voiced by T.K. Carter, who played Punky Brewster's favorite teacher and voiced the MonStar Nawt in the 1996 Warner Bros. film, Space Jam.
  • In the Latin American Spanish dubs of the The Powerpuff Girls shorts, the shorts themselves were dubbed in Colombia with both the name of the shorts and the characters' names changed, compared with the main series, which was dubbed in Mexico a fact mercilessly parodied by the Latin American Cartoon Network's feed in commercials. Also, while the Dexter's Laboratory's shorts are still dubbed in Mexico like the main series, Dexter and DeeDee's voice actors are different.
• Production Posse: Many of the same artists who worked on The Ren & Stimpy Show worked on the short "Buy One, Get One Free", hence the similar style.
• Recycled Script: Dexter's Laboratory, Johnny Bravo, The Powerpuff Girls and, to a lesser extent, Larry and Steve were essentially professional remakes of the creators' thesis films.

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