Cartoon Cartoon Summer Resort is the name of a series of four episodic Adventure Games formerly hosted on Cartoon Network's official website, featuring characters from their Cartoon Cartoons original programming. The game was created and released in summer 2000 tying in to the first Big Pick. Each playable character was from one of the shorts selected that could have become a full fleged series during the promotion.
As their name indicates, the games take place in a summer resort for Cartoon Cartoon characters. Each episode features a problem that threatens to disrupt our favorite animated friends' peaceful vacation, and it's up to you to solve it. Along the way, you will also need to help the guests with their own personal issues.
Like many older flash games it has since been removed from Cartoon Network's website. They also run on the discontinued Adobe Shockwave. This makes actually getting to play them a bit more challenging than it used to be, although they can still be accessed if you know where to look and what to do. The four episodes have been archived by BlueMaxima's Flashpoint
, a Web Game preservation project.
The games feature characters from:
- Cow and Chicken (Cow, Chicken, The Red Guy)
- Courage the Cowardly Dog (Courage, Eustace Bagge)
- Mike, Lu & Og (Og)
- I Am Weasel (I.R. Baboon)
- The Powerpuff Girls (Blossom, Bubbles, Buttercup, The Mayor, Mojo Jojo)
- Ed, Edd n Eddy (Edd)
- Dexter's Laboratory (Dexter, Dee Dee, Mandark)
- Johnny Bravo (Johnny Bravo, Little Suzy)
They provide examples of:
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Eustace is a lot nicer and less of a Grumpy Old Man than he is in his home series, and will thank you for giving him the items he needs.
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: A tennis robot Dexter invents goes haywire in Episode 2, shooting balls everywhere and kickstarting the episode's main problem.
- Artwork and Game Graphics Segregation: Cow's sprite doesn't have udders in the overworld, but her dialogue box sprite has them.
- Big Brother Worship: In Episode 3, Chicken is tired of his annoying little sister Cow, and wants a cool big brother instead. After you rescue the ostrich from the volcano, you can bring him to stay with Chicken. If you talk to Chicken afterwards, he says, "I really look up to my new big brother!"
- "Blind Idiot" Translation: The Brazilian Portuguese translation of episode 1 at one point has I.R. Baboon give you a roll of duck tape (fita de pato), which indicates the translators misread the English term duct tape (fita adesiva). Not that I.R. wouldn't call it duck tape, just that in this case, he didn't.
- Boys Like Creepy Critters: In Episode 3, Edd wants you to bring him the lizard from the island so he can use it to scare Dee Dee and Suzy. Once you bring Edd the lizard, he decides to name him "Franky".
- Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: In Episode 2, the description for the suit of armor is "It's heavy. It's metal. It's heavy metal."
- Buried Treasure: Found in Episode 4. It humorously contains an "ancient" disco ball, a pair of bell-bottoms, and a Gee-Bees album.
- The Cameo: Space Ghost characters do not physically appear, but some of their likenesses do show up on a number of items in the series.
- Chain of Deals: Some of the Fetch Quests involve getting and trading items to several different characters in a row. In Episode 2, you have to get a starfish from the island, which you give to the third trading cabana for a first-edition Brak trading card, which you give to Og for a Space Ghost rookie card, which you give to the third trading cabana for a yo-yo, which you give to the first trading cabana for a scary monster mask, which you give to Mojo Jojo so he can scare Courage. Then you have to bring Mojo Jojo to where Courage is, after which he’ll give you a ketchup packet, which you can give to Edd in exchange for a cheeseburger.
- Chekhov's Volcano: There's a volcano in an island on the northeastern part of the map. Naturally, it erupts in the third episode.
- Companion Cube: In Episode 2, Dee Dee wants a pet rock. You can find a rock under one of the cars in the parking lot, conveniently with a collar on, and give it to her. She'll be overjoyed and give you a pretty flower in exchange. If you talk to her afterward, she'll mention that she named her pet rock Mimsyford.
- Continuity Nod: The first time you talk to Dexter in Episode 3, he requests a tuna sandwich because he hasn't eaten since "before the tennis robot went haywire", referring to the events of the previous episode.
- Dance Party Ending: The end of the last episode has all the characters dancing on the dance floor with their partners, celebrating the perfect end to a great vacation.
- Distressed Dude: Courage gets lost in the caverns under the erupting volcano in Episode 3, and you need to bail him out.
- Do-It-Yourself Plumbing Project: Featured in Episode 1. You must fix the pool's leaky pipe using implements such as chewing gum and an old sock.
- Elemental Motifs: The five stones used to unlock the path into the volcano in Episode 3 are distinguished with elemental/natural theming: there's the Sun Stone, Tree Stone, Water Stone, Wind Stone, and the Stone Stone.
- Empty Swimming Pool Dive: In Episode 1, Mojo Jojo will tell you that he injured his head as a result of trying to dive in the swimming pool when it had no water in it, and now he needs a first aid kit.
- "Far Side" Island: A couple in the sea area in the northeast. One of them features a single tree (labeled "a lonely ol' tree" by the game), and the other a hut whose inhabitant thinks he should find a better place.
- Fetch Quest: Much of the games involve fetching items for the various characters.
- Funetik Aksent: Eustace's speech is rendered like this.
- Harmless Villain: Mojo Jojo spends most of the time making petty "evil plans", such as terrorizing Courage, or requesting a transporter so he can send the disco to a dimension where disco dancing is banned. His actions do cause Courage to hide in the caves under the volcano, which puts him in danger when it inevitably erupts.
- Height Angst: In Episode 4, Dexter refuses to go to the disco at first because he feels he is too short to attract a dance partner. He will join you if you give him the platform shoes, since they make him look taller.
- Heroic Mime: The characters you play as don't talk.
- Inconsistent Spelling: Little Suzy's name is spelled "Susie" here.
- Irony: Courage is a cowardly dog who is most known for being afraid of everything, but Episode 1 reveals that Johnny Bravo is afraid of him.Johnny: I think I saw that creepy dog, Courage, hidin' in the bushes behind my cabin! Man, that gives me the willies!
- Kindhearted Cat Lover: In Episode 2, Cow is upset because her parents won't get her a cat, so Chicken gives you a stuffed cat to give to her. He assures you she won't be able to tell the difference. (She can't.)
- Mythology Gag: In Episode 2, the cheese that Cow gives you has the description, "In France, this is called fromage." This may be a reference to the Dexter's Laboratory episode "The Big Cheese", where Dexter tries to learn French, but ends up only being able to say the phrase "omelette du fromage" (cheese omelette).
- Once per Episode:
- An item has to be found underneath one of the four fountains near the entrance every episode. As a Running Gag, the notice aside fountains prompting the player not to move them gradually appears to grow more frustrated with each new episode, until finally giving up in the last.
- The Mayor loses something in every episode. He loses the keys to the Cartoon Network Bus in Episode 1, his wallet in Episode 2, his gold pocketwatch in Episode 3, and his lunchbox in Episode 4.
- No Fame, No Wealth, No Service: The fancy restaurant won't let you in since you're not wearing fancy clothes. Sadly, there's no way to get into it in any of the episodes.
- NPC Roadblock: Vivian starts out Episode 3 in the garden, and Dee Dee will not let him leave it until he brings her a red flower.
- Playing Both Sides: In Episode 2, you can give Courage a mustache as a Paper-Thin Disguise to hide from Mojo Jojo, and then give Mojo Jojo a scary monster mask so he can scare Courage. (Lucky for Courage, the mustache works.)
- Real Men Wear Pink: In Episode 4, Mojo Jojo will give you a blanket he knitted himself in exchange for a ray gun to send the disco to the 14th dimension. You need this blanket to give to Cow, who is upset because Chicken got sand in her favorite blanket by using it as a beach towel.
- Red Herring: In Episode 2, Suzy will want you to bring her a flower. You can find a yellow flower near the duck pond, but she thinks this one is too ugly. To get the pretty flower she wants, you have to find a pet rock under one of the cars in the parking lot and give it to Dee Dee.
- Retraux: The games look similar to the overworld in older RPGs, complete with being somewhat pixelated and the characters looking mildly Super-Deformed.
- Rouge Angles of Satin: When talking to Mandark at the beginning of the fourth episode, his dialogue misspells the word "emergency" as "emergancy".
- Shout-Out:
- After rescuing the beetle in Episode 3, the inventory claims its name is Paul.
- Episode 4 features numerous shout-outs to classic disco/funk songs and musicians:
- The inventory description for the key to the disco and the initial dialogue box upon finding the 70's Wig both reference Funkadelic, though they respectively spell it as "Funkadellic" and "funk-a-delic".
- Red Guy wants a "Gee-Bees" record to torment the hotel guests.
- Upon giving the Snaggletooth Necklace to Edd, he says "GET DOWN TONIGHT!", a reference to the song of the same name by KC and the Sunshine Band.
- Handing the Disco Ball to Johnny Bravo has him quote the refrain to fellow KC and the Sunshine Band song "That's the Way (I Like It)".
- Stock Animal Diet: In Episode 3, the monkey will only come down from his tree if you lure him out with a banana split.
- Take This Job and Shove It: A person who writes in one of the signs ends up doing this in Episode 4 after you repeatedly move the fountains he tells you not to over the course of the games.
- Warm Milk Helps You Sleep: In Episode 4, Eustace will want you to bring him a glass of milk so he can sleep more soundly, since the sound of disco music keeps him up. Cow will give you a glass of milk if you give her a new blanket.
- "Wash Me" Graffiti: These appear on the cars in the parking lot.
- You Do Not Want To Know: In Episode 4, regarding the warm glass of milk Cow gives you in exchange for a new blanket.Description: The less you know about this milk, the better.
