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In General
- Archive Panic: Since the host segments of both blocks were different every week, it's almost impossible to archive them all.
- Killer App: Both blocks showcased premieres of most of Cartoon Network's top programming. Cartoon Cartoon Fridays was considered the network's most prominent block during its prime along with Toonami.
Cartoon Cartoon Fridays
- Awesome Music: The theme song, especially the 2001 version.
- The marching band segments from before the retool also qualify as the band performs the aforementioned CCF theme song as well as the theme songs of the shows on the block.
- Cargo Ship: Cartoon Network's '"Fancy Anvil Award Show'' shows that the CCF disc has a human girlfriend.
- Growing the Beard: The summer of 2000 saw a massive retool in the hosting segments featuring many characters from almost all of the Cartoon Cartoons. This season and everything aftewards became the more well-known versions of Cartoon Cartoon Fridays.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: Eustace would often confuse the world "Internet" with "interweb".
- Eddy lampshading Cartoon Network's adoration towards the Scooby-Doo series during Fred's cameo.
- Edd and Johnny Bravo made a similar Take That! at one point:
Edd: But first, a new episode of Johnny Bravo, because heaven knows we don't see enough of him.Johnny: Not as much as Scooby! - Values Dissonance: The differences between American and Australian humor in children's shows is noticeable when comparing some of the bumpers. Australia had a few exclusive shorts featuring adult humor.
Fridays
- Awesome Music: The Fridays intro
. - Executive Meddling: Word of God states that the Fridays host segments were originally intended to have a tone similar to that of a primetime sketch comedy series like Saturday Night Live, albeit more family friendly. However, in early 2004, this element of the show was removed; most of the host segments before or after commercial breaks became solely a fast paced collection of short sketches.
- Genius Bonus: One early Fridays host segment was devoted to discussing the appearances of Fred, Chicken and Thundarr in Cartoon Network promos - explaining how they finally found a spot in the Fridays intro. Said promos aired 4 years before the block started.
- Growing the Beard: When writers and producers who had previously worked on Space Ghost Coast to Coast came on board here, the wacky skits and weirdness notably increased.
- Just Here for Godzilla: Addressed in a bumper for Star Wars: Clone Wars. Tommy tells the older Star Wars fans only planning to watch Clone Wars to stay tuned and see what else they have planned for the night.
- Marathon Running: November 17th, 2003's show featured all 10 episodes of Star Wars Clone Wars: Season 1 shown in succession in one 30 minute slot.
- Milestone Celebration: The 100th Fridays block was celebrated with the cast and crew's picks for the best Fridays skits replacing the week's normal bumpers.
- Tear Jerker: Scrappy's Trauma Conga Line in "Scrappy Loses It", and not just because he was screwed by the network; he's shown looking utterly despondent in the opening...and then he gets whacked by the door opening. After a less-then-sincere apology from the door-opener who clocked him, Scrappy, who has not snapped yet, in response, takes responsibility for this in response, and can only quietly brush himself off...And he gets called "crap" by Eustace. (who, granted, apparently Hates Everyone Equally but still...) what makes it truly sad is that Scrappy isn't actually behaving out of cruelty, but is genuinely having a truly rough break and cannot fully control himself-he's trapped in his own head with his own built-up anger. He alternates between fury and looks of genuine distress.
- The other characters don't help matters, the ones that aren't frightened off form a circle around him and watch it play out. While some look confused and vaguely worried, and some are apathetic, annoyed, or even amused. And then, when Scrappy runs out of steam, they start smiling and leave. And given that the statement was that that Scrappy is an outcast here... Sugar Rush flashbacks, anyone?
- And if you're a fan of Scrappy, it's just sobering to see a canonically happy and carefree spirit troubled and alone.
- The other characters don't help matters, the ones that aren't frightened off form a circle around him and watch it play out. While some look confused and vaguely worried, and some are apathetic, annoyed, or even amused. And then, when Scrappy runs out of steam, they start smiling and leave. And given that the statement was that that Scrappy is an outcast here...
- Release Date Change: Teen Titans (2003) was originally announced to premiere as part of the block in a 2003 Cartoon Network press release. However, for unknown reasons, the show was pushed forward to July 2003 and aired during the SVES block. An unused host segment where the hosts and kids go on the CN website for Teen Titans can be seen for a split second in an early promo.
