Western Animation / Cartoon Network Groovies

Imagine a channel that showed a bunch of music videos during commercial breaks. These videos featured footage from the shows the network aired, and sometimes even had original animation made for it. And here's the kicker: many songs were done by prominent artists like They Might Be Giants, Will.i.am, and even Devo. Prepare to be surprised, as this was Cartoon Network during the late 1990s/early 2000s.

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You can view many of them here and here.

Some (but not all) of the original Cartoon Network Groovies made were...:

• 24th Century Mecha-Mix by Michael Kohler (The Jetsons)
• Atom's Theme (The Atom Ant Show)
• Back to the Lab by Prince Paul ^note the same one who sometimes appeared with De La Soul in their early songs (Dexter's Laboratory)
• Buttercup (I'm a Super Girl) by Shonen Knife (The Powerpuff Girls), an anime opening-style music video showing clips of the Powerpuff Girls fighting crime as well as the names of the girls and the villains in both English and Japanese.
• Chemical X by Cherish (The Powerpuff Girls)
• Circles by Soul Coughing (various Hanna-Barbera cartoons), a Deconstructive Parody of the Going in Circles trope.
• Courage (Hearts Full Of Love) by Brooke Lundy (Courage the Cowardly Dog)
• Courage the Cowardly Dog by They Might Be Giants (Courage the Cowardly Dog)

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• Dee Dee and Dexter by They Might Be Giants (Dexter's Laboratory)
• Dexter (What's His Name?) by Coolio (Dexter's Laboratory)
• El Kabong Rides Again by Calexico (Quick Draw McGraw)
• Go Monkey Go! by Devo (The Powerpuff Girls)
• Gorilla 4 Sale by Micheal Ungar (Magilla Gorilla)
• Hey, Johnny Bravo! by The Reverend Horton Heat (Johnny Bravo)
• Jabberjaw (Running Underwater) by Pain (Jabberjaw), showing the Neptunes as a ska band playing on a vintage metal Jabberjaw lunch box and rescuing Shelly from an eel who falls for her during a performance.
• L'Amour A Un Odeur by Pink Martini (Pepé Le Pew)
• Mars Forever by Fantastic Plastic Machine (Marvin the Martian)
• Meet The Flintstones by Joe Boyd Vigil, best known for his work on Toonami (a remix of the Flintstones theme, with trivia about the show)
• Musical Evolution by Christina Fincher ^note vocalist; lyrics by Micheal Kohler and Craig "Sven" Gordon (Josie and the Pussycats), showing the Josie and the Pussycats theme as a disco tune, a late 1970s punk anthem, a country ballad, a KISS-style arena rock song, and as a techno/house beat.

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• My Best Friend Plank by Film Tecknarna (Ed, Edd n Eddy)
• Pork Jam by Soapbox Studios (Porky Pig), remixing lines from his cartoons, along with his stuttering.
• Rolling by Soul Coughing (Betty Boop)
• Secrets by Will.i.am (Dexter's Laboratory)
• Signal in the Sky (Let's Go!) by The Apples in Stereo (The Powerpuff Girls)
• That Time is Now by Micheal Kohler (Superfriends)
• The Incredible Shrinking Day by Garrett Freireich ^note vocalist and Stuart Hill ^note lyricist (Ed, Edd n Eddy)
• Time is Running Out by the James Taylor Quartet (Jonny Quest), a recreation of numerous events from the original series, all presented in the form of a board game.
• Wascally Wemix by Todd Eaton (Elmer Fudd/Bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck)
• When It's Over by Sugar Ray (depicting the band In the Style of... various toons, including The Jetsons and George of the Jungle)
• Yogi Bear Live at Yellowstone by High School Jim (Yogi Bear)

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Cartoon Network Groovies contains examples of:

• Adaptation Dye-Job: Ed canonically has red hair in Ed, Edd n Eddy. In "The Incredible Shrinking Day", he has black hair.
• The Artifact: "Signal in the Sky" exists despite the fact the Powerpuff Girls don't have such a signal. The Mayor calls them on their toy phone. They did, however, have such a signal in the pilot and first episode.
• Art Shift: Almost all the shorts incorporate multiple art-styles.
• Animesque: Dee Dee and Dexter resembles a 1960s anime and even features Japanese.
• Bat Signal: "Signal in the Sky" is about the Powerpuffs having such a signal.
• Delinquent Hair: '70s punk Josie and Melody wear mohawks.
• Retraux:
  • The Musical Evolution short uses this as it goes through different music styles.
  • My Best Friend Plank has the nostalgic grainy look of an old home movie.
  • Dee Dee and Dexter is styled like an old anime.
• Setting Update:
  • The characters of Jabberjaw are updated from 1970s teens to late 1990s/early 2000s teens. More specifically, they're a part of a ska band.
  • Josie and the Pussycats gets updated for the '80s and '90s, complete with changing music styles.
• '70s Hair: When the music turns to 1970s disco, Valerie suddenly begins sporting a huge afro (even bigger than her actual '70s afro),
• Shout-Out:
  • Josie and the Pussycats go KISS at one point.
  • Jabberjaw recreates the famous Jaws poster.
• Wolverine Publicity:
  • Thanks to being CN's pride and joy at the time, and having a then-new film, the The Powerpuff Girls received this treatment. They have five videos.
  • For similar reasons, Dexter's Laboratory has four songs.