Cartoon Network Groovies (Western Animation)

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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.

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 (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)

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 (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.

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 ^notevocalist and Stuart Hill ^notelyricist (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)

Cartoon Network Groovies contains examples of:

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.
Deliberate VHS Quality: My Best Friend Plank has the nostalgic grainy look of an old home movie.
Delinquent Hair: '90s punk Josie and Melody wear mohawks.
Early Draft Tie-In: "Signal in the Sky" is about the Powerpuff Girls being called by a Bat Signal, which they only had in the pilot and first episode, and every time after that the mayor called them with a hotline. The signal would later come back in the show for a musical montage that uses the same song.
Reality Ensues: The plot of the "Circles" quickie concerns Fred and Barney becoming aware of the Wraparound Background.
Retraux:
- The Musical Evolution short uses this as it goes through different music styles.
- 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.