Yes, I’m aware that the editor used a picture of Bill and Joe instead of Fred. Also, I didn’t claim that this was the first animation showcase ever. I said that this was the first one that was meant to fill a mostly rerun network with new content. We clear? Ok. Good.
I still can’t get over how Family Guy started as a zany G-rated “What a Cartoon” short. The designs and even the premise are completely different, but Larry and Steve are basically prototypes of Peter and Brian, and nobody can un-hear it.
And that is a good thing - how? Remember that without Family Guy - Velma would never greenlit. Of course 90% is Mindy's fault, but the humor and lenguage of their gags?
Fun fact: The pilot for Courage the Cowardly Dog was actually nominated for best original short at the 1996 Oscars, but it lost it to a different dog of "A Close Shave"
It wasn't the first animation showcase. That goes to Liquid Television. But it was the first that was very popular and brought in alot of iconic crew members.
7:47 Pat Ventura was one of the creators that never got a show picked up and I hope you made a video of him and his pilots. He has such a unique and weird sense of humor.
It's A shame that Pat never got A show picked up. His art style is like the best 'worst' looking animation I've ever seen, and he really embraces the pure wackiness, and insanity of Tex Avery. I wouldn't mind watching A 'Sledgehammer Opossum' show on Cartoon Network.
I guess it reminded the execs of Ren and stimpy...too...adult humored I guess..i mean, ALL the green lit shows had some adult element in one shape but even back then, there was a limit and I guess he pushed it too far...but I think it comes down to who you KNOW. I think Those other guys were already connected..
CN actually is using the "Cartoon Cartoon" name again, back in 2021. I saw from the creator of Mouthwash Madness her short was already completed in late 2022 but there hasn't been much news of them since other than more being put into production.
I hate to be one of those “Fun Fact” or “Erm… you didn’t mention this” comment but John K had a hand in creating The What a Cartoon Show. While Fred liked cartoons, he didn’t know what made theme work. John said that it came from leaving the cartoonist alone and giving them creative control in the same vain as the 1940s cartoon studio system. Nice video as always!
Dude, that trivia still blows my mind considering how much crap he went through/caused for his own cartoon. Goes to show that crazy/rude people can be unintentional heroes and do good for the future. Don’t get me wrong, John still professionally SUCKS as a person, but I’ll admit when he has his FEW good moments he certainly has them.
There was this saying: don't meet some your heroes. Like R.Kelly..nah he wasn't my hero, but I grew up listening to his music. After the bomb dropped, like John K, I may never look at him or their work the same way again. Why people with mad talent do seriously stupid evil shit and shatter their rep is beyond me.
Awesome video, Trevor! My favorite cartoons that got picked up are The Powerpuff Girls, Courage the Cowardly Dog and Cow & Chicken! Gramps is my favorite unpicked short.
The heavy rock intro bumper on what a cartoon Kicked ass. It complimented the action and psycho madness in some of those shorts... especially Pat Ventura's shorts 🔥🔥🔥🔥
I think RUclips has sort-of taken over as a platform for cartoon pilot episodes that eventually become full series if they catch on well enough. I can think of at least a dozen that have a lot of potential, and one very obvious one that made it big to the point that streaming platforms were vying for it.
So Powerpuff Girls and technically even Fairly Oddparents, two shows I hold near and dear, were created from these anthology styled shows. I owe them a lot.
I feel so old remembering when What A Cartoon premiered. This was the true golden age of animated shows for those of you who missed out. I doubt we'll get anything like that again in a long time if any. Also my personal fave is the cartoon that Seth MacFarlane made that is basically a prototype for Family Guy
Swat Kats was screwed over by Ted Turner and his unhealthy obsession with Captain Planet. Basically axed Swat Kats for being "too dark and violent" in favor for showing more of a green haired weirdo, who flies around killing factory workers and truck drivers, while his crew of former UNICEF kids yell "gO pLaNeT!" I know a bit off topic, but i cant hear someone mention Swat Kats without chiming in. It was my favorite cartoon, and i was livid when it got cancelled and replaced for more Captain Recycle and the Eco Dorks.
'CAPTAAAAIIIIIN PLANEEEEEEEET! PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT, OR I'LL F**KING KILL YOU!' Also, I hope The Trembly Brothers get their 'Swat Kats' revival up, and running someday.
Good video as always, Trevor! I'd say my favorite What a Cartoon! pilot that never got picked up was Yoink! of the Yukon. No real reason why. I just really liked it.
I do wanna share 2 Stupid Digs did get future greats like Genddy Tartetosky onboard and Swat Kats was getting cancelled by Ted Turner himself, who said " We Have the Flintsones and Huckleberry Hound! We don't need a violent cartoon like The Swat Kats!" So the show was unplugged after its 2nd season due to one mans ego. Another fantastic cancelled series was The Pirates of Dark Water...due to turmoil from within' and budget cuts.
My best guess cause it was the last major cartoon network show and the last western cartoon in the 2000s to use cel paper animation Cartoon network thought the show was expensive to produce as opposed to using computer hand drawn animation so they canceled it
I used to watch a lot of Cartoon Network shows back when they were on Netflix in 2014-15. My favorites were Dexter's Lab, Powerpuff Girls, Cow and Chicken/I Am Weasel (Roping these two together), and Camp Lazlo. (I'm aware the latter isn't in What a Cartoon)
Good vid, but I’m gonna point out some inaccuracies. 1-you used the wrong picture for Fred Seibert. That is NOT what he looks like. 2- 2:50-3:05 This concept HAS been done before. MTV’s Liquid Television premiered in 1991, and ended its run literally a month before What a Cartoon! began in February of 1995. 3- 6:03-6:11 The Powerpuff Girls were the first show to air, but not the last to be picked up. That would go to Courage the Cowardly Dog, since that showed began in 1999 while PPG was ‘98. 4- 7:29-7:41 no love for ChalkZone and My Life As A Teenage Robot? That’s sad. Also, Adventure Time’s pilot aired as part of So Random! Cartoons in 2007, long after Oh Yeah! Cartoons had ended.
Actually, Hanna-Barbera was bought by Ten Turner, in 1991, and merged with Time Warner in 1996. Also, that's A picture of Bill Hanna, and Joe Barbera. Not Fred Seibert. There are plenty of Fred Seibert photos you could easily fine on the internet that you could've used.
I actually made a brochure type of thing in Photoshop talking about Cartoon Network’s history, and while doing some research on it, I did come across learning about the _What a Cartoon!_ show.
so the other night i was thinking about watching powerpuff girls so i turned on HBA max and saw space ghost and decided to watch that instead, i had just finished seson one and started up the first episode of season 2 which i had no idea was the powerpuff pilot but it shook me to my core.
Of the pilots that hadn't picked up, I love Yuckie Duck, George and Junior and Mina and the Count and they definetly deserved more than some pilots (I love Pat Ventura's slapstick and Rob Renzetti's charming plot). Tales of Worm Paranoia was such a trip of a short and Malcom and Melvin....I don't know why it was produced for cartoon network.
Mina and the Count aired today on Cartoon Network (8/5/2024). My first time seeing it in YEARSSSSS and it was an interesting pilot. Would be interested in seeing where that would have went as a full series.
I remember I was about 9 years old when these shorts aired. And I remember them saying something about a contest. I believed until today that the cartoons that aired was because they won a spot through the contest. (At this age I wanted to be a cartoonist myself). But I was checking out wikipedia and just learned now that it was a "mock" contest. My childhood brain is so disapointed lol
I don’t know if it’s redundant to say; My Life as a Teenage Robot came from the Oh-Yeah! Cartoons show, as well. The magician short from that show is my favourite pilot.
Swat Kats was awesome! Cartoon Network was playing the heck out of them in the late 90s. Them, 2 Stupid Dogs, and Road Rovers were some of my favorite shows airing on CN back then. I was aware even then that different studios were producing them all, but it didn't matter since CN at that point was just this huge melting pot of Hanna-Barbera, Kids' WB, and their own original content.
The one thing I diffinately remember about all of this is at one point they would choose a short debute it on like Monday or something then proceed to play the ever living hell out of it before other shows for the remainder of the week until the next short aired. I remember always been pretty sick of the short by the end of the week.
I have to ask; did the audience get to vote on the most popular short? I have this vivid memory about calling some number to vote for Dexter and Power Puff Girls, but I cannot seem to find anyone else who remembers this. Starting to think it was just a vivid dream! 😅
The losers in charge of CN these days are idiots who don't care about past success or testing their shows with piolets just making worthless garbage reboots for their unbalanced schedule. All they need to do is bring back the What A Cartoon Show with whole new set of characters that will become the next big stars of Cartoon Network
Let’s be real here. If it didn’t start many shows then the show would’ve been mid in my opinion cuz most of the animation and backgrounds are lazy and the humour is unfunny and sometimes it feels like it’s trying to be looney tunes way too hard in my opinion
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Yes, I’m aware that the editor used a picture of Bill and Joe instead of Fred. Also, I didn’t claim that this was the first animation showcase ever. I said that this was the first one that was meant to fill a mostly rerun network with new content. We clear? Ok. Good.
I’m sorry if you got the comment already guy. Yes we’re clear lol.
Whatever Happened to Robot Jones is so underrated ITS A CRIME! 😭
I still can’t get over how Family Guy started as a zany G-rated “What a Cartoon” short. The designs and even the premise are completely different, but Larry and Steve are basically prototypes of Peter and Brian, and nobody can un-hear it.
It didn't start as Larry and Steve that is version 2. The original version is Seth's college project Life of Larry.
If memory serves, J. G. Quintel had mentioned that the Cartoonstitute would have featured his pitch for what eventually became "Regular Show."
Without What a Cartoon, Family Guy wouldn't exist.
Yep it was originally Larry and Steve
well then I wish that it never happened
Necessary evil, I suppose.
And that is a good thing - how?
Remember that without Family Guy - Velma would never greenlit.
Of course 90% is Mindy's fault, but the humor and lenguage of their gags?
I really wish family guy was apart of our wacky imagination
Fun fact: The pilot for Courage the Cowardly Dog was actually nominated for best original short at the 1996 Oscars, but it lost it to a different dog of "A Close Shave"
WHAT........ A......... CARTOON-TOON-TOON-TOON-TOON-TOON. Somehow I still remember that guitar riff years later.
It wasn't the first animation showcase. That goes to Liquid Television.
But it was the first that was very popular and brought in alot of iconic crew members.
7:47 Pat Ventura was one of the creators that never got a show picked up and I hope you made a video of him and his pilots. He has such a unique and weird sense of humor.
The fact Pat never got his own cartoon show is immensely disappointing
It's A shame that Pat never got A show picked up. His art style is like the best 'worst' looking animation I've ever seen, and he really embraces the pure wackiness, and insanity of Tex Avery. I wouldn't mind watching A 'Sledgehammer Opossum' show on Cartoon Network.
I guess it reminded the execs of Ren and stimpy...too...adult humored I guess..i mean, ALL the green lit shows had some adult element in one shape but even back then, there was a limit and I guess he pushed it too far...but I think it comes down to who you KNOW. I think Those other guys were already connected..
That fanfare with the saxophone at the beginning never gets old.
CN actually is using the "Cartoon Cartoon" name again, back in 2021. I saw from the creator of Mouthwash Madness her short was already completed in late 2022 but there hasn't been much news of them since other than more being put into production.
At least more is in production.
I hate to be one of those “Fun Fact” or “Erm… you didn’t mention this” comment but John K had a hand in creating The What a Cartoon Show. While Fred liked cartoons, he didn’t know what made theme work. John said that it came from leaving the cartoonist alone and giving them creative control in the same vain as the 1940s cartoon studio system.
Nice video as always!
John K. helped write the 'Red' episodes of '2 Stupid Dogs'.
Dude, that trivia still blows my mind considering how much crap he went through/caused for his own cartoon. Goes to show that crazy/rude people can be unintentional heroes and do good for the future.
Don’t get me wrong, John still professionally SUCKS as a person, but I’ll admit when he has his FEW good moments he certainly has them.
That part could definitely have been elaborated upon a bit more.
There was this saying: don't meet some your heroes. Like R.Kelly..nah he wasn't my hero, but I grew up listening to his music. After the bomb dropped, like John K, I may never look at him or their work the same way again. Why people with mad talent do seriously stupid evil shit and shatter their rep is beyond me.
I can even see his influence in some of the limited animation shorts...like Pat Ventura...i dont know if its a coincidence or not...
Hard To Believe Larry and Steve Would Become Family Guy which CN would acquire for Adult Swim making It a game changer for both parties
Awesome video, Trevor! My favorite cartoons that got picked up are The Powerpuff Girls, Courage the Cowardly Dog and Cow & Chicken!
Gramps is my favorite unpicked short.
The heavy rock intro bumper on what a cartoon
Kicked ass. It complimented the action and psycho madness in some of those shorts... especially Pat Ventura's shorts 🔥🔥🔥🔥
I think RUclips has sort-of taken over as a platform for cartoon pilot episodes that eventually become full series if they catch on well enough.
I can think of at least a dozen that have a lot of potential, and one very obvious one that made it big to the point that streaming platforms were vying for it.
1:13 That is a picture of Bill and Joe not Fred Seibert.
I hope someone got fired for THAT blunder
You gotta give credit to Cartoon Network for seeking out original programming only a couple of years on television.
Too bad they never gave 'Megas XLR' back to it's creators after it used as A 'tax write off'.
So Powerpuff Girls and technically even Fairly Oddparents, two shows I hold near and dear, were created from these anthology styled shows. I owe them a lot.
I feel so old remembering when What A Cartoon premiered. This was the true golden age of animated shows for those of you who missed out. I doubt we'll get anything like that again in a long time if any. Also my personal fave is the cartoon that Seth MacFarlane made that is basically a prototype for Family Guy
I was there... though I was very very young
Swat Kats was screwed over by Ted Turner and his unhealthy obsession with Captain Planet. Basically axed Swat Kats for being "too dark and violent" in favor for showing more of a green haired weirdo, who flies around killing factory workers and truck drivers, while his crew of former UNICEF kids yell "gO pLaNeT!"
I know a bit off topic, but i cant hear someone mention Swat Kats without chiming in. It was my favorite cartoon, and i was livid when it got cancelled and replaced for more Captain Recycle and the Eco Dorks.
'CAPTAAAAIIIIIN PLANEEEEEEEET! PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT, OR I'LL F**KING KILL YOU!'
Also, I hope The Trembly Brothers get their 'Swat Kats' revival up, and running someday.
Good video as always, Trevor! I'd say my favorite What a Cartoon! pilot that never got picked up was Yoink! of the Yukon. No real reason why. I just really liked it.
I was so excited as kid watching this show!
I do wanna share 2 Stupid Digs did get future greats like Genddy Tartetosky onboard and Swat Kats was getting cancelled by Ted Turner himself, who said " We Have the Flintsones and Huckleberry Hound! We don't need a violent cartoon like The Swat Kats!" So the show was unplugged after its 2nd season due to one mans ego. Another fantastic cancelled series was The Pirates of Dark Water...due to turmoil from within' and budget cuts.
1:11 thats william hanna
My favourite unpicked shorts: O'Ratz, Bloo's Gang, Phish &Chip, Jeffrey Cat, Captin Buzz Cheeply and Fat Cats.
Oh gosh 4:30 we really gotta bring that back. I feel like this is a huge reason why pitch pilots are becoming a obsolete concept.
It should definitely return.
6:06 correction: courage the cowardly dog was the last one to get picked up, as it premiered along side with mike, lu & og on November 13th, 1999
Being picked up and premiering are different things.
@@mediamementosofficial Oh, my bad
But, what ever happened to Robot Jones?
My best guess cause it was the last major cartoon network show and the last western cartoon in the 2000s to use cel paper animation Cartoon network thought the show was expensive to produce as opposed to using computer hand drawn animation so they canceled it
Got canceled 😂
But... Swat KATS was cool!
It sure was!
I’m glad I’m not the only one who remembers robot Jones, bro that is such an underrated CN classic.
I used to watch a lot of Cartoon Network shows back when they were on Netflix in 2014-15. My favorites were Dexter's Lab, Powerpuff Girls, Cow and Chicken/I Am Weasel (Roping these two together), and Camp Lazlo. (I'm aware the latter isn't in What a Cartoon)
Nice video, my favorite pilot that never became a series would have to be the Pizza Boy short
Without What a Cartoon, we won't have stuff like Dexter's Laboratory, Powerpuff Girls, Courage the Cowardly Dog, and Ed Edd n Eddy!
Wasn’t EE&E pitched after WAC happened?
@@daelen.cclark Oh Yeah sorry I brought that up.
@@DexterYesMandarkNo
No worries. It’s secured it’s position as one of the greats anyway.
Good vid, but I’m gonna point out some inaccuracies.
1-you used the wrong picture for Fred Seibert. That is NOT what he looks like.
2- 2:50-3:05 This concept HAS been done before. MTV’s Liquid Television premiered in 1991, and ended its run literally a month before What a Cartoon! began in February of 1995.
3- 6:03-6:11 The Powerpuff Girls were the first show to air, but not the last to be picked up. That would go to Courage the Cowardly Dog, since that showed began in 1999 while PPG was ‘98.
4- 7:29-7:41 no love for ChalkZone and My Life As A Teenage Robot? That’s sad. Also, Adventure Time’s pilot aired as part of So Random! Cartoons in 2007, long after Oh Yeah! Cartoons had ended.
Robot Jones is fun when voiced by actual text to speech software, not much fun when voiced by a human with reverb overlaid.
Great vid!
Actually, Hanna-Barbera was bought by Ten Turner, in 1991, and merged with Time Warner in 1996. Also, that's A picture of Bill Hanna, and Joe Barbera. Not Fred Seibert. There are plenty of Fred Seibert photos you could easily fine on the internet that you could've used.
Its amazing to me how revolutionary that time was because as a kid i assumed getting so many new creative series was the norm
If most channels did this video it'd be an hour long. This one is concise, like they all should be
I really liked the pilot of the Kitty Bobo show, it's a pity that it never developed into a full-fledged series.
I actually liked the f tales from oh yeah! cartoons, not related to what a cartoon but you did mention oh yeah! cartoon.
Funny enough, Mina and the Count was originally just an What a Cartoon (or Cartoon Cartoon) short before transitioning into a Oh Yeah! Cartoon series.
Can you do a video talking/reviewing of all the What a Cartoon pilots?
I actually made a brochure type of thing in Photoshop talking about Cartoon Network’s history, and while doing some research on it, I did come across learning about the _What a Cartoon!_ show.
I want to read that someday!
@@daelen.cclark Well I did post it on my community tab a little while ago if you’re interested. You’ll just have to do a lot of scrolling to find it.
Now I have to wait for you to do a video on Robot Jones, I hope it comes out sooner or later any time soon?
My favorite cartoon shows are Johnny Bravo and Courage the Cowardly Dog.
I grew up with Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy Dexter's Lab's and Johnny Bravo and PowerPuff Girls
so the other night i was thinking about watching powerpuff girls so i turned on HBA max and saw space ghost and decided to watch that instead, i had just finished seson one and started up the first episode of season 2 which i had no idea was the powerpuff pilot but it shook me to my core.
I didnt know you like jack stauber and robot jones!
Of the pilots that hadn't picked up, I love Yuckie Duck, George and Junior and Mina and the Count and they definetly deserved more than some pilots (I love Pat Ventura's slapstick and Rob Renzetti's charming plot). Tales of Worm Paranoia was such a trip of a short and Malcom and Melvin....I don't know why it was produced for cartoon network.
Mina and the Count aired today on Cartoon Network (8/5/2024). My first time seeing it in YEARSSSSS and it was an interesting pilot. Would be interested in seeing where that would have went as a full series.
I remember I was about 9 years old when these shorts aired. And I remember them saying something about a contest. I believed until today that the cartoons that aired was because they won a spot through the contest. (At this age I wanted to be a cartoonist myself). But I was checking out wikipedia and just learned now that it was a "mock" contest. My childhood brain is so disapointed lol
SWAT Kats was part of Hanna Barbera?!
Yup. Hanna-Barbera produced 'Swat Kats', and most of the animation was farmed out to Mook Studios in Japan.
That makes sense...I always felt this anime vibe coming outta that show
courage i rewatched in the hbo max. And it was worth.
Where'd you find that It's my life 8-bit version during the credits?
I don’t know if it’s redundant to say; My Life as a Teenage Robot came from the Oh-Yeah! Cartoons show, as well.
The magician short from that show is my favourite pilot.
Hey... i got a question... who made the "Coffee" from "Shop, a pop opera" 8-bit cover you used for the intro?
ruclips.net/video/u0oHY87hBG0/видео.html
You forgot about cartoon network Wedgies, if memory serves it's where regular show and uncle grandpa started
I talked about them a month ago.
I'm relieved that every series from what a cartoon ended not to become immortal
Swat Kats was awesome! Cartoon Network was playing the heck out of them in the late 90s. Them, 2 Stupid Dogs, and Road Rovers were some of my favorite shows airing on CN back then. I was aware even then that different studios were producing them all, but it didn't matter since CN at that point was just this huge melting pot of Hanna-Barbera, Kids' WB, and their own original content.
I love cartoon network. Cow and Chicken was always my fave
I was glad that chalkzone, my life as a teenage robot and fairly oddparents the longest running series ended that belonged to oh yeah! cartoons
My favorite cartoons are: Powerpuff Girls, Dexter's Lab, Cow & Chicken, Johnny Bravo and I am Weasel. I love cartoons. 😊
The one thing I diffinately remember about all of this is at one point they would choose a short debute it on like Monday or something then proceed to play the ever living hell out of it before other shows for the remainder of the week until the next short aired. I remember always been pretty sick of the short by the end of the week.
0:19 You have a small, teeny tiny hand there, Trevor..
I have to ask; did the audience get to vote on the most popular short? I have this vivid memory about calling some number to vote for Dexter and Power Puff Girls, but I cannot seem to find anyone else who remembers this. Starting to think it was just a vivid dream! 😅
You sound familiar. Are you Kenny Lauderdale?
No, but I get that a lot.
So we’ve done wedgies and what a cartoon come back next time when the masters of fate make Trevor discuss Disney’s Shorty mcshots
Your not the only one who's love that show too
0:12-0:19
Yucky duck sledgehammer possum pondum possum yoink of the youkon no tip and boid and woim George and junior
Yuckie Duck would have been a bonkers show. Pat Ventura seemed to be earnestly trying to out gross-out Ren & Stimpy
Wish I could’ve starred on that.
The first person to post a comment on this specific video wins! Looks like I win!
I got 3rd
Unrelated, but who do you think would win in a fight: William Hanna or Fred Seibert?
@@chiebukachibee-zoraedu idk
Hooray! What do you win?
@@daelen.cclark your soul
Bring this back
You’re using a pic of Bill Hanna for Fred Seibert bro
I’m well aware.
You know Let's be happy that nickelodeon didn't pick adventure time because cartoon network would've been dead thanks to CN real
The losers in charge of CN these days are idiots who don't care about past success or testing their shows with piolets just making worthless garbage reboots for their unbalanced schedule. All they need to do is bring back the What A Cartoon Show with whole new set of characters that will become the next big stars of Cartoon Network
sleg hammer o possom
Let’s be real here. If it didn’t start many shows then the show would’ve been mid in my opinion cuz most of the animation and backgrounds are lazy and the humour is unfunny and sometimes it feels like it’s trying to be looney tunes way too hard in my opinion