Cartoon Network General

[Basic Blonde Boy]

Cartoon Network was launched on October 1st, 1992 as a kids television network that would air shows from Hannah Barbara and Warner Bros.. The channel would later expand to have original programming with 1995's What A Cartoon!. After that, CN would start to air original programming starting with Dexter's Laboratory in 1996. Popular shows from the network include:

• Dexter's Laboratory
• The Powerpuff Girls
• Johnny Bravo
• Cow and Chicken
• Courage The Cowardly Dog
• Ed, Edd n' Eddy
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
• Codename: Kids Next Door
• Samurai Jack
• Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
• Ben 10
• Chowder
• The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack
• Adventure Time
• Regular Show
• The Amazing World of Gumball
• Steven Universe
• We Bare Bears
• OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes
• Craig of The Creak

In addition to original programming, the channel also aired many series from their parent company Warner Bros. along with many Canadian imports. From WB, we got Teen Titans, Batman, The Looney Tunes, Tom & Jerry, and Scooby Doo. From Canada, we prominently got Johnny Test, 6Teen, Stoked, and the holy grail of Total Drama Island.

Cartoon Network has always been a favorite channel of mine since childhood as I used to watch many of its shows while in elementary and high school. I am a Zoomer, so much of my experience comes from the 2010's rebirth era of the network, though I have watched many of the classics from the 90s and 2000s. I saw that there wasn't really a thread for the channel, so I thought I would create one.

As for some personal thoughts on the Network, I love nearly all their shows to some degree. I would say my three favorites are probably Adventure Time, Chowder, and Johnny Bravo. I always loved the characters of Adventure Time as mid-seasons did a good job at fleshing them out prior to the poor season 6. Chowder reminds me of SpongeBob, likely because the creator was a writer for it, even still Chowder is very charming in its own way and the art is top-notch. Johnny Bravo was the most adult of the of the original 6, and honestly the funniest for that reason. Outside of CN's in-house shows, I will admit to having a soft spot for the Fresh TV shows like Total Drama, as I feel like they get old, always hovering on a spectrum between good and shitty.

This thread is just a general place to speak about Cartoon Network, so feel free to talk about shows, movies, games, or other current or nostalgic things.

 

[Lifeguard Hermit]

See you're a zoomer so you don't know of all of the og weird cartoon network bumpers they used to air

This one has some of them but there's one I want to see again...

It was a fever dream of 90's animation where this guy opens his fridge for mayo but it's just an empty fridge with an empty jar. So he goes down to the Bodega and gets a jar of fresh creamy CARTOON NETWORK

I lived in Cali at the time so its probably a former lost station local id/bumper

 

[A single cheeto]

EDIT:
I'm including Boomerang bumpers/shorts too, since Boomerang and CN are kind of a package deal.

 

[Dom Cruise]

My parents got it added to our cable package in 1995, what was mind blowing as a kid is if you remember, in the 90s Nickelodeon would stop airing cartoons after a certain time and start airing Nick At Nite, which I always hated, so it was great to have a channel devoted to nothing but toons.

I distinctly remember watching Space Ghost Coast Coast and What A Cartoon which included the pilots for Dexter's Lab and Powerpuff Girls, as well as other stuff like Two Stupid Dogs and of course reruns of classic shows, especially in the case of the Powerpuff pilot, I remember it so well that it's honestly mind boggling to think how long ago it was, time flies.

I was very glad to have it because while Nick was really important to me for the first half of the 90s, by the latter half of the 90s Nick was already in many ways past it's prime, but CN picked up the slack with stuff like Dexter's Lab, what Nick was to me when I was really little is what CN was to me when I was older but still a kid, lots of great memories of late nights on the weekends in the late 90s watching CN, just lovely.

See you're a zoomer so you don't know of all of the og weird cartoon network bumpers they used to air

This one has some of them but there's one I want to see again...

One I remember was this.

It was a fever dream of 90's animation where this guy opens his fridge for mayo but it's just an empty fridge with an empty jar. So he goes down to the Bodega and gets a jar of fresh creamy CARTOON NETWORK

I lived in Cali at the time so its probably a former lost station local id/bumper

That wasn't local, I remember it too.

Years later they had the fucking awesome "Cartoon Network Groovies"

 

[The Last Stand]

EDIT:
I'm including Boomerang bumpers/shorts too, since Boomerang and CN are kind of a package deal.

I loved CN City. All your favorite cartoons just living in a contained city doing regular stuff. Every child's dream.

 

[Lifeguard Hermit]

I loved CN City. All your favorite cartoons just living in a contained city doing regular stuff. Every child's dream.

Yeah the bumpers just got better and better.

Do you guys remember the cat and his mouse friend that were hoarding gasoline in their box house and accidently set it off with a heater or something like that?

This was in the first run of cartoon cartoons: the program that discovered courage Johnny and two stupid dogs.

Edit other than spelling: they stuff you hear being played on cartoon network and nickelodeons music is all shit they managed to get all of the major artists in the 90s to do via contractual obligations.

That's why there was soo much uncanny valley with all of that music: at the least you were hearing the studio musicians that played with your fav bands in production. The most famous example of course being rockos modern life's theme just being the fucking B52's.

 

[The Last Stand]

Do you guys remember the cat and his mouse friend that were hoarding gasoline in their box house and accidently set it off with a heater or something like that?

This was in the first run of cartoon cartoons: the program that discovered courage Johnny and two stupid dogs.

That was before my time. I do remember watchign vintage cartoons on the Boomerang channel. I think that came with Cartoon Network.

2 Stupid Dogs, Johnny Bravo, Justice League, Tom and Jerry, Wacky Racers, The Jetsons, Cow and Chicken. That takes me back. And I wasn't even around during their original run.

 

[Liucage67]

When did Cartoon Network peaked for you guys?

 

[Apochrypha]

I am a Zoomer as well, and I remember some golden ones like Teen Titans and Transformers Animated. I was also really into The Clone Wars back when it was on CN and Disney hadn't fucked the franchise. Also, does anyone remember a show called 6teen? I liked it too, but nobody really seems to remember it when I bring it up, and when they do they say they've never really seen much of it.

It looked like this:

My late childhood and early teens was also spent watching Regular Show which to this day is still the GOAT and nothing would convince me otherwise.

 

[Thiletonomics]

I am a Zoomer as well, and I remember some golden ones like Teen Titans and Transformers Animated. I was also really into The Clone Wars back when it was on CN and Disney hadn't fucked the franchise. Also, does anyone remember a show called 6teen? I liked it too, but nobody really seems to remember it when I bring it up, and when they do they say they've never really seen much of it.

It looked like this:

My late childhood and early teens was also spent watching Regular Show which to this day is still the GOAT and nothing would convince me otherwise.

I remembered 6teen, and it was pretty much a solid show for what it was, a group of teens doing stuff at the mall. It also actually had an ending, that wrapped up most of the loose ends for the most part, unlike the shows that decide to keep on going and going and going, even when it gets to the that the show being called stale would actually be a compliment. And the one-off revival episode (the Voting one) was somehow not offensive as it could have been, in terms of forcing down political messages down people's throats.

FreshTV's other show (not Total Drama), Stoked, tried to follow up the success that 6teen had, but it failed to catch on due to it's niche setting, being based on surfing. The show only lasted for two seasons in Canada, and Stoked's second season wasn't even aired on CN, which goes to show how badly it failed.

Come to think of it, FreshTV's shows always seem to do well with jokes, i.e. the 2 Vespas comment by Caitlin in the said 6teen episode, and Lindsay saying that she wasn't Catholic when Chris mentioned about the communal bathrooms in Total Drama Island.

 

[The Last Stand]

When did Cartoon Network peaked for you guys?

I would say around the mid-2000s. Adult Swim, Boomerang, and CN were airing quality memorable programming. I think Adult Swim had Futurama then. Boomerang would air cartoons with limited commercials.

 

[Dom Cruise]

When did Cartoon Network peaked for you guys?

The peak for me would be about 1995-2000, the What a Cartoon era, followed by it's respective series like Dexter's Lab and the first couple of seasons of Powerpuff Girls.

By 2001 I really enjoyed the start of Samurai Jack, but I fell off hard after 2001, feeling like I was too old to watch it, I regret that now as from what I understand CN did remain to be awesome throughout the 2000s and I did continue to watch a few things like Megas XLR and Teen Titans around 2004/2005, which is more than I watched Nickelodeon at that time, but you know how teenagers are, self conscious about watching too much "kid stuff" which of course you look back on and realize is silly.

I would say around the mid-2000s. Adult Swim, Boomerang, and CN were airing quality memorable programming. I think Adult Swim had Futurama then. Boomerang would air cartoons with limited commercials.

Adult Swim is what I did continue to watch, so the network still played a big part of my teens.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

RIP Cartoon Network Flash games. We didn't have cable, but the website entertained me for hours. Some of my favorites:

And the oddball out, but it was surprisingly fun:

 

[Celebrate Nite]

The "What A Cartoon!" show was one of the greatest things to come from Cartoon Network as it gave new artists/creators/etc... a chance to shine and become something great. Seth McFarlane was one of them, as his show was basically the "beta" for Family Guy

There was even one made by Eddie Fitzgerald of Ren & Stimpy fame... the style is even similar to R&S

There were a fuck-ton of cartoons that I wish had their own series... Yuckie Duck, Sledgehammer O'Possum, George & Junior, Pfish & Chip, The Fat Cats, and Swamp & Tad.

 

[The Last Stand]

RIP Cartoon Network Flash games. We didn't have cable, but the website entertained me for hours. Some of my favorites:

I remember the Grim Adventures game. Those pumpkins would give me nightmares as a youth.

I even beat the Courage the Cowardly Dog point and click adventure.

 

[Lifeguard Hermit]

How easily we forget the cross-platform shit

 

[Celebrate Nite]

RIP Cartoon Network Flash games.

Not just flash games, but flash cartoons as well.. and i mean the old ones that released back when dial-up was still a thing.

 

[Just_a_Bored_Guy]

I was born too late to appreciate the early years, so my main familiarity with the network was the 2000's era shows like Foster's, Camp Lazlo, Kids Next Door, and later seasons of the classics. Between Boomerang and the channel website, I did get to make up for this.
On the plus side, it put me in the right position to appreciate the Snyder-era shows like Flapjack, Chowder, Regular Show, the Fresh TV shows, Mad, and Robotomy. I kind of miss that era of weird experiments and older audience focus.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

before the internet, there was TV. spent many hours of my childhood watching those shows. there were times were my parents had to physically remove me.

 

[starborn427614]

Great channel to grow up with, especially in the late 90's/early 2000's. Glad they're bringing the Cartoon Cartoons thing back so we can get some flesh blood and reinvigorate the channel.