List of What a Cartoon! episodes

Series Overview

Color	Season	Episodes	Season Premiere	Season Finale
	What A Cartoon!	49	February 20, 1995	November 28, 1997
	Cartoon Cartoons	31	November 6, 1998	August 23, 2002

What A Cartoon! Shorts (1995-1997)

#	Episode Title	Creator	Original Airdate
01	The Powerpuff Girls in "Meat Fuzzy Lumkins"	Craig McCracken	February 20, 1995
The Powerpuff Girls are judges in Townsville's yearly jam contest. Fuzzy Lumkins is upset when his meat jam doesn't win and is looking for revenge. The short laid foundations for the massively successful The Powerpuff Girls to premiere in 1998.
02	Dexter's Laboratory: Changes	Genndy Tartakovsky	February 26, 1995
Dee Dee takes Dexter's newest invention and changes him into a bunny. They start changing each other into animals. The earliest Cartoon Network series that came from a What a Cartoon! short, it was immediately developed into Dexter's Laboratory and began airing in 1996.
03	Yuckie Duck in "Short Orders"	Patrick A. Ventura	March 5, 1995
Yuckie Duck is a waiter in a restaurant. He keeps having problems, because the Limburger sandwich he gave to a man smelled bad and a steak he gave to a lady was too hard to cut.
04	Dino in "Stay Out"	Joseph Barbera	March 19, 1995
Fred Flintstone goes bowling with Barney Rubble and tells Dino to keep Baby Puss out of the house. The cat always gets in, however, using disguises such as a baby, a tiger skinned rug and Santa Claus.
05	Johnny Bravo	Van Partible	March 26, 1995
Johnny Bravo decides to catch a gorilla that escaped from the zoo, because he thinks that it will make the zoo owner fall in love him. A series based on the character, also titled Johnny Bravo, premiered in 1997.
06	Sledgehammer Opossum in "Out and About"	Patrick A. Ventura	April 2, 1995
A troublemaking possum frustrates a dog's plans to enjoy a quiet summer day out.
07	George and Junior in "Look Out Below"	Patrick A. Ventura	April 9, 1995
Based on the classic cartoon characters created by Tex Avery, a bird breaks a light bulb so it doesn't disturb his sleep and sits in the empty socket. George and Junior, the building's janitors/engineers, are sent to fix it.
08	Hard Luck Duck	William Hanna	April 16, 1995
Hard Luck Duck, after venturing away from Crocodile Harley's watch, is a hungry fox's target to be cooked. The cartoon contains many similarities to one of Hanna-Barbera's previous characters, Yakky Doodle.
09	Shake & Flick in "Raw Deal in Rome"	Eugene Mattos	June 18, 1995
Shake the dog is invaded by Flick the flea. They are both accomplished musicians and find themselves in the competition of a lifetime as each one tries to outdo the other.
10	The Adventures of Captain Buzz Cheeply in "A Clean Getaway"	Meinert Hanasen	June 25, 1995
Captain Buzz Cheeply and his robot sidekick, Slide, must escape a planet whose inhabitants have abnormally sized foreheads but small sized brains, while finding a place to do their laundry.
11	O. Ratz with Dave D. Fly in "Rat in a Hot Tin Can"	Jerry Reynolds Russ Harris	July 2, 1995
Friends O. Ratz and Dave D. Fly live together in a trash can. One night it gets so cold that O. Ratz can't take it anymore and tries to sneak into a hotel with disastrous results.
12	Phish and Chip in "Short Pfuse"	Butch Hartman Eugene Mattos Michael Rann	July 9, 1995
The Bomb Squad (Phish, a wacky shark and Chip, a lynx) is told by their chief to catch a mad bomber.
13	The Fat Cats in "Drip Dry Drips"	Jon McClenahan	July 16, 1995
Louie and Elmo open a dry cleaning business together. Their first customer in the President of the United States and they have until 5:00 to get his suit clean. They run into a few problems and are running out of time.
14	George and Junior's Christmas Spectacular	Patrick A. Ventura	July 23, 1995
George and Junior are forced to deliver Santa's presents to the kids, after they fail to deliver one of Santa's letters.
15	Yoink! of the Yukon	Don Jurwich Jerry Eisenberg Jim Ryan	July 30, 1995
The mounted police of the Yukon have their uniforms stolen by a grizzly bear seeking revenge on them for skinning his animal friends. Yoink and Sergeant Thumbsworth Tharplung are sent to retrieve them.
16	Yuckie Duck in "I'm On My Way"	Patrick A. Ventura	August 6, 1995
Yuckie Duck is a paramedic and he has to perform life-saving feats such as pulling a tack out of a lion's posterior.
17	Mina and the Count in "Interlude with a Vampire"	Rob Renzetti	November 5, 1995
A girl named Mina is visited by a vampire named Count after she goes to sleep. They go through a series of events as the Count tries to get home before sunrise. Created by Rob Renzetti, Renzetti would later produce more Mina and the Count shorts for Nickelodeon's Oh Yeah! Cartoons in the late 1990s.
18	Cow and Chicken in "No Smoking"	David Feiss	November 12, 1995
Cow and Chicken are sister and brother. Chicken is taken to Hell by the Devil and it's up to his sister Cow to save him. Nominated for an Emmy Award, the short was picked up to become the series Cow and Chicken beginning in 1997.
19	Boid 'N' Woim	C. Miles Thompson	January 1, 1996
Hitchhiker Woim is going to sunny California. Boid drives him there, but on the way, they crash into a cactus. Boid gets hungry and tries to eat Woim.
20	Jof in "Help?"	Bruno Bozzetto	January 14, 1996
A cat that pinches his finger while sewing asks for help at the hospital, but its ruthless personnel offer only pain.
21	Podunk Possum in "One Step Beyond"	Joe Orrantia Elizabeth Stonecypher	January 21, 1996
A possum named Podunk acquires an abandoned farm with 3 chickens to lay eggs for him, and has to defend them from a fried chicken titan, Major Portions. However, he is unaware of a major alien conspiracy.
22	The Powerpuff Girls in "Crime 101"	Craig McCracken	January 28, 1996
The Amoeba Boys try to commit a crime and the Powerpuff Girls help them do it right. The second and final short from What a Cartoon! to star The Powerpuff Girls, the series would later premiere in 1998.
23	Wind-Up Wolf	William Hanna	February 4, 1996
Big Bad Wolf wants to catch the three little pigs again. He decides the only way he can do it is to build a robot wolf to take his place.
24	Hillbilly Blue	Butch Hartman	February 11, 1996
Crawdad Eustace is fed-up with being treated as food and goes with possum pal Mordechai on a cross-country trip to New Orleans and being "served" in royal fashion.
25	Courage the Cowardly Dog in "The Chicken from Outer Space"	John R. Dilworth	February 18, 1996
A fearful dog tries to stop an alien chicken's plans to invade Earth on his owners' farm. Nominated for an Oscar, the short was developed into the final series spun-off from What a Cartoon!, Courage the Cowardly Dog, in 1999.
26	Pizza Boy in "No Tip"	Robert Alvarez	February 25, 1996
Pizza Boy tries to deliver a pizza to the Arctic Circle in five minutes to get a big tip. He has many problems on the way, like getting thrown out of a plane.
27	Gramps	Butch Hartman	March 3, 1996
Gramps tells his grandchildren about his battle against invading aliens, and gets corrected by the children repeatedly.
28	Dexter's Laboratory: The Big Sister	Genndy Tartakovsky	March 10, 1996
When Dee Dee eats an experimental cookie of Dexter's design, she grows extremely tall and goes on a Godzilla-style rampage, leaving it up to Dexter to don his mecha-suit and bring her back.
29	Bloo's Gang in "Bow-Wow Buccaneers"	Mike Milo	March 17, 1996
Bloo and his dog friends sneak out of their owner's houses at midnight to set on a pirate adventure in the city.
30	Dexter's Laboratory: Old Man Dexter	Genndy Tartakovsky	March 24, 1996
When Dexter attempts to accelerate his aging so he can stay up late to watch "The Late-Early Movie", Dee Dee sneaks into his lab again and causes Dexter to turn into a 95-year-old man, which has dire effects.
31	Jungle Boy in "Mr. Monkeyman"	Van Partible	October 9, 1996
Jealous King Raymond stains the hero Jungle Boy's reputation by impersonating him and causing mayhem. Jungle Boy would later go on to serve as filler segments in Johnny Bravo (1997).
32	Godfrey and Zeek in "Lost Control"	Zac Moncrief	October 16, 1996
Godfrey the giraffe accidentally flushes his TV remote down the toilet. He and his friend Zeek spend the rest of the episode trying to get it back from the water plant.
33	Tumbleweed Tex in "School Daze"	Robert Alvarez	October 23, 1996
A Wild West outlaw needs to finish the fourth grade, while dealing with his obnoxious class rival, little Timmy.
34	Buy One, Get One Free	Charlie Bean Carey Yost Don Shank	October 30, 1996
A man named Reilly gets a cat named Flinch in order to impress a female cat lover named Sofie and threatens the cat that if there is a scratch on anything while he's away, he will send him to the violin factory. It won't be easy when Sophie leaves Flinch a feline playmate named Fix that ends up wrecking everything.
35	The Kitchen Casanova	John McIntyre	November 6, 1996
Casanova has a date with Doris and he can think of no better way to impress her than to cook her a meal. Unfortunately, things don't go as well as he had planned.
36	The Ignoramooses	Mike Milo	November 13, 1996
Two moose (called Ignoramooses by a watching specialist) believe they're going to be adopted by a rich hunter, and wreak havoc in his manssion.
37	Johnny Bravo and the Amazon Women	Van Partible	January 1, 1997
Johnny Bravo is left stranded on an island filled with beautiful tall women, and their bodyguard elephant. The final Johnny Bravo short to air, the half-hour series premiered in the same year.
38	Phish and Chip in "Blammo the Clown"	Eugene Mattos Butch Hartman Michael Rann	January 8, 1997
Blammo the Clown comes back to town and sets up bombs trying to blow up Phish and Chip.
39	Awfully Lucky	Davis Doi	January 15, 1997
A geeky guy finds the Paradox Pearl and it gives him good luck. Then he discovers that for everything good it brings, it also brings something bad.
40	Strange Things	Mike Wellins	January 22, 1997
A robot finds a job as a janitor, but winds up working for an obnoxious chief of security named Mel. He also must remember that if it says "Don't Touch", don't touch. The only computer animated short produced for What a Cartoon!, it is one of television's first exposures to computer animation.
41	Snoot's New Squat	Jeret Ochi Victor Ortado	January 29, 1997
Snoot, the flea-like extra-terrestrial who can imitate pop culture, finds a new home at a pain-suffering dog named Al who drives his doctor crazy.
42	Larry and Steve	Seth MacFarlane	February 5, 1997
Steve, a homeless dog, is adopted by dimwit Larry (the only man that can understand what he's saying), and lives disaster after disaster when Larry takes him shopping. The style developed into creator Seth MacFarlane's Family Guy.
43	Sledgehammer O'Possum in "What's Goin' On Back There?!"	Patrick A. Ventura	February 12, 1997
Sledgehammer O'Possum takes shelter from the cold in a mailbox, much to the dismay of a mailman named Ethel who will stop at nothing to make him leave.
44	The Zoonatics in "Home Sweet Home"	Paul Parducci James Giordano R.J. Reiley	February 19, 1997
Three acrobatic animals plot to escape their lousy circus lifestyle, for a better life at the new Hackensack Zoo.
45	Swamp and Tad in "Mission Imfrogable"	John Rice Achiu So	February 26, 1997
Swamp and Tad are frogs from outer space. They are sent to Earth to get a package from Agent Newt. Unfortunately, the package is stolen by a dog.
46	Dino in "The Great Egg-Scape"	Joseph Barbera	March 5, 1997
Dino is a night watchman at the Bedrock Museum. A last-of-it's-kind egg is stolen while he is sleeping on duty and he must find it if he is to keep his job.
47	Malcom and Melvin	Ralph Bakshi	November 26, 1997
Melvin is lonely and is having trouble making friends. It gets so bad that he even attempts suicide. He runs into a trumpet playing roach named Malcom and the two become friends.
48	Tales of Worm Paranoia	Eddie Fitzgerald	November 27, 1997
A worm named Johnny keeps getting stepped on by a human, which pushes him over the edge. His girlfriend Sally tries to keep him in check. Style reminiscent of John Kricfalusi's The Ren & Stimpy Show. Kricfalusi is listed with a "Special Thanks" credit.
49	Babe!... He Calls Me	Ralph Bakshi	November 28, 1997
Malcom and Melvin play music in bars to try and pick up women. Melvin's mother thinks that her son was kidnapped by Malcom and hired a private detective to find him.

Cartoon Cartoon Shorts (1998-2002)

Cartoon shorts produced between 1999 and 2001 were entered in "The Big Pick", a contest to choose the newest Cartoon Cartoon. The winners were The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, in 1999, and Codename: Kids Next Door, in 2001.

#	Episode Title	Creator	Original Airdate
01	Kenny and the Chimp: Diseasy Does It	Tom Warburton	November 6, 1998
A boy named Kenny, and his pet chimpanzee, Chimpy, must watch Professor XXXL's disease laboratory while he's away. However, Chimpy causes trouble for Kenny. The style of the short and the character Professor XXXL would be used on Codename: Kids Next Door.
02	Mike, Lu & Og: Crash Lancelot	Charles Swenson Mikhail Shindel Mikhail Aldashin	November 7, 1998
A cast away girl named Mike asks for native inventor Og to build a car to get across the island. He also builds a specially improved model for princess Lu, which runs too fast for her. Pilot of Mike, Lu & Og.
03	The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy: Meet the Reaper	Maxwell Atoms	June 9, 2000
Billy and Mandy are paid a visit by the Grim Reaper when he comes to collect the soul of Billy's hamster, Mr. Snuggles. Mandy then makes a bet with him in the form of a game: if Grim loses, he lets them keep Mr. Snuggles AND become their "best friend". Pilot to The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy and Grim & Evil. Winner of Cartoon Network's Big Pick marathon (2000).
04	Whatever Happened to Robot Jones?	Greg Miller	June 16, 2000
Robot Jones learns that he has been put into a human public school that he must now attend. Pilot to Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?.
05	Trevor	Adam Shaheen	June 23, 2000
This cartoon follows the wild world of Trevor Braithwaite whose doodles dance right off the page.
06	Nikki	Debby Solomon	June 30, 2000
Two friends find unusual responses to their on-line postings after they try to cheer up a broken-hearted woman in the park.
07	Foe Paws	Chris Savino	July 7, 2000
This cartoon follows the misadventures of an eccentric old woman who tries to replace her long lost children by dressing up her cat and dog in human clothes.
08	Prickles	Denis Morella	July 14, 2000
This cartoon follows the mishaps of a clumsy water-phobic cactus who helps save her family from a deadly drought at Cyclone Ranch.
09	Lucky Lydia	Arthur Filloy	July 21, 2000
This cartoon follows the unwittingly lucky Lydia Lucas, who is raised by half-crazy parents and narrowly misses her demise at the hands of the Baxter Boys again and again.
10	Longhair and Doubledome	Gavrilo Gnatovich	July 28, 2000
This cartoon follows two philosophical cavemen who just dont fit into their prehistoric surroundings.
11	Lost Cat	David Feiss	August 4, 2000
A crazy talking purple cat is wreaking havoc in town.
12	Uncle Gus	Lincoln Pierce	August 11, 2000
This cartoon follows the journey of a wily unemployed geezer and his rag-tailed bunch of friends as they travel to the zoo to reunite Uncle Gus with his AWOL fiancée.
13	Sheep in the Big City: In the Ba-ginning	Mo Willems	August 18, 2000
Sheep leaves Farmer John's farm in pursuit of a happy life in the city. Pilot of Sheep in the Big City.
14	Captain Sturdy	Ashley Postlewaite	June 8, 2001
The long-retired Captain Sturdy must return to action when the Union of Super Heroes cancels his pension. Upon returning to duty, he discovers that the organization has lost sight of what it means to be a superhero and has become more concerned with political correctness and marketing deals than saving the world from the evil Moid's clutches.
15	Yee Hah & Doo Dah	Kenny Duggan	June 15, 2001
A cowboy and his horse, Yee Hah and Doo Dah, reside in Manhattan's Central Park. Yee Hah enjoys the city life until he discovers that the city pavement is giving him a dreadful blister. Much to Doo Dah's dismay, he decides to stop walking and ride his horse everywhere, thereby cramping Doo Dah's power-lunching lifestyle. Eventually, Doo Dah finds the real culprit behind Yee Hah's sore feet: the branding iron, tractor, etc. that Yee Hah has been hiding in his boots.
16	Imp, Inc.	Charlie Bean	June 22, 2001
Travelling in an orbiting meteor, three Imps are up for review and are offered the opportunity to help a poor farm couple by granting them their wish for desperately needed rain to help their crops. They manage to deliver rain, but their hopes for promotion come crashing down when their meteor smashes the couple's crops.
17	My Freaky Family	John McIntyre	June 29, 2001
It's Nadine's first day of school, a significant historical event considered by her mother to be one of many "milestone days" which must be documented with a photo. She manages to make it onto the school bus without being photographed, but her "freaky" family grabs the camera and jumps on the family multi-seater bicycle for a mortifying chase to catch up with her.
18	Major Flake: Soggy Sale	Chris Kelly	July 6, 2001
Major Flake, a frenetic French cereal mascot, and his grim sidekick, Sparkles must find a way to sell their rather unappealing Major Flake cereal before their boss, Sylvia Soggy, pulls the breakfast treat from store shelves.
19	Utica Cartoon: Hotdog Champeen	Mike Milo	July 13, 2001
When Dan Bear and Micah Monkey learn that they can get free hot dogs by beating the current hot dog eating record at their local diner, they are up for the challenge. Dan Bear reigns as hot dog champ by consuming loads of free hot dogs, continually beating his own record. For awhile he enjoys the free franks until beating the record becomes too much even for him.
20	Kids Next Door: No P in the Ool	Tom Warburton	July 20, 2001
When the villainous Mr. Wink and Mr. Fibb extend the adult swimtime to extreme lengths at the neighborhood pool, the Kids Next Door plan to strike back with vengeance. Pilot of Codename: Kids Next Door. Winner of Cartoon Network's Big Pick marathon (2001).
21	Swaroop	Mike Milo	July 27, 2001
Swaroop and his family are trying to assimilate their Indian heritage with modern American culture. The differences become glaringly apparent when their neighbor brings home a cow to throw on the barbeque. Swaroop decides to hide the sacred cow before the neighbors can cook it for dinner.
22	Ferret and Parrot	Scott Morse	August 3, 2001
A ferret and parrot fight for the affection of a comic strip character. Meanwhile, their owner tries to get rid of ants that have infested the house.
23	A Kitty Bobo Show	Kevin Kaliher	August 17, 2001
Kitty Bobo wants to prove that he's cool by getting a cell phone. Unfortunately, he doesn't seem to be receiving many important calls, thereby reducing his cool factor, so he begins to fake incoming calls. It's only a matter of time before everyone catches on to the farce.
24	Commander Cork: Space Ranger	Mike Bell	August 23, 2002
Commander Cork is an enthusiastic and overzealous, though not very bright, do-gooder. When he meets Peggy and Petey Paddle, a brother and sister duo who share a fascination with outer space, he decides to bring them with him on his wacky space adventures.
25	Jeffrey Cat: All Dogs Don't Go To Heaven	Mark O'Hare	August 23, 2002
Jeffrey Cat has never met a crime he couldn't lick. A surge in the pet population raises the need for a pet investigator. Jeffrey Cat, the sergeant on all pet-related cases, makes it his mission to safeguard the rights of all of the pets in the community. When a friendly dog is accused of attacking a neighbor, Jeffrey Cat smells a rat.
26	Longhair and Doubledome: Where There's Smoke...There's Bob	Gavrilo Gnatovich	August 23, 2002
In their second animated cartoon outing, Longhair and Doubledome discover fire. Having never before seen fire, Doubledome concludes that the blaze must be his son, Bob.
27	Maktar	Gavrilo Gnatovich	August 23, 2002
Slashing through our gassy universe, hurtling through our own Milky Way, an invader from the far reaches of Space comes knocking upon our atmospheric door. Sent by Zen and his Space Council, Maktar's mission is to conquer Earth. But, Maktar, a sniveling middle manager and galactic pushover, couldn't invade someone's privacy let alone conquer our Great Blue Planet.
28	Fungus Among Us	Wes Archer	August 23, 2002
Keeping clean is a dirty business, as the animated mascots from cleaning product commercials well know. Fungus Among Us follows the trials and tribulations of the fungus who must coexist with the cleaning agents that have been created to destroy them.
29	Low Brow	George Krstic	August 23, 2002
During a routine trip to the garbage dump, suburban misfit Coop discovers an advanced robot from the future. Coop brings the treasure home and retools it to suit his modern-day slacker needs. Pilot of Megas XLR.
30	Bagboy	John Mathot	August 23, 2002
Parker is a typical 14 year-old with the usual adolescent trials, except when he is a Bagboy. Carefully selected by the elite intergalactic council, known as the Bagi, Parker moonlights as a powerful superhero.
31	Colin Versus the World	Stu Gamble	August 23, 2002
Colin is a color-blind chameleon whose life is full of mishaps and blunders. While working as a shelf stocker at Cheapway's Supermarket, Colin passes the days with dreams of becoming a Lounge Lizard in Las Vegas.