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Kids' WB! is the Saturday morning cartoon portion of The WB's programming. Starting in September 2006 it will be part of the CW Television Network's lineup, to be called Kids' WB on the CW (but see below).

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Programming

Current schedule

As of Saturday July 22, 2006, Kids' WB!'s schedule looks like this:

Currently active

Shows on Kids' WB! include: (The dates in parentheses are given for how long the show has been airing on Kids' WB!)

Coming soon

Specials, movies, etc.

Old or classic shows

The original logo for Kids' WB!, seen in 1995 and 1996.
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The original logo for Kids' WB!, seen in 1995 and 1996.

1 - Reruns of a classic series.
2 - Usually exclusive to Cartoon Network.
3 - Afterwards shown on 4Kids TV.
4 - Now shown on In2TV.
5 - One episode aired as part of a promotion.
6 - Originally on Fox Kids.
7 - Originally on CBS.
8 - To be seen on Toonami's Toonami Jetstream.
9 - Still seen in the Pillow Head Hour, but no longer an official part of the lineup.
10 - Coming to Jetix on Toon Disney in Fall 2006.
11 - Coming to Cartoon Network in Fall 2006.

History

Kids' WB on the CW

On September 18, 2006, The WB, will merge with UPN to form the CW Television Network, the letters representing the first initial of its corporate parents CBS Corporation (the parent company of UPN) and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.. Kids' WB! will continue on the new network.

On April 24, 2006, Kids' WB! announced its schedule as a part of the CW, under the slogan Too Big for Your TV. The schedule is as follows (note that Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island, Pokémon, Viewtiful Joe, and Yu-Gi-Oh! are no longer shown starting this September):

Source: [Press release]

There is some confusion over the name the new program block will take. The Kids' WB! name will definitely be kept, but many articles refer to it as "Kids' WB on the CW", without the quotation marks, leaving up in the air the question of whether this is supposed to mean Kids' WB! on the CW or Kids' WB! on the CW. Other sources, including the press release announcing the schedule above, refer to it as simply "Kids' WB!" In any event, no matter what the official name will be, it will likely still be colloquially known as "Kids' WB!"

Notable promotions

AfterToons

Beginning February 28, 2005, Kids' WB! added the promo title "AfterToons" to the weekday lineup, and put special promotions in it, such as being able to play a MegaMan: NT Warrior game online, known as "Axess Air". The best players would have their games on the air. This ran until April 15, 2005, and was changed to "AfterToons Show".

AfterToons Show

Beginning April 18, 2005, Kids' WB! changed the weekday lineup promo to "AfterToons Show", and made it look as if the characters were acting in their shows, and the commercial bumpers included Kids' WB! characters doing acts on a stage, and a voice singing things like "Stick around for more AfterToons Show! Kids' WB!" or "We now return to the AfterToons Show! Kids' WB!" and featuring online Xiaolin Showdown games of "Raimudo's Sword of the Storm". During the summer of 2005, Kids' WB! did their second annual "Crash the Backlot Tour", where they tour the country to Six Flags Theme Parks, and kids could audition to be on the AfterToons Show. In August, Kids' WB! ran a contest to "Make a Mini Mucha Movie" where using a certain program, viewers could make a computer movie featuring ¡Mucha Lucha! characters. The top five where shown in the AfterToons Show. The AfterToons Show was discontinued December 30, 2005 with the rest of the weekday lineup.

Halloween Duel of Screams

In 2002 and 2003, toward Halloween, Kids' WB! would do a promotion similar to the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game pitting Kids' WB! characters against one another in a duel, but this time with screaming kids. Whoever had the most screaming kids that could affect others won the duel. It was always done in tournament style, but in 2002, Todd "Toad" Tolensky from was disqualified for eating The Flea from ¡Mucha Lucha!, Ash Ketchum from Pokémon almost lost to Joey Wheeler from Yu-Gi-Oh!, and Jade Chan from Jackie Chan Adventures beat Yugi in the final round. In 2003, Yugi defeated The Masked Toilet from ¡Mucha Lucha! in the final round and won.

Holiday Sock Party

The Holiday Sock Party is an ongoing event since 2001, and has always taken place the second Saturday in December. During this, the Kids' WB! mascot, the Holiday Sock, usually goes inside of the Kids' WB! promotional watertower, with other characters, doing Christmas-related things. In 2001 and 2002, the sock was the sole host, but in 2003 The Flea from ¡Mucha Lucha! co-hosted. In 2004 the sock granted the wishes of viewers who wanted to "turn into something" on TV. In 2005, the set was moved to the Fruit Salad Island from Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island! with Coconut Fred as the co-host, and was about granting wishes again.

Mad Mad Mad Monkey Summer, Ooh Ooh Ahh Ahh (Just For Kids) Island, Gotta See-ee-eeh Falls

Beginning June 5, 2004, Kids' WB! gave their lineup a monkey-based theme, entitling it "Mad Mad Mad Monkey Summer". They did promos such as "1001 Uses For a Banana" showing a Kids' WB! character in need of a banana (usually where it doesn't help or makes things worse), "Stump the Monkey!" where viewers could go online and ask the monkey, "Professor Oo-oo-oo" questions, and pranks where someone in a gorilla costume would pop up randomly in a public area, scaring someone. Also, beginning June 14, 2004, Kids' WB! gave their weekday lineup a monkey-related theme to go along with "Mad Mad Mad Monkey Summer" and entitled it "Ooh Ooh Ahh Ahh (Just for Kids) Island". As a special, until July 30, 2004, viewers could enter online to be the Monkey King of the day and have their picture on a monkey's body on TV. This promo lasted longer than Mad Mad Mad Monkey Summer (which ended August 21, 2004, Ooh Ooh Ahh Ahh ended October 22, 2004) and beginning September 17, 2004, Kids' WB! entitled the Friday lineup "Gotta See-ee-eeh Falls", as they showed encore episodes of ¡Mucha Lucha! and Pokémon from the previous Saturday, and encore episodes of the new series Da Boom Crew and The Batman, as well as other things, such as new "lost" episodes of MegaMan: NT Warrior which were either skipped or dubbed out of order. However, this only went until October 15, 2004, a week earlier before it was originally scheduled to, when the network did a last-minute schedule change to prepare for November sweeps.

Pillow Head Hour

The Pillow Head Hour began on June 4, 2005, as Kids' WB! was showing the final episodes of Jackie Chan Adventures, it was a full hour at 8:00 EST (7:00 CST/PST), where they did promos featuring what Kids' WB! characters' "Pillow Head Hair" would look like (what their hair would look like if they had just woken up from bed). The Pillow Head Hour was discontinued on June 25, 2005, when the network did a last-minute schedule change replacing Jackie Chan Adventures on July 2 with Teen Titans and The Batman. However, KidsWB.com made "Pillow Head Reports" featuring Gisselle, the Pillow Head Reporter for Kids' WB!, talking about things such as entertainment and media. Because of this, starting January 7, 2006, when Saturdays were extended to five hours, the Pillow Head Hour was reborn at 7:00 a.m., featuring Giselle and a full hour of a randomly selected Kids' WB! show, and numerous guests talking about their "Pillow Head Hair". In September, the Pillow Head Hour will change again to feature two programs which follow federally mandated E/I requirements; Gisselle's "Pillow Head Reports" will be kept. [link]

Top of the Tower Win-a-Rama

During the 2002-03 season, from time to time, Kids' WB! would run a contest, usually during weekdays when they had them, where each day they gave you a code to enter on KidsWB.com and be drawn to win some merchandise, usually relating to a Kids' WB! show. The first one was for Yu-Gi-Oh! in the week of September 16, 2002. Sometimes it coincided with the week as a show was given a special airing, such as the "Weekday Shift" that aired Rescue Heroes the whole week, or the special weeks of catching up on or the week of new episodes.

Zany Insany April

Ozzy from Ozzy & Drix hosted Kids' WB! in April 2003, and named it "Zany Insany April". For the occasion, every week in April, at 3:30 p.m., Kids' WB! aired a show that would normally air on Saturday, such as Ozzy & Drix, , Static Shock, ¡Mucha Lucha!, and . Saturday promos included the "You Rhyme It, We Rap It, Rap-a-Thon", where viewers could make a rap about a Kids' WB! show and Scooby-Doo and Shaggy from Scooby-Doo would get some other Kids' WB! character to perform the rap on TV, or the "Burpalicious Belchathon", where viewers could compete with Kids' WB! characters to see how loud they could burp.

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