Oh Yeah! Cartoons
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Oh Yeah! Cartoons was a late-1990s American animation showcase that appeared on the Nickelodeon cable channel. Oh Yeah! was an animation project guided by Fred Seibert, then president of MTV Networks and Hanna-Barbera. Produced by Frederator Studios, it ran as part of the Nicktoons lineup on the Nickelodeon cable channel, and in its second season, was hosted by Kenan Thompson of Kenan and Kel fame. This show carried both company-directed animated shorts and cartoons based on viewer-submitted concept suggestions. Bill Burnett composed the show's theme music.
In terms of sheer volume, Oh Yeah! Cartoons remains TV's biggest animation development program ever. Giving several dozen filmmakers the opportunity to create nearly 100 seven-minute cartoons, the series is credited as the birthplace of the hit Nickelodeon shows ChalkZone, The Fairly OddParents, and My Life as a Teenage Robot. These cartoons are now not part of the Oh Yeah! TV animation lineup, but individual cartoons on the Nickelodeon cable channel.
At the time, the program was often seen as a parody or a lesser copy of Cartoon Network's What a Cartoon! Show. Perceived by the industry as overly ambitious, Nickelodeon's Oh Yeah! half-hour featured in its first season, a total of 39 brand new seven-minute cartoons in 13 episodes, surpassing the number of new cartoons and characters on any other single network. In its full run, Oh Yeah! Cartoons featured and produced over 99 cartoons and 54 characters.
Many of the animated shorts were created by cartoonists who later became more prominent, including Michael Bell, Bob Boyle, Bill Burnett, Kyle Carrozza, Jaime Diaz, Greg Emison, John Eng, John Fountain, Antoine Guilbaud, Butch Hartman, Larry Huber, Steve Marmel, Zac Moncrief, Ken Kessel, Alex Kirwan, Seth MacFarlane, Carlos Ramos, Rob Renzetti, Miles Thompson, Jhonen Vasquez, Byron Vaughns, Pat Ventura, Vincent Waller and Dave Wasson.
Trivia
- A fourth season of Oh Yeah! Cartoons with 39 original cartoon shorts will be on Nickelodeon in 2006, under the name Random Cartoons[link].
- At the end of the first season, two cartoons known as "Fat Head" and "Planet Kate" were proclaimed "Nicktoons of Tomorrow" and given extended times as well as their own credits. Despite this, neither show was picked up as a series or continued in any known form.
- Two Oh Yeah! characters are also in feature development at Paramount.
- Nine of the ten Fairly OddParents shorts were later incorporated into episodes of the regular series' first season, the lone exception being "Where's the Wand?" – When shown on The Fairly OddParents, Timmy's voice is re-dubbed to have his current voice, Tara Strong, in place of his former voice, Mary Kay Bergman. The unedited versions of these shorts have recently been released on several Fairly OddParents DVDs.
- All but two of the ChalkZone shorts were later incorporated as episodes of the regular series it spun off into. "ChalkDad" and "ChalkRain" were never featured on the show, even though some shots could be seen in the show's opening sequence. However, since the first two shorts show Rudy as two years younger than he usually appears, they were shown as flashbacks in two separate episodes.
- Jhonen Vasquez's Invader Zim short was actually the pilot episode for the later hit series that would eventually follow under the same name. In the series, Richard Horvitz took over as the voice of Zim and Kevin Manthei re-did the theme song and the soundtrack.
See also
- The Nicktoons Film Festival: The television series and competition.
- List of Oh Yeah! Cartoons episodes: A complete list of episodes of the television series.
- Random Cartoons: The fourth season, credited as a new series.
External links
- [Oh Yeah! Cartoons] at the Big Cartoon DataBase
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