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The '''''What A Cartoon! Show''''' (originally known as ''World Premiere Toons'', and later renamed ''The Cartoon Cartoon Show'') was a series of cartoon shorts produced to air on [[Cartoon Network]] in the mid-1990s. The president of [[Hanna-Barbera]] at the time wanted to recreate the glory days of [[Western Animation]] by allowing creators to produce original short cartoons to be aired on Cartoon Network. The premiere of the project was on a special hosted by [[Space Ghost Coast to Coast|Space Ghost]].
Some of the cartoons were popular enough to be made into series, (''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]'', ''The [[Powerpuff Girls]]'', ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'', ''[[Johnny Bravo]]'', ''[[Cow and Chicken]]'', etc) Two wound up being the prototype for a much more popular toon later (Steve & Larry who would become Peter and Brian for ''[[Family Guy]]'' and Kenny and the Chimp were retooled into [[Codename: Kids Next Door]]). While others faded into obscurity like ''Yoink of the Yukon'', ''Pfish & Chip'', ''Yuckie Duck'', and ''Shake & Flick''. They even made a few shorts of ''[[The Flintstones]]''.
Its spiritual successor was meant to be ''[[Cartoonstitute]]'' (headed by two popular animators who got their start on WAC: [[Craig
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* [[Artistic License History]]: ''Gramps''. His grandkids keep pointing out errors in his story and how he actually lived his life. When he mentions in his story that the president was a statuesque woman, he begs them to let this part remain unchanged when they point out that America never had a female president.
* [[Captain Ersatz]]: The Colonel Sanders ghost from ''Podunk Possum''.
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** A literal one, at that.
* [[Christmas Episode]]: "George and Junior's Christmas Spectacular".
* [[Cosmic Close Call]]: One short, "Awfully Lucky", has a sleazy guy trying to get a rare gem to a museum offering a huge reward for it. The gem was cursed to give whoever owns it alternating extremely good and extremely bad luck, with the thief suffering all sorts of increasingly ludicrous calamities and just barely living through them, even as he tried to return the gem to the museum.
* [[Deranged Animation]]: Anything directed by Pat Ventura: "Yuckie Duck", "Sledgehammer O'Possum", and "George and Junior". Also "Buy One, Get One Free", which has visual influences from ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]'' (not hurt by a few staff members who worked on that show).
** Also the two [[Ralph Bakshi]] shorts "Babe! He Calls Me" and "Malcom and Melvin", and "Tales of Worm Paranoia", directed by Eddie Fitzgerald.
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