Which 3 short show you loved best: What A Cartoon or Oh Yeah! Cartoons?

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tonyayo121

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Since both shows were created by my friend Fred Seibert for Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon, respectively, and both shows focused on three shorts, I somewhat think that What A Cartoon was better, though. Oh Yeah! may have had some really good shorts like Chalk Zone, the OYC version of Mina and The Count, Fairly Oddparents, Zoomates, and Teenage Robot, but What A Cartoon pulled out more than OYC. It wasn't just the kickass theme song that pumped up the fans, it was those shorts. Just about everybody who created a show via Frederator Studios for Nick, had worked at What A Cartoon via Hanna Barbera, and I have to say, I wished I made a short with them ( I was at Fox Kids for Eek! Stravaganza at the time). Butch Hartman only did a couple shorts for OYC (Fairly Oddparents, and that other short with that agent/superhero, I don't know), but for WAC, he did almost every short from 1995 to 1997 (Pfish and Chip and Pfish and Chip 2, Shake and Flick, Gramps, Snoots New Squat, Hillybilly Blue, the Johnny Bravo and Dexter's Lab early episodes) Robert Alaverez (Tumbleweed Tex, Pizza Boy, mostly animating other current CN shows), Seth Macfarlane (Larry and Steve, which became Family Guy, duh, Johnny Bravo 1997 episodes, Ace Ventura :The Series, Cow and Chicken, Dexter's Laboratory episodes), Rob Renzetti (Dexter's Laboratory 1st and 2nd season episodes, Johnny Bravo, The Powerpuff Girls and the original Mina and The Count short that Cartoon Network still owns), Graig McCracken (Dexter's Lab, Mina and the Count, The Powerpuff Girls, Dexter's Lab: The Big Sister) Pat Ventura ( The Sledgehammer O' Possum shorts, Yuckie Duck's two shorts and The 2 remakes of George and Junior), John R. Dilworth (Courage), David Feiss (Cow and Chicken), Van Partible (Johnny Bravo and Jungleboy), Genndy Tartakovsky (Dexter's Lab, Dial M For Monkey, The Powerpuff Girls, Boid 'N' Woim, Dexter's Lab: The Big Sister), Jon McIntyre (Some Rocko Episodes, The Kitchen Casanova), MIke Milo (Bloo's Gang and Ignoramooses), Davis Doi (Scooby Doo DTV movies, Awfully Lucky), and Ralph Bakishi (Cool World and the two Malcom and Melvin shorts).While Frederator is starting Random Cartoons! as OYC Season 4, I thought this would be a great time to compare the original two anthology shows.
But back on topic, even though OYC had more shorts than What A Cartoon, the only shorts I remember are Seth Macfarlane's Zoomates, the OYC version of Mina And The Count, Chalkzone, The Fairly oddparents, Jamal, The Funny Frog, Jelly Day, the shorts by Dave Wasson, Teenage Robot, and Super Santa. So, WAC was the main factor into launching other 3 original shorts-like shows like OYC, Cartoon Network's Big Pick( I forgot how many shorts were made during that time), Shorty McShort Shorts and The Nicktoons Film Festival.



Just in case some of you fellow members can't see any shorts anymore from WAC, or just don't have Boomerang to watch the elements of WAC, Frederator (just go to http://www.frederator.kz, go to TV shows, go to WAC, go down to where the Frame Video Grab and you'll officially see some shorts from 1995 to 1997. The shorts available are on Google Video:

Larry and Steve
The Kitchen Casanova
Dexter's Laboratory
The Powerpuff Girls In: Meat Fuzzy Lumpkins
Dexter's Laboratory: The Big Sister
Bloo's Gang: Bow Wow Buccaneers
Malcom and Melvin
Malcom and Melvin: Babe, He Calls Me
Cow and Chicken: No Smoking
Johnny Bravo



And, yes, I have permission from both Frederator and CN to post some WAC shorts on You Tube. As my friend, negrau, also has permission to show shorts on YT.
 
Hmm...It's kinda hard to pick a favorite since I considered them both good shows. What A Cartoon! Show is what got me into CN in the first place, whereas Oh Yeah! Cartoon Show was also interesting to watch. :p
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I always prefered WAC!, since I watched more CN then Nick around then anyway. And no OYC shorts really stand out to me anyway, expect for the Fairly OddParents one, where I perfer the acutal show and Tara's performance as Timmy anyway, and the "Mina and the Count"'s, where I perfer the WAC version as well.
 
I can't really say that one show was truly better than the other because both shows were umbrella titles for shorts which doubled as pilots for potential new series, and were each done in an anthology style. There were some WAC! shorts I liked and some OY!C shorts I liked. Which show I liked better depended on what shorts were featured on that particular installment.
 
Hmmm....they produced some great stuff, now and again. But it has been a while since I've seen WAC!

I can't wait for Oh Yeah!'s fourth season: Random Cartoons. Mainly because I know of the people who are making some shorts, and they have accounts on Deviantart.

Wait, you know Fred Seibert? He seems like a swell fellow.
 
Also, KaBlam! wasn't done by Frederator. KaBlam! was, in a sense, a precursor to Sunday Pants.

And for the record, Fred Seibert is The MAN! I respect him and all he has done to resurrect animated shorts on television as well as working with creators and being behind the development of a lot of very popular projects on the air in recent years from 2 Stupid Dogs and SWAT Kats to WAC! and Dexter's Laboratory to Powerpuff Girls and Johnny Bravo to OY!C and Fairly Oddparents. Not to mention he's the guy behind the MTV logo, the imaging campaign of the relaunch of Nickelodeon in the mid-80s, and the creator of Nick At Nite before Nick decided to make it more Nick than NAN. Oh, and he's currently at the helm of Next New Networks, a group of internet-only entertainment outlets, as well as the new indy studio Frederator Films.

It's a shame lesser creators try to discredit him and his contributions.

Little known fact: Only one short subject has been classified as a WAC! and an OY!C. That's Mina and the Count.
 
What a Cartoon. Simply because at that point I was beginning to lose interest in Nickelodeon (and Nick's current state isn't helping that any) so I never really had the chance to see Oh Yeah! Cartoons.
 
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