1Dexter's Laboratory Hip-Hop Album - Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network released a "Dexter's Laboratory" hip-hop album in 2002.
2. While working on an early Cartoon Network show, "Archer" creator Adam Reed and animator Matt Thompson were generally "heavily intoxicated" at work. They once lit a set on fire "because they thought it would look cool."
3. There's a Cartoon Network special crossover episode called "The Grim Adventures of the Kids Next Door," which also features "Ed, Edd n Eddy" and includes cameos from "The Powerpuff Girls" and "Dexter's Laboratory," among other Cartoon Network shows.
4. Teen Titans had two intro songs. The English intro suggested a more serious episode, whereas the Japanese one mocked the English intro, suggesting a comedic or non-serious episode.
5. The world of Ooo, the setting of the Cartoon Network show "Adventure Time," is a post-apocalyptic Earth that emerged after a great "mushroom" war. This explains why random, destroyed scraps of technology can be found around the land and why most creatures have odd mutations, with Finn being the last human.
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6Powerpuff Girls' Artistic Influence
The art style of 1960s artist Margaret Keane directly influenced the appearance of the Powerpuff Girls. This is why the girls' teacher in the Cartoon Network show is named Ms. Keane.
7. When Cartoon Network launched in 1992, they played Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture over an animated fireworks show.
8. Five different voice actors, only one of whom was male, portrayed Dexter in the Cartoon Network show "Dexter's Laboratory."
9. Time Squad, a forgotten Cartoon Network show, was the first cartoon produced for their network under the "Cartoon Network" banner rather than Hanna-Barbera. It also featured Mark Hamill as a robot.
10. Most of the plot for "Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island" was originally developed as an episode of "SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron."
11Seth McFarlane's Writing Contributions - Cartoon Network Shows
Seth McFarlane wrote for some of Cartoon Network's most iconic shows, including "Johnny Bravo" and "Dexter's Laboratory."
12. Will.I.Am composed and sang the theme song for the Cartoon Network show "Samurai Jack."
13. Cartoon Network banned an episode of "Cow and Chicken" called "Buffalo Gals," which allegedly implied lesbian stereotypes. The Gals were mistaken for men, and the episode included the line, "Oh! the Buffalo Gals, a motorcycle-riding gang that randomly breaks into people's homes and chews on their carpets."
14. Nielsen considered Cartoon Network and Adult Swim to be entirely separate networks for rating purposes.
15. Al Sharpton demanded an apology from Cartoon Network for depicting Martin Luther King Jr. using the term "ni**a" in the Cartoon Network show "The Boondocks." Cartoon Network responded by mocking Al Sharpton in a later episode's radio broadcast.
16Iron Giant Marathon Airings - - Cartoon Network
During the early 2000s, Cartoon Network aired "The Iron Giant" continuously for 24 hours on both the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving.
17. In 2008, Adult Swim originally conceived the TV show "The Amazing World of Gumball" as a more adult program. However, Adult Swim rejected it due to its "way too extremely mind-blowingly cute" appearance, leading to its eventual retooling as a children's show for Cartoon Network in 2011.
18. At one point in the production of the Cartoon Network show "The Powerpuff Girls," some people were late on their storyboards because they were playing the newest Zelda game at the time. The studio actually shut down for about a month so they could get through the game before resuming production.
19. Despite being the #1 syndicated animated show in 1994, "Swat Kats" was canceled that year due to being deemed "too violent."
20. Ben Stiller did some of the voices on the 1993 animated Cartoon Network show "2 Stupid Dogs."
21Johnny Bravo Creator Roommates
Van Partible (creator of "Johnny Bravo"), Craig McCracken (creator of "The Powerpuff Girls"), and Genndy Tartakovsky (creator of "Dexter's Laboratory") were all roommates in college.
22. The creator of the Cartoon Network show "The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack" came up with the premise after having his own failed adventures, such as when he got sunburned and began to starve on an underdeveloped island. He also "went to Mexico, lived in the jungles, and found himself eating out of dumpsters."
23. In 2015, Billy Mitchell filed a lawsuit against Cartoon Network, claiming that a character in the "Regular Show" who cheats at video games infringed on his likeness. Years later, questions about the legitimacy of several of his records led to their removal.
24. There is an episode of the Cartoon Network show "Dexter's Laboratory" called "Rude Removal," in which Dexter and DeeDee's niceness and rudeness turn into two separate people. The rude clones' frequent use of profanity prevented this episode from airing, but you can still stream it online.
25. After China created a ripoff of the Cartoon Network show "The Amazing World of Gumball," the "Gumball" creators added the ripoff characters to the show as a group of money-grubbing copycats.
