What were your favorite Cartoon Cartoons?
 

For those who don't know/remember, Cartoon Cartoons were Cartoon Network and/or Hanna-Barbera productions. But the name was dropped by CN back in 2004, so CN productions that appeared since then don't count. Originally, Cartoon Cartoons were the names given to cartoons that had pilot episodes in What a Cartoon back in the 90s such as Johnny Bravo, Dexter's Laboratory, etc. But the label also applies to cartoons that didn't have a pilot in the What A Cartoon! series like Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy and Mike, Lu & Ogg.

Basically, it's a name given to the earliest original Cartoon Network series. Before that, CN mostly aired classic shows.

So what are your favorites? You can pick more than one option. I'd say my favorite of all of them is Ed, Edd n Eddy followed by Johnny Bravo. I also liked Dexter's Lab and PPG a lot back in the day, but I don't care much about revisiting them nowadays.

As for shows I disliked, Mike, Lu & Ogg was my least favorite. Never liked it. Wasn't fond of Sheep in the Big City either.

Loved Powerpuff Girls and still do. Those episodes never get old, except for the sixth season where it fell flat for a bit. Never liked Johnny Bravo, Ed, Edd, n Eddy, or Sheep in the Big City. Dexter's Lab was okay, but I never watched a lot of it.

Dexter's Laboratory
Johnny Bravo
Cow and Chicken
I Am Weasel
The Powerpuff Girls
Ed, Edd n Eddy
Courage the Cowardly Dog
Codename: Kids Next Door
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy

I didn't like most of these and the others either I've just never heard of them or I didn't have an interest. That aside, the ones I did like to some extent were:

Dexter's Laboratory
Powerpuff Girls
Ed, Edd, n Eddy (way after the fact)

Dexter, PPG, EE&E, & Courage. I watched most of the others sometimes but I wasn't as big on them.

The only one I had never heard of until yesterday was Robot Jones.

I was about 6-7 years old when the What a Cartoon! shorts were coming out. And the late 90s were the period where I watched CN religiously. So I liked all of the ones that were airing at the time. Then the 21st century came and I was no longer watching CN as much, so I didn't notice KND, Grimm, Evil, etc. much. I did like Ed, Edd n Eddy a lot, though. And I think it's the one that has aged the best. I notice that many people who grew up with CN seem to put that show in their top 3. Maybe because it was about kids having fun outside during Summer and later in school, and that gives people in their 20s nowadays a feeling of nostalgia for those times?

What do you mean by "way after the fact"?

Never watched much of Courage. I think I was too young to enjoy it properly at the time.

Going back to that list, I've never heard of Time Squad, Robot Jones, or Evil Con Carne...and to an extent I Am Weasel. I never knew he had his own show and thought that it was always only a part of Cow & Chicken.

I have seen Johnny Bravo, Kids Next Door (here in Japan), Courage, etc., but they didn't interest me too much. I know many enjoyed them, I just couldn't. Just didn't interest me. When the first set of Cartoon Cartoons started, I'm pretty certain I was in high school.Yeah, it was a nice little show, but I like the earlier eps a tad bit more than the later ones. I didn't mind Edd for the duration of the show, but Ed and Eddy...I didn't care for them as the show went on much. Ed became dangerously stupid. First season, he just came across as a horror comic book nerd, which I liked. Maybe he wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed, but he wasn't brain dead. As the show continued, they made him dumber than a slice of...buttered toast. :-P *Couldn't resist* Eddy, imo, became more greedy and selfish.I didn't start watching the show until maybe...2005 or something like that. I just came across an episode and liked it. Right before it originally started, I remember the teasers that Cartoon Network would do to promote it. Just didn't interest me at that time. I then caught the eps later, as mentioned, and really liked it...although the pettiness of the cul-de-sac kids did bother me...like that episode where all three Eds were framed for messing up that float or whatever it was. Anyone with two braincells should've known that a person like Edd wouldn't have had anything to do with it. Either way, at the end you found out that Jimmy was the one to frame them because they laughed at him....my problem....ALL the kids (minus Sarah) were laughing at him and it was Eddy who did whatever it was for everyone to laugh....so seems the target should've been Eddy alone. I felt that particular ep was just too mean-spirited to fully enjoy it...but the movie kinda made up for it and I like how it really showed why Eddy's the way that he is.

Keep in mind I haven't rewatched any of these in like 15 years, and I think I was only 13-14 the last time I ever watched any of them.

But I remember enjoying Dexter, Powerpuff girls, Johnny Bravo and Courage the most.

Cow and Chicken was sooo good! lol!

I couldn't help but notice that 2 Stupid Dogs wasn't on the list. Now THAT was my real fav. xD

EDIT: Well, okay, 2SD was not a Cartoon Cartoon, but, gosh darn it, it was silly.

I thought the same thing when I first saw the poll, that was easily my favorite CN program for a while. :tlol:

I could never choose between Dexter and the Powerpuff Girls. But I also loved Johnny Bravo and Courage too much to leave them out, so I voted them too.

I adored most of the others as well but those are my top picks.

Only one of those I watched was kids next door. And I only saw maybe 5 episodes.

I kinda prefer the earlier episodes of most of the shows I watched regularly, too. Even though I have nothing against Carl or Pops, I prefer the earlier Johnny Bravo seasons where it was just him, his mother and Susie.

I loved 2 Stupid Dogs, as well. Who didn't? "I WANT THE TOILET SEAT!" and that dude with the "Aint' that cute... BUT IT'S WRONG!" :lol: But anyway, it's not a Cartoon Cartoon, since it's not a Cartoon Network production but solely a Hannah-Barbera one. Trust me, I was surprised too when I found that out, but I guess it makes sense, because if it had been a CN production, it would have had an episode in What A Cartoon! back in the day.

There's later Cartoon Network productions that don't count as Cartoon Cartoons either, such as Samurai Jack, Ben 10, Star Wars Clone Wars, etc.

...man, Cartoon Network studios sure have a great track record, don't they?

I used to watch 2 Stupid Dogs. I used to like that, "Isn't that cute, but it's WRONG!!" guy. lol It originally aired on TBS.

I kinda miss the way Cartoon Network used to be. I mean, since that station came around back in the 90s, it helped to kill the cartoon blocks on TBS, TNT, and USA. The network did show quite a bit of the shows that used to air on those stations...but after a while...meh. I guess Boomerang would suit me better.

I stopped watching the network around 2003-2004 or so. The last shows I watched there were Samurai Jack and Megas XLR, I think.

No idea if the CN productions have been any good in the last decade, since I haven't watched them. I feel too old for cartoons nowadays. I watch anime still, but it has way more variety target demographics wise.