| Oh Yeah! Cartoons | |
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| Genre | |
| Created by | Fred Seibert |
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| Voices of | Tom Kenny Grey DeLisle Tara Strong Kevin Michael Richardson |
| Theme music composer | Bill Burnett |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 34 (101 segments)(list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producers |
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| Producer | Bill Burnett |
| Running time | 23 minutes |
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| Original release | |
| Network | Nickelodeon |
| Release | July 19, 1998 (1998-07-19) – August 30, 2002 (2002-08-30) |
| Related | |
| The Fairly OddParents ChalkZone My Life as a Teenage Robot Random! Cartoons | |
Oh Yeah! Cartoons is an Americananimatedanthology series that aired onNickelodeon.[1] Created byFred Seibert, it was produced byFrederator Incorporated andNickelodeon Animation Studio, running as part of Nickelodeon'sNicktoons lineup. In the show's first season, it was hosted by a variety of schoolchildren, and the second season was hosted byKenan Thompson ofAll That andKenan & Kel, and laterJosh Server ofAll That in the third and final season.Bill Burnett composed the show's theme music.
In terms of total volume,Oh Yeah! Cartoons remains TV's biggest animation development program ever. Giving several dozen filmmakers the opportunity to create 96 seven-minute cartoons, the series eventually yielded three dedicated half-hourspin-off shows produced by Frederator:The Fairly OddParents,ChalkZone, andMy Life as a Teenage Robot.[2]
Nickelodeon'sOh Yeah! featured in its first season a total of 39 brand new seven-minute cartoons, surpassing the number of new cartoons and characters on any other single network. In its full run,Oh Yeah! Cartoons featured and produced 96 cartoons.[3]
Many of theanimated shorts were created bycartoonists who later became more prominent, includingBob Boyle, Bill Burnett, Jaime Diaz, Greg Emison, John Eng, Thomas R. Fitzgerald, John Fountain, Antoine Guilbaud,Butch Hartman,Larry Huber, Ken Kessel, Alex Kirwan,Steve Marmel,Seth MacFarlane,Zac Moncrief, Carlos Ramos,Rob Renzetti, C. Miles Thompson, Byron Vaughns, Pat Ventura,Vincent Waller, andDave Wasson.
Many of its animators featured had worked two years earlier onCartoon Network'sWhat a Cartoon!, produced in the same concept byHanna-Barbera andCartoon Network Studios, which was also created by Seibert while he was president of that historical studio. Seibert createdRandom! Cartoons as a sequel anthology.[2] While originally intended as a fourth season ofOh Yeah! Cartoons, it ended up being made as another show.Random! Cartoons aired on Nicktoons from 2008 to 2009.
Oh Yeah! Cartoons is the second Frederator short cartoon incubator.Frederator Studios has persisted in the tradition of surfacing new talent, characters, and series with several cartoon shorts "incubators," including (as of 2016):What A Cartoon! (Cartoon Network, 1995),The Meth Minute 39 (Channel Frederator, 2008),[4]Random! Cartoons (Nickelodeon/Nicktoons, 2008),Too Cool! Cartoons (Cartoon Hangover, 2012), andGO! Cartoons (Cartoon Hangover, 2017).[5] These laboratories have spun off notable series like:Dexter's Laboratory,The Powerpuff Girls,ChalkZone,Johnny Bravo,Cow and Chicken,My Life as a Teenage Robot,Courage the Cowardly Dog,The Fairly OddParents,Nite Fite,Fanboy & Chum Chum,Adventure Time,Bravest Warriors,Rocket Dog, andBee and PuppyCat.
Fred Seibert cartoon shorts filmography
| Season | Segments | Episodes | Originally released | Hosted by | ||
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| First released | Last released | |||||
| 1 | 38 | 13 | July 19, 1998 | October 18, 1998 | N/A | |
| 2 | 39 | 13 | September 18, 1999 | December 18, 1999 | Kenan Thompson | |
| 3 | 24 | 8 | March 23, 2002 | August 30, 2002 | Josh Server | |
