Oh Yeah! Cartoons

*Oh Yeah! Cartoons*
Oh Yeah! Cartoons
Genre	Animation; Comedy; Variety; Cartoon series;
Created by	Fred Seibert
Presented by	Various School Kids (1998); Kenan Thompson (1999); Josh Server (2002);
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	Fred Seibert; Larry Huber;
Producer	Bill Burnett
Running time	23 minutes
Production companies	Frederator Incorporated; Nickelodeon Animation Studio (as Nicktoons Productions, Inc.);
Original release
Network	Nickelodeon
Release	July 19, 1998 –; August 30, 2002
Related
	The Fairly OddParents; ChalkZone; My Life as a Teenage Robot

Oh Yeah! Cartoons is an American animated anthology series that aired on Nickelodeon.^[1] Created by Fred Seibert, it was produced by Frederator Incorporated and Nickelodeon Animation Studio, running as part of Nickelodeon's Nicktoons lineup. In the show's first season, it was hosted by a variety of schoolchildren, and the second season was hosted by Kenan Thompson of All That and Kenan & Kel, and later Josh Server of All 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-hour spin-off shows produced by Frederator: The Fairly OddParents, ChalkZone, and My Life as a Teenage Robot.^[2]

Nickelodeon's Oh 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 the animated shorts were created by cartoonists who later became more prominent, including Bob 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, and Dave Wasson.

Many of its animators featured had worked two years earlier on Cartoon Network's What a Cartoon!, produced in the same concept by Hanna-Barbera and Cartoon Network Studios, which was also created by Seibert while he was president of that historical studio.

Legacy

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), and GO! 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, and Bee and PuppyCat.

Filmography

Fred Seibert cartoon shorts filmography

Episodes

Season	Segments	Episodes	Originally aired		Hosted by
Season	Segments	Episodes	First aired	Last aired	Hosted by
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

Similar shows

Random! Cartoons (Nicktoons)
Disney's Raw Toonage (CBS)
What a Cartoon! (Cartoon Network)
Shorty McShorts' Shorts (Disney Channel)
KaBlam! (Nickelodeon)
Short Circutz (YTV)
The Cartoonstitute (Cartoon Network)
DC Nation Shorts (Cartoon Network)
Liquid Television (MTV)

References

^ "New Cartoons Are Draw On Some Old Animation Traditions" By Charles Solomon, Los Angeles Times, July 17, 1998
^ Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 436. ISBN 978-1538103739.
^ "Frederator Studios, TV Series, "Oh Yeah! Cartoons"
^ The Meth Minute 39 on YouTube
^ Sony, Channel Frederator Launch Online Animation Incubator, by David Bloom, Deadline Hollywood, November 3, 2014

External links

Oh Yeah! Cartoons at IMDb

[1] "New Cartoons Are Draw On Some Old Animation Traditions" By Charles Solomon, Los Angeles Times, July 17, 1998

[Perlmutter-2] Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 436. ISBN 978-1538103739.

[3] "Frederator Studios, TV Series, "Oh Yeah! Cartoons"

[4] The Meth Minute 39 on YouTube

[5] Sony, Channel Frederator Launch Online Animation Incubator, by David Bloom, Deadline Hollywood, November 3, 2014

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