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Oh Yeah! Cartoons was a late-1990s American animation showcase that appeared on the Nickelodeon cable channel. Oh Yeah! was an animation project guided by Fred Seibert, former Creative Director of MTV Networks and President of Hanna-Barbera. Produced by Frederator Studios, it ran as part of Nickelodeon's Nicktoons lineup, and in its second season, was hosted by Kenan Thompson of All That and Kenan & Kel fame; Then later by Josh Server, from All That, for its third season. Bill Burnett composed the show's theme music.

In terms of sheer volume, Oh Yeah! Cartoons remains TV's biggest animation development program ever. Giving several dozen filmmakers the opportunity to create nearly 100 seven-minute cartoons, the series eventually gave birth to three dedicated half-hour spin-offs:

• The Fairly OddParents
• ChalkZone
• My Life as a Teenage Robot (the original short was called My Neighbor Was a Teenage Robot)

Nickelodeon's Oh Yeah! half-hour featured in its first season, a total of 39 brand new seven-minute cartoons in 13 episodes, surpassing the number of new cartoons and characters on any other single network. In its full run, Oh Yeah! Cartoons featured and produced over 99 cartoons and 54 characters.

Many of the animated shorts were created by cartoonists who later became more prominent, including Bob Boyle, Thomas R. Fitzgerald, Bill Burnett, Jaime Diaz, Greg Emison, John Eng, John Fountain, Antoine Guilbaud, Butch Hartman, Larry Huber, Steve Marmel, Zac Moncrief, Ken Kessel, Alex Kirwan, Seth MacFarlane, Carlos Ramos, Rob Renzetti, Miles Thompson, Byron Vaughns, Pat Ventura, Vincent Waller and Dave Wasson.

Trivia

• A spin-off of the Oh Yeah! Cartoons concept with 39 original cartoon shorts will be on Nickelodeon in 2007, under the name Random! Cartoons.
• Two Oh Yeah! characters are also in feature development at Paramount.
• At the end of the first season, two cartoons known as "Fathead" and "Planet Kate" were proclaimed "Nicktoons of Tomorrow" and given extended times as well as their own credits. Despite this, neither show was picked up as a series or continued in any known form.
• Nine of the ten Fairly OddParents shorts were later incorporated into episodes of the regular series' first season, the lone exception being "Where's the Wand?" – When shown on The Fairly OddParents, Timmy's voice is re-dubbed to have his current voice, Tara Strong, in place of his former voice, Mary Kay Bergman. The unedited versions of these shorts have recently been released on several Fairly OddParents DVDs.
• All but two of the ChalkZone shorts were later incorporated as episodes of the regular series it spun off into. "ChalkDad" and "ChalkRain" were never featured on the show, even though some shots could be seen in the show's opening sequence. However, since the first two shorts show Rudy as two years younger than he usually appears, they were shown as flashbacks in two separate episodes.

Similar shows

• What a Cartoon! Show (Cartoon Network)
• Shorty McShort's Shorts (Disney Channel)
• Kablam (Nickelodeon)

See also

• The Nicktoons Film Festival: The television series and competition.
• List of Oh Yeah! Cartoons episodes: A complete list of episodes of the television series.
• Random! Cartoons: Spin-off of Oh Yeah! Cartoons.

External links

• Oh Yeah! Cartoons at the Big Cartoon DataBase
• Oh Yeah! Cartoons at IMDb
• Oh Yeah! Cartoons at TV.com

• Nicktoons
• Animation anthology series
• 1990s American television series
• 2000s American television series
• 1998 television program debuts
• 2001 television program series endings
• Oh Yeah! Cartoons