Oh Yeah! Cartoons 357556 223516589 2008-07-04T12:08:39Z Lightbot 7178666 Units/dates/other {{infobox Television | show_name = Oh Yeah! Cartoons | image = [[Image:The Oh Yeah Cartoon Logo.jpg|250 px]] | caption = Oh Yeah! Cartoons logo | format = [[Variety show]] | runtime = 30 minutes (7 minutes per segment) (approx. per episode) | creator = [[Fred Seibert]] | starring = Various [[voice actors]] <br /> Various school kids, 1998-1999 <br /> [[Kenan Thompson]] (host, 1999-2000) <br /> [[Josh Server]] (host, 2000-2001) | country = [[United States]] | network = [[Nickelodeon (TV channel)|Nickelodeon]] | first_aired = [[July 17]], [[1998]] | last_aired = [[May 26]], [[2001]] | num_episodes = 99 shorts (33 episodes) | list_episodes = List of Oh Yeah! Cartoons episodes | imdb_id = 0177455 | tv_com_id = 30094 | Flowwed by Random Cartoons |}} '''''Oh Yeah! Cartoons''''' is a late-1990s [[United States|American]] [[animation]] showcase that appeared on the [[Nickelodeon (TV channel)|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 four 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 [[animation|animated]] shorts were created by [[cartoonist]]s 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]], [[C. Miles Thompson]], [[Byron Vaughns]], [[Pat Ventura]], [[Vincent Waller]] and [[David Wasson]]. Many of the animators featured on Oh Yeah! Cartoons had worked on the ''[[Cartoon Cartoon Show|What A Cartoon! Show]]'' produced by [[Hanna-Barbera]] and [[Cartoon Network]] two years earlier. The show was also created by Fred Seibert while he was president of [[Hanna-Barbera]] and had the same concept as Oh Yeah! Cartoons. When Seibert left Hanna-Barbera in 1997 and founded [[Frederator Studios]], many of the animators that had worked on What A Cartoon! migrated with him to produce shorts for Oh Yeah! Cartoons. ==Trivia== {{Trivia|date=October 2007}} *A spin-off of the ''Oh Yeah! Cartoons'' concept with 39 original cartoon shorts will be on [[Nickelodeon (TV channel)|Nickelodeon]] in 2008, under the name '''[[Random! Cartoons]]'''[http://newtoons.frederator.com/post/958]. *Two ''Oh Yeah!'' characters are also in feature development at [[Paramount Pictures|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?" &ndash; When shown on ''The Fairly OddParents'', [[Timmy Turner|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 Tabootie|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 (TV channel)|Nickelodeon]]) * '''[[Short Circutz]]''' ([[YTV (TV channel)|YTV]]) ==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== * ''[http://www.bcdb.com/cartoons/Other_Studios/N/Nickelodeon/Nicktoons_Productions/Oh_Yeah__Cartoons/index.html Oh Yeah! Cartoons]'' at the [[Big Cartoon DataBase]] * {{imdb title|id=0177455|title=Oh Yeah! Cartoons}} *[http://www.tv.com/oh-yeah!-cartoons/show/30094/summary.html?q=oh%20yeah%20cartoons&tag=search_results;title;0/OOh ''Oh Yeah! Cartoons''] at [[TV.com]] {{Nicktoons}} [[Category:Nicktoons]] [[Category:Animation anthology series]] [[Category:1990s American television series]] [[Category:2000s American television series]] [[Category:1998 television series debuts]] [[Category:2001 television series endings]] [[Category:Oh Yeah! Cartoons| ]] [[es:Oh Yeah! Cartoons]] [[nl:Oh Yeah! Cartoons]] [[pt:Oh Yeah! Cartoons]]