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{{Short description|American animated sketch comedy television series programming block}}
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{{Infobox television
| image                = KaBlam.jpg
| genre                = [[Animation]]<br/>[[Sketch comedy]]<br />[[Musical film|Musical]]<br />[[Slapstick]]<br />[[Anthology series]]
| executive_producer   = {{Plainlist|
* Bob Mittenthal
* Will McRobb
* Chris Viscardi
* Brian O'Connell
* [[Albie Hecht]]
}}
| runtime              = 24 minutes
| starring             = {{Plainlist|
* [[Noah Segan]]
* [[Julia McIlvaine]]
* [[Mischa Barton]]
* [[Rick Gomez]]
* [[Mo Willems]]
* Danielle Judovits
}}
| creator              = {{Plainlist|
* Bob Mittenthal
* [[Will McRobb and Chris Viscardi|Will McRobb<br />Chris Viscardi]]
}}
| opentheme            = "Two-Tone Army" by [[The Toasters]]
| endtheme             = "Skaternity" by The Toasters {{small|(season 1)}}<br>"Everything You Said Has Been a Lie" by The Toasters {{small|(seasons 2–4)}}
| country              = United States
| language             = English
| network              = [[Nickelodeon]]
| first_aired          = {{Start date|1996|10|11}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-10-07-ca-51356-story.html|title=A Nick Off the Old Block|last=Hall|first=Jane|work=Los Angeles Times|date=October 7, 1996|access-date=April 6, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/kablam/trivia/season-all/2|title=Kablam!|work=TV.com|access-date=April 6, 2017|archive-date=May 29, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170529172700/http://www.tv.com/shows/kablam/trivia/season-all/2|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| last_aired           = {{End date|2000|5|27}}
| num_episodes         = 48
| num_seasons          = 4
| company              = {{Plainlist|
* [[Nickelodeon Animation Studio]]<ref>Known as Games Animation for seasons 1-2.</ref>
* Flying Mallet, Inc.
* {{small|(season 4)}}
}}
| related              = {{Plainlist|
* ''[[Action League Now!]]''
* ''[[Angela Anaconda]]''
* ''[[All That]]''
}}
| list_episodes        = List of KaBlam! episodes
}}
'''''KaBlam!''''' (stylized as '''''KaBLaM!''''') is an American [[animation|animated]] [[sketch comedy]] [[anthology series|anthology]] television series that ran on [[Nickelodeon]] from October 11, 1996 to May 27, 2000, with repeats until November 2, 2001.<ref name=Perlmutter>{{cite book |last1=Perlmutter |first1=David |title=The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows |date=2018 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1538103739 |page=332}}</ref> The series was created by Robert Mittenthal, [[Will McRobb and Chris Viscardi|Will McRobb, and Chris Viscardi]]. The show was developed as a fully animated showcase for alternative forms of [[animation]] that were more common in [[Independent film|indie films]] and [[Television advertisement|commercials]].<ref name="http://variety.com">{{cite web |date=November 18, 1997 |title=1997: The year of drawing dangerously |url=https://variety.com/1997/tv/news/1997-the-year-of-drawing-dangerously-111661995/ |access-date=July 26, 2009 |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref> Each episode thus features a collection of short films in different innovative styles of animation, bridged by the characters Henry and June, who introduce the short animations and have zany hijinks of their own in between.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Erickson |first1=Hal |title=Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 |date=2005 |edition=2nd |publisher=McFarland & Co |isbn=978-1476665993 |page=463}}</ref>

The show first premiered on Friday nights as part of "More Nick". A block that extended Nickelodeon programming to 8:30pm on prime time. The show was a critical and commercial success.{{citation needed|date=November 2019}} The show was last aired as a part of Nickelodeon's 'The Splat' programming block on October 8 and 9, 2016.<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 10, 2016 |title=KaBlam! On the Splat |url=https://archive.org/details/KablamSplat |website=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref> It would start to air again as part of Pluto TV's 90s kids block.