Editing Oh Yeah! Cartoons

{{short description|American animation showcase series on Nickelodeon}}
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{{Infobox television
| image                = The Oh Yeah Cartoon Logo.png
| image_size           = 250
| genre                = {{Plainlist|
* [[Animation]]
* [[Comedy]]
* [[Variety show|Variety]]
* [[Cartoon series]]
}}
| creator              = [[Fred Seibert]]
| presenter            = {{Plainlist|
* Various School Kids (1998)
* [[Kenan Thompson]] (1999)
* [[Josh Server]] (2002)
}}
| director             = 
| voices               = [[Tom Kenny]]<br>[[Grey DeLisle]]<br>[[Tara Strong]]<br>[[Kevin Michael Richardson]]
| theme_music_composer = [[Bill Burnett (writer)|Bill Burnett]]
| country              = United States
| language             = English
| network              = [[Nickelodeon]]
| executive_producer   = {{Plainlist|
* Fred Seibert
* [[Larry Huber]]
}}
| producer             = Bill Burnett
| company              = {{Plainlist|
* [[Frederator Studios|Frederator Incorporated]]
* [[Nickelodeon Animation Studio]] (as Nicktoons Productions, Inc.)
}}
| num_seasons          = 3
| num_episodes         = 34 (101 segments)
| list_episodes        = List of Oh Yeah! Cartoons episodes
| runtime              = 23 minutes
| first_aired          = {{Start date|1998|7|19}}
| last_aired           = {{End date|2002|8|30}}
| related              = ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]''<br />''[[ChalkZone]]''<br />''[[My Life as a Teenage Robot]]'' <br /> ''[[Random! Cartoons]]''
}}
'''''Oh Yeah! Cartoons''''' is an American [[animated television series|animated]] [[anthology series]] that aired on [[Nickelodeon]].<ref>[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jul-17-ca-4387-story.html "New Cartoons Are Draw On Some Old Animation Traditions" By Charles Solomon, Los Angeles Times, July 17, 1998]</ref> Created by [[Fred Seibert]], it was produced by [[Frederator Studios|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 (writer)|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 (media)|spin-off]] shows produced by Frederator: ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]'', ''[[ChalkZone]]'', and ''[[My Life as a Teenage Robot]]''.<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=436}}</ref>

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.<ref>[http://frederator.com/series/oh-yeah-cartoons/ "Frederator Studios, TV Series, "Oh Yeah! Cartoons"]</ref>

Many of the [[animated shorts]] were created by [[cartoonist]]s who later became more prominent, including [[Bob Boyle (animator)|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. Seibert created ''Random! Cartoons'' as a sequel anthology.<ref name=Perlmutter /> While originally intended as a fourth season of ''Oh Yeah! Cartoons'', it ended up being made as another show. ''Random! Cartoons'' aired on Nicktoons from 2008 to 2009.

==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),<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL74F257B28D3C60DA The Meth Minute 39 on YouTube]</ref> ''[[Random! Cartoons]]'' ([[Nickelodeon]]/[[Nicktoons (American TV channel)|Nicktoons]], 2008), ''[[Too Cool! Cartoons]]'' ([[Cartoon Hangover]], 2012), and ''[[Go! Cartoons|GO! Cartoons]]'' (Cartoon Hangover, 2017).<ref>[https://deadline.com/2014/11/sony-pictures-animation-fred-seibert-cartoon-hangover-incubator-1201271591/ Sony, Channel Frederator Launch Online Animation Incubator, by David Bloom, Deadline Hollywood, November 3, 2014]</ref> 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==
{{Main|List of Oh Yeah! Cartoons episodes}}
{{:List of Oh Yeah! Cartoons episodes}}

==Similar shows==
* ''[[Random! Cartoons]]'' ([[Nicktoons (American TV channel)|Nicktoons]])
* ''[[Raw Toonage|Disney's Raw Toonage]]'' ([[CBS]])
* ''[[What a Cartoon!]]'' ([[Cartoon Network]])
* ''[[Shorty McShorts' Shorts]]'' ([[Disney Channel]])
* ''[[KaBlam!]] ''([[Nickelodeon]])
* ''[[Short Circutz]]'' ([[YTV (TV channel)|YTV]])
* ''[[The Cartoonstitute]]'' (Cartoon Network)
* ''[[DC Nation Shorts]]'' (Cartoon Network)
* ''[[Liquid Television]]'' ([[MTV]])

==See also==
{{Portal|Television|United States|Cartoon}}
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*''[[Spike and Mike's Festival of Animation]]''
*''[[Liquid Television]]''
*''[[Raw Toonage|Disney's Raw Toonage]]''
*''[[What a Cartoon!]]''
*''[[KaBlam!]]''
*''[[Cartoon Sushi]]''
*''Funpak''
*''[[Exposure (American TV series)|Exposure]]''
*''[[Eye Drops]]''
*''[[VH1 ILL-ustrated]]''
*''[[Nicktoons Film Festival]]''
*''[[Shorty McShorts' Shorts]]''
*''[[Wedgies (Cartoon Network)|Wedgies]]''
*''[[Random! Cartoons]]''
*''[[The Cartoonstitute]]''
*''[[Off the Air (TV series)|Off the Air]]''
*''[[Nickelodeon Animated Shorts Program]]''
*''[[Too Cool! Cartoons]]''
*''[[Cartoon Network Shorts Department]]''
*''[[TripTank]]''
*''[[Disney XD Shortstop]]''
*''[[Go! Cartoons]]''
*''[[Love, Death & Robots]]''
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==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0177455}}

{{Former Nickelodeon original series}}
{{All That}}
{{The Fairly OddParents}}
{{Frederator Studios}}

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