2004

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2004 was a big year for Cartoon Network. The Powerhouse theme is replaced with CN City. The logo is explicitly abbreviated as "CN". Two new shows, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends and Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, premiere. Johnny Bravo, Samurai Jack, and Evil Con Carne conclude this year.

Shows Info

Cartoon Network Original Series

# Cartoon	Name	Premiere Date	End Date
5	Johnny Bravo	July 14, 1997	August 27, 2004
14	Samurai Jack	August 10, 2001	September 25, 2004
15	Grim and Evil	August 24, 2001	October 31, 2004
19	Evil Con Carne	July 11, 2003	October 22, 2004
21	Megas XLR	May 1, 2004	January 15, 2005
22	Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends	August 13, 2004	May 3, 2009
23	Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi	November 19, 2004	June 27, 2006

Acquired Series

# Cartoon	Name	Premiere Date	End Date
	Justice League	November 17, 2001	May 29, 2004
	Justice League Unlimited	July 31, 2004	May 13, 2006
	¡Mucha Lucha!​	March 5, 2004	November 5, 2009

January

4

• Ed, Edd n Eddy celebrates it's 5th anniversary.

9

• The Powerpuff Girls episodes "Lying Around the House/Bubble Boy" premiere.

16

• The Powerpuff Girls episodes "A Documentary/Girls Gone Mild" premiere.

23

• The Ed, Edd n Eddy episodes "Your Ed Here/The Good Ol' Ed" premiere.

30

• The Ed, Edd n Eddy episodes "Thick as an Ed/Sorry, Wrong Ed" premiere.

February

6

• The Ed, Edd n Eddy episodes "Robbin' Ed/A Case of Ed" premiere.

13

• The Ed, Edd n Eddy episodes "Run for your Ed/Hand Me Down Ed" premiere.

20

• The Ed, Edd n Eddy episodes "Stiff Upper Ed/Here's Mud in Your Ed" premiere.
• Johnny Bravo premieres its fourth and last season with the episode "Johnny Bravo Goes to Hollywood".

27

• The Ed, Edd n Eddy episodes "Stuck in Ed/Postcards from the Ed".
• Party Wagon, an unsold pilot by Craig Bartlett, premieres.

March

5

• ¡Mucha Lucha!​ premieres.

26

• Star Wars: Clone Wars premieres its second season with the episode "Chapter 11".

April

2

• The Powerpuff Girls episodes "Curses/Bang For Your Buck" premiere.

9

• The Powerpuff Girls concludes it's fifth season with the episodes "Silent Treatment/Sweet n' Sour".

16

• The Powerpuff Girls premieres its sixth and last season with the episodes "Prime Mates/Coupe D'Etat".
• Toonami airs on a weekday for the final time, as the programs being shown were becoming too violent for an afternoon timeslot.

17

• The Saturday version of Toonami debuts, replacing Saturday Video Entertainment System.
• Adult Swim returns to Saturday nights with an airing of The Animatrix.

19

• A new weekday afternoon block called Miguzi debuts, replacing the weekday version of Toonami.

23

• The Powerpuff Girls episodes "Makes Zen to Me/Say Uncle" premiere.

30

• The Powerpuff Girls episodes "Reeking Havoc/Live & Let Dynamo" premiere.

May

1

• Megas XLR premieres with the episode "Test Drive".
• May Movie Month airs until May 31st.

7

• The Powerpuff Girls episodes "Mo' Linguish/Oops, I Did It Again" premiere.

14

• The Powerpuff Girls episode "A Made Up Story" premieres.

21

• The Codename: Kids Next Door episodes "Operation: B.E.A.C.H./Operation: U.N.D.E.R.C.O.V.E.R." premiere.

28

• The Codename: Kids Next Door episodes "Operation: D.O.G.F.I.G.H.T./Operation: T.R.I.P." premiere.

29

• Justice League ends with the episode "Starcrossed".

June

4

• Codename: Kids Next Door concludes it's second season with the double-length episode "Operation: E.N.D.".

11

• Season 3 of Codename: Kids Next Door premieres with the double-length episode "Operation: F.U.T.U.R.E.".
• Season 2 of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy premieres with the episodes "Spider's Little Daddy/Tricycle of Terror".

13

• Cartoon Network's Cartoon Theatre, featuring Osmosis Jones, aired with its original look for the last time.

14

• Cartoon Network launches the CN City look, replacing Powerhouse.

18

• The set of Fridays is revamped for the City era.
• The Codename: Kids Next Door episodes "Operation: A.F.L.O.A.T./Operation: L.E.A.D.E.R." premiere.
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy episodes "Dumb Luck/No Body Loves Grim" premiere.

19

• The Tasmanian Devil (Looney Tunes) celebrates his 50th anniversary.
• The bumpers for Cartoon Network's Cartoon Theatre are revamped for the City era. The block's announcer, the late Don LaFontaine, is replaced by the channel’s new female announcer, Nicole Vicius. Ed from Ed, Edd n Eddy is also added as a movie theatre usher.
• Saturday Block Party debuts.

25

• The Codename: Kids Next Door episodes "Operation: U.T.O.P.I.A./Operation: R.O.B.B.E.R.S." premiere.
• The Powerpuff Girls episodes "Little Miss Interprets/Night Mayor" premiere.
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy episodes "Li'l Porkchop/Skarred for Life" premiere.

July

2

• The Powerpuff Girls episodes "Custody Battle/City of Nutsville" premiere.
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy episodes "House of Pain/A Grim Prophecy/Mandy Bites Dog" premiere.
• The Johnny Bravo episodes "That's Entertainment/Non, Oui Oui Pour Johnny" premiere.

9

• The Codename: Kids Next Door double-length episode "Operation: F.O.U.N.T.A.I.N." premieres.
• The Powerpuff Girls double-length episode "Aspirations" premieres.
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy episodes "Nursery Crimes/My Peeps" premiere.
• The Johnny Bravo episodes "Get Shovelized/T Is for Trouble" premiere.

16

• The Codename: Kids Next Door episodes "Operation: B.U.T.T./Operation: T.R.A.I.N.I.N.G." premiere.
• The Powerpuff Girls episodes "That's Not My Baby/Simian Says" premiere.
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy episodes "Nigel Planter and the Chamber Pot of Secrets/Circus of Fear" premiere.
• The Johnny Bravo episodes "Gray Matters/Double Vision" premiere.

23

• The Codename: Kids Next Door episodes "Operation: A.R.C.H.I.V.E./Operation: S.L.U.M.B.E.R." premiere.
• The Powerpuff Girls episodes "Sun Scream/City of Frownsville" premiere.
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy episodes "Bully Boogie/Here Thar Be Dwarves!" premiere.
• The Johnny Bravo episodes "It's a Magical Life/The Hunk at the End of This Cartoon" premiere.

30

• The Codename: Kids Next Door episodes "Operation: P.I.N.K.E.Y.E./Operation: K.A.S.T.L.E." premiere.
• The Powerpuff Girls double-length episode "West in Pieces" premieres.
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy concludes it's second season with the episodes "Which Came First?/Substitute Teacher" premiere.
• The Johnny Bravo episodes "The Time of My Life/Run Johnny Run" premiere.

31

• A spin-off to Justice League, titled Justice League Unlimited premieres with the episode "Initiation".

August

6

• The Codename: Kids Next Door episodes "Operation: G.R.A.D.U.A.T.E.S." & "Operation: C.A.K.E.D.-T.H.R.E.E./Operation: L.O.C.K.D.O.W.N." premiere.
• The Johnny Bravo episodes "Wilderness Protection Program/A Page Right Out of History" premiere.

13

• The Codename: Kids Next Door episodes "Operation: H.U.G.S./Operation: J.E.W.E.L.S." premiere.
• Cartoon Network's 22nd Original Series, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends premieres with the TV movie "House of Bloo's".

20

• The Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends episode "Store Wars" premieres.
• The Powerpuff Girls episodes "Crazy Mixed Up Puffs/Mizzen in Action" premiere.
• The Johnny Bravo episodes "Some Walk By Night/Adam West's Date-O-Rama" premiere.

27

• The Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends episode "The Trouble with Scribbles" premieres.
• The Powerpuff Girls episode "Roughing It Up/What's the Big Idea?" airs. The newer episodes are put in hiatus until March 25 the following year.
• Johnny Bravo ends with the episode "Johnny Makeover/Back on Shaq".

28

• Season 1 of Megas XLR ends with the episode "Coop D'Etat".

29

• Atomic Betty premieres with the episode "Atomic Roger/Toxic Talent".

September

3

• The Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends episode "Busted" premieres.

10

• The Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends episode "Dinner Is Swerved" premieres.

17

• Wile E. Coyote & the Road Runner (Looney Tunes) celebrate their 55th anniversary.
• The Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends episode "World Wide Wabbit" premieres.

24

• The Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends episode "Berry Scary" premieres.

25

• Samurai Jack airs it's final episodes.
  • "The Four Seasons of Death"
  • "Tale of X-49"
  • "Young Jack in Africa"
  • "Jack and the Baby"

October

1

• The Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends episodes "Seeing Red/Phone Home" premiere.
• Season 3 of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy premieres with the episodes "Super Zero/Sickly Sweet".
• Evil Con Carne premieres its second and last season with the episodes "No No Nanook/Teenage Idol".

2-3

• The Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts as well as the Boomerang block are removed from the schedule altogether due to the box office failure of Looney Tunes: Back in Action.

8

• The Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends episode "Who Let the Dogs In?" premiere.
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy episodes "Bearded Billy/The Nerve" premiere.
• The Evil Con Carne episodes "The Mother of All Evils/The HCCBDD" premiere.

15

• The Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends episode "Adoptcalypse Now" premiere.
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy episodes "Attack of the Clowns/Complete & Utter Chaos" premiere.
• The Evil Con Carne episodes "Gridlocked and Loaded/Fool's Paradise" premiere.

16

• Megas XLR premieres its second and last season with the episode "Ultra Chicks".

22

• Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends concludes it's first season with the episode "Bloooo".
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy episodes "Test of Time / A Kick in the Asgard" & "Five-O-Clock Shadows" premieres.
• The Evil Con Carne episode "Ultimate Evil" premieres (Grim & Evil's series finale).
• Evil Con Carne ends with the episodes "Jealousy, Jealous Do/Hector, King of the Britons".
  • The series was cancelled due to low ratings as it was out-populated by Maxwell Atoms' other work, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy.

31

• Grim and Evil aired its series finale in the UK.

29

• The Codename: Kids Next Door episodes "Operation: T.R.I.C.K.Y./Operation: U.N.C.O.O.L." premiere.
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy episodes "Whatever Happened To Billy Whatsisname?/Just the Two of Pus" premiere.

November

2

• Codename: Kids Next Door – Operation: S.O.D.A. releases for the Game Boy Advance.

5

• The Codename: Kids Next Door episodes "Operation: P.R.E.S.I.D.E.N.T./Operation: H.O.S.P.I.T.A.L." premiere.
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy episodes "Chocolate Sailor/The Good, The Bad, & the Toothless" premiere.
• Ed, Edd n Eddy concludes it's fourth season with the double-length episode "Take This Ed and Shove It".

12

• Courage the Cowardly Dog celebrates it's 5th anniversary.
• Codename: Kids Next Door concludes it's third season with the episodes "Operation: S.P.R.O.U.T./Operation: H.O.U.N.D.".
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy episodes "That's My Mummy/Toys Will Be Toys" premiere.

19

• Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, premieres with the episodes "Dis-Harmony/Collect All 5/Ninjcompoop" & "Talent Suckers/Ole!/Mini-Puffs".
• Season 4 of Codename: Kids Next Door premieres with the episodes "Operation: R.A.B.B.I.T./Operation: F.L.U.S.H.".

26

• The Codename: Kids Next Door episodes "Operation: F.O.O.D.F.I.T.E./Operation: C.L.U.E.S." premiere.
• The Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi episodes "Ami's Secret/Taffy Trouble/Dance a Go-Go" premiere.

29

• A Cartoon Network Christmas begins, and lasts until December 25th.

December

3

• The Codename: Kids Next Door episodes "Operation: N.U.G.G.E.T./Operation: M.A.C.A.R.R.O.N.I." premiere.
• The Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi episodes "Ami Goes Bad/Robo-Pop/Metal Mental" premiere.
• "Ed, Edd n Eddy's Jingle Jingle Jangle" premieres.

10

• The Codename: Kids Next Door double-length episode "Operation: P.O.O.L." premieres.
• The Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi episodes "Showdown/In the Cards/Team Teen" premiere.

17

• The Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi episodes "Opera Yumi/Save the Farm/Pen Pal" premiere.

27

• Winter Break begins, and lasts until December 31st.

31

• The Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi episodes "Save the Farm/Stupid Cupids/Brat Attack" premiere.