What a Cartoon!/Episodes

Series Overview

Color	Season	Episodes	Season Premiere	Season Finale
	What A Cartoon!	48	February 20, 1995	November 28, 1997

What A Cartoon! Shorts (1995-1997)

#	Episode Title	Creator	Original Airdate
01	The Powerpuff Girls in "Meat Fuzzy Lumkins"	Craig McCracken	February 20, 1995
The Powerpuff Girls are judges in Townsville's yearly jam contest. Fuzzy Lumkins is upset when his meat jam doesn't win and is looking for revenge. The short laid foundations for the massively successful The Powerpuff Girls to premiere in 1998.
02	Dexter's Laboratory	Genndy Tartakovsky	February 26, 1995
Dee Dee takes Dexter's newest invention and changes him into a bunny. They start changing each other into animals. The earliest Cartoon Network series that came from a What a Cartoon! short, it was immediately developed into Dexter's Laboratory and began airing in 1996.
03	Yuckie Duck: "Short Orders"	Patrick A. Ventura	March 5, 1995
Yuckie Duck is a waiter in a restaurant. He keeps having problems, because the Limburger sandwich he gave to a man smelled bad and a steak he gave to a lady was too hard to cut.
04	Dino in "Stay Out"	Joseph Barbera	March 19, 1995
Fred Flintstone goes bowling with Barney Rubble and tells Dino to keep Baby Puss out of the house. The cat always gets in, however, using disguises such as a baby, a tiger skinned rug and Santa Claus.
05	Johnny Bravo	Van Partible	March 26, 1995
Johnny Bravo decides to catch a gorilla that escaped from the zoo, because he thinks that it will make the zoo owner fall in love him. A series based on the character, also titled Johnny Bravo, premiered in 1997.
06	Sledgehammer O'Possum: "Out and About"	Patrick A. Ventura	April 2, 1995
A troublemaking possum frustrates a dog's plans to enjoy a quiet summer day out.
07	George and Junior: "Look Out Below"	Patrick A. Ventura	April 9, 1995
Based on the classic cartoon characters created by Tex Avery, a bird breaks a light bulb so it doesn't disturb his sleep and sits in the empty socket. George and Junior, the building's janitors/engineers, are sent to fix it.
08	Hard Luck Duck	William Hanna	April 16, 1995
Hard Luck Duck, after venturing away from Crocodile Harley's watch, is a hungry fox's target to be cooked. The cartoon contains many similarities to one of Hanna-Barbera's previous characters, Yakky Doodle.
09	Shake & Flick: "Raw Deal in Rome"	Michael Rann Eugene Mattos George Johnson	June 18, 1995
Shake the dog is invaded by Flick the flea. They are both accomplished musicians and find themselves in the competition of a lifetime as each one tries to outdo the other.
10	The Adventures of Captain Buzz Cheeply in... "A Clean Getaway"	Meinert Hansen	June 25, 1995
Captain Buzz Cheeply and his robot sidekick, Slide, must escape a planet whose inhabitants have abnormally sized foreheads but small sized brains, while finding a place to do their laundry.
11	O.Ratz with Dave D. Fly in "Rat in a Hot Tin Can"	Jerry Reynolds Russ Harris	July 2, 1995
Friends O. Ratz and Dave D. Fly live together in a trash can. One night it gets so cold that O. Ratz can't take it anymore and tries to sneak into a hotel with disastrous results.
12	Pfish and Chip in: "Short Pfuse"	Butch Hartman Eugene Mattos Michael Rann	July 9, 1995
The Bomb Squad (Pfish, a wacky shark and Chip, a hot tempered lynx) are told by their chief to stop a mad bomber.
13	The Fat Cats in "Drip Dry Drips"	Jon McClenahan	July 16, 1995
Louie and Elmo open a dry cleaning business together. Their first customer in the President of the United States and they have until 5:00 to get his suit clean. They run into a few problems and are running out of time.
14	George and Junior's Christmas Spectacular	Patrick A. Ventura	July 23, 1995
George and Junior are forced to deliver Santa's presents to the kids, after they fail to deliver one of Santa's letters.
15	Yoink! of the Yukon	Don Jurwich Jerry Eisenberg Jim Ryan	July 30, 1995
The mounted police of the Yukon have their uniforms stolen by a grizzly bear seeking revenge on them for skinning his animal friends. Yoink and Sergeant Thumbsworth Tharplung are sent to retrieve them.
16	Yuckie Duck: "I'm On My Way"	Patrick A. Ventura	August 6, 1995
Yuckie Duck is a paramedic and he has to perform life-saving feats such as pulling a tack out of a lion's posterior.
17	Mina and the Count: "Interlude with a Vampire"	Rob Renzetti	November 5, 1995
A girl named Mina is visited by a vampire named Count after she goes to sleep. They go through a series of events as the Count tries to get home before sunrise. Created by Rob Renzetti, Renzetti would later produce more Mina and the Count shorts for Nickelodeon's Oh Yeah! Cartoons in the late 1990s.
18	Cow and Chicken in "No Smoking"	David Feiss	November 12, 1995
Cow and Chicken are sister and brother. Chicken is taken to Hell by the Devil and it's up to his sister Cow to save him. Nominated for an Emmy Award, the short was picked up to become the series Cow and Chicken beginning in 1997. Consequently, this short was rarely seen in reruns since 1998 nor paired with any of the actual series’ episodes due to the tobacco depictions and its religiously insensitive subject matter.
19	Boid 'n' Woim	C. Miles Thompson	January 1, 1996
Hitchhiker Woim is going to sunny California. Boid drives him there, but on the way, they crash into a cactus. Boid gets hungry and tries to eat Woim.
20	Jof in "Help?"	Bruno Bozzetto	January 14, 1996
A cat that pinches his finger while sewing asks for help at the hospital, but its ruthless personnel offer only pain.
21	Podunk 'Possum in "One Step Beyond"	Joe Orrantia Elizabeth Stonecypher	January 21, 1996
A possum named Podunk acquires an abandoned farm with 3 chickens to lay eggs for him, and has to defend them from a fried chicken titan, Major Portions. However, he is unaware of a major alien conspiracy.
22	The Powerpuff Girls in "Crime 101"	Craig McCracken	January 28, 1996
The Amoeba Boys try to commit a crime and the Powerpuff Girls help them do it right. The second and final short from What a Cartoon! to star The Powerpuff Girls, the series would later premiere in 1998.
23	Wind-Up Wolf	William Hanna	February 4, 1996
Big Bad Wolf wants to catch the three little pigs again. He decides the only way he can do it is to build a robot wolf to take his place.
24	Hillbilly Blue	Michael Ryan	February 11, 1996
Crawdad Eustace is fed-up with being treated as food and goes with possum pal Mordechai on a cross-country trip to New Orleans and being "served" in royal fashion.
25	Courage the Cowardly Dog in The Chicken from Outer Space	John R. Dilworth	February 18, 1996
A fearful dog tries to stop an alien chicken's plans to invade Earth on his owners' farm. Nominated for an Oscar, the short was developed into the final series spun-off from What a Cartoon!, Courage the Cowardly Dog, in 1999.
26	Pizza Boy in: "No Tip"	Robert Alvarez	February 25, 1996
Pizza Boy tries to deliver a pizza to the Arctic Circle in five minutes to get a big tip. He has many problems on the way, like getting thrown out of a plane.
27	Gramps	Mike Ryan Butch Hartman	March 3, 1996
Gramps tells his grandchildren about his battle against invading aliens, and gets corrected by the children repeatedly.
28	Dexter's Laboratory: The Big Sister	Genndy Tartakovsky	March 10, 1996
When Dee Dee eats an experimental cookie of Dexter's design, she grows extremely tall and goes on a Godzilla-style rampage, leaving it up to Dexter to don his mecha-suit and bring her back.
29	Bloo's Gang in "Bow-Wow Buccaneers"	Mike Milo Harry McLaughlin	March 17, 1996
Bloo and his dog friends sneak out of their owner's houses at midnight to set on a pirate adventure in the city.
30	Jungle Boy in "Mr. Monkeyman"	Van Partible	October 9, 1996
Jealous King Raymond stains the hero Jungle Boy's reputation by impersonating him and causing mayhem. Jungle Boy would later go on to serve as filler segments in Johnny Bravo (1997).
31	Godfrey & Zeek in "Lost Control"	Jason Butler Rote Zac Moncrief	October 16, 1996
Godfrey the giraffe accidentally flushes his TV remote down the toilet. He and his friend Zeek spend the rest of the episode trying to get it back from the water plant.
32	Tumbleweed Tex in "School Daze"	Robert Alvarez	October 23, 1996
A Wild West outlaw needs to finish the fourth grade, while dealing with his obnoxious class rival, little Timmy.
33	Buy One, Get One Free	Charlie Bean Carey Yost Don Shank	October 30, 1996
A man named Reilly gets a cat named Flinch in order to impress a female cat lover named Sofie and threatens the cat that if there is a scratch on anything while he's away, he will send him to the violin factory. It won't be easy when Sophie leaves Flinch a feline playmate named Fix that ends up wrecking everything.
34	The Kitchen Casanova	John McIntyre	November 6, 1996
Casanova has a date with Doris and he can think of no better way to impress her than to cook her a meal. Unfortunately, things don't go as well as he had planned.
35	The Ignorāmooses	Mike Milo Harry McLaughlin	November 13, 1996
The story of two Southern Gentleman moose, Sherwood, a wiry red moose and Pomeroy, a laid back green moose, who go searching for their owners after they mistake the tracking collars a scientist puts on them for pet collars.
36	Johnny Bravo and the Amazon Women	Van Partible	January 1, 1997
Johnny Bravo is left stranded on an island filled with beautiful tall women, and their bodyguard elephant. The final Johnny Bravo short to air, the half-hour series premiered in the same year.
37	Pfish and Chip in: "Blammo the Clown"	Eugene Mattos Butch Hartman Michael Rann	January 8, 1997
Blammo the Clown comes back to town and sets up bombs trying to blow up Pfish and Chip.
38	Awfully Lucky	Davis Doi	January 15, 1997
A geeky guy finds the Paradox Pearl and it gives him good luck. Then he discovers that for everything good it brings, it also brings something bad.
39	Strange Things	Mike Wellins	January 22, 1997
A robot finds a job as a janitor, but winds up working for an obnoxious chief of security named Mel. He also must remember that if it says "Don't Touch", don't touch. The only computer animated short produced for What a Cartoon!, it is one of television's first exposures to computer animation.
40	Snoot's New Squat	Jeret Ochi Victor Ortado	January 29, 1997
Snoot, the flea-like extra-terrestrial who can imitate pop culture, finds a new home at a pain-suffering dog named Al who drives his doctor crazy.
41	Larry and Steve	Seth MacFarlane	February 5, 1997
Steve, a homeless dog, is adopted by dimwit Larry (the only man that can understand what he's saying), and lives disaster after disaster when Larry takes him shopping. The style developed into creator Seth MacFarlane's Family Guy.
42	Sledgehammer O'Possum: "What's Goin' On Back There?!"	Patrick A. Ventura	February 12, 1997
Sledgehammer O'Possum takes shelter from the cold in a mailbox, much to the dismay of a mailman named Ethel who will stop at nothing to make him leave.
43	The Zoonatics in "Home Sweet Home"	Paul Parducci James Giordano R.J. Reiley	February 19, 1997
Three acrobatic animals plot to escape their lousy circus lifestyle, for a better life at the new Hackensack Zoo.
44	Swamp and Tad in "Mission Imfrogable"	John Rice Achiu So	February 26, 1997
Swamp and Tad are frogs from outer space. They are sent to Earth to get a package from Agent Newt. Unfortunately, the package is stolen by a dog.
45	Dino in "The Great Egg-Scape"	Joseph Barbera	March 5, 1997
Dino is a night watchman at the Bedrock Museum. A last-of-it's-kind egg is stolen while he is sleeping on duty and he must find it if he is to keep his job.
46	Malcolm and Melvin	Ralph Bakshi	November 26, 1997
Melvin is lonely and is having trouble making friends. It gets so bad that he even attempts suicide. He runs into a trumpet playing roach named Malcom and the two become friends. Note: This segment only ran during the Cartoon Cartoon Weekend in 1997 before it never ran on the network again as the result of the regarded mature content.
47	Tales of Worm Paranoia	Eddie Fitzgerald	November 27, 1997
A worm named Johnny keeps getting stepped on by a human, which pushes him over the edge. His girlfriend Sally tries to keep him in check. Style reminiscent of John Kricfalusi's The Ren & Stimpy Show. Kricfalusi is listed with a "Special Thanks" credit.
48	Babe!... He Calls Me	Ralph Bakshi	November 28, 1997
Malcom and Melvin play music in bars to try and pick up women. Melvin's mother thinks that her son was kidnapped by Malcom and hired a private detective to find him. Note: This segment only ran during the Cartoon Cartoon Weekend in 1997 before it never ran on the network again as the result of the regarded mature content.