Cartoon Network - February 1-17, 1995 Commercials, ID's & Interstitials

List of ID's, Interstitials & Promos:
- 0:00 "World Premiere Toons" - "Don't Miss This!" Promo
- 0:30 "Toon Mail" - Dino ("The Flintstones") Interstitial
- 1:00 "Super Chunk" - "Secret Squirrel" Marathon Promo
- 1:15 "World Premiere Toons" Promo 1
- 1:30 "Super Chunk" - "Quick Draw McGraw" Marathon Promo
- 1:45 Cartoon Network "Teeth" Station ID
- 2:01 "2 In A Row" Promo
- 2:17 "World Premiere Toons" - Abraham Lincoln Promo
- 2:32 "Toon Heads" - "Field & Stream Week" Promo
- 2:47 "World Premiere Toons" - George Washington Promo
- 3:02 "World Premiere Toons" - "The Powerpuff Girls" Promo 1
- 3:17 "Look What We Found!" - "Pac-Man" Promo
- 3:33 Cartoon Network "Valentoons" Promo
- 3:48 "Scooby Doo" Promo
- 4:18 "World Premiere Toons" - Abraham Lincoln Promo (Repeat)
- 4:33 "World Premiere Toons" - "Are You Ready?" Promo
- 4:48 Cartoon Network "Valentoons" Promo (Repeat)
- 5:03 "Toon Heads" - Heading For The Hills" Promo
- 5:19 "World Premiere Toon-In" Promo
- 5:33 "World Premiere Toons" Promo 1 (Repeat)
- 5:49 "The Flintstones" - "Fred Head" Promo
- 6:03 "World Premiere Toons" - "The Powerpuff Girls" Promo 2
- 6:18 "Popeye" Promo
- 6:34 "World Premiere Toons" - Hard Luck Duck" Promo
- 6:49 "Mysteries Of The Toon World" - Alan ("Josie & The Pussycats") Promo
Enjoy!!!

[@juord]

Young Craig McCracken reminds me of how young Seth looked back when Family Guy first premiered lol, and before with Larry and Steve which also aired as a What a Cartoon short

[@davisstreetstudios8681]

It’s VERY clear that they’re making World Premiere Toons a super big deal.

[@Reb32573]

Thank you for this treat. I am 25 and still miss these days. Thank you!

[@yamihoole]

LOL Alan the exotic dancer! They would never get away with that now, would they?

[@MegaJustGeorge]

Not if Josie has anything to say about it!

[@chrisjackson2698]

Cartoon Network 95' = Boomerang. And i love it.

[@baconbubblegum]

i wonder what's gonna come from the boomerang rebrand.

[@tammyjej]

Announcer: Cartoon Network has some brand-new Cartoon Cartoons this summer! Created by some major toon talents like David Feiss, the guy who brought you Cow and Chicken and I Am Weasel. Then there’s familiar names like Todd Kessler, creator of Blue’s Clues. And new guys like Maxwell Atoms, who’s making his first toon ever! The top toon talent of the planet are coming together to make 11 new Cartoon Cartoons, beginning Friday, June 9th at 9p in Cartoon Cartoon Fridays only on Cartoon Network

[@Sapov]

back when CN was interesting

[@Ian16545]

And thus was born a new breed of 'toons!

[@tammyjej]

Announcer: Nickelodeon animators are hard at work to bring you our newest Nicktoon: SpongeBob SquarePants. But don’t worry. It’ll be ready. Tune in this Saturday right after the Kids’ Choice Awards to check out a special sneak peek and then catch the premiere coming in July only on the best place to turn for new toons: Nickelodeon

[@justinchavez9530]

@tammyjej That promo looks amazing, love it! 😍👍👍

[@knuclear200x]

THere was sure a lot of hype for those World Premiere/What-a-Cartoons, like too much hype, and they were like 7 minutes long. Good times

[@thecritterfrittergetter7425]

Looking back at these, it's easier to see how things unfolded. Just the amount of hype they tried to instill in the new shorts showed how much they wanted them to be hits. Which to some degree most were, but at the same time it's that favortism that changed CN forever. As we each may pick a different date, but a lot of who miss an "old CN" will remember the days our favorites got pushed off the network in favor of whatever new thing CN has it felt deserved to be spammed. Which one hand, I can't blame CN for changing with the times, in the past re-runs were a big part of cable. Now not so much. But honestly dvds of the shows I would rather rewatch over what CN chose to show most often are probably the reason I made peace with losing this. As I suspect most of us have.

[@nicholasmoose6574]

Money ruined Cartoon Network. Most of the good old cable channels (TNT, USA, Nick at Nite, Cartoon Network) probably would have made more original programming from the get-go but they couldn't afford to. So instead, they had to be creative. That's where all this great interstitial material came from. They had to make old cartoons seem cool with clever advertising. (Some of us, who love old cartoons anyway, wouldn't have even needed the clever advertising to watch them but I sure am glad we got it!) Also, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, one of the best shows ever, came about because they couldn't afford to made a new character! As soon as they made enough money, they didn't have to be clever anymore. They could just buy new shows in an attempt to be trendy. Oddly enough, I think Toonami , which was composed of shows that were reruns from other sources, made Cartoon Network more trendy than any of the original World Premiere Toons did. It took years for stuff like the Power Puff Girls to really gain traction but once every Hot Topic Tween finally caught on to Dragonball Z, that was when the network really started going down the toilet. Sad to say we will never see an era like pre-1997 Cartoon Network ever again.

[@PhantasmPhoton]

man you nailed it.

[@docinhere5985]

While i'm sure they wanted new material to add to the collection to do successful, as really what network doesn't? But I'd say Cartoon Network in the Cohen era never really betrayed the "everybody gets their toons" mantra. As more joined some had to share a little more but that was what the Boomerang block and channel were supposed to supplement. Of course Boomerang itself is an elephant in the room. Launched in 2000 under Cohen, and at the time I don't think many people really saw the concept of the tv on dvd boom coming, let alone now with streaming and downloads. Just by comparison serious efforts by WB to release their cartoons on dvd didn't even begin for Looney Tunes until 2003 and 2004 for Hanna Barbera. Cohen had already left the network by 2001. While a lot of people still include those as good years, a lot of things that altered CN began then. In the end Cartoon Network still would have changed to the degree that all of cable has changed. But I think a lot of who have fond memories of this era probably do believe Cohen probably would have handled some things better had she of still been overseeing the network than what her successors did. But those are could-have-been thoughts not reality. But life changes and new battles are formed. So for some of us, the bigger battle no longer is returning Cartoon Network to the past. It's making sure everything we saw on CN then and now is available to us legally whether it's on physical disc, a digital download or on-demand streaming. Something we're still not able to say as far as most of the divisions in the Time Warner umbrella are concerned and plenty others as well.

[@AngelicChild09]

Omg I love this. I wish cartoon network would go back to normal and stop with all these live action and give adult swim a channel of its own. I miss Toon Heads and the old Looney Toons and all those back then cartoons. Smh whyyyyyyy????!!!

[@HulkieD]

Yeah. One of these days I'd loooove to hear why Hanna-Barbera gave it one name, yet Cartoon Network promoted them under an entirely different, unrelated moniker. They didn't start using the "What A Cartoon" name until 1997, well after the initial What A Cartoon project ended.

[@HulkieD]

All of H-B's internal promotion and production work for the original stuff labels it as "What A Cartoon", and not "World Premiere Toons". I've only seen that name used in Cartoon Network promotional material. It's clear that H-B called it one thing and CN called it another. My theory is that CN wanted to promote that these shorts are brand new, and WAC didn't convey that properly. When the newness wore off, they started promoting the shorts under H-B's name.

[@D3STRUKT0R99]

god damn 1:47 is frightening. I'm glad my family didn't get cable till like 1997, I would've been scarred for life if I saw that as a kid

[@MagnaderAlpha]

A lot of the commercials and bumpers from CN back during this time hark back to the type of commercials and bumpers Nickelodeon used to do in the 80s-early 90s. Love the randomness of them.

[@FunnistPreacher]

An exotic dancer?lol That would so not be allowed on the air nowadays. Part of why the 90s were great.

[@MegaJustGeorge]

Alan as an exotic dancer would not hold water - not only that, but Josie would never stand for it.

[@nickfurry486]

cn was the best in those days from 1993 till 2004

[@javianwilliams7463]

The live action stuff killed it, till they got canned by the Cartoon Network. Nowadays its still airing only toons.

[@trapadoored]

@SuperAdventures I always wondered why they called that episode of space ghost "president's day nightmare" I mean, I knew it was because the episode was simulcast on the three turner networks on president's day-but I wonder where the "nightmare" part came from. Maybe it was a hassle to put together because of how big of an event it was.

[@vidk1dd96]

Toonami, code lyoko, totally spies, johnny bravo, dexters labatory, powerpuff girls, billy and mandy. All of the CN shows in the past are my childhood; i ljust oved watching this channel wen i was a kid. Sighs good times.

[@boichop]

i used to loveeee that dinno nd lil tiger.lol

[@uptowndanram6753]

I assume that they intended on originally promoting the project as "World Premiere Toons", but the much more memorable "What A Cartoon!" at the beginning of every short is the name that caught on. Hence why they named their compilation show the "What A Cartoon Show".

[@uptowndanram6753]

You'll find that a lot of the humor in these early CN promos and interstitials are targeted towards adults, especially those who grew up seeing those very same cartoons. It got tiring re-running the same old shows over and over, so the people behind early CN did what they could with their tight budget.....lampoon and show these ancient toons in a new light. A lot of this stuff went COMPLETELY over my head as a kid. No surprise most of those guys are now running Adult Swim. =)

[@thephilchannel]

During this time, I was in 1st grade and came down with chickenpox.

[@ClassicTVMan1981X]

3:33, 4:48 - The "Valentoons" promos - uses Dean Martin's "That's Amore." Singer could be a "Dino" soundalike, though.

[@Troo44]

Anybody know the if the Powerpuff commercial music video is on youtube?

[@uptowndanram6753]

I don't have anything on Boomerang, apart from a promo for the OLD, early-to-mid 1990's incarnation of "Boomerang" on my first compilation vid (January 9-18, 1995) which you can catch just to the right of this post.

[@AngelicChild09]

I actually anticipated waking up in the early mornings just to catch god cartoons, now it makes no sense at all. Ahh man it sucks

[@93pinkrockgirl]

5:25 SPAAAACE GHOOOOST ♥ ♥

[@dylanwomack8742]

3:03 C. The Powerpuff Girls

[@uptowndanram6753]

Heh, McCracken and co. were so young back then............hard to believe that this was all 15 years ago as of this month, ain't it? The "What A Cartoon!" project forever changed Cartoon Network. 1995 was one of the, if not the most important year in the history of the network. They made a lot of "firsts" that year.

[@mattheweskender7781]

Fat boy bite on Cartoon Network logo 1:40

[@bluenowait]

3:02 I go with B!

[@vidk1dd96]

I hear that. Annoying Orange, Almost Naked Animals, Mad, Sidekick. WTH man?! What is all that?!

[@MrCartoonfreak90s]

damn i miss these days..

[@dreamcast8430]

Toon Heads👍

[@Kartoonkid95]

Were you anticipated to see the debut of World Premiere Toons? Do you have that cartoon recorded (and who starred in it)?

[@DanielaDisla]

L love World Premiere toons

[@camilorincon2520]

C. THE POWERPUFF GIRLS!!!

[@CartoonViolence6]

I doubt it. The stuff that Cartoon Network has now is unwatchable. As CR! at TGWTG has said, "When did my cartoons turn into the short bus!?!" Back in the early days of Cartoon Network and after the World Premier toons, there was nothing but greatness to be found. That applies to early Nick Days as well when they premiered Nicktoons for the first time. It was a great time. Now, they all are just sooo horrible.

[@FunnistPreacher]

Well, they brought back Toonami and Boomerang's still pretty cool, if that helps.

[@Jennydammit]

thats the short version of a flinstones fred-head promo.

[@Yaenipponcover]

The flying fuck! Craig McCracken looked very fine here...

[@uptowndanram6753]

@trapadoored Yes, I believe that's why that episode is titled as such, as simulcasting on three networks with just the small operation that Turner was at the time must've been a "nightmare".

[@moseslalmuanpuia8988]

Does anyone remember that old showcase where a bird and a computer acted as the showhosts

[@vidk1dd96]

Big Time!

[@kathymaduro]

Omg memory lane

[@47Cartoonguy]

Young Craig McCrackin looks like Avan jogia

[@spacemanmonster23]

who?

[@UnusualTastes]

George Washington sounded like Owen Wilson.

[@trapadoored]

@SuperAdventures -and I got cartoon network in (I think november) 95- I wonder if there is a reason they titled the "world premiere toon in" epsisode of SGC2C the "presidents day nightmare" -u can tell it aired on presidents day-but I wonder what was so nightmarish about it. I would kill to have some stuff from this era-like the 96 valentines day special with Brak and Zorak or the "johnny Questmas" christmas bumpers.

[@vidk1dd96]

I do 2 bro. 1995-2008 Cartoon Network has done its greatest work through those years and has got the attention of every person in the world! But after 2008, The guys who made CN screwed it up wit shows that were so, so horrible.

[@whammy850]

dino's response tho

[@LuckySailorStar]

*Sigh* World Premiere Toons... Are they the same thing as What A Cartoon! ? (I'm more familiar with the latter) You know, the network was actually planning to do a similar project with more modern people (ex: Craig McCracken , Chris Battle, Chris Reccardi ) titled Cartoonstitute. Unfortunately, the project got scrapped in mid- August (just about). It would have probably given the channel some new life. (However, some of the already made pilots got green-lighted, so maybe....)

[@Lupo32]

Wow i timed traveled

[@08WSChamps]

god damn they used alot of creativity for these ads. the old skool bright colors are great, the adult humor, all the unique ads, not one looked the same. i mean they mustev had a shit load of people working on all of those designs. just incredible marketing and artwork in to cartoon network back in the 90s when it was legendary. now it sucks. turned to the flash and crappy animation trend, yuk

[@WaLoliiiu]

CartoonNetwork was so much better back then! I'm so glad I was born in the 90's lol Nowadays they have shows like Regular show which is about douchy animals. -_-Adventure time and Gumball are decent..

[@Troo44]

@GothandJock I agree

[@yonskii]

7:00 talk about under the radar

[@stevenizback]

Craig McCracken ♥

[@08WSChamps]

@Kartoonkid95 lol god 4 bid right, it wa sa bit weird but people are way too over sensitive these days, and the cartoons just down right suck from just seeing commercials of them

[@gmcubed]

@yamihoole 7 words for ya: Shake it bake it booty quake it.

[@vidk1dd96]

Yep i would do the same thing but i dont have the Boomerang channel and it pisses me off!!

[@yonskii]

I'm a Fred-head

[@bluenowait]

First of all, it's a JOKE numbnuts! Second, what part of "All you can eat barbecue" don't you understand?!

[@AvocadoTomato]

Um, no?

[@musicman243]

When I watch Cartoon Network today, I die inside because i'm always reminded that the people running the network now have Brutally raped, and killed my childhood. :'( RIP "The Real" cartoon network (1992 - 2005) CN network can go to hell (CN real sux)

[@joeymasong]

hbk wost nightmare i'll have ever seen since the day or time endinding of 2012