Very Rare Pieces of Lost Media from Cartoon Network

The amount of lost content from Cartoon Network is so huge, let's dive into some of the rarest and most obscure content from the channel.

[@abicelestial3991]

I had absolutely no idea the Simpson's Sneak Peak was ever considered lost, especially since all it ever actually amounted to was a theatrical trailer, not even a Sneak Peak or extended scene. The animation that's looping in this video was played multiple times that week, and that's all it ever was, just a commercial for a newer (at the time) trailer. There was no Simpson's styled episode of Aqua Teen. I very much so remember getting excited to see the Sneak Peak that night, just to be let down by seeing nothing but a trailer. All that wasted effort. I even wore my ATHF;MFFT shirt that night.

[@th3_terminator]

Yup. I can confirm I also saw this, and there was never a full episode, just a trailer for the Simpsons movie. My 12 year old self was so pissed about it hahahaha. Felt like I'd been cheated

[@jixbyphillips]

This matches my memory as well! I was an obsessive Adult Swim recorder at this time and I know I have this promo somewhere on a decaying DVD-R. I really need to back that stuff up. But yes, I believe it was just promoting a Simpsons movie trailer. Adult Swim was doing a lot of promotional tie-ins with movies at the time. I remember a series of ads where they did crude stick-figure-like drawings on graph paper re-enacting scenes from the movie, essentially creating unique Adult-Swim only promos for movies. There is additional precedence for this: They did a promo for Austin Powers Goldenmember using a generic animation of Brak singing about the movie looking good (the song didn't name the movie because I think they intended to re-use it for other movies but to my knowledge they never did). So, Adult Swim had some extra money thrown at them from movie companies and they used some of it to create cool unique ads for them. There's your answer.

[@ThatManOverThere]

I remember seeing that ATHF trailer, and that was before even watching an episode of the show. That was so weird.

[@Tiger8566]

Full disclosure I haven't seen anything about it until this video but to me it clearly reads that way, like the ATHF video was a promo for a longer sneak-peek at the Simpsons movie, not that there was an actual longer crossover

[@angelinacamacho8575]

Still not as bad as when they aired the aqua teen movie in a small window during other shows.

[@TravelingCoder]

I remember there was a second Aqua Teen Hunger Force/Simpsons promo where they showed a message from a viewer that read “Did you remake the Simpsons trailer with Aqua Teen Hunger Force characters or am I insane?” And they replied “We never did that. You are insane.” But the screen would flicker showing brief clips of it again.

[@UitraSyko]

While it is disappointing that Van Partible doesn't want to share the pilot, I'm more relieved that he never lost it.

[@Margen67]

It very may as well be lost, though. It's only a matter of time before something happens to his copy (assuming he's the only person that has one)

[@philatio1744]

@@Margen67 considering the pilot went and turned into Johnny Bravo, i think, for sentimental value alone, he’s made multiple copies

[@Margen67]

@@philatio1744 Doesn't change the fact they're hoarding it.

[@philatio1744]

@@Margen67 i agree yeah. Not denying the fact. Do you think it’s part of his contract? Is he just embarrassed by it?

[@Margen67]

​@@philatio1744 Maybe he doesn't want to get cancelled.

[@charlotterepasky1675]

It's too bad there isn't archival of each full 24 hour broadcast in a channel's history. Imagine if you could go on a streaming service, type in a date, and watch every episode that was aired on the date in the exact order they were aired, with the same exact commercials.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

I recently had a bit of that experience watching some old VHS tapes I had. It was so surreal seeing stuff I hadn't seen in over a decade and even stuff as far back as 2002-3ish. It was a very different world back then to say the least. But you always have to keep in mind also HD wasn't a standard until probably 2007-8. So a lot of that content is in 480p or more likely than not 480i. It's definitely not as bad as I remember it but it's definitely not something I would want to look at for a long period of time. It would be definitely worth the effort on some of the stuff to up convert it to HD.

[@davidnotonstinnett]

This would have been impossible early on, and of no real value to anybody with money now.

[@MortusSweet]

@@davidnotonstinnett what are you talking about? I would spend money to have that experience.

[@tlamn1905]

And that EVERY Episode was there, no sneaky censored after-the-fact bolloks

[@tlamn1905]

@@MortusSweet I Second That. I'd be willing to add a Kidney, too!

[@WilfredCthulu]

Oh my gosh. This certainly unlocked a forgotten memory. Also nice intro. I've talked about this a bit ago but the first promos for Foster's Home where a character walked down the sidewalk seem to all be lost except for Bloo's. They made one for each of the main cast.

[@MegaLazyguy123]

I remember those

[@curtiswilliams5223]

@sponge swap Vinny and Joel are awesome

[@WilfredCthulu]

@Mary Lamb Wilfred

[@WilfredCthulu]

@Mary Lamb 8(

[@WilfredCthulu]

@Mary Lamb shock

[@thelonleyUchiha1]

It’s kinda sad how many of these “compilation” shows often go missing or are completely forgotten over time. Channels like Nicktoons and Cartoon Network relied heavily on these types of shows very early on in their history before they were successful enough to make their own content in house. Nickelodeon especially did this in their first few years of being on the air. I think because a lot of the content used in these shows could usually be found elsewhere and can be bought trough either physical media or downloads these kinds of shows get shoved to the side because it’s stuff people have already seen and can keep seeing. It’s the wrap around segments that I think are reasons why these shows still deserve to be saved because if done well it can really help pull in an audience and help introduce kids to these historical animations that were popular even before they were alive

[@1810jeff]

The actual content is rarely ever actually lost but what almost always is are the original art or bumpers made for the compilation shows.

[@JeSsLoVeZ1817]

remember the preschool hour prior to tickle U with Big Bag and Small World. a lot of Big Bag is found but Small world the whole episodes are missing despite like you said in compilation series the individual shows/pieces of media are accessible.

[@bradr3541]

That’s why Nick Jr. was awesome the first 2 years until they flooded it with original subpar content

[@PipesAndMonocles]

I remembered watching Popeye on Late Night Black and White when I was really young and it absolutely intrigued me. I didn't know it was show on the Late Night Black and White block until I did some research myself years later. I hope more episodes resurface soon!

[@pkkingcrimsonrequiem1332]

There was also The Popeye Show which did show the black and white ones regularly.

[@thEannoyingE]

There’s a Popeye cartoon called Happy Birthdaze, that has only aired a few times, and has never been included in any Popeye collections.

[@pkkingcrimsonrequiem1332]

@@thEannoyingE Happy Birthdaze is available on the Popeye The Sailor Volume 3 DVD

[@kevinr.3542]

Yeah it is. I have it. Happy Birthdaze isn't even that bad.

[@coolkevin5433]

Hey, Kevin from Swimpedia chiming in, we've actually discussed the Simpsons/ATHF promo before, and ultimately came to the conclusion that the end result must have just been a trailer or preview for the actual movie that night. Adult Swim has made a variety of cool trailers for real movies where the cool creation is the trailer, most recently for Jurassic World and The Bob's Burger's Movie. When it comes to ATHF in particular, Carl has been used to advertise other movies as well. Altogether, I'd be surprised if there was more.

[@georgeshelton6281]

This documentary video has grabbed my attention the most, since I've seen a deviant looking version of Homer Simpson. After all, I've just begun to care about honesty. For I know that honesty is everything. 😳

[@tlamn1905]

Carl did the TV spots for American Football and had a "Weekly Spot" on ESPN Rasio giving his outlook on the upcoming matches/games. All funnt as Hell. Esp. when he BURNED! CHarlotte as the worst sports-hosting-city/fans. Aside from Dr Katz and HM, and the Space Coast teaser, "Bob" was in the First Aired Episode, or something/sometype of mild error like that during Season One. Been a longtime, so pardon my brain. #BOOSH #ATHF=OG Edit: Just saw your Channel. Digging IT! Subbed and Cheers!

[@TastyChurro]

Pretty much this. Around that time I have been watching Adult Swim religiously and I remember this promo. What I don't remember was if the sneak peak was all done with ATHF characters. Probably wasn't because that would have been a huge impact and people would remember it.

[@Darkendvoid]

I had been watching AS for years at that point and I'm pretty sure you're 100% correct. If I remember correctly it was an unseen trailer that wasn't in theaters or on TV at the time that was advertising the movie lead into by ATHF characters. I worked at a movie theater at the time and remember all of us taking pictures on the couch of the standee. That standee was parted out to like 10 different people before Fox said they wanted it back and we were like uhhhh, we put in the dumpster...... I had Homers plastic head for while Edit: thinking back I'm pretty sure there was some silver surfer tie ins during their "bumps" around the same time.

[@tlamn1905]

@@Darkendvoid yep

[@johnmobile5747]

Saw the aqua teen thing back in the day. It is just a promo they played an actual trailer for the Simpsons movie. You can find WOC broadcasts from adult swim from that time pretty easily it would just be a challenge to find that specific date but I am almost certain it just played a trailer for the Simpsons movie. It would be awesome if there was a whole episode like that but there just isn’t I remember being bummed out that it was a normal trailer and not the aqua teen style

[@TaraGothGirl]

I actually taped it (though I have no idea where it is, or if I possibly tape over it later). I believe it was just the clip from the beginning of the movie where the Simpsons are in the theater, and Homer gets up to complain about it.

[@lilye7487]

if I remember correctly, AS aired quite a few "sneak peaks" of upcoming movies that were basically just the trailers for the movies but reanimated with puppets or something else silly. I think that was around the same time as this

[@TaraGothGirl]

I made sure to tape it because I hoped it would be a longer segment featuring the two franchises crossing over, and was a little annoyed that it was just a regular movie clip. IF Adult Swim did make a longer version, they never aired it. And considering all the clips in the commercial are literally recreations of scenes from the real Simpsons Movie trailer, I kind of doubt there’s a longer version.

[@lizardlord4k]

I remember that too, and I'm pretty sure it was just an ordinary trailer from the movie (which may I remind people came out the day after), and the most notable thing from it was the Aqua Teen promo, which I think was made because it had its own movie that came out a few months earlier.

[@johnmobile5747]

@@TaraGothGirl yea it’s something like that where it’s just a trailer would be cool if you can find the tape though so we can prove it to anyone doubting that it was just a trailer. I loved the aqua teen bumper and was really hoping it would be some adult swim special thing like they sometimes do. Adult swim history is a fun topic for sure like when some guy named Ed won a contest at Burger King and ran flcl all night remember watching that live or when tf2 and adult swim crossed over and you could get the adult swim items and a free robot chicken hat they were doing all kinds of cool tie ins in that era

[@geeker6350]

The Adrenalini Brothers actually received a full series over in the UK, spanning twenty-six episodes. I love watching it when I was growing up.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

That reminds me how the amazing world of gumball is a UK produced show, which just blows my mind.

[@hartofstone8380]

I'm Canadian, and I remember seeing them occasionally as a kid as well.

[@D3KaB1u3]

For Latin America, The Adrenalini Brothers shorts were aired on Nickelodeon and later on Adult Swim (Latin America)

[@mtacharlie649]

I'm sure this is public knowledge but the star wars parody "Thumb Wars" aired on CN once or twice around the time The Clone Wars animated series premiered. I didn't discover until years later that they aired a censored version because the original had Luke and Obi-Wan looking up hologram Leia's dress, along with some other language/adult hunmor.

[@tb3411]

I remember being so confused when Sunday Pants' 6th episode didn't air and got really disappointed that it stopped airing altogether. There were some interesting and fun shorts there. Some had some really fun aesthetics like "IMP" and "Oogloo & Anju"

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

2005 was an interesting time on cartoon Network. The next couple years would be some of their best but it would go into one of the most controversial and hated periods of it's entire existence, the 2008-ish CN real era. 2008 would also see the cancellation of toonami. It was dark dark times

[@EWOODJ]

For the ATHF promo, I remember it clearly. It was just a commercial for a Simpsons Movie trailer. That’s it, nothing more. As for Late Night Black & White, it was just a completely random mix of black and white cartoons, no special categories. But it was a good way to see a Betty Boop cartoon by chance seeing how they’re all black and white. You might see more than one if you were lucky.

[@squigin3380]

Same I remember thinking it would be a whole athf episode done in simpsons style but it was just a pfeview for simpsons movie.

[@s_SoNick]

Yeah, I've stumbled across this video from recommendations and it's really trying to make things out to be bigger than they actually were.

[@squigin3380]

@@s_SoNick I understand why people would assume there could be something lost from it though cuz I remember when I was a kid and saw the ad it did seem like there was going to be a whole athf episode in Simpsons style.

[@BlueFieldGamer]

The Thumbnail image of Homer will haunt my dream lol

[@kailiahseekings]

The Mao Mao pilot is considered lost media.

[@misanthropolis-zone-act3]

Didn't Mao Mao begin on Newgrounds

[@kailiahseekings]

Yes it did~ Thank you for saying that.

[@TheFPSKingsGaming]

Mao mao is lost media now

[@ZoogWeekendz]

What about the obscure episodes of Robot Jones with the original computer-generated voice?

[@johnmobile5747]

As a kid I remember being mad when his voice changed he didn’t sound like a robot anymore and so it wasn’t cool lol

[@jeremyabbott4537]

@@johnmobile5747 honestly when they started rerunning all the old episodes of Robot Jones with the child VA I was so upset! I stopped watching the show out of protest. It's like they completely missed the reason people liked the show!

[@BlackBloodCombatClub]

I believe a good bit of those are up on Internet Archive

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

It's always amazing just how deep the rabbit hole of lost media really goes. Even stuff from just a couple years ago (okay you know 10 plus years ago but still) there is so much stuff that's been lost to time just in the last 20 years or so it's remarkable. And it's entirely possible it will be lost forever unless we find old tapes or unless it shows up on someone's personal reel or something.

[@dissraps]

Why's that amazing? Movies have been around for over a hundred years. It goes from dozens to millions of pieces of content created a year over the time. I'm sure there's stuff from two months ago you'll never see again If that blows your mind consider all the thousands of years of history and writing that just ceased to exist when places like the Library of Alexandria got sacked by randos

[@tlamn1905]

Damn Skippy. I can't believe the HBO+ Deal excluded ATHF and Boondocks Episodes, plus they waited to be caught before admitting it! Thankfully, eagle-eyed FAM noticed. Unfortunately, as per, people were pissed for about five minutes. Meanwhile you know whom had to start a GoF...Me to save his Home. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Give it a bit longer, more and more ATHF, SL2021, SGCTC, Harvey, Squidbillies (before sacking Unknown), Boondocks, Frisky, RC, 12oz (OG), Perfect Hair, Morel, Toon, Smalls, etc. will slowly disappear from "The Vaults". These are Comedic Genius. Most people whom are all "Ardcore were too young to fully get the jokes and humour, Hell, being well-read helped! They were/are masterpieces but, they're not immune from Censorshite. However, I'm down for a Data-Dive and Data-mine whenever! Glad other OG FAM like yourself are out there! Respect and have a #BOOSH

[@brodriguez11000]

TV station tapes. Plus one can datamine old issues of TV Guide as well as other guides when following a trail.

[@Ekraelum]

I'm no expert in Cartoon Network lost media, but Robot Jones has some episodes made with a synthetic voice that ended up going unaired because they hired an actual voice actor, and redubbed everything.

[@DougSalad]

Wait, so Van Partible has "A Mess o' Blues" fully archived, and never lost it? How is this lost media? It was never even publicly available.

[@CosmicEternityCD]

WHOA!! I remember Sunday Pants! I used to avidly watch CN for years, so I definitely caught it a few times, and a few of those shorts were really familiar! I also remember Wulin Warriors too- Very vaguely! But I remember catching it once on Toonami and being really confused, but it stuck with me. This was a really cool video, this definitely resonated with me a lot more, because this is one of the most memorable CN eras for me!

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

I would honestly say it is no understatement that the best years of cartoon Network were pretty much the mid to late '90s up to about 2008. 2008 was when things started going downhill at the channel there were big shake-ups at the top toonami was canceled for the first time and we would see stuff like CN real show up.

[@mikeandmax750]

The hot dog show is incredibly similar to puppets they use in live shows performed by former Henson employees as well as Brian Henson called Puppet Up. I’ve been to a live show they held at Knott’s Berry farm and the hot dog puppets they used looked almost identical and they were giving away plush versions of them to guests. I am currently sitting right next to mine.

[@CheddarDefeat]

When LSSQ mentioned they were Henson co. puppets it brought me joy. Such an interesting group of puppeteers and artists!

[@theotakux5959]

The ATHF thing was just an ad for a movie preview. The actual preview was just a normal preview of the movie. Pretty sure it was just a trailer, it wasn't a full special. The ATHF ad was more interesting than the actual movie preview, but wasn't longer than the commercial

[@JamesLawner]

I’ve never heard of Sunday Pants, but I do remember The Amazing Adrenalini Brothers, it was actually a full series on CN outside the US.

[@nigelcraft6002]

Late night black & white and especially toon heads were so awesome. Space ghost coast to coast and o'canada were great too, really miss ancient cartoon network, it had a unique vibe.

[@arkmasterable]

I love whenever you talk about CN's lost media, and yes, I know there's most likely hundreds of CN lost media pieces, but Have you ever thought about researching CN international pieces of Lost Media? there's a lot that im interested in (but i don't really have the time nor the resources to search for them, but maybe you can find them). There's the popular (which is technically not lost, just "obscure"), like some PPGZ official art that came out in Japan and Spain which shows the girls in Yukata and in the hotsprings (that's not important though). Something I'm really interested in is bumpers dub. You see, when I was a kid, CN aired many bumpers (as you may remember). Half of them were original like comercials for local TV networks that aired Cn shows like Dexter (with his dubbed voice) talking to "El kiwi" (A children's TV host from my country) or the cartoons watching the music video for "Caraluna" (kzbin.info/www/bejne/h16zZYiDmNt-ick&ab_channel=Estebandido ) The other half where the bumpers from the U.S. but dubbed, and that's were things get interesting, bumpers like "Cartoons on the run" but dubbed, are things that I can't find, and I would love to watch it again with the voices I remember. Also, did 31 minutes (A puppet show from my country) also ran on Cartoon Network US? (I know there's an English dub and a portuguese dub that are lost media) The last thing I want to mention, is that supposedly, one of my favorite Magical girl show (Pretty Cure Splash Star) ran on CN Korea, and it had city era bumpers that are Lost Media (I don't know if that's true, but I would love to know) I really enjoyed your video, looking forward to the next one

[@DustyTheDog]

dude, I remember Sunday Pants so well. It was so obscure to me that it has stuck with me all this time. There was one skit of a character at a bar, all depressed and stuff, that I was like, "this is for kids?" Man, I have tried finding this show for years.

[@Jai6yn]

memories keep me sane, lost media absolutely breaks my heart idek why but someone worked on that, someone loved that and now it’s forgotten like that’s SAD.

[@denneyandthejets7833]

I distinctly remember Late Night Black & White being shown at a doctor's office sometime in the early 2000s - I had a terrible case of bronchitis and there was a TV in the waiting room playing it. I remember being terrified of these older cartoons. Even still, it's cool to see that this block existed and that it's considered a form of lost media.

[@Darklingfissure]

You only mentioned it briefly, but I actually saw Ed, Edd, and Eduardo when it first aired. Their were three shorts (all 1 minute or less) that all played either one after another, or very close to each other. I'm pretty sure they only aired once though. I only saw them the one time, and I was at an age where I watched cartoon network religiously at the time. If it helps, it aired right in the middle of an Ed, Edd, and Eddy marathon.

[@gallibon1319]

I can recall them as well. They were mainly just clips from Ed Edd n Eddy episodes with Eduardo edited into them. I recall one where Ed propelled a rocket off of his belly and it launched against Eduardo who was waiting outside and another one where Eduardo was being cornered by the Kanker Sisters. Surreal to know it's lost media.

[@YAHHHHHHH-xs3bc]

Aqua teen is the best. Definitely paved the way for alot of [AS] shows, maybe paved alot of the humor for innumerable young people from 2000- now

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

I don't know where things would be without adult swim in general. I mean cartoon Network was a defining channel for many people general and the end of the '90s and the first maybe 8 years of the 2000s were their best.

[@S33rofv0id]

The props exploting when they dont use them anymore really is top comedy

[@tlamn1905]

Mos Defo!!!

[@JeSsLoVeZ1817]

@@S33rofv0id check out the one Aqua Donk episode. Spoiler: Meatwad made the tv explode and Frylock had shake explode.

[@SynZ777]

"Look at him and tell me there is a God"

[@ReiYamiHikari]

I have something I believe to be lost media. Or at the very least, it was lost to me. And it's kinda silly but also very confusing because it shouldn't be lost at all? I'm sure that it could be solved quickly by someone with the CD. It's the song "Here Comes Trouble" from the Cabbage Patch Kids Sing For You album from 1997. The album is available on Spotify, iTunes, KZbin, and other digital music distributors, but it's not the song it says it is. For some reason, the digital copies of Cabbage Patch Kids Sing For You have another song listed as Here Comes Trouble, called "Remember To Call Me". I've known about this for years now, around a decade, and always figured someone would eventually notice. It seems like nobody has. I don't think the lyrics are even online. I had the CD as a kid, and I was fondly remembering it and tried to find it all those years ago. My then girlfriend joked that the song must have never existed. I remember most of the lyrics still. "Here comes trouble, It always stays the same My mom and dad say trouble ought to be my middle name I try and try to be so good but it always ends the same here comes trouble again I went and built a snowman In the middle of the hall The fact he went and melted was not my fault at all I fixed up granny's rocking chair to make it look brand-new How was I supposed to know she wouldn't see the glue? (ew)" There were more verses, but that's the only one that I can conjure in my mind right now. I used to know the entire thing when I was looking for it initially, and my memory of it has deteriorated. If this could be found, it would be fantastic. Did a little more digging and the song was written by Dave Cooke and Paul Field. The song "Remember To Call Me" is also from the album and digitized. But instead, it plays "Hold On", another song in the album. I cannot find "Hold On" anywhere, which would probably explain where my song went. I'm planning on buying a CD to get it back.

[@brandonpage7087]

Wow, that's pretty interesting. That definitely sounds like a form of lost media. Since you remember most of the lyrics, I very heavily doubt that "the song never existed". It certainly sounds like it existed to me.

[@TessaTron92]

I think this has stirred a memory of some song I had on a compilation tape as a kid, but I don't think it had anything to do with cabbage patch

[@superveryman]

Speaking of obscure CN media do you remember in 2007 when CN aired two episodes of their shows in 3-D (Out of Jimmy's Head and Foster's) I tried to find promotional material for the event but I could only find the 3-D version of "Nightmare on Wilson Way" (the Foster's episode) available for purchase on KZbin. Edit: I found it, but it was removed by the uploader.

[@goosebumpscompletionist7709]

I have been DYING for this topic. I will post it here: some people might remember The Eltingville Club Pilot Episode that aired in the early 2000’s based on the comics created by Evan Dorkin. However, only one episode ever aired on Adult Swim. I’m trying to figure out if there was any other made episodes of the cartoon because I would think there is a possibility they exist and have never seen anything or haven’t stumbled across anyone else looking for potential other episodes.

[@johnmobile5747]

For those who haven’t seen it kzbin.info/www/bejne/gqrYpGihr52qeJI It’s a real shame it never got picked up I loved the pilot it nailed the nerd culture of local card shop so well

[@superermac55]

From what i recall, only the pilot was made. Adult swim didnt pick it up cause it wouldve been too expensive at the time to produce. Shame, the show was really good

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

@@superermac55 Yeah a couple years later we would get that show I can't remember the name of with the barbarian that was also too expensive to make and was also passed on by [AS].

[@superermac55]

@@JohnDoe-wq5eu grognar the barbarian i believe

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

@@superermac55 Yeah it was something like that.

[@squigin3380]

I have a vivid memory of watching the simpsons aqua teen commercial and then tuning in at the specified time and being very dissapointed because it wasnt an actual episode of aqua teen done as simpsons but just a preview for the simpsons movie. I can say for certain they didnt air a simpsons sytle aqua teen episode cause I remember thinking thats what they were going to do and they didnt and it dissapointed me. one hundred and one percent sure no such thing exists, just that simpsons intro done with the athf characters.

[@elijahblechman8633]

Still be interesting to find.

[@alexredfield1943]

Will you talk about the classic character Graggle? It was such a bummer when he left the series

[@skies5350]

LMFAO

[@Scarlettaaaa666]

FOR REAL

[@VengefulNonsense]

One of these days the Graggle Simpson people are actually going to fool somebody lol

[@ExtremeWreck]

@@VengefulNonsense Actually I would bank on the idea that the Graggle Simpson people would lead to the discovery of a real lost 90s cartoon CALLED Graggle. Or Gragglers rather, because why not.

[@FoxBlocksHere]

I had no idea about the Sunday Pants episodes past #5! Thanks for bringing them to my attention! Sunday Pants is one of my most favorite forgotten cartoons.

[@rabiroden]

Oh yeah, Late Night Black & White. It was usually paired with "O Canada" before it, which I liked a lot. I only saw it a handful of times, probably over summer break. Its timeslot was a signifier for bed time, lol. But at like midnight it was kind of a perfect thing to zone out and doze off to.

[@jadedparanormality564]

If I’m remembering the right thing, I was obsessed with that Cartoon Oasis thing. There were stickers (I think they were called) from all sorts of shows. I so badly wanted to collect all the DBZ ones. It brings back so many memories of sitting on my Gateway computer in the summer, eagerly playing the many games on the CN site. It was so special. A place where all of my favorite cartoons and anime coexisted in this beautiful and chaotic period of the web. I miss those days. The unexplored depths of sites like the barely known KZbin where I watched the entirety of the Cell Saga of DBZ for the first time while popping down Lemon Heads. Back when the internet felt like this magnificent place that could connect me with people I would never otherwise have met. It was like this secret garden of content where I could find anything, and was awed by everything. If only there was a way to find that lost sense of wonder. Lost media feels like a piece of that childhood I took for granted, forgot for years, and learned to long for as I tumbled into my adult years. Thank you for your dedication to lost media. The mystery and mystique never fade.

[@ViviPestilenz]

Cartoon Orbit was so much fun. You could redeem C tunes from watching shows like Cartoon Cartoon Fridays. It was mainly just a card-collecting style game with animations and you could unlock various backgrounds and things for the characters. You could also visit other people's rooms from what I remember and my guess they shut down because it was too easy to make usernames and I had like 10 different accounts actually. As time progressed, so did technology and they probably realized that later on but you could spend certain points to unlock different character variants. You can see that when you look at the surfboard characters in the "lost footage" it was a really fun thing and they had a lot of promotional adverts for these toons on Cartoon Network. I used to watch that channel religiously and I find it bizarre that so much went "lost" after they moved the classics to Boomerang and that split I think had a decent amount to do with a lot of the content being lost and also the downfall of Cartoon Network's creativity. The website was incredible and the C Toons on Cartoon Orbit was one of my favorite past times on the internet when I was a kid. Really cool stuff probably happened in the early 2000's? somewhere around there. It was literally like you had a collection of these digital figures though and there were many promo items etc to collect them and If I am not mistaken you get the points from watching shows but also viewing other people's rooms. Also if I am not mistaken when you hovered over the little toons there was an info panel but also a way to make more points by collecting more C-Toons and they would have different codes in order to unlock the ones you see in different rooms if you were lucky enough. I think this was even more Nick had games on their website and I remember using America Online in specific to get these toons. lol

[@ShOscar]

Gotta use them AOL CDs with 50 free internet hours lol

[@NoobxJoe]

oh my GOD. Lady Play Your Mandolin was on KZbin back around 2009. I had it in my favorites playlist. It was in the Sidebar when i was watching CN Groovies with the Betty Boop Rollin one. Ill dig around to see if its around but I do remember seeing it. I havent thought about that short in ages!

[@FigmentForever]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/fpaliISwa8aSZtE

[@nsaspynetwork3196]

My first thought when you said black and white and adult swim is I remember watching the original black and white astro boy on adult swim back in the day. Made me a fan of the series. So so good

[@CyberRaptor24]

The Amazing Adrenalini Brothers did air on Boomerang in the UK, at around 4 or 5 am for several years (around 2010) where it ran along side (and for a time I believe replaced) long running reruns of Gadget Boy & Heather. Tbh when The Amazing Adrenalini Brothers was on I tended to change the channel until it was over if literally anything else was available as an alternative to it (it wasnt great...) Non of the other shorts you showed from that block were aired with it though

[@cyberraptor3265]

Oh yeah I remember that, Amazing Adrenalini Brother's was pretty uninteresting, if I was a awake when it was on it did legitimately make me wonder why I had even bothered to get up

[@shilota]

Yes I remember it being on in the UK too! I was confused when he said it wasn't aired separately because the characters looked soooo familiar to me (while the other cartoons didn't). Googled it and found out it was on both CITV and UK Cartoon Network.

[@bobelfsquirrelly3315]

I'm 38 and I still to this day watch CN. I remember before Adult Swim started, CN would play old Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies all night long. I'd get high, mute the TV, and play rap CDs while laughing at how good the cartoons and music would sync up.

[@nickshutteretc]

I loved Cartoon Orbit a lot. Many of the more expensive or promotional cToons were animated or could play audio. I vaguely recall some of them being playable minigames? Like, smaller even than your usual Flash games, they just played on top of your little wallpaper that you chose. I also caught every episode of Sunday Pants when that aired... for some reason. I liked a few of the bits back then but thought it wasn't very good overall.

[@georgeshelton6281]

When I first saw the appearance of the deviant looking version of Homer Simpson; this image had really grabbed my attention the most. Also I was right saying that, Johnny Bravo has Elvis Presley's voice. He really goes for Daphne Blake, she really fits his personality. Daphne Blake totally differs from the women, in the very way they act towards Johnny Bravo in his own cartoon series.

[@cykablyat1466]

CN had some really cool web games at the time. I remembered playing Orbit as a kid as well as a Teen Titans fighter game and some toonami themed rpg.

[@nickshutteretc]

@@cykablyat1466 the Teen Titans game was probably Battle Blitz!

[@REZPJ]

Never watched Aqua Teen, however lost adult animation is always my favorite

[@mattguy1773]

You should It’s amazing

[@Scarlettaaaa666]

Watch Aqua teen It’s really funny tbh

[@ratking9577]

Watch Aqua Teen

[@FigmentForever]

I’ll never forget the first time I watched. Used to be a heavy user of the “devils lettuce” during my early college years (05-07) & watching Hand Banana for hours. “All I know is “Ball, Good, and…. R-pe” “I want my name to be Spaghetti” “Oh he’s a man now….because he r-ped me!” Classic.

[@ratking9577]

@@FigmentForever Hand Banana was my first exposure to Aqua Teen too!

[@ShockwaveFurbyOfficial]

I think it was be cool if you talked about some obscure PBS kids shows :)

[@samwill7259]

Most singular series don't have two fully animated bits of lost media. Aqua Teen can't just keep itself out of trouble it seems, but hey, if there were any show it'd fit.

[@nickmusicman2285]

This just goes to show just how much content Cartoon Network provided back in the day. Blocks like Toon Heads, Tex Avery, Late night black and white. Also the cartoon themed spinoffs like JBVO. All the bumpers in between shows. That's why CN was my favorite channel for cartoons back then.

[@BabyCharmander]

Oh my gosh, I’d entirely forgotten about Cartoon Orbit and this punched me in the face with nostalgia. I have vague memories of playing it and trying to collect all the EEnE things, and I also vaguely remember it was a pain to login to? Or maybe I just forgot my password frequently, haha. Thanks for bringing back the memories!

[@Supersadist]

Cartoon Orbit was my Jam, but I remember very little. I remember one C-Toon from Cartoon Orbit very specifically. It was the Oxymoron Ox from Sheep in the Big City (if you search in KZbin for 'Sheep in the Big City Oxymoron Detergent,' it will pull up what I'm talking about.) The C-Toon was just the Ox inside of a circular frame, and when you clicked it, it would play the 'catch phrase' moose sound followed by the 4 xylophone notes, which you can hear at the end of the Detergent clip I mentioned above. It was my favorite C-Toon, and i clicked it all the time lol. I also definitely had a golden Courage C-Toon I was very proud of, and I remember getting animated C-Toons was pretty coveted. I believe you could put up C-Toons for auction or trade, and other people could send you offers on them. Usernames were randomized by the website, meaning you couldn't type your own and had to select from generated names. The names included characters from shows, with other random words. I know mine had the name 'Nazz' in it, like FuzzySuperNazz, something like that. A lot of C-Toons were limited and could sell out

[@SakuraStardust]

Great video, as always!

[@jayman4095]

Man you're taking me wayyyyyy back and dusting off some of the dustiest core memories, I remember late-night black and white, not long after is when I started watching Space Ghost Coast to Coast, and Home Movies.

[@CherryPixelBun]

oh my god i havent thought of Sunday Pants and Cartoon Orbit in so long. When The Amazing Adrenalinis popped up as a web series on the YT channel HuHaTV I really struggled to recall where I saw em before despite vidily remembering the shorts themselves. For a while I just assumed it was a Nicktoons Network thing that aired alongside stuff like Leader Dog and Tortellini Western

[@DraculaMarth]

It was on Nicktoons for a little bit and they took it off shortly before Sunday Pants premiered

[@jimmylopez4142]

Knowing adult swim , they probably put an aqua teen parody special of the Simpsons on their schedule to troll people. It most likely never existed

[@Dong_Harvey]

i remember watching the premier of the ATHF Movie live on air, in a small corner of the screen, even played during commercials

[@jimmylopez4142]

@@Dong_Harvey I was thinking of that too

[@panasonic3DO]

Love your content, always leads me down countless rabbit holes and envokes extreme nostalgia, thanks!

[@PigBoy99]

Have to do a bit of schoolwork and was looking for some background noise Perfect timing for this upload!

[@nickpratt6248]

I remember playing Orbit with my siblings and mother. I remember going to my wall. With the wall you can customize it with special stickers, statures and games. They had Golden Statues that was the top thing to get. I remember getting a really rare golden one. They also had these tiny games you can put up on your wall and if you are good at the games you get special codes for stuff for your wall. Cartoonnetwork also had special codes that would air on certain tv shows. Obit also had like a auction house to get stuff. You should of seen the prices of the golden stuff and DragonBall Z suff. You know you had a amazing wall when you had all the golden stuff, games, and all the DBZ stuff. Later in the life of cartoon obit they had a card game that was really fun called Gtoons (Could be another lost media video). the card game was unique to say the least. It's been so long I don't really remember the mechanics of the game. I use to play Obit everyday.

[@GrandDab]

Games from the Cartoon Network website would be an interesting topic to cover since I'd assume most of them are lost at this point, especially now that Flash is dead. I distinctly remember two MMOs that they made, one where you were a kid that had to do missions for various Cartoon Network characters, and one based around Codename Kids Next Door. The Kids Next Door game was interesting since there was a contest in-game where the player with the highest score would have their character featured in the show.

[@johnmobile5747]

The mmo is called fusion fall and you can still play it through the fan restoration

[@andreasavy7]

I remember there was a Powerpuff Girls Z game on the website, but I can't find it anywhere. Only images

[@MixMasterLar]

The one I remember was Kick the Can. A silly flash game but it was pretty fun

[@Coolestyellowdrinkereverooo]

it's very interesting seeing you talk about some stuff related to cartoon network that hasn't been talked about in years witch to me gives me the spooks to my body

[@AdrianGhastly]

Hey dawg. I’ve been a big fan of your videos for a real long time. I’ve been really digging the frequent uploads! But I want you to make sure that you’re taking breaks when needed to avoid burnout !

[@host23]

I’d like to bring your attention to a new piece of lost media. To promote its shows Cartoon Network started a web series called another week on cartoon. It featured a man talking about new episodes of Cartoon Network shows like Steven Universe, Regular Show, Clarence, and more. It had two seasons and didn’t do so well with views. Some episodes getting less than 10k. However episodes 10,11,12, and 13 of season 1 are lost. I hope you guys can help find it, cause the shows pretty good. I think the best person to contact is Agustín Fernando Trenchi, cause he is credited for creating the series at the end of every episode

[@REZPJ]

Ratio

[@PigBoy99]

@@REZPJ no

[@Ekraelum]

They'd also air them on the actual channel, I remember they actually aired it after Toonami sometime after they definitely stopped airing Regular Show.

[@georgewilson7432]

That segment was aired exclusively in Argentina, right? I remember it, I thought it was popular enough.

[@host23]

@@georgewilson7432 I know it was only in a few countries

[@JrIcify]

15:00 The cover for "Planet Dearth" reminds me so much of those first years after Adventure Time came out, when both Nick and CN were producing a TON of shows like this about lighthearted fantasy parodies. It also reminds me of Dave The Barbarian which did it much earlier than Adventure Time. This show might have been way ahead of it's time in a lot of ways.

[@raspberry1440kb]

I just got done listening to your hour long Nickelodeon compilation, so seeing this video is a very nifty treat!

[@NightshadeQS]

Holy shit. I had no idea Sunday Pants was so obscure or how short its run time had been. I recorded two episodes during their original airing and rewatched them frequently. We had those recordings on our DVR for about 6 years, when we unfortunately switched cable providers, losing the recordings. I was just a kid when all of this happened, so I didn't have the means to achieve the stuff, but wow.

[@ZeepTheWocky]

Coincidence, I was just watching ATHF when this showed up in my notifications!

[@Ranmarotto]

I played so much cartoon orbit when it was big, but unfortunately my memory fails me on unique pieces of media like the specific crossover events and images you showed. What I remember a lot of is the ctoons themselves, they had a lot of different versions of their main properties for different seasons and stuff, cutouts of (what I think were?) screenshots of the characters like Ed Edd n Eddy celebrating thanksgiving or Powerpuff Girls in Autumn clothing with scarves etc. Some of those might of (or had to have been) drawn outside of just cartoon screenshots, maybe they're still archived in what's available of the remnants of ctoons. I also vividly remember some of the flash games that you could play to earn points (though I don't remember if all gave you points or some were just website only), like the summer resort series and the powerpuff girls pillow fight. There was such a charm to the early 00's flash games.

[@sosemiteyam562]

Thanks for reminding me about that pillow fight game.. Was so fun. Alot of those games were.

[@AlejandroDiaz-ll5eq]

wild. i lived through all of this and the scenery unlocked so many memories. thanks supersoniq for the trip down memory lane. born in the late 80s i was there for the majority of this. the toon heads intro was like a fever dream that made me yell at my screen "i remember that!" super cool video man

[@AlejandroDiaz-ll5eq]

omg now going into mid video adult swim was my jam and 12oz mouse was hilarious! drinky crow, ATHF...all of that was awesome

[@AlejandroDiaz-ll5eq]

also the whole point of AS back then was to do stuff like the simpons sneak peak. it was to make high teens/college students go "what tf??" and question their sanity. AS now idk. haven't seen it in a while. dont even know if it exists. but 2003- roughly 2010 was wild

[@Shanksspeare]

This was a great video! I remember most of these from when I was a kid/teen. It was a fun trip down memory lane!

[@YujiUedaFan]

The Flying Adrenalini Brothers aired as its own separate show here in the UK for a long time.

[@marcusblackwell2372]

I don't know if anyone is going to notice this, but while I don't know if it's actually lost, I do know that this community is willing to help those who want to find things from their past (to a degree), so here goes: A few years ago, on TLC of all places if memory serves, there was a mini-block that used to air on Saturday mornings I think, and it only had two shows: The Magic Roundabout (there was a CGI show), and another one that had an inventor living in a wild house, with seemingly sentient robots that flew, and were all kinds of wacky, and if I recall correctly, the robots had their own segments, talked, sang the opening, and appeared in the credits (speaking of, I have the opening melody in my head but I don't remember the words). Also, the setting looked a bit like a mix between old, Renaissance era Europe (Italy if memory serves) and either the Industrial Age or the modern day (take your pick if you watch the show), and the animation looked similar to The Garfield Show, but it wasn't made by the same company. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? I saw it in the mid-2010s I think, if it would help. Edit: forgot to add a part. I fixed it though

[@gabepollock1641]

It probably wouldn’t have been TLC. Their last kids block was Ready Set Learn in the 2000s. Either your timetable is off or it wasn’t on TLC. I will keep looking though.

[@marcusblackwell2372]

@@gabepollock1641 I know that it was around the time period. See if you can find any channels in America that aired The Magic Roundabout on a block with very few kids shows. That may be the key

[@somedumbloserscsgochannel5942]

Hearing you talk about Cartoon Orbit ~ 17:35 absolutely obliterated me. I completely forgot about it and I had spent an exceptional amount of time collecting as much as I could for my orbit page, and the little card game you could play with it as well was also incredibly fun (at the time, I have no idea if it genuinely had any complexity or it was just exciting because "Hey I played *Insert favorite characters/scenes here*"). Thanks for the reminder :) Edit: There was an excessive amount of content available for it too. On top of what you mentioned, there was also short clips you could have play on mini TV's on your page, and I believe that while most of them were just episode clips, I have to imagine they made at least a couple unique things just for the game. It's entirely possible there's a lot more missing than anybody even realizes. Apologies I don't have more information to spare on the topic, but as it was shut down in 2006 and I was only 11 at the time I don't have very many concrete memories of the time period. All I remember is that to little 5 to 11 year old me it was one of the best things.

[@corey725]

I completely forgot about it too! The card game was so much fun, so many hours spent on my computer playing it. I was super into trading cards and trying to collect all the DBZ characters! Soo much fun as a kid. I almost want to see if I can boot up my old computer and check what screenshots I saved from forever ago. It's been sitting in my cabinet for like 15+ years without being turned on, so who knows if it would even work.

[@somedumbloserscsgochannel5942]

@@corey725 You should absolutely do that. Even if you never update anybody on what you find, the magical things you'll remember will definitely be worth it!

[@SuperDavidBrothers]

Nice man! Speaking of both Simpsons and adult cartoons, can you please make 2 separate videos in the future? One about Simpsons lost media, and another about Adult Swim lost media?

[@MusicMan32K]

Maybe someone here can help. I'm trying to remember a show that aired on Cartoon Network in 1996 or 1997 that was like a one time special, (and I don't think it aired more than once for obvious reasons) but it was like a half-hour of short cartoons that were a little more adult oriented (and this was before Adult Swim of all things). The first clip had some uncensored male nudity with a naked dancing guy. There was also a short that featured the talking cigarette from Dunesbury and a tearjerker clip about a sound artist. It was kind of all over the place with its subject matter

[@NYGJMAP]

We need a whole cToons/gToons episode. Man I wish I could see my old collection!

[@ldawg7117]

And, I still remember watching a bunch of this as a kid. Brings back some serious nostalgia and forgotten memories.. definitely makes me feel old and nostalgic

[@DecadoPrime]

This may be coincidental, but I literally watched that Simpsons promo like last week after randomly remembering it. Cool to see you covered the topic.

[@BitestheStuff]

I remember Toonheads. That and stuff like the Tex Avery Show or the Chuck Jones Show were some of my favorites. Looking back, they were quite educational and very entertaining. Giving you a look into the animation history and sometimes how films were made. It was so fun and fascinating to watch. It really helped peak my interests in animation, and made Cartoon Network my most watched TV channel. Even when my parents couldn't afford cable, I would sleep over my grandmother's house, where she had it, and watching cartoon network was a blast. I would stay up late watching the Boomerang offerings as well. Where I got introduced to Space Ghost, lots of Hanna Barbera classics, and the Banana Splits. I'd watch it all on Friday and Saturday Nights until the infomercials started running.

[@DigitalPand3mic]

Wow you must have been born late 80's to mid 90's. Im not even 30 but its like no one at all remembers toonheads or the chuck jones show! I only remember that because they would rotate that and looneytoons.

[@rustyrocks69]

Get yourself on "myspleen" they have all the tex Avery and a lot of chuck

[@jacksonteller3973]

I tapped out of CN around 2006-2007 or so and don't feel like I missed a great deal, all of the good shows on there after that I had to catch online(Thundercats 2011, Young Justice, Beware the Batman, Green Lantern etc).

[@jimmymetal713]

Yeah I mostly stopped watching around that time, I was in high school and more in concerts and chicks lol

[@jacksonteller3973]

@@jimmymetal713 I was busy playing Xbox 360 myself and seeing films in theaters.

[@hhavi0]

This stuff is so interesting, another great video

[@Jvnet10]

As someone who's been watching these videos for a long time (thanks for the good stuff, yt algorithm), I've always found it fascinating and a little sad how the lost media genre keeps piling up with no end in sight. I hope in the future warner make some of this long-forgotten content available on its streaming services, fingers crossed. My only complaint is the lack of link sources in the description.

[@seewede]

I remember Late Night in Black and White and I’m pretty sure I remember watching SUPER old episodes of Astro Boy on Adult Swim. I thought I was crazy and that it was something I made up but thank you for talking about this!!

[@e1028]

I remember them airing Astro Boy and Captain Planet always early. Like 4 am.

[@dcpotatoandbobicecweam864]

Maybe this isn’t a piece of lost media, but I remember I was on vacation and was with my aunt and cousins. The TV was turned on and the title logo was “Nova”. It was a science show, basically asking questions about life and had some cool effects that immersed you in the topic. The show itself was a very old, 90s looking one. The episode I watched was about spiders and I remember that I thought Neil Degrasse Tyson was going to get eaten by a spider, but luckily he got out in time. I believe it was on PBS. I’ve tried talking to my family members about this, but they don’t remember. I thought that searching it up on KZbin would yield results, but nothing. I thought that someone would remember, or that I could find it but what I found wasn’t the old show I remembered. Hope You see this! Love your Lost Pieces Of Media videos!

[@gabebrahe5553]

Oh, in terms of Late Night Black & White - I recall having saved an asset from the CN website around 2002(?) on the cinema page of this little rubberhose looking character - your video just helped me realize that the character was the mascot for that program! Crazy!

[@Im-BAD-at-satire]

I'm surprised some of these lost media I vaguely remember, it's been so long. The Sunday Pants with the two monster characters I particularly remember, and just seeing the old cartoon network clips releases feelings of nostalgia; the kind of nostalgia you get when certain aspects of your memory forgotten it but other aspects have complete memory of it. The different forms of memory. It's difficult to explain what I mean.

[@brucetheshark3573]

I have no proof but I can somewhat confirm the origins of the Aqua Teen Simpsons promo. I remember it airing one day on Adult Swim. The reason it was made was to promote a sneak preview clip of The Simpsons Movie. I do not remember what the clip was other than the fact that it was from the movie. if anyone is wondering the promo itself is quite literally just audio from a trailer of the Simpsons movie, but replacing the visuals with a recreation made with aqua Teen characters. I wish I had proof of all this. But it's what I remember from when I was around 6 years old in 2007

[@bobdole360]

You just helped me put an end to 15 year(at least) memory I had by showing one small clip of IGPX ( 19:32 ) I remembered playing an old flash game but all I could remember was Robots and turn based combat and it haunted me too no end. As soon as I saw the mechs flash on screen I choked on my food and frantically typed IGPX Browser Game into google... And I found it... Unfortunately there seems to be only 1 surviving video of it on KZbin. I didn't expect to find the game as it was made in shockwave and I feel like anything made in adobe shockwave is practically lost to time but just seeing 3 min of gameplay put mind at ease. The company Templar Studios lost their own backups to the game apparently so it seems lost forever I assume but never the less... Thank you! Edit: I actually found a 2 hour gameplay video of it on KZbin which says it's in the flashpoint project so I'm gonna go try and play it for nostalgia

[@harveyradius]

I remember cartoon orbit and seeing the C-toon album covers as a kid. I just found your channel through this video, so apologies in advance if you already have. I know this probably isn't "lost media," per se, but i think you should do a video on Cartoon Network: Fusion Fall. The open world game where you could make your own character and interact with almost any character from any CN show. Lots of great but faint memories of it.

[@kingnewcomer2029]

I definitely remembered seeing the Aqua Teen Hunger Force characters dressed up as The Simpsons characters to promote the upcoming Simpsons Movie at the time (which I actually did managed to go see it in theaters by the way, it was on my half-brother's wedding day too)! Though considering that supposedly this was going to be a Simpsons Movie by a sneak peek with the Aqua Teen characters that only aired once, I hope people have been able to archive it via video tape if it is true as I would've loved to have seen characters from my favorite animated series move around as Simpsons characters throughout the sneak peek film (also neat that The Simpsons Movie, and Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters came out the same year being 2007)! I do remember Sunday Pants as well despite its extremely short run. I hope we can find the rest of Episode 7 as well as the other currently lost episodes. Wow, so Van Partible had several other cartoons? Now I'm really curious! Very neat that Cartoon Network had a show that aired black, and white cartoons years before Toon Heads aired in the channel's very early years! Maybe some episodes, and promotional anthologies will get archived one day. I think I have heard of Cartoon Orbit, and may have even seen it, I just don't remember if I've ever played it, and if it wasn't for this Ryan fellow, it might would've remained lost forever. I do hope we can find more episodes of the original series the extremely short-lived Wulin Warriors show was adapted from! I definitely don't remember the hot dog puppet shorts whatsoever despite me watching CN so many times as a kid, and onward. XD Another excellent video, LSSQ! :D

[@PortSDG]

people seriously don't know about the aqua teen thing? the whole thing is pretty much just the simpson's movie trailer but they replaced the characters with aqua teen characters and IIRC it aired a few weeks before the simpsons movie came out, the "sneak peek" was either a clip from the movie or a whole new trailer for the movie can't remember entirely because it's been so long but can say for certain it was made to promote the movie.

[@Twinklethefox9022]

I didn't know about it until now

[@mihsan660]

miss your vids dude! love from the UK!

[@jnos93]

You literally unearthed Cartoon Network orbit from my memory banks! I used to love watching tv to get those codes it was such a cool thing.

[@deadlockoriginalfilms2.096]

I almost hope that the sneak peek of The Simpsons movie is just early footage from the movie The Simpsons Movie had well over a hundred drafts of the screenplay, and fully animated storylines were cut from the final film. If you watch a lot of early trailers and sneak peeks you can see stuff that isn't reflected in the final movie They made TOYS of charachters made for the movie who were later cut

[@ExtremeWreck]

Woah, that is WILD! Sadly, people said that it was just that one parody sneak peek over & over again as a way to troll people.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

@@ExtremeWreck A classic adult swim move that they continue somewhat to this day.

[@hotstankygarbage788]

Only black and white cartoon I watched on Adult Swim was Gigantor. It played every morning at 5 when I had to get up to get ready for school.

[@nin10dad]

I remember everything you talked about in this episode 😂 I think I might have some vhs recordings of the Saturday morning movies that aired every week

[@axeoseilez3207]

Wow now theres a throwback i remember watching late night black and white before bed on weekends. God that takes me back

[@mind-of-neo]

I dont think enforcing artificial scarcity of an old cartoon is that noble, lmao

[@archagenteverlasting1239]

I also dont think its evil, its just a random cartoon lmao

[@mind-of-neo]

@@archagenteverlasting1239 right

[@a_person5668]

Eh, the hunt’s always the fun part. So extending the hunt and not letting it end can be understandable

[@SuperGoomba6464]

There's was so much random and amazing shit on Cartoon network 98-2005, the creativity was un paralleled.

[@DPlex]

it's always a good Thursday when these are uploaded.

[@paynt3770]

3:32 I knew i saw this before so thanks for bringing up how it had reruns when I was actually alive

[@mostverticalproductions4808]

I've still wondered for years if that was a real thing AS made or just something for shits and giggles.