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THEY SAY YOU CAN NEVER GO HOME AGAIN

They might be correct after June 27. ☠

Watch Checkered Past LIVE Monday through Friday at 5 PM on @adultswim! 🏴‍☠️🏁

X post here.

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20 years ago, on the Cartoon Network.... Genndy Tartakovsky's Star Wars: Clone Wars aired Season 3 and ended on after Anakin Skywalker rescued Nelvaanians (named after the studio that brought you Star Wars: Droids and Star Wars: Ewoks)

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8 years have passed since Samurai Jack got back to the past...

so what's Genndy Tartakovsky been up to during that 8th year? Not to mention The Cartoon Network of course...

Jellystone!'s Season 4 opener "Cartoon Network vs. Jellystone! Crisis on Infinite Mirths", yet another CN crossover episode, was promoted at SDCC 2024 and premiered on HBO Max; the special will premiere on linear television at 10:30 AM Sunday, May 25th, 2025... only on Cartoon Network!

New Line Cinema has Sony Pictures Animation given back the rights for the 2D raunchy adult animated comedy Fixed as another cost-cutting move on Warner Bros. Discovery's part. It was likely to air on [as] with co-production by Cartoon Network Studios, but now it will stream on Netflix in August 2025, and pictures of the film are revealed.

Dexter's Laboratory: The Complete Series was released on DVD in stores featuring Dexter's Laboratory: Ego Trip, which was originally set for its own DVD release but decades later became part of the set.

Genndy Tartakovsky revealed some artwork and a part of the script for Sym-Bionic Titan Season 2's opener (technically Season 3 as CN promoted 2 seasons that make Season 1 up) on his Instagram account.

I got 2 Cartoon Network t-shirts that were not totally official CN merch but branded by Port & Company Ring Spun Fan Favorites.

AWorkersignited got #RIPCartoonNetwork trending although there wasn't any official news otherwise of CN in danger of shutting down. Cartoon Network also trended over "reheated leftovers" for Generation Alpha with more Regular Show content to come.

Primal Screen began to wrap production on their final works up and reincarnated as Space Monster Studio.

Toonami Rewind lasted from May 31st, 2024 to December 27, 2024 due to licensing fees for rerunning the 3 anime that they aired (Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z Kai, and Naruto). ACME Night hasn't been active since December 29, 2024, and the Cartoonito branding may end in the US by May 26, 2025.

Samurai Jack aired only 8 episodes of Season 1 on Checkered Past before it was pulled off; it's unknown if it'll return. What a Cartoon! including poor quality butchered prints sourced from The Cartoon Cartoons Show prints also started to occasionally air on the block as well as compilation episodes of Cartoon Planet (1997 version).

Invincible Fight Girl ended up airing on Toonami while Iyanu went to CN; the latter is the most successful Cartoon Network original (though entirely third-party and not even co-produced by the network at all) this year. Duck Dodgers (the series) as well as brief airings of Steven Universe and The Powerpuff Girls reran on CN on weekends. Totally Spies! Season 7 also aired on CN but with new actresses from Distribimage NYC instead of Jennifer Hale and friends due to issues regarding SAG-AFTRA union rates. The Venture Bros. reran from the pilot onward on [as] from August 11, 2024 to May 4, 2025 in celebration of that show's 20th anniversary.

Warner Bros. Discovery may spin some companies off but I'm not sure if Discovery is going to decide to split from WB yet or not.

Genndy Tartakovsky planned to attend a SCAD event but couldn't due to a storm.

Spumco/Ren & Stimpy veteran Jim Smith died as reported on May 2nd, 2025 (6 years after Chris Reccardi - also a Spumco/R&S and Samurai Jack veteran - died). The manliest artist in the world contributed storyboards and prop design to some episodes of Samurai Jack but mostly did character design for Season 2.

Lorenzo Estrada made some fake Uncle Grandpa "Powerhouse-era" Cartoon Network bumpers.

Some Cartoon Cartoons revival shorts are cancelled by WBDiscovery, and, after 4 years since new Gumball content, The Amazing World of Gumball (now titled The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball) will stream exclusively on Hulu instead of airing on TV.

Craig McCracken, Mike Collins, Ricardo Delgado and Andy Bialk have their Twitter/X accounts deactivated probably due to political discourse.

I can't recall much else but I'll modify this post when I've more mental energy to focus.

First year passing

Second year passing

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Fifth year passing (incomplete)

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Anyone up for a game of Drilling Billy?

(AKA The Worlds of Billy, one of the less popular PC games out there...)

Tweet version here.

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It's a miracle that there are still cartoons with this much visual acting (even for this gag) and within strong construction and appeal of style that still air on Cartoon Network and linear TV overall for that matter

(Tweet post here)

Episode: "WINGED WARRIORS"

DIRECTED BY KEN MCINTYRE

STORYBOARD: BRANKO KLJAJIC, JAYLEN TATE-LUCAS

LEAD CHARACTER DESIGN: JUNPEI TAKAYAMA, MARINA GARDNER

CHARACTER DESIGN: RILEY PHILLIPS

CHARACTER CLEANUP: PABLO BERMUDEZ, SARA ANDERSON

COLOR DESIGN: ANAND DUNCAN

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Gorgeous drawings from The Looney Tunes Show episode "Off Duty Cop" (2011)

Tweet post here.

LEAD CHARACTER DESIGN: @jessicaborutski

ART DIRECTOR: John Calmette

CHARACTER DESIGN: Jennie Hoffer, Bob McKnight

STORYBOARD: Douglas Anthony Craig, Will Finn, Curt Geda, Amber Hollinger, Douglas McCarthy, Ken Morrissey (as Kenneth B. Morrisey), Cythina Petrovic, Charles Visser

STORYBOARD CLEANUP: Ken Boyer, Mark Christiansen, Gavin Dell, Shakeh Haghnazarian, Chris Peterson, Miguel Puga, Robert Sledge

TIMING: Jeff Hall, Kirk Tingblad

ANIMATION SERVICES: Toon City Animation, Inc.

CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Russ Mooney

ANIMATION DIRECTOR: Joseph Jubilee Balderas

LAYOUT SUPERVISOR: Levy Vergara

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One serving of the @dorkymations cartoon Scoop D'état (2023) is NOT enough!

Finally saw the animated short film today via the YouTube reupload one of my followers DM'ed it to me on Twitter/X. It is gold and the independent crew at Sick Mutt need a career in the toon biz!

Not to mention the music by T.J. Loudon. Really catchy stuff! Also it has some elements that remind me of Guy Moon's score

Here it is if you want to watch it (content warning: some elements of nudity and brief crude language)

Alternate tweet here... though I threaded that it was a reupload

STORY AND DIRECTION BY: Kostas Firinidis

STORYBOARDED! BY: Kostas Firinidis AND! S. MATT MAIOLA

WRITTEN BY: Justin M. Morgan! AND Kostas Firinidis

CHARACTER DESIGNS By: Kostas Firidinis AND MARINO YINUG!!

LAYOUT ARTISTS: LILY REYES, RANIERY OLIVEIRA, KOSTAS FIRINIDIS, JOHNNY HOARE, MIKE HAMMONS, S. MATT MAIOLA

BACKGROUND ARTISTS: KOSTAS FIRINIDIS, LILY REYES, ADA YASIN, TEDMOND AYETTEY

SPECIAL THANKS: KYLE A. CARROZZA, VINCENT WALLER, TOBIAS KREBS, RACHEL JEFFORDS, DYLAN CARBONELL, JOSEPH NETLEY, MARC JOE, FRIENDS & FAMILY... AND THE WHOLE CREW AT SICK MUTT

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That new [adult swim] anime LAZARUS is some gorgeous stuff...

(Tweet version here)

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Cartoons + Tara Strong

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Cartoons + Jennifer Hale

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Almost 4 years after the Freakazoid! crossover "Hugbees", Teen Titans GO! pulled ANOTHER surprise crossover... this time with Loonatics Unleashed!

...sort of

Episode "UNLEASHED"

STORYBOARD: BRANKO KLJAJIC, CHRIS MARTIN

LEAD CHARACTER DESIGN: MARINA GARDNER, JUNPEI TAKAYAMA

CHARACTER DESIGN: RILEY PHILLIPS

CHARACTER CLEAN UP: SARA ANDERSON, PABLO BERMUDEZ

Tweet version here.

This made for quite a Saturday morning lineup on Cartoon Network yesterday and I could not sleep on it... I pity those who did

I mean; this is legit Andy Merrill right here

...or maybe you were just eating breakfast/brunch while this stuff was on CN

Tweet of additional comment here.

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Happy 20th anniversary to the adult cartoon sitcom that...

is better drawn and animated than most animated sitcoms

really introduced me to LGBTQIA+ representation

made a loving reference to The Ren & Stimpy Show

cast Tara Strong doing double duty on gorgeous ladies

...and that adult cartoon sitcom is Comedy Central's Drawn Together!

@comedycentral @stephendestefano

Tweet version here.

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Happy Birthday to Spumco Big-Shot JIM SMITH (also the world's manliest artist at Spümcø) — now at 70!

The Ren & Stimpy Show, The Looney Tunes Show, Samurai Jack, and even McGee and Me (not to mention Over the Garden Wall) are among some of the cartoony-type pictures he's worked on...

Tweet version here.

Postscript update: Jim Smith died as of May 2nd, 2025, so this was his last birthday alive, and, according to Owen Watson, "the [animation] industry used him and spat him out". Whoever owns the guitar off of which Jim pawned ought to preserve that in a museum.

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Dazzled by the MGM cartoon Dance of the Weed (1941) from start to finish — anyone ever think about how gorgeous and realistic backgrounds in 1940s cartoons are?

Even the dark, cloudy, eerie shots are stunning, and no one was credited for their hard work (except for Rudolf Ising of course).

Following a 4K/8K rescan of the animation cels and backgrounds, I'd go for some of these scenes' paintings...

Tweet version here.

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Decided to draw the Le Bonne Poutine girl from We Bare Bears: The Movie (which aired last Saturday) in @jessicaborutski 's style after watching The Looney Tunes Show on Cartoon Network today

Tweet post here.

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The Incredible parody of Walt Disney that is The Incredible Mr. Brisby!

I wasn't kidding when I said that The Venture Bros. legit parodied The Wonderful World of Walt Disney...

Tweet version here.

Art & layout credits for Season 1 Episode 4

CHARACTER AND PROP DESIGN SUPERVISOR: Mike Foran

CHARACTER DESIGN: @ricklacy (as Rick "Danger" Lacy), @philrynda , @mrchrisgeorge , Amanda Baehr

BACKGROUND DESIGN SUPERVISOR: Freya Tanz

BACKGROUND DESIGN: Vinh Truong, Jamison K. Kwon, Dong M. Lee

BACKGROUND CLEAN-UP: Erik Craddock

STORYBOARD SUPERVISOR: Bill Presing

STORYBOARD ARTISTS: @stephendestefano , Tom Connor

STORYBOARD REVISION SUPERVISOR: Douglas Lovelace

STORYBOARD REVISION: Toni Tyson, Danny Kimanyen, Jonathan Roscetti, Michael Oviedo

COLOR SUPERVISOR: Marina Dominis-Dunnigan

BACKGROUND PAINTERS: Peter Brown, Katie Nix

CHARACTER AND PROP COLOR KEY: Heather Austin

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This was basically Star vs. the Forces of Evil before @ianwasseluk even worked on SvTFOE

From The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy episode "HEY, WATER YOU DOING?" (STORYBOARD BY: IAN WASSELUK)