What-A-Cartoon Show Review

Hello peeps, this is The Unknown Avenger with a review for you wonderful people! Today, I will be reviewing the Cartoon Network program known as "What-A-Cartoon".

The What-A-Cartoon show began life on Cartoon Network on February 20, 1995 and ended its new episode run on November 28, 1997. What makes this show famous is the fact that the show launched some of the Cartoon Network Cartoon Cartoons. 


Now for my thoughts...
The What-A-Cartoon was a great place for animators to start their possible careers on Cartoon Network. Many of today's animators got their careers started by creating a cartoon for the What-A-Cartoon show and the show was very clever and giving the viewer the chance to see what cartoons animators could come up with and in my honest opinion, that was a good idea.


Concept: 5/5
Originality: 5/5


My top five What-A-Cartoon shorts that didn't become Cartoon Cartoons.

1. Godfrey and Zeke
2. Kitchen Cassanova
3. Malcom and Melvin
4. Wind-Up Wolf
5. Buy One, Get One Free

All in all, the What-A-Cartoon show was a fantastic source of cartoon genius and made some of the most memorable cartoons of all times. This is The Unknown Avenger, out.

(C) Unknown Productions 2012

Unknown Look backs: The Next Generation of Unknown Rants

Good day to all my fans and/or readers. I am The Unknown Avenger, but I am with a quick update followed by a new segment called 'History of [blank] Through the Eyes of The Unknown Avenger'. :D I have decided to give all my blogs a retirement and recreate them as even better blogs. I'm sure you will all love the improvements. Sincerely, The Unknown Avenger


The topic for the first look back, of the new format is the same topic, that led me to creating this blog in the first place. That topic is... Cartoon Network.

The History of Cartoon Network

Through the Eyes of 

The Unknown Avenger

As a child in 1990's America, I was introduced to Cartoon Network at a very young age, and it was at that time the best form of entertainment anywhere on the planet. The whole classical cartoon library gathered by Ted Turner and aired on his channel was (and still are) the best cartoons of all times. My favorite cartoon from that collection was (and still is) the Looney Tunes. But all in all, those years were fantastic. Then came the Powerhouse Era (an era I love to fucking death) and it still was the best place to be (Don't worry, I loved Nickelodeon at this time as well, but that will be mentioned on a future look back.) as a child. The cartoons were amazing, the movies were incredible and well, it was a winning formula that couldn't be beat by the major networks. Even the channel's Toonami block was fantastic at this time.

So, we enter the 21st Century, and Cartoon Network was still on a roll, continuing to shuck out fantastic shows and movies and looked like it was about to become 'Cartoon King of the World'. But alas, it came to an end in the middle of the past decade. In 2005, Cartoon Network began to form the downfall that would almost kill the network for me in it's entirety. In the years 2005 and 2006, it was still decent to an extent, but, it wasn't as great as the previous years were, but, it was still okay. Then we hit, 2007 and oh my god, it was the beginning of the "end". Cartoon Network began to turn a negative outlook towards the older generations and start to cater towards just the new generation. I was simply offended and horrified at once, and I left the channel for a while. I came back in 2009, although it was unofficial. By then, it was bad (and I mean BAD). But, there was some good (Sad thing: It wasn't the same good I had come to expect. But, something good is better than an entire network filled with crap.). The big problem when Cartoon Network started mentioning CNReal and I nearly went insane because... you don't put live-action programming on a cartoon channel. Over the years since 2009 (Well, technically three since I did research in '09, I found out who was to blame for this bull crap. Stuart Snyder! Quite frankly, Snyder is a prick who doesn't seem to understand the basics in running a network that is supposed to be about cartoons! The next problem came in 2010, when I found out, they were going to drop the meaning of the word 'Cartoon' from 'Cartoon Network'. In my mind, I was thinking, "What the hell are they doing?! I know you want to cater to the new generation, but that's taking it a tad too far." And so today, I only watch for the few classics they have on the program and the few new shows I honestly like.

The New Shows I Like

In The Eyes Of The Unknown Avenger

It's hard to believe it, but yeah, Cartoon Network has some decent programming in 2011. The following shows I like because they are somewhat trying to recapture the classic image my generation grew up with.

1. Adventure Time: This show isn't half bad. It's a bit boring at times, but it's still pretty good. 
2. Regular Show: To be honest, Regular Show isn't bad either, but sometimes it can be boring (a tad more than Adventure Time), but, it's still decent enough to keep my attention.
3. Ben 10: Ultimate Alien: AH, this is the best show on the channel, hands down, done deal. I love this show. This show much like it's predecessors is perfect! 
4. Symbionic Titan: Even though Cartoon Network was dumb to cancel this, this show is a close second as my favorite show on the channel, hands down, done deal.

In conclusion, despite being a shit hole at times, Cartoon Network is bad, but...it's getting better slowly but surely (At least I hope so.) 

Upcoming Unknown Look Backs

Yes, I have decided to make all "rants" into a "look back" format with a "like" section at the bottom if I feel as though something has impressed me enough to the point of getting that kind of praise.

Onto the list of next episodes of Unknown Look Backs.

1. Nickelodeon (I am going to enjoy this one as much as I did on this one for Cartoon Network.)
2. Music Television (This will be complex, but I can handle it.)
3. G4 (Oh yeah, this one will be more tricky, but I'll manage.)

Many more to come from me The Unknown Avenger, but don't worry, I'm back with a new out look on the television networks circa 2011. If they continue to improve, I may just shout "Hallelujah!" from the Empire State Building in Midtown Manhattan!

This is The Unknown Avenger, out.

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Cartoon Network is owned by Turner Broadcasting System (A Time Warner Company).