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Oh Yeah! Cartoons
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Genre	Variety show
Creator(s)	Fred Seibert
Starring	Various voice actors Various school kids, 1998-1999 Kenan Thompson (host, 1999-2000) Josh Server (host, 2000-2001)
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	99 (33 shows) (List of episodes)
Production
Running time	3 hours (7 minutes per segment) (approx. per episode)
Broadcast
Original channel	Nickelodeon
Original run	January 1, 1998 – June 1, 2001
Links
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Oh Yeah! Cartoons was a late-1990s American animation showcase that appeared on the Nickelodeon cable channel. Oh Yeah! was an animation project guided by Fred Seibert, then president of MTV Networks and Hanna-Barbera. Produced by Frederator Studios, it ran as part of the Nicktoons lineup on the Nickelodeon cable channel, and in its second season, was hosted by Kenan Thompson of Kenan and Kel fame; Then later by Josh Server, from All That, for its third season. This show carried both company-directed animated shorts and cartoons based on viewer-submitted concept suggestions. Bill Burnett composed the show's theme music.

In terms of sheer volume, Oh Yeah! Cartoons remains TV's biggest animation development program ever. Giving several dozen filmmakers the opportunity to create nearly 100 seven-minute cartoons, the series eventually gave birth to three dedicated half-hour spinoffs:

• ChalkZone
• The Fairly OddParents
• My Life as a Teenage Robot (the original short was called My Neighbor Was a Teenage Robot)

At the time, the program was often seen as a parody or a lesser copy of Cartoon Network's What a Cartoon! Show. Perceived by the industry as overly ambitious, Nickelodeon's Oh Yeah! half-hour featured in its first season, a total of 39 brand new seven-minute cartoons in 13 episodes, surpassing the number of new cartoons and characters on any other single network. In its full run, Oh Yeah! Cartoons featured and produced over 99 cartoons and 54 characters.

Many of the animated shorts were created by cartoonists who later became more prominent, including Michael Bell, Bob Boyle, Bill Burnett, Kyle Carrozza, Jaime Diaz, Greg Emison, John Eng, John Fountain, Antoine Guilbaud, Butch Hartman, Larry Huber, Steve Marmel, Zac Moncrief, Ken Kessel, Alex Kirwan, Seth MacFarlane, Carlos Ramos, Rob Renzetti, Miles Thompson, Byron Vaughns, Pat Ventura, Vincent Waller and Dave Wasson.

• A revival of the Oh Yeah! Cartoons concept with 39 original cartoon shorts will be on Nickelodeon in 2007, under the name Random! Cartoons[1].
• Two Oh Yeah! characters are also in feature development at Paramount.
• At the end of the first season, two cartoons known as "Fathead" and "Planet Kate" were proclaimed "Nicktoons of Tomorrow" and given extended times as well as their own credits. Despite this, neither show was picked up as a series or continued in any known form.
• Nine of the ten Fairly OddParents shorts were later incorporated into episodes of the regular series' first season, the lone exception being "Where's the Wand?" – When shown on The Fairly OddParents, Timmy's voice is re-dubbed to have his current voice, Tara Strong, in place of his former voice, Mary Kay Bergman. The unedited versions of these shorts have recently been released on several Fairly OddParents DVDs.
• All but two of the ChalkZone shorts were later incorporated as episodes of the regular series it spun off into. "ChalkDad" and "ChalkRain" were never featured on the show, even though some shots could be seen in the show's opening sequence. However, since the first two shorts show Rudy as two years younger than he usually appears, they were shown as flashbacks in two separate episodes.

• The Nicktoons Film Festival: The television series and competition.
• List of Oh Yeah! Cartoons episodes: A complete list of episodes of the television series.
• Random Cartoons: The fourth season, credited as a new series.
• What a Cartoon! Show: Cartoon Network's similar show.

• Oh Yeah! Cartoons at the Big Cartoon DataBase
• Oh Yeah! Cartoons at the Internet Movie Database
• Oh Yeah! Cartoons at TV.com