The BEST episodes of What a Cartoon
Every episode of What a Cartoon ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of What a Cartoon!
What a Cartoon! is an American animation showcase project created by Fred Seibert for Hanna-Barbera Cartoons to be run on Cartoon Network. The project consisted of 82 short cartoons, intended to return creative power to animators and artists, by recreating the atmospheres that spawned the great cartoon characters of the mid-20th century. Each of 71 short cartoons mirrored the structure of a theatrical cartoon, with each film being based on an original storyboard drawn and written by its artist or creator.
#1 - Pizza Boy: No Tip
Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 2/25/1996
Pizza Boy must deliver a pizza to Antarctica safe and sound under five minutes, or else he will receive no tip.
#2 - Dino: Stay Out!
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/19/1995
The Flintstones' pet, Dino, tries to keep the house cat outside for the night.
#3 - Sledgehammer O'Possum: Out and About
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/2/1995
Dogg is eating lunch in the countryside and get tormented by Sledgehammer O'Possum.
#4 - Cow and Chicken: No Smoking
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 11/12/1995
The Devil (later known as The Red Guy) kidnaps Chicken, who must be saved from damnation of smoking by Super Cow, who is his sister, Cow. This episode has been nominated for an Emmy. Pilot to Cow & Chicken.
#5 - Dexter's Laboratory
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/26/1995
Dee Dee and Dexter battle turning each other into animals, using Dexter's latest invention. Note 1: First short to become a series after being deemed most popular through a vote held in 1995. Note 2: First pilot to Dexter's Laboratory.
#6 - Yoink! of the Yukon
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 7/30/1995
The mounted police of the Yukon has its uniforms stolen by a grizzly bear planning revenge on them when they skinned his animal friends. Yoink and Sergeant Thumbsworth Tharplung is sent to retrieve them.
#7 - Buy One, Get One Free
Season 1 - Episode 33 - Aired 10/30/1996
A man named Reilly gets a cat named Flinch in order to impress a female cat lover named Sofie and threatens the cat that if there is a scratch on anything while he's away, he will send him to the violin factory. It won't be easy when Sophie leaves Flinch a feline playmate named Fix that ends up wrecking everything.
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Season 1 - Episode 41 - Aired 2/5/1997
Steve, a homeless dog, is adopted by dimwit Larry (the only man to understand dog) and lives disaster after disaster when Larry takes him shopping. Note: Episode's style developed into MacFarlane's Family Guy.
#9 - Mina and the Count: Interlude with a Vampire
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 11/5/1995
The Count (presumably Count Dracula) is forced to play with a 7-year-old girl in her room, after a mix-up in the schedule with his victims.
#10 - Tales of Worm Paranoia
Season 1 - Episode 47 - Aired 11/27/1997
Johnny is a peaceful and forgiving worm until a human steps on him repeatedly. As a result, the worm becomes paranoid and angered at the human race, seeking revenge. Note: Style reminiscent of John Kricfalusi's The Ren & Stimpy Show; he is listed with a "Special Thanks" credit.
#11 - The Kitchen Casanova
Season 1 - Episode 34 - Aired 11/6/1996
A first-time cook is preparing a dinner for his date. Trouble arises when the wind flips the pages from his cookbook.
#12 - Tumbleweed Tex: School Daze
Season 1 - Episode 32 - Aired 10/23/1996
A Wild West outlaw needs to finish the fourth grade, and deal with his obnoxious class rival, little Timmy.
#13 - The Powerpuff Girls: Crime 101
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 1/28/1996
The Powerpuff Girls aid the bumbling Amoeba Boys in becoming able criminals.
#14 - Courage the Cowardly Dog: The Chicken from Outer Space
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 2/18/1996
A fearful dog tries to stop an alien chicken's plans to invade Earth while in his owners' farm. Produced by Stretch Films in New York City and distributed by Hanna-Barbera. The short was developed into the final series spun-off from What a Cartoon!, Courage the Cowardly Dog, in 1999.
#15 - Shake & Flick: Raw Deal in Rome
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 6/18/1995
Shake the dog is invaded by Flick the flea. They are both accomplished musicians and find themselves in the competition of a lifetime as each one tries to outdo the other.
#16 - Wind-Up Wolf
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/4/1996
Big Bad Wolf wants to catch the three little pigs again. He decides the only way he can do it is to build a robot wolf to take his place.
#17 - George and Junior: Look Out Below
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/9/1995
Based on the classic cartoon characters by Tex Avery, a bird crashes a light bulb so it doesn't disturb his sleep and sits in the empty socket. George and Junior, the building's janitors/engineers, are sent to fix it.
#18 - Johnny Bravo
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/26/1995
Johnny Bravo tries to score with a zookeeper girl by capturing a runaway gorilla. Note: First pilot to Johnny Bravo.
#19 - Yuckie Duck: I'm on My Way
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 8/6/1995
Yuckie Duck is a paramedic and he has to perform life-saving feats such as pulling a tack out of a lion's posterior.
#20 - Yuckie Duck: Short Orders
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/5/1995
Yuckie Duck works as a cook and waiter in a dirty restaurant, and delivers unappealing orders to the demanding customers.
#21 - Malcom and Melvin
Season 1 - Episode 46 - Aired 11/26/1997
Melvin is an alienated loser until he meets Malcom, a trumpeter cockroach who has a huge talent. Note: The creator Bakshi disowned both shorts upon release.
#23 - Hillbilly Blue
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 2/11/1996
Crawdad Eustace is fed-up with being treated as food and goes with possum pal Mordechai on a cross-country trip to New Orleans.
#24 - Gramps
Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/3/1996
Gramps tells his grandchildren about his battle against invading aliens.
#25 - The Ignoramooses
Season 1 - Episode 35 - Aired 11/13/1996
Two moose believe they are going to be adopted by a rich hunter due to tracking collars that a biologist put on them (they think they are pet collars), and wreak havoc in his mansion.