The BEST episodes of What a Cartoon season 1
Every episode of What a Cartoon season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of What a Cartoon season 1!
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 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#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 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - Awfully Lucky
Season 1 - Episode 38 - Aired 1/15/1997
A greedy guy named Luther discovers the Paradox Pearl, which brings him good luck, but not without consequences. When Luther tries to turn it in to the city museum for ten million dollars, he finds out just how harsh the consequences are.
#8 - 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.
#9 - Pfish and Chip: Blammo the Clown
Season 1 - Episode 37 - Aired 1/8/1997
The bomb squad, Pfish and Chip, face yet another clown bomber, Blammo. It isn't easy when they have to watch and protect the chief's teddy bear whilst trying to stop the clown.
#10 - Johnny Bravo: Johnny Bravo and the Amazon Women
Season 1 - Episode 36 - Aired 1/1/1997
Johnny Bravo is left stranded in an island filled with beautiful giant women. Note: Second pilot to Johnny Bravo.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - Godfrey & Zeek: Lost Control
Season 1 - Episode 31 - Aired 10/16/1996
Godfrey the giraffe accidentally flushes his TV remote down the toilet. He and his friend Zeek spend the rest of the episode trying to get it back from the water plant.
#14 - Jungle Boy: Mr. Monkeyman
Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 10/9/1996
Jealous King Raymond attempts to taint hero Jungle Boy's reputation after he begins to lose fame.
#15 - Dexter's Laboratory: The Big Sister
Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 3/10/1996
Dexter prevents giantess Dee Dee from attacking the whole city.
#16 - Gramps
Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/3/1996
Gramps tells his grandchildren about his battle against invading aliens.
#17 - 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.
#18 - Strange Things
Season 1 - Episode 39 - Aired 1/22/1997
A robot finds a job as a janitor. He must remember that if it says "Don't Touch", don't touch. Note: The series' only computer-animated short.
#19 - Snoot's New Squat
Season 1 - Episode 40 - Aired 1/29/1997
Snoot, the flea-like alien, finds a new home on a neurotic neat-freak dog, Al.
#20 - Larry and Steve
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.
#21 - Sledgehammer O'Possum: What's Goin' on Back There?
Season 1 - Episode 42 - Aired 2/12/1997
Sledgehammer O'Possum takes shelter from the cold in a mailbox, much to the dismay of a mailman named Ethel who will stop at nothing to make him leave.
#22 - The Zoonatiks: Home Sweet Home
Season 1 - Episode 43 - Aired 2/19/1997
A bear named Bill, a monkey named Knuckles and a turtle named Shelby try to enter the all-star Hackensack Zoo after feeling unwanted at the circus.
#23 - Swamp and Tad: Mission Imfrogable
Season 1 - Episode 44 - Aired 2/26/1997
Swamp and Tad, two frog guards who work on Planet Marsh, are sent by the King to get a package on Earth.
#24 - Dino: The Great Egg-Scape
Season 1 - Episode 45 - Aired 3/5/1997
Dino takes care of a baby dinosaur and tries to prevent him from growing. Note: Second and final spin-off episode to The Flintstones.
#25 - 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.