Oh Yeah! Cartoons

From Nickelodeon

Oh Yeah! Cartoons
Genre	Variety show
Created by	Fred Seibert
Starring	Various voice actors (including Mary Kay Bergman)
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	39
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Nickelodeon
Original run	1998 – 2001
Links
Official Site	Nick.com
IMDb profile	IMDb
TV.com summary	TV.com summary

Oh Yeah! Cartoons was a late-1990s 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 Productions. 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. This show carried both company-directed animated shorts, and cartoons based on viewer-submitted concept suggestions. Bill Burnett composed the show's theme music. Oh Yeah! Cartoons is distributed by Nelvana Limited outside of the United States.

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 is credited as the birthplace of the hit Nickelodeon shows The Fairly Oddparents, Chalk Zone, and My Life as a Teenage Robot. Two Oh Yeah! characters are also in feature development at Paramount.

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 Miles Thompson, Pat Ventura, Dave Wasson, Vincent Waller, Carlos Ramos, Greg Emison, Bill Burnett, Alex Kirwan, Butch Hartman, Rob Renzetti, Steve Marmel, John Eng, Antoine Guilbaud, Ken Kessel, Michael Bell, Zac Moncrief, John Fountain, Byron Vaughns, Bob Boyle, Seth MacFarlane, Larry Huber, and Jaime Diaz.

A fourth season of Oh Yeah! Cartoons with 39 original cartoon shorts was scheduled to be shown on Nickelodeon in 2006.

[edit] See Also

• Nicktoons Film Festival: The television series and competition.
• List of Oh Yeah! Cartoons episodes: A complete list of episodes of the television series.

[edit] External Links

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

NickToons
	1991:	• Doug • Rugrats • The Ren and Stimpy Show •
	1993 & 1994:	• Rocko's Modern Life1993 • Aaahh!!! Real Monsters1994 •
	1996 & 1997:	• KaBlam!1996 • Hey Arnold!1996 • The Angry Beavers1997 •
	1998:	• Oh Yeah! Cartoons • CatDog • The Wild Thornberrys •
	1999 & 2000:	• Rocket Power1999 • Pelswick2000 •
	2001:	• As Told by Ginger • Invader Zim • ChalkZone •
	2002:	• The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius •
	2005:	• My Life as a Teenage Robot • All Grown Up! • Danny Phantom • • Avatar: The Last Airbender • Catscratch • The X's •
	2006 & 2007:	• Mr. Meaty2006 • El Tigre2007 •
	Still Running:	• SpongeBob SquarePants1999 • The Fairly OddParents2001 • • Back at the Barnyard2007 • The Mighty B!2008 • • The Penguins of Madagascar2009 • Fanboy and Chum Chum2009 • •