I'm still mad to this day that Symbionic Titan was canceled on a cliffhanger😡

What I wouldn't give to go back to the good old days of Cartoon Network as well as Nickelodeon and Disney.

The great thing about Cartoon Network through the 90s and into the 00s was how its leadership seemed willing to experiment and embrace both in-house material as well as foreign content to go against what American audiences expected from children's cartoon broadcasting. It was innovative, creative, and incredibly fun. Even if some experiments failed like Tickle U or the CN movies or the Fall & Noods eras, this easily helped the Network to try to stand out, even if they were trying to copy the success of their contemporaries.

The 90s were my favorite years. Kept on watching up until the 2010s. CN did Time Squad dirty. It was a goid show.

Problem with cartoon network and nickelodeon is they don't have an audience anymore. Kids watch KZfaq nowadays, and from their latest research, both cartoon network and nickelodeon reported their demographic is mostly adults now. That's why Adult Swim is thriving at the moment.

Imagine being 12/13 in 2008… Smart Phones were only owned by wealthy adults. Majority of the population still had flip phones, and Wifi was a yet to be a household thing. You turned on the tv to watch something because you were bored, and you were stuck with Destroy Build Destroy or the Outsiders being your best watch.

Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon were my childhoods, and honestly a lot of the shows I grew up with from the 2000s are some of theb est of all time. Ed, Edd, N Eddy, Adventure Time, the original Powerpuff Girls, Whats new Scooby Doo, Mystery Incorporated, Dexters Lab, Total Drama, the origianl Teen Titans, 6teen, Johnny Bravo, Courage, Chowder, the original Ben 10, Fosters Home, Samurai Jack and more recent ones like OK K.O, The Looney TUnes Show, Regular Show, and Gumball are all GOATs tbh

13:54 Cartoonito existed since 2006, CN and warner are trying despreatly to draw more kids in response to the TTG overplaying.

Class Of 3000 Needs To Be Shown more love

Cartoon Network. Time for a history lesson. :)

'97 baby here, thanks for the trip down memory lane.😆

This was definitely my favorite channel growing up. Ed Edd n Eddy, Billy and Mandy, Regular Show, Teen Titans, Ben 10, Fosters, My Gym Partners a Monkey, Camp Lazlo, Chowder, Total Drama, KND, Flapjack, the list goes on. So many memories man.

Thanks CN for brining the childhood memories!

The late 90s and early to mid 2000s was the channel's variety age. Some shows were focused on action while having comedy mixed in occasionally (Samurai Jack), others a balance between the two (KND), with the rest mostly comedy (Ed Edd n Eddy) . None of the shows could be lumped into an "aesthetic era" where they visual commonalities. This did exist with the first batch of original shows mostly associated with the mid 90s, with Ed Edd n Eddy spiritually a 90s cartoon which would outlast every other 90s show.

14:12 Correction WBD has nothing to do with CN building situation. This was a decision made by the previous management of WB back when they were known as “WarnerMedia” and the person who made this decision is named Jason Kilar. And the new building took 3 years to construct Plus, Brian A. Miller said on twitter that they were paying rent for the Burbank building for 20 years which is probably one of the reasons why they want to move.

Megas XLR actually performed very well. the suits didn't like/understand it so they canned it because it frustrated them

As someone who grew up during Tom and Jerry and up, this video hurts my childhood soul. As much as I hate to say it, cable was the best thing for studios like Cartoon Network

The thumbnail to this video brought back so many memories. Robot Jones deserved a longe run imo.

Wow...Everything after 2004 was foreign to me. What a ride this was lol

Man cartoon cartoon fridays were best cn literally have best shows in 90s 2000s and 2010s just hope new ceo come on make network better awesome video 👍

I stopped calling the network by its original title years ago because there’s no love in it anymore. 😢

I feel so old. I personally feel like Checkered Past was CN at its peak. I lived it and was a kid back then. But so many people want to argue that CN City was the best. Now today, they want to revisit Checked Past.

9:09 it was actually made by Van Orman, who also voiced the main character, Flapjack.

Cartoon Network has started to rerun Regular Show most days, but only Adventure Time and Steven Universe once a week. I wish instead of starting Adult Swim so early, Cartoon Network should show some shows from the 2000’s to fill in the time slots. These shows would include Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends, Chowder, and The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack. Cartoon Network should also show Adventure Time and Steven Universe more often. Since Gen Alpha is not into live TV, Cartoon Network is trying to get more adult viewers, but many adults would rather watch the shows I have mentioned and not Adult Swim.

It Was Actually June 14, 2004 The CN City Debuted

Dang I remember Fried dynamite 😂😂😂. 12:56 took me back with that one.

To be honest I still think they’re the best outta of the three kids channels but they fell off so hard after Christina Miller became president. Cartoon Network also made some of the same mistakes as their rival Nickelodeon. Only focusing on one show and treating their others like garbage, cancelling them too early, horrible reboots, lack of original ideas and bad presidents. And look at them now, they got merged and it’s getting mistreated by Zaslav’s greedy ass. This merger was the nail in the coffin. I do hope it can make a comeback like they did in the early 2010’s, but only if Zaslav gets fired.

Damn, I didn't know CN died out. I figured I was missing out aftee 2013, but I guess I wasn't.

Thank you for this! In addition to all the cool insight, it made me aware of the "survivor bias" in my memories of cartoon networks works. Sure for every KND and Samurai Jack, there are a host of earlier works that simply didnt stick around like that Robot Jones one. Heck, I thought Megas XLR was great and it still has free rent in my brain. Then you ramble off some names and unused synapses fire off and I go "oh yeah, those existed. Moving on." :D

Canadian shows started in 2008 right before the fall era ended so yes. Most of them were first aired then. However their earlier prescience was mostly in the noods era. Total drama and flapjack first aired on the same day. 6teen Didint start airing until October of 2008 by then the noods era came out. Not sure when the other Canadian ones came out.

0:00 not the one saturday morning reference 😭😭

Adult Swim + Weed went hand and hand. Also, you cut the locks man?

lets be reasonable here in the future the world will move on to streaming everything than parents will choose what their children get to watch unless the children crack the passwords somehow

Like I said for Nickelodeon's and Disney Channel,Hollywood ruins everything, I mean I love Cartoon Network, but who knew they're running out of ideas, and I know because they only try to make things worse with reboots (like Looney Tunes in 2011, Teen Titans in 2013, Scooby Doo in 2015, and PowerPuff Girls in 2016), those other shows (Gumball, Uncle Grandpa, Clarence, We Bare Bears, Secret Mountain Fort Awesome, Incredible Crew, Annoying Orange, George of the Jungle, The Problem Solverz, any Cartoon Network shows made in Canada (from Teletoons, which includes Total Drama (yet All Stars, Pahkitew Island, and that daycare spinoff were a few mistakes)), it keeps going but you get the idea), and how is My Gym Partner's a Monkey bad, although they should’ve changed the title, anyway, I wished things can go back to the way they were, and I wished Hollywood would stop trying to make things worse.

Awesome, I'm finally feeling my age. Thanks.

The fact is Checkered Past proves that Cartoon Network still has plenty of respect for their classic shows and I think the best choice the people in charge of CN can do is to make this new block a 24/7 cartoon channel just like Boomerang was back in the 2000s. they could even create a new version of CN City with both classic and new characters for the promos it would be so amazing.

I loved Cartoon Network and Boomerang. I loved the Total Drama franchise. Except for the total drama. Gumball was fun at times. In the late 2010s I left because of life and other shows. I loved checkered past though you can find DVDs and streams but some you can't find. Especially Ed Edd Eddy. Until 30 anniversary came around I saw DVDs.

Cartoon Network last I checked was 24 7 teen titans go

To me Cartoon Network went downhill when they stopped airing older Hanna Barbera cartoons and started showing every single Scooby Doo thing imaginable. I missed my Flintstones/Jetsons/Looney Tunes/Tom and Jerry blocks and never could get my cable company to carry Boomerang.

If there is no hope or chance, then let it die.

Code Lyoko was that one that if you talked about it, they thought you were an alien. It was my favorite though

I'm really wanna know who had more ratings Cartoon Network or Nickelodeon.

It was a alright video but it has a bunch of errors that I have to list the corrections on this. 1. The word "The" has already been scrapped during the development and before the first launch. 2. The CN City era came out in 2004, not 2005. 3. You forgot to bring up the Powerhouse era, since it came between the Checkered board era and the CN City era from 1998 to 2004. 4. John K's Boo Boo Runs Wild and A Day in the Life of Ranger Smith came out in 1999, which is long after being fired in Nickelodeon. 5. What a Cartoon came out in 1995, not 1994. 6. I don't really think Dexter's Laboratory can be consider to be a "spin-off" of What a Cartoon, because that doesn't how it works. 7. My Gym Partner's a Monkey came out in late 2005, not 2006. 8. Despite you did show the Yes! era, you have might skipped it over to the Fall era. 9. Wedgies actually came out around 2008, so it was close. 10. You forgot to mention The Bremen Avenue Experience during the Wedgies segment in the video. 11. The Powerpuff Reboot came out in 2016, not 2014. I hope these corrections will be helpful for you and to improved the video with it. Have a nice day.

How did Cartoon Network take such a bad turn during the 2020s? When in I was a kid in the 90s and 2000s era it was my most favorite channel in the world but now the brainless zombies in charge of CN don't care about good quality shows or making a decent schedule. The way I see it there is only one way to save Cartoon Network trash those garbage reboots like Teen Titains Go and replace it with classic shows for the channel like Ed Edd n Eddy and Dexter's Laboratory the reboots are a waste of time, and they are an insult to real entertainment.

They really took my childhood and what’s really hits hard is that I have 4 and 2 yr old siblings that won’t ever have the same love I had for these shows

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I hope that Cartoon Network won't be making the disturbing reboots, that those were gonna ruin my childhood.

You did a great job documenting and editing all of this! I would suggest just looking into how to properly say some of these creators names. Other than that, you've got a new subscriber!

I've been waiting for this.

My TV stayed on Cartoon Network in late 90s to early 00s! The Moltar & TOM 1 era of Toonami made my adolescent/teen era full of good memories. The last time I steadily watched CN was when the OG Teen Titans was airing, after that I moved on to reality shows, lol.

Between the classics like Looney Tunes and Hanna Barbera, the early originals like Dexter's Lab and Powerpuff Girls, and anime like DBZ and Gundam Wing, Cartoon Network was just plain amazing between the 90s and 00s. Here's another honorary mention: Cartoon Network's Cartoon Theater, narrated by the late great Don LaFontaine and featuring the likes of Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, the Iron Giant, the Land Before Time, An American Tale, Balto and various other awesome movies.

I encountered some jpegs implying CN was dead just because it was currently playing show they didn't like at the time (Adventure Time, Steven Universe, Gumball). Theyre even more ridiculous to me now that the network is actually dying now, not because they're making shows that aren't the ones you grew up with but its not taken too seriously by their parent company. Ironicly they're using the name to promote their older shows so I guess the nostalgic audience are getting their wish. Note: I also grew up with the network since the mid 90s and also nostalgic for all of them and wished there was a balance between their newer stuff along with their classics

Cartoon Network was definitely a experience you had to be there for in the 90s to present. Only a matter of time before this affects both Toonami and adult Swim later on.... Mark my words ( shenmue animation, blade Runner Black Lotus, fena pirate princess all written off)

I miss Miguzi. I’m also one of those few people that actually really liked the CNReal Era.

9:39 YES WEDGIES!!! I loved Wedgies, it was underrated.

How you gonna leave out Young Justice and Star Wars The clone wars

In the small segment of the Wedgies block, you didn't mention another miniseries called 'The Bremen Avenue Experience'.

OMG OMG OMG! I have seen this and watch this video with Yeti Smoke and Black Peter Griffin on KZfaq and it was awesome! I love all the shows and the Cartoon Network channel in general! My favorite out of all of them is Regular Show! OK K.O. Let's Be Heroes!, Sym-Bionic Titan and Adventure Time clips are absent! 💔 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

7:45 Never seen that bumper before. It's very Frutiger Metro, I must say.

I heard warner bros paramount are merge this means nickelodeon and cartoon network will be own by one that's crazy

The memories

9:06 flapjack was made by thurop van orman, not j.g. quintel. quintel made regular show, and was only an intern on flapjack.

#bringbackJimSamples

Gennady Tartakofsky after leaving Cartoon Network he created the 2003 smash hit Star Wars Clone Wars which takes place after Episode 2 but before Episode 3 which was then given to the Mexican KZfaqr Shadow of the Empire to narrate from there but 2008 launched the all new Clone Wars the pilot known as War on Christoph is involves Ahsoka played by Ashley Eckstein teaming up with Anakin then played by Matthew Linter which his performance is based on Hayden Christensen which he was serving alongside Obi Wan voiced by James Taylor Arnold who played the Kaldor master with oxygen mask PLO Koon his performance is then based on young Ewan McGregor who also played him in Obi Wan show set after Episode 3 alongside Kumail Gandini who played as samurai knight later energy blaster superhero Kongo Kon aka Kingo of Eternals as a drug dealer in space.

You forgot that in spring 2003 cartoon network aired sitting ducks and pecola

I grew up with the check it era, also I grew up in the late 2000s and early 2010s phisiflcly 2010 to 2012. 2013 to now was not that great although check it era 3.0 was the last era of creativity. because ever since Christina Miller took over in 2014, cartoon network went downhill, instead of focused on creativity, there focused on teen demographic and compete against adult cartoons mainly FOX and Comedy Central and the good shows like gumball and other shows went downhill for example gumball starting in season 3 is becoming a lot more mean then before, it's mainly the character flanderisation, the ending of regular show, Christian Miller promised herself that pops will be killed off, and made benson sound weird, teen titans go is starting to get worse,and some other shows despite being animated is starting to make realistic while it's not ment to be realistic, and I had nothing much to say so that's to that

Dang I was hoping you'd acknowledge ok ko still a good video though

I’ve been trying to remember the name of that one cartoon and it was CODE lyoko

Glad I'm from 1993 I know what real cartoon is

Fun fact: prior to family guy and American dad, Seth McFarlane worked for cartoon Network.

Dookie loop of horror is the real ending of invader zim

Thundercats 2011 and Symbiotic Titan was dope! Then CN ruined it. We didn't even get a series for Firebreather.

Cartoon Network had a chance to comeback if there new shows didn’t go to adult swim, they could have that checkerd pass block expanded with some of there other old shows and they could have had My adventures with Superman & unicorn warriors eternal

I've always been a cartoon network kid over disney and nickelodeon it's honestly sad how cartoon network fell oh yeah and i grew up watching boomerang a lot those were good times 🥹🥲 but im glad fusion fall retrobution exist it brings back so much nostalgia🩷

2:53 ohhh baby Iykyk

CN did Justice League Unlimited dirtyyyyyy

So, there are a lot of good dead franchises to grave dig. I'll keep this around for research purposes and revive every single dead franchise, along with remaking my own version of every single one of their still-living franchises after I'm done with reviving. I'm especially looking forward to reviving Team Fortress 2.

Camp Lazlo is created by the same creator as Rocko’s modern life on Nickelodeon Joe Murray

Great can history video, but one question I have to ask is why are some cartoons that aired on cartoon Network like sonic boom aren't on this list?

Great video man but you mentioned annoying orange and not class of 3000 😭

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I wish hero 108 was here

Man Jim samples was the rise of cartoon network and sturard sniter was the downfall of cartoon network

CN Real is my guilty pleasure because I thought I like it.

Great video please do a video on Disney channel and boomerang

6:35 CN City began in 2004 not 2005

If Turner Sees This Comment He Needs To Fix TBS Cause It Overplays Big Bang Theory Alot

Why did Cartoon Network get away with AEG?

For me the downward spiral of CN started by the time they decided to do shows that nobody asked for like for example Level Up "how i still remember the name of that dumpsterfire after all these years idk" that show freaking sucked, not to mention how shows that i loved like Megas XLR and Generator Rex didn't got a proper ending, but the most insulting thing they ever did was getting rid of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy.

I still hate the CN Real block, Out Of Jimmy's Head, etc. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄I still miss the Cartoon Cartoons bumpers, the Boomerang bumpers, etc.

I'm a guy in Jersey and I never cared for the fat truck driver transformers show. (I only watched one episode) I remember the commercial segment when the The fat dude leaves his semi truck at the gas meter and the gas meter keeps going up to Way too much money

Peak CN was 2007-2012. Loads of great shows. Its sad

I personally think modern Cartoon Network is still pretty good yeah its had some bumpy roads but I think its still pretty good. Checkered Past is probably my favorite part of it yeah Adult Swim starting at 5 is still strange but having classic Cartoon Network shows on is awesome. Besides Max is getting rid of stuff like crazy so Adult Swim is the only place I'm able to watch Dexter's Laboratory. So yeah its not as good as it was in the 90s 2000s and early 2010s but I still think it and Adult Swim are still pretty good. Cartoonito on the other hand yeah I can't say the same thing as its only on 3 hours now while Cartoon Network and Adult Swim get a majority of airtimes so yeah I think Cartoonito needs to go. So while I do disagree with the there is no hope statement your grim pun with Grim laughing was pretty funny.

Hole in the wall looks an awful lot like a Japanese show I usta watch on International Channel.

I’m still pissed that Checkered Past is a thing.

Kids 6 to 11?? In 1997 I was 15 in '92… I watched all this and I wish they didn't get rid of some of these shows that I preferred!! And I PREFER them to stick with what the name of the network is… CARTOON!! when they stopped showing cartoons, it was like when MTV stopped showing music videos… change the networks NAME OR go back to the programming it's name implies!! 🤬🤬

Hey! What the hell is your problem?

The real downfall of Cartoon Network began back in 2002, when most of the Cartoon Cartoons back in the 90s were cancelled and replaced with shitter cartoons such as Codename Kids Next Door, The Grim Adventures Of Billy And Mandy and Evil Con Carne, three of which were the straw that broke the camel's back for the Cartoon Cartoons, but The Grim Adventures Of Billy And Mandy was by far the biggest offender. Back in 2004 - present, while Genndy Tartakovsky and Craig McCracken did an amazing job with Star Wars Clone Wars, Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends, Sym Bionic Titan and Primal and while Over The Garden Wall and Infinity Train were the only ones that I've considered the best, garbage such as Chowder, Out Of Jimmy's Head, Adventure Time, Regular Show, The Amazing World Of Gumball and The Looney Tunes Show (2011) completely made me lose interest in that TV channel the second it was too late to show Roger Rabbit back in 2012.

Does not include other Cartoon Network regions including Australia, Pacific, Southeast Asia, Middle East/North Africa, etc., or original shows made for specific Cartoon Network areas. PS. I'd like to see a video about Cartoon Network in other countries, though.

It’s a shame what these 3 channels have become.