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At long last, I am ready to begin my retrospective on the Nickelodeon anthology series Oh Yeah! Cartoons now that I am fully caught up on every media connected to the three segments of Oh Yeah! Cartoons that were successfully picked up for their own shows. This project means a lot to me because I have a great deal of nostalgia regarding Oh Yeah! Cartoons, and even if I hadn't grown up watching at least some of the show's shorts, I most certainly would have gotten a kick out of it if I had just heard about it now, as I do love me some variety.

Brace yourselves, for this is going to be a very long description.

Oh Yeah! Cartoons premiered in 1998 and was created by Fred Seibert to serve as a Nickelodeon equivalent to Cartoon Network's What a Cartoon Show. Like What a Cartoon before it, Oh Yeah! Cartoons was an anthology where every entry was a seven-minute animated short intended to serve as a pilot for a potential Nicktoon.

The series ran for three seasons and had a framing device wrapped around the segments. The first season used footage of children talking about cartoons and humor, the second season had Kenan Thompson of All That and Kenan and Kel fame as the host of the show doing brief skits and jokes between shorts and the third and final season replaced Kenan Thompson with fellow All That alumnus Josh Server.

There was also a tradition where nearly every short (the only exceptions being the 11-minute shorts Planet Kate and Fathead) ends with a clip of a character or characters from the show (usually but not always the main one) appearing in the Oh Yeah! Cartoons logo while shouting "Oh Yeah! Cartoons!"

Out of all of the different entries featured on Oh Yeah! Cartoons, the only ones that ever got picked up for their own show were The Fairly OddParents, ChalkZone and My Life as a Teenage Robot. I am grateful these three Nicktoons existed and they will forever remain a fondly remembered part of my childhood, but I am disappointed by the number of interesting shorts featured on the anthology that I feel would've made awesome cartoons in their own right.

The reason behind the other segments' rejection varies. It could be that the Nickelodeon execs simply weren't impressed, it could be that a premise that works well for a seven-minute short is harder to adjust for a television series consisting of 11-minute or half-hour episodes or some might even have intended to be self-contained stories in the first place (the last one only being a guess on my part).

It was also interesting that several entries weren't limited to just one short. The Fairly OddParents and ChalkZone are the most noteworthy entries to have more than one short, but having multiple shorts was also the case for Jelly's Day, Jamal the Funny Frog, Max, Tales from the Goose Lady, Super Santa, A Kid's Life, Mina and the Count and The Dan Danger Show.

With the exception of some DVD releases of The Fairly OddParents, ChalkZone and My Life as a Teenage Robot including the relevant shorts, there has not been a home media release for Oh Yeah! Cartoons, though every Oh Yeah short in existence is presently available on YouTube and/or Fred Seibert's Vimeo account (just the individual shorts, unfortunately. Very few uploads of the full half-hour episodes with the Kenan Thompson and Josh Server hosting segments intact have surfaced. This wouldn't be a problem to people who only care about the individual shorts, but can be annoying to people who want to know what the framing devices were like or would like to see the end credits and know who the voice actors involved in the shorts were).

It already made sense to me that this description would discuss the lucky three first, but I also had a specific order for them in mind from my observations of the shows' success and how long they lasted.

1. THE FAIRLY ODDPARENTS

Created by Butch Hartman, The Fairly OddParents is arguably the most successful of the three Oh Yeah! Cartoons entries that got picked up for their own shows, considering that it had the longest run at a total of ten seasons, to say nothing of all the video games, crossovers, movies and the live-action series that was recently released to little fanfare.

Anyone who's at least heard the theme song knows that the premise behind The Fairly OddParents is that Timmy Turner is an average ten-year-old boy no one understands who's life is misery because of his neglectful parents and his abusive babysitter Vicky. All this changes when he gets his own fairy godparents, who grant him any wish he makes so long as it doesn't violate Da Rules.

The original pilot was one of the Oh Yeah shorts I remember watching as a child. Timmy was originally voiced by Mary Kay Bergman (with Tara Strong replacing her after Bergman's tragic self-termination) and he is left by his faceless parents (Dad voiced by Daran Norris and Mom by Susanne Blakeslee) to be watched over by Vicky (voiced by Grey DeLisle-Griffin), who turns out to be a psychotic monster delighting in his torment.

Fortunately for Timmy, he is given his fairy godparents Cosmo and Wanda (who are also voiced by Daran Norris and Susanne Blakeslee), and the boy's first wishes involve driving his mean babysitter crazy. Most people talk about how Vicky was showering and had the water turn into gelatin, but the part that stood out to me the most was when Wanda turned into a baby and crushed Vicky with her butt while Cosmo wore Groucho Marx glasses and remarked how it was the first time the baby sat on the sitter.

The next short was "Too Many Timmys", where Timmy again used a wish to drive Vicky nuts by creating copies of himself.

The third short "Where's the Wand?" (which was also the sole Oh Yeah short to not have a rebroadcast where Tara Strong dubbed over Mary Kay Bergman's lines) had the conflict of Wanda losing her wand and the three having to get it back from Vicky when she mistakenly brings it to the high school costume contest.

Then came "Party of 3", where Timmy attempted to convince his parents that he doesn't need a babysitter and can handle looking after himself. Vicky tries to bust Timmy by photographing him fooling around without adult supervision, leading to a hilarious scene where Cosmo and Wanda change the photographic evidence to a picture of Mr. Turner in boxer shorts and Mr. Turner misinterprets Vicky's stammering of "but" for commenting on his rear end. Unfortunately for Timmy, his parents decide to continue hiring Vicky to babysit after all because Timmy neglected to remove some pepperoni that got stuck to his teeth from eating pizza.

The short "The Fairy Flu" notably marked the debut of Vicky's unattractive younger sister with a crush on Timmy named Tootie (who was originally voiced by Amber Hood rather than Vicky's voice actress like in the main series). The plot is that Timmy is roped into attending Tootie's birthday party, but also finds that his godparents have the fairy flu, which results in out-of-control magical hijinks. I especially liked when Vicky was barking orders at the kids and didn't notice that she had turned into a frog.

In "The Temp", Cosmo and Wanda have to temporarily leave Timmy to get their godparenting license renewed and face harsh training from Jorgen Von Strangle (another character voiced by Daran Norris, using an Arnold Schwarzenegger impression). The one who takes their place is an elf named Jeff, who makes ridiculous excuses for why he can only summon toys and is ultimately sent back to Santa Claus after Cosmo and Wanda return. It's interesting to note that here Santa was voiced by Michael Patrick Bell, who would also voice Santa Claus for the Super Santa shorts, and that Santa would be frequently recast in the series proper (with Kevin Michael Richardson being the only actor to voice the FOP version of Santa twice).

"The Zappys" has its own morbid bit of trivia in being the first Fairly OddParents short to air after Mary Kay Bergman left this world. This short's story is that Cosmo and Wanda are invited to the Zappys, an award ceremony for fairies. Jorgen bullies and intimidates the fairies into letting him win every category, but Timmy isn't willing to let this slide and gets into a squabble with Jorgen that ends with him losing his buck teeth. This summons the Tooth Fairy (voiced by Grey DeLisle-Griffin), who scolds Jorgen for knocking out Timmy's teeth. The ending humorously has Jorgen make restitution by loaning his gigantic dentures to Timmy.

"Scout's Honor" has the distinction of being the first establishment of Timmy's scout troop the Squirrely Scouts and their female rivals the Cream Puffs. Timmy's goal here is to get a merit badge by finding Bigfoot. To his disappointment, Bigfoot turns out to actually be a really hairy hippie whose real name is Victor Bigfootowskowitz, but Timmy gets the badge anyway by capturing Vicky and passing her off as Bigfoot.

The penultimate Oh Yeah short was "The Really Bad Day", where it was established that fairies have a tradition of becoming evil for the entire day every eon. It's Cosmo's turn, but he stinks at being evil, so much so that Timmy resorts to enlisting Genghis Khan for help (only for the historical figure to be dragged back home by his babysitter Vicky Khan. Why he has a babysitter while a grown man is a complete mystery).

The final short made before The Fairly OddParents became its own series was Super Humor, which is notable for marking the debut of Timmy Turner's favorite superhero the Crimson Chin (voiced here by Daran Norris before Jay Leno became his official voice, though Norris would fill in for Leno in the episode "Fairy Fairy Quite Contrary" as well as the Breakin' Da Rules and Shadow Showdown video games). Timmy wishes to have super powers and, after several awkward instances of learning the powers' drawbacks, ends up becoming Turbo Timmy. He later has trouble fighting a monster and wishes for super vision, but his godparents interpret this as "supervision" and Timmy ends the short watching a movie with his parents. Should I bring up the connection to the Garfeldi meme or not? Probably not.

FOP notably became a very popular Nicktoon, to the point that it was Nickelodeon's second-longest running show. Other than Timmy's parents no longer having their faces obscured, the story was improved greatly by bringing in other characters who weren't present in the Oh Yeah shorts, such as Timmy's friends Chester and AJ (initially voiced respectively by Frankie Muniz and Ibrahim Haneef Muhammed before they were both replaced by Jason Marsden and Gary LeRoi Gray), Timmy's insane fairy-obsessed teacher Mr. Denzel Crocker (voiced by Carlos Alazraqui), a Hispanic suitor of Wanda refusing to accept she's happy with Cosmo named Juandissimo (also Carlos Alazraqui), a member of an octopus-like race of aliens called Yugopotamians named Mark Chang (voiced by Rob Paulsen) and the Anti-Fairies, evil versions of fairies who have dark blue skin, fangs and bat wings.

The success of The Fairly OddParents even opened the door for other Nicktoons created by Butch Hartman to come into existence: Danny Phantom, T.U.F.F. Puppy and Bunsen is a Beast.

Lots of people like to see the season five TV movie Channel Chasers as where the series ends, especially fans who don't care for the post-season five episodes, due to the ending establishing that after Timmy Turner eventually outgrows his fairies, Cosmo and Wanda will then become the fairy godparents of Timmy's kids. This however wouldn't be the definitive ending and there would be other contradictory attempts at deciding how things would end for Timmy and his fairies.

The sixth season was a point of much divisiveness in the fandom and introduced Cosmo and Wanda's baby son Poof (voiced by Tara Strong). Even if one is willing to pay no mind to the premise of fairies not being allowed to reproduce because of how dangerous and destructive Cosmo was in his infancy to require Timmy wishing for his godparents to have a baby (which was possible due to making it against the rules to make that wish repeatedly slipping Jorgen's mind) and the weird decision to have Cosmo be the one pregnant with Poof, not everyone liked the idea of Poof being introduced.

This started a trend of almost every season in the second half of the show to introduce a polarizing new character. Season seven introduced Poof's Anti-Fairy counterpart Foop, who was voiced by Eric Bauza, depicted as an evil genius able to speak the moment Anti-Wanda had finished giving birth and had his existence necessitated by the fact that balance must be obtained by having an Anti-Fairy for every fairy. There weren't any significant new additions to the cast in the eighth season, though it still stood out as being the shortest season in having only five episodes.

The ninth season had Timmy gain a fairy dog named Sparky (voiced by Maddie Taylor with a voice that kind of sounds like Verminious Snaptrap from T.U.F.F. Puppy with a cold), who proved so unpopular among both the fans and the production crew that he was quickly written out and not even acknowledged in the tenth and final season, which had its own controversial new character in Chloe Carmichael, a new neighbor of Timmy's voiced by Kari Wahlgren who Timmy has to share Cosmo and Wanda with because of a fairy shortage.

Another controversy concerning the ninth season was that recurring character Catman, a parody of Batman as depicted in the 1966 TV series who was initially voiced by Adam West, was recast with Jeff Bennett impersonating Adam West. The change happened when West was still alive, so the three most likely explanations for why they changed Catman's voice actor are either that A: Adam West wasn't available, B: Adam West refused to continue playing the role for whatever reason or C: The execs simply felt it would be cheaper to have Catman voiced by someone impersonating Adam West instead of the genuine article.

The different takes on how the franchise suggested the story would end are indeed interesting, but I feel elaborating on them further will have to wait for another day.

The tenth season ended up being The Fairly OddParents' last, as the season shifting to Flash animation partway through, and the season's annoying habit of preventing Timmy and Chloe from wishing their ways out of their problems by having Cosmo and Wanda lose their wands through contrived disasters or even getting them destroyed through an absurd act of idiocy (like dipping them in a bear's stomach acid after the bear ate them alive), proved to be the final straw for Butch Hartman and he left Nickelodeon. Since Nickelodeon apparently had no intention of keeping the show going without Hartman's involvement, this was when the original show ended production.

Several months ago, a live-action revival using animated insertions of Cosmo and Wanda (once more voiced by Daran Norris and Susanne Blakeslee) was made titled The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder and distributed on the Viacom-owned streaming service Paramount+.

The series was a continuation of the cartoon, but rather than follow any of the previously established endings (e.g. Cosmo and Wanda becoming the godparents of Timmy's kids after he outgrows them like in Channel Chasers or Timmy becoming a fairy like in the third and final live-action film A Fairly Odd Summer), the premise of Fairly Odder had an 18-year-old Timmy pass Cosmo and Wanda onto his teenage cousin Vivian, who through circumstances has to share her godparents with her stepbrother Roy.

As not being caught up on everything Fairly OddParents was the only obstacle keeping me from doing this Oh Yeah! Cartoons retrospective, I had finished catching up on Fairly Odder and have mixed opinions on the series.

Having two kids share Cosmo and Wanda honestly comes off as an uninspired rehashing of Timmy and Chloe's situation, and I confess that nearly every episode I watched nearly put me to sleep, but the two-part finale of Vicky and Mr. Crocker teaming up (even having Carlos Alazraqui reprise his role in live action) was well worth enduring everything else.

No word yet on if Fairly Odder will be renewed for another season, but it does not seem likely, given that the fans weren't very accepting of the revival when it was first announced, and pretty much every mention of Fairly Odder I've found online has been extremely negative.

Even if the final iterations of it left a lot to be desired, I'm still happy that The Fairly OddParents was one of the Nicktoons I grew up with.

2. CHALKZONE

ChalkZone is next for discussion on the basis that it was the first entry on Oh Yeah! Cartoons to get its own show at all in addition to having the second-longest run at four seasons.

ChalkZone was a co-creation of Bill Burnett and Larry Huber and had the whimsical premise of a child named Rudy Tabootie (voiced by Elizabeth Daily) finding his way in an enchanted world of living chalk drawings and obtaining ownership of magic chalk he can use to draw people and things into existence.

As with The Fairly OddParents, I also remembered seeing the original Oh Yeah pilot of ChalkZone when I was a kid. With the exceptions of Chalk Dad and Chalk Rain, all of the Oh Yeah shorts of ChalkZone would subsequently be recycled as segments of the actual ChalkZone series.

The pilot had Rudy discover ChalkZone and meet his ChalkZone friend Snap (voiced by Candi Milo), their first adventure being a fight against Bully Nerd, a minotaur-like caricature of Rudy's bully Reggie Bullnerd (also Candi Milo). After his adventure, Rudy also gets out of his punishment for making "rude drawings" on the chalkboard by convincing his teacher Mr. Wilter (Robert Cait) that it was really Bullnerd's fault.

The second short was "The Amazin' River", which introduced Biclops (voiced by Rodger Bumpass) and would be the last short before Rudy was given a slight redesign.

The third short "Rudy's Date" introduced Rudy's classmate and friend Penny Sanchez (voiced by Hynden Walch), the short's conflict being that Bullnerd erased Penny's formula for perpetual motion and they had to go to ChalkZone to get it back, where it turns out the fragments of the formula are used to decorate the jacket of a brutish biker punk named Butch Biceps (voiced by Jess Harnell).

Then came "Snap Out of Water", where Rudy's absence forced Snap to try and attend Rudy's class, but Snap is forced to go back to ChalkZone when it rains outside and he loses a hand (fortunately, Rudy was able to draw him a new one).

The next short was "Secret Passages", where Rudy and Penny made use of ChalkZone portals so they could retrieve schoolwork they accidentally left behind. Mr. Wilter witnesses their shenanigans and ends up beaten by the cops for his troubles.

"Chalk Dad" has Rudy at the butcher shop where his dad Joe Tabootie (Jess Harnell) works and in ChalkZone gets into an argument with a chalk drawing of his dad. Why Chalk Dad never got repackaged as an episode segment is unknown, as the short actually is plot-relevant due to Mr. Tabootie's ChalkZone counterpart becoming a recurring character.

"Chalk Rain" had it established that rain in ChalkZone results from rain in the real world washing away chalk drawings, the conflict happening because of a wingless Chinese dragon going on a rampage. Rudy eventually meets the dragon's creator, a woman named Ming Lan (voiced by Ming-Na Wen), and they find out that they can stop the dragon's rampage by drawing it a pair of wings. It is believed Chalk Rain was never recycled as an episode segment due to it being contradictory towards other installments establishing that rain destroys anything chalk.

The final Oh Yeah short of ChalkZone was "Rapunzel", where the gang viewed a stage production loosely based on a certain fairy tale about a long-haired woman, the lead role played by Snap's love interest Queen Rapsheeba (voiced by Rosslyn Taylor, who is not to be confused with the late Russi Taylor). Fortune smiles upon Snap when he gets to take the place of the heroic knight who's supposed to kiss Rapunzel.

The actual ChalkZone series was more of the same, but had many interesting characters and stories brought in, such as recurring antagonist Skrawl (voiced by Jim Cummings), a pumpkin-headed antagonist named Jacko (voiced by none other than Tim Curry) and the hour-long special ChalkZone: The Big Blow-Up (guest-starring Malcolm McDowell as Barney the Encyclocentipedia and Corey Burton as ChalkZone's long-lost ruler King Mumbo Jumbo).

I will wrap up the discussion of ChalkZone by clearing up the urban legend of ChalkZone having two missing episodes that never aired. This is only a half-truth, as Chalk Dad and Chalk Rain were the only Oh Yeah shorts to not be repackaged in the series and weren't included in the misleadingly named Complete Series DVD (which notably also omits the episode "The Smooch" because of music licensing issues over the segment using the Baha Men's cover of the song Put the Lime in the Coconut). Any alleged episodes that aren't available on the DVD or through streaming or digital download must therefore be a hoax (unless the folks at Nick in their infinite wisdom have randomly decided to remove an episode from circulation over "inappropriate content", like the SpongeBob SquarePants episode Mid-Life Crustacean).

3. MY LIFE AS A TEENAGE ROBOT

As the only other segment on Oh Yeah! Cartoons to take off and get its own series, My Life as a Teenage Robot ranks dead last due to having the shortest run of the three (lasting only three seasons, the last one not airing locally until years after the fact).

Created by Rob Renzetti, My Life as a Teenage Robot is also contrasted from The Fairly OddParents and ChalkZone in that it wasn't a series of shorts and was just one, titled "My Neighbor is a Teenage Robot". The voice cast consisted of Janice Kawaye as the titular teenage robot XJ9/Jenny Wakeman, Candi Milo as her creator/mother Dr. Nora Wakeman, Melissa Denton as a teenage boy named Brad and Audrey Wasilewski as Brad Carbunkle's little brother Tuck. The story is that Brad and Tuck stumble upon Jenny, hang out with her and Dr. Wakeman fortunately relents that her creation/daughter deserves to have the same experiences as a normal teenager even if she was built to defend the Earth from monsters and other unusual threats.

When My Life as a Teenage Robot got its own show, the premiere episode was a remake of the original pilot, the differences being that everyone's character design was changed and Brad was now voiced by Chad Doreck.

Members of the cast who didn't turn up until the series proper included Jenny's rivals the Crust Cousins (Tiff voiced by Cree Summer and Brit by Moira Quirk), a geek obsessed with Jenny named Sheldon Lee (voiced by Quinton Flynn) and a race of vaguely insectoid robots out to destroy Jenny if they can't make her conform to their dim views on organic life called the Cluster, their leader being Vexus (voiced by the late Eartha Kitt).

Out of all the plot threads that could've been resolved had Nickelodeon not given the show the short end of the stick, I especially would've liked to see Brad and Melody resolve their issues, as the last time they crossed paths left a bad taste in my mouth (sorry, but I don't ship Brad with Jenny, plus the creators have made it clear that Brad and Jenny's relationship is purely platonic).

This is all I have to say about the Oh Yeah shorts that actually got greenlit for their own shows. Everything else is obviously an entry that got rejected and fell into obscurity due to the big three overshadowing them.

4. SLAP T. POOCH: WHAT IS FUNNY?

The very first segment featured on Oh Yeah! Cartoons that ultimately didn't get picked up for its own show was a short starring the character Slap T. Pooch titled "What is Funny?"

The short was a co-creation of Bill Burnett and Vince Waller, the latter being Slap T. Pooch's voice. The plot is that Slap T. Pooch is an inexperienced cartoon character and freaks out at not knowing what he's supposed to do, so he goes through various absurd circumstances that defy description, always asking the audience whether everything he does or everything that happens to him can be considered funny. Every once in a while, we are also treated to a farmer, a pig and an ostrich appearing out of nowhere to chant "What is Funny?" As if that wasn't creepy enough, the end of the short shows the pig joining in the chant in spite of becoming a box of bacon off-screen.

In spite of his short not taking off, it wouldn't be the last we'd see of Slap T. Pooch. He would later make a cameo in the other Oh Yeah short "Pete Patrick, P.I.: What About Lunch?" and was prominently featured in a Nickelodeon promo for The Rugrats Movie.

5. JELLY'S DAY

The first among the rejected batch of segments to have multiple shorts, the Jelly's Day series was a co-creation of Bill Burnett and Greg Emison.

The titular Jelly (voiced by Grey DeLisle-Griffin) is a young girl with purple skin who in each short is visited by and spends time with one of her eccentric relatives.

The first short has her go to the beach with her cousin Hargus, a green-skinned and fanged weirdo who comes from the country Entrancelvania and is voiced by John Kassir. Some hilarious bits include Hargus trying to rectify popping the volleyball by replacing the ball with his detached head and Jelly trying to defend that her cousin is an innocent monster, only for a woman to snap back that "innocent" and "monster" do not belong in the same sentence.

The second short was "Uncle Betty's Strange Rash", Uncle Betty being a balding, bespectacled man in a kilt voiced by Bob Joles impersonating Ed Wynn. Jelly takes her uncle to the science museum hoping to help him find a significant other. While things don't go as planned, Uncle Betty does fall for a giant sentient flower, who he gets a blemish from that ends up bursting into little baby flowers who Jelly adores playing with.

The third and final short was "Aunt Broth's Makeover", where Jelly's Auntie Broth (voiced by John Kassir) was a woman with a habit of going into giggling fits. After this habit of hers makes an attempt at giving her a makeover with help from Herr Brush (Charlie Adler) end in disaster, Jelly decides to do brain surgery on her aunt and finds that the problem is her brain being poked at by a French clown (voiced by the late Joe Alaskey).

Aunt Broth proves to be miserable and prone to sobbing, but Jelly is fortunately able to fix things by putting the clown back in her aunt's head.

This was one series of shorts I would've liked to see become its own show. It would've been amusing to see what other bizarre and silly family members Jelly would spend her time with and what kind of misadventures they'd find themselves in.

6. THE F-TALES: THE SKY IS FALLING

The F-Tales was one of the duds for Oh Yeah! Cartoons that Rob Renzetti created before My Life as a Teenage Robot entered the picture.

The premise of the short was that it was basically a satire on The X-Files, but with fairy tales. Fauna Fox (voiced by Mari Weiss) investigates reports of a murderous psycho on the loose with her partner Chicken Little (voiced by Tom Kenny), who won't shut up about his conspiracy theories that the sky is falling.

The two agents come across the three little pigs Percy (Tom Kenny), Scott (Nick Jameson) and Christopher (David Shatraw) and it seems that they are being attacked by a wolf (voiced by Patrick Pinney).

In the end, Fauna gets enough of Chicken Little's ramblings on the sky falling, so when the police show up asking for the violent maniac that's been reported, Fauna, the pigs and the wolf claim that Chicken Little is the psycho needing to be apprehended and the cops take him away without question. However, the episode ends with the implication that Chicken Little might not be as crazy as Fauna thought.

7. TEDDY AND ART: 25 CENT TROUBLE

25 Cent Trouble was an entry created by Alex Kirwan and starred a boy named Teddy (voiced by Katie Leigh) with a habit of saying "Catastrophic" whenever he saw something he found cool and Teddy's pet dog Art (voiced by Frank Welker, whose career has largely been using his voice to make animal sound effects).

The story is that Teddy and Art are at the grocery store, and while Teddy's mom (Debi Derryberry) is preoccupied with shopping, the two find a toy robot (also voiced by Frank Welker) that turns out to be rather functional and destructive for a trinket that costs a quarter.

8. CAT AND MILKMAN

This short was created by Miles Thompson and is the only non-ChalkZone or non-Fairly OddParents Oh Yeah short I remember watching when I was young.

The premise here is that a milkman voiced by Billy West crosses paths with a cat (that frankly looks more like a monkey due to his lack of whiskers or pointy ears), the feline causing him trouble all because the milkman refuses to feed him. Things eventually end with the cat gluttonously drinking all the milkman's wares while the poor guy is in a full-body cast.

9. JAMAL, THE FUNNY FROG

Another instance of one segment having multiple shorts, Jamal the Funny Frog was the creation of Pat Ventura.

Jamal was voiced by Orlando Ashley and his first outing in "Mind the Baby, Jamal" has his dad (Kevin Michael Richardson) force him to watch over his baby sister Polly (Kiki Shepard) on a Saturday.

The next short was "His Musical Moment", where Jamal is yelled at by his dad for playing video games and is forced to practice playing piano. Jamal grows to like it, but isn't amused to see his father playing the video game he confiscated from his son.

After that came "Milk Dreams", where little Polly has a dream where she desperately wants to get milk, but her big brother isn't okay with letting her drink come from a diseased and undead-looking cow. In the end, Dad yells at his son for waking up Polly and Jamal gets two milk bottles, one for his sister and one for himself.

After that came "Dentist", where Jamal gets a toothache from overindulging in sweets. The dentist is able to remove the tooth painlessly, but when Jamal can't bear to part with it, the dentist is able to fix it up and put it back in Jamal's mouth. The episode ends with Jamal's father again demonstrating hypocrisy by helping himself to the junk food Jamal was feasting on and losing some of his teeth in spite of being the one who berated Jamal for his poor care of his teeth in the first place.

The penultimate short "Beach" had the family go to the beach and Polly end up befriending the sea creatures underwater.

The final short "Camping" had Jamal and his sister compete in photographing wildlife.

10. THATTA BOY

Another entry by Alex Kirwan, Thatta Boy (voiced by Jeannie Elias) is a superhero who takes being a crime-fighter a little too seriously and tries going on patrol with his sidekick Polly Atomica (voiced by Cree Summer), barely paying any attention to her disillusionment towards do-goodery.

After stopping a lot of criminals, such as a gang of girls going on a scavenger hunt and a mad scientist supervillain named Ravenrant (voiced by Rodger Bumpass doing an impression of Boris Karloff), Thatta Boy is eventually betrayed by Polly, who confesses that she wants to be evil now and her first act of villainy is setting free Thatta Boy's captures.

Thatta Boy isn't happy about this, but gets back to defending all that is right when he comes across some Martians scheming to capture some canine celebrity named Sammy the Pup.

11. HOBART

Another co-creation between Bill Burnett and Greg Emison, the title character of Hobart (voiced by John Kassir) is a skinny redhead who isn't very bright and goes on two adventures that involve finding himself in another world after being flushed down the toilet.

The first adventure happens in the short "The Weedkeeper", where Hobart intends to get a dog for his girlfriend Okra (Susanne Blakeslee) so she doesn't have to drag a toaster around on a leash. He ends up flushed into a garden world where the Weedkeeper (Kevin Michael Richardson) desperately wants Okra's dog to be his own.

The second short "Deep Sea Diva" had Hobart going to an underwater world and having to rescue Okra from a singing merman named Ethel (voiced by Dee Bradley Baker).

12. PROTECTO-5000

Protecto-5000 is a short created by John Eng and concerns a robotic bodyguard (voiced by Richard Moll) who comes to Earth in the distant past with his protectee, who eventually ends up killed during the atomic age.

In the present day, the robot bodyguard goes by the name Kenny and works as a janitor at the school, where he befriends and rescues a girl named Nadya (Grey DeLisle-Griffin) after she was locked in a closet by a bully named Matt (Mary Kay Bergman).

13. ASK EDWARD: ALL ABOUT BABIES

Another short created by Rob Renzetti. Edward is a dog boy voiced by Tom Kenny who is using action figures to play tyrannical pharaoh, but is infuriated to have his playtime interrupted by his little brother Emo (Tara Strong).

After Emo brings up that he overheard their parents talking about having another child, Edward tries to rationalize why another baby isn't possible by giving a very misinformed talk to his brother on how reproduction works. Apparently, Edward thinks that when parents want to have a child, they send a baby request form to Santa, the Easter Bunny or the Tooth Fairy, then a stork delivers an egg that will hatch into a baby.

Edward is especially certain there won't be any babies because it is neither Christmas nor Easter, plus he and his brother haven't lost any baby teeth. However, the brothers freak out when Emo finds an egg and they both think the egg is their new little brother.

Things get worse when their mom (Sharon Mack) finds the egg and cooks it for them. After she finds out what's going on, she tries to have their father set them straight by telling them the REAL way babies are made. After the off-screen lecture, however, Emo and Edward still don't quite understand how reproduction works and assume that eggs have to be pollinated by bees to contain babies. Episode ends with Emo getting stung on his snout by a bee and freaking out because he thinks he's been pollinated.

14. PETE PATRICK, P.I.: WHAT ABOUT LUNCH?

Another entry by Vincent Waller, where Pete Patrick (Pamela Adlon) and his fez-wearing feline sidekick Persian Puss (Billy West) confront a mad scientist named Dr. Don't (Danny Mann) and his Blemmyes-like henchman Torso (also Danny Mann). Pete happens to have a bag lunch with him, but after Dr. Don't and Torso open the bag, they find not food, but Pete's burly cousin with the odd name of Lunch, who proceeds to beat the daylights out of the bad guys.

15. MAX

Much like Hobart, Max had the rarity of being a two-short wonder. The title character is an office employee who barely speaks (most of his dialogue being exclamations and grunts) and goes on unrealistic mishaps. The shorts were created by Dave Wasson.

The first short was "Max and his Special Problem", where Max (voiced by Dave Wasson) ends up sneezing his brain out and having to get it back in his head, eventually succeeding when the doctors help him by poking his brain in a way that he sniffs it back in. Unfortunately, Max then ends up burping his heart out after he returns to work.

The sequel short "Max and the Pigeon Incident" had Max voiced by Vincent Waller and bugged by a pigeon that found its way into his cubicle. He ends up facing the wrath of his boss (Michael J. Gough) itching to punish him for slacking on the job, a woman in the ladies' room he entered by mistake (Dee Dee Rescher) getting the wrong idea and attacking him while accusing him of being a "sicko" and having a window washer (Jess Harnell) take his place in being beaten by the woman he shocked.

In the end, Max gets electrocuted on the power line and the pigeon hits his head with bird droppings.

16. TUTU THE SUPERINA

A co-creation by Bill Burnett and Sally Rousse, starring a crime-fighting ballerina (Candi Milo) who stops a Vile Woman (Judy Kaye) and her henchman (Earl Boen) from tormenting animals in cartoonishly harmless ways.

17. BLOTTO

Created by Byron Vaughns, the main character Blotto (Wayne Brady) sings about how fun it is in the Inkworld, has his singing interrupted by his significant other Dotto (Kenna J. Ramsey) complaining about how much she hates it in Inkworld.

The little spat gets the attention of the Balloon Goon (George Anthony Bell), who schemes to use the allure of his comic book world to take Dotto from Blotto.

Blotto succeeds in cleaning the Balloon Goon's clock, but becomes enamored with becoming a comic book star, only for Dotto to strike him hard enough to make him see stars.

18. TALES FROM THE GOOSE LADY

A series of multiple shorts created by Dave Wasson. These were essentially bizarre takes on famous fairy tales, with the framing device consisting of the Goose Lady (a weird take on Mother Goose voiced by a falsetto Rob Paulsen) bugging two children named Dot and Randy (Kath Soucie and John Kassir respectively) into listening to one of her tales, which is usually narrated by her living Hispanic wand Juanito (voiced by Jeff Bennett). Notably, this is the longest-running of Oh Yeah's rejected miniseries, having nine shorts in total.

The first short is "Jack and the Beatstalk" and has the Goose Lady force Dot and Randy listen to her latest story by making them miss the schoolbus. In this take on the beanstalk story, Jack (Rob Paulsen) is a beatnik, his mother runs an unsuccessful coffee shop, he gets the magic beans from a wolf named Sheisty McSheister (voiced by Corey Burton) and the giant (Jeff Bennett) is a hippie who owns a magic coffee machine. In the end, the giant agrees to let Jack have the machine as long as he can sell his candles and incense at the coffee shop, and Dot and Randy are left to be punished by a truant officer.

In "Hamsel and Grande", the Goose Lady bugs Dot and Randy when they are trying to get some sleep before a big math test tomorrow. The twist for this version of Hansel and Gretel is that the witch (Dee Dee Rescher) was only minding her own business creating a gingerbread house so it can be on a magazine cover. Hamsel and Grande (Rob Paulsen and Kath Soucie) turn out to be a pair of very fat and greedy children who won't stop eating the poor witch's house, their cries over being told to stop eating the house getting the attention of a feminine woodsman (S. Scott Bullock), who repeatedly cuts the witch in two, requiring her to sew herself back together.

The witch eventually succeeds in getting the two gluttonous brats off her back by creating a house made of liver, but this only leads to the woodsman eating her house instead. Once the Goose Lady finally leaves, the brother and sister are annoyed to find that the story kept them up all night.

The third short was "The Egg Who Would Be King", where the Goose Lady prevents Dot and Randy from catching an educational television program about the human heart so she can tell them the real story of Humpty Dumpty.

Apparently, Humpty Dumpty (voiced by Roger Rose impersonating Brian Doyle-Murray) came into being because the chicken that laid him was jealous of the goose that laid the golden egg. After his mother rejects him for being another failure in creating a valuable egg, Humpty sets out on his own and becomes a popular celebrity.

Humpty eventually becomes King of Fairy Tale Land, but turns out to be so lazy that he'd rather sit on his butt watching TV and eating junk food than lift a finger to solve his subjects' problems. In the end, the subjects are so sick of their ruler being a lazy piece of garbage that they throw produce at King Humpty Dumpty until he falls from the wall after a tomato hits him between the legs.

Next came "The Little Pigs 3", where the Goose Lady digs a hole to trap Dot and Randy so she can tell them her version of The Three Little Pigs. Here, they are a trio of jazz musicians named Dizzy (Rob Paulsen), Moody (Kevin Michael Richardson) and Sloan (Kevin Michael Richardson again).

They think they're getting their first gig when Sheisty McSheister agrees to be their manager, but are disappointed that the House of Straw is a feed bar and the House of Sticks is a lumber mill, plus the jobs they have to do there have zilch to do with playing music at all.

The porcine trio have better luck when a nightclub owner meets them and has them take the place of Little Boy Blue.

Then there was "The Tortoise and the Hairpiece", where Dot and Randy are in the principal's office and the Goose Lady distracts the principal with a prank call that the President is in the cafeteria. The story here is that the tortoise (Pat Fraley) failed to beat the hare in a race, so he is challenged by a sentient toupee (John Rubinow) to see which of them can be the most successful. In the end, the tortoise gets the last laugh by saving his stock, using it to buy out the company they work at and become the new boss, revel in the hairpiece's surprise and fire him.

After that was "Three Bears and a Blonde", where the Goose Lady keeps Dot and Randy from going to the Natural History Museum and tells a take-off of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. It all starts with Papa Bear (Michael Patrick Bell) being fed up with eating the porridge cooked by Mama Bear (Jodi Carlisle) and demands meat. After Baby Bear (also Jodi Carlisle) brings up that bears are supposed to eat grubs, fish and honey, Papa Bear dismisses this as hippie talk and laments how no one gets their information from books anymore before getting the idea to invite Goldilocks (Kath Soucie) over so they can literally have her for dinner.

Goldilocks proves to be a very rude houseguest, as she burps immediately after gobbling up Baby Bear's porridge and yells at Papa Bear over hurting herself trying to sit in his stone chair. After she's asleep, Papa Bear then finds the dietary information his son talked about in a book. Not wanting to be seen as a hypocrite, Papa Bear forces Goldilocks to leave and is forced to eat grubs for dinner, much to the amusement of his son and wife.

"The Ugly Duck-Thing" has the Goose Lady bug the hapless pair of siblings when they're trying to read in the library, with the story of the ugly duckling getting a twist where instead of a swan he grows to be an extremely ugly duck-like creature. On the bright side, the Duck-Thing (voiced by Dave Wasson) finds a benefit to his unsightliness when he finds that he can look at stuff and use his ugliness to break them to save lives (e.g. a bottle a baby got his head stuck in, the timer of a bomb).

Unfortunately for the Duck-Thing, he gets injured when he fails to defuse a bomb in time. He gets plastic surgery and, contrary to what Juanito says, likes his new good looks. The result of this intrusion from the Goose Lady is that Dot and Randy get banned from the library and have their library cards confiscated and destroyed.

The penultimate short was "The Fisherman, The Fisherman's Wife and a Fish", where the Goose Lady defaces paintings at the museum and forces Dot and Randy to listen to a take-off of the Fisherman's Wife, this time the story being told by Juanito's French cousin Jeanito (voiced by Frank Welker).

The Fisherman (voiced by Jon Polito) is sent by his wife (Kath Soucie) to fish and ends up meeting an enchanted fish (Kevin Michael Richardson), who agrees to grant a wish to the Fisherman in exchange for letting him go. While you may be aware that the original story ends with the fisherman's wife being returned to normal after indulging in her desire for power and wealth, this version instead has the Fisherman ditch his wife while making the fish become his new paramour.

Dot and Randy get caught, but are fortunately able to distract the museum's security guard by claiming to see Ed Asner behind him.

The final short was titled "Dot and Randy's Sad Tale of Woe" and changed the formula a bit by having Dot and Randy capture the Goose Lady and then force Juanito to read a story they wrote of their own in hopes of giving the Goose Lady a taste of her own medicine. Their story involves a land plagued by idiocy where two bright children named Dottina and Randolfus are discovered by Friar Larry, who intends to train them so they can eventually remove a golden abacus from a stone and unleash an age of enlightenment. Unfortunately, they fail their task due to being distracted by the stories told them by very unflattering representations of the Goose Lady and Juanito, and Friar Larry is so disillusioned that he renounces his faith and gets devoured by bears after wandering into the woods.

Unfortunately for Dot and Randy, the Goose Lady completely ignores that the story is a critique of how she had been treating the kids. All she learns from this is that Dot and Randy are terrible at telling stories and promises to never give them the opportunity to tell their own story ever again.

19. TWINS CRIMSON AND THOSE AMAZING ROBOTS

Created by Carlos Ramos, the twins are Bene and Beckett (voiced by Nancy Cartwright), who are encouraged by their mother to go play outside and end up befriending some robots who are doing land development and convince them to abandon the job and instead live in harmony with the animals. Too bad the guy running the project (voiced by Billy West) decides to make do with having construction occur in Paris.

20. OLLY AND FRANK

A short created by Bob Boyle with the main character being a boy genius named Olly (voiced by Grey DeLisle-Griffin). He ends up creating a Frankenstein monster dog named Frank, who helps him stand up to his bully Bratwurst (Rino Romano) and win the love of his crush Daisy (Dina Sherman).

21. APEX CARTOONS PROPS AND NOVELTIES

A short by Larry Huber focusing on a business devoted to cartoon props and novelties. The owner of the business, Cletus (Kevin Michael Richardson), uses his business to pull one over a pair of cartoon predators, a blue fox voiced by the late Joe Lala and a purple possum voiced by Stuart Pankin.

22. A COP AND HIS DONUT

Yet another unsuccessful Rob Renzetti short. The story follows a young cop (Quinton Flynn) teaming up with a sentient donut (John Wesley) to fight crime. The donut partner ends up shot, but the rookie is fortunately able to patch him up.

23. ENCHANTED TALES

The co-creation of John Eng and Bill Burnett, this short was a medieval fantasy kind of story with the main character being a knight named Galen (David Coburn), who owns a sword he can command to transform into any weapon and is tasked by Brangwen (Moira Quirk) to end a plague by killing the dragon Kaltor (voiced by Jess Harnell impersonating Captain James T. Kirk).

Kaltor reveals to Galen that the wool had been pulled over his eyes, so he confronts Brangwen and finds that she had been conspiring with Bork (Pat Fraley) to take a mystical orb. Galen comes out on top in the end.

24. SUPER SANTA

A series of shorts created by Michael Patrick Bell, where he plays Santa Claus depicted as a crimefighter the other 364 days of the year. With the help of his wife Emma Claus (Mari Weiss), Jolly Old St. Nick tackles all sorts of enemies.

The first short "Jingle Bell Justice" has toys go on a crimewave, which turns out to be because they're being guided by a toy rabbit named Bedlam Bunny (Tom Kenny), who's upset that Santa didn't make him something cooler than a stuffed bunny like a toy robot.

Another short titled "Naughty" has the villain be a descendant of Ebenezer Scrooge named Elmer Scrooge (Dwight Schultz), who creates bad gas to make everyone naughty as his revenge against Santa. In the end, Scrooge loses from his workers turning on him due to Santa being nicer to them than he ever was.

The third short "South Pole Joe" has Santa deal with a rival from the South Pole called South Pole Joe (Kevin Michael Richardson), who it turns out is pretty incompetent at making gifts and delivering them to countless people. He and Santa do set aside their differences to help everyone pay their taxes on time, but South Pole Joe ends up arrested because he hadn't paid his own taxes in decades.

The final short was "Vegetation", where a mad scientist named Dr. Carmine Miranda (Billy West) tried to get his revenge on the world with an army of mutant fruits and vegetables. As always, Santa and Mrs. Claus save the day.

25. KITTY THE HAPLESS CAT

Created by Zac Moncrief, this short stars Tom Kenny as a cat desperate to get a new home.

Unfortunately, he runs into a lot of problems with the different owners he tries. An artist who isn't right in the head wants Kitty to be made to look exactly like his old cat, while a family end up giving him the boot when they see him making contact with the baby and mistakenly think he's making the baby suffocate.

Strangely, this short's Oh Yeah! Cartoons bumper appears to be lost to time. No present uploads of Kitty the Hapless Cat include Kitty saying "Oh Yeah! Cartoons" at the end, but I have seen an upload of an Oh Yeah! Cartoons promo that does briefly show Kitty's bumper.

26. THAT'S MY POP

Another entry by Pat Ventura, which is about the misadventures of a very intelligent bear girl named Naomi (Kiki Shepard) and her stupid father who can barely read (T.K. Carter). Naomi ends up bringing a dinosaur (Orlando Ashley) to life, and with some effort, her dad comes to accept him.

27. HUBBYKINS AND SWEETIE PIE

Another Rob Renzetti short that wasn't picked up for its own show.

The cartoon is mostly silent and involves a lazy husband making his wife mad by being a slob and not cleaning up after himself properly. He at one point makes his old lady cry by wrecking the house, but sets things right by cleaning everything himself, though he basically just piles up all the garbage at the front door.

Tom Kenny was the only credited voice actor, who voiced the cat. The cat in question had no lines within the short, but was the one that said "Oh Yeah! Cartoons" in the short's mandatory ending bumper.

28. THE MAN WITH NO NOSE

A short by Larry Huber, the main character being an orange alien named Urp (voiced by Frank Welker), who is displeased with working as a carnival freak called The Man with No Nose, infuriated that they decided to emphasize his noselessness as his gimmick even though he's a genuine extraterrestrial.

His only friend is Billy the Elastic Boy (the late Christine Cavanaugh), who helps him discover that the fuel he needs to power his spaceship and leave is found in a special kind of candy bar. After taking one of the bars from a strongman, the strongman retaliates by inflicting an injury upon Urp that results in his freakshow stage name now being The Man with No Head.

29. YOUNGSTAR 3

A short created by Miles Thompson about a trio of superheroes, consisting of a boy with a beanie-like hat named Youngstar (Kate Donahue), his overprotective grandfather Old Man (Dee Bradley Baker) and a huge robot woman named Shero (Grey DeLisle-Griffin).

They end up fighting a giant fish monster and prevail in spite of some screw-ups on Old Man's part.

30. HEY LOOK!

This short was created by Vincent Waller, but is notable in that, unlike most of the other shorts, this one was an adaptation of a pre-existing work, specifically Harvey Kurtzman's Hey Look comic strips.

The main characters focused on are a Big Guy voiced by Danny Wells and a Little Guy voiced by Maurice LaMarche.

31. THE FEELERS

Another Bill Burnett short. The titular characters are a rock band of anthropomorphic insects, consisting of lead singer Mitzi Moth (Rosslyn Taylor when speaking, Robbyn Kirmsse when singing), an ant on drums named Max (talking by the late Joe Lala, singing by Bill Burnett), a bee bassist named Stinger (Greg Eagles when speaking, Alvin Chea when singing) and a mosquito playing the guitar named Mo Skito (Quinton Flynn when speaking, Joe Pizzulo when singing).

Desperate for a way to be noticed by the humans, the Feelers find their way into a recording studio, where a spider named Legs helps them record a song that is accidentally played by Crusty (Jess Harnell) when his boss Mr. Katzeneisner (also Jess Harnell) was supposed to hear the recording of a couple singing a romantic ballad that agitated Stinger.

In the end, Mr. Katzeneisner decides he wants the Feelers to work for him and orders Crusty to find them, the final scene having the Feelers dance to their own song in celebration of the good news.

The Feelers was another rejected short I wish had gotten its own show, as a rock band of insects seems like a story teeming with interesting possibilities.

I have had a feeling that some elements from The Feelers were recycled into the more successful ChalkZone (particularly, the Feelers' performances of the songs "100 Watts of Love" and "Drop Me Off in Hollywood" feeling like precursors to ChalkZone's music video segments and one episode of ChalkZone featuring a singing insect named Mo Skeeter perform a song called Insect Aside).

I sent a tweet to Bill Burnett (his account is Billthebathtub for those of you confused by their being multiple Twitter accounts for someone named Bill Burnett) to ask him if he ever recycled scrapped Feelers plans for ChalkZone, but he hasn't replied to my queries to this day. I really would like to know if Burnett really did recycle stuff intended for The Feelers into ChalkZone or if I'm just a loonie reading too much into things.

32. ZOOMATES

A short co-created by Butch Hartman and Seth MacFarlane where an animal activist named Helen (Jennifer Love Hewitt) is challenged to prove three zoo animals can live just fine by themselves. The animals used in this challenge are a polar bear named Mark (Thomas F. Wilson), an alligator named Paul (S. Scott Bullock) and an ostrich named Warren (Phil LaMarr).

The animals end up making a mess of things due to being unaccustomed to how humans live, but Helen remains determined to continue trying.

33. MICROCOPS

Another short by John Eng. The main character is Officer Jones (Cam Clarke), who travels through a man's body to fight off germs.

34. PLANET KATE

One of the only two shorts to be 11 minutes rather than the standard 7, the short was created by Jamie Mitchell and had a girl named Kate Moon (Shayna Fox) get involved with a group of alien dog archaeologists, whose names are Max (Billy West), Bolivar (also Billy West), Cleo (Cree Summer), Juno (Nancy Cartwright) and Rothgar (Maurice LaMarche).

After drawing a map as a homework assignment, Kate discovers that the aliens took it as well as her dog Toby. She is very surprised to see that it matches another map the aliens already have. Kate then decides to let the aliens be and the short ends with some creepy, lizard-like creature that had been observing them grinning ominously.

This was yet another short I really, really would've liked to see as its own series. I really wanted to know what the deal was with that lizard thingy and what kind of adventures Kate and the alien dogs could've gone on.

35. FATHEAD

The other 11-minute short is created by Vince Calandra. The title character is a caveboy who got his name from being very intelligent and his head being so big.

Voiced by Zachary Leigh, Fathead is tasked to complete a rite of passage that involves taking a dinosaur egg. The chief Lord Amur's son (Danny Cooksey) tries to get him in trouble, but to no avail.

36. A KID'S LIFE

Two shorts created by Ken Kessel, both of them are narrated by a big pink plush bunny named Fuzzy Bunny (voiced by S. Scott Bullock).

The first short "Fuzzy Bunny Presents: A Kid's Life" has Fuzzy Bunny tell the story of Suzy Cornhusk (April Winchell) horrified that she has sentient blackheads on her nose the day before the school dance.

The blackhead family includes Pop (Pat Fraley), Mom (April Winchell), Junior (Rob Paulsen) and their dog Spot. Suzy's predicament is eventually ended when she pops all the blackheads, but is frightened again when she finds out her crush Frankie Crescendo has blackheads now.

The second short was titled "Picture Day" and had a boy named Billy Butter force himself to smile the entire day so he'd look his best in the school picture, only to be foiled by "broccoli in teeth unnoticed before it is too late". Weirdly, this short was mistakenly given the credits to the first A Kid's Life short, but I am very certain most of the characters here, Billy Butter included, are voiced by Rob Paulsen.

37. MAGIC TRIXIE

Another Alex Kirwan short where a silent girl named Trixie learns to be a magician and ends up getting so good at it that she makes the local celebrity magician Migmar Magma (Bob Joles) jealous. In the end, Migmar is punished by being turned into a bird and forced to be Trixie's assistance.

Trixie was voiced by Laundry Alrbight, but only had one line ("I have natural talent"), two if you count the Oh Yeah! Cartoons ending logo thing.

38. FREDDY SEYMOURE'S AMAZING LIFE

Created by Tim Biskup, the short stars a weird little kid voiced by Robbie Rist who gloats about many bizarre and improbable adventures, but is implied to not be making it up when he tells his dad a monster ate his tie and the father finds that there really is a monster ruining his clothes.

39. EARTH TO OBIE

The first Oh Yeah short by Guy Vasilovich.

The main character is Owen Bradley "Obie" Brasinksi (Nika Futterman), who imagines while at the supermarket that he's in a prison for cereal mascots, with his voice for the fantasy sequences provided by Danny Mann.

Obie ends up teaming up with the scoundrels Sugar Puff Daddy (Danny Mann), Koko Bird (Charlie Adler) and Frosty the Flake (Maurice LaMarche). The fantasy ends with Obie's family forced to leave yet again because of their son's erratic behavior.

I regret to realize there's a limit to how long descriptions can be typed, so I'll have to split this into another deviation.

Link to part two: Oh Yeah! Cartoons Retrospective Part 2 of 2

The Fairly OddParents, ChalkZone, My Life as a Teenage Robot and Oh Yeah! Cartoons (c) Nickelodeon

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At long last, I am ready to begin my retrospective on the Nickelodeon anthology series Oh Yeah! Cartoons now that I am fully caught up on every media connected to the three segments of Oh Yeah! Cartoons that were successfully picked up for their own shows. This project means a lot to me because I have a great deal of nostalgia regarding Oh Yeah! Cartoons, and even if I hadn't grown up watching at least some of the show's shorts, I most certainly would have gotten a kick out of it if I had just heard about it now, as I do love me some variety.

Brace yourselves, for this is going to be a very long description.

Oh Yeah! Cartoons premiered in 1998 and was created by Fred Seibert to serve as a Nickelodeon equivalent to Cartoon Network's What a Cartoon Show. Like What a Cartoon before it, Oh Yeah! Cartoons was an anthology where every entry was a seven-minute animated short intended to serve as a pilot for a potential Nicktoon.

The series ran for three seasons and had a framing device wrapped around the segments. The first season used footage of children talking about cartoons and humor, the second season had Kenan Thompson of All That and Kenan and Kel fame as the host of the show doing brief skits and jokes between shorts and the third and final season replaced Kenan Thompson with fellow All That alumnus Josh Server.

There was also a tradition where nearly every short (the only exceptions being the 11-minute shorts Planet Kate and Fathead) ends with a clip of a character or characters from the show (usually but not always the main one) appearing in the Oh Yeah! Cartoons logo while shouting "Oh Yeah! Cartoons!"

Out of all of the different entries featured on Oh Yeah! Cartoons, the only ones that ever got picked up for their own show were The Fairly OddParents, ChalkZone and My Life as a Teenage Robot. I am grateful these three Nicktoons existed and they will forever remain a fondly remembered part of my childhood, but I am disappointed by the number of interesting shorts featured on the anthology that I feel would've made awesome cartoons in their own right.

The reason behind the other segments' rejection varies. It could be that the Nickelodeon execs simply weren't impressed, it could be that a premise that works well for a seven-minute short is harder to adjust for a television series consisting of 11-minute or half-hour episodes or some might even have intended to be self-contained stories in the first place (the last one only being a guess on my part).

It was also interesting that several entries weren't limited to just one short. The Fairly OddParents and ChalkZone are the most noteworthy entries to have more than one short, but having multiple shorts was also the case for Jelly's Day, Jamal the Funny Frog, Max, Tales from the Goose Lady, Super Santa, A Kid's Life, Mina and the Count and The Dan Danger Show.

With the exception of some DVD releases of The Fairly OddParents, ChalkZone and My Life as a Teenage Robot including the relevant shorts, there has not been a home media release for Oh Yeah! Cartoons, though every Oh Yeah short in existence is presently available on YouTube and/or Fred Seibert's Vimeo account (just the individual shorts, unfortunately. Very few uploads of the full half-hour episodes with the Kenan Thompson and Josh Server hosting segments intact have surfaced. This wouldn't be a problem to people who only care about the individual shorts, but can be annoying to people who want to know what the framing devices were like or would like to see the end credits and know who the voice actors involved in the shorts were).

It already made sense to me that this description would discuss the lucky three first, but I also had a specific order for them in mind from my observations of the shows' success and how long they lasted.

1. THE FAIRLY ODDPARENTS

Created by Butch Hartman, The Fairly OddParents is arguably the most successful of the three Oh Yeah! Cartoons entries that got picked up for their own shows, considering that it had the longest run at a total of ten seasons, to say nothing of all the video games, crossovers, movies and the live-action series that was recently released to little fanfare.

Anyone who's at least heard the theme song knows that the premise behind The Fairly OddParents is that Timmy Turner is an average ten-year-old boy no one understands who's life is misery because of his neglectful parents and his abusive babysitter Vicky. All this changes when he gets his own fairy godparents, who grant him any wish he makes so long as it doesn't violate Da Rules.

The original pilot was one of the Oh Yeah shorts I remember watching as a child. Timmy was originally voiced by Mary Kay Bergman (with Tara Strong replacing her after Bergman's tragic self-termination) and he is left by his faceless parents (Dad voiced by Daran Norris and Mom by Susanne Blakeslee) to be watched over by Vicky (voiced by Grey DeLisle-Griffin), who turns out to be a psychotic monster delighting in his torment.

Fortunately for Timmy, he is given his fairy godparents Cosmo and Wanda (who are also voiced by Daran Norris and Susanne Blakeslee), and the boy's first wishes involve driving his mean babysitter crazy. Most people talk about how Vicky was showering and had the water turn into gelatin, but the part that stood out to me the most was when Wanda turned into a baby and crushed Vicky with her butt while Cosmo wore Groucho Marx glasses and remarked how it was the first time the baby sat on the sitter.

The next short was "Too Many Timmys", where Timmy again used a wish to drive Vicky nuts by creating copies of himself.

The third short "Where's the Wand?" (which was also the sole Oh Yeah short to not have a rebroadcast where Tara Strong dubbed over Mary Kay Bergman's lines) had the conflict of Wanda losing her wand and the three having to get it back from Vicky when she mistakenly brings it to the high school costume contest.

Then came "Party of 3", where Timmy attempted to convince his parents that he doesn't need a babysitter and can handle looking after himself. Vicky tries to bust Timmy by photographing him fooling around without adult supervision, leading to a hilarious scene where Cosmo and Wanda change the photographic evidence to a picture of Mr. Turner in boxer shorts and Mr. Turner misinterprets Vicky's stammering of "but" for commenting on his rear end. Unfortunately for Timmy, his parents decide to continue hiring Vicky to babysit after all because Timmy neglected to remove some pepperoni that got stuck to his teeth from eating pizza.

The short "The Fairy Flu" notably marked the debut of Vicky's unattractive younger sister with a crush on Timmy named Tootie (who was originally voiced by Amber Hood rather than Vicky's voice actress like in the main series). The plot is that Timmy is roped into attending Tootie's birthday party, but also finds that his godparents have the fairy flu, which results in out-of-control magical hijinks. I especially liked when Vicky was barking orders at the kids and didn't notice that she had turned into a frog.

In "The Temp", Cosmo and Wanda have to temporarily leave Timmy to get their godparenting license renewed and face harsh training from Jorgen Von Strangle (another character voiced by Daran Norris, using an Arnold Schwarzenegger impression). The one who takes their place is an elf named Jeff, who makes ridiculous excuses for why he can only summon toys and is ultimately sent back to Santa Claus after Cosmo and Wanda return. It's interesting to note that here Santa was voiced by Michael Patrick Bell, who would also voice Santa Claus for the Super Santa shorts, and that Santa would be frequently recast in the series proper (with Kevin Michael Richardson being the only actor to voice the FOP version of Santa twice).

"The Zappys" has its own morbid bit of trivia in being the first Fairly OddParents short to air after Mary Kay Bergman left this world. This short's story is that Cosmo and Wanda are invited to the Zappys, an award ceremony for fairies. Jorgen bullies and intimidates the fairies into letting him win every category, but Timmy isn't willing to let this slide and gets into a squabble with Jorgen that ends with him losing his buck teeth. This summons the Tooth Fairy (voiced by Grey DeLisle-Griffin), who scolds Jorgen for knocking out Timmy's teeth. The ending humorously has Jorgen make restitution by loaning his gigantic dentures to Timmy.

"Scout's Honor" has the distinction of being the first establishment of Timmy's scout troop the Squirrely Scouts and their female rivals the Cream Puffs. Timmy's goal here is to get a merit badge by finding Bigfoot. To his disappointment, Bigfoot turns out to actually be a really hairy hippie whose real name is Victor Bigfootowskowitz, but Timmy gets the badge anyway by capturing Vicky and passing her off as Bigfoot.

The penultimate Oh Yeah short was "The Really Bad Day", where it was established that fairies have a tradition of becoming evil for the entire day every eon. It's Cosmo's turn, but he stinks at being evil, so much so that Timmy resorts to enlisting Genghis Khan for help (only for the historical figure to be dragged back home by his babysitter Vicky Khan. Why he has a babysitter while a grown man is a complete mystery).

The final short made before The Fairly OddParents became its own series was Super Humor, which is notable for marking the debut of Timmy Turner's favorite superhero the Crimson Chin (voiced here by Daran Norris before Jay Leno became his official voice, though Norris would fill in for Leno in the episode "Fairy Fairy Quite Contrary" as well as the Breakin' Da Rules and Shadow Showdown video games). Timmy wishes to have super powers and, after several awkward instances of learning the powers' drawbacks, ends up becoming Turbo Timmy. He later has trouble fighting a monster and wishes for super vision, but his godparents interpret this as "supervision" and Timmy ends the short watching a movie with his parents. Should I bring up the connection to the Garfeldi meme or not? Probably not.

FOP notably became a very popular Nicktoon, to the point that it was Nickelodeon's second-longest running show. Other than Timmy's parents no longer having their faces obscured, the story was improved greatly by bringing in other characters who weren't present in the Oh Yeah shorts, such as Timmy's friends Chester and AJ (initially voiced respectively by Frankie Muniz and Ibrahim Haneef Muhammed before they were both replaced by Jason Marsden and Gary LeRoi Gray), Timmy's insane fairy-obsessed teacher Mr. Denzel Crocker (voiced by Carlos Alazraqui), a Hispanic suitor of Wanda refusing to accept she's happy with Cosmo named Juandissimo (also Carlos Alazraqui), a member of an octopus-like race of aliens called Yugopotamians named Mark Chang (voiced by Rob Paulsen) and the Anti-Fairies, evil versions of fairies who have dark blue skin, fangs and bat wings.

The success of The Fairly OddParents even opened the door for other Nicktoons created by Butch Hartman to come into existence: Danny Phantom, T.U.F.F. Puppy and Bunsen is a Beast.

Lots of people like to see the season five TV movie Channel Chasers as where the series ends, especially fans who don't care for the post-season five episodes, due to the ending establishing that after Timmy Turner eventually outgrows his fairies, Cosmo and Wanda will then become the fairy godparents of Timmy's kids. This however wouldn't be the definitive ending and there would be other contradictory attempts at deciding how things would end for Timmy and his fairies.

The sixth season was a point of much divisiveness in the fandom and introduced Cosmo and Wanda's baby son Poof (voiced by Tara Strong). Even if one is willing to pay no mind to the premise of fairies not being allowed to reproduce because of how dangerous and destructive Cosmo was in his infancy to require Timmy wishing for his godparents to have a baby (which was possible due to making it against the rules to make that wish repeatedly slipping Jorgen's mind) and the weird decision to have Cosmo be the one pregnant with Poof, not everyone liked the idea of Poof being introduced.

This started a trend of almost every season in the second half of the show to introduce a polarizing new character. Season seven introduced Poof's Anti-Fairy counterpart Foop, who was voiced by Eric Bauza, depicted as an evil genius able to speak the moment Anti-Wanda had finished giving birth and had his existence necessitated by the fact that balance must be obtained by having an Anti-Fairy for every fairy. There weren't any significant new additions to the cast in the eighth season, though it still stood out as being the shortest season in having only five episodes.

The ninth season had Timmy gain a fairy dog named Sparky (voiced by Maddie Taylor with a voice that kind of sounds like Verminious Snaptrap from T.U.F.F. Puppy with a cold), who proved so unpopular among both the fans and the production crew that he was quickly written out and not even acknowledged in the tenth and final season, which had its own controversial new character in Chloe Carmichael, a new neighbor of Timmy's voiced by Kari Wahlgren who Timmy has to share Cosmo and Wanda with because of a fairy shortage.

Another controversy concerning the ninth season was that recurring character Catman, a parody of Batman as depicted in the 1966 TV series who was initially voiced by Adam West, was recast with Jeff Bennett impersonating Adam West. The change happened when West was still alive, so the three most likely explanations for why they changed Catman's voice actor are either that A: Adam West wasn't available, B: Adam West refused to continue playing the role for whatever reason or C: The execs simply felt it would be cheaper to have Catman voiced by someone impersonating Adam West instead of the genuine article.

The different takes on how the franchise suggested the story would end are indeed interesting, but I feel elaborating on them further will have to wait for another day.

The tenth season ended up being The Fairly OddParents' last, as the season shifting to Flash animation partway through, and the season's annoying habit of preventing Timmy and Chloe from wishing their ways out of their problems by having Cosmo and Wanda lose their wands through contrived disasters or even getting them destroyed through an absurd act of idiocy (like dipping them in a bear's stomach acid after the bear ate them alive), proved to be the final straw for Butch Hartman and he left Nickelodeon. Since Nickelodeon apparently had no intention of keeping the show going without Hartman's involvement, this was when the original show ended production.

Several months ago, a live-action revival using animated insertions of Cosmo and Wanda (once more voiced by Daran Norris and Susanne Blakeslee) was made titled The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder and distributed on the Viacom-owned streaming service Paramount+.

The series was a continuation of the cartoon, but rather than follow any of the previously established endings (e.g. Cosmo and Wanda becoming the godparents of Timmy's kids after he outgrows them like in Channel Chasers or Timmy becoming a fairy like in the third and final live-action film A Fairly Odd Summer), the premise of Fairly Odder had an 18-year-old Timmy pass Cosmo and Wanda onto his teenage cousin Vivian, who through circumstances has to share her godparents with her stepbrother Roy.

As not being caught up on everything Fairly OddParents was the only obstacle keeping me from doing this Oh Yeah! Cartoons retrospective, I had finished catching up on Fairly Odder and have mixed opinions on the series.

Having two kids share Cosmo and Wanda honestly comes off as an uninspired rehashing of Timmy and Chloe's situation, and I confess that nearly every episode I watched nearly put me to sleep, but the two-part finale of Vicky and Mr. Crocker teaming up (even having Carlos Alazraqui reprise his role in live action) was well worth enduring everything else.

No word yet on if Fairly Odder will be renewed for another season, but it does not seem likely, given that the fans weren't very accepting of the revival when it was first announced, and pretty much every mention of Fairly Odder I've found online has been extremely negative.

Even if the final iterations of it left a lot to be desired, I'm still happy that The Fairly OddParents was one of the Nicktoons I grew up with.

2. CHALKZONE

ChalkZone is next for discussion on the basis that it was the first entry on Oh Yeah! Cartoons to get its own show at all in addition to having the second-longest run at four seasons.

ChalkZone was a co-creation of Bill Burnett and Larry Huber and had the whimsical premise of a child named Rudy Tabootie (voiced by Elizabeth Daily) finding his way in an enchanted world of living chalk drawings and obtaining ownership of magic chalk he can use to draw people and things into existence.

As with The Fairly OddParents, I also remembered seeing the original Oh Yeah pilot of ChalkZone when I was a kid. With the exceptions of Chalk Dad and Chalk Rain, all of the Oh Yeah shorts of ChalkZone would subsequently be recycled as segments of the actual ChalkZone series.

The pilot had Rudy discover ChalkZone and meet his ChalkZone friend Snap (voiced by Candi Milo), their first adventure being a fight against Bully Nerd, a minotaur-like caricature of Rudy's bully Reggie Bullnerd (also Candi Milo). After his adventure, Rudy also gets out of his punishment for making "rude drawings" on the chalkboard by convincing his teacher Mr. Wilter (Robert Cait) that it was really Bullnerd's fault.

The second short was "The Amazin' River", which introduced Biclops (voiced by Rodger Bumpass) and would be the last short before Rudy was given a slight redesign.

The third short "Rudy's Date" introduced Rudy's classmate and friend Penny Sanchez (voiced by Hynden Walch), the short's conflict being that Bullnerd erased Penny's formula for perpetual motion and they had to go to ChalkZone to get it back, where it turns out the fragments of the formula are used to decorate the jacket of a brutish biker punk named Butch Biceps (voiced by Jess Harnell).

Then came "Snap Out of Water", where Rudy's absence forced Snap to try and attend Rudy's class, but Snap is forced to go back to ChalkZone when it rains outside and he loses a hand (fortunately, Rudy was able to draw him a new one).

The next short was "Secret Passages", where Rudy and Penny made use of ChalkZone portals so they could retrieve schoolwork they accidentally left behind. Mr. Wilter witnesses their shenanigans and ends up beaten by the cops for his troubles.

"Chalk Dad" has Rudy at the butcher shop where his dad Joe Tabootie (Jess Harnell) works and in ChalkZone gets into an argument with a chalk drawing of his dad. Why Chalk Dad never got repackaged as an episode segment is unknown, as the short actually is plot-relevant due to Mr. Tabootie's ChalkZone counterpart becoming a recurring character.

"Chalk Rain" had it established that rain in ChalkZone results from rain in the real world washing away chalk drawings, the conflict happening because of a wingless Chinese dragon going on a rampage. Rudy eventually meets the dragon's creator, a woman named Ming Lan (voiced by Ming-Na Wen), and they find out that they can stop the dragon's rampage by drawing it a pair of wings. It is believed Chalk Rain was never recycled as an episode segment due to it being contradictory towards other installments establishing that rain destroys anything chalk.

The final Oh Yeah short of ChalkZone was "Rapunzel", where the gang viewed a stage production loosely based on a certain fairy tale about a long-haired woman, the lead role played by Snap's love interest Queen Rapsheeba (voiced by Rosslyn Taylor, who is not to be confused with the late Russi Taylor). Fortune smiles upon Snap when he gets to take the place of the heroic knight who's supposed to kiss Rapunzel.

The actual ChalkZone series was more of the same, but had many interesting characters and stories brought in, such as recurring antagonist Skrawl (voiced by Jim Cummings), a pumpkin-headed antagonist named Jacko (voiced by none other than Tim Curry) and the hour-long special ChalkZone: The Big Blow-Up (guest-starring Malcolm McDowell as Barney the Encyclocentipedia and Corey Burton as ChalkZone's long-lost ruler King Mumbo Jumbo).

I will wrap up the discussion of ChalkZone by clearing up the urban legend of ChalkZone having two missing episodes that never aired. This is only a half-truth, as Chalk Dad and Chalk Rain were the only Oh Yeah shorts to not be repackaged in the series and weren't included in the misleadingly named Complete Series DVD (which notably also omits the episode "The Smooch" because of music licensing issues over the segment using the Baha Men's cover of the song Put the Lime in the Coconut). Any alleged episodes that aren't available on the DVD or through streaming or digital download must therefore be a hoax (unless the folks at Nick in their infinite wisdom have randomly decided to remove an episode from circulation over "inappropriate content", like the SpongeBob SquarePants episode Mid-Life Crustacean).

3. MY LIFE AS A TEENAGE ROBOT

As the only other segment on Oh Yeah! Cartoons to take off and get its own series, My Life as a Teenage Robot ranks dead last due to having the shortest run of the three (lasting only three seasons, the last one not airing locally until years after the fact).

Created by Rob Renzetti, My Life as a Teenage Robot is also contrasted from The Fairly OddParents and ChalkZone in that it wasn't a series of shorts and was just one, titled "My Neighbor is a Teenage Robot". The voice cast consisted of Janice Kawaye as the titular teenage robot XJ9/Jenny Wakeman, Candi Milo as her creator/mother Dr. Nora Wakeman, Melissa Denton as a teenage boy named Brad and Audrey Wasilewski as Brad Carbunkle's little brother Tuck. The story is that Brad and Tuck stumble upon Jenny, hang out with her and Dr. Wakeman fortunately relents that her creation/daughter deserves to have the same experiences as a normal teenager even if she was built to defend the Earth from monsters and other unusual threats.

When My Life as a Teenage Robot got its own show, the premiere episode was a remake of the original pilot, the differences being that everyone's character design was changed and Brad was now voiced by Chad Doreck.

Members of the cast who didn't turn up until the series proper included Jenny's rivals the Crust Cousins (Tiff voiced by Cree Summer and Brit by Moira Quirk), a geek obsessed with Jenny named Sheldon Lee (voiced by Quinton Flynn) and a race of vaguely insectoid robots out to destroy Jenny if they can't make her conform to their dim views on organic life called the Cluster, their leader being Vexus (voiced by the late Eartha Kitt).

Out of all the plot threads that could've been resolved had Nickelodeon not given the show the short end of the stick, I especially would've liked to see Brad and Melody resolve their issues, as the last time they crossed paths left a bad taste in my mouth (sorry, but I don't ship Brad with Jenny, plus the creators have made it clear that Brad and Jenny's relationship is purely platonic).

This is all I have to say about the Oh Yeah shorts that actually got greenlit for their own shows. Everything else is obviously an entry that got rejected and fell into obscurity due to the big three overshadowing them.

4. SLAP T. POOCH: WHAT IS FUNNY?

The very first segment featured on Oh Yeah! Cartoons that ultimately didn't get picked up for its own show was a short starring the character Slap T. Pooch titled "What is Funny?"

The short was a co-creation of Bill Burnett and Vince Waller, the latter being Slap T. Pooch's voice. The plot is that Slap T. Pooch is an inexperienced cartoon character and freaks out at not knowing what he's supposed to do, so he goes through various absurd circumstances that defy description, always asking the audience whether everything he does or everything that happens to him can be considered funny. Every once in a while, we are also treated to a farmer, a pig and an ostrich appearing out of nowhere to chant "What is Funny?" As if that wasn't creepy enough, the end of the short shows the pig joining in the chant in spite of becoming a box of bacon off-screen.

In spite of his short not taking off, it wouldn't be the last we'd see of Slap T. Pooch. He would later make a cameo in the other Oh Yeah short "Pete Patrick, P.I.: What About Lunch?" and was prominently featured in a Nickelodeon promo for The Rugrats Movie.

5. JELLY'S DAY

The first among the rejected batch of segments to have multiple shorts, the Jelly's Day series was a co-creation of Bill Burnett and Greg Emison.

The titular Jelly (voiced by Grey DeLisle-Griffin) is a young girl with purple skin who in each short is visited by and spends time with one of her eccentric relatives.

The first short has her go to the beach with her cousin Hargus, a green-skinned and fanged weirdo who comes from the country Entrancelvania and is voiced by John Kassir. Some hilarious bits include Hargus trying to rectify popping the volleyball by replacing the ball with his detached head and Jelly trying to defend that her cousin is an innocent monster, only for a woman to snap back that "innocent" and "monster" do not belong in the same sentence.

The second short was "Uncle Betty's Strange Rash", Uncle Betty being a balding, bespectacled man in a kilt voiced by Bob Joles impersonating Ed Wynn. Jelly takes her uncle to the science museum hoping to help him find a significant other. While things don't go as planned, Uncle Betty does fall for a giant sentient flower, who he gets a blemish from that ends up bursting into little baby flowers who Jelly adores playing with.

The third and final short was "Aunt Broth's Makeover", where Jelly's Auntie Broth (voiced by John Kassir) was a woman with a habit of going into giggling fits. After this habit of hers makes an attempt at giving her a makeover with help from Herr Brush (Charlie Adler) end in disaster, Jelly decides to do brain surgery on her aunt and finds that the problem is her brain being poked at by a French clown (voiced by the late Joe Alaskey).

Aunt Broth proves to be miserable and prone to sobbing, but Jelly is fortunately able to fix things by putting the clown back in her aunt's head.

This was one series of shorts I would've liked to see become its own show. It would've been amusing to see what other bizarre and silly family members Jelly would spend her time with and what kind of misadventures they'd find themselves in.

6. THE F-TALES: THE SKY IS FALLING

The F-Tales was one of the duds for Oh Yeah! Cartoons that Rob Renzetti created before My Life as a Teenage Robot entered the picture.

The premise of the short was that it was basically a satire on The X-Files, but with fairy tales. Fauna Fox (voiced by Mari Weiss) investigates reports of a murderous psycho on the loose with her partner Chicken Little (voiced by Tom Kenny), who won't shut up about his conspiracy theories that the sky is falling.

The two agents come across the three little pigs Percy (Tom Kenny), Scott (Nick Jameson) and Christopher (David Shatraw) and it seems that they are being attacked by a wolf (voiced by Patrick Pinney).

In the end, Fauna gets enough of Chicken Little's ramblings on the sky falling, so when the police show up asking for the violent maniac that's been reported, Fauna, the pigs and the wolf claim that Chicken Little is the psycho needing to be apprehended and the cops take him away without question. However, the episode ends with the implication that Chicken Little might not be as crazy as Fauna thought.

7. TEDDY AND ART: 25 CENT TROUBLE

25 Cent Trouble was an entry created by Alex Kirwan and starred a boy named Teddy (voiced by Katie Leigh) with a habit of saying "Catastrophic" whenever he saw something he found cool and Teddy's pet dog Art (voiced by Frank Welker, whose career has largely been using his voice to make animal sound effects).

The story is that Teddy and Art are at the grocery store, and while Teddy's mom (Debi Derryberry) is preoccupied with shopping, the two find a toy robot (also voiced by Frank Welker) that turns out to be rather functional and destructive for a trinket that costs a quarter.

8. CAT AND MILKMAN

This short was created by Miles Thompson and is the only non-ChalkZone or non-Fairly OddParents Oh Yeah short I remember watching when I was young.

The premise here is that a milkman voiced by Billy West crosses paths with a cat (that frankly looks more like a monkey due to his lack of whiskers or pointy ears), the feline causing him trouble all because the milkman refuses to feed him. Things eventually end with the cat gluttonously drinking all the milkman's wares while the poor guy is in a full-body cast.

9. JAMAL, THE FUNNY FROG

Another instance of one segment having multiple shorts, Jamal the Funny Frog was the creation of Pat Ventura.

Jamal was voiced by Orlando Ashley and his first outing in "Mind the Baby, Jamal" has his dad (Kevin Michael Richardson) force him to watch over his baby sister Polly (Kiki Shepard) on a Saturday.

The next short was "His Musical Moment", where Jamal is yelled at by his dad for playing video games and is forced to practice playing piano. Jamal grows to like it, but isn't amused to see his father playing the video game he confiscated from his son.

After that came "Milk Dreams", where little Polly has a dream where she desperately wants to get milk, but her big brother isn't okay with letting her drink come from a diseased and undead-looking cow. In the end, Dad yells at his son for waking up Polly and Jamal gets two milk bottles, one for his sister and one for himself.

After that came "Dentist", where Jamal gets a toothache from overindulging in sweets. The dentist is able to remove the tooth painlessly, but when Jamal can't bear to part with it, the dentist is able to fix it up and put it back in Jamal's mouth. The episode ends with Jamal's father again demonstrating hypocrisy by helping himself to the junk food Jamal was feasting on and losing some of his teeth in spite of being the one who berated Jamal for his poor care of his teeth in the first place.

The penultimate short "Beach" had the family go to the beach and Polly end up befriending the sea creatures underwater.

The final short "Camping" had Jamal and his sister compete in photographing wildlife.

10. THATTA BOY

Another entry by Alex Kirwan, Thatta Boy (voiced by Jeannie Elias) is a superhero who takes being a crime-fighter a little too seriously and tries going on patrol with his sidekick Polly Atomica (voiced by Cree Summer), barely paying any attention to her disillusionment towards do-goodery.

After stopping a lot of criminals, such as a gang of girls going on a scavenger hunt and a mad scientist supervillain named Ravenrant (voiced by Rodger Bumpass doing an impression of Boris Karloff), Thatta Boy is eventually betrayed by Polly, who confesses that she wants to be evil now and her first act of villainy is setting free Thatta Boy's captures.

Thatta Boy isn't happy about this, but gets back to defending all that is right when he comes across some Martians scheming to capture some canine celebrity named Sammy the Pup.

11. HOBART

Another co-creation between Bill Burnett and Greg Emison, the title character of Hobart (voiced by John Kassir) is a skinny redhead who isn't very bright and goes on two adventures that involve finding himself in another world after being flushed down the toilet.

The first adventure happens in the short "The Weedkeeper", where Hobart intends to get a dog for his girlfriend Okra (Susanne Blakeslee) so she doesn't have to drag a toaster around on a leash. He ends up flushed into a garden world where the Weedkeeper (Kevin Michael Richardson) desperately wants Okra's dog to be his own.

The second short "Deep Sea Diva" had Hobart going to an underwater world and having to rescue Okra from a singing merman named Ethel (voiced by Dee Bradley Baker).

12. PROTECTO-5000

Protecto-5000 is a short created by John Eng and concerns a robotic bodyguard (voiced by Richard Moll) who comes to Earth in the distant past with his protectee, who eventually ends up killed during the atomic age.

In the present day, the robot bodyguard goes by the name Kenny and works as a janitor at the school, where he befriends and rescues a girl named Nadya (Grey DeLisle-Griffin) after she was locked in a closet by a bully named Matt (Mary Kay Bergman).

13. ASK EDWARD: ALL ABOUT BABIES

Another short created by Rob Renzetti. Edward is a dog boy voiced by Tom Kenny who is using action figures to play tyrannical pharaoh, but is infuriated to have his playtime interrupted by his little brother Emo (Tara Strong).

After Emo brings up that he overheard their parents talking about having another child, Edward tries to rationalize why another baby isn't possible by giving a very misinformed talk to his brother on how reproduction works. Apparently, Edward thinks that when parents want to have a child, they send a baby request form to Santa, the Easter Bunny or the Tooth Fairy, then a stork delivers an egg that will hatch into a baby.

Edward is especially certain there won't be any babies because it is neither Christmas nor Easter, plus he and his brother haven't lost any baby teeth. However, the brothers freak out when Emo finds an egg and they both think the egg is their new little brother.

Things get worse when their mom (Sharon Mack) finds the egg and cooks it for them. After she finds out what's going on, she tries to have their father set them straight by telling them the REAL way babies are made. After the off-screen lecture, however, Emo and Edward still don't quite understand how reproduction works and assume that eggs have to be pollinated by bees to contain babies. Episode ends with Emo getting stung on his snout by a bee and freaking out because he thinks he's been pollinated.

14. PETE PATRICK, P.I.: WHAT ABOUT LUNCH?

Another entry by Vincent Waller, where Pete Patrick (Pamela Adlon) and his fez-wearing feline sidekick Persian Puss (Billy West) confront a mad scientist named Dr. Don't (Danny Mann) and his Blemmyes-like henchman Torso (also Danny Mann). Pete happens to have a bag lunch with him, but after Dr. Don't and Torso open the bag, they find not food, but Pete's burly cousin with the odd name of Lunch, who proceeds to beat the daylights out of the bad guys.

15. MAX

Much like Hobart, Max had the rarity of being a two-short wonder. The title character is an office employee who barely speaks (most of his dialogue being exclamations and grunts) and goes on unrealistic mishaps. The shorts were created by Dave Wasson.

The first short was "Max and his Special Problem", where Max (voiced by Dave Wasson) ends up sneezing his brain out and having to get it back in his head, eventually succeeding when the doctors help him by poking his brain in a way that he sniffs it back in. Unfortunately, Max then ends up burping his heart out after he returns to work.

The sequel short "Max and the Pigeon Incident" had Max voiced by Vincent Waller and bugged by a pigeon that found its way into his cubicle. He ends up facing the wrath of his boss (Michael J. Gough) itching to punish him for slacking on the job, a woman in the ladies' room he entered by mistake (Dee Dee Rescher) getting the wrong idea and attacking him while accusing him of being a "sicko" and having a window washer (Jess Harnell) take his place in being beaten by the woman he shocked.

In the end, Max gets electrocuted on the power line and the pigeon hits his head with bird droppings.

16. TUTU THE SUPERINA

A co-creation by Bill Burnett and Sally Rousse, starring a crime-fighting ballerina (Candi Milo) who stops a Vile Woman (Judy Kaye) and her henchman (Earl Boen) from tormenting animals in cartoonishly harmless ways.

17. BLOTTO

Created by Byron Vaughns, the main character Blotto (Wayne Brady) sings about how fun it is in the Inkworld, has his singing interrupted by his significant other Dotto (Kenna J. Ramsey) complaining about how much she hates it in Inkworld.

The little spat gets the attention of the Balloon Goon (George Anthony Bell), who schemes to use the allure of his comic book world to take Dotto from Blotto.

Blotto succeeds in cleaning the Balloon Goon's clock, but becomes enamored with becoming a comic book star, only for Dotto to strike him hard enough to make him see stars.

18. TALES FROM THE GOOSE LADY

A series of multiple shorts created by Dave Wasson. These were essentially bizarre takes on famous fairy tales, with the framing device consisting of the Goose Lady (a weird take on Mother Goose voiced by a falsetto Rob Paulsen) bugging two children named Dot and Randy (Kath Soucie and John Kassir respectively) into listening to one of her tales, which is usually narrated by her living Hispanic wand Juanito (voiced by Jeff Bennett). Notably, this is the longest-running of Oh Yeah's rejected miniseries, having nine shorts in total.

The first short is "Jack and the Beatstalk" and has the Goose Lady force Dot and Randy listen to her latest story by making them miss the schoolbus. In this take on the beanstalk story, Jack (Rob Paulsen) is a beatnik, his mother runs an unsuccessful coffee shop, he gets the magic beans from a wolf named Sheisty McSheister (voiced by Corey Burton) and the giant (Jeff Bennett) is a hippie who owns a magic coffee machine. In the end, the giant agrees to let Jack have the machine as long as he can sell his candles and incense at the coffee shop, and Dot and Randy are left to be punished by a truant officer.

In "Hamsel and Grande", the Goose Lady bugs Dot and Randy when they are trying to get some sleep before a big math test tomorrow. The twist for this version of Hansel and Gretel is that the witch (Dee Dee Rescher) was only minding her own business creating a gingerbread house so it can be on a magazine cover. Hamsel and Grande (Rob Paulsen and Kath Soucie) turn out to be a pair of very fat and greedy children who won't stop eating the poor witch's house, their cries over being told to stop eating the house getting the attention of a feminine woodsman (S. Scott Bullock), who repeatedly cuts the witch in two, requiring her to sew herself back together.

The witch eventually succeeds in getting the two gluttonous brats off her back by creating a house made of liver, but this only leads to the woodsman eating her house instead. Once the Goose Lady finally leaves, the brother and sister are annoyed to find that the story kept them up all night.

The third short was "The Egg Who Would Be King", where the Goose Lady prevents Dot and Randy from catching an educational television program about the human heart so she can tell them the real story of Humpty Dumpty.

Apparently, Humpty Dumpty (voiced by Roger Rose impersonating Brian Doyle-Murray) came into being because the chicken that laid him was jealous of the goose that laid the golden egg. After his mother rejects him for being another failure in creating a valuable egg, Humpty sets out on his own and becomes a popular celebrity.

Humpty eventually becomes King of Fairy Tale Land, but turns out to be so lazy that he'd rather sit on his butt watching TV and eating junk food than lift a finger to solve his subjects' problems. In the end, the subjects are so sick of their ruler being a lazy piece of garbage that they throw produce at King Humpty Dumpty until he falls from the wall after a tomato hits him between the legs.

Next came "The Little Pigs 3", where the Goose Lady digs a hole to trap Dot and Randy so she can tell them her version of The Three Little Pigs. Here, they are a trio of jazz musicians named Dizzy (Rob Paulsen), Moody (Kevin Michael Richardson) and Sloan (Kevin Michael Richardson again).

They think they're getting their first gig when Sheisty McSheister agrees to be their manager, but are disappointed that the House of Straw is a feed bar and the House of Sticks is a lumber mill, plus the jobs they have to do there have zilch to do with playing music at all.

The porcine trio have better luck when a nightclub owner meets them and has them take the place of Little Boy Blue.

Then there was "The Tortoise and the Hairpiece", where Dot and Randy are in the principal's office and the Goose Lady distracts the principal with a prank call that the President is in the cafeteria. The story here is that the tortoise (Pat Fraley) failed to beat the hare in a race, so he is challenged by a sentient toupee (John Rubinow) to see which of them can be the most successful. In the end, the tortoise gets the last laugh by saving his stock, using it to buy out the company they work at and become the new boss, revel in the hairpiece's surprise and fire him.

After that was "Three Bears and a Blonde", where the Goose Lady keeps Dot and Randy from going to the Natural History Museum and tells a take-off of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. It all starts with Papa Bear (Michael Patrick Bell) being fed up with eating the porridge cooked by Mama Bear (Jodi Carlisle) and demands meat. After Baby Bear (also Jodi Carlisle) brings up that bears are supposed to eat grubs, fish and honey, Papa Bear dismisses this as hippie talk and laments how no one gets their information from books anymore before getting the idea to invite Goldilocks (Kath Soucie) over so they can literally have her for dinner.

Goldilocks proves to be a very rude houseguest, as she burps immediately after gobbling up Baby Bear's porridge and yells at Papa Bear over hurting herself trying to sit in his stone chair. After she's asleep, Papa Bear then finds the dietary information his son talked about in a book. Not wanting to be seen as a hypocrite, Papa Bear forces Goldilocks to leave and is forced to eat grubs for dinner, much to the amusement of his son and wife.

"The Ugly Duck-Thing" has the Goose Lady bug the hapless pair of siblings when they're trying to read in the library, with the story of the ugly duckling getting a twist where instead of a swan he grows to be an extremely ugly duck-like creature. On the bright side, the Duck-Thing (voiced by Dave Wasson) finds a benefit to his unsightliness when he finds that he can look at stuff and use his ugliness to break them to save lives (e.g. a bottle a baby got his head stuck in, the timer of a bomb).

Unfortunately for the Duck-Thing, he gets injured when he fails to defuse a bomb in time. He gets plastic surgery and, contrary to what Juanito says, likes his new good looks. The result of this intrusion from the Goose Lady is that Dot and Randy get banned from the library and have their library cards confiscated and destroyed.

The penultimate short was "The Fisherman, The Fisherman's Wife and a Fish", where the Goose Lady defaces paintings at the museum and forces Dot and Randy to listen to a take-off of the Fisherman's Wife, this time the story being told by Juanito's French cousin Jeanito (voiced by Frank Welker).

The Fisherman (voiced by Jon Polito) is sent by his wife (Kath Soucie) to fish and ends up meeting an enchanted fish (Kevin Michael Richardson), who agrees to grant a wish to the Fisherman in exchange for letting him go. While you may be aware that the original story ends with the fisherman's wife being returned to normal after indulging in her desire for power and wealth, this version instead has the Fisherman ditch his wife while making the fish become his new paramour.

Dot and Randy get caught, but are fortunately able to distract the museum's security guard by claiming to see Ed Asner behind him.

The final short was titled "Dot and Randy's Sad Tale of Woe" and changed the formula a bit by having Dot and Randy capture the Goose Lady and then force Juanito to read a story they wrote of their own in hopes of giving the Goose Lady a taste of her own medicine. Their story involves a land plagued by idiocy where two bright children named Dottina and Randolfus are discovered by Friar Larry, who intends to train them so they can eventually remove a golden abacus from a stone and unleash an age of enlightenment. Unfortunately, they fail their task due to being distracted by the stories told them by very unflattering representations of the Goose Lady and Juanito, and Friar Larry is so disillusioned that he renounces his faith and gets devoured by bears after wandering into the woods.

Unfortunately for Dot and Randy, the Goose Lady completely ignores that the story is a critique of how she had been treating the kids. All she learns from this is that Dot and Randy are terrible at telling stories and promises to never give them the opportunity to tell their own story ever again.

19. TWINS CRIMSON AND THOSE AMAZING ROBOTS

Created by Carlos Ramos, the twins are Bene and Beckett (voiced by Nancy Cartwright), who are encouraged by their mother to go play outside and end up befriending some robots who are doing land development and convince them to abandon the job and instead live in harmony with the animals. Too bad the guy running the project (voiced by Billy West) decides to make do with having construction occur in Paris.

20. OLLY AND FRANK

A short created by Bob Boyle with the main character being a boy genius named Olly (voiced by Grey DeLisle-Griffin). He ends up creating a Frankenstein monster dog named Frank, who helps him stand up to his bully Bratwurst (Rino Romano) and win the love of his crush Daisy (Dina Sherman).

21. APEX CARTOONS PROPS AND NOVELTIES

A short by Larry Huber focusing on a business devoted to cartoon props and novelties. The owner of the business, Cletus (Kevin Michael Richardson), uses his business to pull one over a pair of cartoon predators, a blue fox voiced by the late Joe Lala and a purple possum voiced by Stuart Pankin.

22. A COP AND HIS DONUT

Yet another unsuccessful Rob Renzetti short. The story follows a young cop (Quinton Flynn) teaming up with a sentient donut (John Wesley) to fight crime. The donut partner ends up shot, but the rookie is fortunately able to patch him up.

23. ENCHANTED TALES

The co-creation of John Eng and Bill Burnett, this short was a medieval fantasy kind of story with the main character being a knight named Galen (David Coburn), who owns a sword he can command to transform into any weapon and is tasked by Brangwen (Moira Quirk) to end a plague by killing the dragon Kaltor (voiced by Jess Harnell impersonating Captain James T. Kirk).

Kaltor reveals to Galen that the wool had been pulled over his eyes, so he confronts Brangwen and finds that she had been conspiring with Bork (Pat Fraley) to take a mystical orb. Galen comes out on top in the end.

24. SUPER SANTA

A series of shorts created by Michael Patrick Bell, where he plays Santa Claus depicted as a crimefighter the other 364 days of the year. With the help of his wife Emma Claus (Mari Weiss), Jolly Old St. Nick tackles all sorts of enemies.

The first short "Jingle Bell Justice" has toys go on a crimewave, which turns out to be because they're being guided by a toy rabbit named Bedlam Bunny (Tom Kenny), who's upset that Santa didn't make him something cooler than a stuffed bunny like a toy robot.

Another short titled "Naughty" has the villain be a descendant of Ebenezer Scrooge named Elmer Scrooge (Dwight Schultz), who creates bad gas to make everyone naughty as his revenge against Santa. In the end, Scrooge loses from his workers turning on him due to Santa being nicer to them than he ever was.

The third short "South Pole Joe" has Santa deal with a rival from the South Pole called South Pole Joe (Kevin Michael Richardson), who it turns out is pretty incompetent at making gifts and delivering them to countless people. He and Santa do set aside their differences to help everyone pay their taxes on time, but South Pole Joe ends up arrested because he hadn't paid his own taxes in decades.

The final short was "Vegetation", where a mad scientist named Dr. Carmine Miranda (Billy West) tried to get his revenge on the world with an army of mutant fruits and vegetables. As always, Santa and Mrs. Claus save the day.

25. KITTY THE HAPLESS CAT

Created by Zac Moncrief, this short stars Tom Kenny as a cat desperate to get a new home.

Unfortunately, he runs into a lot of problems with the different owners he tries. An artist who isn't right in the head wants Kitty to be made to look exactly like his old cat, while a family end up giving him the boot when they see him making contact with the baby and mistakenly think he's making the baby suffocate.

Strangely, this short's Oh Yeah! Cartoons bumper appears to be lost to time. No present uploads of Kitty the Hapless Cat include Kitty saying "Oh Yeah! Cartoons" at the end, but I have seen an upload of an Oh Yeah! Cartoons promo that does briefly show Kitty's bumper.

26. THAT'S MY POP

Another entry by Pat Ventura, which is about the misadventures of a very intelligent bear girl named Naomi (Kiki Shepard) and her stupid father who can barely read (T.K. Carter). Naomi ends up bringing a dinosaur (Orlando Ashley) to life, and with some effort, her dad comes to accept him.

27. HUBBYKINS AND SWEETIE PIE

Another Rob Renzetti short that wasn't picked up for its own show.

The cartoon is mostly silent and involves a lazy husband making his wife mad by being a slob and not cleaning up after himself properly. He at one point makes his old lady cry by wrecking the house, but sets things right by cleaning everything himself, though he basically just piles up all the garbage at the front door.

Tom Kenny was the only credited voice actor, who voiced the cat. The cat in question had no lines within the short, but was the one that said "Oh Yeah! Cartoons" in the short's mandatory ending bumper.

28. THE MAN WITH NO NOSE

A short by Larry Huber, the main character being an orange alien named Urp (voiced by Frank Welker), who is displeased with working as a carnival freak called The Man with No Nose, infuriated that they decided to emphasize his noselessness as his gimmick even though he's a genuine extraterrestrial.

His only friend is Billy the Elastic Boy (the late Christine Cavanaugh), who helps him discover that the fuel he needs to power his spaceship and leave is found in a special kind of candy bar. After taking one of the bars from a strongman, the strongman retaliates by inflicting an injury upon Urp that results in his freakshow stage name now being The Man with No Head.

29. YOUNGSTAR 3

A short created by Miles Thompson about a trio of superheroes, consisting of a boy with a beanie-like hat named Youngstar (Kate Donahue), his overprotective grandfather Old Man (Dee Bradley Baker) and a huge robot woman named Shero (Grey DeLisle-Griffin).

They end up fighting a giant fish monster and prevail in spite of some screw-ups on Old Man's part.

30. HEY LOOK!

This short was created by Vincent Waller, but is notable in that, unlike most of the other shorts, this one was an adaptation of a pre-existing work, specifically Harvey Kurtzman's Hey Look comic strips.

The main characters focused on are a Big Guy voiced by Danny Wells and a Little Guy voiced by Maurice LaMarche.

31. THE FEELERS

Another Bill Burnett short. The titular characters are a rock band of anthropomorphic insects, consisting of lead singer Mitzi Moth (Rosslyn Taylor when speaking, Robbyn Kirmsse when singing), an ant on drums named Max (talking by the late Joe Lala, singing by Bill Burnett), a bee bassist named Stinger (Greg Eagles when speaking, Alvin Chea when singing) and a mosquito playing the guitar named Mo Skito (Quinton Flynn when speaking, Joe Pizzulo when singing).

Desperate for a way to be noticed by the humans, the Feelers find their way into a recording studio, where a spider named Legs helps them record a song that is accidentally played by Crusty (Jess Harnell) when his boss Mr. Katzeneisner (also Jess Harnell) was supposed to hear the recording of a couple singing a romantic ballad that agitated Stinger.

In the end, Mr. Katzeneisner decides he wants the Feelers to work for him and orders Crusty to find them, the final scene having the Feelers dance to their own song in celebration of the good news.

The Feelers was another rejected short I wish had gotten its own show, as a rock band of insects seems like a story teeming with interesting possibilities.

I have had a feeling that some elements from The Feelers were recycled into the more successful ChalkZone (particularly, the Feelers' performances of the songs "100 Watts of Love" and "Drop Me Off in Hollywood" feeling like precursors to ChalkZone's music video segments and one episode of ChalkZone featuring a singing insect named Mo Skeeter perform a song called Insect Aside).

I sent a tweet to Bill Burnett (his account is Billthebathtub for those of you confused by their being multiple Twitter accounts for someone named Bill Burnett) to ask him if he ever recycled scrapped Feelers plans for ChalkZone, but he hasn't replied to my queries to this day. I really would like to know if Burnett really did recycle stuff intended for The Feelers into ChalkZone or if I'm just a loonie reading too much into things.

32. ZOOMATES

A short co-created by Butch Hartman and Seth MacFarlane where an animal activist named Helen (Jennifer Love Hewitt) is challenged to prove three zoo animals can live just fine by themselves. The animals used in this challenge are a polar bear named Mark (Thomas F. Wilson), an alligator named Paul (S. Scott Bullock) and an ostrich named Warren (Phil LaMarr).

The animals end up making a mess of things due to being unaccustomed to how humans live, but Helen remains determined to continue trying.

33. MICROCOPS

Another short by John Eng. The main character is Officer Jones (Cam Clarke), who travels through a man's body to fight off germs.

34. PLANET KATE

One of the only two shorts to be 11 minutes rather than the standard 7, the short was created by Jamie Mitchell and had a girl named Kate Moon (Shayna Fox) get involved with a group of alien dog archaeologists, whose names are Max (Billy West), Bolivar (also Billy West), Cleo (Cree Summer), Juno (Nancy Cartwright) and Rothgar (Maurice LaMarche).

After drawing a map as a homework assignment, Kate discovers that the aliens took it as well as her dog Toby. She is very surprised to see that it matches another map the aliens already have. Kate then decides to let the aliens be and the short ends with some creepy, lizard-like creature that had been observing them grinning ominously.

This was yet another short I really, really would've liked to see as its own series. I really wanted to know what the deal was with that lizard thingy and what kind of adventures Kate and the alien dogs could've gone on.

35. FATHEAD

The other 11-minute short is created by Vince Calandra. The title character is a caveboy who got his name from being very intelligent and his head being so big.

Voiced by Zachary Leigh, Fathead is tasked to complete a rite of passage that involves taking a dinosaur egg. The chief Lord Amur's son (Danny Cooksey) tries to get him in trouble, but to no avail.

36. A KID'S LIFE

Two shorts created by Ken Kessel, both of them are narrated by a big pink plush bunny named Fuzzy Bunny (voiced by S. Scott Bullock).

The first short "Fuzzy Bunny Presents: A Kid's Life" has Fuzzy Bunny tell the story of Suzy Cornhusk (April Winchell) horrified that she has sentient blackheads on her nose the day before the school dance.

The blackhead family includes Pop (Pat Fraley), Mom (April Winchell), Junior (Rob Paulsen) and their dog Spot. Suzy's predicament is eventually ended when she pops all the blackheads, but is frightened again when she finds out her crush Frankie Crescendo has blackheads now.

The second short was titled "Picture Day" and had a boy named Billy Butter force himself to smile the entire day so he'd look his best in the school picture, only to be foiled by "broccoli in teeth unnoticed before it is too late". Weirdly, this short was mistakenly given the credits to the first A Kid's Life short, but I am very certain most of the characters here, Billy Butter included, are voiced by Rob Paulsen.

37. MAGIC TRIXIE

Another Alex Kirwan short where a silent girl named Trixie learns to be a magician and ends up getting so good at it that she makes the local celebrity magician Migmar Magma (Bob Joles) jealous. In the end, Migmar is punished by being turned into a bird and forced to be Trixie's assistance.

Trixie was voiced by Laundry Alrbight, but only had one line ("I have natural talent"), two if you count the Oh Yeah! Cartoons ending logo thing.

38. FREDDY SEYMOURE'S AMAZING LIFE

Created by Tim Biskup, the short stars a weird little kid voiced by Robbie Rist who gloats about many bizarre and improbable adventures, but is implied to not be making it up when he tells his dad a monster ate his tie and the father finds that there really is a monster ruining his clothes.

39. EARTH TO OBIE

The first Oh Yeah short by Guy Vasilovich.

The main character is Owen Bradley "Obie" Brasinksi (Nika Futterman), who imagines while at the supermarket that he's in a prison for cereal mascots, with his voice for the fantasy sequences provided by Danny Mann.

Obie ends up teaming up with the scoundrels Sugar Puff Daddy (Danny Mann), Koko Bird (Charlie Adler) and Frosty the Flake (Maurice LaMarche). The fantasy ends with Obie's family forced to leave yet again because of their son's erratic behavior.

I regret to realize there's a limit to how long descriptions can be typed, so I'll have to split this into another deviation.

Link to part two: Oh Yeah! Cartoons Retrospective Part 2 of 2

The Fairly OddParents, ChalkZone, My Life as a Teenage Robot and Oh Yeah! Cartoons (c) Nickelodeon