Friday, November 20, 2020

Archiving Animation with Home Media - Cartoon Network Physical Home Media Releases - Part Four

I think by this point in Cartoon Network’s history we could qualify the shows premiering as being the second generation of originals. The first generation of originals like Dexter’s Lab were premiering its final seasons, and Powerpuff Girls was entering its second phase, which were being produced under different creative control then the original seasons. They were even being animated digitally as opposed to the cel process of the earlier seasons. That didn’t mean Cartoon Network wasn’t debuting new classics, things were just different. Let’s get to it...


Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? (2002) ran for two seasons. The main character’s voice was originally supplied by Junior, the synthetic voice on Word98, though it was replaced by human Bobby Block in season two and retroactively throughout season one. Unfortunately, there have been no home media releases of either season. 



Sources

https://www.reddit.com/r/RobotJonesFans/comments/bc401m/robot_jones_voice_help/emrjgwa?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whatever_Happened_to..._Robot_Jones%3F

https://ebilflindas.tumblr.com/post/184183724882/how-to-get-the-robot-jones-voice

Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? Logo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whatever_Happened_to..._Robot_Jones%3F#/media/File:Logo-robotjones.gif



Codename: Kids Next Door (2002) was the winner of an online poll as featured in Cartoon Network’s The Big Pick Weekend. It ran for six seasons. While it has had two episode compilations released, entitled Sooper Hugest Missions: File One and Two, it has not had any complete season releases on home media. It has also had singular episodes released on Cartoon Network compilations. 


Episodes available

Season 1 Episode 1A "Operation: I.-S.C.R.E.A.M."

Season 1 Episode 1B "Operation: C.A.N.N.O.N."

Season 1 Episode 3A "Operation: P.I.R.A.T.E."

Season 1 Episode 6A "Operation: L.I.C.E."

Season 1 Episode 6B "Operation: L.I.Z.Z.I.E."

Season 1 Episode 7A "Operation: T.H.E.-F.L.Y."

Season 1 Episode 8B "Operation: C.A.M.P."

Season 1 Episode 10B "Operation: C.H.A.D."

Season 1 Episode 11A "Operation: P.I.A.N.O."

Season 1 Episode 13 "Operation: G.R.O.W.-U.P."


Season 2 Episode 1A "Operation: C.A.T.S."

Season 2 Episode 2A "Operation: S.P.A.N.K."

Season 2 Episode 2B "Operation: D.A.T.E."

Season 2 Episode 3A "Operation: S.U.P.P.O.R.T."

Season 2 Episode 5A "Operation: S.H.A.V.E."

Season 2 Episode 12B "Operation: T.R.I.P."


Season 3 Episode 5B "Operation: T.R.A.I.N.I.N.G."

Season 3 Episode 10B "Operation: J.E.W.E.L.S."

Season 3 Episode 11A "Operation: T.R.I.C.K.Y."


Season 5 Episode 5 "Operation: N.A.U.G.H.T.Y."



Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codename:_Kids_Next_Door#Home_media

Codename: Kids Next Door Logo

https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Codename:_Kids_Next_Door



The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (2003) was a spin-off of the aforementioned Grim and Evil and ran for five seasons. The first season of repackaged episodes developed for Grim and Evil was released on a Season One DVD set. Of the episodes developed for The Grim Adventures, specifically, only a small handful of episodes have been released on compilation home media releases. The following are the episodes available:


Season 2 Episode 5A “Nursery Crimes”

Season 4 Episode 14 “Billy & Mandy Save Christmas”

Season 4 Episode 6B “The Bubble with Billy”

Season 5 Episode 6A “Herbicidal Maniac”

And the movie:

Billy & Mandy’s Big Boogey Adventure

 

Source

https://grimadventures.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_DVDs

The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy Logo

https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/The_Grim_Adventures_of_Billy_%26_Mandy



Evil Con Carne (2003), the other half of Grim and Evil, ran for a single season as a separate entity from Grim consisting of eight new episodes (and one additional episode to the repackaged season one episodes consisted of Grim and Evil segments). Only the first five episodes of Evil Con Carne produced for Grim and Evil were released as a bonus feature on the Season One DVD set of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy



Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_Con_Carne

Evil Con Carne Logo

https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Evil_Con_Carne



Star Wars: Clone Wars
(2003), not to be confused with the later CGI series or the live action film of the same name, was a three season series directed by Genndy Tartakovsky. All three seasons were released on two DVD volumes. 



Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Clone_Wars_(2003_TV_series)

Star Wars: Clone Wars Logo

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Wars:_Clone_Wars


Next time: imaginary friends, J-Pop, and kids camp. 

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