Did Yogi Berra Sue Hanna-Barbera Over Yogi Bear?
The story has circulated for decades. Yogi Berra supposedly sued Hanna-Barbera because Yogi Bear borrowed his famous nickname. Depending on the version,…
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Harlem Globetrotters Cartoon: How It Made TV History
On September 12, 1970, CBS scheduled two quiet milestones only thirty minutes apart. At 9:00 a.m., Josie and the Pussycats introduced Valerie…
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45 Best Saturday Morning Cartoons of All Time, Ranked
The television clicked on. The cereal came out. For the next few hours, Saturday morning belonged to the kids. For those of…
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Turbo Teen: The 1984 Cartoon Where a Teen Turned Into a Car
Every few years, the same Turbo Teen transformation clip escapes onto the internet. A teenage boy stretches, bends, and somehow folds himself…
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Captain Flamingo: YTV’s Forgotten Superhero Cartoon
Anyone who watched YTV or Jetix in the mid-2000s probably remembers the distress call: “Uh-oh! Flamingo!“ The era was packed with alien…
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Why Was Chowder Cancelled? The Real Reason
Chowder disappeared from Cartoon Network while it was still earning Emmy recognition and finding its creative rhythm. Fans have been asking why…
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The Raccoons: Canada’s Forgotten Global Cartoon Hit
Every country seems to have one cartoon that feels less like a television show and more like a piece of home. For…
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Garbage Pail Kids: The Cartoon CBS Canceled Before It Aired
In September 1987, CBS achieved one of the strangest milestones in television history. The network completed an entire Saturday morning cartoon, promoted…
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Trans-Artists Productions, Inc.
Trans-Artists Productions, Inc. was a real company, and the paper trail survives. The studio made 166 cartoons across two series, kept a…
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Why Does Dexter Have an Accent? The Real Story
People have been asking “why does Dexter have an accent?” for years, and most answers stop at guesswork. Some call it French.…
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Inside the Real Peppa Pig Medical Study
In December 2017, one of the world’s best-known medical journals put a cartoon bear’s clinical judgment under review. The Peppa Pig study…
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Why So Many Old Cartoons Have 65 Episodes
Start counting episodes from the biggest weekday cartoons of the 1980s and 1990s, and one number keeps appearing: 65. TaleSpin stopped there.…
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Rise and Fall of Hanna-Barbera: Saturday Morning Kings
For more than thirty years, two names sat at the centre of American television animation: William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. From the…
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Wacky Races – The Characters and Cars
Wacky Races is a Hanna-Barbera animated series that originally aired on CBS from 1968 to 1969. The premise is beautifully simple: 11…
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Tack the Cobbler: Hero of Animation’s Lost Masterpiece
Tack is the unlikely hero of Richard Williams’s legendary animated film The Thief and the Cobbler. He is a shy, gentle cobbler…
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2 Stupid Dogs: The Cartoon That Saved Hanna-Barbera
In 1993, Hanna-Barbera premiered a wonderfully strange cartoon that looked simpler than almost anything else on television: 2 Stupid Dogs. The series…
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15 Classic Silent Cartoons You Need to Watch
Long before Mickey Mouse whistled aboard a steamboat, early animators were already performing small miracles. Using little more than ink, paper and…
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9 Most Iconic Animated Moose Characters (A Ranking)
The moose is the ultimate “Forest Giant.” With their lanky limbs, clumsy gait, and a rack of antlers that defies all animation…
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