Cartoon Factory is an American animated television series and showcase produced by Aniplex and Frederator Studios. The animation style for the cartoon series is based on the artwork of Al Brodax (of King Features Inc.). The series parodies to that of many productions of cartoon television series. The show aires in Nicktoons. The show is also distributed by Warner Bros and Tollin/Robbins Productions (until the second season but returned for the 3rd season).
The show was picked up for a third season as the second season aired in December 8, 2011 as the contract for the Cartoon Factory animated shorts was given to Sesame Workshop giving the characters new looks and featuring new voices, including a fully animated opening sequence that is 60-seconds long and the end credits are the theme song to the 1993 seasons of Sesame Street. Also, Bilinfold Inc. worked on the season.
The third season premiered in January 19, 2012. The new season features the new name to the title Cartoon Factory: All That! featuring a brand new animation style animated by 2D digital animation by Toon Boom Animation. The season features brand new characters, features a hip-hop twist to the show's soundtrack and features brand new sketches. The theme song is sung by TLC which is the All That theme song from Nickelodeon. In the opening sequence, characters from the shorts of the past 2 seasons appear. Brian Robbins and Mike Tollin wanted to make it more Nickelodeon-style. Dan Schneider, inspiration to the All That series and creator of Zoey 101, Drake & Josh, iCarly and Unfabulous, have contributed to the animation cartoons which is why it's also credited as Schneider's Bakery. Also, the first short will be presented before the actual series begins. The fourth season premiered in January 25, 2012 with the same production as the 3rd season but only one short will air with the tagline "Surprising Shorts" until the fifth season premieres.
It is revealed that there going to work on the 100th episode once it comes up. The episode will be titled "Cartoon Factory: 100th Episode Reunion Special" which will feature a brand new opening sequence with several clips from the past episodes in which all of the characters from the Cartoon Factory series and the other main shorts collide together. It is also stated that the episode will be hosted by Frankie Muniz and will feature guest stars of Ashante and Bow Wow and the special will be an hour long.
Description
Creator Fred Seibert, uses this show as an animated spin-off of Oh Yeah! Cartoons.
Unlike Oh Yeah!, animated hosts were used for the series. The show features several segments, but mostly focused on the Cartoon Factory segment. The series features several animated shorts that were from Random Cartoons, Oh Yeah!'s first spin-off, to be put on the showcase.
Some of the shorts from the past two seasons will be repeated in the new episodes of the third season. The show was co-created by Mike Tollin, Brian Robbins and Dan Schneider.
Segments
Cartoon Factory
The segment is based on Jim Carrey's first series, The Duck Factory.The series focuses mainly on George and Harold (named after the characters from Captain Underpants), two naive teenagers who are off to look for a job as cartoonists in Hollywood, California. While arriving next to a low-budget animation company, Frank Burston Productions, they find out that Frank Burston has died from cancer and now the animation company needs new blood, so they both get their job in the animation firm in which their main cartoon is "Flory & Mace" (a Tom and Jerry-like cartoon).
In the third season, the premiere reveals that since the production of Flory & Mace grew so high, George and Harold are now turning the studios into an actual hosting program featuring series of puns and sketches, including clips of Flory & Mace.
Characters
- George & Harold: Two cartoonists from North Philadelphia who are off looking for animation jobs in which they take the job in Frank Burston Productions. They are 18-years old and they are both naive. The main difference between the two is that George is a worrywart who is Caucasian and Harold is a laid-back pacifist who is African-American. Both of the characters are named after the main characters in the Captain Underpants books. George is voiced by Dominic James and Harold is voiced by Carlos Knight.
- Frank Burston: The deceased original owner of the animation company, Frank Burston Productions. Frank was known by the crew as the tyranic but thoughtful animator who is now gone. Frank died from cancer and now, his ditzy wife, Sharena is taking over the job. Frank is voiced by Tom Kenny during the flashbacks.
- Moe Brick: The man-of-a-thousand cartoon voices who provides the voice of Flory and Mace. Moe is the only one who takes responsibility of his job, other than Wendell. Moe speaks in a rather grouchy and thawl voice but has the ability to change his pitch when providing the voices for the cartoons. Moe is also allergic to carrots. Moe is based on the legendary voice-actor, Mel Blanc, who was the main voice for the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies characters. He is voiced by real-life cartoon voice artist, Joe Alasky.
- Wendell Perthon: A comedy writer known for writing various storybooks and plays in which were produced in American and Kabuki theatre. His favorite act is mime and he is one of the only characters to take responsibility of his job. He is voiced by real-life cartoon writer, Thurop Van Orman.
- Sori Yipp: A Korean animator and artist who can only produce character designs and models for the series. She cannot speak English but Frank can understand her since he provided the voices of many foreign characters and had to learn the language to play the part. She is voiced by real-life cartoon storyboard artist, Niki Yang.
- Scripz: The editor of the studio who makes numerous edits of the cartoon due to censorship and places them in a later box for an official homemedia release of the series. Scripz' real name is never revealed. He is voiced by Jess Harnell.
Characters Introduced in the 3rd season
- Kent Rodriguez: A Mexican kid who loves doing homework but sometimes does charity work. He is voiced by George Lopez.
- Kam Tagawa: A Japanese boy who loves slacking off and eating junk food. He is voiced by Kevin Wu, known as KevJumba on Youtube.
- Jordan Weems: A funk musician who enjoys hip-hop and plans to become a singer. He is voiced by Lil'JJ.
- Hanate Civic: A Chinese ninja with a thick accent. Voiced by Ryan Higa.
- Roy Heartblood: A keyboard guitarist who can play all guitars: electric, keyboard, classic, pedal steel, violin, bass, cello and others. Voiced by Drake Bell.
- Samantha: A famous dancer. Voiced by Amanda Bynes.
- Johnson & Johnson: Two best friends with the same surname who do comedy sketches together. One is African-American and the other one is Caucasian. Voiced by Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell.
Commercials
At the beginning of each show after the first short, an advertisement for an unusual product plays. A disclaimer at the end of each sketch states that the product is "available nowhere". They are still appearing since the third season.
Claymorace
Animated shorts based on the Wallace and Gromit shorts focuses on a man who is working on a farm with his anthropomorphical mute dog, Charley while disasters happen across the farm. Due to the production company closing it's doors, the shorts ended in the second season.
Quesado
A Spanish cartoon based on the series, El Chavo del Ocho. The shorts are about an orphan named Quesado who hangs around in the neighborhood with a spoiled child (Weko), a lowlife conartist (Alejandro), a chubby trickster (Juan), a widower (Flanda), a pencil-necked teacher (Profesor Rodriguez) and a landlord (Sr. Gonzales).
The animation style is animated by Chespirito (who created El Chavo and portrayed him).
The show released for it's half-hour television series. When the episode of Cartoon Factory ends, a goodbye animation song plays featuring all of the characters going to bed with the tagline "Buenas noches, ninos!". The show was removed from the third season.
Animadia
A mecha-anime series in which the animation style parodies that of Japanese cartoon series from the 1950s-70s in which the animes mouths are not synced to the words and the characters talk fast. The show focuses on a league of robots called the Mighty Bots who work together to save the world. The show ends during the second season being replaced by Tiny'mon.
Tune the Jazz
A traditionally-animated series based on Mo Willem's Sheep in the Big City and The Off-Beats. The show focuses on rhythm and blues and jazz music score featuring four kids and three beatniks telling poems and hanging out. Willems actually animated the show and provided the voices for all of the beatniks. The series ends in the second season due to Willems entering to Cartoon Network leaving the series, being replaced by Walnuts.
Other shows
- Blackhead Falls: An over-the-top parody of teen dramas/soap operas, mainly, Dawson's Creek and Sonny with a Chance's MacKenzie Falls. The show focuses on Chad Ryan MacKenzie, a lowly teenager who works in an opera house to pay for the lawsuit of his visually challenged father, hearing impared mother and vocally challenged brother. He also has friends such as Kelly Cooper, an accident-prone girl who cant fit with the popular crowd; Madeline, a snob and Roy, a mute bachelor.
- Rick and Vick: A puppet series that is about two teenagers that are a parody to that of Beavis and Butthead who judge many music videos (that are originally created for the series). Both characters are voiced by Mike Judge.
- Friends Man: A traditionally-animated series based on the FOX series, Family Guy. The show is based on the primace of Larry & Steve, a short that was later the basics for Family Guy. The series is about a middle-aged man named Larry Hippogriff who sleeps all day most of the time and has wacky adventures with his wife, Lois, teenaged son, Craig, teenage daughter, Melanie, infant son, Stanley and talking-dog, Steve. There neighbors are a pair of weird American families with green-skinned named the Dorfmans, who are a spoof of the Simpsons. Seth MacFarlene, creator of Family Guy, voices Larry, Stanley and Steve similar to how he voices Peter, Stewie and Brian in which all six characters share the same similarities.
- Minority Deformed Samurai Dragons: An action series that's a parody of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise. The shorts were originally going to be a television spin-off of the anime, Life but due to lawsuits, the show was canceled and the characters are going to appear in an upcoming TMNT project. The show is about four baby komodo dragons who are touched by a mystical ooze called Transformagel in which they become part of the creature they've reasantly been in contact with. After starting to become more human, they train under a young monk who transforms into a hamster due to the Transformagel named Blister and are trained by the ways of kung-fu to defeat The Grater and his army of Hand Soldiers. Each member is named after a black singer; Andre (Benjamin), Ray (Charles), Taj (Mahal) and Little (Richard). The show is intended to be replaced with TMNT.
- Mighty Munchin' Potato Rangers: A live-action/CGI animated series that parodies to that of the mechanime action franchise, Power Rangers. The show is about six teenagers who are a fan of potato chips who must protect the world from the evil Vita Redippa from destroying the world. The six rangers are based on popular potato chip/snack brands and simulate the color of each member; The Dorito Ranger (Red), The Fritos Ranger (Yellow), The Pringles Ranger (Blue), The Wise Ranger (Black), The Cheetos Ranger (Pink) and The Munchos Ranger (Green).
- Alan and the Squirrels: Shorts animated by Ruby Spears Inc. (of Scooby-Doo) that parody of Alvin and the Chipmunks. The squirrels' voices are high-pitched by actors to make a chipmunk like voice. The shorts is about three squirrels who are singing sensations that are in a career while having fun and annoying their manager "father-figure", Dan DeVille. The names of the squirrels are Alan, Samuel and Christopher.
- Dictionary Black: Animated with Squigglevision, the shorts star Dictionary Black, an animated parody of Encyclopedia Brown who helps people learn foreign language by hanging out with friends that speak the languages that is going to be learned. The languages that he learns are Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Arabic and Italian.
- Gag Factory: Taken from Nickelodeon Magazine's Gag Station, this series of shorts is similar to the cutaway gags from Family Guy and Cartoon Network's MAD as it features several animated parodies of popular culture. The shorts are animated by Canadian animator, Danny Antonucci (of Ed, Edd n Eddy fame).
- Off Duty Cop: A 1970s police drama animated series parody of CHIPS. The show is about a superspy off-duty detective officer named Steve Saint James and his mute, strongman chaueffer named Brandon Steel who solve crimes in the hills of Los Angeles. Jerry Lewis (credited as Leslie Hunt) and Tom Kenny (credited as Howard Fine) lend their voices to the two main characters.
- That 50s Show: A live-action/animated series that parodies That 70s Show. The show focuses on a cartoonic world that takes place in the 1950s. The show's main character is Tez, a foreign exchange student from an unknown country (Czesoslovikan). Tez is voiced by Hank Azaria.
- VideoDream 64: A comedy series animated with 8-bit graphics and animation, similar to video-games. The show is about a video-game world where all video-game characters inhabit. Other animations such as CGI and/or traditional cel animation was used for the characters. The four main characters are Mario, Luigi, Aiai and Sonic.
- TMNT: A parody of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, featuring the same animation style as the 4Kids' movie, Turtles Forever. The basic plot for the shorts are the same as the original series. The shorts are replacing Minority Deformed Samurai Dragons.
- Stick Around: 2-minute shorts of the live-action/animated series, Stick Around. The show is about the adventures of Stacey Stickler and Bradley Styme; imaginations (in 2D) and real-life (in live action). The animation's style is based on a children's cartoon drawing work.
- George the Clues: A flash-animation series based on the creator's childhood. The show is about a teenager named Clementine who hangs out with his dim-witted neighbor, Larry (from Friends Man and Larry & Steve), teenaged teacher Mr. Young, friend Arnold Shortman and grouchy friend, Dan while learning how to skateboard in the suburb city.
- Walnuts: A traditionally-animated series that is a parody of the Charlie Brown comics and television specials while also containing elements and spoofs of Fat Albert. The series stars the four main voice-cast: Jason Earles as Chucky Black, an unlucky 12-year old boy who cannot win at any competition, Greg Eagles as Teapot, an 11-year old boy determined to become a rap superstar, Cathy Lewis as Bouche, Teapot's best friend who knows more about the modern facts and Kwesai Boyake as Myrun, a 10-year old child genius who loves carrying his pocket hankey. The series replaces Tune the Jazz for the second season. The show's soundtrack features a combination of 1950's jazz rhythm-and-blues music and hip-hop rapping funkmusic. Greg Eagles provides the animation for the cartoon. The reason was due to the succedor of the Teapot pilot episode.
- Tiny'mon: An anime parody of the Pokemon franchise. The series concludes the adventures of Tinymon trainer Blast Ketchup (parody of Ash Ketchum) going on a quest to be the new Tiny'mon master along with his companions: Ed (parody of Max), a child prodigy who is like a little brother to Blast, Melody (parody of Misty), Blast's love interest who is the Coach Leader of the TinyCity leagues and Stone (parody of Brock), the Tiny'mon caretaker who is interest in Nurse Happy and Drill Sergent Hillary who are trying to defeat the evil Gang Airplane members Bonnie and Clyde from capturing the Tiny'mons. The show replaces Animania and is also based on a parody show from Johnny Test. Johnny himself will make cameo appearances in the shorts.
- Firehouse Tales: A bizarre children's show about four leagues of firefighters saving their home town from distruction, parody to that of Rescue Heroes. The theme song is very catchy and the series is a rare series in the cartoon show.
- West Wide Wroundup: A western's show, parodying The Lone Ranger. The show is about three cowboys and a Native-American protecting the Old West from evil criminals; Jessie & James, Butch & Cassidy and Bonnie & Clyde (named after real-life criminals). The cowboys are named after folk-tale heroes; Pecos (Bill), Paul (Bunyan) and John (Henry). The Indians name is Wyatt, named after Western star, Wyatt Earp.
- Sketch It-Up: A multi-animation project that parodies many sitcom shows and the Comedy Central show, Drawn Together. The show is about eight famous cartoon characters living together in a house for six months to earn millions of dollars. The shorts later became a series picked up by Cartoon Network.
- George Lopez and Sonic: Based on a fan-manga, the show is based on the 2001-2007 George Lopez series and the 2001 Sonic X series. The show is about the George Lopez characters being transported to the Sonic X dimension after Vic installed a radioactive television. The shorts only lasted for two episodes and the show fell due to copyrights with Lopez.
- Dooper: A restaurant that served different items every sketch which is run by a man and his daughter Doreen (played by Amanda Bynes). Whatever was offered (i.e. ice cream, soup, sushi,cookie), was usually gross. Examples included spider crunch ice cream (with actual spiders), and underwear chowder soup. On occasion, a customer would ask "Hey, didn't this used to be a (sushi, cookie, soup, etc) restaurant?" The employees would respond that it "wasn't their thing" and say that they're now (weenie, cookie, sushi, etc.) people. In later episodes, they would say things like "I'll thank you never to mention that again." At the end of the skit, the customer tries a special sample that actually tastes good — but had a surprise. After hearing the name of the sample, they will ask why it was named that, upon which the customer would have some calamity related to the name of the dish happen to him, such as being attacked by a samurai upon trying a "Samurai roll", being punched by Abraham Lincoln upon trying "Lincoln Punch", or being crushed br a refrigerator upon trying "Refrigerator Crunch". A recurring gag is that the family's grandfather comes in from the back and the father responds "NOT NOW, GRANDPA". Grandpa usually responds to that comment with "FAILURE", which goes with their usually unsuccessful business.
- Who Wants to Win a Bunch of Money?: A game show parody of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire hosted by Blib (voiced by Ryan Seacrest) and his sidekick, No-Siree-Bob the Horn-Honking Clown who communicates via bike-horn or foghorn, similar to Sideshow Bob from The Simpsons. The questions were fairly easy, with four choices as answers. Half of the answers usually did not have anything to do with the question. For example, when shown the answers for the question, "How many inches are in a foot?", two possible answers were "Pink" and "Meat". Whenever someone gives a question wrong, No Siree Bob honks the horn at someone's face.
- Survival of the Grossest: A parody of the hit reality TV series Survivor, this time contestants were stranded in a strange location in a certain state (such as a bathtub in North Dakota or a parked car in aparking lot in Oklahoma). The contestants, usually characters from other recurring skits in the show, were forced to stay in the place and eat the disgusting cuisine that is being served by the nameless host. Who ever eats the disgusting food or stays the longest will win USD 1,000,000. Whoever left the wacky location would summon two guards to take them out of the location, and ultimately out of the game. When it came down to three or four contestants, the final three or four must vote one player out of the game. Many characters often annoy each other into leaving the game.
- The Extremes: This sketch is about the Extreme family, a family of three who always take every little thing to an extreme. Whatever they feel, they seem to always overreact to it. For example, when eating pizza, the daughter begins crying hysterically, claiming she is sad that when they finish eating it, it will be gone. This exasperates everyone around the family.
- Welcome To... (Object): A parody of some fashion or auction shop programming that involves interviews and brief clips of things based on the items (i.e. baby cribs, video games, TVs) featured a young child as the host. A rapper can be seen at the beginning of each episode of the sketch.
- When...Attack: "When... Attack", hosted by Amanda Bynes, parodies dramas such as When Animals Attack!. Bynes introduces herself as some ridiculous but possibly famous character, then explains how a group of entities (such as cheerleaders, elderly women, The Brady Bunch, school mascots, and female Hula dancers) have been attacking people. She then shows the viewers two incidents of attacks, first played at normal speed, then in slow motion. The victims then appear in interviews, injured, distraught and sometimes repeating exactly what the host says. At the end, the host tells the viewers to call a number, usually something like, for example: "1-500-I-Just-Saw-_________-Attack-Some-Person-And-Now-I'm-Calling-This-Number-To-Report-What-I-Saw". The attackers then arrive in the studio, either assaulting the host or causing her to run away screaming. The attackers will then either proceed to attack the cameraman or dance, concluding the sketch. Amanda also shows little sympathy for the victims of the attack.
- Cartoon-a-Long: A music video sketch introduced in the third season, animated by Turrner Broadcasting, as a parody of Boomerang's karaoke programming, Boomerang-a-Long. The sketch showcases several music videos performed live by the special guest star musician in the episode, including karaoke effects so children can sing along.
- Surprising Shorts: A series of shorts that has been introduced in the third season. The sketch shows the short that is going to be presented in the episode due to the production change of the series from three shorts to two shorts (the first short will be presented at the beginning of the episode before the opening sequence plays).
- Flory and Mace: A Tom and Jerry parody cartoon that always appears in the Cartoon Factory shorts. The shorts are created by fictional animator Buddy Winkler who died from cancer so George and Harold have to follow his footsteps. The characters are mute like Tom&Jerry. The shorts are rarely presented in the previous two seasons but are now shown frequently as of the third season. Dan Castellaneta and Nancy Cartwright voices the duo in real-life but in the Cartoon Factory universe, man of 1,000 cartoon voices does it.
Episodes
Season 1
| Episode Name | Short#1 | Short#2 | Short#3 |
| Blast from Our Past | Solomon Fix | MooBeard the Cow Pirate | Two Witch Sisters |
| Adventurers | The Finster Finster Show | Adventure Time (main short) | Mind the Kitty |
| I Owe You Money | Ivan the Unbearable | Boneheads | Tiffany |
| Rap It Up! | Call Me Bessie! | Teapot (main short) | Hornswiggle |
| Happy Birthday: George and Harold | Hero Heights | Yaki & Yumi | Gary Guitar |
| Bankruptcy | Krunch and the Kid | Bradwurst | Dr. Froyd's Funny Farm |
| Lost in Translation | The Bravest Warriors | The Dangerous Duck Brothers | Sparkles and Gloom |
| Game Dude Advance vs. the Onion Wonder | The Infinitie Gorath | Kyle + Rosemary (main short) | Garlic Boy (main short) |
| Pizza Delivery for Cartoons | Flavio (main short) | SamSquatch | Girls on the Go |
Season 2
| Episode Name | Short#1 | Short#2 | Short#3 |
| I am Calling the Cops | Victor the Delivery Dog | Bronk and Bongo | Thorn Cat |
| Graffiti | Sugarfoot | Dugly Uckling's Quest | Dr. Dee & Bit Boy |
| Schooled | Super Don Joe Jr. | Six Monsters (main short) | Ratzafraz |
| Haroldboy and George-George | Squirly Town | Fanboy (main short) | HandyCat |
| Janken | Uncle Grandpa | Regular Show (main short) | Manny & Khan |
| Classic Cartoons since 1921 | ChalkZone | Blotto (main short) | Kameleon Kid |
| Chalk Animation | ChalkZone: Chalk Dad | ChalkZone: French Fry Falls | Fairly OddParents |
| Cheese and Crackers | Action League Now: Derailroad | Sniz and Fondue: Mod Stylin | Off-Beats: Tommy's Song |
| Japanese Fighter-Fighter Mangazone | No Short | No Short | No Short |
Season 3: All That!
| Episodes Name | Short#1 | Short#2 | Short#3 |
| Back and Badder than Eva! | Flavio | The Kitty and Bobo Show | Prickles |
| Cartoon 101 | Mime for a Day | Hero Heights | Naive Man from Lolliland |
| The Creator Strikes Back | Looney Tunes | Looney Tunes | Girls on the Go |
| Dennis Duck | Betty Boop | Koko the Clown | Popeye |
| Adventures to Space | ChubbChubbs | JetCat: Sacred Identidy | JetCat: Lunchtime |
| Tweeterbell, Tweets. | No Short | No Short | No Short |
| George and Harold's Excellent Adventure | No Short | No Short | No Short |
| Spongeorge Haroldpants (crossover with Spongebob) | No Short | No Short | No Short |
| DMV | Wile E. Coyote | Sniz and Fondue | Action Leauge Now |
| Lost and Found in Translation | Clips of Power Rangers | Clips of Big Bad Beetleborgs |
Clips of Viewtiful Joe |
Season 4
| Episodes Name | Surprising Shorts |
| PayPhone Issues | |
| E Pluribus Harold | |
| So You Think You Can Dance? | |
| Happy Toony Fun Time in Japan | |
| Ole West | |
| Episode 34 | |
| Better than the Poke in the Eye | |
| C-A-R-T-O-O-N | |
| Whatever Happened to George & Harold? | |
| Writers Block | |
| Пан Ран Hana Десет | |
Companies
- Warner Bros. Entertainment
- Tollin/Robbins Production (2011-2012;2012-present) For the first season, a soundclip was played during the logo which is Penelope Taynt saying "Amanda Please". In the third season, the soundclip was by Kenan saying to Kel "Hey Clavis, wake up! The show is over." with Kel responding "Oh yeah, Kick it.".
- Frederator Studios
- Billinfold Inc.
- Aniplex
- Sesame Workshop (non-credited)
- Schneider's Bakery (2012)