Jason the Cartoon Fan

Strawpage question submission #30! “Be honest with me: do you think that Paramount’s merger with Warner Bros. has any possibility of being stopped - by having Skydance fall apart so the Ellison family can’t afford the latter?”

We likely still have at least two years left before any sale of Warner Bros. to Paramount Skydance can be finalized. The best you can do to keep the merger from happening is continuing to make a big stink about the idea.

I really do need to view a lot more someday, but right now I’m currently doing a chronological viewing of The Fairly OddParents now that I have its entire run on DVD, so I don’t have room in my life schedule for another show with hundreds of episodes right now.

Strawpage question submission #29! “What do you think of Bob’s Burgers?”

I’ve enjoyed what I saw of Bob’s Burgers, but I never fully embraced it - or American Dad!, for that matter - the way I have with The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Family Guy, and Futurama in the realm of the major adult animated series from Fox.

Berry’s black-and-white commission sketch - requested by yours truly - of Kitty Ko from Sidekick, in which she is playfully standing with her right foot (left foot from our point of view) up while placing her right hand (left hand from our point of view) on her chin. She casts a shadow on the floor, and Berry’s signature can be seen to the left of her at the bottom.

In fact, I even commissioned my online friend NoParking Berry back in March 2022 to draw a piece of fan art of Kitty Ko (she’s my favorite character from that series because I think her rambunctious personality is very precious; it also helps that she shares her voice with Mina Beff from Grojband).

As for Sidekick, it definitely has a lot of tropes that I normally despise in its contemporaries, but unlike,…let’s say,…Scaredy Squirrel or Almost Naked Animals, I think those elements are handled just delicately enough to be funny.

I have a DVD set of the show’s first 30 episodes I owned when I was a kid (but sadly don’t own anymore) to thank for being introduced to Richard Scarry’s Busy World. It truly is a wonderfully magical series. Even just hearing the show’s theme song puts a huge smile on my face.

Cartoon Network: The Amazing World of Gumball - The Complete Series [D You cannot get more amazing than The Amazing World of Gumball : The Complete Series! Why? Because this is every single hilarious mis-adventure, every awesome song, every “what the what?!”, every trip ...

A preorder listing was put up for the set on GRUV (the official online store for Studio Distribution Services, so both Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and Universal Studios Home Entertainment). 🙂

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Cartoon Network has been hesitant to acknowledge Johnny Bravo outside of the occasional cameo in recent years due to the behavior of the show’s title character - despite the show making fun and beating the shit out of him for how bad he is around women.

…given Johnny's shadowbanned status and Infinity Train's complicated current legal situation (it hasn't been fully written off for taxes but has nonetheless been made hard to officially obtain lately).

This leaves only three such series without one: Johnny Bravo, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, and Infinity Train. I think Billy & Mandy is the only one of them that has a real chance of actually getting a complete DVD release,…

…and Cartoon Network tends to put Complete Series sets for shows that had at least one complete season released on DVD in the past (so the old discs can be recycled, though they did make new discs for Season 1 of Dexter's Laboratory for its own full series release).

…since it continues to be a massive cash cow for CN and actually had its entire first season released on the format (albeit spread across three single-disc volumes instead of put on a complete season set),…

Funnily enough, I actually theorized to my friends on Discord that Gumball would be the next Cartoon Network show to be completed on DVD,…

*Ben 10 (original series, Alien Force, Ultimate Alien, and Omniverse)
*Adventure Time
*Regular Show
*The Amazing World of Gumball
*Steven Universe

*Dexter's Laboratory
*The Powerpuff Girls (1998)
*Ed, Edd n Eddy (not counting the holiday specials or Big Picture Show)
*Courage the Cowardly Dog
*Samurai Jack (also released in its entirety on Blu-ray)
*Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends

With Gumball set to be completed on DVD in May, this will be the full list of Cartoon Network Originals that have had all their full runs released on the format in North America:

Only the first season and 1/3rd of the second season were previously released on DVD (split across four single-disc volumes from 2012 to 2014), so I’m sure this set will please many, even if the show’s earlier discs will likely be recycled here.

A look at the front cover and spine of the DVD set. The front cover features the Watterson family (from left to right: Anais, Nicole, Darwin, Gumball, and Richard) watching the sky while lying on the grass making up their lawn - with Gumball pointing his left hand (right hand from our point of view) at a rainbow forming above the clan. Found in the top center of the cover artwork is stylized white text reading "The Complete Series", while the Cartoon Network and Amazing World of Gumball logos are placed together below the left side of said text. The spine features a medium blue background in the same vein as Gumball (and Nichole)'s fur. Placed across it are the Cartoon Network logo, a rainbowless Amazing World of Gumball logo and the "Complete Series" text put together, the official DVD Video icon, and the Warner Bros. shield introduced in 2023; those last two elements are also colored white.

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The Amazing World of Gumball is receiving a Complete Series DVD set on May 5, 2026!

Ed, Edd n Eddy is pretty good, but not one of my absolute favs.

Strawpage question submission #28! “Favorite Canadian cartoons? (Asking because they often get a bad rep.)”

My favorite animated series originating from Canada are Fresh TV’s shows, Atomic Betty, Stickin’ Around, Ned’s Newt, The Busy World of Richard Scarry, Sidekick, Grossology, and Carl the Collector (and Arthur and Zokie of Planet Ruby if you want to count U.S. co-productions).

The fact that people on Twitter keep accusing this guy (Jason) of a “creep” just because he made a post about the lady from this show whose literally a mother, NOT a minor is insane

Let people enjoy posts of cartoon moms whatever they want bruh 😭😭😭

A strange creature (me) melting then springing up with joy saying 'mmmmyipeee!!'

I get very shy when faced with responding to positive comments, so i drew this to show how they make me feel every time whether I respond or not :))

I’m glad you all are responding appropriately; people on Twitter who don’t like being called pedophiles because they like teen nudity in anime are accusing me of being a pedo by saying that a short woman is apparently kid-coded.

Twitter sucks; what else is new? /hj

Pixar never intended to replace 2D animation; the studio very much appreciates its craft.

What happened was that the general public began overlooking 2D animation because they found CGI more "hip", leading to every dedicated 2D animation studio either shutting down or switching to CGI.

Alf Clausen was a national treasure. It's a real shame he got fired despite not wanting to leave the show at the time he stopped composing for it. May he rest in peace.

A lot of people responding to my showcase post are understandably complimenting the wonderfully crafted layouts for it by David Silverman, but I think the featured scene wouldn't have worked nearly as well if it wasn't for the magnificent instrumental accompaniment.

“Believe It or Not, Joe’s Walking On Air”.

Min-Ju Pak having her perfectly-shaped butt pop into view on the back of her overalls, while also using her blissful hubbie Will Wylde as a footstool, during an epic Jojo-esque action pose as she gets ready to go to her local cultural supermarket Woori World with her family in the Wylde Pak episode "The Real Woori World" - which I just recorded this morning from Nickelodeon (who first aired the episode here in the United States last night, after it premiered on the channel overseas half a year ago).

To whoever artist decided to storyboard this frame and whichever executive at Nickelodeon approved of it,...nice. You both deserve a pay raise.

This is from the episode where Joe has his legs fixed - only for Peter, Quagmire, and Cleveland to make them go back to being broken when he starts acting like a jerk to them (you can see a little bit of that sudden behavior shift here).