Line #13 WesternAnimation/CartoonNetworkGroovies


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2	Imagine a channel that showed a bunch of music videos during commercial breaks. These videos featured footage from the shows the network aired, and sometimes even had original animation made for it. And here's the kicker: many songs were done by prominent artists like Music/TheyMightBeGiants, Music/WillIAm, and even ''Music/{{Devo}}''. Prepare to be surprised, as this was Creator/CartoonNetwork during the late 1990s/early 2000s.
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4	As part of the channel's focus on Cartoon Network's "classic" programming, the videos moved to air during commercial breaks on Creator/{{Boomerang}} in the late 2000s and early 2010s. You can view many of them [[https://www.youtube.com/user/codeseven here]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/user/OperationTimeCapsule here.]]
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6	!!Some (but not all) of the original Cartoon Network Groovies made were:
7	* ''24th Century Mecha-Mix'' by Michael Kohler (''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'')
8	* ''Back to the Lab'' by Prince Paul [[note]]the same one who sometimes appeared with Music/DeLaSoul in their early songs[[/note]] (''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'')
9	* ''Buttercup (I'm a Super Girl)'' by Music/ShonenKnife (''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls''), an anime opening-style music video showing clips of the Powerpuff Girls fighting crime as well as the names of the girls and the villains in both English and Japanese.
10	* ''Chemical X'' by Cherish (''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'')
11	* ''Circles'' by Music/SoulCoughing (various Creator/HannaBarbera cartoons), a DeconstructiveParody of the WraparoundBackground trope.
12	* ''Courage (Hearts Full of Love)'' by Brooke Lundy (''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'')
13	* ''Courage the Cowardly Dog'' by Music/TheyMightBeGiants (''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'')
14	* ''Dee Dee and Dexter'' by Music/TheyMightBeGiants (''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'')
15	* ''Dexter (What's His Name?)'' by Music/{{Coolio}} (''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'')
16	* ''Go Monkey Go!'' by Music/{{Devo}} (''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'')
17	* ''Gorilla 4 Sale'' by Michael Ungar (''WesternAnimation/MagillaGorilla'')
18	* ''Hey, Johnny Bravo!'' by Music/TheReverendHortonHeat (''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'')
19	* ''L'Amour A Un Odeur'' by Music/PinkMartini (WesternAnimation/PepeLePew)
20	* ''Mars Forever'' by Fantastic Plastic Machine ([[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Marvin the Martian]])
21	* ''Meet the Flintstones'' by Joe Boyd Vigil, best known for his work on Creator/{{Toonami}} (a remix of the ''[[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Flintstones]]'' theme, with trivia about the show)
22	* ''My Best Friend Plank'' by Film Tecknarna (''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'')
23	* ''Pork Jam'' by Soapbox Studios (WesternAnimation/PorkyPig), [[VoiceClipSong remixing lines from his cartoons, along with his stuttering]].
24	* ''Rolling'' by Music/SoulCoughing (''WesternAnimation/BettyBoop'')
25	* ''Secrets'' by Music/WillIAm (''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'')
26	* ''Signal in the Sky (Let's Go!)'' by The Apples in Stereo (''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'')
27	* ''That Time is Now'' by Michael Kohler (''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'')
28	* ''[[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibleShrinkingDay The Incredible Shrinking Day]]'' by Garrett Freireich [[note]]vocalist[[/note]] and Stuart Hill [[note]]lyricist[[/note]] (''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'')
29	* ''Time is Running Out'' by the James Taylor Quartet (''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest''), [[ContinuityCavalcade a recreation of numerous events from the original series]], all presented in the form of a {{board game\|s}}.
30	* ''Wascally Wemix'' by Todd Eaton (WesternAnimation/ElmerFudd[=/=]WesternAnimation/BugsBunny[=/=]WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck)
31	* ''When It's Over'' by Music/SugarRay (depicting the band InTheStyleOf various toons, including ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'' and ''WesternAnimation/GeorgeOfTheJungle'')
32	* ''Yogi Bear Live at Yellowstone'' by High School Jim [[note]]Steve Patrick (vocals), Peter Rosch (bass), Matt Peccini (drums), Craig "Sven" Gordon (guitar), and Michael Kohler (vocals and guitar)[[/note]] (''WesternAnimation/YogiBear'')
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34	!!Some of them originally started out as Shorties, including:
35	* ''Atom's Theme'' (''WesternAnimation/TheAtomAntShow'')
36	* ''El Kabong Rides Again'' by Music/{{Calexico}} (''WesternAnimation/QuickDrawMcGraw'')
37	* ''WesternAnimation/JabberjawRunningUnderwater'' by Pain (''WesternAnimation/{{Jabberjaw}}''), showing the Neptunes as a {{ska}} band playing on a vintage metal ''Jabberjaw'' lunch box and rescuing Shelly from an eel who falls for her during a performance.
38	* ''WesternAnimation/MusicalEvolution'' by Christina Fincher [[note]]vocalist; lyrics by Michael Kohler and Craig "Sven" Gordon[[/note]] (''WesternAnimation/JosieAndThePussycats''), showing the ''Josie and the Pussycats'' theme as a disco tune, a late 1970s punk anthem, a country ballad, a Music/{{KISS}}-style arena rock song, and as a techno/house beat.
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40	!!''Cartoon Network Groovies'' contains examples of:
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42	* SeventiesHair: When the music in ''Musical Evolution'' turns to 1970s disco, Valerie suddenly begins sporting a huge afro even bigger than her ''actual'' '70s afro.
43	* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Eustace and Muriel are drawn to look a bit younger in ''Courage (Hearts Full of Love)''.
44	* AdaptationalBadass: In ''El Kabong Rides Again'', Quick Draw [=McGraw=] is depicted as a ''way'' more effective crime-fighter than the IdiotHero that he is in his original shorts, defeating the main villain and saving the townspeople twice over with little issue and even getting the girl in the end. Conversely, [[HypercompetentSidekick Baba Looey]] [[AdaptationalWimp has to be rescued by Quick Draw]] ''[[AdaptationalWimp twice]]''.
45	* {{Animesque}}: ''Dee Dee and Dexter'' resembles a 1960s anime and even features the Japanese language.
46	* BatSignal: "Signal in the Sky" is about the Powerpuffs having such a signal.
47	* ChainedToARailway: The villain in ''El Kabong Rides Again'' takes this to the extreme by not just tying up Baba Looey and the DamselInDistress, but ''all the townspeople as well''. El Kabong saves them by using a gigantic metal guitar to destroy the incoming train.
48	* CrappyCarnival: ''Courage the Cowardly Dog'' takes place in one themed on the show, with the aptly named title "Courage's Night Terrors". The carnival itself doesn't look too bad, but it's dead empty, uncannily bright, and has attractions based on the horrors the titular character faces.
49	* DeliberateVHSQuality: ''My Best Friend Plank'' has the nostalgic grainy look of an old home movie.
50	* EnemyRisingBehind: During ''Signal in the Sky'', the Apples are singing the song in a tall building while the Giant Pufferfish Balloon is trying to jump up to their window without success until he uses a smaller building as a stepladder. While the rest of the band notice the monster coming up to them, the lead singer keeps going until its fin breaks through the window.
51	* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: ''Gorilla 4 Sale'' is all about Mr. Peebles' inability to just sell off Magilla. Most verses talk about ''almost'' sales that are only inhibited by circumstance.
52	* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In ''Musical Evolution'', Valerie and Melody give confused looks everytime they switch up.
53	* HallOfMirrors: In ''Time is Running Out'', Bandit finds himself in a hall of mirrors and threatened by a gargoyle. He barks loud enough to shatter the mirrors one by one, and when he barks at the real gargoyle, it cowers and lets him pass.
54	* HopeSpot: The final verse of ''Gorilla 4 Sale'' details the ''one'' customer willing to buy Magilla Gorilla, a little girl named Ogee. She's enthusiastic and seems to love the gorilla...but right at the end she sadly mentions she doesn't have enough money to claim him. "Mr. Peebles almost died" indeed.
55	* HorsemenOfTheApocalypse: ''Atom's Theme'' has Atom fighting off four otherworldly men riding on horses. War is represented by a general with a tank, Famine by a three-headed man extolling the virtues of nuclear fire, Pestilence by a giant scrap robot breathing fire on the town, and Death by a robber planting nuclear {{Cartoon Bomb}}s all over the world.
56	* MediumAwareness: The plot of ''Circles'' concerns [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Fred and Barney]] becoming aware of the WraparoundBackground.
57	* RelocatingTheExplosion: In ''Atom's Theme'', Atom Ant carries all the nuclear bombs into space so they can detonate safely.
58	* {{Retraux}}: ''Dee Dee and Dexter'' is styled like a 1960s anime.
59	* TheShadowKnows: Eustace might have been redesigned in ''Hearts Full of Love'', but his shadow has his regular show design.
60	* StopMotion: ''Time is Running Out'' is animated with very convincing figures made for the short's board game aesthetic.
61	* TarotMotifs: Briefly shows up in "Courage the Cowardly Dog". While Muriel's card ("The Kind") is not a real card, Eustace's card ("The Fool") is.
62	* UnnaturallyLoopingLocation: Barney's house in ''Circles'', which somehow even warps in characters from other universes.
63	* VisualPun: The first Horseman of the Apocalypse in "Atom's Theme" is depicted as a three-headed salesman whose CoatFullOfContraband is filled with smiley faces. He's quite literally "selling smiles" (lying that everything is okay when it's not).
64	* WackyRacing: ''Rolling''[='=]s video takes clips from the ''Betty Boop'' episode ''Betty Boop's Ker-choo'' in which she, Koko, Bimbo, and a few others compete for a racing trophy.

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