History EarlyInstallmentWeirdness / WesternAnimation

** The second season also had its moments of slapstick comedy before Season 3 set things straight by going in a more story-based direction and introduced new allies for the Smurfs (such as Marina and the Pussywillow Pixies), mainly due to [[DependingOnTheWriter new head writers]].

** The second season also had its moments of slapstick comedy before Season 3 set things straight by going in a more story-based direction, mainly due to [[DependingOnTheWriter new head writers]].

* The second season also had its moments of slapstick comedy before Season 3 set things straight by going in a more story-based direction, mainly due to [[DependingOnTheWriter new head writers]].

* The ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheatricalCartoons'' seem to be aired OutOfOrder as one of them contains Superman leaping instead of flying. Afterwards he is presented as flying as jumping around looks awkward in animation. The shorts are the earliest examples of Superman flying instead of leaping. The series also presents some weirdness for Superman in general. His parents are nonexistent, instead he was raised in an orphanage, and most of the villains are rather generic because the shorts came out before the modern concept of "comic book villains" and "super villains" was made concrete.

** The series was originally mini-episodes before being expanded into a full series. These episodes are [[OffModel notoriously ugly]] and feature [[EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference different designs]] for several characters. There are also some oddities, like how The Misfits and Eric attempt to outright murder The Holograms several times and how the there are almost no transitions between the dialogue and the songs.

* ''WesternAnimation/BlazeAndTheMonsterMachines''' first season was vastly different than later seasons of the show, as Blaze sometimes uses his [[SuperSpeed Blazing Speed]] at the ''beginning'' of his adventure rather than near the end or somewhere in the middle. In addition, the first season was the only season where he uses it exclusively alone, as later seasons have him share it with a friend who joins him. The first season also didn't have a six-episode themed miniseries like later seasons do, and [[TheTrickster Crusher's]] subplots didn't happen as much (though Crusher himself still gets the last laugh by episode's end). In addition, the animation for the first season was more exaggerated and dulled in animation due to being animated by Nerd Corps Entertainment before it was acquired by DHX Media.

** The pilot episode was called "No P in the OOL"-- a {{Pun}} instead of the FunWithAcronyms titles for which the series is famous.

** ''Merrie Melodies'' originally ended with a character from the featured short shouting "So long, Folks!" to the audience. "That's all, Folks!" became the standard ''Merrie Melodies'' ending phrase beginning with "Those Beautiful Dames" (1934). "Flowers for Madame" (1935) was the first short to end with the "That's all, Folks!" script writing itself which would become the standard ending until 1964. ''Looney Tunes'' would follow suit in 1946.

** In "Operation: C.A.K.E.D." (the first episode in production order), the Delightful Children call Numbuh 4 "Wallace" instead of Wallabee, and on the title card, the noise used for the text cursor's blinking is a different noise than the one used normally.

** ''Merrie Melodies'' originally ended with a character from the featured short shouting "So long, Folks!" to the audience. "That's all, Folks!" became the standard ''Merrie Melodies'' ending phrase beginning with "Those Beautiful Dames" in 1934. The script writing itself was in place by early 1936; "I Wanna Play House" is the earliest existing short to have it. It's not known whether the original release of 1935's "Flowers for Madame", which circulates under the Blue Ribbon reissue, has "That's all, Folks!" spoken or in script.

** A number of main Smurfs also had different voices during early production of the series, such as Farmer (voiced by Frank Welker in "All That Glitters Isn't Smurf"), Painter (voiced by Michael Bell in "The Hundreth Smurf"), Harmony (also voiced by Michael Bell in "The Abominable Snowbeast"), Dreamy (voiced by Ronnie Schell in "The Astro Smurf" and "Dreamy's Nightmare"), Hefty (in early episodes, ranging from a deep voice with a lisp to a high pitched voice (similar to Peewit)) and even Jokey (also voiced by Ronnie Schell in a few episodes).

** While the premise of ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'' was pretty consistent throughout its run, the material that came out ''before'' the cartoon is another story. The earliest mini-comics depicted He-Man as a BarbarianHero, the greatest warrior of an uncivilized jungle tribe, whose great strength comes from that harness he wears; there was no Prince Adam or "ByThePowerOfGreyskull", no Orko providing comic relief, etc. He didn't even use the Sword of Power, preferring the axe his toy also came with. When DC started making comics about the series, they added a lot of that material (except for Orko, who was created for the cartoon). However, DC's comics characterized Prince Adam as a womanizing party animal and troublemaker -- a far cry from the Adam seen in the TV series. The dialogue in the DC comics was also archaic, almost Shakespearian (think Creator/MarvelComics' [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Asgard]] prior to 2006 or so), whereas the cartoon and the comics that came after it featured modern English diction.
** In the 1983 cartoon and related comics, Cringer/Battle Cat, Adam's pet tiger, could talk. He hasn't been depicted as speech-capable since the [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2002 2002 series]], so anyone more familiar with more recent ''He-Man'' material is certain to find that a little hard to adjust to.
** Very early versions of the comic held that Skeletor came from another world where he lived with "Others of his kind." While Skeletor's origin varies a bit between incarnations, all series afterwards almost universally agree that he's a native of Eternia.

* ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'': In the pilot, the other housemates clearly have no idea what Ling-Ling's [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign "Japorean"]] phrases mean and just project their own subconscious views onto him. This joke was dropped after two episodes, and for the rest of the series he's just a typical IntelligibleUnintelligible character.

** The KND were heavily implied to be {{Villain Protagonist}}s, albeit sympathetic ones, usually harassing authority figures for petty reasons more akin to realistic rebellious kids, and coming off as rather incompetent (eg. "No P in the Ool" has them try to crash a swimming pool during adult swim, another has them try to destroy a supply of pianos just for how annoying they are; they fail miserably in both). Later episodes made them more unambiguously heroic, opposing adult villains with clear malicious intention (becoming more competent as a result).

** The KND were heavily implied to be {{Villain Protagonist}}s, albeit sympathetic ones, usually harassing authority figures for petty reasons more akin to realistic rebellious kids, and coming off as rather incompetent (eg. one episode has them try to crash a swimming pool during adult swim, another has them try to destroy a supply of pianos just for how annoying they are; they fail miserably in both). Later episodes made them more unambiguously heroic, opposing adult villains with clear malicious intention (becoming more competent as a result).

** In "Operation: C.A.K.E.D.", the Delightful Children call Numbuh 4 "Wallace" instead of Wallabee, and on the title card, the noise used for the text cursor's blinking is a different noise than the one used normally.