The main series under scrutiny are Cartoon Cartoons.
The focus should be on:

Dexter's Lab
Johnny Bravo
Cow and Chicken
I Am Weasel
Powerpuff Girls
Ed, Edd, & Eddy
Mike, Lu, & Og
Courage the Cowardly Dog
Sheep in the Big City
Time Squad
Grim & Evil
Whatever Happened to Robot Jones?
Kids Next Door
The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
Evil con Carne

I'll be taking care of ed edd n eddy this weekend, I'll be studying with several people.

This should be surprising, but for some reason it actually isn't. It wouldn't be too far fetched for someone involved in the production of Dexter's Lab back in the day to pitch a series involving lab hi-jinks with a talking dog. Scripts and concepts tend to be reused and modified also. (Remember those shorts Seth Macfarlane did for What a Cartoon?)

>>29315
What-a-Cartoon was exactly that which you said - scripts and concepts thrown together into an idea pit, and the most successful episodes eventually got their own series.

That's how it started with Dexter, Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken, Powerpuff Girls, and Courage. I don't know where the other "cartoon cartoons" came from.

>>29316

Anyone got any idea about the What A Cartoons that didn't make it?

>>29319
I'm showing my age, but I was around for that.. and I feel pretty old for it.

Pizza Boy, The Worms, uh.. Yucky Duck. There was some show starring a schemer/scammer that found a bi-polar stone that granted fantastic and then absurdly terrible luck. Podunk Possum, a show that was in the vein of but pre-empted Codename: Kids Next Door's franchise that starred a kid, a lab monkey and that doctor.

I can't remember the name of the show, but it starred a toon-anthropomorphic shark and a scottish cat that acted as bomb squad guys.

Codename: Kids Next Door was also one of the shows that started as just a pilot. Then there was a phone-in vote or something on Cartoon Network and KND won and got it's own series.

Or something.

Dexter's 'Lab' was a pretty obvious pun, but the dog in that episode was hilarious.

>>29320
>I can't remember the name of the show, but it starred a toon-anthropomorphic shark and a scottish cat that acted as bomb squad guys.


Pfish and chips?

There was also a cartoon about two cats working at a dry cleaner, getting a call from the President, accidentally putting his pants in the shredder machine instead of the empty box. Then working mad to make some new pants for him. It all works out, they get a huge lob of cash as reward, but they get blown up in an accident (the big/dumb cats ass is stuck in a high pressure washing machine while he is picking up a nickel), vaporizing the cash.

I remember the story with that retarded worm who talks about friendship with humans (or something like that), and getting stomped over by the human. Then he plans revenge with a bottle of vitriol, but only ends up burning half his face off. He gets talked out of suicide by a girl worm, and gets his sunshine optimism back - only to be stomped down by the human again.

There was also a story about a space captain adventurer, who crashlanded on a planet where beings had so big foreheads, that they had to hold them up with sticks that had a wheel at the bottom. They tried syphoning energy/intelligence from the captain/his robot/his spaceship (don't remember), and ended up getting so much that their heads became two heavy for the sticks to hold up. Without support to hold up their heads, they all got stuck in the ground and remained that way till old age.

There was a flintstones short as well, by one of the original authors (either Barbera or Hanna, don't remember which).

My synopsis' are probably way off since I saw these at like age 8, and my English skills were notably worse at the time.

Think I got one. One of the What A Cartoons that didn't get a series was Larry & Stieve. The short was an early Seth Macfarlane concept about an intelligent talking dog and a stupid againg man. They even sound a lot like Peter and Brian. According to Wikipedia this is because Fox saw the shorts that failed, saw some potential and gave Seth the ability to create the show without age restrictions. This is fairly well known, but I think I may have another link between a failed pilot and an obscure canadian show.

Some of the character names seem to be reused from old failed what A cartoons, as a simple wikipedia search reveals. There was Knuckles the talking monkey, bloo the dog, and maybe a couple of other uncertainties. These aren't real generic names, these are corruptions that seem kind of difficult to run over twice, that many times, on one network.

>>29322
It was some sort of competition over a summer way way back. CN showed pilots for a bunch of shows and let people vote on which they wanted to see become a real show.

Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't there some failed pilot that was about space hippies? I remember vaguely something about hippies living in the future, and some dude was trying to steal their cake or something. It seemed to be a bad early attempt at 3D animation.

As long as we're talking about pilots, it's probably worth remembering that Adventure Time started as a pilot on Nickelodeon. The Nick counterpart of What A cartoon! is Oh Yeah! Cartoons

>>29328
Wasn't that a Lynchland episode? I think I remember a Lynchland episode like that. I could be wrong, however.

Dookie?

It wasn't a lynchland episode I think, since I never saw that. It was 3D, all the characters were some shade of green or blue, and I think maybe the houses were jetson styled.

>>29328
>>29387
...Reboot?

>>29388

No, I remember the art style being different.