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Her goal was to find "three projects that looked completely different" in order to counter the homogeneous, toy-centric cartoons of the 1980s. Nickelodeon executive Vanessa Coffey discovered all three of these programs after traveling to Los Angeles in 1988. Profits from Nickelodeon's expanding audience at the time helped it fund its own original cartoons: the first three "Nicktoons", Doug, Rugrats and The Ren & Stimpy Show. premiered on Nickelodeon as a block in January 1988, much of its shows were imported cartoons. Blocks dedicated to animated programming such as Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon ran from the mid-1980s well into the late 1990s. Throughout the 1980s, the amount of acquired animated shows on Nickelodeon increased, with reruns of cartoons and anime such as Bananaman, Danger Mouse, The Little Prince, and The Mysterious Cities of Gold. However, it was left unaired when test audiences did not give the reactions Laybourne wanted. It holds the title of Nickelodeon's first true cartoon. Nickelodeon's first attempt at a fully-animated show occurred later in 1980, when Geraldine Laybourne produced test pilots for Video Dream Theatre. It could best be described as a "motion comic" that consisted of illustrated scenes with animated elements, like speech bubbles and moving backgrounds.

NICKTOONS UNITE SERIES

In 1980, the channel aired its first original series that was not live-action: Video Comic Book.

įor its first years, Nickelodeon continued to play foreign-made cartoons in a similar fashion as part of two anthology series called First Row Features and Special Delivery. These were the first form of animated content on what would become Nickelodeon. Many of these films were animated cartoons dating back to the 1950s. Pinwheel, the first Nickelodeon series which began in 1977, was formatted as an hour-long program with two forms of segments: original content with its cast of puppet and human characters, and showcases of foreign-made short films.

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Since 2001, the official slogan for the brand has been " Not just cartoons, they're Nicktoons". The Nicktoons brand also extends to other media, such as crossover games featuring the Nicktoon characters (including Nicktoons Unite! and the Nickelodeon Super Brawl series). A series for a third acquired property, Garfield, is in development. Both shows had unprecedentedly high budgets for Nicktoons, and a large team of Nickelodeon veterans grouped to work on Winx Club. In the 2010s, Nickelodeon Animation Studio began to produce Nicktoons based on pre-existing franchises that had been purchased by Viacom: Winx Club (in 2011), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (in 2012). Promo for Nick Animation's versions of TMNT and Winx Club A spin-off channel named after Nicktoons was established on May 1, 2002. During the same year, Nickelodeon opened a second animation facility in New York City. This format was repeated every Sunday, eventually leading to the production of more Nicktoons at Nickelodeon Animation Studio's first facility in California.ġ999 marked the premiere of SpongeBob SquarePants, which would later become the longest-running Nicktoon. The first three "Nicktoons" ( Doug, Rugrats and The Ren & Stimpy Show) began production in 1989 before premiering as part of a 90-minute block on Sunday, August 11, 1991.

Nicktoons is the brand name given to the television cartoon shows that are produced and aired by Nickelodeon. The current Nicktoons logo, used since 2009.

For the cable channel, see Nicktoons (channel). This article is about the cartoons themselves.