''Shut Up! Cartoons'' was an adult animation channel project created by the

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duo (

Anthony Padilla Smosh is an American YouTube sketch comedy- improv collective founded by Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox. In 2002, Padilla created a website named "smosh.com" for making Flash animations, and he was later joined by Hecox. They began to post vide ...

, Ian Hecox) and Barry Blumberg that features various animated videos. Shut Up! Cartoons launched on April 30, 2012 with ''Do's and Don'ts'' and ended with the termination of the series Smosh Babies on June 23, 2017.

Content

The initial teaser trailer featured clips from 11 different shows, with Padilla and Hecox later informing their viewers that there were 18 planned shows in total. The first three cartoons launched by the network included ''Do's and Don'ts: A Children's Guide to Social Survival'', ''Zombies vs. Ninjas'', and ''Pubertina'', a show about an 11-year-old girl going through puberty. In May 2012, Smosh launched ''

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'', a show created by and starring

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and featuring

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. ''Snowjacked'' soon followed, broadcasting on Tuesdays, meeting mixed reception. At the end of the first three cartoons' 10 episode run, they were replaced by ''Nature Break'', ''Weasel Town'', and ''Oishi High School Battle''. ''Oishi High School Battle'' spawned a second season. Another show was added replacing ''Krogzilla'' called ''Samurai! Daycare''. In September 2012, they also launched ''Politicats'' to replace ''Snowjacked''. The show that replaced ''Nature Break'' is ''Planets'', a reality show about the ten celestial bodies of the Solar System (the eight planets,

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, and the

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). ''Weasel Towns replacement, entitled ''Really Freaking Embarrassing'', created by Peter Hannan (

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's ''

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'') had its first trailer removed from the website, stated as "shocking and disturbing content". A new trailer was added, with fewer disturbing scenes. In September 2012, the channel launched ''Oishi Origins'', a three-episode prequel to ''Oishi High School Battle''. The show replacing ''Samurai! Daycare'' is ''Icons of Teen'', which features both fictional characters (such as

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and

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) and real celebrities (such as

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) as teenagers. Also that week, ''Oishi Origins'' was replaced by ''Teleporting Fat Guy'', which is based on a character from previous Smosh videos and explains how he became the Teleporting Fat Guy. On November 20, 2012, ''Politicats'' was replaced by ''Sub: 3'' following a

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-like character that delivers pizza on a tight time limit, met by mixed reviews. On November 28, the trailer was released for ''With Zombies'' created by Matt Clark (the creator of ''Planets''). On November 15, 2013, ''Do's and Don'ts'' and ''Krogzilla'' received

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nominations for Best Animated Web Series.http://iawtvawards.org/portfolio/best-animated-web-series-2017 The second seasons for ''Do's and Don'ts'' and Pubertina premièred in April 2014, with ''Do's and Don'ts'' ending in April, and ''Pubertina'' ending in May. On June 12, 2013, the paper series ''Paper Cuts'' premiered on the channel. The ten episodes featured shot-by-shot re-creations of famous movie scenes and trailers made entirely out of construction paper. On June 23, 2013, the Canadian stop motion series ''

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'' premiered on the channel. On June 23, 2017, the channel posted their final video, which was the series finale of ''Smosh Babies'' and ceased operations following Anthony’s departure from

Series

Legacy

Several creators who worked with Shut Up! Cartoons have gone on to create their own series or worked on other successful shows, including Mike Hollingsworth (creator of Nature Break, who went on to become the supervising director for ''

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'' and serves as an executive producer for ''

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''), Brian Wysol (creator of Icons of Teen, Munroe, Maganzo and Staff of Gelroth, who went on to create ''

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''), Emily Brundige (creator of Pubertina, who went on to develop ''

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'' and serves as a writer in various animated shows like ''

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'' and ''

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'') and Daniel Dominguez (co-creator of Oishi High School Battle, who went on to work as a writer for various shows like ''

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'').

Notes

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in 2008 for

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in Canada. Shut Up! Cartoons obtained the rights to the series, but has been deleted from the YouTube channel.'' :b.''Originally created by Harriss and Matt in 2008 and published to

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. Shut Up! Cartoons gained the rights to the series following the revival of Super Deluxe in 2015.''

References

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