''Too Cool! Cartoons'' is a series of

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on the

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channel

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. It was created by

Fred Seibert Frederick (Fred) Seibert (born September 15, 1951) is an American television producer, co-founder of MTV and the CEO of FredFilms, an animation production company based in Burbank, California. His official biography states he has led five (working ...

and produced by

Frederator Studios Frederator Studios is an American animation television production studio which is a division of Frederator Networks, Inc. It was founded by Fred Seibert in 1997 with its first series launching in 1998. (Seibert resigned from Frederator in Augus ...

. The series premiered on April 4, 2013, with the short ''Our New Electrical Morals''. It was planned to feature 39 shorts but ended up releasing only 11 shorts. ''Too Cool! Cartoons'' is Frederator's fifth cartoon "incubator" series over the past 21 years, featuring unique voices in short animated films, meant to introduce original characters and animation creators. The other series include ''

What A Cartoon! ''What a Cartoon!'' (later known as ''The What a Cartoon! Show'' and ''The Cartoon Cartoon Show'') is an American animated anthology series created by Fred Seibert for Cartoon Network. The shorts were produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions; by the ...

'' (1995, with

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), ''

Oh Yeah! Cartoons ''Oh Yeah! Cartoons'' is an American animated anthology series that aired on Nickelodeon. Created by Fred Seibert, it was produced by Frederator Incorporated and Nickelodeon Animation Studio, running as part of Nickelodeon's Nicktoons lineup. In t ...

'' (1995, with Nickelodeon), ''The Meth Minute 39'' (2008, with

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Random! Cartoons ''Random! Cartoons'' is an American animated anthology series that aired on Nicktoons. Much like ''Oh Yeah! Cartoons'', it was created by Fred Seibert and produced by Frederator Incorporated and Nickelodeon Animation Studio. It premiered on Decemb ...

'' (2008, with Nickelodeon). The series was available to view on VRV until Cartoon Hangover Select was removed from the site in December 2021.

Description

''Too Cool! Cartoons'' showcases animated shorts. The series is Frederator's fifth cartoon incubator, in which animators have their work shown on Frederator's

channel

. ''Too Cool! Cartoons'' has been a multi-national effort, with creators and artists in England, Australia, Greece, South Korea, Scotland, Japan, Canada, Sweden, and the United States.

Reception

Laura Beck of

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called ''Bee and PuppyCat'' "adorable and hilarious," and Meredith Woemer of

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wrote, "This might be the first cartoon webseries we didn't want to end." The two-part short led to a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for a full season; the campaign was successfully funded, raising $872,133 in November 2013 to go toward producing nine original new episodes of the series. Robert Lloyd of the

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wrote that ''Manly'' was "psychedelic and melancholy," and Susana Polo of ''The Mary Sue'' called the short "weird and awesome."

Filmography

Fred Seibert cartoon shorts filmography These are the complete filmographies for the cartoon shorts series created by American animation producer Fred Seibert from 1995 through 2022, at Hanna-Barbera Cartoons and his animation production companies Frederator Studios and FredFilms. What A ...

References

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