''Too Cool! Cartoons'' is a series of adult animated shorts on the

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channel Cartoon Hangover. It was created by Fred Seibert and produced by Frederator Studios. 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!'' (1995, with

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and

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), '' Oh Yeah! Cartoons'' (1998, with Nickelodeon), ''The Meth Minute 39'' (2008, with Channel Frederator), and '' Random! Cartoons'' (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 Cartoon Hangover. ''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.

List of episodes

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''

References

{{Frederator Studios 2013 web series debuts American adult animated web series American adult animation anthology series Frederator Studios YouTube original programming Webtoons