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Cartoon Network accounts for 51 shows here, running from 1994 to the present, and 51 opening title sequences between them.

Mostly animation — 50 of the 51.

None of them rebuilt their opening titles mid-run.

51 shows · 51 sequences · oldest first

9 of these moved between networks during their run and appear under each one.

Still from the opening titles of Space Ghost Coast to Coast1 sequence

Space Ghost Coast to Coast

1994–2008Cartoon Network / Adult SwimComedy

A 1960s Hanna-Barbera superhero repurposed as a chat-show host, and the programme every Adult Swim series descends from.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Dexter's Laboratory1 sequence

Dexter's Laboratory

1996–2003Cartoon NetworkAnimation

Thirty seconds of a boy genius and the sister who ruins everything, in the flat graphic style that defined a decade of the network.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest1 sequence

The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest

1996–1999Cartoon NetworkAnimation

The 1964 Hanna-Barbera series rebuilt for the nineties, with early CG sequences inside it.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Cow and Chicken1 sequence

Cow and Chicken

1997–1999Cartoon NetworkAnimation

A cow and a chicken with human parents whose faces are never shown above the waist.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of I Am Weasel1 sequence

I Am Weasel

1997–2000Cartoon NetworkAnimation

The Cow and Chicken spin-off, with a theme that is mostly the title said repeatedly.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Johnny Bravo1 sequence

Johnny Bravo

1997–2004Cartoon NetworkAnimation

A pompadour, a bass riff and a character who has never once been correct about anything.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Powerpuff Girls1 sequence

The Powerpuff Girls

1998–2005Cartoon NetworkAnimation

Narrated origin, sugar, spice and everything nice — a premise delivered in one sentence over sixties-modern graphic design.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Courage the Cowardly Dog1 sequence

Courage the Cowardly Dog

1999–2002Cartoon NetworkAnimation

Twenty-nine seconds establishing a farmhouse in the middle of Nowhere and a dog who is right to be frightened.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Ed, Edd n Eddy1 sequence

Ed, Edd n Eddy

1999–2009Cartoon NetworkAnimation

Wobbling outlines and a scat vocal, drawn deliberately so that every line shakes — the last major American cartoon animated entirely by hand on paper.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Justice League1 sequence

Justice League

2001–2006Cartoon NetworkAnimation

An orchestral fanfare and seven heroes introduced in sequence, from the same production team as Batman: The Animated Series and with the same refusal to condescend.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Samurai Jack1 sequence

Samurai Jack

2001–2017Cartoon Network / Adult SwimAnimation

A villain narrating his own defeat of the hero, over graphic-design animation that owes more to UPA than to Saturday morning.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy1 sequence

The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy

2001–2007Cartoon NetworkAnimation

Two children who win the Grim Reaper in a limbo contest and keep him as a friend.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Time Squad1 sequence

Time Squad

2001–2003Cartoon NetworkAnimation

Time police correcting history, which keeps going wrong in ways they caused.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Totally Spies!1 sequence

Totally Spies!

2001–2014TF1 / Cartoon NetworkAnimation

Three Beverly Hills schoolgirls working for a spy agency, made in France and drawn in a style borrowed from anime.

  • Season 7
Still from the opening titles of Codename: Kids Next Door1 sequence

Codename: Kids Next Door

2002–2008Cartoon NetworkAnimation

A spy-thriller opening for five children fighting adults, played with the seriousness of a much larger programme.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Teen Titans1 sequence

Teen Titans

2003–2006Cartoon NetworkAnimation

A J-pop theme by Puffy AmiYumi, recorded in both Japanese and English and alternated between episodes.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends1 sequence

Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends

2004–2009Cartoon NetworkAnimation

A boarding house for imaginary friends whose children have outgrown them.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi1 sequence

Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi

2004–2006Cartoon NetworkAnimation

The Japanese pop duo animated as cartoon versions of themselves, with a theme they recorded.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Megas XLR1 sequence

Megas XLR

2004–2005Cartoon NetworkAnimation

A New Jersey mechanic who finds a giant robot in a scrapyard and bolts a car to its head.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Ben 101 sequence

Ben 10

2005–2008Cartoon NetworkAnimation

A theme that lists the premise as a countdown, over a boy who becomes ten different aliens.

  • Seasons 1–2
Still from the opening titles of Camp Lazlo1 sequence

Camp Lazlo

2005–2008Cartoon NetworkAnimation

A Brazilian spider monkey at a scout camp run by a humourless beetle.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Johnny Test1 sequence

Johnny Test

2005–2014Kids' WB / Cartoon NetworkAnimation

A boy who lets his scientist sisters test inventions on him in exchange for whatever he wants that week.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Krypto the Superdog1 sequence

Krypto the Superdog

2005–2006Cartoon NetworkAnimation

Superman's dog on Earth without him, living with a boy in suburban Metropolis.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Class of 30001 sequence

Class of 3000

2006–2008Cartoon NetworkAnimation

André 3000's series about an Atlanta music class, with a theme he wrote and performed himself.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Chowder1 sequence

Chowder

2007–2010Cartoon NetworkAnimation

An apprentice cook in Marzipan City, animated over patterned backgrounds that never stop moving.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Batman: The Brave and the Bold1 sequence

Batman: The Brave and the Bold

2008–2011Cartoon NetworkAnimation

Batman team-ups in the Silver Age idiom, opened with a straight-faced superhero fanfare.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Star Wars: The Clone Wars1 sequence

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

2008–2020Cartoon Network / Disney+Animation

A newsreel rather than a title sequence — a narrator reporting the state of the war, rewritten every episode, preceded by a different aphorism each week.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack1 sequence

The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack

2008–2012Cartoon NetworkAnimation

A boy raised by a whale, in a sea-shanty register that got steadily more unsettling.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Mr. Men Show1 sequence

The Mr. Men Show

2008–2009Cartoon NetworkAnimation

Roger Hargreaves' shapes rebuilt as a sketch show, forty years after the books.

  • Season 2
Still from the opening titles of Adventure Time1 sequence

Adventure Time

2010–2018Cartoon NetworkAnimation

Twenty-five seconds of a candy world that turns out to be a post-apocalyptic one, sung by a boy and a dog who have not noticed.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Generator Rex1 sequence

Generator Rex

2010–2013Cartoon NetworkAnimation

A boy who can rebuild his own limbs into machines, in a world where nanites turned everything else monstrous.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Regular Show1 sequence

Regular Show

2010–2017Cartoon NetworkAnimation

A blue jay and a raccoon employed as groundskeepers, opened with a synth sting and almost no information.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Sym-Bionic Titan1 sequence

Sym-Bionic Titan

2010–2011Cartoon NetworkAnimation

Genndy Tartakovsky's mecha series, cancelled after one season for having no toy line.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Young Justice1 sequence

Young Justice

2010–2022Cartoon Network / HBO MaxAnimation

Twenty-two seconds and a card, from a superhero series that assumed its audience already knew everyone.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Green Lantern: The Animated Series1 sequence

Green Lantern: The Animated Series

2011–2013Cartoon NetworkAnimation

The first fully CG DC series, cancelled after one season when its toy line failed.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Amazing World of Gumball1 sequence

The Amazing World of Gumball

2011–2019Cartoon NetworkAnimation

A cat, a goldfish with legs, and a suburb assembled by layering drawn animation, models and live-action photography in the same shot.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Steven Universe1 sequence

Steven Universe

2013–2019Cartoon NetworkAnimation

A theme sung by the characters about themselves, rewritten as the line-up of those characters changes — which for this show is the plot.

  • Season 5
Still from the opening titles of Uncle Grandpa1 sequence

Uncle Grandpa

2013–2017Cartoon NetworkAnimation

Everyone's uncle and everyone's grandpa, travelling in an RV that is also a tiger.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Clarence1 sequence

Clarence

2014–2018Cartoon NetworkAnimation

A relentlessly cheerful boy and two friends, drawn in a loose line that never tidied itself up.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Over the Garden Wall1 sequence

Over the Garden Wall

2014Cartoon NetworkAnimation

Nineteenth-century American illustration and a wax-cylinder recording, for a miniseries that spends ten episodes pretending to be much older than it is.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of We Bare Bears1 sequence

We Bare Bears

2015–2019Cartoon NetworkAnimation

Three bears stacked in a trenchcoat trying to fit into the Bay Area.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes1 sequence

OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes

2017–2019Cartoon NetworkAnimation

A hero-supply plaza run as a beat-em-up, with the video game's grammar kept in the titles.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Unikitty!1 sequence

Unikitty!

2017–2020Cartoon NetworkAnimation

The Lego Movie character given her own kingdom and a great deal more sugar.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Apple & Onion1 sequence

Apple & Onion

2018–2021Cartoon NetworkAnimation

An apple and an onion sharing a flat in a city of anthropomorphic food.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Craig of the Creek1 sequence

Craig of the Creek

2018–Cartoon NetworkAnimation

A wooded creek run entirely by the children who play in it, mapped like a country.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Summer Camp Island1 sequence

Summer Camp Island

2018–2021Cartoon Network / HBO MaxAnimation

A camp where the counsellors are witches and the moon is a person, drawn in chalk pastel.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of DC Super Hero Girls1 sequence

DC Super Hero Girls

2019–2021Cartoon NetworkAnimation

The DC heroines at high school, from the Powerpuff Girls' creative lineage.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Infinity Train1 sequence

Infinity Train

2019–2021Cartoon Network / HBO MaxAnimation

A train of endless carriages, each its own world, with a nine-second open that refuses to explain any of it.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart1 sequence

Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart

2019–2020Cartoon NetworkAnimation

A cat sheriff who wants to be a legendary hero and is instead responsible for a valley of fruit people.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of Victor and Valentino1 sequence

Victor and Valentino

2019–2022Cartoon NetworkAnimation

Two half-brothers in a Mesoamerican village where the folklore is real and mostly annoyed with them.

  • Season 1
Still from the opening titles of The Fungies!1 sequence

The Fungies!

2020–2021Cartoon Network / HBO MaxAnimation

A mushroom child scientist in a prehistoric fungal town.

  • Season 1