Cartoon Network

51 shows, 51 sequences, oldest first.

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

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

1 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

1 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

1 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

1 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

1 sequence

Johnny Bravo

1997–2004Cartoon NetworkAnimation

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

Season 1

1 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

1 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

1 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

1 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

1 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

1 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

1 sequence

Time Squad

2001–2003Cartoon NetworkAnimation

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

Season 1

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

1 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

1 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

1 sequence

Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends

2004–2009Cartoon NetworkAnimation

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

Season 1

1 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

1 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

1 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

1 sequence

Camp Lazlo

2005–2008Cartoon NetworkAnimation

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

Season 1

1 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

1 sequence

Krypto the Superdog

2005–2006Cartoon NetworkAnimation

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

Season 1

1 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

1 sequence

Chowder

2007–2010Cartoon NetworkAnimation

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

Season 1

1 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

1 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

1 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

1 sequence

The Mr. Men Show

2008–2009Cartoon NetworkAnimation

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

Season 2

1 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

1 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

1 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

1 sequence

Sym-Bionic Titan

2010–2011Cartoon NetworkAnimation

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

Season 1

1 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

1 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

1 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

1 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

1 sequence

Uncle Grandpa

2013–2017Cartoon NetworkAnimation

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

Season 1

1 sequence

Clarence

2014–2018Cartoon NetworkAnimation

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

Season 1

1 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.