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Adult Swim's gleefully nonsensical cartoon about three anthropomorphic fast-food items — a milkshake, a box of fries, and a wad of meat — sharing a house in New Jersey. It made no sense on purpose, and it accidentally shut down Boston.
A timid pink dog protecting elderly Muriel from genuinely terrifying supernatural threats on a Kansas farm. Courage the Cowardly Dog was a kids' show that made no apologies for being *scary*—featuring the King Ramses curse, creepy spirits, and a level of psychological horror that had no business airing at 3 p.m.
A pint-sized boy genius with a secret laboratory hidden in his bedroom, a fake scientist's accent, and one recurring problem: his fun-loving sister Dee Dee, who breezes in and wrecks everything by pushing the wrong button.
The after-school anime that taught a generation of American kids the words "Super Saiyan." Adapted from Akira Toriyama's manga and animated by Toei, Dragon Ball Z turned multi-episode power-ups, screaming energy charges, and glowing gold hair into appointment television — most of all on Cartoon Network's Toonami block.
Three kids with the same name and one unstoppable goal: scam the neighborhood kids out of quarters for jawbreakers. Ed, Edd n Eddy ran a full decade on Cartoon Network and turned suburban con artistry into an art form.
Cartoon Network's action block where a generation of American kids met anime. Hosted first by Moltar, then by TOM — the robot captain of the Absolution — it made Dragon Ball Z and Sailor Moon after-school rituals and treated its young audience like the stories mattered.