AKA Cartoon Network | |
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Also known as | Cult Toons |
Created by | Exceeda |
Directed by | Xavier Perkins Brett Foraker |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
No. of seasons | Approx 1–2 |
Production | |
Running time | 25 min approx. |
Original release | |
Network | Cartoon Network |
Release | 1 February 1999 – 2000 |
AKA Cartoon Network was a slot in the Cartoon Network weekday evening schedule from 1999 to 2000, between 7 and 9 pm on weekday evenings. The slot consisted of repeated shows such as Space Ghost Coast to Coast , Tom and Jerry, Looney Tunes and Cow and Chicken . In addition, the slot included an original show called Cult Toons, broadcast only on Friday evenings.
'AKA' Stings and Cult Toons material would consist of Hanna-Barbera owned footage, prominently from the 1960s and 1970s (such as Wacky Races , The Perils of Penelope Pitstop , The Banana Splits (including Arabian Knights and Danger Island ), Hong Kong Phooey , Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch! , Harlem Globetrotters ). More contemporary material included Cow and Chicken and Dexter's Laboratory .
Cult Toons(also referred to by Exceeda as 'AKA Cult Toons') was a series of 30-minute slot experimental alternate comedy VJ (video jockey) videos, directed by Xavier Perkins and Brett Foraker. The inclusion of seemingly irrelevant and obscure clips from films and cartoons gave the show a very surreal and non sequitur quality.
For example, common features of the re-edited cartoons would include repeated footage (when a character would say "You can say that again" the previous line would often be repeated), freezing the footage (usually after a line such as "Hold everything!" or "Stop!"), overdubbing voices (including randomly replacing lines with the theme music to The Godzilla Power Hour ), and repeating a line or sound effect and adding drum beats and record scratches over it, turning it into a brief hip-hop song.
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Prominent material however would be live-action films ranging from blaxploitation to Bruce Lee, as well as footage of celebrity interviews and turntable DJs created especially for the show.
The show would also feature clips from interviews with a range of special guests and promoted talents, particularly in the second series. Some special guests on the show included Rio Ferdinand, Super Furry Animals, Cast, Kele Le Roc, London Towers, Keith Duffy, Catatonia, Gay Dad, 21st Century Girls, Rick Witter, Courduroy, WCW Nitro Girls, Regular Fries, The Jungle Brothers, Trev Sinclair, Reef, Zach Shaw, A and Waikiki.
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