The year is XXXX, and it's a Saturday morning. Or weekday afternoon. No school today--you've graduated tomorrow and there's going to be a snow day yesterday. You sit in front of the TV, and it's showing you the cartoons you grew up with, the ones your grandparents grew up with, the ones your young neighbor did... Would it show cartoons your grandkid will grow up with?
In all seriousness, this is a compilation video simulating a fictional TV channel called Meridian Network; it has a schedule stuck between time and space. For our purposes, that means that there's no nostalgia consistency here. Commercials dance around regional and temporal barriers. Cartoons that don't belong together are paired up gleefully. It's a channel that should not exist in this world, and is not meant for its inhabitants--and you get to watch it.
Despite the presence of family-friendly animation, this is not a video meant for children. Above all, Cromartie High School certainly isn't. Select legacy commercials here advertise products that should not, under any circumstance, be advertised to children. On that note, I do not endorse any particular product shown here. I have not been paid by anyone to make this video, nor do I stand to profit from it.
0:00 - Tobor, the 8th Man
30:00 - The Moxy Show [Woody Woodpecker/Looney Tunes/Chargeman Ken]
1:00:00 - Eek! The Cat
1:30:00 - Cromartie High School
2:00:00 - Count Duckula
EPISODE GUIDE:
Tobor, the 8th Man - EP42 - Attack of the Horrible Honey Bees
The Moxy Show - Pantry Panic/Porky's Cafe/Dynamite in the Brain
Eek! The Cat - S1EP2 - Bearz 'n the Hood
Cromartie High School - EP4+EP5 - Radio Gaga/Sentimental Bus
Count Duckula - S1EP15 - Hard Luck Hotel
LINER NOTES:
- The Moxy Show, obviously, is not accurate to its original broadcast. The first two cartoons are public domain shorts, and the third is an infamous episode of "Chargeman Ken". Specifically, it's a gag dub I did back in 2021, with comical sound effects and a laugh track thrown in. That said, it's totally something CN would've done, right?
- Cromartie High, as originally aired, aired its 15-minute installments weekly. I decided to pair up two episodes that were right next to each other.
- Just because: I restored the Nickelodeon credits card (sourced from CDCB2) to the very end of the Count Duckula episode, consequently restoring the original Thames vanity card, too. A nice reminder that this was the proto-Nicktoon.
- An episode of Shin-chan is meant to play at the end, but it caused the video to be blocked in all territories. Credits and a single bumper still refer to it.
CREDITS:
- Ad bumper music: "hellsing" by richmnkey
- Next bumper music: "Select" by Yoshie Arakawa, from Gynotai (c) BANDAI NAMCO, 1996
- Ads uploaded by RetroCCN, the Hall of Advertising, fierybirdthing, DragonStarPlanet, Waqas Raja, Bionic Disco, HOST Universal, Showa vs. Heisei commercial animation, VHS Bits, The Thief and the Cobbler Archive, The Mario Guy
- Hawaiian Punch ad, "Brilliance," and "Fair Play" are sourced from the Computer Animation Classics DVD by Odyssey Productions and Sony Music Entertainment.
- Sound effects sourced from Hanna-Barbera, AKA Cartoon, and YouTube Audio Library.
- Eightman (c) Kazumasa Hirai/Jiro Kuwata/Eiken
- The Moxy Show (c) The Cartoon Network Inc.
- Chargeman Ken (c) KNACK
- Eek! The Cat (c) ABC Family Worldwide
- Cromartie High School (c) Eiji Nonaka/TV Tokyo
- Count Duckula (c) Boat Rocker Media
- Fair Play (c) Apollo Computer Inc. [The Hewlett-Packard Company]
