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Andrés Sanhueza M. @peroyomas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

McCracken did the storyboard for that bumper, though. And he commented on Twitter that, apparently, after it aired, Nickelodeon executives went to have a meeting at CN.

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Andrés Sanhueza M. @peroyomas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

@amerrill2.bsky.social Do you know who designed the Space Ghost Coast to Coast logo?

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Andy “voice of Brak” Merrill. 🎅🏻🤡🐒💩 @amerrill2.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

There it is, folks! It’s me dressed as Space Ghost eating a full hot dog!

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Andrés Sanhueza M. @peroyomas.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The skit! (found by @backtothelab.bsky.social at a video of a Brazilian airing www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xS3... )

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Matt J. Wilson @mattwilsoncss.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

indie animation's still in its merry melodies era but if it wants to survive, it is going to have to enter its hanna barbera era

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Andrés Sanhueza M. @peroyomas.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

@amerrill2.bsky.social There’s a Cartoon Planet skit I remember a lot, but I haven’t seen it since the 90s and no idea if it’s online. It had live-action Space Ghost (probably you) entering a restaurant in fast motion, ordering a sandwich, eating it whole, and leaving. Do you remember recording it?

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Andrés Sanhueza M. @peroyomas.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

@amerrill2.bsky.social Do you have any insight about a 1995 interstitial series in an SGC2C like format, but featuring Top Cat called “Top Cat Live!”? Articles from that time say it was going to air on “International CN’s,” but so far there’s a single ep. online ripped from an Italian channel.

Screenshot of Joe Barbera with Top Cat (CGI rendered with a sardine can as a desk) in a late show with a New York backdrop.

Screenshot of Slash (from Guns N Roses) with Top Cat (CGI rendered with a sardine can as a desk) in a late show with a New York backdrop.

Screenshot of Mark Hammil with Top Cat (CGI rendered with a sardine can as a desk) in a late show with a New York backdrop.

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Ghost Planet @ghostplanet.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Hats off to my buddy @backtothelab.bsky.social for finding that the full Copa Toon Space Ghost Coast to Coast Pelé interview is on YouTube! youtu.be/r9WpFICzj1o?...

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Copa Toon - Pelé (2001)

YouTube video by Arquivo Marckezini

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Andrés Sanhueza M. @peroyomas.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

@amerrill2.bsky.social Do you have more insight about this 1995 Banana Splits mockumentary? Footage is reused on SGC2C and some products and websites of the time, yet it seems it never aired in the US as it is (the video is ripped from the CN UK feed)

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banana splits uk documentary

YouTube video by Jennifer Auh

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Andrés Sanhueza M. @peroyomas.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

@ghostplanet.bsky.social What do you think of a response Mike Lazzo gave 11 years ago to David Cross on Reddit, who accused him of copying the idea from his Paid Programming pilot? (I just found it, so I might be out of the loop if there's additional info I must know) www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/s/nju...

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Mlazzo's comment on "David Cross! AMA!"

Explore this conversation and more from the IAmA community

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Andrés Sanhueza M. @peroyomas.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

@ghostplanet.bsky.social Space Ghost × Garfield drawing by Garfield artist Gary Barker. www.instagram.com/p/DTTly6PiVgy/

An illustration mimicking a Space Ghost comic book cover and back cover. Jon Arburckle appears dressed as the ghost, Garfield as Jan, Arlene as Jace, Odie as Brak, and Pooky as Blip. Garfield thinks, "We're doomed."

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Andrés Sanhueza M. @peroyomas.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Trivia: they were going to have The Tick as a guest on SGC2C, but Fox pulled out at last minute. www.snard.com/sg/dc99panel...

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Cartoon Network Panel - Dragon*Con'99

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Andrés Sanhueza M. @peroyomas.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

@ghostplanet.bsky.social A photo of the version of the team with the Chilean colors I mentioned in this other post, shared by Wolf O’Donnel on the Hanna-Barbera Forever Facebook group. I think this scan is from the UK version of the magazine (the Chilean edition was in Spanish), but I can be wrong.

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Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

If you’re a fan of the classic “HBO in Space” theme, have I got a video for you: All the various iterations of said theme, remastered and pristine, including the extended version *with lyrics.* Anyone who has a fantasy, come with me We’re crossing over to a place in time youtu.be/WVOh6fNp55I?...

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My HBO in Space 1982 theme remasters, now in one video! | Audio/Remaster | SovereignMade

YouTube video by SovereignMade

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Andrés Sanhueza M. @peroyomas.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Maybe it was something from Europe, or just a "pilot" version of the TV bumpers that was sent to the magazine by mistake. An additional image I have of the Cartoon Network 98 logo (never re-used for later stunts) only because I think is nifty.

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Andrés Sanhueza M. @peroyomas.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

This one intrigued me a lot because I don't think it was made up for the magazine as it features WB characters which weren't used on it (including Pinky and the Brain, who weren't airing on CNLA yet and for some reason are at "human" size, unlike Atom Ant on the regular TV team)...

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Andrés Sanhueza M. @peroyomas.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

...(scans by me, then send to the website charlatecnica in 2011). Also I have an snippet of an article in a magazine of the highlights on the schedule that features a THIRD alternate team (photos took by me in 2014 when I went to the national library looking for it)...

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Andrés Sanhueza M. @peroyomas.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

... I don't have a photo of that one right now sadly, but I have scans of articles done in the magazine where Bamm-Bamm interviews Chilean soccer player Iván «Bamm-Bamm» Zamorano (5 years before Space Ghost interviewed him for CNLA) and one where Dexter interviews then Chilean coach Nelson Acosta...

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Andrés Sanhueza M. @peroyomas.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

@ghostplanet.bsky.social A random related trivia. On the magazine «Revista Cartoon Network» (originally produced in Chile for the country for a couple of years, then exported elsewhere) That very year they had an alternate cartoon team wearing the shirts for the Chilean soccer team red shirts...

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Andrés Sanhueza M. @peroyomas.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

@ghostplanet.bsky.social I just noticed the image was square cropped. Here's in full:

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Andrés Sanhueza M. @peroyomas.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

...IIRC this was CN Latin America's first soccer series of bumpers, a year before "Copa Toon" and two before adding Space Ghost. Seen on infanciaenlos90 on Instagram.

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Andrés Sanhueza M. @peroyomas.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

...In the print ad they're wearing the actual Argentine National Team shirts. Otherwise in the actual TV ads they wore shirts with a checkerboard pattern. Here's the first one for Droopy (they had one for each member of "duo" of the team)...

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Rumbo al mundial con la seleccion nacional de toons 98,Hoy Droopy Cartoon Network Latino (1998)

YouTube video by All Star Toons

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Andrés Sanhueza M. @peroyomas.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

@ghostplanet.bsky.social A 1998 print ad from CN Latin America for Argentina, featuring the lineup that appeared in ads that year alluding to the soccer World Cup in France. It reads "Our team is like Argentina's, bringing joy to 35,000,000 people / Good luck to the Argentinian players!"...

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Andrés Sanhueza M. @peroyomas.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Los consejos motivacionales que recibo siempre son como: «agradece que estamos en el universo donde los niños hablan como dibujos animados y no en el universo donde los niños hablan como Dino Gordillo imitanto una señora».

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Andrés Sanhueza M. @peroyomas.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Gobierno de Piñera: si tienen problemas de dinero para su salud, puden hacer un bingo Gobierno de Kast: 🤷

biobiochile.cl

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Andrés Sanhueza M. @peroyomas.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

@amerrill2.bsky.social Do you remember if in SGC2C, the rants of the cow at the end of “Lovesick” were based on actual complains or were all made up?

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Andrés Sanhueza M. @peroyomas.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

In general, I think Scooby shouldn't need an explanation for speaking, and that's the joke, especially if the series as a whole is relatively grounded. You could even assume it's all in Shaggy's mind.

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Andrés Sanhueza M. @peroyomas.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Historian Thad K. was a friend of Clay Crocker and has said that the entire team of SGC2C (understood as the people who actually wrote, acted, and animated for it) gave CN almost two decades of hit after hit and helped to shape cable TV as a whole, yet the channel screwed them over big time.

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Andrés Sanhueza M. @peroyomas.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

...I found the song is called “Sangotay,” from the production music library JW Music. Later I also found its composer is Chilean: Mauricio Venegas-Astorga. youtu.be/5q6EZOAnvDo?...

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Sangotay

YouTube video by JW Media Music - Topic

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Andrés Sanhueza M. @peroyomas.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

@ghostplanet.bsky.social In the “Chinatown” ep. of SGC2C there was a piece of music that caught my attention because it sounded like Andean music (folk of 7 South American countries were Andes mountains go thought, including Chile where I live), and that music is hardly used on American shows...

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Topher Florence @topherflorence.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

"a goofy movie": a humble title. why it's not even necessarily "the" goofy movie. we simply, respectfully offer you this story for your consideration "doug's 1st movie": the hubris of icarus. the unbridled audacity to imply that this is only the 1st chapter of the Doug Cinematic Universe. pathetic

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Andrés Sanhueza M. @peroyomas.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

@ghostplanet.bsky.social A review of Space Ghost Coast to Coast written by Chilean critic and television host Juan Andrés Salfate in a Chilean magazine “Rock & Pop” in the 90s. I added an English translation of sorts. Found by my friend @barometro.bsky.social

A photo of a detail from a column in a Spanish-language magazine discussing the Space Ghost Coast to Coast TV show. It adorns a screenshot of the show.

Animation / SPACE GHOST / A Nerd's Revenge
If one of the most nauseating actors in American Westerns became President of the United States, then no one should be surprised by how far Space Ghost has come.

He's a minimally developed superhero, used to fill the pupils of some children in the late 70s, before channel surfing. Even for its creator studio, Hanna-Barbera, Space Ghost was nothing more than a formality. Just another cartoon.

But let's take a trip down memory lane. Space Ghost traveled through space in a spaceship that was a poor imitation of a Concorde. He was accompanied by two kids and a monkey. The protagonist's powers were limited to flying, becoming invisible (hence the epithet "Ghost"), and firing beams that stunned or vaporized, depending on the intensity, from cumbersome wristbands on both arms.

Bulging from the waist up, wearing a white suit and a black mask that barely revealed his eyes and mouth, this champion of justice deserved about as much respect as a professional wrestler. But that was in the past. Now, he hosts one of the most mind-bending talk shows of the decade. "Space Ghost Coast to Coast" features well-known figures from the entertainment world, ranging from box-office stars like Leonardo DiCaprio to hard rock singers like Mike Patton. And no matter who he interviews, Space Ghost puts them all through the same sieve of irreverence. And when their answers become banal, he leaves them talking to themselves with a loud yawn.

The show's set design is roughly as follows: the Phantom sits behind a 21st-century desk (according to the imagination of the 1970s) and interviews real people via a television screen beside him, which only shows the guests in close-up.

A few feet away, seemingly to refute the host's advice, is a mutant insect named Zorak. Farther away, in a broadcast booth, is another character, Moltar, who spends his time rewatching old 1980s shows like CHiPs and The Dukes of Hazzard. There's also another individual whose face resembles the mask of an African tribe at war. The three of them mock everything and everyone who appears on screen (Backstreet Boys, Mike Patton, Courtney Love, Bee Gees, Ultraman, David Duchovny, and the Beastie Boys, among many others). And on other occasions, they meet in a café within the same studio, where they discuss current events such as the Tibetan Freedom Concert or the latest movie releases. One of the most remarkable aspects of Space Ghost Coast to Coast is that it's a true achievement in the art of recycling. This show doesn't feature new animation; instead, it uses the character's familiar poses and gestures from the original series against a different background, though not necessarily more complex or polished.

And the truth is, no one can remain indifferent to this phenomenon of anti-television, which, therapeutically, also serves as a Dadaist experience.

J. A. S.
(Space Ghost Coast to Coast has aired since 1994, Monday through Friday, around 11:00 p.m., and Saturdays at 10:00 p.m., on Cartoon Network).

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Niko @nikoanesti.newgrounds.com · 17/05/2026

I think a reason I feel really disconnected from the modern indie animation scene is that everyone's trying to make a big splash with their own pilots, everyone wants to be the next big phenomenon, but that's so different from what I'm interested in making myself; I just wanna make dumb fun cartoons

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Andrés Sanhueza M. @peroyomas.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

...while this is the same promo with those graphics updated for the second half of the era. youtu.be/48EahJamuLs?...

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Opera Dog (Version 2) BEST quality | Cartoon Network 1995 |

YouTube video by SylentEcho

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Andrés Sanhueza M. @peroyomas.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

A random empiric example of the graphics: this is a promo that uses graphics of the first part of the era... youtu.be/Ed3p-oc-aho?...

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Cartoon Network Opera Dog | (RARE) Version 1 , 1994 HD | Home of the Top Toon Stars

YouTube video by SylentEcho

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Andrés Sanhueza M. @peroyomas.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Thinking in obvious differences, a common one is that the first half uses mostly 2D animated checkerboard patterns, but the later these are mostly CGI looking with bezels and more custom per show. Bugs and Daffy Tonight was renamed The Bugs and Daffy Show with a new opening, among other things.

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Andrés Sanhueza M. @peroyomas.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

@ghostplanet.bsky.social Usually online people refers to most 1992-1998 CN bumpers only as the “checkerboard” era, although I also think there’s a noticeable difference between the bumpers before 1995 and later, so it probably should be at least split in two “eras” or something. Thoughts?

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Andrés Sanhueza M. @peroyomas.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

@ghostplanet.bsky.social A CN wristwatch that an aunt and an uncle had in their home here in Chile a few years ago. I guess it's from the 90s.

Photo of a detail from a wristwatch that features Cartoon Network characters instead of numbers. 1: George Jetson, 2: Magilla Gorilla, 3: Tom Cat, 4: Jonny Quest, 5: Droopy, 6: Fred Flintstone, 7: Huckleberry Hound, 8: Top Cat, 9: Judy Jetson, 10: Dino, 11: Pebbles, 12: Yogi Bear.

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Andrés Sanhueza M. @peroyomas.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

@ghostplanet.bsky.social You’ve probably already seen it, but still: Cartoon Network Latin America commercial with Ted Turner himself greeting the audience on its first day on air (April 30, 1993). youtu.be/XZppy40_1cs?...

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Cartoon Network LA Launch 30th April 1993

YouTube video by Media Central UK

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Andrés Sanhueza M. @peroyomas.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

This was the last photo of Ted Turner seconds before his passing.

A photo of Ted Turner pressing a detonator with people in customes of Fred Flintstone, Yogi Bear and Droopy at his sides during an event at the Cartoon Network launch.

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Andrés Sanhueza M. @peroyomas.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

for the press they had pre-recorded video where after Ted pressing the detonator, an explosion occured, yet in reality, by mistake nothing happened while Ted keep pressing the detonator out of frustation. (Image of the October 1st 1992 issue of The Free-Lance Star)

Turner's 5th: The Cartoon Network
By JEFFRY SCOTT Cox News Service
ATLANTA-At noon today, several million Americans were to have the chance to listen inside the visionary mind of Ted Turner, and what they'd hear is this: "Sploing! Boing! Bam! Splat!"
That's the signature sound of Turn- er's latest 24-hour cable channel, the Cartoon Network. In a private cere- mony Thursday, Turner himself will launch the channel with a push of an Acme dynamite plunger on the front lawn of Turner Broadcasting System Inc.'s facility on Techwood Drive.
The plunger will spark a fuse, which will explode a barrel of colored chicken feathers and confetti. Then, on a huge TV screen will pop the pic- ture: a cartoon character named Droopy Dog introducing the world to Turner's new "cartoon universe."
But, for Atlantans, it's a universe they'll have to wait a while to tune into.
For the first time, Atlanta's cable mogul is launching a cable network- his fifth-that won't be carried by a single cable system in his hometown. Nationally, the picture isn't much bet- ter.
Only four of the top 10 markets- New York, Philadelphia, Washington and Detroit-are tuning in. Nation- wide, the total number of Cartoon Net- work subscribers is a slim 3 million. Privately, some Turner executives said they're disappointed by the Car- toon Network's slow launch. Publicly, the company said the channel is about where Turner expected it to be when - it was announced six months ago.

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Andrés Sanhueza M. @peroyomas.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

@ghostplanet.bsky.social On a comment on a video of the now deleted YouTube channel of producer Todd Ruel, he said he had somewhere a video of what actually happened at the CN launch with Ted:

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Andrés Sanhueza M. @peroyomas.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

@ghostplanet.bsky.social At a panel at the 1999 Dragon Con they said that Captain Planet was going to be a guest on SGC2C with new animation and was going to be the first guest to actually sit on the chair in the set, but for some reason it was abandoned. www.snard.com/sg/dc99panel...

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Cartoon Network Panel - Dragon*Con'99

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Andrés Sanhueza M. @peroyomas.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

This was the last photo of him seconds before his passing.

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Andrés Sanhueza M. @peroyomas.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

When people talk about modern Looney Tunes stuff, they often say "they are finally reusing the wacky Daffy personality from Clampett after years of only using the asshole one from Jones", but I think in current stuff Daffy is even MORE of an asshole than anything in the whole golden age.

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