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Cartoon Network (CN) is an American cable TV channel owned by media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery. As its name suggests, the channel almost exclusively broadcasts animated series, ranging from action to animated comedy. Cartoon Network targets children aged 6 to 12, while its nighttime/primetime block Adult Swim targets teenagers and young adults aged 13 to 34. Cartoon Network's official Scratch account is cartoonnetwork.[1]
Relationship with Scratch
On several occasions, Cartoon Network has collaborated with Scratch, either through Cartoon Network supplying Scratch with content or vice versa. The majority of these collaborations happened from 2015 to 2019, and were themed around then-existing, new or upcoming Cartoon Network series.
2015
Hour of Code
During the 2015 Hour of Code, Cartoon Network and the Scratch Team created an Hour of Code project featuring the 2015 Cartoon Network TV show We Bare Bears. Scratchers participated by creating a We Bare Bears project and submitting it to the studio. The three main projects involved hide and seek, making a story out of the bears, and basketball.
2016
#PowerpuffYourself
On April 7th, Scratch Team Member ceebee created a studio with Cartoon Network, serving as a promotion for the 2016 Cartoon Network series The Powerpuff Girls. The studio is called "#PowerpuffYourself". Scratchers were able to turn themselves into one of the Powerpuffs, using the site powerpuffyourself.com[dead link]. The studio can be found here.
Make It Fly
Another collaboration promoting The Powerpuff Girls offered an activity in which participants could make a sprite fly in the sky, starting in June 2016. The Scratch Team and Cartoon Network provided Powerpuff Girls, a flying Scratch Cat, and Powerpuff Scratch Cat sprites for Scratchers to use in their projects. The official Cartoon Network account and the Scratch Team also curated both studios related to the event, Powerpuff + Scratch Cat and Make it Fly!, and both were very successful. There was a banner at the top of the Home Page advertising the Make it Fly! studio, which caused controversy. Some users found it annoying and asked the Scratch Team to add an option to get rid of it, but the Scratch Team never responded to these suggestions.[citation needed]
The Powerpuff Girls (2016 TV series) coding-themed episodes
As an additional component of their collaboration with Scratch, in 2016, Cartoon Network aired two episodes of The Powerpuff Girls focused on computer science and coding.[2]
2019
OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes Scratch fan animation and subsequent Cartoon Network Studios tour
In 2018, a Scratcher named Abhi, known by his username abhi2006, created a Scratch project entitled Lakewood Plaza Turbo!,[3] a fan animation that reanimated a scene from the Cartoon Network series OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes. This project caught the attention of OK K.O.! creator Ian Jones-Quartey, who personally invited Abhi to tour Cartoon Network Studios' headquarters in Burbank, California. While there, Abhi and Jones-Quartey created a simple animation using Scratch 3.0, featuring OK K.O.! character Dendy jumping up and down. Footage from the tour and coding session was edited together and posted to YouTube, serving as an advertisement for both OK K.O.! and the then-newly released Scratch 3.0.[4]
List of Cartoon Network series that have collaborated with Scratch
What follows is a list of all known Cartoon Network series that have, in some capacity, collaborated with Scratch. This includes instances where official Cartoon Network projects or tutorials were created and released on the Scratch website, as well as times that Cartoon Network series have promoted, alluded to, or otherwise referenced Scratch.
Adventure Time
- Featured in the "Code an Adventure Game" Scratch tutorial created for Hour of Code 2018.
The Amazing World of Gumball/The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball
- Featured in two projects on the cartoonnetwork Scratch account.
- Collaborated with Google's "CS First" program to make a Gumball-themed Scratch tutorial called "Gumball's Coding Adventure".[5]
Ben 10 (2016)
- Featured in one project on the cartoonnetwork Scratch account.
Craig of the Creek
- Featured in one project on the cartoonnetwork Scratch account.
- Featured in the "Create an Adventure Game" Scratch tutorial created for Hour of Code 2018.
- Featured in the "Code a Cartoon" Scratch tutorial.
OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes
- Featured in three projects on the cartoonnetwork Scratch account.
- Featured in the "Code an Adventure Game" Scratch tutorial created for Hour of Code 2018.
- Promoted on the Scratch website during 2017 in the form of the "Everyone Has a Story" featured studio; two of the studio's sample projects, "About K.O.!"[6] and "About Enid"[7], are themed around the characters K.O. and Enid respectively.
- One Scratcher's unofficial OK K.O.! Scratch project caught the attention of the show's creator, Ian Jones-Quartey, leading to an official OK K.O.!-themed commercial for Scratch 3.0 being posted on the Cartoon Network YouTube channel; for more details, see here.
- The OK K.O.! episode "Dendy's Power" revolves around coding, and features two allusions to Scratch:
- The code blocks that Dendy uses at the beginning of the episode resemble the drag-and-drop nature of Scratch blocks.
- Dendy seemingly references the program when she says "I learned coding from scratch."
The Powerpuff Girls (2016)
- Promoted heavily on the Scratch website during 2016, in the form of the "Make it Fly", "Powerpuff + Scratch Cat", and "#PowerpuffYourself" featured studios.
- Two episodes of this series were made in collaboration with Scratch, and focused on computer science and coding. One episode, entitled "Viral Spiral", features the character Bubbles using coding to help save the Internet.
Steven Universe
- Featured in two projects on the cartoonnetwork Scratch account.
- Featured in the "Code an Adventure Game" Scratch tutorial created for Hour of Code 2018.
Teen Titans Go!
- Featured in two projects on the cartoonnetwork Scratch account.
Unikitty!
- Featured in one project on the cartoonnetwork Scratch account.
We Bare Bears
- Promoted heavily on the Scratch website during the 2015 Hour of Code.
- Featured in several projects on the cartoonnetwork Scratch account.
- Featured in the "Code an Adventure Game" Scratch tutorial created for Hour of Code 2018.
