Anyone of my generation will know that the introduction of children's cartoon channels made watching TV a million times easier than trying to watch after school runs of popular shows and seeing as we've lived through the entire life spans of the likes of Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, Fox Kids & Disney Channel, we were given our moneys worth with the amount of cartoons that existed especially on Cartoon Network who started with much older stuff long before they had the funding to make their own cartoons, most of what they got was Hanna-Barbera cartoons of either talking animals with ties or crime solving teenagers and dogs with speech impediments from the 70s, we had Looney Tunes & Tom & Jerry and being from the European region I had a bunch of their stuff as well, (More on that in the future) But around 1992 after Hanna-Barbera finished releasing more older kid orientated 2 Stupid Dogs & SWAT Cats, the current president pitched an idea to stakeholders Turner releasing a large number of shorts from upcoming creators in a sort of succeed or fail system in the hopes of coming up with new ideas to take on rivals Nickelodeon who at the time had just finished powerhouse cartoons Ren & Stimpy and Rugrats.
In 1995 the What-A-Cartoon project was born.

It all started with the Powerpuff Girls, Dexter's Laboratory & Johnny Bravo, three shows that defined Cartoon Network of the 90s, there will be reviews of these later along with Cow & Chicken and a few others but the shorts I really want to talk about are the ones coming from creators that would play a huge part in the future of cartoons as a whole.
The first one Pfish & Chip and Gramps was created by Butch Hartman who would later go on to create Fairly Odd Parents for Nickelodeon. Hartman began his career as a small time artist for Don Bluth film American Tail. After a few slightly bigger roles for Dink the Little Dinosaur & Piggsburg Pigs, his more significant roles in the industry fell into place as an animator and writer for the run of Cartoon Cartoons before being poached by Nickelodeon for the similar named project Oh Yeah! Cartoons where he pitched the idea of Fairly Odd Parents which is still running strong despite the growing demand for everything to be a kids sitcom. Danny Phantom & T.U.F.F Puppy are also Hartman's work.
The other short Larry & Steve is even more significant as it was the prototype for Family Guy which is of course the work of Seth MacFarlane.

Looking back I would never guess in a million years that this would become one of the world's most successful adult cartoons but the proof is in the voice work and mannerisms of Larry & Steve themselves. Not bad for a college project. While Family Guy, American Dad & Ted are among his most well known works he was also a writer for the Ace Ventura cartoon and provided numerous support to Cartoon Network's shows as well.
With the next generation already here to continue the legacy left by What-A-Cartoon such as Man of Action, Pendleton Ward & Lauren Faust to name but a few, were in good hands for the future and hope that lightning will strike again.