''The Cartoonstitute'' was a planned

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project created by Cartoon Network's executive Rob Sorcher that would have been a showcase for animated shorts created without the interference of network executives and

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. It was headed by

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(creator of ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Wander Over Yonder'' and '' Kid Cosmic'') and Rob Renzetti (creator of '' My Life as a Teenage Robot''). Thirty-nine shorts for the project were in development at

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, but only 14 of these were completed. Eventually, balancing 5 upcoming shows and adding another proved difficult and the project was scrapped. Of the shorts that were made, only ''

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'' and ''

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'' got greenlit to become animated series. On May 7, 2010, Cartoon Network released nearly all of the shorts to their website. The only shorts not released were ''Maruined'', ''3 Dog Band'', and ''Joey to the World''.

History

The series was first announced on April 3, 2008, at

's annual upfront in New York City. The project was to be similar to '' The Cartoon Cartoon Show'' (also known as the ''What a Cartoon! Show''), which aired on the network more than a decade earlier and gave birth to some of the channel's first animated series, such as '' Dexter's Laboratory'', ''

'' and '' Cow and Chicken''. ''The Cartoonstitute'' was to establish a think tank and create an environment in which animators can create characters and stories. A section of

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, was set aside exclusively for the project. The "Cartoonstitute" name was imagined by

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, the wife of

. The first short to appear legally online via

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was "3 Dog Band: Get It Together" on July 29, 2009. On September 26, 2009, all 14 completed shorts were posted on

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and the account was deleted shortly after posting them.

List of completed shorts

All shorts of the project were developed and produced in 2009, despite their release in 2010.

Rejected/Unproduced

While there are 25 unfinished shorts that remain unreleased, there are currently 6 known pitches/concepts for ''The Cartoonstitute'' that may or may not have had their pilot short produced (making a total of 18 remaining unknown pitches).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cartoonstitute, The Unaired television shows American children's animated television series