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Rock Paper Scissors (TV series)

Rock Paper Scissors is a Nickelodeon animated comedy (premiered February 12, 2024) created by Kyle Stegina and Josh Lehrman from an Intergalactic Shorts Program short, starring Ron Funches, Thomas Lennon, Carlos Alazraqui, and Melissa Villaseñor as personified roommates; renewed through a third season in 2026.

Rocket Power

Rocket Power is a Nickelodeon animated series created by Arlene Klasky and Gábor Csupó, airing August 16, 1999 to July 30, 2004, with 71 episodes about four extreme-sport-loving kids in fictional Ocean Shores, California.

Samuel (animated series)

Samuel: French black-and-white 2D animated series by Émilie Tronche, about a 10-year-old boy's diary in the early 2000s; 21×4' episodes on Arte, viral with 40+ million views, sold to Netflix.

Shape Island

Shape Island is a stop-motion animated Apple TV+ children's series (premiered January 20, 2023) based on Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen's Shapes picture book trilogy, following Square, Triangle, and Circle; season 2 premiered August 29, 2025.

Short Circuit (2020 TV series)

Short Circuit (Walt Disney Animation Studios: Short Circuit Experimental Films) is a Disney+ anthology of animated shorts directed by studio staff; begun internally in 2016, it released 14 shorts January 24, 2020, five more August 4, 2021, and later films through 2026.

Snoopy in Space

Snoopy in Space (also Snoopy in Space: The Search for Life) is a WildBrain-produced Apple TV+ animated series of 24 shorts (2019, 2021) in which Snoopy trains as a NASA astronaut, tied to the 2018 NASA-Peanuts Space Act Agreement.

SparkShorts

SparkShorts is Pixar Animation Studios' experimental short-film program, launched with Purl, Smash and Grab, and Kitbull in January 2019, giving staff six months and modest budgets to direct personal shorts on Disney+.

SpongeBob SquarePants

SpongeBob SquarePants, created by marine biologist Stephen Hillenburg for Nickelodeon, is an American animated series that premiered July 17, 1999, set in Bikini Bottom; it has run 17+ seasons, 339+ episodes, four films, and $16 billion in retail sales.

SpongeBob SquarePants Presents The Tidal Zone

SpongeBob SquarePants Presents The Tidal Zone, also called The Tidal Zone, is Nickelodeon's first SpongeBob Universe crossover special, a Twilight Zone-style anthology premiering January 13, 2023, linking SpongeBob SquarePants, Kamp Koral, and The Patrick Star Show through GrandPat's dimension-hopping frame story.

Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City

Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City is WildBrain's 2021 2D-animated reboot of the 1973 Strawberry Shortcake franchise, following Strawberry and her berry besties running food trucks in Big Apple City across three seasons.

The 7D

The 7D is a Disney Television Animation musical comedy series (2014-2016) on Disney XD, reimagining the Seven Dwarfs of Snow White as Jollywood's defenders against the villainous Glooms, with a veteran voice cast and music by Parry Gripp.

The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle

The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends is the Jay Ward Productions animated series (1959-1964, as Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show) about Rocky the flying squirrel and Bullwinkle the Moose versus spies Boris and Natasha, with segments like Fractured Fairy Tales and Peabody's Improbable History.

The Alvin Show

The Alvin Show (CBS, 1961–1962) is a 26-episode prime-time animated series by Ross Bagdasarian Sr. and Format Films featuring Alvin, Simon, Theodore, Dave Seville, Clyde Crashcup, and Sinbad Jr.

The Angry Beavers

The Angry Beavers is a Nickelodeon animated series created by Mitch Schauer, premiering April 19, 1997, about beaver brothers Daggett (Richard Horvitz) and Norbert (Nick Bakay) living as bachelors near Wayouttatown, Oregon.

The High Fructose Adventures of the Annoying Orange

The High Fructose Adventures of the Annoying Orange is a 2012-2014 Cartoon Network live-action/animated series adapted from Dane Boedigheimer's YouTube hit, set in the grocery store Daneboe's, starring Toby Turner as Nerville, with a 2.1/10 IMDb rating.

The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour

The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour, a 2004 Nickelodeon crossover special between The Fairly OddParents and Jimmy Neutron in which Timmy Turner and Jimmy Neutron swap universes across 2D and 3D animation; followed by two 2006 sequels.

The Legend of Luo Xiaohei (罗小黑战记)

The Legend of Luo Xiaohei (罗小黑战记), also The Legend of Hei, is a Chinese 2D animated franchise by MTJJ: a 2011 five-minute-episode web series (40 episodes, Douban 9.6), a 2019 prequel film, a 2025 sequel, and a 2025 Japanese dub.

The Loud House

The Loud House is a Nickelodeon animated sitcom (premiered May 2, 2016) created by Chris Savino, following 11-year-old Lincoln Loud, the only boy among 10 sisters, and his friend Clyde McBride; it won Daytime Emmys and spawned The Casagrandes and live-action versions.

The Loud House (franchise)

The Loud House is an American media franchise built on the Nickelodeon animated sitcom that premiered in 2016, following Lincoln Loud and his ten sisters.

The Mighty B!

The Mighty B! is a Nickelodeon animated series (2008-2011) co-created by Amy Poehler, Erik Wiese, and Cynthia True, about Honeybee Scout Bessie Higgenbottom, voiced by Poehler, who believes earning every badge will make her a superhero.

The Mighty Ones

The Mighty Ones is a DreamWorks Animation Television animated comedy (2020-2022, Hulu and Peacock) created by Sunil Hall and Lynne Naylor, following pebble Rocksy, Very Berry, Twig, and Leaf in a backyard they share with humans they mistake for gods.

The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show

The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show is a 2015-2017 Netflix animated series by DreamWorks Animation Television in which genius dog Mr. Peabody (Chris Parnell) and Sherman (Max Charles) host a penthouse talk show with time-traveling historical guests.

The Proud Family

The Proud Family is Disney Channel's first Black animated series (2001–2005), created by Bruce W. Smith, following 14-year-old Penny Proud; revived on Disney+ as Louder and Prouder in 2022.

The Raccoons

The Raccoons is a Canadian animated series created by Kevin Gillis, set in the Evergreen Forest, running 1985–1992 with 60 episodes over 5 seasons after four 1980s specials, featuring Bert Raccoon versus tycoon Cyril Sneer and the theme song "Run With Us."

The Snoopy Show

The Snoopy Show (2021–2023) is a WildBrain-produced 2-D animated Apple TV+ series starring Snoopy and Woodstock in Peanuts adventures; 39 episodes in three seasons, premiered February 5, 2021, ended December 2023.

The Tom and Jerry Show (2014 TV series)

The Tom and Jerry Show is a 2014 animated series in which Tom the cat chases the mouse Jerry, running on Teletoon and Cartoon Network until 2021.

The Weekenders

The Weekenders is a Disney Television Animation series created by Doug Langdale, premiering February 26, 2000 on ABC's One Saturday Morning. It follows four seventh graders, Tino, Lor, Carver, and Tish, through 39 weekend-set episodes in Bahia Bay, California.

The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball

The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball is the 2025 revival of The Amazing World of Gumball, created by Ben Bocquelet at Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe, premiering July 28, 2025 on Hulu and renewed for seasons 3 and 4.

Timon & Pumbaa (TV series)

The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa, also called Timon & Pumbaa, is a 1995 Disney Television Animation spin-off of The Lion King with 85 episodes on The Disney Afternoon and CBS, produced by Tony Craig and Roberts Gannaway, starring Nathan Lane, Quinton Flynn, and Ernie Sabella.

Tiny Toons Looniversity

Tiny Toons Looniversity: 2023 animated reboot of Tiny Toon Adventures, also called the Acme Looniversity series; Babs, Buster, and friends attend cartoon college under the Looney Tunes on Max and Cartoon Network, two seasons, 23 episodes.