The Nicktooniversity

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The Nicktooniversity is an American animated anthology series created by Nickelodeon. The shorts were produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studios. The project consisted of 48 cartoons, intended to return creative power to animators and artists, by recreating the atmospheres that spawned the iconic cartoon characters of the mid-20th century. Each of the shorts mirrored the structure of a theatrical cartoon, with each film being based on an original storyboard drawn and written by its artist or creator. Three of the cartoons were paired together into a half-hour episode.
==History==
===Format===
The format for The Nicktooniversity was ambitious, as no one had ever attempted anything similar in the television animation era. The shorts produced would be a product of the original cartoonists' vision, with no executive intervention: for example, even the music would be an individually crafted score. Each 7-minute short would debut, by itself, as a stand-alone cartoon or a stand-alone series on Nickelodeon. Three of the 7-minute cartoons are paired together into a half-hour episode. Seibert explained the project's goal in a 2017 blog post: "We didn’t care what the sitcom trends were, what CN, Disney Channel, Universal Kids and Sony Kids was doing, what the sales departments wanted. [...] We wanted cartoons."
===Crew===
The Nicktooniversity staff had creators from all around the world including:
*Brian Cosgrove
*Charlie Ward
*Lauren Faust
*Dan Mandel
*Genndy Tartakovsky
*Craig McCracken
*Rob Renzeti
*Butch Hartman
*Mamoru Oshii
*Natasha Allegri
*Stephen Hillenburg
*Chris Sanvio
*Paul Rudish
*Klasky Csupo
*John L Dilworth
*Sam Register
*David Rudman
*Katsura Hashino
*Danny Antonucci
*Scott Fellows
*Ralph Baski
*John Kricfalusi
*Bob Boyle
*Cory Edwards
*Chris Gifford
*Ian Jones-Quartey
*Matt Groening
*Seth Macfarlane
==List of shorts==
No.	Series 	Title 	Created by 	Production Company 	Animation Services 	Short summary 	Original air date
1a 	Wander Over Yonder 	"The Picnic" 	Craig McCracken 	CMCC Cartoons 	Mercury Filmworks 	Lord Hater's battle against Emperor Awesome for ultimate cosmic power is continually disrupted when Wander has a picnic right next to the battleground.
Note: First Pilot to Wander Over Yonder 	October 4, 2009
1b 	N/A 	"Transformers Prime" 	Genndy Tartakovsky 	Nickelodeon Animation StudioHasbro StudiosK/O Paper ProductsDarby Pop Productions	Digital eMation 	In Jasper, Nevada, three young humans—Jack Darby, Miko Nakadai and Rafael Esquivel—are accidentally caught in the crossfire of a fight between giant, mechanical aliens that transform into ordinary vehicles. The three kids are taken to the base of the Autobots, where the Autobot leader Optimus Prime explains that he and his team are a race of autonomous robotic organisms from the far-off planet Cybertron, and they are fighting over their life-source, Energon, with the Decepticons, with whom they once had a war.
Note 1: Episode's style and use of Medium Blending developed into Tartakovsky's Sym-Bionic Titan.
Note 2 First pilot to Transformers Prime 	October 4, 2009
1c 	My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic 	"The Ticket Master" 	Lauren Faust 	Nickelodeon Animation StudioHasbro Studios 	Rough Draft Korea 	Princess Celestia gives Twilight Sparkle two tickets to the Grand Galloping Gala. However, all of Twilight’s friends want to attend the gala.
Note: First short to become a series after being deemed most popular through a vote held in 2009. 	October 4, 2009
2a 	Gary The Snail 	"Stay Out!" 	Stephen Hillenburg (original character) 	Nickelodeon Animation Studios 	Rough Draft Korea 	SpongeBob's pet, Gary, tries to keep a worm outside of SpongeBob's House for the night.
Note: First spin-off episode to SpongeBob SquarePants. 	October 11, 2009
2b 	N/A 	"The Chuck E. Cheese Show" 	Chris Sanvio and Stephen Hillenburg 	Nickelodeon Animation Studios 	Rough Draft Korea 	After Chuck E insults Mitzi Mozzarella while talking to his friends and unaware that she was listening, her brother Billy Bob breaks up with Helen. In order to remedy this, Helen drags Chuck on a double-date to Chuck E. Cheese's. When Lincoln's friends see him there, he works to keep himself from being seen with Mitzi Mozzarella. 	October 11, 2009
2c 	Dan Vs. 	"New Mexico" 	Dan Mandel and Chris Pearson 	Film Roman 	Big Star Enterprises 	When Dan's grudge against New Mexico goes over the limit, Chris (his best friend), Elise (his best friend's wife) and himself go on a road trip to New Mexico to get revenge against the state.
Note: Pilot to Dan Vs. 	October 11, 2009
3a 	Bee and PuppyCat 	"Fired!" 	Natasha Allegri 	Frederator Studios 	Rough Draft Korea 	After getting fired from her job, Bee finds PuppyCat and takes him in. With no luck in finding a new job, PuppyCat offers Bee some temp work if they report to Fishbowl Space. The pair then disappear from Bee's apartment.
Note: First pilot to Bee and PuppyCat. 	October 18, 2009
3b 	The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants 	"Captain Underpants: The Animated Series 	Matt Groening 	Gracie FilmsScholastic 	AKOM 	Just as George and Harold try to get out of gym class and avoid P.E for 22 years after all their friends have an excuse (including Melvin), inadvertently end up getting sent to the principal's office after spilling Mr. Meaner's root beer and they later escape from Mr. Meaner and Mr. Krupp clash on how angry they are, Mr. Meaner clumsily lands on Melvin’s latest invention, the Pumpitupinator, which was at a plot twist mode and ultimately turns Mr. Meaner into an overly huge butt supervillain.
Note: Pilot to The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants. 	October 18, 2009
3c 	 	 	Rob Renzetti 	 	Yeson Entertainment 	 	October 18, 2009
4a 	Grumpy Puppy 	"First Place Pup" 	Bob Boyle and Jack Thomas 	 	Yeson Entertainment 	 	November 22, 2009
4b 	 	 	Paul Rudish 	 	Saerom Animation 	 	November 22, 2009
4c 	T.U.F.F. Puppy 	"Purr-fect Partners" 	Butch Hartman 	Billionfold Inc.
Nickelodeon Animation Studios 	Yeson Entertainment 	Dudley Puppy is now an recruited agent of the super-secret undercover organization Turbo Undercover Fighting Force (T.U.F.F.) and his reluctant new partner, Kitty Katswell. The heroic super agents team up to stop Verminious Snaptrap, D.O.O.M.'s ill-mannered supreme leader, from enslaving all of the rats in Petropolis. Together Dudley and Kitty promise to be quite an imposing crime-fighting duo.
Note: Pilot to T.U.F.F. Puppy 	November 22, 2009
5a 	N/A 	"Power Nerds" 	Scott Fellows 	Nickelodeon Animation Studios 	Digital eMation 	Four friends meet two aliens and are given special devices called Battleballs which give each of them superpowers and must stop an alien virus from infecting every living creature on the planet.
Note: Episode's style developed into Fellow's Supernoobs 	February 14, 2010
5b 	Infinity Crystal: The Animated Series 	"Love at First Sight" 	Connor Sentance 	Nickelodeon Animation StudiosSega Animation 	The Answer StudioTelecom Animation FilmBig Star EnterprisesMook DLEDR MovieDigital eMation	Streaker and Manic set up a Valentine's Day treat for Fixer, a hot-air balloon made completely of chocolate, at a Valentine's Day-themed park. Unfortunately, their plan is delayed, as the balloon is attacked by scallops. Streaker gives Fixer a handshake in order to keep the balloon a surprise. Fixer nearly goes insane with rage, but just before he kills everybody, Streaker's treat for Fixer arrives, and Fixer becomes friends with Streaker and Manic again. 	February 14, 2010
5c 	N/A 	"Shadow The Hedgehog" 	Sam Regiester 	Nickelodeon Animation StudiosSega Animation 	Rough Draft Korea 	When the alien race called the Black Arms drops out of the sky and invades the city. Black Doom, the Black Arms' leader, contacts Shadow and tells Shadow of an old agreement Shadow made to bring the Chaos Emeralds to him. Stunned that Black Doom knows his name, Shadow searches for the Chaos Emeralds to learn about his past. 	February 14, 2010
6a 	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012 Series)	"The Return of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"	Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird (Original Characters)
Man of Action	Man of Action EntertainmentMirage ComicsIDW Studios 	Sunmin Image Pictures 	Ninjutsu master Hamato Yoshi (Splinter) is carrying his four pet turtles through the streets of Manhattan when he encounters members of an alien race called the Kraang. During an altercation with these aliens, Yoshi and the turtles are exposed to the Kraang's chemical, called mutagen, which causes organic beings to undergo major physical transformations. Yoshi takes on characteristics of a brown rat and the turtles take on human characteristics. Yoshi retreats to the New York City sewers where he raises the four turtles as his sons and imparts to them his knowledge of ninjutsu.
Note: Pilot to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012 Series) 	March 21, 2010
6b 	The Simpsons 	Bart! 	Matt Groening 	Gracie Films 	AKOM 	A group of kids are playing Pogs right outside the Simpsons house. Bart comes out on his skateboard shooting pogs with his special pog gun. While doing stunts, Bast throws a big pog that bounces on many places, and lands knocking everybody's pogs, making Bart the winner.
Note: First and Only spin-off episode to The Simpsons. 	March 21, 2010
6c 	N/A 	 	John L. Dilworth 	 	Wang Film Productions 	 	March 21, 2010
7a 	N/A 	"The HEA Files" 	Cory Edwards 	Miramax Television 	Rough Draft Korea 	Wolf, Granny, and Twitchy are on a rescue mission to save Hansel and Gretel from an evil witch named Verushka. The plan goes wrong however and Granny is kidnapped as well. Meanwhile, Red is in training with a mysterious group called the Sisters of the Hood where she learns that a secret all powerful truffle recipe has been stolen. She is assigned by detective Nicky Flippers with Wolf and Twitchy to find the recipe and save her grandma.
Note: Based on the movie Hoodwinked!. 	May 2, 2010
7b 	 	 	 	 	 	 	May 2, 2010
7c 	 	 	 	 	 	 	May 2, 2010
8a 	Wander Over Yonder 	"The Egg" 	Craig McCracken 	CMCC Cartoons 	Mercury Filmworks 	Wander and Sylvia try to return an egg to a nest belonging to a beast who Wander thinks is the egg's mother.
Note 1: Wander Over Yonder was later picked up by Disney Channel
Note 2: Second pilot to Wonder Over Yonder. 	July 25, 2010
8b 	Persona 4: The Animation 	"Persona 4: The Animated Series" 	Katsura Hashino 	Sega Animation 	Rough Draft KoreaTelecom Animation Film 	When the four enter back into the television world, Kanji is nowhere to be found. It is learned that Kanji made a bunny-shaped phone strap charm for a little boy, after the latter had previously lost one before. Yu borrows the charm to give to Teddie, who is able to track down the scent. Finding Kanji at the bathhouse seen on the Midnight Channel, who is struggling with his other self in a compromising position. Kanji rejects the fact of being gay, which then transforms his other self into an overly muscular Shadow, flanked by two equally muscular and flamboyant lesser Shadows. As it seems that the group is no match against Kanji's Shadow, Yu fuses two Personas into Yamata-no-Orochi, also accepting the bunny-shaped phonestrap charm that Kanji made as "cute". This encourages Kanji to punch his own Shadow, taking it out of the battle. Kanji retorts to his other self that he is not gay but rather afraid of being rejected by either sex, turning his other self into his Persona named Take-Mikazuchi. Several weeks later, Kanji joins up with the group to find out who pushed him in the television world in the first place. That night, Dojima asks Yu if he has been getting involved in anything, aware that Yu was at Tatsumi Textiles and worried that he is getting in over his head.	July 25, 2010
8c 	Nature Cat 	"Nature Cat" 	Adam Rudman, David Rudman and Todd Hannert 	Spiffy Pictures 	Rough Draft Korea 	Nature Cat and the rest visit the pond. They catch a duckling leaving the pond, the duckling justifies this decision by admitting a fear of water. Nature Cat and the rest promises to help the duckling overcome the fear, initially co-exploring the ponds surface life from Nature Cat's gadget-filled Nature Rover.
Note: Pilot to Nature Cat 	July 25, 2010
9a 	Infinity Crystal: The Animated Series 	"Pumpkin Panic" 	Connor Sentance 	Nickelodeon Animation Studios
Sega Animation 	The Answer StudioTelecom Animation FilmBig Star EnterprisesMook DLEDR MovieDigital eMation	Streaker is tired of being cowardly on Halloween, so he dresses like a Robot with help from Fixer and pretends to be Megatron. 	October 24, 2010
9b 	 	 	 	 	 	 	October 24, 2010
9c 	 	 	 	 	 	 	October 24, 2010
10a	Transformers Prime (uncredited) 	"Darkness Rising" 	Genndy Tartakovsky 	Nickelodeon Animation StudioHasbro StudioK/O Paper ProductsDarby Pop Productions 	Digital eMation 	The Decepticon leader Megatron returns from a three-year exile with a plan to exploit the properties of a mysterious substance called "Dark Energon", which has the ability to turn the bodies of dead Transformers into zombie-like Terrorcons. The Autobots storm an Energon mine in search of their lost comrade Cliffjumper, only to discover that his dead body has been revived as a ravenous zombie by Dark Energon.
Note: Second pilot to Transformers Prime. 	December 5, 2010
10b	N/A 	"The King of Braves GaoGaiGar Future" 	Mamoru Oshii 	Hasbro StudiosTMS Entertainment
Takara Tomy 	Telecom Animation Film
Koko Enterprises/Dong Yang Animation 	On a winter night, a mysterious mechanical lion came flying in front of a married couple, carrying a mysterious baby with it. As they took the baby in, the lion left them in confusion. About 7 years layer, the space shuttle Spirits, in which high school astronaut Guy Shishioh is a passenger, collides with an unknown object bound to Earth. Despite being mortally wounded, he is rescued by the same mysterious lion and returns to Earth. In his hand, he holds a mysterious green jewel as Leo Shishioh uses it to revive Gai into a cyborg.
Two years later in 2015, the mysterious baby under the care of the Amami couple, now named Mamoru, is living his life normally. This until the mysterious group known as Zonders begin their invasion of Earth. As a response, the Earth Defense Brigade Gutsy Geoid Guard, or GGG, was organized to fight against the Zonders. In an attack by the Zonders, the msyterious boy encountered Guy, who is now a member of GGG. Equipped with the green jewel, known as G-Stone, he becomes the pilot of the lion robot that saved him. Named Galeon, he fuses with it alongside 3 assist vehicles created by GGG to become the giant robot GaoGaiGar. After the battle against one of the Zonders, GGG discovered that Mamoru can purify people who became Zonders and wondered about his origins and how it was linked to the appearance of the Zonders.	December 5, 2010
10c	N/A 	"Dynamice" 	Butch Hartman 	Billionfold Inc.
Nickelodeon Animation Studios 	Yeson Entertainment 	4 Mice become superheroes after a Meteor crashes into a Pet Store. 	December 5, 2010
11a	 	 	 	 	 	 	February 20, 2011
11b	 	 	 	 	 	 	February 20, 2011
11c	N/A 	"Rugrats: Back to the Crib" 	Arlene Klasky and Gábor Csupó 	Klasky Csupo 	Sunwoo Entertainment 	Tommy leads the babies on a daring adventure to help Chuckie after his big attempt to be brave goes horribly wrong. 	February 20, 2011
12a	Transformers: Rescue Bots 	"Transformers: Rescue Bots" 	Chris Gifford and Valerie Walsh Valdes 	Nickelodeon Animation Studio
Hasbro Studios 	Saerom Animation 	A spaceship carrying four members of Rescue Force Sigma-17 receives a distress call from Autobot leader Optimus Prime. The spaceship self-navigates its way to Earth, on the island of Griffin Rock, near Maine, where Optimus Prime assigns the Rescue Bots on a mission: work with the Burns family and learn human customs, while concealing their status as aliens from Cybertron. Heatwave grows enraged to their mandated subservience to the humans and contemplates on leaving Earth. This changes when the Burns must stop an animatronic dinosaur that is attacking the island.
Note: Pilot to Transformers: Rescue Bots. 	June 12, 2011
12b	Infinity Crystal: The Animated Series 	"Metal Streaker" 	Connor Sentance 	Nickelodeon Animation Studios
Sega Animation 	The Answer StudioTelecom Animation FilmBig Star EnterprisesMook DLEDR MovieDigital eMation	Streaker is jealous when he thinks Fixer and Manic are spending more time with Metal Streaker, his lookalike robot, than him. 	June 12, 2011
12c	Pip Ahoy! 	"Welcome to Salty Cove" 	Charles Ward, Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall 	CHF EntertainmentUnited Plankton PicturesITV Studios 	Rough Draft Korea 	Pip and friends are playing in the playground with young Alan enjoying the seesaw so much he will not go on anything else. But when the gulls drop Madame Eclair's cake on the opposite end of the seesaw, Alan is catapulted out of the playground and across Salty Cove.
Note: Pilot to Pip Ahoy!. 	June 12, 2011
13a	Bunsen Is a Beast 	"Bunsen Is a Beast!" 	Butch Hartman 	Billionfold Inc.
Nickelodeon Animation Studios 	Yeson Entertainment 	Bunsen attends his first day at Muckledunk Middle School, but things get trouble when Amanda puts beets in his drink and he turns into a monster that eats people.
Note 1: This short was nominated for an Oscar.
Note 2: Pilot to Bunsen is a Beast. 	September 25, 2011
13b	OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes 	"Lakewood Plaza Turbo" 	Ian Jones-Quartey 	Nickelodeon Animation Studios 	Rough Draft Korea 	K.O., Rad, and Enid investigate to find out who sprayed graffiti on Lakewood Plaza's sign after being told to by their boss and owner of Gar's Bodega, Mr. Gar.
Note: Pilot to OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes. 	September 25, 2011
13c	ReBoot: The Gaurdian Code 	"ReBoot 2.0" 	Gavin Blair, Ian Pearson, Phil Mitchell and John Grace	Rainmaker Entertainment 	Rainmaker Entertainment 	Megabyte returns to the system of Mainframe, the setting of the original ReBoot series, to recruit his sister Hexadecimal. The Guardians follow and meet Mainframe's Guardian, Bob, and his friends. A user initiates a game, which the new Guardians help Bob win. Vera begins helping Trey study for his classes, which leads Parker to suspect that they are dating.
Note: The series' only computer-animated short. 	September 25, 2011
14a	N/A 	"Cans Without Labels" 	John Kricfalusi 	Spümcø 	Digital eMation 	Ernie and Slab are having lunch and inquire as to what all the cans on the table are. George explains that they are cans without labels, which he buys cheap. Things go south when the kids discover how disgusting the contents of the cans are; specifically, a can that Uncle George claimed to be beef stew actually has a human face inside of it. George insists on making them eat it anyway (despite their extreme desire not to do so), and after a fit of anger, he goes off to take a bathroom break, warning his nephews that "that face better be gone" when he gets back. The rest of the short is spent on Slab and Ernie trying to find ways to get rid of the face without eating it.
Note: Based on John K's The God Damn George Liquor Program. 	December 11, 2011
14b	N/A 	"The Berenstain Bears" 	Seth MacFarlane 	Fuzzy Door Productions 	Digital eMation 	The whole bear family is terrified of a spooky mansion down the road. Mama explains that when she was a cub it was owned by a nice lady who was a friendly neighbor, but when she moved away no one else bought it and it fell into disrepair. Mama thinks about buying it to restore it to its former glory, but she needs Papa and the cubs to overcome their fears and superstitions.
Note: Episode's style was based on MacFarlane's Family Guy. 	December 11, 2011
14c	Infinity Crystal: The Animated Series 	"Wishful Thinking" 	Connor Sentance 	Nickelodeon Animation Studios
Sega Animation 	The Answer StudioTelecom Animation FilmBig Star EnterprisesMook DLEDR MovieDigital eMation	Streaker wishes that he was never born because he saw Fixer and Amy (actually Sonica) kissing each other. He then meets Mistletoe, who teleports them into a dimension where they see what would happen if he was never born. He sees Fixer acting shy around others. Manic and Amy dating, and Mistletoe destroying King SpongeBob. Streaker finds out that Mistletoe is actually Megatron in disguise, and they have a truce for the holidays (he did this all because he wasn't invited to the Christmas party). After this, Megatron teleports them back to the real world where Streaker discovers that Fixer was kissing Sonica, Amy's twin sister. Streaker is happy to have them in his life, and everyone laughs while they take a group photo. 	December 11, 2011
15a	Infinity Crystal: The Animated Series 	"Pranks A Lot" 	Connor Sentance 	Nickelodeon Animation Studios
Sega Animation 	The Answer Studio
Telecom Animation Film
Big Star Enterprises
Mook DLE
DR Movie
Digital eMation	Fixer is fed up over Streaker's amusement to April Fools day, and decides to play a nasty prank on him. 	April 1, 2012
15b	 	 	 	 	 	 	April 1, 2012
15c	Gary The Snail 	"When You Sit a Baby Starfish" 	Stephen Hillenburg (original character) 	Nickelodeon Animation Studios 	Rough Draft Korea 	Gary takes care of a baby Starfish and tries to prevent him from growing.
Note: Second spin-off episode to SpongeBob SquarePants. 	April 1, 2012
16a	N/A 	 	Ralph Bakshi 	 	Yowza! Animation 	 	May 20, 2012
16b	Bee and PuppyCat 	"Back from Fishbowl Space" 	Natasha Allegri 	Frederator Studios 	Rough Draft Korea 	Bee and PuppyCat are assigned to babysit Wallace in Fishbowl Space. After PuppyCat sings him a lullaby about a cursed Space Outlaw, Wallace transforms into a monster. Bee and PuppyCat defeat him and return home.
Note: Second pilot to Bee and PuppyCat. 	May 20, 2012
16c	N/A 	 	Danny Antonucci 	a.k.a. Cartoon 	Yowza! Animation 	 	May 20, 2012