2002

In 2002, Cartoon Network premiered a new original cartoon, Codename: Kids Next Door. 
Courage the Cowardly Dog and Sheep in the Big City all conclude their runs.
==Show Info==
===Cartoon Network Original Series===
# Cartoon	Name 	Premiere Date 	End Date
10 	Courage the Cowardly Dog 	November 12, 1999	November 22, 2002
9 	Sheep in the Big City 	November 4, 2000 	April 7, 2002
15 	Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?	July 19, 2002 	November 14, 2003
16 	Codename: Kids Next Door 	December 6, 2002 	January 21, 2008
== January ==
=== 4 ===
* The Ed, Edd n Eddy episodes "Will Work for Ed/Ed, Ed and Away" premiere.
=== 11 ===
* The second season of Courage the Cowardly Dog concludes with the double-length episode "The Tower of Dr. Zalost".
=== 18 ===
* The Dexter's Laboratory episodes "Poppa Wheely/A Mom Cartoon/Mockside of the Moon" premiere.
=== 25 ===
* The Ed, Edd n Eddy episodes "X Marks the Ed/From Here to Ed" premiere.
== February ==
=== 8 ===
* The Courage the Cowardly Dog episodes "Campsite of Terror/Record Deal" premieres.
=== 22 ===
*Chuck Jones passes away. The network dedicates his memory with words "We’ll miss you" during commercial breaks.
*The Dexter's Laboratory episodes "If Memory Serves/A Mandark Cartoon/Tele Trauma" premiere
=== 15 ===
* The Ed, Edd n Eddy episodes "Boys Will Be Eds/Ed or Tails" premiere.
=== 23 ===
* The Thursday night repeat block of Adult Swim is replaced by a Saturday night action block.
== March ==
=== 1 ===
* Samurai Jack aired its second season with the episode "Jack Learns to Jump Good".
=== 2 ===
* Dexter's Laboratory: Mandark's Lab? releases for the Sony PlayStation.
=== 8 ===
* The Samurai Jack episode "Jack Tales" premieres.
*The Ed, Edd n Eddy episodes "Gimme, Gimme Never Ed/My Fair Ed" premiere.
=== 15 ===
* The Samurai Jack episode "Jack and the Smackback" premieres.
* The Courage the Cowardly Dog episodes "Stormy Weather/The Sandman Sleeps" premiere.
=== 22 ===
* The Samurai Jack episode "Jack and the Scotsman II" premieres.
* Time Squad aired its second season.
*The Ed, Edd n Eddy episodes "Rock-a-Bye Ed/O-Ed Eleven" premiere.
=== 23 ===
* The 1st 13th Annual Fancy Anvil Awards Show Program Special: Live in Stereo aired.
=== 29 ===
* The Samurai Jack episode "Jack and the Ultra-Robots" premieres.
* The Dexter's Laboratory episodes "A Boy Named Sue/Lab on the Run" premiere.
== April ==
=== 5 ===
* The Samurai Jack episode "Jack Remembers the Past" premieres.
=== 7 ===
* Sheep in the Big City ends.
=== 12 ===
* The Samurai Jack episode "Jack and the Monks" premieres.
== May ==
=== 31 ===
* The Powerpuff Girls Top 10 aired.
* The Powerpuff Girls Slumber Party aired.
* The Powerpuff Girls music video, Go Monkey Go aired.
== June ==
=== 7 ===
* The Johnny Bravo episodes "The Island of Mrs. Morceau/The Color of Mustard/Third Dork from the Sun" premiere.
*The Courage the Cowardly Dog episodes "Hard Drive Courage/The Ride of the Valkyries" premiere.
*The Dexter's Laboratory episodes "Dos Boot/A Dee Dee Cartoon/Would You Like That in the Can" premiere.
=== 14 ===
* Johnny Bravo concludes it's third season with the episodes "The Hansel & Gretel Project/I.Q. Johnny/Get Stinky!".
*The Time Squad episodes "White House Weirdness/Nobel Peace Surprise" premiere.
*The Courage the Cowardly Dog episodes "Scuba-Scuba Doo/Conway the Contaminationist" premiere.
*The Dexter's Laboratory episodes "That Magic Moment/A Silent Cartoon/Opposites Attract" premiere.
=== 21 ===
* The Powerpuff Girls episode "Him Diddle Riddle" premieres.
*The Ed, Edd n Eddy episodes "The Luck of the Ed/Ed... Pass it On..." premiere.
*The Courage the Cowardly Dog episodes "Katz Under the Sea / Curtain of Cruelty" premiere.
*The Dexter's Laboratory episodes "Comic Relief/A Third Dad Cartoon/Robo-Dexo 3000" premiere.
=== 28 ===
* The Powerpuff Girls episode "Forced Kin" premieres.
*The Ed, Edd n Eddy episodes "Brother, Can You Spare an Ed?/The Day the Ed Stood Still" premiere.
*The Courage the Cowardly Dog episodes "Feast of The Bullfrogs/Tulip's Worm" premiere.
*The Dexter's Laboratory episodes "Glove at First Sight/A Mom & Dad Cartoon/Smells Like Victory" premiere.
== July ==
=== 3 ===
* Cartoon Network's first theatrical film, The Powerpuff Girls Movie, was released in theaters. 
=== 5 ===
* The Powerpuff Girls episode "Stray Bullet" premieres.
*The Ed, Edd n Eddy two-part episode "If It Smells Like an Ed" premieres.
*The Courage the Cowardly Dog episodes "So in Louvre Are We Two/Night of the Scarecrow" premiere.
*The Dexter's Laboratory episodes "Oh, Brother/Another Dad Cartoon/Bar Exam" premiere.
=== 12 ===
* The Powerpuff Girls episode "Knock It Off" premieres.
*The third season of Ed, Edd n Eddy concludes with the episodes "Don't Rain on My Ed/Once Bitten, Twice Ed".
*The Courage the Cowardly Dog episodes "Mondo Magic/Watch the Birdies" premiere.
*The Dexter's Laboratory episodes "Jeepers, Creepers, Where is Peepers/Go, Dexter Family! Go!" premiere.
=== 14 ===
* Johnny Bravo celebrates it's 5th anniversary.
=== 19 ===
* The Powerpuff Girls episode "All Chalked Up" premieres.
**Originally premiered on June 29th on "Kids' WB!".
*The Grim & Evil episodes "Grim vs. Mom/Bring Me the Face of Hector Con Carne/Tastes Like Chicken" premiere.
*The Courage the Cowardly Dog episodes "Fishy Business/Angry Nasty People" premiere.
*Cartoon Network's 12th Cartoon Cartoon, Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?, officially premieres with the episodes "P.U. to P.E./Vacuum Friend".
=== 26 ===
* The Powerpuff Girls episode "Members Only" premieres.
**Originally premiered on June 15th on "Kids' WB!".
*The Grim & Evil episodes "Grim or Gregory?/Search & Estroy/Something Stupid This Way Comes" premiere.
*The Courage the Cowardly Dog episodes "Dome of Doom/Snowman's Revenge" premiere.
*The Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? episodes "Cube Wars/Sickness" premiere.
== August ==
=== 2 ===
* The Powerpuff Girls episode "Superfriends" premieres.
**Originally premiered on June 8th on "Kids' WB!".
*The Grim & Evil episodes "A Grim Surprise/Everyone Loves Uncle Bob/Beasts & Barbarians" premiere.
*The Courage the Cowardly Dog episodes "The Quilt Club/Swindlin' Wind" premiere.
*The Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? episodes "Parents/Embarrassment" premiere.
=== 9 ===
* The Powerpuff Girls episode "Nano of the North" premieres.
**Originally premiered on June 22nd on "Kids' WB!".
*The Grim & Evil episodes "Hoss Delgado: Spectral Exterminator/Evil on Trial/To Eris Human" premiere.
*Courage the Cowardly Dog concludes it's third season with the episodes "The King of Flan/Courage Under the Volcano".
*The Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? episodes "Politics/Growth Spurts" premiere.
=== 16 ===
* Dexter's Laboratory Top 10 aired.
*He-Man and the Masters of the Universe premieres 
=== 23-25 ===
* The Cartoon Cartoon Weekend Summerfest aired. 8 new pilots premiered.
=== 30 ===
* Ed, Edd n Eddy Pool Party aired.
== September ==
=== 6 ===
* The Samurai Jack episode "Jack and the Dragon" premieres.
* The 4th & final season of Courage the Cowardly Dog premieres with the episodes "A Beaver's Tale/The Nutcracker".
*The Premiere Premiere Show began.
=== 13 ===
* The Samurai Jack episode "Jack vs. the Five Hunters" premieres.
* The Courage the Cowardly Dog episodes "Rumpledkiltskin/House Calls" premiere.
*Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? aired its season one finale.
=== 16 ===
* Baby Looney Tunes premiered.
=== 20 ===
* The Samurai Jack episode "Jack vs. Demongo, the Soul Collector" premieres.
* The Courage the Cowardly Dog episodes "Le Quack Balloon/Windmill Vandals" premiere.
*Dexter's Laboratory concludes it's third season with the episodes "Scare Tactics/My Dad vs. Your Dad".
=== 23 ===
* The Jetsons celebrates it's 40th anniversary.
=== 27 ===
* The Samurai Jack episode "Jack Is Naked" premieres.
* The Courage the Cowardly Dog episodes "The Uncommon Cold/Farmer-Hunter, Farmer-Hunted" premiere.
*The fourth season of Ed, Edd n Eddy premieres with the episodes "An Ed in the Bush/See No Ed".
== October ==
=== 1 ===
* Cartoon Network celebrates its 10th anniversary.
=== 4 ===
* The Samurai Jack episode "Jack and the Spartans" premieres.
* Scaretoon Scaretoon Fright-Days aired.
*The Courage the Cowardly Dog episodes "Bride of Swamp Monster/Goat Pain" premiere.
*The Grim & Evil episodes "Billy's Growth Spurt/The Time Hole Incident/Billy & the Bully" premiere.
=== 11 ===
* Samurai Jack concluded it's second season with the episode "Jack's Shoes".
*The Courage the Cowardly Dog episodes "Muriel Blows Up/Profiles in Courage" premiere.
*The Grim & Evil episodes "Big Trouble in Billy's Basement/Christmas Con Carne/Tickle Me Mandy" premiere.
=== 18 ===
* Samurai Jack premiered its third season with the episode "Chicken Jack".
*The Courage the Cowardly Dog double-length episode "The Mask" premieres.
*Grim & Evil concludes it's first season with the episodes "Little Rock of Horrors/The Pie Who Loved Me/Dream a Little Dream".
=== 25 ===
* Scaretoon Scaretoon Fright-Days ended.
* The Samurai Jack episode "Jack and the Zombies" premieres.
*The Courage the Cowardly Dog episodes "Squatting Tiger, Hidden Dog/Muted Muriel" & "Aqua-Farmer/Food of the Dragon" premiere.
=== 31 ===
* Courage's Trick or Shriek Marathon, an all-day Halloween Courage marathon, aired.
== November ==
===1===
* The Samurai Jack episode "Jack and the Rave" premieres.
* Cartoon Cartoon Fridays returned.
*The Courage the Cowardly Dog episodes "Last of the Starmakers/Son of the Chicken from Outer Space" premiere.
*The Ed, Edd n Eddy episodes "Is There an Ed in the House?/An Ed is Born" premiere.
=== 8 ===
* The Samurai Jack episode "Couple on a Train" premieres.
* The Courage the Cowardly Dog episodes "Courageous Cure/Ball of Revenge" premiere.
* The Time Squad episodes "Out with the In Crowd/Child's Play" premiere.
=== 11 ===
* The Cartoon Cartoon Top 5 in Primetime aired from the same day until November 15.
=== 15 ===
* The Courage the Cowardly Dog episodes "Cabaret Courage/Wrath of the Librarian" premiere.
*The Ed, Edd n Eddy episodes "One Size Fits Ed/Pain in the Ed" premiere.
=== 21 ===
* Tweety (Looney Tunes) celebrates his 60th anniversary.
=== 22 ===
* The Samurai Jack episode "Jack and the Scarab" premieres.
* Courage the Cowardly Dog airs it's last episodes "Remembrance of Courage Past/Perfect".
* The 4th & final season of Dexter's Laboratory premieres with the episodes "Beau Tie/Remember Me?/Over-Labbing".
===28===
*Shrieksgiving aired.
=== 29 ===
* The Black Cartoon Cartoon Fridays Marathon aired from 10:00 PM to 1:00 AM.
== December ==
=== 6 ===
* Cartoon Network's 16th original series, Codename: Kids Next Door, officially premieres with the episodes "Operation: I.-S.C.R.E.A.M./Operation: C.A.N.N.O.N.".
*The Powerpuff Girls episodes "Keen on Keane/Not So Awesome Blossom" premiere.
=== 13 ===
* The Premiere Premiere Show ended.
*The Codename: Kids Next Door episodes Opreation: N.O.-P.O.W.U.H./Operation: T.E.E.T.H." premiere.
*The Powerpuff Girls concludes it's fourth season with the episode "Power-Noia".
=== 20 ===
* The Codename: Kids Next Door episodes "Operation: P.I.R.A.T.E./Operation: C.O.W.G.I.R.L." premiere.
=== 27 ===
* The Codename: Kids Next Door episodes "Operation: T.U.R.N.I.P./Operation: M.I.N.I.G.O.L.F." premiere.
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