Animate Your World

Animate Your World is a promo campaign created by Cartoon Network and animated by Curious Pictures which is designed to encourage creativity. While the network aired these promos during programs, a compilation of all the promos would air on the first Monday of every month at 2:00am as part of the network's incentive to the Cable in the Classroom program. In addition, each promo has a set of related activities intended for both children and teachers.
Name 	Description 	First Aired / eka.	Image
Bob 	This is Bob... plain old ordinary Bob. Bob is boring... WAIT A MINUTE... What if we looked at Bob upside down! Or inside out? Through a magnifying glass, with your eyes closed, through a frame, from your dog's point of view, from your fish's point of view, through rose tinted glasses, from 1,000 miles away? We could have Bob in space, Bob as an alien, Bob as a sandwich, out of focus, split in half, through your legs, faster, slower, underwater, overwater, topsy, turvey, clockwise, counterclockwise, Bob up reeeeel close, Bob from Bob's point of view!!! Now Bob's Bobalicious!!!! There are 100 billion kazillion ways to look at Bob... or for that matter ANYTHING ELSE... so which Bob are YOU lookin' at? There's no such thing as ordinary or boring when you try a new point of view.	1997 (eka) 	
Brain on a Plane 	Open your head, put your brain on a plane...and allow your mind to wander. It may go on vacation, but you’ll get great ideas as souvenirs. Ideas that you might not have gotten if your brain had stayed at home. So send your mind to places it’s never been. Put your brain on a plane. 	1997 (eka) 	
Redecorate Your Reality	Redecorate your reality. Add color and texture to places where none existed before. All it takes is a lil’ creative wallpapering on your part. You have the power to change and sculpt your surroundings... making the world a better place with your creativity. Anything and everything can be transformed from something ordinary into something extraordinary. All you have to do is open your eyes and redecorate your reality. 	1997 (eka) 	
Vacuum Head 	You can't possibly expect any ideas to come out of your head, if you don't put anything into your head. So be a vacuum head. Yep. That's right. Suck it all up. Take in anything and everything you see, smell, hear, feel, taste or experience. A few paintings, an old movie, some new songs, a row of tulips, a museum, a baseball game, the side of a cereal box, your grandparents. Stuff won’t come out of your head unless you put stuff IN your head. Enough said. Be a vacuum head. 	1997 (eka) 	
Can't 	Have you seen this outlaw... its CAN’T... and it’s bad... real bad. Every time you have a new creative idea... CAN’T rears its ugly little head. Sure it may be disguised as a "you can’t do that," a "mm... it’ll never work," or a "why bother"... but nevertheless, it’s a CAN’T. CAN’T is not only a master of disguise, but armed and dangerous... it can kill a great creative idea in its early stages... and that’s a crime. Get CAN’T off the streets... it’s a menace to society... a danger to you and your creative ideas. CAN’T never could eliminate your limits. 	1997 (eka) 	
Big 	BIG. Think BIG. Actually, don’t just think BIG, think HUMONGOUS, GIGANTIC, CRAZY OUT-OF-CONTROL-KILLER CUCUMBER-THAT-CONQUERED-JAPAN BIG. In other words, e x a g g e r a t e. Besides getting your point across, it can lead to more creative thinking. Cold? My eyeballs are ice cubes and I’m wearing an igloo for underpants! Things can take on a whole new meaning. Imagine if your dog didn’t just have fleas... but 500-pound fleas? Or if your birthday cake... was the size of a swimming pool! Exaggeration is good for the imagination. So think REALLY BIG! 	1997 (eka) 	
Mistake 	Ladies and Gentlemen, it appears there’s been another mistake. But remember, mistakes are code messages from the imagination. Why, America was discovered by mistake. Even the key of G flat was a mistake! So don’t cry over spilled milk. Mistakes happen all the time... Magic happens when you crack the code. 	1997 (eka) 	
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