Cartoon Network Invaded

Cartoon Network Invaded was a 2007 crossover TV event that featured five of Cartoon Network's original cartoons being invaded by one alien invasion. Featuring five different episodes from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Ed, Edd n Eddy, My Gym Partner's a Monkey, Camp Lazlo, and The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy.

## Episodes

### **Chapter 1- Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Cheese A-Go-Go**

airdate: May 4th

The episode begins with Frankie delivering four different colored boxes at the post office (all four of them appear separately in the other episodes), while delivering, she was talking to Madame Foster on her phone. Cheese was at the post office as well and he was saying "Gotta Go" various times. While Frankie was driving the Foster's Bus around the streets, Cheese shows up again and continues to say "Gotta Go", while saying it, Cheese causes havoc and car crashes on the road. Frankie picks Cheese up from the road and takes him to the Foster's Bus. They arrive at a movie cinema, where Mac was waiting for her to pick up Bloo. Inside of the movie theater, Cheese continues to wreak havoc. Bloo was watching an alien movie while Frankie is looking for him. Later they stop at the dentist to pick up Eduardo, Coco was there and she was mad at Frankie for being late. Eduardo was acting weird and dizzy. Bloo picks up a magazine and reads it, while reading it, he saw a picture of an alien that completely resembles Cheese, making him believe that he is an alien, at the Foster's Bus, Bloo tries to prove Mac that Cheese is an alien by showing him a picture of alien that looks exactly like him while, but Mac didn't believed him. Meanwhile, Madame Foster was at a law court and she was suing Jackie Khones for eating her tuna sandwich, Wilt also appears there but as Madame Foster's defendant.

## Themes/Connections between the episodes

As a crossover event, the episodes share various connections/themes with the others.

### **Three eyed crab aliens- the alien specie of the event**

* Cheese A-Go-Go: There was a three eyed crab alien as a disguise from an alien movie.
* The Eds are Coming, The Eds are Coming: There was a three eyed crab alien with tentacles as a silhouette of a octopus hat from Rolf.
* That Darn Platypus- Rick the platypus transforms into his true specie, three eyed crab alien.
* Strange Trouts from Outer Space- the three eyed crab alien shares the same design as the one from My Gym Partner's a Monkey.
* Billy and Mandy Moon the Moon- The three eyed crab aliens from the special had 1930's cartoon gloves.

### **Cheese- The alien's evil plan to steal cheese**

* Cheese A-Go-Go: Bloo contacts the aliens to take Cheese from earth, which causes the alien invasions in the other cartoons.
* The Eds are Coming, The Eds are Coming: A giant ball of cheese shaped like a meteor popped out of Rolf's house and crash landed on the Cul-De-Sac playground.
* That Darn Platypus- Rick Platypus was eating cheese on Adam's locker, referencing the aliens' plan to steal cheese.
* Strange Trouts from Outer Space- The aliens told Samson that they want cheese.
* Cheese Orbs- The aliens go to Acorn Flats to get some cheese.
* Billy and Mandy Moon the Moon: The aliens took cheeses from earth and spray cheese out of their armpits.

### **UFO- various UFOS with the same design appear on each episode.**

* Cheese A-Go-Go: There was a UFO on a movie poster.

* The Eds are Coming, The Eds are Coming: A giant UFO carried the Cul-De-Sac away.
* That Darn Platypus- The UFOS with the same resemblance appeared on the School security cameras.
* Strange Trouts from Outer Space- The UFO is exactly the same as the one from Ed, Edd n Eddy.
* Billy and Mandy Moon the Moon- One of the UFOS abduct Billy and Sperg.

### **Shapeshifting: the aliens can shape shift into one another**

* The Eds are Coming, The Eds are Coming: Ed attacks Double D by saying "I can see through your disguise, aliens from the unknown!"
* That Darn Platypus- Rick shape shifts into a three eye crab alien.
* Strange Trouts from Outer Space- One of the pink/purple aliens shape shift into a fish.
* Billy and Mandy Moon the Moon- The aliens turn into werewolves at full moon.

### **Frankie's boxes**

* Cheese A-Go-Go: At the beginning of the episode, Frankie was delivering four different colored boxes to the post office and each of them were sent in the other episodes.
* The Eds are Coming, The Eds are Coming: The big purple box with white stripes came in Jimmy's mail.
* That Darn Platypus- The pink box with a white square appeared on Adam's locker.
* Strange Trouts from Outer Space- Clam was holding the green box Frankie had in the beginning of Cheese-A-Go-Go.
* Billy and Mandy Moon the Moon- The big blue box Frankie had was delivered to Dr. Braniac, Billy's action figure that came to life by the aliens.

### **Brain juices removal of characters with Stupidity at the first ending.**

* Cheese from Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends
* Ed from Ed, Edd n Eddy
* Slips from My Gym Partner's a Monkey
* Skip from Camp Lazlo
* Fred FredBurger from The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy

## Other Trivia about each episode

### **Cheese A-Go-Go**

* This, along with Infernal Slumber, were the only episodes of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends that do not take place at Foster's.
* This was the first episode in Fosters to be produced in a 16:9 widescreen format, but it was still cropped in 4:3 fullscreen when the episode aired.
* Cheese A-Go-Go first aired on the same day Marvel's Spider Man 3 was released on theaters.

### **The Eds are Coming**

* This was the only one out of the three Ed, Edd n Eddy TV specials to not be released on iTunes, due to it beginning with the series' opening credits and its own title card.

## Endings

After Billy and Mandy Moon the Moon aired, There were two endings for the event, one of them was alternate ending, I don't know what it was. Both aliens involved the alien from Billy and Mandy Moon the Moon.

### **First ending**

An unnamed alien general military was disappointed at his troops for failing the plan of stealing cheeses from earth. The aliens decided to rebuild the moon by spraying cheeses out of their armpits. Meanwhile, the Kids Next Door (from Codename: Kids Next Door) were playing an unnamed video game at the KND Moon base. Numbuh 1 asked his friends "Does anyone smell any cheese in here?", then Numbuh 2 told them to not look at him because he didn't do anything wrong.

## Trivia

* Billy and Mandy Moon the Moon used to be available to stream on the official Cartoon Network streaming app on April 2020.

## 2020 cartoon community collaboration

In 2020, cartoon YouTubers (from the cartoon community) made a six part collaboration made as a tribute to Cartoon Network Invaded.

Part 1- Invaded: Cartoon Network's Secret City Finale- by The Roundtable

Part 2- Foster's Hidden Alien character?- by Mr.Nostalgia

Part 3- Ed, Edd n Eddy's alien abduction- by Mann of a Thousand Thoughts.

Part 4-"That Darn Platypus" My Gym Partner's a Monkey episode review- by Toonarific Tariq

Part 5- A Samson episode (Camp Lazlo)- by KashCash

Part 6- Cartoon Network's alien endgame- Hats off to Billy and Mandy Moon the Moon- by Hats Off Media

Full length version- INVADED! A CN Invaded Retrospective