Go! Cartoons

Go! Cartoons, stylized as GO! Cartoons, is a web series of animated shorts produced by Frederator Studios and Sony Pictures Animation. The series premiered on November 7, 2017, with the short The Summoning.^[1] It features 12 shorts, airing on VRV and Cartoon Hangover's YouTube channel.^[2][3] Go! Cartoons is Frederator Studios' sixth cartoon "incubator" series since 1998.^[4]

Go! Cartoons
Genre	Variety
Created by	Fred Seibert
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of episodes	12
Production
Executive producer	Fred Seibert
Producers	Kevin Kolde Eric Homan
Running time	5 minutes
Production companies	Frederator Studios Sony Pictures Animation
Original release
Network	YouTube (Cartoon Hangover)
Release	November 7, 2017 (2017-11-07) – April 10, 2018 (2018-04-10)

Description

Go! Cartoons showcases animated shorts and is designed to find "tomorrow’s cartoon hitmakers".^[5] Each cartoon short can act as a pilot, with the most successful cartoons having an opportunity to be produced as a full series on Cartoon Hangover or elsewhere. Several animated television series have started in similar incubator-type formats, including Adventure Time and Bee and PuppyCat.

The project began in 2014 when Frederator Studios and Sony Pictures Animation called for pitches from animators around the world. Twelve five-minute shorts were produced, and one would become a limited series on Cartoon Hangover.^[6] As of September 1, 2023, none of the shorts have become a series. However, on February 7, 2025, it was announced that The Summoning will be released as a three-part graphic novel series published by Oni Press. The Summoning Volume One: The Art of the Craft will be published on October 7, 2025.^[7][8]

Filmography

Main article: Frederator cartoon shorts filmography

List of episodes

No.	Title	Directed by	Created and Written by	Storyboard by	Release date	Ref
1	"The Summoning"	Natasha Allegri	Elyse Castro	Natasha Allegri	November 7, 2017 (2017-11-07)	[9]
Claire the witch needs troll fat for her brew, so she ends up going on an adventure with her cat Edgar.
2	"Boots"	Larry Huber	David Cowles & Alison Cowles	David Cowles & Alison Cowles	November 21, 2017 (2017-11-21)	[10]
Boots desires the chair discarded by her neighbor Chad, but does not want him to notice.
3	"City Dwellers"	Grant Kolton	Grant Kolton	Grant Kolton	December 5, 2017 (2017-12-05)	[11]
Dog walkers Bruce and Biff are asked by Nina to avoid certain areas since her dog Marty is a ninja. When they get distracted by a sandwich shop, Marty goes on the loose, and they have to retrieve him.
4	"Rachel and Her Grandfather Control the Island"	Jonni Peppers	Jonni Peppers	Jonni Peppers	December 19, 2017 (2017-12-19)	[12]
Rachel and her grandfather want to take over the island by installing surveillance equipment robots out of their trash cans, but they first have to convince the president to get rid of the law banning trash cans.
5	"Nebulous"	Larry Huber	Brent Sievers	Brent Sievers	January 2, 2018 (2018-01-02)	[13]
A trio of space delivery folks stop by a grease planet for food.
6	"Welcome to Doozy"	Kathleen Good	Kate Tsang & Jennifer Suhr	Angelica Russell	January 16, 2018 (2018-01-16)	[14]
Ex tries to impress her work crush Skeletim with a bento, but when it gets enchanted by her friend Lou, it becomes an out-of-control monster.
7	"Both Brothers"	Larry Huber	Juris Lisovs	Juris Lisovs	January 30, 2018 (2018-01-30)	[15]
Brothers Tod and Klod are upset that the snow park is closed because the weather is too nice, so they tell the sun to go away. However, when the sun does just that, it gets really cold and the crowd becomes angry. The two brothers try to apologize to the sun.
8	"The Bagheads: Get Trashed"	Michelle Bryan	D.R. Beitzel	Jojo Baptista	February 13, 2018 (2018-02-13)	[16][17] {{[19]}}
Paperbag-faced siblings Artemis and Elbow compete over who has to take out the trash using the rule that if their addition to the trash stack falls to the floor they lose.
9	"Tyler & Co."	Gabe Janisz	Gabe Janisz	Justin Noel	February 27, 2018 (2018-02-27)	[18][19][20]
Tyler the Liger has a enough box tops to become the Mayor of Cereal Town, but he needs to find a way out of the house that has been locked by its upside down door to mail them in.
10	"Kid Arthur"	Larry Huber	Joel Veitch & David Shute	David Shute	March 13, 2018 (2018-03-13)	[21]
Arthur and his friend/arch-nemesis Mordred continue their battle while trying to do a test in school.
11	"Thrashin' USA"	Tom King	Rory Panagotopulos	Tom King	March 27, 2018 (2018-03-27)	[22]
While on his way to the skate park, skater Pau gets trapped in his grumpy next door neighbor Mrs. Tracy's house and is force to do her skateboard arena of death by her.
12	"Pottyhorse"	Damien Barchowsky & Jeff Drake	Damien Barchowsky & Jeff Drake	Damien Barchowsky	April 10, 2018 (2018-04-10)	[23][19][24]
Pottyhorse the town's sheriff and only toilet has to find a way to stop a poopsteorid from hitting the town.

See also

• Wow Unlimited Media, a Canadian-American animation organization and Frederator Networks, Inc. holding company.
• Bee and PuppyCat, a cartoon series that started as an animated short from Frederator Studios.