Younger and Junior Versions of Cartoon Characters - One-off Parodies

One-off Parodies

Several more adult TV series have ridiculed the concept and created more mocking parodies of the idea that lasted only one episode:

• Garfield and Friends briefly parodied the idea in the short "The Automated Animated Adventure", where Mr. Sprocket, a cartoon producer fiddles around with Garfield's appearance, at one point turning him into a baby and saying that it's part of "the newest trend in cartoon shows".

• Part of an episode of Homestar Runner spoofed the concept, mainly as all of the characters as babies and "imagining" being something else a la Muppet Babies, such as baby Coach Z tossing a cardboard box (which says "not a ball!") with an actual football right next to him and "pretending he is the captain of the football team."

• A third season episode of Drawn Together (Comedy Central, 2007) called "Drawn Together Babies" features the characters as toddlers to spoof the theme of younger versions of cartoon characters. The episode's introduction is also a parody of the Muppet Babies opening theme (with the song also taking elements from the theme to Happy Days).

• Family Guy (Fox, 2007): In an episode called "Family Guy Viewer Mail 1", the characters are shown in a skit as children in elementary school as a parody of The Little Rascals.

• Wonder Showzen (Augenblick Studios) did an extreme parody of the concept, mostly of Muppet Babies featuring all the major Wonder Showzen puppets, even a disturbing parody of Nanny.