A Kitty Bobo Show: Cellphones

[ThexDynastxQueen]

I remember voting for this as a little girl and being insanely pissed when it lost. The only thing that kept me watching CN was Toonami after losing Kitty Bobo.

[MzGeisha]

I Love Dante Basco Voice its So Cute ! lol

[uptown710]

Lol even back in 2001 kitty bobo was warning us about using a cellphone while operating a vehicle

[supernerd1103]

Jake Long.

[stickks9875]

Wait a minute was that zuko...

[yummieyummie123]

I like this wayyyy more than the regular show.

[ECL28E]

In my opinion, I liked KND. But this was better.

As a cartoonist, I'm working on my own Kitty bobo drawings, with the hope of turning this into a series

[YouSeeWhatISay]

this was great i cant believe this wasnt a cartoon :S

[kws344]

hipster bobo

[Seston]

either the contest was rigged, or kids in middle america have really poor taste

[mybigwang1]

I remember when CN had a vote to see which cartoon would be aired

[spazzythespaz]

lol the ending was hilarious!

[ss6truks]

Moral lessons learned from this show: Excessive showing off is bad, but friends can also be hypocrites

[ss6truks]

OMG finally found this after years of searching!

[glindathechorusgirl]

Aw, I wish that CN would have produced this show. It's very entertaining. I probably would have liked it better than KND as a kid...

[TouchpadNM]

Holy crap, remember when cell phones were actually bragging rights?

[IWasAPepper]

It reminds me of Regular Show.

[thomaskaaz1]

lol this is so dated. back when having a cell phone was a big deal. i voted for this show. it looked awesome and the art style was very unique. plus dante brasco voice acting? come on, that's awesome.

[TheMakoArts]

I still don't get how the hell this lost to KND. In my opinion KND has always sucked.

[NickSkatees]

@TheMakoArts it actually won but cartoon network thought that KND would have a better turnout but this show had potential

[ChiRocxRhoRin]

Dante Basco voiced Kitty Bobo?

[ss6truks]

@ChiRocxRhoRin Lol i didnt know either, this cartoon just always stuck in my mind but I couldnt remember the name of it for the life of me

[EvilMusman]

now you know what happens when you show the hell off...

hooray 4 karma

[MissFoxxy15]

I remember this show when I was little, but good I finally found that name 8D

[ElegyXD]

yes before texting exististed, it was still IM. these were the good times with the beep beepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbe­ep custom ringtones and digital 2 pixel water screens lit up by one green LED light.. seriously it was

[GabrielBasco]

I still say "ON MY CELL PHONE!" from time to time.

[warvad]

I love the art style.

[Onlyonedch]

lol his dad is a dog

[LotusoftheLeaf]

I remember this! I voted for this show, too! Too bad it didn't win... CN should do something like that again where they air a bunch of pilots and viewers can choose which one gets made into a series next time they want to add a new show. That would avoid adding any more disappointments to their lineup (I'm looking at you, Problem Solverz).

The ending credits always made me think of PaRappa the Rapper. :P

[ss6truks]

@LotusoftheLeaf CN did do that, remember the Wedgies they used to do? Big Baby, Nacho Bear, Cat 22, etc. I think it was a similar effort but each show never took off into a full-fledged series

[zgrillo2004]

I goes to show you never text while driving

[Sadsic]

like specifically that scene in the movie theatre where his cell phone goes on vibrate down the aisle... i JUST thought about that at work the other day

[Sadsic]

holy shit this has been running in the back of my head for over 10 years...

[Retrospectives]

Is there an MP3 of the closing title anywhere? That beat is infectious.

[lifeIsbeautiful94]

Bobo sounds like zuko ^-^

[ECL28E]

@lifeIsbeautiful94 It is Zuko

[swissyode]

its sad this never was turned into a show. with the current style of shows on CN, and the fact that the plot is outdated, this would have a hard time adapting to be a show now... DX

But, they could put it on boomerang and keep the old theme.

since everything on boomerang has age and nostalgia.

[SoEffinLIVE]

There will never be a comprehensible reason as to why this show lost to that lame Kid's Next Door show.

[A88mph]

5:46 - 5:51 texting has really downgraded its gramer sins diz show hazn it :)

[ECL28E]

Bobo: "I must capture Graffiti to restore my honor..."

Paul: "What was that about?"

Bobo: "I dunno. It just felt right"

[Gmancrap]

I would have liked this show much more then KND.  I remember being a kid and thinking "eh, this show is alright when there's nothing else to watch". But this show is really hip and up beat not to mention the animation is amazing.

[omgitzruffles]

i loved this when i was a kid

[warvad]

Oh my god I love every second of this.

[DrTrollinThunder]

God, KND was such a colossal piece of shit. I hope everyone who voted for it gets syphylis.

[Gmancrap]

Watch the pilot for KND. It's not even the least bit funny.

[DarkRoseBlast]

I can't believe this lost to KND. Man this show would have been really good.

[0gunman]

This is why they should have a vote on cartoons.

[swirekster]

Wait, Bobo's dad is a DOG :D

That animation is so unique! BRING IT BACK

[XsbcatfangX]

Zuko's voice.

[HeavensShadowAngle]

Oh god, I remember watching this and all those other potential big picks years ago! How time flies!!! Those were the days of cartoons <3

[DrinkLennyD]

i remember when i was a kid and called the number to vote...Sooo Long Ago..i wish it won.

[A88mph]

@DrinkLennyD I remember voting for KND. Looking back though, now I wish the top 2 won. the funny thing is, is that sheep in the big city came out soon after this, and it did not last long.

So how would this have faired? ah well, so long as this video is not taken down, it will always stay alive thanks to YouTube.

[ECL28E]

when he talks street, it doens't sound natural...he sounds kinda like Eminem's negative

[JeffOpon]

Man I love this. It's funny that Cartoon Network didn't see the appeal of an urbane, slick show for kids back then, and they put on Regular Show now.

[link991]

@JeffOpon It's not that Cartoon Network didn't see the appeal, they did. It's that they had a contest where viewers voted for which pilot they wanted to be made into a series and this came in second place. The winner was Kid's Next Door

[hamursh]

This cartoon is 7 minutes of characters spouting off 90's jargon.

[waverider2600]

@hamursh to be fair, that was present day jargon when it premiered.

[jakelcab]

as soon as this lost, i stopped watching cartoon network

[vzer32xj]

the song at the end is nice i wish i could find the name and stuff

[vzer32xj]

I remember this. def a throwback cartoon

[magipink1]

OMG!!!!!!!!!!! I SO WANTED THIS SHOW TO WN I loved it! I mean come on Oh Man busred he hit me

[numsOic3]

So when was this made? I absolutely cannot tell from the subject matter.

[deidarasenpai009]

i was liek "omg no way..." when i heard prince zuko's voice....

[cavezon16]

Man this shoulda been a show!!!!



[CaptainFalco311]

Ahead of its time by ten years. It mixes Regular Show maturity and older protagonists with a distinct early 2000's vibe.

[DumpsterDiversX2]

I really wish this show had won! I know I voted for it back in the day!

[RTZ38]

I agree. This show would be much better than Codename: Kids Next Door.

[Gmancrap]

Make it a show! 

[ECL28E]

@Gmancrap I'm a cartoonist, myself and i sent my designs of Kitty Bobo and co. to Kevin Kaliher

[ECL28E]

@Gmancrap I go to deviantart. look for, "Ballisticfury" that's my DA profile

[Gmancrap]

Cool, I like your style. I have one also, unkownkilla if I'm correct. Haven't used it in a while but it's still relevent. I would love in any way possible to make this into a show or some kind of comic or anything thing!

[ECL28E]

@Gmancrap Well I'm only 19, so I'm still a beginner.

[Gmancrap]

18 here, and I'm taking college courses.

[ECL28E]

@Gmancrap Same.

[mynameisradar]

this looks like bill oaklys work. who made the carton comedy series mission hill. it comes on every now and again on adult swim. really wish this was a series.

[TheSlickAndroid]

@vmax4991 yeah,it seems like the official rule of television(especially nowadays) is that any thing that has noticeably great quality is immediately canceled. Thats why I'm praying for Young Justice.

[TheSlickAndroid]

0:45 - 0:48

this is when I realized that it was Jake Long/Prince Zuko.

[bladewolf39]

lol Dante Basco is awesome

[000xyz]

Ahhhhhhh an understated foreshadowing of america 10 years into the future

[MutohMech]

Back when CN was still watchable. Oh yeaah.

[mvwil]

that's much better then the problem solvers

[KCG013]

Wow this show is so much better than KND

[TheSlickAndroid]

@KCG013 Yeah,I'm surprised that out of all the great pilots,KND won. I mean sure,later on KND became a great show,but the pilot(and earlier episodes) was really nothing special at all.

[mynameisradar]

has anyone notice that all kitty bobo's friends are taller than him?

[mynameisradar]

i wonder what city this was supose to be based on. it looks like a animated new york but the characters are dressed up like people in san fransico. good show though i use to love it when i was 9

[ZyxthePest]

@mynameisradar I think it was supposed to be Chicago, basing that off the transit system they have.

[Matt10670]

Surprising how easily this could be adapted to present times. Just replace cellphones with iPhones.

I'M TALKING ON MAH I-PHONE!

[mynameisradar]

@Matt10670 im commenting on mah iphone

[Retrospectives]

Where can I find more music like the song in the credits?

[Wolfenchan]

God, I hated this show.

[lavierose34]

>:[ >:[

[ECL28E]

Homies? Da Bomb? Word? 

[ECL28E]

Bobo: I got a cell phone!

Me: I got an iPad, so screw you!

Bobo: ....douche

[madvillain20091]

this show was the shit. please bring show back, i miss this show and i was in middle school when this was showing.

[SpyVsSpyFan95]

HOW THE FUCK DID THIS LOOSE TO CODENAME KIDS NEXT DOOR!?!?!?!?!

[barretm107fan]

dude...u are so correctamundo!

codename kids next door sucks!

[SpyVsSpyFan95]

@barretm107fan

yes it does, this is amazing compared to that!

[WolfTigerHyena]

@sleeksheepfox

I know! They lost to codename kids next door!! What the hell! I would of loved this more than KND! Still brings back so many memories...

[Redonx]

Kevin Kaliher, if you see this comment, PLEASE persist at trying to get this on the air!

I would love nothing more than to see this cartoon back in action.

[Beowulf095]

what a hell his parents are dogs? xD

[sleeksheepfox]

the only reason why i disliked this was because i dislike the fact that it didnt win the contest :(

[StopThatSquirrel]

this show SOOO should have won! it was way better than kids next door.

[TheSlickAndroid]

@StopThatSquirrel A lot of the pilots on the Big Pick we're so good that they REALLY deserved getting their own shows. Sure they had to pick one,but each of the pilots should have at least gradually gotten their own shows in the future. Then we probably would have less crap on CN.

[sexhaie]

@StopThatSquirrel any one of the cartoons would've been better than kids next door.

[zgrillo2004]

@StopThatSquirrel I have to agree with this one. It was actually won by Grim in 1998. i thought KND was good

[BruteForceFilms]

man this show was great, i remember i was in elementary school when this aired, i also miss cartoon cartoons. they shud maybe do this show on like Current TV, TBS, FUSE, or The N.

[Gmancrap]

Hipster cats before hipsters were even a fad. BRILLIANT! Shame this show didn't win.

[cesaralexis23]

BOOOOOOOOOO CARTOON NETWORK

NICKELODEON FOREVER!

[kensuke0]

Cellphones have gone a looooooooooooooooooong way since then.

[AnthonyTheAwesome500]

why didnt this show make it? this was the only episode i saw in back in the day

[Hriskataaa]

are his parents dogs?!

[RyanBrownLI]

I voted for this when I was a kid... too bad it never made it :(

[justinsb2]

LOL OMG I REMEMBER THIS :D

its kinda like mission hill :P

[Carop29]

..........I'm sorry :(

[Carop29]

I like this short but i'm glad kids next door won :/

[Chernobog2]

... how come his parents were dogs?

Anyway, i think the only reason this wasn't picked up by cartoon network was because even though it was really popular at the time, it wouldn't appeal to anyone under the age of 13

[vzer32xj]

@Chernobog2 I said the exact same thing. I had the wtf face on

[ECL28E]

@Chernobog2 it appealed to me and I was like 8 or somethin

[Gmancrap]

Mtv's downtown with cats.

[vzer32xj]

@Gmancrap lmaooo



[dunnamic]

Thanks for the support guys. It's nice to see so many fans still 9 years later!

[lilalaka19]

@dunnamic we love this better than that the problem solvers 

[TaraLC93]

kitty bobo is dante basco

[OhSeamus]

I have to admit I never watched KND, I'm not even sure if it came out in Germany as well, but was put off by the ugly designs. It's so frustrating that it got chosen over Kitty Bobo because the character design is really appealing. even after so many years it's still fresh and innovating. I would do anything to bring this back and make this a real show...

[breerex123]

reminds me of Mission Hill

[DRaider90]

The reason why this show didn't win I think was the art work. I seriously think it was a turn off, I mean not for me I was fine with it, but for other people it was.

[TheRcanmeananything]

I remember this way back when it was on the Cartoon Network Summerfest. I wanted it to win sooooooo badly!

[FidelioRoo]

awesome animation, lame writing

[Lordofthepastries]

Back in 2000, before I knew cellphones even existed

[MutohMech]

Wow, when I saw this video at my Recommended for You box at the main page, all my long lost childhood memories of old cartoon shows like this one came back to me. Thank you a lot, sir! :0

[XAJanaeX]

Dante Basco :D I love how this short is still so relevant. Except now it's either a blackberry or iphone or droid.

Wait--is his dad a dog?

[HeyWheresKel]

@XAJanaeX Yeah, the guy who made Kitty Bobo has this blog where he explains how Kitty Bobo was adopted by dogs and all that stuff.

[Gmancrap]

Can I get a link to that?

[246playgames]

it sounds like Dante Basco because it is him ( check credits )

[xLexC7x]

His voice sounds fimilar..



[likeasthemost]

LOL Dante Basco.

[illethereal]

Codename Kids Next Door got chosen over THIS?? Oh, HELL no!

[TWill800]

Damn I wish they made this show instead of KND

[jaydotking]

TIME SQUAD FORVERRRRRR!!!!!

(stop hating)

[eqwertyuio925]

why are kitty bobo's parent's dogs?  Might've been adopted.

[eqwertyuio925]

@ObiTrev needs to shut the fuck up about this show. This show would been way more better than all 3 of those old shows combined.

[Ulalafanboy]

I loved this cartoon when it first appeared and still love it. I was so upset when Codename Kids Next Door was chosen. That show is so boring.

[ObiTrev]

Oh I hated this short, it sucked so bad, it was like a long drawn out of Suck-Teen. I'm glad Kids Next Door won, or Megas XLR, or Sheep in The Big City, whichever it was this time.

[DarkChocolatePope]

What kind of furry wet dream is this?

[sakurasfullofcats]

Prince Zuko OMG xD

[JohnnyStorm1993]

"Oh hey baby" LOL that's a classic xD

[josesan2504]

Cartoon Network el MTV?

[SpamNapkin]

man my cousin and I loved this. It should have won.

[FluffyIvy]

Thats the voice of Zuko from Avatar XD

[SilverZeo88]

Wait, ti was in 2nd, but Grim and Evil got to be made? As well as Sheep in the Big City?

[zackfair73195]

Haha I did love Kids Next Door but I do think that this should have also been made into a cartoon also.

[Poxell91]

Kitty Bobo lost to fucking Kids Next Door. This would have been so much better.

[birdsandbugs1]

Anyone know the name of the Big Pick show with the bear, monkey, cat and turtle where they try to beat the hot dog eating record?

[Poxell91]

@birdsandbugs1 Utica Cartoon

[TB4000]

Hipster furries. You know I love it.

[AGR04]

OMG I remember watching this when it first aired when I was 7 and since then, I always thought about it. I think it was this that got me obsessed with cats!

Anyway, this cartoon totally rocks and I was sad to see that it only had one episode.

[ChickenNggetMan]

monkey carl FTW

[KimeramonRocks]

Furries?

[XxAmayaSanxX]

I love this. <3

[Desimodontidae]

Quinton Flynn, FTW!!

[TheVenomz]

kitty bobo was ahead of its time. People really are stuck to their cellphones today. What a shame it didn't make it.

[yoshu2]

tell me about it when i was like 11 when they did the voting thing i was pissed they didnt even think about picking this show up it was unique and it would of kept me glued to it

[SpamNapkin]

this was done around the time everyone had those big-ass Nokias and text messaging was brand-new. I can't say I miss those annoying beeping ringtones.

[trika91]

Why are kitty bobo's parents dogs, did they adopt?

[jslash79]

i remember seeing this cartoons original airing. it was way before it's time.

[Nikima18]

This is actually kind of cute. ^^

I like how artsy the backgrounds are.