The Adventures of Tintin (TV series) slightly downplayed and he scolded his dog Snowy less often than he did in the books. Twice in the series, Tintin is portrayed as knowing various characters already (Thomson and Thompson and Allan in "Cigars of the Pharaoh" and Piotr Skut in "The Red Sea Sharks"), when it was the first time they had met in the book version. On these occasions Tintin had already interacted with these characters in the TV series, as stories were shown in a sequence different from the books. Haddock's penchant for whiskey posed a problem for audience sensitivities. While the original books did not
What a Cartoon! ended on June 1, 2008. In 2007, reruns of "What a Cartoon!" played briefly on Cartoon Network's retro animation sister channel, Boomerang. "What A Cartoon!" is the 1st short cartoon incubator created by Fred Seibert. Starting with WAC! and continuing throughout his cartoon career, his Frederator Studios has persisted in the tradition of surfacing new talent, characters, and series with several cartoon shorts "incubators," including (as of 2016): "What A Cartoon!" (Cartoon Network, 1995), Nickelodeon/Nicktoons' own "Oh Yeah! Cartoons" (1998), "Nicktoons Film Festival" (2004), "Random! Cartoons" (2008), "The Meth Minute 39" (Channel Frederator, 2008), "The Cartoonstitute" (Cartoon Network, 2009/unfinished), "Too