Peanuts specials. This came after Coca-Cola asked Mendelson if he had a Christmas special. He said "yes." The next day he called Schulz up and said they were making "A Charlie Brown Christmas". The animated version of "Peanuts" differs in some aspects from the strip. In the strip, adult voices are heard, though conversations are usually only depicted from the children's end. To translate this aspect to the animated medium, the sound of a trombone with a solotone mute (created by Vince Guaraldi played by Dean Hubbard) was used to simulate adult "voices." A more significant deviation from the strip was
What a Cartoon! What a Cartoon! Show" was relaunched as "The Cartoon Cartoon Show". In this new format, it aired reruns and new episodes of the full-series Cartoon Cartoons, as well as new Cartoon Cartoon shorts and old "WAC!" shorts. From 2000 to 2001, the pilot shorts appearing on the network's viewer's poll that lost to "The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy" and "" (except for "Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?") were added to the anthology. The show continued to air until October 9, 2003, when it was temporarily dropped from the network's schedule. On September 12, 2005, "The Cartoon Cartoon Show"