Remember Smosh's Failed Cartoon Channel? 

do you remember shut up cartoons, and if so leave a like if u love smosh babies :)

People put more effort into analyzing old Smosh videos than Smosh did making them

A fun fact is Oushi High school battles theme was made by blood on the dance floor. which is a band known for its many many controversys, and crimes

honestly I have a lot of respect for Smosh doing this. they took a huge risk and gave a chance for a ton of artists to shine.

I remember watching Oishi highschool battle religiously as an admittedly too young child. In fact Oishi was my first huge fictional crush and i mean REALLY HUGE. I remember every time she would come on screen or just enter my mind my heart would start beating faster. Keep in mind i was only like 4-5 when this was happening.

I just assumed Oishi High School Battle was just a collective fever dream we all had for so long

There's not a lot of statements that brings more dread to my friend group than "Smosh Babies"..... It's a stain on this world.

Smosh did a show where planets talk!? How did we ever miss that!?

Remembering Shut Up Cartoons feels like remembering a past life

Smosh is a prime example of biting off more than you could chew, it was impressive that they tried to make their projects work, but in the end it's all forgotten.

I used to watch smosh babies and I believe where everything started going wrong in my life

As a girl who was going through puberty around the time Pubertina debuted, yes. It was very relatable and I loved it. Definitely helped that it had a few somewhat edgy jokes (at least in the mind of a 10-year-old) sprinkled in, so I felt like a badass for watching it.

Dude, I can't even begin to tell you how obsessed I was with Teleporting Fat Guy, Oishi, Alfred and Poe, and smosh babies when I was a kid. I'm kind of glad I forgot a lot of that stuff though. It's nice to know my taste has refined somewhat with age.

I'll give Oishi Highschool Battle credit for this, the jock characters were absolutely hilarious

I'm actually happy someone is talking about this channel, this was my childhood and I love some of these shows, thanks Mark

47:14 Mark calling Super Smash Bros. a niche fighting game nearly gave me a brain aneurysm. Like, even my grandma knows what Smash Bros is

I unironically found Pubertina VERY relatable (Show aired when I was 12 and had just started puberty) and I adored the animation And Oishi High School Battle.... man I still remember that opening theme. I both wanted to be her and wanted to be WITH her

Seeing pubertina and oishi high school just unlocked some of my deepest childhood memories

Oishi High School Battle was their flagship series, at least it was until everything was taken down. Ambitious live action/anime concept for a webshow, with big 2010 breets.

I won't lie I made sure I was ALWAYS up to date with smosh babies. it had such a chokehold on me. It is definitely much worse than I remember it being

Pubertina was my childhood man! It helped normalize how awkward puberty is, and how that’s normal.

I watched Ouishi Highschool Battle a lot back when I was hardcore into anime. I remember one episode being hilarious and that's when Ouishi got detention for bringing her dog noodle to school and the world ended and then time kept reversing until she could make sure the world didn't end it was pretty funny in my opinion.🤣

Oishi High School Battle is what brought me to Shut Up! Cartoons. Good times.

It's kind of insane to think back on just how astronomically popular Smosh was. Even by today's standards their fame was another level. Being able to get numerous movies plus this insane amount of shows, plus their games and merch? Smosh was an empire and its reach into other media is still far beyond even the most famous RU-vidrs now. As cringe as it has become, they are a founding block of RU-vid and most creators even now can probably trace their influences back to Smosh.

Holy shit you somehow put into words how I feel about zombies in media with the gamer shirt thing, it’s so real and I can’t explain why 😭

Oh man. I remember never missing a single episode in the early days of Shut Up Cartoons. Especially Zombies vs Ninjas.

Alfred and Poe's "Heisen-bird" joke is the best joke ever made, it made me bawl on the floor crying and laughing. I showed my dad this joke and he had started erratically flipping and flopping on the floor, and despite the amazing humor of Alfred and Poe the animation of Alfred and Poe is just as, if not better than said animation. I find the animation and humor better than most tv shows today and as well as the other "Shut Up!" cartoons. But if you're a simpleton and do not get the joke Alfred is referencing the AMC show Breaking Bad, El Camino, and Better Call Saul, as they all include the character known as Heisenberg. The show revolves around a over-qualified high school chemistry teacher named Walter White who is played by Brian Cranston, during the first episode he gets cancer, and to afford treatment he must go into the meth business with his former student Jesse Pinkman played by Aaron Paul. In Conclusion, Alfred and Poe's "Heisen-bird" joke is hysterical joke that uses a reference to the hit AMC show Breaking Bad but FUCK SUPER SMOSH, Super Smosh plays a cliche topic and plays it to its most cliche resolution, most of the jokes are just "reference!" and if you don't get the reference the joke is terrible and even if you get said reference it's not a good joke. Anyway in conclusion well again, Alfred and Poe's "Heisen-bird" joke is hysterical joke that uses a reference to the hit AMC show Breaking Bad but FUCK SUPER SMOSH

My roommate & I watched Oishi High School Battle back when we moved in together for a second time, we lived in a three bedroom apartment 2013-2014 but we barely spent time with each other. When the third person left, we downgraded to a two bedroom apartment & hung out far more, she introduced me to Oishi High School Battle & we binge watched the whole series together. I can still recall that late summer of 2014 when she cosplayed as Oishi to a con we went to together, nobody knew who she was & that's when we first learned about Five Nights at Freddy's & jumped off of bonding over Oishi to FNAF. Still, I won't forget that small point in time when the two of us watched it together, it's such a shame it has been removed because it's been enough years since I've seen it to forget a lot of what's happened, would be nice going back & watching it again & remember spending time with that friend given we don't talk anymore but I do miss her.

I loved Oishi High School Battle and I had completely forgotten about it until now. It's cool to see how many actually interesting and experimental things they did, they clearly wanted this channel to be used as a way to platform cool artists making silly things and I think even though a lot of the shows weren't that successful, they succeeded in lifting up some artists that may not have been platformed otherwise

SHUT UP (Smosh reference)!!!

As someone who still revisits Shut Up Cartoons somewhat often for the nostalgia, I’m glad Mark is actually pretty fair with them and admits when they are impressive for their time and as just free RU-vid shows. By no means is any show perfect, but I think in comparison to what was on RU-vid at the time and the fact these were regularly uploaded fully animated shorts, I think the better of the bunch are actually still pretty enjoyable till this day (well… besides Samurai Daycare…) I know it would have been much easier to just make fun of Shut Up Cartoons and nobody would have really questioned it- so I appreciate actually giving an honest opinion and giving the shows a chance.

And now Ian & Anthony have bought back Smosh \0/ Though this definitely won't be coming back. I think it's pretty common knowledge nowadays that Shut Up Cartoons was a product of the company that owned Smosh and not the duo themselves, more-so something they were contractually obligated to pursue The sad truth is that everything here accredited to Smosh or to Ian & Anthony just wasn't a choice they made, Smosh's behind the scenes decisions were largely in the control of the Parent Company because of how things played out. It really is sad what Defy Media did to the duo and it's even worse how they just left a bunch of people unemployed afterwards after scamming so many. It's great that the company as a whole was saved by Rhett and Link and even better that now after over a decade the duo themselves own the company and have full creative control again.

That final fantasy 7 joke sent me. It was so unfunny but the delivery fucking KILLED

I feel like the “With Zombies” show could’ve been done well if the premise was that Zombies had built society back up but then the whole main family was psychotic killers trying to “stop the zombies”

As someone who had seen the Teleporting Fat Guy sketch way back in the day, I really enjoyed him getting his own miniseries.

Ashamed to admit that Oishi made my heart race as a 10 year old

This shit developed my sense of humor and general personality when i was younger and i dont know if i should be grateful or angry about it

I like how you make a 7 hour video, then next week casually drop a 1 hour long video

Ian and Anthony have mentioned that during their time with Defy they were constantly being forced to take on more and more projects, like the movie, games, and this. So yeah, they didn't really care. Defy just wanted to have their fingers in every pie.

One of the biggest mysteries of my whole childhood was the status of an unreleased Shut Up Cartoon called Comical Spill. There was like, 5 seconds of footage of it in the Shut Up Cartoons announcement trailer, and like, nothing else seems to exist of it online.

Should’ve known I was bi when I loved ouishi high school battle and thought she was ‘pretty’ when I was like 10/11 Still her outfit is everything would kill for an irl version of her platform boots

Oishi High School Battle was the one show I remember watching the most out of all of them. I still think the show is rather decent despite how overly played out the whole "LOL, them Japanese cartoons be so random and weird" satire is.

I met Zach before in a parking lot of a Grocery Store, he actually went up to my window to talk to me. He told me he noticed that I was talking on the phone and was wondering if I was talking about him, I kindly told him no but that I loved his animations and his little lets plays, he seemed very flattered even chuckled a few times, he wanted it to be clear that he's not naturally like how he is when he's doing comedy. I told him that I was aware and that I loved his style of humor. He would occasionally ask me about what I was saying on the phone and if it related to him and how I perceive his style of humor, I confirmed that it was nothing about him and he just insisted that I don't have to lie about anything and that he wouldn't get offended. I kept assuring him that my phone call had nothing to do with talking about him and he would just nod his head and say, "Okay, ah okay, I see". Whenever we're just about to talk about something else he would bring up my phone call again saying things like, "Listen man, I trust that you weren't talking bad about me on your cellphone, but I swear -- this could just be me, but... I could swear you were looking at me while you were on the phone and I saw you chuckle.. but you know... it could just be me thinking things, I sorta have OCD and it's really hard to control, so could I just check out the recent calls and maybe any texts?" I'm personally a private guy when it comes to my phone, I didn't want to say no to Zach, I'd try to change the subject and he'd even get more antsy, saying things like, "Okay man... look, I get that you don't want anyone on your phone, I get it, but it makes me feel like you're trying to hide something from me, I mean man... look, I promise not to look at your pictures or anything, I'm just... come on, dude... I'll draw you a hellbender if you let me just look." I was getting a bit uncomfortable, and Zach was starting to get red and sweated bullets, he'd keep tapping on my windshield with his palm when he would say, "I swear" "look" and other things, I just relented and handed him the phone. He was having trouble turning it on while saying, "How the... uhh... how the fuck do you get this thing on, just real quick man..." Thankfully the phone was dead and he honestly handed it back to me and said, "I know by looking in your eyes that you are no liar, for 20 years I was lost and I honestly think that Jesus lifted my life around and brought me to a good man like you, you're an honest guy, I respect that." I just smiled and nodded. As he's wiping his nose and sniffling, a man and woman walk by and he quickly turns around and ask them, "Hey who are you? What are you doing??!" The guy replied with "what?" and Zach was asking them if they know me, I told him I didn't know them, he just glanced at me and went right back to staring them down, practically ignoring me. The couple gave him a weird look and shook their head and said "Uh..no". Zach just laughed and said, "Ahh okay, just checking, you never know with what's happening in this world today, ha ha! Hey do you both think my friend here is a trusting soul? I tell you he's got Jesus in his heart man!" The couple were weirded out and walked off. All of a sudden Zach just got enraged at the two walking away and screamed, "WELL YOU DON'T GOTTA BE A FUCKING DICK" "DON'T TEST ME MOTHERFUCKER, I'M NOT IN THE MOOD." I swear to god I was getting terrified and at that moment Zach started to adjust his pants and I saw a gun sticking out of his waistband, I thought I was going to die, honestly. What was the most scariest moment is that he noticed me looking at his gun, he turned around and gave me a cheeky smile and said, "Don't worry about it my man, I have it on me for self defense, I want.. nah I dare some motherfucker start shit with me." This was all in 10 minutes but felt like hours. He then went on a tirade about the movie fast and furious or some shit, I was too busy preparing for the moment this psychotic fuck planting a bullet in my brain, so I went along with anything he said, at the end he asked me, "Hey man, by the way I'm not doing so good financially could you give me some money so I could probably walk to a Circle K to get a fountain drink?" I took out my wallet and offered 5 dollars and asked him if that was good enough. He seemed genuinely pleased and said, "Oh hell yeah man! That's perfect! I knew Jesus brought me here for a reason, you gave something to me now I give something back to you." That's when Zach started reading off passages from the bible and made comparisons with the passages he read and some scenes from the fast and furious. When we said our goodbyes I sobbed for a good hour thanking the lord that this maniac didn't harm me, I love his cartoons but meeting the man in person was terrifying, I look back on this encounter as a learning experience and I became a stronger person for it.

LS Mark, I cant tell you enough how good this video is but the "shut up" will never not be the single most annoying thing I have ever experienced

I remember watching Smosh Babies because I loved smosh back then. I completely forgot about Smosh Babies & all of Shut Up Cartoons until now

Smosh babies was literally my favorite smosh cartoon

It seems like so long ago when i last watched Smosh, respect to them as they were the first channel (to my knowledge) to be so experimental, before RU-vid was as business oriented as they are today. I only remember Oishi High School and Smosh Babies but not alot of people remember SU cartoons.

I really admire how Smosh just started thier own cartoon network. Now you mention it I remember thinking Really Freakin Embarrassing looked terrible, then watching one episode and loving it so much I watched the rest in an afternoon.

I didn't watch most of these but God, going through all these remind me just how charming early RU-vid animation was. Everyone was just a bunch of amateurs yet Smosh paid them to produce content. There were no high expectations and everyone just made what they thought was funny or cool. I love how far we've come, but it's nice to go back and see how it all started and see how many of them kicked off people's careers. Great video.

I will always thank Planets for being one of the reasons I got into astronomy

"Just put me in a jar and it'll be all good", exists in my head rent free. It will never leave, and I can't forget about it. I didn't remember a single scene from TFG, but that line never leaves.

i think about oishi high school battle when i’m trying to fall asleep and start thinking about everything

Oishi highschool battle will forever hold a special place in my heart. I loved it as a kid and still think it has some good aspects. It's also creative.

Smosh was GOATED in it's day. The decline of everything they build is genuinely a tragedy.

this inspired me to watch the whole 35 minutes of the krogzilla series (lol) and it’s really sweet and won’t ever not be a good message. based in realism and anyone with a job can relate. if they went heavier on marketing I feel like that takes off. wasn’t drawn out either. surprisingly a really good show

Did you know? Both Krogzilla was nominated for the same award Dos and Donts was nominated for. And God Squad was also nominated for a short film award from the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts! (Also, the reason as to why the pacing of both With Zombies and An OK Place To Eat was so segmented is because they were first made as full pilots that were segmented into 5/10 parts when airing on Shut Up Cartoons)

I remember when this channel came out, I was a huge smosh fan when I was little. Seeing the announcement got me excited. I used to watch every cartoon that came out. I personally didn't like smosh babies. Looking back on the shows as an adult...yeah there's a lot of stuff that really isnt much to write home about, some of these weren't that bad, just not as amazing as I remembered when i was little. Nowadays I actually like krogzilla, do's n don'ts, planets, and im mixed here and there with zombies vs ninjas. I did personally enjoy Life's a zoo. The most lazy thing I noticed from the channel was that An Okay Place to Eat was just a pilot someone made and the channel got the rights and seperated the pilot into 10 episodes. You can still find the pilot alone on youtube. I was a huuuuge Oishi fan back then when it came out. I used to draw so much fan art and one of my fan comics got attention from the creators o.o Daniel Dominguez was the guy who contacted me and told me they loved my fan comic so much that they wanted to add 2 of my cartoon characters in the background in rhe origins trilogy. When the 3rd origins episode came out I saw my characters on the far right with Oishi's Classmates. Boi was that a trip in my past. Thanks for making this vid Mark ^^

I remember lowkey liking Oishi Highschool battle back in the day, can't say I remember much from it though.

27:16 That's actually incorrect, Oishi Origins was produced after Season 1, and then the show was picked up for Seasons 2&3

I knew I was gonna recognise Oishi, but Pubertina and Life's a Zoo really unlocked something. God I loved Pubertina

I honestly miss early 2010s RU-vid. I can’t imagine a channel like this existing these days.

This is the first time I've ever heard of Shut Up Cartoons and honestly I'm glad I watched this video :) Because it led me to God Squad which happens to be right up my alley. An interesting art style, large cast of characters, really good voice actors, a bit of crude humor but not to the point of taking away from the story, a mystery, little bit of violence, and to tie it all together, poking fun at religious figures. It reminded me a lot of Clone High, and I think it's a good series if you're in the target demographic. Also I loved the video and will be checking out more of your content :) I hope whoever's reading this has a good day.

Smash Bros Ultimate has sold the most individual units of any fighting game, it's the 3rd best-selling game on Switch, and is in the top 30 best-selling games of all time. I wouldn't exactly call it niche

honestly didn’t expect planets to be so well rated

I remember watching Oishi High School battle over and over again, idk why I was obsessed.💀

I unironically LOVED Pubertina, Planets, and Life's a zoo ( I still want another season sooooo bad)

1:01:30 LS Mark:*mentions Blood Red* Me: Now that's a name I haven't heard in long time

I think I completely repressed any memory of shut up cartoons And that memory was brought back because someone pointed out that one of the Jermas from his “who will replace me” stream was in a shut up cartoon

I think an initiative to produce and platform independent RU-vid animations wasn't really a bad idea at all, but there were definitely some huge mistakes made. The big one for me is branding it around Smosh and pandering to only that demographic, which clearly pigeonholed them and made it really hard to try anything new and experimental. The upload schedule was also very demanding and I'm sure set back quality control a long ways, and they obviously didn't know what their long term plans for syndication were. I would have loved to see something like this succeed, perhaps like a more low budget, indie version of what Cartoon Hangover was trying to do back in the day

If you wanna see something like nature breaks but waaay more fun to watch i recommend creature comforts! instead of being prewritten and read off a script all the conversations between the animals were recorded from real people being casually and anonymously interviewed, and the stop-motion seemed to have so much care put into it

I started this video thinking "ahh another cartoon channel i can judge cause i never watched it" and the SECOND i heard that "SHUT UP!" Intro a wave of memories came flooding back

I was obsessed with Smosh Babies and Oishi High School Battle when I was in middle school 😭 forgot all about it all til seeing you posted this video

The amount of memories that just flooded through because of Smosh Babies is dreadful That damn Pewdiepie baby Shudders

I can't help but chuckle and smile at Wacky Game Jokez 4 Kidz whenever it comes up. Also, I only ever remembered "Teleporting Fat Guy" and "Oishi High School Battle" from this channel, and I only half-enjoyed TFG... And it was the only one I could finish

Thank you for reminding me of Teleporting Fat Guy, I remember binging Shut Up cartoons for a few days back in the day but I couldn't remember what I was actually watching. I also saw a few episodes of that zombie family show.

I like how Mark is moving towards more longer videos. More Mark for free.

I feel like A LOT of these shows had so much missed potential.

you mentioned zombies reminding you of gaming shirts, and i think there's genuinely good reason for the association! thanks to call of duty, it seems a lot of people in marketing just assumed that zombies were a part of most video games or something, because a lot of those shirts started to reference zombies one way or another (usually by just throwing it in as a buzzword somewhere) usually has to do with out of touch execs asking for people to design shirts out of popular content, which usually ends up feeling really performative and obnoxious. even when i was in elementary school i felt pandered to

I remember watching through most of these shows and thank you for bringing these back up lol

I think I speak for all of us when I say Smosh Babies is the show of all time

I loved Life's a Zoo a lot, one of the only Shut Up Cartoons I revisited frequently. It's surreal to here someone talk about it, I personally think it's underrated

I love that there's a webtoon with a concept similar to the plot of "With Zombies" but it clearly was thought through more and I'm pretty sure it's just one person making that instead of a team of people like I'm sure that show got. It's called "Boyfriend of the Dead" and it's p good

And here we are now!!!! The og smosh is back

Every clip you showed hit me with phycological damage as I realised I had watched basically everything they uploaded on this channel then completely forgot about all of it.

I always thought Smosh babies was a show that never existed but people would meme it constantly to make some people believe that it was real. (I've only heard of Smosh babies from OneyPlays, but I thought that was a bit that they were doing)

I feel so validated that you mentioned Sonic Toast, honestly I watched those videos over and over again as a kid. Honestly some of my favourite RU-vid videos as a sonic obsessed child. I quote Shadow's "I want some apple juice" all the time

I am proud to be a watcher of Shut Up Cartoons. My favorite one was Krogzilla. It wasn't very good most of the time, but it was a different kind of entertainment that has worked for me because it was unique and varied. It was like a set of prototypical examples of what cartoons would be like in the future and that's great! I respect Shut Up Cartoons a lot and I'm happy I watched it back then. I even liked Weasel Town just for the sake that it existed. Something about it was just kinda satisfying.

Dude I barely remember any of the videos, but I remember really loving Oishi for some reason. I never thought I'd see anyone mention it again

Remember when Smosh voiced characters in The Angry Birds Movies? And not just any characters, but two that are actually in the games?

Holy hell you have just brought back so many memories of shows I forgot existed

I had 0 idea planets was made by Smosh. That was my jam when I was younger.

MARK, AN HOUR? GOODNESS, YOU JUST DID A SIX HOUR VIDEO NOT EVEN 2 WEEKS AGO 😵‍💫

Wow this video unearthed a lot of hidden childhood memories in me. Wonderful to end the year being reminded of the crushing inevitability of time. I specifically remember Oishi high school battle, and how it really disturbed me as a kid.

47:14 ain't no way this mf just called Super Smash Bros NICHE. One of the BIGGEST and most revolutionary fighting games EVER. Mark the type of person to call Panic At The Disco "underground" unironically

This is my favorite video of yours so far. Not many could do this. Well done. Sorry about the demonotized monster, I’ve been dodging it for years.

Teleporting fat guy was such a good cartoon, everyone in my school used to binge watch it. I cant believe it ended so long ago

I never knew they had that many cartoons Jesus. Did a better job than other animated channels

I think the only Shut Up cartoon that genuinely holds up is Krogzilla (the monster who got downsized) Really does remind me of Bojack and those quippy comedies, it's very different.

Oishi battle highschool honestly reminds me of that show from gta v, robot bubblegum princess. Like even down to the sidekick

I talked about Oishi High School Battle a few months ago with someone, it’s just something that came up in conversation for some reason. I thought Smosh only had Oishi and Smosh Babies on that channel, but in hindsight it’s probably just the only thing I binge watched and rewatched in early high school. I also recognize Just Shut Up! L, Planets and 16-Bit High School. The last one I actually thought was made by Dorkly, the other two I barely remember at all.