The Year Cartoon Network Got Really Obsessed With Thumbs

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Cartoon Network is in a strange spot. They're always in 3rd place behind the two big children's network, but for that same reason they're willing to take more risks. Sometimes their risks pay off and the strike gold and other times... they put all their eggs in a thumb based basket. They didn't think anyone would remember, or that it would have any effect on the children of the late 2000's. And yet... here I am.
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0:00 Intro
0:47 Cartoon Network's Failed Attempts
1:39 Star Wars On Cartoon Network
4:42 Thumb Wars
11:24 Halloween 2008 & Frankenthumb
15:58 Saturday Morning Action Block
19:24 Thumbtastic Afterschool Event
21:30 Thumb Wrestling Federation Season 1
28:07 Bat Thumb
32:25 Schedule Discrepancies
33:31 TWF Season 1 Finals
39:03 Thumb Wrestling Federation Season 2
43:08 Saturday Crushzone
46:32 Moving On

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@riversongpond2212 Год назад

Okay I'm going to be real, I though the thumb wars thing was something I hallucinated after watching Spy Kids too many times. The fact that it was on Cartoon Network and not on RU-vid shocked me, so I must have also watched it online at some point after seeing it air on TV. Wow, thanks for the vid.

@KoolKittKat4679 Год назад

Sane here, I just thought it was a fever dream I had as a kid.

@jacobhenn1504 Год назад

@@KoolKittKat4679 I am having so many fucking neurons fired right now that have not been touched in forever, this is amazing

@DrLiam-fg6wd Год назад

I thought I was dreaming too man, it was so strange.

@errorloadinginformation5429 Год назад

Why do I also vaguely recall watching it on RU-vid? 😂

@eggsbenedict7586 Год назад

Lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllpllplllllllplppllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllpoooo

@PajamaPantsStudios Год назад

That scene where he says “Luke, I am your MOTHER!” Has been a core memory for me. It’s damn near essential to my being and I haven’t the foggiest understanding WHY

@Biotechnick Год назад

SAME!

@dylanklinge9966 7 месяцев назад

Maybe they used that scene to promote it because I cannot remember a single thing about the movie except for that scene.

@randommexican6676 6 месяцев назад

I'm glad someone remembers this.

@habanta Год назад

I feel like everybody forgot TWF existed and you're single-handedly bringing it back out of our subconscious.

@kameronroberts1064 Год назад

i think about twf like every other day

@lavaninja1042 Год назад

I remember there was a game online for it.

@inkchariot6147 Год назад

I vaguely remember Thumb Wars

@thecomicsario Год назад

Somehow I never forgot it. And it's always been something that I joke about with my friend group lmao

@koalatea9960 Год назад

the show has been haunting me for years now because ive never seen anyone ever talk about it

@BigGnome Год назад

No joke: as a kid, I was obsessed with the thumb wrestling show and even had the Evil Ira character as a Halloween costume once. Guess how much other kids at school recognized it (I'll give you a hint: it's a number that's less than one). Anyways, good to know that the show an embarrassing childhood memory was associated with wasn't even that good in retrospect.

@pieofgods1244 Год назад

Regret

@conkcreatbb Год назад

you and i are kindred spirits

@thephony1651 Год назад

I can’t believe half a kid recognized that costume, poor guy

@spinosaurusstriker Год назад

You deserved it after disrespecting this masterpiece

@partyinthecloudkingdom Год назад

the green frankenstein most people are familiar with is actually a copyrighted version of his appearance. the story itself is public domain, but the image of green frankenstein with bolts in his neck isnt, so people cant have theirs look like that without paying royalties or breaking copyright law

@connorbeith3232 Год назад

I'm guessing green Frankenstein is owned by Universal?

@partyinthecloudkingdom Год назад

@@connorbeith3232 yup!

@itsClaptrap Год назад

its kind of like the Winnie the Pooh incident, where the old illustrated novel Pooh is royalty free and can be used in anything, HOWEVER if you put a red shirt on it then its Disney's Pooh and you'll need to pay royalties to use it.

@80sDisneyFan Год назад

That's probably the reason why Frankie in G3 Monster High is more blueish and doesn't have neckbolts (although Universal used to distribute movies based on Mattel (the company that makes MH dolls) properties).

@LoanRepresentative Год назад

TWF is considered a cult classic in latino america. I'm an adult and I've met several adults that still laugh about TWF. It only happened during commercial breaks for us from what I remember. TWF is probably what got me into JoJo.

@insertnamehere672 Год назад

That and also I think that Correll Latin voice actor was the same one that voiced Jake in Adventure Time

@chronospammer2073 11 месяцев назад

How did TWF get you into JoJo exactly?

@LoanRepresentative 11 месяцев назад

@@chronospammer2073 well, basically, you first think of a thumb as a man, then make it sexy, then take them out of the ring but they are still fighting with their powers, and there you go, that's JoJo

@gamerule18 Месяц назад

So do they like quote it or is it somewhere Where do I find it, I mean. I wanna watch it in good español latinoamericano

@Lantern_Light Год назад

my family legitimately enjoyed thumbwars when i was a kid. Legitimately quotes from it entered into our common vernacular.

@zegonwicked6761 2 года назад

Its criminal that you don't have more subscribers with the amount of quality in this videos

@vvond62 Год назад

As one of three kids who watched Nicktoons Network, I cannot tell you how surreal it was seeing TWF not only transfer from Nick to CN, but even become part of Cartoon Network's identity for a brief period of time. I thought I was going insane.

@Uay778 Год назад

I remember waking up early as a little kid when nobody was awake and I watched frankenthumb in the dark on my living room tv. You just brought that memory up from the murky depths of my mind

@SpiralPoliFemboy Год назад

CN: Thumbs Nick: Feet Gee I wonder if one of Disney's cartoon airing blocks is gonna start having an affinity for ears.

@Nakia11798 Год назад

I suppose they already have dumbo

@SpiralPoliFemboy Год назад

@@Nakia11798 TRUE

@asrieldreemurr8059 Год назад

Dumbo _Hmmmmmmmm. . ._

@GleamingGarmore Год назад

I was one of the kids who was exposed to 6Teen for the first time with the halloween special. I was 7. For years I thought “Thats what 6teen is. That horror movie I watched as a kid.”

@FrozenLavaDragonProd Год назад

Yo! As a kid the I thought the Thumb Wrestling Federation was such a rad show! It's wild that you are the first person I have ever seen acknowledge the existance of this show! 😁

@mikaelizabeth Год назад

If Bat Thumb had been made this year they could have written a parody song called "thumb-thing in the way"

@colt1903 Год назад

I dunno why, but I loved these thumb things CN did. They were such good... "Dumb Entertainment" I guess. They felt like they were just made to get you to smile, but not understand wtf you're smiling at, if that makes sense. Like some kind of Eldritch Comedy, lol.

@johannliebert2870 Год назад

I remember watching this on YTV in Canada. When I moved I forgot about this show entirely until I saw Mucha Lucha on Cartoon Network, but then I forgot its name. I only remembered it like a year ago and luckily found a lot of clips. Thanks for making this video and spreading awareness of this show!

@BakerM8_ 2 года назад

I’m so glad I found your creator clash story on tiktok because I’m loving your content and would never have found such gems if it weren’t for that. You my good sir have earned a long time fan and I can’t wait to watch you grow.

@fraserking4747 Год назад

Oh my god, somebody else who remembers TWF! I assumed it was some weird fever dream or some show nobody else watched, since nobody I’ve talked to here in the UK remembers it, but now I’m validated by a guy on the internet over a weird thumb show!

@VivecAlmalexia Год назад

I just came to the horrifying realisation that TWF was part of my childhood that I never remembered until halfway through this video

@mauirandall8176 Год назад

when they say "possibly airing in 2022" I just picture the guy who wrote the script in 2010 going and updating it every year like a vision board

@TwiggyArmstrong Год назад

I remember the Thumb era. I was addicted to TWF when I was a kid. I bought the book they made and I made a mini wrestling stage as they had on the show. I remember playing the game they had on the CN website at the time. It was awesome. I always thought Frankenthumb was a dream I had, but I'm glad to know I wasn't crazy.

@catswellthecat7855 Год назад

I remember loving TWF as a kid! My brothers and my dad would all watch it together, it was an event we looked forward to each week. My brother still remembers that, but he doesn’t remember the Star Wars parody one. I do though, it scarred me as well. There was a scene where Luke’s family gets murdered and in this universe it means they got “clipped.” The scene of that still bothers me to this day, the nail was cut down the center. It makes me feel uncomfortable just typing this. I was legitimately worried that scene would be in this video and had to keep glancing away just in case. Really enjoyed this video and the Total Drama one, I thought this was a much larger channel than it is due to the quality on those being so good. Anyways it’s larger by one sub now keep up the good work!

@veto_5762 Год назад

I remember loving twf a lot as a kid, literally the best live action thing cn has produced and i guess i never get tired of it because they passed them during commercial breaks in my region

@El_Shadowick Год назад

I swear I remember one night when I was a kid, I was about to sleep and saw Bat Thumb was about to air so I stayed up a bit cause I was curious and I saw the two thumbs in bed and I just went to sleep and felt uncomfortable and never saw it again so I wasnt sure if I just went insane one night or not

@Darkshine1234 Год назад

I'll take an obsession with thumbs over Nickelodeon's foot obsession any day

@judahgregory1030 Год назад

It’s good to know that we all had essentially the same childhood. I remember all of this when I was kid. Years later I remembered this and looked up all the Thumb movies on RU-vid and loved them because I was 13 and that was the height of comedy at the time.

@dumbdead8835 Год назад

I love how I can just randomly see an 50 min long video deep dive on how Cartoon Network liked thumbs for a whole year. The internet is truly something special

@brennanperry8001 Год назад

I'm really glad I didn't just imagine thumb wars as a kid. Like I remember seeing it on the TV literally once for like 5 seconds, but it was so bizarre that it's burned in there. No joke, I told my parents about it, and they thought I was telling a weird joke, because they thought "oh, star wars with thumbs would be thumb wars, that's cute" but I kept insisting it wasn't a joke, but they had zero clue what I was talking about.

@sterlinsilver Год назад

I found a full boxed DVD set of all the thumb shorts in a closet of my house left by the previous owners. There were 6 shorts in total I'm pretty sure. There's thumb wars, bat thumb, frankenthumb, the godthumb (a take on the godfather) the Blair witch thumb, a take on the Blair witch project, and my personal favorite, thumbtanic- a play on titanic where it gets taken over by a gigantic spider

@mollynattans9859 2 года назад

I would say 2008 started my puppet trauma but then I remember baby Einsteins

@prench Год назад

holy shit i remember this phase and it's been stored in my mind this whole time like "was that thumb wrestlers show a thing?? was it a short or what??" so i was stoked when i saw your tdi video and you showed the thumbs i was like woww then at the end you mention you made a video all about it and im like stoked!

@Demomandan Год назад

I remember looking up the noods online and I didn’t even know what they were supposed to be. I asked my older cousin “what are noods?” To which he gave me a ver concerned and confused look.

@Demomandan Год назад

I also remember watching the zombie episode of 6teen and being very confused when subsequent episodes lacked any surreal elements except when they watched the Ron the rent a cop music video

@owenmccullor5063 8 месяцев назад

That thumb fighting flash game just unlocked so many nostalgic memories

@flirtycyclops5510 Год назад

I just wanted to say that your videos have really helped me with my anxiety and sleep issues, something about your style and voice is so charming and calming to me. I hope your channel grows :)

@Aster_Risk Год назад

I feel old the way this is being talked about. I'm only 31, but these thumb films were the best when I was growing up. Everyone I hung out with loved them. Hearing you call them bargain bin parodies stings my little heart. Edit: Awww. Nevermind. You liked it!!

@bowsmed Год назад

I never forgot TWF and I never will, I was so strongly fixated on it when it was a thing that it actually has an impact to this day on how I make my own characters. I've made characters for stories, roleplays, and game concepts I've yet to do anything with that are on some level based on TWF characters. Also I remember the flash game on the CN website that was basically glorified rock paper scissors was actually weirdly addictive

@conkcreatbb Год назад

the thumb wrestling one was actually my favorite thing on cartoon network, i looked forward to seeing it every day and i remember putting it over adventure time

@samjeffery8112 Год назад

Grew up with all 6 thumb movies on DVD. They hold legendary status in my household. My brother and quote them regularly to this day

@Aulmait Год назад

I'm Brazilian and I watched all the episodes of TWF and it would go by early in the afternoon right at my snack time and the dubbing was very funny

@t.j.fountain3414 Год назад

I... LEGIT thought that I hallucinated Thumb Wars as a kid. I remember it so vividly, but I thought "no way this was real"... well, good to know it was-

@octopusteeth2490 Год назад

I used to own the book, and read it every morning going to school until the spine wore out, splitting the book in half.

@immensewraith7613 Год назад

Mentioning the thumb movie unlocked so many memories in my head and so much confusion about what was and was not spoofs, robot chicken, and just some commercials that I never figured out until now, Thanks man

@higginswalsan Год назад

I was a Thumb poser growing up, I was interested in the wrestling and kept up with the tournament despite not catching a single episode and was morbidly obsessed with the thumb movies despite never watching them because Bat Thumb had a disclaimer saying it wasn’t for children

@Iwidelyoutliveeverything Год назад

you unlocked long suppressed memories with frankenthumb

@kevingluys3063 Год назад

I vaguely remember that from when I was a kid, and mostly just remember being annoyed and slightly unsettled by it.

@rylee9086 Год назад

I DO NOT SELL LIGHTERS AS MY FAMILY WAS KILLED IN A BAD FIRE ACCIDENT

@VibesReverb Год назад

I remember the thumb wrestling thing being called “wrestling thumb federation” but them changing it and I assumed some higher up noticed the “wtf” joke and got mad

@Jhawk913 2 года назад

This needs more attention

@quiyoma3730 Год назад

9:18 Wow that must be where Joe (Due who made the dog of wisdom anim) got his iconic *yEeEs*

@Squishy876 2 месяца назад

This original run of thumb movies was in the 90s and I loved them. The Blair Thumb holds up

@raddaradda8682 3 месяца назад

I remember the thumbs from watching Diamond and Pearl. I thought I'd never heard of the thumb wars, but that block brought back some deep memories

@Hipick3 Год назад

I loved the part where the Thumb said "It's Thumbbing time" and then Thumbed all over the place

@Scrat-rs5ud Месяц назад

Remember Team Smithereen? The show aired on Disney XD alongside "The Secret Life of Suckers" (or "Suckers" for short) and the cast featured Thrill Kat, Whoop, Brave Little Francis and Stunt Pig, who perform crazy and dangerous stunts. It was crazy, honestly. Does anyone else remember seeing this show? I saw this as a young child about years ago

@jaysaturna Год назад

I remember seeing the original movies at Hollywood Video on VHS as a kid and being deeply put off by the box art. Had no idea it ever made a comeback on CN.

@kayeplaguedoc9054 Год назад

I never saw these on CN, but my sister used to rent the Thumb movies on VHS constantly. The image of Darth Vader flipping open their cloak, revealing a pink dress and saying "LOKE, I AM YOUR *MOTHER!* AND NOW, MAMMA IS GOING TO GIVE YOU A LESSON IN MANNERS!" has been burned into my brain because of it lmao

@theoriginaldemiurge Год назад

I'm a bit younger than you and I remember having fond memories of this show, even though I shouldn't. Then it clicked, the Latin American version of cartoon network had reruns of this show. According to this video they did it well into 2013: Tandas Comerciales Cartoon Network Latinoamérica | Febrero 2013 (+ Cortos TWF)

@Manoto17 Год назад

There’s so much grain in this video you can use it as sandpaper.

@ROBOHOLIC1 Год назад

The red bar at the bottom of the thumbnail got me thinking I already saw this so I ignored it for months bruh

@NexLegacyAccount Год назад

I have unapologetically loved these movies since I was a kid and I'm so glad to see them finally getting some love. They're hidden gems.

@incineroar9933 Год назад

I totally erased the thumb shows from my memory until now

@We_silly Год назад

Who remembers the game on the website?? Such a throwback I even got some of these thumbs covers

@milopond Год назад

the thumb wrestling show was genuinely something i care about a lot as a kid

@justanotherglorpsdaymornin5097 6 месяцев назад

I remember making sure I would catch TWF three afternoons a week at my nan's as a kid. The size of the space it holds in my memory makes the fact that I could have only seen it for two months (I went swimming every saturday morning so I would have been completely unaware of the crushzone) almost unbelievable.

@tri-crab Год назад

Honestly, I vividly remember seeing that BatThumb sex scene as a kid

@DigitalEWhore Год назад

I so distinctly remember watching Thumb Wars with my brother, specifically the scene where Loke comes home to find his aunt and uncle are killed. The blood caught me super off guard, and as a 5 year old star wars fan whose exposure was 1-6. Not the old clone wars, not the comics, not the books, not the games, just the movies that are relatively tame blood wise

@anthonyfisher9413 Год назад

I've seen Kung pow enter the fist more times than Any other movie! Steve is an underapreciated unrelated Odenkerk. And Jimmy neutron is good too. Guy was ahead of his time

@henryblack1925 Год назад

I was obsessed with these thumb parodies on RU-vid, even before they were aired on TV. Bat-Thumb my FAR my favorite

@destrious8133 Год назад

I wasn't prepared for the BatThumb voice to be so spot on for Christian Bale, it's uncanny

@coopernut Год назад

I'm so glad I got to be a part of this... adventure? This PHASE in Cartoon Network👍

@unionfischer7941 Год назад

Colonel Cossack or whatever his name is being played by Sean Schemmel (VA of Goku) is a weird piece of information I enjoy having

@catmaniac8x Год назад

Man I just knew about Batthumb/Thumbtanic/etc back in my middle school years (think around 2004-05), I didn't have proper cable at this point and didn't realize they took the thumb thing and RAN WITH IT

@Eli-akad Год назад

My favorite times as a kid I remember this phase all to well. Sum of those thumb shows had sum “grown up” humor 💯💯

@skakirask Год назад

I saw Thumb Wars on UPN9 the night before SW Episode I released in theaters. I also still quote Hand Duet's "I should be presumed innocent but they're playing patriot games with me" after all this time.

@BinglesP Год назад

41:20 Of course the thumbs say "Among Us"-

@GD30.06 6 месяцев назад

I honestly believe this type of weirdness was what made the network all the more incredible at that time. You can draw and such but this is the most creative to me😂

@MultiBeerme Год назад

Back in 1999, Thumbwars was the talk of the playground for a very short minute.

@oddballer2457 Год назад

I've just found this video recently and I love it! You've clearly done a lot of research into this video, and I especially love all the details you added! I'm definitely subscribing after this! Side note: Cartoon Network did air Thumb Wars several more times around September/October 2009. And there are very few listings for TWF matches on the CN/AS Archives wiki, mostly since there's very little information we could find. Nice video though!

@propane_salesman Год назад

Thank you. This memory has been haunting me for over a decade.

@Rybread52 Год назад

The Pokémon DP bumper unlocked a perfectly preserved memory I completely forgot I had

@FancyGermanTea Год назад

Freaky little hooded creatures is probably a reference to in the actual script where they are called Dirty Little Jawas at nearly every mention.

@Rhin0beak 8 месяцев назад

I remember thumb wars vividly because of the “I am your mother Joke” my single digit age self loved that joke. The thumb wrestling bit however is definitely unlocking memories for me

@Bearly_Coping 10 месяцев назад

Every time there was a pop-up, I just imagined, "Muffalo 14 has started to roam away."

@seanstark4312 Год назад

I actually remember seeing Franken-Thumb when it first aired on CN, and laughing so hard.

@TheReZisTLust Год назад

Iv never seen the show but the Mexican masked thumb has an iconic design that could be spotted a mile away

@ozithedino 7 месяцев назад

I can't believe Rob Paulson (the voice of Carl Wheezer) voiced No Face. I wonder if he still remembers doing that lol

@MrTruedragonknight Год назад

I remember being confused by the first episode of 6teen

@boarragnarok6798 Год назад

I remember thumb wars very fondly. But that Yoda puppet would also scare the shit out of me now if I were to watch it at night.

@caitlinabbott7895 Год назад

I remember those movies I only watched Batthumb and Thumb Wars though

@ElRiki77 Год назад

bro i remember as a kid playing thumb wars on the cartoon network website. idk why but that shit was actually pretty fun for a CN flash game

@NoFoldsUnFolding Год назад

I used to go on Cartoon Networks website and make my own thumb wrestlers and print them off🤣and had thumb wars on vhs but never knew it aired on Cartoon Network 😂

@Jackie-McCann Год назад

I actually have all the Thumb movies in a DVD box set. 😅

@1D991 Год назад

I loved Thumb Wars. Sometimes I even still quote it, but people never get the references

@nadroji6549 Год назад

AH! SO many core memories emerging! Also, 19:41 Bite your tongue!

@Liquid_Thom Год назад

I literally just threw out my original senator skull thumb wrestling mask not even realizing how much history and culture it had 😭

@pink_disaster8330 Год назад

omg i still quote the thumb war wrestling thing with my brother to this day and this is the first time someone else even acknowledged it's existence

@CryFry Год назад

Bro why’d you unlock this memory for me... I remember fucking hating the thumbs wrestling.

@keegankrueger4038 Год назад

I remember I unironically though TWF was cool when I was a kid. I also remember watching Thumb Wars and Frankenthumb on CN.

@annahowe4575 Год назад

this is AWESOME! love the effort and quality, you totally deserve more views! i love the topic and id love to see you cover other similar topics

@boojersey13 Год назад

Watching everyone in the comments feel relieved there was confirmation of this content's existence reminds me of when I found a bookmark from my elementary school days finally confirming the consistence of Out Of Jimmy's Head for me because I'd CONSTANTLY ask people if they remembered it and no one did in middle school