Kids' WB Specials

Here are some of Kids' WB's most notable specials:

Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer

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This Christmas special originally aired on Kids' WB! on Monday, December 23, 2002 at 4:00 PM. It aired in The WB's primetime slots beforehand. Both entities have rebroadcasted it, usually around Christmas time.

The JammX Kids All-Star Dance Special

One of Kids' WB!'s live-action programs, the JammX Kids travel from school to school to rap about drug awareness and the like. These originally aired the Sunday in The WB's primetime slot before the March 18, 2006 and March 25, 2006 at 11:00 AM when Kids' WB! showed encored of them.

The Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon

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This is the one-hour tenth-anniversary special of the Pokémon franchise, and it aired in the USA before anywhere else, even Japan. Kids' WB! first aired on April 29, 2006 at 10:00 AM, and it was the first Pokémon program dubbed by Pokémon USA, and the only program dubbed by Pokémon USA to air on Kids' WB! Kids' WB! ran a promotional sweepstakes during it to win merchandise.

Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys

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Kids' WB! aired the world premiere English-language version of this movie on January 22, 2005 at 10:00 AM. However, it was edited due to time constraint The full-length movie was released on DVD February 15, 2005. Before the movie, during the preceding programs, they rolled out the red carpet to meet the stars of the movie.

Wakko's Wish

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This two-hour "Animaniacs" movie originally aired on Kids' WB! on February 22, 2000.

Welcome Home, Animaniacs!

This was the very first Kids' WB! special, and was a Saturday morning preview special not unlike those that had been shown on ABC in the past. However, this special is rather hard to find, as not many WB Network affiliates actually aired it. And a few WB affiliates that did air the special aired it right "after" Kids' WB!'s first broadcast.

This special, hosted by Harland Williams, was built around the fact that, for Kids' WB!'s first season, "Animaniacs" was moving there from FOX Kids, and for the special, new animation had been produced of Yakko, Wakko and Dot driving away from the FOX studios to the Warner Bros. lot. In the meantime, the stars of The WB's prime-time shows gave viewers a look at the new shows:

* Robert Thompson and Curtis Williams of "The Parent 'Hood" gave a peek at the new season of "Animaniacs"
* Tia and Tamera Mowry from "Sister, Sister" introduced "Freakazoid!"
* Kirk Cameron showed off "Earthworm Jim"
* The Wayans Bros. gave a look at "The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries"
* And "Pinky and the Brain" was featured as well.

Zolar

Kids' WB!'s first ever original movie, and one of their only live-action programs in history, debuted on May 29, 2004. It featured a sport-competing alien named Zolar, from another planet. His catch phrase was "Blue-yah!" During the movie, Kids' WB! ran a sweepstakes to win a year's supply of buttered popcorn.

Notable promotions

As recent in the 2007 season, Kids WB brought back its promotions formula (4 sweepstakes as of currently) primarily to promote its programs and other Warner Bros. merchandise up for grabs.

Big Kids Go First

This was a slogan used to describe Kids' WB!'s schedule as of October 19, 1996 (when "Waynehead" premiered) through November 21 of that year. In an apparent attempt to simplify the four-hour Saturday morning schedule, the action-oriented superhero cartoons were moved to make up the first two hours of the schedule, with the comedy-oriented shows (including "Waynehead") making up the last two hours. In this time, the schedule went as follows:

This move proved to be a disaster, the mistake being that "big kids" (supposedly the kids who would've preferred the superhero cartoons) were more likely to sleep in on Saturday mornings rather than wake up early to watch the shows. As a result of this, on November 22, "Freakazoid!" and "Earthworm Jim" were taken off the Saturday morning block and moved to being shown on Friday afternoons until the following February, when they disappeared from the block entirely.

An episode of "Animaniacs" that was broadcast sometime later parodied this move in its gag credit: "On The WB, Big Kids Go First / In Real Life, Big Kids Sleep In."

BNL Day

BNL Day was the name given to the broadcast aired on May 15, 1999, in which the Barenaked Ladies performed between each show. This event was originally intended to be titled Naked Day, but was changed due to complaints from parents.

Devon and Cornwall's Dubba Dragon Day

Aired in May of 1998, this broadcast was themed around promoting the release of the film "Quest for Camelot". The backlot set used in the bumpers was specially designed with a medieval theme, and Devon and Cornwall, the two-headed dragon from the film, appeared in specially-made promotional spots.

Halloween Duel of Screams

In 2002 and 2003, toward Halloween, Kids' WB! would do a promotion similar to the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game pitting Kids' WB! characters against one another in a duel, but this time with screaming kids. Whoever had the most screaming kids that could affect others won the duel. It was always done in tournament style, but in 2002, Todd "Toad" Tolensky from was disqualified for eating The Flea from ¡Mucha Lucha!, Ash Ketchum from Pokémon almost lost to Joey Wheeler from Yu-Gi-Oh!, and Jade Chan from Jackie Chan Adventures beat Yugi in the final round. In 2003, Yugi defeated The Masked Toilet from ¡Mucha Lucha! in the final round and won.

Hey Dragon, Down in Front!

This sweepstakes aired in the afternoon block for a week sometime in the spring of 2004. Viewers had to identify a dragon from the Yu-Gi-Oh! series when Yugi said "Hey, (dragon's name), down in front!" and when they did, viewers were to log on to the website and enter for a chance to win Yu-Gi-Oh! card decks.

Holiday Sock Party

The Holiday Sock Party is an ongoing event since 2001, and has always taken place the second Saturday in December. During this, the Kids' WB! mascot, the Holiday Sock, usually goes inside of the Kids' WB! promotional watertower, with other characters, doing Christmas-related things. In 2001 and 2002, the sock was the sole host, but in 2003 The Flea from ¡Mucha Lucha! co-hosted. In 2004 the sock granted the wishes of viewers who wanted to "turn into something" on TV. In 2005, the set was moved to the Fruit Salad Island from Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island! with Coconut Fred as the co-host, and was about granting wishes again. This does not seem to be happening in 2006, instead it is being replaced with a singalong. The Holiday Sock was created by Ryan Sage [http://imdb.com/name/nm2024044/] while he worked as a writer/producer for Kids' WB!

The Holiday Sock appeared as a question in the 20th Anniversary Edition of Trivial Pursuit, card #582, "Q: Who was not worn out by hosting the Holiday Sock Party? A: The Holiday Sock"

Kids' WB! Backlot Tour

Kids' WB! had its Kids' WB! Backlot Tour in the parking lot of The Centre Ice Rink at the Delaware State Fairgrounds in Harrington, Delaware, July 20 to 29, 2006, during the Delaware State Fair. It featured the best of Kids' WB programming, Xbox 360 gaming, and other fun activities. It is a nationwide traveling show, usually at Six Flags Theme Park.

Mad Mad Mad Monkey Summer, Ooh Ooh Ahh Ahh (Just For Kids) Island, Gotta See-ee-eeh Falls

Beginning June 5, 2004, Kids' WB! gave their lineup a monkey-based theme, entitling it "Mad Mad Mad Monkey Summer". They did promos such as "1001 Uses For a Banana" showing a Kids' WB! character in need of a banana (usually where it doesn't help or makes things worse), "Stump the Monkey!" where viewers could go online and ask the monkey, "Professor Oo-oo-oo" questions, and pranks where someone in a gorilla costume would pop up randomly in a public area, scaring someone. Also, beginning June 14, 2004, Kids' WB! gave their weekday lineup a monkey-related theme to go along with "Mad Mad Mad Monkey Summer" and entitled it "Ooh Ooh Ahh Ahh (Just for Kids) Island". As a special, until July 30, 2004, viewers could enter online to be the Monkey King of the day and have their picture on a monkey's body on TV. This promo lasted longer than Mad Mad Mad Monkey Summer (which ended August 21, 2004, Ooh Ooh Ahh Ahh ended October 22, 2004) and beginning September 17, 2004, Kids' WB! entitled the Friday lineup "Gotta See-ee-eeh Falls", as they showed encore episodes of ¡Mucha Lucha! and Pokémon from the previous Saturday, and encore episodes of the new series Da Boom Crew and The Batman, as well as other things, such as new "lost" episodes of which were either skipped or dubbed out of order. However, this only went until October 15, 2004, a week earlier before it was originally scheduled to, when the network did a last-minute schedule change to prepare for November sweeps, replacing the scheduled encore of The Batman with an orderly rerun of Yu-Gi-Oh!.

Pillow Head Hour

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The Pillow Head Hour began on June 4, 2005, as Kids' WB! was showing the final episodes of Jackie Chan Adventures, it was a full hour at 8:00 EST (7:00 CST/PST), where they did promos featuring what Kids' WB! characters' "Pillow Head Hair" would look like (what their hair would look like if they had just woken up from bed). The Pillow Head Hour was discontinued on June 25, 2005, when the network did a last-minute schedule change replacing Jackie Chan Adventures on July 2 with Teen Titans and The Batman. However, KidsWB.com made "Pillow Head Reports" featuring Gisselle, the Pillow Head Reporter for Kids' WB!, talking about things such as entertainment and media. Because of this, starting January 7, 2006, when Saturdays were extended to five hours, the Pillow Head Hour was reborn at 7:00 a.m., featuring Giselle and a full hour of a randomly selected Kids' WB! show, and numerous guests talking about their "Pillow Head Hair". The Pillow Head Hour was discontinued once again on July 8, 2006, where Kids' WB! made their "Sizzlin' Summer Lineup" with two Yu-Gi-Oh! episodes in the former Pillow Head Hour's slot. On September 23, 2006, the Pillow Head Hour was reborn and changed again to feature two programs which follow federally mandated E/I requirements; Gisselle's "Pillow Head Reports" will be kept. [http://www.thefutoncritic.com/cgi/pr.cgi?id=20060424cw01] Right now "Krypto the Superdog" is airing in it.

The Pokémon Premiere Party

This was the name given to Kids' WB!'s broadcast on February 7, 1999, which marked the first time that "Pokémon" was shown on the block (the episode aired on that date was "The Problem with Paras"). Unfortunately for fans of Warner Bros. Animation, though, it was in this same weekend that "The Big Cartoonie Show" (which came right after "Pokémon") was shortened down to half an hour.

Top of the Tower Win-a-Rama

During the 2002-03 season, from time to time, Kids' WB! would run a contest, usually during weekdays when they had them, where each day they gave you a code to enter on KidsWB.com and be drawn to win some merchandise, usually relating to a Kids' WB! show. The first one was for Yu-Gi-Oh! in the week of September 16, 2002. Sometimes it coincided with the week as a show was given a special airing, such as the "Weekday Shift" that aired Rescue Heroes the whole week, or the special weeks of catching up on or the week of new episodes.

Zany Insany April

Ozzy from Ozzy & Drix hosted Kids' WB! in April 2003, and named it "Zany Insany April". For the occasion, every week in April, at 3:30 p.m., Kids' WB! aired a show that would normally air on Saturday, such as Ozzy & Drix, , Static Shock, ¡Mucha Lucha!, and . Saturday promos included the "You Rhyme It, We Rap It, Rap-a-Thon", where viewers could make a rap about a Kids' WB! show and Scooby-Doo and Shaggy from Scooby-Doo would get some other Kids' WB! character to perform the rap on TV, or the "Burpalicious Belchathon", where viewers could compete with Kids' WB! characters to see how loud they could burp.