classic tex avery joke i'm sure you've seen was based on how people viewed movies in the theaters.at hair out of here. >> that's the beauty of animation. that's really what you want animation to be used for, to do and see things that you've never seen before. and can't be shown in live action. >> the tape you're watching is just a taste of the cartoon network, an appetizer, a mere morsel of what you can expect from the first and only 24 hour cartoon network. >> cartoon network was owned by turner broadcasting who now owned the hannabarbera library. they owned the rights to all these characters. >> basically, you have a group of people that are working in programming on air making commercials, clearly very inspired by all of that warner brothers library. we're like, wouldn't it be fun if we made something like ourselves. >> wow, space ghost man, crack a window, will you? >> i would be violently sucked into space. >> how many people would tune in? >> space ghost is the turning point. it's a surreal, late night tv show that is unapologetically adult, using kids cartoons. >> now, a lot