The following is a work in progress list of known times that Cartoon Network and Adult Swim, alongside Cartoonito, had errors with screenbugs, their split screen credits, any identifications, and even during the shows themselves.
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1995 | The Checkerboard Technical Difficulties slide appeared after a promo for The Pirates of Dark Water, staying onscreen for approximately 30 seconds before going to commercials. | |
January 26, 1997 | 18 seconds into the 4:00pm showing of the Taz-Mania episode Pup Goes the Wendal / I'm Okay, You're Taz, the show's audio glitched out for 4 seconds. The error was then fixed, only for it to happen again 9 seconds later. The error then happened on and off until 1:35 into the show, after which it faded into the Checkerboard Technical Difficulties slide. After 18 seconds, the slide disappeared and the show returned. | |
December 16, 1997 | The ThunderCats episode Fond Memories encountered substantial technical difficulties. Following the show's custom Toonami intro was just under a minute of blank screen followed by the QTTV Technical Difficulties slide. The slide abruptly cuts to the first act already in process as Mumm-Ra is explaining his plan to trap Lion-O, accompanied by the TV-Y7-FV ratings bug fading in and out. The following establishing shot of Mumm-Ra walking through a cave was then interrupted by a Toonami ThunderCats bumper, followed by the commercial break playing ahead of schedule. After the commercial break ends and a few seconds of blank screen followed by a brief gray screen, the episode starts again, halfway through its title card / credits. The episode then aired properly, albeit with about five seconds of black and gray screens preceding each act of the episode (including the epilogue), and the commercial break being replaced with a Toonami bumper. The screenbug was completely absent for the entirety of the episode. | ![]() |
March 4, 1998 | During the premiere of the Robotech episode False Start, the screenbug disappears in the first and last few minutes of the second act. | |
March 14, 1998 | The 11:00pm airing of the Cow and Chicken episode The Karate Chick / Yard Sale was faced with a significant amount of technical difficulties. Prior to the start of the show, the Starburst Cartoon Cartoons intro is used despite its corresponding era having recently been retired at that point. Right after it ends, a Powerhouse bumper introducing the show plays, only for it to abruptly fade out midway through. Lastly, the screenbug is not present throughout the entire duration of the episode. | ![]() |
July 18, 1998 | The TV-G rating was accidentally kept on screen during the first commercial break for the Cartoon Theatre premiere of An American Tail (1986). | |
April 1, 1999, August 29, 1999 | The Cartoon Network screenbug is off-center during the premiere of the ReBoot episode Infected. The same issue happened again during a Toonami Midnight Run airing of the Robotech episode Blitzkrieg. | ![]() |
June 15, 1999 | Following the first act of the Dragon Ball Z episode Elite Fighters of the Universe... the Ginyu Force, over a minute of black screen interspersed with the Technical Difficulties slide was seen instead of going straight to commercial. This was followed by the All Cartoons All the Time CN promo already in progress. After the promo ended, a split second of the Cartoon Library CN promo could be seen, followed by the proper Toonami Dragon Ball Z bumper and commercial break. | |
June 27, 1999 | The premiere of the ToonHeads episode Toro! Toro! had some significant technical difficulties. Instead of airing Bully for Bugs and Senor Droopy, the cartoons The Mice will Play and Sheep Wrecked aired instead. Intermission segments from the previous week's episode, The Nice Mice of Warner Bros. also played. The episode would premiere properly on October 1, 1999. | |
July 31, 1999 | The Cartoon Network screenbug did not return for the majority of the second act during the 3:30pm airing of A Pup Named Scooby Doo. The screenbug eventually did return, but because it happened at the end of the episode, it is only on-screen for less than five seconds. | |
August 14, 1999 | The 4:00pm airing of the Tom & Jerry Kids episode The Little Thinker / Rap Rat is Where It's At / My Pet was mistakenly rated TV-PG instead of the show's usual TV-G. | |
September 4, 1999 | Preceding the Robotech episode Sweet Sixteen is a promo for ReBoot claiming that the show will be airing next. During the episode itself, the ratings bug fades in closer to the left side of the screen than normal, and the Cartoon Network screenbug is off-center. | |
October 11, 1999 | At exactly 3:25am, during the break between today's episodes of The Yogi Bear Show and The Huckleberry Hound Show, during the Shortie City-E-Scape, the Cartoon Network screenbug appeared on-screen for several seconds then disappeared for the rest of the Shortie. | ![]() |
2000 | The Cartoon Cartoon Fridays screenbug was mistakenly used during Space Ghost Coast to Coast. | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
May 28, 2000 | The poll segment for tonight's episode of JBVO labeled that week's poll question as a "Brak or..." question instead of the proper "Should" question (said poll question was about if Shaggy should put on some weight). This was an oversight on the production end of the show, as episodes would be ready for airing a few days before the episode's airdate and thus this error was included on the master tape. | |
May 27, 2001 | During the 8:30pm airing of The Chuck Jones Show, the Robert McKimson short Gone Batty accidentally aired. | |
June 17, 2001 | During the 8:30pm airing of The Chuck Jones Show, the Robert McKimson short Bedevilled Rabbit accidentally aired. | |
July 2, 2001 | During the 1:00am airing of Late Night Black & White, the 2 Stupid Dogs episode Hobo Hounds aired. While the episode was intended to mimic a black and white cartoon, it's unknown if it's airing on the block was intentional or an error. The episode would air during Late Night Black & White again on January 27, 2002. | |
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September 16, 2001 | The version of the Looney Tunes short Tom Turk and Daffy that aired today had no opening credits, nor it wasn't the usual dubbed version they air. In addition, the music video styled banner that was used during airings of The Bugs and Daffy Show in the mid 90s could be seen near the end of the short. | |
October 31, 2001 | A duplicate screenbug appeared, disappeared and reappeared throughout tonight's airing of the special Night of the Living Doo. | ![]() |
November 1, 2001 | The TV-G rating bug stayed for the majority of Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone, and the screenbug was absent for the entirety of the movie. | ![]() |
November 17, 2001 | An encore edition of Toonami Midnight Run: Special Edition was initially rated TV-G, before switching to a TV-Y7-FV rating a few seconds later. The screenbug also does not appear during the broadcast. | |
November 30, 2001 | The Adult Swim screenbug was used during the first part of the 1:00am airing of Acme Hour. | ![]() |
December 28, 2001 | During the 3:00am airing of The Bugs & Daffy Show, the short Kit for Cat had its beginning played in Portuguese. After switching back to English, the screenbug disappeared for the rest of the short. | |
March 11, 2002 | The Adult Swim screenbug was used during the 1:00am airing of The Ruff and Reddy Show. | ![]() |
September 1, 2002 | At the beginning of an ad break during the 10:00am airing of Cats Don't Dance, a minute of the Mission Hill episode "Kevin's Problem (or Porno for Pyro)" is broadcast before abruptly fading to a Cartoon Theatre bumper. This error was most likely due to a time mismatch, as the Mission Hill episode would properly air at 11:00pm that night. | |
April 15, 2003 | The first half of the Rurouni Kenshin episode First Train Ride: Danger on a Runaway Locomotive! aired instead of the first half of the premiere of the Hamtaro episode Boss, the Cool Ham of the Sea!. Despite this, the opening theme to the latter was still shown before the former started. | |
May 12, 2003, June 23, 2003, August 31, 2003 | Typically, during Season 2 episodes of Hamtaro, Cartoon Network would replace the second theme song ("H-A-M-T-A-R-O") with the first ("It's Hamtaro Time"). However, during the premieres of The Little Bandits! and Clubhouse Intruders, both openings are used. This also occurs in the airing of Happy Birthday Hamtaro Special!, likely because the master of the special episode began with a title card before cutting to the second theme song, so Cartoon Network simply began with the first instead of replacing the theme song. | |
May 25, 2003 | All cartoons shown during the 7:00pm airing of The Chuck Jones Show were Yosemite Sam cartoons directed by Friz Freleng. | |
August 12, 2003 | The Cartoon Network screenbug did not appear during the first half of today's broadcast of X-Men: Evolution. The bug would return during the second half. | ![]() |
December 5, 2003 | During the final act of the 8:00pm Fridays presentation of A Flintstones Christmas Carol, Portuguese audio was erroneously broadcast in the right audio channel, with the original audio broadcasting in the left channel. This was fixed a few minutes afterwards. | |
July 10, 2004 | During the second half of the premiere of the Mobile Suit Gundam SEED episode Stars Falling in Space, the Checkerboard screenbug was used. | ![]() |
September 2004 | During an airing of Ed, Edd n Eddy, a scene repeated multiple times before going to the Technical Difficulties slide. After the slide disappeared, the commercial break began as if nothing happened. | |
October 6, 2004 | The 3:00pm airing of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy suddenly went to a Technical Difficulties slide 10 minutes into the show, with the Cartoon Network screenbug remaining intact. 10 minutes later, the show briefly returned for 50 seconds, only to cut back to the aforementioned slide. Despite the screenbug also lingering into that, it disappeared over the slide before cutting to the show's credits, and then going to the next episode of the show later than the normal time, which was 3:30pm. | |
April 16, 2005 | The premiere of the Dragon Ball GT episode Giru's Checkered Past was supposed to air at 10:30pm; however a repeat of the special recap episode A Grand Problem aired instead. | |
June 17, 2005 | During the 11:30pm airing of the Ed, Edd n Eddy episode An Ed in the Bush, the Cartoon Network Summer screenbug disappears 6 minutes into the episode. A minute later, a larger version of the screenbug is used for the remainder for the segment. Its sister episode, See No Ed, would air with the correct screenbug. | ![]() |
June 29, 2005 | An audio promo advertising more The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy mistakenly played during the last 20 seconds of the premiere of the episode The Firebird Sweet (obscuring the episode's audio), when The Life & Times of Juniper Lee was actually the next show. | ![]() |
September 22, 2005 | During the 11:00am broadcast of Scooby-Doo and the Monster of Mexico (2003), the menu bumpers incorrectly label the direct-to-video film as a New Scooby Movie. This is done despite the fact that the menu bumper shown during the prior program (Tickle U) had the correct movie labeled as being next. | ![]() ![]() |
November 17, 2005 | The screenbug was absent during the second segment of today's airing of the ¡Mucha Lucha! episode The Incredible Penny Plutonium until about five minutes into the episode. | ![]() |
January 31, 2006 | The intro to G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero replaces Evil Con Carne's intro during the 10:40pm airing of The Cartoon Cartoon Show. | |
June 3, 2006 | The screenbug was absent during the entire first act of the series premiere of Pokémon Chronicles. | ![]() |
September 22, 2006 | During the premiere of the Squirrel Boy episode(s) Harried Treasure / Rod Squad, the screenbug was absent. | ![]() |
November 11, 2006 - May 26, 2007 | During the series premiere of .hack//Roots, a banner would pop up claiming that My Gym Partner's a Monkey was airing instead. This was never fixed for the rest of the series' run. | ![]() |
March 24, 2007 | During the premiere of the Naruto episode The Third Hokage, Forever... toward the end of the episode, a scene got repeated, then it cut to the credits early before One Piece started five minutes early. | ![]() |
May 19, 2007 | The premiere of the Naruto OVA Mission: Protect the Waterfall Village! had a TV-Y7-FV rating, despite the promo and encore airings giving it a TV-PG rating. This is likely due to Cartoon Network forgetting to update the ratings prompt, as it aired in the timeslot normally held by TV-Y7-FV shows. | |
July 21, 2007 | During the first act of Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew, a banner erroneously stated that Scooby Doo! and the Monster of Mexico was still airing. | ![]() |
August 24, 2007 | The Adult Swim screenbug was accidentally shown during the first three minutes of the 10:30pm airing of Codename: Kids Next Door before switching to the regular screenbug. | |
August 25, 2007 | The Adult Swim screenbug was accidentally shown during the last few minutes during the premiere of the One Piece episode Wreckers Reef. | |
August 28, 2007 | During the premiere of Code Lyoko episode Lost at Sea, the Fried Dynamite promotional banner is passing through the Chill Out, Scooby-Doo! promotional banner. | ![]() |
March 23, 2008 | The screenbug was absent for much of the 11:00am airing of Transformers: Animated. | ![]() |
April 10, 2008 | Today's new episode of My Gym Partner's a Monkey erroneously used the regular screenbug instead of the "New Episode" screenbug. This was likely because it was a last minute change, as Camp Lazlo was originally going to air in that slot. | ![]() |
May 15, 2008 | Today's new episode of Chop Socky Chooks had the CN Thursday Nights "Up Next" banner using the wrong font. | ![]() |
October 18, 2008 | There was no "New Episode" banner during the 10:30pm premiere episode of Naruto. | ![]() |
November 27, 2008 | During the premiere of the My Gym Partner's a Monkey episode A Thanksgiving Carol, the "NEW EPISODE" indicator was not used. | ![]() |
March 11, 2009 | During the 12:00pm airing of Tom and Jerry, a copyright notice for Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl: Battle Dimension meant for the split-screen credits mistakenly popped up for a few seconds. The screenbug also disappeared for a second before returning immediately after the error was fixed. | ![]() |
August 29, 2009 | Various technical issues happened during the premiere of the Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's episode The Profiler. After returning from a commercial break, the TV-Y7-FV rating bug appeared on a black screen for several seconds. A minute later, the program was heavily pixelated, with the Cartoon Network bug intact. The episode was abruptly interrupted by promos, causing the ending of the episode to be cut off. Due to the error, Ed, Edd n Eddy began airing four minutes ahead of schedule. | |
October 3, 2009 | The "New Episode" bug did not appear on today's new episode of Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's. | |
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October 19, 2009 | The 9:00pm airing of Bugs Bunny's Howl-O-Ween Special was marked as a premiere, even though it first aired on the network 12 years earlier. | ![]() |
November 8, 2009 | During the "Big Picture Show Weekend" marathon, the episodes of Ed, Edd n Eddy scheduled for 6:30pm, Pick an Ed and Cool Hand Ed aired without the marathon screenbug. | ![]() |
November 15, 2009 | During the Looney Tunes marathon, the 6:00-7:00pm block aired without the marathon screenbug. | ![]() |
April 5, 2010 | A broken countdown for Adventure Time appeared during the premiere of Trouble in Lumpy Space. | ![]() |
May 24, 2010 | The "NEW EPISODE" banner did not appear during that night's new Adventure Time. | ![]() |
August 3, 2010 | The 6:30pm airing of The Garfield Show episode Curse of the Were-Dog / Meet the Parents accidentally played its credits sequence full-screen, followed by the standard split-screen credits. | ![]() |
August 7, 2010 | All episodes in the Chowder Grows Up Pop-Up Marathon had PAL speedup. This was mainly due to the network using the Australian feed's pop-up masters, which were designed for the PAL format. | |
August 31, 2010 | During the premiere of the The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack episode(s) Catch Me if You Candy and Fish Out of Water, The "NEW EPISODE" banner was not used. | ![]() |
April 16, 2011 | Today's new episode of Pokémon did not use the "NEW EPISODE" banner. | ![]() |
May 16, 2011 | Tonight's rerun of Adventure Time used the "NEW EPISODE" banner, despite the fact that the episode aired, Storytelling, had already premiered. | ![]() |
September 15, 2011 | Tonight's new Problem Solverz featured an error where the generic screenbug appeared, then disappeared for several minutes. Eventually, the proper "NEW EPISODE" bug appeared halfway into the episode. | ![]() |
November 12, 2011, December 17, 2011 | Typically, episodes of Bakugan Battle Brawlers have the screenbug in the top right corner of the screen, presumably to avoid obscuring the scores. However, the "Up Next" banner, which at the time was an extension of the lower right hand corner screenbug, appeared at the bottom of the screen twice during the premieres of the episodes Countdown to Doomsday and Evil Evolution, with the words "Cartoon Network" not visible on the logo, causing the episodes to temporarily have two screenbugs. | ![]() |
January 3, 2012 | Today's airing of The Flintstones episode No Help Wanted accidentally aired with multiple language tracks being played at the same time. | |
February 14, 2012 | A banner advertising tonight's new episode of The Amazing World of Gumball mistakenly addressed the show as "The Amazing Adventures of Gumball". | ![]() |
May 28, 2012 | During the 8:00pm airing of Regular Show, the TV-Y7-FV rating bug is accidentally shown. | |
September 16, 2012 | During the encore airing of the Beyblade: Metal Fury Destroyer Dome "movie", a banner appears advertising new episodes of Beywheelz: Powered By Beyblade that coming Saturday at 9:00am, when the show was moving timeslots to 8:00am. | ![]() |
September 27, 2012 | The audio playing during the Looney Tunes short Stooge for a Mouse accidentally aired with an overlapping dubbed track. It was fixed by the time it aired on the West feed. | |
November 12, 2012 | As soon as the premiere of the Regular Show episode "Bald Spot" started, the SD feed went to a blank screen for an unknown length of time. In addition, the SD feed was accidentally simulcast on Cartoon Network HD for the duration of the episode. | ![]() |
January 10, 2013 | The 11:30am airing of Looney Tunes used the TV-14 rating bug. | ![]() |
July 27, 2013 | The second half of today's new Pokémon was presented without the "NEW EPISODE" banner. | ![]() |
August 12, 2013 | The audio during the two Regular Show episodes played during 6:30-7:00pm was interrupted by a train noise that had apparently trailed off from a Progressive commercial. | |
November 18, 2013 | The premiere of the Regular Show episode Power Tower had its colors more saturated than usual. | ![]() |
January 4, 2014 | Despite both being premieres, today's 7:30am airing of Tenkai Knights and 8:00am airing of Beyblade: Shogun Steel did not use "NEW EPISODE" screenbugs at any point during their broadcasts, instead using the normal screenbug. | ![]() ![]() |
April 3, 2014 | The screenbug disappeared for a few minutes during the 6:15pm airing of The Amazing World of Gumball episode The Castle. | |
April 7, 2014 |
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April 9, 2014 | The New Episode banner did not appear during the premiere of the Steven Universe episode Steven the Sword Fighter. | ![]() |
April 18, 2014 | The credits during today's airing of Diary of a Wimpy Kid did not fill up the split screen credits template. | |
April 21, 2014 |
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May 19, 2014 | A promo that aired today claimed that a new episode of Adventure Time was on tonight even though said episode was a rerun. | |
July 10, 2014 | Today's new episode of The Tom and Jerry Show aired without the "NEW EPISODE" screenbug. | |
November 23, 2014 | The 6:45pm airing of the Steven Universe episode Watermelon Steven had the ratings and caption bug pop up early. The end of the intro was also cut off. | |
November 27, 2014 | The 2:45pm airing of The Amazing World of Gumball episode The Castle had the screenbug disappear two minutes in before reappearing near the end of the episode. | |
November 29, 2014 | The "NEW EPISODE" screenbug appeared during the 7:15am airing of the Sonic Boom episode Buster. | |
December 5, 2014 |
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June 2, 2015 | An up next/later bumper was stretched before the premiere of the Adventure Time episode Be Sweet. | ![]() ![]() |
June 18, 2015 | A Gumball emoji appears for a split second during an up next/later bumper after the premiere of the Steven Universe episode We Need To Talk. | ![]() |
June 29, 2015 | A CHECK it. 3.0 up next/later bumper played during the premiere of the Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu episode Winds of Change. | |
August 20, 2015 | Despite the fact We Bare Bears shedded the use of the "New Series" banner in the previous week's new episode, tonight's new episode of the show would use the banner. | ![]() |
September 10, 2015 | A CHECK it. 3.0 up next/later bumper played right before The Amazing World of Gumball episode The Pest. | |
October 12, 2015 | The intro to tonight's airings of Steven Universe were cut off as soon as Steven says "...and Steven!". | |
October 28, 2015 |
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December 3, 2015 | The 5:15pm airing of The Amazing World of Gumball episode The Question uses the "SPECIAL" screenbug. This was likely because it was paired with Christmas. | |
December 9, 2015 | The theme to We Bare Bears played immediately after the first episode in the 7:00pm airing for the show, then it is followed by an up next bumper. The credits for both episodes that night also played in full. | |
December 20, 2015 | The 7:45pm airing of The Amazing World of Gumball episode Christmas was rated TV-PG instead of the usual TV-Y7-FV. | |
December 23, 2015 | The 11:30am airing of the We Bare Bears episode Food Truck aired without a screenbug. | |
December 26, 2015 | A CHECK it. 3.0 up next bumper played right before Escape from Planet Earth. | |
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January 18, 2016 | The up next bumper for the premiere of the Clarence episode The Interrogation used a Gumball emoji instead of a Clarence emoji. It was later fixed on January 28, 2016 for the premiere of the episode Ren Faire. | ![]() ![]() |
February 6, 2016 | The premiere episode of Bunnicula today aired without credits. The split screen credits template did show up with a promo for Clarence airing. | |
February 13, 2016 | The 10:15am airing of Wabbit: A Looney Tunes Production Carrot Before the Horse / Trunk with Power had a new episode screenbug, despite that the episode(s) premiered a week earlier. The bug also continued into the split screen credits. | |
March 24, 2016 | Due to a last minute change, the 5:00pm airing of the Clarence episode Freedom Cactus aired with a "NEW EPISODE" screenbug. The episode that originally was scheduled to premiere, Sneaky Peeky, aired the week afterwards. | |
March 25, 2016 | An up next bumper for We Bare Bears during the Basket Fulla Premieres block had no clip. | |
April 25, 2016 |
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June 3, 2016 | An up next bumper for Clarence aired before tonight's new Regular Show episode on the Yoursday block. The same happened afterwards with a Powerpuff Girls up next bumper right before the signoff. | |
June 11, 2016 | The screenbug popped up in a commercial break during the premiere of Horton Hears a Who!. | |
June 27, 2016 | The Burst lower thirds were accidentally used today. In addition, the network also aired promos for last week's Yoursday block. | |
July 4, 2016 | A bumper claiming that more Teen Titans Go! was next during an airing of Alvin and the Chipmunks. | |
July 13, 2016 | A TV-PG icon appeared in the split screen credits right before the 4:00pm airing of Clarence. | |
July 19, 2016 | On the 11:30am airing of The Amazing World of Gumball, The Password accidentally aired twice instead of airing The Mothers first, and then The Password. | |
July 23, 2016 | A "SERIES PREMIERE" screenbug appeared during today's airing of Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel. | |
July 25, 2016, July 28, 2016 | No commercials were shown between the We Bare Bears episodes Slumber Party and Shush Ninjas. An extended commercial break was shown directly after the two instead. The same thing happened three days later, this time with two bumpers instead, cutting off before the episode Everyday Bears aired. | |
July 31, 2016 | No credits were shown for the Ben 10 episodes that aired today. | |
August 4, 2016 | An up next bumper for Steven Universe aired during a block of new Supernoobs episodes at 4:00pm, despite the latter continuing for another 30 minutes. | |
August 19, 2016 | During tonight's new episode of The Amazing World of Gumball, a banner promoting said new episode aired during it. | |
August 20, 2016 | An up next bumper for the Teen Titans Go! special Island Adventures instead reuses announcer audio from a Scooby-Doo! Music of the Vampire (2012) next bumper. | |
August 22, 2016 | A promo for The Amazing World of Gumball claimed a new episode was about to start right now, but said episode, The Hug, already premiered. | |
August 25, 2016 | During The Amazing World of Gumball episode The Egg, the Cartoon Network screenbug disappears for 10 seconds. A "Coming Up Next" banner was likely meant to show up during that time. | |
September 22, 2016 | An up next bumper during tonight's airing of We Bare Bears had significant freezing issues. | |
September 27, 2016 | A Burst CN Sayin filler aired during today's episodes of Wabbit.. | |
September 29, 2016 |
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September 30, 2016 | The rerun of the Regular Show episode Ugly Moons used a "NEW EPISODE" screenbug. | |
October 6, 2016 |
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October 12, 2016 | The 7:30am airing of Steven Universe did not play the intro. | |
October 13, 2016 | The credits to tonight's Steven Universe episodes did not air. | |
October 20, 2016 |
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October 25, 2016 | A Burst bumper aired today, notably one dedicated to Scooby-Doo. | |
October 27, 2016 |
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November 3, 2016 | The screenbug disappeared during tonight's new Regular Show. | |
November 16, 2016 | The premiere of the Clarence episode Fishing Trip aired without a “NEW EPISODE” banner intact to the screenbug. | ![]() |
December 1, 2016 | The split screen credits were glitched before the premiere of the Uncle Grandpa episode Chill Out. | |
December 11, 2016 | The final airing of The Amazing World of Gumball during the Wonderful Wattersons Weekend marathon used the full credits sped up. | |
December 30, 2016 | An up next bumper for today's Steven Universe episodes aired as normal before cutting to black for 20 seconds, followed by a portion of the 12 Days of Magiswords promo before cutting straight to the intro, which then gets cut off once it gets to "...and Steven!" before going to straight to the episode shown. | |
January 18, 2017 | A CHECK it. 3.0 up next bumper played right before Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster (2010). | |
January 23, 2017 | The up next bumpers before and during tonight's new Adventure Time episodes were for We Bare Bears. | |
January 24, 2017 | A Burst up next bumper for Adventure Time aired before tonight's new episodes. | |
January 30, 2017 | An up next bumper for new Adventure Time aired before tonight's airing of Steven Universe. | |
February 10, 2017 | The up next bumpers for tonight's episodes of Teen Titans Go! and Steven Universe were advertised as new, even though those episodes were repeats. | |
February 15, 2017 | The "NEW" screenbug was used during the 12:00pm hour. | |
March 8, 2017 | The crunch the split screen credits use was applied twice to today's airing of Mighty Magiswords. | |
March 10, 2017 | A CHECK it. 3.0 up next bumper played right before Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2011). | |
April 16, 2017 | The Adult Swim screenbug appeared during most of the Teen Titans Go! marathon that day. Along with that, the Cartoon Network screenbug appeared on The Brak Show at 8:00pm, before fixing itself later on Space Ghost Coast To Coast at 8:15pm. | ![]() |
April 21, 2017 | A promo claimed that a new episode of We Bare Bears would air tonight, with said episode instead being a rerun. | |
April 26, 2017 |
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April 27, 2017 | The screenbug appeared on the intro for today's Steven Universe compilation block. | |
May 2, 2017 | Today's Steven Universe episodes aired without credits. | |
May 29, 2017 | The screenbug was transparent during the premiere of LEGO DC Super Hero Girls: Galactic Wonder. At various points throughout the day, the picture also had a ghosting effect. | ![]() |
June 8, 2017 | Banners promoting the month long premiere bomb of Clarence and Uncle Grandpa used the Arial font instead of the Dimensional branding's generic font. | |
June 27, 2017 | The promos featured on the split screen credits for today's airings of Clarence and The Amazing World of Gumball had audio for different promos compared to those that actually aired. | |
July 12, 2017 | The screenbug appeared during a commercial break right before the 5:30pm airing of Teen Titans Go!. | |
September 12, 2017 | Two banners advertising nothing appeared during the 7:00 and 7:15am airings of Teen Titans Go!. |
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September 17, 2017 | A banner promoting The Powerpuff Girls special The Power of Four during Over the Garden Wall was glitched. | ![]() |
October 2, 2017 | An up next bumper for the 2005 incarnation of Ben 10 aired instead of a bumper for the 2017 incarnation. Ironically, the original show would appear on the schedule starting later that week. | |
October 20, 2017 | The "NEW NEW NEW NEW" banner did not appear during the premiere of the We Bare Bears episode Spa Day. | ![]() |
November 19, 2017 | During a commercial break for tonight's airing of Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo (2006), the network screenbug did not disappear. After said break, no screenbug appeared. The split screen credits were also scaled in an unusual way. | |
November 21, 2017 | Today's airing of Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat (2003) had its audio said to Spanish, even on the English audio track. | |
November 22, 2017 | The credits for Kung Fu Panda (2008) aired twice in a row, with the second time also being sped up similar to most movie airings on the network. | |
November 27, 2017 | Tonight's airing of The Amazing World of Gumball episode The Society had issues with its intro. It first froze, then cut straight to a Dreamland Arcade ad, then the intro was repeated again. | |
November 28, 2017 | Today's sneak preview airing of the Unikitty! episode Sparkle Matter Matters cut to a black screen midway through the episode and the audio had skipping issues. Before the episode ended, it cut straight into a Teen Titans Go! episode. | |
December 3, 2017 | The split screen credits after today's Unikitty! airing calls the show "Unitkitty". | |
December 21, 2017 | A broken up next banner appeared during The Amazing World of Gumball, simply showing the letter B and cutting off. | ![]() |
December 29, 2017 | The split screen credits for tonight's new Steven Universe episodes froze on one credit. | |
January 25, 2018 | The split screen credits for Adventure Time and OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes! froze, while the ratings bug and screenbug appeared early. | |
February 23, 2018 | The second part of the Teen Titans Go! episode BBRAE did not air today, with Secret Garden airing instead. | |
March 3, 2018 | The split screen credits for the 10:30am airing of Teen Titans Go! were split screened as well. | |
March 17, 2018 | The split screen credits for Ben 10 and OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes aired during the Saint Paddy's Day block of Teen Titans Go!. This was likely a result of a last minute change. | |
March 31, 2018 | A banner advertising Craig of the Creek lists the show as "Craig of the Week". | |
April 6-7, 2018 | Bumpers for The Powerpuff Girls special The Power of Four and Teen Titans aired after episodes of Craig of the Creek and Teen Titans Go! respectively, despite the two not on the schedule on those days. | |
April 8, 2018 | A next banner during today's new The Powerpuff Girls episodes was bugged. | |
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April 16, 2018 | Due to a last minute change, the split screen credits for OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes still aired even though Ben 10 was airing. | |
May 7, 2018 | The split screen credits for tonight's new episodes of Steven Universe aired after tonight's Craig of the Creek. | |
May 10, 2018 | A banner advertising Craig of the Creek lists the show as "Craig of the Craig". | |
May 14, 2018 | A bumper mix-up occured before a block of The Amazing World of Gumball episodes. A bumper for OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes! aired before switching midway to a Gumball bumper. | |
May 28, 2018 | A different font is used for the split screen credits for Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip. | |
June 2, 2018 | A up next bumper for the incarnation for Ben 10 was used right before the 2016 incarnation of Ben 10. | |
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June 15, 2018 | Audio issues occured during today's Steven Universe airing. | |
June 17, 2018 | Some issues happened during today's Clarence airings:
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July 1, 2018, July 15, 2018 | Today's episodes of The Powerpuff Girls were incorrectly advertised as new. | |
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July 2, 2018 - July 4, 2018 | The New banner did not appear during new episodes of Steven Universe. | ![]() |
July 4, 2018 | The split-screen credits to tonight's OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes airings ended early, interfering with a Summer Camp Island promo before hanging on a black screen for 10 seconds. | |
July 5, 2018 | The Steven Universe episode Serious Steven aired with a NEW bug even though said episode premiered 4 years ago. | |
July 16, 2018 | During an airing of The Amazing World of Gumball episode The Brain, the credits began airing earlier than expected, but were cut off at the last second. | |
July 19, 2018 | A bumper for Unikitty! falsely claimed that a new episode was coming up. | |
August 15, 2018 | The intros for today's episodes of Unikitty! and Craig of the Creek were skipped. | |
August 22, 2018 | A banner promoting the series premiere of Total DramaRama had minor text glitches. | |
October 9, 2018 | A bumper claiming that The Amazing World of Gumball was starting instead cut to commercials. | |
October 11, 2018 | The 4:45pm airing of The Amazing World of Gumball aired in Turner's Flexview format with no screenbug in sight until the last minute. | |
October 21, 2018 | The NEW banner did not appear during today's new OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes episode. | |
November 2, 2018 | The 3:45pm airing of The Amazing World of Gumball episode The Castle did not present a screenbug until halfway through. | |
November 3, 2018 | A banner for the premiere of Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014) had the PREMIERE TONIGHT 7P repeated twice. | |
November 10, 2018 | The NEW banner did not appear during today's new Transformers: Cyberverse episode. | |
December 17, 2018 | In-episode credits for Steven Universe were shown during The Amazing World of Gumball episode The Lie. | ![]() |
December 24, 2018 | The Adult Swim signoff bumper aired during a commercial break during the 3:00pm airing of The Amazing World of Gumball. | |
January 1, 2019 | Today's episodes of Total Drama Island were labelled as a special before being removed after the theme song played. | |
February 4, 2019 | Today's airing of the Total Drama Island episode Not So Happy Campers (Part 2) aired in native 4:3 and without credits. | |
September 7, 2019 | During a rerun of the OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes episode Crossover Nexus, placeholder lower-third credits for Teen Titans Go! featuring credits for then-unaired episodes were used. In addition, a promotional banner advertising "Next New DC Super Hero Girls" appeared over top of the credits in place of a proper Next banner. | ![]() |
October 7, 2019, February 12, 2022 | When Cartoon Network signs off at 8:00pm, the sign-on bumper is used instead of its usual sign-off bumper. | |
July 6, 2020 | The 12:45pm airing of Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart episode Captured Clops had a NEW bug, despite the episode premiering less than a year before. | ![]() |
July 7, 2020 | The 12:45pm airing of Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart episode Flyaway had a NEW bug, despite the episode premiering less than a year before. | ![]() |
November 14, 2020 | The split-screen credits for tonight's airing of Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans (2019) did not mute the audio from the movie's closing credits, resulting in heavily distorted, overlapping audio due to those credits being massively sped up to fit into the split-screen credits, combined with the audio from the promo within the split-screen credits continuing to play on top. | ![]() |
March 29, 2021 | The credits for The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part (2019) were used instead of How to Train Your Dragon's (2010) during that night's airing of the latter. | |
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July 19, 2021 | Today's new episode of Total DramaRama aired without the "NEW" banner. | ![]() |
September 4, 2021 | A Burst bumper aired before the premiere of the Total DramaRama episode Erase Yer Head. | |
September 15, 2021 | A Cartoonito screen bug appeared during the airing of The Amazing World of Gumball episode The Club. | ![]() |
September 19, 2021 | During that day's airings of the Teen Titans Go! episodes A Farce and Wally T, the screenbug is absent. This does not affect promotional materials. | ![]() |
September 26, 2021 | During the 5:45pm airing of The Amazing World of Gumball episode "The Vegging", the up next banner shows the premiere of Cartoon Network is up next instead of Man of Steel (2013). | ![]() |
October 9, 2021 | The "NEW" banner was not used for any of that day's episode premieres. | ![]() |
October 17, 2021 | The premiere screenbug was used during Detective Pikachu (2019), despite the movie premiering a few months earlier. | ![]() |
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December 3, 2021 | A broken up next banner appeared during Teen Titans Go!, simply showing the word "NEXT" and cutting off. | ![]() |
December 4, 2021 | After the premiere of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Secret of the Ooze (1991) ended, the continues next bumper for the film played even though has already ended when actually Teen Titans Go! was up next. In addition, the 8:45pm airing of Teen Titans Go! aired with a TV-G rating instead of the usual TV-PG rating. | ![]() ![]() |
December 18, 2021 | The Adult Swim screenbug was used during the last 15 minutes of the 6:00pm airing of Scooby-Doo (2002). | ![]() |
December 19, 2021, December 24, 2021 | The "Mashup" split screen credits and "Dimensional" bumpers are accidentally used on the older shows instead of the normal Redraw Your World split screen credits. | |
December 26, 2021 | Despite airing on Cartoon Network before, tonight's ACME Night broadcast of Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (2005) mistakenly uses the "PREMIERE" banner. | ![]() |
January 1, 2022 | The Cartoonito sign on was used immediately after the regular sign on, despite there being no Cartoonito programming that day. | |
January 29, 2022 | During Puss in Boots (2011), the Next banner said that "Cartoon Network" was next. | |
February 27, 2022 | During the start of the 6:30am airing of Ben 10 and the 7:30am airing of Teen Titans, the TV Rating wasn't present at the beginning of the episodes. | |
March 20, 2022 | The credits for Minions (2015) were used instead of the credits for Spider-Man 3 (2007) during that night's ACME Night. | |
April 17, 2022 | Despite airing on Cartoon Network before, tonight's ACME Night broadcast of Nacho Libre (2006) mistakenly uses a "PREMIERE" banner. | |
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May 2, 2022 | During the Teen Titans Go! episode "Them Soviet Boys", the banner promoted We Baby Bears new episodes for "Tomorrow TBD". | ![]() |
May 3 - May 5, 2022 | The premieres of We Baby Bears episodes "Ice Bear's Pet", "Dragon Pests", and "No Land, All Air!" all lacked new episode screenbugs. | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
May 7, 2022 | A blank Next banner appeared during the 9:45am rerun of We Baby Bears. | ![]() |
May 8, 2022 | During the 5:45pm airing of The Amazing World of Gumball the on-screen credits went overtime continuing into commercials for 30 seconds. | |
May 28, 2022 | The premiere banner did not appear during the premiere of Teen Titans Go! & DC Super Hero Girls: Mayhem in the Multiverse. Additionally, the split screen credits were for Teen Titans Go! to the Movies (2018) instead. | ![]() |
June 6, 2022 | Despite Cartoonito losing the 10:00am hour, its screenbug was used during said times. | ![]() ![]() |
July 12, 2022 | The 7:00pm airing of The Amazing World of Gumball episode The Pact (which had premiered over four years prior), accidentally used the NEW banner. | ![]() |
July 24, 2022 | The Cartoon Network screenbug shows up during the first acts of that night's Bob's Burgers episodes, airing as part of ACME Night during the unbranded 8:00pm slot. | ![]() |
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September 3, 2022 | The credits for Steven Universe: The Movie were used instead of the ones for Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo (2006) at 8:00am. Later that day, the same thing happened the other way around; the credits for Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo (2006) were used instead of the ones for Steven Universe: The Movie (2019) at 4:00pm. | ![]() |
October 3, 2022 | Despite Cartoon Network regaining the 6am hour on weekdays, the Cartoonito screenbug was used during said times. | ![]() |
October 4, 2022 | A "Redraw Your World" banner promoting the premiere of Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo Meets Courage The Cowardly Dog (2021) appeared during the 6pm airing of The Amazing World of Gumball, despite Cartoon Network phasing out the branding by this point. | ![]() |
October 10, 2022, October 31, 2022 | During the 7:00pm airing of Scooby-Doo and the Monster of Mexico (2003), a pop up banner advertising the premiere of "Text ByMaterialID '$Child' InChannel 'Scheduled Channel';" was advertised. This was likely used to test the banner. The same banner appeared again during an airing of Over the Garden Wall later that month, now being advertised as "NEW All Next Week 4". | ![]() ![]() |
October 13, 2022 | The New banner appeared during the 6:45am airing of The Amazing World of Gumball episode The Banana, even though said episode premiered 10 years ago. | ![]() |
November 3, 2022, November 21, 2022 | The Cartoonito short intro was used before select episodes of Lamput. | |
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February 18, 2023 | The Sticker up next bumper for The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part (2019) was accidentally used instead of the normal Split Screen up next bumper. | |
February 19, 2023 | During The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part (2019), a banner appeared with no text whatsoever. This happened again during the 5:45pm rerun of Teen Titans Go!. | |
February 25, 2023 | The 6:00pm airing of Scooby-Doo!: Legend of the Phantosaur aired with the film's end credits and closing logos being shown in their entirety before both were shown again in the split-screen credits. | |
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March 26, 2023 | The 3:49pm airing of the Teen Titans Go! episode Real Art used the TV-Y7-FV rating instead of its normal TV-PG rating. The episodes of the show that aired during 10am-12pm also had the Marathon screenbug. | ![]() |
April 1, 2023 | The 9:30am airing of The Looney Tunes Show episode Reunion had a NEW bug, despite the episode premiering over a decade ago. | ![]() |
May 4, 2023 | The screenbug disappeared during the second half of the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends episode Challenge of the Super Friends. When it disappeared seemed to be dependent on which feed it was on. | ![]() |
May 14, 2023 | The Adult Swim screenbug shows up during that night's Futurama episodes, airing as part of ACME Night during the bugless purgatory hour. | |
May 20, 2023 | Cartoonito's split screen credits template was shown at the end of the Teen Titans Go! episode Toilet Water. | ![]() |
June 2, 2023, June 9, 2023, June 16, 2023 | The TV-Y rating bug was shown at the beginning of the first and second act of the The Looney Tunes Show episode Muh-Muh-Muh-Murder, as opposed to the episode's actual TV-PG rating. This error would persist for the re-runs of episodes Point, Laser, Point and Bobcats on Three!. | ![]() |
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June 19, 2023 | The screenbug disappeared during the second half of the New Looney Tunes episode(s) Bigs Bunny / Wahder, Wahder, Everywhere and Computer Bugs / Oil's Well That Ends Well. | ![]() |
June 28, 2023-June 30, 2023 | The Lamput shorts Orange Rose and Orange Umbrella airing after the Craig of the Creek episode The Ice Pop Trio were advertised as new on the "up next" banner, despite already premiering months prior. A similar situation occurred during the Craig of the Creek episodes The Last Game of Summer on June 29th and Afterschool Snackdown on June 30th. | ![]() |
June 30, 2023 | The on-screen credits shown at the end of the Adventure Time episode "The Real You" continued into the first few seconds of the commercial break. | |
July 9, 2023 | The premiere of All-Star Superman (2011) used the old Helvetica ratings bug, used Adult Swim "River" split screen credits, and during the first act, there was no screenbug. | ![]() |
July 13, 2023 | During the airings of The Looney Tunes Show episodes The Grand Old Duck of York and The Shelf, the bumpers for classic Looney Tunes were used. | |
July 23, 2023 | Today's new episodes of Summer Camp Island erroneously used the regular screenbug instead of the "NEW" screenbug. This was likely because of scheduling changes shifting the premieres of the episodes The Babies Chapter 1: Breakfast Errands, The Babies Chapter 2: Teacup Giant and The Babies Chapter 3: Lem Is Nothing to Sunday rather than the usual weekday slot. | ![]() |
August 28, 2023 | After the 4:45pm airing of The Amazing World of Gumball episode The BFFs, an Up Next bumper for The Amazing World of Gumball played, despite Cartoon Network signing off at 5:00pm on this day. | |
September 9, 2023 | The 12pm hour encores of Tiny Toons Looniversity aired with the new episode screenbug despite both premiering earlier at 9am hour. | ![]() ![]() |
September 23, 2023 | The repeat of the Teen Titans Go! episode Utility Belt at 9:45am used the New screenbug and had the "new" bumpers before it. This is very likely due to it and the early premiere of Intro replacing the WB 100th Anniversary episode at the last minute. | ![]() |
September 25, 2023 | Several on-air elements and bumpers aired incorrectly as a result of the transition from Turner's network operations center in Atlanta, Georgia to Discovery's cloud-based network operations center in Sterling, Virginia. See this page for more info. | |
September 26, 2023 - September 27, 2023 | Continuing from the Discovery migration, the classic Looney Tunes bumper still played before and during the Baby Looney Tunes episode(s) A Bully for Bugs / The Wheel Deal and Oh Brother, Warehouse Art Thou? / Flu the Coop at 9:00am and 9:30am respectively on the 26th. On the 27th, the Teen Titans bumper played before the 2:00pm showing of the Teen Titans Go! episode Booby Trap House. | |
October 9, 2023 | At around 6:15am, during an episode of The Amazing World of Gumball, the screenbug disappears, but comes back at around 7:15am. | |
October 29, 2023 | The Up Next bumper for The Looney Tunes Show was accidentally shown before the 12:30pm airing of the Tiny Toons Looniversity episode Tears of a Clone. | |
November 18, 2023 | The "New" screenbug was used during the 9:45am airing of the Teen Titans Go! episode Thanksgiving despite it first airing in 2014. | ![]() |
December 10, 2023 | The ratings bug and screenbug appeared in the credits of the 3:00pm airing of The Amazing World of Gumball episode Christmas. | |
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January 5, 2024 | Screenbugs were absent for about four hours after Cartoon Network's sign-on. | ![]() |
April 8, 2024 | Today's new episode of Jessica's Big Little World aired without the "New" screenbug. | ![]() |
May 20, 2024 | Today's new episode of Batwheels aired without the "New" screenbug. | |
May 26, 2024 | The rerun of the Steven Universe episode Political Power had its colors heavily desaturated. | ![]() |
May 27, 2024 | Today's new episode of Jessica's Big Little World aired without the "New" screenbug. | ![]() |
June 9, 2024, July 7, 2024 | Both airings of The Scooby-Doo Show on June 9, 2024 were preceded by the Up Next bumper for Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?. Similar to the error affecting Baby Looney Tunes the preceding September, this was likely because a Prism bumper for the show that actually came on didn’t exist yet. The error was fixed once the show aired again on June 16, 2024, only to return (albeit only during the second half-hour broadcast of the series that day instead of both airings) on July 7, 2024. | |
September 14, 2024 - present | All premieres of episodes that either premiered on other Warner Bros. Discovery networks and/or were released on Max prior to their first airing on Cartoon Network no longer have the "NEW" screenbug. | ![]() |
October 6, 2024 | An Adult Swim advertisement bug promoting the R-rated movie Joker: Folie à Deux appeared during the 6:00am airing of the Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! episode Some Fred Time. | ![]() |
November 18, 2024 | The 2:30pm airing of The Polar Express was mistakenly rated TV-PG instead of the usual TV-G. | |
November 20, 2024 | The 2:30pm airing of 8-Bit Christmas aired without a ratings bug. | |
November 21, 2024 | The 4:45pm rerun of the Regular Show episode This is My Jam' had its colors heavily desaturated. | ![]() |
November 23, 2024 | During the early morning airings of Teen Titans Go!, the up next banner accidentally appeared during the intro of the show. | |
November 25, 2024 | During the airing of Teen Titans Go! episode "Sweet Revenge", an up next banner for Ed, Edd n Eddy was used accidentally, instead of having no banner present. | ![]() |
November 30, 2024 | The "NEW" screenbug did not appear during the premiere of the Teen Titans Go! episode "Four Hundred". | ![]() |
March 17, 2025 | During the entirety of the 1pm hour Teen Titans Go! airings, the up next bumper used was the Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans one instead of the normal Teen Titans Go! one. | ![]() |
May 3, 2025 | The 10:30am airing of the The Powerpuff Girls episode Just Another Manic Mojo / Mime for a Change accidentally aired in widescreen. | ![]() |
May 6, 2025 | During both episodes of Total DramaRama, the Total Drama Island (2023) up next bumper was used instead of the one for Total DramaRama. | |
May 18, 2025 | The Up Next banner graphic for Adventure Time did not appear during the airing of We Bare Bears episode "Slumber Party", with the Cartoon Network screenbug disappearing instead of transitioning into any such graphic (a la during whatever is playing right before Adult Swim comes on) during the tail end of said broadcast. | |
May 25, 2025 | Up Next banners were absent throughout the majority of the day; they returned briefly following airings of The Looney Tunes Show at 11:00am only to vanish again before Teen Titans Go! airings at 2:00pm. | |
June 14, 2025 | The "NEW" screenbug did not appear during the premiere of both Total Drama Island (2023) and Tiny Toons Looniversity episodes "You Poor Saps" and "Ask Not What Bunnies Can Do For You" respectively. | ![]() ![]() |
July 16, 2025 | During the 1:45pm airing of the Teen Titans Go! episode "Pie Bros", the season 2 intro inexplicably played instead of the season 1 intro. | ![]() ![]() |
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September 2, 2001 - September 10, 2001 | Adult Swim programming would have the ratings bug linger throughout the episode. This might have been done deliberately to indicate that these programs were not for kids. | ![]() |
September 2, 2001 | A CN Next bumper for A Pup Named Scooby-Doo followed by 3 hours of The Flintstones replaced the proper Adult Swim bumper after the premiere of the Goldfish episode of The Brak Show. | |
October 21, 2001 | During the 11:45pm airing of the Space Ghost Coast to Coast episode Girl Hair, the ratings bug lasted much longer than usual, appearing on-screen for two and a half minutes in total. Additionally, while a "TV-PG" bug was initially used, it switched to "TV-14" partway in--appropriately, right when Space Ghost punched Zorak in the mouth. | |
November 29, 2001 | Cartoon Network's screenbug was accidentally used between 10:30pm to 11:15pm. | ![]() |
May 20, 2002 | The first half of The Lewis Lectures aired in Spanish, then switched to the English channel halfway through. | |
June 17, 2002 | The TV-14-D screenbug remained on screen for the entirety of Mission Hill. | ![]() |
November 10, 2002 | Cartoon Network's screenbug was accidentally used between 10:00pm to 10:45pm, with the correct screenbug being used during the second half of The Groovenians. | ![]() |
May 8, 2003 | During the premiere of the Family Guy episode Fore Father, the Cartoon Network screenbug appeared for the first half of the episode. | ![]() |
May 20, 2003 | During the premiere of the Family Guy episode The Kiss Seen Around the World, the Cartoon Network screenbug appeared for the first half of the episode. Instead of switching to the standard Adult Swim bug, the remainder of the episode had neither screenbug shown. | ![]() |
June 23, 2003 | During the premiere of the Family Guy episode Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater, the Cartoon Network screenbug appeared for the first minute of the episode. It then switched to the correct screenbug for the rest of the episode. | ![]() |
October 26, 2003 | The Big O's series finale The Show Must Go On was originally scheduled to premiere that night, but a rerun of the episode Stripes was accidentally aired in its place. It would instead premiere on November 2, 2003. Said program change also delayed the American television premiere of the Family Guy episode When You Wish Upon a Weinstein by a week. | |
April 19, 2004 | During the first segment of the 1:30am airing of The Popeye Show, the TV-PG parental guidelines rating (most likely for the following program, the Futurama episode Mars University) accidentally popped in for a few seconds. | ![]() |
September 25, 2004 | During the premiere of The Venture Brothers episode Mid-Life Chrysalis the Cartoon Network screenbug appeared for a few seconds. It then switched to the correct screenbug for the rest of the episode. | ![]() |
2005 | An airing of American Dad! was initially rated TV-14-DSV. After the closed captioning bug disappeared, the TV-MA rating bug inexplicably appeared. Later, about 2 minutes into the episode, the former rating appeared again, given that a broadcast engineer managed to catch the TV-MA error. | ![]() ![]() |
May 28, 2006 | During the premiere of the Robot Chicken episode Massage Chair a few seconds before the intro concludes, the TV-PG-LV bug appeared for about 30 seconds before disappearing for the remainder of the episode. | |
November 26, 2006 | The Cartoon Network screenbug accidentally appeared for a few seconds in the 10:00pm broadcast of Futurama. The Adult Swim bug would later appear after a minute of no present screenbug. | ![]() |
January 21, 2007 | During the premiere of the Bleach episode Reclaim! The Power of the Shinigami! shortly after the show returns from the commercial break, the picture freaks out in a way similar to a satellite glitch. However, the [as] bug remains intact indicating this is a problem with the master for the episode itself. | ![]() |
May 22, 2007 | At the beginning of the Inuyasha episode Seekers of the Sacred Jewel, the Cartoon Network Invaded screenbug accidentally appears for a short few seconds. It would switch to the Adult Swim screenbug shortly thereafter. | ![]() |
September 21, 2007 | During the second half of the Inuyasha episode Forever with Lord Sesshomaru, the Cartoon Network screenbug accidentally appears and would remain on screen for the remainder of the episode. | ![]() |
March 9, 2008 | The Cartoon Network screenbug accidentally appeared for around a minute in the 10:00pm broadcast of Family Guy. The Adult Swim bug would later appear after about 15 seconds of no present screenbug. | ![]() |
April 27, 2008 | The Adult Swim screenbug was absent for the first 7 minutes of the 10:00pm Family Guy broadcast. The screenbug would later appear after about 7 minutes of no screenbug. | ![]() |
October 19, 2009 | Technical issues that have been present on the West Coast feed since the prior night (see the Cartoon Network tab for more info) affects the season premiere of The Venture Bros., where the first half of the episode was repeated instead of the second half. To make up for this issue, Adult Swim aired reruns of the episode for the following week at 12:30am and 4:30am. Again, the East Coast feed was not affected. | |
June 20, 2011 | During that night's airing of the Family Guy episode Let's Go to the Hop after the commercial break, the rating of the episode changed from TV-14-SV at the start of the program to TV-PG-D when the show returned from commercials. | |
August 24, 2011 | The rating bug appears twice during the opening of that night's airing of the Family Guy episode Road to Germany, making the closed captions bug not appear during that night's broadcast. | |
April 14, 2014 | The screenbug lingered throughout the first commercial break during tonight's Rick and Morty. | |
August 6, 2016 | That night's new episode of The Eric Andre Show aired with a TV-PG-L rating instead of the TV-MA-LS rating listed on the schedule. This was corrected in all reruns. | |
December 30, 2016 | During the "12 Days of Magiswords" event on Cartoon Network, viewers could collect Magiswords (from Mighty Magiswords) using the "MagiMobile" app when a certain icon appeared on screen. This event was exclusive to Cartoon Network, but the King of the Hill episodes Dale Not Be Proud and Apres Hank, Le Deluge at 8:00pm and 8:30pm had the Collect icon on screen, despite the event not involving Adult Swim and the inability to collect Magiswords during Adult Swim. | ![]() |
January 4, 2017 | Despite not cutting to a commercial break, the second half of the 1:15am airing of the Space Ghost Coast to Coast episode Jerk used a small TV-PG rating bug. | ![]() |
January 5, 2017 | Somewhat similar to the above error in an inverse way, the Adult Swim bug disappeared during the second half of the 4:45am airing of the Space Ghost Coast to Coast episode Sleeper, and would not return for the remainder of the episode. | ![]() |
March 7, 2017 | During the second half of the 12:30am airing of The Boondocks, the TV-Y rating bug is accidentally shown. | ![]() |
April 15, 2017 - April 16, 2017 | The Cartoon Network logo appeared during the opening for tonight's episode of Dragon Ball Super. Said occurrence of both screenbugs appearing at the same time would continue throughout the following day on both networks, eventually stopping on a rerun of The Brak Show a day after. | ![]() ![]() |
May 6, 2017 | The 10:00pm airing of the Samurai Jack finale used a TV-PG-V rating instead of its original TV-14-V rating. | |
March 17, 2019 | Six minutes into the premiere of the Sword Art Online: Alicization episode Project Alicization, the show froze on one frame. The frame remained like that for a few minutes before the show cut to a commercial break, but when returning from said break, the freeze frame from the first act persisted. Because of this, the Megalobox episode Leap Over the Edge of Death started early, then aired in full in its normal slot. | ![]() |
December 20, 2020 | A promo before the premiere of Wonder Woman: Bloodlines erroneously states that the regular Toonami lineup would return the week after, when a Cowboy Bebop marathon was already scheduled for that day. This may be because the Cowboy Bebop marathon was originally scheduled to air November 29, 2020 instead. | |
July 21, 2021 | That night's American Dad! and Family Guy episodes used Cartoon Network's TV-PG DLV rating bug instead of the proper ratings bug for each episode. | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
August 8, 2021 | The Harley Quinn season 1 finale, The Killing Joke, was supposed to air at 4:30am, but was accidentally replaced at the last minute with a rerun of Finding Mr. Right. | ![]() |
September 28, 2021 | During the beginning of the 11:30pm airing of the Rick and Morty episode Rickternal Friendshine of the Spotless Mort, the TV-Y7 rating was used instead with a different font of its standard TV-14 rating. Additionally, an E/I bug temporarily appeared in the bottom right corner of the screen. Notably, this E/I bug was used back in the late 1990s to identify an E/I compliant program on Turner's channels, which in Cartoon Network's case, was used during Big Bag and Small World. | ![]() |
December 12, 2021 | The Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon season 1 finale, Sesshomaru's Daughter, was supposed to air at 1:30am, but was accidentally replaced at the last minute with a rerun of Secret of the Rainbow Pearls. | ![]() |
December 27, 2021 - February 2, 2022 | The "Mashup" split screen credits was used during the 8:00pm hour instead of Adult Swim's standard split screen credits. | ![]() |
March 20, 2022 | The second episode of One Piece that night had a TV-Y7-FV rating bug instead of its regular TV-PG bug. | ![]() |
June 26, 2022 | During the first half of the Naruto: Shippuden episode One Worthy as a Leader, the TV-PG rating bug remained on screen the entire time until it cut for commercial break. Once the episode resumed after the break, the smaller version of the rating bug disappeared as intended. | ![]() |
December 25, 2022 | The screenbug disappeared during the Adult Swim Yule Log. | ![]() |
April 4, 2023 - present | Every scheduling of the Robot Chicken episode "Crushed by a Steamroller on My 53rd Birthday" past April 4, 2023 (except for November 7, 2023) has the Aqua Child Hunger Force version of "Revenge of the Mooninites" air in its place instead. | ![]() |
June 4, 2023 - July 23, 2023 | During the midnight airing of the Unicorn: Warriors Eternal episode The Mystery of Secrets on June 4, the Adult Swim: Stream On Max bug was visible for the first act, but the regular bug returned during the second act. This error also occurred in the 11:30pm airing of the American Dad! episode Camp Refoogee on June 10. In the Unicorn: Warriors Eternal episode The Heart of Kings that aired immediately after, the regular screenbug was used in the first act, then the Max bug in the second, then the regular in the third. This continued into the American Dad! episodes Saturday nights at 11:30pm and Unicorn: Warriors Eternal and My Adventures with Superman episodes Sundays at midnight. | ![]() |
July 16, 2023 | The Dr. Stone episode Treasure Box was supposed to air, but was accidentally skipped and Ray of Despair, Ray of Hope aired instead. | ![]() |
August 11, 2023 | The Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode Space Conflict from Beyond Pluto aired twice in a row, replacing an airing of the episode Balloonstein at 2:00am. | ![]() |
September 25, 2023 - June 27, 2025 | The Checkered Past bumper aired before the Adult Swim advisory sign-on. This error has happened on and off for nearly a year. | |
September 26, 2023 - present | At numerous times, the Adult Swim screenbug completely vanishes during programming. The West feed is sometimes unaffected, but the error currently happens often on the East feed. | ![]() |
September 30, 2023 - present | Two Adult Swim advisory bumpers were played when Adult Swim signed on at 5:00pm. This has happened every Saturday since September 30th, as well as every day since June 30, 2025, and is still ongoing. | ![]() ![]() |
October 1, 2023 | From 12am to 6am the [adult swim] screenbug did not appear. | ![]() |
October 2, October 5 and October 9, 2023 | Various scheduled programs were replaced with unscheduled programs without any notice. The first instance occurred on October 2nd with The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy being substituted with a then-unaired episode of Grim & Evil by mistake. The second and third instances on October 5th and October 9th saw regularly scheduled reruns of American Dad! being replaced with the HLN series Very Scary People and Forensic Files II respectively. | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
October 7, 2023 | Right before the 9:00pm show of the American Dad! episode American Dream Factory, the Toonami disclaimer intro plays. | |
October 8, 2023 - October 9, 2023 | From 5pm on the 8th to 6am on the 9th the [adult swim] screenbug did not appear. | ![]() |
November 9, 2023 | The 5:30am airing of the Ed, Edd n Eddy episode(s) An Ed in the Bush / See No Ed accidentally aired in 16:9. | ![]() |
November 25, 2023 | A Toonami content warning played before the Bob's Burgers episode Tina Tailor Soldier Spy at 7:00pm. | |
November 30, 2023 | The 5:30pm airing of the Ed, Edd n Eddy episode(s) Rock-a-Bye Ed / O-Ed Eleven accidentally aired in 16:9. The [adult swim] screenbug also disappeared during the last few minutes of the second act. | ![]() |
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December 4, 2023 | The end credits for the Dexter's Laboratory episode(s) That Magic Moment / A Silent Cartoon / Opposites Attract that aired at 5:00pm accidentally cut to the Cartoon Network Studios card early. | |
December 24, 2023 | The 8:30pm airing of the King of the Hill episode Ms. Wakefield started roughly a minute early, due to the commercial break beginning at 8:25 instead of 8:27. | |
January 12, 2024 | Multiple Checkered Past bumpers aired during the King of the Hill episodes Tears of an Inflatable Clown and The Minh Who Knew Too Much that aired at 7:00pm and 7:30pm respectively, even though the block already ended before then. | |
January 14 - January 20, 2024 | At the end of Demon Slayer despite the episode "Infiltrating the Entertainment District" being the next episode a promo for the episode "Defeating an Upper Rank Demon" aired instead, said episode would not premiere until March 10th, the incorrect promo would air throughout the week. | |
January 27, 2024 | The screenbug was not visible during the 5:00pm airing of King of the Hill episode Uh-Oh Canada before it returned a few minutes into the 5:30pm airing of To Sirloin with Love. | |
February 18, 2024 | The screenbug did not appear during The Princess Bride and two episodes of Bob's Burgers. The screenbug finally returned during the second act of the Bob's Burgers episode Into the Mild after 3 hours of no screenbug. | ![]() |
March 17, 2024 | The up next bumper for Lycoris Recoil was accidentally played a second time instead of the intro bumper for the show. | |
March 31, 2024 | The screenbug did not appear for the first 45 minutes of Young Frankenstein (1974). | ![]() |
April 1, 2024 - present | Airings of the American Dad episode Brains, Brains and Automobiles were stretched and zoomed out. | ![]() |
April 7, 2024 | During the 1:30am slot a promo for the Zom 100 episode Bucket List of the Dead had aired advertising the episode as premiering "tonight at 12:30", even though the episode had premiered an hour prior. | |
May 5, 2024 | After Dragon Ball Z Kai ended the live feed went to a black screen for about a minute. | |
May 15, 2024 | The [adult swim] screen bug disappeared halfway through the Billy & Mandy segments Attack of the Clowns and Complete and Utter Chaos!. | ![]() |
June 16, 2024 | A "we'll be right back" bumper for Dragon Ball Z Kai aired instead of the Up Next bumper for Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead. | |
July 27, 2024 - July 28, 2024 | The ratings bugs did not appear during the midnight airings of Smiling Friends and the first three hours of the My Adventures with Superman marathon. | |
September 8, 2024 | During the 1:00am premiere of the One Piece episode With a Rumbling of the Ground! The God of Destruction - Giant Pica Descends!, the commercial break began in the middle of a character's sentence. When the show returned, the next scene had begun. The Video on Demand print had the full scene play out. | |
October 5, 2024 | The airing of the American Dad! episode Don't Look a Smith Horse in the Mouth was zoomed out. | ![]() |
October 6, 2024 | During the commercial break of today's episode of Demon Slayer, an ad for the show coming up next played, followed by an ad saying the show had returned from break, but another ad played before the show actually returned, with no bumper. This may have something to do with Uzumaki running for 45 minutes and the rest of the block running off the clock. | |
October 22, 2024 | Warner's networks suffered from a "Video unavailable" screen along with stuttering video, also affecting the NBA season opener on TNT. On Adult Swim, it aired during tonight's Rick and Morty episodes. | |
November 3, 2024 | For the 2:00am and 2:30am airings of Invincible Fight Girl the same bumpers and promos used during the midnight hour were used, most which advertised the return of Blue Exorcist which had returned hours prior. Additionally a next bumper for Blue Exorcist played even though Rick and Morty: The Anime was next. | |
December 6, 2024 | A "Later" bumper aired instead of the "Disclaimer" bumper before the airing of the Dragon Ball Z Kai episode Surprise! Goku Is Ginyu and Ginyu Is Goku?. | |
December 18, 2024, May 23, 2025 | The 5:30pm airing of the Ed, Edd n Eddy episode Tight End Ed / Tween a Rock and an Ed Place accidentally aired in widescreen. | ![]() |
December 21, 2024 | After the 10:30pm airing of American Dad!, a bumper for We Baby Bears on Cartoon Network accidentally played before the commercial break. | |
January 3, 2025 | The screenbug did not appear during the Family Guy episode Quagmire and Meg. | ![]() |
January 26, 2025 | During the premiere of the MASHLE: MAGIC AND MUSCLES episode Mash Burnedead and the Accelerated Battle at midnight, an ad for Barney's World on Cartoonito aired instead of the intended review for the Indiana Jones and the Great Circle video game. The review aired next week, during the MASHLE episode Mash Burnedead and the Divine Visionary. | |
February 2, 2025 | Following the premiere of the MASHLE: MAGIC AND MUSCLES episode Mash Burnedead and the Divine Visionary, a preview for next week's episode Mash Burnedead and the Survival of the Fittest was supposed to air. Instead, the preview for the episode that just aired was shown, complete with "Tonight at midnight" at the end when it was already approaching 12:30am. | |
February 8, 2025 | After the 4:00am airing of The Jellies! episode Mervin for Mayor An ad advertising a new episode of Common Side Effects played saying it was "coming up next", even though Loiter Squad was next | |
February 9, 2025 | The airing of the Naruto episode You Failed! Kakashi's Final Decision used the old edited version from Cartoon Network, complete with "Rise, Power!" as the opening and ending (both of which were visually compressed) and the pillarbox bars were pitch black instead of using the "space" versions that 4:3 Toonami programming typically uses. | ![]() ![]() |
March 16, 2025 | During the 3:30am airing of The Venture Bros. episode Home Is Where the Hate Is part of a line spoken by Brock (more specifically, "I'm wa-"; the audio got stuck on the last syllable mentioned) repeated for the last seven minutes of the episode. | |
June 29, 2025 | During the 12:32am premiere of the Dragon Ball DAIMA episode Daima, the Closed Captions appeared to be baked into the master of the episode. They would show up on screen even if the Closed Caption function was not toggled on. This remained in the Video On Demand print. | ![]() |
Date | Description | Example |
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December 5, 2021 | The Cartoonito "NEW" screenbug wasn't present during the premiere of the Love Monster episode Elder Kitten Day. | ![]() |
December 20, 2021 | A production card could be seen before the Pocoyo short Finger Family during that day's block of Pocoyo episodes. | ![]() |
January 28, 2022 - September 22, 2023 | The voiceover promo at the end of the Cartoonito block tells the viewer to tune in tomorrow for more Cartoonito, despite the block being removed from weekends at this point. This was never fixed. The Cartoonito screenbug also appears of a split second. | |
February 24, 2022 | The 7:50am airing of Love Monster was replaced with a repeat of the 7:30am airing of Pocoyo, which cuts off during Pocoyo's Band. To make up for the lost time, Bing replaced that day's 8:30am airing of Lucas the Spider. | |
June 6, 2022 | When the Up Next banner appeared during the Cocomelon short Winter Song (Fun in the Snow) in its latest slot, the entire screen, banner aside, went pitch black. | ![]() |
January 2, 2023 | During a repeat of the Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go episode Snowplow Struttin' at 9:45am and the Bugs Bunny Builders episodes Tweety-Go-Round and Looney Science respectively at 10:30am and 10:45am, the NEW screenbug was still used. | ![]() |
March 10, 2023 | The airings of the Mecha Builders episodes The Need For Feed / Zipline Sisters Of Treetop Woods, Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go episodes The Super-Long Shortcut, More Cowbell, A Light Delivery and Sir Topham Hatt's Hat, and Bugs Bunny Builders episodes Play Day and Splash Zone from 9am-11am used the regular Cartoon Network screenbug in lieu of that of Cartoonito. This was more than likely done in preparation for Cartoonito being reduced to an hour and a half that Monday. | ![]() |
April 3, 2023 | A promo for today's airing of Thomas & Friends: The Mystery of Lookout Mountain suggested that it would air at noon instead of 7:30am. | |
September 25, 2023 - September 26, 2023 | Typically, airings of Cocomelon on Cartoonito move the screenbug to the top right corner, presumably to avoid obscuring the song lyrics at the bottom of the screen. However, the airings at 7:30am, 8:00am, and 8:30am moved the bug back to the bottom. | ![]() ![]() |
October 6, 2023, October 30, 2023, November 6, 2023, March 4, 2024, March 11, 2024, every Monday from March 25, 2024 to October 14, 2024, June 21, 2024, and January 20, 2025 | In an apparent error, the Cartoon Network screenbug was used during Cartoonito's regularly scheduled timeslots. | ![]() |
Every Friday from April 18, 2025 to May 9, 2025 | The Cartoonito "NEW" screenbug wasn't present during the premiere of Barney's World episodes "Every Little Thing", "Finders Not Keepers", "It Takes Three", and "Too Far". | ![]() |
April 28, 2025 - May 2, 2025 | The Cartoonito "NEW" screenbug wasn't present during the premiere of Batwheels episodes "Batwing and the Nets", "Clay Date", "Wish Upon a Car", "Bibi's Bat-Belt Blunder" and "Lend Me Your Volunteer". | ![]() |
May 22, 2025 | During the airing of the Silly Sundays episode, "Kitty Adventure", the Cartoonito screenbug as well as the TV-Y rating bug did not appear during the episode. |