is an American animated sketch comedy anthology television series that ran on Nickelodeon from October 11, 1996 to January 22, 2000, with repeats until November 2, 2001.

[citation needed] The show was last aired as a part of Nickelodeon's 'The Splat' programming block on October 8 and 9, 2016.

[7] The segment creators include David Fain, Tim Hill, Steve Holman, Emily Hubley, Mark Marek, Mike Pearlstein, Mo Willems, and Cote Zellers.

[5] The theme song and all of the original background music on the show was provided by the Moon Ska Stompers, a band that consists of King Django, Victor Rice, and members of The Toasters and The New York Ska-Jazz Ensemble.

In 2010, Mark Marek, who created the Henry and June shorts, co-created the Warner Bros. Animation-produced cartoon, MAD.

The Off-Beats was also another regular cartoon that occasionally filled in for "Life with Loopy" or Prometheus and Bob.

The camera then heads to outer space showing two kids in a ride, the planets, stars, asteroids, and flying saucers.

One-time shorts were brought in such as Randall Flan's Incredible Big Top, The Girl with Her Head Coming Off, and The Adventures of Patchhead which did return in season 3.

In place of the original characters, Thundergirl, Stinky Diver, Prometheus, Bob, Loopy, Sniz, and Fondue are seen.

who turn the pages of a comic book (changes with each episode) to reveal the next cartoon or alternative animation, as well as being involved in subplots of their own between the shorts.

Due to its production company going to work on a television adaptation of Watership Down as well as creator Michael Pearlstein leaving the show out of frustration, Sniz & Fondue was taken off of the KaBlam!

The pilot "Psyched for Snuppa" was produced in 1992 by Stretch Films and Jumbo Pictures, and was directed by John R. Dilworth, creator of Cartoon Network's Courage the Cowardly Dog.

Reasons were that Doug creator Jim Jinkins and David Campbell have officially moved their jobs to Disney when they purchased Jumbo Pictures, and John R. Dilworth would later work on other projects, such as creating Courage the Cowardly Dog for Cartoon Network in 1999.

featured a group of superheroes, played by custom-made action figures, who fight crime in suburbia despite being total idiots.

The characters were animated with stop-motion puppet bodies, but their heads were created with metal and their features were magnetic.

A stop motion segment featuring the camera-recorded mission logs of Prometheus, an alien who comes to Earth attempting to teach a caveman, Bob, everyday things.

From the use of fire to the act of ice skating, the result is usually a failure by the mischievous third cast member, who was a simple monkey.

It originally aired during Nick's commercial breaks as stand-alone shorts to promote the premiere of KaBlam!,[citation needed] and it was also released on a 1996 Rugrats videotape, "Tommy Troubles".

However, The Off-Beats officially ended as a whole with a half-hour Valentine's Day special premiering in 1999, which was the last episode of the Off-Beats produced, as Mo Willems finally left Nickelodeon in 1999, and moved to Cartoon Network to create Sheep in the Big City in 2000.

In addition, there was a music video of "Hockey Monkey", created by James Kochalka and performed by The Zambonis.

These were a mixture of live-action by Jesse Gordon and different animation styles, all produced and directed at The Ink Tank.

In 1998, a live-action Prometheus and Bob film was announced, with Harald Zwart to direct, Amy Heckerling and Twink Caplan producing and Joe Stillman as screenwriter.

[9][10] According to Cote Zellers, Chris Farley and David Spade were both considered until the former's death, and much of the script was reused for the 2010 film Gulliver's Travels.

The first segment, "A Show of Their Own" aired, featured Henry and June with a studio audience and musical guests.

In September 2005, Nicktoons revamped its branding and schedule, and removed several older series in the process, including KaBlam!.

Presents:" shorts would continue to air until 2008 when the channel removed all of their intersitial programming for more commercial space.

was not seen on American television again until October 8–9, 2016, when Nickelodeon's 1990s-oriented block on TeenNick spotlighted the show and other classic Nicktoons for the brand's 25th anniversary.

[12] Emily Ashby of Common Sense Media rated this show four stars out of five, saying that it "deserves bonus points for creativity with its inclusive animation style that makes it a lot of fun to watch."

"[13] Ray Richmond of Variety said that "the idea of a kids' show using cel, paper-cut, clay, computer, pixilated live-action, and stop-motion animation to fill a half-hour is in itself revolutionary.

[15] The show has only one episode "Won't Crack or Peel" (3D broadcast version) that was ever released on VHS, as part of a promotion with Tombstone Pizza.