Eventually, balancing 5 upcoming shows and adding another proved difficult and the project was scrapped.

[3] Of the shorts that were made, only Regular Show and Uncle Grandpa got greenlit to become animated series.

[5] The series was first announced on April 3, 2008, at Cartoon Network's annual upfront in New York City.

Show), which aired on the network more than a decade earlier and gave birth to some of the channel's first animated series, such as Dexter's Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls and Cow and Chicken.

A section of Cartoon Network Studios in Burbank, California, was set aside exclusively for the project.