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These original series were intended to appeal to a wider audience than the average Saturday morning cartoon. Linda Same, vice-president of original animation, reminded adults and teenage girls that cartoons could appeal to them as well. Kevin Candler's article of them claimed that these cartoons were both less bawdy than their counterparts at Comedy Central and less "socially responsible" than their counterparts at Nickelodeon. 

Candler pointed to the whimsical rebelliousness, high exaggeration, and self-consciousness of the overall output, while each individual series manage. In 1996, Turner merged with Time Warner. This consolidated ownership of all the Warner Bros. cartoons, so now post-July 1948 and the former Sunset-owned black-and-white cartoons which Warner Brothers had reacquired in the 1960 releases were being shown on the network. 

Although most of the post-July 1948 cartoons were still contracted to be shown on Nickelodeon, the network wouldn't air them until September 1999. Newer animated productions by Warner Bros. also started appearing on the network mostly reruns of shows that had aired on Kids' WB, plus certain new programs such as Justice League Cartoon Network's programming wouldn't be available in Canada until 1997, when a Canadian specialty network entitled Telethon and its French language counterpart launched.