2000 in animation

The year 2000 in animation involved some animation-related events.

Years in animation:	1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003
Centuries:	20th century · 21st century · 22nd century
Decades:	1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s
Years:	1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003

Events

January

• January 6: The film Cóndor Crux, la leyenda premiers.[1]
• January 14: The Simpsons receive a star at the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[2]
• January 23: In The Simpsons episode The Mansion Family Britney Spears is special guest voice.[3]

February

• February 6: The Walt Disney Company releases The Tigger Movie.[4]
• February 13: In The Simpsons episode Alone Again, Natura-Diddly Maude Flanders dies.[5]
• February 26: The first episode of The Weekenders airs.[6]
• February 29: The Walt Disney Company releases An Extremely Goofy Movie.

March

• March 9–28: The animated TV series God, the Devil and Bob is first broadcast, but cancelled after four episodes over its satirical portrayal of God and Satan.[7][8][9][10]
• March 19: In The Simpsons episode Bart to the Future a throwaway joke is made about Donald Trump being President of the United States in the future and causing a budget crisis. Sixteen years later Trump is effectively elected President and the episode therefore gains more attention than ever before.[11]
• March 26: 72nd Academy Awards:
  • The Old Man and the Sea by Alexander Petrov wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.[12]
  • You'll Be in My Heart from Tarzan by Phil Collins wins the Academy Award for Best Original Song.[13]
• March 31: The Road to El Dorado premiers.[14]

April

• April 3: The first episode of Between the Lions airs.[15]
• April 5: In the South Park episode The Tooth Fairy's Tats 2000 Timmy Burch makes his debut.[16]
• April 9: In The Simpsons episode Days of Wine and D'oh'ses the alcoholic character Barney Gumble becomes and stays sober.[17]

May

• May 19: The Walt Disney Company releases Dinosaur.[18]
• May 21: The Simpsons episode Behind the Laughter is first broadcast.[19]

June

• June 16: Don Bluth and Gary Goldman's Titan A.E. is released, but becomes a box office flop.[20] against a $75–90 million budget, resulting in a $100 million loss for 20th Century Fox.[21][22]
• June 23: Peter Lord and Nick Park's Chicken Run premiers. It's the first feature-length film of Aardman Animation.[23][24]

July

• July 7: June Foray receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[25]
• July 10: The film Heavy Metal 2000, a sequel to the 1981 film Heavy Metal, is released.[26]
• July 22: The film The Boy Who Saw the Wind premiers.[27]
• July 25: Don Hertzfeldt's Rejected premiers.[28]
• July 29: The film Blood: The Last Vampire premiers at the 5th annual International Festival of Fantasy, Action and Genre Cinema, nicknamed Fantasia 2000, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada .[29] The film airs in Australia on August 26, 2000 at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Arts Festival.[30] It makes its theatrical debut in its home country of Japan on November 16, 2000.[31]

August

• August 14: The first episode of Dora the Explorer airs.[32]
• August 18: The pilot episode of Sheep in the Big City is broadcast.[33]
• August 26: The pilot episode of Generation O! is broadcast.
• August 29: Monster Mash is first released.[34]

September

• September 3: The first episode of Playboy's Dark Justice, a computer-animated pornographic series, is broadcast.[35]
• September 4: The first episode of Clifford the Big Red Dog airs.[36]
• September 9:
  • The first episode of Jackie Chan Adventures airs, an animated TV series based on martial arts actor Jackie Chan.[37][38]
  • The first episode of Teacher's Pet is broadcast.[39]
• September 4: The first episode of Clifford the Big Red Dog airs.
• September 15: The film Titanic: The Legend Goes On is released.[40][41] The film gains notoriety for being quite bad and the infamous addition in the U.S. cut of a highly anachronistic scene of a rapping dog.[42][43]
• September 18: The Walt Disney Company announces they would be selling DIC Entertainment L.P. through a management buyout backed up through Bain Capital.[44]
• September 23: The first episode of Static Shock airs.[45]

October

• October 2: The first episode of Buzz Lightyear of Star Command airs.[46]
• October 5: The first episode of Pelswick airs, an animated TV series based on John Callahan's cartoons.[47][48]
• October 6:
  • Digimon: The Movie premiers.[49]
  • Help! I'm a Fish is first released.
• October 21: The film Ah! My Goddess: The Movie is released.[50]
• October 25: The first episode of As Told by Ginger airs.[51]
• October 27: Pettson och Findus - Kattonauten, based on the Pettson and Findus book series, is released.[52]
• October 31: The film Gen¹³ is released.[53]
• Specific date unknown: The film Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust is released.[54]

November

• November 5: In The Simpsons episode A Tale of Two Springfields The Who is special guest voice.[55]
• November 7: The film Joseph: King of Dreams is released, a sequel to The Prince of Egypt.[56][57]

December

• December 12: Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker is released, which causes controversy over The Joker's death scene. The full uncut version is only released on 23 April 2002.[58]
• December 14: The film The Magic Pudding is first released.[59]
• December 15: The Walt Disney Company releases The Emperor's New Groove.[60]
• December 23: Pandavas: The Five Warriors, the first Indian computer animated film, is released.[61]
• December 27: Let's All Go to the Lobby and Porky in Wackyland are added to the National Film Registry.[62][63]

Specific date unknown

• Per Åhlin's The Dog Hotel is first released.
• Michaël Dudok de Wit's Father and Daughter is first released.[64]

Films released

Main article: List of animated feature films of 2000

Television series debuts

Main article: List of animated television series of 2000

Date	Title	Channel	Year
January 8	Rainbow Fish	HBO	2000
February 1	Poochini's Yard	Syndication	2000–03
February 26	Max Steel	Kids' WB	2000–02
	The Weekenders	ABC, Toon Disney	2000–04
March 6	Mobile Suit Gundam Wing	Cartoon Network	2000
March 9	God, the Devil and Bob	NBC, Adult Swim	2000; 2011
April 3	Between the Lions	PBS Kids	2000–10
April 5	Exposure	Syfy	2000–02
April 14	The Bob Clampett Show	Cartoon Network	2000–01
May 31	Clerks: The Animated Series	ABC, Comedy Central	2000–02
June 17	Cardcaptors	Kids' WB		2000–01
June 26	Spy Groove	MTV	2000–02
July 7	Dinozaurs	Fox Kids	2000
July 28	Baby Blues	The WB, Adult Swim	2000–02
August 5	Action Man (2000)	Fox Kids	2000–01
August 8	Sammy	NBC	2000
August 14	Dora the Explorer	Nickelodeon	2000–19
August 25	Tenchi in Tokyo	Cartoon Network	2000–19
August 26	Maggie and the Ferocious Beast	Nick Jr.	2000–02
September 3	Playboy's Dark Justice	Playboy TV	2000–01
September 4	Clifford the Big Red Dog	PBS Kids	2000–03; 2019
September 9	Jackie Chan Adventures	Kids' WB	2000–05
	Teacher's Pet	ABC, Toon Disney	2000–02
	Kong: The Animated Series	Syndication	2000–01
	George Shrinks	PBS Kids	2000–03
September 23	Static Shock	Kids' WB	2000–04
September 30	Corduroy	PBS Kids	2000–03
	Marvin the Tap-Dancing Horse		2000–02
	Seven Little Monsters		2000–03
	Timothy Goes to School		2000–01
October 2	Buzz Lightyear of Star Command	ABC, UPN
October 5	Pelswick	Nickelodeon	2000–02
October 25	As Told by Ginger		2000–06
November 4	X-Men: Evolution	Kids' WB	2000–03
November 6	Blue Submarine No. 6	Cartoon Network	2000
November 17	Sheep in the Big City		2000–02
December 21	The Brak Show	Cartoon Network, Adult Swim	2000–03
	Sealab 2021		2000–05
December 30	Aqua Teen Hunger Force		2000–15
	Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law		2000–07

Television series endings

Date	Title	Channel	Year	Notes
January 2	The Moxy Show	Cartoon Network	1993–00	Ended
January 8	The Brothers Flub	Nickelodeon	1999–00	Cancelled
January 22	KaBlam!		1996–00	Ended
	Science Court	ABC	1997–00	Cancelled
	Flying Rhino Junior High	CBS	1998–00
January 30	Ace Ventura: Pet Detective	CBS, Nickelodeon	1995–00	Ended
February 12	Superman: The Animated Series	Kids' WB	1996–00
	The New Batman/Superman Adventures		1997–00	Cancelled
February 16	Noddy	PBS Kids	1998–00
February 22	Archie's Weird Mysteries	PAX TV	1999–00
February 26	The Avengers: United They Stand	Fox Kids
February 27	Sabrina: The Animated Series	ABC, UPN
March 2	I Am Weasel	Cartoon Network	1997–00
March 25	Detention	Kids' WB	1999–00
March 28	God, the Devil and Bob	NBC, Adult Swim	2000; 2011
March 31	Histeria!	Kids' WB	1998–00
April 3	Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles	Syndication	1999–00
April 22	Godzilla: The Series	Fox Kids	1998–00
May 1	George and Martha	HBO	1999–00
May 5	A Little Curious
May 11	Mobile Suit Gundam Wing	Cartoon Network	2000
June 3	Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myths and Legends	Syndication	1999–00
July 25	Dilbert	UPN
August 15	Sammy	NBC	2000
September 2	The Bugs Bunny Show	ABC, CBS	1960–00	Ended
September 29	Tenchi in Tokyo	Cartoon Network	2000	Cancelled
October 15	PB&J Otter	Playhouse Disney	1998–00
November 9	Blue Submarine No. 6	Cartoon Network	2000
November 16	Sailor Moon	Syndication, Cartoon Network	1995–00	Ended
November 18	Pepper Ann	ABC, UPN	1997–00
	Beast Machines: Transformers	Fox Kids	1999–00	Cancelled
	Rainbow Fish	HBO	2000
December 16	Mickey Mouse Works	ABC	1999–00

Deaths

January

• January 12: Marc Davis, American animator (Walt Disney Company) and character designer (designed Snow White, Bambi, Cinderella, Tinker Bell, Maleficent and Cruella de Vil), dies at age 86.[65]

March

• March 3: Nicole Van Goethem, Belgian cartoonist, animator and film director (A Greek Tragedy), dies at the age of 58.
• March 24: Kazuo Komatsubara, Japanese animator, character designer and director (Toei Animation, Oh! Production), dies at age 59.[66]

April

• April 3: Félix Nakamura, Peruvian animator and animated film director, dies from cancer at age 59.[67]

May

• May 9: Arthur Davis, American animator and film director (Charles B. Mintz, Warner Bros. Animation, Walter Lantz, Hanna-Barbera, DePatie-Freleng Enterprises), dies at age 94.[68][69]

June

• June 13: Yefim Gamburg, Russian animated film director (Passion of Spies, Ograblenie po..., Blue Puppy, Dog in Boots), passes away at age 75.[70]

August

• August 8: Glenn Schmitz, American animator and comics artist (Walt Disney Animation, Hanna-Barbera, Ruby-Spears), dies at age 70.[71]
• August 24: Tatiana Riabouchinska, Russian ballerina (co-served as dance model during the Dance of the Hours segment in Fantasia and Two Silhouettes segment in Make Mine Music), dies at age 83.[72]
• August 25: Carl Barks, American animator and comics artist (Walt Disney Company), dies at age 99.[73]

September

• September 3: Walt Stanchfield, American animator, writer and teacher (Walt Disney Studios), dies at age 81.[74]
• September 13: Rolf Kauka, German comics artist and animated film director (Fix and Foxi), passes away at the age of 83.[75]

October

• October 5: Rodney Dangerfield, American actor (voice of the title character in Rover Dangerfield, voice of Larry Burns in The Simpsons episode Burns, Baby Burns), animation screenwriter and producer (Rover Dangerfield), dies at age 82.[76]
• October 16: Ed Nofziger, American animator and comics artist (UPA), dies at age 87.[77]

November

• November 20: Vyacheslav Kotyonochkin, Russian animator and comics artist (Nu, pogodi!, aka Well, Just You Wait!), dies at age 73.[78]
• November 28: Robert Bentley, American animator (Warner Bros. Animation, Fleischer Studios, MGM, worked for Tex Avery, Walter Lantz, UPA, Hanna-Barbera, Filmation), dies at age 93.[79]

December

• December 3: Hoyt Curtin, American composer (Hanna-Barbera), dies at age 78.[80]
• December 18: Nick Stewart, American actor (voice of Specks Crow in Dumbo and Br'er Bear in Song of the South), dies at age 90.[81]

Specific date unknown

• Storm de Hirsch, American poet, film director and animator (Peyote Queen), dies at age 87 or 88.[82]

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See also

• 2000 in anime