Cartoon Comedy Recap: The Story So Far & Every Ending Explained (2026)

Updated October 21, 2026 · 12 titles · spoilers for everything below

Comedy cartoons from Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon made between 2007 and the mid-2020s, each with its own world and none connected to the others. Most are built from short, stand-alone episodes rather than long stories, but several still close with a real finale, and a few have been brought back as revivals. The only film here, Regular Show: The Movie, belongs to Regular Show.

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No. 01 · 2007 · Series

Chowder recap

Chowder is a round, purple, always hungry boy who is apprenticed to Mung Daal, an elderly chef who runs a catering company in Marzipan City, where everything and everyone is named after food. Mung's wife Truffles, a short-tempered mushroom pixie, runs the business side; Shnitzel, a rock monster who only says "radda", does the heavy work; and Kimchi, Chowder's pet stink cloud, follows him everywhere. Chowder wants to be a great chef, but his appetite and short attention span wreck most jobs. Panini, an apprentice from another kitchen, insists she is his girlfriend, and he answers every time, "I'm not your boyfriend!" Endive, Mung's snobbish rival chef and Panini's teacher, and Gazpacho, a gloomy market vendor and Chowder's best friend, turn up often. The show regularly breaks the fourth wall and mixes in stop-motion, puppets and patterned textures. Created by C. H. Greenblatt, it aired on Cartoon Network for three seasons from 2007 to 2010.

How Chowder ends

The final episode, "Chowder Grows Up", jumps forward in time to show Chowder as an adult. He has become a successful chef, and the girl he always insisted was not his girlfriend, Panini, is now his wife; they have children of their own. Cartoon Network had cancelled the show in 2009, so the last episodes aired in 2010, and there has been no revival.

The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack poster

No. 02 · 2008 · Series

The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack recap

Flapjack is a cheerful, gullible boy raised by Bubbie, a talking whale who carries him in her mouth. In the harbour town of Stormalong, he meets Captain K'nuckles, a lazy, lying, candy-obsessed pirate who claims to be a great adventurer, and they set off to find Candied Island, a legendary island made entirely of candy. Bubbie distrusts K'nuckles but goes along to keep Flapjack safe. The harbour is a grim, grimy place full of strange characters: Peppermint Larry, who runs the candy shop; Doctor Barber, who is both barber and doctor; the Dock Hag; and Eight-Armed Willy, a giant octopus. Most episodes are stand-alone misadventures in which K'nuckles' schemes for free candy go wrong while Flapjack's naivety somehow carries them through. The style is unsettling, with detailed close-ups and gross-out humour. Created by Thurop Van Orman, it aired on Cartoon Network for three seasons from 2008 to 2010.

How The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack ends

The final episode, "Fish Out of Water" (2010), has Flapjack and K'nuckles turn into fish after eating too much candy. It ends in live action, with creator Thurop Van Orman and his son playing K'nuckles and Flapjack and a live-action Bubbie appearing. The trio never reach Candied Island, and K'nuckles never stops chasing candy. The show ended after three seasons without a revival.

No. 03 · 2010 · Series

Regular Show recap

Mordecai, a blue jay, and Rigby, a raccoon, are best friends and twenty-something groundskeepers at a city park. They try to avoid work, and every small problem, from a broken video game to a bet, spirals into a supernatural battle. Their boss Benson is an angry gumball machine; Pops, a kind, old-fashioned man with a lollipop-shaped head, is the son of the park owner, Mr. Maellard; Skips is a quiet immortal yeti; and Muscle Man and Hi-Five Ghost are their crude co-workers. Mordecai spends years in an on-and-off romance with Margaret, a robin, and later dates CJ, a cloud girl, while Rigby gets together with Eileen, a mole, and finally finishes high school. Recurring threats include the Guardians of Eternal Youth and the Hammer. In the eighth and last season, the park crew is sent to space, where Pops learns he is destined to fight his evil brother, Anti-Pops, whose battles with him have reset the universe before. It aired on Cartoon Network from 2010 to 2017.

How Regular Show ends

The finale, "A Regular Epic Final Battle", has Anti-Pops erase almost everything and reset time, but Mordecai and Rigby remember and return. Pops grabs his brother and flies into the sun, where they make peace and die, breaking the cycle. Twenty-five years later, the friends reunite at the park. Regular Show: The Lost Tapes, a revival framed as lost VHS adventures, premiered on Cartoon Network on May 11, 2026.

No. 04 · 2011 · Series

The Amazing World of Gumball recap

Gumball Watterson is a twelve-year-old blue cat in the town of Elmore, where characters are drawn in every style: 2D, 3D, puppets, stop-motion and live-action backgrounds. His best friend and adopted brother Darwin is a goldfish who grew legs. His sister Anais is a four-year-old genius, his father Richard is a lazy, childish rabbit who stays at home, and his mother Nicole is a hard-working cat with a dangerous temper. Gumball and Darwin get into trouble at school and around town, often breaking the fourth wall and parodying TV and the internet. Gumball has a crush on Penny Fitzgerald, a peanut who later turns out to be a shapeshifting fairy, and they eventually start dating. Later seasons add a running villain: Rob, a forgotten background character who fell into the Void, where the show's mistakes are sent, and came back wanting revenge on Gumball. The show ran on Cartoon Network for six seasons from 2011 to 2019.

How The Amazing World of Gumball ends

The finale, "The Inquisition" (2019), ends on a cliffhanger: Rob, back to save Elmore from what he sees coming, falls into the Void as the ground gives way, warning that it has started. A long-promised film has not appeared. The show returned on Hulu as The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball in July 2025, and creator Ben Bocquelet has said it will resolve the cliffhanger. Two more seasons were ordered in December 2025.

No. 05 · 2013 · Series

Teen Titans Go! recap

Robin, Starfire, Raven, Beast Boy and Cyborg, the Teen Titans, live in Titans Tower in Jump City with no adults around. The same voice cast from the 2003 Teen Titans series returns, but the show is a comedy, with short episodes about the team's daily life: arguing over food, inventing songs, avoiding chores and occasionally fighting crime badly. Robin is a bossy, insecure leader; Starfire is cheerful and naive about Earth; Raven is moody and sarcastic; and Beast Boy and Cyborg are lazy best friends obsessed with food and video games. The show often parodies other DC characters, makes jokes about superhero films and pokes fun at its own critics. It also goes into DC history, with many guest appearances and crossovers. A theatrical film, Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (2018), sends the team to Hollywood so Robin can get his own film, and Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans (2019) has them meet their 2003 counterparts. The show began on Cartoon Network in 2013.

How Teen Titans Go! ends

Teen Titans Go! has not ended. The ninth season began in March 2025 and is running through 2026, taking the show past 450 episodes, and a tenth season is in development. It has no finale or overarching story to conclude: each episode is a stand-alone comedy, and the Titans remain the same as they were in 2013. The two films are the closest it has come to bigger, self-contained stories.

No. 06 · 2013 · Series

Uncle Grandpa recap

Uncle Grandpa is a strange, magical man with a moustache, a propeller hat and suspenders who claims to be everyone's uncle and grandpa. Every episode begins with him appearing in a child's bedroom and shouting "Good morning!" He drives a big RV around the world, and sometimes beyond it, helping kids with problems in ways that make no sense but somehow work. His crew includes Mr. Gus, a sensible dinosaur; Pizza Steve, a vain slice of pizza in sunglasses who thinks he is cool; Belly Bag, a talking fanny pack that can produce anything; and Giant Realistic Flying Tiger, a photograph of a tiger that flies. The humour is surreal and random, with episodes that reset, and many short segments and gags. Uncle Grandpa crossed over with Steven Universe in "Say Uncle" (2015). Created by Peter Browngardt, the show ran on Cartoon Network for five seasons from 2013 to 2017.

How Uncle Grandpa ends

The last episode to air, "Uncle Grandpa: The High School Years" (2017), flashes back to the gang in detention in high school. Bored, they find ways to pass the time, fight, make up and become friends, and Uncle Grandpa suggests they live together in the RV. "Exquisite Grandpa", aired the same day, was produced as the finale. There has been no revival.

No. 07 · 2014 · Series

Clarence recap

Clarence Wendle is a cheerful, chubby boy in the town of Aberdale who finds wonder in everything. He lives with his mother Mary and her boyfriend Chad, a relaxed father figure, and his best friends are Jeff, a careful boy with a cube-shaped head and two mothers, and Sumo, who solves every problem in the most extreme way possible. Episodes follow small childhood events: a sleepover, a trip to the water park, a school project, a lost item, made big through Clarence's enthusiasm. Their classmates at Aberdale Elementary, the bully Belson and their teacher Ms. Baker are regulars. Creator Skyler Page voiced Clarence early on but was fired in 2014 after a sexual assault allegation, and Spencer Rothbell took over the voice. In the third season Sumo transfers to a new school, West Aberdale, and Clarence has to adjust to seeing his friend less. It aired on Cartoon Network for three seasons from 2014 to 2018.

How Clarence ends

The final episode, "Anywhere but Sumo" (2018), has Clarence feel left out as Sumo spends time with his new school friends. On the eve of summer break, he fixes the bad haircut they gave Sumo, and the friends watch a runaway bulldozer flatten Sumo's school, which means Sumo can come back. Cartoon Network had not renewed it, so this was the planned end.

No. 08 · 2015 · Series

Harvey Beaks recap

Harvey is a polite, rule-following young bird in the forest town of Littlebark Grove. His best friends are Fee and Foo, wild imp twins who live in a tree and do whatever they want. Fee is fierce and protective, Foo is cheerful and odd, and together they push Harvey into adventures he would never try alone. Harvey's parents, Miriam and Irving, are gentle and supportive, and his little sister Michelle is a baby with surprisingly strong opinions. Other friends include Dade, a nervous rich kid, and Princess, a spoiled girl who becomes part of their group. Most episodes are small stories about friendship and growing up. The twins' missing parents are a running question. The show aired on Nickelodeon from 2015 to 2017. After its cancellation in 2016, the rest of the second season moved to Nicktoons, where it aired in 2017.

How Harvey Beaks ends

The final episode, "The End and the Beginning" (2017), has Fee and Foo finally reunited with their parents, Bada and Grada, after a long search, changing the twins' lives and their friendship with Harvey. Creator C. H. Greenblatt's show had been cancelled in November 2016, after a run of 52 episodes, and the remaining episodes were aired on Nicktoons in 2017. There has been no revival.

No. 09 · 2015 · Series

We Bare Bears recap

Grizzly, Panda and Ice Bear are three bear brothers living in a cave in the San Francisco Bay Area. They try hard to fit in with humans: making friends online, becoming internet famous, getting jobs and riding the bus. Grizzly, the eldest, is outgoing and overconfident; Panda is sensitive and glued to his phone; Ice Bear, the youngest, rarely speaks, refers to himself in the third person and is skilled at almost everything. They travel by stacking on top of each other. Their friends include Chloe, a child genius at college; Charlie, a Bigfoot; and Nom Nom, a koala internet celebrity. Some episodes show the brothers as cubs, slowly revealing how they met and came to be together. Created by Daniel Chong, the show aired on Cartoon Network for four seasons from 2015 to 2019. A prequel spin-off about the cubs, We Baby Bears, followed in 2022.

How We Bare Bears ends

The last episode, "Panda's Birthday" (2019), is a stand-alone story about Panda meeting a K-pop group, but We Bare Bears: The Movie (2020) is treated as the finale. In it, the brothers are chased by a wildlife agent, flee for Canada, are captured and separated, and escape a forest fire before being welcomed home as heroes. We Baby Bears, a prequel, followed in 2022.

No. 10 · 2015 · Film

Regular Show: The Movie recap

In the distant future, a villain called Lord Ross is erasing time, and the park crew are killed. A future Rigby escapes in a timeship and warns the present-day Mordecai and Rigby that the time machine they built for a high-school science fair created a Time-nado, which Ross, their old volleyball coach, has turned into a weapon. To save the universe, Rigby must confess a secret even if it ends their friendship. The crew travels to the past to stop the time machine from being built, but Ross makes sure it is built anyway. Ross then makes Rigby admit the truth: Mordecai got into college, and Rigby faked the rejection letter so they could stay together. Mordecai ends the friendship. A future Mordecai, part machine and working for Ross, sacrifices himself to save his younger self. Rigby, ashamed, finally apologises, and the two reunite to defeat Ross and destroy the Time-nado.

How Regular Show: The Movie ends

With the Time-nado destroyed and Ross arrested, Mordecai and Rigby promise to keep their friendship healthy, and their dark future selves are erased. Back in the present, they get caught leaving the park early by Benson but escape in the timeship, pleased that they will never be late for work again. The film premiered on Cartoon Network in 2015, during the show's run, and does not change the series that follows.

No. 11 · 2016 · Series

The Loud House recap

Lincoln Loud is the only boy among eleven children in the Loud family of Royal Woods, Michigan. He has ten sisters: Lori, the oldest, always on her phone; Leni, kind and dim; Luna, a rock musician; Luan, a comedian; Lynn, a sports fanatic; Lucy, a goth poet; Lana and Lola, twins, one rough and one a pageant queen; Lisa, a four-year-old genius; and Lily, the baby. Lincoln talks to the audience and makes plans to get some space, attention or a turn in the bathroom, usually helped by his best friend Clyde. Ronnie Anne, his friend and sometimes love interest, moves to the city with her family in a spin-off, The Casagrandes. In the fifth season everyone ages up a year: Lori starts college and Lincoln starts middle school. The franchise grew to include an animated film (2021), live-action films and a live-action series. Created by Chris Savino, the show began on Nickelodeon in 2016.

How The Loud House ends

The Loud House has not ended. Its tenth season began in May 2026, and although a writer said in early 2026 that production had stopped, he later clarified the show has not been cancelled. There is no series finale yet, and Lincoln and his sisters are still living together in the same house. The most recent addition is the animated film A Loud House Christmas Movie: Naughty or Nice (2025).

No. 12 · 2018 · Series

Craig of the Creek recap

Craig Williams, ten, lives in the suburbs of Herkleton, Maryland. The creek behind his neighbourhood is a world run entirely by kids, with its own territories, tribes and rules: the Stump Kids, the Elders, the Horse Girls, the Junior Forest Scouts, the Trading Tree where everything is bartered. Craig, with a staff and a satchel, explores it with his best friends Kelsey, a dramatic adventurer with a cape and a pet bird, and J.P., a tall, goofy boy in a hockey jersey. Craig keeps a detailed map of the creek. At home he has a busy family: his parents, his teen brother Bernard and little sister Jessica. Over six seasons the creek grows in scale with longer arcs: hunts for hidden treasures, a red-poncho-wearing rival, and kids like Omar, who joins the group. The prequel film Craig Before the Creek (2023) shows how Craig first found the creek. It aired on Cartoon Network from 2018 to 2025.

How Craig of the Creek ends

The series finale, "See You Tomorrow at the Creek" (January 2025), has Craig lonely while his family takes Bernard to college. He shows his friends his rebuilt map, they post it at the Trading Tree, and kids from across the creek gather to thank him with a party. Craig, Kelsey and J.P. stay past the dinner bell, and Craig says he will see it tomorrow. A spin-off, Jessica's Big Little World, ran from 2023.

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Craig of the Creek (2018) is the latest. The series finale, "See You Tomorrow at the Creek" (January 2025), has Craig lonely while his family takes Bernard to college. He shows his friends his rebuilt map, they post it at the Trading Tree, and kids from across the creek gather to thank him with a party. Craig, Kelsey and J.P. stay past the dinner bell, and Craig says he will see it tomorrow. A spin-off, Jessica's Big Little World, ran from 2023.

Cartoon Comedy recap: the story so far