Tales from the Cartoon World

Tales from the Cartoon World is a British animated anthology series created by Gary Arrowman for Murro in 2018. The series was a series of stories compiled by Arrowman which include a mermaid encounter and a twisted hotel. The stories are often adult oriented and are often impossible to duplicate in real life.

The stories also are similar to FanFiction written online by people with an example of this being The Disease Within, where a character contracts a deadly disease and has only seven days to live. Arrowman claims that FanFiction makes light hearted shows much more depressing, so he showed off that depressing nature within an original character designed to be similar to animated TV show characters, specifically those from America.

Sometimes the stories are so absurd that it bears a similarity to fanart made of animated TV shows, an example can be Keep It On! where two friends enter a eating competition and end up getting an eating disorder and end up getting so fat that they become giant slug monsters who devour their entire city and eventually the whole world.

Series 1 (2018)
The first aired from the 14th of August 2018 to the 11th of September 2018, with a Christmas Special on the 23rd of December.

Series 2 (2019)
A second series was commissioned in November 2018 which aired from the 29th of January 2019 to the 12th of March 2019.

Series 3 (2021)
A third series was commissioned for a 2021 release during the 2020 pandemic. It was first shown on the 31st of October 2021 for an 8 episode run and will end on the 19th of December 2021.