2007 in animation is an overview of notable events, including notable awards, list of films released, television show debuts and endings, and notable deaths.
Events
January
January 4: American activist and animator Helen Hill is murdered by an unidentified intruder in her home.
January 28: Season 11 of King of the Hill begins on Fox with the premiere of the episode "The Peggy Horror Picture Show". The season's premiere was seen by over 7.2 million viewers that night.[1]
February 10: The final episode of Catscratch airs.[2]Nickelodeon ceased reruns of the show without public explanation, putting it in obscurity ever since.
February 19: Season 5 of SpongeBob SquarePants begins on Nickelodeon with the premiere of the episodes "Rise and Shine/Waiting" and "Sing a Song of Patrick". The season's premiere brought in a total of over 5 million viewers that night.[3]
February 23: After 8 years, Cartoon Network officially ends the Fridays block.
April 28: Ed, Edd n Eddy concludes its fifth season on Cartoon Network with the half-hour special "A Fistful of Ed".[6] This episode was falsely advertised as the final episode of the series.
Both episodes were watched by over 9.9 million viewers that night.
Family Guy concludes its fifth season on Fox with the episode "Meet the Quagmires". The episode was watched by over 9.1 million viewers that night. This was the final episode to have been directed by famed animator Dan Povenmire, as he left the show to go focus on production for his own series Phineas and Ferb (which aired its first episode three months later).
American Dad! concludes its third season on Fox with the episode "Joint Custody". The episode was watched by over 7.6 million viewers that night.
August 13: American-Canadian animator Paul Boyd was shot and killed after wielding a bicycle chain at officers who came to respond to a disturbance involving him.
The first episode of Out of Jimmy's Head airs on Cartoon Network, the continuation of Re-Animated. Due to the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike, only 20 episodes were produced. Cartoon Network consequently stopped airing the series on the channel and removed it from the website after its cancellation in 2008 as it met extremely negative reviews.[12] It is declared a lost media as of 2023.
Season 12 of King of the Hill begins on Fox with the premiere of the episode "Suite Smells of Excess". The episode was seen by over 7.8 million viewers that night.
Season 6 of Family Guy begins on Fox with the premiere of the first episode in the Star Warstrilogy parody "Blue Harvest". The episode was seen by just over 10.8 million viewers that night.
September 28: The Phineas and Ferb episode "Lawn Gnome Beach Party of Terror" premieres on Disney Channel as another sneak peek, which marks the debut of the major characters: Buford Van Stomm & Stacy Hirano. This was the last episode to air before the show's official premiere in February 2008.[14]
September 30:
Family Guy's 100th episode "Movin' Out (Brian's Song)" premiered on Fox, the episode featured a controversial gag about Quagmire r*ping Marge Simpson from The Simpsons and then shooting her & her entire family after Homer caught them having sex, this gag lead to the executives at Fox to order the crew members of the respective shows to stop feuding with each other.[15]
October 21: The horror anthology film Fear(s) of the Dark is first released, featured animated sequences by several well-known comics artists.[citation needed]
November 4: The Family Guy episode "Stewie Kills Lois" premieres on Fox; the episode features Stewie finally achieving his life-long dream of killing Lois once and for all, but the latter's revealed to still be alive at the end of the episode, thus leaving the show on a cliffhanger.[17]
The Codename Kids Next Door & The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy half-hour crossover special, "The Grim Adventures of the KND" premiered on Cartoon Network.[citation needed]
The Family Guy episode "Lois Kills Stewie" premieres on Fox, which follows up from the events of "Stewie Kills Lois". Stan Smith & Avery Bullock from American Dad! make a cameo appearance in this episode.[18]
November 23: SpongeBob SquarePants' 100th episodes "Banned in Bikini Bottom/Stanley S. SquarePants" premiere on Nickelodeon.[20]Andrea Martin guest stars as Ms. Gristlepuss in the former episode while Christopher Guest guest stars as SpongeBob's cousin Stanley SquarePants in the latter episode.
April 20: Terrence Little Gardenhigh, American actor (voice of Ronathan in Madagascar: A Little Wild, Flash Fireson in Firebuds, John Patrick "Pat" Patterson in Fright Krewe).
January 26: Emanuele Luzzati, Italian painter, illustrator, animator and film director (La Gazza Ladra, Pulcinella, Il Flauto Magico, I paladini di Francia), dies at age 85.[27]
September 24: Hiroshi Ōsaka, Japanese animator, film director and producer, character designer and illustrator (Bones Animation Studio), dies at age 44.[55]
November 28: Donyo Donev, Bulgarian cartoonist, caricaturist, animator and comics artist (The Three Fools) (Trimata Glupaci), Chetirmata Glupaci, Umno Selo, dies at age 78.[60]
December
December 5: Peter Orton, English media entrepreneur and television producer (HiT Entertainment), dies from cancer at age 64.[61]
^MacFarlane, Seth (executive producer). Family Guy: Volume Six: Commentary for "Movin' Out (Brian's Song)" (DVD). Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
^정유진 (September 7, 2007). "[포토엔]문근영-권민, 나란히 故 이애정 빈소 조문". Newsen (in Korean). Archived from the original on April 19, 2013. Retrieved January 28, 2013.
