every day its a brand new episode
every day i guess we'll see just how far it goes
every day it seems like no one sees and no one knows
every day i kinda wanna cancel the show
- CARTOON NETWORK (Black Dresses)
Started writing this May 20, 2020.
This is a collab with 
ValidClay and 
JackalRelated.
Everyone give a nice, warm welcome to Box!
This article turned out to be a lot bigger than I was initially planning for it to when I first started writing it on a whim. It all started out with an anomalous item idea I had about a Teacher's Pet DVD that, when watched, would give the viewer an identity crisis later in their life. That sparked into another idea, which was a box that Eric made that would make the cartoons stored inside it come to life when watched.
Originally, this was just going to be a Series 1 homage with a testing log full of surreal horror. Hell, it was going to even have a collaborative testing log! But while writing this, my collab partner and I realized that we had a huge opportunity to flesh out the story in that first interview log, and so Box became a character, and so did Jacob Sawyer, and so did Grey along the way. The story grew in a slow and winding way, but eventually we decided what story was most significant to us and most important to tell, and we built what we have now!
VaildClay helped me throughout the whole thing but I wrote most of the early stuff (interview log, description, tests) and they wrote most of the later stuff (final testing log, ending log). Absolutely huge thanks to them because they were an incredible help throughout this. JackalRelated helped with the interview log and made the beginning banner, so huge thanks to him as well, seriously. I can't express how much this all means to me. Another huge thanks to 
stephlynch for creating the excellent diagram of the containment room for my article as well!
I'm really happy to finally have this out there. It's probably one of the most ambitious things I've written thus far during my time on this site, and I really hope you enjoy it!
(I should note that this did take a year, but that doesn't mean I spent all year writing it. There were breaks in-between and I was busy with a lot of projects at once.)
- Box is They/Them.
- The cosmology behind this SCP will be further explored in another collab me and ValidClay are working on.
- Despite the title, no Cartoon Network shows are referenced in this article. This is intentional, as the article title is meant to be taken literally (and is also a reference to a Black Dresses song)
- Fun Fact: The Teacher's Pet film was one of the lowest movie openings in history, doing terribly at the box office. It only managed to make 6.5 million USD out of the 1.0 million USD used to make the movie.
- Some of the cartoon choices in this SCP being more obscure or unknown were intentional. I even intentionally searched out for some during writing. There are two reasons why, the first being that I wanted to give the article a more bizarre feeling, and the second being that obscure cartoon stuff just interests me in general. Especially nowadays ever since I first started writing this thing, lol.
- The characters that appear during the Sawyer battle scene are all existing cartoon characters, except for one that's a reference to a stop-motion animation on YouTube that I really like. (Warning for flashing lights/parasite body horror) They'll be listed in an image that I am going to make later for people who are struggling w/ imagining certain parts of the article because they're unfamiliar with certain characters that appear.
- Recently I discovered a show called Kaput & Zosky while writing this thing. All I have to say is, if I discovered this show while writing the testing logs, that show would have absolutely make it into one of the logs. I love the weird ass art style and character designs of it to bits.
- Originally, there was going to be a scene that took place at a fairground during the final testing log.
- Sooner or later, I want to make a video declassifying this article.
- tooncollector/Jacob Sawyer was heavy inspired by a lot of cartoon reviewers that I watched when I was young… and ended up growing to hate later in my life.
- This is the first article with the word "Cartoon" in the title. Isn't that kinda strange? Idk I think that's funny lol.
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