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| - Sometimes a celebrity is offered his or her own cartoon. They are made mostly to showcase the celebrity, and nothing more. If they don't bother showing up to do the voices -- which is quite often the case -- it becomes Not Quite Starring. See also Band Toon. Examples (sorted alphabetically by last name):
* I am the Greatest! The Adventures of Muhammed Ali, with Muhammed Ali.
* 'Western Animation/'Life With Louie with Louie Anderson.
* Pamela Anderson was a stripper at night and fought crime later at night in Stripperella.
* Little Rosey with Roseanne Barr.
* She didn't voice the title character (although had the show been renewed she would have); but Roseanne did executive produce, and she did voice Rosey in the TV special The Rosey & Buddy Show.
* Class of 3000 with Andre "3000" Benjamin.
* Camp Candy with John Candy.
* This was named one of People magazine's worst TV shows of 1989.
* Jackie Chan Adventures which wasn't as bad as some other examples in this page. Even though the actor didn't voice himself, but rather the Q&A sessions at the end.
* Heck the show ran for five seasons. That should tell you something.
* The Gary Coleman Show is an especially strange case, as it was actually based on Coleman's TV movie The Kid with the Broken Halo.
* Even stranger than it sounds; in his autobiography A Cast Of Friends, William Hanna (yes, this was a Hanna-Barbera Production) writes that the Mexican animators had drawn Andy (Gary Coleman's character, a rare instance in animation where the star of a self-titled show doesn't play him/herself) as WHITE!
* Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids with Bill Cosby.
* Also Little Bill, whose titular character could be interpreted as Cosby when he was a little kid.
* Wish Kid: Starring Macaulay Culkin, with his sister Quinn Culkin as his baby sister on the show
* Wild Grinders with Rob Dyrdek of Rob and Big "fame", if one can call it that. For this reason, his status as a "celebrity" is dubious at best...
* Kid Notorious with Robert Evans also featured Saul "Slash" Hudson, guitarist for Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver, as himself. One of the rare cases of a Celebrity Toon directed at adult fans.
* Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling was another show of the impersonated-voices-plus-live-action-segments variety. It was expectedly average.
* Tenko and the Guardians of the Magic featured pop-singer-turned-magician Mariko Itakura, a.k.a. Princess Tenko.
* The Lebrons with LeBron James
* Dr. Katz Professional Therapist - comic Jonathan Katz and plenty of comic patient/guest stars.
* Bobby's World with Howie Mandel (who not only appeared as himself in liveaction against animated bookends but also voiced the title character and the title character's dad, Howard).
* Click and Clacks As The Wrench Turns with Tom and Ray Magliozzi of Car Talk fame as Ink Suit Actors.
* Hammerman with MC Hammer.
* Rick Moranis in Gravedale High. Another odd case as Ricki Lake (the star of Hairspray and later the host of her own talk show) was the voice of Cleofatra - but she wasn't the star of the show.
* Yeah, because Rick Moranis was, y'know the guy from the title, and Ricki Lake wasn't much of a celebrity at the time.
* Mister T, where the star of The A-Team ferries a gymnastics team, a young protégé who imitates everything he does, and an enormous mastiff with a spiked collar and a mohawk.
* Chuck Norris Karate Kommandos which not only has Chuck's voice but also has him in live action segments at the beginning and end, as did Mr. T (interestingly, both were from Ruby-Spears).
* Mary Kate and Ashley In Action featured the Olsen twins.
* The Completely Mental Misadventures Of Ed Grimley with Martin Short.
* Sgt. Slaughter in G.I. Joe. NFL star William Perry aka "The Fridge" also had his own figure, but never actually appeared in the animated series.
* Waynehead is more or less based on the childhood of Damon Wayans.
* Bruno the Kid with Bruce Willis.
* Enhanced by the fact that the title character's CG persona when talking to his employers was a pretty obvious Bruce Willis look-alike.
* Willis also executive produced and co-wrote and sang the theme song!
* Braceface sorta falls into the category as Alicia Silverstone not only voiced the main character, Sharon, for the first two seasons, but doubled as a producer.
* The Governator with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
* My Dad the Rock Star. Though Gene Simmons didn't voice Rock Zilla, he was the executive producer and Rock Zilla shared a number of his signature traits.
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