That an all-cartoon channel could make such a splash in the highly competitive, narrow-casting kingdom of cable is a testament to the explosion of imagination that animation in movies and television has unleashed over the past decade.
The movements back and forth from the simple drawing to the explosion of imagination, all keyed to particular colors, garments and actions, make what at first seems an insubstantial volume a source of sustained delight.
It was there that I first saw a performance of Ionesco, and it was unforgettable: the explosion of an imagination, the irruption of a disrespectful spirit.
The complex's opening was a multi-day gala, an explosion of artistry and imagination at venues across the campus.
In its golden age (mid-1950's to mid-60's), at least, "Peanuts" was a brilliant, quasi-surrealistic explosion of language and imagination.
Based on the novel by Argentine writer Antonio di Bendetto, Zama is a frenzied explosion of the colonial imagination, a narrative negotiation of Latin American history and identity, rooted in the gaps found between official accounts.
The Productivity Commission's starting point shouldn't be the "wages explosion" of conservative politicians' imaginations.
The 20th century saw the explosion of Pentecostalism, too, capturing imaginations with the 1906 Azusa Street revival in Los Angeles.
The very first appeared in June 2007, the following year saw the Apple 3G which allowed, as the name suggested, 3G data transmission speeds and introduced the idea of the App Store with the resultant explosion of third-party apps, whose imagination, range, variation and ingenuity still continue to astonish.
Using a bit of imagination and some simple arithmetic, Hubble ran the explosion backwards in his mind and calculated that the pin on the grenade had been pulled about 2 billion years ago.
Winner of last year's inaugural Folio prize for fiction, Saunders is, according to Entertainment Weekly, "the master of joy bombs: little explosions of grin-stimulating genius that he buries throughout his deeply thoughtful, endlessly entertaining flights of imagination".
