Super Secret Secret Squirrel 1-Disc Box Set DVD

Super Secret Secret Squirrel pulls a Hanna-Barbera spy back into action and gives him a whole new gadget belt. The shorts ran on TBS and Cartoon Network in the mid 1990s as part of the network's early original animation, packing each adventure into about seven brisk minutes. Secret Squirrel and Morocco Mole zip from briefing to disaster to rescue with the kind of breathless pacing only a short can manage, and the look has a clean retro-modern angle that feels unmistakably 90s while keeping the original character's silhouette intact.

The episodes lean hard into pun-driven villain names and quick visual jokes, with each title built around the threat of the week. You get a goofy parade of antagonists like Goldflipper and Scirocco Mole, supersized takes on bad-spy tropes, and a stream of one-off baddies that come and go before they wear out their welcome. The whole thing plays like a shrunken parody of a parody, breezy and self-aware, more interested in landing the gag than building mythology.

Watching these now feels like dropping back into early Cartoon Network's afternoon and weekend rotations, a window when cable animation was figuring out how to remix old Hanna-Barbera characters for a new audience. Kids who grew up flipping past 2 Stupid Dogs and SWAT Kats picked Secret Squirrel up almost by accident, and that shared neighborhood is half the charm. The seven-minute format makes any episode a perfect snack between longer cartoons or a lineup back to back.

Standout shorts in this collection include "Chameleon," "Doctor O," "Goldflipper," "Queen Bea," and "Agent Penny," each with its own goofy mission and bigger-than-life threat. This set gathers 13 episodes onto 1 DVD, the easiest way to revisit a corner of 90s Cartoon Network that streaming has mostly forgotten and to keep the originals on a shelf rather than at the mercy of a rights deal.