SHOWS FOR YOUNGSTERS AND THEIR PARENTS TOO : Super Sunday options include ‘Stupid Bowl’ and ‘Stupendo Bowl’ on cable; WB’s ‘Freakout Friday’

For those choosing not to watch the Super Bowl, there is the Stupid Bowl (Cartoon Network, Sunday at 3 p.m.): three hours of “2 Stupid Dogs,” a cartoon whose title pretty much describes the action. These drooling mutts get into all sorts of trouble during their free time on the streets. For ages 5 to 10.

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Twelve hours of laughs are being offered in the Stupendo Bowl of Comedy (Family Channel, Sunday starting at 11 a.m.). The fun begins with “Animals Are the Funniest People,” with Bill Burrud and Loretta Swit looking at nature’s sense of humor. “The Three Stooges” clown around from noon to 2 p.m. Also on tap are “Carol Burnett and Friends,” “Carson’s Comedy Classics” and “The World’s Greatest Magic.” The laughs end with “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson’s 20th Anniversary,” at 9 p.m. For the family.

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British comedian Spike Milligan narrates humorous adaptations of classic tales of the big bad wolf, the wicked witch and the hungry giant in the animated Wolves, Witches and Giants (Disney Channel, Wednesday at 8:30 p.m.). All of the tales take place in modern settings with cars, videos, mobile phones and skateboards. A little girl is having a happy life with her father until a cruel housekeeper sends her on an errand to the housekeeper’s sister, a witch, in “The Witch and the Comb.” In “The Little Tailor,” the king’s tailor is in love with the princess and wants to marry her but first must win a contest of strength against a giant. For ages 2 to 7.

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Superman becomes a victim of an ordinary man who is turned into an energy-draining parasite trying to use the Man of Steel as his power source on the first half of Freakout Friday (WB, Friday at 3 p.m.). In the second segment at 3:30, a group of retired superheroes reminisce about their past exploits in “Freakazoids.” For ages 5 to 10.