The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show

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The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show

Format:	Animated series
Created by:	Bill Kopp
Opening theme:	Shnookums and Meat theme
No. of seasons:	1
No. of episodes:	13
Original channel:	Syndication
First aired:	January 2, 1995
Last aired:	March 27, 1995

The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show is an American animated television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation and aired in 1995 as a spin-off of the show Marsupilami. The show was Disney's attempt to do a more "edgy" cartoon in the vein of The Ren & Stimpy Show and Rocko's Modern Life.

Premise

This animated series actually follows three different cartoon scenarios along with a few other segments.

Shnookums and Meat!

This segment involves a cat named Shnookums (voiced by Jason Marsden) and a dog named Meat (voiced by Frank Welker) who did not get along very well. Their owners are unseen stock characters only viewed from the neck down and named (appropriately enough) Husband & Wife (voiced by Steve Mackall and Tress MacNeille). Husband is always referring to their home as their "domicile" before the two leave their pets in charge while they are away.

Pith Possum: Super Dynamic Possum of Tomorrow

A spoof of the Batman comics (not unlike Darkwing Duck, only more extreme in its spoofing) with Pith Possum (voiced by Jeff Bennett) and his sidekick Obediah the Wonder Raccoon (voiced by Patric Zimmerman) fighting crime in Possum City when called by Commissioner Stress the Gorilla (voiced by Brad Garrett). Pith Possum's true identity is lowly tabloid copyboy Peter Possum. Pith Possum fights various enemies with his recurring one being a mad lumberjack named Dr. Paul Bunion (voiced by Jim Cummings). Pith Possum (even when in his true identity) also has developed a crush on a female human reporter named Doris Deer (voiced by April Winchell). It was stated that Pith Possum was an ordinary lab opossum until he gained ultra opossum-like abilities upon an experiment gone wrong. The titles of the episodes are completely unrelated to their contents but rather (usually) over the top titles always using the word 'dark' or 'darkness' and often with the words 'black' and 'night' (e.g., The Phantom Mask of the Dark Black Darkness of Black, Return of the Night of Blacker Darkness, Return of the Dark Mask of Phantom Blackness, etc.)

Tex Tinstar: The Best in the West

A parody of Western serials involving the cowboy Tex Tinstar (voiced by Jeff Bennett), his horse Here Boy, and Tex's friends Smelly Deputy Chafe (voiced by Charlie Adler), Percy Lacedaisy (voiced by Corey Burton), and Floyd the Insane Rattlesnake (voiced by Jess Harnell) who always get into trouble when pursuing a group of outlaws called the Wrong Riders consisting of Wrongo (voiced by Brad Garrett), Ian (voiced by Corey Burton in an homage to Paul Frees character Inspector Fenwick from Dudley Do-Right), and Clem. The end of each episode ends in a cliffhanger for next week (not unlike the serials or "Rocky and Bullwinkle").

Episodes

#	Shnookums and Meat segment	Pith Possum segment	Tex Tinstar segment	Original airdate	Prod. code
1	Weight for Me	Phantom Mask of the Dark Black Darkness of Black	A Fistful of Foodstamps	January 2, 1995	SM-1
2	Ow, Hey!	Darkness on the Edge of Black	For a Few Foodstamps More	January 9, 1995	SM-2
3	Bugging Out!	Night of Darkness	The Good, the Bad, and the Wiggly	January 16, 1995	SM-3
4	Poodle Panic	The Darkness, it is Dark!	Low Pants Drifter	January 23, 1995	SM-4
5	Cabin Fever	Return of the Night of Blacker Darkness	Stale Rider	January 30, 1995	SM-5
6	Pain in the Brain	Haunt of the Night of Blacker Darkness	Loathsome Dove	February 6, 1995	SM-6
7	Step-Ladder to Heaven	Bride of Darkness	Magnificent Eleven	February 13, 1995	SM-7
8	Kung Fu Kitty	Son of the Cursed Black of Darkness	Saddlesores, Sagebrush and Seaweed	February 20, 1995	SM-8
9	I.Q. You Too!	The Light of Darkness	Slap-Happy Trails	February 27, 1995	SM-9
10	Something's Fishy	Return of the Dark Mask of Phantom Blackness	My Spine Hurts	March 6, 1995	SM-10
11	Night of the Living Shnookums	Dark of the Darker Darkness	The Vinyl Frontier	March 13, 1995	SM-11
12	Jingle Bells, Something Smells	Dark Quest for Darkness	Hey, Careful! That's My Cerebellum!	March 20, 1995	SM-12
13	What a Turkey!	Light or Dark Meat?	There Are Spiders All Over Me!	March 27, 1995	SM-13

Voice Cast

Charlie Adler - Chafe
Jeff Bennett - Pith Possum/Peter Possum, Tex Tinstar
Corey Burton - Ian, Percy Lacedaisy, Krusty Rustknuckle, Ultra the Guy Man Dude
Jim Cummings - Narrtor, Dr. Paul Bunion, Ralph Bear, Supper Squrriel, Caped Cod
Brad Garrett - Commissioner Stress, Wrongo, Super Water Buffalo, Shirley Pimple
Jess Harnell - Lieutenant Tension, Floyd the Insade Rattlesnake, Polite Coyotes, Easter Bunny Imposter, Al Dog, Spidey, Power Weasel, Bat Guy
Steve Mackall - Husband
Tress MacNeille - Wife
Jason Marsden - Shnookums
Frank Welker - Meat
April Winchell - Doris Deer, Registration Lady, Wowee Woman
Patric Zimmerman - Obediah the Wonder Raccoon

Production

Shnookums and Meat was created and written by Bill Kopp, who also created Toonsylvania and Mad Jack the Pirate. The show was directed by Jeff DeGrandis. Kopp was the voice of Eek! The Cat and Yuckie Duck from The What-A-Cartoon! Show.

Segments on "Marsupilami" & "The New Adventures of Jenny Foxworth"

Shnookums and Meat originated as a segment on Disney's 1993 series Marsupilami. Five episodes were shown on that series, and were later run again as part of the actual Shnookums and Meat series in 1995. These episodes were: in 1994Shnookums and Meatare in segment in Disney's 1994 seriesThe New Adventures of Jenny Foxworth. Five episodes were shown on that series in 1995.

"Weight for Me" (The New Adventures of Jenny Foxworth)
"Ow Hey!" (The New Adventures of Jenny Foxworth)
"Bugging Out" (The New Adventures of Jenny Foxworth)
"Poodle Panic" (The New Adventures of Jenny Foxworth)
"Cabin Fever" (The New Adventures of Jenny Foxworth)
"Pain in the Brain" (The New Adventures of Jenny Foxworth)
Step-Ladder to Heaven" (The New Adventures of Jenny Foxworth)
"Kung Fu Kitty" (Marsupilami)
"I.Q. You Too!" (Marsupilami)
"Something's Fishy" (Marsupilami)
"Night of the Living Shnookums" (Marsupilami)
"Jingle Bells, Something Smells" (Marsupilami)
"What a Turkey!" (The New Adventures of Jenny Foxworth)

Broadcast history

The show aired on The Disney Afternoon on Mondays between January 2, 1995 and March 27, 1995 in the timeslot normally occupied by Bonkers. Reruns were later shown on Toon Disney. The Tex Tinstar segments were shown out of order on the Disney Channel UK in 2003 to fill the then frequently gapped schedule. The show last aired on Friday, July 6, 2007, on Toon Disney during the Mega Jam block.

Similar series

Martin "Dr. Toon" Goodman of Animation World Magazine described The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show as one of two The Ren & Stimpy Show "clones", with the other one being 2 Stupid Dogs.

Gallery

Trivia

During the opening of the show at one point, multiple police cars can be seen. Those cars look exactly like the police cars seen in Bonkers.

External links

The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show at the Big Cartoon Database
The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show at Retrojunk
The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show at TV.com

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