The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show
Format	Animated series
Created by	Bill Kopp
Written by	Bill Kopp
Directed by	Jeff DeGrandis
Starring	Jason Marsden Frank Welker Jeff Bennett Charlie Adler Corey Burton Jim Cummings Brad Garrett Jess Harnell Steve Mackall Tress MacNeille April Winchell Patric Zimmerman Danny Mann Bill Kopp
Theme music composer	John Jorgenson
Composer(s)	Drew Neumann Nathan Wang
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	13 (List of episodes)
Production
Producer(s)	Bill Kopp
Running time	30 minutes
Production company(s)	Walt Disney Television Animation
Broadcast
Original channel	CBS (1993) First-run syndication (1995)
Original run	October 16, 1993 – March 27, 1995

The Schnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show is an animated television series, created by Walt Disney Television in 1993 as a spin-off of the show Raw Toonage.

Contents 1 Premise 1.1 Schnookums and Meat! 1.2 Pith Possum: Super Dynamic Possum of Tomorrow 1.3 Tex Tinstar: The Best in the West 2 Production 3 Cast 4 Episodes 5 Segments on "Disney's Raw Toonage (1994 TV series)" 6 Broadcast history 7 Similar series 8 References 9 External links

[edit] Premise

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

[edit] Schnookums and Meat!

This involves a dumb pair of animals: Schnookums the cat and Meat the dog. The sequence mentioned in the title was about a cat named Schnookums and a dog named Meat 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. Husband is always referring to their home as their "domicile" before the two leave S&M in charge while they are away.

[edit] Pith Possum: Super Dynamic Possum of Tomorrow

A spoof of the Tim Burton's Batman (not unlike Darkwing Duck only more extreme in its spoofing), with Pith Possum and his sidekick Obediah the Wonder Raccoon fighting crime in Possum City. 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.)

[edit] Tex Tinstar: The Best in the West

A parody of Western serials, involving the title character, a cowboy, and his team, who always get into trouble. The end of each episode ends in a cliffhanger for next week, not unlike the serials or "Rocky and Bullwinkle".

[edit] Production

It was the first animated television series by Disney to not use a traditional "Disney" style & a more twisted styles such as Ren & Stimpy.

Schnookums and Meat was created and written by Bill Kopp and directed by Jeff DeGrandis, who also created Toonsylvania and Mad Jack the Pirate. He was the voice of Eek! the Cat and Yuckie Duck from The What-A-Cartoon! Show. Other voice actors on Schnookums and Meat included Jeff Glen Bennett (of Johnny Bravo fame, as the voice of Tex Tinstar) and Brad Garrett (from the television sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond).

[edit] Cast

• Jason Marsden - Shnookums
• Frank Welker - Meat
• Jeff Bennett - Pith Possum/Tex Tinstar
• Charlie Adler - Chafe
• Corey Burton - Ian/Krusty Rustknuckle
• Jim Cummings - Narrator
• Brad Garrett - Commissioner Stress/Wrongo
• Jess Harnell - Lieutenant Tension/Floyd the Insane Rattle Snake
• Steve Mackall - Husband
• Tress MacNeille - Wife
• April Winchell - Doris Deer
• Patric Zimmerman - Obediah
• Danny Mann - Additional Voices
• Bill Kopp - Additional Voices

[edit] Episodes

[edit] Segments on "Disney's Raw Toonage (1994 TV series)"

The 8 episodes of Shnookums & Meat was part of another Disney spin off from Raw Toonage's Marsupilami .

[edit] Broadcast history

Reruns of the show were on The Disney Afternoon and then 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 Friday July 6, 2007 on Toon Disney during the Mega Jam block.

[edit] Similar series

Martin "Dr. Toon" Goodman of Animation World Magazine described The Schnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show as one of two Ren and Stimpy "clones".

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• The Schnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show at the Internet Movie Database
• The Schnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show at Retrojunk
• The Schnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show at TV.com

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