Screwy Squirrel: Sledgehammer O'Possum.Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: (After seeing a zombie) AAAAAHHH!!! *whack* OH! *whack* MAH! *whack* GAAAWD!: The opening theme.Then, in his second cartoon, "What's Goin' On Back There", he is voiced by T.K. The Other Darrin: Sledgehammer O'Possum was first voiced by Faizon Love in "Out and About".Noodle Incident: Whatever happened to Grandma in Gramps. Mime-and-Music-Only Cartoon: "Help?", which has no dialog aside from Jof's "Help!".Manatee Gag: Being the predecessor of Family Guy, Steve & Larry naturally had some.Mad Bomber: Pfish & Chip's stock in trade is to catch these guys.Kid with the Leash: Mina and the Count.Unlike most other examples, it's a straight up Cosmic Horror Story Humans Are Cthulhu: Tales of Worm Paranoia.Here We Go Again: The ending of "Godfrey and Zeek".Groin Attack: Fat Cats in Drip Dry Drips features a scene where Louie accidentally hits the president in the grapes when he was doing his measurements.Frothy Mugs of Water: Averted in Captain Buzz Cheaply: A Clean Getaway.Dueling Shows: With Oh Yeah Cartoons, though not until the late Nineties.Also the two Ralph Bakshi shorts "Babe! He Calls Me" and "Malcom and Melvin", and "Tales of Worm Paranoia", directed by Eddie Fitzgerald.Also "Buy One, Get One Free", which has visual influences from The Ren and Stimpy Show (not hurt by a few staff members who worked on that show). Deranged Animation: Anything directed by Pat Ventura: "Yuckie Duck", "Sledgehammer O'Possum", and "George and Junior".The gem was cursed to give whoever owns it alternating extremely good and extremely bad luck, with the thief suffering all sorts of increasingly ludicrous calamities and just barely living through them, even as he tried to return the gem to the museum. Cosmic Close Call: One short, "Awfully Lucky", has a sleazy guy trying to get a rare gem to a museum offering a huge reward for it.Christmas Episode: "George and Junior's Christmas Spectacular".The Chew Toy: Poor, poor Shake from Shake & Flick.Captivity Harmonica: Pizza Boy in No Tip.Captain Ersatz: The Colonel Sanders ghost from Podunk Possum.When he mentions in his story that the president was a statuesque woman, he begs them to let this part remain unchanged when they point out that America never had a female president. His grandkids keep pointing out errors in his story and how he actually lived his life. Tropes used in What a Cartoon! Show include: Its spiritual successor was meant to be Cartoonstitute (headed by two popular animators who got their start on WAC: Craig McCracken and Rob Renzetti), but that sadly never got off the ground. They even made a few shorts of The Flintstones. While others faded into obscurity like Yoink of the Yukon, Pfish & Chip, Yuckie Duck, and Shake & Flick. Some of the cartoons were popular enough to be made into series, ( Dexter's Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken, etc) Two wound up being the prototype for a much more popular toon later (Steve & Larry who would become Peter and Brian for Family Guy and Kenny and the Chimp were retooled into Codename: Kids Next Door). The premiere of the project was on a special hosted by Space Ghost. The president of Hanna-Barbera at the time wanted to recreate the glory days of Western Animation by allowing creators to produce original short cartoons to be aired on Cartoon Network. The What A Cartoon! Show (originally known as World Premiere Toons, and later renamed The Cartoon Cartoon Show) was a series of cartoon shorts produced to air on Cartoon Network in the mid-1990s.
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