The Shwookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show

The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show
Disney's unfunny Ren & Stimpy ripoff with none of the charm and likeability that show had. (At least, for the first 2 seasons).
Genre: Comedy Animation Slapstick Running Time: 30 minutes Country: United States Release Date: January 2 - March 27, 1995 Network(s): Syndication Created by: Bill Kopp Distributed by: Buena Vista Television Starring: Charlie Adler Jeff Bennett Corey Burton Jim Cummings Brad Garrett Jess Harnell Steve Mackall Tress MacNeille Jason Marsden Frank Welker April Winchell Patric Zimmerman Seasons: 1 Episodes: 13 Previous show: Marsupilami (1993) Next show: Quack Pack (1996)

The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show (aka Shnookums and Meat) was a show created for the programming block; The Disney Afternoon, in 1995. The show starred a cat and dog named Shnookums and Meat and featured two segments (Pith Possum and Tex Tinstar). The show was edgier compared to other Disney shows at the time due to the show being influenced by another popular cartoon at the time; The Ren & Stimpy Show. It is a spin-off of the show Marsupilami.

Why It's An Unfunny Cartoon Show

1. It's a shameless Ren and Stimpy rip-off that completely lacks the charm, creativity, and cleverness that the show had.
2. The animation is very mediocre by Disney's Saturday Morning standards (even if it's not completely terrible).
   • When the animation delves into gross-out territory and has intentionally grotesque moments of making the characters have distorted faces, it looks extremely ugly and unappealing.
3. It tries way too hard to be different and out of its comfort zone, but it still looks too polished and safe to stand out from the usual style of Disney cartoons in the 90s.
4. Ugly colors and poorly drawn backgrounds.
5. Countless animation errors, especially with semi-realistic close-ups/etc.
6. A lot of the soundtrack is both annoying and forgettable. Examples of this include the title cards that have irritating sounds of toy squeaking in it.
   • Like the songs mentioned above, the music such as the opening sequence can be too loud as well.
7. The two titular characters are presented and written as obnoxious, moronic, overly typical, uninteresting, and irredeemably dull characters by voice and personality traits. Especially Shnookums.
8. Bad voice acting from the titular duo, despite them being voiced by voice talents such as Frank Welker and Jason Marsden.
9. The slapstick is incredibly plodding, over-exaggerated, and uninspiring, which absolutely kills this show's potential with comedic timing since it is also polished as a 'safe kids cartoon', such to the point that it made the whole idea of being "extreme" with its humor entirely pointless.
10. Misleading title: The title says "Funny Cartoon Show" when the show itself, for the most part, is barely even funny.
11. Most of the jokes don't make a lick of sense nor do they work whatsoever because of how unrelated and random they are to the plots occurring in them, nor is the comedic timing even structured most of the time.
12. A large amount of unfunny gross-out that isn't suitable for kids, even coming from a big name corporation like Disney.
13. Many episodes don't establish any form of logic. In other words, the episode's plots and the things that happen usually don't make any sense, like the infamous "Pain in the Brain" for example.
14. Several characters have unoriginal designs like Shnookums' character design looking like Sylvester from Looney Tunes and Doris Deer's character design looking very similar to that Hello Nurse from Animaniacs.
15. This was one of the many shows (e.g. Quack Pack) that had started the decline of The Disney Afternoon.

Redeeming Qualities

1. Some of the bits of the animation are acceptable and passable.
2. It was one of Disney's first-ever gross-out shows. Which made the show pretty unique for its time.
3. Even if the opening sequence is so loud, forgettable, and annoying, there are some instances where it's kinda catchy.
4. The voice acting for stock characters in the Shnookums and Meat segments and the characters in Pith Possum and Tex Tinstar are decent.
5. The Pith Possum and Tex Tinstar sketches (the latter being sketches that do have continuity) are better than the Shnookums and Meat sketches themselves (even if the Pith Possum sketches are also flawed).
6. Though her design is unoriginal, Doris Deer is a very attractive character.
7. Funny moments here and there.
8. The music is sometimes passable.
9. Fortunately it was the only bad show that was forgotten from the Disney Afternoon.
10. The best episode of the series was the Halloween episode, The Night of The Living Shnookums. It shows the perfect way Disney would do a Ren & Stimpy parody with its own Saturday morning style by showing the true potential of Disney absurdity, gross-out, well-done slapstick & having a lot of funny moments that work as legitimate jokes, even more than usual (despite at least one joke not making sense but was somewhat silly), with a coherent if pretty weird plot.
11. At least it doesn't take the gross-out aspect to the absolute extreme unlike a certain other show.

Videos

(Go to 32:16 for Nostalgia Critic's video)

External Links

Trivia

• This show never saw any official home video releases of any kind, and it is one of the few Disney shows that is currently not available on Disney+.

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