The Schnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show
Schnookums and Meat, created by Bill Kopp (of Eek! The Cat fame) is what happens when Disney tries to Follow the Leader.
At a time when Ren and Stimpy was doing well on Nickelodeon, this show was made to try and duplicate its success. The end result was an allegedly wacky series. It was composed of three segments:
- Schnookums and Meat: Follows the exploits of a dog and cat pair who live in a home with two faceless owners.
- Pith Possum: A Superhero spoof, similar to Darkwing Duck but more extreme. Pith and his sidekick Obediah the Wonder Raccon protect Possum City from a variety of bad guys.
- Tex Tinstar: A cowboy who fights alongside his friends to defeat the Wrong Riders. Done in a serial style similar to Rocky and Bullwinkle.
The show aired on CBS, where it lasted one season of thirteen episodes. It was later rerun on The Disney Afternoon, where it seemed even more out-of-place than Gargoyles, and eventually on Toon Disney. Only two comics were made out of it in Disney Adventures magazine.
Tropes used in The Schnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show include:
- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Meat the dog.
- Amusing Injuries
- Balloon Belly
- Big Eater: Supper Squirrell
- Department of Redundancy Department: The titles of the Pith Possum segments.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Schnookums and Meat's owners are only known as Husband and Wife.
- The Faceless: Schnookums and Meat's owners.
- Fat Bastard: Supper Squirrell
- Follow the Leader: As mentioned, this aired at a time when Ren and Stimpy was at its height.
- Funny Animal
- Gross-Out Show
- Hair of Gold: Tinstar.
- Hartman Hips
- Hey, It's That Voice!: Jason Marsden as Schnookums and Frank Welker as Meat.
- Jeff Bennett voicies both Pith Possum and Tex Tinstar, the latter using his Johnny Bravo voice. Brad Garret is in both segments as well, as Commissioner Stress and Wrongo, respectively.
- How Many Fingers?
- Identity Amnesia: Happens to Pith Possum.
- Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: The Pith Possum segments.
- Mickey Mousing: Done in the episode "Weight For Me" where the titular duo become musclebound behemoths, with each of their footsteps punctuated by a dramatic "AH~!" choir.
- Mission Control: Commissioner Stress.
- Muscles Are Meaningless: Averted first but then played straight in the aforementioned episode "Weight For Me". Hilarity Ensues as the titular duo flex so much that they break a mirror, struggle with their severely impaired mobility and Schnookums ends up crushing one of the protein cans, until he hits on the idea to get in the sauna and shrink down just enough that the two can move again. The door ends up getting jammed by a simple mop, which neither of the still-titanic gods can unbar and promptly lose their godly physiques.
- Name's the Same: There was a Super Nintendo game called Tin Star about a robot cowboy, but it had nothing to do with this show's Tinstar.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: The Polite Coyotes were modled after The Beatles.
- Overly Long Gag
- Talking to Himself: Jeff Bennett voiced several characters in the Tinstar and Pith Possum segments