History WesternAnimation / TheShnookumsAndMeatFunnyCartoonShow

* OffModel: As with ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'', it's done deliberately for visual comedy.

''The Shnookums & Meat Funny Cartoon Show'', created by Bill Kopp (of ''WesternAnimation/EekTheCat'' fame) for Creator/WaltDisneyTelevisionAnimation, debuted in 1993 as a segment Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Marsupilami}}'' cartoon on Creator/{{CBS}}, before becoming its own half-hour series in 1995. Each episode was composed of three segments:

** [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Shirley Pimple]], a villian in a Pith Possum short, is a little girl with the [[BadassBaritone super-deep voice of]] Creator/BradGarrett.

* HotAsHell: In one episode, Shnookums and Meat arrive at the pearly gates and are told they've been so naughty they're going to go to hell, unless they can do one good deed. They pull it off, and immediately discover that Hell is full of ''really sexy'' devil girls. [[spoiler:They dive into Hell, and it turns out that the sexy devil girls were wearing costumes, and actually look like a couple of really ugly blind dates Schookums and Meat mistreated in the past.]]

* NiceHat: Doris's Beret

At a time when ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' was doing well on {{Creator/Nickelodeon}}, this similar show was made, presumably to try and duplicate its success. The end result lasted one thirteen episode season on WesternAnimation/TheDisneyAfternoon, where it seemed even more out-of-place than ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'', and eventually rerun on Creator/ToonDisney before fading into obscurity. Only two comics were made out of it in ''Magazine/DisneyAdventures'' magazine.

%% * AmusingInjuries
%% * BalloonBelly

%% * ChristmasEpisode

%% * GrossoutShow: ''Tries'' to be this. YMMV on whether it succeeds.

%% * IdentityAmnesia: Happens to Pith Possum.

* MickeyMousing: 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.
%% * MissionControl: Commissioner Stress.

* VocalDissonance: [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Shirley Pimple]], a villian in a Pith Possum short, is a little girl with the [[BadassBaritone super-deep voice of]] Creator/BradGarrett.

To those Disney fans who still remember it, [[BrokenBase the series remains divisive]], some calling it a fun experiment for Disney to make something rather different from their past animated works, while others mock it as being [[FollowTheLeader a flagrant attempt at cashing in on a competitor's hot property, and not even a good flagrant attempt at that]].

* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Meat the dog is blue, a color real world dogs do not come in.

* BuffoonishTomcat: Obviously Shnookums since he tends to be a charlatan with being mean and brighter than Meat's moronitude, yet he tends to be just as imbecilic, klutzy and idiotic as Meat is.

* DogsAreDumb: Meat being an annoying, short-tempered DumbMuscle.

To those Disney fans who still remember it, [[BrokenBase the series remains divisive]], some calling it a fun experiment for Disney to make something rather different from their past animated works, while others mock it as being [[FollowTheLeader Disney's poor attempt at cashing in on a competitor's hot property]].

* VocalEvolution: In the first short, Meat had a voice similar to that of [[{{WesternAnimation/Animaniacs}} Ralph the Guard]]. In later episodes, he has a deeper, gruffer voice.

* VocalEvolution: In the first short, Meat had a voice similar to that of [[WesterAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} Ralph the Guard]]. In later episodes, he has a deeper, gruffer voice.

* CatsAreMean: Both characters have {{Jerkass}} moments, and neither are particularly bright.

* TheChewToy: Both the titular characters suffer this a lot but Shnookums more so.

%% * AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Meat the dog who is blue.

* MushroomSamba: "Cabin Fever". When Shnookums develops MeatOVision on Meat, the two finally find food in the form of cocktail weenies (that expired in 1952). Meat suggests they might be unsafe to eat, though they consume them anyway.

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''Shnookums and Meat'', created by Bill Kopp (of ''WesternAnimation/EekTheCat'' fame) for Creator/WaltDisneyTelevisionAnimation, debuted in 1993 as a segment Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Marsupilami}}'' cartoon on Creator/{{CBS}}, before becoming its own half-hour series in 1995. Each episode was composed of three segments: