This Saturday-Morning Cartoon, produced by De Patie Freleng Enterprises for NBC in 1977, consisted of two shorts per half-hour episode:
- Baggy Pants was a dialog-free cartoon, much like DFE's own The Pink Panther. Its main character was a cat dressed like Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp. His foe was a pig with a black mustache.
- The Nitwits had Arte Johnson and Ruth Buzzi reprise their roles of Tyrone Horneigh and Gladys Ormphby from Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. Here, they were a married couple who fought crime with the help of Tyrone's cane, Elmo, which enabled him to fly and contained many gadgets.
Notably the final cartoon Robert McKimson worked on before his death in 1977 (just 19 days after the series premiered).
Tropes in this cartoon series:
- Animal Facial Hair: Baggy Pants has a small mustache, and the pig has a black handlebar mustache.
- Animated Adaptation: The first segment was adapted from Chaplin's silent comedies, and the second from a series of Laugh-In sketches.
- Circus Episode: The Baggy Pants short "Circus Circus".
- Code Name: Tyrone went by "Agony Nine".
- Funny Animal: Baggy Pants and his porcine foe.
- Master of Disguise: The Nitwits' foe False Face Filbert.
- Mime and Music-Only Cartoon: The Baggy Pants segment.
- Portable Hole: It's used in the Nitwits short "The Hole Thing!"
