Shnookums & Meat Funny Cartoon Show, The (television) Syndicated television series; debuted on January 2, 1995, and ended on August 28, 1995. Three different animated comedy shorts mixing nutty gags, bad puns, weird events, surrealistic flavor, and wacky storylines in a fast-paced half hour of humor. The segments are Shnookums and Meat, with Shnookums a cat and Meat a dog, who are both friends and enemies; Pith Possum: Super Dynamic Possum of Tomorrow, a satire of the superhero genre; and Tex Tinstar: the Best in the West, with Tex a frontier sheriff who faces certain destruction in each episode. Voices include: Shnookums and Meat—Jason Marsden (Shnookums), Frank Welker (Meat), Tress MacNeille (wife), Steve Mackall (husband); Pith Possum—Jeff Bennett (Pith/Peter Possum), Brad Garrett (Comm. Stress), Jess Harnell (Lt. Tension), April Winchell (Doris Deer), Patric Zimmerman (Obediah); Tex Tinstar—Charlie Adler (Chafe), Jeff Bennett (Tex Tinstar), Corey Burton (Ian), Jim Cummings (narrator), Brad Garrett (Wrongo). 13 episodes.
