Sunday Pants
| Sunday Pants | |
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| Genre |
Comedy Variety |
| Created by |
Craig "Sven" Gordon Stuart Hill |
| Written by | Craig "Sven" Gordon and Stuart Hill (The Slack's segments) |
| Directed by | Tripp Rhame (The Slack's segments) |
| Creative director(s) | Michael Ouweleen |
| Starring | The Slacks |
| Voices of | Various |
| Theme music composer | Joey Santiago |
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| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes |
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| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Pola Changnon Michael Ouweleen |
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| Running time | 23 minutes |
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| Distributor | Cartoon Network |
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| Original network | Cartoon Network |
| Original release | October 2 – October 30, 2005 |
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| Related shows |
The Amazing Adrenalini Brothers Bernard IMP |
Sunday Pants is an American animated anthology series created by Craig "Sven" Gordon and Stuart Hill, produced by Spitfire Studios, and premiered on Cartoon Network on October 2, 2005. The series primarily aired every Sunday night at 9:30 PM, hence the name Sunday Pants. The series only lasted for 11 episodes, while only the first five aired. The show was cancelled on February 5, 2006.
Production
After its predecessor, What a Cartoon!, Cartoon Network produced an all-new animated short series consisting of overseas shorts, pilots, college shorts, or even shorts created for the show itself. That show was called Sunday Pants; it first aired on the day of October 2, 2005. The anthology varies on different types of animation, from traditional hand-drawn animation, to Flash, or even CGI.
The show has a similar concept to What a Cartoon!, except that the shorts are 1–3 minutes long and the show is squeezed to be 23 minutes (without commercials). There are animated and live-action intervals in-between shorts. The live-action ones are performed by American band The Slacks, while the animated ones are produced by WeFail.[1]
This is the first Cartoon Network original series to be rated "TV-PG", since Space Ghost Coast to Coast.
The show lasted for less than a month, with its final airing taking place on October 30, 2005. In January 2006, the show was announced to be returning the month after, but said return never came to fruition and the series was ultimately cancelled.
The reason for Sunday Pants’ cancellation might have been the swears and/or drug references. On one episode of Weighty Decisions, the angel claimed that the devil was drinking too much, and in another episode, the angel says "What the hell is that supposed to mean?"; one other instance is an IMP short, in which the Imp says "Damnit", and "Double damnit!" respectively.
In 2015, several cartoon streaming sites released the five out of eleven episodes that were produced on their sites. It is now easy-to-find on the web with a simple Google search.
List of known shorts aired on Sunday Pants
| Title | Created by | Production company(s) |
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| The Amazing Adrenalini Brothers | Dan Chambers, Mark Huckerby, and Nick Ostler |
Pesky Lye |
| Bernard | José Luis Ucha and Claudio Biern Lliviria |
BRB Internacional, RG Animation Studios, and Screen 21 |
| Blue Dog Blues | Mair Doyle | Cosgrove Hall Films |
| The Brothers Pistov | Lincoln Peirce | Global Mechanic |
| Bus Stop Talk | Dana Muise | SpazzCo Animation |
| Capt. Linger | Stuart Hill | J. J. Sedelmaier Productions, Inc. |
| CRAZY Demands! | Craig "Sven" Gordon | |
| Dr. Lyle Pushkin's Guidebook for the Happy Boy |
Andy Merrill | Noodlesoup Productions |
| Freshman Clowns | Scott Sonneborn | Curious Pictures |
| The Great Pinkerton | John McIntyre | Cartoon Network Studios |
| The Hall of Presidents | Matt Peccini and Josh Koppel | |
| History According to Noodle | Andy Merrill | Acme Filmworks, Inc. |
| IMP | Andy Fielding | Red Kite Animation |
| Jean-Luc & Dondoozat | Garcia "Gark" David | Bibo Films, Nelvana Limited, Canal + France, and Teletoon France |
| Loving Lovers in Love | Stephen Mank | Primal Screen |
| Monstories | Lance Taylor | Facelift Ent. Inc. |
| News Channel Station News U.S. | Stuart Hill | Picasso Pictures |
| Oogloo + Anju | A. Martian | Ka-chew! |
| Periwinkle Around the World | Aaron Springer | Cartoon Network Studios |
| Scissor Kid | Stephen Mank | Primal Screen |
| Show & Tell | Casper Kelly | Soup2Nuts.tv |
| Surely You Just | Craig "Sven" Gordon | Soup2Nuts.tv |
| Thadlow's Driving School | Stuart Hill | Soup2Nuts.tv |
| The Topside Rag | Monkmus | Ka-chew! |
| Travel Logs | Stuart Hill | Soup2Nuts.tv |
| Watering Hole | Stuart Hill | Soup2Nuts.tv |
| Weighty Decisions | Adam Pava and Tim McKeon | C. Kingsley Weatherhead Moving Pictures and Aquatic Curios |
Episodes
Aired
| No. | Title | Original air date |
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| 1 | "Dangerous Situations" | October 2, 2005 |
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| 2 | "Insatiable Cravings" | October 9, 2005 |
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| 3 | "You Can't Get There from Here" | October 16, 2005 |
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| 4 | "Sports" | October 23, 2005 |
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| 5 | "Let Me Entertain You" | October 30, 2005 |
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Unaired
- "Does It Bite?"
- "Feed Me"
- "Workin' It"
- "I Don't Feel So Good"
- "Lasers (Misc.)"
- "Short People in Desks"
Scrapped
- "Funny Sweet"
- "Just Add Sauce"