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KToonz
Since: Dec, 2017
25th Nov, 2019 02:06:28 PM
It was the short Dudley and Nestor do Nothing from Shorty McShorts' Shorts.
passionraccoon
Since: Nov, 2019
25th Nov, 2019 04:14:46 PM
Oh my god!!! That's it! Wow, thank you so much! The art style is so much cooler and weirder than I remembered omg.
KToonz
Since: Dec, 2017
25th Nov, 2019 06:58:52 PM
You're welcome. 👍
This is something I've been looking for for years. It seems so quintessentially "American Cartoon from the Early 2000s", but I seriously can't find anything that jogs my memory! I'm not sure why I'm so fixated on this relatively unexceptional example of Western Animation, but it's one of my strongest childhood memories.
I remember that it aired relatively late at night when I saw it. I also vaguely remember looking forward to it, like when I saw it it was a hyped-up new release of a cartoon or perhaps a pilot. It probably aired anywhere from 2005 to 2009, but it could've been a rerun or I'm remembering it from longer ago than it actually was.
The art style of the cartoon, from what I can remember, was sketchy. Similar, maybe, to the Henry and June segments of Ka Blam! or Chalkzone. I remember the color scheme being mostly blues and whites.
The plot is relatively ordinary for a cartoon from that time. I think there were two protagonists, one of which was a boy, and the other was either a boy or a girl.
I believe that the set-up was that they were on a field trip to a space museum. One of the protagonists had a Gigantic Gulp either filled with soda or a slushie. They attempt to enter a presentation with their classmates, but they're stopped at the door because there are No Drinks Allowed. Rather than waste his precious Gigantic Gulp and throw it out in a trash can, conveniently located by the door, the character decides to drink all of it before entering.
So, the protagonists enter this presentation and soon, obviously, there is a Potty Emergency. I remember the characters searching wildly around and never being able to find a working bathroom. So, soon, looking for a bathroom, the characters mistakenly wander onto a working spaceship.
After that my memory is blurry, but I seem to remember the characters launching and then having to defend their classmates from an incoming asteroid?? I'm not sure how the story ended though.
This is something I desperately want to know if I made it up or if there's anyone else out there who remembers it or has footage of it!!!
Edited by passionraccoon