6.2 /10 1 Votes
6.3/10 TV Creative director(s) Michael Ouweleen First episode date 2 October 2005 Network Cartoon Network Cast Judah Friedlander | 6/10 IMDb Genre Comedy
Variety Starring The Slacks Final episode date 30 October 2005 Director Tripp Rhame | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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) Similar What a Cartoon!, Oh Yeah! Cartoons, Random! Cartoons, KaBlam!, Shorty McShorts' Shorts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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.
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.