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After not being able to think of anything else to draw today, I decided to backpedal somewhat on my decision to not do any retrospectives or tributes for Random! Cartoons and to focus solely on doing a retrospective for Oh Yeah! Cartoons, which I will get started on as soon as I finish catching up on The Fairly OddParents (my reasons for this initial decision were that I didn't grow up with Random! Cartoons and until I felt inclined to fully catch up, the only shorts I saw were the Adventure Time pilot, MooBeard the Cow Pirate and Garlic Boy).

I changed my mind because I had an epiphany that it was not very respectful to reduce Random! Cartoons to being a briefly mentioned footnote in my discussion on the history of Oh Yeah! Cartoons, particularly because it wasn't a coincidence that Random! Cartoons had so much in common with Oh Yeah! Cartoons (both shows being created by Fred Seibert, several creators and voice actors working on both shows and both shows being anthologies for seven-minute animated shorts that were intended as pilots for potential Nicktoons). I also figured that doing a retrospective for Random! Cartoons anyway could serve as a dry run of sorts for the eventual Oh Yeah! Cartoons retrospective.

The thing is that Random! Cartoons was originally announced as a fourth season for Oh Yeah! Cartoons, but at the last minute it was decided that it would be better to rebrand the series as its own thing. Fittingly enough, one other thing Random! Cartoons had in common with Oh Yeah! Cartoons was that both anthology shows only had three shows picked up out of all the featured pilots (though in Random! Cartoons' case, Fanboy and Chum Chum was the only one where the series was still produced and distributed by Nickelodeon, as Nickelodeon's rejection of Adventure Time led to the series being picked up by Cartoon Network and Frederator Studios responded to the rejection by Nickelodeon of Bravest Warriors by making the show a web series on Cartoon Hangover without Nickelodeon's involvement).

I have deliberately omitted Adventure Time, Bravest Warriors and Fanboy and Chum Chum for the following reasons: I've already drawn a picture to celebrate catching up on Adventure Time a while ago and I intend to do separate retrospectives on Bravest Warriors and Fanboy and Chum Chum when I am finished catching up on them (at this time, I am only nine episodes away from finishing season four of Bravest Warriors and the pilot is currently all I've seen of Fanboy and Chum Chum, which I have been well aware for some time is not a very fondly remembered Nicktoon).

In regards to differences, there were some ways Random! Cartoons was distinguishable from Oh Yeah! Cartoons besides having its own title sequence and theme music. Other than the obvious fact that Random! Cartoons only lasted one season as opposed to three, every entry in Random! Cartoons only had one short (when Oh Yeah! Cartoons had multiple shorts for The Fairly OddParents, ChalkZone, Jelly's Day, Jamal the Funny Frog, Hobart, Max, Tales from the Goose Lady, Super Santa, A Kid's Life, Mina and the Count and The Dan Danger Show) and Random! Cartoons had several shorts animated partially or completely in CGI (when all Oh Yeah shorts were only in traditional 2D animation).

A total of 39 shorts were made for Random! Cartoons, and since only three were greenlit for their own series (with or without Nickelodeon's involvement), this obviously means 36 shorts were never given that chance.

While I already discussed MooBeard the Cow Pirate, Hornswiggle, Bradwurst and Ratz-A-Fratz in previous pictures, I do not feel my discussions on them from before were thorough enough, so I'm taking the opportunity to do them over. Pretty much every short has been uploaded on YouTube, though some uploads may have a watermark giving the disclaimer that the short is the property of Viacom.

As always, beware of spoilers in the description if there's even one short discussed here that you haven't seen before.

1. Solomon Fix

The first short in this anthology was Solomon Fix, created by Doug TenNapel and, much like Catscratch, was loosely adapted from a comic he created. The original comic Solomon Fix was about an anthropomorphic cat who tries to organize a tea party, goes through some misadventures and tries to assist in the recovery of his cousin Mike, who thinks he's a donkey because of a serious head injury.

This premise was apparently too dark for Nick's standards, so the cartoon short changed it to Solomon Fix being a living teddy bear (voiced by Rob Paulsen) who hears about a lonely boy named Ned (voiced by Elijah Runcorn) and tries to be his friend, but the kid turns out to be a psychotic brat who wants nothing to do with him, and Solomon's efforts to make things right for the boy are met with mockery from a grumpier teddy bear named Klemp (voiced by Maurice LaMarche) and a stuffed monkey named Mumpy (voiced by John DiMaggio).

I am very disappointed to hear about the controversial behavior that TenNapel has been up to lately, but I assure you that I am not deterred from eventually giving Catscratch a chance.

2. MooBeard the Cow Pirate

Created by Kyle Carrozza of Mighty Magiswords fame, MooBeard the Cow Pirate starred a bovine buccaneer whose sleeves had all sorts of gadgets and doodads crammed into them, plus a tendency to get upset whenever anyone mistook him for any animal besides a cow or said to his face that he didn't look like a cow. He was voiced by Billy West and had an avian woman in a sailor suit named Sailor Bird (voiced by Erica Luttrel) as his first mate.

The pair go on a quest to find the treasure of the island Hookamookapookalapp, but are hindered by having trouble getting to the right island as well as tangling with a thieving ninja duck named Darkblade of Fire (voiced by Dave "Gruber" Allen).

In the end, the treasure turns out to be a bowling trophy, which MooBeard cashes in for 20 dollars.

3. Two Witch Sisters

Created by Niki Yang, this short starred a pair of witches who are non-identical twin sisters. The older of the two was named Dorothy (voiced by S. Scott Bullock) and the younger of the pair was named Carrot (voiced by Dee Bradley Baker), who is cursed to transform into the very vegetable she is named after whenever she gets too upset.

The sisters end up encountering a bee (voiced by Candi Milo) with an out-of-control stinger. After some mishaps (and Carrot almost getting eaten by a bunch of rabbits in her transformed state), they manage to solve the bee's problem and head home.

4. The Finster Finster Show: Store Wars

This short was created by Jeff DeGrandis and the main characters were twin brothers with the surname Finster voiced by Charlie Adler and Billy West. Their mom (voiced by Tress MacNeille) drags them along on a grocery shopping trip when they just want to watch their favorite TV show.

The boys try to drag the TV set with them while they're in a car and they eventually fight a bunch of frozen chickens.

5. Mind the Kitty

Created by Anne Walker Farrell, the premise behind this short is that three boys (a duck voiced by Dee Bradley Baker, a lemur named Lemurman voiced by Rodger Bumpass and a turtle named Punky voiced by Jeff Bennett) are hired by a mother cat (voiced by Lynne Maclean) to look after her daughter Tabby (Dee Bradley Baker again).

Tabby at first seems cute, but after her mom leaves, she turns out to be a deranged pest heckbent on making her sitters' lives a total nightmare and ensuring that her mom gets the impression that the boys weren't very good babysitters.

6. Ivan the Unbearable

Created by Andrew Dickman, this short starred a viking named Ivan (voiced by Jeff Doucette), who gets a destructive case of the hiccups after eating some Fudge Rock Cookies and is sent by his mother (Tress MacNeille) to the trolls who make the cookies so he can be cured of his hiccups.

On his way to the factory that makes the cookies, Ivan is impeded by a troll guard (voiced by Maurice LaMarche) who refuses to let him into the factory, but relents after suffering one too many injuries and misfortunes from the hiccuping viking. Inside the building, Ivan finds two trolls by the water cooler (voiced by Maurice LaMarche and Andrew Dickman). After another hiccup pins the second troll under a filing cabinet, the first one helps Ivan by giving him a drink of water.

On his way home, the cured viking decides to pick some flowers that have a sign clearly saying he shouldn't pick them, which gives him a sneeze that destroys his village.

7. Boneheads

A CGI short created by Hiroshi Chida. The main characters are a caveman named Bone (voiced by John Kassir) and a monkey-like being named Roccos (voiced by Dee Bradley Baker), who go on some wacky misadventures while trying to get a bunch of bananas. The short is ridiculously fast-paced, so I caution that watching it might give you a headache.

This short is most likely one of the first developed when Random! Cartoons was still Oh Yeah! Cartoons season four, as it's the only one of the shorts to continue Oh Yeah! Cartoons' tradition of ending the short with a clip of the characters appearing in the show's logo while shouting the series' title (while Bone and Roccos say "Random! Cartoons", they're still in a circle reminiscent of the circle used for Oh Yeah! Cartoons' logo and Bone's lip movements could just as easily have been for saying "Oh Yeah" as they were "Random").

8. Tiffany

A short by Adam Henry that begins on the birthday of a young girl named Peggy (voiced by Jessie Flower), who is scared out of her wits when her parents (Colleen O'Shaughnessey and David Busch) present her with a horse to ride on under the mistaken belief that this is what she wanted.

Peggy later learns that her doll Tiffany (Colleen O'Shaughnessey again) is alive and wants to go on adventures, which she drags Peggy into in an effort to get her owner to overcome her fears.

9. Call Me Bessie

Created by Diane Kredensor and Dana Galin, the main character of this short is a cow named Bessie (voiced by Audrey Wasilewski), who begs her long-suffering elephant neighbor Al (voiced by Fred Stoller) to join her in a diving class, which is taught by a duck named Senor Swampy (Dee Bradley Baker).

Al continues protesting his frustration at Bessie not knowing when to leave well enough alone, and once the two finally make it home and earn their diving diplomas, Al immediately gets into his house after he finishes digging his moat and locks all the doors and windows.

10. Teapot

A short created by Greg Eagles, who also voices the main character in addition to doing most of the other voices in the short.

Teapot is a young boy who wants to be a rapper, but has trouble with rhythm. He and his best friend Bouche (Cathy Lewis) try to make it in time to meet a rapper named Silkbone. Antics include Bouche having to use the bathroom after eating the oatmeal Teapot refused to eat, Teapot having to give Bouche his rap lyrics when Bouche complains that there's no toilet paper (since Teapot neglected his mother's earlier request to buy more) and the short ending with more lowbrow toilet humor by having Bouche cut one.

After the short wasn't picked up, Greg Eagles later made an attempt to do a video game based on the short called Rap It Up where you had to help Teapot with his rapping by selecting the right words in time, but that project has apparently failed to see the light of day because crowdfunding was intended to get the project off the ground and Greg wasn't able to get enough donations.

11. Hornswiggle

The creation of Jerry Beck, Hornswiggle is unique because it was originally supposed to be a short about the Terrytoons character Sidney the Elephant, aka Silly Sidney.

However, it was discovered that Nickelodeon did not have the rights to the Terrytoons characters at the time (this was before CBS eventually re-merged with Viacom), and the execs still had bad memories of the unsuccessful Curbside pilot that was Nick's last attempt at reviving the Terrytoons brand, so they instead retooled the short to star a new character consisting of a rhinoceros named Hornswiggle.

Hornswiggle (voiced by the late Rene Auberjonois) was very much a rhino version of Sidney the Elephant, since he's still a childlike megafauna who's completely oblivious of how annoying everyone else finds him.

Accompanied by a snarky bird named Birdsdorf (Maurice LaMarche), Hornswiggle desperately wants to spend time with his idol the jungle man Zan-Tar (Jeff Bennett), but keeps on injuring him.

The short ends with Hornswiggle playing nurse to Zan-Tar and some other injured jungle men (who are also voiced by Rene Auberjonois, Maurice LaMarche and Jeff Bennett).

12. Hero Heights

A short created by Raul Aguirre, Jr. and Bill Ho that stars two super-powered boys living in a neighborhood of superheroes named Smart Alec (Jessica DiCicco) and Strikeout (Annie Mumolo), who play pranks on two girls named Mindy 500 (Karen Malina White) and Electricia (Becky Thyre), then fall for a new neighbor named Olympia (Hynden Walch).

After Smart Alec and Strikeout fight each other to try and win Olympia's affections, Olympia gets angry when she finds out that the boys had bullied Mindy 500 and Electricia, punishing them by forcing them to play tea party with the girls.

13. Yaki and Yumi

This short created by Aliki Theofilopoulous is about a pink dragon named Yumi (Candi Milo) and a gluttonous bat named Yaki (Andre Sogliuzzo). Yumi enters a dance competition to win a trophy by proving her skills at a DDR knock-off, while Yaki works a job at the concession stand just so he can eat the food (he eventually gets so sick of the kids asking him for food that he eats the remaining stock in front of them out of spite).

After Yumi wins the contest, Yaki tries to beat her record, but since anyone with half a brain would know that it's not a good idea to move around so fast after you've pigged out, he ends up puking into the trophy. Hopefully, Yumi was able to get it cleaned after that.

14. Gary Guitar

An entry by animation legend Bill Plympton (who I know mainly for his short Your Face, animating the music video to Weird Al Yankovic's TMZ, some couch gags to The Simpsons and some contribution to ChalkZone), the main character Gary Guitar (voiced by Lloyd Floyd) has a guitar for a head and, after making a huge sandwich, decides to go on a picnic with Vera Violin (Becky Poole). Danny Drum (Stephen Largay) wants to come, but Gary says no.

The picnic goes awry when a giant robot comes along, but Danny is able to distract it and Gary stops it by sacrificing the sandwich.

15. Krunch and the Kid

Another entry by Adam Henry, the main characters were an orange monster named Krunch (Kevin Michael Richardson) and a boy named Skippy (Colleen O'Shaughnessey), who both have a job acting in a TV show.

Unfortunately, Krunch is having trouble keeping it together because his pet frog Hoppy had died this morning...or so he thought.

16. Bradwurst

This short was created by Angelo Di Nallo and Jason Plapp, with the main character Bradwurst (Tom Kenny) being a very grouchy sausage.

Bradwurst interrogates a hippo named Charlie (Jeff Bennett) into giving away that he is going to a surprise party, so Bradwurst decides he's going to crash the party. Ruining a party just because you just heard about them is a pretty mean thing to do, but fortunately Bradwurst does get punished for his bad behavior, and quite frequently, too.

The party is being held by a dolphin named Willy (Raphael Sbarge), who is throwing the party for Bradwurst out of gratitude for Bradwurst teaching him how to swim (when really all he did was knock him off the diving board), and the only other guest there besides Willy and Charlie is a bird named Jerry (Tom Kenny again), who doesn't understand what Willy sees in Bradwurst.

Bradwurst's efforts in ruining the party include contaminating the punch with hot sauce, a skunk and sweaty socks, destroying all the presents and jumping out of the cake (reducing it to a mess in the process). The ways he suffers include getting beaten by Charlie and Jerry after being mistaken for a pinata, crying at the realization that he destroyed his own presents and having to drink the punch he contaminated.

17. Dr. Froyd's Funny Farm

Co-created by Bill Burnett and the late Jaime Diaz. The premise is that a girl named Lulu (voiced by Nika Futterman) eavesdrops on the farm of Dr. Froyd (voiced by Robert Cait), who uses miracle cures for various animals.

Dr. Froyd's current patient is Bossy LeCow (voiced by Charlie Adler, who, yes, uses the voice he used for Cow in Cartoon Network's Cow and Chicken), who is upset about being a cow. Froyd's intention is to use a brain-switching device so that Bossy can experience things in a different body and be made to appreciate being a cow, but there aren't a lot of volunteers.

Lulu decides to get involved and switches minds with Bossy, but Nurse Duckette (voiced by Candi Milo) kicks out Bossy in Lulu's body and ignores Lulu in Bossy's body's pleas that she is making a mistake. The short ends with Bossy in Lulu's body running off while Dr. Froyd and Lulu in Bossy's body try to get her back. Hopefully this mess was sorted out and the two girls had their proper minds restored.

18. The Dangerous Duck Brothers: Saps at the Wheel

This short was the final cartoon created by Pat Ventura. The main characters are two duck brothers named Giovanni (voiced by the late Jim MacGeorge) and Navarro (voiced by the late Chuck McCann), who try to fulfill their family legacy by breaking world records.

None of their efforts work, but they are informed by an official (Jeff Bennett) that the injuries they sustained were very close to breaking world records themselves.

19. Sparkles and Gloom

Created by Melissa Wolfe and Anne Walker Farrell, Sparkles and Gloom are a pair of sisters who are respectively cheerful and sweet as well as dark and moody. Their respective voice actresses are Kari Wahlgren and Jessica DiCicco, and they attend a school where both beautiful and ugly beings go. It so happens that their parents are a prince (voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson) and a witch (voiced by Kari Wahlgren again).

The conflict happens when the two sisters get into a fight and end up switching magic. They are shocked to find that they'll be stuck like that until the end of the day, so Sparkles and Gloom have no choice but to switch acts in the talent show. They manage to make it through, but get into a squabble again when they find out that they stole from each other's prize boxes.

20. The Infinite Goliath

Co-created by Erik Knutson and Mike Gray, the titular character of the Infinite Goliath is an alien supervillain who has a lot in common with DC Comics' Darkseid and is voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson.

After making parole for his crimes, the Infinite Goliath moves to a neighborhood. His new neighbors irritate him, but he can't do anything about it because he has a restraining device on him that reminds him that he'll go back to prison if he violates his parole by using lethal force on his neighbors. Not helping matters is that this forced retirement has made the Goliath a laughingstock to his fellow villains.

21. Kyle + Rosemary

Created by Jun Falkenstein, this story is about the romance between a nerd named Kyle (voiced by Wil Wheaton) and a goth named Rosemary (voiced by Jentle Phoenix) who meet through the online game Questworld when they encounter each others' player characters Sir Horace Hitsalot and Lunarella.

They eventually find out who they are in the real world, but fortunately stop being afraid of expressing their love for each other in public.

22. Garlic Boy

This one was created by John R. Dilworth of Courage the Cowardly Dog fame. Garlic Boy (voiced by Gary Littman) is a lad who lives up to his name and decides to move to the city of Eyebright so he can "do good for folk" with his mother's garlic tonic.

He befriends a girl named Parsley (voiced by Betsy Beutler) and gets picked on by a punk named Fungus (Lloyd Floyd), who is eventually forced to take Garlic Boy's tonic after he overeats and gets a case of belly-bloat.

23. Flavio

The creation of Mike Milo, the title character of Flavio (voiced by Rob Paulsen) is an Italian goat who dreams of becoming a great inventor.

He works at a pizzeria with a lion chef named Mr. Frank (voiced by Stephen Stanton) and his boss being a pig voiced by Robert Costanza. Flavio isn't shown much respect by his boss, but manages to earn his respect after he saves the day by giving everyone his latest invention pasta on a stick.

24. SamSquatch

This short created by Adam Muto stars Max Burkholder as a Bigfoot kid who hangs out at a diner and orders some coffee (actually milk and graham crackers). He gets the attention of a cryptid hunter named Conrad Conard (Daran Norris), but manages to outwit him and scare him off with the help of his enormous Sasquatch mother.

25. Girls on the GO: First Date

Another short by Aliki Theofilopoulous, the main characters are two high school girls named Kat (Danica McKellar) and Tess (Frankie Ingrassia). Kat finds out that she has a secret admirer and ends up dating a geek named Spencer Applebaum (Quinton Flynn).

Kat doesn't have a lot of fun with Spencer Applebaum, and loses all hope of ever getting a boyfriend when she later learns Tess is dating him, but regains her faith in romance when Spencer Spencerton (also Quinton Flynn) shows signs of being interested in her.

26. Victor the Delivery Dog

Another entry by Niki Yang. The titular character is an adorable and gluttonous pug voiced by E.G. Daily, who delivers letters and parcels while also looking forward to the meals cooked by his human mother (voiced by Jennifer Hale). The cartoon isn't clear on whether Victor is his mother's actual child, but the distinction probably isn't that important anyway, as the only real significant distinctions between children and pets are that pets never become independent of your care and are less likely to outlive you.

Victor gets impatient to go home for lunch (a burger) when he is given a letter he has to deliver urgently (voiced by Jennifer Hale), plus his assistant Mr. Papier (Fred Tatasciore) wants to date the letter. Unfortunately for Victor, he is forced to miss lunch, and his mom throws the burger she cooked out on the street for other dogs to eat because she apparently didn't consider that her son not showing up for mealtimes on the dot could be because of a delay.

Victor isn't happy about not getting his lunch, but Mr. Papier cheers him up by reminding him that his mom will prepare chicken for dinner. After delivering the urgent letter, Victor finds out that there's been a breakup between Gi and Raffe (the head and body of a giraffe who are both voiced by S. Scott Bullock) and he helps them get back together. Victor once again fails to make it home in time before his mom assumes he's not hungry, but finds that his stomach has instead been filled with the gratitude of helping others.

27. The Bronk and Bongo Show: Losing Patients

Created by Manny Galan and Alan Goodman. Two dogs named Bronk (Steve Purnick) and Bongo (Joel McCrary) end up through a series of mishaps that result in them appearing in a hospital while wearing white coats. This has them mistaken for doctors and asked to do something about a patient (Jeff Bennett), who the two canines later find out has an explosive inside him.

Wacky hijinks ensue as the pair lose the patient after letting it slip to him that they aren't real doctors and try to get him back before the bomb inside him goes off.

28. Thom Cat

A short by Mike Gray with the titular character being a well-dressed cat voiced by Jim Meskimen. He uses his wits to help a girl named Melissa (Annie Mumolo) get her beheaded dolls back from a bully.

Mike Gray subsequently made a few Flash animated shorts about Thom Cat independently of Nickelodeon.

29. Sugarfoot

The creation of Erik Knutson, the title character of this short is a boy who loves cowboys and dinosaurs (voiced by Charlie Schlatter), who goes on a field trip to the Cowboy and Dinosaur Museum, but also has to watch out for his inarticulate bully Socko (voiced by Dee Bradley Baker).

30. Dugly Uckling's Treasure Quest

This was the last short in the anthology to be the sole creation of an Oh Yeah! Cartoons veteran, being created by Guy Vasilovich (whose contributions for Oh Yeah! Cartoons were the shorts Earth to Obie, Lollygaggin, The Boy Who Cried Alien and Elise: Mere Mortal. He also apparently created a show called Moville Mysteries, which I confess I haven't seen before, but it does sound like something right up my alley).

Dugly Uckling (voiced by John Kassir) goes on a quest to find a golden bobblehead with the assistance of Kung Pao Bunny (also John Kassir) and his hamster mentor Quiggins (voiced by Carlos Alazraqui). The short has the unique twist of playing as if you're watching the playthrough of a video game, as it starts with Dugly chosen at the character selection screen and shows an HUD for the duration of the short.

31. Dr. Dee and BitBoy

Created by Jun-Kyo Seo, Kong-Yo Kang and Larry Huber, this short had a reclusive scientist named Dr. Dee (Phil Nee) disguise himself as a dog to hide from his enemies and create two super-powered children named Zero/BitBoy (Brett Pels) and Bitgirl (Jenny Kwan). Bitboy and Bitgirl try to investigate the sudden disappearance of Dr. Dee, but return home while unaware that the poor guy is stuck in a petshop due to being mistaken for a real dog.

Dr. Dee's disciples were such idiots!

32. Super John Doe Junior

The creation of Lincoln Pierce, this short was about the son of a superhero named Super John Doe (voiced by Jim Connor), who was voiced by Kimberly Brooks and had no powers of his own.

Super John Doe, Jr. gets his chance to save the day when his dad's enemy Evil Butthead (voiced by Andy Morris) uses a device to take Super John Doe, Sr.'s powers. Junior gets the powers and sends Evil Butthead back to prison, afterwards he begrudgingly restores the powers to his father.

33. 6 Monsters

A short created by Fred Seibert and Alan Goodman, which was notable for using different styles of animation.

The short takes place at John Zacherle Middle School (named after a TV presenter who was one of the most famous horror hosts of his day), where the six monsters focused on are a ghost named Gaillard (Jeff Bennett), a very unlucky black cat named Buck (Chuck McCann), an ape-man named Roy (John DiMaggio), a pumpkin-headed girl named Cathy (Nika Futterman), a demon named Lulu (Teresa Ganzel) and a skeletal janitor who is apparently Lulu's grandfather (also Jeff Bennett).

34. Ratz-A-Fratz

A short created by Jim Wyatt and Karl Toerge about three rats, a green one named Cyrus (voiced by Jim Wyatt), a blue rat named Urban (voiced by Scott Fresina) and an orange one named Squawk (voiced by Don Cameron).

The three decide to get some food at the mall, but have to be careful not to be caught by Crank (a mall employee voiced by Jess Harnell). They manage to evade Crank in the end and also get away with bugging an old woman (voiced by the late June Foray) and a teen working at the Cookie Nook (voiced by Debi Derryberry).

35. Squirly Town

Another short by Doug TenNapel. The main characters are a green squirrel named Lance (voiced by Stephen Root) and a short, brownish-orange one who drives Lance crazy named Zoopie (voiced by Bobcat Goldthwait). Lance tries to get away from Zoopie, but Zoopie can't take a hint.

Even after Lance ends up hospitalized and in a full body cast, Zoopie continues to pester him.

36. Handycat: Bees-ness As Usual

The last of the Random! Cartoons shorts that never got picked up for its own show, this short was created by Russ Harris and G. Brian Reynolds.

Handycat (voiced by Rob Paulsen) is hired by a woman (voiced by June Foray) to get rid of some bees. He eventually succeeds by carving the tree they're near to look like a giant can of insect repellent.

It took me all day to draw this picture and type this description. This, coupled with the fact that I never really had as much nostalgia for Random! Cartoons as I did for Oh Yeah! Cartoons, is why this description ends anticlimactically. I promise to try and give more flourish for the description of the Oh Yeah retrospective when it is eventually done.

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After not being able to think of anything else to draw today, I decided to backpedal somewhat on my decision to not do any retrospectives or tributes for Random! Cartoons and to focus solely on doing a retrospective for Oh Yeah! Cartoons, which I will get started on as soon as I finish catching up on The Fairly OddParents (my reasons for this initial decision were that I didn't grow up with Random! Cartoons and until I felt inclined to fully catch up, the only shorts I saw were the Adventure Time pilot, MooBeard the Cow Pirate and Garlic Boy).

I changed my mind because I had an epiphany that it was not very respectful to reduce Random! Cartoons to being a briefly mentioned footnote in my discussion on the history of Oh Yeah! Cartoons, particularly because it wasn't a coincidence that Random! Cartoons had so much in common with Oh Yeah! Cartoons (both shows being created by Fred Seibert, several creators and voice actors working on both shows and both shows being anthologies for seven-minute animated shorts that were intended as pilots for potential Nicktoons). I also figured that doing a retrospective for Random! Cartoons anyway could serve as a dry run of sorts for the eventual Oh Yeah! Cartoons retrospective.

The thing is that Random! Cartoons was originally announced as a fourth season for Oh Yeah! Cartoons, but at the last minute it was decided that it would be better to rebrand the series as its own thing. Fittingly enough, one other thing Random! Cartoons had in common with Oh Yeah! Cartoons was that both anthology shows only had three shows picked up out of all the featured pilots (though in Random! Cartoons' case, Fanboy and Chum Chum was the only one where the series was still produced and distributed by Nickelodeon, as Nickelodeon's rejection of Adventure Time led to the series being picked up by Cartoon Network and Frederator Studios responded to the rejection by Nickelodeon of Bravest Warriors by making the show a web series on Cartoon Hangover without Nickelodeon's involvement).

I have deliberately omitted Adventure Time, Bravest Warriors and Fanboy and Chum Chum for the following reasons: I've already drawn a picture to celebrate catching up on Adventure Time a while ago and I intend to do separate retrospectives on Bravest Warriors and Fanboy and Chum Chum when I am finished catching up on them (at this time, I am only nine episodes away from finishing season four of Bravest Warriors and the pilot is currently all I've seen of Fanboy and Chum Chum, which I have been well aware for some time is not a very fondly remembered Nicktoon).

In regards to differences, there were some ways Random! Cartoons was distinguishable from Oh Yeah! Cartoons besides having its own title sequence and theme music. Other than the obvious fact that Random! Cartoons only lasted one season as opposed to three, every entry in Random! Cartoons only had one short (when Oh Yeah! Cartoons had multiple shorts for The Fairly OddParents, ChalkZone, Jelly's Day, Jamal the Funny Frog, Hobart, Max, Tales from the Goose Lady, Super Santa, A Kid's Life, Mina and the Count and The Dan Danger Show) and Random! Cartoons had several shorts animated partially or completely in CGI (when all Oh Yeah shorts were only in traditional 2D animation).

A total of 39 shorts were made for Random! Cartoons, and since only three were greenlit for their own series (with or without Nickelodeon's involvement), this obviously means 36 shorts were never given that chance.

While I already discussed MooBeard the Cow Pirate, Hornswiggle, Bradwurst and Ratz-A-Fratz in previous pictures, I do not feel my discussions on them from before were thorough enough, so I'm taking the opportunity to do them over. Pretty much every short has been uploaded on YouTube, though some uploads may have a watermark giving the disclaimer that the short is the property of Viacom.

As always, beware of spoilers in the description if there's even one short discussed here that you haven't seen before.

1. Solomon Fix

The first short in this anthology was Solomon Fix, created by Doug TenNapel and, much like Catscratch, was loosely adapted from a comic he created. The original comic Solomon Fix was about an anthropomorphic cat who tries to organize a tea party, goes through some misadventures and tries to assist in the recovery of his cousin Mike, who thinks he's a donkey because of a serious head injury.

This premise was apparently too dark for Nick's standards, so the cartoon short changed it to Solomon Fix being a living teddy bear (voiced by Rob Paulsen) who hears about a lonely boy named Ned (voiced by Elijah Runcorn) and tries to be his friend, but the kid turns out to be a psychotic brat who wants nothing to do with him, and Solomon's efforts to make things right for the boy are met with mockery from a grumpier teddy bear named Klemp (voiced by Maurice LaMarche) and a stuffed monkey named Mumpy (voiced by John DiMaggio).

I am very disappointed to hear about the controversial behavior that TenNapel has been up to lately, but I assure you that I am not deterred from eventually giving Catscratch a chance.

2. MooBeard the Cow Pirate

Created by Kyle Carrozza of Mighty Magiswords fame, MooBeard the Cow Pirate starred a bovine buccaneer whose sleeves had all sorts of gadgets and doodads crammed into them, plus a tendency to get upset whenever anyone mistook him for any animal besides a cow or said to his face that he didn't look like a cow. He was voiced by Billy West and had an avian woman in a sailor suit named Sailor Bird (voiced by Erica Luttrel) as his first mate.

The pair go on a quest to find the treasure of the island Hookamookapookalapp, but are hindered by having trouble getting to the right island as well as tangling with a thieving ninja duck named Darkblade of Fire (voiced by Dave "Gruber" Allen).

In the end, the treasure turns out to be a bowling trophy, which MooBeard cashes in for 20 dollars.

3. Two Witch Sisters

Created by Niki Yang, this short starred a pair of witches who are non-identical twin sisters. The older of the two was named Dorothy (voiced by S. Scott Bullock) and the younger of the pair was named Carrot (voiced by Dee Bradley Baker), who is cursed to transform into the very vegetable she is named after whenever she gets too upset.

The sisters end up encountering a bee (voiced by Candi Milo) with an out-of-control stinger. After some mishaps (and Carrot almost getting eaten by a bunch of rabbits in her transformed state), they manage to solve the bee's problem and head home.

4. The Finster Finster Show: Store Wars

This short was created by Jeff DeGrandis and the main characters were twin brothers with the surname Finster voiced by Charlie Adler and Billy West. Their mom (voiced by Tress MacNeille) drags them along on a grocery shopping trip when they just want to watch their favorite TV show.

The boys try to drag the TV set with them while they're in a car and they eventually fight a bunch of frozen chickens.

5. Mind the Kitty

Created by Anne Walker Farrell, the premise behind this short is that three boys (a duck voiced by Dee Bradley Baker, a lemur named Lemurman voiced by Rodger Bumpass and a turtle named Punky voiced by Jeff Bennett) are hired by a mother cat (voiced by Lynne Maclean) to look after her daughter Tabby (Dee Bradley Baker again).

Tabby at first seems cute, but after her mom leaves, she turns out to be a deranged pest heckbent on making her sitters' lives a total nightmare and ensuring that her mom gets the impression that the boys weren't very good babysitters.

6. Ivan the Unbearable

Created by Andrew Dickman, this short starred a viking named Ivan (voiced by Jeff Doucette), who gets a destructive case of the hiccups after eating some Fudge Rock Cookies and is sent by his mother (Tress MacNeille) to the trolls who make the cookies so he can be cured of his hiccups.

On his way to the factory that makes the cookies, Ivan is impeded by a troll guard (voiced by Maurice LaMarche) who refuses to let him into the factory, but relents after suffering one too many injuries and misfortunes from the hiccuping viking. Inside the building, Ivan finds two trolls by the water cooler (voiced by Maurice LaMarche and Andrew Dickman). After another hiccup pins the second troll under a filing cabinet, the first one helps Ivan by giving him a drink of water.

On his way home, the cured viking decides to pick some flowers that have a sign clearly saying he shouldn't pick them, which gives him a sneeze that destroys his village.

7. Boneheads

A CGI short created by Hiroshi Chida. The main characters are a caveman named Bone (voiced by John Kassir) and a monkey-like being named Roccos (voiced by Dee Bradley Baker), who go on some wacky misadventures while trying to get a bunch of bananas. The short is ridiculously fast-paced, so I caution that watching it might give you a headache.

This short is most likely one of the first developed when Random! Cartoons was still Oh Yeah! Cartoons season four, as it's the only one of the shorts to continue Oh Yeah! Cartoons' tradition of ending the short with a clip of the characters appearing in the show's logo while shouting the series' title (while Bone and Roccos say "Random! Cartoons", they're still in a circle reminiscent of the circle used for Oh Yeah! Cartoons' logo and Bone's lip movements could just as easily have been for saying "Oh Yeah" as they were "Random").

8. Tiffany

A short by Adam Henry that begins on the birthday of a young girl named Peggy (voiced by Jessie Flower), who is scared out of her wits when her parents (Colleen O'Shaughnessey and David Busch) present her with a horse to ride on under the mistaken belief that this is what she wanted.

Peggy later learns that her doll Tiffany (Colleen O'Shaughnessey again) is alive and wants to go on adventures, which she drags Peggy into in an effort to get her owner to overcome her fears.

9. Call Me Bessie

Created by Diane Kredensor and Dana Galin, the main character of this short is a cow named Bessie (voiced by Audrey Wasilewski), who begs her long-suffering elephant neighbor Al (voiced by Fred Stoller) to join her in a diving class, which is taught by a duck named Senor Swampy (Dee Bradley Baker).

Al continues protesting his frustration at Bessie not knowing when to leave well enough alone, and once the two finally make it home and earn their diving diplomas, Al immediately gets into his house after he finishes digging his moat and locks all the doors and windows.

10. Teapot

A short created by Greg Eagles, who also voices the main character in addition to doing most of the other voices in the short.

Teapot is a young boy who wants to be a rapper, but has trouble with rhythm. He and his best friend Bouche (Cathy Lewis) try to make it in time to meet a rapper named Silkbone. Antics include Bouche having to use the bathroom after eating the oatmeal Teapot refused to eat, Teapot having to give Bouche his rap lyrics when Bouche complains that there's no toilet paper (since Teapot neglected his mother's earlier request to buy more) and the short ending with more lowbrow toilet humor by having Bouche cut one.

After the short wasn't picked up, Greg Eagles later made an attempt to do a video game based on the short called Rap It Up where you had to help Teapot with his rapping by selecting the right words in time, but that project has apparently failed to see the light of day because crowdfunding was intended to get the project off the ground and Greg wasn't able to get enough donations.

11. Hornswiggle

The creation of Jerry Beck, Hornswiggle is unique because it was originally supposed to be a short about the Terrytoons character Sidney the Elephant, aka Silly Sidney.

However, it was discovered that Nickelodeon did not have the rights to the Terrytoons characters at the time (this was before CBS eventually re-merged with Viacom), and the execs still had bad memories of the unsuccessful Curbside pilot that was Nick's last attempt at reviving the Terrytoons brand, so they instead retooled the short to star a new character consisting of a rhinoceros named Hornswiggle.

Hornswiggle (voiced by the late Rene Auberjonois) was very much a rhino version of Sidney the Elephant, since he's still a childlike megafauna who's completely oblivious of how annoying everyone else finds him.

Accompanied by a snarky bird named Birdsdorf (Maurice LaMarche), Hornswiggle desperately wants to spend time with his idol the jungle man Zan-Tar (Jeff Bennett), but keeps on injuring him.

The short ends with Hornswiggle playing nurse to Zan-Tar and some other injured jungle men (who are also voiced by Rene Auberjonois, Maurice LaMarche and Jeff Bennett).

12. Hero Heights

A short created by Raul Aguirre, Jr. and Bill Ho that stars two super-powered boys living in a neighborhood of superheroes named Smart Alec (Jessica DiCicco) and Strikeout (Annie Mumolo), who play pranks on two girls named Mindy 500 (Karen Malina White) and Electricia (Becky Thyre), then fall for a new neighbor named Olympia (Hynden Walch).

After Smart Alec and Strikeout fight each other to try and win Olympia's affections, Olympia gets angry when she finds out that the boys had bullied Mindy 500 and Electricia, punishing them by forcing them to play tea party with the girls.

13. Yaki and Yumi

This short created by Aliki Theofilopoulous is about a pink dragon named Yumi (Candi Milo) and a gluttonous bat named Yaki (Andre Sogliuzzo). Yumi enters a dance competition to win a trophy by proving her skills at a DDR knock-off, while Yaki works a job at the concession stand just so he can eat the food (he eventually gets so sick of the kids asking him for food that he eats the remaining stock in front of them out of spite).

After Yumi wins the contest, Yaki tries to beat her record, but since anyone with half a brain would know that it's not a good idea to move around so fast after you've pigged out, he ends up puking into the trophy. Hopefully, Yumi was able to get it cleaned after that.

14. Gary Guitar

An entry by animation legend Bill Plympton (who I know mainly for his short Your Face, animating the music video to Weird Al Yankovic's TMZ, some couch gags to The Simpsons and some contribution to ChalkZone), the main character Gary Guitar (voiced by Lloyd Floyd) has a guitar for a head and, after making a huge sandwich, decides to go on a picnic with Vera Violin (Becky Poole). Danny Drum (Stephen Largay) wants to come, but Gary says no.

The picnic goes awry when a giant robot comes along, but Danny is able to distract it and Gary stops it by sacrificing the sandwich.

15. Krunch and the Kid

Another entry by Adam Henry, the main characters were an orange monster named Krunch (Kevin Michael Richardson) and a boy named Skippy (Colleen O'Shaughnessey), who both have a job acting in a TV show.

Unfortunately, Krunch is having trouble keeping it together because his pet frog Hoppy had died this morning...or so he thought.

16. Bradwurst

This short was created by Angelo Di Nallo and Jason Plapp, with the main character Bradwurst (Tom Kenny) being a very grouchy sausage.

Bradwurst interrogates a hippo named Charlie (Jeff Bennett) into giving away that he is going to a surprise party, so Bradwurst decides he's going to crash the party. Ruining a party just because you just heard about them is a pretty mean thing to do, but fortunately Bradwurst does get punished for his bad behavior, and quite frequently, too.

The party is being held by a dolphin named Willy (Raphael Sbarge), who is throwing the party for Bradwurst out of gratitude for Bradwurst teaching him how to swim (when really all he did was knock him off the diving board), and the only other guest there besides Willy and Charlie is a bird named Jerry (Tom Kenny again), who doesn't understand what Willy sees in Bradwurst.

Bradwurst's efforts in ruining the party include contaminating the punch with hot sauce, a skunk and sweaty socks, destroying all the presents and jumping out of the cake (reducing it to a mess in the process). The ways he suffers include getting beaten by Charlie and Jerry after being mistaken for a pinata, crying at the realization that he destroyed his own presents and having to drink the punch he contaminated.

17. Dr. Froyd's Funny Farm

Co-created by Bill Burnett and the late Jaime Diaz. The premise is that a girl named Lulu (voiced by Nika Futterman) eavesdrops on the farm of Dr. Froyd (voiced by Robert Cait), who uses miracle cures for various animals.

Dr. Froyd's current patient is Bossy LeCow (voiced by Charlie Adler, who, yes, uses the voice he used for Cow in Cartoon Network's Cow and Chicken), who is upset about being a cow. Froyd's intention is to use a brain-switching device so that Bossy can experience things in a different body and be made to appreciate being a cow, but there aren't a lot of volunteers.

Lulu decides to get involved and switches minds with Bossy, but Nurse Duckette (voiced by Candi Milo) kicks out Bossy in Lulu's body and ignores Lulu in Bossy's body's pleas that she is making a mistake. The short ends with Bossy in Lulu's body running off while Dr. Froyd and Lulu in Bossy's body try to get her back. Hopefully this mess was sorted out and the two girls had their proper minds restored.

18. The Dangerous Duck Brothers: Saps at the Wheel

This short was the final cartoon created by Pat Ventura. The main characters are two duck brothers named Giovanni (voiced by the late Jim MacGeorge) and Navarro (voiced by the late Chuck McCann), who try to fulfill their family legacy by breaking world records.

None of their efforts work, but they are informed by an official (Jeff Bennett) that the injuries they sustained were very close to breaking world records themselves.

19. Sparkles and Gloom

Created by Melissa Wolfe and Anne Walker Farrell, Sparkles and Gloom are a pair of sisters who are respectively cheerful and sweet as well as dark and moody. Their respective voice actresses are Kari Wahlgren and Jessica DiCicco, and they attend a school where both beautiful and ugly beings go. It so happens that their parents are a prince (voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson) and a witch (voiced by Kari Wahlgren again).

The conflict happens when the two sisters get into a fight and end up switching magic. They are shocked to find that they'll be stuck like that until the end of the day, so Sparkles and Gloom have no choice but to switch acts in the talent show. They manage to make it through, but get into a squabble again when they find out that they stole from each other's prize boxes.

20. The Infinite Goliath

Co-created by Erik Knutson and Mike Gray, the titular character of the Infinite Goliath is an alien supervillain who has a lot in common with DC Comics' Darkseid and is voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson.

After making parole for his crimes, the Infinite Goliath moves to a neighborhood. His new neighbors irritate him, but he can't do anything about it because he has a restraining device on him that reminds him that he'll go back to prison if he violates his parole by using lethal force on his neighbors. Not helping matters is that this forced retirement has made the Goliath a laughingstock to his fellow villains.

21. Kyle + Rosemary

Created by Jun Falkenstein, this story is about the romance between a nerd named Kyle (voiced by Wil Wheaton) and a goth named Rosemary (voiced by Jentle Phoenix) who meet through the online game Questworld when they encounter each others' player characters Sir Horace Hitsalot and Lunarella.

They eventually find out who they are in the real world, but fortunately stop being afraid of expressing their love for each other in public.

22. Garlic Boy

This one was created by John R. Dilworth of Courage the Cowardly Dog fame. Garlic Boy (voiced by Gary Littman) is a lad who lives up to his name and decides to move to the city of Eyebright so he can "do good for folk" with his mother's garlic tonic.

He befriends a girl named Parsley (voiced by Betsy Beutler) and gets picked on by a punk named Fungus (Lloyd Floyd), who is eventually forced to take Garlic Boy's tonic after he overeats and gets a case of belly-bloat.

23. Flavio

The creation of Mike Milo, the title character of Flavio (voiced by Rob Paulsen) is an Italian goat who dreams of becoming a great inventor.

He works at a pizzeria with a lion chef named Mr. Frank (voiced by Stephen Stanton) and his boss being a pig voiced by Robert Costanza. Flavio isn't shown much respect by his boss, but manages to earn his respect after he saves the day by giving everyone his latest invention pasta on a stick.

24. SamSquatch

This short created by Adam Muto stars Max Burkholder as a Bigfoot kid who hangs out at a diner and orders some coffee (actually milk and graham crackers). He gets the attention of a cryptid hunter named Conrad Conard (Daran Norris), but manages to outwit him and scare him off with the help of his enormous Sasquatch mother.

25. Girls on the GO: First Date

Another short by Aliki Theofilopoulous, the main characters are two high school girls named Kat (Danica McKellar) and Tess (Frankie Ingrassia). Kat finds out that she has a secret admirer and ends up dating a geek named Spencer Applebaum (Quinton Flynn).

Kat doesn't have a lot of fun with Spencer Applebaum, and loses all hope of ever getting a boyfriend when she later learns Tess is dating him, but regains her faith in romance when Spencer Spencerton (also Quinton Flynn) shows signs of being interested in her.

26. Victor the Delivery Dog

Another entry by Niki Yang. The titular character is an adorable and gluttonous pug voiced by E.G. Daily, who delivers letters and parcels while also looking forward to the meals cooked by his human mother (voiced by Jennifer Hale). The cartoon isn't clear on whether Victor is his mother's actual child, but the distinction probably isn't that important anyway, as the only real significant distinctions between children and pets are that pets never become independent of your care and are less likely to outlive you.

Victor gets impatient to go home for lunch (a burger) when he is given a letter he has to deliver urgently (voiced by Jennifer Hale), plus his assistant Mr. Papier (Fred Tatasciore) wants to date the letter. Unfortunately for Victor, he is forced to miss lunch, and his mom throws the burger she cooked out on the street for other dogs to eat because she apparently didn't consider that her son not showing up for mealtimes on the dot could be because of a delay.

Victor isn't happy about not getting his lunch, but Mr. Papier cheers him up by reminding him that his mom will prepare chicken for dinner. After delivering the urgent letter, Victor finds out that there's been a breakup between Gi and Raffe (the head and body of a giraffe who are both voiced by S. Scott Bullock) and he helps them get back together. Victor once again fails to make it home in time before his mom assumes he's not hungry, but finds that his stomach has instead been filled with the gratitude of helping others.

27. The Bronk and Bongo Show: Losing Patients

Created by Manny Galan and Alan Goodman. Two dogs named Bronk (Steve Purnick) and Bongo (Joel McCrary) end up through a series of mishaps that result in them appearing in a hospital while wearing white coats. This has them mistaken for doctors and asked to do something about a patient (Jeff Bennett), who the two canines later find out has an explosive inside him.

Wacky hijinks ensue as the pair lose the patient after letting it slip to him that they aren't real doctors and try to get him back before the bomb inside him goes off.

28. Thom Cat

A short by Mike Gray with the titular character being a well-dressed cat voiced by Jim Meskimen. He uses his wits to help a girl named Melissa (Annie Mumolo) get her beheaded dolls back from a bully.

Mike Gray subsequently made a few Flash animated shorts about Thom Cat independently of Nickelodeon.

29. Sugarfoot

The creation of Erik Knutson, the title character of this short is a boy who loves cowboys and dinosaurs (voiced by Charlie Schlatter), who goes on a field trip to the Cowboy and Dinosaur Museum, but also has to watch out for his inarticulate bully Socko (voiced by Dee Bradley Baker).

30. Dugly Uckling's Treasure Quest

This was the last short in the anthology to be the sole creation of an Oh Yeah! Cartoons veteran, being created by Guy Vasilovich (whose contributions for Oh Yeah! Cartoons were the shorts Earth to Obie, Lollygaggin, The Boy Who Cried Alien and Elise: Mere Mortal. He also apparently created a show called Moville Mysteries, which I confess I haven't seen before, but it does sound like something right up my alley).

Dugly Uckling (voiced by John Kassir) goes on a quest to find a golden bobblehead with the assistance of Kung Pao Bunny (also John Kassir) and his hamster mentor Quiggins (voiced by Carlos Alazraqui). The short has the unique twist of playing as if you're watching the playthrough of a video game, as it starts with Dugly chosen at the character selection screen and shows an HUD for the duration of the short.

31. Dr. Dee and BitBoy

Created by Jun-Kyo Seo, Kong-Yo Kang and Larry Huber, this short had a reclusive scientist named Dr. Dee (Phil Nee) disguise himself as a dog to hide from his enemies and create two super-powered children named Zero/BitBoy (Brett Pels) and Bitgirl (Jenny Kwan). Bitboy and Bitgirl try to investigate the sudden disappearance of Dr. Dee, but return home while unaware that the poor guy is stuck in a petshop due to being mistaken for a real dog.

Dr. Dee's disciples were such idiots!

32. Super John Doe Junior

The creation of Lincoln Pierce, this short was about the son of a superhero named Super John Doe (voiced by Jim Connor), who was voiced by Kimberly Brooks and had no powers of his own.

Super John Doe, Jr. gets his chance to save the day when his dad's enemy Evil Butthead (voiced by Andy Morris) uses a device to take Super John Doe, Sr.'s powers. Junior gets the powers and sends Evil Butthead back to prison, afterwards he begrudgingly restores the powers to his father.

33. 6 Monsters

A short created by Fred Seibert and Alan Goodman, which was notable for using different styles of animation.

The short takes place at John Zacherle Middle School (named after a TV presenter who was one of the most famous horror hosts of his day), where the six monsters focused on are a ghost named Gaillard (Jeff Bennett), a very unlucky black cat named Buck (Chuck McCann), an ape-man named Roy (John DiMaggio), a pumpkin-headed girl named Cathy (Nika Futterman), a demon named Lulu (Teresa Ganzel) and a skeletal janitor who is apparently Lulu's grandfather (also Jeff Bennett).

34. Ratz-A-Fratz

A short created by Jim Wyatt and Karl Toerge about three rats, a green one named Cyrus (voiced by Jim Wyatt), a blue rat named Urban (voiced by Scott Fresina) and an orange one named Squawk (voiced by Don Cameron).

The three decide to get some food at the mall, but have to be careful not to be caught by Crank (a mall employee voiced by Jess Harnell). They manage to evade Crank in the end and also get away with bugging an old woman (voiced by the late June Foray) and a teen working at the Cookie Nook (voiced by Debi Derryberry).

35. Squirly Town

Another short by Doug TenNapel. The main characters are a green squirrel named Lance (voiced by Stephen Root) and a short, brownish-orange one who drives Lance crazy named Zoopie (voiced by Bobcat Goldthwait). Lance tries to get away from Zoopie, but Zoopie can't take a hint.

Even after Lance ends up hospitalized and in a full body cast, Zoopie continues to pester him.

36. Handycat: Bees-ness As Usual

The last of the Random! Cartoons shorts that never got picked up for its own show, this short was created by Russ Harris and G. Brian Reynolds.

Handycat (voiced by Rob Paulsen) is hired by a woman (voiced by June Foray) to get rid of some bees. He eventually succeeds by carving the tree they're near to look like a giant can of insect repellent.

It took me all day to draw this picture and type this description. This, coupled with the fact that I never really had as much nostalgia for Random! Cartoons as I did for Oh Yeah! Cartoons, is why this description ends anticlimactically. I promise to try and give more flourish for the description of the Oh Yeah retrospective when it is eventually done.

Random! Cartoons (c) Nickelodeon