Sunday Pants (partially lost Cartoon Network animated anthology series; 2005)

The show's logo.

Status: Partially Lost

After its predecessor, What-A-Cartoon!, Cartoon Network created 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 2nd, 2005. Sunday Pants varies in different types of animation, from traditional hand-drawn animation to Flash, or even CGI. The show is written and created by Craig "Sven" Gordon & Stuart Hill.

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 the American band The Slacks, while the animated ones are animated by WeFail.

It was the second Cartoon Network show to be rated "TV-PG," after Space Ghost: Coast to Coast. The show lasted for less than a month, with its final airing taking place on October 23rd, 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 swearing and/or drug references. In 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.

While many of the shorts have since reappeared via YouTube, a significant portion of them remain elusive.

List of Known Shorts

• The Brothers Pistov (Lincon Peirce)
• IMP (Andy Fielding)
• Periwinkle Around the World (Aaron Springer)
• Weighty Decisions (Adam Pava & Tim McKeon)
• Travel Logs (Stuart Hill)
• History According to Noodle (Andy Merril)
• Oogloo & Anju (Ariel Martian)
• Monstories (Lance Taylor)
• Bernard
• The Amazing Adrenalini Brothers (Dan Chambers, Mark Huckerby & Nick Ostler)
• The Topside Rag (Monkmus)
• Show & Tell (Casper Kelly)
• News Channel Station News U.S. (Stuart Hill)
• Jean-Luc & Dondoozat
• Crazy Demands (Craig "Sven" Gordon)

Episodes

The first season was originally going to consist of 13 episodes. 11 were made, but only the first five aired. The other episodes were left unaired.

Found Episodes

These were the episodes that were found online since 2014.

#	Episode Title	Original Air Date	Status
1	Dangerous Situations	Oct 2nd, 2005	Found
2	Insatiable Cravings	Oct 9th, 2005	Found
3	You Can't Get There From Here	Oct 16th, 2005	Found
4	Sports	Oct 23rd, 2005	Found
5	Let Me Entertain You	Oct 30th, 2005	Found

Unaired Episodes

After Cartoon Network decided to pull the plug, the other episodes were left unaired.

Finished Episodes

These were the episodes that were officially produced but were left unaired.

#	Episode Title	Original Air Date	Status
6	Does It Bite?	Unaired	Found
7	Feed Me	Unaired	Found
8	Workin' It	Unaired	Partially Found
9	I Don't Feel So Good	Unaired	Found
10	Lasers (Misc.)	Unaired	Found
11	Short People in Desks	Unaired	Found

Cancelled Episodes

When the show was cancelled after 11 episodes were made, and only the first five aired, there were two episodes that were left unfinished.

#	Episode Title	Original Air Date	Status
12	Funny Sweet	Unaired	Lost
13	Just Add Sauce	Unaired	Lost

See Also

Anthology Series

• Cartoon Network "Cartoon Network Responds!" (partially found interstitials from TV channel; 1997-1999)
• Big Bag (partially found Cartoon Network live-action/animated/puppet series; 1996-1998)
• The Moxy Show (partially found episodes of Cartoon Network CGI animated anthology series; 1993-2000)
• ToonHeads (partially lost Cartoon Network animation anthology series; 1996-2003)
• ToonHeads "A Night of Independent Animation" (partially lost special of Cartoon Network animation anthology series; 1996)
• What A Cartoon! (found Cartoon Network animated anthology series; 1995-1997)

Bumpers and Interstitials

• The Big Game XXVI: Tom vs. Jerry (found Cartoon Network marathon special; 1998)
• Cartoon Network (partially lost "CN City" bumpers from TV channel; 2004–2007)
• Cartoon Network (partially found "Nood" bumpers from TV channel; 2008-2010)
• Cartoon Network (partially found "High Noon Toons" bumpers from TV channel block; 1994-1996)
• Cartoon Network NBA All-Star Slam (partially found interviews of marathon; 2003)
• Cartoon Planet (partially found bumpers of revival block of Cartoon Network animated variety series; 2012)
• Cartoon Planet (partially found "Live from Cartoon Planet" bumpers of Cartoon Network animated variety series; 1995)
• Codename: Kids Next Door Mission Weekend (partially found marathon bumpers for Cartoon Network animated series; 2003)
• Fridays aka "Cartoon Cartoon Fridays" (partially found interstitials from Cartoon Network channel block; 1999–2007)
• Hotdog TV (partially found Cartoon Network interstitial series; 2010)
• JBVO, Toon FM & Viva Las Bravo (partially found interstitials from Cartoon Network channel blocks; early-mid 2000s)
• Lumpus and Slinkman's Cabin Fever (partially found Cartoon Network program block segments; 2005)
• Teen Titans Go! Top 5 (lost promos for Cartoon Network weekend morning block; 2015)
• Tickle-U (partially found Cartoon Network preschool block; 2005-2006)

Pilots

• Ben 10 (partially found unaired pilot of Cartoon Network animated series; early-mid 2000s)
• Billy and Mandy in Trepanation of the Skull and You (found prototype short of "The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy" Cartoon Network animated series; 1995)
• Camp Lazlo "Monkey See, Camping Doo" (lost unaired pilot of Cartoon Network animated series; 2004)
• Captain Sturdy (found Cartoon Network animated pilot; 2001)
• Cartoon Network Development Studio Europe (partially lost pilots from animation studio; 2008-2011)
• Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi (found unaired pilot of Cartoon Network animated series; 2003)
• IMP, Inc. (found Cartoon Network animated pilot; 2001)
• Jeffrey Cat: Claw and Order (found Cartoon Network animated pilot; 2002)
• A Kitty Bobo Show (found storyboard of cancelled second animated pilot for Cartoon Network; 2002)
• Major Flake in "Soggy Sales" (found Cartoon Network animated pilot; 2001)
• The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack (partially found "Wedgies pilot" of Cartoon Network animated series; 2007)
• Mess O' Blues (partially found prototype short of "Johnny Bravo" Cartoon Network animated series; 1993)
• My Gym Partner's a Monkey (lost unaired pilots of Cartoon Network animated series; 2003/2004)
• Nikki (found Cartoon Network animated pilot; 2000)
• The Powerpuff Girls (lost pilot of Cartoon Network animated series reboot; 2016)
• Project Gilroy (lost Cartoon Network animated pilot; 2007)
• Regular Show (non-existent Flash pilot of Cartoon Network animated series; late 2000s-2010)
• Squirrel Boy "Kite Makes Right" (lost unaired pilot of Cartoon Network animated series; 2004)
• Uncle Gus (partially found original English audio of Cartoon Network animated pilots; 2000-2001)

Live-Action

• Bobb'e Says (partially found Cartoon Network live-action clip series; 2009)
• BrainRush (partially found Cartoon Network live-action game show; 2009)
• Track Rats (partially found Cartoon Network reality short series; 2010)
• The Othersiders (found Cartoon Network paranormal reality series; 2009)
• Out of Jimmy's Head (partially lost original English dub of Cartoon Network teen sitcom; 2007-2008)

Other Cartoon Network Series

• The Amazing World of Gumball "The Downer" (lost original draft of episode of Cartoon Network animated series; existence unconfirmed; 2012-2014)
• Chowder (lost production material of cancelled Cartoon Network TV film; 2009)
• Class of 3000 (found original English dub of Cartoon Network animated musical series; 2006-2008)
• Codename: Kids Next Door (lost production material of cancelled episodes of Cartoon Network animated series; 2002-2008)
• Dexter's Laboratory "Rude Removal" (found unaired episode of Cartoon Network animated series; 1997)
• Droopy's Guide to the Cartoon Network (found launch preview of TV channel special; 1992)
• Ed, Edd n Eddy "Luck Be an Ed Tonight"/"A Room with an Ed" (rumored/lost unfinished episodes of Cartoon Network animated series; existence unconfirmed; 2005)
• Ed, Edd n Eddy "Special Ed" (non-existent unproduced episode of Cartoon Network animated series; late 1990s/early 2000s)
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy "Matinee Mandy" (lost original English audio of Cartoon Network animated short; 2007)
• I Heart Tuesdays (lost production material of cancelled Cartoon Network animated series; 2011-2012)
• I-10: The Ben 10 User Generated Experience (found Cartoon Network TV special; 2008)
• OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes "Crossover Nexus" (partially found original 22-minute version of Cartoon Network animated series episode; 2010s)
• Skatoony (partially lost original British version of Cartoon Network quiz show; 2006-2008)
• Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? (partially lost unreleased original voice audio and unfinished/unknown episodes of Cartoon Network animated series; 2002-2003)

External Links

• IMDb page for Sunday Pants.
• A YouTube playlist of various Sunday Pants shorts.
• A YouTube playlist of the unaired episodes of Sunday Pants.