Short Pfuse

"Short Pfuse", also known as "Short (Yet Sensitive) Pfuse", is the twelfth episode of What a Cartoon! It aired on July 9, 1995 on Cartoon Network. It was written and created by its creators Butch Hartman, Michael Rann, and Eugene Mattos, directed by Hartman, and voice directed by Kris Zimmerman. Along with "Blammo the Clown," it was an unsuccessful backdoor pilot to a fully realized Pfish and Chip spin-off series.

Characters

 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Chip
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Butch Hartman
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Pfish
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Bob Picardo
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Police chief
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jeff Bennett
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| The Mad Bomber
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Pat Fraley
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| D.Z.
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Steven Calabro
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| The Mad Bomber
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Pat Fraley
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| D.Z.
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Steven Calabro
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Steven Calabro

Organizations

 * Big City Yak (mentioned)

Locations

 * Earth
 * United States
 * Big City
 * Big City City Hall
 * Police station

Objects

 * Big City Yak newspaper
 * Teddy

Vehicles

 * Police helicopter

Filming
It was copyrighted in 1995.

Music
The What a Cartoon! theme song was performed by Gary Lionelli. The episode's main music was composed by Bill Fulton. The music from "I'm Pfish - I'm Chip" was composed by Joseph Rozum. The director of music production was Bodie Chandler.

Song

 * "I'm Pfish-I'm Chip" - Bob Picardo, Butch Hartman

Crew credits

 * Layout designer: Bill Proctor
 * Background stylists: Tim Maloney, Leonardo Robledo
 * Executive producer: Buzz Potamkin
 * Supervising producer: Larry Huber
 * Line producer: Bob Onorato
 * Animation director: Robert Alvarez
 * Unit production supervisor: Sylvia Edwards
 * Unit production coordinator: Nicole Pouliot
 * Unit production assistant: Donna Castricone
 * Creative consultant: Michael Rann
 * Characters designers: Butch Hartman, Eugene Mattos
 * Design assistants: Donna Zeller, Dana Jo Granger
 * Casting director: Kris Zimmerman
 * Talent coordinator: Cindi Lyn Peltier
 * Supervising recording engineer: Ed Collins
 * Recording engineer: Preston Oliver
 * Background supervisor: Al Gmuer
 * Background artists: Joseph Binggeli, Bonnie Callahan
 * Xerographists: Star Wirth, Martin Crossley
 * Ink and paint supervisor: Alison Leopold
 * Color stylist: Casey Clayton
 * Final checker: Nelda Ridley
 * Ink and pain artists: Brenda Burns, Lori Hanson, Lydia Swayne
 * Graphics artist: Iraj Paran
 * Camera operator: Dan Larsen
 * Executive in charge of post production: John Forrest Niss
 * Animation checker: Beth Goodwin
 * Track readers: Jim Hearn, Kerry Iverson, Carol Iverson
 * Supervising film editor: Paul Douglas
 * Post-production supervisor: Gayle Mnookin
 * Post production coordinator: Gail D. Silvers
 * Sound services provider: 21st Century Sound Design
 * Sound editor: Joel Valentine
 * Re-recording mixers: James Alcholtz, Rex Slinkard
 * Negative consultant: William DeBoer, Jr.
 * Video services provider: Modern Videofilm
 * Production manager: Debby Hindman
 * International production coordinator: Brooke Williams
 * Production assistants: Sandra Benenati, Linda Moore, Duke Heberlein
 * Production liaison: Heather Kenyon
 * Executive in charge of production: Joe Mazzuca
 * Senior vice president of production: Sherry Gunther
 * Development executive: Dan Smith
 * Produced in association with: Delaney and Friends Productions, FIL-Cartoons
 * Production executive at FIL-Cartoons: Bill Dennis

Release
Dates are in order of release:


 * United States: July 9, 1995 on Cartoon Network

Behind the scenes

 * On the poster for the short, T-Bone, from SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron, has a cameo in the Hanna-Barbera logo.

Home availability

 * Not available. 😢