A Clean Getaway

"A Clean Getaway" is the tenth episode of What a Cartoon! It aired on June 25, 1995 on Cartoon Network. It was written and directed by its creator, Meinert Hansen, and voice directed by Andy Gryn. It was an unsuccessful backdoor pilot to a fully realized The Adventures of Captain Buzz Cheeply spin-off series.

On the way to an intergalactic laundry, space captain Buzz Cheeply pawns off his robot assistant to make some quick cash.

Characters

 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Announcer (voice only)
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| George Morris
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Captain Buzz Cheeply
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Richard M. Dumont
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Slide
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Rick Jones
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Blubnoids
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Paul Zakaib
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Albert Einstein
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Blubnoids
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Paul Zakaib
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Albert Einstein
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Albert Einstein
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Albert Einstein

Locations

 * Blubnoids' planet
 * Hotel Ritz Blubb
 * Biff's Intergalactic Laundry

Objects

 * Blast-A-Lot
 * Thermonuclear bomb

Vehicles

 * Buzz's spaceship

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 Charles Guerin. The director of music production was Bodie Chandler.

Crew credits

 * Layout designer: David E. Merritt
 * Background designers: Brian Anderson, David E. Merritt
 * Animators: Jean Lacombe, Mario Lord, Richard Vallerand
 * Executive producer: Buzz Potamkin
 * Supervising producer: Larry Huber
 * Producer: Richard Ostiguy
 * Line producer: Yves Laniel
 * Production manager: Teresa Lang
 * Unit production supervisor: Sylvia Edwards
 * Character model artist: Sylvie Lafrance
 * Color model artist: Joan Churchill
 * Additional animators: Jean Banville, Chi Chung Tse, Sylvian Proteau, Ron Lamarre
 * Assistant animators: Richard P. Morris, Mario Carmel, Maria Astadjov, Philippe Léonard, Stepane Martineau, Ginette Cahill, Ron Lamarre, Drew Mandigo, Chi Chung Tse, Daniel Lacroix
 * Recording engineer: Ian Maitland
 * Recording studio: Studio Tempo
 * Ink and paint supervisor: Teresa Lang
 * Scanner: Randall Finnerty
 * Colorists: Marie-Claude Banville, Halley-Ann Butera, Sebastien Gautier, Sylvie Morin
 * Compositors: Olivier Ruel, Lisa Hopkins
 * Final checker: Olivier Ruel
 * Graphics artist: Brent Dutton
 * Sheet director: Steve Majaury
 * Camera operator: Serge Langlois
 * Executive in charge of post-production: John Forrest Niss
 * Animation checker: Meinert Hanson
 * Track reader: Denis Thetrault
 * Line tester: Lisa Hopkins
 * Off-line editing services provider: Buzz Image Group
 * Supervising film editor: Tom Gleason
 * Film editor: Danielle Gagné
 * Post-production manager: Joe Yared
 * Post-production supervisor: Gayle Mnookin
 * Sound services provider: Ciné-Groupe Postproduction
 * Sound editor: Sylvian Bourgault
 * Dialogue synchroniser: Danielle Gagné
 * Foley artist: Serge Godier
 * Re-recording mixer: Eric Ladouceur
 * Pre-production manager: Debby Hindman
 * International production coordinator: Brooke Williams
 * Production assistants: Sandra Benenati, Duke Heberlein, Linda Moore
 * Executives in charge of production: Joe Mazzuca, Catherine Winder
 * Development executive: Ellen Cockrill
 * Produced in association with: Buzz Image Group
 * Production executive at FIL-Cartoons: Bill Dennis

Release
Dates are in order of release:


 * United States: June 25, 1995 on Cartoon Network

Behind the scenes

 * Slide makes several references to other sci-fi media, including the 1977 movie Star Wars, the 1960s TV series Star Trek, the 1964 movie Robinson Crusoe on Mars, the 1978 movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and the 1951 movie When Worlds Collide.

Errors

 * Although the signs said "Biff's Laundry," the building said, "Biff's Intergalactic Laundry."
 * One of the Blubnoids incorrectly states that Invasion of the Body Snatchers came out in 1976.

Home availability

 * Not available. 😢