Gum, Disease

Gum, Disease
Premiere date	November 11, 1994
Run time	12:27
Music composed by	Sonny Sharrock Eddie Horst
Writer(s)	Evan Dorkin Sara Dyer
Animation director(s)	C. Martin Croker Chris Harmon
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"Gum, Disease" is the tenth and final episode of Space Ghost Coast to Coast season one. It aired on November 11, 1994 on Cartoon Network. It was written by Evan Dorkin and Sarah Dyer.

Zorak wants gum from The Tonight Show's bandleader, Branford Marsalis, and then Space Ghost learns how to a former child star lives with that Patridge kid, Danny Bonaduce.

Memorable quotes

Space Ghost: I see you're chewing gum.
Zorak: Gum?
Moltar: Gum?
Zorak: Gum!
Space Ghost: Did you bring enough for everyone?
Branford: No, but I'll have some shortly.
Zorak: No gum? Sheesh.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Moltar	C. Martin Croker
Space Ghost	George Lowe
Zorak	C. Martin Croker
Branford Marsalis	Himself
Jay Leno
Mavis Leno
Announcer (voice only)	Tanya Bergan
Doc Severinson
Danny Bonaduce	Himself
Jan
Jace
Shirley Jones
David Cassidy
Old lady	Tanya Bergan (voice)
Donny Osmond
Blip	N/A

Organizations

• KISS Army (mentioned)

Locations

• Ghost Planet
  • Studio
• Earth (indirectly mentioned)
  • United States (indirectly mentioned)
    • California (indirectly mentioned)
      • Los Angeles (indirectly mentioned)
        • Hollywood (mentioned)
    • Arizona (mentioned)

Objects

• Gum Zorak wanted
• Sonic & Knuckles

Vehicles

• None

Production

Development

This was the tenth episode to produce.

Filming

It was copyrighted in 1994.

Music

The music was composed by Sonny Sharrock and Eddie Horst, the latter of whom was also the musical director. The musicians were Sharrock, Lance Carter, Horst, and Alfrieda Gerald.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: November 11, 1994 on Cartoon Network

Behind the scenes

• Space Ghost compares Branford to Ricky Ricardo, a character from the sitcom I Love Lucy.
• Zorak wants to eat Branford's liver with fava beans and a fine chianti, which is paraphrased from Hannibal Lector's line in the film The Silence of the Lambs.
• Reuben Kincaid, a name that appears on Moltar's screen, is a character from The Partridge Family.
• Space Ghost's scatting and Danny Bonaduce saying "Ahhhh" is played over the Cartoon Network logo.
• The Original Way Outs aren't mentioned and don't appear.
• The video game that appears on Space Ghost's screen is Sonic & Knuckles.

Everlasting influence

• The episode was reshown during "A Space Ghost Christmas."

In other languages

Languages	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• When the series was being released onto DVD, this episode was cut due to clearance issues.