President's Day Nightmare

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President's Day Nightmare
Network	Cartoon Network
Premiere date	February 20, 1995
Run time	23:32
Music composed by	Sonny Sharrock Eddie Horst
Writer(s)	Matthew Maiellaro
Animation director(s)	C. Martin Croker
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"President's Day Nightmare", also known as "World Premiere Toon In" is the first episode of Space Ghost Coast to Coast season two, and the eleventh episode overall. It simultaneously aired on February 20, 1995 on Cartoon Network, TBS, and TNT. It was written by Matthew Maiellaro.

The Council of Doom judges Pat Ventura, Van Partible, Gene Mattos, Gene Tartakovsky, and Craig McCracken in a pageant-like contest to get their short aired on Space Ghost's show.

Memorable quotes

Lokar: Thank you, Space Ghost. I'm esteemed.
Zorak: Death to Lokar.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Announcer (voice only)	Don Kennedy
Brak	Andy Merrill
Van Partible	Himself
Lokar	Andy Merrill
Pat Ventura	Himself
Metallus	N/A
Craig McCracken	Himself
Black Widow	Judy Tenuta
Genndy Tartakovsky	Himself
Tansut	C. Martin Croker
Geno Mattos	Himself
Space Ghost	George Lowe
Zorak	C. Martin Croker
Blip	Unavailable
Tansut's mother
Tansut's father
Dian Parkinson	Herself
Moltar	C. Martin Croker
Yuckie Duck
Ric Flair
William Shatner
Dexter

Organizations

• Council of Doom
• Hanna-Barbera (mentioned)
• Brice/Westinghouse (mentioned)
• NASCAR (mentioned)
• Powerpuff Girls (mentioned)

Locations

• Ghost Planet
  • Studio
• S.K. System (mentioned)
• Dust mite planet (mentioned)

Objects

• Van's danish

Vehicles

• None

Production

Filming

Stock of Dian Parkinson is used from "Punch." She's even credited.

It was copyrighted in 1995.

The DVD version, which runs 17:21, has the guests arranged in a different order with Space Ghost announcing Van Partible as his first guest, followed by (with another surprise appearance of Dian Parkinson wedged in between), Pat Ventura, Gen Mattos, Gene Tartakovsky, and Craig McCracken. Parkinson also pops up again between Partible and Ventura. The clips and the full-length cartoon of "Meat Fuzzy Lumkins" are edited out including Space Ghost's introductions of them.

Music

The score was composed by Eddie Horst and Mike LeFevre, 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: February 20, 1995 on Cartoon Network, TBS, and TNT
• United Kingdom and Ireland:

Behind the scenes

• Zorak does a Beavis and Butt-Head-type laugh when Pat tries to explain how he chose the voice Yuckie Duck.
• The clips of shorts are of "Short Orders" from Yuckie Duck, Johnny Bravo, "Raw Deal in Rome" from Shake & Flick, "Changes" from Dexter's Laboratory, and the winner "Meat Fuzzy Lumkins" from The Powerpuff Girls. The short does include the What a Cartoon intro, but not the end credits.
• The end Cartoon Network logo has the repeated line of Space Ghost mocking Genndy when he said, "Thank you, Space Ghost."
• Andy Merrill replaces C. Martin Croker as the voice of Brak, who only provided Brak's voice once in his only season one episode "Spanish Translation."

Legacy

• Moltar accidentally brings up Craig in his swimwear due to a fault in "Freak Show."

In other languages

Languages	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • April 12, 2005: Warner Home Video releases Space Ghost Coast to Coast: Volume Three: This is 1997 on DVD.
• In Australia:
  • October 2, 2007: Madman Entertainment releases Space Ghost Coast to Coast: Volume Three: This is 1997 on DVD.
  • November 28, 2012: Madman Entertainment releases Space Ghost Coast to Coast: All Talk Collection on DVD.
• In New Zealand:
  • November 13, 2008: Madman Entertainment releases Space Ghost Coast to Coast: Volume Three: This is 1997 on DVD.