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ADHD Shorts

television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ20312273
Source-derived summary

ADHD Shorts (also known as Animation Domination High-Def Shorts) is an animated interstitial program that is part of the Animation Domination High-Def block.

Plot

This is a series of animated shorts used as interstitial programming between episodes. Most of them are in sketches form with a few animated songs. Writing is primarily done by Heather Anne Campbell with most songs performed by Heather herself or by vocalist Liz Beebe.

Recurring shorts

The following are recurring shorts in this interstitial program:

ADHD U

Short for ADHD University and serving as a parody of Schoolhouse Rock!, this is a series of shorts that contain songs about different organizations and topics not often discussed in Schoolhouse Rock! Nate Clark, Matthew Davis, and Katie Molinaro provide the singing voices for the songs.

Desert Folk

A series of shorts about the Desert Folk boys consisting of an anthropomorphic lizard named Lizard (voiced by Trevor Moore), a rattlesnake named Snake (voiced by Sam Brown), and an anthropomorphic scorpion named Scorpion (voiced by James Pumphrey) as they live in the desert and have various misadventures.

Gothball

In a spin-off of Stone Quackers, the shorts feature a bicolor cat named Gothball (voiced by John O'Hurley) as he interacts with his owner Dottie (voiced by Heather Lawless), Whit (voiced by Whitmer Thomas), Clay (voiced by Clay Tatum), and Barf (voiced by Ben Jones). The cat was originally named Gothfield in Stone Quackers. Like Stone Quackers, these shorts were created by Ben Jones who also provided the opening narration for these shorts.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “ADHD Shorts” is television series. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through ADHD, Shorts and television, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current 252-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, ADHD, Shorts and television is the immediate research focus.
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Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q20312273. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from ADHD Shorts” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.