Shorty McShorts' Shorts
television series
Shorty McShorts' Shorts is an American animated anthology short series, which consisted of 4-5-minute shorts. It aired from July 28, 2006, to May 25, 2007.
Summary
The series was initially conceived as a shorts/pilot program for Disney Television Animation (making this show, to date their only anthology/shorts program), produced by John Solomon and Carolyn Suzuki. The host of the show is Shorty McShorts. His name is often shortened to "Shorty" or "SMS", which appears on the hat that he wears. He is also the train conductor for his own Short Line.
He appeared in advertisements for the show and the introduction, and conclusion of each short, but never appears in any short.
The show takes the form of a Saturday-morning cartoon, as the shorts that are shown could very well be installments of their own mini-series. The Boyz on Da Run shorts appear in a certain order and have three episodes attached as a miniseries, with a fourth one that never appeared on TV. The other episodes do belong to their own miniseries, but the way the shorts are set up suggests that more installments under the same name could be produced.
The series finale, "Flip-Flopped", was scored by Robert Schneider of The Apples in Stereo.
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