Cartoon Dump

Cartoon Dump is an online comedy web series/video podcast created by Frank Conniff (formerly of Mystery Science Theater 3000) and animation historian Jerry Beck.^[2][3] A live version was making monthly performances at the Steve Allen Theater in Los Angeles, California, through late 2018 and ran on the first Mondays of each month at QED Astoria in Astoria, New York, starting in January 2008 and continuing through 2018.^[4][2] However, it is currently on hiatus.

Cartoon Dump
Genre	Comedy
Created by	Frank Conniff
Developed by	Jerry Beck
Directed by	Scott Ingalls
Presented by	Erica Doering
Starring	Frank Conniff Kathleen Roll
Voices of	Joel Hodgson/J. Elvis Weinstein as Dumpster Diver Dan[1]
Theme music composer	Brad Kay Frank Conniff
Composer	Brad Kay
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	6
Production
Producers	Jerry Beck Frank Conniff
Editor	Kevin O'Regan
Camera setup	Tomas Arceo Eric Meacham
Running time	7 to 10 minutes
Original release
Network	Official website; YouTube
Release	July 11 (2007-07-11) – October 21, 2007 (2007-10-21)

Story and format

Set in a garbage dump, the show is a parody of stereotypical children's TV programming. The host of the show, “Compost Brite” (Erica Doering), despite being constantly cheery, obviously suffers from depression as well as anorexia nervosa. Compost Brite starts each episode with the show’s theme song, a jolly tune played on a theatre organ (however, Compost Brite is seen playing a guitar). Each episode features slightly different lyrics. After this, Compost Brite usually has a brief satirical discussion with the viewers on topics such as nutrition, dry heaves or how mediocrity pays off in the end. Later, one of Compost Brite’s friends, usually “Moodsy the Clinically Depressed Owl” (Conniff) joins in to sing a song or plug some fictional product that is sponsoring the show. This leads into the bulk of each episode, an obscure cartoon from Jerry Beck’s archives.

Episodes

As the episodes have no official titles, they are shown here with the titles of their respective cartoons.

1. "Mighty Mister Titan"
2. "The Big World of Little Adam"
3. Bucky and Pepito: "The Vexin' Texan"
4. Captain Fathom: "Rustlers of the Sea Range"
5. "The Adventures of Spunky and Tadpole"
6. "The Adventures of Sir Gee Whiz on the Other Side of the Moon"