The Perishers his bathtime struggles with Wellington usually turn into epic battles. Boot's favourite food appears to be links of sausages, and his attempts to consume these in advance of Wellington provide the basis of many episodes. Boot was originally drawn with a short tail (on one occasion he met a bob-tailed sheepdog, and on hearing the name decided to call his own tail Fred), but Maurice Dodd later discovered that real Old English Sheepdogs' tails are docked, and so over the course of several years Collins drew his tail shorter and shorter until it vanished altogether – Boot still appears completely
What a Cartoon! final short of the 48 contracted during Seibert's era aired. In 1998, Cartoon Network debuted two new short pilots and advertised them as "World Premiere Toons": "Mike, Lu & Og" and "Kenny and the Chimp", both of which were produced by outside studios. The two pilots were later compiled into "The Cartoon Cartoon Show", while both shorts eventually garnered their own series, "Mike, Lu & Og" in 1999 and "" in 2002. Two pilots entitled "King Crab: Space Crustacean" and "Thrillseeker", respectively dated 1999 and 2000, was also retconned into "The Cartoon Cartoon Show" anthology. On June 9, 2000, "The