Goofy performing another song and dance show. Mickey and his gang's animated shorts by this point routinely featured song and dance numbers. It begins as a typical Mickey cartoon of the time, but what would set this short apart from all that had come before was the appearance of a new character, whose behavior served as a running gag. Dippy Dawg, as he was named by Disney artists (Frank Webb), was a member of the audience. He constantly irritated his fellow spectators by noisily crunching peanuts and laughing loudly, till two of those fellow spectators knocked him out with their mallets
USA Cartoon Express Cartoon Network one year later, thus taking a chunk of "Cartoon Express" programming with it. The only Hanna-Barbera shows on the "Cartoon Express" afterwards were "The Smurfs", which did not leave the "Express" until 1993; and "Scooby-Doo", which disembarked the "Express" in 1994. In the fall of 1993, "Cartoon Express" introduced two original series, "Itsy Bitsy Spider" and "Problem Child" (based on the film franchise); both failed to catch on with viewers. "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" became the new marquee series on the block. USA later briefly acquired the broadcast rights to Terrytoons shorts like Deputy Dawg and Mighty Mouse,