Tintin in the Land of the Soviets is sent with his dog Snowy on an assignment to the Soviet Union, departing from Brussels. En route to Moscow, an agent of the OGPU - the Soviet secret police - sabotages the train and declares the reporter to be a "dirty little bourgeois". The Berlin Police blame Tintin for the bombing but he escapes to the border of the Soviet Union. Following closely, the OGPU agent finds Tintin and brings him before the local Commissar's office, instructing the Commissar to make the reporter "disappear ... accidentally". Escaping again, Tintin finds "how the Soviets fool the poor idiots who still
What a Cartoon! summer of 1996 when it started bearing the name of the original project: "The What a Cartoon! Show". The show's initial premieres for each short preceded Cartoon Network's Sunday night movie block, "Mr. Spim's Cartoon Theatre". The shorts continued to air on Sundays until 1997, when the network moved the shorts to Wednesdays at 9pm. Following the premiere of "Johnny Bravo", "Cow and Chicken" and "I Am Weasel" as full series in July 1997, the series shifted to Thursday nights, where it remained. "The What a Cartoon! Show" continued airing new episodes on Thursdays until November 28, 1997, when the