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| show_name = Class of 3000

|Name = Roy Wood

| image = [[Image:Classof3000logo.jpg]]

|Background = solo_singer

| caption = Class of 3000 logo

|Img = 1973 Roy Wood large.jpg

| format = [[Animated series]]

|Img_capt = Roy Wood in 1973

| runtime = 22 minutes approximately

|Birth_name = Roy Adrian Wood

| creator = [[Andre 3000]]<br>[[Thomas W. Lynch|Tommy Lynch]]

|Born = [[8 November]] [[1946]]

| starring = [[Andre 3000]] <br> [[Tom Kenny]] <br> [[Jennifer Hale]] <br> [[Crystal Scales]] <br> [[Phil LaMarr]] <br> [[Janice Kawaye]] <br> [[Small Fire]]

|Origin = {{flagicon|England}}, [[Birmingham]], [[England]]

| country = {{USA}}

|Died =

| network = [[Cartoon Network]]

|Genre = [[Rock and Roll]]<br />[[Pop music|Pop]] <br />[[Rock music|Rock]]

| studios = [[Cartoon Network Studios]] <br> [[Moxie]] <br> [[Tom Lynch Co.]]

|Occupation = Singer, Songwriter, Multi-instrumentalist

| first_aired = [[November 3]], [[2006]]

|Years_active = [[1964]]–present

| last_aired = present

|Instrument = [[Guitar]]<br />[[Vocals]]<br />[[Piano]]<br />[[Cello]]<br />[[Synthesizer]]<br />[[Bass Guitar]]<br />[[Drums]]<br/>[[Bagpipes]]<br/>[[woodwind]]

| num_episodes = 13

|First_album =

| imdb_id = 0767914

|Latest_album =

| tv_com_id = 64128

|Notable_albums =

|}}

|Notable songs =

|Label =

|Associated_acts = [[The Move]]<br />[[Electric Light Orchestra]]<br />[[Wizzard]]<br />[[Wizzo Band]]

|URL = http://www.roywood.co.uk/

}}

'''''Class of 3000''''' is a [[United States|American]] Comedy [[animated television series]] on [[Cartoon Network]] that is created, executive produced by and starring André Benjamin (a.k.a [[André 3000]]) of the hip-hop group [[OutKast]] as superstar and music teacher Sunny Bridges, set at [[Atlanta, Georgia]]'s Westley School of Performing Arts. Mr. Bridges is a hip-hop artist who occasionally lectures in Atlanta's [[Little Five Points]] neighborhood. The voice cast includes [[Tom Kenny]], [[Janice Kawaye]], [[Phil LaMarr]], [[Jeff Bennett]], [[Jennifer Hale]], and [[Crystal Scales]]. The series made its world premiere (previously advertised as a live premiere with performances by [[Chris Brown]]) on [[November 3]], [[2006]] at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT with a one-hour special [http://animationinsider.net/article.php?articleID=1079]. The show was co-created and developed by Veteran Producer Tom Lynch ([[South of Nowhere]], [[The Secret World of Alex Mack]], and [[The Journey of Allen Strange]], [[The Jersey]], and [[Kids Inc]].) & [[Patric M. Verrone]]. The official site is up, and contains the theme song, pictures and profiles of the main characters, and the show's premiere. A section on Cartoon Network.com has been created as well. The title does not refer to the students' graduating year, but to the class being taught by André 3000's character, Sunny Bridges.

'''Roy Adrian Wood''' (sometimes erroneously thought to be born as Ulysses Adrian Wood, from an offhand interview comment in the [[1960s]]) (born [[8 November]] [[1946]] in [[Birmingham]], [[England]]), is a [[songwriter]], [[guitar]]ist and [[multi-instrumentalist]].

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==CareerMain Characters==

[[Image:Kidsofclassof3000.jpg|315px|left|thumb|An image of Sunny Bridges (far right) running his students (from left to right), Eddie, Kim (behind Eddie), Tamika, Philly Phil, Kam, Madison, and Li'l D.]]

Born in Kitts Green, Birmingham, he was particularly successful in the [[1960s]] and [[1970s]] as member and co-founder of the [[musical band|band]]s [[The Move]], [[Electric Light Orchestra]] and [[Wizzard]]. As a songwriter, he contributed a huge number of [[Chart-topper|hit]]s to the repertoire of these [[musical group|group]]s. Wood was not only known for playing guitar, but also many other instruments, both in the [[recording studio|studio]] and on the [[stage (theatre)|stage]]. On some of his [[album]]s he has played every instrument himself.

===Sunny Bridges===

His first group in Birmingham in the early [[1960s]] was Gerry Levene and the Avengers.

The hometown hero of Little Five Points, Sunny is a musical genius who left Georgia to become a recording artist. Over the years in the employ of his money-grubbing manager, however, he lost his passion for music, because of the stress, and returned to his old neighborhood, intending to go into permanent retirement; instead, Li'l D convinced him to become the new [[music]] teacher at [[Westley School of Performing Arts]]. Sunny is devoted to his students, but he is forced to keep a low profile in order to avoid media attention. While he can play many instruments, his favorite is the [[saxophone]]. Sunny's character is loosely based off of Jazz Saxophonist [[Sonny Rollins]], both in his appearance and reclusive personality.

Then he went on with [[Mike Sheridan and the Nightriders]] (the band later to become [[Idle Race]], in which his musical partner [[Jeff Lynne]] made his first steps). From this, and a variety of other Birmingham-based groups, the most talented musicians formed [[The Move]], and Wood became their musical leader. The Move quickly entered the charts, and were famous for spectacular stage shows. After the departure of Move's singer [[Carl Wayne]], Wood was pushed into the front position. He acquired a wild image wearing some sort of Indian disguise. Since Move members could not agree on the musical direction, and perhaps also because of their weird stage shows, the musical potential of the group was underestimated. Wood therefore developed plans to realize his ambitions in separate projects.

===Li'l D===

He loved sound experiments, and complex arrangements, and was in this respect one of the most progressive musicians of his time.

Li'l D has been called a "li'l me" by creator [[Andre 3000]]. He is the unofficial leader of the Westley School's music class. Bright, talented, and confident to a fault, he is incredibly tenacious when it comes to music. Through sheer determination (as well as breaking and entering), he managed to recruit Sunny Bridges as the class's new music teacher. Though Li'l D considers himself remarkably streetwise, his overconfidence often leads him into trouble. He plays the [[drums]], as well as several other instruments.

He was a proponent of combining [[rock'n'roll]] music with other styles, such as [[European classical music|classical music]], or the [[big band]] sound. In his bands, string and brass players were integrated members. When The Move was still on tour, he founded, together with his band colleagues [[Jeff Lynne]] and [[Bev Bevan]], the [[Electric Light Orchestra]] (ELO), which was later led to big commercial success by Lynne. ELO broadened the basis of a rock band by adding a string section.

===Tamika Jones===

ELO's early live performances were chaotic, and after increasing musical and personal differences with Lynne, Wood left and formed a new group, [[Wizzard]], which assembled cellists, brass players and a bigger rhythm section, with several [[drummer]]s and [[percussionist]]s. In parallel, he also released several solo albums, exploring further musical directions. His [[1973 in music|1973]] album, ''[[Boulders (album)|Boulders]]'', was an almost entirely solo effort, right down to the sleeve artwork. A second solo album ''[[Mustard (album)|Mustard]]'' (1975), including contributions by [[Phil Everly]] and [[Annie Haslam]], was less successful.

Brash and aggressive, Tamika makes it her business to keep the other students in line. As her reputation implies, she has earned the title "toughest girl in school." She is also extremely stubborn. The slightest misstep is grounds for a threatening fist. "Prove it or Move it" is her trademark phrase, but is not sure what to do if someone chooses "Prove it!". Though she has a sharp tongue, Tamika shares a close bond with her classmates, and will protect them as often as she bullies them. She plays the [[harp]], but is also adept with an [[acoustic guitar]], along with the [[electric guitar]].

===Kam===

The line-up of albums was always fascinating, because of the large number of instruments Wood, and his band members, were playing.

Kam is Kim's twin brother and her polar opposite. He generally projects an air of refinement and class -- or so he would like to think. He has his own creativity but the opposite of Kim's. It was apparently pressure from Kam and Kim's father that forged Kam's uptight attitude. He primarily enjoys classical music, but is versatile enough to play virtually any type of [[keyboard]].

Wood himself is mentioned as singer as well as player of [[guitar]]s, [[bass guitar]], [[sitar]], [[cello]], [[double bass]], [[saxophone]]s, [[clarinet]], [[trombone]], [[tuba]], [[recorder]]s, [[oboe]], [[Horn (instrument)|French horn]], [[banjo]], [[mandolin]], [[bassoon]], [[drums]], [[percussion instrument|percussion]], [[vibraphone]], [[bagpipes]] and [[Keyboard instrument|keyboard]]s.

===Kim===

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Kim is Kam's twin sister and his polar opposite. She is very energetic, sometimes to the point of mischief, and loves to torment her more old-fashioned sibling. Generally, though, she has the better common sense, and she is extremely creative. Kim plays the [[Turntablism|turntable]], [[tamborine]], [[xylophone]], [[marimba]], [[cymbals]], [[triangle]], [[vibraphone]], [[maracas]], [[piano]], and most other non-drum [[percussion]] instruments.

As of the late [[1970s]], Wood appeared less active in public, commercial success faded away, and his musical experiments did not always match the popular taste. However, he remained productive in his studio work as musician, [[record producer|producer]] and songwriter. He was a big [[Elvis Presley|Elvis]] fan, but he never succeeded in getting 'The King' to adopt one of his compositions. However he was untiring as a producer for other acts, most successfully [[doo-wop]] revivalists [[Darts (band)|Darts]]. In 1976, Wood recorded [[Beatles]] cover songs "[[Lovely Rita]]" and "[[Polythene Pam]]" for the ill-fated musical documentary [[All This and World War II]].

===Philly Phil===

In 1977 he formed the [[Wizzo Band]], a jazz-rock ensemble, whose only live performance was a [[BBC]] simultaneous [[TV]] and [[radio]] broadcast in [[stereo]], and who split early the following year, after cancelling a nationwide tour.

Brilliant and imaginative, Philly Phil, the oldest of the group at 13, tends to stand out for his unusual fashion sense. He can invent useful devices at the drop of a hat. Though Li'l D and the other students do not fully understand Phil's many eccentricities, they are willing to accept him as one of their own. Philly Phil has an appetite for any type of food, especially candy. He plays [[bass guitar]] and the upright or [[double bass]].

===Edward "Eddie" Phillip James Lawrence III===

In the early 1980s he released a few singles under his own name and also as The Helicopters, and played some live dates under this name. The release of one of these singles, "Aerial Pictures", backed with "Airborne", was cancelled due to the lack of chart success for its predecessors, but both sides appeared for the first time in 2006 on a compilation CD, ''Roy Wood - The Wizzard!''. "Aerial Pictures", using the original backing track, subsequently became a solo single for former [[The Move|Move]] vocalist [[Carl Wayne]].

Eddie, who speaks with a slight Southern drawl, is the heir to the Lawrence fortune (According to the first episode, his father is the head of the Earth division of "Cola Cola"). A cultured aristocrat, he has something of a high-and-mighty attitude concerning the other students, and he needs to learn that not all problems can be solved with money. He is the only character to have ten fingers at any time (he will usually have eight, but for at least one scene he had 10, which he said that was because he was rich), which he needs to play complex instruments such as the [[clarinet]]. Eddie's clarinet is quite different, as it is [[cyan]] instead of the usual black. It appears that he has a crush on Tamika although this was only suggested in two episodes (Home and Westley Side Story) and officaly announced by Eddie in the episode "Love is in the Hair...Net". Eddie primarily plays wind instruments like the [[trumpet]], [[clarinet]], [[trombone]], and [[flute]]. Eddie has spoken of having Swiss ancestory.

===Madison Spaghettini Papadopoulos===

Wood also made a one-off rock'n'roll [[wiktionary:Medley|medley]] [[single (music)|single]] with [[Phil Lynott]], [[Chas Hodges]] and [[John Coughlan]], credited to [[The Rockers]], "We Are The Boys", which made the Top 100 in late 1983, and played a leading role in the Birmingham Heartbeat children's charity concert, on 15 March 1986. As well as designing the [[logo]], Wood stole the show {{fact}} in a line-up which also included the Electric Light Orchestra and the [[Moody Blues]].

She is cheerful, upbeat and extremely spacey as is evident from her perpetual vacant smile; however, her [[flower-child]] appearance belies the perceptive mind behind it. Madison plays bowed string instruments such as the [[violin]] and [[cello]].

==Minor characters==

After an extended period of hibernation, following the release of the album ''[[Starting Up]]'' (1987), a cover version of the [[Len Barry]] hit "1-2-3", and a guest vocal appearance on one track on [[Rick Wakeman]]'s ''Time Machine'' album, he went on the road with 'Roy Wood's Army'.

'''Principal Luna''' - The principal at Westley School for Performing Arts. He seems to be of Hispanic decent, and is always trying to make money for the school. He has a crush on the lunch lady Ms. Squatenchowder. His favorite word is fantastic.

Rumours of a new live album, and an album of new studio work, provisionally called "Electric Age", did not materialise. He is also believed to have recorded a couple of tracks with Jeff Lynne around this time, which likewise never saw the light of day.

'''Sunny's Manager and Men''' - Seen in "Home", Sunny's manager is constantly coming up with new ideas to use Sunny to make money. He's also hired Sunny a guy who yells "Sunny, you're wanted on stage!" as well as a Yes Man and a Hatchet Man. All of them irritate Sunny greatly, and helped lead to him almost completely retiring from music.

Altogether he had more than 20 singles in the [[UK Top 40]] under various guises, including several number one hits. His most regularly performed and broadcast oldie is the seasonal Wizzard single "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday". In 1995 he released a new live version as the 'Roy Wood Big Band', which charted at No. 59, and in 2000 he joined forces with [[Mike Batt]] and [[The Wombles]], for a re-recording of the song and the Wombles' hit "Wombling Merry Christmas", which reached No. 22.

'''Chedderman''' -Charles, also known as Chedderman, is one of Sunny's friends. He specialises in selling cheeses and doing teeth. He's something of a shady character and is often seen selling contraband goods and services out of his car, like "Mr. Bristle" action figures that, are ''really'' used toothbrushes, and bootleg movies which he shoots and in which he plays every part. He's often used as a quick joke in the show to keep up the interest. As seen in the episode "Eddie's Money", he is an excellent helicopter mechanic. He is also known to be part of Sunny's old band, the "Sunny Bridges' Funkaneers"

Most recently, he has formed 'Roy Wood's Rock and Roll Band' for occasional live dates and TV performances in the UK.

'''Bianca Moon''' - A woman who runs an organic food shop that appears in "Home" and again in "The Hunt for Red Blobtober". She's shown to be out of touch with reality, and will accept painted shells and shiny beads as currency if you don't have money when buying merchandise.

Roy Wood is not to be confused with [[Ron Wood]], guitarist with [[The Jeff Beck Group]], [[The Faces]] and [[The Rolling Stones]].

'''Kid Sunny''' - Seen only in Flashbacks that when Sunny tells about his days as a first year. These flashbacks have only been seen in

== Discography ==

"Home", which is when his kid self buy at a music store,

===Albums===

"Peanuts! Get yer Peanuts!", where kid Sunny is in Modern Dance, and in "Funky Monkey", where kid Sunny is in a Upper Class play, but

*''[[Boulders (album)|Boulders]]'' (1973) - No. 15

even is still a first year. No one but Sunny knows what happened

*''[[Mustard (album)|Mustard]]'' (1975)

in that play. All we know is that Sunny got the lead role "The Tree"

*''On The Road Again'' (1979), not released in the UK

and during the real play he asked "Is that a real ax?" and was answered "Shut up first year! Trees don't talk!".Sunny's younger self has been seen in many other episodes, such as "Love is in the Hair...Net"

*''[[Starting Up]]'' (1987)

'''Teen Sunny''' - Teen Sunny is another person only seen in flashbacks.

===Singles===

So far Teen Sunny has only been seen in "The Hunt for the Red Blobtrober" He was the lead of a funk band called "Sunny Bridges' Funkaneers".

* "When Gran'ma Plays the Banjo" (1972)

* "Dear Elaine" (1973) - No. 18

* "Forever" (1973) - No. 8

* "Goin' Down The Road" (1974) - No. 13

* "Oh What A Shame" (1975) - No. 13

* "Look Thru' The Eyes Of a Fool" (1975)

* "Any Old Time Will Do" (1976)

* "Keep Your Hands On The Wheel" (1978)

* "(We're) On The Road Again" (1979)

* "Rock City" - Helicopters (1980)

* "Sing Out The Old, Ring In The New" (1980)

* "Green Glass Windows" - Roy Wood Helicopters (1981)

* "Down To Zero" (1981)

* "It's Not Easy" (1982)

* "O.T.T." (1982)

* "We Are The Boys (Who Make All The Noise)" - The Rockers (1983)

* "Under Fire" (1985)

* "Sing Out The Old, Ring In The New" - new recording (1985)

* "Raining In The City" (1986)

* "1-2-3" (1987)

'''Mr. Lawrence''' - Eddie's father and the extremely wealthy head of the Earth division of the Cola Cola company. He was seen once in a flashback in "Eddie's Money", where he buys a Baseball Stadium for Eddie's front yard so Eddie can see a live baseball game. However, when Eddie comments on the stadium being empty and asks his father to fly in some baseball fans, Mr. Lawrence replies "I'm not made of money, unlike the guest house." His motto is "Why go out when you can have whatever you want at home?" He appears again in "Brotha from the Third Rock", when he skeet shoots Philly Phil's rocket from the sky. (This episode also marks the first appearance of Eddie's mother, Mrs. Lawrence, who was curiously absent from her son's birthday party in "Eddie's Money".)

===Collaboration singles===

* "I Never Believed In Love" - Annie Haslam and Roy Wood (1977)

* "[[Waterloo (song)|Waterloo]]" (1986) - [[Doctor & The Medics]] Featuring Roy Wood (1986) - No. 45

* "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" - Roy Wood Big Band (1995) - No. 59

* "I Wish It Could Be A Wombling Merry Christmas Everyday" - Wombles With Roy Wood (2000) - No. 22

'''Upperclassmen''' - The upperclassmen are students who have been at Westley School longer than the rest of the kids, and tend to act superior, like plays being "Upperclassmen" plays and trays being "Upperclassmen" trays. They're mainly Preston, Marlon, and a big, bully-like friend of Preston's.

==References==

* [[Guinness Book of British Hit Singles]] - 16th Edition - ISBN 0-85112-190-X

* Guinness Book of British Hit Albums - 7th Edition - ISBN 0-85112-619-7

'''Leela Lopez''' - Another teacher at Westley's. She has a crush on Sunny Bridges. She appears in Peanuts! Get Yer Peanuts! and Love is in the Hair...Net. She eats raw cookie dough.

==External links==

*[http://www.roywood.co.uk/ Roy Wood's website]

*[http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:k02gtq7ztu4a Roy Wood biography page at the AMG web site]

*[http://www.wildwesthero-elo.com.ar/ Wild West Hero] - fan site of ELO's world written in english and spanish

'''Petunia Squatenchowder''' - The sustitute lunch lady at Westlys. She has a crush on Sunny Bridges also. Then she fall in love with Principal Luna. She dumped Principal Luna if he played his "Luna Love" song again.

== Episodes ==

{{The Move}}

{| class="wikitable"

|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"

! Episode #

! Production #

! Title

! Airdate

|-

| colspan="4" bgcolor="#50A6C2" |

|-

! colspan="4" style="background: #ECECEC;" | Season 1: 2006-2007

|-

| align="center" |1

| align="center" |01

| "[[Home (Class of 3000 episode)|Home]]"

| [[November 3]], [[2006]]

|-

| align="center" |2

| align="center" |02

| "[[Peanuts! Get Yer Peanuts!]]"

| [[November 10]], [[2006]]

|-

| align="center" |3

| align="center" |03

| "[[Funky Monkey]]"

| [[November 17]], [[2006]]

|-

| align="center" |4

| align="center" |04

| "[[The Hunt for Red Blobtober]]"

| [[November 24]], [[2006]]

|-

| align="center" |5

| align="center" |05

| "[[Eddie's Money]]"

| [[December 1]], [[2006]]

|-

| align="center" |6

| align="center" |06

| "[[The Devil and Lil'D]]"

| [[December 15]], [[2006]]

|-

| align="center" |7

| align="center" |07

| "[[Brotha From the Third Rock]]"

| [[January 26]], [[2007]]

|-

| align="center" |8

| align="center" |08

| "[[Westley Side Story]]"

| [[February 2]], [[2007]]

|-

| align="center" |9

| align="center" |09

| "[[Love Is in the Hair...Net]]"

| [[February 9]], [[2007]]

|-

| align="center" |10

| align="center" |10

| "[[Am I Blue]]?"

| [[February 16]], [[2007]]

|-

| align="center" |11

| align="center" |11

| "[[Prank Yankers]]"

| [[February 23]], [[2007]]

|-

| align="center" |12

| align="center" |12

| "[[Sunny's Mentor]]"

| TBA

|-

| align="center" |13

| align="center" |13

| "[[Too Cool for School]]"

| TBA

|}

== Songs ==

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Throughout the show, the students will play songs, sometimes based on how they feel.

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A November 3rd [http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/ny-ettvtwo4956360nov03,0,7835774.story?coll=ny-television-headlines Newsday] article notes that:<blockquote>....some creative grown-ups throw down each episode, too, providing distinctive visuals for music videos to [[Andre Benjamin]]'s original songs performed by the class' kids. "[[Ren & Stimpy]]" wild-man animator [[John Kricfalusi]] and classic [[Parliament-Funkadelic]] cover artist [[Overton Loyd]] do the premiere honors, with subsequent contributions from Marvel Comics' [[Bill Sienkiewicz]] and [[Robotboy]] director Charlie Bean.</blockquote>

[[Category:English songwriters|Wood, Roy]]

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[http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/video/dlink/index.html?episodeID=8a25c3920ea9372f010eaac43cdb4a57]

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[[Category:The Move]]

With the exception of "Home," each episode has included one song. Each episode usually features a different style of music, such as blues in [[Eddie's Money]], and funk in [[The Hunt for Red Blobtober]]. So far, the songs that have premiered are as follows:

[[Category:Electric Light Orchestra|Wood, Roy]]

*'''Life Without Music''' ("Home Part 1")

*'''Throwdown''' ("Home Part 2")

*'''Oh, Peanut''' ("Peanuts! Get Yer Peanuts")

*'''Banana Zoo''' ("Funky Monkey")

*'''Fight the Blob''' ("The Hunt for Red Blobtober")

*'''A Richer Shade of Blue''' ("Eddie's Money")

*'''We Want Your Soul''' ("The Devil and Lil'D")

*'''U.F.O. Ninja''' ("Brotha From the Third Rock")

*'''Kim Kam Jam''' ("Westley Side Story")

*'''Luna Love''' ("Love Is in the Hair...Net")

==Main Cast==

* [[André 3000]] - Sunny Bridges

* [[Small Fire]] - Li'l D

* [[Crystal Scales]] - Tamika Jones

* [[Janice Kawaye]] - Kam, Kim

* [[Phil LaMarr]] - Philly Phil

* [[Tom Kenny]] - Edward “Eddie” Phillip James Lawrence III

* [[Jennifer Hale]] - Madison Spaghettini Papadopoulos

* [[Jeff Bennett]] - Principal Luna

==Cultural references==

*In the music room, there are various paintings of famous musicians such as [[The Beatles]], [[Run DMC]], [[Billie Holiday]], and [[Big Boi]], which are usually different in each episode.

*A poster of the show appeared in [[Re-Animated]].

* [[Quick Draw McGraw]] made a cameo appearance in the first episode in an invention by Philly Phil.

*In the first episode, [[Oprah Winfrey]] is parodied, saying she'll give everyone in the audience a car(Audience cheers)ton of milk(audience boos). This is a reference to her always giving her audience a gift at the end of the [[Oprah Winfrey Show]].

* In the episode ''Peanuts! Get Yer Peanuts!'', Madison makes a reference to the game [[Clue]] when she says, "Oooh! I pick Colonel Mustard, with the lead pipe, in the observatory!"

* When Sunny was a student, his dance teacher dumped water on him and his classmates (a reference to the film [[Flashdance]]). He has feared showers ever since.

* In the episode ''Funky Monkey'', Lil' D is forced to chase after an escaped gorilla. At one point, in reference to the hit 1981 arcade game [[Donkey Kong]], he scales a building while dodging barrels and swinging a giant mallet. Also, in the song for the episode ("Banana Zoo"), the gorilla is depicted taking an impromptu bath, a reference to [[Bathing Ape]]. Sunny even says "Look at that ape, over there bathing."

*The episode title ''The Hunt For Red Blobtober'' is a reference to the movie [[The Hunt For Red October]] starring [[Sean Connery]].

*When the gang was venturing through a [[Pac-Man]]-like background in ''The Hunt for Red Blobtober'', Philly Phil was seen holding one of the powerups, the grapes. Eddie also made the classic "waka waka" sound during and after this scene, claiming it to be the sound he makes when he is scared.

*In ''The Hunt for Red Blobtober'', Cheddar Man parodied the movies [[Harry Potter]] (Harry Cheddar), [[The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe]] (The Lion, The Witch, and the Cheddarman), [[King Kong vs. Godzilla|Godzilla vs. King Kong]] (Godzilla vs. the Chedderman), [[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory]] (Charlie and the Cheddar Factory, Cheddar and the Chocolate Factory) and [[The Wizard of Oz]] (in production during the show).

* In ''The Devil and Lil'D'', there is a reference to the song ''[[The Devil Went Down to Georgia]]'' when Li'l D tries to win his soul back in a fiddling contest.

*In the episode ''Eddie's Money'', there is a reference to the [[Death Star]].

*In ''The Devil and Lil'D'', Sunny Bridges imitates [[Emeril Lagasse]] by shouting 'Bam!'

*In ''Westley Side Story'', Sunny Bridges imitates both [[Gollum]] and [[Gandalf]] from [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]'s [[Lord of the Rings]], by repeating that the blue ribbon is "his precious" and shouting "This shall not pass!" (He even had the staff.)

==Trivia==

{{toomuchtrivia}}

*There is a running gag that whenever a character throws something off-screen,someone that sounds like Kam exclaims, "Oww, my eye!!" If a second object is flung off-screen that person even says, "Oww, my other eye!!" But in "Brotha From the Third Rock", when Tamika threw a moon rock, someone with a voice like Madison also said, "Oww, my eye!!"

*In several episodes, Eddie and Kam have no lines on their hair, as they usually do.

* Lil'D wore a 1970's Atlanta Braves baseball cap in the first episode (though during the Throwdown and Life Without Music music videos, he wore the sailor hat).

*The episode ''Home'' had a music scene called "Life Without Music". The character artwork was directed by [[John Kricfalusi]] and [[Katie Rice]].

*In the episode ''Funky Monkey'', Kim and Kam claim that they weight 60 pounds, 27 kilograms or 14 [[stone (weight)|stone]]. 14 stone is equal to 196 pounds or 89 kilograms.

*In the song "Banana Zoo," the singer who voiced the dog in [[Outkast]]'s video "Morris Brown" was the voice of Momo.

*The [[Atlanta]] Skyline is shown several times in the show. The Skyline is actually very accurate, which features buildings like the Georgia State Capital, [[191 Peachtree Tower]], [[SunTrust Plaza]], [[Georgia-Pacific Tower]], [[Westin Peachtree Plaza]] and several real-life mid to lowrises in Atlanta. So far, only the Downtown Atlanta Skyline has been shown.

==External links==

*[http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/tv_shows/promotion_landing_page/classof3000/index.html Official site]

* [http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/ny-ettvtwo4956360nov03,0,7835774.story?coll=ny-television-headlines "An OutKast 'toons up for the kids"], ''Newsday'', Nov. 3, 2006, Diane Werts.

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[[Category:Television shows set in Georgia (U.S. state)]]