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Class of 3000 is a 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 [1]. 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.

Class of 3000
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Class of 3000 logo
Created byAndre 3000
Tommy Lynch
StarringAndre 3000
Tom Kenny
Jennifer Hale
Crystal Scales
Phil LaMarr
Janice Kawaye
Small Fire
Country of origin United States
No. of episodes13
Production
Running time22 minutes approximately
Original release
NetworkCartoon Network
ReleaseNovember 3, 2006 –
present

Main Characters

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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.

Sunny Bridges

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.

Li'l D

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.

Tamika Jones

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

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.

Kim

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 turntable, tamborine, xylophone, marimba, cymbals, triangle, vibraphone, maracas, piano, and most other non-drum percussion instruments.

Philly Phil

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

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

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

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.

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.

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"

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.

Kid Sunny - Seen only in Flashbacks that when Sunny tells about his days as a first year. These flashbacks have only been seen in "Home", which is when his kid self buy at a music store, "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 even is still a first year. No one but Sunny knows what happened in that play. All we know is that Sunny got the lead role "The Tree" 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"

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

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".)

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.

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.

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

Episode # Production # Title Airdate
Season 1: 2006-2007
1 01 "Home" November 3, 2006
2 02 "Peanuts! Get Yer Peanuts!" November 10, 2006
3 03 "Funky Monkey" November 17, 2006
4 04 "The Hunt for Red Blobtober" November 24, 2006
5 05 "Eddie's Money" December 1, 2006
6 06 "The Devil and Lil'D" December 15, 2006
7 07 "Brotha From the Third Rock" January 26, 2007
8 08 "Westley Side Story" February 2, 2007
9 09 "Love Is in the Hair...Net" February 9, 2007
10 10 "Am I Blue?" February 16, 2007
11 11 "Prank Yankers" February 23, 2007
12 12 "Sunny's Mentor" TBA
13 13 "Too Cool for School" TBA

Songs

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

A November 3rd Newsday article notes that:

....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.

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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:

  • 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

Cultural references

  • 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."
  • 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 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

  • 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. 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.

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