What A Cartoon! Show - Larry and Steve
Larry and Steve is a short created by Seth MacFarlane that was broadcast by Cartoon Network as part of the showcase series, What a Cartoon!. Larry and Steve served as a precursor to MacFarlane's later cartoon, Family Guy. The titular characters share voices and personalities similar to Family Guy characters Peter and Brian respectively.
Plot[]
Steve, a talking dog, uses a video camera to record his log of the day's events.
It begins with Steve in his cage at the dog pound. His number is called for destruction. Steve desperately pleads to passersby that he needs an owner. Unfortunately, no one wants Steve, nor can they understand him. Eventually, a man named Larry walks up and indicates that he can understand Steve's barking. Steve grabs Larry by the shirt and bluntly says that he needs an owner or else he will be put to sleep. Larry adopts Steve, and brings Steve to his apartment. He gives Steve his own room with modest furnishings. But all at once, the lamp and TV explode, and the bed's springs launch Steve into the ceiling. The pair decide to go furniture shopping.
As Larry and Steve drive to the store, Steve notices that Larry's license is suspended. Larry brushes this off, then checks a map to find places to shop. Steve sees a literal fork in the road, and Larry runs into it, causing their car to split in half. Steve's half of the car careens out of control, ramming through chicken coops and piles of TNT. Eventually it comes to a stop in the parking lot of Quality Furnishings. After Larry's half of the car rejoins them, the two go inside.
They are greeted by Cindy, a store clerk, who shows them to the bedding department. Steve tries out the massage bed, but Larry accidentally presses a button. The mechanical arms on the bed batter Steve and throw him into a wall. In the lighting department, Cindy shows them a modest table lamp. Larry insists on using a much larger bulb on the lamp, and inserts it. The light beam is so powerful, it destroys whatever Larry points at it. Steve tries ducking and dodging the beam, but falls off the balcony, bounces off of a sofa, which causes a chain reaction of mishaps until Steve rockets through the ceiling. He collides with the nose of a plane just as the plane's pilot tells his son to fly the plane for a moment. The boy crashes the plane into the furniture store. He and the pilot are unharmed, but Steve is in immense pain. To make matters worse, Larry's credit card was declined, so they will need to return to the store the following week.
Steve finishes out his video log with a plea of help. He asks if anyone else is able to understand him, and if they can, to get him away from Larry and the danger he causes. Larry then enters the room, and notices Steve's tripod is loose. He adjusts it, but that just causes the video to go black.