Home (Class of 3000 episode)

Home is the hour-long pilot episode of the Cartoon Network animated series Class of 3000. It first aired on Friday, November 3, 2006 as a part of Fridays.

Plot

Li'l D is dreaming about performing on stage with Sunny Bridges, but wakes up after being startled by pigeons. At the Westley's School for Performing Arts, Principal Luna tells the students that their music teacher won't be coming back for a while (he is apparently in jail). Meanwhile, Sunny Bridges is on stage at a concert in Tokyo when he announces his decision to "quit music." The class decides to raise a benefit concert so that they can afford a new music teacher, and Li'l D meets Sunny Bridges. After failing to convince Sunny to play at their benefit concert, the students play by themselves despite rain and a lack of audience, and it becomes sunny when Sunny Bridges comes out and joins them. However, just as Sunny was about to accept the job as their teacher, his managers come and take him away. Back at school, the students are disappointed by his disappearance when Principal Luna arrives with Sunny in tow, introducing their new music teacher.

Songs

• Life Without Music: The classmates look like chalk drawings and the setting is the music room's chalkboard and say what would happen if there was no music. The character artwork for this song was directed by John Kricfalusi and Katie Rice. The song itself was sung by a select few members of the Atlanta Boy Choir.
• Throwdown: The kids are shown playing instruments and as colored heads. All the kids' names and instruments are introduced.

Person episode focuses on

• Li'l D and Sunny Bridges

Trivia

• Cartoon Network refer this "The Class of 3000 Movie".
• A Chris Daughtry song has the same title.

Cultural references

• Li'l D wears a 1970s Atlanta Braves baseball cap in this episode, though he appears in his trademark sailor hat in both music videos.
• Quick Draw McGraw in the cartoon "Two Too Much" makes an appearance in an invention by Philly Phil.
• The Oprah Winfrey Show is parodied, with a talk show hostess resembling Oprah shown saying that she is going to give everyone in her audience a "car...ton of milk." Oprah is well-known for giving gifts to the show's audience; in particular, all of the audience members received a car in the show's 19th season premiere.
• The reporter asks a bunch of people what they think now that Sunny is gone. At the end of the report, she says it is only the lost feelings at plastic brick land. A plastic brick is just a LEGO. So it refers to Legoland.