Schmutz, which David Hale co-created with famous kids' author, Jim Proimos, debuted as six two-minute shorties on Nick.com in December 2005. The full series premiered on Nickelodeon in September 2006. Schmutz is a show about the things that live in all those hard to clean places (i.e. Hairball, Wad O. Gum, Loose Change, etc.) It is unquestionably the filthy cartoon in the history of television.