High Noon Toons was a three-hour programming block of cartoons hosted by two cowboy hand puppets named Haas and Lil' Jo (a Bonanza reference) shown on Cartoon Network in the mid-1990s.

[3] Matt Thompson had been working for Turner for a while already in the early 1990s, when his boss at Cartoon Network liked his sense of humor.

Thompson was then asked to come up with some funny interstitial material for a new three-hour block of cartoons.

When it came time to present, he was so hungover from the night before that he had actually failed to come up with any ideas, so he simply started making his hand talk like a puppet.

[4] Thompson and Reed were often drunk while making the show, and were eventually reprimanded for drinking on the job after setting a prop spaceship on fire.