What's the Point

What's the Point is the series premiere episode of the American animated television series CircleCity. It first aired on Comedy Central in the United States on June 10, 2000. The episode introduces protagonists Lloyd Donovan, a cynical college graduate unsure of his calling in life, and Benny O'Riley, an optimistic and wise janitor, who must work their way through their conflicting personalities and ideologies on life to escape from an escalating gas station robbery.

Plot
A college graduation ceremony is underway at "Minimum University" in an unnamed Wisconsin location. The students within the ceremony are called up onto the stage, where they are handed their degrees and are required to give a small speech. As the students walk to and off the stage, the dean reads off their names, stopping at "Lloyd Donovan". Nobody walks onto the stage, prompting the dean to repeat the name. The students within the ceremony turn their heads towards the middle of their seating arrangement, staring at a purple circle in a suit, sleeping. The circle sitting next to him nudges him, but Lloyd does not awaken. Eventually, he punches Lloyd in the eye, causing him to fall out of his seat and wake up. Lloyd promptly gets up and walks onto the stage, wondering why he is even being called upon when during his entire college career he has done nothing but the bare minimum and has effectively not majored in anything; questioning whether he should be graduating at all. The dean, irritated, explains that he is giving Lloyd what they call a "pity degree"; just so they can shoo him out of there so other people who have actual goals and aspirations can attend. Lloyd yanks the pity degree out of his hands and walks offstage, and the dean remarks that Lloyd still has to give his speech. Lloyd coldly states "didn't write one" and continues walking. Lloyd returns to his seat, everyone staring in second-hand embarrassment at his situation. His parents, Herbert & Evil Step Mother, hide their faces in embarrassment as the rest of the ceremony continues as planned.

On the car ride home, Herbert finally snaps at Lloyd for disrespecting all they've done to put Lloyd through college when in the end it was all for naught; remaining just as indecisive and uninspired about his life as he has always been, and remarking just how wildly nonsensical it is that Lloyd somehow went there for a four year duration and has done nothing. Lloyd mumbles that his upbringing certainly didn't help his situation much, and remains confident in the fact that life has "nothing" to offer him, and that his future is hopeless whilst not being his fault in the slightest. Their argument becomes more and more heated to the point where they don't say a single word to each other when they arrive home. Lloyd goes up to his room; which is just as empty as his personality and interests, and lays on the bed, feeling an all too familiar feeling: uncertainty of the future.

When he awakens, the little items he owns have been rummaged out, including his bed. Confused, he rushes outside and find that his parents have packed all of his things into his run-down vehicle. His parents stand beside it, and explain that they are "done" with him. Walter