Saying it was "apparently looked like it was inspired" by spumco is like saying The Theif and the cobbler "inspired" Alladin, and this is coming from a guy who hasn't seen a spumco cartoon, aside from ads for the ripping freinds and a few dabbles of Ren and Stimpy while channel surfing, in almost a decade.
EDIT- And I never said the look was, I said the animation. Let's take this doodle I just whipped up. One could say he has an original, if not messed up, look. However, the way he moves and the way he interacts with others is what I mean by animation. He could do funky little things, or I could just take a say, Cool cat cartoon, and then give "Doodle" the motions of the cat. It now looks as if whoever animated Smacky tortured himself by watching a bunch of Cool Cat cartoons, and then got lazy and just animated Cool Cat in a Doodle's clothing. Regardless of how the doodle 'looks' anyone who is even slightly familair with Cool Cat can reconize the movements have been lifted.