About 20 years ago, I saw a cartoon on TV. I only remember about a minute of it, but it has bugged me ever since. The art was almost like Don Bleuth cartoons. It was fairly vivid coloring, not like Looney Tunes' crayon-colored brightness, but was more of warm and cool tones, like Dragon's Lair.

It was something about space pirates. A woman is arguing with a tall and very lanky man, and a very short and pudgy man. The woman pushes the tall man into a broom closet (I suppose) and he grabs her by the arm and pulls her with him into the closet (or something similiar to that effect, I really don't remember the exact details). There are sounds of struggling, and she walks out, huffish. He comes out dejected-looking. The short guy asks him, "So what happened?". The tall guy responds, "She flipped me off".

Embarrassed, and afraid my family might see that, I switched channels. But I was always curious as to what it was. Anyone have any clues as to what this might be?
No, it wasn't a series, but rather, a movie. From the 80's cartoon list, I recognize all (either by having watched it, or know of it in passing) but a couple of them. All of those on that list, AFAIK, would be akin to TV-G.

Mayhaps, would this scene have been from Heavy Metal? I had never seen it (although I'd like to). I mean, you'd never hear a reference to flipping someone off on Scooby Doo or Voltron... but sounds rather appropriate for Heavy Metal (or other similiar cartoons/anime).
Having done some searching, although the art of Heavy Metal is like what I remember, I happened across its script, and there's no references to flipping someone off. *sigh*

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