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* SmallAnnoyingCreature: Over-the-top, loud, repetitive, especially with catch phrase.

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* SmallAnnoyingCreature: SidekickCreatureNuisance: Over-the-top, loud, repetitive, especially with catch phrase.



* SmallAnnoyingCreature: A short squirrel who is obnoxious.

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* SmallAnnoyingCreature: SidekickCreatureNuisance: A short squirrel who is obnoxious.
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* SmallAnnoyingCreature: Invoked. He considers himself a "harasser".

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* SmallAnnoyingCreature: SidekickCreatureNuisance: Invoked. He considers himself a "harasser".
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* AmbiguouslyGay: He was more than content to be stuck with Cliff forever the moment he was glued to his jacket.
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* AbusiveParents: His main purpose in life is to make CatDog miserable. In "The Great Parent Mystery" it's revealed that he found them as babies and raised them.

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%%* ThisLoserIsYou * ThisLoserIsYou: He's often considered the loser of the conjoined duo.
* ThrowTheDogABone: Or, in his case, Throw the Cat a Fish. Cat has his moments where he comes up on top at the end, such as "Kookie Prank Day" where he got back at everyone who pranked him.


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* InnocentlyInsensitive: Most of the time, Dog never realizes just how much pain (whether physical or even emotional) he causes his brother at times.
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* CartoonCreature: Despite being referred to as a mouse, he doesn't really look like one.
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* DrearyHalfLiddedEyes: He usually sports this expression, considering his often emotionless state of mind.
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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Dog is terrified of ticks. He shares this fear with other dogs, most notably, The Greasers.


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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: All three of them are terrified of ticks which was the main plot point of one episode where Cliff and Shriek leave Lube to having one stuck on him until Cat removes it. They all share this fear with Dog.
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* TheDreaded: The Greasers as a whole are this to [=CatDog=] (more specially Cat).


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* JerkassToOne: They love to pick on [=CatDog=] and other people as a whole but they often tend to single out Cat. Especially Cliff.
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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In the first episode, Winslow was less of a malicious prankster and more of an annoying [[TheGadfly gadfly]]. He was a little nicer to [=CatDog=] too, to the point that Cat actually seemed to like him.

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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In the first episode, few episodes in the production order, Winslow was less of a malicious prankster and more of an annoying a friendly [[TheGadfly gadfly]]. He was a little ''lot'' nicer to [=CatDog=] too, to the point that Cat actually seemed to like him.
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** In the episode "Cliff's Little Secret", when [=CatDog=] find out that Cliff takes ballet dancing, they no longer fear him, and it drives him insane, with Shriek angry that [=CatDog=] no longer fear them. After being laughed at by [=CatDog=] during almost the whole episode, Shriek and Lube decide to leave Cliff, with Shriek telling Cliff she love him like a brother, but she never want to see him again, with Lube admitting the same. When Cliff begs them not to go and asks what will happen to them, Shriek admits she doesn't care. It's only when Cliff discovers why [=CatDog=] stopped fearing him and make them fear him again do Shriek and Lube take him back.

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** In the episode "Cliff's Little Secret", when [=CatDog=] find out that Cliff takes ballet dancing, they no longer fear him, and it drives him insane, with Shriek angry that [=CatDog=] no longer fear them. After being laughed at by [=CatDog=] during almost the whole episode, Shriek and Lube decide to leave Cliff, with Shriek telling Cliff she love him like a brother, but she never want to see him again, with Lube admitting the same. When Cliff begs them not to go and asks what will happen to them, him, Shriek admits she doesn't care. It's only when Cliff discovers why [=CatDog=] stopped fearing him and make them fear him again do Shriek and Lube take him back.
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* RedEyesTakeWarning: Cat sports these at the start of his RageBreakingPoint in "Monster Truck Folly".

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* {{Adorkable}}: His goofy, sweet behavior gives him this status. [[spoiler:He gets it from his mother.]]



* TheCutie: So very much. It often goes hand in hand with his goofiness.

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* TheCutie: So very much. It often goes hand in hand with His goofy, sweet behavior gives him this status. [[spoiler:He gets it from his goofiness. mother.]]
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* PetTheDog: He'll sometimes help out [=CatDog=] when it's absolutely necessary. He's not the least but antagonistic in "Flea or Die" (in which he plays a doctor), and at the end of the episode, when the duo show up at his clinic covered in fleas and begging for a flea bath, he freaks out and immediately gives them one without hesitation.

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* PetTheDog: He'll sometimes help out [=CatDog=] when it's absolutely necessary. He's not the least but bit antagonistic in "Flea or Die" (in which he plays a doctor), and at the end of the episode, when the duo show up at his clinic covered in fleas and begging for a flea bath, he freaks out and immediately gives them one without hesitation.
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Mr. Sunshine was briefly shown smiling in "The Lady is a Shreik."


* PerpetualFrowner: He never smiles.

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* PerpetualFrowner: He never very rarely smiles.
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* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Just about any time he's injured for one reason or another, his response is a deadpan "ow."

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* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Just about any time he's injured for one reason or another, his response is a deadpan "ow."" The most he ever expresses is after a dentist appointment, in which he complains "Owwwwwww, I'm in excruciating ''paiiiinnnnn''", in the same deadpan tone.
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* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Just about any time he's injured for one reason or another, his response is a deadpan "ow."
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* UnsettlingGenderReveal: No one seemed to realize that Shriek was a girl, not even her fellow Greaser Dogs. Everyone was horrified when they found out, mainly due to them not recognizing her, [[CleansUpNicely and finding her quite attractive when she wore a dress.]]
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* BewareTheSillyOnes: While not particularly silly, Cat is humorous through his constant misfortune, snark, and snobbishness. As "Monster Truck Folly" shows, when he gets pushed too far, he goes into an UnstoppableRage,


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* TheDogBitesBack: The second half of "Monster Truck Rally" has him beating the crap out of everyone who has ever crossed him over the course of the series after being pushed to his RageBreakingPoint.
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* RageBreakingPoint: After all the abuse he takes throughout the series, when he gets stuck in a monster truck arena where anything goes and is repeatedly harassed and subject to even more taunts and AmusingInjuries than usual, Cat snaps and goes into an UnstoppableRage in which he beats the crap out of everyone who has ever screwed him over, culminating in him destroying the Greasers’ truck in one punch.


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* UnstoppableRage: In “Monster Truck Folly”.

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%%** HatesEveryoneEqually* HatesEveryoneEqually: Sunshine hates everyone and everything, especially Dog.


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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He’s basically the show’s equivalent of Ben Stein.
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* HatesEveryoneEqually: How else can we describe him?

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* HatesEveryoneEqually: How else can we describe him? %%** HatesEveryoneEqually

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* HeavySleeper: In "War of the CatDog", Dog tries to make sure Cat is asleep, so he tries calling his name, poking him, and even putting his hand in Cat's mouth. Cat sleeps through all this.

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* HeavySleeper: In "War of the CatDog", [=CatDog=]", Dog tries to make sure Cat is asleep, so he tries calling his name, poking him, and even putting his hand in Cat's mouth. Cat sleeps through all this.


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* NostalgiaFilter: {{Deconstruction}}. In the episode "Back to School", Cat is looking forward to attending his high school reunion and dancing with his old crush Sally. He describes himself as popular and having a great time in high school. Even in the beginning of the episode something is fishy, with all of the memorabilia and rewards he claimed were his really belonging to Dog, and their diploma having Dog's name but not Cat's. He tells Dog that they need to correct it by visiting their old high school. The brothers visit Rancid the school principal about the diploma, and it is revealed Cat never attended the last day of school so for him to have the diploma and be able to attend the reunion dance, he must go back to school for one day. Cat is happy to relive his glory days, but wonders why he can't remember his last day at school. But throughout the day things just keep going wrong with him while Dog is popular - three of Cat's new classmates are the relatives of the Greasers who make him miserable, his crush Sally is indifferent to him, and after class when he asks her to dance with him at the reunion, she coldly tells him that she has a boyfriend and makes it clear that she does not like him. At lunch both the cool kids and nerds refuse to let Cat sit with them, and then a food fight break out and Cat gets blamed for it. Finally at gym he is humiliated by Cliff, who is the teacher and Sally's boyfriend, who brings Sally there to watch his humiliation. As the kids laugh at Cat and call him a loser, his repressed memories come back and he realize the truth - Cat was an outcast and all of his positive memories of school were Dog's, and at the last day of school he was humiliated at gym by Cliff's father Coach Feltbottom, the gym teacher at the time, where he and all the other kids call him a loser, which made Cat run away and block out his memory of the day. And because Cat blocked out his memory of that day and chose to remember things differently, he set himself up for more humiliation in this episode.


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* MomentOfWeakness: In the episode "All You Need is Lube", a tick attaches to Lube's toe. Cliff and Shriek are too afraid of the tick to help Lube and run away, while Cat takes the tick off, so Lube decides to serve Cat for saving his life. When Cliff and Shriek come back, lying that they left to get help, Lube is not fooled and angrily calls them out for abandoning him and tells them he's with Cat now. Cliff and Shriek genuinely feel bad about letting Lube down and do try to make it up to him to earn back their friendship.


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* WithFriendsLikeThese: The Greasers, despite being rather nasty bullies, are close and do stick together. However, at the same time there are times where they are willing to turn on and leave each other when they see each other as weak and different.
** In the episode "Squirrel Dog", when Cliff gets Eddie the Squirrel stuck on his back, Lube and Shriek refuse to help Cliff and abandon him, because in their eyes Cliff was now a freak. They only take him back when Cliff accidentally gets Eddie off his back and Cliff shows he learned nothing by going back to being a bully.
** In the episode "Cliff's Little Secret", when [=CatDog=] find out that Cliff takes ballet dancing, they no longer fear him, and it drives him insane, with Shriek angry that [=CatDog=] no longer fear them. After being laughed at by [=CatDog=] during almost the whole episode, Shriek and Lube decide to leave Cliff, with Shriek telling Cliff she love him like a brother, but she never want to see him again, with Lube admitting the same. When Cliff begs them not to go and asks what will happen to them, Shriek admits she doesn't care. It's only when Cliff discovers why [=CatDog=] stopped fearing him and make them fear him again do Shriek and Lube take him back.

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* HatesEveryoneEqually: How else can we describe him?



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%%* TheLoad* TheLoad: He is never really any help at all.
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* TokenGoodTeammate: Lube is not only the nicest Greaser, [[UpToEleven he's probably the nicest character in]] ''the entire show''.

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* TokenGoodTeammate: Lube by himself is not only that bad. He just follows along with the nicest Greaser, [[UpToEleven he's probably the nicest character in]] ''the entire show''.others, and is too dumb to know any better.
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Right below this example, there's a Break The Cutie entry that lists all the bad things that happened to him


* BornLucky: In contrast to the much [[BornUnlucky unluckier]] Cat, almost everything that happens to Dog ends on his favor.
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* CatchPhrase: Dog got his from the mom.

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* CatchPhrase: Dog got his from the mom.their Mom.



* InterspeciesAdoption: [[spoiler:They adopted [=CatDog=] when the two of them were babies.]]
* InterspeciesRomance: [[spoiler:The dad's a frog, the mom is a big blue Sasquatch looking thing.]]
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Dog takes after the mom, Cat takes after the dad.

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* InterspeciesAdoption: [[spoiler:They adopted [=CatDog=] when the two of them were just babies.]]
* InterspeciesRomance: [[spoiler:The [[spoiler:Their dad's a frog, the frog while their mom is a big blue Sasquatch looking thing.appears to be some kind of sasquatch-creature.]]
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Cat takes after their dad while Dog takes after the mom, Cat takes after the dad.their mom.



* UnnamedParent: Neither of them are given a real name and are only referred to as Mom and Dad.

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* UnnamedParent: Neither of them are given a real name and are only referred to as Mom "Mom" and Dad."Dad."
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* {{Tsundere}}: He's usually shown to be [[ItsAllAboutMe very selfish]] and [[MoneyFetish obsessed entirely with money]], but whenever Dog has been utterly humiliated, [[BigBrotherInstinct he'll stop at nothing to make him happy again]].



* DumbBlond: Dog doesn't normally have hair however a flashback to TheSeventies has him with blond hair.

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* DumbBlond: Dog doesn't normally have hair hair, however a flashback to TheSeventies has him with blond hair.
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* MeaningfulName: Shriek. She shrieks. Boy does she ''[[CuteButCacophonic shriek]]''.

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* MeaningfulName: Shriek. She shrieks. Boy Shriek has a very squeaky, raspy voice that makes her sound like she's shrieking all the time. And, boy, does she ''[[CuteButCacophonic shriek]]''.
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The former of the title brothers. Cat is the smarter and more sophisticated of the pair, often coming up with hare-brained get-rich-quick schemes and being literally dragged around by his dimwit brother.
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The other end of the eponymous conjoined brothers. Dog is a happy-go-lucky dimwit who loves food and chasing vehicles, often to the frustration of Cat.
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A blue, Brooklyn-accented mouse who lives in the walls of [=CatDog=]'s home. He's usually on pretty good terms with his neighbours, but has been known to take enjoyment in tormenting them from time to time.
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A pig and a weasel who are among [=CatDog=]'s few friends.
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A green-skinned humanoid of unclear species usually seen working various odd jobs. Despite his name, he is anything but sunshine.
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A "yellow-bellied whippoorwill" with a Hispanic accent. She's a zoologist who first showed up to study [=CatDog=], but soon became one of their closest friends.
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A suave and trendy feline and a local celebrity in Nearburg.
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A pair of female cats who have dated [=CatDog=] a few times.
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The archenemies of [=CatDog=]. A trio of thuggish mutts who hate cats and beat up any they meet. The gang consists of the brutish leader Cliff; the astoundingly moronic Lube; and the diminutive Shriek, who is the sole girl of the group.
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A large green rabbit who antagonizes [=CatDog=] just as often as the Greasers do. Somewhere between the mayor and the CEO of Nearburg, he seems to have managerial-level positions in virtually every business in the city.
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A mangy little squirrel with a bad attitude who idolizes the Greasers and seeks to join their gang.
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A feline actress whom Cat has an enormous crush on.
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A fast-moving lizard who works in postal delivery.
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[=CatDog=]'s (adoptive) parents, whom the pair set out to find in TheMovie "[=CatDog=] and the Great Parent Mystery".
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