History WesternAnimation / Catdog

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''[=CatDog=]'' is a Franchise/{{Nicktoon|s}} created by illustrator and musician Peter Hannan. It first aired on {{Creator/Nickelodeon}} on April 4, 1998, and ran until June 15, 2005, for a total of 68 episodes.

The story revolves around Cat and Dog (together "[=CatDog=]"), {{conjoined twins}} who are [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a cat and a dog respectively]]. [[OddCouple The conjoined twins]] have [[SiblingYinYang very different personalities]]. Cat is the brains of the outfit, sophisticated and obsessed with cleanliness. Dog, on the other hand, is much more laid back and naive than his brother, and enjoys going on adventures and eating; he's also rather easily led. Each episode follows Cat and Dog's daily adventures of living with each other and trying to avoid harassment from a gang of three dogs named the Greaser Dogs, corrupt businessman Rancid Rabbit, and their neighbor, a blue mouse named Winslow who lives in one of the walls of their home.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: In "You're Fired", Cat tries to douse his pepper-filled mouth with water. Given that water and capsaicin don't mix well, this only makes it worse.

The show reruns in the block Series/The90sAreAllThat (later [=NickSplat=] and now [=NickRewind=]). The series was released on DVD by Creator/ShoutFactory, with the complete series released in 2014. As of TheNewTwenties the title characters still occasionally appear in {{crossover}} works, namely video games such as ''VideoGame/NickelodeonKartRacers 2: Grand Prix'' and ''VideoGame/NickelodeonAllStarBrawl''.

* ComeOutComeOutWhereverYouAre: In “Guess Who’s Going To Be Dinner”, Cat, reverting to his natural instincts after tasting Winslow, says this while stalking Winslow in the bedroom.

* TheDitz: Lube and Dog aren’t very smart and sophisticated dogs.

** In the episode "Flea Or Die," Cat bluntly tells Dog that it was the latter’s fault that they had fleas. Considering how Dog was running around on the beach and he was the one who came in contact with the guy who originally had the fleas, Cat was completely right in calling Dog out.

* PaperThinDisguise: [=CatDog=] tries many of these in the episode when they are banned from Taco Depot. They don’t fool Rancid Rabbit one bit.

* Nightmare Fuel: InUniverse; example with Dog in the episode "Nightmare", in which Dog was scared of a monster from a horror movie. Made worse when it was revealed that Tooth Pick Head was real. Also all the [[LatexPerfection removing of their faces]] could be considered quite creepy.

The story revolves around Cat and Dog (together "[=CatDog=]"), {{conjoined twins}} who are [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a cat and a dog respectively]]. [[OddCouple The conjoined twins]] have [[SiblingYinYang very different personalities]]. Cat is the brains of the outfit, sophisticated and obsessed with cleanliness. Dog, on the other hand, is much more laid back and naive than his brother, and enjoys going on adventures and eating; he's also rather easily led. Each episode follows Cat and Dog's daily adventures of living with each other and trying to avoid harassment from a gang of three dogs named the Greaser Dogs, and their neighbor, a blue mouse named Winslow (who lives in one of the walls of their home).

* Nightmare Fuel: In-Universe example with Dog in the episode "Nightmare", in which Dog was scared of a monster from a horror movie. Made worse when it was revealed that Tooth Pick Head was real. Also all the [[LatexPerfection removing of their faces]] could be considered quite creepy.

* Nightmare Fuel: In-universe example with Dog in the episode "Nightmare", in which Dog was scared of a monster from a horror movie. Made worse when it was revealed that Tooth Pick Head was real. Also all the [[LatexPerfection removing of their faces]] could be considered quite creepy.

* FeudEpisode: There's quite a few. "Dog Come Home" features Dog deciding to leave Cat and live on his own. They reconcile by the end of the episode. Also "War of the CatDog"

* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Lube is part of the Greaser Gang who endlessly torment Catdog, but is also the noticeably stupider and more docile out of the three, having at least a few occasions he acts obliviously friendly or is just otherwise too ineffectual in his bullying.

* PaperThinDisguise: CatDog tries many of these in the episode when they are banned from Taco Depot. They don’t fool Rancid Rabbit one bit.

* RiddleForTheAges: How an organism like CatDog could possibly have come to be is never revealed.

* SlapStick: A lot of it, usually directed towards [{{TheChewToy}} Cat]], but ''everybody'' on the show has gone through it at one point or another.

The show reruns in the block Series/The90sAreAllThat (later [=NickSplat=] and now [=NickRewind=]). The series was released on DVD by Creator/ShoutFactory, with the complete series released in 2014. As of TheNewTwenties the title characters still occasionally appear in {{Crossover}} works, namely video games such as ''VideoGame/NickelodeonKartRacers 2: Grand Prix'' and ''VideoGame/NickelodeonAllStarBrawl''.

The show reruns in the block Series/The90sAreAllThat (later [=NickSplat=] and now [=NickRewind=]). The series was released on DVD by Creator/ShoutFactory, with the complete series released in 2014. As of TheNewTwenties the title characters still occasionally appear in crossover works, namely video games such as ''VideoGame/NickelodeonKartRacers 2: Grand Prix'' and ''VideoGame/NickelodeonAllStarBrawl''.

->''One fine day with a woof and a purr,''\\
''A baby was born and it caused a little stir''\\
''No blue buzzard, no three-eyed frog,''\\
''Just a feline, canine, little [=CatDog=]''\\
''[=CatDog=], [=CatDog,=]''\\
''Alone in the world was a little [=CatDog=]!''\\
''Out on the road or back in town''\\
''All kinds'a critters putting [=CatDog=] down''\\
''Gotta rise above it gotta try to get along''\\
''Gotta walk together gotta sing this song''\\
''[=CatDog=], [=CatDog,=]''\\
''Alone in the world was a little [=CatDog=]!''\\


''[=CatDog=]'' is a [[Franchise/{{Nicktoons}} Nicktoon]] created by illustrator and musician Peter Hannan. It first aired on {{Creator/Nickelodeon}} on April 4, 1998, and ran until June 15, 2005, for a total of 68 episodes.

''All kinds'a critters putting Catdog down''\\

** In ''Full Moon Fever'', Cliff says, of Dog, "[[Film/{{Freaks}} Gobble gobble, one of us.]]"
** In another episode, Cat reads a "poem" that contains "Roses are red, violets are purple / Sugar is sweet and so is maple syruple", a line from Roger Miller's song "Dang Me".
** The episode ''Geekers'' is pretty much one giant one to ''Film/TheWarriors''.

The show reruns in the block Series/The90sAreAllThat (later [=NickSplat=] and now [=NickRewind=]). The series was released on DVD by Creator/ShoutFactory, with the complete series released in 2014.

''[=CatDog=]'' was a [[Franchise/{{Nicktoons}} Nicktoon]] created by illustrator and musician Peter Hannan. It first aired on {{Creator/Nickelodeon}} in 1998 and ran for 68 episodes.

The story revolved around Cat and Dog (together "[=CatDog=]"), {{conjoined twins}} who were [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a cat and a dog respectively]]. [[OddCouple The conjoined twins]] have [[SiblingYinYang very different personalities]]. Cat was the sophisticated one, being into things such as the Opera and cleanliness. Dog, on the other hand, was much more laid back than his brother and enjoyed going on adventures and eating. The episodes revolved around Cat and Dog's daily adventures of living with each other and trying to avoid harassment from a gang of three dogs named the Greaser Dogs and their neighbor (who lives in one of the walls of their home) Winslow, a blue mouse.

The show reruns in the block Series/The90sAreAllThat (later [=NickSplat=] and now [=NickRewind=]). The series is released in DVD by Creator/ShoutFactory, with the complete series released in 2014.

* FeudEpisode: There's quite a few. "Dog Come Home" features Dog deciding to leave Cat and live on his own. They reconcile by the end of the episode.

* InterspeciesRomance: Catdog's [[spoiler:adopted parents, a bigfoot and a frog, are this. Presumably, so were their biological parents.]]

* RealityEnsues: In "You're Fired", Cat tries to douse his pepper-filled mouth with water. Given that water and capsaicin don't mix well, this only makes it worse.