History WesternAnimation / DogCity

'''Eliot:''' ''Well, sometimes it's just staring you in the face.''

'''Eliot:''' ''[[StealthInsult Well, sometimes it's just staring you in the face]].''

* WhosOnFirst: With names like Ace ''Yu'' and Bugsy ''Them'', this is a given.

-->'''Ace''': "No, Yu! Why you?" (The Bartender looks confused) "Look, it's simple: Yu is me!"

-->'''Ace''': "Oh! Wu is you? Pleased to meet you, Wu!"

-->'''Ace''': "But you used to be Wu!"

* AdultsDressedAsChildren: In one episode, Bugsy hired a gangster who looked like a puppy named Puppyface Halfnelson to help with a bank heist.

* WriteWhoYouKnow: In-universe.

* DuellingWorks: InUniverse, the episode "Sick as a Dog" reveals that the show-within-a-show is in a ratings battle with ''Cat City'', later replaced by ''Rabbits in the Hood''. Brief clips from both shows are shown, featuring feline/lapine versions of Ace and Rosie parroting the "Feed the hungry, not my ego" line from the first episode.

* DuellingWorks: InUniverse, the episode "Sick as a Dog" reveals that the show-within-a-show is battling with ''Cat City'', later replaced by ''Rabbits in the Hood''. Brief clips from both shows are shown, featuring feline/lapine versions of Ace and Rosie parroting the "Feed the hungry, not my ego" line from the first episode.

* DuellingShows: InUniverse, the episode "Sick as a Dog" reveals that the show-within-a-show is battling with ''Cat City'', later replaced by ''Rabbits in the Hood''. Brief clips from both shows are shown, featuring feline/lapine versions of Ace and Rosie parroting the "Feed the hungry, not my ego" line from the first episode.

* FantasticGhetto: Tabbytown is Dog City's cat did

** In "Rocketship K9", one of the sci-fi scenes Ace objects to is an alien invasion in a town called [[Radio/TheWarOfTheWorlds Rover's Mills]].

* ArousedByTheirVoice: In the episode "Springer Fever", Eliot flip-flops Rosie's characterization between a more critical version of her by-the-book cop persona and a new persona where she's outwardly trying to seduce Ace with a huskier tone due to basing her off his new LoveInterest Terri Springer. This is naturally lampshaded.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: After falling head over heels for Terri, Eliot starts getting rather...excited with Rosie's characterization, which shifts between criticizing and trying to seduce Ace, much to the private eye's chagrin. Ace declares that Eliot needs "a little cooling off" and, by slamming a hammer in the cartoon world, knocks a glass of ice water onto Eliot's crotch. Works like a charm.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: After falling head over heels for Terri, Eliot starts getting rather...excited with Rosie's characterization which turns her into a {{Tsundere}}-like character. She shifts between criticizing and trying to seduce Ace, much to the private eye's chagrin. Ace declares that Eliot needs "a little cooling off" and manages, by slamming a hammer in the cartoon world, to shake the desk enough that a glass of ice water falls onto Eliot's crotch. Works like a charm.

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Are Ace and Eliot actually having fourth-wall breaking conversations, or is it all entirely in Eliot's head? On one hand, Eliot is the only one Ace is ever shown talking to. On the other hand, you have cases like the GettingCrapPastTheRadar example above where Ace is somehow able to shake the desk despite being a two-dimensional character outside the show's real world.

* {{Metafiction}}[=/=]{{Postmodernism}}: ''Dog City'' openly addresses the storytelling process through Eliot and Ace's conversations. The plots generally are kicked off by discussions of the animation, as well as addressing, parodying, and lampshading multiple tropes. And there's also the fact that these conversations also [[BreakingTheFourthWall break the fourth wall]].

'''''Dog City''''' was an animated/Muppet series based on a half-hour segment in ''Series/TheJimHensonHour''. The original "Dog City" was about an anthropomorphic German Shepherd named Ace Yu, facing bulldog gangster Bugsy Them (the Dogfather) in a ''film noir'' environment, and in 2010 was released on DVD from Lionsgate, excluding the Jim Henson Hour part.

* FurryReminder: Occasionally - the dogs use fire hydrants instead of toilets, and Artie can be seen sleeping in a dog basket in one episode.

* OverlyLongGag: "Bugsy will hear about this!" "But what if he doesn't?" "But he will!" "But what if he doesn't?" "But he..."

* IncrediblyLamePun: It's Muppet production, natch.

* DeadpanSnarker: Ace, [[IncrediblyLamePun in spades]].

* DoggedNiceGuy: [[IncrediblyLamePun Pun not intended]], but Elliot counts as he an never seem to hook up with the attractive GirlNextDoor.

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Kitty was pretty savvy to begin with, but in one episode she tore up Ace and Rosie's dog licenses...

--> Bowser (just smashed a hole in the wall as the door is blocked by a panicking Eliot, Bruno and Artie): "[[Film/TheShining Here's Bowser!]] [[BrickJoke And I brought the tools.]]"

'''''Dog City''''' was an animated/Muppet series based on a half-hour segment in ''Series/TheJimHensonHour''. The original "Dog City" was about an anthropomorphic German Shepherd named Ace Yu, facing bulldog gangster Bugsy Them (the Dogfather) in a ''film noir'' environment. The segment was just recently released on DVD from Lionsgate, excluding the Jim Henson Hour part.

* BinocularShot (Parodied. From the POV of villain Bugsy Them, we see the two leads through two overlapping circles. Then the camera cuts to a wide shot to reveal that Bugsy isn't looking through binoculars -- he's just holding up a piece of cardboard with two overlapping holes and looking through it.)

* DogsAreDumb (mostly averted. The only exception is Bugsy's hired muscle, Mad Dog, whose two- I mean, fourteen years of obedience school have done nothing for his thinking ability.)
* FamilyFriendlyFirearms (Averted big time.)

* IncrediblyLamePun (It's Muppet production, natch.)
* PunnyName (Rowlf even Lampshades the names of Ace Yu and Bugsy Them as 'Cheap joke names')

* RunningGag (Amounts of time being translated into dog years)

* WhosOnFirst (With names like Ace ''Yu'' and Bugsy ''Them'', this is a given.)