Line #78 WesternAnimation/CatDog


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons "Aw, cool! Twice the pet and none of the mess!"]]]]
3	->''One fine day with a "woof" and a "purr",\
4	A baby was born, and it caused a little stir!\
5	No blue buzzard, no three-eyed frog,\
6	Just a feline, canine, little [=CatDog=]!\
7	[=CatDog=], [=CatDog=]!\
8	Alone in the world was a little [=CatDog=]!''
9	-->-- The beginning of the '''ExpositoryThemeTune'''
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11	''[=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 ([[Main/ShortRunInPeru in the U.S.]]) until June 15, 2005, for a total of 68 episodes. (Production ceased in 2000, but Nickelodeon held off the remaining episodes of its final season and eventually aired them on Creator/NicktoonsNetwork.)
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13	The story revolves around Cat and Dog (together "[=CatDog=]"), {{conjoined twins}} who are [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a cat and a dog respectively]]. [[OddCouple The twins]] have [[SiblingYinYang very different personalities]]. Cat is the brains of the outfit, sophisticated and obsessed with cleanliness, but also self-centered with a sense of superiority. Dog, on the other hand, is much more laidback and naïve than his brother, and enjoys eating and going on adventures; he's also very gullible and easily led on. 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.
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15	Notable for its [[SadistShow cruel humor]] and [[CrapsackWorld bleak setting]], with many stories involving [[KafkaKomedy bad things happening to characters who don't deserve it]], making it one of the more polarizing Nicktoons. Nevertheless, it has a dedicated following of nostalgic fans.
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17	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''.
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22	* AbnormalAmmo: Due to how [=CatDog=]'s digestive system works, if Cat eats several small items, Dog can shoot them out of his nose with machine-gun force. They mainly use candies for this.
23	* ActorAllusion: [[Creator/JimCummingsVoiceActor Cat]] often refers to Winslow as a "[[WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM blue rodent]]."
24	** For that matter, one episode has him and Dog [[WesternAnimation/{{Balto}} participating in a dogsled race]].
25	* ADogAteMyHomework: Cat tries to make money off this in one episode by letting people hire Dog to eat their homework for them in "A Dog Ate My Homework". Even the President ([[NewJobAsThePlotDemands Rancid again]]) asks them to eat his speech. However, Dog suffers a moral crisis before he can do so, so Cat has to eat it. Nobody believes that a cat could eat homework, so Rancid is booed off the podium and goes back into the clowning business.
26	* AesopAmnesia: Parodied in "[=SquirrelDog=]," where Cliff has Eddie the squirrel glued to his back and learns not to treat two-headed people like freaks, but willingly disregards this as soon as he finds out that Eddie is only glued to his ''jacket.''
27	* AllJustADream: In "Shriek Loves Dog", Cat plans to make Dog and Shriek fall for each other, hoping that the Greaser Dogs will thereby leave him alone. The rest of the episode is Cat's dream of what the consequences are: Dog marries Shriek, which causes the Greaser Dogs to move into their house and generally making Cat's life a living hell.
28	** Also happens in "Dem Bones." The episode seemingly ends with [=CatDog=] in [[ItMakesSenseInContext museum jail,]] but it turns out to be just a dream Cat had.
29	* AlliterativeName: Rancid Rabbit and Evil Eric (Mean Bob's archenemy).
30	* AlphaBitch: Sally O' Neil, the teacher from Back to School.
31	* AlternativeContinuity: The movie ignores some of the events and continuity of the show, presumably for the benefit of non-fans.
32	* AnimalJingoism: The Greasers hate cats, and this is one of the reasons why they regularly beat up [=CatDog=].
33	* AnimationBump: "Fetch" was produced as a theatrical short to be shown before ''WesternAnimation/TheRugratsMovie'' (which was later paired up as part of the regular half-hour broadcast), so it has much more theatrical-quality animation compared to a regular episode. This is very evident in the coloring of the characters and the more fluid character animation.
34	** The episode “Hypno-Teased” is inexplicably more fluidly animated than most, with lots of smear frames.
35	* AnthropomorphicFood: Mr. Depot in "All You Can't" Eat appears to be a taco. Also Heinz, Esperanza, Frank and the rest of the minor food characters in "Meat, Dog's Friends."
36	* AnimalTalk: Subverted. Cat and Dog have no problem talking to FunnyAnimals.
37	* AprilFools: "Kooky Prank Day." Cat is on the receiving end of every prank in Nearburg, but by the end, [[spoiler: he's turned the tables with a very impressive, very complex prank.]]
38	* ArtShift: The episode where [=CatDog=] dream of themselves as separate animals.
39	** The theatrical short, "Fetch," has more detailed animation and layouts, with shading and being animated on "ones", as opposed to being animated on "twos" like on the show.
40	** Dog’s dream before he turns feral at the sight of a full moon is animated in a monochromatic pencil style.
41	* AttackPatternAlpha: '''Cat-Dog Wheel!'''
42	* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Cat has moments like this towards Dog, usually when Dog's been utterly humiliated.
43	** In "Full Moon Fever," Dog turns into a wolf-like form in the full moon. Cat decides to let Dog "get it out of his system" and he ends up joining the Greasers. Dog passes their initiation test, making Cat miserable all the while. He passes and they accept him, and even give him a tail by putting a plunger on Cat's head. Dog then looks at how miserable his brother is... and changes to his normal self because he doesn't want to see his brother suffer.
44	* AxCrazy: Cat in "Monster Truck Folly" ends up attacking everyone unprovoked.
45	* BabysittingEpisode: In one episode, they have to babysit Cliff's niece. She eventually gets lost and when Lube comes to pick up the baby, they pass off Winslow as the baby and go look for her. They manage to get her back in enough time that Cliff doesn't find out.
46	* BabysitterFromHell: Rancid Rabbit in ''Let the Games Begin''.
47	* BadFuture: Accidentally created when Cat made fun of Winslow for being small and puny, resulting in his distant descendant becoming an EvilOverlord. DisproportionateRetribution much?
48	* BaldHeadOfToughness: In one episode, Catdog compete in a sled race against the Greasers. Cat puts Dog through TrainingFromHell to get him ready for the race and tries to invoke this trope, shaving all of his fur off. Unfortunately, this backfires as Dog's lack of fur [[HumanPopsicle eventually gets to him]] and costs them the race.
49	--> '''Cat''': "He's mean, he's lean, and totally bald!!!"
50	* BaseballEpisode: In "The Unnatural," [=CatDog=] competes in a baseball game. Cat is a terrible player, but Dog isn't. Cat eventually gets the idea to pretend he is Dog and vice-versa so he'll look like a better player. In the end, he takes off his mask and tries to hit the ball himself... but he fails. However, Cat realizes that he's good at other things and decides that he doesn't need to be a good baseball player after all.
51	* BeachEpisode: In "Surfin' [=CatDog=]," [=CatDog=] goes to the beach and competes in a surfing contest against the Greasers. [[ThrowTheDogABone They win.]]
52	* BeYourself: Tough-acting tomboy Shriek tries to make herself "a real woman" so that Dog will take notice of her. It backfires when every guy except Dog ends up hitting on her.
53	* BigBadWannabe: Rancid Rabbit happens to be ineffectual when he tries to be a major threat, especially in ''Extra, Extra''.
54	* BigEater: Dog tends to have an enormous appetite, though Cat has put a lot of fish away at times.
55	* BigNo: Near the end of "The Golden Hydrant", Cat yells one when Dog, the Greaser Dogs, and Eddie walk towards him as he [[spoiler:crave the real Golden Hydrant inside a crocodile.]]
56	* BitingTheHandHumor: "[=CatDog=] Food" involved [=CatDog=] becoming mascots for a pet food meant for both dogs and cats. Rancid Rabbit ends up firing them when Cat refuses to accept having his and Dog's likenesses used for useless merchandise such as bus passes and bricks, which may have been a dig towards Nickelodeon and the merchandise constantly made for their shows.
57	* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: Most Nearburg businesses have interesting buildings (usually shaped like what they sell)
58	* BootCampEpisode: [=CatDog=] gets a military-style experience... at a ''clown school''.
59	* ButtSticker: [=CatDog=]'s dad ends up stuck to their mother's bottom after she sits on him at one point in "Vexed of Kin".
60	* CallingYourAttacks: "[=CatDog=] WHEEL!"
61	* CarnivoreConfusion: {{Deconstructed}} in the final episode, when Dog goes through some massive SanitySlippage after realizing the implications of this. [[spoiler: Luckily, Johnny Meatseed ends up RealAfterAll, and plants a ton of meat trees for Dog to feast upon as much as he wishes]].
62	* CartoonCreature: Mr. Sunshine. Lampshaded on several occasions where no one is sure what kind of creature he's supposed to be.
63	** WordOfGod has it he was originally meant to be a monkey.
64	* CatDogDichotomy: Cat and Dog, in addition to respectively being the species the trope refers to, are the exact opposite of each others' personalities. Cat tends to be the smarter of the two, prefers things to be clean, and often lets his greed get the best of him, while Dog is dim-witted, loves making messes, and is usually selfless and nice.
65	* CatsAreMean: Zigzagged. When Cat's written as mean, he's ''alarmingly'' mean; most of the time, however, he's more of a greedy and self-centered jerk than anything. He's even had his own moments of kindness and generosity. The cats of the Cat club however play this straight [[FantasticRacism to a frightening degree in regards to their hatred of dogs]].
66	* CatsAreSuperior: If either of the duo tries to accomplish something due to egotistical concerns, it's Cat. In general, he is also much more cunning and calculating than Dog. However, this means squat when Karma seems to have it out for him throughout the whole series, and rightfully so sometimes.
67	* CatsHateWater: Cat definitely has an aversion to water, considering that the conjoined twins' bathtub is missing his half.
68	* CatsHaveNineLives: In one episode, Dog accidentally unleashes Cat's other eight lives, and they have to get them back.
69	* ChaoticStupid: Cat will make anyone mad when the town has a crisis, even the police.
70	* CharacterCatchphrase: Several:
71	** Cat: "Bee-yoo-tee-''ful!''", "It just doesn't get any better than this!", a sarcastic "Terr-riffic", and [[AmusingInjuries "MY BODY MY BODY MY BODYYYYAAAGH!!!"]]
72	** Dog: "Hi-ho-diggety!", [[CaptainObvious "Two heads are more than one!"]] and "I smell trouble!" when acting as Dog the Mighty
73	** Winslow: "What are you, nuts?", and "Sheesh Louise!"
74	** Rancid: "What, what, what?!" and "Leaping lumbago!"
75	** Lola: "[[GratuitousSpanish Hola]], I am Lola!" and "Unbe''lieve''able!"
76	** Randolph: "And I ''love'' it!"
77	* ChasteToons: This show had a ''lot'' of them.
78	** Rancid's niece Rancine appeared in the ChristmasEpisode, and is a spoiled brat.
79	** In "Back to School" we meet the Greasers' nephews, Biff, Squeak and Bartholomew. The latter is actually smarter than his uncle Lube.
80	** Brat and Runt, Winslow's nephews, appear in "Harasslin' Match." They start out nice to [=CatDog=] but after they kick Winslow out, they become even worse than him to the point that they [[BetterTheDevilYouKnow want Winslow back]].
81	* TheChewToy: Played as straight as can be with Cat. Nearly every character has the odd bout of ''extremely'' bad luck however.
82	* ChristmasEpisode: Rancid's niece Rancine wants [=CatDog=] for Christmas in "A Very [=CatDog=] Christmas". Cat sells themselves to Rancid because he'll get a sports car if he does, and Santa (who'd already been disillusioned with the Christmas spirit) gets so angry about it he cancels Christmas. When Nearburg hears about it, they're all pissed off at [=CatDog=]. Thankfully, they manage to set everything right in the end and even get the Greasers to stop pounding them to celebrate Christmas.
83	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Dog tends to have very weird beliefs and habits.
84	* ClownSchool: There is an episode where the titular duo go to clown school. It's played like a boot camp, with a drill instructor and parachute jumping.
85	* ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere: When your girlfriend looks like a pizza, maybe you should stop for a snack...
86	** To make preparations for a dancing contest, Cat puts an overweight Dog on a diet so he will be fit enough for the competition. This was often met with many setbacks because Dog kept hidden stashes of food which he ate while exercising. Eventually, under threat of disqualification, Dog relents and loses enough weight for the competition. This backfires where a starving Dog starts to [[MeatoVision hallucinate his surroundings as food]] (he envisions his dancemates as pizza pies and drum sticks as chicken legs). Dog finally breaks and proceeds to devour not only the buffet, but his dance mates and the entire theatre!
87	* 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.
88	* ConeOfShame: Dog gets one in "Cone Dog." Cat discovers he can hear far-away things closer because of it, and decides to use it to blackmail people with their secrets. He then goes mad with power and starts to blackmail the entire ''world,'' putting Dog in ever-increasing Cones of Shame until he's in a dome-sized one.
89	* ConjoinedTwins: The titular characters are brothers joined from the waist down.
90	* ConspicuouslyLightPatch: In the taco restaurant in the episode "All You Can't Eat" where [=CatDog=] crawl under the floor tiles and you can see the path they take outlined on the tiles, for example.
91	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Rancid Rabbit usually holds the position of being an extremely unscrupulous business executive no matter where he is.
92	* CountingSheep: In "Shepherd Dog", Cat has trouble sleeping at the beginning of the episode. After Dog becomes a successful sheep herder, his duties are no longer needed and the sheep are to be sent to the slaughterhouse. After the duo rescue the sheep, they bring them home where Dog uses them to help Cat get to sleep by jumping over the bed one at a time.
93	* CrapsackWorld: Nearburg is shown to be a pretty unpleasant place to live for [=CatDog=] and their friends, probably because of Rancid.
94	* CrazyPrepared: Cat is the only person in the entire town who has a Species License.
95	* CreatorCameo: Peter Hannan voices a character holding on to a Mean Bob balloon that got loose in the episode "Talking Turkey."
96	** He also sings the theme song, and plays Pete the Polecat in "The Ballad of Ol' 159."
97	* CurbstompBattle: Tends to happen every time Catdog and friends try to fight the Greasers. Most notable was when Catdog and the Geekers were defeated by Cliff using just [[UnusualWeaponUser a pair of underwear]].
98	* DarkerAndEdgier: "The Great Parent Mystery" is definitely more serious than the series.
99	* DarkHorseVictory: [=CatDog=] and Mindy Wonderful are climbing a mountain, and the first to the top will have the mountain named after them. The winner is [[spoiler:Dunglap.]]
100	* DarkReprise: In "The Great Parent Mystery", the cats and dogs of Yokelburg sing a song called "Ain't No More", which is about how they've managed to set aside their differences and get along. After Cat refuses to be married to a hillbilly girl, this incites the [=McDogs=] and the Catfields to resume their feud and "Ain't No More" gets a reprise where they instead sing about how their living in harmony is now a thing of the past.
101	** Also, in "CatDog Doesn't Live Here Anymore", everyone thinks Cat and Dog left, and are sad, and sing a Dark Reprise of the theme song.
102	* DeadpanDoorShut: In one episode, Winslow walks in on [[ItMakesSenseInContext Dog with Cat in his mouth]] and quietly says, "...Never mind" before simply closing the door.
103	* DeadpanSnarker: Winslow and Cat both have their share of sarcastic remarks.
104	* DependingOnTheWriter: Is Cat a JerkAss that deserves his ButtMonkey treatment, or just a mildly sarcastic and cynical guy who [[DesignatedMonkey gets unfairly tortured]] by [[CrapsackWorld the rest of the universe]]?
105	** Similarly, is Dog a well meaning guy that is [[HanlonsRazor just too stupid to realise the trouble he causes his twin]], or a PsychopathicManchild who just doesn't care one way or another? It doesn't help that the extent of his stupidity also varies from episode to episode.
106	* DerangedAnimation
107	* DiabolusExMachina: One of too many examples: [=CatDog=] accidentally create an [[ImpossiblyDeliciousFood extremely delicious candy]] that gives them worldwide fame and fortune. At the very end, it's revealed that it also has the unintended side effect of making people go bald, and everyone hates them again.
108	* DidntThinkThisThrough:
109	** Even after Dog tells Cat that he's allergic to shellfish in "Seeing Eye Dog", Cat insists that Dog eats a lobster, even shoving it down his throat. This of course, causes Dog to suffer an allergic reaction that makes his eyes so swollen that he can't see. Not exactly the smartest thing Cat has done.
110	** 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.
111	* DietEpisode: "Dog Ate It" has Cat putting Dog on a diet in preparation for them entering a dance contest.
112	* DinosaurDoggieBone: There's one episode where Dog steals all the dinosaur bones from the Nearburg museum.
113	* DisproportionateRetribution: In "[=CatDog=] Catcher", [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling Dog]] gets arrested and Cat refuses to help him get out of jail. Why? Because several years prior to the episode, Dog apparently called Cat a "loser" once.
114	* TheDitz: Lube and Dog aren't very smart and sophisticated dogs.
115	* DogsAreDumb: Dog fits this trope perfectly.
116	* ADogNamedDog: And a cat named Cat.
117	* DumbIsGood: Cat is intelligent and a bit of a JerkAss, and acts as the show's key ButtMonkey. Dog for the most part is well intentioned but causes twice as much chaos via accidental stupidity and is a walking KarmaHoudini (that said, there are times where Dog gets away with being a genuine JerkAss).
118	* EarnYourHappyEnding:[[spoiler: In ''The Great Parent Mystery'', after their hardest quest yet.]]
119	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Lube has a completely different character design in the pilot episode.
120	** If you watch the episodes that are early in the production order, you'll notice that Winslow is a lot nicer to Cat and Dog and mainly exists to accidentally stir up conflicts by making comments on Cat and Dog's situation rather than the malicious prankster he'd become in later episodes.
121	* EarsAsHair: The Better Bottoms rabbit wears his ears in a sleazy ponytail style.
122	* TheEeyore: Mr. Sunshine
123	* EnemyMine: Happens at least twice with the Greasers.
124	** In "Let the Games Begin," both [=CatDog=] and the Greasers end up in the dog pound. Rancid Rabbit says he'll let them go if they compete in the dog pound Dogathlon against a team from Farburg. They fight amongst each other and lose the events until they decide they have to work together to get out of the situation.
125	** In "New Cat in Town," [=CatDog=] makes friends with a giant cat who's out for revenge on the Greasers. They manage to trap the Greasers, but it then turns out that the giant cat was a robot controlled by Eddie the Squirrel, who goes insane and decides to enslave Nearburg. [=CatDog=] and the Greasers have to team up to stop Eddie, and eventually they do.
126	* EpisodeTitleCard
127	* ExpositoryThemeTune: "One fine day with a woof and a purr..."
128	* {{Expy}}: ''Theatre/TheOddCouple'''s 1975 AnimatedAdaptation ''WesternAnimation/TheOddballCouple'' also featured the adventures of a neatnik cat and slovenly dog, albeit as separate entities.
129	* EyebrowWaggle: In "The Old CatDog and the Sea," Dog wins a storytelling contest and jokes to the camera that Cat "tends to exaggerate" when telling stories (something Cat accused Dog of doing earlier) and waggles his brows to the viewers.
130	* EyelashFluttering: In the episode "The Lady is a Shriek", Shriek does this as she tries to flirt with Dog, who just thinks she has something in her eye.
131	* FantasticRacism: If the constant beatings Cat receives from the Greasers primarily for his species doesn't count then one episode's upper class cult of cats with Nazi-esque plans to exterminate dogs certainly does.
132	* FantasticVoyagePlot: Done in several episodes where Cat eats several objects, Winslow- and a fish named Veronica and has to venture inside Dog to get her.
133	* FatBastard:
134	** Rancid Rabbit is kind of portly and is often very rude and corrupt.
135	** "[=CatDogula=]" has the head vampire tick Nosferacho. Cat even points this out.
136	-->'''Cat''': Who would've thought that blood would be so fattening?
137	* FatIdiot: Rancid Rabbit (again).
138	* 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=]"
139	* FireBreathingDiner: Happens a few times.
140	** In "You're Fired," when [=CatDog=] manages to get entry into a classy restaurant, Dog can't keep away from the chili peppers. They cause Cat to belch out flames, which helps him attract his "soulmate" Tallulah by broiling her steak for her. It soon backfires when he accidentally burns her pet dog into ashes.
141	** In "Spaced Out," [=CatDog=] gets trapped in a movie, and to destroy the enemy forces, Cat gulps down a box of Dog's favorite candy, Red Hot Lip Smackers, into his mouth and uses Dog as a pistol to burn the alien ships.
142	* FirehouseDalmatian: A Dalmatian puppy who resides in Nearburg's fire station appears in the episodes "Trespassing" and "Fire Dog".
143	* TheFool: Dog frequently [[TheMillstone causes multiple catastrophes]] and AmusingInjuries with his stupidity though more often than not fate is on his side and leaves him unscathed (and then punishes Cat twice as hard for the both of them).
144	* {{Foreshadowing}}: Early in TheMovie, Dog makes a comment about remembering his and Cat's mother's "four eyes" and their dad's "slimy green skin." [[spoiler: The dad is a frog who hides himself in the mother's face.]]
145	* FourthWallMailSlot: A short in the first episode featured a mail segment. When they had no mail, Dog resorted to making up a question and answering it. In the end, though, it turns out Winslow was hiding the mail from them.
146	* GiftOfTheMagiPlot: Happened in the episode "Brothers Day", then subverted when Dog sold Cat's gift after buying it to buy something for himself. More specifically, Dog gave up his pool of mud that he and Cat wrestled in to buy Cat a loufa case. Cat sold his loufa to get Dog a mud wrestling costume. Dog reveals that he sold the loufa case and got Cat a mud wrestling outfit as well, because "I looked up the recipe for mud, and it's really easy to make!"
147	* GRatedDrug: Whatever Eddie had to make him go hyperactive.
148	* GodGuise: An episode had [=CatDog=] land on a tropical island and get mistaken for a god called the Great Meow-Woof. Rancid Rabbit, the previous god, was not happy and tried to run them off the island.
149	* GrandFinale: TheMovie titled "The Great Parent Mystery".
150	** They still made 5 episodes after that, which were not aired in the USA until years after the fact.
151	* GratuitousSpanish: Lola, the Peruvian Vampire Ticks, and Esperanza.
152	* TheGrotesque: Mr. Sunshine and Eddie the Squirrel, to a ridiculous extent.
153	* GrowlingGut: In the opening theme, Cat licks the fur on his arm while Dog naps. Dog is awakened by rumbling in [=CatDog=]'s stomach, and he coughs out a hairball.
154	* GymClassRopeClimb: In "Back to School," Cliff is the gym teacher, and takes joy in making the students do this. Cat manages to do it successfully, however, humiliating Cliff in the process.
155	* HairballHumor: The intro has Cat licking his fur and ''Dog'' coughing up hairballs.
156	* HanlonsRazor: Both of the two leads are pretty inconsiderate to each other. In most cases though, the story tends to side with Dog, who is at least too dumb to know any better.
157	* HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler: [=CatDog=] themselves]].
158	* HalloweenEpisode: "[=CatDogula=]" has Dog bitten by a Peruvian vampire tick named Nosferacho and turned into a vampire. Cat, who's wearing a garlic lei for his costume, is not affected. Lola tells Cat that this can be reversed if he soaks Dog in garlic juice by the twelfth stroke of midnight. Over the course of the episode, everyone turns into vampires, but Cat manages to soak everyone in garlic juice before the time is up. [[spoiler: Winslow ends up being bitten by a ''werewolf'' and everyone running for their lives]]
159	* HaveAGayOldTime: One of Winslow's lines directed toward Cat, which goes "How 'bout I sock you right in the puss[[note]]As in 1940s slang for "face"[[/note]], ''Puss!''[[note]]As in general slang for cat[[/note]]". They could get away with it in the 90s, but given the term's change in usage over the years, it's a miracle that this line was able to stay in on re-airings.
160	* AHeadAtEachEnd: The whole premise of the show.
161	* HeroicDog: Dog tries to become a literal one in "Dog the Mighty." He's not that good at it until the end, when he manages to really save the day.
162	* HiddenDepths: Each of the Greasers has at least one trait they kept secret or never bothered telling anyone about. Cliff is an expert ballet dancer. Shriek is actually from a wealthy family. And Lube's a pretty good mechanic.
163	* HindenburgIncendiaryPrinciple: "Catdogpig" had a blimp advertising job interviews keep appearing in the sky as a RunningGag. In the end, it crashes into the pile of people [=CatDog=] detached from themselves and blows up, sending them all flying in the explosion, as Cat and dog watch and laugh.
164	* HistoricalAU: The episode "It's a Wonderful Half Life" is an homage to UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation, wherein Cat and Dog both have dreams where they're separate animals. Dog is a happy hobo in TheGreatDepression and Cat is a business tycoon of TheRoaringTwenties.
165	* HistoricalInJoke: "The House of [=CatDog=]" features a few of these. To protect their house from destruction, [=CatDog=] claims that their house was the site of the invention of fire, the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and a visit by Music/TheBeatles.
166	* HorribleCampingTrip: In "[=CatDog=] Campers," [=CatDog=] have to camp outside to win the Forest Fire Boy of the Year award. It doesn't go well, as they start feuding, and eventually a storm comes up and destroys the tent. Winslow manages to save them from falling off the cliff outside their home, but at the Forest Fire Boys meeting, he reveals he became a member of the troop and wins the award for what he did. Cat gets so angry he ties Dog's ears in a knot, and it's such a good knot, Scoutmaster Rancid Rabbit takes the award away from Winslow and gives it to [=CatDog=] instead.
167	* {{Hypocrite}}: As a Greaser Dog, Cliff is supposed to hate and beat up cats but he has no problem if the cat in question happens to be female as seen in "Back to School" and "Adventures in Greaser Sitting".
168	* HypocriticalHumor: Dog could be the poster child of InnocentlyInsensitive, obliviously causing endless pain and misery for Cat. The odd point Cat does something selfish at ''his'' expense however, he is quick to take offense.
169	* IdiotHero: Both of Catdog (although, Cat is meant to be smart).
170	* IdiotHoudini: Dog tends to get away with ruining Cat's day through his idiocy. And if he manages to ruin someone else's day, it is usually ''Cat'' that is punished.
171	* ImpossiblyDeliciousFood: "[=CatDog=] Candy" from the episode of the same name. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, it also makes you go bald]].
172	* InCaseOfXBreakGlass: One episode has the titular characters travel into an exotic land to suddenly steal the throne from [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Rancid Rabbit]]. Rancid goes back to a case that says, "In Case of Emergency, Break Grass".
173	* IntentionalWeightGain: In "Sumo Enchanted Evening", Catdog hastily gains weight to get an extra advantage against Rancid Rabbit during a sumo match.
174	* InterspeciesRomance: Catdog's [[spoiler:adoptive parents, a bigfoot and a frog, are this. Presumably, so were their biological parents.]]
175	* InevitableWaterfall: In ''The Great Parent Mystery.''
176	* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: Rancid Rabbit holds a different job whenever he appears? Dentist, dog catcher, fast food restaurant manager, you name it. Taken to its logical extreme where he is seen working as a teacher and a traffic cop in "Back to School", [[LampshadeHanging Cat is absolutely stunned.]]
177	* InexplicablyTailless: Winslow the mouse has no tail.
178	* InformedSpecies: Eddie hardly looks like a squirrel. Winslow hardly looks like a mouse.
179	** Lola is apparently a whip-poor-will. [[http://i1193.photobucket.com/albums/aa350/RichRonald/vlcsnap-2013-02-20-22h00m38s28_zps96a54207.png This]] is what Lola looks like. And [[http://www.nenature.com/Images/WhipPoorWillLMD.jpg this]] is what a whip-poor-will looks like.
180	** Despite what everyone thinks, Winslow claims he's not a mouse
181	* InterspeciesAdoption: [[spoiler:Catdog's parents are a ''frog'' and a ''sasquatch''. They were all separated from each other during a storm. When Cat questions how they could be their parents, their dad tells them that it doesn't matter, because [[GoodParents parents are parents]], and they loved them both. Dog does notice that it seems he got his nose from his mother though...]]
182	* ItsAWonderfulPlot: A well-named example of a subversion. Instead of imagining a world without themselves, they imagine a world without each other.
183	* JailBake: Subverted. A bunch of inmates receive a file, but Shriek uses it on her fingernails and then uses said fingernails to pick the lock.
184	* {{Jerkass}}: Lots and lots of characters. Rancid Rabbit, The Greaser Dogs and Winslow are some of the most obvious examples. Even Cat and Dog can become contemptible bastards depending on the episode (Cat more often than not, as he has jerkass traits).
185	* JerkassHasAPoint:
186	** Considering how dumb, destructive, and uneducated Dog can be, it's no wonder Cat can be a grouch sometimes.
187	** 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.
188	* JoeSentMe: "CatDog Sent Me" is used as a password to get into Cat's illegal cafe that serves a recalled brand of dog food.
189	* KafkaKomedy: This is the closest Nickelodeon ever came to "Schadenfreude: The Animated Show" arguably until ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim''. Much of the humor is based around the misery and utterly awful life of the main characters, juxtaposing Dog's blissful, optimistic ignorance with Cat's anguished, cynical resignation.
190	* KarmaHoudini: Most of the cast (even [[TheChewToy Cat]]) has gotten away with some particularly ruthless action at least once. Dog may be the most consistent example, having constantly gotten away with destroying aspects of his twin's life or getting him in trouble (though the fact most of the antagonists are cat-despising dogs that go lenient on Dog may have something to do with). Granted however a lot of the time, [[IdiotHoudini Dog is merely being stupid]] than [[HanlonsRazor actually callous]], [[JerkAssBall though not always]].
191	* KarmicButtMonkey: Zigzagged with Cat. He will receive some kind of punishment for his selfishness and occassional cruelty, but not all of it is karmic, like whenever Dog's recklessness puts them both in trouble.
192	* {{Keet}}: Dog.
193	* KidsAreCruel: Back to School
194	* KillerRabbit: Let The Games Begin!
195	* KillerRobot: Winslow's X-Terminator 3000 in the episode "The Pet", a red robot with a laser and [[spoiler:pilot controls inside its head]]. It shouts "Exterminate and Destroy" and attempts to kill Roachie and [=CatDog=].
196	* TheKilljoy: [[IronicName Mr. Sunshine]] who's basically pissed at everyone for no real reason.
197	* LaserGuidedKarma: On more than a few occasions, Winslow gets his just deserts for being a prick to [=CatDog=], like when they agree to wrestle him for making fun of their predicament in "Brothers' Day" or when they chase him for ditching them during their battle with the Greasers in "Siege on Fort [=CatDog=]".
198	* LateArrivalSpoiler: "Vexed of Kin" spoils [[spoiler:[=CatDog=] being reunited with their ''adoptive'' parents]] in "The Great Parent Mystery".
199	* LicensedGame: ''[=CatDog=]: Quest for the Golden Hydrant'', unrelated to the show's episode "The Golden Hydrant", was a computer game where the player controlled [=CatDog=] through various minigames. A [=PlayStation=] game called ''Saving Mean Bob'' was also planned, but was never released.
200	* LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy: The occasional human pops up in a few episodes.
201	* LivingToys: The Mean Bob action figures in "The Collector".
202	* LonelyRichKid: Shriek Dubois.
203	* LowerHalfReveal: In the episode “Spaced Out”, the titular characters, while stuck inside a movie they were watching, rescue the beautiful Princess Kitaen from the main villain. They only see her attractive face at first, which encourages the previously reluctant Cat to go along with the rescue, however after her cell door is opened it’s revealed that the rest of her body is that of a grotesque, slimy, plant-like monster, much to Cat's horror.
204	* MadAtADream: In the episode "Dummy Dummy," Dog becomes fond of a stuffed kitten toy he names "Little Cat." This causes Cat to have a bad dream where Dog decides to [[BodyHorror literally attach himself]] to Little Cat, leaving Cat himself attached to Winslow (making them "Winslow-Cat"). The dream makes Cat decide to move out of the house, telling Dog that he refuses to be replaced by Little Cat, and also declaring "And I will not stand for Winslow-Cat!"
205	* MadeForTVMovie / TheMovie: ''[=CatDog=]: The Great Parent Mystery''.
206	* MailmanVsDog: The plot of "Fistful of Mail" revolves around this trope.
207	* ManChild: Dog tends to be more childish than Cat. Justified, as he's a dog.
208	** PsychopathicManChild: DependingOnTheWriter, but most of the time he isn't out to cause harm.
209	* MayContainEvil: Rancid Rabbit's yelling voice in [=CatDog=] Divided & Let The Games Begin.
210	* MeaningfulEcho: "Meat Dog's Friends" has "You learn something new every day". Cat first says this early in the episode while showing cruel indifference towards Dog being horrified to learn that meat is made from animals. Cat later says it again when he is surprised to find out that meat trees and Johnny Meatseed are real.
211	* MeatOVision: Dog suffers this after going on a diet. See ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere.
212	* 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.
213	** In "Lube in Love" he isn't even the villain. [=CatDog=] seem to be on a friendly relationship with him, letting him fix their car, and even help him try to meet someone who he's fallen in love with.
214	* MistakenForApocalypse: In "The End," though [[spoiler:another bad omen appears]].
215	* MistakenForToilet: A variation in "Let the Games Begin!"; at the start of the episode, Cat admonishes Dog for mistaking a dogcatcher's leg for a [[DogsLoveFireHydrants fire hydrant]].
216	* MixAndMatchCritter: [=CatDog=]. Also, Mr. Sunshine the pigman.
217	* MoleMiner: A gopher lives under [=CatDog's=] house, claiming ownership of anything underneath it.
218	* MouseHole: Winslow lives in one of these.
219	* MultipleHeadCase: [=CatDog=]. Subverted, as they're conjoined twins.
220	[[/folder]]
221	[[folder:Tropes N-Z]]
222	* TheNapoleon: Winslow, Mr. Sunshine and Eddie the Squirrel
223	* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: Rancid Rabbit. According to one episode, he has all the jobs. All of them. In that episode, Rancid is a dog catcher and is trying to catch Dog. He then decides to use his mayoral powers to grant himself a search warrant.
224	* NiceMeanAndInbetween: Of the three characters who live in [=CatDog=]'s house, Dog is friendly and easy-going, [[JerkAssBall most of the time]] (nice), Winslow tends to pick on or insult the duo (mean), and Cat is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold who has a softer side (in-between).
225	* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Rancid Rabbit
226	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Randolph is a dead ringer for Cary Grant.
227	* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: [=CatDog=] usually receives this from the Greasers. Cat mostly gets this when Dog is running, but many, many episodes imply or show that both of them are getting the crap beaten out of them.
228	* NoIndoorVoice: Rancid Rabbit, Shriek, and Eddie The Squirrel.
229	* ObsessiveHobbyEpisode: In one episode, Cat becomes obsessed with collecting Mean Bob action figures.
230	* OddCouple: Cat is cynical and stoic, while Dog is excitable and fun-loving. They still manage to get along in spite of their differences most of the time.
231	* OddNameOut: In "Back to School", it is revealed that Cliff, Shriek, and Lube are uncles and an aunt. Cliff's nephew is named Biff and Shriek's niece is named Squeak, but Lube's nephew doesn't have a name that rhymes with that of his uncle's and is known as Bartholomew.
232	* OhTheHumanity: In "Fire Dog," Dog says "Oh, the humidity" when he thought that he's losing hope on stopping a farm fire.
233	* OneWingedAngel: Rancid of all characters pulls this off in "Sumo Enchanted Evening", when the now heavily overweight [=CatDog=] attempt to brush off Rancid's ridiculously high buffet bill, Rancid responds by ripping off his suit, revealing a girdle--which upon releasing causes him to expand to a positively massive sumo wrestler, and promptly duels them one on one.
234	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Cat, Dog, Cliff, Shriek and Lube are almost always referred to by their nicknames. Their real names, mentioned in a handful of episodes, are Felinius, Caninius, Clifford, Alice and Ignatius, respectively.
235	* OnlySaneMan: Mervis & Dunglap
236	* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The HalloweenEpisode "[=CatDogula=]" featured Peruvian vampire ticks who turn nearly everyone in Nearburg into a vampire except Cat. In the end, Cat manages to cure both the citizens of Nearburg and the ticks of their vampirism by dousing everyone in garlic juice.
237	* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: It is established in "Full Moon Fever" that the full moon causes Dog to transform into a wolf-like state.
238	* PartiallyConcealedLabelGag: In episode "Battle of the Bands", Catdog joins a "battle of the bands" contest after seeing a poster that reads "Battle of the Bands, Nearburg's Best", along with a $1,000 reward. Part of the poster flies off and lands at the Greasers' feet, instead reading "Battle of Nearburg's Best". The Greasers enter the battle too but mistake it for a literal fight rather than a music battle between bands.
239	* PassingNotesInClass: When [=CatDog=] gets sent back to high school to get their diploma, Cat tries to pass a note to his teacher, whom he had a crush on when they went to high school together. She catches him and forces him to read the poem to everyone else, causing Cat to melt into a puddle. Dog, however, thinks the poem was beautiful.
240	* PaperThinDisguise: [=CatDog=] tries many of these in the episode when they are banned from Taco Depot. They don't fool Rancid Rabbit one bit.
241	* PecFlex: Dog does this in "Pumped."
242	* PingPongNaivete: Somehow Dog is smart enough to know the ethics against cheating and doing schoolwork but not to realize that dragging his conjoined twin across the street may cause slight physical harm.
243	** This is slightly less so when you realize that he is a ''dog.'' Dog is usually not in control of his instincts, and like most dogs, can't control themselves when they chase the garbage truck or the mailman.
244	* PlotAllergy: In "Sneezie Dog," Dog suddenly develops an allergy. They go to the doctor, who thinks that Dog may be allergic to Cat. Winslow decides to help Dog out, and takes the opportunity to torture Cat, as usual, up to shaving him bald and placing a brick wall between them. Eventually they find out Dog is actually allergic to Winslow, and they shave him bald as payback.
245	* PolarOppositeTwins: [=CatDog=]. Cat tends to be more mature and short-tempered, while Dog is a fun-loving doofus with childish interests.
246	* PottyEmergency: Dog goes through this in "The Golden Hydrant" when Cat refuses to let him pee on the titular hydrant and the poor canine is forced to endure holding it in for the entire episode.
247	* PrisonRape: This is implied to happen to Rancid Rabbit at the end of the episode "[=CatDog=] Catcher" when his burly cellmate grabs him from off-screen as the episode irises out.
248	* [[RealMenWearPink Real Greasers Take Ballet]]: Cat finds out Cliff takes ballet in one of the episodes. This results in him bursting out laughing at Cliff whenever he sees him, causing Cliff to freak out over what Cat may possibly know. Ironically, after finally coming clean about several other, more embarrassing secrets (like a tendency to wet the bed), when Cat reveals the big secret is that he saw Cliff taking ballet class, Cliff calms down. He's not even the slightest ashamed of practicing ballet, pointing out that it requires amazing levels of balance, stamina, flexibility and strength; he even got into ballet because a wrestling champion icon of his practices it to enhance his own skills in the ring.
249	** Incidentally, there's a strong element of TruthInTelevision to this. Many football players in real life take up ballet to improve their balance, stamina, and flexibility.
250	* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Seeing as they were at once a CuteKitten and a PreciousPuppy, it's not surprising that [=CatDog=] were adorable when they were babies.
251	* RiddleForTheAges: How an organism like [=CatDog=] could possibly have come to be is never revealed.
252	* RollercoasterMine: Happens in "Diamond Fever." It's taken up to eleven in that as [=CatDog=] is riding along the track, their mine cart is breaking apart.
253	* RunningGag:
254	** Someone calling Cat "Hula Girl" due to his costume in the HalloweenEpisode, "[=CatDogula=]".
255	** In "No Thanks For the Memories", Dog getting knocked out, waking up with amnesia and screaming about [[ConjoinedTwins being attached to a cat.]]
256	* SadistShow: Often. Make no mistake, this is a ''mean'' show.
257	* SadistTeacher: Rancid Rabbit, Mr. Sunshine, Cliff and Sally O' Neil are this in ''Back To School''.
258	* SafetyWorst: "Safety Dog." Cat tries to make Dog safer by showing him a safety video. Dog is scared by the video and becomes so paranoid that he encases himself in a bubble when he goes outside. Cat has to turn his brother back to normal after seeing what happened.
259	* SawStarWars27Times: In the episode "Spaced Out", Dog wanted to see ''Mean Bob in Space, Part 12'' for the 73rd time. Dunglap also wanted to see the movie for the 74th time in the same episode.
260	* ScalingTheSummit: The episode "Climb Every [=CatDog=]" has Cat trying to climb Mount Nearburg against his childhood rival Mindy Wonderful, the prize being that the mountain will be renamed after whoever makes it to the top first. Of course, [=CatDog=] gets intro trouble when they accidentally leave their gear behind at the sporting goods store, but they still manage to get to the top...[[DarkHorseVictory only for them to see that Dunglap made it first]] so [[BrickJoke he can give them the gear they forgot]].
261	* SchoolYardBullyAllGrownUp: In "Fistful of Mail," it turns out the new mailman on [=CatDog's=] route is the paperboy who used to taunt Dog when he was a puppy.
262	* SelectiveEnforcement: Most of the time, Cat suffers the worst of anyone's retribution, even if Dog was the one who annoyed them. Justified for the Greasers, given they're dogs [[FantasticRacism who despise cats]] (Shriek is lampshaded as going easy on Dog due to having a crush on him).
263	* SeriousBusiness: What happens to people who break the rules at Rancid's pool? ''He puts them in his own prison and forces them to do manual labor''. On his pool.
264	* ShapedLikeWhatItSells: Most Nearburg businesses have this trait, most notably Taco Depo, which is shaped like a Taco
265	* ShoutOut:
266	** In "Full Moon Fever", Cliff says, of Dog, "[[Film/{{Freaks}} Gobble gobble, one of us.]]"
267	** In "Just Say [=CatDog=] Sent Ya", Cat says "Roses are red and violets are purple / Sugar is sweet and so is maple syruple", a lyric from the Roger Miller song "Dang Me".
268	** The episode "Geekers" is pretty much one giant one to ''Film/TheWarriors''.
269	** In the Halloween special, Dog has been turned into a vampire. When he's unconscious, he mutters the names of famous actors who've played vampires, including Creator/BelaLugosi, Klaus Kinski and Christopher Lee.
270	** "All About Cat" has a title and plot that parodies the film ''Film/AllAboutEve''.
271	*** The lyric the nurse sings when Lincoln is born is "It's a boy Mrs. Lincoln...it's a boy!" Gee...[[Music/{{Tommy}} sounds familiar...]]
272	** In "Vexed of Kin," Cat and Dog's frog father crosses the street in a parody of ''VideoGame/{{Frogger}}'' which ends with their Sasquatch mother--rendered in similar graphics--following him across the street, causing a widespread series of car collisions and accidents due to her girth. One victim also yells "MY LEG!" like Fred from ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''.
273	** In "Cliff's Little Secret", [=CatDog=] exit a movie theater with Dog remarking "That was a great movie! Who's [[Film/CitizenKane Rosebud]]?" A poster depicting WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants, albeit colored purple and with one tooth, can also be seen.
274	* ShownTheirWork: In "You're Fired", Cat tries to cool down the spicy sensation of hot peppers by guzzling down a pitcher of water. All this does is make the resulting FireBreathingDiner ''worse''. In real life, water actually ''does'' exacerbate spiciness, as it causes the capsaicin (the chemical that causes spiciness) to spread. Milk and/or bread is generally considered the better option.
275	* SitcomArchNemesis: Rancid Rabbit seems to have a sadistic grudge against Cat.
276	* {{Slapstick}}: A lot of it, usually directed towards [[TheChewToy Cat]], but ''everybody'' on the show has gone through it at one point or another.
277	* SledDogsThroughTheSnow: The episode "Mush, Dog, Mush!" has [=CatDog=] participate in a sled dog race called the Idigadog Sled Dog Race. The name is a parody of the real Iditarod race.
278	* SnapBack: Many episodes end with [=CatDog=] in an unpleasant predicament, only for everything to be back to normal by the next episode. Notable examples include losing their house to the Gopher in "Home is Where the Dirt Is" and apparently being permanently trapped inside a ''Mean Bob'' movie in "Spaced Out".
279	* StalkerWithACrush: Cat seem to be this with Sally O' Neil.
280	* StatusQuoIsGod: It just doesn't get any better than this!
281	* StealthPun: In "Shriek Loves Dog", Shriek agrees to meet Dog at a "footbridge". It's a bridge with pylons shaped like feet.
282	* StockNessMonster: Bessie the Lake Monster in ''The Great Parent Mystery''.
283	* SuckySchool: The school from ''Back To School'', which is basically run by people who have grudges with Cat from no real reason (expect Lola).
284	* SurroundedByIdiots: Cat tends to be frustrated by the idiocy that goes around him. It doesn't help that he's attached to one!
285	* SmallNameBigEgo: Cat quite often has an inflated opinion of himself.
286	* SmartJerkAndNiceMoron: The titular two-headed creature, who has the head of both a sophisticated but elitist cat and also a simple-minded, easygoing dog. Naturally, CatsAreMean and DogsAreDumb stereotypes abound.
287	* SmugSnake: A suitably reptillian one appears as a super-fast mailman, the first mailman that Dog is unable to defeat. [[spoiler:Dog eventually gives him what he deserves at the end]].
288	* SwallowedWhole: Happens often to Winslow and once to Veronica.
289	* TakeThat: Cliff's secret shame is that his real name is [[Literature/CliffordTheBigRedDog Clifford]].
290	* TemptingFate:
291	** "It just doesn't get any better than this!". Oh, it's about to get a ''lot'' worse.
292	** In "[=CatDog=] Cousteau", when [=CatDog=] and Lola find a treasure chest in a sunken ship, Cat claims that unlike all the other times they briefly got rich nothing could ruin that moment. Sure enough, [[TerribleTrio the Greasers]] then show up demanding the treasure.
293	** In "Dog, Come Home!" [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling Dog]] runs away from home. Cat says he's happy to have the house to himself so he can enjoy doing whatever he wants to do. Almost immediately, [[{{Jerkass}} Winslow]] shows up and starts annoying Cat.
294	* TerribleTrio: The Greaser Dogs are three bullies who always pick on [=CatDog=].
295	* TheToothHurts: When [=CatDog=] visits the dentist, they learn that whatever one does to his teeth affects the other's instead, as Cat has brushed his teeth all day which gave his brother perfect pearly whites. However, Dog ate mostly garbage which rotted out his brother's. This eventually escalates into a full-on battle, with each side trying to destroy the other's teeth.
296	* ThisLoserIsYou: Cat.
297	* ThrowTheDogABone: Happened a LOT more often than this page'd have you think. For example, in "Dog Ate It", Dog's eaten everything in the dance hall and made Cat's date break up with him (understandable, as Dog ate her sister)... but Randolph loved what they did so much he gives them the trophy for Best Dance!
298	* TimeTravelEpisode: "[=CatDog=] 3001," where they're sent into the future to save the people there from [[ItMakesSenseInContext Winslow's giant evil descendant]].
299	* TinyGuyHugeGirl: [[spoiler:Their parents. Their mother is a big sasquatch-like being while their father is a frog.]]
300	* {{Tomboy}}: Shriek. The other two Greasers had to do a [[strike:DoubleTake]] QUADRUPLE TAKE when she finally confirmed she was a girl.
301	** Cat's occasionally hinted at, but unrequited, crush on Shriek is probably the only exception to the reactions everyone but her parents displayed at this revelation.
302	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Crossing over with StockAnimalDiet, Dog loves bones and Cat loves fish. Their house is even made of a giant bone fused to a giant fish.
303	* {{Tsundere}}: Shriek
304	* TooDumbToLive: Dog, The Greasers, & Rancid Rabbit.
305	* ToiletHumour: Much like other Nickelodeon shows, this one had its share of toilet humor. A fair amount of it occurs in "The Great Parent Mystery", which includes a butt-shaped UFO landing on a rock formation shaped like a toilet, [=CatDog=] and the Greasers vaguely referring to getting out of Bessie the Sea Monster "the old-fashioned way" after being eaten alive by her, and the fight between the [=McDogs=] and the Catfields having a dog stand in front of a hose spraying water at an angle that makes it look like he's peeing the water.
306	* TotemPoleTrench: In their debut episode, the Ingrid Twins stood on each others' shoulders so that they appeared to be a taller woman.
307	* TrappedInTVLand: "Spaced Out." After being dragged to Dog's favorite movie for the 70th or so time, Cat tries to stop the movie but gets sucked into it instead. Mean Bob, the star, gets destroyed and they have to take his place, managing to do a good job at it.
308	* TwoBeingsOneBody: [=CatDog=], of course, due to being conjoined twins.
309	* TheUnfavorite: Cat worries that he is this in "Vexed of Kin."
310	* UngratefulBastard: Cliff and Rancid Rabbit would continue to pick on and torment Cat and Dog regardless of all the times they helped them out.
311	* UnimpressiveProgressReveal: One episode have [=CatDog=] spending the whole day climbing Mount Nearburg to try and get a head-start from [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter Mindy Wonderful]]. Unfortunately, by the time tomorrow comes around, they only managed to climb a small elevated ledge from ground height, and could have walked around instead.
312	* TheUnreveal: [[spoiler: ''The Great Parent Mystery''. What, were you expecting ''biological'' parents?]]
313	** Also we never find out why does Rancid Rabbit work as a Teacher and a police officer at the end of "Back to School".
314	* UnstoppableRage:
315	** Happens when Cat snaps at a Monster Truck Rally. Cat clobbers everyone who's screwed him over in past episodes, especially at the end when he destroys Cliff's Monster Truck with a single punch. He also clobbered Mervis, Dunglap and Lola, all of whom were their friends.
316	** Dog in "Pumped", since the protein shakes he ends up drinking have the side effect of causing crankiness.
317	* UrineTrouble:
318	** Hinted at in the beginning of "Let the Games Begin!"
319	-->'''Cat''': That wasn't a fire hydrant, Dog. That was the dog catcher's leg!
320	** "The Golden Hydrant" has [=CatDog=] find the titular golden fire hydrant. Cat wants to make money off of it, so he does everything he can to prevent Dog and the Greasers from marking their territory on the hydrant. The Greasers eventually [[DogsLoveFireHydrants pee on the hydrant]], revealing it to actually be an ordinary fire hydrant painted gold. Later, Cat finds another golden hydrant, only for a crocodile to eat [=CatDog=], the Greasers, and Eddie the Squirrel. Cat clutches the hydrant and begs the others to stay away as they walk toward him with longing looks. The scene then cuts to outside the crocodile, where Cat remarks "Well, at least we know this one's real", implying that Dog, the Greasers, and Eddie peed on Cat.
321	* VampireVannabe: "[=CatDogula=]" has Eddie the Squirrel's [[TheTeamWannabe desperation to join the Greasers]] taken further when he begs the vampirized Greasers to bite him so that he'll become a Greaser vampire. As usual, the Greasers just ignore him.
322	* VillainProtagonist: Cat whenever his greed gets the best of him.
323	* VisualPun: In "All About Cat", Cat is rehearsing for a part in the Abe musical. He acts like a LargeHam, and Dog slides an opened can of Ham in front of him (as he's eating the contents)
324	* VocalEvolution: In the earliest episodes, Dog's voice is noticably deeper and rather nasally.
325	* WeaksauceWeakness: In "Greasers in the Mist", where Lola attempts to infiltrate the Greasers on behalf of [=CatDog=] to learn their weaknesses, several characters refer to this trope as "Porkfat", named after the weaksauce weakness of the in-universe movie character, Mean Bob.
326	* WentToTheGreatXInTheSky:
327	** Cat tearfully tells Dog that they've gone to the big scratching post in the sky when he believes they have died in "Fred the Flying Fish".
328	** This exchange from "It's a Wonderful Half-Life".
329	-->'''Shriek:''' You're going to that great big litter box in the sky!
330	-->'''Lube:''' ''(Looks up)'' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Where?]]
331	** In "[=CatDog=] 3001", Winslow's descendant Winslow the 38th asks [=CatDog=] if they're ready to go to the big litter box in the sky.
332	** Cat refers to dying as "skiddly-bopping to the lonely alley in the sky" in "Cat Gone Bad".
333	* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Rancid Rabbit, Eddie The Squirrel & The Greaser Dogs in Rinky Dinks
334	** Cat, being a cat, hates water.
335	** A majority of dog characters (Dog, the Greaser Dogs, etc.) are terrified of ticks.
336	* WorkingOnTheChainGang: Characters are seen breaking blocks of chlorine tabs for violating the rules at the public pool.
337	* [[YankTheDogsChain Yank The CatDog's Chain]]: And how! They create a successful candy, and [[spoiler:everyone goes bald]]! They finally move their house to a beautiful lake, but [[spoiler:Rancid drains it at the last minute]]! They think they beat a childhood rival to the top of the mountain, but [[spoiler:it's revealed [[DarkHorseVictory a third party beat them both]]]]! If [[CharacterCatchphrase it just doesn't get any better than this]], it ''won't''.
338	* YetAnotherChristmasCarol: Dog experienced this in "Meat Dog's Friends", but with the ghosts of meat products he ate such as burgers and tacos telling him why it was wrong to eat them. Mervis serves as the equivalent to Jacob Marley for some reason.
339	* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Cliff and Shriek attempts this to Eddie by dropping him into the crocodiles after he retrieves the Golden Hydrant for him but Eddie survives from his injuries.
340	[[/folder]]

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