Line #133 WesternAnimation/PlutoThePup


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7	->''"Kiss me."''
8	-->-- One of two lines ever spoken by Pluto, from "The Moose Hunt".
9
10	->''"Mammy!"''
11	-->-- The second of two lines ever spoken by Pluto, from "Mickey Steps Out"--although it's technically a shout out to ''Film/TheJazzSinger''.
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13	Pluto, also called Pluto the Pup, is an animated cartoon character from the Creator/WaltDisney cartoon studio, the loyal pet of WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse and, for a while, the star of his own series of short subjects during UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation. At one point, he even overshadowed the mouse in his own cartoons. He is notable for being one of the few recurring classic Disney animal characters who is not anthropomorphized.
14
15	He acted as a foil for WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck, WesternAnimation/{{Figaro}}, Butch the Bulldog, WesternAnimation/ChipAndDale, and sometimes Salty the Seal and Milton the cat. He also occasionally has a LoveInterest in the forms of Fifi the Pekingese in the 1930s and Dinah the dachshund in the 1940s and '50s. In some comic stories, he is also the official mascot for the [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Junior Woodchucks.]]
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17	His current official voice actor is Creator/BillFarmer, who also happens to be the voice of WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}}.
18
19	For a full history of the character, go [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto_(Disney) here.]]
20
21	Oh yes, and don't confuse him with the former planet (even if the dwarf planet's "heart" ''looks'' [[https://twitter.com/Disney/status/621040374744752130 like him]]), [[Manga/AstroBoy that other Pluto]], [[Myth/ClassicalMythology the god also known as Hades]], and ''especially'' not that Manga/{{Pluto}}, much less [[Film/TheAdventuresOfPlutoNash Pluto Nash]]. And no, [[PlutoIsExpendable he is not expendable.]] (Though he sure is [[TheChewToy treated that way]].)
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25	[[folder: Filmography]]
26
27	!1930
28
29	* The Chain Gang: Pluto's official debut, where he acts as [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness a guard dog actively chasing down Mickey]].
30	* The Picnic: Pluto--er Rover appears here as Minnie's Pet. This is also the first time where Pluto is portrayed with black ears and tail.
31
32	!1931
33
34	* The Moose Hunt: Pluto's first appearance as Mickey's pet, and first one where he is officially named as such. He also talks quite a bit in this short.
35	* Blue Rhythm: A weird cartoon in which Pluto is portrayed as a FunnyAnimal.
36	* Mickey Steps Out: Pluto's second and last speaking appearance, where he says "[[Film/TheJazzSinger Mammy]]" at the end.
37	* Fishin' Around
38	* The Beach Party: First time Pluto's teeth were redrawn from fangs to more human-like teeth.
39	* Mickey Cuts Up
40	* WesternAnimation/MickeysOrphans
41
42	!1932
43
44	* The Duck Hunt
45	* The Grocery Boy
46	* The Mad Dog
47	* Barnyard Olympics
48	* Mickey's Revue
49	* Just Dogs: A WesternAnimation/SillySymphonies short where Pluto stars in his first role without Mickey.
50	* Mickey's Nightmare
51	* Trader Mickey
52	* The Wayward Canary
53	* The Klondike Kid
54	* Parade of the Award Nominees: Makes a cameo at the end.
55	* Mickey's Good Deed
56
57	!1933
58
59	* WesternAnimation/BuildingABuilding
60	* WesternAnimation/TheMadDoctor
61	* Mickey's Pal Pluto: First appearance of Pluto's Devil & Pluto's Angel.
62	* Mickey's Gala Premiere
63	* Puppy Love
64
65	!1934
66
67	* Playful Pluto: Noteworthy for the famous "Flypaper Sequence", a milestone in personality animation.
68	* Mickey Plays Papa
69
70	!1935
71
72	* Mickey's Kangaroo: The only short where Pluto is shown to have inner dialogue, and is the last time Pluto appeared in black and white.
73	* Mickey's Garden: The first colored appearance of Pluto, giving him a red collar.
74	* ''WesternAnimation/PlutosJudgementDay'': One of the first Mickey cartoons where Pluto is given the major role, with Mickey only briefly appearing in it.
75	* On Ice
76
77	!1936
78
79	* Mickey's Polo Team (cameo)
80	* Mickey's Grand Opera
81	* Alpine Climbers
82	* Donald & Pluto: Billed as a Mickey Mouse short, although he is [[WolverinePublicity completely absent from it.]]
83	* Mickey's Elephant
84	* Mother Pluto: A WesternAnimation/SillySymphonies short centered around the pup.
85
86	!1937
87
88	* The Worm Turns
89	* Hawaiian Holiday
90	* Pluto's Quin-Puplets
91
92	!1938
93
94	* Mickey's Parrot
95
96	!1939
97
98	* Society Dog Show: First time Pluto was shown wearing a green collar.
99	* Mickey's Surprise Party
100	* Beach Picnic
101	* WesternAnimation/ThePointer
102
103	!1940
104
105	* Donald's Dog Laundry
106	* WesternAnimation/BoneTrouble: Pluto's first standalone short.
107	* Put-Put Troubles
108	* WesternAnimation/PlutosDreamHouse
109	* Window Cleaners
110	* Mr. Mouse Takes A Trip
111	* Pantry Pirate
112
113	!1941
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115	* Pluto's Playmate
116	* A Gentleman's Gentlemen
117	* Canine Caddy
118	* WesternAnimation/LendAPaw: A Mickey Mouse short with Pluto in a major role. Semi-remake of "Mickey's Pal Pluto". Won the 1942 UsefulNotes/AcademyAward, beating out the debut of [[Creator/FleischerStudios Max Fleischer's]] [[WesternAnimation/SupermanTheatricalCartoons Superman cartoons.]]
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120	!1942
121
122	* Pluto Junior
123	* The Army Mascot
124	* The Sleep Walker
125	* T-Bone For Two
126	* Pluto At The Zoo
127
128	!1943
129
130	* ''WesternAnimation/PlutoAndTheArmadillo'': Last WesternAnimation/{{Classic Disney Short\|s}} featuring Mickey Mouse in his [[IconicOutfit iconic]] [[HalfDressedCartoonAnimal outfit]].
131	* Private Pluto: This short features two chipmunks who would later become WesternAnimation/ChipAndDale.
132	* Victory Vehicles
133
134	!1944
135
136	* WesternAnimation/SpringtimeForPluto
137	* First Aiders
138
139	!1945
140
141	* Dog Watch
142	* The Eyes Have It
143	* Canine Casanova
144	* WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfCoyoteRock
145	* Canine Patrol
146
147	!1946
148
149	* Pluto's Kid Brother
150	* In Dutch
151	* WesternAnimation/SquattersRights
152	* The Purloined Pup
153	* A Feather In His Collar (commercial short)
154
155	!1947
156
157	* Pluto's Housewarming
158	* Rescue Dog
159	* Mickey's Delayed Date
160	* Mail Dog
161	* WesternAnimation/PlutosBlueNote
162
163	!1948
164
165	* Mickey Down Under
166	* Bone Bandit
167	* Pluto's Purchase
168	* Cat Nap Pluto
169	* Pluto's Fredgling
170	* WesternAnimation/MickeyAndTheSeal
171
172	!1949
173
174	* Pueblo Pluto
175	* Pluto's Surprise Package
176	* Pluto's Sweater
177	* Bubble Bee
178	* Sheep Dog
179
180	!1950
181
182	* Pluto's Heart Throb
183	* Pluto & The Gopher
184	* Wonder Dog
185	* Primitive Pluto
186	* Puss Cafè
187	* Pests of The West
188	* Food For Feudin'
189	* Camp Dog
190
191	!1951
192
193	* Cold Storage
194	* Plutopia
195	* R'Coon Dawg
196	* Cold Turkey: Last short to be released under Pluto's series.
197
198	!1952
199
200	* Pluto's Party
201	* Pluto's Christmas Tree
202
203	!1953
204
205	* The Simple Things: Pluto's last classic appearance, alongside his owner Mickey.
206
207	!1990
208
209	* WesternAnimation/ThePrinceAndThePauper
210
211	!1995
212
213	* WesternAnimation/RunawayBrain
214
215	! Episodes of [[WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013 the 2013 series of Mickey Mouse shorts]] that prominently feature Pluto:
216	* "[[Recap/MickeyMouseS1E11DogShow Dog Show]]"
217	* "[[Recap/MickeyMouseS2E10SpaceWalkies Space Walkies]]"
218	* "[[Recap/MickeyMouseS2E14DoggoneBiscuits Doggone Biscuits]]"
219	* "[[Recap/MickeyMouseS3E1Coned Coned!]]"
220	* "[[Recap/MickeyMouseS4E14YearOfTheDog Year of the Dog]]"
221	* "[[Recap/MickeyMouseS5E9MyLittleGarden My Little Garden]]"
222	* "[[Recap/MickeyMouseS5E14EasyStreet Easy Street]]"
223	* "[[Recap/TheWonderfulWorldOfMickeyMouseS1E3HardToSwallow Hard to Swallow]]"
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225	[[/folder]]
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228	!!Tropes:
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230	* ActionPet: At times, depending on the cartoon.
231	* AdaptationalBadass: Pluto can survive the huge jungle-lie garden and fight off the giant bugs in "My Little Garden" just fine, unlike his last encounter in "Mickey's Garden".
232	* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: The title character from "Pluto's Kid Brother", who proves to be a handful for his older brother, who just wants to sleep. Instead, his younger brother keeps getting them both into several misadventures, first with a tough alley cat and then with Butch, who tricks the younger dog into stealing a string of wieners from a butcher shop for him, which arouses the dogcatcher.
233	* BalloonBelly: In "Plutopia".
234	* BeTheBall: The armadillo in "Pluto and the Armadillo", being an armadillo, has the ability to roll herself up into a ball, which is what drives the plot of the cartoon. Eventually, Pluto rolls himself up into a ball as well.
235	* BeeAfraid: As seen in "Bubble Bee", in which Pluto has a brush with Spike the Bee, who usually appeared in WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck shorts.
236	* BigFriendlyDog: Most of the time. He has a temper and an occasional selfish streak, but is loyal to Mickey and has more limits in his Jerkass tendencies than, say, Donald.
237	* BreakoutCharacter: Yes, even Pluto was more popular than ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse'' at some point. The poor mouse just can't catch a break, can he?
238	* BumblingDad: Pluto has also erred on the side of this in some shorts where he becomes a father to at least one or more puppies, as seen in "Pluto's Quin-Puplets" and "Pluto, Junior".
239	* ButtMonkey: On occasion, but especially later on in many shorts. Sometimes, like in "WesternAnimation/PlutosJudgementDay," it went too far.
240	* TheCameo: Pluto makes a brief appearance in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' episode "Rainy Days".
241	** He also makes an appearance in the WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} short "Victory Vehicles", a WartimeCartoon. This cartoon shows alternate modes of transportation (since gas and rubber were rationed). One vehicle is powered by a dog (hence, Pluto) that chases after a cat (a scraggly-looking black cat that bears a passing resemblance to Figaro), when it's put front of him.
242	* CartoonDogBreed: One of the {{Trope Codifier}}s. He's a solid orange dog with skinny black "noodle ears" and a skinny black CartoonyTail. In his original appearance, he was a tracking dog, but has never had any particular breed given.
243	* CartoonyTail: His tail is rather thin and mouse-like.
244	* CatsAreMean: If "WesternAnimation/PlutosJudgementDay" is any indication. The same goes somewhat with the dog's run-ins with Figaro, though somewhat more downplayed.
245	* CharacterFocus: After Mickey's {{Flanderization}}, Pluto pretty much became the star of Mickey's cartoons.
246	* ChasteToons: Averted. Pluto has five puppies in "Pluto's Quin-Puplets" and a son named Pluto Jr.
247	* CryingCritters: As shown in episodes like "A Gentleman's Gentleman," "Pluto and the Armadillo," "In Dutch" and "Pluto's Housewarming," Pluto is very much prone to InelegantBlubbering.
248	* DerangedAnimation: "Plutopia", which was infamous enough to get a {{Homage}} in ''VideoGame/EpicMickey''.
249	%%* DisneyAcidSequence: "Plutopia".
250	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In his first appearance, he was a bloodhound trying to capture Mickey after he escaped from prison. In his second, he was Minnie's pet and was named Rover.
251	* FireForgedFriends: "Pluto's Playmate" manages to do this trope without a single word of dialog: Pluto starts out playing with his red ball on the beach when a [[TheGadfly playfully annoying]] seal, who keeps taking his ball away. Midway through, the seal goes into the ocean and Pluto starts following him, only for an [[TentacledTerror evil octopus]] latch onto his face and start trying to drown him. The seal eventually frees Pluto and [[PetTheDog squeezes all the water out of his lungs so he wont drown.]] After this the two of them become friends and start playing catch using Pluto's ball.
252	* FunnyAnimal: Oddly portrayed as one in the B&W cartoon, "Blue Rhythm."
253	* FurryConfusion: An age old question which has plagued mankind since the 30's; how can Pluto and {{WesternAnimation/Goofy}} share the same universe, if Goofy is also (allegedly) a dog? The most common answer to the former question is that Goofy is to Pluto what a human is to a chimpanzee.
254	* GoodAngelBadAngel: Pluto's become recurring characters in the shorts.
255	* HollywoodToneDeaf: Don't ever try to play music near him, as he will howl along and it is screechingly off-key.
256	* HomeMadeSweaterFromHell: Minnie knits Pluto one of these in "Pluto's Sweater", which is hideously fuchsia in color, which Pluto takes an immediate disliking to, and from which, after being forced into it, he spends much of the short trying to extract himself.
257	* HypnoFool: WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck hypnotizes Pluto into acting like a bunch of different animals on command in "The Eyes Have It".
258	* InterspeciesRomance: Strangely enough, "Pluto and the Armadillo" features a lot of ShipTease between Pluto and a female armadillo.
259	* JerkassBall: It shows up, but not as much as in Donald.
260	* LoveInterest: He has ''two'' of these: first, Fifi the Pekingese in the 1930s, and then, Dinah the dachshund in the 1940s and '50s. Four, if we count Tiki from the ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' short "Pluto's Penthouse Suite" and the amount of ShipTease he has with the armadillo from "Pluto and the Armadillo".
261	* LoveTriangle: The main plot of "Pluto's Heart Throb", in which [[CockFight he and Butch the bulldog vie for the affections of Dinah]].
262	* MetaphoricMetamorphosis: In "The Sleep Walker", after destroying Dinah's dog house and discovering that she has six puppies, a guilty Pluto turns into a heel.
263	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: In "The Sleep Walker", Pluto realizes in horror that he just destroyed Dinah's home leaving her and her puppies out in the cold.
264	* OutOfFocus: Despite being a part of Disney's "Sensational Six", Pluto tends to get sidelined in modern productions to the point where he's more of a supporting character.
265	* PapaWolf: Pluto adopts several chicks and fiercely protects them, even from the chicks' real mother.
266	* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: A year prior to Pluto getting his own individual shorts, one WesternAnimation/SillySymphonies cartoon, "Mother Pluto", was centered entirely around him, having virtually nothing in common with the typical Silly Symphonies short.
267	* StalkerWithACrush: Occasionally displayed towards Dinah, such as in "Canine Casanova".
268	* StickySituation: The celebrated flypaper sequence in "Playful Pluto".
269	* StrictlyFormula: ''Many'' of the shorts are centered around Pluto either befriending another animal or becoming an enemy of another animal, with the gags ensueing from his botched attempts to deal with them--sometimes a combo of both is used.
270	* ThroughAFaceFullOfFur:
271	** In "The Army Mascot", Pluto turns green after swallowing a plug of chewing tobacco. He tries to swallow the green away, but it just comes back up. He then turns other colors as well, including, yes, plaid. Even his tongue!
272	** In cartoons that are set in some snowy region, such as "Alpine Climbers", "Lend a Paw" and "Mail Dog", there are instances when Pluto gets so cold that he turns blue.
273	* TunnelKing: Pluto shows that he's a Tunnel King of sorts in the 1943 short "Pluto and the Armadillo", diving underground to chase after a female armadillo who qualifies as a Tunnel ''Queen''.
274	** He also does then when going after the gopher in "Canine Caddy".
275	* UncattyResemblance: His mouse-like tail resembles Mickey's, but that's about it.
276	* TheVoiceless:
277	** Sans his sole words in "The Moose Hunt" and "Mickey Steps Out", unless you count barking as dog talk. Occasionally, he would make panting sounds that sound similar to "yeah, yeah!"
278	** Hilariously lampshaded in the '50s-era Magazine/{{MAD}} spoof "Mickey Rodent" in which [[ParodyNames Pluted Pup]] laments being the only animal in the Walt Dizzy universe who can't talk, by way of [[TalkingWithSigns holding up signs]].
279	** In Mickey's last black and white short, "Mickey's Kangaroo", the viewers get to hear what Pluto's thinking throughout the short.
280	** Played with in "WesternAnimation/PlutosBlueNote": Pluto, whose tail can be used as a record needle, serenades a group of female dogs. It seems like he really is singing, until his voice suddenly sounds like a skipping record, and he peeks into his doghouse to adjust his tail on the record before continuing, revealing he's really just lip-synching to the record.
281	** Japanese dubbed versions of the classic shorts made for Creator/NipponTV in the 1980s, with Creator/DaisukeGori voicing Pluto, gave the pup some additional dialogue, such as ''Tasukete!'' (Help me!) or ''Boku-chan shiawase!'' (I'm so happy!).
282	* WhiteGloves: Shown wearing them in the B&W cartoon, "Blue Rhythm".
283	* YouDirtyRat: In "Dog Watch", Pluto tries but fails to protect a ship from a wharf rat that raids the officer's mess and gets Pluto blamed for it. Pluto, however, gets the last laugh in the end.

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