History Main / MailmanVsDog

* ''Series/{{Knuckles}}'': In the first episode, Knuckles, an alien echidna warrior ignorant of Earth culture, transforms the Wachowskis' living room into a gladiator arena and forces the family dog Ozzie to fight his "greatest enemy", their mailman, in combat.

* ''Series/{{Knuckles}}'': In the trailer, Knuckles, an alien echidna warrior ignorant of Earth culture, transforms the Wachowskis' living room into a gladiator arena and forces the family dog Ozzie to fight his "greatest enemy", their mailman, in combat.

** Garfield enjoys harassing the local mailman, he even lampshades the trope by asking, "Why should dogs have all the fun?" Sometimes he just pulls harmless pranks while other times he will violently attack him or catch him in an elaborate booby trap. The mailman occasionally gets his revenge on Garfield.

* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': A Krypto story features an intergalactic mailman who's constantly being attacked by dogs everywhere he goes. The Dog Stars [[spoiler:(even [[NotSoAboveItAll Brainy Barker]])]] can't help but bark at him in spite of knowing he's a harmless character who doesn't deserve this kind of treatment.

* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold''

* Subverted in the ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' episode "Racist Dawg", where Hank tries to explain a black repairman bitten by the docile Ladybird that his dog must have bitten the repairman because he was a strange new face and not because she was racist to black people. Cue a new mailman showing up outside playfully rubbing Ladybird's belly, debunking Hank's assumption.
* Invoked by Minnie Mouse in the Mickey Mouse short "[[Recap/MickeyMouseS2E14DoggoneBiscuits Doggone Biscuits]]". After trying to get Pluto back into shape (she made him fat because she fed him too many treats), she gets the idea to motivate Pluto into getting into shape by dressing as a mail carrier and getting Pluto to chase her.
* Completely averted in, of all series, ''WesternAnimation/PostmanPat''. Apparently the good burghers of Greendale are extremely responsible pet-owners. ([[JustifiedTrope Which kind of makes sense]] in a rural community with lots of livestock.)

* ''Series/{{Knuckles}}'': In the trailer, Knuckles, an alien echidna warrior ignorant of Earth culture, transforms the Wachowskis' living room into a gladiator arena and forces the family dog Ozzie to fight his "greatest enemy", their mailman in combat.

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* ''Literature/HankTheCowdog'' sums up the reason why dogs bark at mailmen in his own way.

* Averted by Daisy, the Bumsteads' dog in Creator/DeanYoung's ''ComicStrip/{{Blondie}}'', who bears the mailman no ill will and is harmless. It's Dagwood, [[TheDoorSlamsYou zooming out the door in a blind panic]], that's the mailman's chief hazard.

* ''ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUK'': Dennis' dog, Gnasher enjoys attacking postmen (for instance, biting their bottoms) whenever they come to deliver letters. He has a ''collection'' of postal uniform trouser seats.
* A comic book story based on ''WesternAnimation/KryptoTheSuperdog'' features an intergalactic mailman who's constantly being attacked by dogs everywhere he goes. The Dog Stars [[spoiler:(even [[NotSoAboveItAll Brainy Barker]])]] can't help but bark at him in spite of knowing he's a harmless character who doesn't deserve this kind of treatment.

-->'''Hank''': Why do dogs bark at the mailman? Because [[CatchPhrase by George]], we cowdogs have ''always'' barked at mailmen, and we always will!

* Cliff Clavin from ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' has had a number of run-ins with dogs in his postal career, or so he says. ([[NoodleIncident All of the incidents take place offscreen.]]) In one episode, he tries to impress a girl by comparing himself to Indiana Jones because of his canine incidents.

* ''{{WesternAnimation/Rugrats}}'':

* ''See Spot Run'' stars a mail carrier who hates dogs. The beginning of the film has him delivering mail to a neighborhood full of dogs ready to attack. He outsmarts them with creative ways using his gadgets...except for one.

* ''Literature/HollowKingdom2019'': The phenomenon is referenced when Dennis makes a beeline towards a UPS truck; S.T. calls the mail truck "the sworn enemy of every domesticated dog."

* Subverted in the ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' episode "Racist Dawg", where Hank tries to explain a black repairman bitten by the docile Ladybird that his dog must have bitten the repairman because he was a strange new face and not because she was racist to black people. Cue a new mailman showing up outside playfully rubbing Ladybird's belly. debunking Hank's assumption.

* Lovable Truly was an animated mailman mascot for Post Alpha-Bits cereal. He was always seen with a dog, its teeth firmly in his rear end. Lovable Truly would become an irregular element on the ''Linus the Lionhearted'' show in 1964, where he rescued dogs from evil dogcatcher (and has-been silent movie star) Richard Harry Nearly.