History WesternAnimation / TheHuckleberryHoundShow

* FunnyAnimal: Huckleberry Hound. Most of the supporting shorts, like Yogi Bear and Pixie and Dixie, have CivilizedAnimal leads instead, but Huck is humanized to the point of being antagonized by "normal" dogs and having an actual career.

* BlackComedy: Huck is implied to have ''died'' when he is crushed by the weight of a lion after he attempts to make it do the tightrope act.

* HollywoodToneDeaf: Huck's howling version of "Oh my darling Clemen-TAAAAYYYNE!" is epically painful to hear.

* MailmanVsDog: The whole premise of the episode "Postman Panic" sees mailman Huck being accosted by an angry pooch. It's quite ironic since Huck is a dog himself.
* MeaningfulName: He's the color of a real-life huckleberry.
* MellowFellow: Huckleberry Hound's perpetual nonchalant and deadpan reactions while suffering slapstick abuse from the universe around him is the character's defining shtick.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In "Little Red Riding Huck," out hero is dead set on making sure the Literature/LittleRedRidingHood story doesn't end like it usually does. But Red calls the cops on Huck while the Wolf, Red and Granny agree to take it from the top.

* NonGivingUpSchoolGuy: Huck once spent most of an episode trying to catch a pair of twin truants. In the end, his efforts paid off and the principal comments that it should have been no problem for someone who went to school. Huck said he's never been to school and was forced to attend.

* RoguesGallery: Huck often runs afoul of a nefarious villain such as Powerful Pierre, Leroy Lion, Crazy Coyote, or the Dalton Brothers.

* StandardHeroReward: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in "Sir Huckleberry Hound" when the pooch is ordered by the king to slay a dragon. The princess is so ugly that marrying her is considered ''punishment'' for ''failure''. [[spoiler:The dragon takes pity on Huck and offers him shelter at the cave. Huck accepts.]]

* ThreeShorts: The first show to do this format, too. In the original lineup, Huck was last. In the revised lineup, he went first.

* StandardHeroReward: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in "Dragon-Slayer Huck" when the pooch is ordered by the king to slay a dragon. The princess is so ugly that marrying her is considered ''punishment'' for ''failure''. [[spoiler:The dragon takes pity on Huck and offers him shelter at the cave. Huck accepts.]]

* EscapedAnimalRampage: In the very first episode of the series, Huck is a police officer tasked with capturing an escaped gorilla named "Wee Willie".

* MellowFellow: Huckleberry Hound's perpetual nonchalant and deadpan reactions to suffering slapstick abuse from the universe around him is the character's defining shtick.
* MistakenForAnImposter: One story features Huck trying to rescue Little Red Riding Hood's Grandma. When a student shows up to collect donations, the wolf thinks it's another of Huck's plans.

* {{Narrator}}: A narrator is often heard at the start of an episode, and sometimes remains throughout.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In one short, Huck is dead set on making sure the Literature/LittleRedRidingHood story doesn't end like it usually does. But Red calls the cops on him while the Wolf, Red and Granny agree to take it from the top.

* PunchClockHero[=/=]PunchClockVillain: One short features Huck and the two crows (Iggy and Ziggy) as this. They start their day of stealing Huck's corn and him trying to chase them off with the morning whistle and call it all off at the evening one.

* RoguesGallery: Powerful Pierre, Leroy Lion, Crazy Coyote, the Dalton Brothers.
* SpeciesSurname: Our lead.
* StandardHeroReward: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] when Huck was ordered by the King to slay a dragon. The Princess was so ugly that marrying her was ''punishment'' for ''failure''. [[spoiler:The dragon took pity on Huck and offered him shelter at the cave. Huck accepted.]]
* TheToothHurts: In "Pet Vet", Huck attempts to cure a lion's toothache. Despite many clever attempts to do so, it doesn't go so well.

* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: Huck spends one whole short as a mailman trying to deliver a letter despite a pesky dog in the way. In the end he learns it's for the house next door.

* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Huck is a very nice shade of blue. While there are of course some domestic dogs with a shade called blue, they most certainly don't come in Huck's color.

* CanadaEh: Powerful Pierre is one of Huck's recurring enemies, he is very much a French Canadian.
* CharacterSignatureSong: "Oh My Darling Clementine"
* CheatersNeverProsper: Whenever Huck is in competition with Powerful Pierre.
** Huck manages to legit win the ski race in "Ski Champ Chump" while Pierre's dirty tricks only hinder him.

* CryLaughing: Huck does this at least twice at the end of a cartoon.

** Also happens at the end of "Cop and Saucer" when Huck gets abducted by the alien he was trying to arrest. He then hears a news broadcast of men from outer space invading, which the announcer comments on how it's the most ridiculous thing he's ever heard.
* DeepSouth: Huck is implied to be from this region, judging from his Southern accent.

* HollywoodToneDeaf: "Oh my darling Clemen-TAAAAYYYNE!"
* HydeAndSeek: Huck is faced with a pastiche of Dr. Jekyll in the cartoon "Picadilly Dilly".
* MailmanVsDog: The whole premise of the episode "Postman Panic". It's quite ironic since Huck is a dog himself.

* MellowFellow: Huckleberry Hound's defining shtick is from his perpetual nonchalant and deadpan reactions to suffering slapstick abuse from the universe around him.

* {{Narrator}}: There often was one to open up the episode, and sometimes stay there throughout.
* NegativeContinuity: Huck could be in any time or setting.

* NoFourthWall: Huck and his villains addressed the camera so often that it qualified as this trope.

Unlike Hanna-Barbera's other stars, Huck didn't have a regular supporting cast in his shorts, although he did have a handful of recurring antagonists, including [[CanadaEh Powerful Pierre]]. But his show did have two supporting segments: ''WesternAnimation/YogiBear'' and ''WesternAnimation/PixieDixieAndMrJinks''. When Yogi got his own series, his slot on ''The Huckleberry Hound Show'' was taken by WesternAnimation/HokeyWolf.

* TalkingAnimal: Huck is clearly one.

* DeepSouth: Implied to be from this region, judging from his Southern accent.

* DeepSouth: Implied to be from this region, judging from his Southern accent.

* HydeAndSeek: Huckleberry Hound is faced with a pastiche of Dr. Jekyll in the cartoon "Picadilly Dilly".

* FurryConfusion: Huck sometimes interacts with more normal dogs despite him being anthromorphic.

''The Huckleberry Hound Show'' debuted in 1958 as Creator/HannaBarbera's second post-MGM original character (''Ruff and Reddy'' was the first). It was the first American all-cartoon show developed specifically for television and, in 1959, became the first animated TV show to win an Emmy. Voiced by Creator/DawsButler, the easygoing Huck was shown in a variety of settings, from Arthurian England to (then) modern times.

** MeaningfulName: He's the color of a real-life huckleberry.
* BowlingBallWhistle: This is the show where it all began. The intro of that show was the very first place the sound was used in. Since then, it was used in most of Hanna-Barbera's productions, before the sound made its way to other animation studios.

* BowlingBall: This is the show where it all began. The intro of that show was the very first place the sound was used in. Since then, it was used in most of Hanna-Barbera's productions, before the sound made its way to other animation studios.

* PunchClockHero / PunchClockVillain: One short features Huck and the two crows (Iggy and Ziggy) as this. They start their day of stealing Huck's corn and him trying to chase them off with the morning whistle and call it all off at the evening one.
* RainOfSomethingUnusual: Huck disposes of a giant potato by sending it into orbit on a rocket. At the end, the rocket explodes and it rains potato chips.

* StandardHeroReward: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] when Huck was ordered by the King to slay a dragon. The Princess was so ugly that marrying her was ''punishment'' for ''failure''. [[spoiler:The dragon took pity on Huck and offered him shelter at the cave. Huck accepted]].

* HtdeAndSeek: Huckleberry Hound is faced with a pastiche of Dr. Jekyll in the cartoon "Picadilly Dilly".

** MeaningfulName: Real-life huckleberries are blue.

->''No tinkling of glasses or noise during the Huckleberry Hound Show.''

* BowtiesAreCool: Along with Huck, most of the ensemble sported bow ties, including Pixie, Mr. Jinks, Hokey Wolf, and Boo-Boo Bear.

* SpeciesSurname: Our lead.