History WesternAnimation / TheSecretFilesOfTheSpyDogs

* AbsenteeActor: Not all of agents appear in every episode, Ralph and Mitzy have been absent in a few episodes e.g. Ralph was absent in both ''Charlie'' and ''Automutt''.

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* EvilIsHammy: Creator/JimCummings1952 really goes all out in his portrayal of Catastrophe.

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: All of the antagonists, especially Catastrophe, because the name has "cat", his species, and is a correctly spelled, multi-syllable, non-punctuated word meaning [[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/catastrophe?rdfrom=Catastrophe "large and disastrous event of great significance"]]

* TheSlowWalk: A giant spider tries to do this to Agent Mitzy. [[NoSell It doesn't work]].

* NeverSayDie: While the villain do endanger people, no one ever dies, and the Spy Dogs almost always find a non-violent solutions to problems.

* EvilIsHammy: Creator/JimCummings really goes all out in his portrayal of Catastrophe.

''The Secret Files of the Spy Dogs'' (1998-1999) was an animated television series which lasted for 22 episodes on Creator/FoxKids. According to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmEisbUwRzY the show,]] dogs are just as effective with their hands and are much smarter than humans are. All dogs are members of a spy agency that does good.

''The Secret Files of the Spy Dogs'' (1998-1999) was an animated television series which lasted for 22 episodes on Creator/FoxKids. According to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmEisbUwRzY the show]], dogs are just as effective with their hands and are much smarter than humans are. All dogs are members of a spy agency that does good.

%%* AllHallowsEve

''The Secret Files of the Spy Dogs'' (1998-1999) was an animated television series, which lasted for 22 episodes on Creator/FoxKids. According to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmEisbUwRzY this series]], dogs are just as effective with their hands and are much smarter than humans are. All dogs are members of a spy agency that does good.

* AllHallowsEve
* AnimalTropes
** AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Agent Mitzy is pink.
** AnimalSuperheroes
** FunnyAnimal
** TheNoseKnows
** SpeechImpairedAnimal: Skribble, despite his companions being talking dogs. Averted with Ralph, who can speak Japanese.
* BadassAdorable: All of the animals, possibly except for [[TheLoad Skribble]].
* ButNotTooEvil: The worst thing that Catastrophe does is to reversibly turn dogs into cats.
* TheCavalry
* ComedySeries

* Economic and supply tropes:
** HeroInsurance: See StuffBlowingUp, below.
** HiddenSupplies: Everything in most homes with a dog is actually a hugely expensive piece of spy equipment.
** InfiniteSupplies: The spydogs use and lose lots of weapons and vehicles, but never have to collect taxes, bribe politicians, or rob banks to get money. Even [[TheLoad Skribble]] uses a howitzer to plow a backyard. [[WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys The funding source and industrial base that such a level of destruction and technology needs is never explained.]]
*** There was, however, an episode focused on the dogs' efforts to gather enough money to fund the building of (yet) another moon to replace the previous one after it was unknowingly punctured by an astronaut sticking a flag pole on it.
** TheMasquerade: Humans are the master of [[FailedASpotCheck being oblivious]].
** TravelCool, including lots and lots of [[CoolPlane cool planes]]. One transforms from a bunch of garbage into a rocket powered aircraft. Catastrophe's tail transforms into a pogo stick or a segway, depending on the situation.
** StuffBlowingUp: Almost every episode. If there's a spydog vehicle in an episode, it will usually be destroyed, captured, or out of control by the end of the episode.
** SwissArmyWeapon: Mitzy's bow is her [[TertiarySexualCharacteristics Tertiary Sexual Characteristic]], is a [[PrecisionGuidedBoomerang double bladed boomerang]], binoculars, and a circular saw. It must have {{Hammerspace}} and [[NoConservationOfEnergy an advanced battery in it or something]].
* GRatedDrug: Catnip
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Dog Zero, leader of the Spy Dogs. Even when he had to be in shot, he was pixelated.
* HumansAreBastards: Because they use waterbowl communicators as toilets.

* NamingConventions
** MyHeroZero: Dog Zero
** NamesToTrustImmediately: All spydogs
** OddNameOut: Skribble
** OneSteveLimit
** OnlyOneName
* NeverSayDie: No matter how much "enemies" risk the lives of spydogs, spydogs usually [[TakeAThirdOption find a nonviolent solution]].
* RuleOfCool
* RuleOfCute
* RuleOfEmpathy: the fun invincible heroes lose only by not stopping Catastrophe's escape, and the antagonists are sympathetic enough that the spydogs find a nonviolent solution. Catastrophe lost his tail as part of his origin story.
* RuleOfFunny
* RuleOfPerception
* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: Mitzy and Erin have bows, and Ayanna has earrings.
* TuxedoAndMartini, except for the BARK Squad.
* WaifFu: Agent Mitzy
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!! Episodes of this series provide examples of:
* CatsAreMean: Catastrophe is the BigBad.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: One of the twin girls in Porkzilla was never seen wearing these. Her shoe-wearing sister cameo'd in the other episodes, though.
* EvilIsHammy: Catastrophe.
* HypocriticalHumor: In episode DNA, cat-Ralph tells cat-Mitzy that she really needs to control the cat impulse to take a bath in public. He tears furniture. Dogs lick themselves in public also.
* MarriedToTheJob: The leader of the Spy Dogs got out of a LoveTriangle this way.
* MobileSuitHuman: Humanesks
* MonsterIsAMommy with PuppyDogEyes: A giant spider does this to Agent Mitzy. A bunny does this to Skribble.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: All the antagonists, especially Catastrophe, because the name has "cat", his species, and is a correctly spelled, multi-syllable, non punctuated word meaning [[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/catastrophe?rdfrom=Catastrophe "large and disastrous event of great significance"]]
* NonHumansLackAttributes: Spydogs laugh at [[BigBad Catastrophe]] for having a naked behind... only when he's more dressed than usual. We see on Mitzy's [[ToplessnessFromTheBack naked butt in her shower scene]] ... nothing naughty. All that Agent Ralph must do to get dressed is to put on a collar.

'''Dog Zero:''' Ralph...put some clothes on.\\

* StuffBlowingUp: For example, in "B.A.R.K", a military unit of spydogs uses plastic explosive to demolish [[spoiler: a flimsy staircase, and replace it just in time. They use a KillSat to topple a human skateboarder. They self-defeatingly send him flying past the person that they were trying to protect; the principal deflects him with her [[PlotArmor character shields]]. They use a folding bridge to help the principal over a crack in a sidewalk, uselessly making it larger with a mortar first. They also use a SniperRifle and a rocket propelled grenade to clear garbage and a ketchup truck from the principal's path. [[HeroInsurance They lay waste to the city]], and the human driver of the truck barely escapes.]]
* TakeThat: In "Being", Mitzy warehouses an incredibly [[BornLucky lucky]], silent, and charismatic runaway SuperPrototype MobileSuitHuman "mindless automaton", "Chauncy", by making him the President of the United States.

* WeCanRuleTogether: Catastrophe tries this in DNA; because Mitzy and Ralph are biologically cats, Catastrophe welcomes them into his cat-based world government.
* WeNeedADistraction: Agent Mitzy does this to a giant spider. She uses an eggplant.
* YouWillBeAssimilated: "Catastrophe" tries this with corrupt flea dip in episode DNA, but it gets reversed. Catastophe is temporarily turned into a dog.

* TakeThat and CrowningMomentOfFunny: In "Being", Mitzy warehouses an incredibly [[BornLucky lucky]], silent, and charismatic runaway SuperPrototype MobileSuitHuman "mindless automaton", "Chauncy", by making him the President of the United States.

* MoreTeethThanTheOsmundFamily: Maws, Catastrophe's GiantMook, has a mouthful of giant metal teeth.

* GRatedDrug: catnip

* HeyItsThatVoice: Oh boy, where do we start?
** Creator/AdamWest as Dog Zero, [[TheMonkees Mickey Dolenz]] as Ralph, Creator/JimCummings as Catastrophe... hell, just check [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0204777/fullcredits the imdb page]].

''The Secret Files of the Spy Dogs'' (1998-1999) was an animated television series, which lasted for 22 episodes. According to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmEisbUwRzY this series]], dogs are just as effective with their hands and are much smarter than humans are. All dogs are members of a spy agency that does good.

* TheCavalry
* GRatedDrug: catnip
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Dog Zero, leader of the Spy Dogs. Even when he had to be in shot, he was pixelated.

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: All the antagonists, especially Catastrophe, because the name has "cat", his species, and is a correctly spelled, multi-syllable, non punctuated word meaning [[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/catastrophe?rdfrom=Catastrophe "large and disastrous event of great significance"]]

-->''(Ralpha has just gotten out of the shower and is completely naked)''\\

* StuffBlowingUp: For example, in "B.A.R.K", a military unit of spydogs uses plastic explosive to demolish [[spoiler: a flimsy staircase, and replace it just in time. They use a KillSat to topple a human skateboarder. They self-defeatingly send him flying past the person that they were trying to protect; the principal deflects him with her [[PlotArmor character shields]]. They use a folding bridge to help the principal over a crack in a sidewalk, uselessly making it larger with a mortar first. They also use a SniperRifle and a rocket propelled grenade to clear garbage and a ketchup truck from the principal's path. [[HeroInsurance They lay waste to the city]], and the human driver of the truck barely escapes.]]
* VillainExitStageLeft: Catastrophe does this in every episode in which he is prominent.

The Secret Files of the Spy Dogs (1998-1999) was an animated television series, which lasted for 22 episodes. According to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmEisbUwRzY this series]], dogs are just as effective with their hands and are much smarter than humans are. All dogs are members of a spy agency that does good.

!!''TheSecretFilesOfTheSpyDogs'' provides examples of:

** Creator/AdamWest as Dog Zero, [[TheMonkees Mickey Dolenz]] as Ralph, JimCummings as Catastrophe... hell, just check [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0204777/fullcredits the imdb page]].

** AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Agent Mitzy is purple.

** AdamWest as Dog Zero, [[TheMonkees Mickey Dolenz]] as Ralph, JimCummings as Catastrophe... hell, just check [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0204777/fullcredits the imdb page]].

The Secret Files of the Spy Dogs (1998-1999) was an animated television series, which lasted for 22 episodes. According to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmEisbUwRzY this series]], dogs are just as effective with their hands and as smart as humans are. All dogs are members of a spy agency that does good.

* HypocriticalHumor: in episode DNA, cat-Ralph tells cat-Mitzy that she really needs to control the cat impulse to take a bath in public. He tears furniture. [[DidNotDoTheResearch Dogs lick themselves in public also.]]

According to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmEisbUwRzY this series]], dogs are just as effective with their hands and as smart as humans are. All dogs are members of a spy agency that does good.

* RefugeInCool

** AdamWest as Dog Zero, [[TheMonkees Mickey Dolenz]] as Ralph, JimCymmings as Catastrophe... hell, just check [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0204777/fullcredits the imdb page]].

* TakeThat and CrowningMomentOfFunny: In "Being", Mitzy warehouses an [[BeyondTheImpossible incredibly]] [[BornLucky lucky]], [[HeWhoMustNotBeHeard silent]], and charismatic runaway SuperPrototype MobileSuitHuman "mindless automaton", "Chauncy", by making him the President of the United States.