![]() Check out this episode when Goofy and the usual buddies go on a Hawaiian vacation and the Goof gets some surfing in. Evidently, when dogs talk, they always put Rs in front of everything which, in scientific terms, is called Rhotic Replacement. Both used Ruh-roh (for Uh-oh) when things got tough. When you think about it, they sound pretty much the same. It is one of the lesser-known facts of Canine Cartoondom that the same person, Don Messick, did the voice of Scooby and Astro. Truly strange but lighthearted and REALLY popular.Īstro was immortalized in the closing credits of the Jetsons as he runs his master, George Jetson, through the treadmill. A weird combination of Dobie Gillis, The Milton the Monster Show and The Archies, Scooby-Doo Where Are You? follows the adventures of Scooby, Shaggy, Fred, Daphne, and Velma as they investigate ghosts, monsters and/various supernatural creatures. Scooby-Doo-Can’t talk about cartoon dogs without mentioning Scooby from Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?, the much-loved Saturday morning show that debuted in 1969. In this segment, you can see the lasting influence of, you guessed it, Muttley. But it’s his wheezy chuckle that we all remember.īrian Griffin-Brian from Family Guy is a struggling writer dog who drives a Toyota Prius and moves through the world like a human, dating human women and always incredulous about the behavior of his close friend Stewie as well as his owner, Peter Griffin. For those not familiar with him, he was Dick Dastardly’s dog and always took joy in his owner’s ill-conceived plans, which somehow always blew up in his own face. Kind of like Faulkner in Southern literature. Muttley-The more we researched, the more we discovered that Muttley is kind of an uberdog in the canine cartoon world, one who left a long and lasting impression in the genre. From the moment he taps the ice he’s nothing short of sublime. He can fly as the Red Baron, he can decorate a mean doghouse, go one-on-one with Lucy, make fun of his owner, Charlie Brown, and, above all, he can ice skate. Even in an unordered list, Snoopy is number one. ![]() So here, in no particular order, are just a few of Petswelcome’s Picks of the Greatest Cartoon Dogs Ever. All these dogs are imbued with humor, joy and the fond memories of childhood which add a new and wonderful layer to our enjoyment of man’s best friend: When it comes to our relationship with dogs, cartoon or not, there’s a part of us that never has to grow up. That’s because cartoon dogs are creations of our imaginations, highlighting what we’d like to believe about them, capturing their sweetness, zaniness and weirdness while, at the same time-for those of us of a certain age-making those attributes all the more real because we saw them on TV. Some of them are so deeply embedded in my psyche that they almost seemed more real than my actual dogs did. But beyond that experience, and a maybe a few others, most of my earliest memories originate from dogs in cartoons. I can still feel the visceral exhilaration of her speed and her concern in making sure I didn’t fall off. ![]() Thinking back to my earliest memories of dogs, I remember my father’s Doberman, Vicky, who let me ride on her back when I was very young. ![]()
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