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CatDog
Genre	Comedy Surreal Comedy
Created by	Peter Hannan
Creative director	Robert Porter
Voices of	Jim Cummings Tom Kenny Carlos Alazraqui Maria Bamford Billy West Nika Futterman John Kassir Dwight Schultz Laraine Newman
Theme music composer	Peter Hannan
Opening theme	"CatDog Theme Song"
Ending theme	"CatDog Ending Theme Song"
Composer	Denis M. Hannigan
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	68 (134 segments) 66 aired 2 unaired (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer	Peter Hannan
Producers	Mario Piluso (supervising) Ken Kessel (supervising)
Running time	23 minutes
Production companies	Peter Hannan Productions Nickelodeon Animation Studio Saerom Animation Rough Draft Korea
Original release
Network	Nickelodeon (1998–2001) Nicktoons (2002–05)
Release	April 4, 2003 (2003-04-04) – June 15, 2005 (2005-06-15)

CatDog is an American animated television series created by Peter Hannan for Nickelodeon. The series follows the zany hijinks of golden-furred conjoined brothers of different species, with one half of the resultant animal being a cat and the other a dog. Nickelodeon produced the series from Burbank, California. The first episode aired on April 4, 1998, following the 1998 Kids' Choice Awards, before the show officially premiered in October of that year. Similarly, the Season 2 episode "Fetch" was shown in theaters in 1998 before airing on television.

The series ended on June 15, 2005, after a total of four seasons and 66 aired episodes over seven years, plus two produced episodes never aired. It was produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio and Peter Hannan Productions, and was released on DVD in Region 1 by Shout! Factory.

Two animation studios, Saerom Animation and Rough Draft Studios through Rough Draft Korea, worked on the animation for the show.

Premise

The series revolves around Cat and Dog, a golden-furred conjoined twin of a cat and a dog with two heads and shared body, with no tail or hind legs. Although they are best friends they have very different personalities, similar to "The Odd Couple" and the Looney Tunes shorts, mixed with elements of Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello, and fellow Nicktoon characters Ren and Stimpy. Cat is strait-laced, while Dog is impulsive. Dog enjoys chasing garbage trucks, cars, and exploring – many things that Cat does not want to be involved with. Dog enjoys eating at fast-food restaurants such as Taco Depot, whereas Cat does not. The series takes place in Nearburg, a town dominated by anthropomorphic animals and the occasional humanoid.

Episodes

Characters

• CatDog (voiced by Jim Cummings and Tom Kenny, respectively)
• Winslow Oddfellow (voiced by Carlos Alazraqui)
  • Cliff Feltbottom (voiced by Tom Kenny)
  • Shriek Dubois (voiced by Maria Bamford)
  • Lube (voiced by Carlos Alazraqui)
• Rancid Rabbit (voiced by Billy West)
• Eddie the Squirrel (voiced by Dwight Schultz)
• Randolph Grant (voiced by Billy West)
• Tallulah Headbank (voiced by Maria Bamford)
• Mean Bob (voiced by Billy West)
• Lola Caricola (voiced by Nika Futterman)
• The Ingrid Twins (both voiced by Laraine Newman)
• Mervis (a pig) and Dunglap (a weasel) (voiced by John Kassir)
• Mr. Sunshine (voiced by Billy West)

Production

The series, created by Peter Hannan, was developed as the next Nicktoons production and produced from Nickelodeon Animation Studio in Burbank, California. Hannan served as executive producer. This was part of Nickelodeon's $350 million investment in original animation over the next five years after the series' inception.

Albie Hecht, Nickelodeon's senior vice president of worldwide productions, said that the creators planned for the series to "really play off of kids' sympathies" by portraying the characters as experiencing "the worst of both worlds". Hannan said CatDog was inspired by watching neighborhood cats and dogs occasionally fight each other, and thought that it would be great to make conjoined twins Cat and Dog to see how both of the animals would fare against other things. The idea of them being conjoined twins came from Hannan watching several news stories on TV about conjoined twins living a normal life conjoined together. Both aspects, he claimed, initially developed the idea of CatDog.

The title characters were originally envisioned as a two-headed superhero called "CatDog Man".

Release

Broadcast

The series originally aired on Nickelodeon in the US from 2003 to 2004, and aired reruns from 2005 to 2007. It was subsequently aired on Nicktoons (2002–2011) and NickSplat (2013-2018) and streams on Paramount+ (2020–present). In the UK and Ireland, the series was broadcast on Nickelodeon (2003–2005), Channel 4 (1999-2007) and Nicktoons (2003–13). In Canada, the series was broadcast on Nickelodeon (2009–2019) and on YTV (1999–2006). In Australia and New Zealand, the series was broadcast on Nickelodeon (1998–2015). In Japan, the series was broadcast on Nickelodeon (2000–2009) and on TV Asahi (2000–2006). In Middle East, the series was broadcast on Nickelodeon Arabia (2008–2011) and on MBC 3 (2014–2015). In March 2021, the series was added along with other various Nicktoons and Nickelodeon shows onto Paramount+.

Home media and digital download releases

Two VHS tapes of the series were released by Paramount Home Video on March 30, 2000. Together Forever contains a bonus short "Cat-Diggety Dog" plus the episodes "Dog Gone", "Flea or Die", "Diamond Fever", "CatDog's End" and "Work Force" and CatDog vs. The Greasers contains the episodes "Siege on Fort CatDog", "Squirrel Dog", "Full Moon Fever", "Shriek Loves Dog" and "All You Need is Lube".

In 2010, Nickelodeon contracted Amazon.com's CreateSpace service arm to produce DVD sets of CatDog and other Nickelodeon shows exclusively for sale on Amazon. The DVDs were "manufactured-on-demand" DVD-Rs to match orders. The series is also available for download on Amazon's InstantVideo service. From 2011 to 2013, Shout! Factory released the series on DVD via several season sets, and a proper complete series set was released on December 9, 2014.

♦ – Shout! Factory select title sold exclusively through Shout's online store.

The complete series is also available for download in the iTunes Store, and streaming on Paramount+.

Reception

Critical

The series was reviewed by Common Sense Media with a score 2/5 stars, advised for children 7 and up.

Awards and nominations

In 1998, the series was nominated for an Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Writing in an Animated Television Production, for "Dog Gone". The recipients would have been Derek Drymon, Robert Porter and Peter Hannan.

At the 1999 Kids' Choice Awards, the show was nominated for Favorite Cartoon. However, it lost to Rugrats. It did so again in the 2000 Kids' Choice Awards.

Video games

• CatDog: Quest for the Golden Hydrant (1999, PC)
• CatDog: Saving Mean Bob (1999, PlayStation, cancelled)
• Nicktoons Racing (as playable characters)
• Nickelodeon Party Blast (Seen but not playable characters)
• Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots (Seen but not playable characters)
• Nicktoons MLB (Seen but not playable characters)
• Super Brawl Universe (as playable characters)
• Nickelodeon Kart Racers 2: Grand Prix (as playable characters)
• Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl (as playable characters)
• Nickelodeon Extreme Tennis (as playable characters)
• Nickelodeon Kart Racers 3: Slime Speedway (as playable characters)

References

1. Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 116–117. ISBN 978-1538103739.
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3. "CatDog" Send in the CatDog/Fishing for Trouble/Fetch (TV Episode 1999) - IMDb, retrieved 2021-09-03
4. Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. p. 191. ISBN 978-1476665993.
5. DeMott, Rick (October 18, 2011). "CatDog: Season 1 – Part 1 Pounces Its Way Onto DVD". Animation World Network. Retrieved August 13, 2022.
6. ^ "CatDog DVD news: Announcement for CatDog - The Complete Series". TVShowsOnDVD.com. Archived from the original on December 8, 2014.
7. "CatDog: Season Two, Part One", Amazon, ASIN B007GMKX6G
8. Lambert, David (June 8, 2011). "CatDog - 'Season 2, Part 2' DVDs are Scheduled for Wide Release". TVShowsOnDVD. Archived from the original on September 17, 2012. Retrieved December 1, 2012.
9. "CatDog DVD news: Announcement for CatDog - Season 3". TVShowsOnDVD.com. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013.
10. "CatDog DVD news: Announcement for CatDog - The Final Season". TVShowsOnDVD.com. Archived from the original on November 15, 2013.
11. Wenk, Sarah (July 12, 2006). "CatDog". Common Sense Media. Archived from the original on September 26, 2011. Retrieved January 3, 2011.
12. "Legacy: 26th Annual Annie Award Nominees and Winners (1998)". AnnieAwards.org. ASIFA-Hollywood. Archived from the original on October 11, 2007. Retrieved December 1, 2012.
13. "Hasbro Interactive and Nickelodeon Forge 3 Year Software Partnership". Business Wire. May 13, 1999. Archived from the original on June 10, 2013. Retrieved July 26, 2021 – via The Free Dictionary.

External links

• CatDog at IMDb
• Welcome to CatDog's 1st Fan Site – includes various interview from members of cast and crew

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