wait remember tough puppy coming from fairly oddparents creator butch os
man on his next big outing after danny phantom and before bunsen burner i don't know why i'm
attacking bunsen as a beast i haven't seen it but what i have seen is tough puppy hi thanks
for being here but also yes i took the plunge to check out the animated show starring your boy
jerry trainer so as someone who has only seen a handful of episodes when the show was
originally airing i thought it would be a fun one to revisit to see just what the show was all about
tough puppy was a nickelodeon tv series about a dim-witted but good-natured mixed-breed dog
named dudley puppy as he worked as a secret agent alongside his partner kitty catswell
for tough which stands for that's unfortunate for freddy which is how i felt seeing him constantly
taking l's in the icarly 2021 revival or it stands for the turbo undercover fighting force
a crime-stopping organization that operated behind the scenes throughout the fictional
city of petropolis which is totally not zootopia the citizens of petropolis if
you haven't picked up on it yet by dudley being a dog are anthropomorphic animals again not zootopia
this came first tough puppy premiered on october 2nd 2010 alongside planet sheen the series ran
until april 4th 2015 on nickelodeon's main channel for a total of three seasons or 60 episodes 26
episodes in season one and two but only eight in season three the protagonist dudley puppy is
this hyperactive agent of tough who was recruited almost accidentally during the events of the first
episode when dudley's chew toy rolls into the evil lair of petropolis villains snap trap francisco
bad dog and leather teddy i feel like there's a joke here that kids aren't supposed to get oh
he wanders in after it unknowingly interfering with an active tough operation he then
sequentially accidentally defeats all three of the villains capturing them for tough all while just
trying to retrieve his chew toy and snapchat got away tuff brings dudley back to their headquarters
to interrogate him on his involvement in the crimes committed by the bad guys there a dna test
reveals that dudley is the perfect mix of all dog breeds having access to the best quality of each
breed this fact combined with his success earlier in the day in fighting crime gets him recruited
into tough by the chief and who else to play that role of the chief than darren norris himself
dudley is assigned to work with kitty catswell played by grey griffin an anthropomorphic cat
in a black jumpsuit in one of tufts best agents as a fully trained agent kitty is skilled in martial
arts and anything kick butt in general she's also pretty short-tempered and with the occasional
tendency to fall prey to her own animal instincts to chase birds and claw things cough up a hairball
when dudley and kitty first meet she initially doesn't like him playing the whole cast vs dogs
trope but over time she warms up to dudley and ends up being one of his best friends
dudley and kitty are assigned missions by the earlier mentioned chief a strict good-natured
flee who used to be tufts top field agent before retiring to deskwork his tiny size is
a reoccurring joke throughout the series used for various comedic situations every dog has his day
and this one has his own tv show tough puppy is next it's time for another episode of the secret
agent that only has one thing on his mind doggie treats another tough puppy is next also working
at tough alongside dudley and kitty is kelswick the resident tech whiz who creates all of tufts
gadgets and inventions kelswick retains this position within tough despite most
of his inventions being too unpredictable to ever actually be useful so dangerous and unpredictable
actually that more often than not those inventions result in the major problem of the episode keswick
is some type of unspecified animal the mystery of keswick's species is never really addressed with
him just continuously being referred to as keswick kitty and dudley spend their time as agents of
tough fighting various supervillains and stopping crime as they pop up throughout petropolis dudley
having been raised by his mother's strict moral code is strong good-hearted and destined to stop
all badness and meanness in its tracks if that ain't the toughest statement i've ever heard then
i don't know what is most of tough's villains are in one way or another members of doom the
dang oversized obtuse moose okay it's really the diabolical order of mayhem an evil organization
that works to commit crime and take over the world under the leadership of verminous snaptrap that's
like the top two things a villain always wants to do mess some stuff up and run everything verminous
snap trap is the craze leader of doom and the only rat in the world who is allergic to cheese
an allergy that has plagued him so much that he went crazy and formed the criminal organization
he leads you know what i've said it for years give a man no cheese he'll bring the world to its
knees what do you mean by that throughout tough puppy verminus acts as dudley puppy's nemesis
mirroring him in a myriad of ways both characters are immature and have a tendency to be airheads
not the candy dudley though unlike verminus often shows the potential for intelligence noticing
things others would not and piecing together villainous plots before they're revealed other
villains introduced through the series either as members of doom or as independent agents
include the chameleon a shape-shifting chameleon who uses a stolen molecular transformation suit
to morph himself into any person or anything with this ability playing off the chameleon's
natural ability to change its color to blend into its surroundings and is voiced by darren
norris man is there a character this beautiful person can't play like we already have jerry
traynor in this that's all you need for the cell but darren norris oh yeah i'm calling out of work
you're lucky if this video comes out on time the chameleon is originally introduced as a hitman
hired by verminus to get revenge against kitty catswell for putting him in jail numerous times
he is considered one of tough's most competent villains being a criminal genius who is vengeful
bitter intelligent and crafty thus posing much more of a threat than verminus despite that he
is also shown to be rather absent-minded which often leads to his demise so even the smart ones
they're they're not so smart like i said earlier tough puppy was created by butch hartman as his
third series for nickelodeon following his success with fairly oddparents and danny phantom butch
hartman whose real name is elmer earl hartman iv this isn't relevant or anything i just think
it's funny got his start with nickelodeon in 1998 when he created the fairly oddparents as
a part of the series of seven-minute shorts for nickelodeon and fred seibert's oh yeah cartoons
an animation showcase that ran as part of the nicktoons lineup from 1998 to 2002. the showcase
allowed filmmakers a chance to create seven-minute cartoons for the network that the network in turn
could try out as potential new shows without the commitment of making a full pilot i don't know
how many times i've mentioned oh yeah cartoons and fred seibert this month alone if you've seen any
of my videos but dang somehow all this content has been related to that almost like i planned it or
something just wait to see what i've planned for december up next tough puppy let's do this on nick
i'm jerry traynor voice of deadly puppy hartman's seven minutes short of the fairly oddparents was
chosen alongside my life as a teenage robot and chalk zone to be made into full length series
getting hartman's first marketed success as a show creator hartman has stated that he first came up
with the concept for tough puppy by creating the central character of dudley and then deciding he
wanted a crime-fighting show based around him since hartman's last show danny phantom was
already about super powers hartman decided to go the secret agent route in the concept
hartman initially pitched the series to nick under the name stud puppy before it was changed to tough
puppy to reference the crime stopping organization the show was centered around when he first pitched
the show to executives he described it as get smart but with a dog that's a sentence eric baza
a talented voice actor was originally supposed to voice dudley puppy for butch while both
nickelodeon and hartman were impressed by baza's talents to hartman he was just not quite right
for the role according to an episode of speech bubble with butch hartman baza had a tendency to
feed into the dog aspect of the character kind of growling in a way that hartman found funny but not
quite in line with the tone of the series well at least he was cast as guard number one in the show
for an episode it was while the production was still looking for voice actors that a storyboard
artist suggested that they auditioned jerry traynor better known as spencer shay on icarly or
crazy steve on drake and josh for the role during the callback process hartman and trainer hit it
off immediately and trainer got his first real voice acting credit why the show was cancelled
has never really been confirmed as is the most cases but the general vague assumption is that
the network must have just been unsatisfied with the ratings leading to the ending of the show
it didn't receive the highest of reviews but by its cancellation it left the show at a weird place
it felt unfinished with only having eight episodes in the final season but i will say that personally
it brought me back to that classic feeling of the fairly oddparents that in my childhood i
love so much i mean i still love the classic fairly oddparents now but the initial viewings
of the show were a huge thing to me back then and so since the animation is very similar and
done mainly by the same people those feelings started to come rushing back now that doesn't
mean i think that this is an amazing show that warrants your time right now to drop
everything and watch but i do in some aspects think it's kind of underrated sure some jokes
are pretty childish throughout but there is this level of spy action campiness that i do
really enjoy plus having voice talent like jerry traynor darren norris and many others that i very
much also enjoy only further the reason for me to like it more than i assume most would doggy door
i don't know where you all fall on that do you like or even enjoy this show or was it nothing
special in your eyes let me know in the comments thanks so much for hanging out with me today
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