Nickelodeon's Cat&Dog cartoon

[MagicalSilverKey]

Has it ever been explained why the dog and cat are connected at their torsos? I don't get it, as I don't normally watch the show.

[Homer]

No, no, no! It's not Cat&Dog, it's CatDog.

And it's funny. Don't question it.

--Tim

[racinchikki]

I find that show very vaguely creepy.

I like the theme song, though. It reminds me of BR5-49 or Riders In The Sky, the lyrics having been written during a trip.

[Gunslinger]

Originally posted by MagicalSilverKey
Has it ever been explained why the dog and cat are connected at their torsos? I don't get it, as I don't normally watch the show.

They were born like that. It's explained quite nicely in the theme song.

[evilbeth]

I love the theme song! Now I've got it in my head for the rest of the night!

[Fairy Princess Kitty]

I love that show, well most of the time. It's the type of thing that gets annoying after a while. I do believe your question has been answered.

Does anyone know why it is that in that show and in many others, that those these animals are pets, they can talk, but their pets can't?

Kitty

[Catrandom]

Catdog creeps me right out. Why do cartoons have to be so damn ugly these days? Was it The Simpsons? Rugrats? I can't stand to look at any of them except the Japanese ones, in which the drawing, though stylized, is at least not repulsive. But of course, even "mainstream" anime consists entirely of people with very strange names getting killed.

I'm glad I don't have kids, I really am.

[Persephone]

I LOVE CatDog! But I am a big fan of nearly all the cartoons on Nickelodeon. My absolute favorite is Ren & Stimpy, with CatDog & Spongebob Squarepants tied for second.

The CatDog theme song is definitely one of the better ones. My musician husband absolutely loves it.

One fine day with a woof and a purr
A baby was born and it caused a little stir
No blue bunny, no three-eyed frog,
A feline canine little CatDog.

CatDog, CatDog,
Alone in the world
Is a little CatDog...

[Kricket]

It gives me the creeps too. But I think it's funny.
My favorite Nick cartoon was AHHH! Real Monsters, but I don't think that they show it anymore.

Another question to go along with the "why can they talk but not their pets?"
Why in some cartoons like "Franklin" does he have a name but his friends are called by what they are? Like bear and fox.

My all time favorite cartoon is Jonny Bravo. I even have my ICQ set for his sounds.

[andygirl]

I watched CatDog this weekend with my 10 year old cousin. I'm still wondering how the thing goes to the bathroom... or maybe I don't want to know.

[Homer]

Whenever one side eats something, the other side coughs it up, undigested.

Sometimes, they put a rock in the middle so they can do separate stuff. They're very elastic. If they get too far apart, they send the mouse-friend through them to find the other one and make him come home.

--Tim

[evilbeth]

Originally posted by Kricket
It gives me the creeps too. But I think it's funny.
My favorite Nick cartoon was AHHH! Real Monsters, but I don't think that they show it anymore.

I loved that show!!

[InternetLegend]

One of the things I love about watching cartoons with the kids is seeing that some great 80s musicians are still making a living. Danny Elfman (late of Oingo Boingo), who wrote the Simpsons music, might be the most high-profile, but Fred Schneider and Kate Pierson (B52s) can be heard singing the theme to "Rocko's Modern Life," and Mark Mothersbaugh (Devo) did the music for Rugrats and a couple of other shows. I know there are more, but I'll have to wait for the next Nicktoon marathon and write them down.

CatDog is one of my favorites, now that I've gotten over my initial revulsion.

[BiblioCat]

Originally posted by Kricket
Another question to go along with the "why can they talk but not their pets?"
Why in some cartoons like "Franklin" does he have a name but his friends are called by what they are? Like bear and fox.

Boy, that drives me nuts! Yes, he has a name, but his friends are just Fox and Bear. That darn bear looks just like Little Bear, too, just to confuse things even more.
And on Little Bear, the parents wear clothes, but not the kids.
My kids love the Nickelodeon cartoons, CatDog, SpongeBob SquarePants, Hey Arnold, Rugrats, Rocket Power, Two Angry Beavers...they're all funny.
Now I've got that damn CatDog song stuck in my head...thanks a lot, Persephone!

[don Jaime]

A lunatic dog and a frustrated cat
Opposite this and opposite that!
From the promo, the start of the rarely heard second verse. Can't remmeber the rest of it.

It's an okay show, but I get tired of the gang, and Dog whining "But, Caa-AAA-aat!" every few seconds. SpongeBob Squarepants is much better. Great theme (w/synchro-voxed pirate!) AND great scripts.

One or the other has a Steven Banks listed in the credits. Is this the same Banks who had a music-themed sitcom on New Orleans PBS?

[Olentzero]

...who is a Nickelodeon addict. Saturday mornings we get up, run around in our PJs (OK, I wear a T-shirt and beach shorts!) and tune in. Mrs. O couldn't figure out for the life of her why I'd suddenly shout "Are ya ready, kids?!" and the Tzeroling would reply "Aye aye, cap'n!"...

...until she didn't have to work one Saturday and saw SpongeBob SquarePants.

Now we all sing the theme song at completely random times. A scary lot, we are.

The Tzeroling loves CatDog too, although now we're getting into repeated episodes and I'm starting to get bored.

I used to love Ren & Stimpy back when it first came out but now it's just icky.

Rugrats is a perennial favorite, and Mark Mothersbaugh's music rocks. Didn't he do some work for Real Monsters as well?

OK, one last thing. Here's a name you should recognize if you're attentive: Christine Cavanaugh. What's she got to do with this thread?

[don Jaime]

Uh...Chuckie on Rugrats? Oblina on {i]AAAH! Real Monsters[/i]? Dex on Dexter's Laboratory? The original Babe the Pig? None of these really relate to CatDog. Or is she in the gang?

[jesuslynch]

Originally posted by Olentzero
...who is a Nickelodeon addict. Saturday mornings we get up, run around in our PJs (OK, I wear a T-shirt and beach shorts!) and tune in. Mrs. O couldn't figure out for the life of her why I'd suddenly shout "Are ya ready, kids?!" and the Tzeroling would reply "Aye aye, cap'n!"...

...until she didn't have to work one Saturday and saw SpongeBob SquarePants.

Now we all sing the theme song at completely random times. A scary lot, we are.

The joys of babysitting on Saturday mornings. Time for doing things only fathers and sons know about (get your mind out of the gutter). Mommajesus never could figure out why babyjesus would walk around the house going "I'm ready" for what seemed like hours on end until she saw Bob-Bob (as he's known around the manger) one night this summer. Now, even momma will burst forth with a round of "I'm ready" occasionally.

[Olentzero]

Tzeroling is a she. Not that I was specific about it or anything.

don Jaime wins the prize for observancy. She's not on CatDog as far as I know, it just kinda figured in here as a stream-of-consciousness kind of thing. Especially since she's on two of the Nicktoons mentioned in the thread.

[don Jaime]

Heeeeey,
Thaaaaaanks!
May I test the Master? Can you name anything else Tom "SpongeBob Squarepants" Kenny is in?

[Olentzero]

Love the sig! Um... I'm not really a master; I used my whole arsenal with the Christine Cavanaugh question.

Although it looks like because I knew this I'm a voice chaser. So maybe I'll just listen extra careful to the other toons I catch and see if I can't identify Mr. Kenny.

[vanilla]

My son just mentioned it yesterday.
He was like, They connected a dog's head to the cat's butt.
How do they go to the bathroom?

[DuhMan]

Ok.. I'm sorry.. but the cartoons on Nickelodeon drive me crazy! They are all so stupid it boggles my mind. I don't know.. I loved cartoons when I was a kid, but I don't think they were nearly as whacked out as what they show on Nick today. CatDog? Spongebob?? What about the Flintstones and the Jetsons? Give me some Captain Cave Man or something! These new cartoons are too much! Do we really need a cat and dog combo to entertain our kids? Our regular people and animals just too boring nowadays? Ok, I'm done.. my apologies to anyone who likes these shows, I just don't dig em at all.

[jesuslynch]

Originally posted by Olentzero
Tzeroling is a she. Not that I was specific about it or anything.

D'oh. Sorry man.

[don Jaime]

Oops! Sorry, Olentzero. Got ahead of myself.

Finding Kenny ain't easy; he's pretty versatile. As an example, he plays the Narrator, the Mayor, and "Him" on The Powerpuff Girls, and none of those are remotely similar. His other big Nick role is Heffer on Rocko's Modern Life.

Duhman - Fred, George, et al. are over at Cartoon Network. Watch it sometime to see how they beat Scooby-Doo's shows into the ground.

[don Jaime]

Imagine my embarassment to check IMDB after posting to find Kenny is Dog! Oops. FTR, Jim Cummings is Cat.