Detective Thursday

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Detective Thursday is a fictional anthropomorphic hound of indeterminate breed created for the animated Disney television series Tale Spin. He appears in the episode Vowel Play and is voiced by Jack Angel. His name is apparently a pun on the name of Joe Friday.

In Vowel Play, Thursday, a hard-boiled police detective, had the unenviable task of getting to the bottom of a series of crimes apparently triggered by hidden messages that Higher For Hire was skywriting. To this end, he arrested Baloo, thinking him the mastermind behind the skywriting crimes, only to find out that Baloo couldn't even spell, and that the real mastermind was Heimlich Menudo. Using a code book taken off of Weazell, Thursday was able to crack the latest code and - with Baloo's help - stop the Heimlich Maneuver.