| T.U.F.F. Puppy | |
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| Genre | Action Adventure Comedy |
| Format | Animated series |
| Created by | Butch Hartman |
| Written by | Butch Hartman Ray DeLaurentis Will Schifrin Kevin Sullivan |
| Directed by | Butch Hartman Gary Conrad Michelle Bryan Ken Bruce |
| Voices of | Jerry Trainor Grey DeLisle Daran Norris Jeff Bennett Matthew W. Taylor |
| Theme music composer | Adam Schlesinger Butch Hartman |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 21 (List of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Butch Hartman |
| Producer(s) | Deirdre Brenner George Goodchild Dave Thomas |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Billionfold, Inc. Nickelodeon Animation Studios |
| Distributor | MTV Networks |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Nickelodeon |
| Original run | October 2, 2010 – present |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | The Fairly OddParents Danny Phantom |
| External links | |
| Website | |
T.U.F.F. Puppy is an American animated television series created by Butch Hartman for Nickelodeon. It premiered on October 2, 2010 on Nickelodeon after the premiere of Planet Sheen (2010). The series' main character is a dim-witted but determined dog named Dudley Puppy (voiced by iCarly's Jerry Trainor), who works as a secret agent for an organization called T.U.F.F. (Turbo Undercover Fighting Force). His partner is a cat named Kitty Katswell (voiced by Grey DeLisle). Other helpers are The Chief (voiced by Daran Norris) and Keswick (voiced by Jeff Bennett). The series takes place in a fictional city called Petropolis, which is populated by animal characters. T.U.F.F. Puppy is Butch Hartman's third animated series for Nickelodeon, after The Fairly OddParents (2001) and Danny Phantom (2004).
In early 2011, the series was renewed for a second season and premiered on December 10, 2011. Announced at the 2011 Comic-Con event, the series will also have a third season. The first season contained 20 episodes and so will both seasons 2 and 3.
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The series' main character is a dim-witted but determined dog named Dudley Puppy (voiced by iCarly's Jerry Trainor), who works as a secret agent for an organization called T.U.F.F. (Turbo Undercover Fighting Force).[1] His partner is a cat named Kitty Katswell (voiced by Grey DeLisle).[2] Other helpers are The Chief (voiced by Daran Norris) and Keswick (voiced by Jeff Bennett). The series takes place in a fictional city called Petropolis, which is populated by anthropomorphic animals.
Other T.U.F.F. agents (besides the main characters) made appearances throughout the series; however, most of these agents have no speaking roles yet.
The Chameleon (voiced by Daran Norris) is an evil and devious chameleon in a molecular transformation suit, which allows him to shapeshift into virtually any disguise or inanimate object. He serves as the one the three main villains of the series. In "Doom-mates", his name is pronounced "The Cham-e-leon." He wants to get revenge on Kitty Katswell in "Doom-mates." He talks like Peter Lorre and eats any bug he sees, a trait used against him several times. His relationship with D.O.O.M. seems rather strained, since he tends to work separately from the others and once planned for them and T.U.F.F. to destroy each other. He said he wanted to go to D.O.O.M.'s weekly ice cream socials, but he's never invited. As a running gag, he often tries to wear a pair of special glasses or goggles, only to have his eyes go around or through them. He can sometimes be very random when disguised. (For example, in "Internal Affairs" he tells the soldiers semper fi and to remember the Alamo.) Oddly, whenever the story has him needing to use a disguise for a long time as a major plot point, his voice is never disguised, despite him being able to disguise it during the short disguises in other episodes. Another oddity is that Dudley can never tell when or what the Chameleon is disguised, despite the dog having the sensitive nose of a bloodhound(possibly the Chameleon can disguise his smell, too). If the Chameleon is splashed with liquid while in disguise, his suit will short circuit and he will return to normal. Also, his suit is wired into his brain and if it's removed, he will return to normal.
Bird Brain (voiced by Rob Paulsen) is an evil bird genius who can't fly with his wings. He has an sidekick named Zippy who claims he can fly if he just believes he can. He serves as one of the three main villains of the series. He claims to be a blue-bottomed Booby and he's the most competent villain. Bird Brain seems to be quite intelligent and capable at his job. Like Snaptrap, he is very easily frustrated by his foolish comrades. In "Thunder Dog" it is revealed that he is prematurely bald. In the Christmas special it is revealed that although he looks old he is only 23.
Zippy (voiced by Grey DeLisle) is Bird Brain's scatterbrained hummingbird sidekick, who constantly encourages him to fly, despite the fact that his species is incapable of it.
Owl and Bat (voiced by Jeff Bennett and Daran Norris) are Bird Brain's more recent henchmen. They are both very incompetent, often infuriating their boss by saying, "Who?" and "Where?" respectively, to which Zippy occasionally adds "Why?" Bat is suggested to be blind, although he occasionally does his job exactly as told, implying that he has some vision and he is apparently slightly smarter than Owl. Bird Brain seems to like Bat more, cause at one point in "Thunder Dog", Bat did his job exactly as he was told without saying his usual "Where?", surprising Bird Brain while Owl idiotically said his usual "Who?", who Bird Brain threatened with a boulder.
Jack Rabbit (voiced by Daran Norris) is a former elite T.U.F.F. agent and Kitty's former partner who is a parody of James Bond, he had turned evil, attempting to drain secret agents' brains and sell their secrets to villains. Greedy, clever, arrogant, and dishonest, Jack attempted to lure Kitty into a trap so he could steal her information (mostly to get money from Snaptrap), but was defeated by Dudley and Keswick. Judging by a line from Kitty in his only episode, she and Jack were supposedly a couple once. He and Snaptrap are arrested, thanks to Dudley and Keswick.
R.I.T.A. (voiced by Grey DeLisle) is a super-intelligent toaster created by Keswick. She starts out good by stopping Snaptrap and the Chameleon, but when Keswick attempts to unplug her since T.U.F.F. is eco-friendly, R.I.T.A. turned evil and attempted to take over the city, only for Dudley to make her to fall to her doom on a cliff and into a lake.
Mad Cow is an angry bovine who is a very bad guy. He tried to escape prison, but he got arrested thanks to Kitty.
Crazy Horse is an equine who is a bad guy and uses chainsaws which is why they call him Crazy Horse (he even whinnies while using chainsaws). He tried to escape prison but he got arrested thanks to Kitty. He bunks with Snaptrap.
Snowflake and Slush (voiced by Mary Birdsong and Dave Boat) are evil rabbit siblings who dress up as vegetables and cheat in events by eliminating and kidnapping the competition. Snowflake is the mastermind of the two, while Slush possesses little to no intelligence, who in his sister's words is "dumber than a box of hair" (she should know, she used to skate with one, and claims it was smarter than him). Despite his immense stupidity, he is very competent with Snowflake's plan and when it is ruined, he is shown to be just as angry at the failure and desperate to escape as Snowflake is.
A crazy fish who thinks he rules the seven seas, that Dudley is the king of the surface world and talks to inanimate objects at the bottom of the sea that he thinks are his subjects. He once tried to flood Petropolis but was stopped by Kitty and Dudley and was put in an aquarium for the criminally insane .
Quacky the Duck who played the host of a famous show which is based on Barney and Friends. Dudley, Kitty, Chief, and Keswick all watch Quacky's show, but Dudley is his biggest fan. When his show was cancelled, he wanted to get revenge by blasting the chairman with a nuclear missile with Dudley and Kitty tied to it. He was arrested, thanks to Dudley. Quacky speaks like Bobcat Goldthwait.
Petropolis' worst smelling villain. Dudley's super sensitive snout made him powerless to stop him until Dudley caught Keswick's cold.
She's a little chipmunk girl, with a southern accent appears in "Mall Rat". Every time Kitty would do something bad while trying to stop Snaptrap, she would tug on Dudley's shirt and ask why the mean lady did what she did, with tears in her eyes. Her lines were, "Why did the mean lady blow up our muffins?", "Why does the mean lady hate muffins and sunshine?", and "You're not going to take our yogurt like you took our muffins and sunshine are you mean lady?".
Peg Puppy (voiced by Leslie Carrara-Rudolph) is Dudley's over protective mother, she once dated Snaptrap and the Chameleon. In "Snap Dad", she's shown to not have her husband, after Dudley's father married her which means she's either divorced or widowed. In "Mom-A-Geddon", she disapproves of Dudley's occupation, but after seeing him in action, allows him to keep his job. She thinks that Kitty is Dudley's secretary, and never gets her name right. She usually bothers Dudley when he's home.
Phil is Dudley's friend, never shown, but described with something gross related to a wart or boil.
Roger is Dudley's friend, only shown once in "Mall Rat" for the punchline of a joke.
Mrs. Katswell is Kitty's mother, who first appeared in a flashback in "Operation: Happy Birthday." She somewhat resembles and even sounds like her daughter.
Butch Hartman said that he created the central character and wanted to make a crime-fighting show based on him. Because his previous animated series Danny Phantom already involved superheroes, and The Fairly OddParents's humoristic, Hartman decided that he would focus on making Dudley a secret agent. He pitched the series to Nickelodeon as "Get Smart with a dog."[3]
Eric Bauza, who voices Foop in The Fairly OddParents, and Leather Teddy in T.U.F.F. Puppy was originally chosen to the voice of Dudley Puppy, but the creators didn't feel that he was right for the character.[3]
The series premiere of T.U.F.F. Puppy drew 3.6 million viewers.[4]
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