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The show's title card, depicting Little Dog (left) and Big Dog (right) |
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Genre | Comedy |
Created by | Donovan Cook |
Developed by | Hanna-Barbera Turner Program Services |
Directed by | Donovan Cook |
Voices of | Brad Garrett Mark Schiff Brian Cummings Jess Harnell Jim Cummings Tony Jay |
Theme music composer | Chris Desmond and Tom Seufert |
Opening theme | "2 Stupid Dogs Title Theme" by Chris Desmond and Tom Seufert |
Ending theme | "2 Stupid Dogs Ending Theme" by Chris Desmond and Tom Seufert |
Composer(s) | Vaughn Johnson and Guy Moon |
Country of origin | United States |
Language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 26 (whole) 39 (segments) (List of episodes) |
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Executive producer(s) | Buzz Potamkin |
Producer(s) | Donovan Cook Larry Huber |
Running time |
22 minutes 7 minutes in each episode |
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Original channel | TBS Syndication |
Original run | September 5, 1993 – February 13, 1995 |
2 Stupid Dogs is an American animated television series created by Donovan Cook and produced by Hanna-Barbera and Turner Program Services that originally ran from September 5, 1993 to February 13, 1995 on TBS. The main segments of the show featured two dogs, "Big Dog" and "Little Dog". The Big Dog was voiced by Brad Garrett and the Little Dog was voiced by Mark Schiff. Reruns are played on Cartoon Network's classic animation network Boomerang in 2005 through 2006, and returned on June 1, 2009 (though only showing it every summer), and also returned on July 5, 2011 to Cartoon Network for the first time in ten years, but it was removed from the lineup on September 26, 2011.
A backup segment, a remake of Hanna-Barbera's Secret Squirrel (entitled Super Secret Secret Squirrel), was shown in between the main 2 Stupid Dogs cartoons in many of the 13 episodes, similar to early Hanna-Barbera cartoons in the 1960s.
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2 Stupid Dogs is about a big dog and a little dog, who aren't very smart as the title explains, and their everyday misadventures, with an animation style unusual for the time: a very flat, simplistic style similar to early Hanna-Barbera cartoons of the '50s and '60s, but with early '90s humor and sensibility. In addition, the Big Dog talks much less than the Little Dog does and most of the time, the Little Dog talks about food. It also did not have a series structure, similar to many humorous cartoons and sitcoms. The show did not follow a continuous storyline — what happens in one episode has little to no effect on another. 2 Stupid Dogs contained very brief sexual innuendos, as did other cartoons at the time, such as Rocko's Modern Life.
2 Stupid Dogs was the beginning of the successful revival of Hanna-Barbera's fortunes, since the studio had not launched a bona fide hit since The Smurfs in 1981. The Turner Entertainment president installed MTV and Nickelodeon branding veteran Fred Seibert as the head of production.[1] Seibert's plan to reinvent the studio was to put his faith in the talent community, a first for television animation, and Hanna-Barbera in particular. His first pitch and first series put into production in 1992 was 2 Stupid Dogs, by recent California Institute of the Arts graduate Donovan Cook. Ren & Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi was credited to adding "tidbits of poor taste" to the three Little Red Riding Hood episodes, and a few other Spümcø artists also contributed to selected episodes during the course of the show (there were a few passing references to Ren & Stimpy over the course of the series as well).
Several artists and directors from the show became the first creators in Seibert's What a Cartoon! program; 48 theatrical length, original character cartoons, made expressly for the Cartoon Network, and designed to find the talent and hits of the new generations. Larry Huber, who later served as executive producer on the What a Cartoon! program, teamed first with Seibert as producer on the 2 Stupid Dogs series and directed the middle cartoon, Super Secret Secret Squirrel. 2 Stupid Dogs eventually helped launch the careers of creators Genndy Tartakovsky (Dexter's Laboratory, Samurai Jack, Star Wars: Clone Wars and Sym-Bionic Titan), Craig McCracken (The Powerpuff Girls and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends), Butch Hartman (Fairly Odd Parents, Danny Phantom, and T.U.F.F. Puppy) Miles Thompson, Paul Rudish, Rob Renzetti and Zac Moncrief.
Martin "Dr. Toon" Goodman of Animation World Magazine described 2 Stupid Dogs as one of two "clones" of The Ren & Stimpy Show, the other one being The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show.[2]
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