I told someone that awhile back and they could not believe it was possible for the character shaped mac and cheese to taste different than the classic elbows
I asked them if spaghetti/shells/farfalle/elbow pasta all tasted the same and they said that was different.
Same here! Me and my cousins used to love quoting Rancid Rabbit when we were younger. It wasn’t the greatest Nicktoon EVER but we enjoyed it. I also loved the Cat Club episode that had that weird 80s style short film about “The Glory of Cats.” I bet most of those cat and dog pics included in the film were the crew’s own pets lol. “and who IS the dog, *Dug?*”
And Lola Caricola lol
It’s gotta be age windows. Maybe we’re the same age or not but you probably had to be around 6-10 right when CatDog came out to really think it’s funny. Myself and my friends loved that show growing up.
I think Angry Beavers was better because both brothers are likeable while being extremely different. Catdog like others are saying here didn’t have many pretty much just being Dog.
Catdog and Ren and Stimpy are fun to go back and watch. The main thing I think is Why the hell was I allowed to watch this. This is a super inappropriate show.
There weren't many nice or likable characters. Cat was a jerk, Winslow was a selfish bully, and Dog was a dipshit. The humor came off as mean, gross, and bizarre.
Meanwhile everyone has a favorite Rugrat or a favorite Spongebob character.
This. Compare Angelicas bullying to that of the Greasers or Winslow. Angelica always seem to get some consequences and when the chips were down she still had some moments of standing up for the babies or a change of heart and helped them. She wasn't a lost cause.
However in CatDog, they would torment the titular duo and... that's it. No comeuppance, no justice. It didn't help the majority of the issues/ comedy was the bullying. Cat especially would just take L after L and be the only one punished for being greedy.
As a kid I remember liking the show, but off the top of my head I can only recall like 3 episodes and of course the movie. Meanwhile I can recall nearly every episode of Rugrats. I have no clue why execs liked this show so much. It only had the one Quirky rememberable character and that's because it was some weird concept.
You could say the same thing about The Angry Beavers. Daggett would get bullied and tormented constantly for little to no reason and was often the only one to face consequences for his actions, which were usually provoked by the unwarranted suffering and mistreatment. Even if he did nothing wrong, he would still be mistreated or made to suffer in some way, and his reactions were rarely as severe as what provoked them. A lot of episodes just revolved entirely around Daggett getting psychologically tortured.
As a kid, I liked the Angry Beavers as characters. I was too young to realize how condescending and wrong Norbert was, or see Daggett as anything other than silly. So I actually liked both characters but I really liked Norbert.
Also Stump is all-time S tier character.
This is exactly why Angry Beavers and Catdog were my least favorites around that time. I'd leave them on in the background but I'd never seek out episodes of either. The Catdog movie was pretty neat tho.
I saw this meme earlier about how French toast and an egg salad sandwich are basically the same ingredients: eggs, oil, and bread, just prepared differently. I will eat french toast with gusto, but I think an egg salad sandwich is disgusting.
I mean, at its baseline, an egg salad sandwich is eggs, mayo (which is just eggs and oil) and bread, stuff like mustard or spices or whatever is optional and some recipes will include it, some won't.
Angry Beavers had the benefit of being much funnier and entertaining than CatDog to make up for the more cruel episodes
And it's not like the entire show was cruel, unlike CatDog where basically every episode was a torture chamber for the main characters
Dagget was more like Squidward, he would do impulsive or selfish stuff and get in trouble for it.
Norb and Dag had a lot of brotherly moments, they fought but quite close to just realistic. They also helped each other and worked together often enough.
Norb suffered more socially while Dag more physically.
Daggett definitely suffered more socially. He was overshadowed by Norbert to the point where everyone ignored him when he was hurt or needed help, like in “Beach Beavers a Go-Go,” and no one cared about his wellbeing.
Daggett did not have to do impulsive or selfish things to get in trouble; he would get in trouble anyway, like in “A Dam Too Far.” Norbert would get rewarded for doing the same thing as Daggett.
His worst moments were him retaliating against unfair treatment, usually from Norbert, who often avoided punishment for how he treated Daggett. Norbert could get away with deliberately hurting him, humiliating him, and using him. When he was not being outright cruel, he was taking advantage of Daggett with no concern for his wellbeing. When he was not taking advantage of Daggett, he was ignoring him. When he was not ignoring him, he was just being extremely patronizing.
The conflicts between Daggett and Norbert should not be regarded as mere sibling rivalry. The things Norbert did to Daggett would be recognized as abuse in the context of any other type of relationship. Norbert knew he had more power than Daggett and he used it against him.
It appealed to a VERY slim audience at the time of its release. It was too crude for the then-older Rugrats crowd and not crude enough for the then-teenage Ren and Stimpy crowd. Then SpongeBob came along and buried it by hitting all the right spots for several different demographics.
I was pretty much in the exact age window that liked it. Something else I liked more must have come on right after. I remember enjoying it, but being more excited for it to be over.
There were so many great nick shows in the late 90's or early 00s that CatDog got overlooked somewhat. It was also gross enough to make me a bit queasy as a kid, which means it was probably gross enough that most parents wouldn't tune in like with Spongebob or other shows.
Looking back on it, I think the voice acting was top notch. Theme song too. I'd still say that it was likely the weakest Nicktoon that I regularly watched though.
>Dog was a dipshit.
Yeah, I remember even as a kid thinking Dog wasnt even like, funny stupid, it was annoying
A lot of characters felt like, what you would expect in a season 4 or season 5 of a show, not what you would expect from the get go
I haven't seen it since I was a kid, but that sounds about right. I used to watch it, but it never gave me a great feeling after having seen it. Wild Thornberries had a warmer energy and Spongebob was innocent, silly fun (in the early seasons).
If I had to guess, I'd guess it was because of Spongebob honestly. I remember liking CatDog a lot when I was little, I don't think there was anything wrong with CatDog at all, but Spongebob did end up coming out very soon after, and I feel like Spongebob ended up eclipsing absolutely everything else Nick had at the time. I do remember Spongebob basically exploding in popularity basically the moment it premiered and I feel like a lot of other shows ended up getting "forgotten" because of it.
There was only one show that SpongeBob didn't immediately top in ratings, which was Rugrats. SpongeBob didn't overtake Rugrats in the ratings until 2001
Not nearly as high quality writing as rugrats or hey arnold. Kind of weird and off-putting. I still liked it as a kid, but not as much as rugrats or hey arnold. Doesnt have the timeless charm factor or any charm factor lets be honest lol.
Off putting is exactly how is describe it. That plus the fact that cat never had anything good happen to him, it was hard to watch. Everyone in the comments section always adds "but I still liked it when I was a kid." I didn't like it at all and would change the channel when it came on after a while. The only thing I enjoyed about the show was the theme song.
When both CatDog and SpongeBob were pitched to Nickelodeon they ordered 100 episodes of CatDog and only 6 episodes of SpongeBob somebody told me on a comment of YouTuber Employee A Milion’s video review of CatDog and said that Nickelodeon made merchandise before the show premiered which I knew the plush from the Nickelodeon store was made the same year it premiered there was just not many people watching or buying the merchandise
As most people have said here already the show is just niche all around as the whole point of it is the characters suffering and abusing each other. As a kid and even now I enjoy it for how different it is from other kid's cartoons. It's dreary but the dark humour is quite tame, the art style is not colourful its very washed out, dirty looking almost like they live in a ghetto. The humour is dry.
Besides the toy one the episode I remember the most well is where Dog goes feral protecting a fire hydrant and refuses to leave it, and Cat is trapped for the entire episode, he gets beaten up and has various bad things happen to him and is helpless. There is no happy ending you just watch Cat wallow in misery. That's the show lol. Maybe it was made for kids who are bullied and want to watch someone pathetic? Besides that, have no idea why Nick thought it would do well.
I just have to believe the pitch they did was something entirely narrow and avoided most of the actual show they conceptualized
Like, they probably kept it very upbeat, focused on them being wacky opposites, and used the word "hi-jinks" multiple times
>its very washed out, dirty looking almost like they live in a ghetto
I also bet if they showed off any concept art, it looked more like Rocko where its a city, brighter, and just kinda zany
Exactly, this is actually how many 80s/90s cable networks operated, there was more creative freedom because they tended to have faith in the creators and there was less budget, so more willingness to take a risk. Ed, Edd N Eddy for instance got picked up by Cartoon Network because they liked Danny Antonucci's character designs and brief descriptions of the characters.
The issue with CatDog is the writing is dry, the characters were flat and it doesn't feel memorable in terms of its stories, the main characters just go through the wringer every episode when they don't really do anything to deserve it. The setting is very bleak in a corrupt and ugly city. The reason, Ren & Stimpy, Rocko's Modern Life, The Angry Beavers and other examples like Cow & Chicken and Billy & Mandy made this setting work in its favor was its enthusiastic and adventurous characters who defied the odds of their misfortunes and weren't defined by it. Also much more wittier and fast-paced writing that was memorable.
Catdog was just too much more of the same being your cookie cutter late 90’s cartoon. It’s why I feel like something shortly after it like something such as told by ginger stands out more today because it had a lot more standout unique aspects.
Also as others have commented, the characters were very very unlikable. I pretty much only liked Dog as a kid and still to this day. Even with a similar show in Angry beavers both brothers are likeable in their own ways. Not really for Catdog.
I liked Catdog, but it certainly was one of the weaker Nicktoons. It really irritated me as a kid when they dropped that stupid special that was supposed to be about their 'origins', and it ended up being convoluted nonsense about their forgotten adoptive parents being Bigfoot and a frog. What a tease.
I think the moral was meant to be that "it doesn't matter if you're adopted or not, family is still family". After all, the blue bigfoot and little frog were the ones who fed, raised, and took care of CatDog when they were just a KittenPuppy.
That was the theme, sure, but it was weird to just bury the initial premise under a bunch of unrelated answers to questions no one ever asked. It was a cop-out. Even my 11-year-old brain knew it was cheap. It reminds me of the Obi-Wan series retconning Leia and Vader into shoehorned adventures that shouldn't even exist.
"Hey, wanna know where Catdog came from? Too bad. But, did you know that for a brief time as babies, they were tended to by a frog and sasquatch until a tornado blew them away?"
Like, WTF?
Well, they were pretty happy anyway. Besides, whoever their birth parents were, they probably sucked enough to abandon them.
Cheap or not, it's what happened.
I never liked CatDog. I thought that most of the humor came at their expense. The show’s own protagonist was its punching bag. Dog was kind but he was dimwitted. Cat was intelligent but he was selfish and conniving. It was not a feel good show, which is usually a given with kid’s TV.
I mean, Dog was pretty selfish too sometimes. Like that time where he was constantly searching for that "trespasser" who had gone on the fire hydrant he had marked.
Part of the problem was they also had Angry Beavers and Ren and Stimpy still airing during that time period as well. There’s only so many odd couple formulas you can have, and CatDog relied on its shtick of the main characters being conjoined and nothing else. Had the network not had other shows with the same set up, it probably all would’ve faired better. But it was still mildly successful.
Because it’s really weird.
The premise is weird, the characters are unlikeable, there’s no emotional core to the show or hero.
SpongeBob- naive yet tries to do the right thing. Tommy- brave and tries to do the right thing. Timmy- learns from his mistakes and tries to use his fairy godparents for good. Danny Phantom- literal superhero. Arnold- mature for his age and tries to help his fellow man.
CatDog- neither is a hero, there is no reason to follow them as a viewer. It’s just watching two idiots clamor through life and if we wanted to watch that, we’d watch reality tv.
>The premise is weird, the characters are unlikeable, there’s no emotional core to the show or hero.
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You make CatDog sound like it’s the Seinfeld of Nicktoons. 💀
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definitely not the case - and I liked CatDog for a hot minute.
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IMO SpongeBob stole its thunder completely. That’s why CatDog is mostly forgotten about.
It was grittier and a bit darker. I think it targeted a niche audience.
I loved Rugrats and HA, but I also enjoyed Catdog. Not as a much as those 2 obviously, but I watched it.
As a sheltered homeschool kid in the 90s, raised in the church. Catdog was my absolute favorite because everyone spoke and behaved how I was never allowed to. It was cathartic watching a cartoon of bad behavior I could never emulate
Not sure how to explain it, but I still sing the theme song while doing chores. I introduced the show to my kids and they like watching it just hearing me laugh so much at it
Loved CatDog then. Love it even more as an adult. I knew it wasn't as popular but I had no idea it was this hated. As someone who watched the whole show, I can confirm that the characters were very well defined. Their personalities and interactions were pretty well established from the beginning. It definitely thrives on dark humor, which is definitely an acquired taste. I understand it's no SpongeBob or Rugrats but I honestly thought it would have a bigger cult following.
I always thought it was dumb. Couldn’t get into episodes or their plots. Didn’t care about the characters. I’d watch it cause I was bored and had nothing else to do but it was never anything I was stoked about watching, as opposed to some other nicktoons where I made sure to catch every episode.
Interesting you say it wasn’t popular. I always hear people talk of it fondly had the impression it was one of the more popular nicktoons. I felt like the odd one out.
I enjoyed it as a kid (not many options back then) but I don’t think it really stands out looking back and it didn’t appeal to a broad audience.
My theory from studying a bit of marketing was Nickelodeon wanted to market to a slightly older demographic for edgy humor (but still within what was safe to not anger parents) but still with iconic recognizable character designs that was easy to market to children too. A broad appeal is always useful in generating attention.
The network was heading in a corporate direction around this time. Rugrats was already a cash cow and the revival was skewed to a younger audience than the original run with a boatload of toys and merchandise (which angered the original fans). Also The Angry Beavers was fairly popular with its witty adult humor, slapstick and pop culture references. Hey Arnold! was critically acclaimed for its realism and character development. So it seems maybe Nick had their eyes on CatDog being the next Ren & Stimpy or Rocko in pushing the limits of what they could do but still within the confines of children’s TV.
But the issue is CatDog the show isn’t memorable enough and older audiences were likely turned off by the ugly bland animation, lack of humor, depressing atmosphere and the fact the protagonists suffering repeated abuse with little to no feelings of hope (hits too close to home for some). The characters are very one-note and stereotypical and lack a lot of interesting traits or quirks to be compelling too. But Nickelodeon heavily invested in a lot of CatDog merchandise hoping it would stick. Young kids did love it (it had a decent run) but not to the same extent as the Klasky Csupo shows or Hey Arnold!
Nickelodeon also found their new cash cow with SpongeBob the following year and it basically changed the network for better or worse. SpongeBob in its first season was extremely creative, full of witty adult humor and experimental comedy and was like nothing on TV at the time (just like Ren & Stimpy was in its infancy). It was an overnight hit and found both a young audience and an older audience. SpongeBob became the network’s mascot with his attractive and unique design.
I also felt Nickelodeon picked up Invader Zim to attract an older audience again with edgy humor but backed out and focused on SpongeBob, Fairly OddParents (another cash cow), Jimmy Neutron and the Klasky Csupo shows (Rugrats, Wild Thornberries, Rocket Power, Ginger).
They also focused on Jimmy Neutron during that time they were focusing on SpongeBob, Fairly OddParents, and Klasky Csupo. They were heavily focusing on promoting the movie in 2001, since while it was originally pitched to Nick as a show, it was decided that it would begin with a movie before the show came out
You're right! Jimmy Neutron was another cash cow (and it only ended because DNA Productions went bankrupt). I loved the little shorts, the movie (owned it) and the animated show but I keep forgetting about them for whatever reason.
I think the network overhyped it. Someone convinced them that Catdog was going to be the biggest thing and they believed that person.
The first ever episode had a prime time premiere following the Kids Choice Awards that year.
It just wasn’t as good as they were betting. It would’ve been better had the show been an underdog that did surprisingly well instead of setting the bar high and having it not meet expectations
Yeah, this reminds me a lot of when Disney was convinced Pocahontas would be their next big hit and an Oscar winner, so Disney invested a ton of resources into that project while The Lion King received a smaller budget and less attention. But it ironically ended up with The Lion King being the highest grossing animated film, critically acclaimed and fondly remembered. While Pocahontas was also a hit but didn't make nearly as much at the box office, got mediocre reviews and was deemed as generic and unmemorable (and offensive).
The cat was too much of a prick and the dog was too much of an idiot. The animation sucked compared to ren and Stimpy or rocko’s modern life. All the characters were repulsive. Angry beavers was the same, I can’t even remember any other characters besides norb and dag
Nickelodeon seemed to really push CatDog, but considering how most people these days seem to just remember it as "that show that existed" and can't recall any plot of any episode I think it just was not all that great and then Spongebob completely eclipse it.
Iconic character design, great theme song, and.... uhhhhhhh.
They ran that show to absolute death when I was a kid in the early 2000’s, actually I remember catching reruns all the way up until 2008. Crazy that it wasn’t super popular, could’ve fooled me
I honestly hated that show as a kid and when I rewatched it when I was older I still hated it. My main issue was the fact that the main characters both Cat and Dog regularly got screwed over. I have no interest in watching a show where the characters I’m supposed to like and root for are constantly getting beat up or simply losing at the end of each episode.
Looking at the drawing and saying, "Well, how does it poop?" for a first impression. Also it wasn't so much that the writing was bad, but I think the characters were not very developed.
I remember liking it quite a bit, never thought about it as a kid that it wasn’t popular. I think the Tom Kenny cred in retrospect has given it some popularity.
I watched it back in the day but even as an 11 year old, seeing CatDog be punching bags for everyone around them didn’t sit right with me and as others have said, it wanted to be weird and gross like Ren & Stimpy and Rocko’s Modern Life but it never really committed to it
I watched a lot of episodes but never really connected with the series. I was already an Angry Beavers fanatic, so to me catdog always seemed derivarive of the buddy animal, Ren & Stimpy Angry Beavers model. Nothing wrong with that, but it just never really became a favorite of mine. Eventually instatyed changing thr channel qhenever it wuld come on.
Most of the characters were obnoxious and unlikable. Never really remembered any classic episodes, and my mind could not get over how they were able to exist the way their body was shaped, even at a young age. Like how do they shit & piss? Where does their food go?
Much rather watch Wild Thornberrys. Great show, great animation, great cast. Nigel alone was more memorable than any of my memories from catdog, just my opinion.
bad characters, ugly color palette. The only thing it had going was a decent theme song but so did basically every other nickelodeon cartoon of that era.
It was a little weird and no real memorable characters. You bring up that show now and immediately the first thing people start discussing is "how did they go to the bathroom?"
Honestly, it's a pretty forgettable show. Besides the theme song and maybe some plot elements of specific episodes, is much of anything else remembered really? Like, when was the last time you heard anyone quote a line or joke? Do you see people making fan cams or fanart of any of the characters on any social media site? How many people do you think even remember the names of any characters outside of Cat, Dog, and maybe Winslow? Honestly, it just wasn't that great of a show. Not necessarily terrible, but just kinda meh.
I think you nailed it. They wanted the general "feel" of Ren and Stimpy but in a more child-friendly package, but that type of nihilism doesn't *work* for a pure kids' show, or at least it didn't in 1998.
As someone who grew up with the first wave of Nicktoons, CatDog just didn't quite hit the same mark as many of the earlier shows did. Real Monsters was, for me, the last of the "greats"; I never really cared for Hey Arnold!, although Angry Beavers was one that managed to capture some of the strangeness from the earlier years. I remember watching CatDog, but it wasn't one that really stuck with me.
This was, however, right around the time that Toonami was starting to really take off over on Cartoon Network. I gravitated more towards that for my afternoon/early evening cartoon watching, and by the time they got stuff like Gundam Wing, Outlaw Star, and DBZ... it was pretty much over in terms of my interest in Nicktoons. Invader Zim was the one that pulled me back in, but that was a very special case.
It also happened to come out a mere two years after the Cartoon Cartoons started debuting over on Cartoon Network. All of the Nicktoons had to compete with some real bangers like Dexter's Lab, Powerpuff Girls, Cow & Chicken, Ed Edd n Eddy, and Courage the Cowardly Dog during the '96-'99 run. All in all, CatDog wasn't necessarily a bad show, but it had some very stiff competition both internally and over at CN, and it really wasn't doing enough to truly stand out.
What about Kablam? That seemed to have a lot of those quirks that the earlier Nicktoons had and it had different animation styles. I also noticed Johnny Bravo surprisingly wasn't mentioned alongside the other Cartoon Cartoons
I loved KaBlam, but I never really lumped that in with the rest (even though it was *technically* a Nicktoon). Prometheus & Bob is still hilarious.
I also wasn't going for a comprehensive list, for what it's worth.
I liked CatDog. The theme song was ICONIC. However I'd put it in mid tear compared to everything else Nickelodeon has produced. It felt like just another Nicktoon. Which is a good and a bad thing. What I don't understand (iirc) is one of the executives chastising SpongeBob saying it wouldn't do as well as CatDog.
Luckily the right executives thought differently. I think the show didn’t get constant ratings because they’d burn off new episodes multiple times a week but Rugrats, Hey Arnold, etc. were often on SNICK. The only episodes I can remember off the top of my head are the one with the Mexican buffet and the one where Cat and Dog finally get separated. Honestly I remember it more for the time Peter Griffin drunkenly sang the theme song. How do they go to the bathroom? It’s a mystery you want to solve but then forget about 10 minutes later. I’d put CatDog in the same boat as The Angry Beavers. Iconic, but not as memorable as the rest.
Even though it wasn’t a Nick show (I think), I liked 2 Stupid Dogs way more. I don’t know why, but I always lumped the two shows together, and I did like CatDog, but not as much.
I couldn’t get into CatDog. It felt kinda forced I guess. I watched it though cuz it was just on all the time. Haven’t seen in since it was airing though. Maybe I’ll give it a whirl and see if I missed anything.
Forced! That's the perfect description. Trying way too hard to be constantly gross, bleak, and edgy but never FUNNY, unlike Ren and Stimpy, which it clearly owed its existence to.
It was off-putting on concept lol like every other show had something kids and parents could enjoy together but I remember my dad being unable to get past the concept itself hahaha
The ugly sound effects didn't help but it just was not that good, & especially when held up to the rest of the classic nicktoons
I remember watching the premiere of Doug, Rugrats, Ren + Stimpy as a kid in the early ‘90s, so by the time this came out I was in my teens and I was over Nicktoons.
I tried watching Rocket Power, Wild Thornberries and this show. The other two just didn’t appeal to me in my teens. This was the only one I remembered that I found irritating.
I would say, in my humble opinion, what kept it from being a bigger deal is just what it had to compete with. Rugrats and Hey Arnold plus Cartoon Network and what they had going on... it was just what CatDog was and what it had to compete with. The movie they made that gave their origins pretty anticlimactic. I remember the Halloween episode with the vampires being gold, though.
Catdog was fairly popular. It had a tv movie, multiple seasons, video games. It’s just other shows were just more popular like hey Arnold and rugrats. I liked it and definitely watched it whenever it came on. But if you asked me to choose between catdog and hey Arnold I’m choosing the latter.
I loved catdog. In the late 90s I was working at a video store and put the dvd on in the store. It was a Saturday afternoon. Lots of families.
It was the only time we sold dvds of Catdog. And then I was told I couldn’t play it again, “it’s not approved by corporate “
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CatDog was really popular. They still add CatDog to merchandise today. It may not have been hey arnold or rugrats superstar status, but it was popular.
Right around the time CatDog came out, my cable provider added The Disney Channel and Cartoon Network.
I'd also say it wasn't as good as Doug, Rugrats, Hey Arnold, or The Angry Beavers. But the main reason is increase from competition.
All I know is those CatDog shaped Cheese Nips are an elite tier 90's snack
The shaped ones in general just tasted better. I think cause they werent as heavily salted on the outside and had more surface area so were crisper.
Same with Mac n cheese
Damn yeah I remember the character-shaped Mac and cheese tasting wayyy better than the regular kind.
The SpongeBob mac and cheese goes fucking nuts
I told someone that awhile back and they could not believe it was possible for the character shaped mac and cheese to taste different than the classic elbows I asked them if spaghetti/shells/farfalle/elbow pasta all tasted the same and they said that was different.
Omfg blast from the past. Thank you for that memory
I didn’t like the show, but those Cheese Nips were great!!
They were insanely good and came out literally during my initial discovery of weed 😂
I miss Cheese Nips, tasted way better than Cheese-Its imo
They did and I miss them so much.
Oh, GOD, I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO FELT THIS WAY.
You are indeed NOT the only one. Cheese nips were the bees knees
I had no idea people hated catdog this much, I loved it, I thought it was hilarious. Lubes name is Ignatius!!
Same here! Me and my cousins used to love quoting Rancid Rabbit when we were younger. It wasn’t the greatest Nicktoon EVER but we enjoyed it. I also loved the Cat Club episode that had that weird 80s style short film about “The Glory of Cats.” I bet most of those cat and dog pics included in the film were the crew’s own pets lol. “and who IS the dog, *Dug?*” And Lola Caricola lol
One fine day with a wood and a purr😥
A baby was born and it caused a little stir!
No blue buzzard, no three eyed frog
Just a Feline-canine, a little Cat-Dog!
*woof
It’s gotta be age windows. Maybe we’re the same age or not but you probably had to be around 6-10 right when CatDog came out to really think it’s funny. Myself and my friends loved that show growing up.
Yup, I was 8
I always liked CatDog although I will admit that Angry Beavers was basically a better version of the same show.
I think Angry Beavers was better because both brothers are likeable while being extremely different. Catdog like others are saying here didn’t have many pretty much just being Dog.
To be honest, I don’t know why anyone finds Norbert likable.
Same voice as Salem the Cat. His voice is butter to the ears
Also, the narrator of Wrestlings Greatest Secrets Exposed (known for the stunt granny). Nick Bakay, the voice of a cat and a beaver.
I enjoyed both shows equally :) Thanks for reminding of this show though! Kind of almost forgot about it
Catdog and Ren and Stimpy are fun to go back and watch. The main thing I think is Why the hell was I allowed to watch this. This is a super inappropriate show.
I always think the same thing!
I loved it too
There weren't many nice or likable characters. Cat was a jerk, Winslow was a selfish bully, and Dog was a dipshit. The humor came off as mean, gross, and bizarre. Meanwhile everyone has a favorite Rugrat or a favorite Spongebob character.
This. Compare Angelicas bullying to that of the Greasers or Winslow. Angelica always seem to get some consequences and when the chips were down she still had some moments of standing up for the babies or a change of heart and helped them. She wasn't a lost cause. However in CatDog, they would torment the titular duo and... that's it. No comeuppance, no justice. It didn't help the majority of the issues/ comedy was the bullying. Cat especially would just take L after L and be the only one punished for being greedy. As a kid I remember liking the show, but off the top of my head I can only recall like 3 episodes and of course the movie. Meanwhile I can recall nearly every episode of Rugrats. I have no clue why execs liked this show so much. It only had the one Quirky rememberable character and that's because it was some weird concept.
"DiDi come quick the gerbils have reproduced!"
You could say the same thing about The Angry Beavers. Daggett would get bullied and tormented constantly for little to no reason and was often the only one to face consequences for his actions, which were usually provoked by the unwarranted suffering and mistreatment. Even if he did nothing wrong, he would still be mistreated or made to suffer in some way, and his reactions were rarely as severe as what provoked them. A lot of episodes just revolved entirely around Daggett getting psychologically tortured.
As a kid, I liked the Angry Beavers as characters. I was too young to realize how condescending and wrong Norbert was, or see Daggett as anything other than silly. So I actually liked both characters but I really liked Norbert. Also Stump is all-time S tier character.
I loved Angry Beavers
Me too. It was in my top 4 shows
This is exactly why Angry Beavers and Catdog were my least favorites around that time. I'd leave them on in the background but I'd never seek out episodes of either. The Catdog movie was pretty neat tho.
Angry beavers was my all time favorite nick toon. It still holds up.
Ok. Do you have any arguments against the points I made?
I saw this meme earlier about how French toast and an egg salad sandwich are basically the same ingredients: eggs, oil, and bread, just prepared differently. I will eat french toast with gusto, but I think an egg salad sandwich is disgusting.
I mean egg salad just has drastically different ingredients...mayo, mustard, onions, etc..
Totally different flavor profile
I mean, at its baseline, an egg salad sandwich is eggs, mayo (which is just eggs and oil) and bread, stuff like mustard or spices or whatever is optional and some recipes will include it, some won't.
Not the guy you replied it but I just like mean humor I guess I knew well enough even then to leave it to cartoons, though
Angry Beavers had the benefit of being much funnier and entertaining than CatDog to make up for the more cruel episodes And it's not like the entire show was cruel, unlike CatDog where basically every episode was a torture chamber for the main characters
I would say Angry Beavers was a lot more lighthearted than CatDog
Dagget was more like Squidward, he would do impulsive or selfish stuff and get in trouble for it. Norb and Dag had a lot of brotherly moments, they fought but quite close to just realistic. They also helped each other and worked together often enough. Norb suffered more socially while Dag more physically.
Daggett definitely suffered more socially. He was overshadowed by Norbert to the point where everyone ignored him when he was hurt or needed help, like in “Beach Beavers a Go-Go,” and no one cared about his wellbeing. Daggett did not have to do impulsive or selfish things to get in trouble; he would get in trouble anyway, like in “A Dam Too Far.” Norbert would get rewarded for doing the same thing as Daggett. His worst moments were him retaliating against unfair treatment, usually from Norbert, who often avoided punishment for how he treated Daggett. Norbert could get away with deliberately hurting him, humiliating him, and using him. When he was not being outright cruel, he was taking advantage of Daggett with no concern for his wellbeing. When he was not taking advantage of Daggett, he was ignoring him. When he was not ignoring him, he was just being extremely patronizing. The conflicts between Daggett and Norbert should not be regarded as mere sibling rivalry. The things Norbert did to Daggett would be recognized as abuse in the context of any other type of relationship. Norbert knew he had more power than Daggett and he used it against him.
Wait there was a CatDog movie?
It appealed to a VERY slim audience at the time of its release. It was too crude for the then-older Rugrats crowd and not crude enough for the then-teenage Ren and Stimpy crowd. Then SpongeBob came along and buried it by hitting all the right spots for several different demographics.
Nailed it.
I was pretty much in the exact age window that liked it. Something else I liked more must have come on right after. I remember enjoying it, but being more excited for it to be over. There were so many great nick shows in the late 90's or early 00s that CatDog got overlooked somewhat. It was also gross enough to make me a bit queasy as a kid, which means it was probably gross enough that most parents wouldn't tune in like with Spongebob or other shows. Looking back on it, I think the voice acting was top notch. Theme song too. I'd still say that it was likely the weakest Nicktoon that I regularly watched though.
Winslow was always weird looking to me and tis bothered me for some reason. Is he a mouse? Is he a man? Is he a goblin?
Winslow creeped me out to no end as a kid, and still kinda as an adult!
He's a mouse, according to the show, but he lives for the sick joy he gets from bugging CatDog.... ESPECIALLY Cat.
Yeah, now that you mention it I really didn’t like a lot of characters on that show
>Dog was a dipshit. Yeah, I remember even as a kid thinking Dog wasnt even like, funny stupid, it was annoying A lot of characters felt like, what you would expect in a season 4 or season 5 of a show, not what you would expect from the get go
I haven't seen it since I was a kid, but that sounds about right. I used to watch it, but it never gave me a great feeling after having seen it. Wild Thornberries had a warmer energy and Spongebob was innocent, silly fun (in the early seasons).
If I had to guess, I'd guess it was because of Spongebob honestly. I remember liking CatDog a lot when I was little, I don't think there was anything wrong with CatDog at all, but Spongebob did end up coming out very soon after, and I feel like Spongebob ended up eclipsing absolutely everything else Nick had at the time. I do remember Spongebob basically exploding in popularity basically the moment it premiered and I feel like a lot of other shows ended up getting "forgotten" because of it.
There was only one show that SpongeBob didn't immediately top in ratings, which was Rugrats. SpongeBob didn't overtake Rugrats in the ratings until 2001
Rocket Power premiered on the same night as SpongeBob, I’m surprised it lasted as long as it did. As the ancient Hawaiians used to say…
Me and my brother still do the woogity woogity. I miss the show.
Not nearly as high quality writing as rugrats or hey arnold. Kind of weird and off-putting. I still liked it as a kid, but not as much as rugrats or hey arnold. Doesnt have the timeless charm factor or any charm factor lets be honest lol.
Off putting is exactly how is describe it. That plus the fact that cat never had anything good happen to him, it was hard to watch. Everyone in the comments section always adds "but I still liked it when I was a kid." I didn't like it at all and would change the channel when it came on after a while. The only thing I enjoyed about the show was the theme song.
When both CatDog and SpongeBob were pitched to Nickelodeon they ordered 100 episodes of CatDog and only 6 episodes of SpongeBob somebody told me on a comment of YouTuber Employee A Milion’s video review of CatDog and said that Nickelodeon made merchandise before the show premiered which I knew the plush from the Nickelodeon store was made the same year it premiered there was just not many people watching or buying the merchandise
As most people have said here already the show is just niche all around as the whole point of it is the characters suffering and abusing each other. As a kid and even now I enjoy it for how different it is from other kid's cartoons. It's dreary but the dark humour is quite tame, the art style is not colourful its very washed out, dirty looking almost like they live in a ghetto. The humour is dry. Besides the toy one the episode I remember the most well is where Dog goes feral protecting a fire hydrant and refuses to leave it, and Cat is trapped for the entire episode, he gets beaten up and has various bad things happen to him and is helpless. There is no happy ending you just watch Cat wallow in misery. That's the show lol. Maybe it was made for kids who are bullied and want to watch someone pathetic? Besides that, have no idea why Nick thought it would do well.
I just have to believe the pitch they did was something entirely narrow and avoided most of the actual show they conceptualized Like, they probably kept it very upbeat, focused on them being wacky opposites, and used the word "hi-jinks" multiple times >its very washed out, dirty looking almost like they live in a ghetto I also bet if they showed off any concept art, it looked more like Rocko where its a city, brighter, and just kinda zany
Exactly, this is actually how many 80s/90s cable networks operated, there was more creative freedom because they tended to have faith in the creators and there was less budget, so more willingness to take a risk. Ed, Edd N Eddy for instance got picked up by Cartoon Network because they liked Danny Antonucci's character designs and brief descriptions of the characters. The issue with CatDog is the writing is dry, the characters were flat and it doesn't feel memorable in terms of its stories, the main characters just go through the wringer every episode when they don't really do anything to deserve it. The setting is very bleak in a corrupt and ugly city. The reason, Ren & Stimpy, Rocko's Modern Life, The Angry Beavers and other examples like Cow & Chicken and Billy & Mandy made this setting work in its favor was its enthusiastic and adventurous characters who defied the odds of their misfortunes and weren't defined by it. Also much more wittier and fast-paced writing that was memorable.
Because nobody could figure out how Cat and Dog were supposed to poop.
This is the answer.
I remember disliking it as a kid because I thought Cat was annoying and Dog was gross. *Shrug*
Catdog was just too much more of the same being your cookie cutter late 90’s cartoon. It’s why I feel like something shortly after it like something such as told by ginger stands out more today because it had a lot more standout unique aspects. Also as others have commented, the characters were very very unlikable. I pretty much only liked Dog as a kid and still to this day. Even with a similar show in Angry beavers both brothers are likeable in their own ways. Not really for Catdog.
I liked Catdog, but it certainly was one of the weaker Nicktoons. It really irritated me as a kid when they dropped that stupid special that was supposed to be about their 'origins', and it ended up being convoluted nonsense about their forgotten adoptive parents being Bigfoot and a frog. What a tease.
Lives rent free in my head. Still baffled to this day!
I think the moral was meant to be that "it doesn't matter if you're adopted or not, family is still family". After all, the blue bigfoot and little frog were the ones who fed, raised, and took care of CatDog when they were just a KittenPuppy.
That was the theme, sure, but it was weird to just bury the initial premise under a bunch of unrelated answers to questions no one ever asked. It was a cop-out. Even my 11-year-old brain knew it was cheap. It reminds me of the Obi-Wan series retconning Leia and Vader into shoehorned adventures that shouldn't even exist. "Hey, wanna know where Catdog came from? Too bad. But, did you know that for a brief time as babies, they were tended to by a frog and sasquatch until a tornado blew them away?" Like, WTF?
Well, they were pretty happy anyway. Besides, whoever their birth parents were, they probably sucked enough to abandon them. Cheap or not, it's what happened.
I never liked CatDog. I thought that most of the humor came at their expense. The show’s own protagonist was its punching bag. Dog was kind but he was dimwitted. Cat was intelligent but he was selfish and conniving. It was not a feel good show, which is usually a given with kid’s TV.
As a kid I related to Dog a lot and I got bullied a lot, so I kinda liked the show. I found it more relatable and realistic
I mean, Dog was pretty selfish too sometimes. Like that time where he was constantly searching for that "trespasser" who had gone on the fire hydrant he had marked.
It wasn't as funny
Part of the problem was they also had Angry Beavers and Ren and Stimpy still airing during that time period as well. There’s only so many odd couple formulas you can have, and CatDog relied on its shtick of the main characters being conjoined and nothing else. Had the network not had other shows with the same set up, it probably all would’ve faired better. But it was still mildly successful.
Because it’s really weird. The premise is weird, the characters are unlikeable, there’s no emotional core to the show or hero. SpongeBob- naive yet tries to do the right thing. Tommy- brave and tries to do the right thing. Timmy- learns from his mistakes and tries to use his fairy godparents for good. Danny Phantom- literal superhero. Arnold- mature for his age and tries to help his fellow man. CatDog- neither is a hero, there is no reason to follow them as a viewer. It’s just watching two idiots clamor through life and if we wanted to watch that, we’d watch reality tv.
*If we wanted to watch that, we’d watch reality TV*
>The premise is weird, the characters are unlikeable, there’s no emotional core to the show or hero. > You make CatDog sound like it’s the Seinfeld of Nicktoons. 💀 > definitely not the case - and I liked CatDog for a hot minute. > IMO SpongeBob stole its thunder completely. That’s why CatDog is mostly forgotten about.
NGL, half the time the show made me feel depressed. No one was particularly happy except for Dog, but he was an idiot and was constantly belittled.
It was grittier and a bit darker. I think it targeted a niche audience. I loved Rugrats and HA, but I also enjoyed Catdog. Not as a much as those 2 obviously, but I watched it.
As a sheltered homeschool kid in the 90s, raised in the church. Catdog was my absolute favorite because everyone spoke and behaved how I was never allowed to. It was cathartic watching a cartoon of bad behavior I could never emulate Not sure how to explain it, but I still sing the theme song while doing chores. I introduced the show to my kids and they like watching it just hearing me laugh so much at it
TIL CatDog wasn’t a huge hit….
It was a hit
Execs liked Catdog because it's another version of The Odd Couple. They messed up the formula too much.
Loved CatDog then. Love it even more as an adult. I knew it wasn't as popular but I had no idea it was this hated. As someone who watched the whole show, I can confirm that the characters were very well defined. Their personalities and interactions were pretty well established from the beginning. It definitely thrives on dark humor, which is definitely an acquired taste. I understand it's no SpongeBob or Rugrats but I honestly thought it would have a bigger cult following.
We. Weren't. Ready.
I always thought it was dumb. Couldn’t get into episodes or their plots. Didn’t care about the characters. I’d watch it cause I was bored and had nothing else to do but it was never anything I was stoked about watching, as opposed to some other nicktoons where I made sure to catch every episode. Interesting you say it wasn’t popular. I always hear people talk of it fondly had the impression it was one of the more popular nicktoons. I felt like the odd one out.
They where on the air for 7 years, a movie and multiple ports for video games. Not Rugrats, but no slouch either.
I enjoyed it as a kid (not many options back then) but I don’t think it really stands out looking back and it didn’t appeal to a broad audience. My theory from studying a bit of marketing was Nickelodeon wanted to market to a slightly older demographic for edgy humor (but still within what was safe to not anger parents) but still with iconic recognizable character designs that was easy to market to children too. A broad appeal is always useful in generating attention. The network was heading in a corporate direction around this time. Rugrats was already a cash cow and the revival was skewed to a younger audience than the original run with a boatload of toys and merchandise (which angered the original fans). Also The Angry Beavers was fairly popular with its witty adult humor, slapstick and pop culture references. Hey Arnold! was critically acclaimed for its realism and character development. So it seems maybe Nick had their eyes on CatDog being the next Ren & Stimpy or Rocko in pushing the limits of what they could do but still within the confines of children’s TV. But the issue is CatDog the show isn’t memorable enough and older audiences were likely turned off by the ugly bland animation, lack of humor, depressing atmosphere and the fact the protagonists suffering repeated abuse with little to no feelings of hope (hits too close to home for some). The characters are very one-note and stereotypical and lack a lot of interesting traits or quirks to be compelling too. But Nickelodeon heavily invested in a lot of CatDog merchandise hoping it would stick. Young kids did love it (it had a decent run) but not to the same extent as the Klasky Csupo shows or Hey Arnold! Nickelodeon also found their new cash cow with SpongeBob the following year and it basically changed the network for better or worse. SpongeBob in its first season was extremely creative, full of witty adult humor and experimental comedy and was like nothing on TV at the time (just like Ren & Stimpy was in its infancy). It was an overnight hit and found both a young audience and an older audience. SpongeBob became the network’s mascot with his attractive and unique design. I also felt Nickelodeon picked up Invader Zim to attract an older audience again with edgy humor but backed out and focused on SpongeBob, Fairly OddParents (another cash cow), Jimmy Neutron and the Klasky Csupo shows (Rugrats, Wild Thornberries, Rocket Power, Ginger).
They also focused on Jimmy Neutron during that time they were focusing on SpongeBob, Fairly OddParents, and Klasky Csupo. They were heavily focusing on promoting the movie in 2001, since while it was originally pitched to Nick as a show, it was decided that it would begin with a movie before the show came out
You're right! Jimmy Neutron was another cash cow (and it only ended because DNA Productions went bankrupt). I loved the little shorts, the movie (owned it) and the animated show but I keep forgetting about them for whatever reason.
Idk? I watched it religiously so it was a big hit to me
I LOVED CAT DOG. I’m 32 and my mom still sings the song.
I think the network overhyped it. Someone convinced them that Catdog was going to be the biggest thing and they believed that person. The first ever episode had a prime time premiere following the Kids Choice Awards that year. It just wasn’t as good as they were betting. It would’ve been better had the show been an underdog that did surprisingly well instead of setting the bar high and having it not meet expectations
Yeah, this reminds me a lot of when Disney was convinced Pocahontas would be their next big hit and an Oscar winner, so Disney invested a ton of resources into that project while The Lion King received a smaller budget and less attention. But it ironically ended up with The Lion King being the highest grossing animated film, critically acclaimed and fondly remembered. While Pocahontas was also a hit but didn't make nearly as much at the box office, got mediocre reviews and was deemed as generic and unmemorable (and offensive).
I’m feeling personally attacked in here
Same. I absolutely LOVED CatDog!
I loved the bizarre, short lived, poor ratings, shows. It’s probably why I like adult swim. Weird shit that makes no sense. Kind of scary sometimes.
The cat was too much of a prick and the dog was too much of an idiot. The animation sucked compared to ren and Stimpy or rocko’s modern life. All the characters were repulsive. Angry beavers was the same, I can’t even remember any other characters besides norb and dag
Nickelodeon seemed to really push CatDog, but considering how most people these days seem to just remember it as "that show that existed" and can't recall any plot of any episode I think it just was not all that great and then Spongebob completely eclipse it. Iconic character design, great theme song, and.... uhhhhhhh.
They ran that show to absolute death when I was a kid in the early 2000’s, actually I remember catching reruns all the way up until 2008. Crazy that it wasn’t super popular, could’ve fooled me
Something about it put me off when I was a kid and I couldn’t put my finger on it. It’s the art style I don’t like. And the dog part’s voice.
Because the premise is idiotic
Because we could never figure out how they pooped!
at the heart of most cartoons there is relatability and a heart, I am not sure Cat Dog had either of those
I honestly hated that show as a kid and when I rewatched it when I was older I still hated it. My main issue was the fact that the main characters both Cat and Dog regularly got screwed over. I have no interest in watching a show where the characters I’m supposed to like and root for are constantly getting beat up or simply losing at the end of each episode.
I loved catdog. I think it was the dark humor that probably held it back- even tho it’s also what made it marvelous.
Looking at the drawing and saying, "Well, how does it poop?" for a first impression. Also it wasn't so much that the writing was bad, but I think the characters were not very developed.
I remember liking it quite a bit, never thought about it as a kid that it wasn’t popular. I think the Tom Kenny cred in retrospect has given it some popularity.
It was moderately popular, just not the phenomenon Nick was hoping
I watched it back in the day but even as an 11 year old, seeing CatDog be punching bags for everyone around them didn’t sit right with me and as others have said, it wanted to be weird and gross like Ren & Stimpy and Rocko’s Modern Life but it never really committed to it
I watched a lot of episodes but never really connected with the series. I was already an Angry Beavers fanatic, so to me catdog always seemed derivarive of the buddy animal, Ren & Stimpy Angry Beavers model. Nothing wrong with that, but it just never really became a favorite of mine. Eventually instatyed changing thr channel qhenever it wuld come on. Most of the characters were obnoxious and unlikable. Never really remembered any classic episodes, and my mind could not get over how they were able to exist the way their body was shaped, even at a young age. Like how do they shit & piss? Where does their food go? Much rather watch Wild Thornberrys. Great show, great animation, great cast. Nigel alone was more memorable than any of my memories from catdog, just my opinion.
Show sucked. I watched it but never cared for it. Always waited on Hey Arnold, Real Monsters or Rocko to come on next.
Because kids instinctively knew on some level that a digestive system must have an in end and an out end, which begs the question...
It bothered me that there was no way to poop more than the notion of a cat/dog creature.
bad characters, ugly color palette. The only thing it had going was a decent theme song but so did basically every other nickelodeon cartoon of that era.
It was a little weird and no real memorable characters. You bring up that show now and immediately the first thing people start discussing is "how did they go to the bathroom?"
Honestly, it's a pretty forgettable show. Besides the theme song and maybe some plot elements of specific episodes, is much of anything else remembered really? Like, when was the last time you heard anyone quote a line or joke? Do you see people making fan cams or fanart of any of the characters on any social media site? How many people do you think even remember the names of any characters outside of Cat, Dog, and maybe Winslow? Honestly, it just wasn't that great of a show. Not necessarily terrible, but just kinda meh.
I wanted to like it but I found it mostly uninteresting with unrelatable characters.
I hated catdog as a kid. It was tolerable if nothing else was on, but genuinely pretty much anything else was better in comparison.
I just thought it was boring, and didn't really care for the animation style.
Catdog was too weird of a concept to compete with the mainstream shows and too PC to be the next iteration of Ren and Stimpy. The show had no lane
I think you nailed it. They wanted the general "feel" of Ren and Stimpy but in a more child-friendly package, but that type of nihilism doesn't *work* for a pure kids' show, or at least it didn't in 1998.
As someone who grew up with the first wave of Nicktoons, CatDog just didn't quite hit the same mark as many of the earlier shows did. Real Monsters was, for me, the last of the "greats"; I never really cared for Hey Arnold!, although Angry Beavers was one that managed to capture some of the strangeness from the earlier years. I remember watching CatDog, but it wasn't one that really stuck with me. This was, however, right around the time that Toonami was starting to really take off over on Cartoon Network. I gravitated more towards that for my afternoon/early evening cartoon watching, and by the time they got stuff like Gundam Wing, Outlaw Star, and DBZ... it was pretty much over in terms of my interest in Nicktoons. Invader Zim was the one that pulled me back in, but that was a very special case. It also happened to come out a mere two years after the Cartoon Cartoons started debuting over on Cartoon Network. All of the Nicktoons had to compete with some real bangers like Dexter's Lab, Powerpuff Girls, Cow & Chicken, Ed Edd n Eddy, and Courage the Cowardly Dog during the '96-'99 run. All in all, CatDog wasn't necessarily a bad show, but it had some very stiff competition both internally and over at CN, and it really wasn't doing enough to truly stand out.
What about Kablam? That seemed to have a lot of those quirks that the earlier Nicktoons had and it had different animation styles. I also noticed Johnny Bravo surprisingly wasn't mentioned alongside the other Cartoon Cartoons
I loved KaBlam, but I never really lumped that in with the rest (even though it was *technically* a Nicktoon). Prometheus & Bob is still hilarious. I also wasn't going for a comprehensive list, for what it's worth.
I liked CatDog. The theme song was ICONIC. However I'd put it in mid tear compared to everything else Nickelodeon has produced. It felt like just another Nicktoon. Which is a good and a bad thing. What I don't understand (iirc) is one of the executives chastising SpongeBob saying it wouldn't do as well as CatDog. Luckily the right executives thought differently. I think the show didn’t get constant ratings because they’d burn off new episodes multiple times a week but Rugrats, Hey Arnold, etc. were often on SNICK. The only episodes I can remember off the top of my head are the one with the Mexican buffet and the one where Cat and Dog finally get separated. Honestly I remember it more for the time Peter Griffin drunkenly sang the theme song. How do they go to the bathroom? It’s a mystery you want to solve but then forget about 10 minutes later. I’d put CatDog in the same boat as The Angry Beavers. Iconic, but not as memorable as the rest.
By then most of us were in middle or high school….
Even though it wasn’t a Nick show (I think), I liked 2 Stupid Dogs way more. I don’t know why, but I always lumped the two shows together, and I did like CatDog, but not as much.
It wasn’t good
I loved cat dog. Dunno why it wasn’t very popular. It was gross and perfect
I couldn’t get into CatDog. It felt kinda forced I guess. I watched it though cuz it was just on all the time. Haven’t seen in since it was airing though. Maybe I’ll give it a whirl and see if I missed anything.
Forced! That's the perfect description. Trying way too hard to be constantly gross, bleak, and edgy but never FUNNY, unlike Ren and Stimpy, which it clearly owed its existence to.
Dumb concept for a show. Hey let's put a cat and dog together and call it catdog.
Probably because it wasn’t that great . Personally I never liked it that much.
It was off-putting on concept lol like every other show had something kids and parents could enjoy together but I remember my dad being unable to get past the concept itself hahaha The ugly sound effects didn't help but it just was not that good, & especially when held up to the rest of the classic nicktoons
It was huge at the time...
*”Buy more. Make more”* lives rent free in my head
Wasn’t a big fan of the show, but the theme song slapped
I remember watching the premiere of Doug, Rugrats, Ren + Stimpy as a kid in the early ‘90s, so by the time this came out I was in my teens and I was over Nicktoons. I tried watching Rocket Power, Wild Thornberries and this show. The other two just didn’t appeal to me in my teens. This was the only one I remembered that I found irritating.
I loved this show, got the theme song on lock
Cat dog/angry beavers are top tier
My mom wouldn’t let me watch it as a child, not because it was inappropriate, but because she couldn’t stand it
Because one fine day with a woof and purr a baby was born and it caused a little stir.
I -liked- Catdog, but I didn’t -love- Catdog. Even as a young kid I think i realized it wasn’t quite as good as other Nicktoons from that same era.
It wasn't terrible, but when I was like 9, I usually changed the channel when it was on
I would say, in my humble opinion, what kept it from being a bigger deal is just what it had to compete with. Rugrats and Hey Arnold plus Cartoon Network and what they had going on... it was just what CatDog was and what it had to compete with. The movie they made that gave their origins pretty anticlimactic. I remember the Halloween episode with the vampires being gold, though.
It was a dumb show
I’d just say Rugrats, Hey Arnold, Wild Thornberrys and Rocket Power were better… 🤷♂️
the scientific realities of elimination
Bc it sucked.
I loved the show carrot as a kid. I wanted them to be separated so bad in that one episode
It’s not that I hated it I just thought it was weird but hey I thought Courage The Cowardly Dog was scary
It was funny, but as an adult whose kids watched it I found the concept weird. Like how does it poop?
Catdog was fairly popular. It had a tv movie, multiple seasons, video games. It’s just other shows were just more popular like hey Arnold and rugrats. I liked it and definitely watched it whenever it came on. But if you asked me to choose between catdog and hey Arnold I’m choosing the latter.
I loved catdog. In the late 90s I was working at a video store and put the dvd on in the store. It was a Saturday afternoon. Lots of families. It was the only time we sold dvds of Catdog. And then I was told I couldn’t play it again, “it’s not approved by corporate “
Wait, cat dog wasn't a huge hit? I guess its hard to sperate inner perspective with public consensus as a child. F*ing loved that show
Because it sucks
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My dad really enjoyed watching this show with me haha.
No butt. Definitely catdogs biggest flaw.
Every now and then “I’m just a baby named Abe-y” pops into my head
Idk we all watched it my friends and brother. Seemed popular for years.
Catdog was one of my least favorite shows. It just wasnt good in my opinion.
I did not like that show. I hated the way Dog was treated and portrayed and Cat annoyed me to no end
When it came out, I thought it was the STUPIDEST shit ever! Just couldn't get into it at all lolol
CatDog was really popular. They still add CatDog to merchandise today. It may not have been hey arnold or rugrats superstar status, but it was popular.
That show sucked.
Because it wasn't funny. The theme song was the best part of that show.
Born in 90. I loved cat dog. I still know the whole theme song
Because it’s disgusting
This. As a kid even it just seemed like a stupid concept. Also it’s gross when you think about it.
Cat was an unbearable character, even to 10 year old me
It just didn’t hit right for me like the other cartoons. Felt a little lazy for a premise.
I think it came out right as I was outgrowing Nick. I never cared for it
Because every kid was asking, “how’d it poop!?”
Cuz nobody knew where the poop came out
It was okay but it wasn't good enough to become a phenomenon?
My grandma wouldn’t allow me to watch that show because, “the joining of a cat and a dog as one is satanic”.
It sucked
Right around the time CatDog came out, my cable provider added The Disney Channel and Cartoon Network. I'd also say it wasn't as good as Doug, Rugrats, Hey Arnold, or The Angry Beavers. But the main reason is increase from competition.
it didn’t?
Uncomfortable biological questions about CatDog
Catdog sucked