19-415: CatDog is an American animated television series created by Peter Hannan for Nickelodeon . The series follows the zany hijinks of orange-furred conjoined brothers of different species, with one half of the resultant animal being a cat and the other a dog. Nickelodeon produced the series from Burbank, California . The first episode aired on April 4, 1998, following the 1998 Kids' Choice Awards , before
38-601: A Huge Mouth ran in independent newspapers and magazines in Harper's, Esquire and others. He writes and illustrates books, including Petlandia, My Big Mouth: 10 Songs I Wrote That Almost Got Me Killed, The Greatest Snowman in the World , Super Goofballs, Sillyville or Bust, Escape from Camp Wannabarf , School After Dark: Lessons in Lunacy, The Battle of Sillyville: Live Silly or Die! And Freddy! King of Flurb . He co-founded
57-489: A proper complete series set was released on December 9, 2014. The complete series is also available for download in the iTunes Store and streaming on Paramount+ . In Australia, seasons 1-3 were released on DVD by Beyond Home Entertainment . Nickelodeon initiated a $ 20 million promotional campaign for the series' first season in 1999 with partners Burger King , Duracell , Jell-O , and Nabisco . Burger King, which had promoted Nickelodeon's The Rugrats Movie with toys
76-409: Is Lube". In 2010, Nickelodeon contracted Amazon.com 's CreateSpace service arm to produce DVD sets of CatDog and other Nickelodeon shows exclusively for sale on Amazon. The DVDs were "manufactured-on-demand" DVD-Rs to match orders. The series is also available for download on Amazon's InstantVideo service. From 2011 to 2013, Shout! Factory released the series on DVD via several season sets, and
95-512: Is an American producer, animator, singer-songwriter and author. Hannan is the creator, executive producer, and showrunner of the Nickelodeon series CatDog , for which he also wrote and sang the theme song. He is the story editor, sometime songwriter, and interstitial producer of the animated PBS Kids series Let's Go Luna! . He created a web series called Really Freaking Embarrassing. His single-panel cartoons The Adventures of
114-658: The Looney Tunes shorts and elements of Laurel and Hardy , Abbott and Costello , and fellow Nicktoon characters Ren and Stimpy . Because Cat and Dog cannot be separated, Dog will often drag his brother into activities Dog enjoys, such as chasing garbage trucks, eating fast food, and exploring, even though Cat is reluctant to do so. The series, created by Peter Hannan, was developed as the next Nicktoons production and produced from Nickelodeon Animation Studio in Burbank, California . Hannan served as executive producer. This
133-423: The 2000 Kids' Choice Awards . Two VHS tapes of the series were released by Paramount Home Video on March 30, 1999. Together Forever contains a bonus short "Cat-Diggety Dog" plus the episodes "Dog Gone", "Flea or Die", "Diamond Fever", "CatDog's End" and "Work Force", and CatDog vs. The Greasers contains the episodes "Siege on Fort CatDog", "Squirrel Dog", "Full Moon Fever", "Shriek Loves Dog" and "All You Need
152-594: The Nickelodeon games Nicktoons Racing , Super Brawl Universe , Nickelodeon Kart Racers 2: Grand Prix , Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl , Nickelodeon Extreme Tennis , and Nickelodeon Kart Racers 3: Slime Speedway . Characters make cameo appearances in Nickelodeon Party Blast , Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots , and Nicktoons MLB . Peter Hannan (producer) Peter John Hannan
171-504: The US from 1998 to 2004, and aired reruns from 2005 to 2007. It was subsequently aired on Nicktoons from May 1, 2002 to August 23, 2011. Catdog began airing on Nickrewind in 2013 and continued to air until 2021. The show started streaming on Paramount+ in 2020. In the UK and Ireland, the series was broadcast on Nickelodeon (1998–2005), Channel 4 (1999-2007) and Nicktoons (2002–13). In Canada,
190-412: The animals would fare against other things. The idea of them being conjoined twins came from Hannan watching several news stories on TV about conjoined twins living a normal life conjoined together. Both aspects, he claimed, initially developed the idea of CatDog. The title characters were originally envisioned as a two-headed superhero called "CatDog Man". The series originally aired on Nickelodeon in
209-472: The animation for the show. CatDog follows the adventures of a cat and a dog who share a body, despite having opposite personalities. Cat is a strait-laced, intellectual cat whereas Dog is an impulsive, happy-go-lucky dog. While the brothers can independently control their upper bodies with two heads, they are conjoined at the midsection, meaning they have no tail or hind legs. Cat and Dog's personality differences share similarities with The Odd Couple ,
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#1732790975741228-566: The company FutureVision, which produced a TV concert series featuring blues artist Muddy Waters , Albert King , Buddy Guy & Junior Wells , Bobby Bland , Otis Rush , and Blind John Davis . Hannan has taught, lectured, and led art, writing, animation, and creativity workshops for pre-school through college students. He has worked as a graphic designer and art director and created illustrations for magazines, newspapers, and advertising. He exhibits paintings, illustrations, and cartoons. This article relating to an American animator
247-474: The first being CatDog: Quest for the Golden Hydrant for Microsoft Windows , which released in late 1999. Ports of the game for PlayStation and Game Boy Color were mentioned but ultimately never released. Another Hasbro title, CatDog: Saving Mean Bob , was announced for a 2000 release for PC and PlayStation but never released. Characters from the series appeared as cameos or playable characters in
266-445: The holiday season. Jell-O packaged CatDog stickers in its Jell-O Yogurt kids packs. Nabisco marketed limited edition CatDog Cheese Nips flavors, which featured instant-win contest prizes that included a trip to Los Angeles to meet and have their likeness drawn by creator of CatDog . On May 13, 1999, Nickelodeon and Hasbro Interactive announced a three-year partnership to publish video games based on Nickelodeon television series,
285-422: The previous year, offered CatDog -themed toys in its kids meals for five weeks beginning February 22, 1999. Nickelodeon promoted a trip to Universal Studios Florida as a prize in an on-air sweepstakes sponsored by Burger King and Mattel , which also released a line of CatDog toys that year. Duracell held a back-to-school-themed backpack offer as well as a "Catch CatDog" sweepstakes on television and radio during
304-489: The series was broadcast on Nickelodeon (2009–2019) and on YTV (1998–2006). In Australia and New Zealand, the series was broadcast on Nickelodeon (1998–2015). In Japan, the series was broadcast on Nickelodeon (1999–2009) and on TV Asahi (1999–2006). In Middle East, the series was broadcast on Nickelodeon Arabia (2008–2011) and on MBC 3 (2014–2015). In March 2021, the series was added along with other various Nicktoons and Nickelodeon shows onto Paramount+ . The series
323-656: The show officially premiered on October 5, 1998. Similarly, the Season 2 episode "Fetch" was shown in theaters in 1998 before airing on television. The series ended on June 15, 2005, after a total of four seasons and 66 aired episodes over seven years, plus two produced episodes that never aired. It was produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio and Peter Hannan Productions and was released on DVD in Region 1 by Shout! Factory . Two animation studios, Saerom Animation and Rough Draft Studios through Rough Draft Korea , worked on
342-558: Was part of Nickelodeon's $ 350 million investment in original animation over the next five years after the series' inception. Albie Hecht , Nickelodeon 's senior vice president of worldwide productions, said that the creators planned for the series to "really play off of kids' sympathies" by portraying the characters as experiencing "the worst of both worlds". Hannan said CatDog was inspired by watching neighborhood cats and dogs occasionally fight each other, and thought that it would be great to make conjoined twins Cat and Dog to see how both of
361-468: Was reviewed by Common Sense Media with a score 2/5 stars, advised for children 7 and up. In 1998, the series was nominated for an Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Writing in an Animated Television Production, for "Dog Gone". The recipients would have been Derek Drymon , Robert Porter and Peter Hannan. At the 1999 Kids' Choice Awards , the show was nominated for Favorite Cartoon . However, it lost to Rugrats . It did so again in
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