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I finally got around to finishing catching up on T.U.F.F. Puppy, so I have finally drawn a picture paying tribute to the series (I felt it would be best to draw Dudley Puppy, Kitty Katswell, the Chief and Keswick in fighting stances while surrounded by the four most prominent villains Quacky the Duck, Verminious Snaptrap, Bird Brain and the Chameleon).

I dedicate this picture to and , who are two DeviantART users I haven't talked to in a while, but I do recall that they had some interest in T.U.F.F. Puppy and were a bit impatient for me to get into the series (there are already tons of cartoons I am interested in as it is, so I'm never able to predict when I will finish watching anything). And since the point of this pic is to celebrate being caught up on the show, I will inform everyone on DeviantART who's a fan of T.U.F.F. Puppy that I am ready to accept requests involving characters from this particular cartoon.

The third of the four Nicktoons created by Butch Hartman, after The Fairly OddParents and Danny Phantom, T.U.F.F. Puppy premiered in 2010 and aired until 2015. The show lasted three seasons, with the first two lasting 26 episodes each and the third only lasting eight. Most of the episodes consisted of two 11-minute segments, but there were occasional half-hour episodes.

The premise of the show is that the series takes place in a world of anthropomorphic animals, the main setting is a city called Petropolis and there is a spy organization dedicated to fighting evil-doers called T.U.F.F. (which stands for Turbo Undercover Fighting Force).

The main character Dudley Puppy is a dog who happens to be a bumbling manchild with an aversion to wearing pants who is voiced by Jerry Trainor (the initial casting choice was Eric Bauza, who ultimately only did a few minor roles in the first season). A big part of Dudley's character is that he's an idiot, but usually manages to succeed in saving the day. Heck, the main reason he joins T.U.F.F. in the first place was because he thwarted some crooks by complete accident!

After joining T.U.F.F., Dudley becomes partners with a more experienced and competent T.U.F.F. agent named Kitty Katswell (voiced by Grey DeLisle-Griffin), who has frequently been subjected to slapstick injuries and other misfortunes because of Dudley's carelessness. In spite of it all, there is no one else the two want as their partner besides each other.

Other than Kitty and Dudley, the other main members of T.U.F.F. are the Chief Herbert Dumbrowski (voiced by Daran Norris), a flea who used to be a T.U.F.F. agent himself and often comes off as so loopy and eccentric that he probably should consider retirement, and Keswick (voiced by Jeff Bennett impersonating Jerry Lewis), a bespectacled and nerdy scientist working for T.U.F.F. who creates different gadgets and formulas to help in their missions. Keswick's species is unknown, though later episodes made it a running gag to imply that he's actually some kind of alien.

The main villain of the cartoon was a rat named Verminious Snaptrap (voiced by Maddie Taylor, who came out as a trans woman after the show ended its run), a supervillain who is frequently just as stupid and immature as Dudley is and leads a villainous organization called D.O.O.M. (Diabolical Order of Mayhem). The main members of D.O.O.M. are his more competent underlings Ollie (an opossum with a British accent voiced by Jeff Bennett using his John Cleese impression and constantly has to remind Snaptrap of his less ridiculous schemes), Fransisco (a gator voiced by Daran Norris) and Larry (a shrew voiced by Jeff Bennett who is Snaptrap's brother-in-law and frequently subjected to all sorts of abuse by Snaptrap due to being the henchman he least respects).

There were additional members of D.O.O.M. who typically had non-speaking roles at most, such as Bad Dog and Leather Teddy, but they were phased out post-season one, with Snaptrap, Ollie, Franscisco and Larry being the only shown members.

Another recurring adversary was the Chameleon (voiced by Daran Norris impersonating Peter Lorre), who wore a hi-tech suit enabling him to shape-shift. Hilariously, while his suit enabled him to copy anyone's appearance, he doesn't usually bother trying to imitate their voice and instead thinks randomly spouting out words and phrases that are even remotely related to the person he's pretending to be is enough to fool everyone.

The third of the three most frequently appearing villains is Bird Brain (voiced by Rob Paulsen using the same voice he used for King Grippulon of the Yugopotamians in The Fairly OddParents), an intellectual avian whose species is the blue-bottomed boobie and has long suffered from the incompetence of his minions Zippy (a hummingbird voiced by Grey DeLisle-Griffin), an owl who can only say "Who?" (voiced by Jeff Bennett) and a blind bat who can only say "Where?" (voiced by Daran Norris). A frequent gag would involve Bird Brain getting frustrated by his minions misunderstanding his exclamations (which only got worse as he recruited other henchmen with names that were homonyms for phrases commonly exclaimed, such as a duck named Duck, Holey Cow and a sheep named Ewe).

Quacky the Duck (voiced by Maddie Taylor impersonating Bobcat Goldthwait) didn't appear as frequently as the first three did, but he was still pretty prominent. His thing is that he used to be the host of Petropolis's most popular children's TV show, but went crazy after the network president cancelled his show in "Lucky Duck" and from then on became a recurring enemy of T.U.F.F. always trying to cause trouble while still acting out his persona as an amiable kids' show host, his usual henchman being a muscular and intimidating brute called the Sharing Moose (voiced by Jeff Bennett).

Other villains of note included the Caped Cod (voiced by Chris Parnell for his debut and Mick Wingert for the remainder of his appearances), an insane fish who thinks he's king of the sea and attacks Dudley due to thinking he's king of the surface world, and a completely ineffectual villain team known as F.L.O.P.P. (Fiendish League of Potential Perpetrators). The main members of F.L.O.P.P. were the Meerkat (voiced by Daran Norris impersonating Paul Lynde), the Escape Goat (a goat who's an incompetent escape artist voiced initially by Maddie Taylor and later by Butch Hartman) and the Wannabee (a bee voiced by Jerry Trainor who liked to describe things as "super bad" and frequently appeared acting solo with no one else from F.L.O.P.P. in sight). F.L.O.P.P. were usually content with committing misdemeanors and pranks, but would often prove to be very dangerous after getting their hands on doomsday devices Snaptrap left at the golf course.

The most interesting one-shot villain in my book is Kitty's evil twin sister Katty Katswell (voiced by the same person voicing Kitty), who was mentioned a couple of times before actually being the antagonist of "A Tale of Two Kitties", where she attempted to swap places with her sister to steal a golden fishbowl, but her plan was thwarted by Dudley noticing something off about "Kitty"'s obsession with the golden fishbowl and Katty gravely underestimating how loyal Dudley was to his partner. I really wish there could've been more episodes with her.

It is my understanding that T.U.F.F. Puppy is one of the more divisive shows, but my own opinion is that the show is mostly funny and entertaining, even if there are some flaws. The main aspects of the show that rubbed me the wrong way would be minor character Mr. Wong (a duck chef who's essentially a Chinese stereotype that hasn't aged well) and how Kitty suffered in "Sheep Dog" (having Dudley use her money without her permission was bad enough, but stopping the Chameleon by destroying her life savings really pushes the boundaries of Dudley causing Kitty harm and suffering while not knowing any better). I also wish that Kitty's baby disguise in "Bad Eggs" was just something made up by the weirdo fan artists instead of something that was actually canon (having her wear footie pajamas and a bib for the disguise would've been less creepy than a pink T-shirt and a diaper).

T.U.F.F. Puppy reached its conclusion with the half-hour episode "T.U.F.F. Break Up", which was the first episode of the third and final season to air, but was actually the last episode in production order. The premise here is that T.U.F.F. is forced to disband due to insufficient funding and some of the heroes' recent gaffes of stopping villains in ways that ruin things for the public make the denizens of Petropolis hate T.U.F.F.

Dudley, Kitty and Keswick decide to go their separate ways, but are persuaded to reunite to defend Petropolis from a new villain called the Overbear (voiced by Jeff Bennett), who schemes to control everyone's mind with a condiment called Obey-A-Naise. In the end, our heroes save the day as usual, T.U.F.F. gets back in business and Dudley and Kitty return to being secret agents.

The last official appearances Dudley and Kitty made were in a promotional short called The Fairly Odd Phantom and a sequel comic by Butch Hartman of the same name.

As you may have probably guessed already, the premise behind Fairly Odd Phantom was that it was a crossover between every Nicktoon created by Butch Hartman (The Fairly OddParents, Danny Phantom, T.U.F.F. Puppy and the then-recent Bunsen is a Beast), with every character involved voiced by their original voice actors.

The plot starts with Danny and his friends Sam Manson and Tucker Foley fighting ghosts in Jack Fenton's lab before they see Dudley messing around with the buttons and Kitty trying to stop him. Timmy Turner and his fairy godparents Cosmo and Wanda then appear through the Fenton Portal. Danny immediately mistakes Cosmo and Wanda for ghosts and sucks them up into the Fenton Thermos, then the short ends with Bunsen making his entrance.

The story continued in the six-page comic. With Cosmo and Wanda inexplicably out of the Fenton Thermos, the characters get into a quarrel that ends when they find out that their creator Butch Hartman has been kidnapped by their enemies (Mr. Crocker from The Fairly OddParents, Skulker from Danny Phantom, Snaptrap from T.U.F.F. Puppy and Amanda Killman from Bunsen is a Beast). In the end, they help Butch Hartman out, he uses a giant pencil to erase the bad guys and reduce them to pencil shavings and Danny asks Butch Hartman to draw Dudley some pants.

Now the only Butch Hartman Nicktoons I need to catch up on are Bunsen is a Beast (which shouldn't take too long, as it only lasted one season on account of being the least well-received of all the Butch Hartman Nicktoons as well as Butch Hartman leaving Nickelodeon after the show was produced) and The Fairly OddParents (I'm still a few episodes away from finishing season seven, I had put my progress on the back-burner when I was focused on catching up with T.U.F.F. Puppy and I intend to revisit the live-action movie trilogy and catch up on the revival series Fairly Odder once I'm done with all ten seasons).

It is going to be real difficult to stay patient until the day I'm finally ready to do my Oh Yeah! Cartoons retrospective.

T.U.F.F. Puppy (c) Nickelodeon

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Made with DeviantArt muro

I finally got around to finishing catching up on T.U.F.F. Puppy, so I have finally drawn a picture paying tribute to the series (I felt it would be best to draw Dudley Puppy, Kitty Katswell, the Chief and Keswick in fighting stances while surrounded by the four most prominent villains Quacky the Duck, Verminious Snaptrap, Bird Brain and the Chameleon).

I dedicate this picture to and , who are two DeviantART users I haven't talked to in a while, but I do recall that they had some interest in T.U.F.F. Puppy and were a bit impatient for me to get into the series (there are already tons of cartoons I am interested in as it is, so I'm never able to predict when I will finish watching anything). And since the point of this pic is to celebrate being caught up on the show, I will inform everyone on DeviantART who's a fan of T.U.F.F. Puppy that I am ready to accept requests involving characters from this particular cartoon.

The third of the four Nicktoons created by Butch Hartman, after The Fairly OddParents and Danny Phantom, T.U.F.F. Puppy premiered in 2010 and aired until 2015. The show lasted three seasons, with the first two lasting 26 episodes each and the third only lasting eight. Most of the episodes consisted of two 11-minute segments, but there were occasional half-hour episodes.

The premise of the show is that the series takes place in a world of anthropomorphic animals, the main setting is a city called Petropolis and there is a spy organization dedicated to fighting evil-doers called T.U.F.F. (which stands for Turbo Undercover Fighting Force).

The main character Dudley Puppy is a dog who happens to be a bumbling manchild with an aversion to wearing pants who is voiced by Jerry Trainor (the initial casting choice was Eric Bauza, who ultimately only did a few minor roles in the first season). A big part of Dudley's character is that he's an idiot, but usually manages to succeed in saving the day. Heck, the main reason he joins T.U.F.F. in the first place was because he thwarted some crooks by complete accident!

After joining T.U.F.F., Dudley becomes partners with a more experienced and competent T.U.F.F. agent named Kitty Katswell (voiced by Grey DeLisle-Griffin), who has frequently been subjected to slapstick injuries and other misfortunes because of Dudley's carelessness. In spite of it all, there is no one else the two want as their partner besides each other.

Other than Kitty and Dudley, the other main members of T.U.F.F. are the Chief Herbert Dumbrowski (voiced by Daran Norris), a flea who used to be a T.U.F.F. agent himself and often comes off as so loopy and eccentric that he probably should consider retirement, and Keswick (voiced by Jeff Bennett impersonating Jerry Lewis), a bespectacled and nerdy scientist working for T.U.F.F. who creates different gadgets and formulas to help in their missions. Keswick's species is unknown, though later episodes made it a running gag to imply that he's actually some kind of alien.

The main villain of the cartoon was a rat named Verminious Snaptrap (voiced by Maddie Taylor, who came out as a trans woman after the show ended its run), a supervillain who is frequently just as stupid and immature as Dudley is and leads a villainous organization called D.O.O.M. (Diabolical Order of Mayhem). The main members of D.O.O.M. are his more competent underlings Ollie (an opossum with a British accent voiced by Jeff Bennett using his John Cleese impression and constantly has to remind Snaptrap of his less ridiculous schemes), Fransisco (a gator voiced by Daran Norris) and Larry (a shrew voiced by Jeff Bennett who is Snaptrap's brother-in-law and frequently subjected to all sorts of abuse by Snaptrap due to being the henchman he least respects).

There were additional members of D.O.O.M. who typically had non-speaking roles at most, such as Bad Dog and Leather Teddy, but they were phased out post-season one, with Snaptrap, Ollie, Franscisco and Larry being the only shown members.

Another recurring adversary was the Chameleon (voiced by Daran Norris impersonating Peter Lorre), who wore a hi-tech suit enabling him to shape-shift. Hilariously, while his suit enabled him to copy anyone's appearance, he doesn't usually bother trying to imitate their voice and instead thinks randomly spouting out words and phrases that are even remotely related to the person he's pretending to be is enough to fool everyone.

The third of the three most frequently appearing villains is Bird Brain (voiced by Rob Paulsen using the same voice he used for King Grippulon of the Yugopotamians in The Fairly OddParents), an intellectual avian whose species is the blue-bottomed boobie and has long suffered from the incompetence of his minions Zippy (a hummingbird voiced by Grey DeLisle-Griffin), an owl who can only say "Who?" (voiced by Jeff Bennett) and a blind bat who can only say "Where?" (voiced by Daran Norris). A frequent gag would involve Bird Brain getting frustrated by his minions misunderstanding his exclamations (which only got worse as he recruited other henchmen with names that were homonyms for phrases commonly exclaimed, such as a duck named Duck, Holey Cow and a sheep named Ewe).

Quacky the Duck (voiced by Maddie Taylor impersonating Bobcat Goldthwait) didn't appear as frequently as the first three did, but he was still pretty prominent. His thing is that he used to be the host of Petropolis's most popular children's TV show, but went crazy after the network president cancelled his show in "Lucky Duck" and from then on became a recurring enemy of T.U.F.F. always trying to cause trouble while still acting out his persona as an amiable kids' show host, his usual henchman being a muscular and intimidating brute called the Sharing Moose (voiced by Jeff Bennett).

Other villains of note included the Caped Cod (voiced by Chris Parnell for his debut and Mick Wingert for the remainder of his appearances), an insane fish who thinks he's king of the sea and attacks Dudley due to thinking he's king of the surface world, and a completely ineffectual villain team known as F.L.O.P.P. (Fiendish League of Potential Perpetrators). The main members of F.L.O.P.P. were the Meerkat (voiced by Daran Norris impersonating Paul Lynde), the Escape Goat (a goat who's an incompetent escape artist voiced initially by Maddie Taylor and later by Butch Hartman) and the Wannabee (a bee voiced by Jerry Trainor who liked to describe things as "super bad" and frequently appeared acting solo with no one else from F.L.O.P.P. in sight). F.L.O.P.P. were usually content with committing misdemeanors and pranks, but would often prove to be very dangerous after getting their hands on doomsday devices Snaptrap left at the golf course.

The most interesting one-shot villain in my book is Kitty's evil twin sister Katty Katswell (voiced by the same person voicing Kitty), who was mentioned a couple of times before actually being the antagonist of "A Tale of Two Kitties", where she attempted to swap places with her sister to steal a golden fishbowl, but her plan was thwarted by Dudley noticing something off about "Kitty"'s obsession with the golden fishbowl and Katty gravely underestimating how loyal Dudley was to his partner. I really wish there could've been more episodes with her.

It is my understanding that T.U.F.F. Puppy is one of the more divisive shows, but my own opinion is that the show is mostly funny and entertaining, even if there are some flaws. The main aspects of the show that rubbed me the wrong way would be minor character Mr. Wong (a duck chef who's essentially a Chinese stereotype that hasn't aged well) and how Kitty suffered in "Sheep Dog" (having Dudley use her money without her permission was bad enough, but stopping the Chameleon by destroying her life savings really pushes the boundaries of Dudley causing Kitty harm and suffering while not knowing any better). I also wish that Kitty's baby disguise in "Bad Eggs" was just something made up by the weirdo fan artists instead of something that was actually canon (having her wear footie pajamas and a bib for the disguise would've been less creepy than a pink T-shirt and a diaper).

T.U.F.F. Puppy reached its conclusion with the half-hour episode "T.U.F.F. Break Up", which was the first episode of the third and final season to air, but was actually the last episode in production order. The premise here is that T.U.F.F. is forced to disband due to insufficient funding and some of the heroes' recent gaffes of stopping villains in ways that ruin things for the public make the denizens of Petropolis hate T.U.F.F.

Dudley, Kitty and Keswick decide to go their separate ways, but are persuaded to reunite to defend Petropolis from a new villain called the Overbear (voiced by Jeff Bennett), who schemes to control everyone's mind with a condiment called Obey-A-Naise. In the end, our heroes save the day as usual, T.U.F.F. gets back in business and Dudley and Kitty return to being secret agents.

The last official appearances Dudley and Kitty made were in a promotional short called The Fairly Odd Phantom and a sequel comic by Butch Hartman of the same name.

As you may have probably guessed already, the premise behind Fairly Odd Phantom was that it was a crossover between every Nicktoon created by Butch Hartman (The Fairly OddParents, Danny Phantom, T.U.F.F. Puppy and the then-recent Bunsen is a Beast), with every character involved voiced by their original voice actors.

The plot starts with Danny and his friends Sam Manson and Tucker Foley fighting ghosts in Jack Fenton's lab before they see Dudley messing around with the buttons and Kitty trying to stop him. Timmy Turner and his fairy godparents Cosmo and Wanda then appear through the Fenton Portal. Danny immediately mistakes Cosmo and Wanda for ghosts and sucks them up into the Fenton Thermos, then the short ends with Bunsen making his entrance.

The story continued in the six-page comic. With Cosmo and Wanda inexplicably out of the Fenton Thermos, the characters get into a quarrel that ends when they find out that their creator Butch Hartman has been kidnapped by their enemies (Mr. Crocker from The Fairly OddParents, Skulker from Danny Phantom, Snaptrap from T.U.F.F. Puppy and Amanda Killman from Bunsen is a Beast). In the end, they help Butch Hartman out, he uses a giant pencil to erase the bad guys and reduce them to pencil shavings and Danny asks Butch Hartman to draw Dudley some pants.

Now the only Butch Hartman Nicktoons I need to catch up on are Bunsen is a Beast (which shouldn't take too long, as it only lasted one season on account of being the least well-received of all the Butch Hartman Nicktoons as well as Butch Hartman leaving Nickelodeon after the show was produced) and The Fairly OddParents (I'm still a few episodes away from finishing season seven, I had put my progress on the back-burner when I was focused on catching up with T.U.F.F. Puppy and I intend to revisit the live-action movie trilogy and catch up on the revival series Fairly Odder once I'm done with all ten seasons).

It is going to be real difficult to stay patient until the day I'm finally ready to do my Oh Yeah! Cartoons retrospective.

T.U.F.F. Puppy (c) Nickelodeon