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'''''CatDog''''' was an animated series that first aired on [[Nickelodeon]] in 1998 and ran for three seasons.
The story revolved around CatDog, two conjoined twins [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|who were a cat and a dog respectively]]. Cat was the sophisticated one, being into things such as the Opera and cleanliness. Dog, on the other hand, is much more laid back than his brother and enjoyed going on adventures and eating. The episodes revolved around Cat and Dog's daily adventures of living with each other and trying to avoid harassment from a gang of three dogs named the Greaser Dogs and their neighbor (who lives in one of the walls of their home) Winslow, a blue mouse.
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* [[Abnormal Ammo]]: Due to how CatDog's digestive system works, if Cat eats several small items, Dog can shoot them out of his nose with machine-gun force. They mainly use candies for this.
* [[All Just a Dream]]: In "Shriek Loves Dog", Cat plans to make Dog and Shriek fall for each other, hoping that the Greaser Dogs will thereby leave him alone. The rest of the episode is Cat's dream of what the consequences are: Dog marries Shriek, which causes the Greaser Dogs to move into their house and generally making Cat's life a living hell.
* [[Alternative Continuity]]: The movie ignores some of the events and continuity of the show.
* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Eddie the Squirrel
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* [[Bad Future]]: Accidentally created when Cat made fun of Winslow for being small and puny, resulting in his distant descendant becoming an [[Evil Overlord]]. [[Disproportionate Retribution]] much?
* [[Berserk Button]]: Eddie & {{spoiler|Rancid Rabbit in Let The Games Begin}}
* [[Be Yourself]]: Tough-acting tomboy Shreik tries to make herself "a real woman" so that Dog will take notice of her. It backfires when every guy except Dog ends up hitting on her.
* [[Big Eater]]: Dog. Though Cat has put a lot of fish away at times.
* [[Biological Mashup]]: CatDog
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* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Dog.
* [[Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere]]: When your girlfriend looks like a pizza, maybe you should stop for a snack...
** To make preparations for a dancing contest, Cat puts an overweight Dog on a diet so he will be fit enough for the competition. This was often met with many setbacks because Dog kept hidden stashes of food which he ate while exercising. Eventually, under threat of disqualification, Dog relents and loses enough weight for the competition. This backfires where a starving Dog starts to [[Meat-O-Vision|hallucinate his surroundings as food]] (he envisions his dancemates as pizza pies and drum sticks as chicken legs). Dog finally breaks and proceeds to devour not only the buffet, but his dance mates and the entire theatre!
* [[Conjoined Twins]]: CatDog of course.
* [[Conspicuously Light Patch]]: In the taco restaurant in the episode "All You Can't Eat" where CatDog crawl under the floor tiles and you can see the path they take outlined on the tiles, for example.
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* [[Crazy Prepared]]: Cat is the only person in the entire town who has a Species License.
* [[Critical Research Failure]]: in "Smarter Than the Average Dog", Cat becomes a "genius" and proundly exclaims that "Circumference = Pi * Radius Squared." Anyone who passed elementary math would know Pi * Radius Squared is the '''area''' of the circle, not the circumference.
* [[Dark Horse Victory]]: [[
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Winslow
* [[Depending on the Writer]]: Is Cat a [[Jerkass]] that deserves his [[Butt Monkey]] treatment, or just a mildly sarcastic and cynical guy who [[Designated Monkey|gets unfairly tortured]] [[Crapsack World|by the rest of the universe]]?
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* [[Inexplicably Identical Individuals]]: Rancid Rabbit holds a different job whenever he appears? Dentist, dog catcher, fast food restaurant manager, you name it. Taken to its logical extreme where he is seen working as a teacher and a traffic cop ''in the same episode.'' [[Lampshade Hanging|Cat is absolutely stunned.]]
* [[Interspecies Adoption]]: Catdog's parents are a ''frog'' and a ''sasquatch''. They were all separated from each other during a storm. When Cat questions how they could be their parents, their dad tells them that it doesn't matter, because [[Good Parents|parents are parents]], and they loved them both. Dog does notice that it seems he got his nose from his mother though...
* [[Jail Bake]]: Subverted. A bunch of inmates receive a file, but Shriek uses it on her fingernails and then uses said fingernails to pick the lock.
* [[Jerkass]]: Lots and lots of characters. Rancid Rabbit, The Greaser Dogs and Winslow are some of the most obvious examples. Even Cat and Dog can arguably be these depending on the episode.
* [[Kafka Komedy]]: This is the closest Nickelodeon ever came to "Schadenfreude: The Animated Show" arguably until [[Invader Zim]]. Much of the humor is based around the misery and utterly awful life of the main characters, juxtaposing Dog's blissful, optimistic ignorance with Cat's anguished, cynical resignation.
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* [[Man Child]]: Dog
** [[Psychopathic Manchild]]: [[Depending on the Writer]].
* [[May Contain Evil]]: Rancid Rabbit's yelling voice in [[
* [[Meat-O-Vision]]: Dog suffers this after going on a diet. See [[Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere]].
* [[Mole Miner]]: a mole lives under CatDog's house, claiming ownership of anything underneath it.
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* [[Ping-Pong Naivete]]: Somehow Dog is smart enough to know the ethics against cheating and doing schoolwork but not to realise that dragging his conjoined twin across the street may cause slight physical harm.
* [[Polar Opposite Twins]]: CatDog
* [[Real Men Wear Pink|Real Greasers Take Ballet]]: Cat finds out Cliff takes ballet in one of the episodes. Toward the end, Cliff shows [[
** That's not surprising. Many football players take up ballet to improve their balance, stamina, and flexibility.
* [[Sadist Show]]: [[Yank the Dog's Chain|Very]], [[The Chew Toy|Very]], [[Downer Ending|Very]], [[Diabolus Ex Machina|Very]], [[This Loser Is You|Very]], [[Hanlon's Razor|Very]], [[Crapsack World|Very]], [[Status Quo Is God|Very]] [[Designated Monkey|Sadistic]].
* [[Serious Business]]: What happens to people who break the rules at Rancid's pool? ''He puts them in his own prison and forces them to do manual labor''. On his pool.
* [[Short Run in Peru]]: The finale didn't air until 2005, after it had been shown in other countries.
* [[Shout-Out]]:
** In ''Full Moon Fever'', Cliff says, of Dog, "[[Freaks|Gobble gobble, one of us.]]"
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** Could also qualify as a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]], as Cat pretty much clobbers everyone who's screwed him over in past episodes, especially at the end when he destroys Cliff's Monster Truck with a single punch.
** Dog in "Pumped Up".
* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: Several characters refer to this trope as "Porkfat", named after the weaksauce weakness of the in-universe movie character, Mean Bob.
* [[Went to the Great X In the Sky]]:
{{quote|'''Shriek:''' You're going to that great big litter box in the sky!
'''Lube:''' ''(Looks up)'' [[Comically Missing the Point|Where?]] }}
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