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Line 1: {{work}} * [[Anvilicious]]: Has this show mentioned the fact that you shouldn't judge people by their appearances and/or abuse animals yet? * [[Non Sequitur Scene]]:▼ * [[Awesome Art (Sugar Wiki)\|Awesome Art]]: "''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'' meets real life", complete with numerous '''stunningly''' brilliant utilizations of [[Art Shift]]. ** A dragon coming out of absolutely nowhere(pun not intended) and eating [[Butt Monkey\|Eustace]] in the last five seconds of the episode.▼ * [[Awesome Music]]: See [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]. Eustace getting mauled by a Siberian Tiger while deer hunting.▼ Seems as though animals are always coming out of nowhere to attack Eustace, as he got attacked by a giant squirrel in "Family Business".▼ Most of Courage's nightmares from the last episode could count, especially that [[Nightmare Fuel\|blue thing]]. It really had no importance to the rest of the episode except to scare you straight and it really wasn't seen or mentioned again in those other nightmares.▼ The way [[Complete Monster\|Katz]] gets defeated in "Katz Under the Sea".▼ "Snowman's Revenge" has Snowman breaking out into a [[So Bad It's Good]] musical number about... a chilly love story? Huh?▼ "Courage Meets The Mummy" opens with an archeologist dusting off a gem inside the Mayan temple, which then shoots out a beam of light which gets reflected off some things and causes a disco ball to come out of the ceiling while some music plays for a brief moment. Afterwards, the archeologist just shrugs it off and continues dusting off the gem stone.▼ * [[Cargo Ship]]: In "The Gods Must Be Goosey", {{spoiler\|the Goose and Eustae's Truck are getting married at the end of the episode.}} * [[Complete Monster]]: Katz. ~~A startlingly straight example for a kid's show: most~~Most of the villains are sort of cartoonishly ineffectual, even if they are loaded with [[Nightmare Fuel]], but Katz is aimplied ~~genuine~~to ~~psychopath. "Care for a bit of~~have ~~sport~~successfully ~~before~~killed ~~dying~~many, ~~dear~~many ~~boy?"~~victims {{quote\|"Care for a bit of sport before dying, dear boy?"}} Mad Dog from "The Mask" also counts. He's a violently abusive and possessive gangleader who is hellbent on murdering someone just for being his girlfriend's best friend. When Bunny tries to escape him, he buries her alive as punishment and later attempts to run her down with his car for trying to escape with Courage. Yeah, at one point he "acts" like he cares, but given his other behavior, its easy to see this is just manipulating her emotions in order to keep her under his paw, a common tactic by real life abusers. Like Katz, he's also played startlingly straight with little comedy in his character at all. ** The Great Fusilli initially seems like a [[Affably Evil\|charming (if somewhat sinister) traveling magician]] taking his show on the road, and allows Courage ~~as well as his owners~~, Eustace and Muriel to perform for an imaginary audience. However, his true evil nature is revealed when Courage stumbles upon a back room full of lifeless human puppets. It turns out that Fusilli is a [[Serial Killer]] of sorts who uses enchanted strings that turn people into lifeless puppets, effectively killing them so he can play around with their lifeless bodies for his entertainment. As one would expect, Courage defeats the villainous magician, but not before Eustace and Muriel have been turned into puppets, leaving Courage to essentially play with their lifeless bodies in order to pretend that they're still alive. Thankfully ~~negative~~[[Negative ~~continuity~~Continuity]] is in effect, but it's still considered to be among the darkest, creepiest, and most downright disturbing episodes in the series for a very good reason. * [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: The soundtrack to the episode "The Tower of Dr. Zalost". Line 21 ⟶ 15: The Snowman's song from "Snowman's Revenge". The Great Fusilli's theme, in its entirely appropriate [[Creepy Circus Music]] style. The Crisis Theme, once/when it reaches [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH8JhpJHrqE its maximum intensity]. * [[Ear Worm]]: The themes for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am3i4tzURGY Doc Gerbil] and King Ramses, as well as Flan King's hypnotic command to "buy Flantasy Flan". There's no time to rest our laurels, when we must repair the corals! Line 27 ⟶ 22: Freaky Fred. Di Lung. The recurring Asian guy. King Ramses' also qualifies for some reason. ** The computer. * [[Ethnic Scrappy]]: [[Asian Rudeness\|Di]] [[Nouveau Riche\|Lung]] leans heavily on many Chinese and Asian stereotypes and is very much unlikeable (to the point where he actually makes Eustace look like a ''good'' person at times). * [[Evil Is Sexy]]: the Queen of the Black Puddle. * [[Evil Is Cool]]: Say what you will about Katz, but he is '''definitely''' one seriously smooth bastard. Despite being '''the''' absolute biggest [[Jerkass\|douchebag]] in the entire series, [[Insufferable Genius\|Di]] [[Asian Rudeness\|Lung]] is basically how "cool" of a person Eustace ''wishes'' he could be (wears [[Cool Shades\|utterly badass-looking sunglasses]] and drives a [[Cool Car\|vintage hot rod]], is ''[[Nouveau Riche\|obscenely]]'' [[Nouveau Riche\|rich]] and lives in a [[Big Fancy House\|mansion]], is a [[Mad Scientist]] who can easily just ''[[Smart People Build Robots\|build]]'' a better dog for himself rather than having to look for a new one, is actually able to survive on his own without being utterly reliant on his wife, etc). Dr. Zalost, who rides around in a '''mechanical castle''' and has absolutely ''amazing'' theme music. * [[Evil Is Sexy]]: the Queen of the Black Puddle is one of ''CTCD'''s only conventionally attractive characters...and [[To Serve Man\|eats people]]. ** Katz also easily qualifies if you're a furry...although [[Aroused By Their Voice\|his voice]] certainly helps... * [[Fan Nickname]]: The "Perfect Trumpet Thingy" for the blue ''[[Eldritch Abomination\|thing]]'' in the first of Courage's nightmares in "Perfect" and "Violin Girl" for the [[Demon Head]] in "Courage in the Big Stinkin' City". ** Courage, Muriel, and Eustace together as a group is usually called "the Bagges" or "the Bagge family" by fans. * [[Hell Is That Noise]]: Frequently. * [[Hype Backlash]]: Mostly a result of how much people such as [[The Mysterious Mr. Enter]] have boasted about how "emotional" and "terrifying" they consider the show to be (despite the fact that the show is mostly just a [[Darker and Edgier]] ''[[Scooby Doo]]'' mixed with a [[Darker and Edgier]] ''[[Looney Tunes]]'', with a ''ton'' of [[Surreal Horror]] and [[Art Shift\|Art Shifting]] thrown in). * [[Jerkass Woobie]]: Eustace, in his more humane moments. * [[Les Yay]]: Kitty and Bunny from the episode "The Mask". Line 40 ⟶ 41: * [[Moral Event Horizon]]: Eustace crosses this in "Ball for Revenge" when he gathers up many villains to kill Courage. As for Katz, [[Crosses the Line Twice\|good luck guessing which of his many evil deeds helps him cross it.]] Basically every episode that [[A Day in the Limelight\|gives Di Lung a major role]] features him ''easily'' crossing it, especially when he [[Curb Stomp Battle\|makes Mecha-Courage beat Courage to death]] [[Unsexy Sadist\|for his own amusement]] in ''Courage VS Mecha-Courage''. * [[Nightmare Fuel]]: A lot of the more surreal stuff. It even has it's own [[Courage the Cowardly Dog/Nightmare Fuel\|page]]. ▲* [[Non Sequitur Scene]]: ▲ A dragon coming out of absolutely nowhere(pun not intended) and eating [[Butt Monkey\|Eustace]] in the last five seconds of the episode. ▲ Eustace getting mauled by a Siberian Tiger while deer hunting. ▲ Seems as though animals are always coming out of nowhere to attack Eustace, as he got attacked by a giant squirrel in "Family Business". ▲ Most of Courage's nightmares from the last episode could count, especially that [[Nightmare Fuel\|blue thing]]. It really had no importance to the rest of the episode except to scare you straight and it really wasn't seen or mentioned again in those other nightmares. ▲ The way [[Complete Monster\|Katz]] gets defeated in "Katz Under the Sea". Di Lung appearing out of absolutely nowhere during important scenes and then yelling "Watch where you're going, ya ''foo;!''" for a nearly-always [[Hypocritical Humor\|hilariously hypocritical]] reason. [[Running Gag\|At least ten times, no less.]] ▲ "Snowman's Revenge" has Snowman breaking out into a [[So Bad It's Good]] musical number about... a chilly love story? Huh? ▲ "Courage Meets The Mummy" opens with an archeologist dusting off a gem inside the Mayan temple, which then shoots out a beam of light which gets reflected off some things and causes a disco ball to come out of the ceiling while some music plays for a brief moment. Afterwards, the archeologist just shrugs it off and continues dusting off the gem stone. * [[Paranoia Fuel]]: Kitty could see Eustace and Muriel doing things in secret (sneaking cake, not fixing things) when they couldn't tell. * [[Periphery Demographic]] * [[Seasonal Rot]]: aA lot of season three and four episodes aren't nearly as memorable as pretty much every episode in season one and two. They're still considered pretty good, though. * [[Signature Scene]]s: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFDldk9D_Qc "You're Not Perfect"], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pWC-4dx3Q0 "Return The Slab"] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-E3ysa-eDI "The Violin Girl"] are easily the show's three most iconic examples of [[Nightmare Fuel\|nightmare-inducing]] [[Art Shift]]s ...which are the main reasons for its popularity. * [[Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped]]: See the [[Anvilicious]] entry above this one. * [[Squick]]: The idea of on of the Valkyries falling in love with the ''incredibly'' disgusting Troll king, and soon the other Valkyries and the trolls falling in love is just, gross~~. Don't think about their Honeymoon to much..~~. That scene doubles as a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] because the as the Valkyrie and Troll King were singing about how much they love each other, they would ''not. Stop. '''Singing''' '', Despite the fact that the rest of the Valkyries and Trolls were on their way to the cave. Added bonuses include going to the scene of the Valkyries and Trolls running their way over there, and cutting back to the Valkyrie and Troll King, ''STILL SINGING'', and cutting back over and over, but also Courage [[Lampshade Hanging\|Lampshading it]]. ** The entire "The Clutching Foot" episode. Namely the scene where [[Nausea Fuel\|Courage licks the foot as a cure]]. * [[Tear Jerker]]: "The Last Of The Star Makers". sniffle * [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character]]: Many of the show's secondary characters get little screen time despite their plot potential, but Di Lung especially stands out, being a rich and badass Asian version of Eustace who usually only appears for about five seconds per episode (so that he can yell "[[Catch Phrase\|WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GOING, YA FOOL]]" at random people as one of the show's ''many'' [[Comic Relief]] sources). * [[Ugly Cute]]: The Hunchback Of Nowhere. * [[Ugly Cute]]: Most of the show's characters, due to ~~the~~its art style. One example is The Hunchback Of Nowhere. * [[Uncanny Valley]]: The Magic Tree of Nowhere, the first nightmare in the episode "Perfect", the Harvest Moon in "The House Of Discontent", the [[Demon Head\|scary]] violin-playing girl in "Courage In the Big Stinkin' City", and King Ramses' in "King Ramses' Curse". * [[Uncanny Valley]]: Several. The first nightmare in the episode "Perfect". And the Harvest Moon in "The House Of Discontent". [http://www.livevideo.com/video/70AFB415CB714799BBD43E60D7C19EE7/courage-the-cowardly-dog-the.aspx The Magic Tree of Nowhere.] The [[Demon Head]] in "Courage In the Big Stinkin' City". ** King Ramses' in "King Ramses' Curse". * [[What Do You Mean It's for Kids?]]: A lot of people probably think ''Courage'' is for an adult audience with all the strange horror. * [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?]] * [[The Woobie]]: Courage takes ''a lot'' of crap, and a lot of the other characters have dealt with troubling pasts. The Hunchback of Nowhere. In direct contrast to most "villains", Freaky Fred is a perfectly kind individual whose shaving... ''thing'' lost him his pet, his girlfriend, his job, and landed him in a mental institution.