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[[File:Couragedog.gif|frame|[[Catch Phrase|The things he does for love...]] ]]

 

{{quote|'''Narrator:''' ''We interrupt this program to bring you...Courage the Cowardly Dog Show, starring Courage, the cowardly dog! Abandoned as a pup, he was found by Muriel, who lives in the middle of Nowhere with her husband, Eustace Bagge! But creepy stuff happens in Nowhere. It's up to Courage to save his new home!''

 

As a rather interesting note, this is one of the very few cartoons that aired in the 1990s-early 2000s that Cartoon Network still reruns on a fairly frequent basis.

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* [[Acme Products]]: "Dil" Products, actually. It applies to certain things like blowtorches, vacuum cleaners, alkaline batteries, power cables and in one case, an entire grocery store.

* [[Affably Evil]]: Freaky Fred. A psychopathic man with a [[Slasher Smile]], but his amusing rhyming makes him one of the more entertaining villains. Besides, {{spoiler|all he really does is [[Poke the Poodle|shave people and animals bald]].}}

* [[Affectionate Parody]]: ''The Hunchback of Nowhere'' is one of ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'', while ''Squatting Tiger, Hidden Dog'' is another one of ''[[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]]''.

* [[All-Stereotype Cast]]: The show features an '''[[Up To Eleven|incredibly]]''' extreme example of this; Eustace is a [[Grumpy Old Man]], Muriel is a Scottish [[Kindhearted Simpleton]] that also becomes a [[Brave Scot]] in certain episodes, Le Quack is a [[French Jerk]], Di Lung is an [[Asian Rudeness|Asian]] [[Nouveau Riche]] [[Insufferable Genius]], Mad Dog is (debatably) a [[Scary Black Man]], Kitty (prior to her redemption at the end of "The Mask") is a [[Politically Incorrect Villain|Klan-robed]] [[Straw Feminist]], the Flan King is a [[Dashing Hispanic]] [[Fat Bastard]], Freaky Fred has [[British Teeth]], Rumpled Kilt Skin is a [[Violent Glaswegian]], Courage is a [[Southern-Fried Genius]], Katz and the Perfectionist are [[Evil Brit|Evil Brits]], Courage's Computer is [[British Stuffiness]] incarnate, Maria Ladrones is a female [[Bandito]], the General and the Lieutenant are [[Armed Farces]], Dr. Zalost is a [[Mad Scientist]] / [[Herr Doktor]], Dr. Vindaloo is a [[Bollywood Nerd]], Cajun Fox and Big Bayou are [[Ragin' Cajun|Ragin' Cajuns]]...honestly, it would be easier to list the characters that '''aren't''' blatant caricatures in this show.

* [[Exclusively Evil]]: Birds, it would seem.