Courage the Cowardly Dog
Series, 1999, Cartoon Cartoons, Set in Nowhere, Kansas
Courage the Cowardly Dog is #7 of 18 in release order and #7 of 18 in chronological order in the Cartoon Network Classics.
The story
The bizarre misadventures of a cowardly dog named Courage and his elderly owners in a farmhouse in Nowhere, Kansas.
Courage the Cowardly Dog recap
Courage is a small, pink, very frightened dog who lives with an elderly farm couple in the middle of Nowhere, Kansas. Muriel, a kind Scottish woman, found him abandoned as a puppy; her husband Eustace is a cranky farmer who mocks Courage and shouts "Stupid dog!" Every episode, something terrifying arrives at the farmhouse: ghosts, curses, aliens, mad scientists, monsters and strange visitors, and Courage, despite being scared of everything, is the one who saves Muriel, and usually Eustace too. He gets help from a sarcastic computer and runs into recurring villains such as Le Quack, a con artist duck, and Katz, a smooth cat who runs various businesses. The show mixes slapstick with real horror imagery and some sad, quiet episodes. It runs four seasons, from 1999 to 2002, after a 1996 short called "The Chicken from Outer Space".
Courage the Cowardly Dog ending explained
The last episode, "Perfect" (2002), has Courage confronted by a strict teacher figure who embodies his own doubts, and he learns from a fish in the bathtub that he is fine as he is. It is not a story finale, but it is the closing episode. Courage returns in a 2014 CGI short, The Fog of Courage, and in the 2021 film Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo! Meets Courage the Cowardly Dog.
Where to watch Courage the Cowardly Dog
Courage the Cowardly Dog is streaming on Tubi in the US. You can rent or buy it on Amazon, Apple TV, and Google Play.
Ratings
IMDb 8.3/10
Where it fits
- Release order: after Mike, Lu & Og, before Samurai Jack.
- Chronological order: after Mike, Lu & Og, before Samurai Jack.
Cast
- Marty Grabstein as Courage (voice)
- Thea White as Muriel Bagge (voice)
- Simon Prebble as The Computer (voice)
- Billie Lou Watt as Ma Bagge (voice)
- Paul Schoeffler as Katz (voice)
- Lionel G. Wilson as Eustace Bagge (voice)
- Arthur Anderson as Eustace Bagge (voice)
- Dennis Predovic as Jean Bon (voice)
- Kath Soucie
- Stephen Root
- Ian James Corlett
- Will Ryan as The Duck Brothers
Created by John R. Dilworth.