Courage the Cowardly Dog

Courage the Cowardly Dog

1999
Courage the Cowardly Dog
Courage the Cowardly Dog

Courage the Cowardly Dog

8.3 | TV-Y7 | en | Animation

The bizarre misadventures of a cowardly dog named Courage and his elderly owners in a farmhouse in Nowhere, Kansas.

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EP25  Perfect
Nov. 22,2002
Perfect

The Farmer gets fed up with Courage's incompetence, and begins looking for a professional to make Courage better. The Perfectionist appears, an old Victorian schoolteacher who carries a large wooden ruler and speaks in a commanding tone. The Perfectionist begins showing Courage how to be perfect, but he fails at all the assignments. Courage must find a way to be "perfect" or get rid of The Perfectionist.

EP24  Remembrance of Courage Past
Nov. 22,2002
Remembrance of Courage Past

After Courage sees a list of missing dogs, a flashback appears showing how Courage's parents got sent into outer space by an evil veterinarian. Muriel and Eustace take Courage to the same veterinarian to get him checked out. But the veterinarian plans to send Muriel and Eustace to outer space. Determined not to lose his owners like his parents, he must rescue them before they too suffer the same fate.

EP23  Wrath of the Librarian
Nov. 15,2002
Wrath of the Librarian

Eustace and Muriel never returned a book named "The Pixie and the Prickle Pirate," so they become characters in the book until Courage pays the fine. So Courage tries to find ways of gaining money, even making a performance of Eustace and Muriel as characters

EP22  Cabaret Courage
Nov. 15,2002
Cabaret Courage

Courage finds a two year overdue book. When he decides to return it, he does not have enough money for the $10,000 fee, so the librarian casts a spell on Muriel and Eustace, turning them into the characters from the book until Courage finds enough money to pay the fee for the book.

EP21  Ball of Revenge
Nov. 08,2002
Ball of Revenge

The Farmer is in an exceptionally bitter mood, taking note of all the attention Muriel gives to Courage. The last straw breaks when Muriel gives Courage a colorful new blanket that The Farmer assumed she was knitting for him. He decides to get rid of Courage once and for all. He gathers many of Courage's former "enemies" and they create a plan of attack. In order to lure Courage into the plot, The Farmer has Muriel kidnapped. Courage must find a way to save Muriel and himself.

EP20  Courageous Cure
Nov. 08,2002
Courageous Cure

Two multi-armed aliens come to Earth to find an antidote for a disease that makes everyone on their planet beat each other up with their arms. They expriment on Eustace and Muriel, only to find they don't have the antibodies to get the cure. Courage had the cure in him the whole time, and the aliens get it.

EP19  Son of the Chicken from Outer Space
Nov. 01,2002
Son of the Chicken from Outer Space

Ashamed at what happened to her husband, the wife of the Chicken from Outer Space sends their three-headed son to destroy Courage. When they land, they try to just zap him, but they hit Eustace instead. Then they tried a bomb disguised as an egg, but Courage puts it in the toilet, and blows up Eustace. And they finally try tieing Courage up and running over him with a train. The three-headed chicken fails and starts getting in a fight with itself. They start crying because it's mother said that if they don't kill Courage, they can't come home. The middle head always carries a camera, so Courage has them take pictures of Courage being tortured. With that, the chicken bades farewell, but Eustace, Muriel, and Courage end up looking like a three-headed chicken.

EP18  The Last of the Starmakers
Nov. 01,2002
The Last of the Starmakers

A pregnant space-faring squid who creates stars lands on the farm. Eustace plans to sell her eggs to the military for research. Courage has to save the eggs and the mother squid to keep the heavens twinkling.

EP17  Food of the Dragon
Oct. 25,2002
Food of the Dragon

Muriel and Courage make the house look like a pirate theme, Eustace isn't too thrilled about it. Muriel and Courage are dressed up in pirate clothes. The three of them eat seafood, then all of the sudden comes a dragon. He eats Eustace, and chases after Muriel and Courage. The dragon tells them he wishes he could fly, and if Courage could teach him how to fly, he would not eat them. Courage, after many attempts, tries to make him fly, but fails. The dragon doesn't want to eat them, but has no choice, so he continues to chase them through the town of Nowhere, and into the jungle. Once Courage and Muriel get to a body of water in the jungle, another dragon appears, who is friendly because he is a water dragon who just eats seafood. The other dragon finds out this water dragon is his long lost brother, and he wasn't meant to fly since he is also a water dragon. Courage, Muriel, and the two water dragons eat some seafood together. The one dragon spits out Eustace, but a bad flying dragon flies overhead and eats him again.

EP16  Aqua-Farmer
Oct. 25,2002
Aqua-Farmer

Unimpressed by Jojo the Dolphin's performance at a local aquarium, Eustace challenges the sea mammal to a race, losing pathetically. He demands a rematch, staking his wife as the prize of the race.

EP15  Muted Muriel
Oct. 25,2002
Muted Muriel

Muriel refuses to talk after Eustace keeps ignoring her, so Shirley makes a giant starfish attack and it can only be stopped at the sound of Muriel's voice.

EP14  Squatting Tiger, Hidden Dog
Oct. 25,2002
Squatting Tiger, Hidden Dog

The family is taking a tour of the Great Wall of China, led by their tour guide, Di Lung. Muriel is suddenly abducted, orchestrated by Di Lung in the service of his godmother: the Empress Dowager of China. The Empress has kept the people of China in her thrall, but now the secret source of her power -- the magic silkworm -- has transcended to another world. The only way the Empress can contact the silkworm is through the bones of a genuine soul... and Muriel, innocent source of tranquility, is that soul. Courage must find a way to rescue Muriel before her bones are extracted.

EP13  The Mask
Oct. 18,2002
The Mask

A strange, dog-hating woman named Kitty, wearing a mask, appears at the Bagges' house. She recklessly starts beating Courage and she tells the Bagges that her best friend Bunny fell in love with a gangster named Mad Dog, who treats Bunny as a slave, and when she tried to flee with Bunny, she was threatened. Courage then tries to free Bunny.

EP12  Profiles in Courage
Oct. 11,2002
Profiles in Courage

At a county fair, a mysterious paper-cutter offers to make full-size cameo silhouettes of Muriel and the Farmer. Back at the Farmhouse, Muriel mounts the cameos on the wall and heads upstairs to bed. Courage sees the silhouettes moving in their picture-frames, and screams as the cameos pull themselves free and head upstairs. The sinister silhouettes drape themselves over the sleeping Farmer and Muriel and steal their souls, pulling the life force out of them both and leaving only their inanimate bodies behind. The silhouettes "fill out" into three dimensions, still made of paper but shaped like real people now. Courage must find a way to get the silhouettes to leave so that Muriel and the Farmer can return.

EP11  Muriel Blows Up
Oct. 11,2002
Muriel Blows Up

After a missile explodes over the farmhouse, Muriel finds a giant carrot growing in her garden. After eating it, Muriel begins to expand. On TV, the General warns Nowhere about the missile and says only he can disarm it. Using a computer camera, Courage sees a carrot robot. Courage goes in and eats it, then gets burped out. As courage begins to expand, he goes to General, who goes inside Courage and disarms the carrot. Courage burps them up, only to have Eustace eat it. Because the carrot was not properly disabled, Eustace explodes.

EP10  Goat Pain
Oct. 04,2002
Goat Pain

Muriel's back starts to hurt, so Eustace takes her to Dr. Vindaloo because she can't make him any food in that condition. He tells them they must go to a top of Mount Nowhere, where a hot spring is located in order to heal her. Courage, Muriel, and Eustace head up toward the mountain. On top lives a goat, who has been neglected by humans, trashing his habitat, and draining up the spring. Eventually, he was the only one left, and now, he chases people off the island by hitting them with his horns. After the goat tells his story, he makes Muriel and Courage hold up gigantic rocks for torture. Courage then accidentally re-opens the hot spring and he cleans up the garbage. The goat and Muriel return to normal health by relaxing in the spring.

EP9  Bride of the Swamp Monster
Oct. 04,2002
Bride of the Swamp Monster

The truck crashes into a swamp one night and Muriel loses her new locket, which holds a picture of her inside it. The locket descends into the murky swamp and is found by the Swamp Monster, who sees Muriel's picture and believes she is his long-lost love. He vows to find her and bring her home. Swamp Monster tracks Muriel down and takes her to the swamp to be his bride. Courage must locate his REAL long-lost love and save Muriel.

EP8  Farmer-Hunter, Farmer-Hunted
Sep. 27,2002
Farmer-Hunter, Farmer-Hunted

It's the first day of hunting season, and Eustace goes hunting to prove he's better then his dead brother, Horace. He uses Horace's old gun, a laser gun! Courage goes with him to makes sure he's safe. Eustace spots a bunch of deer and fails to shoot them. The father deer then gets his own laser gun and goes after Eustace! Courage says he can settle this by having a game show with the deer and Eustace called, "Hunt For Knowledge." The deer wins. Eustace tries to shoot him, but instead he hits a bear's lollipop. When he asks who shot it, Eustace takes the deer's antlers and says he's a deer. But then hunters come by and think he's a deer and shoot him. His head gets mounted on a car.

EP7  The Uncommon Cold
Sep. 27,2002
The Uncommon Cold

Muriel gets a terrible cold, and after a while, she sees a talking slug that wants help. Following directions, Courage and Muriel go to a swamp where there are slugs that are ruled by a snake named Big Bayou. He sheds his skin and makes the slugs make statues out of them. They say Bayou has a magic book that will free them and cure Muriel. Courage gets the book and cures Muriel. Bayou then comes after him, and he bites the book, and his venom magically makes the snake-skin statues attack him. Muriel uses her nail-file to free the slugs.

EP6  Windmill Vandals
Sep. 20,2002
Windmill Vandals

The windmill is broken. Courage finds that whenever the windmill stops... four armored skeletons on horseback come towards him! He finds signs on the windmill vanes and his computer says they are mystic signs made by the first owner of the farm house. Vandals who had a broken paddle wheel needed energy, so they tried to steal the windmill, but the owner put mystic signs on them to keep them away. Whenever, it stops, the ghosts of the vandals come back... and they want to cut everyone's head off! The windmill eventually gets fixed and the skeletons go away.

EP5  Le Quack Balloon
Sep. 20,2002
Le Quack Balloon

Le Quack returns with a new scheme: he replaces Muriel's cookie recipe with one that calls for "rare Swedish vinegar" - then arrives on the scene to take her to Sweden in a hot air balloon so she can get some. His plan is to use her to steal money from the Piggy Bank of Sweden, and Courage must find a way to save her.

EP4  House Calls
Sep. 13,2002
House Calls

Lonely Dr. Gerhart wants some neighbors, but his jealous old house fends them away. So he "brings" the Bagges' farm next to his house. But Gerhart's house intends on destroying the Bagges' home, and Courage has to find a way to make the house happy again.

EP3  Rumpledkiltskin
Sep. 13,2002
Rumpledkiltskin

Muriel's "Uncle Angus" invites her to Scotland, where he imprisons her and demands that she makes thousands of kilts. It's up to Courage to learn Uncle's real name and free Muriel.

EP2  The Nutcracker
Sep. 06,2002
The Nutcracker

The Bagges go to the junkyard to hunt for useful trash, and Courage finds a nutcracker. But two man-eating rats want to feast on Muriel and Eustace. After Eustace is captured, Courage must get Muriel away from the rats.

EP1  A Beaver's Tale
Sep. 06,2002
A Beaver's Tale

The Bagge's yard gets flouded, Eustace and Muriel go for a swim. Everything is alright until the water rises too high and enters their house. Courage paddles around in the water to the town of Nowhere and stops when he sees a beaver putting up a dam. Courage trys to ask him nicely to stop building it because it ruining there home, but the beaver just hits him with his tail. Courage then finds out the beaver's real love is for music and not construction. The beaver starts to hit his tail as a rythem on the dam.Courage picks the string on his yo-yo, like an instrument. The beaver's tale constatly hiting the dam eventually breaks it. Courage's house's water level drys up to nothing. Muriel and Eustace then attend a concert in a local karaoke-type place to watch Courage and the beaver play their instruments.

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8.3 | TV-Y7 | en | Animation , Comedy , Family | More Info
Released: 1999-11-12 | Released Producted By: Stretch Films , Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/tv_shows/courage/games/index.html
Synopsis

The bizarre misadventures of a cowardly dog named Courage and his elderly owners in a farmhouse in Nowhere, Kansas.

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Cast

Marty Grabstein , Thea White , Lionel G. Wilson

Director

Ray daSilva

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Reviews

Jesper Brun I think the first season was the best of this show. It starts of with the forceful "A Night at the Katz Motel" and later with masterful creepiness in "Heads of Beef", "The Demon in the Mattress" and "King Ramses' Curse. There are many other great episodes, but the ones listed above are the ones with the greatest impact on me. The disturbing aspect of the show is both the macabre plots and an interesting use of both slapstick animation and frequent use of contrasting CG animated objects/characters. The soundtrack by Andy Ezrin and Jody Gray provides another dimension to the individual episodes. The music is essential to the horror genre, and this time the duo hit bulls-eye with their score. I did not rate the show 10/10 only because it sort of wore off later on with less of the creepiness and disturbing elements that I loved. But it is still more than worth watching if you like TV-series with a generally weird nature and inventive villains.
Piccolo_King I look back on Courage the Cowardly Dog and it's hard to question its uniqueness and boldness. In terms of content and presentation some shows simply have no equal and "Courage" is one of them. Horror comedy per se is a slightly tricky genre; it can be trickier still when catered primarily to a juvenile audience. But all this didn't stifle its creators as they stealthily ventured into thematic territories few of their contemporaries would dare, intermixing horror with comedy, comedy with horror, and every once in a while producing something that's nerve-jangling horror by any standard.The opening intro sums up the premise quite well so I needn't go too much into the details. Courage is a timid, petrified canine who finds a home in the middle of Nowhere when he's adopted by Muriel to the dismay of her grouchy farmer-husband, Eustace. What follows is a chain of horrifying misadventures as Nowhere is anything but an ordinary town: it's a stygian barren land. Fortitude isn't the absence of fear but taking action despite its presence and Courage demonstrates that time and again in every episode by coming to the rescue of his new owners (even though Eustace abhors him).Eustace's bumbling personality does allow for moments of comic relief but be warned, this is still a dark, dark show. Infidelity, prostitution, exorcisms, satanic curses etc. hardly qualify as the kind of stuff you'd expect to notice in children's television programming but it's all there -- well disguised, covert, hidden behind opaque curtains but still there. The effective technique of integrating CGI with traditional animation adds considerably to the show's dreamlike, disorientating aura. You, the viewer, become one with CtCD's supernatural landscape which makes for an impossibly engaging viewing experience. The soundtrack does a wonderful job augmenting the tonal sensibility of the story, mirroring the characters' momentary thoughts, (panic, peace, disbelief, awe, horror) and transplanting energy to the ambient scenery. The soundtracks of the episodes "The Great Fusilli", "King Ramses' Curse", and "Windmill Vandals" sound like the sort of music devotees would play while performing macabre rituals before the devil himself. Perhaps the technical adroitness and the mature subtext are the reasons John Dilworth's magnum opus still lingers in my memory deep into adulthood when so many other cartoons have faded into oblivion or simply don't hold up.On a concluding note, I'd say Courage the Cowardly Dog is a timeless gem. Instructive but never overbearing; chilling but always heart-warming. :)
joe_henson3 Remember when cartoon network used to be all cartoons? Yeah, me too, and it was awesome. This show is one of the best cartoons ever made. The show was hilarious, well thought out, the jokes would make you burst out in laughter. The way courage described things in a charades-like manner was great. How courage had a minimal amount of dialogue made him a great character as well. Not to mention how he would pull off one the the funniest horror-ish screams, with the giant holes in his mouth, the overall increase in size of the mouth, and the noise as well. I'll admit, there were a few drab episodes but that is only a small percentage of the overall show. If anything, it is way, and I mean WAY better than the complete trash cartoon network has now.
jake-law123 Every episode of this show includes some of the most f****d up s**t i've ever seen in my life, but it still holds out as one of my favorite childhood shows of all time. No one freaks out and screams as much as Courage does. And every time I hear him scream, I feel, man, what now.Courage is a dog whose owners named Eustace and Muriel constantly get kidnapped, trapped, or held hostage by supernatural beings, from "weremoles', to zombies, ghosts, and the abominable snowman, in which he must rescue them. The villains get weirder and weirder in the show, as they start ranging from walking/talking bananas, to outer space chickens, to gigantic space robots, and talking mystical trees. Nothing competes with this show in terms of weirdness.Muriel, although dumb, is nice and never feels anything goes wrong, which makes it harder for Courage. Eustace, her wife, is grumpy, selfish, and bratty, and his main line in the whole show is "stupid dog".Although quite weird, it makes the show all the more enjoyable to watch. Its just entertaining to see how much more weird things can get in each episode, and you will be left in so much shock to the weirdness of it all the way through.In conclusion, one of the best shows ever, not to mention one of the weirdest. If you haven't checked it out yet, its definitely worth it.