The first period of Cartoon Network saw many experimental shows that have established the vibrations of the channel, and these sensitivities continue to be felt in the modern exit on the wired network. Part of this experimentation consisted in obtaining strange shows in the rotation and not to worry about the attached names. It is not uncommon for famous actors to play a role in animation now, but sometimes these delicious voices can occur before the big break that defines the rest of their careers. Brad Garrett is loved by an audience who knew the apogee of “Everybody Loves Raymond”, but he also played a main role in a short -lived cartoon called “2 stupid dogs” in the early 90s. This absurd comedy also managed to hang certain guest appearances by Mark Hamill, because the veteran of “Star Wars” recording.
“2 Stupid Dogs” is an animated series that follows the misadventures of Little Dog and Big Dog, with Mark Schiff like the little puppy and the undoubted voice of Brad Garrett out of the dog plus shaggg. Hanna-Barbera’s cartoons were still preparing new projects in the early 1990s, before they were absorbed by the Warner Bros. animation infrastructure, and “2 stupid dogs” reflects the period of television animation. The creator of the Donovan Cook series was inspired by two wanders who have traveled his apartments complex at that time, and his land resounded with Hanna-Barbera Brass like Fred Seibert. It is silly, surprisingly abstract for a cartoon for children, and without a doubt shaped on something like the successful success of Viacom with “Ren & Stimpy”.
Schiff is overdroduced by the word Go on “2 stupid dogs” because his excitable character is still pursuing a bullet or gets caught in a certain diagram, but the real star is the impassive delivery of Garrett of almost all the lines. Big Dog does not speak much, which means that everything that the shaggy canine has to say very emphatic despite the tone of Garrett, it remains for the most part. As with most cartoons of the time, there is rude humor with regard to the eye, but Garrett stands out, shouting, gives some of the greatest laughter of the show.
Brad Garrett and Mark Hamill spent time with 2 stupid dogs in the early 1990s
Another factor that makes “2 stupid dogs” so interesting is the fact that the series has found a house on TBS. The Turner broadcasting system was much more a factor in the landscape of entertainment in the early 1990s, where an animation studio like Hanna-Barbera cartoons was always imagined as a basic brand for the multimedia conglomerate. Thus, with a network of cartoons that did not completely leave the stratosphere with Turner Mothership, TBS intervened as a natural house for a cartoon for children who had wild nuances that adult viewers could appreciate. As mentioned at the top, “Ren and Stimpy” feels like a logical ancient for something like “2 stupid dogs”, and TBS has a lot of meaning for a cartoon for “cusp” children like this show in 1993.
As Cartoon Network took over the show, the small cable channel already developed an identity centered on offbeat programs like “2 stupid dogs”. Things have been decidedly experimental with programs like this associated with “The Banana Splits” and “The Flontones” are rebroadcasting a mixture that makes a lot of sense now. These older programs had to work at different levels for viewers, young and old. Although the animation is not as “impressive” as the modern era, there was a lot of room for maneuver so that the creators write jokes that bypass the strength of the plausible denial. It is interesting to think about how this Hanna-Barbera style would continue to inform a lot of programs that people instantly associate with the cartoon network of years later.
Yes, “Swat Kats” and “The New Adventures of Captain Planet” left Hanna-Barbera during this emerging period, but the brand is more closely associated with the pillars of the cartoon network in the mid-90s for many millennium viewers. A few years after “2 stupid dogs”, we obtained “Dexter’s Laboratory” and “Johnny Bravo”, who are still used as standard carriers for the brand to date alongside “The PowerPuff Girls”.
2 stupid dogs do not have as much love as it deserves it
The nostalgia for the cartoon network continues in several forms on the internet, with “Toonami” always strong, and “past”, allowing a younger demographic window on what the network of cartoons looked like. These two programming blocks reuse older animations that worked on the network for a variable audience now, and it is a role that “2 stupid dogs” fulfilled in 1993. TBS had animation blocks, of course, but they were not the only place to take these programs, because Cartoon Network would come. During the first years of extended wired networks, leaders were repugnant to spend money on original programming for a channel that may not be there for a long time.
The reuse of existing media libraries has become crucial for all kinds of ramification networks. Take MTV Hits by playing clips on a loop with advertisements, AMC using old video libraries to create a new generation of movie lovers, and of course, a network of cartoons exploiting the Hanna-Barbera catalog newly acquired for everything under the sun! Without this push to throw as much as possible on the channel, there is a scenario where Cartoon Network does not pass over the five years in the air. Now, programs like “2 Stupid Dogs” are a reminder of this time on television and what it seems that we have lost as a collective vision audience, because a small wacky program like this is probably not done now. It is better to live in a world where Garrett can play a shaggy dog for a few years than that where it does not happen at all.
