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Butch Dog (Tex Avery)

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Created by
  
Tex Avery

Gender
  
Male

Species
  
Dog

Aliases
  
Spike

Creator
  
Tex Avery

First appearance
  
Bad Luck Blackie (early version) January 22, 1949 Wags to Riches (official version) August 13, 1949

Voiced by
  
Tex Avery (1949–1950) Billy Bletcher (1950) Bill Thompson (1951–1958) Carlos Julio Ramírez (1952) Jim Cummings (2002) Jeff Bergman (2010) Joe Alaskey (2011–2016)

Voices
  
Tex Avery (1949–1950), Billy Bletcher (1950)

Similar
  
Red, Screwy Squirrel, Flip the Frog, Butch Cat, Clyde Bunny

Butch Dog (originally known as Spike) is an animated cartoon character: an anthropomorphic Irish dog. He was created in 1949 by Tex Avery for theatrical cartoon shorts produced by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio.

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Butch solo cartoons

  • Bad Luck Blackie (1949) - Butch's debut.
  • The Counterfeit Cat (1949) - The first cartoon to have Scott Bradley's iconic Tex Avery theme music that would continue to be used in Tex Avery and Droopy cartoons throughout the 1950s.
  • Ventriloquist Cat (1950)
  • Garden Gopher (1950)
  • Cock-a-Doodle Dog (1951)
  • Magical Maestro (1952)
  • Rock-a-Bye Bear (1952)
  • Cellbound (1955)
  • Cat's Meow (1957) - The final Butch cartoon; a remake of Ventriloquist Cat directed by Tex Avery and produced by Hanna and Barbera with different coloring for the cat, the dog, and some of the scenery.

    • Appearances in Droopy cartoons

  • Wags to Riches (1949) - First time Spike appears as Droopy's rival.
  • The Chump Champ (1950)
  • Daredevil Droopy (1951)
  • Droopy's Good Deed (1951)
  • Droopy's "Double Trouble" (1951)
  • Deputy Droopy (1955)
  • Millionaire Droopy (1956) - a CinemaScope remake of Wags to Riches directed by Tex Avery
  • Grin and Share It (1957)
  • Blackboard Jumble (1957)
  • One Droopy Knight (1957) - a remake of Senor Droopy, Academy Award nominee
  • Mutts About Racing (1958)
  • Droopy Leprechaun (1958)

    • Voice actors

  • Tex Avery (1949–1950)
  • Billy Bletcher (1950)
  • Bill Thompson (1951–1958)
  • Carlos Julio Ramírez (1952)
  • Jim Cummings (2002)
  • Jeff Bergman (2010)
  • Joe Alaskey (2011–2016)

    • References

    Butch Dog (Tex Avery) Wikipedia
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