6.2 /10 1 Votes
6.2/10 TV Theme music composer Hoyt Curtin First episode date 13 September 1986 Number of seasons 2 Number of episodes 26 | 6.3/10 IMDb Created by Phil Mendez Opening theme "Foofur" Final episode date 18 February 1988 Network NBC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Genre Animation
Slice of life
Comedy Directed by Art Davis (Season 1)
Don Lusk (Season 1)
Carl Urbano (Season 1)
Rudy Zamora (Season 1)
Oscar Dufau (Season 2)
Bob Goe (Season 2)
John Kimball (Season 2)
Paul Sommer (Season 2)
Ray Patterson (supervising director) Ending theme "Foofur" (Instrumental) Cast Frank Welker, Don Messick, Michael Bell, Christina Lange, Dick Gautier Similar Dennis the Menace, The Wonderful Wizard of, Bouli, Parasol Henbē, Snorks | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Foofur is an American animated children's television series created by Phil Mendez, and was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions with SEPP International S.A.. Airing on NBC from 1986 to 1988, the show was about the everyday misadventures of the skinny blue protagonist dog. A comic book series, based on the cartoon, was produced by and released from Star Comics (an imprint of Marvel Comics).
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- Foofur themed song classic cartoon opening music for kids and children songs for kids free
- Plot
- International broadcast
- Legal activity
- Reception
- References
Plot
In the town of Willowby, a tall skinny blue dog named Foofur (voiced by Frank Welker) has taken refuge in a mansion, in 32 Maple Street, which is also his birthplace. In Foofur's group is his niece Rocki (voiced by Christina Lange), Fencer the Cat (voiced by Eugene Williams), Louis (voiced by Richard Gautier) with his girlfriend Annabell (voiced by Susan Tolsky), Dolly (voiced by Susan Blu), Hazel (voiced by Pat Carroll) with husband Fritz-Carlos (voiced by Jonathan Schmock), and Burt (voiced by William Callaway).
Foofur and his friends however, have an enemy in a woman named Mrs. Amelia Escrow (voiced by Susan Silo) and her pet Chihuahua named Pepe (voiced by Don Messick), as Pepe tries to expose Foofur's illegal roommates – but always to no avail. Mrs. Escrow has tried many times to sell the estate, but unknown to Her, Foofur and his friends keep the house from being bought, as they also protect their home from rodents like the Rat Brothers, other cats like Vinnie and His Cat Pack, and greedy humans. While trying to stop Mrs. Escrow, Foofur tries to evade having his friends captured by the Bowser Busters' dog catchers Mel (voiced by David Doyle) and Harvey (voiced by Michael Bell).
International broadcast
Legal activity
Foofur played a role in the case Nationwide Insurance v. Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, 116 F.3d 1154 (7th Cir., 1997). The case dealt with an insurer's duty to defend an insured party in light of the insured's intentional acts of property damage. The insured, a drunken college student, spelled out "FOO" – meaning "foo", a word derived from Foofur – on the artificial turf football field of Memorial Stadium with lighter fluid burning the letters into the turf. He caused $600,000 damage to the astroturf. The court held that such an act was not within the insurance policy's liability coverage.
Reception
One of very many children's animated series of the 1980s, Foofur didn't leave a lasting impression on many viewers. In 2014, listing it among twelve 1980s cartoons that did not deserve remembrance, io9 remarking that "It's a cartoon about dog eviction. And someone had the gall to claim this was 'cool.'"