Fat Dog Mendoza

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Fat Dog Mendoza is a children's animated series produced by Sunbow Entertainment, Sony Wonder Television and TMO-Loonland loosely based on a Dark Horse one-off comic book of the same name.^[5] It is the first Cartoon Network Europe co-production and originally premiered on Cartoon Network UK on February 28, 2000.

Premise[]

The show centers a smart-mouthed dog who is incredibly obese, so much to the point that he is ball-shaped with small, stubby legs. Other characters include Little Costumed Buddy, Piranha Mae, and Onion Boy. The group try to fight crime in the fictional neighbourhood "Neighbourhood X" and they try to find for justice but often fail humorously.

Main characters[]

• Fat Dog Samiye Semra Salman
• Little Costumed Buddy/Danny (He is once referred to by this name by Fat Dog as a mistake while teaching him bowling)
• Piranha Mae (Buddy's best friend)
• Onion Boy
• Texas Harry
• Doctor Rectangle
• Polly-Esther
• Cruddy McFearson

Voice cast[]

• Mark Acheson as Fat Dog Mendoza
• Kathleen Barr as Little Costumed Buddy
• Erin Fitzgerald as Piranha Mae
• Brian Drummond as Cruddy McFearson
• Norma MacMillan as Mrs. Rectangle
• Peter Kelamis as Doctor Rectangle/Jimmy
• Ian James Corlett as Onion Boy
• Pauline Newstone as Esther
• Teryl Rothery as Polly

Additional voice cast[]

Development[]

Development for the series began in March 1994, when Sunbow explored producing a show based on the one-shot comic. For many years, it remained on Sunbow’s development slate as the studio classified it as a "Raw" property due to it only existing as a one-shot comic.

In December 1997, production for the series started with the completion of the preliminary bible for the series to convert the adult nature of the comic into a kids property, and to retain the qualities of the characters. Sunbow began to ship the show off to other companies as a co-production deal, who were mainly impressed with the Little Costume Buddy character.

In March 1998, Sunbow began to find a European partner for the series, which they found Cartoon Network Europe as broadcaster and TMO-Loonland as co-producer. The former noticing the show could appeal to the European audience, and the latter being that their unique animation style would work for a series like Fat Dog Mendoza. By September, both companies signed on September 1998, with TMO-Loonland's signing allowing the series to fulfill European content requirements. The funding for the series was split for 50% by Sunbow, 35% by TMO-Loonland, and 10%-15% by Cartoon Network Europe. It also allowed Cartoon Network Europe to fulfill their two-production deal with Sunbow, with fellow show The Cramp Twins filling the other half.

By 1999, the production was confirmed for an Early-2000 delivery from Cartoon Network Europe, who would hold first-run rights to the series.^[6]

List of episodes[]

Season 1[]

Season 2[]

Television airing[]

The series originally premiered on Cartoon Network UK in February 2000, and remained on the channel until 2005 (mainly being repeated late-at-night). It also aired on Channel 5's Milkshake! block in 2001. ^[7] The show also aired on Cartoon Network Africa and . ^[8]

Over the next few years, the show was pre-sold by TV-Loonland to other broadcasters and companies, like Nox Music in Russia,^[9] Retelsat in Spain,^[10] and ZigZag in Poland.^[11]

The show also re-ran on KidsCo in a small number of countries.^[12]

The series never aired in the United States.

References[]

External links[]

• Fat Dog Mendoza at retrojunk.com
• Fat Dog Mendoza at IMDb