Talk:Courage the Cowardly Dog
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[edit] The house
Is the opening shot of the farmhouse in some episodes based on a famous painting? There's this painting in my grandparents' house that looks almost exactly like that opening shot.
[edit] dilung
Does anyone know anything about the character "dilung"? I never saw him on the show and google doesn't have any results.
- I've never heard of him. Considering I've seen virtually every Courage episode, he can't be a very important character if I've never heard of him, and probably shouldn't have his own subsection. Although...if I could see some pics, I might remember him. ~ Oni Lukos ct 21:02, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
- I believe he's the oriental character in certain episodes, known for his catchphrase "Watch where you're going... ya foo!" I didn't realize he actually had a name... ChewyLSB 03:44, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
dilung has a stung souteast asian accent, has black hair, sunglasses, an genreally skinny features as well as rather large lips. although i had never seen him referrred to by the name dilung, i recognized the character by the signature line "watch where ya going ya foo".
"Tv.com" lists his name as "Di Lung", so I changed it.
[edit] Episodic villains
Recently, villians exclusively from the episode The Tower of Doctor Zalost have been added to this article. If we got into episodic villains, the article could become extremely large. Perhaps we should split it into an article "Episodic villians from Courage the Cowardly Dog"? Or perhaps "Episodic characters from Courage the Cowardly Dog" for episodic characters, regardless of whether or not they are villainous. ~ Oni Lukos ct 13:28, 20 May 2006 (UTC) 13:36, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Disorganization
It may be just me, but this article seems a little disorganized and confusing. For example, the "Production" section seems like a collection of trivia and fun facts (which are arranged confusingly and come back at each other). The section about Eustace wanders all over the place, going from talking about his personality to discussing the voice actors and then returning to his personality. Could someone please clean up the article a bit? ~FlareXyron 11:32 PM 7/8/06
[edit] Farm Dog
I have seen a series of paper back books called Courgious The Cowerdly Farm Dog or something similar. Both the book and this show have a similar premis, they both came out at I think the same time but I cant find anything saying if this show is based of the books or vice versa. --WisK 02:11, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Tenesse Williams reference
Quote from trivia section: "If something frustrates Eustace, he frequently leaves the house. Muriel catches him and asks where he is going. He responds,"I'm going to the picture show."". I believe (but am not sure) that this sentence is a reference from 'The Glass Menagerie' of Tenessee Williams. Can someone (dis)approve ? ARRG 01:31, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Courage and Flag semaphore
I seem to remember courage using flag semaphore quite a bit, the clearest memory is from that episode where there's a theif with split personality (looking back at the list of episodes, I think it's "Family Business"). Does he use it in enough episodes for the article (or the characters article) to say he uses semaphore often, several or many times? If so, it should also be added to the "references in fiction" subtitle of the Semaphore article. If not, is it just a one-off occurence that registered repeatedly in my memory because of reruns?200.44.7.123 03:55, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Not sure what to make of this strange paragraph
"A fifth season was considered on this show but was never made. Eustace Bagge is derived from Useless Bag (Indeed, his deceased brother Horace, during one of Eustace's flashbacks calls him "Useless") because he treats Muriel like a slave and only thinks of himself, in a similar manner to an abusive husband. Bad Hair Day (Season 2, Episode 8) is mainly a spoof of Michael Crichton's 1978 mystery film Coma. Many of the episodes have classical music playing in the background when certain situations occur. There is a song "Courage the Cowardly Dog" by They Might Be Giants. Notable people have guest-starred, such as Ringo Starr, Tim Curry, and Jim Cummings. In one of the older Cartoon Network Fridays, Muriel is shown hosting the Fridays. Muriel is the daughter of a pig-farmer (Craig Bartlett) and a poor old tailor who eats cows (Unseen Characters) In The Shadow of Courage, Courage takes the form of a burglar, trying to tell Eustace and Muriel that somebody is there, that same burglar was a character in Family Business, a second season episode. The beginning of The Magic Tree of Nowhere is a spoof on the fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk. The tree growing scene at the beginning is also a reference to the beanstalk growing scene in Mickey and the Beanstalk. At one point, there were plans to be a movie based upon the series when it ended, but the concept was eventually dropped. At one point, there was a music video featuring Courage on Cartoon Network that was sung by They Might Be Giants. In one episode featuring a zombie antagonist named Benton Tarantella, a reference is probably made to Mike Lazzo. Tarantella is said to be a criminal partnered with another zombie named Lazzo. In a plot to kill the Bagges, Tarantella pretends to be shooting a show about the lives of them, much like reality television. Near the end of the episode, Tarantella is saying to Lazzo on his cell phone, "It will be a huge hit, Lazzo!" In this same episode, in the end, you see the Courage and Muriel watching the movie they made (with the changes Courage made). You can see at the end of it, when you see Courage hitting the ground where he buried the zombies. If you look closely, you can see that that scene resembles another one in a later episode named "feast of the bullfrogs"."
As of right now, I've deleted it from the article, unless there's some reason for it to be there. For whatever reason, it was placed under "Production," which makes no sense to me. Frankly I think most of the paragraph should just be eliminated completely since it largely consists of random anecdotes from various episodes, although a few pieces of information could be salvaged and put in appropriate context as opposed to being mashed into this paragraph.--Foot Dragoon 23:53, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Reaccuring Gags
I cleaned up the section as well as possible and removed the tag. Seems okay right now, though I may be wrong. Anakalypsis 01:26, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
