Saturday, October 12, 2024

FOOFUR (1986 - 1988)

 




















Created by: Phil Mendez
Starring: (voices) Frank WelkerChristina LangeDick GautierSusan TolskyPat CarrollJonathan SchmockEugene WilliamsSusan SiloDon MessickChick VenneraPeter CullenAllan MelvinDavid DoyleMichael BellWilliam CallawaySusan BluDavid AckroydJered BarclayRoscoe Lee BrowneArthur BurghardtHamilton CampVictoria CarrollCheryl ChaseDanny CookseyJim CummingsLinda DangcilJennifer DarlingLeo DeLyonWalker EdmistonCasey EllisonJohn ErwinMiriam FlynnJune ForayGeorge FurthMelanie GaffinHenry GibsonScott GrimesEdan GrossJonathan HarrisPhil HartmanJerry HouserVincent HowardArte JohnsonAron KincaidKeland LoveAllan LurieJim MacGeorgeRobert MandanKenneth MarsTerrence McGovernBrian Stokes MitchellPedro MonteroLynne MoodyPat MusickFrank NelsonLouis NyeNicholas OmanaRob PaulsenJosh RodinePercy RodriguesKath SoucieAlexandra StoddartLarry StorchMark L. TaylorSal ViscusoB.J. WardLennie Weinrib

26 episodes
(TV-G - suitable for all ages)

PLOT:
In the town of Willowby, a tall skinny blue bloodhound named Foofur has taken refuge in a mansion, in 32 Maple Street, which is also his birthplace. In Foofur's group is his niece Rocki, Fencer the Cat, a bulldog named Louis with his girlfriend, an Old English Sheepdog named Annabell, and a cocker spaniel named Hazel with her husband, a miniature schnauzer named Fritz-Carlos. Foofur and his friends, however, have an enemy in a woman named Mrs. Amelia Escrow and her pet Chihuahua named Pepe 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 who tend to mess with Fencer, 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 and Harvey. In addition, an Afghan Hound named Burt also antagonizes Foofur and competes with him to win the affection of a basset hound named Dolly.

season 1 -
The gang try to help Fritz get over losing his hair, but the situation gets worse when part of his mustache is accidentally shaved off. Hazel forces the gang to clean the house, but then the dogcatchers come to clean the mansion for Mrs. Escrow. Foofur and the others try to help a dog named Irma who is about to give birth to puppies. When Mrs. Escrow rests in the gang's house while her house's paint dries, the gang comes to a fancy mansion as a burglary is about to take place. Foofur goes head over heels for a girl dog named Dolly. Rocki becomes friends with a pup who ran away from an obedience school. Chaos ensues when Foofur tries to give a gold collar to Dolly and at the same time, try to help Fencer by donating blood. Foofur uses a hatband as a makeshift collar for Rocki, and she comes to a dog show, not knowing it's a trap set by Mel and Harvey. Pepe has the gang work odd jobs to raise $100 to pay Mrs. Escrow's house tax or the gang will be out on the streets. Fencer helps a group of cats after the owner's sister evicts them from the house. Fencer gets a cold after Foofur and the others bathe him. Foofur, Rocki, Fencer, and Dolly try to save a fox cub's life from a group of fox hunters at a country club. After accidentally putting Rocki in danger, the Rat Brothers are thrown out of the house by Foofur and they turn to a shipyard rat named Boombah for help. The gang try to help a pig reunite with his girlfriend, who broke into show business. It's Friday the 13th, Fencer is treated like bad luck and a pair of superstitious twins are in search of a treasure. Foofur's house is under threat when a con artist's dog fakes an injury, and the con artist sues Mrs. Escrow. Just as Rocki is visited by her father Tugboat just before her birthday, she is faced by a bully, and she has to choose between staying with her uncle Foofur or go with her father to sea. On a visit to New York City, Lewis and the others guide a Russian dog named Vladimir around the town but have to save him from two thieves who steal dogs from Diplomats. Fritz becomes jealous when Hazel's old boyfriend comes for a visit. Rocki hopes to become a performer after coming to the circus. Lewis tries to save Annabelle from some counterfeiters in London.

season 2 -
Pepe turns to Foofur for help to remove a dog named Killer from Mrs. Escrow's house. What Pepe doesn't know is that Killer is not dangerous as he expects. Pepe hopes to win the heart of a poodle at a dog show. Fritz enrolls to a boot camp, when he thought he's re-enrolling to be in the Foreign Legion, and Foofur and Louis are involved. Fencer tries to win the heart of an archeologist's cat. The rats infest Hazel with circus fleas. Annabelle befriends a chick, which matures into a chicken. Louis is hypnotized by a TV hypnotist into thinking he's a cat. At the same time, Louis is to fight Muggsy, who insulted Annabell. Foofur switches places with an old friend at the Happy Glen Country Club. Fritz-Carlos is fed up with his friends cutting into his alone time with Hazel, so Foofur sneaks the both of them into a cruise ship, but things go awry. Foofur gets a toothache, just as he and his pals face against Burt's friends, called the Swells in a game of tug of war. After he is tricked by Louis and Fritz-Carlos into a swimming pool, Fencer leaves to join the Cat Pack, but he doesn't know they are going to use him to commit crimes. After Rocki returns home late because she was lost, Foofur brings her to the wilderness to teach her how to track while avoiding a hunter's dog with an incredible sense of smell. After Foofur grounds Rocki for running the risk of being spotted and not ruining the neighbor's flower bed, she and Irma's two pups run away. Annabell gets a makeover from a punk stylist and meets other punk dogs in a club called the Lavender Loft. The Rat Brothers scare Fencer into thinking he's got one life left, while the gang thinks about using a magician's box to safeguard him from danger. Rocki falls in love with a dog food star, but Foofur doesn't approve since two look-a-likes (One is rude, and the other is a jokester) made a horrible impression. Foofur and the gang deal with Crooks while being in Burt's master's condo. The Rat Brothers scare Mrs. Escrow's canary causing Foofur and the canines to accuse Fencer of swallowing the bird and throwing him out. Fencer turns to Pepe to retrieve the bird. Fencer goes to New Orleans for a chance to be the newest member of a soul-singing cat group. Foofur comes along, but the Cat faces competition with a mouse with a golden voice. Rocki aids a white alligator but is captured by Big Boombah and his gang of shipyard rats when the Rat Brothers fail to pay back a cheese tax. In Las Vegas, with Lorenzo, Hazel is cheated by a couple of crooked dogs in games of rat race. Louis meets a childhood friend who is a seeing eye dog but has to save him from Mel and Harvey while getting a blind boy to reunite him with his dog. After Mrs. Escrow's glasses fall on Annabell's eyes, she and her friends get her a pair of glasses, but Annabell's relationship with Louis begins to falter when Louis feels threatened. While trying to join a club, Rocki encounters an easily scared green dog named Harry in an abandoned dog pound. Foofur tells Rocki a story of how he first met his friends while searching the town for the house that his brother, sister, and owners live.

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