Butch (animated character)

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Butch
MGM Cartoons character
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Butch in the cartoon Grin and Share It (1957)
First appearance Bad Luck Blackie (early version)
January 22, 1949
Wags to Riches (official version)
August 13, 1949
Created by Tex Avery
Designed byLouie Schmitt
Voiced byTex Avery (1949–1952, 1956–1957) [1]
William Hanna (1949–1950, 1952, 1955–1956) [1]
Sara Berner (1949–1950, 1952, 1956) [1]
Daws Butler (1950–1951, 1957) [1]
Bill Thompson (1951, 1957–1958) [1]
Carlos Julio Ramírez (1952) [1]
Frank Ross (1952) [1]
Mary Kaye (1952) [1]
Paul Frees (1952, 1955) [1]
Norman Kaye (1952) [1]
Jeff Bergman (2000, 2010) [2] [3]
Jim Cummings (2002) [3]
Joe Alaskey (2011–2016) [3]
Bill Farmer (2019–present)
In-universe information
AliasSpike
Poochini
Species Dog (Bulldog)
Gender Male

Butch (formerly known as Spike) is an animated cartoon character created by Tex Avery. Portrayed as an anthropomorphic Irish bulldog, the character was a recurring antagonist in the Droopy shorts, and appeared in his own series of solo shorts as well. His name was changed to Butch in 1955's Deputy Droopy to avoid confusion with Spike from the Tom and Jerry cartoons. All of the original 1940s and 1950s shorts were directed by Avery and Michael Lah at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio. [4] Butch would not appear in new material again until Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring in 2002.

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Butch solo cartoons

TitleRelease DateNotes
Bad Luck Blackie January 22, 1949Butch's debut.
The Counterfeit Cat December 24, 1949
Ventriloquist Cat May 27, 1950
Garden GopherSeptember 30, 1950
Cock-a-Doodle DogFebruary 10, 1951
Magical Maestro February 9, 1952Named as Poochini.
Rock-a-Bye BearJuly 12, 1952
Cellbound November 25, 1955
Cat's Meow January 25, 1957The 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. [4]

Appearances in Droopy cartoons

Later appearances

Butch reappeared in direct-to-DVD films such as Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring and Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes , alongside Droopy.

His latest appearance was in 2014's The Tom and Jerry Show . He appeared in the episode "Double Dog Trouble", where Spike and Butch are two separate characters who are twins, in order to poke at the character's retitling, while detectives Tom and Jerry mistake each one for the other after Spike buys a room at the town's motel.

Voice actors

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