Butch (animated character)

Butch (formerly known as Spike) is an animated cartoon character: an anthropomorphic Irish dog. Spike or Butch was a short-lived animation cartoon series featuring Butch Dog. The title character was also a recurring antagonist in the Droopy shorts. His name was changed to Butch to avoid confusion with Spike from the Tom and Jerry cartoons. All of the original 1940s and 1950s shorts were directed by Tex Avery and Michael Lah.[5] Like Barney Bear, Butch would not appear in new material again until Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring in 2002.

Butch
MGM Cartoons character
Butch in the cartoon Grin and Share It (1957)
First appearanceBad Luck Blackie (early version)
January 22, 1949
Wags to Riches (official version)
August 13, 1949
Created byTex Avery
Designed byLouie Schmitt
Voiced byTex Avery (1949–1952, 1956–1957)[1][2][3]
William Hanna (1949–1950, 1952, 1955–1956)[2]
Sara Berner (1949–1950, 1952, 1956)[2]
Daws Butler (1950–1951, 1957)[2]
Bill Thompson (1949, 1951–1958)
Carlos Julio Ramírez (1952)[3]
Frank Ross (1952)[3]
Mary Kaye (1952)[3]
Paul Frees (1952, 1955)[3]
Danny Webb (1952)[3]
Norman Kaye (1952)[3]
Jim Cummings (2002)
Scott Innes (2004)[4]
Jeff Bergman (2010)
Joe Alaskey (2011–2016)
Bill Farmer (2019–present)
In-universe information
AliasSpike
Poochini
SpeciesCanine
GenderMale

He was created in 1949 by Tex Avery for theatrical cartoon shorts produced by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio.

Butch solo cartoons
#TitleRelease DateNotes
1Bad Luck BlackieJanuary 22, 1949Butch's debut.
2The Counterfeit CatDecember 24, 1949
3Ventriloquist CatMay 27, 1950
4Garden GopherSeptember 30, 1950
5Cock-a-Doodle DogFebruary 10, 1951
6Magical MaestroFebruary 9, 1952Named as Poochini.
7Rock-a-Bye BearJuly 12, 1952
8CellboundNovember 25, 1955
9Cat's MeowJanuary 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.[5]

Appearances in Droopy cartoons
  • Wags to Riches (1949) – Academy Award shortlist; first time Spike appears as Droopy's rival.
  • The Chump Champ (1950)
  • Daredevil Droopy (1951)
  • Droopy's Good Deed (1951)
  • Droopy's Double Trouble (1951)
  • Deputy Droopy (1955)
  • Millionaire Droopy (1956) – a CinemaScope remake of Wags to Riches directed by Tex Avery.
  • Grin and Share It (1957)
  • Blackboard Jumble (1957)
  • One Droopy Knight (1957) – a remake of Señor Droopy, Academy Award nominee.
  • Mutts About Racing (1958)
  • Droopy Leprechaun (1958)

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

References
  1. "News From ME - Mark Evanier's blog". www.newsfromme.com. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
  2. ""Hello All You Happy Tax Payers": Tex Avery's Voice Stock Company". cartoonresearch.com. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  3. "AVERY…. Vol. 2??? WELL, IMAGINE THAT!". cartoonresearch.com. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  4. "Boomerang EMEA Line Rebrand". YouTube. Retrieved September 29, 2020.
  5. Adamson, Joe, Tex Avery: King of Cartoons, 1975, De Capo Press
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