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Butch (animated character)

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Butch (animated character)
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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 (ironically the name Butch is also used in the Tom and Jerry Cartoons for the name of a rival alley cat). 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

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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)
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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.

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