• Air date: 12 Nov '99 26 episodes
      Courage the Cowardly Dog is an American comedy horror animated television series created by John R. Dilworth for Cartoon Network. Its central plot revolves around a somewhat anthropomorphic pink/purple dog named Courage who lives with his owners, Muriel and Eustace Bagge, an elderly, married farming couple in the "Middle of Nowhere". Courage and his owners are frequently thrown into bizarre misadventures, often involving the paranormal/supernatural and various villains. The show is known for its surreal, often disquieting humor and bizarre plot twists. The series combines elements of comedy horror, science fantasy, and drama. The program originated from a short on Cartoon Network's animation showcase series created by Hanna-Barbera president Fred Seibert, "What a Cartoon!" titled "The Chicken from Outer Space". The segment was nominated for an Academy Award in 1996, and Cartoon Network commissioned a series based on the short. The series, which premiered on November 12, 1999, ran for four...
  • List of Episodes (26)
    • 1. A Night at the Katz Motel

      12 Nov '99
      Courage, Muriel, and Eustace stay at a motel and get freaked out by spiders and a crazy cat called Katz, who hunts them down. Muriel comes to the rescue and saves Courage from Katz, then takes everyone home.
    • 2. Cajun Granny Stew

      12 Nov '99
      Muriel and Courage are feeding birds at the park. A cajun fox walks by and decides to capture Muriel, so he can make a cajun granny stew. Courage and the fox fight over her on land and on an airplane. Finally, Courage saves her at the last minute.
    • 3. The Shadow of Courage

      19 Nov '99
      A scientist dies and his shadow spooks the town of Nowhere and then the Bagge's house.
    • 4. Dr. Le Quack, Amnesia Specialist

      19 Nov '99
      Muriel and Courage are feeding birds at the park. A cajun fox walks by and decides to capture Muriel, so he can make a cajun granny stew. Courage and the fox fight over her on land and on an airplane. Finally, Courage saves her at the last minute.
    • 5. Courage Meets Bigfoot

      26 Nov '99
      Bigfoot comes to the Bagge house. Courage and Bigfoot have a food fight, dance in Carmen Miranda outfits and have a good time. All the fun comes to an abrupt stop as soon as a mob of people arrive to get a reward for Bigfoot. Bigfoot's dad shows up and takes him home, without anyone getting hurt.
    • 6. Hothead

      26 Nov '99
      A scientist dies and his shadow spooks the town of Nowhere and then the Bagge's house. The shadow then admits he is tired of scaring people and decides to become a star in the sky, literally!
    • 7. The Demon in the Mattress

      03 Dec '99
      Muriel is hit on the head by a fly-away piece of the roof and develops amnesia. Eustace takes full advantage of this and turns his wife into a "slave woman." Courage goes on the internet to find an amnesia specialist, but is answered by Le Quack, a thief who poses as a doctor! Courage tries to get help, while Le Quack tortures Muriel for information on where her valuables are.
    • 8. Freaky Fred

      03 Dec '99
      Muriel invites her deranged relative, Fred, to their home. He has a problem, though. He can't stop giving haircuts. He shaves all of Courage's hair off, and he gets caught by the police, who send him back to an insane asylum.
    • 9. Night of the Weremole

      17 Dec '99
      Bigfoot comes to the Bagge house. Courage and Bigfoot have a food fight, dance in Carmen Miranda outfits and have a good time. All the fun comes to an abrupt stop as soon as a mob of people arrive to get a reward for Bigfoot. Bigfoot's dad shows up and takes him home, without anyone getting hurt.
    • 10. Mother's Day

      17 Dec '99
      Eustace & Courage visit Ma (Eustace's Mother). Muriel refuses to see her. When they arive at her trailer, she welcomes Courage instead of Eustace because he is just a ""stupid boy."" When they eat lunch, Courage gets a lot of dogfood and Eustace barely gets any bacon. Eustace gives Ma some gifts, but rejects them all except one, a mirror. Ma then gives Courage a teddy bear. She doesn't have a gift for Eustace. Ma then tells Eustace ahow he always was a scared child. Eustace then proves his manho
    • 11. The Duck Brothers

      14 Jan '00
      Eustace wants more hair on his head and buys this new tonic. Little does he know that when he gets mad, the effect of the tonic makes him dangerously angry!
    • 12. Shirley the Medium

      14 Jan '00
      Eustace hires Shirley the medium to settle differences between Eustace and his dead brother, Horace. Some creepy stuff happens and Eustace gets his brother's box, but not in a good way.
    • 13. King Ramses' Curse

      21 Jan '00
      Courage finds a slab that belonged to a dead guy named King Ramses. A guy named Professor Flith comes and says the slab belongs in the museum. However, Eustace (knowing it's worth a lot) won't give it to him. So, the ghost of King Ramses comes and causes plagues to happen that won't stop until Eustace returns the slab to the museum. The first is a flood, the second is loud music, and the third is locusts. The slab is finally returned, but Eustace is now possessed by King Ramses, as punishment fo
    • 14. The Clutching Foot

      21 Jan '00
      Muriel orders a new mattress and when she lays on it, a demon inside the mattress enters her body and takes over. Courage gets rid of the demon by finding a chant on The Computer. It exits Muriel's body and the mattress is sent back.
    • 15. The Hunchback of Nowhere

      28 Jan '00
      A hunchback who is rejected by everyone wants to find a house to sleep in. He goes to the Bagge house, but Eustace rejects him. It's raining and Courage gets Eustace's raincoat and finds the hunchback in the barn. He is very friendly and together have fun doing shadow puppets, acrobatic stunts and bell ringing. Muriel is happy to have the hunchback stay with them, but Eustace wants him to go.
    • 16. The Gods Must Be Goosey

      28 Jan '00
      A Goose God wants to marry Muriel. He flirts with her, but Courage is angry because he thinks the Goose God will take Muriel away forever. He tries to act as though Eustace is being nice to Muriel. Muriel says she can't marry the goose god because she's "already spoken for". The Goose God tries to kidnap her, but when Courage makes Eustace's truck honk, the Goose God loves it and leaves Muriel. He ends up marrying Eustace's truck!
    • 17. Queen of the Black Puddle

      02 Mar '00
      A Queen who lives in a puddle in the yard of the farm rises up out of the puddle. Eustace sees this Queen and decides to follow the hot chick. Little does he know that she is bad and plans to eat him. She drags him into the puddle, and Courage follows to save Eustace. She lives in a castle, which is where she plans to eat him. Courage saves him and gets out of the puddle as they just miss being captured.
    • 18. Everyone Wants to Direct

      02 Mar '00
      Muriel is picking carrots out of the garden and feeds a rabbit one. She gets bit and only thinks it was a rabbit. They go to Dr. Vindaloo to find the cure. He just says to keep soaking it. She turns into a weremole, an animal who has a taste for biting people and rabbits. Once your bitten by one, you become one yourself. Courage must dress up as a rabbit, to get his attention, then pull a hair from the original weremole that bit her and feed it to Weremole-Muriel to turn her back to normal.
    • 19. The Snowman Cometh

      09 Mar '00
      Eustace & Courage visit Ma (Eustace's Mother). Muriel refuses to see her. When they arive at her trailer, she welcomes Courage instead of Eustace because he is just a ""stupid boy."" When they eat lunch, Courage gets a lot of dogfood and Eustace barely gets any bacon. Eustace gives Ma some gifts, but rejects them all except one, a mirror. Ma then gives Courage a teddy bear. She doesn't have a gift for Eustace. Ma then tells Eustace ahow he always was a scared child. Eustace then proves his manho
    • 20. The Precious, Wonderful, Adorable, Loveable Duckling

      09 Mar '00
      Courage finds a duck egg, brings it inside, and gives it to Eustace. Eustace thinks he is going to eat it for breakfast, but finds out its still alive. It hatches and thinks Eustace is his mom. The duck becomes ""Eustace's slave"" and it is jealous of Muriel and Courage, which makes it do nasty tricks on both. Courage eventually puts a stop to this, in which...
    • 21. Heads of Beef

      16 Mar '00
      Muriel is sick, so she sends Courage and Eustace to go to the bakery for her. Eustace gets in his truck and decides to go to eat first. He goes to a place called ""Burgers: Really Cheap!"". The owner is a pig named Jonn Bonne. He gives Eustace and Courage burgers. When Courage sees a guy come into a room and not come back, he thinks he was made into a burger because the burger looks just like him. He goes down and sees Jonn Bonne and his wife talking over a silhoutte of a person's head on a tabl
    • 22. Klub Katz

      16 Mar '00
      Two ducks put an electric device on Muriel's head and she becomes under their control by a remote. The ducks do this so they can save there third brother, who is trapped in a kitchen and ready to be eaten by humans. Eventually, the same is done with Eustace. Courage talks to the Ducks and works out a plan to save their brother. Courage, Eustace, and Muriel settle peace with the duck brothers. The ducks go back home into space.
    • 23. Revenge of the Chicken from Outer Space

      23 Mar '00
      Courage notices a familar UFO come toward the Bagge's House. He sees a chicken (the same chicken from the pilot episode. Courage shot the chicken with a raygun and blew up the chicken's head) The chicken wantsa revenge, so he captures Muriel. Courage saves her before any harm is done. He captures Eustace and pulls off his head with a plunger! The chicken (with Eustace's head) chases Muriel and Courage, but later everything turns out OK with the exception of Eustace's missing head.
    • 24. Journey to the Centre of Nowhere

      23 Mar '00
      Eustace hires Shirley the medium to settle differences between Eustace and his dead brother, Horace. Some creepy stuff happens and Eustace gets his brother's box, but not in a good way.
    • 25. Little Muriel

      30 Mar '00
      Courage finds a slab that belonged to a dead guy named King Ramses. A guy named Professor Flith comes and says the slab belongs in the museum. However, Eustace (knowing it's worth a lot) won't give it to him. So, the ghost of King Ramses comes and causes plagues to happen that won't stop until Eustace returns the slab to the museum. The first is a flood, the second is loud music, and the third is locusts. The slab is finally returned, but Eustace is now possessed by King Ramses, as punishment fo