• Air date: 31 Oct '00 25 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 (25)
    • 1. The Magic Tree of Nowhere

      31 Oct '00
      Eustace grows a magical tree that can grant him whatever he wants. When it gets more attention than Eustace, he decides to cut it down. Courage protects it, but eventually it's cut down. However, the tree has enough power to give Courage the cure to Muriel's new bloated head sickness.
    • 2. Robot Randy

      31 Oct '00
      On a distant planet, there was a race of robots who lived to kill stuff. One non-bloodthirsty robot named Randy was banished from his planet. To show he's worth it, he goes to Earth and enslaves Muriel, Eustace, and Courage. Later, Courage finds Randy alone talking to himself on how he doesn't want to destroy, and he really likes carving wood. Later, when the three fail to follow Randy's orders, Randy is about to crush Eustace and Muriel. Courage challenges Randy to a break dancing competition t
    • 3. Curse of Shirley

      07 Nov '00
      On a distant planet, there was a race of robots who lived to kill stuff. One non-bloodthirsty robot named Randy was banished from his planet. To show he's worth it, he goes to Earth and enslaves Muriel, Eustace, and Courage. Later, Courage finds Randy alone talking to himself on how he doesn't want to destroy, and he really likes carving wood. Later, when the three fail to follow Randy's orders, Randy is about to crush Eustace and Muriel. Courage challenges Randy to a break dancing competition t
    • 4. Courage in the Big Stinkin' City

      07 Nov '00
      Muriel is slated to perform at New York City. A shady bug named Shwick claims to work for the show and brings them to a room below the stage. The bug sends Courage to pick up a package and if he doesn't, he'd kill Muriel. Courage brings it back, but it's broken. Courage grabs Muriel and runs toward the stage to preform. Swhwick chases them onto the stage, where the police spot and arrest him.
    • 5. Family Business

      14 Nov '00
      Basil, a confused burgular, comes to the Bagge house. At one minute he tries to take them hostage, the next minute he invites himself to a dinner with Eustace, Muriel, and Courage. He renames all of them, he thinks they are his family. He calls Courage ""Nigel"", Muriel is ""Mama Mash Potatos"" and Eustace is ""Uncle Twinkle Toes"". After the strange supper, the burgular takes all three of them to Mount Rushmore. He wants to remove all of the heads off it! The police struggle to get the burgular
    • 6. 1000 Years of Courage

      14 Nov '00
      Shirley, the medium, places a curse on Eustace. The curse is that a raincloud floats over Eustace's head. The more heartless he is, the more extreme the storm gets. The only way to break the curse is for Eustace to show kindness. Courage has to hold a mirror up to Eustace's face, which causes Eustace to have a flashback and sees himself as a little boy in the mirror. He shows kindness by giving the little boy his hat because he is cold. He actually puts it on Courage's head thinking that he is t
    • 7. Courage Meets the Mummy

      19 Jan '01
      A baker back in eygptian times was killed by the queen because she thinks he stole the cookies he baked for her and sold them.He was mummified. One day the mummy awakes and sets out to find the queen, he comes to Muriel's house and thinks Muriel is the queen (she looks very much like her) and Courage hypnotises Muriel into being a queen and Eustace into the royal pumba. Actually the royal pumba back in ancient times was the real criminal not the baker.Eustace is to be mummified (not really, just
    • 8. Invisible Muriel

      19 Jan '01
      Muriel is slated to perform at New York City. A shady bug named Shwick claims to work for the show and brings them to a room below the stage. The bug sends Courage to pick up a package and if he doesn't, he'd kill Muriel. Courage brings it back, but it's broken. Courage grabs Muriel and runs toward the stage to preform. Swhwick chases them onto the stage, where the police spot and arrest him.
    • 9. Human Habitrail

      22 Feb '01
      Basil, a confused burgular, comes to the Bagge house. At one minute he tries to take them hostage, the next minute he invites himself to a dinner with Eustace, Muriel, and Courage. He renames all of them, he thinks they are his family. He calls Courage ""Nigel"", Muriel is ""Mama Mash Potatos"" and Eustace is ""Uncle Twinkle Toes"". After the strange supper, the burgular takes all three of them to Mount Rushmore. He wants to remove all of the heads off it! The police struggle to get the burgular
    • 10. Mission To The Sun

      22 Feb '01
      Courage is ordered to go to the sun and fix the lightbulb on it. Everything is ok until Muriel's brain gets taken over by an alien! It makes Muriel mean and trys to throw Courage out of the spaceship. Meanwhile Eustace's hat gets stuck in the toliet and gets pumped out into space! Eustace chases after it. Muriel then destroys wires in the spaceship and the ship goes out of control and dives into the sun! Luckily there ok. Courage fixes the lightbulb and Muriel's alien leaves. To get back home, t
    • 11. Courage the Fly

      16 Mar '01
      During Bingo, Muriel, Eustace, and Courage are sent 1000 years into the future, to a world where bananas are the inhabidants of the Earth. Courage and the bananas find out the mayor of the bananas is a monkey. Courage and the bananas then overthrow the king monkey and put him on display on a stage and make him preform. The Bagge's get sent...
    • 12. Katz Candy

      16 Mar '01
      Katz wants one of Muriel's recipes and wants to know the secret ingredient so he can win an annual contest that Muriel always wins.He sends out a jelly monster (made out of real jelly) to capture Muriel & Courage follows to save Muriel. Katz holds Muriel captive in his cand
    • 13. Nowhere TV

      03 Apr '01
      Eustace and Muriel's tv breaks and they call Le Quak to fix it,but Le Quack does something to the Tv to make it hypnotize people.He makes them go steal money and eventually Courage fights Le Quack in a 3D Television Battle and the police come and capture Le Quack, Muriel, & Eustace become their normal selves again.
    • 14. Mega Muriel the Magnificent

      03 Apr '01
      Courage's Computer,who is sick and tired of answering Courage's questions about shadows,monsters,etc. and thinks there not scary so he does something evil ... he uploads his memory into Muriel's body and control's it. He does stunts to make Courage have to rescue the Computer (which is in Muriel's body) Eventually he gets stuck and Courage has to save him from a machine. Even the Nowhere News was there to telecast these stunts of Muriel or (the Computer). Eventually the computer apologizes and g
    • 15. Bad Hair Day

      10 Apr '01
      We find out that Muriel has a rare blood type of ABXYZ. People from Growth Industries take her away where her hair is experimented on. The whole scheme is backed up by Ma.Courage saves Muriel.
    • 16. The Forbidden Hat of Gold

      10 Apr '01
      Courage digs up a strange neon glowing rock. He gives it to Muriel as a gift. It turns out that that's an invisibilty stone and Muriel starts to disappear. The authorities capture Muriel and Courage m...
    • 17. Serpent of the Evil River

      17 Apr '01
      Doc Gerbil, a fake vacuum cleaner seller,comes to Courage,Eustace, and Muriel's House and takes out a vacuum cleaner and sucks up Muriel and Eustace into it. He takes them to his labratory and puts them in a human habitrail. He peforms experiments on them. Courage manages to get them back.
    • 18. The Transplant

      17 Apr '01
      Courage finds a bone in the backyard, which turns out to be the bone of the extinct kangaroo monster as Courage's compter says.(Apparently the scientists weren't very creative in the name). A whole skeleton is found and Eustace sells bones to scientists. When Courage comes Eustace accidently falls off the roof, and their doctor says a bone transplant is needed. Courage decides to use the kangaroo monster bone to transplant into
    • 19. Car Broke, Phone Yes

      26 Oct '01
      A strange person comes to the house. Muriel shows good hospitality toward it and the creature turns out to be an alien in disguise. The alien steals Muriel's kindness and Muriel becomes just like Eustace. Courage goes after the alien and eventually, gets Muriel's kindness back.
    • 20. Cowboy Courage

      26 Oct '01
      Courage is ordered to go to the sun and fix the lightbulb on it. Everything is ok until Muriel's brain gets taken over by an alien! It makes Muriel mean and trys to throw Courage out of the spaceship. Meanwhile Eustace's hat gets stuck in the toliet and gets pumped out into space! Eustace chases after it. Muriel then destroys wires in the spaceship and the ship goes out of control and dives into the sun! Luckily there ok. Courage fixes the lightbulb and Muriel's alien leaves. To get back home, t
    • 21. Evil Weevil

      02 Nov '01
      Courage gets turned into a fly by Di Lung outside his house .Eustace trys to smack him, because he hates flys. He trys three times to get the fly but keeps hiting Muriel instead.Courage then must stop a salalite from hitting the house. It crashes in there yard.Muriel and Eustace then find out Courage turned into a fly. Eustace walks into the house and wants to get rid of the dog-fly.Muriel says how can you think of getting Courage at a time like this, the satalite almost hit the house. Eustace r
    • 22. McPhearson Phantom

      02 Nov '01
      Muriel gets blamed whenever she gives Eustace or helps Eustace because something weird happens after she does so. Courage can't figure out what it is. Eustace blames Muriel for trying to get rid of him. Muriel is innocent and is doing nothing. Eustace calls his mother to work out this problem, but she is actually part of this problem. While Courage trys to get Muriel and Eustace on friendly grounds, Eustace's mother bumps into a...
    • 23. The House of Discontent

      09 Nov '01
      Eustace's plants never grow right. The moon has gotten tired of watching Eustace fail to grow just 1 plant so he haunts the house by making objects like food,applainces,etc. come to life. He tells Muriel,Eustace, and Courage they must get out of the house if they don't grow 1 plant by midnight. At exactly 12:00 Courage takes some of Eustace's sweat ( he is sweating beacause of the moons torture which is making the house extremly hot for them so they'll move out of the house) and puts it on the p
    • 24. The Sand Whale Strikes

      09 Nov '01
      Katz wants one of Muriel's recipes and wants to know the secret ingredient so he can win an annual contest that Muriel always wins.He sends out a jelly monster (made out of real jelly) to capture Muriel & Courage follows to save Muriel. Katz holds Muriel captive in his cand
    • 25. The Tower of Dr. Zalost

      16 Nov '01
      Eustace and Muriel's tv breaks and they call Le Quak to fix it,but Le Quack does something to the Tv to make it hypnotize people.He makes them go steal money and eventually Courage fights Le Quack in a 3D Television Battle and the police come and capture Le Quack, Muriel, & Eustace become their normal selves again.