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"Courage the Cowardly Dog" (1999) More at IMDbPro »

• Due to illness Lionel G. Wilson as the Farmer quit and was replaced by Arthur Anderson halfway through the series.
  
  
• Episode "Courage On The Fly" establishes that Nowhere is in the middle of Kansas.
  
  
• "Floating head" and "Talking tree" were video taped live with Peter Fernandez's face inserted into animation.
  
  
• The reason Courage stopped talking so much after season 1 is because the people at Cartoon Network thought Courage "talked too much" and wanted his dialogue cut short.
  
  
• John Dilworth finally agreed to do a Courage series, and Cartoon Network originally wanted him to produce it from their Hanna-Barbera studio in L.A.. But Dilworth didn't want to leave his company Stretch Films in New York, so CN agreed to let him do the series from Stretch Films.
  
  
• The original season 2 finale "The Tower of Dr. Zalost" didn't air until after the season 3 premiere "Muriel Meets her Match"/"Courage Vs. Mecha-Courage" aired.
  
  
• Courage lasted for only 4 seasons, 52 episodes, and 13 episodes per season. Season 1 aired November 12, 1999 and ended June 29, 2000. Season 2 aired October 31, 2000 (had a 3 month hiatus between episodes 22 and 23) and ended January 11, 2002. Season 3 aired November 16, 2001 and ended July 9, 2002. Season 4 aired September 7, 2002 and ended November 22, 2002.
  
  
• A number of characters (such as the Ship captain/Policeman) were reused. Often the only change was different hair color.
  
  
• In the episode "Revenge of the Chicken from Outer Space", the word "DIL" was named after the director John Dilworth and it appeared twice. First is the graffiti in New York City and the other is the plug of the flying saucer.
  
  
• The names Muriel and Eustace are taken from the middle names of Chandler Bing and Ros Geller of Friends.
  
  
• Throughout the series, the word DIL is somewhere in the background, after the creator John R. Dilworth.
  
  

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