THE JETSON'S DOG ASTRO....

Astro is a canine character on the Hanna-Barbera cartoon, The Jetsons. He was designed by Iwao Takamoto, and originally voiced by Don Messick.

Astro, despite being clumsy and dim-witted, was very loyal (to a fault) to the Jetsons. He was more advanced than present-day dogs, in that he had a rudimentary grasp of the English language, albeit with r's in many places they shouldn't be, or replacing other letters.

For example, "I love you, George" would be "I ruv roo, Reorge". Astro was found by Elroy in the fourth Jetsons episode, "The Coming of Astro". When Jane, Judy, and Elroy proposed keeping him to George, he was against it claiming that an Apartment is no place for a dog.

However, when trying to escape, The Cat Burglar put the mask on George. Electronimo then proceeded to chase after George. It was Astro who was trying to run from The Cat Burglar that inevitably caught the criminal by accident by crashing into him. This prompted George to decide that Electronimo was not the way to go. They gave Electronimo to the police and kept Astro as part of their family.

In the fifteenth episode, "Millionaire Astro", Astro is discovered to be Tralfaz, the long lost dog of zillionaire J.P. Gottrockets and The Jetsons have to do the right thing and return Astro to his rightful owner. In the end Mr. Gottrockets realizes how unhappy Astro is and allows him to go back home with The Jetsons. Astro hated the name and always repeated it as "Tralfaz...Yuck," or in Astro-speak: "Ralfaz....Ruck!"

Astro also appeared as the main star in Astro and the Space Mutts, a segment of Space Stars.

Astro's signature expression was "Ruh-roh!" (or "Ruh-roh, Reorge!"), supposedly the canine variant of "Uh-oh!" (expression of dismay). Scooby Doo, who was also designed by Iwao Takamoto and voiced by Don Messick, had a similar signature expression: "Ruh-Roh, Raggy!" (Uh, Oh, Shaggy!)

A running joke (literally) at the end of each episode in the 1960s run shows George Jetson walking Astro on an automatic dogwalker outside his apartment. Astro chases a cat causing the dogwalker to go fast; George loses hold of the dog leash; Astro and the cat jump to one side and both watch George forced to run for his life on the out of control dogwalker screaming for Jane to "stop this CRAZY THING!".

George eventually falls and is carried by the treadmill's belt around its path, under the machine and back up again, while Astro and the cat look on in amusement.

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Top Cat holds a top spot in the hearts of a lot of us cartoon fans. The smooth-talking New York City cat, known as T.C. to his kitty cohorts Benny the Ball, Choo-Choo, Spook, The Brain, and Fancy-Fancy, is always on the make toward a big score or swindle.

Officer Dibble is relentlessly on his case (although always one step behind) throughout 30 fast, funny episodes. This deluxe 5-disc set offers terrifically top Bonus Extras as befit, so the swinging theme song immortalizes, “the chief. He’s the king, but above everything: he’s the most tiptop Top Cat!”

With a zany ensemble cast of princesses, fairy godmothers, evil queens, and trolls, Fractured Fairy Tales presented our favorite childhood stories with a silly modern twist. Stars: Edward Everett Horton, Daws Butler, June Foray.

Jay Ward's re-imagining of classic fairy tales is outrageous, ridiculous... and fractured! With Prince (Not-So) Charming turning Sleeping Beauty into a tourist attraction while the Seven Dwarves make their living as con artists, everything is 'Fair' game when it comes to these fairy tales.

The Ant Hill Mob is a group of 1920s gangsters who compete in Wacky Races. Their names are Clyde (leader, voiced by Paul Winchell), Ring-A-Ding (Don Messick), Danny, Rug Bug Benny, Mac, Kirby, and Willy.

It never is revealed whether they have escaped from jail or what. The gang drive car number 7, The Bulletproof Bomb (also known as The Roaring Plenty). They are pint-sized characters, a reference to the Seven Dwarfs. In the very first episode, "See-Saw to Arkansas", they even disguise themselves as the Seven Dwarfs to escape from a policeman.

Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks is a Hanna-Barbera cartoon that featured as a regular segment of the television series The Huckleberry Hound Show from 1958 to 1961.

It stars two cute and cuddly twin mice children, the bowtied Pixie (voiced by Don Messick) and the vested Dixie (voiced by Daws Butler with a Southern accent) and Mr. Jinks the Cat (voiced by Daws Butler impersonating Marlon Brando). Mr. Jinks is an orange tuxedo cat who is always outfoxed by the mice, causing him to utter his trademark line "I hates those meeces to pieces!"

The Jetsons is an American animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera. It originally aired in primetime from September 23, 1962, to March 17, 1963, then later in syndication.

The Jetsons live in a comical version of a century in the future, with elaborate robotic contraptions, aliens, holograms, and whimsical inventions.

The Beatles is an animated television series featuring representations of the popular English rock band of the same name. It was originally broadcast from 1965 to 1969 on ABC in the U.S.

Each episode has the name of a Beatles song, so the story is based on its lyrics and it is also played at some time in the episode. The original series was rebroadcast in syndication by MTV in 1986 and 1987 and on the Disney Channel