Droopy, Master Detective

Droopy, Master Detective is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera in association with Turner Entertainment, and a spin-off of Tom & Jerry Kids Show. It debuted on FOX (Fox Kids) and ran for 13 episodes from September 11 to December 3, 1993, in 1994, it was dropped from FOX's Saturday morning schedule on January 1, and returned on weekday afternoons in August and September.

Premise

Droopy, Master Detective is a spoof of detective films and cop shows, featuring Droopy and his son, Dripple, as detectives on the mean streets of a big city. Newly made seven-minute episodes were mixed in with new seven-minute cartoons featuring the Tom and Jerry Kids characters. The rest of the half-hour program mostly was taken up by Screwball Squirrel, another Tex Avery creation from the 1940s.

In these new cartoons, Screwy made his home in a public park, making life miserable for hot-headed park attendant Dweeble and his dog Rumpley — both, rather typical Hanna-Barbera comedy foes rather than Tex Avery-inspired characters. It also included two more characters from the previous show: Wild Mouse and Lightning Bolt the Super Squirrel.

Cast

Principal Voices

• Charlie Adler - Dripple, Screwball Squirrel
• William Callaway - Rumpley
• Teresa Ganzel - Miss Vavoom
• Don Messick - Droopy
• Frank Welker - Slick McWolf, Dweeble, Dr. Vile, Grunch

Additional Voices

• Michael Bell - Roqueford Le Poulet
• Sheryl Bernstein - Miss Mysterious
• Susan Blu - Auntie Snoople
• Jim Cummings - The Blobfather, Babyman, Frankenator, Irwin the Horse, Pierre Le Poulet
• Jennifer Darling - Fifi
• Pat Fraley - The Yolker
• Charity James
• Nick Jameson
• Arte Johnson - Shadowman
• Nancy Linari - Zombina
• Tress MacNeille - Matoona
• Chuck McCann - King of the Sea, Babyman's Henchman
• Valery Pappas
• Rob Paulsen - Edna Evergreen, Crummy McMummy, Prime Minister Luck-Nuck, Oliver J. Toddball
• Roger Rose - Chauncey Megabucks
• Sarah Silverman - Melody WOOO-WOOO Stardust
• Michael Stanton
• B.J. Ward - The Mistress of Baskerville Manor
• Paul Winchell - Rumpley's Dad
• Kris Zimmerman
• Julie McWhirter (uncredited) - Tera Boom-Boom

Episodes

Droopy

• "Droopy's Deep Sea Mystery"
• "Droopy and the Case of the Missing Dragon"
• "The Babyman Bank Heists"
• "The Deep Space Chase"
• "Round 'Em Up Bub"
• "The Case of the Snooty Star"
• "The Monster Mob"
• "Sherlock Droopy"
• "Queen of the Mutant Weirdo Vampires"
• "Shadowman and the Blue Pigeon"
• "Dueling Detectives"
• "Sherlock Droopy Gets Hounded"
• "Droopy and the Cyberdolts"
• "Hey! Where's Arnold?"
• "Auntie Snoople"
• "Mushu McWolf"
• "Return of the Yolker"
• "Mighty McWolf"
• "Sheep Thrills"
• "The Maltese Fossil"
• "Deep Swamp Droopy"
• "The Case of Pierre Le Poulet"
• "Alligator Droopy"

Screwball Squirrel

• "How Can We Miss You If You Won't Go Away?"
• "Dweeble's Night Out"
• "A Screwball Romance"
• "Everybody Out"
• "Screwball Snowballs"
• "Squirrelicus Obnoxiousness"
• "Pickax Max"
• "Demolition Disorder"
• "A Chip Off the Old Blockhead"
• "Screwball Out West"
• "Dog Breath Dweeble"
• "Commotion on the Ocean"
• "Dweeble's Worst Nightmare"

Home video releases

The series had never released on any home video releases. However, it is available on iTunes and the Boomerang streaming service.

Trivia

• Episode 13 is the only episode not to feature the Droopy segment.
• Pat Ventura was going to develop a Screwball Squirrel show, featuring Screwy and Meathead in short cartoon adventures reminiscent of the Avery gag filled chase MGM cartoons, Joseph Barbera did not like this direction and wanted Screwy to be likable, and retooled it into the version featured on Droopy, Master Detective.