History WebAnimation / WeekendPussyHunt

* {{Troperiffic}}: The entire series has barely above 25 minutes worth of content (and possibly even less if you discount the interactive segments) and never even got finished, yet it is a surprisingly trope-rich cartoon, largely due to it's FilmNoir narrative.

* SeriousBusiness: Dirty Dog explains to his wife over the phone that he considers hunting down Cigarettes this, as it would be an insult to his and his families "honor" to do otherwise. When she tries to talk him out of it and get him to come home, he angrily refuses--and promptly calls his ''other'' wife, who gives him the A-OK.

* GrossOutShow: There are many vulgar gags, many of which make '''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow''' seem tame in contrast.

* HypocriticalHumor: Dirty chewing out his wife over the phone for wanting him to come home in the name of preserving his families "honor" by chasing down Cigarettes...and then hanging up and calling his ''other'' wife, getting her a-ok to go after Cigarettes.

* {{Expy}}: Dirty Dog has more than a few similarities to [[WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow another famous dog created by John K]], but this is probably a coincidence, as Dirty is heavily based on actor Robert Ryan, one of John K's favorite actors, rather than Kirk Douglas and Peter Lorre, who were Ren's template (Although during the below-mentioned MadnessMantra, Dirty Dog ''does'' sound vaguely like Ren during his psychotic screaming episodes, as John K. himself voiced both Ren and Dirty Dog). Bugs Pussy also has a design that vaguely calls to mind Stimpy, but he has a completely different personality and voice characterization.

The story is centered around the characters of [[ScrewySquirrel Cigarettes the Cat]] (voiced by Eddie Fitzgerald) and [[BigBad Dirty Dog]] (voiced by John Kricfalusi). After briefly hanging around with George Liquor and Jimmy the Idiot Boy, Dirty is harassed by Cigarettes and his irritating laughter, prompting his wrath and a chase soon after. Cigarettes hides out with his pal Bugs Pussy in a trash can, but quickly learns from him that the dog he was just screwing around with has a much darker side to him than he anticipated, and that him annoying Dirty will have long-term repercussions...

* ScrewySquirrel: Cigarettes is this early on, but his antics toward Dirty quickly come back to bite him ''hard''.

* {{Expy}}: Dirty Dog has more than a few similarities to [[WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow another famous dog created by John K]], but this is probably a coincidence, has Dirty is heavily based on actor Robert Ryan, one of John K's favorite actors, rather than Kirk Douglas and Peter Lorre, who were Ren's template. Bugs Pussy also has a design that vaguely calls to mind Stimpy, but he has a completely different personality and voice characterization.

* FunnyAnimal: Almost all of the characters (sans George Liquor, Jimmy and Cigarette's girlfriend) are depicted as this.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Subverted; Dirty Dog does have a wife and three kids, but after having a fierce argument with his wife about coming home, he hangs up the phone and reveals he has a ''second'' wife--and [[{{Hypocrite}} just after having a huge argument with his first wife about he and his family having "honor"!]]

!!Tropes: ([[YMMV/WeekendPussyHunt YMMV items can be found here]]):

* DescendedCreator: John K himself voices Dirty Dog.
* TheDeterminator: Bugs Pussy describes this as a trait of Dirty, and Dirty likewise intimidates Cig by telling him similar;

* FurryConfusion: Almost none of the animals are drawn human like at all (in spite of acting human), yet Cigarette's cat girlfriend [[PettingZooPeople a human-like figure]] and is strongly implied to be the owner of her house.

* KnightOfCerebus: If you can't already tell by the abundance of tropes specifically about him, Dirty Dog is arguably this for the entire Spumco-verse; he makes [[WesternAnimation/TheRen&StimpyShow Ren Hoek]] look like ''Jesus Christ'' in comparison!

* KnightOfCerebus: If you can't already tell by the abundance of tropes specifically about him, Dirty Dog is arguably this for the entire Spumco-verse; he makes [[WesternAnimation/Ren&StimpyAdultPartyCartoon APC Ren Hoek]] look like ''Jesus Christ'' in comparison!

* KnightOfCerebus: If you can't already tell by the abundance of tropes specifically about him, Dirty Dog is arguably this for the entire Spumco-verse; he makes [[WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow Ren Hoek]] seem ''composed'' in comparison!

* PunBasedTitle

* FakeOutOpening / MoodWhiplash: The first part of the cartoon starts off as a somewhat juvenile, humorous cat vs. dog cartoon, but shifts gears midway through to become a dark, melodramatic film noir tale.

* LeftHanging / NoEnding: The series was never finished, so it leaves the ending where Cigarettes runs off from his girlfriends house (with Dirty in pursuit) very open ended.

Cigarettes the Cat would later appear in the music video for Music/{{Weird Al|Yankovic}}'s song "Close but No Cigar".

''Weekend Pussy Hunt'' is an early web-only flash cartoon made during 1999 for Icebox.com ([[DevelopmentHell but was originally produced for MSN in 1997]]), created and directed by Creator/JohnKricfalusi. Unlike John's previous flash cartoon, ''The Goddamn George Liquor Program'', it has the distinction of being "the world's first interactive web-based cartoon".

* TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation

->''"Weekend Pussy Hunt was a FilmNoir cartoon. We serialized it so that every week there'd be a cliffhanger. Its style was a 1940s live-action film noir movie. and we based one of the characters, Dirty Dog, on one of my favorite movie actors, Robert Ryan. Weekend Pussy Hunt was basically a chase movie, a really dark hardboiled thriller. We started off [[FakeOutOpening fooling the audience.]] We wanted them to think it was like a [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1940s]] [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Warner Brothers]] chase cartoon between a dog and a cat, but as we moved on, they got uglier and uglier and uglier. You found out more about who this dog was; he was the king of the underworld animals in the neighborhood. So it becomes this ugly dark film noir kind of a movie."''

* DarkerAndEdgier: In contrast to John's other work at the time, ''Weekend Pussy Hunt'' is very dark and vulgar, and not remotely kid-friendly at all. By the end, It almost feels like a prototype for ''Ren And Stimpy: Adult Party Cartoon''.

->''"Weekend Pussy Hunt was a FilmNoir cartoon. We serialized it so that every week there'd be a cliffhanger. Its style was a 1940s live-action film noir movie. and we based one of the characters, Dirty Dog, on one of my favorite movie actors, Robert Ryan. Weekend Pussy Hunt was basically a chase movie, a really dark hardboiled thriller. We started off [[FakeOutOpening fooling the audience.]] We wanted them to think it was like a [[TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1940s]] [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Warner Brothers]] chase cartoon between a dog and a cat, but as we moved on, they got uglier and uglier and uglier. You found out more about who this dog was; he was the king of the underworld animals in the neighborhood. So it becomes this ugly dark film noir kind of a movie."''

* GrossOutShow: There are many vulgar gags, many of which make '''RenAndStimpy''' seem tame in contrast.

* SpinOff: Of "The Goddamn George Liquor Program" (which in turn was a SpinOff of RenAndStimpy). George Liquor and Jimmy The Idiot Boy even appear briefly in the first episode, [[TheCameo but otherwise have no role in the cartoon.]]

* DerangedAnimation: Not quite as over the top as RenAndStimpy was, but still full of bizarre, distorted drawings.

* {{Expy}}: Dirty Dog has more than a few similarities to [[TheRenAndStimpyShow another famous dog created by John K]], but this is probably a coincidence, has Dirty is heavily based on actor Robert Ryan, one of John K's favorite actors, rather than Kirk Douglas and Peter Lorre, who were Ren's template. Bugs Pussy also has a design that vaguely calls to mind Stimpy, but he has a completely different personality and voice characterization.

* KnightOfCerebus: If you can't already tell by the abundance of tropes specifically about him, Dirty Dog is arguably this for the entire Spumco-verse; he makes [[TheRenAndStimpyShow Ren Hoek]] seem ''composed'' in comparison!

->''"Weekend Pussy Hunt was a FilmNoir cartoon. We serialized it so that every week there'd be a cliffhanger. Its style was a 1940s live-action film noir movie. and we based one of the characters, Dirty Dog, on one of my favorite movie actors, Robert Ryan. Weekend Pussy Hunt was basically a chase movie, a really dark hardboiled thriller. We started off [[FakeOutOpening fooling the audience.]] We wanted them to think it was like a [[TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1940s]] [[LooneyTunes Warner Brothers]] chase cartoon between a dog and a cat, but as we moved on, they got uglier and uglier and uglier. You found out more about who this dog was; he was the king of the underworld animals in the neighborhood. So it becomes this ugly dark film noir kind of a movie."''

* ShoutOut: The name of Bugs Pussy is an obvious nod to WesternAnimation/BugsBunny. He even asks Cigarettes if he's "Still pullin' the old ''LooneyTunes'' crap, huh?"

* ShoutOut: The name of Bugs Pussy is an obvious nod to BugsBunny. He even asks Cigarettes if he's "Still pullin' the old ''LooneyTunes'' crap, huh?"

* LadyInRed: Cigarette's girlfriend.

* AlliterativeName: Dirty Dog.