History WesternAnimation / TwoStupidDogs

* ThreeShorts: Every episode consisted of two ''2 Stupid Dogs'' shorts and one ''Super Secret Secret Squirrel'' segment.

* BigNo: The episode "Door Jam" ends with Little Dog repeatedly screaming "No" when he and Big Dog are trapped inside the Y-Mart while the can they spent the episode trying to get by entering the Y-Mart is on the other side of the door.

* TheDitz: Both of them, though the big dog can be smart when he needs to.
* DogsAreDumb: The two titular protagonists are both dogs and morons.

* NoNameGiven: The eponymous dogs. They are called [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Big Dog and Little Dog.]] Though in "Cartoon Canines", they are called Loafy and Hammy, respectively. But in "Love", a female hamster calls Big Dog Jonathan. In "At the Post Office", in order to play it safe (he didn't know his own age), Little Dog decided to fill a draft form and didn't know his own name. Based on Big Dog's last answer to the question about his name, Little Dog registered his name as [[PunnyName Ida Know]].
** In addition to "Love," in "Spit Soup," both Little Dog and a dentist refer to Big Dog as, "Johnny."

* BigEater: Big Dog has an enormous appetite and always thinks about food.

** Big Dog frequently mentions that he needs to find a hydrant in "Seeing Eye Dogs". At the end of the episode, he gets to relieve himself offscreen.

--> "Ha! Thought I was going to say it was wrong, didn't ya?!"

--> "Ha! Bet you thought I was going to say it was wrong!"

* GenreSavvy: Even stupid dogs can have a bout of Genre Savviness. The third time they meet Red the little dog tries to get away from her calling her an "evil little girl" after the last two times they met ended badly for them. Of course they are once again tempted to follow Red by the dog food she is carrying.
** Incidentally, this was also the episode that actually ends well and they all lived happily ever after.

Compare and contrast ''WesternAnimation/SWATKats'', which ran alongside the series on TBS and most local stations, but was pretty much different in every way (like being action-adventure instead of comedy); ultimately they were both ended to focus on the ''What-A-Cartoon!'' project (though for a while, ''SWAT Kats'' fans believed Ted Turner was the cause, thanks to a misquoted interview). Also notable, was that Creator/CraigMcCracken and Creator/GenndyTartakovsky started their careers working on this series before given the chance to make their own shows, ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' and ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory''.

** Every time Big Dog scares a cat, it freezes and lets out a high-pitched scream.

* VoicesAreMental: Averted in "Far-Out Friday". While Big Dog and Little Dog switch minds, they still speak in their regular voices.

->"Well, isn't that cute. '''But it's ''WRONG!'''''"

Compare and contrast ''WesternAnimation/SwatKats'', which ran alongside the series on TBS, but was pretty much different in every way (like being action-adventure instead of comedy); ultimately they were both ended to focus on the ''What-A-Cartoon!'' project (though for a while, ''SWAT Kats'' fans believed Ted Turner was the cause, thanks to a misquoted interview). Also notable, was that Creator/CraigMcCracken and Creator/GenndyTartakovsky started their careers working on this series before given the chance to make their own shows, ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' and ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory''.

* DownerEnding: The first two Red shorts end badly for the dogs. Though thanks to a little NegetiveContinuity, they're alright by next episode.

--->'''Drill Sergeant:''' No [[Disney/TheLittleMermaid cutesy]] in my corps, only classic funny cartoons. You know, lots of butt jokes! Too [[BeanyAndCecil Beanie!]] Too out there! Too [[FantasticVoyagePlot in there]]! Too [[WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow diseased]]!

* ContinuityNod: In spite of the series' episodic nature, this is done in the last two of the three episodes featuring Red. "Red Strikes Back" has Little Dog mention that he, Big Dog, and Red were beaten up by bears the last time they met, while "Return of Red" has Little Dog and Big Dog reluctant to join Red on her journey to Granny's house because of how their previous encounters turned out, with Little Dog even referring to Red as an "evil little girl".

* BellyDancer:

!!''2 Stupid Dogs'' provides examples of:

* HollywoodChameleon: One of the villains in ''Super Secret Secret Squirrel'', a GentlemanThief who steals priceless paintings so he can blend into them. Secret traps him in a room full of modern art, which he abhors.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: ''Super Secret Secret Squirrel'' named almost all its episodes after that week's villain (e.g. "Queen Bea," "Greg," "Doctor O").

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The game show in "Let's Make a Right Price" is Bill Beaker, an obvious stand-in for [[Series/ThePriceIsRight Bob Barker]].

* PuffOfLogic: Secret defeats a living quark by showing him via a dictionary that he is ''purely a hypothetical particle and thus doesn't exist.''