Charlie Dog

Charlie Dog is a character from the Looney Tunes franchise who made his debut on Little Orphan Airedale in 1947 which also starred Porky Pig, he is voiced by Mel Blanc.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) His goal is to manipulate people (particularly Porky) into adopting him since he thinks that everyone should have a dog, even if they don’t want a dog.
 * 2) *Consequently, this results to Porky being treated as a huge Butt-Monkey who constantly gets tortured for no reason thanks to him.
 * 3) He is way too talkative, much to the point that you just want him to shut up.
 * 4) He tries way too hard to act cute and adorable just so he can get adopted.
 * 5) He keeps driving Porky into insanity due to his obnoxious behavior and antics towards him, especially the ending of Awful Orphan.
 * 6) He dumps Porky in the middle of the desert which makes him lose his sanity, act like a dog, and get sent to the pound on Often an Orphan.
 * 7) He lies to those who don’t want him by acting dramatic just so he can earn sympathy.
 * 8) *Speaking of being dramatic, in one scene from Often an Orphan, he over-exaggerates on his bad experiences he had in the city which mostly involves falling towers. This joke from him notably hasn't aged well to some people following the September 11 attacks incident in 2001.
 * 9) *In Awful Orphan, he tried to commit suicide by attempting to jump off Porky's apartment window, hence guilt-tripping Porky in the process. But much to Porky's anger, it turned out that Charlie didn't die because he landed on a tower of mattresses he had placed outside that same window!
 * 10) *He even fake-cries in all three of his pairings with Porky just to get Porky to sympathize with him.
 * 11) He refuses to accept the fact that not everyone wants a dog.
 * 12) Along with Shep, he's one of the few dogs in the Looney Tunes franchise to be portrayed negatively.

Good Qualities

 * 1) He is one of the very first Looney Tunes characters created by Chuck Jones which were strictly intended to be funny rather than cute, alongside Henery Hawk, Hubie and Bertie and The Three Bears.
 * 2) Chuck Jones thankfully stopped having Porky pitted against him after Often an Orphan.
 * 3) * Speaking of which, he became much less dramatic and whiny in his final two cartoons compared to his first few pairings with Porky Pig.
 * 4) He can be hilarious at times.
 * 5) He does receive comeuppance on The Awful Orphan, Dog Gone South, and A Hound for Trouble.
 * 6) The sad eyes he makes are adorable.
 * 7) He isn't as bad as Shep and the dog from Chow Hound.
 * 8) To be fair, the reason why he acted this way in each of his appearances is mainly due to his tragic backstory as revealed in Often an Orphan, where he is revealed to have abandonment issues: At the start of this cartoon, he was abandoned in the middle of the desert by his previous owner who deceives him with a pet-master picnic and himn falling for the "C'mon, let's have a picnic" routine. But still this doesn't excuse his negative behavior though.
 * 9) He has redeemed himself in "Adopt Me!"

Trivia

 * Charlie Dog 's original creation by Chuck Jones is loosely based on the one-off dog character Rover from the black-and-white Porky Pig cartoon "Porky's Pooch" (1941) directed by Bob Clampett six years prior. In fact, Charlie's debut cartoon "Little Orphan Airedale" (1947) is a color remake of "Porky's Pooch" (1941), with Rover replaced by Charlie.
 * In three Chuck Jones cartoons in the early-1950s, there appears to be another character similar in appearance to Charlie Dog called Frisky Puppy, who is paired alongside Claude Cat in "Two's a Crowd" (1950), "Terrier Stricken" (1952), and "No Barking" (1954). Though Frisky Puppy looks a lot like Charlie Dog, they are not the same character and have drastically different personalities; unlike Charlie Dog, Frisky Puppy doesn't talk, and is often depicted as an playful, innocent puppy whose barking often unintentionally drives Claude Cat crazy.
 * After Chuck Jones retired the Charlie Dog character in 1951 after "A Hound for Trouble", a similar-looking dog character to Charlie would appear in the Bugs Bunny cartoon "Lumber-Jack Rabbit" (1953) (the only Looney Tunes cartoon in the "classic" era produced in 3-D) as Paul Bunyan's dog Smidgen. Five years later, Robert McKimson would use Charlie Dog one last time for a brief cameo in the Looney Tunes one-shot cartoon "Dog Tales" (1958), via reused animation from "Often an Orphan" (1949).