Hong Kong Phooey (character)


 * This article is about the main title character. For the TV series, see Hong Kong Phooey (TV series). For other uses, see Hong Kong Phooey.

Hong Kong Phooey, also known as Penry Pooch, is a masked anthropomorphic superhero dog and the main title character of the Hong Kong Phooey animated TV series. His voice was originated by Scatman Crothers.

Often referred to as the "number one super hero guy", Penry uses his Hong Kong ego in stopping criminals with his martial arts skills, though he seems to be a clownish amateur in that. Hong Kong is assisted by his pet cat, Spot, who usually brings up one helping to another in his cases. When not in his superhero persona, he works as a janitor in a police station headed by Sergeant Flint and Rosemary.

Character description
Penry disguises himself as Hong Kong Phooey by jumping into a filing cabinet. In doing so he always gets stuck, but is thankfully freed by Spot. Once disguised, Hong Kong gets equipped with the shapeshifting Phooeymobile, which transforms itself into a boat, a plane or a telephone booth, depending on the circumstances.

When fighting crime, he relies on his copy of The Hong Kong Book of Kung Fu, an instruction handbook on various martial arts moves. In spite of this and Hong Kong's "impressive" displays of kung fu, it is Spot who always did most of the work for him.

TV series

 * Hong Kong Phooey
 * Laff-A-Lympics
 * Super Secret Secret Squirrel
 * 1.8 "Agent Penny" (no lines)
 * Wacky Races
 * 1.39 "Hong Kong Screwy"

Movies

 * Hong Kong Phooey
 * Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon (poster)
 * Top Cat Begins (picture and graffiti)
 * Scoob!

Specials

 * The 1st 13th Annual Fancy Anvil Awards Show Program Special: Live in Stereo (no lines)

Shorts

 * Web Premiere Toons
 * "Hong Kong Phooey"
 * "Everyone" (no lines)

Comics

 * Hong Kong Phooey
 * Cartoon Network Presents
 * #8B "War is Huck"
 * #20C "A Wok On the Wild Side"
 * Scooby-Doo! Team-Up
 * #26 "Enter the Dragon, Exit Scooby-Doo!"
 * Black Lightning/Hong Kong Phooey Special
 * #1A "Reveng of the God Fist"

Video games

 * Hanna-Barbera's Turbo Toons

Hong Kong Gets the CGI (Test) Treatment
In it, Hong Kong delivers three crooks outside the Metro City police station, with a message that reads, "Kompliments of Hong Kong Phooey." He is proud of the good deed as he is everyone's "Number one super guy." But Spot, who Kong Kong refers to as "Cat," isn't so sure. He tries to impress Spot with some karate moves and using nunchucks, although he only hurts himself instead. He then celebrates by going drinking from a toilet in a public restroom because he thinks it's a "automatic refilling bowl." Spot tells him the truth, but he only goes to a urinal to wash it out before eating a "mint" he finds at the bottom.

Hong Kong Sells Out
In the "Super Secret Secret Squirrel" episode "Agent Penny," Hong Kong can be seen at the bar that Secret goes to.

In popular culture

 * In the Family Guy episode "I Never Met the Dead Man," Peter can't resist the urge to jump into a children's ball pit at Cheesie Charlie's, shouting out "Hong Kong Phooey!" as he does.
 * In The Cleveland Show episode "Wheel! Of! Family!," Robert and Dee Dee christen their newly adopted Chinese son, changing his name from Quang Quang to Hong Kong Phooey. Robert asks Cleveland if he remembers him, but Cleveland responds back with "Was that the Pinker Panther?"
 * In The Goldbergs episode "Kara-te," Murray called Barry's karate performance for the talent show a "Hong Kong Phooey act."

Comic Book Men

 * "To the Bat Cave:" Walt says his favorite talking dog is Hong Kong Phooey.
 * "Dukes of Jersey:" Kevin Smith used Hong Kong Phooey as an example of being a fan of something, but wouldn't be so drastic as to get a tattoo of a show he may later have no interest in.
 * "KITT and Caboodle:" Walt mentions how Hong Kong Phooey was created during the kung fu craze of the 1970s.

Robot Chicken

 * "S&M Present:" To avenge the deaths of his bandmates in NSNYC at the hands of the Yakuza, Joey "The Fat One" Fatone enters a Yakuza tournament, with his first challenger being Hong Kong, voiced by Seth Green. Hong Kong is an exceptional fighter, but is killed after Joey distracts Hong Kong with a ball.
 * "Ban on the Fun:" During the Laff-A-Munich sketch. Hong Kong Phooey helps out the Scooby Doobies in killing the Really Rottens after the murders of the Yogi Yahooeys. After seeing Dread Baron and Mumbly blown up by Captain Caveman, he dies; presumably he killed himself.