Fumbles
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Species | Dog |
Gender | Male |
Affiliation | Ed Huddles Marge Huddles Bubba McCoy Freight Train Penny McCoy |
Father | Not mentioned |
Mother | Not mentioned |
Marital status | Single |
First appearance | WH: "The Old Swimming Hole" (1970) |
Played by | Don Messick |
Fumbles is the Huddleses' not-so royal pet dog who stars in the Where's Huddles? animated television series. He is voiced by Don Messick.
Character description
Appearances
TV series
- Where's Huddles?
- 1.1 "The Old Swimming Hole"
- 1.2 "A Weighty Problem"
- 1.3 "The Ramblin' Wreck"
- 1.4 "The Offensives"
- 1.5 "Hot Dog Hannah"
- 1.6 "To Catch a Thief"
- 1.7 "Get That Letter Back"
- 1.8 "The Odd Trio"
- 1.9 "A Sticky Affair"
- 1.10 "One Man's Family"
Specials
Comics
- Where's Huddles?
- #1A "The Cool Pool"
- #1B "The Second Half"
- #2A "The Stunt Fumblers"
- #2B "The Big Pigskin"
- Hanna-Barbera Fun-in
Biography
Debut series
Fumbles in the Funny Books
Huddles' Gold Key
Development
![](https://cdn.hanna-barberawiki.com/thumb/a/a9/Pilot_Fumbles.png/150px-Pilot_Fumbles.png)
Fumbles in the pilot pitch.
In the pilot pitch, Fumbles was more so portrayed as royal, but also intelligent, he would later be reworked for the series to be more like Muttley from the Wacky Races franchise, as he would snicker upon someone else's misfortune.
Gallery
- Main article: Fumbles/Gallery
Behind the scenes
- Fumbles design would later be reused by Hanna-Barbera in 1974 for a new character known as "Tackles"[1], Tackles would be used in the halftime interstitials of NBC's NFL telecasts and was voiced by Allan Melvin, in which, Tackles would explain the basics of football to younger viewers.
- Early gag sketches show a darker side of Fumbles, depicting him doing either violent or inappropriate things.
- Fumbles bares similarities to Wacky Races character, Muttley, as both would snicker at someone else's misfortune.