Difference between revisions of "Hong Kong Phooey (character)"

Hong Kong Phooey
	;
Species	Dog
Gender	Male
Member of	Scooby Doobies in Laff-A-Lympics
Affiliation	Spot; Sergeant Flint; Rosemary; Black Lightning in Black Lightning/Hong Kong Phooey Special
Father	Not mentioned
Mother	Not mentioned
Marital status	Single
First appearance	HKP: "Car Thieves" (1974)
Played by	Scatman Crothers (1974-77); Phil LaMarr (2018); Ron Funches (2024)
	; Hong Kong Phooey
	; Hong Kong Phooey
	; Wacky Races
	; Black Lightning/Hong Kong Phooey Special
	; Jellystone!

Revision as of 08:45, 27 March 2024

This article is about the character. 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 television 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 a helping hand 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

Hong Kong as Penry Pooch.

Penry Pooch disguises himself as Hong Kong Phooey by jumping into a filing cabinet. In doing so he always gets stuck, but is later freed by Spot hitting the cabinet. Once disguised, Hong Kong gets equipped with the shapeshifting Phooeymobile.

When fighting crime, he relies on his copy of The Hong Kong Book of Kung Fu, an instruction handbook on various martial arts moves, although most of his techniques involve striking a pose and attempting to land a blow on enemies like a flying kick, for example. In spite of Hong Kong's less than steallar displays of kung fu, he always keeps a victory against his opponents, although it is Spot who always did most of the work for him, which he is unaware of.

Hong Kong Phooey acts cool and collected, but is seemingly unaware of his own incompetence. He comes across as a clumsy idiot at times, and even creates accidents to those around him. Though he has a passion to fight for truth and justice, he is still laid back by always keeping a calm mood. This is evident with his identity as Penry Pooch, who keeps quietly alert for most of the time while the Metro City police station is focused on stopping a criminal.

Additionally, Hong Kong Phooey is a light brown dog with floppy ears that are a darker shade of brown. He wears a red and white martial arts outfit with a yellow belt, and has a black domino mask wrapped in front of his face. As Penry, his janitor uniform consists of a white backwards cap and a light blue, long-sleeves shirt.

Appearances

Books

Video games

Hanna-Barbera's Turbo Toons

Biography

Hong Kong Phooey! Number One Super Guy!

Crossover Era

Laff-A-Lympics

Celebrating another 50 years! 50 years of fun!

A Web Premiere Toon

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 karate moves and using nunchucks, although he only hurts himself. He then celebrates by drinking from a toilet in a public restroom because he thinks it's an "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.^[1]

Wacky Reboot

SCOOB!

Hong Kong in the Funny Books

Scooby teams up with Hong Kong Phooey

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.^[2]

In the What's New, Scooby-Doo? episode "A Scooby-Doo Halloween, one of the people attending the party is Curtis wearing a Hong Kong Phooey costume.

Development

Gallery

Main article: Hong Kong Phooey (character)/Gallery

Toys and merchandise

Main article: Hong Kong Phooey (character)/Toys

In popular culture

In the Animaniacs segment "Back in Style," Chun-King Fooey is mentioned to have lost ratings by adding the Warner siblings.
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 Malcolm in the Middle episode "Future Malcolm," Malcolm reveals he got Leonard a job interview with Craig by giving him a Hong Kong Phooey lunch box.
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.

HK vs. the Fat One.

References

^ Hong Kong Phooey (2012).
^ Super Secret Secret Squirrel: "Agent Penny," season 1, episode (1993).

[1] Hong Kong Phooey (2012).

[2] Super Secret Secret Squirrel: "Agent Penny," season 1, episode (1993).

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-:''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]].''
+:''This article is about the character. For other uses, see [[Hong Kong Phooey]].''
 {{Infobox character
 |name= Hong Kong Phooey
 |image1= [[File:Hong Kong Phooey (character).png|300px]]
-|caption1= Hong Kong Phooey in "[[Car Thieves]]."
+|caption1=
 |species= Dog
 |gender= Male
@@ Line 12: / Line 12: @@
 |married= Single
 |first= [[Hong Kong Phooey (TV series)|HKP]]: "[[Car Thieves]]" ([[1974]])
-|actor= [[Scatman Crothers]] (1974-[[1977|77]])<br />[[Phil LaMarr]] ([[2018]])
+|actor= [[Scatman Crothers]] (1974-[[1977|77]])<br />[[Phil LaMarr]] ([[2018]])<br>[[Ron Funches]] ([[2024]])
-|image2= [[File:Penry Pooch.png|300px]]
+|image2= [[File:WPT Hong Kong Phooey.png|300px]]
-|caption2= Hong Kong as Penry Pooch
+|caption2= ''[[Hong Kong Phooey (Web Premiere Toons)|Hong Kong Phooey]]''
-|image3= [[File:WPT Hong Kong Phooey.png|300px]]
+|image3= [[File:CGI Hong Kong Phooey.png|300px]]
-|caption3= ''[[Hong Kong Phooey (Web Premiere Toons)|Hong Kong Phooey]]''
+|caption3= ''[[Hong Kong Phooey (film)|Hong Kong Phooey]]''
-|image4= [[File:WPT Penry Pooch.png|300px]]
+|image4= [[File:WR 2017 Hong Kong Phooey.png|300px]]
-|caption4= ''[[Hong Kong Phooey (WeB Premiere Toons)|Hong Kong Phooey]]''
+|caption4= ''[[Wacky Races (2017 TV series)|Wacky Races]]''
-|image5= [[File:CGI Hong Kong Phooey.png|300px]]
+|image5= [[File:DC Hong Kong Phooey.png|300px]]
-|caption5= ''[[Hong Kong Phooey (film)|Hong Kong Phooey]]''
+|caption5= ''[[Black Lightning/Hong Kong Special/Issue 1|Black Lightning/Hong Kong Phooey Special]]''
-|image6= [[File:WR 2017 Hong Kong Phooey.png|300px]]
+|image6= [[File:JS Hong Kong Phooey.png|300px]]
-|caption6= ''[[Wacky Races (2017 TV series)|Wacky Races]]''
+|caption6= ''[[Jellystone!]]''
-|image7= [[File:WR 2017 Penry Pooch.png|300px]]
-|caption7= ''Wacky Races''
-|image8= [[File:DC Hong Kong Phooey.png|300px]]
-|caption8= ''Black Lightning/Hong Kong Phooey Special''
 }}
-'''Hong Kong Phooey''', also known as '''Penry Pooch''', is a masked anthropomorphic superhero dog and the main title character of the ''[[Hong Kong Phooey (TV series)|Hong Kong Phooey]]'' animated TV series. His voice was originated by [[Scatman Crothers]].
+'''Hong Kong Phooey''', also known as '''Penry Pooch''', is a masked anthropomorphic superhero dog and the main title character of the ''[[Hong Kong Phooey (TV series)|Hong Kong Phooey]]'' animated television 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 an buffoonish amateur in that. He is assisted by his pet cat, [[Spot]], who usually brings up a second-hand to his cases. When not in his superhero persona, he works as a janitor in a police station headed by [[Sergeant Flint]] and [[Rosemary]].
+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 a helping hand 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==
+[[File:Penry Pooch.png|thumb|left|150px|Hong Kong as Penry Pooch.]]
+Penry Pooch disguises himself as Hong Kong Phooey by jumping into a filing cabinet. In doing so he always gets stuck, but is later freed by Spot hitting the cabinet. Once disguised, Hong Kong gets equipped with the shapeshifting [[Phooeymobile]].
+When fighting crime, he relies on his copy of ''[[The Hong Kong Book of Kung Fu]]'', an instruction handbook on various martial arts moves, although most of his techniques involve striking a pose and attempting to land a blow on enemies like a flying kick, for example. In spite of Hong Kong's less than steallar displays of kung fu, he always keeps a victory against his opponents, although it is Spot who always did most of the work for him, which he is unaware of.
+Hong Kong Phooey acts cool and collected, but is seemingly unaware of his own incompetence. He comes across as a clumsy idiot at times, and even creates accidents to those around him. Though he has a passion to fight for truth and justice, he is still laid back by always keeping a calm mood. This is evident with his identity as Penry Pooch, who keeps quietly alert for most of the time while the [[Metro City]] police station is focused on stopping a criminal.
+Additionally, Hong Kong Phooey is a light brown dog with floppy ears that are a darker shade of brown. He wears a red and white martial arts outfit with a yellow belt, and has a black domino mask wrapped in front of his face. As Penry, his janitor uniform consists of a white backwards cap and a light blue, long-sleeves shirt.
 ==Appearances==
 ===TV series===
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 * ''[[Hong Kong Phooey (TV series)|Hong Kong Phooey]]''
 * ''[[Laff-A-Lympics (TV series)|Laff-A-Lympics]]''
+** 1.1 "[[The Swiss Alps and Tokyo, Japan]]"
+** 1.2 "[[Acapulco and England]]" (no lines)
+** 1.3 "[[Florida and China]]"
+** 1.4 "[[The Sahara Desert and Scotland]]" (no lines)
+** 1.5 "[[France and Australia]]" (no lines)
+** 1.6 "[[Athens, Greece and the Ozarks]]" (no lines)
+** 1.7 "[[Italy and Kitty Hawk, North Carolina]]" (no lines)
+** 1.8 "[[Egypt and Sherwood Forest]]" (no lines)
+** 1.9 "[[Spain and the Himalayas]]" (no lines)
+** 1.10 "[[India and Israel]]" (no lines)
+** 1.13 "[[Hawaii and Norway]]" (no lines)
+** 1.14 "[[North Pole and Tahiti]]" (no lines)
+** 1.15 "[[Arizona and Holland]]" (no lines)
+** 1.16 "[[Quebec and Baghdad]]" (no lines)
+** 2.1 "[[Russia and the Caribbean]]" (no lines)
+** 2.2 "[[New York and Turkey]]" (no lines)
+** 2.3 "[[South America and Transylvania]]"
+** 2.4 "[[French Riviera and New Zealand]]" (no lines)
+** 2.5 "[[New Orleans and Atlantis]]" (no lines)
+** 2.6 "[[Morocco and Washington D.C.]]"
+** 2.7 "[[Canada and Warsaw, Poland]]" (no lines)
+** 2.8 "[[Siam and the Moon]]"
 * ''[[Super Secret Secret Squirrel]]''
 ** 1.8 "[[Agent Penny]]" (no lines)
 * ''[[Wacky Races (2017 TV series)|Wacky Races]]''
 ** 1.39 "[[Hong Kong Screwy]]"
+* ''[[Jellystone!]]''
+** 2.11 "[[Collection Protection]]"
+** 2.12 "[[Mummy Knows Best (Jellystone!)|Mummy Knows Best]] (no lines)
 </div>
 ===Movies===
-* ''[[Hong Kong Phooey (test film)|Hong Kong Phooey]]''
+* ''[[Scooby-Doo (film)|Scooby-Doo]]'' (mentioned)
-* ''[[Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon]]'' (poster)
+* ''[[Hong Kong Phooey (film)|Hong Kong Phooey]]''
-* ''[[Top Cat Begins]]'' (picture and graffiti)
+* ''[[Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon (film)|Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon]]'' (poster)
-* ''[[Scoob!]]''
+* ''[[Top Cat Begins (film)|Top Cat Begins]]'' (picture and graffiti)
+* ''[[Scoob! (film)|Scoob!]]''
 ===Specials===
 * ''[[The 1st 13th Annual Fancy Anvil Awards Show Program Special: Live in Stereo]]'' (no lines)
 ===Shorts===
+* ''[[Daytoona 500]]''
 * ''[[Web Premiere Toons]]''
 ** "[[Hong Kong Phooey (Web Premiere Toons)|Hong Kong Phooey]]"
 * "[[Everyone]]" (no lines)
 ===Comics===
 <div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
 * ''[[Hong Kong Phooey (Charlton Comics)|Hong Kong Phooey]]''
+* ''[[Laff-A-Lympics (Marvel Comics)|Laff-A-Lympics]]''
 * ''[[Cartoon Network Presents]]''
-** #8B "[[Cartoon Network Presents/Issue 8|War is Huck]]"
+** "[[Cartoon Network Presents/Issue 8|Issue #8B]]: "War is Huck"
-** #20C "[[Cartoon Network Presents/Issue 20|A Wok On the Wild Side]]"
+** "[[Cartoon Network Presents/Issue 20|Issue #20C]]: "A Wok On the Wild Side"
 * ''[[Scooby-Doo! Team-Up]]''
-** #26 "[[Scooby-Doo! Team-Up/Issue 26|Enter the Dragon, Exit Scooby-Doo!]]"
+** "[[Scooby-Doo! Team-Up/Issue 26|Issue 26]]: "Enter the Dragon, Exit Scooby-Doo!"
 * ''[[Black Lightning/Hong Kong Phooey Special/Issue 1|Black Lightning/Hong Kong Phooey Special]]''
-** #1A "Reveng of the God Fist"
+** Issue #1A "Revenge of the God Fist"
 </div>
+===Books===
+* ''[[Hong Kong Phooey and the Fortune Cookie Caper]]''
+* ''[[Hong Kong Phooey and the Bird Snatchers]]''
+* ''[[Hong Kong Phooey and the Fire Engine Mystery]]''
+* ''[[Here Comes Scooby-Doo]]''
 ===Video games===
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 ===A Web Premiere Toon===
 ===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.<ref>''[[Hong Kong Phooey (film)|Hong Kong Phooey]]'' (2012).</ref>
+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 karate moves and using nunchucks, although he only hurts himself. He then celebrates by drinking from a toilet in a public restroom because he thinks it's an "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.<ref>''[[Hong Kong Phooey (film)|Hong Kong Phooey]]'' (2012).</ref>
 ===Wacky Reboot===
@@ Line 84: / Line 127: @@
 ===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.<ref>''[[Super Secret Secret Squirrel]]'': "[[Agent Penny]]," season 1, episode (1993).</ref>
+In the ''[[What's New, Scooby-Doo?]]'' episode "[[A Scooby-Doo Halloween]], one of the people attending the party is Curtis wearing a Hong Kong Phooey costume.
 ==Development==
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 ==In popular culture==
+* In the ''Animaniacs'' segment "Back in Style," ''Chun-King Fooey'' is mentioned to have lost ratings by adding the Warner siblings.
 * 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 ''Malcolm in the Middle'' episode "Future Malcolm," Malcolm reveals he got Leonard a job interview with Craig by giving him a Hong Kong Phooey lunch box.
+* 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 [[Pink Panther|Pinker Panther]]?"
 * In ''The Goldbergs'' episode "Kara-te," Murray called Barry's karate performance for the talent show a "Hong Kong Phooey act."
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 ===''Robot Chicken''===
-* "[[Fatone and HK fight.png|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.
+* "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.
+<gallery>
+Fatone and HK fight.png|HK vs. the Fat One.
+</gallery>
 ==References==
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 [[Category:Laff-A-Lympics characters]]
 [[Category:Laff-A-Lympics]]
+[[Category:Marvel Comics]]
+[[Category:Rand McNally]]
 [[Category:Scooby Doobies members]]
 [[Category:Scooby-Doo characters]]
@@ Line 131: / Line 183: @@
 [[Category:Wacky Races]]
 [[Category:Warner Bros. Animation]]
+[[Category:Yogi Bear characters]]
+[[Category:Yogi Bear]]

Difference between revisions of "Hong Kong Phooey (character)"

Revision as of 08:45, 27 March 2024

Contents

Character description

Appearances

TV series

Movies

Specials

Shorts

Comics