Fumbles

Fumbles
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.

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

• Hanna-Barbera's 50th: A Yabba Dabba Doo Celebration

Comics

• Where's Huddles?
  • #1A "The Cool Pool"
  • #1B "The Second Half"
  • #2A "The Stunt Fumblers"
  • #2B "The Big Pigskin"
• Hanna-Barbera Fun-in
  • #9 "The Buffoon of Lake Lagoon"

Development

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 usually 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", 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.