August 16, 2007
From Sweet Polly Purebreds lips to MY EARS MY EARS!

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At the risk of prematurely aging myself, I will let you all in on the fact that I used to love watching the Underdog cartoon, and secretly wished for a dog as lovely as Sweet Polly Purebred. Or maybe I wanted to be Sweet Polly Purebred, who can remember that far back. But either way, I gasped out loud in the movie theater when Sweet Polly Purebred, played in the movie version by a sweet lovely Caviler King Charles Spaniel exclaimed to the Beagle Boot Licker, who was actually just Underdog without his little outfit, 'There isn't a hose cold enough that can keep us apart". Now of course I was the only one in the theater who got the joke, and you bet I gasped! Not so much for the raciness of the comment, but the instant image of Polly and Underdog was just to much! Sweet Polly my arse! She said that after their first date!

And come to think of it, even my 5 year old knew that Boot Licker and Underdog were the same dog. Am supposed to believe that a dog, with a sense of smell at least 50 times greater than ours, cannot tell the identity of another dog if they aren't wearing a super hero outfit? Wait, now hold on minute, we are taking about dogs here right?
My daughter loved the movie. She came home and made capes for several of her stuffed doggies, cut up an old dress and made another for herself and they have all been flying all over the house ever since. All I have heard for the last 3 days is "There's no need to fear, Underdog is here", but me, well I was disappointed. My childhood memories crushed.
Sweet Polly Purebred is a dumb slut. Who knew?

Posted by Nancy Freedman-Smith at 01:28 PM
Comments

Too funny!!

Posted by Lori
August 16, 2007 03:03 PM

I loved Underdog too, and I am old enough to "BARELY" remember when Wally Cox (voice of Underdog in the original cartoon) played "Mr. Peepers" on Television.

We also have a knock off of Underdog, as Omega Dog on our website. As for Polly Purebred, now I wonder if Nell and Dudley Dooright were less than virtuous??

Bill

Posted by Bill
August 16, 2007 04:37 PM

I remember the original Underdog too. Loved it. I am waiting for the movie on DVD. I find they rarely do older shows justice with the re-makes. Maybe it is just me being overly nostalgic though. I always cringe to see purebreds in dog movies too. (even if the movie is fabulous) Now the rush is on to "get a puppy just like the one I saw". Yikes. I'm sure they made her a slut to get the easy laughs. Poor Polly! VBG

Posted by Marie
August 17, 2007 12:03 PM

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