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Pound Puppies (2010 TV series)

Pound Puppies is an animated series that premiered on The Hub Network (as a Hub Original Series) on October 10, 2010, in the United States.

The Yipper Caper
[Yipper, a gray and orange furred puppy, has just been placed in a kennel.]
 * Yipper: [sighs]
 * Lucky: Hey, kid. Feeling a little down in the muzzle?
 * Yipper: Nah, I'm okay. A little sore around the collar is all.
 * Lucky: Well, old Kecthum can be kind of rough, but he's okay once you've got him trained. They call me Lucky, by the way. On account of my great good fortune.
 * Yipper: Well, they call me Yipper, for no particular reason at all.
 * Lucky: Well, Yipper, welcome to Shelter 17, the cooshest pound this side of paradise.
 * Yipper: What's so coosh about it? Looks like any other joint I've been in.
 * Lucky: That's 'cause you're only viewing it from the top side.
 * Yipper: Top side? Well, what other side is there?
 * Lucky: Funny you should ask.

''[He whistles and the other dogs go into spy mode, setting up fake props of themselves. Lucky moves his dog bowl, revealing an open passageway.]''
 * Yipper: What the heck?!
 * Lucky: After you.

[He and Lucky go down the hole and enter an underground room, where the dogs are doing various things; exercising, calling people on the phone.]
 * Yipper: Wow!
 * Lucky: Pretty cool, huh?
 * Golden Retriever: [on phone] Hello, Pet Mart? We need 600 pounds of chewies delivered asap.
 * Yipper: Y-you guys talk to humans?
 * Lucky: Well, only when they don't know it, and only when absolutely necessary.
 * Yipper: Wait! You're the Pound Puppies! I thought you guys were just a legend.
 * Lucky: Oh no, we're real all right. If a dog needs a home, we're the ones to find him one. No matter how much the humans mess things up.

[Yipper walks forward and bumps into Cookie.]
 * Cookie: Oof!
 * Yipper: Oh, excuse me.
 * Cookie: What are you doing down here, mutt?!
 * Yipper: Well, uh...
 * Cookie: Don't you know this a command center? No unauthorized dogs without proper identifi --
 * Lucky: Down, Cookie! He's a new guy, a stray.
 * Cookie: A stray?! Oh, sorry, pumpkin. I didn't know. I'm Cookie. Listen, if anyone gives you any trouble, just let me know and I'll chew them out.
 * Yipper: Oh, gee. You don't have to yell at anybody for me.
 * Cookie: No, I mean literally chew them out...with my teeth.
 * Yipper: Uh, thanks, I-I guess.
 * Cookie: Oh, no trouble at all. Okay, I'm out of here, Luck. Gotta go walk my human.
 * Yipper: You got a human?
 * Cookie: 'Course I do! Half the dogs down here got homes on the outside.
 * Yipper: Wow!
 * Cookie: And remember, ...with my teeth.

[Cookie walks off.]
 * Yipper: Oh boy, she's tough.
 * Lucky: Yeah, and that's when she's in a good mood.

[Niblet rushes over to them.]
 * Niblet: Lucky! Lucky! I got something important to tell ya! Really, really, really important!
 * Lucky: Yipper, meet Niblet.
 * Niblet: Oh, hiya, Yipper! Welcome to our secret headquarters! Secret, but fun!
 * Lucky: So, Niblet, what's so important?
 * Niblet: Um...I forgot.

[Niblet walks off.]
 * Lucky: Good guy, that Niblet. Just don't let him bury your bone, or you'll never see it again.
 * Strudel: [from another room] No, no, no, no! You're doing it all wrong!
 * Lucky: You better meet Strudel. Possibly the smartest wiener dog the world has ever known.
 * Strudel: You've got the diodes connected to the transmuter, and the transmuter connected to the L.E.D.! Didn't anyone look at the schematics?!

[The squirrels chatter.]
 * Strudel: Oh, if only I had opposable thumbs!

''[Mr. Nut-Nut chatters.]''
 * Strudel: What, Mr. Nut-Nut? You got it working? Oh, finally my work of staggering genius is complete! Let's give it a shot.

[The squirrels put a helmet on Strudel and get into position on the machine's controls.]

Ready on the left? Ready on the right? Fantastic!

[The squirrels start the machine, and it begins scratching Strudel's back.]

Oh, yeah! Oh, right there. Oh, that's the spot.
 * Yipper: Back-scratching machine? Boy, she is smart.

[Squirt is trying to get Yipper's attention.]
 * Squirt: Psst! Hey, pal!
 * Yipper: What? Who-who said that?
 * Squirt: Down here. Could I interest you in a rubber ball or a squeaky toy? You got the kibble; I got the goods.
 * Lucky: Better watch out for Squirt, here. He's the best scrounger in the business, but there's always a price.
 * Squirt: Hey, I ain't in this for my health, you know.
 * Lucky: Don't you have surveillance duties, Squirt?
 * Squirt: Alright, I'm goin'. I'm goin'. But, remember, hey -- If you need anything...

[Squirt walks off.]
 * Lucky: And these are the rest of the guys. Guys, this is Yipper.
 * Everyone: Yipper!
 * Yipper: All this to help stray dogs find homes?
 * Lucky: And to goof on humans, but that's just a perk.

[Everyone laughs.]

[Billy and his dad are trying to ask McLeish if they can adopt Yipper.]
 * Billy's Dad: Hey, McLeish!
 * McLeish: Huh? Oh, yes. Thank you very much. Bye now! We'll call if we need you.
 * Billy's Dad: Uh, what do I gotta do to adopt my boy here one of these dogs?
 * McLeish: Adopt a dog?! I can't be bothered with adoptions. I need to get ready to show what an efficient pet adopting service I'm running.

[All of the dogs are circled around Yipper, when Lucky comes in to intervene.]
 * Lucky: Move aside, move aside! Give him air.
 * Niblet: Oh no! Is he --
 * Lucky: Playing dead? I'm afraid so.
 * Yipper: [With eyes closed, muttering] My person...my person...oh...
 * Lucky: Yipper! Yipper! It's worse than I thought. Emergency wiener, stat!

''[Sparky and Mr. Nut-Nut bring a sausage over to Yipper. They break it, Yipper smells it, and instantly wakes up.]''
 * Yipper: Huh? Oh, gee, thanks, guys. I was having the craziest dream. I-I met this boy, see, and he was perfect and --
 * Lucky: It wasn't a dream, Yipper. The kid was here.
 * Yipper: [crying hysterically]
 * Cookie: Good job, doc.

Nightmare On Pound Street
''[Mayor Jerry arrives at the pound to ask McLeish to do a favor for him. McLeish comes out to greet him.]''
 * McLeish: Jerry -- uh, uh, Mr. Mayor. What a pleasant surprise.
 * Mayor: Yeah, yeah, like a tonsillectomy. Look, Lenny, I need your help.
 * McLeish: My help?
 * Mayor: Why do you think I hire my family?

Rebound
[Squirt pulls out a flyer for everyone to see.]
 * Cookie: What the heck is that?
 * Lucky: It's called a flyer. Humans stick them up all over the place.
 * Cookie: You made it yourself?
 * Squirt: Of course not. What do you think, I'm crawling with thumbs? I called it in to the printers, and they delivered it.
 * Strudel: You are a genius, Squirt! I mean, not technically speaking, but, well, you know.
 * Lucky: Did you tell them to print exactly what I said?
 * Squirt: Absolutely. [clears throat] "Perky, adorable puppy for adoption..."

[Rebound brings a ball to Squirt.]
 * Rebound: Throw me the ball! Throw me the ball!

[Squirt pushes the ball away and Rebound chases it.]
 * Squirt: "One-of-a-kind royal dog with million-dollar fortune." I added that part.

[Rebound brings a stick to Squirt.]
 * Rebound: Throw me the stick! Throw me the stick!

''[Squirt knocks the stick off-screen. Rebound chases it.]''
 * Squirt: "If interested, come to Shelter 17, Elm Street, Downtown".
 * Lucky: Fine. Now about getting those flyers posted --
 * Squirt: Already done. I called in some favors -- A pigeon here, a squirrel there. Bada bing, bada boom -- You got 200 of these things on lampposts, mailboxes, phone poles all over the city.
 * Cookie: Baby dog, sometimes you amaze me.
 * Squirt: Eh, it ain't nothing. It's like they say, you scratch my belly, I scratch yours. Now excuse me while I go take a nap. I've been, uh, scratching a lot of bellies, if you know what I mean.
 * Strudel: Actually, I don't  know what he means.
 * Cookie: And I don't want to know.

[McLeish and Olaf are admiring the fake buildings disguising the pound.]
 * Olaf: Wow, Mr. McLeish. It's like the dog pound Hercules would've worked at if he was a dog catcher.
 * McLeish: This is no longer a dog pound, Olaf, and I'm no longer a dog catcher. Today, I'm...

[He then pulls down a curtain revealing a sign on one of the buildings.] ...Director of Central City Dispatch and Transportation.
 * Olaf: Oh, that sounds important. What is it?
 * McLeish: Exactly and exactly. When Mother drops by, she'll be impressed for sure, yet she'll have no idea why. Did I mention I'm a genius?
 * Olaf: Everyday, sir. But what if the dogs start barking?
 * McLeish: That's where you come in, Olaf. While my mother's here, it's your job to keep the dogs quiet.
 * Olaf: Quiet? How am I supposed to keep a pound full of dogs quiet?

[McLeish hands Olaf a key.]
 * McLeish: Here. Take this. It's the key to my personal beef locker. If those mutts so much as make a peep, throw a steak in their jowls.
 * Olaf: Mmm. Beef.
 * McLeish: Fine. Throw a steak in your own jowls, too. But keep those dogs quiet. All I can say is Mother better end up proud of me. All this shameless lying is costing me a fortune.

[Lucky is watching McLeish and Agatha through a peephole in one of the fake buildings.]
 * Agatha: I must say, Leonard, this workplace of yours isn't nearly as pathetic as I expected.
 * McLeish: Well, thank you, Mother.
 * Agatha: But I still can't get over the feeling that there are dogs around. For instance, why are my shoes covered with these ghastly wads of fur?
 * McLeish: Aah! No, no, Mother. Honest, it's my fur -- uh, hair.

[Holds up fur wads to his head.]

See? You know how fast we men of responsibility go bald. [laughs]
 * Agatha: Well, good, because dogs are horrible, ugly, smelly creatures. If I ever came across one, I'd make into soup.
 * McLeish: [whimpers]
 * Lucky: Wow. That old lady's meaner than a junkyard human.
 * Cookie: Who cares? With food like this, I wish she'd visit everyday.
 * Squirt: Yeah, I'm surprised that chowhound, Niblet, ain't here, wolfing this stuff down. Where's he at, anyway?
 * Lucky: Yeah, good question. I've been looking for him all over, and...

[He spots Niblet hiding obviously behind a small tree.]

...and I think I just found him.

[Walks over to him.]

Uh, Niblet?

 * Niblet: I'm not Niblet. I'm a tree. So go away, or so help me...I'll drip sap all over you.
 * Lucky: Come on, you can't hide forever.
 * Niblet: I have to, Lucky. If Rebound spots me, she'll never leave me alone.
 * Lucky: Aw, you're getting way more worked up over this than you need to. I mean, yeah, she can be a little energetic...

[Rebound spots Niblet with Lucky.]

...and a little, well, talkative, but she's not that bad.
 * Rebound: [as she tackles Niblet] Niblet! Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, it's Niblet, it's Niblet, my bestest big brother, Niblet!

[licks him on the nose]

I love you, love you, love you! Wanna play?! Let's play! Ha, ha, let's play! Play, play, play, play, play, play!
 * Niblet: Yeah, okay, Rebound. Let's play hide and go seek. You count to a billion.

[Niblet runs off and Rebound covers her eyes.]
 * Rebound: (counting rapidly) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14...
 * Cookie: [to Lucky] She's gonna count all the way to a billion, isn't she?
 * Lucky: I think she just might.
 * Rebound: ...999,999,999, a billion! Ready or not, here I come!

[She runs into Lucky and Cookie, causing Lucky to fly into the air and fall on top of Cookie's belly.]
 * Cookie: Oh, why, Lucky...
 * Lucky: [chuckles]
 * Cookie: ...get off my belly!

[Rebound chases after Niblet throughout the kennels.]
 * Rebound: Gonna find ya! Gonna find ya! Yay, yay, yay! Come on, come on, come on! Gonna find ya! Gonna find ya!

''[Niblet busts down the fence, and Rebound goes after him, barking hyperactively. Lucky goes up to the fence.]''
 * Lucky: Uh oh.

[Agatha is talking to her son.]
 * Agatha: Well, Leonard, I must say, your workplace looks remarkably not entirely disappointing.
 * McLeish: Oh, Mother, that's the most loving thing you've ever said to me. And I assure you, I'm just as important as these buildings look.

[All of the fake buildings fell down, revealing the pound.]
 * Agatha: [gasps after seeing the dog pound sign on the main building. She turns to face her son.]

You are a dog catcher?!

 * McLeish: [whimpers] Maybe.

[Rebound has caught up with Niblet.]
 * Rebound: Found you! Oh, Niblet, that was great! We should do this all the time! Don't you think? Don'tcha?! Huh?! We should always be together, just you and me, me and you, you, you, you, me, me, me, brother and sister, together forever and ever --
 * Niblet: Stop! I can't take it no more!
 * Rebound: What do you mean?
 * Niblet: [groans] All you do is follow me around and jump all over me and lick me! You're the most annoyingest little sister who ever got born, and I don't want to see you ever, ever, ever again!
 * Rebound: Okay. If that's what you want. [sniffles]

[McLeish is talking with his mother, Agatha, about finding Rebound.]
 * Agatha: When I got home, I found that adorable little puppy you put in my car.
 * McLeish: I did? Um, that's right. I did. Because you don't really hate dogs?
 * Agatha: Well, I always assumed I did, but this puppy is so bouncy and full of life. She makes me feel young again. Now I see just how important your job really is.

The General
''[Lucky is smiling, watching the pups go through Strudel's machine in a single file. Cookie walks up to Lucky.]''
 * Cookie: Lucky, I need to talk to you.
 * Lucky: (still smiling) What is it, Cooks?
 * Cookie: It's about Dolly.
 * Lucky: (trancelike) Dolly?
 * Cookie: Lucky?!

''[She waves her paw in front of Lucky's face, he still continues to stare at Dolly. Cookie turns to see Dolly flipping her perm flirtatiously.]''

You, too?! [growls]

[Cookie storms off.]

 * Lucky: [unaware that Cookie had left the room.] Me, too, what?

[Dolly and Cookie are talking in the courtyard of the pound.]
 * Dolly: You know what I think, Cookie? This isn't about all the guys. I think it's about one guy in particular.
 * Cookie: I don't know what you're talking about.
 * Dolly: You don't, huh? Well, I wonder if you'd be this upset if you didn't see Lucky acting a little goofy, too.
 * Cookie: What?! That's the most... Yeah, all right. I admit it.

The Prince And The Pupper
''[Officer Ketchum has just dropped off a dog that looks exactly like Squirt. Ketchum walks away and the dog starts talking to Squirt.]''
 * Cuddlesworth: I say, good fellow, but what on earth is up with that eccentric bespectacled human and his taciturn dog-napping toady?
 * Squirt: Eh, sorry, pal. I only speak English. And, uh... Do you notice anything -- I don't know -- odd about the twos of us?
 * Cuddlesworth: Odd? Not as far as I can see. But -- [gasps] Great Gatsby! We look strikingly similar!

[Squirt is teaching Cuddlesworth how to speak with a New York accent.]
 * Squirt: Fuhgeddaboudit.
 * Cuddlesworth: Forget about it!

[Squirt slaps Cuddlesworth across the face.]
 * Squirt: Fuhgeddaboudit.
 * Cuddlesworth: Forget -- I'm sorry. I forgot. What was the line again?

[Squirt slaps Cuddlesworth again.]
 * Squirt: Fuhgeddaboudit!
 * Cuddlesworth: Fuhgeddaboudit! I did it! By George, I did it! [giggles]

[Squirt slaps Cuddlesworth once more.]

Catcalls
[The Pound Puppies are discussing their next mission.]
 * Cookie: So, who's the target?
 * Strudel: Name -- Becky O'Bannon, 9 years old. Has been wanting a puppy since she was 3. She and Wagster match up in the 99th percentile on the pup-to-person ratio chart.
 * Niblet: Wagster's got a human friend! Wagster's got a human friend!
 * Squirt: That's the whole point, nimrod.
 * Niblet: Oh, yeah.

King Of The Heap
[Junkyard Jim is talking with McLeish about getting a junkyard dog.]
 * Junkyard Jim: Mighty fancy place you got here, Mister Dogcatcher.
 * McLeish: What? Oh, yes, it's a regular canine Taj Mahal.
 * Junkyard Jim: Taj Mahal? Oh, I don't know much about basketball players. I'm just a simple junkman. Name's Jim, Junkyard Jim.
 * McLeish: Gee, I would have pegged you as a Millionaire Monte or a Diplomat Dave.

My Fair Rebound
[Mildred has just arrived at Agatha's mansion.]
 * Mildred: I love what you've done with the mansion.
 * Agatha: I love what you've done with your face. You look twenty years younger.
 * Mildred: I was being sarcastic.
 * Agatha: So was I.

[They both laugh.]

[Niblet is giving his thoughts on Rebound competing in the Northminster Dog Show.]
 * Niblet: Oh, they're gonna humiliorate my poor sis! She's gonna be the laughing-sock of the whole show!
 * Strudel: Well, that's the pageant game.
 * Cookie: What do you know about it?
 * Strudel: You kidding? I was a show dog myself back in the old country. My stage name was Strudel Die Schnitzel Von Wiener.

[Lucky is trying to find Rebound under the bleachers.]
 * Lucky: Rebound? Rebound, are you under there?
 * Rebound: (from somewhere in the bleachers) No!
 * Cookie: Good thing brains isn't a part of the competition.

Quintuplets
[Lucky is telling everyone his plan to get the quintuplets adopted.]
 * Lucky: Everyone know the plan?
 * Cookie: Yeah, but I still don't get why this guy has five of everything.
 * Strudel: It's a common human sales strategy. For some reason, they like to see us animals selling them products.
 * Squirt: Yeah, I knew a marmot once who got his picture on boxes of nuts. Guy was fixed for life -- all of the pistachios he could eat.
 * Niblet: Wow! Can I get my picture on a bag of marshmallows, Lucky? 'Cause I love marshmallows, and I want to be fixed for life, too. I mean, not fixed fixed, but, you know...

[Cookie, Niblet, Strudel, and Squirt are searching for the quintuplets in the alley.]
 * Cookie: They're not over here.
 * Squirt: They're not over here either.
 * Niblet: Why did my little buddies run away?! Why?!
 * Strudel: They couldn't have gotten far. They have little, tiny legs.
 * Cookie: We better split up. You guys go that way, we'll go this way.
 * Squirt: Right!

[All four of them run into each other.]
 * Cookie, Niblet, Strudel, and Squirt: Oof!
 * Cookie: [groans] Where's Lucky when you need him?!

[They all run off in separate directions.]

Dog On A Wire
[Various dogs are asking Strudel to help them with the gadgets she made for them.]
 * Lucky: Strudel, there you are. Listen, I-I need that radio collar you said you'd --
 * Strudel: Right here, Lucky.

[Sparky and Mr. Nut Nut bring Lucky the radio collar and snap it into place.]

I've boosted the signal for optimum range. You should be able to talk to the whole team at once.
 * Lucky: Perfect. Gotta run!
 * Strudel: Okay, but I wanted to ask if --

[Lucky has already left the room.]

[sighs] Never mind.

[Cookie approaches Strudel.]
 * Cookie: Hey, uh, Strudel, did you fix that grappling hook for me?
 * Strudel: Indeed I did, Cookie.

[The squirrels bring Cookie the grappling hook.] In fact, the firing range is doubled. And I also wondered if I might go on the next mis -- [Cookie grabs the device with her mouth.]
 * Cookie: (muffled): Thanks!

[Cookie walks off.]
 * Strudel: -- sion with you guys.

[Squirt walks up to Strudel.]
 * Squirt: Hey, Strooge. About that next mission...
 * Strudel: Yes?
 * Squirt: I could really use you...
 * Strudel: Yes?!
 * Squirt: ...to fix my laser headset.

[Strudel is on the edge of losing it.]

I mean, it really works great for the night time jaws through the sewer and what-not, but it kind of flickers now and then, and I was --

[Strudel finally loses it.]

 * Strudel: Aaaaaaaaaah!

[Everyone stops and looks.]
 * Niblet: Whoa! What was that?
 * Lucky: Sounded like a blown Strudel gasket.

[Ketchum has just dropped off a dog wearing a vest and hat.]
 * McLeish: So, you found him just wandering the fairgrounds, eh, Ketchum? Wonder why he's wearing a vest and hat.
 * Olaf: Maybe he's in show business.
 * McLeish: Show business? Where do you get these lame ideas?
 * Olaf: Uh, from my head.

[Strudel is in her dressing room looking at herself in the mirror.]
 * Strudel: You are a star -- a big, beautiful, odd-bodied, short-legged star.

Homeward Pound
[Strudel is on the phone calling about the plane that Niblet and Squirt were on.]
 * Strudel: Yes, ABC Parcel Express Flight 597.

[Woman on other end chatters.]
 * Strudel: I already called that number and 15 others. They're all useless recordings.

[Woman chatters.]
 * Strudel: I know I could find the information online, but I wouldn't be able to read it, would I, because I'm a -- Oh, never mind. It's complicated.

[She covers the microphone.] (to Lucky): Humans, sometimes I just want to bite them.
 * Lucky: Hang in there, Strudel. They've got to know where that plane went.

[Woman chatters on phone.]
 * Strudel: What? It went where?!

[Woman chatters.]
 * Strudel: [gasps] Alright. Thank you, frustrating human lady.

[She hangs up.] (to Lucky): The plane went to Shanghai!
 * Lucky: The Shanghai in China?!
 * Strudel: Uh huh!
 * Cookie: Our map doesn't even go to China.
 * Strudel: But the plane also made a number of stops along the way to drop off cargo -- [points to different parts of the map] here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here. And here.
 * Cookie: Great. They could be anywhere. We'll never find them.
 * Lucky: Not necessarily. After all, we're part of an international organization. Strudel, get on the phone. Contact every branch of the Pound Puppy network in every one of these places.
 * Strudel: You've got it, boss.
 * Lucky: (to himself): We'll find you guys. Just hold tight, have faith, and please, don't do anything stupid.

[Niblet and Squirt are hanging by the rope that is tethering them over the shipping crate.]
 * Squirt: When I said jump, Niblet, I meant from the same side.
 * Niblet: Oops. Sorry. Wait! I got a idea!
 * Squirt: Niblet, no!

[Niblet jumps to the ground, thus flipping Squirt over the side of the crate with the rope and landing next to Niblet.]
 * Niblet: Aah!
 * Squirt: Aaaaah! Oof!
 * Niblet: Squirt, you okay?
 * Squirt: I will be, Niblet, if from now on you just leave the thinking to me.
 * Niblet: I'm sorry, Squirt. You're my bestest friend, and I got you trapped on a spooky flight to scaredy land! [sobs]
 * Squirt: Uh, hey, hey, come on. I mean, sure you did get me trapped on a spooky flight to scaredy land, but, eh, it's not all bad.
 * Niblet: It's not?
 * Squirt: Ah, of course it's not, I mean, 'cause, you know, we got each other. We're best buds, Niblet. I got your back...
 * Niblet: And you have mine!
 * Squirt: Yeah, yeah. Something like that.

[It's night time, and Squirt and Niblet have been wandering the forest for hours.]
 * Niblet: Shouldn't we stop and find some shelter? It's getting pretty dark.
 * Squirt: No. Okay? We got to keep moving. See if we can find a town.

[An owl hoots.]
 * Niblet: Aah! What was that?
 * Squirt: An owl.
 * Niblet: A wise and gentle owl?
 * Squirt: No. A chihuahua-eating owl. Come on!

''[They are now running. The owl hoots again.]''
 * Squirt: Aah! Hey, it's after us! Run!
 * Niblet: Whatever you say, buddy!

[They jump down a hill.]
 * Niblet and Squirt: Aaaaah!

[They tumble down the hill.]
 * Niblet and Squirt: Ow. Ow. Ugh!
 * Niblet: Ugh. Wow, Squirt. Falling down that cliff was really, really painful, but we sure outsmarted that owl, didn't we? (calls out to the woods): In your beak, owl! Who's wise now?! Hey, squirt. [chuckles]

[Niblet looks around and he can't see Squirt anywhere.]

Squirt? Squirt!
 * Squirt: (muffled): Get off of my face!

''[Niblet stands up to reveal Squirt smashed face down in the dirt. Squirt gets up.]''
 * Niblet: Oh, what a relief. I was worried something bad happened to you.
 * Squirt: Something bad? Why, I oughta -- [sniffs] Oh, great. You and your big fat backside knocked the scent right out of my nose. Now, there's no way I can smell us to town.
 * Niblet: Sorry.
 * Squirt: Whatever. Look, l-let's just stay put till tomorrow morning.
 * Niblet: Okay.
 * Squirt: All we need to do is find some kind of shelter while we still got some moonlight.

[Almost instantly, a thunderstorm hits.]
 * Squirt: Why am I not surprised?

Rebel Without A Collar
[Cookie is introducing herself to Fang, a filthy, muddy coyote.]
 * Cookie: Hey, there. I'm Cookie --
 * Fang: Cookie? What kind of name is that? Sounds like something a human would think of.
 * Cookie: As a matter of fact, it is, and --
 * Fang: Look, Cookie, how about you take your adorable human name, turn around, and go bother someone else? We have nothing to discuss.
 * Cookie: Oh, really? Well, listen, tough guy. I'm sure the "alpha male" routine works on some dogs, but I've got an operation to run and --
 * Fang: That's just fascinating. Meanwhile, I've got --
 * Cookie: You did not just interrupt the Cookie! Honey, right now I don't know who you are or where you come from. What I do know is that you're filthy, and you smell like a dog park dumpster on a hot day in August.
 * Fang: Uh...
 * Cookie: Did I ask a question to which the answer is "uh"? Now hush up and listen. You will come out of that kennel and you will take a bath. And once you're clean, you will drop the attitude, you will smile, and you will help us help you out!
 * Fang: (smiles) Okay.
 * Cookie: Really?
 * Fang: No one's ever talked to me like that. I kinda like it. Name's Fang.
 * Cookie: Oh, I'm Cookie, w-which you already know. Anyway, uh, come on.
 * Fang: Fine, but I wash myself.
 * Cookie: Fine. And then I'll take a look at your paw.
 * Fang: Sure.

[Fang walks away as it is revealed that Niblet was watching the conversation the whole time.]
 * Niblet: Cookie? Next time I'm a bad dog, will you talk mean to me too?
 * Cookie: [growls]

[Niblet whimpers and runs off.]

[Strudel, Lucky, and Buddy are walking through the underground headquarters.]
 * Strudel: So, all we need to do is retrace the route back to your human's cabin. Mission accomplished.
 * Buddy: Are you kidding? I can hardly remember the ride over here. I had other things to concentrate on, what with that shifty malcontent aggravating my nervous kidneys.
 * Strudel: That does pose a problem.
 * Lucky: Wait a minute. Maybe that shifty malcontent's your answer.

[Cookie walks in.]
 * Cookie: What are you talking about?
 * Lucky: Well, if Buddy and that other dog were picked up around the same place, maybe he can help us get Buddy home.
 * Strudel: Brilliant! He may be surly, but a dog will always help out another dog.
 * Fang: (from washtub) Is that so?

[Fang jumps out of the tub and shakes, revealing that he is not a dog, but a coyote.]

And what if that dog...is a coyote?

''[Buddy falls to the ground. Lucky, Cookie, and Strudel look over him.]''
 * Buddy: [with eyes closed] That was the sound of me fainting, by the way. I'm very, very distressed.

''[Strudel goes to comfort Lucky, who is upset that Cookie left him and the team to be with Jaden and Fang.]
 * Strudel: You okay?
 * Lucky: I can't believe she left us.
 * Strudel: She didn't leave us. She went with ''them'.
 * Lucky: But doesn't she realize how much I -- we need her?
 * Strudel: Did you ever tell her?
 * Lucky: Yeah. No. I-I think so.
 * Strudel: Well, how can you expect someone to know something, if you never tell them?

[Fang's pack circles around Buddy who is sleeping in his bed.]
 * Buddy: Oh, hey, coyotes.

[Suddenly realizes it.] Coyotes! In the cabin?!

Jaden accompanying Fang: Relax buddy we just came by for a little snack.

Fang: Shut up about the dog I love!

Lucky: The dog you love? The only thing coyotes love is themselves!

Taboo
[Squirt and Lucky are talking about whether or not Taboo is unlucky.]
 * Squirt: Bad luck is bad luck. You can't just wash it off with soap and water.
 * Lucky: You know, I get why Niblet believes in all this hocus-pocus stuff. I mean, he refuses to eat out of the left side of his dish ever Tuesday, Friday, and third Monday.
 * Niblet: That's so the magic flea angels won't get me.
 * Lucky: But, you, Squirt -- I don't understand.

[Everyone has just been sprayed with water in the headquarters.]
 * Squirt: See? Everything the kid touches turns to wet kibble.
 * Taboo: It's true, Mr. Lucky. I'm a jinx.
 * Lucky: No, you're not. It was just a coincidence.

[Lucky and Taboo walk off.]
 * Dolly: A coincidence that ruined my perm.

''[Mr. Geekman is telling Olaf that he wants to adopt Taboo.]''
 * Mr. Geekman: He's more perfect than Pi. Oh, I can't wait to show him to all of the kids in my algebra class. For once, they'll see that their old math teacher's search for perfection has come to fruition. All I have to do now is ride home, tell the wife, and bring her back here to see her new pet.

''[Mr. Geekman gets back on his bike and prepares to ride away. Olaf walks over to him.]''
 * Lucky: (to Taboo) See? I told you it's not bad luck.
 * Mr. Geekman: Be sure to leave a little sign on the gate, Olaf! I don't want anybody to take that dog before I --

''[Mr. Geekman suddenly rides straight into a brick wall by the gate and falls down.]''
 * Olaf: Mr. Geekman!

[Olaf runs over to help him.]
 * Squirt: (sarcastically) Oh no, no. He's not bad luck at all.

[Taboo is describing his history of bad luck.]
 * Taboo: Ever since the day I was born. Hmm, I remember it like it was months ago.
 * Squirt: (deadpan) It was months ago.

Toyoshiko! Bark Friend Machine
[Strudel and Mr. Nut Nut are measuring the pound.]
 * Strudel: Stupendous!
 * Lucky: Strudel, what is it?
 * Strudel: You won't believe this, but if you multiply the diameter of the parking lot by the height of the fence, then divide it by the length of this kennel, you get Pi!
 * Niblet: (as Lucky, Cookie, Squirt, and himself look at Strudel confused): Cherry or pumpkin?

[Toyoshiko, a robot dog, has come to realize that she cannot keep her memory, knowing that the Pound Puppies will be discovered if her memory core is scanned.]
 * Toyoshiko: Don't worry, Strudel; you can never erase the memory of a friend.

Zoltron
[Lucky is figuring out a way to get Zoltron back from Captain Randy.]
 * Lucky: I think I have an idea.

[Takes lid off of garbage can, revealing a girl puppy inside.]
 * Girl Puppy: Hey, man, that's my roof you're messing with. Put it back. The metal blocks the gamma rays from the dog-catcher's pup-detector.
 * Lucky: Oh, sorry, strange, random puppy.

[Puts lid back on can.]

That was weird, but then, what isn't lately?

The Really Weird Dog
[Squirt is trying to convince Lucky not to help Rover, an alligator.]
 * Squirt: We got to get rid of this walking handbag. He's a menace!
 * Lucky: I thought you never met a mutt you didn't like.
 * Squirt: He ain't no mutt. He's an alligator.
 * Niblet: An alligator who can talk!
 * Cookie: Yeah. How'd you learn to do that, anyway?
 * Rover: Oh, you know, from other dogs, much like yourselves.
 * Squirt: Yeah, dogs you ate.
 * Rover: Not me. Oh, I'm a vegetarian.
 * Squirt: I don't care if you're a Presbyterian. You're not a pet like us.

Bone Voyage
[Agatha is leaving Rebound with McLeish, to go on a cruise.]
 * Agatha: I'm worried about Rebound. I've never left her alone a whole week.
 * McLeish: You've got nothing to worry about, Mother. Look who you're leaving her with -- a dog expert.
 * Agatha: Where?

[Looks around]

Oh, you mean you.

[Rebound and Squirt are looking for Agatha on the cruise ship.]
 * Rebound: That's not Agatha! She's a short old lady with gray hair and big, goofy glasses.
 * Squirt: You just described half the passengers on this ship.

Snow Problem
[Tundra is trying to convince Lucky and the gang to take him to Alaska to meet his perfect person.]

 * Tundra: You wouldn't let down a puppy who's following his dream... would you?

[Begins to beg; Lucky almost seems moved, but Squirt interrupts.]

 * Squirt: Fuhgeddaboudit! There's only so far we can go for a pup!

[Transition to the Alaskan wilderness.]

 * Squirt: ...and apparently, just how far's pretty darn far.

[Lucky and the gang are lost in the woods during the sled race.]
 * Squirt: Great, great, great. We're so deep in the woods that even a couple of squirrels can't find their way around.
 * Cookie: I guess we really are lost.
 * Niblet: Does this mean we have to start eating each other? 'Cause if we do, I pick Strudel.
 * Strudel: Ack!

The K9 Kid
[Pepper is reluctant to break up the tussle between the other pups.]
 * Pepper: [sighs] I'm getting too old for this nonsense.

''[Lucky and the gang just saw Sarge tell Pepper she's not good enough to be a police dog. Squirt is more peeved off than anyone.]''
 * Squirt: Hold me back, Lucky, or I'll tear him limb from limb!

[Lucky does nothing.] For dogs' sakes, Lucky, hold me back!
 * Lucky: Oh sure. (Flatly) Don't do it, Squirt. He's not worth the trouble.
 * Squirt: Yeah, I suppose you're right. But if Sarge ever bad-mouths an innocent, young pup like that while I'm around, it's gonna take more than just Lucky to hold me back.

[Lucky is trying to comfort Pepper after she just got rejected by Sarge, the K9 commander.]
 * Lucky: Hey, Pepper.
 * Squirt: We're real sorry.
 * Pepper: It's all I ever wanted -- to do good, get the bad guys. Now I guess I'll have to settle for being some old lady's purse dog.
 * Cookie: What?! I can't believe you're gonna let some uppity, establishment dog tell you what you can and cannot do.
 * Pepper: Sarge is the K9 commander. He must know what he's talking about.
 * Squirt: That guy? He doesn't know his haunches from his hind quarters.

The Call Of The Squirreldog
[Squirt and Strudel are discussing why Mr. Nut Nut thinks he's a dog.]
 * Squirt: So what's the deal? Do you think he got conked on the head with a coconut, and woke up thinking he was a dog?
 * Strudel: No, there are many much more plausible theories, why, I could spend all day narrowing down the possibilities...

[Moments later.]

 * Strudel: (to Spotty): I'm rather curious about that, uh, pup.

[Gestures to Mr. Nut Nut.]

 * Spotty: Oh, that's Mr. Nut Nut. He fell out of a tree and into our doggie bed when we were babies.
 * Squirt: Aha, just like a coconut!

I Never Barked For My Father
[Strudel and Lucky are getting ready to take Ginger to her perfect person.]
 * Strudel: Time to go, Lucky.
 * Lucky: Okay. Say goodbye, Ginger.
 * Ginger: (smiling) Goodbye Ginger.

''[Lucky is by himself in the telecom room attempting to contact Dolly at the Pound Puppy headquarters for permission to allow Slick and Chip to stay at Shelter 17. He turns on the device, checks to see if anyone is watching, and then quickly shuts it off. Lucky then pretends he's having a conversation on the telecom.]''
 * Lucky: Calling headquarters. Come in headquarters.

(Gruffly): Hello, Shelter 17. What can we do you for?

(Normal voice): I need to talk to General Dolly.

(Gruffly): One moment.

[He looks around before continuing.]

(As Dolly): Hi, y'all!

(Normal voice): Hey, Dolly. It's me, Lucky.

(As Dolly): Well, if it isn't my favorite team leader. How's it going, sugar?

(Normal voice): Actually, Dolly, I've got a problem. You see, a friend of mine, a stray, wants to hoard here for a few days and I'm not sure if --

(As Dolly): Now, Lucky, honey, you know the rules. We can't be a hotel for every stray that comes along. Our job is to find pups homes, not to keep them running on the --

[He is caught in the act by Cookie who walks in.]

[clears throat] (Normal voice): -- street.

[Lucky is talking with his father, Slick.]
 * Lucky: Can I ask you something, Slick?
 * Slick: Sure, Lucky.
 * Lucky: Do you ever think about me?
 * Slick: Everyday, kiddo. Everyday.

McLeish Unleashed
[McLeish is hyping himself up about his new job.]
 * McLeish: I will grab that sewage with my jaws, and wrestle it into submission. Rawwr!

Olaf In Love
[Cookie and Lucky are asking Kiki about her "special" abilities.]
 * Cookie: How does such a little dog know so much?
 * Kiki: It's easy, just like I can tell that you and Lucky are more than just friends.
 * Cookie: W-what?
 * Lucky: Yeah. W-what? Uh, obviously, young Kiki here isn't always right. Hey, I know. Let's find her a human.

Kennel Kittens Return
[The Kennel Kittens have brought a large helping of bacon And dog biscuits as a Peace offering to the Pound Puppies.]
 * Niblet: Ba-Ba-Ba-Bacon!

 * Jaden: D-D-D-Dog Biscuits!
 * Ace: And not just any bacon. We're talking prime cut, maple-smoked, nitrate-free bacon -- only the best for our canine comrades.

Kitty: And not just any type of dog biscuits home baked!
 * Lucky: Wait a minute. What's the catch?
 * Ace: Catch? You offend me, Lucky. This is simply an olive branch to show our feelings are genuine. So, what do you say? You call the rest of your team up here and have yourselves a celebration.
 * Lucky: Well...
 * Niblet: Please, Lucky! It's a giant pile of pork and dog biscuits, for Pete's sake!
 * Lucky: Oh, why not? Jaden, get the other guys and let's party!

[the episode ends as Everyone cheers.]

Mutternal Instincts
[Lucky has just asked Cookie if she will be able to handle all of her assigned tasks.]
 * Cookie: Hey, they don't call me "the Cookinator" for nothing.

Lucky Gets Adopted
[Cookie and Niblet are discussing what they plan to do after the party.]
 * Cookie: I'm heading home right after the party.
 * Niblet: I'm going to sneak into Rebound's house today after Agatha takes off her glasses.
 * Rebound: [Runs up to him.] She'll think he's a couch!

[Lucky is explaining to Shaggles why he doesn't have time to have a family own him.]
 * Lucky: You know how it is.
 * Shaggles: I'm only three months old. I don't know how anything is.

[Lucky is being interrogated by Missy, Molly, and Muff-Muff, three snooty dogs owned by Dot's friends, who are equally snooty.]
 * Missy: Seriously, do you have no pride at all? Look what your human dressed you in.

[Lucky takes off wig and tiara.]
 * Lucky: Oh, yeah. Ridiculous, huh? Actually, see, she's not my human. I really don't have a human.
 * Missy: Why not? What's wrong with you?
 * Lucky: What's wrong? Nothing's wrong with me!
 * Missy: Oh, really, Madame Mr. Chewy McFluffster? What if I told you your lipstick is smeared?!
 * Molly: And your tutu is crooked?!
 * Muff-Muff: And you are possibly the lamest-looking creature I have ever seen!

[The trio laugh as Lucky gets mad.]

[Lucky has just revealed to Dot that he can talk.]
 * Dot: You-you can talk?
 * Lucky: Yes, I can talk, but that needs to stay our secret. And I'm gonna let you in on another secret. I have a job to, and that job is to get dogs adopted by boys and girls like you.

Zipper The Zoomit Dog
[Zipper is telling Lucky and Niblet about her love of zoomits.]
 * Zipper: Zoomit plus person plus me equals love!

[Zipper just revealed that she wants to train to become a zoomit-catching dog, when Niblet gets an idea.]
 * Niblet: Of course! All she needs is a coach! (to Lucky) Like how you coached me from jumping in and ruining that nice folks' picnic. (to Zipper) I mean before you did.
 * Lucky: A coach, now that's an idea, Niblet. But we don't really know any zoomit dogs.
 * Niblet: Sure we do.
 * Lucky: We do?
 * Zipper: Awesome!
 * Niblet: And if I know this zoomit champ as much as I think I do, he'll jump at the chance to train you!

[Cut to Shelter 17 underground headquarters.]
 * Squirt: Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold the phone. You want me to what? Not a chance, I'm outta here, I'm gone.

[He walks away.]

[Squirt has just thought up of a plan to get revenge on Brutus.]
 * Squirt: Squirt, you're a genius -- an evil genius.

[Squirt is training Zipper to catch zoomits.]
 * Squirt: Alright, pull!

[Strudel pulls the lever on the zoomit-launching machine, and Zipper chases the zoomit as she recites the code Squirt taught her.]
 * Zipper: I'm watching the zoomit...I'm chasing the zoomit...

[She jumps up, catches the zoomit, and hits the wall, head first.]

Oof!

[She falls down.]
 * Squirt: And...she's at one with the stucco.

The Fraud Princess
[The gang has just finished spying on Agatha McLeish and her boyfriend, Wally Banks, through a window.]
 * Cookie: Well, that was weird.
 * Squirt: Yeah, seeing Agatha getting kissed by some bald guy? Ew!
 * Cookie: No! Seeing some bald guy just talk Agatha into getting another dog.

[Princess, Wally's male Maltese dog, is annoyed by Rebound's antics.]
 * Princess: Hey, I'll tell you what, toots -- you want to be useful? Why don't you take me on a tour of the house?
 * Rebound: Yay! Come on. It'll be fun, fun, fun, fun, fun!
 * Princess: Yeah, fun. Like mange is fun.

The Super Secret Pup Club
[Patches is telling Cupcake and Rebound about what he would do if he was a Pound Puppy.]
 * Rebound: Your versions of those stories sure have a lot of bears in them.

[Patches is scolding Cupcake and Rebound for letting the grown up dogs tell them what to do.]
 * Patches: If Cookie told Cookie to just stay and do nothing, would she just stay and do nothing?

Barlow
[Strudel is being complimented for getting a large group of puppies adopted so quickly.]
 * Cookie: Strudel, I got to hand it to you.
 * Squirt: Talk about a streamlined operation. I mean, come on. 23 pup adoptions in 10 minutes?
 * Niblet: It's a compact disc!
 * Squirt: No, it's -- it's a record, Niblet. A record.

There's Something About Camelia
[Strudel has gathered the gang together to show off her latest invention.]
 * Lucky: All right, Strudel, you got us all down here. Now, what's the big news?
 * Strudel: Oh, nothing...except the most brilliant innovation since the dawn of time!
 * Niblet: At long last -- a device that delivers kibble straight to my tummy!
 * Squirt: You've got one of those. It's called your mouth.
 * Niblet: I'm amazing!

Good Dog, McLeish!
[Strudel and Niblet are trying to explain what happened when they hypnotized McLeish.]
 * Lucky: So, what happened?
 * Strudel: Um, you see, there was a bit of confusion while I was hypnotizing McLeish, and what with all the back-and-forth and--
 * McLeish: [howls]
 * Niblet: She made him think he was a dog.
 * Strudel: I made him think he was a dog?! It was your fault!
 * Lucky: Look, I don't care whose fault it is, I just want to know how we fix him.

[The rest of the gang snickers.]
 * Lucky: (rolls eyes) Oh brother...

[McLeish, disguised as a dog, jumps on Lucky.]
 * McLeish: I'm on you like ugly on a dogcatcher's face.

The Ruff Ruff Bunch
[Cuddlesworth and the other members of the Ruff Ruff Bunch are gathered together for a meeting.]
 * Cuddlesworth: My friends, we may be small, we may be dainty, but do you know what's deep inside each and every one of us?
 * Fifi: Uh, goose-liver fois gras on stone-ground whole wheat crackers?
 * Cuddlesworth: No. The primal howl! Raise your heads proudly and let me hear you howl to the moon!

[Everyone looks up at the ceiling to see a disco ball.]
 * Patches: Isn't that a disco ball?
 * Cuddlesworth: It will suffice.

[Cuddlesworth and the rest of the Ruff Ruff Bunch are out in town committing various tasks, when they walk up to a fire hydrant.]
 * Cuddlesworth: Next, we will mark our territory...with our scent.
 * Cupcake: You don't mean...?
 * Cuddlesworth: Oh yes!

[Cuddlesworth lifts his leg like he's going to urinate on the fire hydrant, only to rush off screen and bring back a small candle to place next to it.]

Scented candles! Mine is lavender spice! [giggles creepily]

[All of the members of the Ruff Ruff Bunch, except Rebound, give Cuddlesworth a creeped out look as Rebound sniffs the scent of the candle.]

Salty
[Captain Pete has arrived at the pound and is talking with McLeish.]
 * Captain Pete: Excuse me, be ye the captain of this here establishment?
 * McLeish: If you're looking for the costume party, I believe it's about a mile that way at the corner of "Get away from me" street and "Before I call the cops, you strange old kook" avenue.
 * Captain Pete: And a fine joke that was, sir. Broke the ice, it did. Like a solid oak prow off the coast of Nova Scotia.
 * McLeish: What?

Squawk
[Niblet is asking a group of parrots at a pet store if they have seen Napoleon, Mayor Jerry's parrot.]
 * Niblet: Psst! Hey, parrots. I'm a member of the Pound Puppies, and I'm looking for Mr. Squawkers. Do you know him?
 * Green Parrot: Pound Puppies! [squawks]
 * Niblet: Yeah, that's me. But shh. Don't mention that dogs can talk. It's secret.
 * Pink Parrot: [squawks] Dogs can talk. Dogs can talk.
 * Humphrey: (To Niblet) Ask them where Mr. Squawkers is.
 * Niblet: I've got a better idea, Humphrey. Maybe they can show us where he is.

[Niblet opens the cage and all the parrots fly around the store, squawking "Pound Puppies!"]
 * Store Clerk: [gasps] It's the great parrot rebellion. Just as the Mayans predicted. Run for your lives!

[The store clerk runs out of store with parrots chasing him.]

The Accidental Pup Star
[Strudel is showing the gang the internet video of Rebound singing.]
 * Strudel: I was on the internet, when I came across this video. I warn you, what you are about to see, is disturbing.

[Presses button on her computer, causing the last few lines of "Happy That You're Home" to play.]

[The pups are talking about their past viral videos.]
 * Cupcake: I was on the internet once when I fell into the toilet.
 * Patches: Hey! Me Too!

[The Gang has just finished watching the video of Rebound singing "Happy That You're Home".]
 * Strudel: The singing Rebound video is up to seven million hits now, and that's on this one site alone!
 * Rebound: I'm really sorry.
 * Cupcake: It's okay Rebound, it's not your fault.
 * Rebound: It's not?
 * Cupcake: Actually, it kinda is.

No Dogs Allowed
[A mailman is delivering mail and then turns to Mr. Grupo.]
 * Mailman: (To Mr. Grupo) It's the first time a dog, let alone three dogs didn't bark like crazy at me. Not a peep. And look at this, they brought me my slippers [holds up slippers]...Wait a minute, how'd they get my slippers? Ah well, it sure was cute.

[Julie sees Winnie and Jenny coming, she is spotted.]
 * Winnie: Hi, Julie. [Winnie and Jenny are walking without Penny and Julie quickly hides Checkers and pops out]
 * Julie: Uh hi, Winnie. How's it going?
 * Winnie: Not good. We had to kick Jenny out of the Pony Sister Club.
 * Jenny: I'm Jenny!
 * Winnie: Then the other one.
 * Jenny: Penny.
 * Winnie: Right, Penny.
 * Julie: You kicked her out of the club. Why?
 * Winnie: Because she bought this puppy.
 * Jenny: Ruffles and all she ever did was talk about him. Ruffles this, Ruffles that, Ruffles, Ruffles, Ruffles.
 * Julie: Why that's just horrible!
 * Winnie: Penny is really not Pony Sister Material. And to be honest with you, I think she did not really deserve to be kept in the club in the first place. It is just probable that evryone else thinks that as well, judging by how ruthless she is.

I Heard The Barks On Christmas Eve
[The gang are leading the new pups to their perfect people.]
 * Lucky: All right then, let's do this! On, Cookie! On, Strudel! On, puppies with bows! On, Niblet! On, Squirt-Squirt! Let's go, doggies, go!
 * Patches: Bye, guys! Good luck!
 * Lucky: Be good, pups. We'll be back soon.
 * Niblet: Don't eat all the kibble cake!
 * Cupcake: You already did!
 * Niblet: Oh, yeah. Sorry.

''[Mr. Nut-nut has just informed the gang that they have to place thousands of pups before Christmas day.]''
 * Cookie: It's impossible!
 * Squirt: It's ridiculous!
 * Niblet: It's impossodiculosselous!

[Rebound, Cupcake, and Patches have just witnessed Chris Jingles magically appear and then disappear before their very eyes.]
 * Cupcake: Rebound, I will never doubt you again.
 * Patches: I will, but not about this.

Pound Preemies
[McLeish is almost finished building a girly kite in his office.]
 * McLeish: Just one more piece and my kite will be--

''[Miss Petunia howls in pain in the distance. McLeish unintentionally breaks the kite's frame upon hearing this.]''

Dagnargit!

[He goes outside.]

Olaf! Olaf!
 * Olaf: What's the problem, Mr. McLeish?
 * McLeish: I'm trying to complete a very important construction project.
 * Olaf: Your Pretty Pink Princess Glitter-Wing Kite Kit?
 * McLeish: Well, that's part of it. But the dogs out here are going all higgledy piggledy.
 * Olaf: Higgledy piggledy, sir?
 * McLeish: It's a technical term. Look it up sometime.
 * Miss Petunia: [howls]
 * McLeish: It means that.

[Lucky opens the door to the pound's grooming salon to try to help Miss Petunia give birth.]
 * Lucky: Miss Petunia? Are you okay?
 * Miss Petunia: [groans]

''[Lucky sees her giving birth and faints from the sight of it. Cookie walks past him.]''
 * Cookie: Men.

[Squirt is holding the side gate open when Niblet shows up.]
 * Squirt: Niblet, what are you doing here? Shouldn't you be out flying a kite?
 * Niblet: It got stuck on a billboard. Olaf and Mr. McLeish climbed up to get it down. Then they got attacked by some pigeons. Then they got arrested.

Working K-9 To 5
[Lucky, Cookie, and Niblet are disguised as senior citizens and have Squirt, Strudel, and Dimples on leashes.]
 * Strudel: This is ridiculous!
 * Lucky: No, it's not. It'll work. You three just act like dogs. As long as you're on leashes, we should be okay. Niblet, Cookie, don't forget - we're senior humans out for a walk.
 * Cookie: [Elderly voice] You got it, sonny.
 * Niblet: Jeepers peepers, I'm 11!
 * Lucky: People years, Niblet, not dog years.
 * Niblet: I'm 11,000!
 * Lucky: Close enough.

Cuddle Up Buttercup
[Niblet is acting like he's a stuffed toy at the toy store, when a boy jumps on him.]
 * Boy: Oh, boy! A giant dog ride! I'm gonna climb on right now!
 * Niblet: Please don't, little kid. You could damage my spine.
 * Boy: Mommy! Mommy! Look! This one talks!
 * Mom: No! He's too big! I'm sure he's too expensive.
 * Boy: Aw, sorry doggy toy.
 * Niblet: It's all right, little kid!

[He give the boy a big lick.]
 * Boy: Uh, that was a little too realistic!

The Pups Who Loved Me
[Bondo, a Pound Puppy agent from Britain, introduces himself.]
 * Bondo: The name's Bondo. Just Bondo.

[Bondo is showing Lucky and the Super Secret Pup Club his underground lair.]
 * Patches: This place is cool!
 * Bondo: Yes. Yes it is.
 * Lucky: Yeah? Well, your elevator operator coughed on me. Probably gave me scurvy. Nothing fancy about scurvy, is there?

Fright At The Museum
[Strudel just finished reading the legend of Meowtuhotep to the gang.]
 * Strudel: This all is just a legend -- superstitious nonsense. Mummies don't come back to life. It's impossible. Or is it? Dun! Dun! Dun!

[Squirt and Niblet are trying to piece together the broken halves of the amulet to send Meowtuhotep back to the underworld.]
 * Squirt: (muffled): Oh no! The glue hasn't dried yet, and I can't hold both pieces in my mouth!
 * Niblet: (muffled): You don't need to, Squirt, 'cause I'm right here with you.
 * Squirt: [puts down his half] Thanks, pal. And just so you know, you may be a big fraidy-cat and all, but at this moment, there's no one I'd rather have by my side.

Puddles The Problem Pup

 * Olaf: [notices stain on McLeish's new sweater] Oh, Mr. McLeish, it looks like you spilled coffee all over your brand new sweater vest.
 * McLeish: [realizes that the stain is from Puddles urinating.] That's...not...coffee. Yu-u-u-u-uck!

[Puddles is convinced that Sam won't take him as a pet if he doesn't get housebroken.]
 * Puddles: I don't care what you guys say. Sam's never gonna want me until I stop leaving puddles in the wrong place.
 * Lucky: Puddles, we don't know that.
 * Puddles: I do, and you Pound Puppies promised to help pups like me, so, guys, here's your mission.
 * Niblet I love missions!
 * Puddles: You're gonna get me housebroken.
 * Niblet: Oh. Squirt loves missions!

It's Elementary My Dear Pup Club
[Rebound, Cupcake, Patches, and Boots are outside Chuckie's school, and Rebound is running around them talking about a crime investigation show she watched.]
 * Rebound: I saw this show once where this guy looked like he was guilty of robbing something even though he wasn't guilty, and then some detective people proved he wasn't guilty, and then they got the real guy, and then the first guy went free and kissed his wife, and that's what happened!
 * Cupcake: It's the perfect plan. We'll be defectives!
 * Patches: Detectives!

Hot Dawg!
[Antonio, a smooth-talking Chihuahua, and Pupster are watching Cookie and Strudel argue in the distance.]
 * Pupster: So... I'm not gonna get my human tonight, huh?
 * Antonio: What?! No! That is false. Of course you will, little pup of a dog.
 * Pupster: But the Pound Puppies aren't doing too well tonight, and, well, it's kind of your fault.
 * Antonio: [sighs] I fear you are correct, puppycito. I never wanted to be this jerk, yet everywhere I go, I hurt the ones I love.
 * Pupster: Well, if it just causes trouble, then why do you do it?
 * Antonio: This is a good question, me poco-poco puppy-pup. Why must I try so hard to fill my heart with love? Perhaps my heart -- she is empty.
 * Pupster: Empty? Well, gee. You're a Pound Puppy, for Pete's sake. What's better than helping pups find their humans? Seems like that should fill anyone's heart all up to the top. Shouldn't it?
 * Antonio: From out of the mouths of pups comes slobber and milk and little bits of kibble and then wisdom.

I'm Ready For My Close Pup
[Cookie, Cupcake, and Pooches come out from the underground headquarters.]
 * Cookie: Hey, guys.
 * Squirt: Hey, Cookie. Hey, Cupcake. Hey, Pooches McFurface.

[He realizes who it is.]

Pooches McFurface?!

[Niblet comes out of the kennel.]
 * Niblet: Pooches McFurface?! The famouser than famous T.V.star?! Where is she?! Where?!
 * Pooches: [from under Niblet's paw] Right down here.

[Rebound and Patches have just watched Cupcake, disguised as Pooches, leave her trailer full of herself.]
 * Rebound: Oh no! Fame has gone to Cupcake's head! What a terrible development!
 * Patches: Worse than terrible, Rebound. It's like something from a sitcom!

When Niblet Met Giblet
[Niblet just met Giblet, an old English sheepdog, and has taken a liking to her.]
 * Giblet: Will you help me put the flower in my hair?
 * Niblet: Would I ever!
 * Giblet: I don't know. That's why I asked you.
 * Niblet: Then I'll do it right now.

[Lucky just saved Cookie from drowning in a river.]
 * Lucky: What were you thinking? I almost lost you just now. Do you have any idea how much you mean to me?
 * Cookie: No. Not really. How much do I mean to you?
 * Lucky: Well, you know, plenty.

Once A Ralph, Always A Ralph
[Strudel is explaining her latest plan.]
 * Strudel: Behold; the Strudel-tronic talking poster! Anyone walking in front of it will hear a recorded message. All thanks to cutting-edge micro-chip technology!
 * Squirt: Yeah, cutting-edge for 1973.

Hello Kitten
[Rebound is running in circles hyperactively and Teensy, a kitten, seems a little taken by her.]
 * Teensy: [Referring to Rebound] Are all you dogs like this? Because it's very overwhelming.
 * Patches: Naw, She just does this when she gets excited...or happy...or confused...or bored. Okay. Yeah, she's always like this. But that's just her.

[Spoons is telling the pup club about her old friend, a puppy named Bumper.]
 * Spoons: When I was just a little kitten, I didn't have anywhere to stay. Then I bumped into Bumper. He was a puppy, and didn't have anyone either. So we became each other's family. I loved him and he loved me!

[Rebound is trying to convince Spoons to disobey the Kennel Kittens' orders and go live with Suzanne and Bumper.]
 * Rebound: And besides, how can it be wrong for you to be with Suzanne and Bumper if you know in your heart that it's so right? You should never give up on your dream.

[The Kennel Kittens and the Super Secret Pup Club watch Suzanne embrace Spoons.]
 * Patches: Alright, so what's your deal? How come you were so determined to keep Spoons from being with a dog?
 * Ace: Believe it or not, when I was a kitten, my best friend was a puppy. But then he left me to be with his perfect person. Just like that. It broke my heart. And I guess it left me wary of dogs. But now, I don't know. Maybe I should try and find that pup so I can hear his side of the story. After all, you dogs-well, some of you, anyway--you're not half bad.
 * Patches: Same goes for you cats.

Beauty Is Only Fur Deep
[Champ, a hairless dog, just told his story and Cookie and Niblet seem to think less of him.]
 * Cookie: Some hero he turned out to be. He probably only rescued people for the attention.
 * Niblet: Like those cute girl dogs in Champ's pointless flashback.

The Watchdogs
[Niblet and Strudel are dressed as superheroes on a rooftop, planning their next move.]
 * Niblet: Let's defeat the bad guys.
 * Strudel: To the zipline.
 * Niblet: Uh, it's kind of stuck on that light pole.
 * Strudel: To the stairs.

Hail To The Chief
[Niblet just found Chief, a street dog, and is playing with him.]
 * Niblet: Oh, random puppy dog I just found, you sure are a lot of fun!
 * Chief: I'm not random, my name is Chief. My mom says I'm a natural born leader. I'm what you call a self-made pup!
 * Niblet: You made yourself? Gee, I don't know that much about science, but that sounds really painful.

All Bark And Little Bite
[Dolly is talking on the Dog-Com 250 to the Super Secret Pup Club.]
 * Dolly: There's been a lot of talk about you three at headquarters lately.
 * Cupcake: I knew it, it's because we blew up the FKD – over and over again.
 * Rebound: I blame myself.
 * Cupcake: I blame you too.
 * Rebound: Hey!

[The Pound Puppies attempt a scheme to convince Patches' friends to lose their prejudice against his girl friends, which attempts scaring them with a mechanical bull.]
 * Lucky: Hiya, bull.

[The Mechanical Bull snorts angrilly, startling Lucky]
 * Lucky: ...Gee up close you...a look a lot more realistic, than I expected...
 * Strudel: Yoohoo! Lucky! I'm here with a scary, bull! Oh those boys will be frightened by this for sure.
 * [Strudel reveals the fake mechanical bull, which is outside the bull's enclosed field. Lucky's reaction changes to fright]
 * Lucky: Wait?!?! You mean...That's the fake bull?!? And this...this one's?!?!?
 * [The REAL bull roars angrilly at Lucky. Terrified, Lucky sprints as fast as he can]
 * Lucky: AAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!
 * Patches: Run Lucky, run!!!

[A panicked Lucky runs around the pen the bull chasing him all the way, screaming]
 * Niblet: Oh, hey look! The real bull's still out there!
 * Lucky: HELP!!!!
 * Strudel: Weren't YOU supposed to lure him into pen before Lucky arrived, so we could replace him with this?! And then the girls would, quote en quote, rescue the boys, and the boys would be so impressed, that they'd lose their prejudice against the girls?!?!
 * [Lucky can still be heard screaming and the bull still bellowing angrily]
 * Niblet: Yeah, but then I got distracted when you asked me to inflate the inner tubes on that raft. Good thing we had all that propane lying around, filling that up was a snap!
 * Strudel: Remind me to ask Dolly how you ever qualified to be a Pound Puppy.

Lucky The Dunce
[Lucky, who has been turned dumb, because of a mishap with Strudel's electronic scrambling device, is laying on his back with Niblet as they look up at the sky.]
 * Lucky: Oh, man, I didn't know what I was missing. All these years of planning missions, while I could have been getting my head stuck and falling through the air. Who was that big dope, anyway?
 * Niblet: Don't be so hard on yourself, Lucky. You had important stuff to do.
 * Lucky: What's more important than getting surprised by the dog face in the bucket with your friend?
 * Niblet: I've been confounded with logic once again!

Back In Action
[Bert, a washed up T.V. dog, feels bothered by Lucky's help.]
 * Bert: What did you say your name was?
 * Lucky: It's Lucky.
 * Bert: Well, your luck just ran out.

[Strudel is showing Bert how the F.K.D. will find his person.]
 * Strudel: Bert, this is the F.K.D. It gathers information about you to determine who your perfect person is.
 * Bert: You're wasting your time.
 * Strudel: I realize that, but I'm praying for a miracle.

[Bert is trying to find a place to nap, when Jackpot, a hyper puppy, walks with him.]
 * Jackpot: Hey, McBowser.
 * Bert: It's Bert.
 * Jackpot: Hey, McBert.
 * Bert: Just Bert.
 * Jackpot: Hey, Mc-Just-Bert.

The Truth Is In Hear
[Lucky and the gang are hiding in a kennel, while Olaf looks around, confused.]
 * McLeish: [runs up to him] Olaf! Did you see a strange woman run out just now?
 * Olaf: No, sir. I-I thought I heard someone--
 * McLeish: You too?! I was just attacked by an-an-- [looks down and sees the dress that was part of Cookie's disguise] [gasps] Look! Do you know what this means?
 * Olaf: I'd rather not say, Mr. McLeish. It's really none of my business.
 * McLeish: What? No! It's an alien disguise! They zip themselves up in disguises! I saw it on TV! They must be after the communications device. Oh! It must have fallen off when I repelled the invader. Well, don't just stand there babbling, Olaf! Hide! I gotta call Dr. Sculder. The safety of the human race is at stake! [He throughs the dress in the air and it lands on Olaf as he runs away.]

Lucky Has To Move
Dot: Hurry. If my dad finds me in here, he's gonna be real mad.

Strudel: Lucky, do I hear Dot with you?

Lucky: Yeah. Why?

Strudel: But she can't be in there. I didn't calculate her weight, and I don't think the vent will... (vent breaks) ...hold her. (Sparky turns the lights back on)

Mr. Henderson: Dot?!

Dot: (nervously) Uh... Hi, daddy.

Mr. Stinkman: Your daughter? Henderson, what is the meaning of this?! Were you using a child to pull off one your absurd presentations?! You've embarrassed the company and made a mess of this account! You can forget about that promotion! In fact, YOU'RE FIRED!

Mr. Henderson: But, Mr. Stinkman--

Mr. Stinkman: I'm so sorry, gentlemen. Please, forget about all this. Mr. Henderson is no longer representing this company.

Niblet, Squirt, Cookie, and Strudel: Moving?!

Niblet: What?! NO! You can't go, Lucky! You're the thick sticky gravy that holds our kibble together.

Squirt: For once, I gotta to agree with the big guy. Without you, we're nothing. I ain't letting you go.

Beardy: Besides, you promised me you'd find my person, and you better!

Lucky: Look, everybody just calm down. (to Beardy) I'm still gonna find your person, kid. I'm still gonna be the gravy in your kibble, Niblet. I'm not going anywhere.

Cookie: Well, what are you gonna do, run away and let Dot move without you?

Lucky: No, I can't do that, either. I love that kid too much. There must be a way to stop the move, but how?

Mr. Henderson: Dot, is there something you want to tell me?

Dot: [cries] I DON'T WANNA MOVE!

Voice cast

 * as Lucky
 * as Cookie
 * as Niblet
 * as Strudel
 * as Squirt
 * Brooke Goldner as Rebound
 * as Leonard McLeish
 * as Agatha McLeish
 * as Olaf
 * as Milton
 * as Mayor (Season 1) and as Mayor (Season 2)

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The Genius Club

The Genius Club is a 2006 film a thriller about seven geniuses who are called together to solve the world's problems in 1 night.

 * Directed by Tim Chey. Written by Tim Chey.

What if you had one night to solve the world's problems? For 7 geniuses, they have no choice. taglines

The various lines from Armand:

ARMAND (VOICE OVER)
Exactly. Finding a cure for cancer will bankrupt the medical establishment. Just like ending war will bankrupt the military establishment. Excellent answer, Ally. I'm very impressed with you. (bitterly) I also know our great President cut cancer research funding. President Halstrom looks away. How true. And how sick. Cut money to find cures, spend money to start wars. Right, Mr. President? It's not that simple. Oh, it's not that simple? What's complicated about what I just said? Try Senate committees, House leaders, political agendas, lobbyists, news media, military operatives...the list goes on. So politics is the cause of the world's problems? Yes, politics is the cause of the world's problems. Say it again, Mr. President. Politics- -I can't hear you. I want you to scream it out. (louder) Politics- -I CAN'T HEAR YOU! POLITICS IS THE CAUSE OF THE WORLD'S PROBLEMS!
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 * ALLY
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Brian looks around the room. CLOCK: 2:30 a.m. Brian carefully puts on an earplug.

In The Hallway (THE GENIUS CLUB)
Brian takes out a stick of gum and pops it in his mouth. He looks down the empty corridor. (beat) 'The speculations of a philosopher are far removed from the judgment of the multitude, for his aim is seek truth in all things' Copernicus. Right. Are you going to answer the question? His name is Armand. He has the nation's second highest IQ, supposedly. He's been missing since 2002. He's the foremost expert in radioactive decay. For years he went under 'Armand Inrig' and other names until he was fired. (now looking at Jose) He has a lightning sharp mind. Worked for the Defense Department until he became persona non grata there, despite holding 34 patents. He finally developed a nuclear bomb sometime last year. Why does he want us to solve the world's problems in one night? (impatiently) Because he knows we can't. He's gathered the greatest minds for one last intellectual bash to show how 'superior' he is to all of us. He's using us as straw men then. Yeah.
 * BRIAN
 * JOSE
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 * JOSE
 * BRIAN

Abandoned Warehouse
INT. ABANDONED WAREHOUSE - NIGHT INSERT FRAME: Armand's sweaty, distraught face. It's all lies. Am I the only one who sees this? Step into any supermarket and you're accosted with stupidity. Has anyone ever wondered why magazines feature the same celebrities at every single checkout counter? Why not a magazine about finding a cure for leukemia? Or a magazine about solving world hunger?
 * VOICE OVER

Push in on each of the genius's face.

It's all one big distraction. The media outlets are succeeding in distracting the entire human race with stories about some celebrity or baseball player - in other words the head is chasing the tail or don't you get it?
 * VOICE OVER (CONT'D)

Brian sees his cell phone light up and answers it. SPLIT SCREEN between him and the FBI AGENT. Brian, the last safety mechanism has been deactivated. He's really going to blow up the city. Have you tried getting under the shield? Yes. He's got tamper-proof wiring all around it. God help us.
 * FBI AGENT
 * BRIAN
 * FBI AGENT

Brian hangs up and looks away. Think back a few decades - terrorism hardly existed. It's a modern invention - terrorism has simply replaced war. We should call it 'transnational soldierism'. And all war is a meaningless waste of human life.
 * JOSE
 * PRESIDENT HALSTROM

The scoreboard lights up.

Quotes from Stephen Baldwin, Tim Chey, et al

 * Stephen Baldwin: I read the script and I was crazy about it. Most of the scripts coming out of Hollywood are pretty boring. They really don’t make you think. They don’t have purpose and meaning. This one had purpose and meaning. It wasn’t just about the topic—the God part of it—that a lot of movies don’t even mention. It was about viewing the different sides of issues like oil and gas, capitalism, communism. Those are issues most people aren’t talking about in movies right now. There’s no thought. This movie was very thought-provoking. I had to audition for it, but when I read the script I made a decision that said, “this is mine.
 * Tim Chey: "The world is not getting any better - it's sick and in dire need of help. I wrote the script to kind of turn every issue upside down. The environment is claustophobic and, in the end, these character's lives and their destiny's change in the course of one night."
 * Paula Jai Parker: 'I loved the monologue that she spoke. Because she is a scientist it had to make sense to her. For her to believe in what her grandmother and her grandmother’s grandmother believed, it had to make sense. That’s the same with me. I had to read the Bible for myself. I couldn’t let everyone tell me Jesus did this and that. It wasn’t enough for me to hear the stories. I had to go into the Bible and read it for myself from beginning to end, from Genesis to Revelation, I get the message, I feel the message and I think that relates to my character. She had to read it and investigate the possibilities and I think the monologue says it all. The reality is she couldn’t believe in God until it made sense to her, to her science. That’s how I am. I couldn’t believe what my mother said until I read it for myself. I became so intrigued with religion and Jesus and the knowledge that I gained from the Bible that I am currently reading the lost chapters of the Bible. The chapters that were taken out to make the Bible more politically correct. I want to know what is missing. We’re a lot alike in that regard.'
 * Carol Abney: My character is clearly an atheist. Her religion is money. Personally, I don’t necessarily identify with that. I don’t follow one religious path, but I do respect it. I am not an atheist, but I’m also not a “label”. Intellectually I could identify, but not emotionally.

Cast of 'The Genius Club

 * Carol Abney	        .... 	Julia Endersol
 * Stephen Baldwin	 ....	Rory Johnson
 * Jacob Bonnema	 ....	Jacob Chernov
 * Tricia Helfer	 ....	Ally Simon
 * Matt Medrano 	 ....	Jose Delgado
 * Philip Moon 	 ....	Professor Lee
 * Paula Jai Parker	 ....	Tatiana
 * Huntley Ritter	 ....	Brian Mehlman
 * Jack Scalia   	 ....	President
 * Tom Sizemore	 ....	Armand

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DCIFF is proud to present the 2007 finalists** (**films are subject to change) More information will be posted shortly : (* films marked with an (*) are DC area filmmakers) Features:

The Genius Club, directed by Tim Chey (2006) World Premiere, U S A www.TheGeniusClubMovie.com Al Qarem, directed by Affandy Yacoob (2006) World Premiere, Afghanistan U S A www.alquremthemovie.com Baby Blues, directed by        (2006) World Premiere, U S A Barrio Cuba, directed by Humberto Solas (2006) East Coast Premiere, Cuba Disappearances, directed by Jay Craven (2006) World Premiere, U S A www.kingdomcounty.com God in My Pocket, directed by Arnault Labaronne (2006) US Premiere, France Intellectual Property, directed by Nick Peterson (2006) World Premiere, U S A www.ipthemovie.com My Brother, directed by Anthony Lover (2006) World Premiere, U S A One Buddha, directed by               (2006) World Premiere, Argentina Rain in the Mountains, directed by        (2006) World Premiere, U S A

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Solving the world problems is no easy task. Just ask film director Tim Chey. “We wanted to make an extremely thought-provoking film,” says Chey, “that reaches the very tip of mankind’s problems and then comes back down.”

The Genius Club boldly looks at the face of world problems through the eyes of seven geniuses and a deranged terrorist who has the second-highest IQ in the country. It’s a no-holds bar, sock ‘em fight fest without the punches. Instead, the geniuses fight for their lives intellectually.

“We wanted to make a very good ‘7-course-meal’ film,” says Chey, “not another fast-food film that you forget two seconds after leaving the theater.”

The Genius Club commenced principle photography on January 28, 2006. The distinguished cast includes: Carol Abney, Stephen Baldwin, Jacob Bonnema, Tricia Helfer, Matt Medrano, Philip Moon, Paula Jai Parker, Huntley Ritter, Jack Scalia, and Tom Sizemore.

The film is written and directed by Tim Chey and produced by Arch Bonnema and Daishi Takiishi.

“Every cast member was crucial to the film’s success,” says Arch Bonnema, the film’s producer. “We were very fortunate to have powerful actors do this ensemble.”

“We had over 6,000 actors submit for the roles which I think must have set some kind of record,” jokes Chey. “In the end, I’m glad we went with the best actor for each part, not just going with a name actor for the sake of having a name actor.”

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"By our successful cooperation we can make every evil a thing of the past" -Anindya Nayak

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Helen Frankenthaler

Helen Frankenthaler (12 December 1928 – 28 December 2011) was an American post-painterly abstraction artist. Born in New York City, her work was influenced by Jackson Pollock, with whom she also was involved in the 1946–1960 abstract art movement.

Quotes about Helen Frankenthaler

 * We [ Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland ] were interested in Pollock but could gain no lead from him. He was too personal. But Frankenthaler showed us a way – a way to think about and use, color.
 * Quote of Kenneth Noland, c. 1954, as cited in Abstract Art, Anna Moszynska, Thames and Hudson 1990, p. 194
 * Noland is referring to their common visit in Frankenthaler's studio in 1953

 * ..An artistic personality and a life personality often have no connection. In Helen's case, the controlling part of her is not part of the artistic personality. Her lyricism as an artist comes from a great personal inner liberation.
 * Quote of Robert Motherwell; as cited in interview with Helen Frakenthaler, The ‘New York Times, 1989 by Deborah Solomon

 * When I first met Helen [1950-51], she was a standard Cubist just out of college. Abstract Expressionism changed her direction.
 * Quote of Clement Greenberg; as cited in interview with Helen Frakenthaler, The ‘New York Times, 1989 by Deborah Solomon

 * Helen [Frankenthaler] was away for the weekend [in May 1952 or 1953], but Clem had the key to her studio and let us [Kenneth] Noland and Morris Louis ] in on a Sunday morning. We saw not just 'Mountains and Sea' but a group of pictures she had recently made. We felt exhilarated. The idea of being able to spread color out along the surface of the picture without having it create an illusion - this was very appealing to us.
 * Quote of Kenneth Noland; as cited in interview with Helen Frakenthaler, The ‘New York Times, 1989 by Deborah Solomon

 * Critics have not unanimously praised Ms. Frankenthaler's art. Some have seen it as thin in substance, uncontrolled in method, too sweet in color and too 'poetic.' But it has been far more apt to garner admirers like the critic Barbara Rose, who wrote in 1972 of Ms. Frankenthaler's gift for 'the freedom, spontaneity, openness and complexity of an image, not exclusively of the studio or the mind, but explicitly and intimately tied to nature and human emotions.'
 * Quote by Grace Glueck, in 'Helen Frankenthaler, Abstract Painter Who Shaped a Movement, Dies at 83', in 'The New York Times', Retrieved, 27 December, 2011

 * Greenberg didn't like Frankenthaler's painting, but he did ask her out for a drink [c. 1950-51], and for the next five years, the pair underwent what she [Helen] described to me as 'a painting bath'. They went to every exhibition in town, from Pollock to Sir Alfred Munnings, the English horse painter (and an enemy of modernism). They'd get the catalogues to each show, and grade the paintings in them. [Helen: 'One check meant we liked it. Two checks was pretty good. Three was wow!' And always a lot of talk, about what made one painting more successful than another. [Helen:] 'This seems the opposite of that lofty beautiful experience that art is supposed to be', she recalled. [Helen: 'Every painting is supposed to be a valid expression and interesting. But the truth is some work and some don't. That happens with all painters in every age'.  Greenberg had a great 'eye'; he could tell a first-rate painting from a second-rate one, but Frankenthaler wanted to make paintings that worked, so she looked and looked, seeking to develop her own eye.
 * Quote of Piri Halasz, in 'Defying Categories: Helen Frankenthaler, 1928-2011', on Artcritical, Dec 2011

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Adolph Gottlieb

Adolph Gottlieb (March 14, 1903 – March 4, 1974) was an American abstract expressionist painter and sculptor.

1940s

 * In times of violence, personal predilections for niceties of colour and form seem irrelevant. All primitive expression (like the myths) reveals the constant awareness of powerful forces, the immediate presence of terror and fear.
 * Radio broadcast with Mark Rothko, 1943, as quoted in Abstract Expressionism Creators and Critics, edited by Clifford Ross, Abrams Publishers New York 1990.

 * 1. To us art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risks. 2. This world of imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense. 3. It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way. 4. We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal. We wish to reassert the picture plane. We are for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal truth. 5. It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. (Rothko said this is the essence of academicism.) 6. There is no such thing as a good painting about nothing. 7. We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless. That is why we profess spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.
 * June 13, 1943 edition of the New York Times, brief manifesto: Adolph Gottlieb with Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman.

 * The role of the artist, of course, has always been that of image-maker. Different times require different images. Today when our aspirations have been reduced to a desperate attempt to escape from evil, and times are out of joint, our obsessive, subterranean and pictographic images are the expression of the neurosis which is our reality. To my mind certain so-called abstraction is not abstraction at all. On the contrary, it is the realism of our time.
 * The Ideas of Art, Tiger's Eye, Vol. 1, nr 2, December 1947, p. 43.

 * By now it has become a formula to attach new ideas on the grounds of extremism and unintelligibility. Every phase of modern art has in turn been attacked on these grounds, until the new phase became acceptable. Although the present attacks are focused on those who emphasize the subjective side of abstract painting, the threat to other sections of the modern painting is implicit. The attacks are always focused on those who are considered the black sheep, for reasons of non-conformity. They are conspicuous, because they are different, and therefore may be easy targets. [Gottlieb's comment on the attacks on artistic freedom in the United States, 1948]
 * Quote from Gottlieb's lecture at Forum: the Artist Speaks, museum of Modern Art, New York, May 5, 1948.

 * The true artist always refuses to conform to any standards others than his own. That’s why the attacks in Russia against Shostakovitch and Prokofiev are identical to the attacks that have been made here against American pioneers of abstract painting like Davis, Holty, or Morris. In Russia it was Malevich and Gabo, in this country at the moment it is people like Rothko, Baziotes, Pollock, my self and many others who are being attacked. The names may vary, but the methods, the motives; the objects of attack are essentially the same. Only meritocracy is forever immune, because it is forever ready to conform. [quote of Gottlieb, on the attacks on artistic freedom in 1948]
 * Lecture at Forum: the Artist Speaks, museum of Modern Art, New York, May 5, 1948.

 * Now let acknowledge the fact that to explain the meaning of painting is difficult. And when the form and the content are really new, there is not even a vocabulary with which to attempt to explain the new work. This is a problem for critics and a difficult problem. I think it is about time for the critics to face this problem, as well as the fact that there are a few new forms and ideas in modern painting, that these have validity, that they are here to stay and will be developed whether opposed or not... They should investigate the serious ideas underlying the painting which they malign. [Gottlieb's quote on the attacks of critics on abstract art, 1948]
 * Quote from Gottlieb's Lecture, given at 'Forum: the Artist Speaks', museum of Modern Art, New York, May 5, 1948.

1950s

 * If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge, not innocence.
 * Abstract Expressionism, Davind Anfam, Thames and Hudson Ltd London, 1990, p. 51.

 * As for a few others, the vital task was a wedding of abstraction and surrealism. Out of these opposites something new could emerge, and Gorky’s work is a part of the evidence that this is true. What he felt, I suppose, was a sense of polarity, not of dichotomy; that opposites could exist simultaneously within a body, within a painting or within an entire art.. .These are the opposites poles in his work. Logic and irrationality; violence and gentleness; happiness and sadness, surrealism and abstraction. Out of these elements I think Gorky evolved his style.
 * Arshile Gorky Adolph Gottlieb in exhibition catalogue Kootz Gallery New York, 1950; as quoted in Abstract Painting in America, W.C, Seitz p. 104.

 * I have always worked on the assumption that if something is valid and meaningful to me, it will also be valid and meaningful to many others. Not to everyone of course. On the basis of this assumption I do not think of an audience when I work, but only of my own reactions. By the same token I do not worry whether what I am doing is art or not. If what I paint is expressive, if it seems to communicate the feeling that is important to me, then I am not concerned if my work does not have marked earmarks of art. My work has been called abstract, surrealistic, totemistic and primitive.. ..I chose my own label and called my paintings 'Pictographs'..
 * Arts and Architecture, vol. 68, no 9, September 1951, p. 21.

 * People frequently ask why my canvases are compartmentalized. No one ever asks this about a house. A man with a large family would not choose to live in a one-room house.. .I am like a man with a large family and must have many rooms. The children of my imagination occupy the various compartments of my painting, each independent and occupying its own place. At the same time they have the proper atmosphere in which to function together, in harmony and as a unified group. One can say that my paintings are like a house, in which each occupant has a room of his own.’
 * Arts and Architecture, vol. 68, no 9, September 1951, p. 21.

Conversations With Artists, 1957

 * Conversations With Artists, Selden Rodman, 1957

 * We are going to have perhaps a thousand years of non-representational painting.

 * To my mind certain so-called abstraction is not abstraction at all.. ..on the contrary it is realism of our time.

 * We were outcasts, roughly expressionist painters not acceptable to most dealers and collectors.(A reference to the TEN group of painters).

 * The role of the artist, of course, has always been that of image-maker. Different times require different images.

 * To us art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.

 * My favourite symbols were those I did not understand.

1960s

 * Recently I was at the home of Thomas Hess and he had a painting hanging there and I said to my wife: 'Is that one of my paintings?'. And she said: 'Well, it looks like one of yours from around 1942'. But then we realized that it wasn't one of my but one of Baziote's paintings.. ..at that time, 1942, the differences in our paintings may have seemed very great, but now [1960] the difference is not so great apparently..  ..For example; in the early forties Rothko and I decided to paint a certain subject matter. Perhaps if we saw some of those paintings now..  ..they might not seem so different as they did at the time. However, at no point was there ever any sort of a doctrine or a programma or anything that would make a school. I think it was simply a situation in which all of the painters were at that time; they were trying to break away from certain things.
 * In an interview (March 1960) with David Sylvester, edited for broadcasting by the BBC first published in 'Living Arts', June 1963; as quoted in Interviews with American Artists, by David Sylvester; Chatto & Windus, London 2001, pp. 27-28

 * ..more significant, perhaps, was the fact that during the war [1940-1945] many of the Surrealists came [from Europe] to America and we were able to see them as just other human beings like ourselves and not as mythical characters who had superhuman capacities and talents. I think that there was a feeling after meeting them [a.o. Marcel Duchamp, Andre Masson, André Breton, Max Ernst ] personally that, well, if these men can have these great achievements and talents, there is hope for us [younger American artists]
 * Quote of Gottlieb, in an interview (March 1960) with David Sylvester, edited for broadcasting by the BBC first published in 'Living Arts', June 1963; as quoted in Interviews with American Artists, by David Sylvester; Chatto & Windus, London 2001, p. 29

 * For example, Rothko and I came to an agreement on the question of the subject matter; if we were to do something which could develop in some direction other than the accepted directions of that time, it would be necessary to use different subjects to begin with, and 1942, we embarked on a series of paintings that attempted to use mythological subject matter, preferably from Greek mythology. I did a series of paintings on the theme of Oedipus and Rothko did a series of paintings on other Greek themes… ..this offered a possibility of a way out [of a. o. Social Realism and Cubism ]
 * In an interview (March 1960) with David Sylvester, edited for broadcasting by the BBC first published in ‘Living Arts, June 1963; as quoted in Interviews with American Artists, by David Sylvester; Chatto & Windus, London 2001, p. 31

 * [David Sylvester asked Gottlieb, he is aware of the impact of the city New York on his painting:] Definitely I am. When I was in Paris last spring, my original plan was to go for four months and to paint there, and a number of people urged me to stay. That wanted to see what would happen, how my painting would change. But I felt strongly after being there less than a month that it was necessary for me to come back to New York, because I feel a certain rhythm in New York I don't feel in Paris.. ..there is a tempo in the life of New York which is exhilarating and I feel that this gets into one's painting. It's the pulse, not the look. I'am not involved with the external appearance of the city; it’s the vibrations.]
 * In an interview (March 1960) with David Sylvester, edited for broadcasting by the BBC first published in ‘Living Arts, June 1963; as quoted in Interviews with American Artists, by David Sylvester; Chatto & Windus, London 2001, p. 33

Interview with Dorothy Seckler, 1967

 * interview with Dorothy Seckler for Archives of American Art, October 25, 1967; as cited in Abstract Expressionist Painting in America, W.C, Seitz, Cambridge Massachusetts 1983.

 * I was looking for some sort of systematic way of getting down these subjective images and I had always admired, particularly admired the early Italian painters who proceeded the Renaissance and I very much liked some of the altarpieces in which there would be, for example the story of Christ told in a series of boxes.. .And it seemed to me this was a very rational method of conveying something. So I decided to try it. But I was not interested in telling, in giving something its chronological sequence. What I wanted to do was give something, to present what material I was interested in simultaneously so that you would get an instantaneous impact from it. So I made boxes..
 * p. 58.

 * I wanted to do something figurative. Well I couldn’t visualize a whole man.. .I felt that I wanted to make a painting primarily with painterly means. So I flattened out my canvas and made them roughly rectangular divisions, with lines going out in four directions. That is, vertically and horizontally..  .And then I would free associate, putting whatever came to my mind freely within these different rectangles... I thought of it as related tot the automatic writing the surrealists were interested in.
 * p. 55-59.

 * I was looking for some sort of systematic way of getting down these subjective images and I had always admired, particularly admired the early Italian painters who proceeded the Renaissance and I very much liked some of the altarpieces in which there would be, for example the story of Christ told in a series of boxes.. .And it seemed to me this was a very rational method of conveying something. So I decided to try it. But I was not interested in telling, in giving something its chronological sequence. What I wanted to do was give something, to present what material I was interested in simultaneously so that you would get an instantaneous impact from it. So, I made boxes..
 * p. 55-59.

 * Well, I was interested in a subjective image [in the 1940's].. ..stemming perhaps from the subconscious. Because the external world as far as I was concerned had been totally explored in painting and there was a whole ripe new area in the inner world that we all have. Now in order to externalise this you have to use visual means and so the visual means may have some relation tot the external world. However what I was trying to focus on was what I experienced within my mind, within my feelings, rather than on the external world which I can see.
 * p. 55-59.

 * Around 1950-51... I was finally getting away from the pictographs and looking for something... So it was necessary to find other forms, a different changed concept. So finally after a certain period of transition I hit on dividing the canvas into two parts, which then became like an imaginary landscape... What I was really trying to do when I got away from the pictographs was to make this notion of the kind of polarity clearer and more extreme. So the most extreme thing that I could think of doing at the time was dividing the canvas in half, make two big divisions and put something in the upper division and something in the lower section. So I painted that way... I would say roughly from 1952 to 56/57. About five years.
 * p. 55-59.

 * See, I never understand why my paintings hold together because I don't have any tricks for doing it and that is usually what makes a painting academic. There were some well-known devices for making a painting work hold together, ave cohesion. This seemed to be organized. But I don't necessarily have to know what the mechanism is. For me, what it really is, is something you have in yourself that makes you feel, it gives the painting a feeling of unity, of oneness, and being of all of one piece.
 * p. 55-59.

 * After doing the imaginary landscapes until say 1956, in ’57 I came out with the first Burst painting... There was a different type of space than I had ever used and it was a further clarification of what I was trying to do. The thing that was interesting that it was a return to a focal point, but it was a focal point with the kind of space that existed in traditional painting. Because this was like a solitary image or two images that were just floating in the canvas space. They had to hold the space and they also had to create all the movement – that took place within the rectangle.
 * p. 55-59.

 * When I started doing the 'Bursts' [paintings Gottlieb started c. 1958] I began to do part of the painting horizontally. It was necessary to do that because I was working with a type of paint which had a particular viscosity, which flowed, and if it were on a vertical surface it would just run. If it were on a horizontal surface, I could control it... I was using a combination of brushes and knives, palette knives... and spatulas... I’ve tried everything, rollers, rags, I’ve put paint on with everything.
 * p. 55-59.

Quotes about Adolph Gottlieb

 * [explaining the close connection between Gottlieb-Newman-Rothko:] They were friends. They all were protégées of Milton Avery's, the three of them. They all adored Milton Avery. Oh, I don't know if they adored him, but they revered him.. ..And Milton Avery was the big powerful mover in their lives. Of the three in terms of professionalism, Gottlieb was the most professional always. He never took unto himself this role of, "I have the key to the absolute," a term that Barney Newman was very fond of invoking. They knew each other all along. And if I'm not mistaken, all three of them were married to school teachers.
 * Elaine de Kooning, in 'Oral history interview with Elaine de Kooning', 1981 Aug. 27, conducted by Phyllis Tuchman; Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

title: Adolph Gottlieb