Hahaha I'm surprised they could get away with that joke

While doing research for Dog With a Blog Week, I came across this: http://dogwithablog.wikia.com/wiki/Innuendo

I'm not really sure if most of that qualifies as "innuendo", but whatever, it's a start.

Also form the Dog With a Blog Wiki, whomever did the writeup on Stan the dog is a master of Engrish prose. Here is a sample:


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Abilities and Skills
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Because of having the ability to talk made him special, he also learned many skills and having the same abilities of his kind:

Strength
Shown to be strong as his own breed.

Speed
His speed just as good as kind

Stamina
Can run and do many things for long time before getting tired

Speak
Believing to have six sense to talk perfectly english and leading another language

Intelligence
Have the intelligence to suppress dogs to humans to be able to do many things in life to be like a human

Jaw Strength
His strong jaws are able to bite through the ropes

Senses
Having great senses just as good as his breed.

Acrobatics
As average dog as his breed taught himself to improved himself to be better to try to walk on his hind legs better then average dogs can to even walk in shoes.

Computer Skills
He's very smart to make him own blog

Driving Skills
He shown to be a great driver understanding to be free but thinking to much being a dog and trying to act more of a human to get into a car accident

Whistle Skill
Able to whistle very loudly

Fighting Skills
Good reflexes and knows martial arts
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This is fucking amazing. I was genuinely excited for Mr. Pickles at first but it's become nothing but the same joke over and over. Stan's abilities alone would make for a more compelling show (the facial animation really creeps me out though)

"Intelligence
Have the intelligence to suppress dogs to humans to be able to do many things in life to be like a human"

I think a Ro-Man wrote at least this part of the wiki.

It would probably be just up to taste which episode would get you into the show, but I like 'Stan Gets Schooled' for Dog-isms and where Tyler wishes he could be a Dog to chase balls and relax all day.

I like 'Stan Runs Away' and 'Stan's Old Owner' episodes, and of course the first few where the stage is set, and you're not sure if Stan is going to work out in the family or not.

Boomer

Yeah Zest, I've seen complaints about the looks on Stan's face, that he looks scary or angry. It seems like it was parents seeing the show when their kids were watching, and they weren't regular viewers themselves.

They do heavily animate Stan's face, but I think the quality is much better now than when the show started, it's cleaner and more natural, with more expressions, especially with his eyes recently.

Boomer

I think it's more of a reference to the casual sex (key) parties that people had in the 70s to spice up their sexless marriages. Dogs and cats probably had their fun too since you can rawdog it, so to speak. More likely the cat was from a second marriage anyway. Stan's personal laptop looks like one of those macbooks from the mid 00's so maybe the show doesn't take place in present day

Yes, I get the joke, but the fact is it's physically impossible for a 4 year-old dog to have had a father born in the seventies. Even if the show took place ten years ago, Stan is still far too young to have a late Gen-X/early millennial dad.

The cat couldn't have been from a second marriage, because that's not how family trees work, and at any rate that would make things *worse*, as that would mean Stan's dad would have had to of been born even earlier.

(And yes, I am aware that a cat and a dog cannot have a dog baby. The premise makes no sense, but whatever, that doesn't bother me so much, because suspension of disbelief. It's a kid's show about a talking dog who blogs.)

some episodes really support the mid 00's hypotethis, most of all the season 1 episode World of Woofcraft. this episode sees not only Stan getting addicted to energy drinks and the world of warcraft-like online mmo, but also reveals that his internet handle is poodlelover152.

4/5

Hi Homer, at least Stan doesn't blog for money, which was really an 00s thing, and the bottom pretty much dropped out of that scene in 2009 or so.

It would be considered a kid's show, and there was a great comment in the most recent Halloween show, where Stan has trouble finding movies for the talking Dog audience, and Avery says, 'Isn't that boys age 6 to 11?' I was laughing at that, as a nod to what people perceive the show to be about.

I think whole families are enjoying it though, it's a decent show, and another reason could be the lack of sitcoms on network TV right now.

My friend Ric compared Dog With A Blog to ALF, or at least the dad in it to ALF's dad, and it got me thinking how shows like ALF and Unhappily Ever After with talking animal characters were popular in their time. Now so many of the network shows are dramas, talent shows or reality shows.

Boomer