Season 3 • Episode 36
LatestPolly finds Underdog's ring. He takes his energy pill then defeats Electric Eel, Riff Raff and Batty Man. Simon uses his vacuum gun but since Underdog has his powerful strength back, this time it doesn't work. Using his atomic breath, Underdog beats Simon and Cad and returns all the money.
Underdog, also known as The Underdog Show, is an American Saturday morning animated television series that ran from October 3, 1964, to March 4, 1967, starting on the NBC network until 1966, with the rest of the run on CBS, under the primary sponsorship of General Mills, for a run of 62 episodes. It is one of the early Saturday morning cartoons. The show continued in syndication until 1973. Underdog, Shoeshine Boy's heroic alter ego, appears whenever love interest Sweet Polly Purebred is being victimized by such villains as Simon Bar Sinister or Riff Raff. Underdog nearly always speaks in rhyming couplets, as in "There's no need to fear, Underdog is here!"
Writing
Every line rhymes. Every. Single. One. Mad respect.
Production
General Mills funded superheroism. Capitalism, baby!
Creator
W. Watts Biggers
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Wally Cox, TV's Mr. Peepers, voiced both Underdog AND Shoeshine Boy—same energy, different confidence.
The show's theme became a 2007 Kanye West sample, proving rhyming dogs are eternally relevant.
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