Doggie-Capped

Doggie-Capped is an Irish animated Adult sitcom created by Thomas Fitzgerald for Adult Swim. The show revolves around three crippled American beagle dogs named Redford, Garrison and Percy. The show is set in the fictional Irish town of PopesCause in County Cork Munster. It is well known for it's three way combination of the humor and emotion of The Simpsons, the musical parodies of Family Guy, and the laid back attitude and jokes of another Irish Sitcom called "Father Ted".

Development
Fitzgerald created the three characters when he was fifteen while he was doing work experience, with his uncle who was a vet in the mid 1980s. He put the characters in a series of comic strips that were called "Angry DoggieCaps". The comics were unpublished and only stayed in his secondary school and at home.

However he decided to use this concept in an independent short film he made in 2012 for the Corona Fastnet Short Film Festival called "Nine and a Half Lives". It was uploaded to YouTube the same day it was shown, and although it didn't win an award it was positively received well with at least fifteen YouTubers.

An employee from Adult Swim in America saw the short and phoned Fitzgerald up about it. She asked him if she wanted to turn the show into a television series, originally he said no at first because he thought that he would have to follow the same tradition in Family Guy, making them gorey and mean spirited.

But after a few days, he decided it would be the perfect opportunity to show America, the proper way to make a good cartoon. Addressing the things that are nowadays rarely put into an Adult Cartoon. So he said yes and decided to expand the universe of these characters more.