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 The comics were unpublished and only stayed in his secondary school and at home.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 he 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 than he already did in his comics.

When asked in an interview about his work, the interviewer asked Fitzgerald about the strong dislike the dogs have for modern day culture, he explained that after watching a few episodes of Rocko's Modern Life with his fifteen year old son Benny. He felt like he could challenge his characters in a similar aspect, only make it obvious that they hate it more than Rocko did.

Premise
Doggie-Capped follows the life of three crippled dog brothers, Redford the youngest (Sam Marin), Garrison the oldest (Rodger Bumpus) and Percy (Charlie Adler). They live with an Irish family named the Headmondos and share the house with three American cats that aren't the same breed, laid back York (Nick Bakey), Pissed off O'Neil (Jim Cummings) and Skeptical Paco (Nathan Lane). The parents are Jack (Martin Lucey), Nancy (Maria Doyle Kennedy). The four boys they have are Larry (Lanky as a Nickname), Martin, Joey and Seamus. All four of them are played by the same voice actor and the director of the show, Thomas Fitzgerald.

The dogs and the cats are politically incorrect animals that hate everything that is faddish and contemporary. Such as Selfies, any social media they think is dreadful to talk about, Dabbing at times that aren't called for and people who shout out memes in their neighborhood such as Pickle Rick.

Since animals are not the only characters in Doggie-Capped. Fitzgerald wanted to put the adults and teenagers in the same position because he felt that they're not they only one that deal with the trials and tribulations of people who are either mentally unstable, over sensitive about offensive jokes that aren't really offensive and people who don't stop screaming memes down the hallway.

Setting
Doggie-Capped is set in the fictional Irish town, named PopesCause in County Cork. The places in the town include St. Paddy's Pub, Colistial Secondary School, Tookie Theatre, Heavy, Heavy Hidlings and the local PEE Club.

Many of the locations of the names are very different to different building names in the Irish Nation. This is because Thomas felt as if having the same names as any other location would be boring and dried out. And he was unsure if he would be allowed to since a lot of the names would be copyrighted.