About The Show

Courage the Cowardly Dog is an award-winning American animated television series, created by John R. Dilworth, who directed each episode, about a dog named Courage and his owners Muriel Bagge, a kindly old Scottish woman, and Eustace Bagge, a grumpy old farmer, living together in a farmhouse in the middle of the fictional town of Nowhere, Kansas (often described as The Middle of Nowhere).
Courage the Cowardly Dog revolves around the exploits of Courage, a small pink dog who, despite his name, is afraid of the most mundane things; his fears, however, are usually warranted: Eustace, Muriel, and Courage are constantly attacked by (or run into) various monsters, aliens, villians, curses, experiments, natural disasters, and other forms of peril that Courage must face.

Every opening of the show documents Courage's past: "Abandoned as a pup, he was found by Muriel, who lives in the middle of Nowhere with her husband Eustace Bagge. But creepy stuff happens in Nowhere; it's up to Courage to save his new home."

In the series, when Courage wants to save his family, instead of typical feats of strength, he sometimes faces off the villain in a game, usually something mundane like dodgeball or a staring contest, in which Courage always loses. He then convinces the villain to leave the life of crime, tricks the villain, makes amends with the villain, or in at least one case, is saved by Muriel.