Shark Bytes

Didn't this show last only like 3 episodes????

does anybody know if there are episodes available on the web???

I have all the episodes on tape. This cartoon was never remotely funny. The human characters were all freaks, and the poor dog spent all his time trying to find peace. In the last episode, the dog becomes one with the stars and finds peace and unity among the constellations. It made no sense whatsoever. It went from the purely mundane (dog trying to hide from the sadistic kids) to (dog communing with the gods.)

While the series of "Family Dog" was a disappointment, the original on "Amazing Stories" is perfection. I remember taping it just because it was animation and I thought it looked cute. Once my college friends and I watched it, we were hooked. We laughed so hard each time we watched. We even began to quote it in our everyday lives. Especially quotable was the little girl's "Where's my baby? Where's my baby? THERE SHE IS! There's my baby!" Annie Potts was especially funny as the voice of the mother! "Do I have dreams? Do I have aspirations? NO! But I have a toilet bowl that's spring time fresh!" Love it; still have it on videotape!

I absolutely loved this short-lived show! I even have a stuffed family dog that I found on a clearance rack at a mall toy store. It's been one of my most prized possessions for many years and the day I meet someone who sees it and knows what it is, I'll ask them to marry me. Hopefully, they'll be of the opposite gender...

Shark jumping? Don't coin phrases that don't make sense. just do what comes natural and your DOG will provide the humor . What a tragedy to lose such a wonderful series due to what? America can't bear to see itself? Anyone who loves their dog can appreciate this show. everyone else probably just saw it as a boring show about a typical family with a bad dog as a pet. Those people shouldn't own pets, they probably put their parents in "homes" and hate animals as a rule but think of them as a good home security system or something equally demeaning. I hope they die of boredom. No, I guess they won't; too stupid probably....All we ask is that they be a human. which means they eat and sleep and occasionally throw the stupid dog a bone

The pilot ep on Amazing Stories back in the '80s was a howl, before The Simpsons took hold. But when it became a weekly series, we'd already seen The Simpsons as a series itself and Family Dog just wasn't as fun to watch. It tried to emulate The Simpsons, but here, Mom was a cranky, moralizing bitch, Dad was equally cranky without Homer's gullibility and comic qualities, the son was an unlikeable, overplayed copy of Bart, and the poor dog was always getting chewed out by everyone else. Only the chubby daughter was memorable. All that work for a sub-par prime-time toon that ultimately got its debut date pushed back further and further till it would up being a summer throwaway. CBS even ran two eps back-to-back every week just to get it off the air sooner while allowing all the eps to air once.

This show is UGLY! It tries to be like The Simpsons, but I don't understand this family. I mean a dog who doesn't act like a dog, come on.

I really, really, enjoyed this show. I don't know why it didn't make it. I have looked everywhere to try to find these few episodes. Especially the one where the mom says, "Do I have dreams, do I have aspirations....". That has got to be the funniest show that I have ever seen, seriously. No show has come close to being as funny as that show was

I still love this show. My family has two of the three episodes on tape and we watch them every year at family gatherings. I can't believe that this show did not find an audience. With lines like "hey dad...he's wizzing on the carpet." and "he's turned into a sniveling, snarling, white-hot ball of canine terror," how could you go wrong? This is satire at its best! Oh yeah.. don't forget this gem: "Do I have hopes, do I have aspirations? No...but I have a towel-bowl that's spring time fresh and I would be proud as punch to be a short-order cook to a dog!"

What the hell was Spielberg and Burton smoking when they first thought of this show? I remember in the first episode, the dog wanted a drink of water. It spent the entire episode trying to get a cold, refreshing drink of water, but it never did. What was suppose to be funny about that?!

I only saw the original ep from Amazing Stories, but with lines like "He's whizzin' on the carpet", could it have ever JTS?

This was a terribly lame Simpsons rip-off.

The ORIGINAL half-hour episode (several years before they tried to turn it into a series; maybe it was part of Amazing Stories?) is still one of the funniest shows I have ever seen.

If I remember correctly, CBS made a last ditch effort to save this show by putting it on at about 11:00 Saturday morning, but to no avail. It lasted more than three episodes, by the way. I really enjoyed this show. It was a funny view of the world: a dog who cannot speak, object, or suggest any change in things. He can only react as he feels is appropriate. Philosophical, in some strange way.