Doug's Shadow Door Breakdowns+Coincidences from both a Private Dick and an Aardvark

Ahhh.

The famed DOUG Shadow Door.

A staple of all DOUG episodes both Nickelodeon & Disney.....

When our favorite Green Sweater vested 12 year old Kid opens that door, he reveals....

The name of the show, and his name, written in what's allegedly his own handwriting.

"That's Me...."

But then...

"Hey...."

From Season's 1 and 2, the apostrophe and "S" magically appeared out of nowhere whenever there's an episode that has those two that correlates to the plot.

Starting in Season 3 from the Nickelodeon era, 

Porkchop now jumps to paint the apostrophe and "S" into the episode title.

Doug is not amused at what Porkchop has done...

UH OH....

BETTER CHEESE IT!!!!

"OH NO YOU DON'T!!!"

Throughout the episodes of Doug, the outcome rotates whether it's Porkchop who turns off the lights, throws paint at the screen, or locks Doug out.

But my personal favorite is this below:

I'd too be as pissed as DOUG if my foot got stuck in a Paint Can.

The above images were from the 1993 episode DOUG'S NEW TEACHER.

Here's the full on Video of the Title Card:

I chose that episode was because it was the only episode I know of from the Nick Era that has the combination of PORKCHOP jumping to paint the apostrophe and "S" as well as my personal favorite ending animation to the Title Card which is DOUG's foot stuck in the paint bucket.

When Disney took over in 1996, they decided to follow THE SIMPSONS' couch gag examples so now whatever Porkchop is doing, his actions corresponds to the episode that is associated with it.

Though unlike the Simpsons, at least til recent seasons,

All 65 Episodes of Disney's Doug wanted variations for each title card.

Of course, you know the drill:

I'm sharing examples with no Watermark or Network bug....

At least until I get my Avermedia Captures ready.

Construction, due to the Middle School's Construction...

Doug and Porkchop playing bowling before Nintendo made in cool 10 years later...

And as far as I know, Porkchop has traded in his Black Paint for a Black Sharpie.

I believe this is the only episode where Doug writes with Porkchop's Sharpie by himself since his dog is missing..... AS IF THE TITLE WASN'T A TIP OFF.

I believe this animation was used for a 1999 UPN Promo

(Without the Dougapalooza wire lettering that is.)

And yes, the 1999 theatrical film DOUG'S 1ST MOVIE has it's own variant of the classic old Door Shadow, White Background, etc.

"Role it Porkchop"

"That's Me!!!"

"Porkchop!!"

"PORKCHOP!!!!!"

*I'm here.....*

"AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!"

Just with a more ORCHESTRAL SOUNDTRACK provided by Mark Watters instead of Dan Sawyer's rendition.

Sorry if I don't have more examples but I had to work with images that don't have network bugs regardless if they're VHS or DVR recordings from Nickelodeon, Noggin, ABC, Toon Disney, or even KISSCARTOON.

When I originally made this post, I used a VHS recording of DOUG'S 1st Movie pulled from Archive.org but the brightness was set to a maximum.

I finally got my Avermedia Live Gamer capture 2Plus and replaced the screenshots with the original 35MM Colors..... except the Disney+ print of the film is at 4:3 instead of 1.85:1 like it's 1999 original theatrical presentation had..... though to be fair, I've only watched the film on TV and not at any FAMOUS PLAYERS Multiplex back in 1999.

Anyway, why was I talking about Doug's Shadow door?

Because in the opening Sequence of DUCKMAN: Private Dick/Family Man.....

It's only this part before segueing into an acid trip of an opening sequence but it sure is nothing short of a coincidence, especially since DUCKMAN premiered two months after DOUG aired it's last Nickelodeon episode on January 2 1994. 

But whatever, Everett Peck probably wasn't influenced by Jim Jinkins so....

Just a Coincidence.

Let me know if Duckman is on PARAMOUNT+.

Otherwise, I'm sticking to ARCHIVE.ORG for my DUCKMAN marathons.

Two years later on September 7 1996, 

Disney's Doug(Formerly Known as BRAND SPANKING NEW DOUG) 

would premiere on ABC...To mixed reactions from Nickelodeon Series Elitists.

(They're still fuming at Michael Eisner for refusing to increase Billy West's Salary.)

But there was some good to come out of that premiere since Joe Fallon, one of the writers of DOUG, would tease what's to come out exactly a month later in October 7 1996...

Via this Cameo:

Totally a different Arthur and Buster since these two are human 

instead of aardvark and rabbit. 

And these two live in BLOATSBURG, VIRGINA instead of ELWOOD, PENNSYLVANIA.

Joe would work simultaneously on DISNEY'S DOUG and ARTHUR for the better part of his career until DOUG finished in June 1999 and was then subsequently let go from ARTHUR after Season 4 in October 1999.

And yes, Joe Fallon was working on DOUG since the Nickelodeon days.... 

except for Season 1.

He didn't start until Season 2 which was in Production from late 1991 to mid-1992.

Update as of March 25 2025:

While I was converting my AMAZON Nickelodeon series DOUG DVD into .mp4 files for backup purposes in my WD Easystore external HDD, I just realized that the Nick episode DOUG'S NEW TEACHER wasn't the only episode I knew that had the combination of Porkchop jumping and my favorite Gag which was Doug's foot stuck in the paint can.

Here are some VLC Screenshots to validate my claim:

I'll update more of this post when I find more episodes that have said combination.