Dog City

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I wonder why most of the characters had slightly different names on the cartoon series. It's not like another company was trying to cash in on the success with a suspiciously-similar show (like how the characters on Baby Talk had names that were similar to the names of the characters from Look Who's Talking).

And the only character who kept his original name, Mad Dog, was among the few to not resemble his counterpart from the original special, even though the Mad Dog puppet was reused as Bowser, the in-universe counterparte to the character.

I watched the show when I was a kid, but haven't seen it since; ironically, I didn't see the special the show was based upon until about a year ago, as up until then I didn't know the show was a spin-off. But yes, the name changes strike me as odd too. It ran on Fox Kids as I recall, so maybe it was their decision and not Henson's, I don't know.