Byron Basset

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name =Byron Basset


image caption =Byron in "Little Dog Lost"
first appearance =A cameo on "Tiny Toon Adventures" in the series premiere "The Looney Beginning". Introduced as a regular character since the tenth episode "Looking Out For The Little Guy" in the segment "Dog-Bird Afternoon".
created by =
voiced by =Frank Welker
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known relatives =
known owners =Elmyra Duff
known friends =Buster Bunny, Babs Bunny, Furrball
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Byron Basset is a cartoon character from the Warner Bros. animated television series "Tiny Toon Adventures". He is one of the supporting characters on the show. Byron is voiced by Frank Welker. Byron is a brown, black and white male basset hound. He lives in Acme Acres.

Although a direct connection is never made, Byron resembles Sam Sheepdog and The Barnyard Dawg.

Despite being depicted as being a lazy mongrel, he expresses many talents when properly motivated. Byron is most known for his somewhat malleable nature. In order to turn around, he pulls his head and tail inside the folds of his body, and out the other side.

Byron is a pet of Elmyra Duff and lives in her house, usually along with Furrball. His relationship towards Elmyra was antagonistic, due to her well meaning mistreatment, including painfully tight hugs and scalding hot baths. When faced with an opportunity to get away from her however, he remembered that she loved him and took him in, and reluctantly decided to stay.

Byron's biggest role was in perhaps the direct-to-video movie "". There, he accidentally ends up joining Buster and Babs Bunny in their subplot of getting caught up in a river after a water gun fight. Near the end of the film, when Byron sees that the bunnies are surrounded by predators, he flies down (his malleable body flattening out and acting as a hang glider) and carries them to safety.

Byron doesn't say much, other than "woof" and sometimes "ruff". In one episode, Byron appeared in Montana Max's vault where Max was hiding from Buster Bunny who was collecting money for his newspaper subscription. Byron's only line was "Excuse me, is this your vault?", of course it was in Buster's voice. But it turns out to be Buster in disguise.

In the episode segment from 'New Class Day', titled 'Just-Us League of Supertoons', Byron was a member of the mighty superhero team, the Just-Us League of Supertoons. He was AquaMutt, a parody of Aquaman.

Byron's end tag credit is "Woof!", after sniffing around the Warner Bros. rings.

See also

* Tiny Toon Adventures
* Animaniacs
* Sam Sheepdog
* The Barnyard Dawg

External links

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* " [http://www.bcdb.com/cartoons/Warner_Bros_/Television/Tiny_Toon_Adventures/index.html Tiny Toon Adventures] " at the Big Cartoon DataBase