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Mailmen are courageous and unstoppable. Nothing stops them from being able to deliver letters and packages to the masses. Not even the neighborhood dogs, no matter how hard they try. Like cats and squirrels, mailmen are often portrayed in fiction as a dog's favorite target. Mostly it's harmless encounters like barking or chasing them away. Other times, because Predators Are Mean, the Angry Guard Dog outright attacks the letter carrier. Sometimes the mailman gets his revenge or the dog gets his comeuppance, especially if the mailman has a dog of his own to counter back. Sometimes instead of the mailman, the target is a paperboy. In older media, one may see a milkman or a telegraph deliver as the target of the dog's wrath. Played for Laughs if the mailman is intimidated by a comically small dog like a chihuahua. (Though if it's a particularly poorly trained and aggressive small dog, this might be a Justified Trope.) This is Truth in Television, as mailmen routinely enter and leave something in the territory of very territorial animals in Real Life. |
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Averted by the mailman in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess: If ever you're in wolf form whenever he has a letter to give you, you automatically switch back to human form. Then again, he might not even be scared of dogs, since one of the places in which you find him is the very bottom of the Bonus Dungeon. | |
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Used several times in The Far Side: In one panel, a mailman comes through a door with seven dogs hanging off him. He says to his wife, "Gimme a hand here, Edna... I got into a nest of weiner dogs over on Sixth and Maple." In another strip, a giant mailman is demolishing the city, Godzilla style. In the foreground, a dog is speaking to a crowd of other dogs saying, "Listen! the authorities are helpless! If the city's to be saved, I'm afraid it's up to us! This is our hour!" Another Far Side strip showed a dog with a bandana and a rocket launcher standing next to a smoking hole in the sidewalk, with the caption: "They said neither rain nor snow could stop the mail, but they didn't count on... Rexbo." Yet another strip showed a mailman being attacked by several dogs while inside the house a dog holding a violin watched sadly because he had to take lessons and couldn't join in. One strip has a dog on a psychiatrist's couch, saying the mailman scares him. And another strip has "Dog Hell", where the dogs are forced to act as mailmen. And yet another features a group of dogs dressing as mailmen to pull a Trojan Horse ambush inside a post office. A dog sits up in bed at night nervously reading The Mailman Carried Mace by lamplight. One strip had a couple dogs playing a cruel prank on a sleeping leashed dog involving a fake mailman puppet. Another strip titled "Creative dog writing" had a dog named Zeek writing a book titled Call of the Calf based on the feelings that drive dogs to bite mailmen. Yet another has dog scientists struggling to understand "the doorknob principle", one of them looking out the window at the mailman. |
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In Bojack Horseman, Mr. Peanutbutter (a Funny Animal dog) has a bizarre obsessive hatred of mailmen and the postal service and will even try to chase them down with his car. | |
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A Thousand and One... Americas: Played with twice in the twenty-fifth episode. Lon doesn't hate mailmen, he just has the misfortune of clashing by accident against the one that was merely approaching Chris' house to deliver a letter (the accident occurs because Lon is trying to maneuver a ball with his head and doesn't realize where he's heading to). He even licks his face as a way to express his apologies. Later in the episode, during the pre-Columbian era Chris is dreaming of, Lon chases a butterfly and accidentally bumps into a Toltec mailman who was running quickly to deliver a letter. Lon does chase the Toltec after the latter resumes his speedy travel, but it's simply to playfully accompany him (much to Chris' annoyance). | |
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Referred to at the end of the first The Naked Gun movie, when a baseball park brawl ends with everyone apologizing to each other and embracing, including a mailman and a dog. | |
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Cliff Clavin from Cheers has had a number of run-ins with dogs in his postal career, or so he says. (All of the incidents take place offscreen.) In one episode, he tries to impress a girl by comparing himself to Indiana Jones because of his canine incidents. The episode that introduces Margaret O'Keefe has her and Cliff commit a postal infraction and Cliff's punishment is to be reassigned to a district he calls "Rottweiler Ridge". (She got fired.) Another time, Cliff falls down the stairs to Cheers and gets knocked out of his normal wits. While trying to regain his senses, he acts out checking a mailbox and shaking off a dog attack. In "Dog Bites Cliff" Cliff gets bitten and files a lawsuit, only to be surprised when he finds out that the owner of the dog is an incredibly sexy redhead. |
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Hank the Cowdog sums up why dogs bark at mailmen in his own way. | |
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Knuckles: In the trailer, Knuckles, an alien echidna warrior ignorant of Earth culture, transforms the Wachowskis' living room into a gladiator arena and forces the family dog Ozzie to fight his "greatest enemy", their mailman, in combat. | |
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It's Me or the Dog: Dogs that are aggressively anti-mailmen get extensive training (via repeated bribery with treats) so that the dog sees the mailman's coming and going as a good thing. | |
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The trope serves as the main basis of the plot in the Teacher's Pet episode "Always Knock the Postman Twice", with Leonard's dog Spot having to learn that postal workers are not bad and are actually useful and helpful to society. | |
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Another Far Side strip showed a dog with a bandana and a rocket launcher standing next to a smoking hole in the sidewalk, with the caption: "They said neither rain nor snow could stop the mail, but they didn't count on... Rexbo." | |
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Supernatural: In "Dog Dean Afternoon" Dean takes a potion which lets him speak fluent animal, so he can talk to a dog which was the witness to a murder. But he starts to take on doglike personality traits including an urge to play fetch, scratching behind his ears, and yes, yelling at a mailman for no reason. | |
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Garfield Garfield enjoys harassing the local mailman, he even lampshades the trope by asking, "Why should dogs have all the fun?" Sometimes he just pulls harmless pranks while other times he will violently attack him or catch him in an elaborate booby trap. The mailman occasionally gets his revenge on Garfield. In an Easy Amnesia sequence, the one thing Garfield remembers by himself is that he used to terrorize the mailman. He even implies that this must mean it's the most essential part of his nature - More so than his overeating! A paperboy who is rarely seen often attacks Garfield by throwing his papers right at him, often hitting the cat hard in the face. |
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Subverted in the King of the Hill episode "Racist Dawg", where Hank tries to explain a black repairman bitten by the docile Ladybird that his dog must have bitten the repairman because he was a strange new face and not because she was racist to black people. Cue a new mailman showing up outside playfully rubbing Ladybird's belly, contradicting Hank's assumption. | |
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An episode of The Story of Tracy Beaker had Marco dress up as a dog. When the postman arrived with the morning post, he made growling noises and bit the letters like a dog. | |
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This trope happens in Mad Mad Mad Monsters, the prequel to Mad Monster Party?. While delivering Baron von Frankenstein's wedding invitations to his guests, Harvey the mailman gets chased by the Invisible Man's dog as well as Ron Chandley after he changes into his werewolf form. | |
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In Season 71 Episode 1 of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, during a round of Dogs' Film Club, Tim suggested The Postman Always Tastes Nice. | |
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Grimm from Mother Goose and Grimm loves chasing after the mailman, to the point that the post office has a wanted picture of Grimm up in the office. One strip has awkwardness for Grimm when his regular victim is out sick, and a pretty female carrier shows up, sending the dog into a Villainous BSoD, refusing to attack her, and even developing a bit of a crush on her that he desperately hides from the other dogs. |
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Sharky the Shark Dog will savage any mailman that enters his yard in Eek! The Cat. Of course, Sharky will try to savage anybody that enters his yard. | |
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One of the trials of the postman in Going Postal is a pack of dogs, and several of the postmen have scars from dogbites. Not only that, there is mention of the other peril of dogs; their droppings. Apparently dogshit can be as frictionless as oil. | |
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CatDog: Dog attacks mailmen for sport and keeps a piece of their pants he rips off as a trophy. In one episode he has a long going feud with a paperboy, who harassed him as a puppy, who later grew up to become their mailman. In another episode, Dog has chased away too many paperboys so he and Cat are hired to deliver papers. Unfortunately, the other dogs consider Dog a traitor. |
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Seinfeld Newman has a great disdain for dogs as a mailman as shown in "The Engagement" episode. At the end of "The Doodle" episode, Kramer gets petty revenge on Newman by untying a dog that ignores everything else and chases Newman. Another episode had Newman mention that he had been assigned the former mail route of David Berkowitz, a.k.a. "Son of Sam", commenting that the route had a lot of dogs. Although Berkowitz claimed the dogs told him to kill, Newman was told to "lay off the snacks". |
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If Unleashed is installed in The Sims and a household owns a dog, they will chase a papergirl (the latter even attempts to shoo the dog after delivering her papers) causing her to run away. This is oddly averted when a mailwoman arrives where the dog doesn't give chase at all, only towards the papergirl. | |
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Krypto the Superdog: A story features an intergalactic mailman who's constantly being attacked by dogs everywhere he goes. The Dog Stars (even Brainy Barker) can't help but bark at him in spite of knowing he's a harmless character who doesn't deserve this kind of treatment. | |
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A paperboy variation occurs in... well... Paperboy, where the occasional dog is one of your many obstacles in the game. | |
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The A Pup Named Scooby-Doo episode "Catcher on the Sly" had Buster McMuttmauler attempt to disguise himself as a mailman to get to Scooby-Doo. His disguise backfires because a bunch of other dogs promptly attack him. | |
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In Supergirl (Wednesday Comics), Krypto the Super-dog tears Metropolis Post Office up and rips off one mailman's pants during one rampage. | |
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Hollow Kingdom (2019): At one point, Dennis makes a beeline towards a UPS truck and ignores S.T. calling him to come back; S.T. even calls the mail truck "the sworn enemy of every domesticated dog." This leads to Dennis' death, as the truck is swarming with zombies that quickly notice the dog's arrival. | |
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Pooch Café elevates this to an almost-religion amongst its dogs, to the point where one plotline has the doggie denizens distressed to discover that their resident mailman foe has a dog — which they try to "rescue" and free from what they assume must be some kind of brainwashing. Another plotline has main character Poncho go against the code and try to rescue a mailman who has fallen unconscious in the snow by dragging him onto a train car. They are found by hobo dogs, who screech that Poncho has brought "the enemy" into their midst; Poncho bluffs that instead of helping the mailman, he had captured the mailman — and consequently is made king of the hobo dogs. One strip has Poncho undergo a Heroic BSoD when the mailman actually saves his life from choking. He thanks the man, but still maintains a Jerkass Façade about it. To his credit, the mailman understands that the dog is a Slave to PR. |
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Dennis the Menace (UK): Dennis' dog, Gnasher enjoys attacking postmen (for instance, biting their bottoms) whenever they come to deliver letters. He has a collection of postal uniform trouser seats. | |
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One episode of Malcolm in the Middle has Reese start hanging out with a pack of stray dogs and start taking on their behavior. At one point, he yells at the mailman. | |
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An episode of Bear Behaving Badly has a robotic postwoman arrive at the block of flats where the characters live and force them to be members of her family. Then, when Aunt Barbara mistakes Nev (who is a bear) for a dog (as usual), Barney plays along with this and claims that Nev is a dog too. The postwoman gets scared. | |
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The Fairly OddParents! In the Christmas Episode where Timmy wished for it to be Christmas Every Day, there was a scene where a newscaster says that the worst of enemies are now the best of friends, as it is Christmas. When he said that, we are shown on a postman and a dog becoming friends with each other. After it ceases being Christmas every day, the newscaster says that the worst of enemies are back to being the worst of enemies and we see the dog and the postman again, who are now enemies again. In "Sleepover and Over", Timmy almost gets attacked by a group of vicious junkyard dogs because he accidentally falls into a cat costume, gravy, and mailman-scented air fresheners. "Poof's Playdate" has Timmy attempt to distract his parents by convincing them that they can be better parents by playing fetch while acting like dogs. When they return, Timmy's Mom brings up that they took behaving like a dog far enough that they bit a mailman and proves her statement by holding up a tattered mailbag. |
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The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald has Ronald's dog Sundae mentioned to have chased a mailman offscreen in "Birthday World". | |
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The criminal in one Dog City episode turns out have been driven insane by being a mailman in a city where everyone, himself included, is a dog. | |
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Celebrity Deathmatch: For his battle with Kevin Smith, Kevin Costner dresses as a postman and uses things like a mailbag and a letter opener to attack. Smith then gets back at him by siccing a dog on him, who bites his arm off. Johnny Gomez snarks that "it must be a bomb-sniffing dog". | |
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One episode of The Huckleberry Hound Show, "Postman Panic", has Huck as a mailman dealing with a dog who won't let Huck make his delivery. A big case of Furry Confusion, as Huck is a dog himself. | |
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Postman Pat: Averted. Apparently the good burghers of Greendale are extremely responsible pet-owners. (Which kind of makes sense in a rural community with lots of livestock.) | |
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Beetlejuice: In "Skeletons in the Closet", Beetlejuice tries to avoid the Monster Across the Street's wrath after bothering the Monster's dog Poopsie by lying that Poopsie is upset because he was bitten by a mailman. In "Keeping Up With the Boneses", Beetlejuice tries to trick the titular wealthy couple who have moved into his neighborhood out of their money by disguising himself as an employee of various occupations. When he tries to impersonate a postal worker, he is chased off the premises by the Boneses' dog. "Oh Brother" has a mailman get bitten on his behind by Poopsie. |
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Referenced in Up when Muntz's dogs see Russell in his scout uniform and assume he's some kind of small mailman (because apparently anyone in an uniform is a mailman to a dog). | |
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On Steven Universe: Future, Steven is watching the newest Dogcopter movie, in which Dogcopter is chasing after a car but gets distracted when a mailtruck drives by and has to be reminded by his handler that he's not going after the mailman. | |
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Ed, Edd n Eddy has the paperboy variant. With all three Eds doing a route, things are going decently until Edd tries to rescue Ed, who got snagged on a fence door trying to jump over it when he couldn't pull it open (since he was too stupid to realize it was a push door instead), only to get bothered by a tiny dog who then bites his sock. He then spends the next few scenes trying to shake it off, looking ragged by the time he finally succeeds. | |
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The Shaggy Dog: Wilson Daniels is a postal carrier who is always being barked at by dogs and resents them in turn. His wife speculates that dogs dislike mail carriers because they notice how they repeatedly bring bad news to the house. | |
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Strays (2023): Reggie and his dog friends see their final landmark: the "devil in the sky," a billboard of a mailman. The four dogs start cussing out the mailman on the billboard and swear to bite him, with Hunter adding, "He smells of a thousand different houses, and I can't trust that!" It's repeated later at the movie's end, with Reggie and Bug yapping insults at the mailman. | |
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The T.U.F.F. Puppy episode "Hot Dog" has Dudley Puppy obsessed with winning a dog show where the grand prize is getting his own mailman to antagonize. | |
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Barney Miller: Referenced in "Uniform Day". Mr. Fleischer is a mailman, whom the cops of the 12th Precinct caught with seven years of undelivered mail in his apartment. His harried supervisor Mr. MacDonald comes to the squad room, and guesses incorrectly as to what's going on. | |
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Mickey Mouse: Invoked by Minnie Mouse in the Mickey Mouse short "Doggone Biscuits". After trying to get Pluto back into shape (she made him fat because she fed him too many treats), she gets the idea to motivate Pluto into getting into shape by dressing as a mail carrier and getting Pluto to chase her. | |
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Hey Arnold!: Oskar is chased and bitten by a small chihuahua while delivering newspapers. During a heat wave, Mr. Green's dog growls at Harvey the mailman. Harvey asks the dog to not give him any trouble today since it's so hot out. |
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Buckles from his self-titled comic strip originally had a rivalry with the Paperboy, named "Rodney" in his last appearance, who always attacks Buckles by throwing his papers at him. The Paperboy was later Put on a Bus in 2005 after an incident where Buckles wrecks his BMX bike. | |
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In one episode of Family Guy, Quagmire accuses Brian of not understanding his feelings for the mailman. Cut to Brian barking and chasing away a mailman using some very rude language, and immediately after that begging him to come back next time, saying that he gets really lonely when he doesn't come on Sundays. | |
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Citizen Dog: Fergus and Arlo have a (mostly) friendly rivalry with the local mailman, Larry. They even sometimes socialize in the local bar. | |
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See Spot Run stars a mail carrier who hates dogs. The beginning of the film has him delivering mail to a neighborhood full of dogs ready to attack. He outsmarts them with creative ways using his gadgets...except for one. | |
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Played with in Olive, the Other Reindeer where Olive, the protagonist is a dog and the Big Bad is a mailman. However before the start of their conflict, Olive was actually friendly to the mailman. | |
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Teen Power Inc.: Zigzagged in "The Bad Dog Mystery." Jock (the eponymous dog) got along great with the previous mailman (who'd throw letters for him to catch) but constantly chases the new mailman, because the new mailman is a burglar who hurt Jock's owner. | |
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Garfield distracts a bunch of dogs chasing him by lying to them about the mailman. They all fall for it, thus giving the fat cat a desperately-needed head start to escape. | |
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