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Weak Boys Present: The Top Dogs of Film

Ahead of playing our Sydney party this week the boys rank their favourite celluloid canines.

Weak Boys have made it clear that they’re big fans of dogs. The cover of their album Weekdays/Weekends is of their dog, their track “Dog Farm” is about hanging with dogs. Then there’s this video which is basically an ode to dog love.

Since the guys are headlining Noisey’s Sydney party this Thursday (entry is FREE but you need to RSVP here) and have such a strong affinity with canines, it seemed fitting to have them compile a list of theirs top five dogs of film.

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Besides, this is internet and if the internet has taught us anything is that people love looking at dogs on the internet.

So in no particular order, here they are…

C.H.O.M.P.S

C.H.O.M.P.S is the ultimate BFF for every kid. Not just a dog, but also a robot! He kind of looked like Benji, one of the most popular and lamest of all the dog themed movies, but C.H.O.M.P.S is so much cooler. He had x-ray vision, could jump through glass windows and also had some kind of in-built explosive system. Pwus he's such a cute widdle shaggy puppy!!

Bouncer

Bouncer represents an era of Neighbours where basically nothing ever happened, it was so calming and peaceful. After Joe Mangel he was also the biggest star of the show for at least a year. We learnt a lot about dogs through Bouncer, for example, I never knew dogs could fantasise about monogamous domestic bliss (as proven in this clip)

Ghost Mutt

Unfortunately when Marge Simpson came up with Ghost Mutt as an idea for a cartoon character she was largely ignored. We can only imagine what might have been. Probably the best supernatural canine the world could have ever seen. Alas Ghost Mutt isn't real but it is still the best potential dog character ever dreamed of by another fictional character.

Hooch (Turner and Hooch)

I think I watched Turner and Hooch over a hundred times when I was a kid. What a crime solving duo Tom Hanks and Hooch turned out to be. Hooch stinks, drinks beer, eats cars, dribbles on everything and is impossible to take for a walk. And that's why I love him. Any animal that can get Tom Hanks to yell in his patented high pitched nasal whine has my vote.

Loukanikos (Riot dog)

Loukanikos has been at most major protests in Greece in the last few years barking at cops and inspiring protestors. Eventually he died last year at the age of ten, which is pretty old considering how much tear gas he probably inhaled in his life. Not actually a TV or movie dog, but he’s made it on to so many news reports that he’s managed to build a sizeable media profile and is thus eligible for consideration on this list.

Noisey presents Weak Boys, Aloha Units and Claire & The Cops at Waywards, Sydney - Thursday February 26. Free entry, but you need to RSVP here.