The Oddball Couple

The Oddball Couple
Title card for DePatie-Freleng’s The Oddball Couple, featuring Fleabag (left) and Spiffy (right).
Genre	Cartoon series
Based on	The Odd Couple by Neil Simon
Directed by	Gerry Chiniquy Robert McKimson
Voices of	Frank Nelson (Spiffy) Paul Winchell (Fleabag) Joan Gerber (Goldie) Joe Besser Robert Holt Sarah Kennedy Don Messick Ginny Tyler Frank Welker
Theme music composer	Joe Siracusa
Composer(s)	Doug Goodwin
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	16
Production
Producer(s)	David H. DePatie Friz Freleng
Running time	30 minutes
Production company(s)	DePatie-Freleng Enterprises Paramount Network Television
Distributor	CBS Television Distribution
Release
Original network	ABC
Original release	September 6 – December 20, 1975

The Oddball Couple is an animated half-hour Saturday morning show that ran on the ABC TV network from September 6, 1975, to December 20, 1975. The show was a production of DePatie-Freleng Enterprises in association with Paramount Television and is an animated homage to the Neil Simon play-turned movie-turned TV series The Odd Couple, which had just ended its run on March 7 of that year, after five seasons on ABC. The show initially aired at 11:30 am Eastern Time (ET) the first season and was switched to 12 noon ET.

The Oddball Couple featured the misadventures of a dog and cat who lived together under the same roof. The cat's name was Spiffy and the dog's name was Fleabag. Spiffy was a very orderly and polite cat who believed in cleanliness and organization while his roommate Fleabag the dog was the exact opposite who was always rude, obnoxious, lazy and was always very disorganized and unorthodox. This relationship extended to their house – which was one-half mansion and one-half dilapidated shack – and even their car, which was half-pristine, half-junker. They had a secretary named Goldie who worked in the office they shared. The show always had two segments lasting ten minutes.