👻🏚️ Courage the Cowardly Dog (1999–2002) turned rural creepiness into cartoon gold, following a pink porkchop of a pup who’d face down monsters, aliens, and mad scientists—all for the sake of his adoptive owners, Muriel and Eustace Bagge. Set in the middle of “Nowhere, Kansas,” each episode’s bizarre villains—from the gelatinous Freaky Fred to the eldritch King Ramses—were dreams (or nightmares) come to life. Despite his name, Courage’s heart was bigger than any ghost or ghoul he encountered,