Roobarb Briers died, followed four days later by animator Godfrey. Roobarb is a green dog, and Custard is a pink cat. This is an inversion of the pudding (dessert) rhubarb crumble (pink) and egg custard (yellow). Roobarb is always involved in some kind of misadventure which he approaches with unbounded enthusiasm. Custard is cynical and sets out to sabotage Roobarb's fun. Which one comes out on top varies from episode to episode. Other characters in the series are the birds, who watch the antics of the other two from the safety of a nearby tree, often making snide remarks, and siding
Dog–cat relationship "ate each other up." In Fam Ekman's children's book "Kattens Skrekk" ("The Cat's Terror"), a cat visits a museum to find that all of the artworks, like "Mona Lisa" and Venus de Milo, have been replaced by parodies featuring dogs. The only piece not converted is "The Scream" which "symbolizes the cat's terror in the face of so many dogs." The American animated television series "CatDog" featured the adventures of the protagonist, CatDog, a genetically altered creature that had the head of a dog on one side of its body and the head of a cat on the other. The