Keswick

**"Professor" Keswick, Jr.** is one of the main characters of *T.U.F.F. Puppy*. He is a creature of an unidentifiable species (later revealed to also be named Keswick) with a bad stuttering habit who works for T.U.F.F. Headquarters as their inventor and scientist.

## Biography

The first clues to Keswick's past were said in "Monkey Business." He implied that he came from another universe called Keswickia. However, this sort of contradicts the fact that he has parents, a sister, and a brother-in-law living in Petropolis. It could be said that they too came from that universe and followed him to Earth. This also shows that Keswick could be his own species of extraterrestrial animal form figuring he goes through animal stages throughout his life. In a sense, this means he is an alien. In "Pup Daddy", this is also supported by the fact that he goes through different metamorphoses with age. He also refers to his species by what his name is, a keswick. His parents weren't shown going through a metamorphosis, but it's unknown whether the metamorphosis with age is even treated as canon.

## Appearance

Keswick is a prairie dog-like species confirmed to be under the name Keswick. He wears square-shaped glasses, a white lab coat with an orange shirt, blue trousers and brown shoes. He has a supposed "pouch", has webbed feet, looks and behaves like a dog or rodent, has three hearts, eleven toes on his paws, has gills, and has rodent teeth, though he's possibly some sort of extra terrestrial rodent or dog. In "Toast of T.U.F.F.", there has been misleading facts about him being a common species, like a platypus. He has a pouch, webbed feet, three hearts, and he laid an egg in the end of an episode, though he doesn't really have a pouch as his pants held things that lead Dudley to believe it was a pouch.

## Personality

Keswick is a very smart scientist who has made some major contributions to T.U.F.F. with some of his inventions. However, many of his inventions have also caused some harm to the team in the past as well, such as Rita, (some even spit out acid!). "The Wrong Stuff" showed that Keswick knows the art of Ninjutsu. He has a tendency to create his inventions very quickly like in "Toast Of T.U.F.F.". Keswick tends to behave sort of like a dog in some episodes. For example, in "Mind Trap", "Super Duper Crime Busters" and "Organized Crime", he had his tongue out like a dog, and in one episode, he was even panting like one, lovestruck by Tammy. He also seems to have a passion for food as he gobbles them down like a starving coyote such as in "Dog House". In "Mind Trap", he revealed that he was going through the dumpster for day old scampion. He is protective of his food as Dudley burped up a bag of Keswick's fishsticks that had a sign saying: "DON'T TOUCH!" on it in "Chilly Dog". First evidence was shown in Mall Rat, where he states that the good news was that the food court was open til 9:00. He seems to have strained relations with his parents. Contrary to popular culture, he seems to get along well with his in-laws. He also seems to have a strange sense of humor after he makes some sort of joke that no one really seems to get. Keswick also cares about his friends in a valuable way. In "Snapnapped", he has created a machine that makes donuts out of thin air and redesigned D.O.O.M. HQ using only soup cans and a shark tank. He refused to work for D.O.O.M. no matter how badly the other agents treated him. This means he is a caring friend, and will always be no matter what.

## Trivia

* In the episode Toast of T.U.F.F., Keswick's features include, but may not be limited to: gills, a "pouch", webbed feet, and egg laying. However, they were never seen again.
* Keswick has a fear of women, however, he is frequently seen with Kitty. This is a possible goof or he may have gotten used to Kitty being around him.
* Keswick names all of the technology that T.U.F.F. has.
* In the episode Snapnapped, he helps build Verminious Snaptrap a better lair. He seemed to be able to do it even without any fitting materials.
* In Share-A-Lair, Keswick is seen building a small replica of the The Iron Giant.
* In the episode Mom-A-Geddon, we find out that he loves bumper cars.
* It was shown in the episode Chilly Dog that Keswick has a passion for fish sticks, as he had an entire sack full of them.
* In the episode Internal Affairs, he stated that he "really needed to start labeling his stuff."
* Keswick has some slight features that resemble Timmy Turner from *The Fairly OddParents*. He is about the size of Timmy and he has the same buck teeth, but that is mostly because Butch Hartman created both T.U.F.F. Puppy and *The Fairly OddParents*.
* Keswick's voice is closer to Larry's voice, because they are voiced by Jeff Bennett.
* In The Doomies, it shows that Keswick is not on good terms with his parents who wanted him to be a doctor instead of an inventor. In this episode, The Chief likes teasing him about this.
* In Dog Dish, Keswick has a brother-in-law named Stan and seems to be on good terms with him. This also means that Keswick has a sister since he isn't married. He also seems to be in good terms with him.
* In Thunder Dog, it shows that he is scared of girls and always jumps into the incinerator chute instead of the laundry shoot. Yet in every other episode, he's not afraid of girls.
* In Snapnapped, he pictured himself tall, muscular, and smooth-talking which, is also known to be another hologram.
* Keswick has made a total of seven named inventions in the show so far.
* In Forget Me Mutt, we find out that Keswick is prone to motion sickness, which we can clearly see when he, Dudley, Kitty, and the Chief ride on the new Petropolis Monotrail.
* In Dog's Best Friend, Keswick accidentally admits that he doesn't seem to enjoy working at T.U.F.F., and almost won enough money to get out of "this freak show."
* In Watch Dog, it is a gag the fact that Keswick can invent only things which can shoot acid.
* In Dudley Do-Wrong, it is shown that without regular social contact, Keswick becomes literally weird.
* In Pup Daddy, we learn that as a teenager, Keswick had a tail and that when he grows out of it, the tails grows a new keswick, which had that two keswicks fight to the death. As a baby he looks like a fish with heat sensing fellers on his back.
* In Toast of T.U.F.F. he does science at kids' birthday parties and left Billy in the 4th dimension as a result.
* In Top Dog, he bluntly revealed to Dudley that his lasagna is not that good as it seems.
* Ironically he's somewhat superstitious and can't make toilet paper thinking it comes from a wizard as revealed in Happy Howl-O-Ween.
* It is revealed in Hush Puppy and Sob Story that Keswick has three hearts.
* In Lie Like a Dog, Keswick is shown to like calculus.
* It turns out that Keswick's species tend to have strange effects when they get wet as stated in 'Til Doom Do Us Part. Keswick said that he could become a 'couple' if you throw water on him.
* In Carbon Copies, Keswick had a mug that says 'World's Sexiest Mathematician' on it. He refers to himself as 'sexy'.
* In True Spies, Keswick revealed that he's an alien who is hiding out on earth on account of being "Wanted" because he cooked stinky fish at work.