Editing Basset Hound (section)

==In popular culture==
[[File:GézaDezsőFekete-Columbo.JPG|thumb|A statue of [[Peter Falk]] in character as [[Columbo (character)|Columbo]] with his Basset Hound in Hungary]]
*Basset Hounds have been featured in popular culture many times. Some artists, such as director [[Mamoru Oshii]] and webcomic artist [[Scott Kurtz]], regularly feature their pet Bassets in their work.
*On February 27, 1928, ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine featured a Basset Hound on the front cover.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070428135556/http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19280227,00.html "Baby Basset Hound"]. ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''. February 27, 1928.</ref> The accompanying story was about the 52nd annual [[Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show]] at [[Madison Square Garden (1925)|Madison Square Garden]] as if observed by the Basset Hound puppy.
*Many cartoon dogs are based on the Basset, such as [[Droopy]], with several Bassets appearing in animated [[Disney]] films. Syndicated comic strip ''[[Fred Basset]]'' has been a regular feature in newspapers since 1963.
*There is a Basset Hound in the ''[[Smokey and the Bandit]]'' movie series. The dog, Fred, was personally picked by lead actor [[Burt Reynolds]] because it refused to obey commands.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076729/trivia |title=Smokey and the Bandit (1977) |website=[[IMDb]]}}</ref>
*In Disney's 1986 film ''[[The Great Mouse Detective]]'', a Basset Hound named Toby is the dog of [[Sherlock Holmes]].
*In the early days of television, [[Elvis Presley]] famously sang "[[Hound Dog (song)|Hound Dog]]" to an uninterested [[top hat]]-wearing Basset Hound named Sherlock on ''[[The Steve Allen Show]]'' on July 1, 1956
*Another television Basset in the 1950s was Morgan. He appeared often on ''[[The Garry Moore Show]]'', ''[[The Jackie Gleason Show]]'' and many other variety shows. He played a dog from Pluto on ''[[Captain Video and His Video Rangers|Captain Video]]'' and appeared in a Dean Martin and [[Jerry Lewis]] movie. His last appearance was on the [[Hallmark Hall of Fame]], playing against [[Tom Bosley]] in 1959.<ref>[https://torontooldnews.wordpress.com/2019/12/09/mr-morgan/ "Mr. Morgan"]</ref> He had a plush toy modeled on him.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20040407051334/http://morganthebassethound.com/ "Morgan the Basset Hound"]}}</ref> and appeared in a ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'' magazine article.<ref>[https://bassethoundlowdown.wordpress.com/2015/09/01/j-j-morgan-the-basset-hound-that-charmed-america/ "The Basset Hound Lowdown"]</ref> Despite the article, he was never known as J J Morgan.
*In the television series ''[[Columbo]]'', [[Columbo (character)|Lieutenant Columbo]] owns a Basset Hound named Dog. Originally, it was not going to appear in the show because [[Peter Falk]] believed that it "already had enough gimmicks" but once the two met, Falk stated that Dog "was exactly the type of dog that Columbo would own", so he was added to the show and made his first appearance in 1972's "[[Étude in Black]]".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://columbophile.com/2016/07/24/mans-best-friend-columbo-and-dog/ |title=A Lieutenant's best friend: Columbo and Dog |date=2016-07-24|website=The Columbophile |language=en |access-date=2019-08-16}}</ref>
*In the young adult novel ''[[The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks]]'', the Basset Hound is the symbol of college society the Loyal Order of the Basset Hound.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.enotes.com/topics/the-disreputable-history-of-frankie-landau-banks|title=The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks Summary|date=2020}}</ref>
*From the third season on of the television series ''[[The Dukes of Hazzard]]'', Sheriff [[Rosco P. Coltrane]] owned a lazy basset hound named Flash. Flash hated [[Boss Hogg]] but loved the Dukes.
*Basset Hounds are often used as advertising logos. The [[logo]] for [[Hush Puppies]] brand shoes prominently features a Basset Hound whose real name is Jason.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.arnold-family.net/www/john/jason/index.html |title=Jason's Hush Puppies Scrapbook |access-date=2006-03-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060219144119/http://www.arnold-family.net/www/john/jason/index.html |archive-date=2006-02-19 |url-status=dead }}</ref>  Basset Hounds are occasionally referred to as "hush puppies" for that reason. A Basset Hound also serves as the companion to the lonely Maytag Man in [[Maytag Corporation|Maytag]] appliance [[advertisement]]s. Tidewater Petroleum advertised its "Flying A" gasoline using a Basset Hound named Axelrod.