Dennis Chan

Dennis
pointing at himself
Full name	Dennis Lawrence ... Chan?
First appearance	Night Of The Zombie Kat
Played by	Cathy Weseluck (English)
Last appearance	The Kat Went Back Part Two

Dennis is Coop's 10 year old Asian-Canadian best friend and the main deuteragonist of the series. They used to hang out and defeat Kat together and his one of Coop's neighbors. His father's name is Henry. He lives with his high-tech family and lots of future technology.

Aliases

• Bashful Budgie by Coop in Bootsville's Most Wanted (alliterative code name)
• Denise in Turn The Other Cheeks due to suit label. Dr. K also calls him this in The Kat Went Back Part 1.
• Douglas then Darren (spelled Darrin in CC) in Fangs for the Memories due to Coop's damaged memory
• Thundercloud in Hair Brains as code name

Abilities

• He can whistle
• He seems to be smarter than Coop, especially in scientific fields
• Able to eat cat food and use a litter box to better know the enemy (When Bad Dogs Go Big)
• Pulling strength: During the balloon journey in Birthday Bashed he is able to support his entire body weight (plus 6 helmets, for a time) dangling 1-armed holding the left ankle of Lorne with his right hand, for several seconds on-screen. It is possible he switched hands off-screen to save endurance between when they leave the bowling alley and when Dennis kicks Kat off a mountain.
  • In The Kat Went Back Part 1 he is able to swing a shovel hard enough that the metal head is indented into the shape of Coop's head upon hitting him, although Dennis was aiming for Kat. Naturally Coop was fine.
• Pressing strength: he is strong enough to support Coop's weight with his upper body for over 15 seconds (and even walk while doing so, though he begins to wobble) in Turn The Other Cheeks when Coop sits on his head (Dennis holds his legs) to converse with Lorne and Harl who are standing on stools. Even when straight his arm length is less than the height of his head.
  • His head is similarly strong enough to support much of Coop's weight in The Incredible Shrinking Coop when giving him a boost to climb.

Age

He and Coop are described as "two ten year olds" in a season 1 episode and celebrate birthdays in season 2.

He may be born July 27.

Episode Appearances

Season 1

1. Night Of The Zombie Kat
2. Trespassers Will Be Persucuted
3. Do Not Fort Sake Me
4. Cookie D'Uh
5. Nip/Duck
6. Search and De-Toy
7. Class Act
8. Hypnokat
9. The Allergy
10. Just Me and Glue (non-speaking cameo)
11. You'll Be Show Sorry
12. How the Test Was Won
13. Im Okay, You're a Kat
14. Dial "B" For Babysitter
15. The Grass is Always Meaner
16. Happy Campers
17. U.F. Float
18. Play N'Ice
19. House of Scream 
20. Planter's Warp
21. Curse of Tutankitty's Tomb
22. Pet Peeved (non-speaking cameo)
23. Don't Give Me No Static
24. Storm Drained
25. Teed Off
26. Something Fishy In Owl Lake
27. Dire Education
28. Crouching Cooper Hidden Kat
29. Tom-Kat Foolery
30. In Dog We Trust
31. Catch My Drift
32. Suddenly Last Summer
33. The Kitty Vanishes
34. Capture The Kat
35. Outer Space Chase
36. Buzz Off
37. Bend It Like Burtonburger
38. Stall That Jazz
39. Beware The Were-Coop
40. Thrick or Threat
41. Hack Kattack
42. It's A Rocket, Man
43. Kid Vs Kat Vs Christmas Part 1
44. Kid Vs Kat Vs Christmas Part 2

Season 2

1. Something About Fiona
2. Tickled Pink
3. Flea Brains
4. Menace the Dennis
5. Cheeks of Evil
6. Reap it and Weep
7. Blasteriod Blues
8. Rat a Phoey
9. Trash Talking
10. Over the Radar
11. Nuff' Said
12. Rymes With Coop
13. Bringin' the Heat
14. The Three Aarghs
15. Kat to the Future Part 1
16. Kat to the Future Part 2
17. Down the Drain 
18. 9 to 5 to Oblivion
19. When Bad Dogs Go Big
20. The Bottyguard
21. Rebel With a Claw
22. Swap Wrecked
23. Never Cry Sheep
24. Kickin' Butler
25. Keep On Rockin
26. It's In The Bag
27. King of the Pipsqueaks
28. Down the Creek
29. Turn the Other Cheeks
30. Birthday Bashed
31. Board Kat
32. The Treasure of Sierra Munson
33. Fangs for the Memories
34. Drive-In Me Crazy
35. Hair Brains
36. Hot Dog Day
37. Amazing Feet of Strength
38. Me Coop, You Kat
39. You Scream, I Scream
40. Good Luck Harm
41. Bootsville Most Wanted
42. Kat of Dimonds
43. Coop D'Etat
44. The Incredible Shrinking Coop
45. Who's Haunting Who?
46. It's All In Your Head
47. The Kat Went Back Part 1
48. The Kat Went Back Part 2

Appearance

Dennis has black hair and black eyes but unlike his father, he does not have an Asian accent.

His hair has a tuft at the back similar to Coop but is less tall and voluminous, resulting in him appearing shorter. Based on the shape of their skulls, he may actually be taller than Coop if hair is taken out of the equation. He comments in The Incredible Shrinking Coop that he is "already the smallest kid in gym class"

Each hand has 1 thumb plus 3 fingers.

Mutations

• in Kat to the Future his altered-timeline self grows a 4th finger on one hand, which upsets him.
• in Hair Brains he has a flashback to "last time" Kat spread an alien illness. Dennis is shown growing a pair of antlers seconds after Kat sneezes purple goop on his head.

Etymology

• His last name may be Chan, source needed.
• Dennis sadly laments that his middle name is Lawrence in Swap Wrecked after Lorne and Harley reveal theirs as Carnage and Doomsday
• 13 February 2011 Rob Boutilier said that in the scripts, Dennis' last name was Lu, based on animation director Denny Lu, but that that surname was not legally cleared for broadcast so Dennis had no last name at that point.
  • This is probably why Henry had the initials HL on his suit in season 1.
• In Turn The Other Cheeks when returning from Space Voyager Camp when Coop is glad they get to keep their jumpsuits (which were earlier mentioned to have their names on them) Dennis pulls on his left sleeve to inspect s white tag on the upper arm and complains "too bad mine says Denise". Coop's tag was on his right arm.

Personality

In the "missions" against Kat, Dennis usually comes up with the plans to defeat him, or else they just use the "Smash and Destroy" tactic. In the last episode of Kid vs Kat, his memory is not lost.

• In his spare time (which episode?) he enters a secret room of his research room where the rare cases that have happened long ago.
• In some episodes (which?) Dennis can show both ingenious and at the same time naive.
• He's a fan of the series called "Captain Blasteroid", like Coop.
• In Good Luck Harm he says he doesn't like potatoes.

Relationships

Coop

Dennis and Coop's Birthdays are one day away from each other and they always wish for the same presents. They have been friends since preschool, Dennis is the only one who believes Coop about Kat, but he also believed Coop in preschool when Coop said that pigeons flew in threw the window and drank all of Dennis's chocolate milk while he was going to the bathroom.

Kat

In Beware The Were-Coop Dennis is looking in a monster book and says that Kat could not be a mummy-cat (though he does not specify why he thinks that) but that he could be a vampire-cat, since he has fangs.

Coop chides that the previous week, Dennis thought he was a leprechaun-cat. Dennis defensively maintains that it was a reasonable theory.

After Coop walks off, Dennis wonders aloud to himself if Kat might be a hydra-cat. He temporarily dismisses this, saying Kat only has 1 head, but then questions this assumption.

When Coop says Kat is drawing power from the moon, he then declares Kat must be a were-cat.

In later episodes Dennis appears to agree with Coop about Kat being an alien.

Estelle

A girl named Estelle fell in love with Dennis in Kat of Diamonds.

Phoebe

In Birthday Bashed, when Phoebe wanted Coop's attention, she ends up drawing Dennis' attention. This might be because Dennis has a little crush on Phoebe.

Galleries by episode

Coop & Dennis is scarydy

Episodes 1-2-3	Episodes 4-5
Episodes 6-7-8	Episodes 9-10-11
Episode 12	Episodes 13-14
Episode 15	Episode 16
Episode 17	Episodes 18-19
Episode 20	Episode 21
Episodes 22-23	Episodes 24-25-26
Episode 27	Episode 28
Episode 29	Episode 30
Episode 31	Episode 32
Episode 33	Episode 34
Episode 35	Episode 36
Episode 37	Episode 38
Episode 39	Episode 40
Episode 41	Episode 42
Episode 43	Episode 44
Episode 45	Episode 46
Episode 47	Episode 48
Episode 49	Episode 50
Shorts Season 1	Shorts Season 2

Trivia

• He is the 2nd shown to find out that Kat is an alien, after Coop and before Fiona
• In the title sequence he is squirt with a hose by Coop.
• He has ben absent in Let The Games Begin, Me-Oh Me-Oh Meow, Flu The Coop, One Big Happy Family, Fishy Frisky Business, Fat Kat, Kat Whisperer, Under Destruction, Hit the Road, You Kat See Me, Mind Games, and Strange Kat on a Train.
  • He was also absent in Just Me and Glue and Pet Peeved, however, those are just quick non-speaking cameo appearances.
• His father and Coop's father argue a lot.
• Dennis is know to be Coop's accomplish on Kat Nebula, since he helps Coop to stop Kat's plans to take over the Earth.
• Presumably, Dennis had a birthday like Coop, as seen in the episode "Birthday Bashed", as their birthdays are only a day apart, on the other hand, the series does not emphasize the maturation of the characters.
• For now he's the only who have never lost his memory neither one time
• He and Coop take after their fathers
• He and coop are the only ones left that remember Mr. Kat is an alien after kat erased the memories of Harley , Lorne , Fiona and Millie.

He dressed feminine:

1. Once when Kat dressed him like Millie. ("Tickled Pink").
2. Dressed like a Hawaiian girl. ("Cheeks Of Evil") with coop
3. Like a blonde girl in a suit with a shepherd. ("Tickled Pink").
4. Dressed like a cheerleader. ("Trash Talking")

• painted nails
• fixed hair

Other media

• In The Grass Is Always Meaner he calls Mrs. Munson a "dragon lady" but his VA would go on to voice a dragon named Spike in "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic"
• The friendship between Coop Burtonburger and Dennis Chan is similar to that of Bart Simpson and Milhouse Van Houten from The Simpsons.