Scud is an aggressive bull terrier that helps his owner, Sid Phillips, torturing toys for fun by chewing the toys and wrecking their parts. Scud is an obstacle for Woody and Buzz as they try to escape Sid's house and reunite with Andy Davis, and Scud obsessively pursues them, showing also to be very tough. He was also implied to be abused by his owners, or at least Mr. Phillips, as he walked away in fear when he noticed Mr. Phillips sleeping nearby, thus preventing him from mauling Buzz.
Scud is first seen with Sid, who blows up a Combat Carl. Later, when Sid returns home from Pizza Planet with Woody, Buzz, and an alien in his backpack, Scud greets him with barking. Sid tells Scud to sit and grabs the alien from his backpack. Sid then places the alien on top of Scud's snout and counts down until Scud chews on it violently.
When Woody tries to escape from Sid's house, he encounters Scud, who is asleep halfway down the stairs, forcing Woody to retreat. Unfortunately, his pull-string hoop gets caught in one of the curls of the railing as he creeps down the upper-level hallway. The hoop then snaps off from the railing, triggering Woody's sampled voice and Scud wakes up and charges toward Woody and Buzz. Buzz tells Woody to split up and Woody hides in the closet while Buzz hides in another room. Scud sneaks into the room where Buzz is but is forced to back away when he catches sight of Sid's father sleeping on a La-Z-Boy and leaves before Buzz sees the TV commercial for Buzz Lightyear toys and learns that he is a toy for the first time.
Later, when Sid takes Buzz out of his room, Woody attempts to give chase. He is able to catch the door before it closes, but as he opens the door, he encounters Scud standing on the far side of the hallway. Catching sight of Woody, the vicious dog charges toward him, prompting Woody to dart back into Sid's room and holds the door shut to prevent Scud's entry. While Scud stations himself outside the door, ready to attack any toys that emerge out of Sid's room, the mutant toys help Woody realize a plan to save Buzz from Sid's clutches. The toys trick Scud into running clear out of the house by sending out the frog to distract the dog. While chasing after the frog, Scud knocks down Sid's sister Hannah, who had just answered the door (only to find Ducky out on the front porch, ready to catch the frog)―as he jumps onto the front porch. Legs lifts Ducky and the frog back up through the rafters, with Scud barking at them. He is then subsequently locked out of the house by Hannah who was annoyed at his stupidity.
When Woody and Buzz, after leaving Sid's house, run after the moving van to catch up with Andy and his toys, Scud spots them and snarls with fury and decides to chase them as revenge for getting him locked out. While Buzz had already made it onto the van, Woody is still trying to climb up a hanging strap; it was during this when Scud caught up with him and attempts to pull him down. Buzz fights Scud off, allowing Woody to climb aboard the moving van, leaving Buzz behind. Woody digs the RC Car out of storage and uses him to try to drive Buzz back before the other toys still believe that Woody is up to no good as they try to attack Woody. Scud refuses to give up and chases Buzz into an intersection with oncoming traffic. At the same time, Woody tries to prove his innocence to the other toys, who ambushed him while controlling RC, forcing him to do spins and spontaneously jump. Unfortunately for Scud, as he enters the intersection not noticing the traffic light in his direction is already red, he triggers an accident in which all the cars crash into each other, forming a circle that traps Scud as the angered drivers tell the dog to move out of their zone. Buzz was able to escape on RC while Scud is left behind, desperately trying to find a way out to get Woody and Buzz and Buzz realizes that he's saved at last. It is unknown what happened to Scud afterwards.
Trivia[]
Unlike Scud's portrayal in the film, actual bull terriers are usually gentle and non-threatening dog breeds.
This is evident during the first onscreen appearance of Scud when Sid blows up Combat Carl directly in front of the dog, causing him to hide in fear and then lash back out angrily at the crater where Combat Carl was.
In the earliest draft of Toy Story, Scud was a hairless pink dog named Baby who belonged to a young couple who bought the main toys for him to play with. His comeuppance resulted in him landing in a recycling bin and being taken out.
Out of all the dogs Woody knows, Scud is the only one he is enemies with.
According to sound designer Gary Rydstrom, Scud's sounds came from dogs (including Rydstrom's own dog, Buster; in which the name would be used for Andy's new dachshund in the sequel), tigers, lions, and elephants.[1]
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Screenshots[]
Scud barking
Scud is about to destroy the toy Alien from Pizza Planet that Sid gave it to him
Scud sleeping on landing, blocking Woody's path
Scud still sleeping, forcing Woody to retreat
He wakes up from hearing Woody's voice box
Scud charges at Woody and Buzz
Scud sees Buzz
Scud looking at Mr. Phillips, thinking he would wake him up and put him outside for destroying a toy
Scud sees Woody
Scud hearing the doorbell ringing from outside of the front porch
Scud races downstairs to wind-up frog
Scud chasing the wind-up frog
Scud kicked out of the house by Hannah
Scud, while lying on the front porch, sees Woody and Buzz escaping
Scud chasing Woody and Buzz
Scud chasing Buzz and RC
Scud about to chomp on Buzz who is riding on RC
Scud running through the road
Scud's defeat
Miscellaneous[]
Scud is seen in Tiger Electronics' LCD game
Scud in the Toy Story comic, ready to destroy the alien toy that Sid got from Pizza Planet