Is it just me and my Australian ear? As far as I am concerned Rusty used to call' "Yoooo, Rinny", not "Rinty". Rinty sounds like something my grandmother would say
shareHi You are right it was Rinny . Although it sometimes sounded like Rinty it was Rinny in the scripts. I happen to be in the one called The Failure the last one made. So you are right it is Rinny not Rinty!!! Just thought I would let you know . They were all beautiful dogs one would go through things one would crawl , one would run each dog would do its own thing . They all liked kids but the owner would always be there to guide us with them and we were not allowed to be near them too long or it would break the dogs thought. They always watched the owner if I remember right there were three dogs maybe four. But all of them were trained well and really had good attention spans.Well take care Yo! Rinny!!! Later Mary
shareMaybe everybody's right. The kid seems to be saying "Rinny,", but the episode I just saw on AntennaTV, Andy Clyde clearly says "Rinty." I also remember that writeups in TV Guide and the newspapers used "Rinty." Average American kids tend to slur words ("I am not going to" becomes "I ain' gonna"), so scripts for child actors may have used "Rinny" so they wouldn't sound so professional.
shareI remember it as "Rinny." I don't recall a "T" sound.
Now, what is his YELL? Yalll...yoh...
I grew up on the 70's reruns of the show and remember him being called Rinny. In the 90's a Canadian show called Katt and Dog which was about K9 cop called Rudy was produced and when it was distributed to us here in the USA it was renamed Rin Tin Tin K9 Cop, presumably to help drive its appeal even though it beared no resemblance to the old show. To make it work they had the actors redub themselves calling the dog Rudy to Rinty for the US version. I always felt it was incorrect since I remember him as Rinny in the original series.
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I remember it being always pronounced Rinny but it was spelled RINTY. I had an argument with MY grandmother who was reading me a comic book or short story based on the show and she kept saying RINTY. That annoyed me to no end because I was sure the kid was saying Rinny.
Hey Kell - when your grandmother was reading you comic books, did she ever replace the word "gosh" with something else? I remember my mom reading certain comic books to me and whenever "gosh" came up, she would substitute gosh for something else, simply because she thought "gosh" was a bad word (like "God" maybe, used in the wrong text), but she never said what that word was.
shareBoth sides of the posts could be right. "Rin Tin Tin" would seem to be "Rinny" for short. But, even if it were "Rinty", short for "Rin T-- ---", casual American English pronunciation would typically make the "t" in "Rinty" dropped, or silent, making it sound like "Rinny". So, either spelling could be forgiven.
shareI've been listening for it and, although it might well be spelled "Rinny" in the scripts, different characters seem to pronounce it differently. Rusty seems to prefer "Rinny", while Lt. Rip Masters appears to say "Rinty" (but with a soft "T" - almost like "Rindy"). On the other hand, some guest characters definitely say "RIN-tee", with a pronounced "T" sound. As with a lot of nickname variations, each might well be correct for the person using it.
shareIt was Rinty.
The October 12, 1956 episode was titled "Yo-o Rinty"
http://www.tvrage.com/shows/id-5538/episodes/171742
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"It was Rinty. The October 12, 1956 episode was titled 'Yo-o Rinty'."
Quite right. Also, there was 4/27/56's "Rinty Finds a Bone" (season 2, episode 33).
Having time on my hands this morning, I flipped through all the "Overview" descriptions and discovered the following: While there were numerous uses of "Rin Tin Tin", there were nine of "Rinty", two of "Rinny". I haven't a clue who drafted the Overviews, though - presumably imdb staffers or readers, some 50 years after the fact.
The episode titles, though, are authoritative, taken directly from the film-prints' titles. "Rinty" it is!
I just watched an episode for the first time ever and the boy does say Rinny so I think it probably is what everyone mostly saying it is but the boy's definite nickname for him is Rinny.
shareThe character's Nickname was Rinty, and it was the actual nickname of the first dog to play the role in 1932. His owner, Lee Duncan, found the dog on a WWI battlefield and adopted him. Duncan continued to be associated with the character as it moved to TV in 1954, so it's safe to say the nickname there was Rinty as well, but some actors were sloppy with the pronunciation. Here's the detailed story:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rin_Tin_Tin
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