Count Screwloose was a character in the comic strip Count Screwloose from Tooloose by Milt Gross, introduced on February 17, 1929 . The count was a mentally ill man who frequently left the insanity asylum where he resided to go out in the real world. There he often met people who acted more crazy than he did and thus he always went back, telling his dog Iggy: "Iggy, keep an eye on me", which became a national catchphrase at the time. The series was discontinued in 1935.