A five-minute detour from the Hotel Transylvania franchise, this animated short turns a routine day at Dracula's resort into pure chaos the moment a monster-sized pet enters the picture.
What is Puppy!: A Hotel Transylvania Short about?
Set inside the halls of the beloved hotel, the short follows young Dennis as he brings home a pet far bigger than anyone expected. What starts as an innocent introduction to the family spirals into a slapstick scramble through corridors, guest rooms, and the hotel staff's daily routine, as everyone scrambles to adjust to their oversized new houseguest. Rather than building toward a larger plot, the short leans into quick sight gags and the exaggerated physical comedy that defines the series, using its brief runtime to deliver one concentrated burst of family-friendly mayhem before the credits roll.
About the cast
The voice cast draws directly from the Hotel Transylvania films, with Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg returning alongside Selena Gomez, Asher Blinkoff, Joe Whyte, and Rose Abdoo. Their familiarity with these characters carries over even in a short format, giving the piece the same comic rhythm and vocal chemistry that the longer entries in the franchise are built on, without needing to spend any time reintroducing who everyone is.
Context & significance
Director Genndy Tartakovsky, the animator behind the Hotel Transylvania series and a longtime figure in studio animation, uses the short form here as a quick, self-contained gag reel rather than a stand-alone story. Shorts like this one are common companion pieces to animated franchises, often bundled with theatrical releases or streaming packages as a way of keeping a world alive between full features, and this one leans fully into that bonus-material spirit, trading plot for pure comic timing.
Watching Puppy!: A Hotel Transylvania Short on Ktime
The short streams with a Persian dub on K-Time, making it easy to watch as a family in Farsi without hunting for scattered clips elsewhere online. The page itself is free to browse, and watching only requires logging into a K-Time account. It slots naturally alongside the rest of the Hotel Transylvania library for anyone revisiting the series in Persian, whether as a quick watch on its own or a warm-up before a full feature.