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Zoinks! It’s Scooby Doo on the front page! Epic win!
How did a cartoon about a nerd, a cheerleader, a jock and two stoners (one being a talking dog), ever get on the air? We don’t know, but someday we’d love to shake the hand of the guy who originally greenlighted Scooby Doo.
The premise of the show was so predictable and unvaried from episode to episode but it was so awesome in its simplicity. “…And I would have gotten away with it too if it weren’t for you meddling kids!”
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RIP Iwao Takamoto.
On a side note one of my friends back in grade school mother worked on the animation team for this show.
Cool friend to have!
The original was the best. The new shows have a completely different plot…no longer are they investigators with good skeptical skills who unmask the villain knowing there are no such things as ghosts and monsters, but now they are true believer with real ghosts, monsters running around. I wouldn’t let me kids watch the new ones…get the old ones on DVD.
I agree with the statement that the originals are best. But the two most recent incarnations are true to the original idea. Only the 90’s movies had real ghosts and monsters. The newest cartoons are worth a watch.
You’d think, even as a child, I would figure out that there never was going to be a real montser but DAMN IT I still had hope each episode.
Don’t worry–you’re not the only one.
best “ghost ” ever chocolate, vanilla and strawberry ghost!
my kids love the old scooby doo, thank god they don’t care for the new stuff. its lame!
ZOINKS!!! I LOVE THIS SHOW!!! Yes, I was perturbed when I watched a couple of the new ones and there were ‘real’ ghosts/monsters. “There are NO SUCH THING AS GHOSTS, silly.”-Velma :p
JINKIES!!! This is AWESOME!!!
i never really saw the appeal. the voices annoyed the crap out of me.
My brother, sister, and I never missed Scooby Doo. Never!
We stopped watching it when they introduced that little $#!+ Minion of Satan, Scrappy Doo.
I agree. What was the point of having him around? Now, Dum-Dum fit in fine with the show.
hear hear Scrappy doo ruined the show I am surprised actually that they used a photo for this blast with scrappy in it being that he was a later addition to the show and NOT part of the original Scooby Doo. Rubby rubby dooo. **pulls out scooby snacks and hands them out**
Childhood ended with Crappy Doo. Pint-sized little bastich.
I hated that little runt! >:(
Daphne Blake, first and last fictional character crush, ever. Redheads, I tell you…
Or maybe it was how she always ended up bound and gagged somewhere. *mischievous little grin*
i hated scrappy
the movie was a fail, btw
i wonder where i could find the originals?
Scooby Doo = epic win
Scooby Doo + Scrappy = epic fail
I got to animate Scooby and the gang in several commercials for Cartoon Network; it was like….being told the secrets of the bible when we were given the model sheets to follow. I loved every minute of that assignment.:)
Lucky little sh*t
Loved Scooby, but hated Scrappy. Best guest stars ever (in my opinion): The Harlem Globetrotters, with a close second of Jerry Reid.
oh, or philis diller and dick vandyke! awsome! but the globetrotters ones were the best!
Loved the Jerry Reed episode.
Hubby hates it, because it was 30 minutes of Jerry singing “Pretty Mary Sunshine”, over and over…
And I loved the Adams Family episode. Gomez Adams was so much creepier on Scooby Doo than on the original Adams Family series, that I kept thinking that they would reveal HIM as the villain of the episode! LOL!
I remember hiding behind my Grandma’s couch watching this – I would get so scared! I was probably 3 or 4 years old. Of course my older brother would make fun of me, but you know what? Watching it and getting deliciously scared was the best part.
And ooo the naughty fan fiction made from this.
Scooby-Doo win
Scrappy FAIL.
Ooh I’ve always loved those typical cartoon sounds
You know, like that sound you hear when characters are running away, but they stay in place for a few seconds before actually taking off 
Gotta love old-school cartoons!
Onomotopia time! Bappitybappityslappitty…
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Oh man Scooby Doo. I would always be completely hypnotized by it.
I’d try to figure out who the bad guy was every single episode.. Sometimes I actually managed it.
There was also a PS2 game I believe, where you get to play as Scooby and try and find the rest of the gang who have been kidnapped. Somehow I found it in the creche area of a gym.. Oh man was that game awesome. Sitting there for hours jumping on the monsters to kill them, avoiding traps and finding Scooby Snacks. <3
I loved that show. Still do. Thank TV for classic cartoon specials. C:
My neighbor had this game and we beat it. It was pretty awesome. But when we found that Monster Token on the suspended crates we somehow managed to find a glitch where you fall in between them and get permanently stuck in a box… Glitches are usually the best part of video games, though.
I have the PS1 game… now to go find it.
Sorry to complain, but there’s some kind of splotch or thing or something on the first image. Lower left corner, next to Velma? Here, I’ll get it.
::erase erase erase::
Ahhh, much better.
My sincere appreciation to the people posting or mentioned in this thread who worked on animating Scooby-Doo, original or otherwise. Animators are awesome!
Oh, and if anyone here hasn’t yet seen “Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island,” I would suggest you do so RIGHT NOW. It is by far the best of the direct to video Scooby-Doo movies, and subtly writes a certain puppy out of the continuity.
“Sorry to complain, but there’s some kind of splotch or thing or something on the first image. Lower left corner, next to Velma? Here, I’ll get it.
::erase erase erase::
Ahhh, much better.’
HA! Comment win, LOLDemon!!!
When I was little, the girl and boy down the street, and I used to “play Scooby Doo.”
Because he was the boy, he got to be Fred, Shaggy, and Scooby.
And the girl and I would fight over being Daphne. Neither of us wanted to be ugly ol’ Velma, so we would take turns being Daphne. “OKaaaay! My turn now!”
My friend and I used to do the same thing except it was just the two of us. We’d fight over who got to be Daphne because Velma was ugly. Nice, right? In retrospect, I like Velma a lot better. Daphne’s an idiot.
I always did like Velma better. She was smarter.
I love Scooby-Doo! I saw every episode- Scooby-Doo Where Are You!, The Scooby-Doo Show, The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, the celebrity episodes, the movies… Yeah, I was a big fan. My favorite guests were Dick Van Dyke, Sandra Duncan, Phyllis Diller, and Tim Conway.
I can completely relate.
I even have a Scooby-Do ring tone and a CD with the theme songs from the TV shows on it.
I still watch it when I can. It came on the year that I was born. I always wanted to be a detective because it was so much fun to find out who did it. LOL
sorry, I never understood the popularity of this…scooby, scrappy…it was all dumb (I know I’m in the minority here).
i am so sick and tired of this boring old worn out over hyped show.
It wasn’t that great to begin with, and it hasn’t gotten any better with age. only marketing keeps it alive.
let it end all ready.
Best spin-off: Bravo Dooby Doo. Johnny Bravo in a Scooby episode.
Epic fail: Introducing Scrappy to the scene.
Is it just me, or was Fred gay?
No, but remember when they’d “split up”? Seems to me that Daphne and Fred went off on their own a *little* too often. I think most of us know where they were, and what they were doing.
…erm, is THAT how scrappy happened? The only female dog on the show turned out to be an ailen, so…
Deviants.
I absolutely love this show! lways have, always will.
while I’ll agree scooby doo is a classic, I can’t stand this show. Was more of a yogi bear/flintstones person.
so does this mean wwe’re frree? or are we going to have to killll eher?
Another true Epic win. THough my niece has made me watch the second live action movie to many times to like it anymore. I also think that Get a Clue show is lacking, since only Shaggy and Scooby are in it.
Oh God…I friggin love Scooby Doo. I watched it whenever physically possible as a child and to this day drink my coffee out of a Scooby-Doo mug. Velma was always my favorite character because she was an ineffable nerd, and her glasses didn’t hurt either.
“Jinkies! My glasses, I can’t see without my glasses!” Though Shaggy was a close second. Also, the Mystery Mobile kicked major butt and I would kill to have a van like that.
I have wanted to strangle Scrappy (or should we just say Crappy?) ever since he was introduced to show canon. Seriously. Can’t stand the little twerp.
Also, anyone else notice how when the Gang “split up”, it was always Velma, Shaggy, and Scooby going one way and Daphne and Fred going the other? That it was always Fred who decided to “split up”? And that we only really saw what Velma and Shaggy and Scooby were up to in that time? I detect shenanigans.
Scooby-Doo was one of the cartoons I remember watching not because it was good but because it was slightly less bad than whatever else was on at the time… most likely those crappy news programs “for kids” the networks showed to appease the FCC.
The originals are bad enough; everything since stinks on ice. I think the introduction of Scrappy marks the point where I decided Saturday morning officially ended as soon as the Scooby theme music started (prior to that, it had been when the animated Soul Train intro was over).
Same here. But the spinn-offs REALLY stabbed the show in the heart. A pup named Scooby-Doo was just another scrappy, and Shaggy’s hypermetabolism (bloated to anorexic in one scene transition) scared me.
Zoinks! I miss the old cartoon so much. This, here, along with my Gameboy Color, was my childhood. I had a Scooby Doo bedroom set! Stickers of all of them on the wall, stuffed Scoobys galore! I miss the days when I could be entertained and amazed so easily.. Jinkies.
Oh, the 1990’s, I’ll always miss you..
Remember the episodes when Fred was in the wheelchair?
I can never remember how/why he got OUT of the wheelchair..but–anyway– Scooby-doo is defanitely an epic win. The second live-action movie was a fail..and “Scooby doo meets batman” was a fail…other than that, it was all pretty good
My favorites were the episodes where old time tv stars would be on. OH! And Batman!
Scooby-Doo used to come on everyday at 3:30pm on channel 9 WGN. I used to rush home everyday so I could get my daily fix of Shaggy, Scooby, Velma, Daphne and Fred.
I hated when they introduced Scrappy. I used to change the channel if it was a Scrappy episode.
Cartoon Network used to air Scooby all the time and had Scooby marathons…now they have New Scooby mysteries. It’s okay but nothing like the original.
Did anyone like the Live Action movie?