DS2: SCOOBY DOO

Friday, October 5, 2007

SCOOBY DOO

In the late 60's and early 70's Scooby Doo rocked my horror world, For a lot of kids it was their first taste of horror. It was also a good way to find out if your friend where looses...like Scooby doo = cool, hate Scooby doo = @3%%en looser and future terrorist. I have a dungeon full of people who didn't like Scooby. Let's see what WIKIPEDIA has to say about Scooby.

Scooby-Doo is a long-running American animated television series produced for Saturday morning television in several different versions from 1969 to the present. The original series, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, was created for Hanna-Barbera Productions by writers Joe Ruby & Ken Spears and character designer Iwao Takamoto. Hanna-Barbera produced numerous spin-offs and related works until being absorbed in 1997 into Warner Bros., which has handled production since then. Though the format of the show and the cast (and ages) of characters have varied significantly over the years, the most familiar versions of the show feature a talking dog named Scooby-Doo and four teenagers: Fred "Freddie" Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, and Norville "Shaggy" Rogers.

These five characters (officially collectively known as "Mystery, Inc.", but never referred to as such in the original series) drive around the world in a van called the "Mystery Machine", and solve mysteries typically involving tales of ghosts and other supernatural forces. At the end of each episode, the supernatural forces turn out to have a rational explanation, typically criminal plots involving costumes and special effects intended to frighten or distract. Later versions of Scooby-Doo featured different variations on the show's supernatural theme, and include characters such as Scooby's cousin Scooby-Dum and nephew Scrappy-Doo in addition to or instead of some of the original characters.

Scooby-Doo was originally broadcast on CBS from 1969 to 1976, when it moved to ABC. ABC aired the show until canceling it in 1986, and presented a spin-off, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, from 1988 until 1991. A new Scooby-Doo series, What's New, Scooby-Doo?, aired on the WB Network during the Kids' WB programming block from 2002 until 2005. The current Scooby-Doo series, Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue!, airs Saturday mornings on The CW network. Repeats of the original series, as well as second-run episodes of What's New, Scooby-Doo?, are broadcast frequently on the Cartoon Network and Boomerang in the United States and other countries.

READ MORE ABOUT SCOOBY ON WIKIPEDIA

SOME OF MY FAVORITE SCOOBY WEBSITES

SCOOBY DOO.COM The official website... Groovy

AWESOME SCOOBY DOO Character profiles, sounds, and a Scooby Snack recipe

A TRIBUTE TO SCOOBY DOO

SCOOBY VIDEO'S

SCOOBY INTRO OVERLOAD
10 min of Scooby intros from the 60's and up