There's a Mystery in Town, So Call the Coolest Pup Around

...Oh, Scooby, A Pup Named Scooby Doo!

Woohoo! Yay! 100 posts! Yippee! All Right! Ah...ahem, where was I? Ohhh, yes....

A Pup Named Scooby Doo was a cartoon series made by Hanna-Barbera in 1988. It featured Scooby Doo and the gang as 10-year olds, back when the Scooby Doo Detective Agency was first established. The premise was basically the same as previous Scooby Doo series:the gang was called on to investigate a mystery involving a ghost or monster of some sort, which would always turn out to be a disguised villain. What really set this series apart, however, is that it was much more humorous, with wacky situations, goofy characters, and bizarre monsters being commonplace. Many of such wacky monsters included a clown ghost, a haunted hamburger, a strange alien, the ghost of a(very) strict librarian, a one-eyed sludge monster...

...and then there's Chickenstein.! (...Yeah.)

Various running gags were commonplace in most episodes, such as Daphne calling her ever-patient butler Jenkins to do things for her, and Freddy blaming the aptly-named town bully Red Herring for being the guilty party. (Which he never was!)

Wild takes were also very commonplace; as suggested on this TV Tropes page, you really do get the notion that the artists were running a bet on who could draw the wilder take.

Here, as per example, are Exhibit A....

...and Exhibit B.

Overall, this is a good, funny, and extremely humorous show. The characters are, as always, likeable and well-cast, retaining their personalities faithfully from the original. Personally, this is one of my favorite Scooby Doo incarnations(next to anything with Scrappy Doo in it. *GUILTY*) An excellent show that any Scooby Doo fan is sure to love.

The theme song's mighty good, too!

All four seasons of the show are available on DVD at the links below:

Season One

Seasons Two, Three, and Four

"Scooby-Dooby-Doo-oo-oo!"

I do I do I do, do like Scrappy Doo, and do you do you do, do you like him too?

"I love my Unca' Scooby!"

It's a well-known fact that Scrappy Doo has been given a bad rap:he's been accused(unfairly) of being annoying, accused(also unfairly) of ruining the show, dissed in newer versions of the show, made into a villain in the live action movie, and even had a highly negative TV Trope named after him. So, it's very refreshing, after all this, to see that some people do still like him(myself included).

In fact, there are a few Scrappy Doo fansites. Here are a couple I found, the latter of which was made by one of the show's writers:

http://www.erictb.info/scrappy.html

http://www.povonline.com/scrappydays/scrappy01.htm

Here also is a fan fiction I found portraying Scrappy in a positive (even sympathetic) light:

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/870992/1/Scrappy_Origins

(I even wrote a review for it. *Guilty!*)

There's also this site, which has, among other things, a few (very cute!) Scrappy Doo items for sale. (Some are, regrettably, a little pricey, but well worth it for any Scrappy fan):

http://www.whatacharacter.com/p-s/s--page1.htm

On that note, I've seen many more nifty Scrappy Doo items on ebay, some of the niftiest of which being the "I heart Scrappy" charms for charm bracelets(which I highly recommend.)  :)

UPDATE 6/12/12:I recently acquired this Scooby-Doo trading card which name-drops Scrappy(and in a positive way!)

UPDATE 7/5/12:I also recently found yet another Scrappy fansite which contans such nifty things as character bios, poems written by Scrappy fans, and an "interview" with Scrappy.

http://www.oocities.org/hollywood/film/3353/

There's even(drumroll please...) a Scrappy Doo Fanclub on this famous fansite!(Happy Dance time!)

http://www.fanpop.com/spots/scrappy-doo

 

 

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