It blows my mind that kids these days both know AND like Scooby

Joseph Barbera hated it. Not so much the first series just the clones afterward.

>>88026400
It's a good formula.
>globetrotting adventure
>spooky monsters and locations
>mysteries
>chases
>foiling criminals
>Scoob and Shag being bros with each other and doing Bugs Bunny shit with the villains
>catchy Beatles knock-off songs

>>88026664
The monsters are rarely if ever even close to spooky.
But we're still supposed to believe that Shaggy and Scoob are scared.

It has remained in my mind because of the episode where Shaggy has a PTSD breakdown after his Vietnam tour and begins murdering homeless people and prostitutes that he thinks are VC. When his former CIA handler shows up and tells him the war is over, he says "it ain't over 'til it's over" and shoots himself in the head. Powerful stuff. The use of Purple Haze on the soundtrack was great too. Oddly enough this episode was never referenced in the other episodes ever again.

>>88026679
They were never spooky but had their style and that is enough to capture a kid's attention.

Some of the 60's design still hold up to this day.

>they perfected the chase scene
>good music
>at least 4 decent characters in any iteration (I miss decent Fred, but I'm thankful for decent daphne)
It's literally a cartoon procedural. It is ridiculously hard to fuck up a procedural. How many god damn seasons has Law & Order had collectively at this point?

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>>88026679
the first series had some good monster designs

>>88026400
Didn't kids always like Scooby Doo?

>>88026981
>they perfected the chase scene
I hear the Benny Hill music every time

>>88027089
I think you mean Eight Days a Week

>>88027041
Space Kook is GOAT

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>>88027041
the laugh totally made that monster

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>>88027089
that's not "love the world" by austin roberts

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>>88026679
>The monsters are rarely if ever even close to spooky.
>>88026935
>They were never spooky


>implying
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtrBe6yxX20

HUEHAHAHAAHAHUEHUEUHEUEHUEHAHAHAHAHHUEHEUHEUHEUHEUEHU

>>88027522
I lmao every time I hear it.

It's a toss up between spacekook and >>88027678 phantom shadow for best laugh.

>>88026705
what the hell.

>>88026400
They all want to fuck Velma

>>88026679
These are good examples of psychologically scary ones:
>>88027041
>>88027678

But all of you guys are forgetting the special, physical and machine type ones. Getting electrocuted by the Power Plant Ghost, getting twisted into a pretzel by a 8-foot violent criminal or getting run over by a giant contraption is pretty scary even if you don't believe in the supernatural.

>>88027771
Shaggy was a promising Olympic athlete before he got drafted. When he came back, he started lighting up 24/7 to forget the shit that he saw and became a vagabond stoner.

>>88027147
Eight Days a Week was GOAT. I still listen to it sometimes.

>>88026400
The series teaches kids the old truth: there’re no ghosts, just some criminals claiming their existence and drawing profits from it.

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The show had a simple but interesting premise, but I think the style and atmosphere is what sold it to most people. Just look at the backgrounds. They're amazing.

I always wondered if Scooby's success had anything to do with later popularity of slashe genre. I mean people that grew up on the original series were the same people that later enjoyed slasher. And those had a pretty similar premise but for adults.

>>88028229
I doubt it; the slasher film's heyday was in the 80s and that was because of Halloween and Friday the 13th kicking things off. Scooby Doo was created and conceived a decade or more before that.

>>88028313
8-10 year olds watching Scooby Doo who watch slasher movies a decade later makes sense though.

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>>88028313
I'm not talking about the creators, sure, someone had to start somewhere and these people were significantly older than the viewers of the original Scooby Doo. But, as you said, the absolute peak of the slasher genre came in the '80, when the people brought up on Scooby Doo were already adults. The thing I'm wondering about is whether they may be a possible correlation - they enjoyed similar things as kids and adults, so a certain genre gained in popularity. It's probably impossible to prove, so here's just another amazing background from the cartoon.

>>88028229
>Just look at the backgrounds. They're amazing.
They truly are.
They night scenes so damn well.
I wonder what happened to all of the actual drawing/paintings?

Shit, there's enough scooby stuff that there should be a damn museum full of it somewhere.
I'd pay to have wander.

>>88028448
You could have a display of Casey Kasem's skull wired with a speaker and some lights and hooked up to a motion tracker, and when people got close it would light up and go "Zoinks" in Shaggy's voice, and act scared of the people looking at it.

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>>88028560
his crazy wife would've kept the skull for herself, had it not been for her meddling step-kids

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>tfw kids will never like Dastardly and Muttley

>>88029291
Speak for yourself

>>88028718
What an odd pair.
in more ways than one

>>88028718
>>88028560
BTW, Casey eventually completely destroyed his throat from decades of doing that harsh voice. The last time he did voice Shaggy was in "What's New, Scooby Doo?" and he sounded like death warmed over.

He retired after that, but hilariously enough, it wasn't because of his crispy-fried throat, but because he got pissed off when the show's producers refused to make Shaggy a vegan.

>>88031251
CK had a history of pointless butthurt for example refusing to do a cartoon that he found demeaning to Arabs.

>>88031464
The guy was a known SJW, dude.

>>88026400
>ywn be part of the Scooby Gang

Just end it.

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We need to...

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>>88032115
When I think about it, the all those skulls and generally creepy dark imagery in the Where Are You opening didn't bother me as much as a kid as it would/should now.

For fun, the alternate, animated opening to the craptastical live action movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QepaSw6w5bs

>>88032721

What, the one with Sarah Michelle Geller? I always thought that was pretty great.

>>88027783
I only wanted to fuck the Mystery Inc. Velma because she was a massive tsun with huge tits and every previous incarnation was a boring dyke.

>>88032917
It is great, those 2 movies set off the not muhs around here though.

>>88026400
They've made a movie every year, sometimes bianually since 1999

>>88032917
>>88033193
Nah, they're shit. Badly written, painfully unfunny, boring and completely disrespectful not only to the source material, but most of all to the viewer. It's just sad when animated follow-up to the series is more mature and better written than the actual god damn movies. Because "Zombie Island" is what those drecks should be.

>>88032721
Animated intro is nice, but that song... what the actual fuck.

>>88033870
I don't know how you can say they were disrespectful when they covered all the memes
>dude Shaggy's a stoner lmao
>dude Fred and Daphne were always sneaking off to fuck lmao
>dude Scrappy was so annoying lmao

>>88033870
>Nah, they're shit.
stopped reading there

>>88033985
I think this garbage caters mostly to stoners. Also Scrappy actually taking a piss on Daphne sums it up pretty well.

>>88034008
It's because you're black, isn't it?

>>88031251
He had his own Sirius radio show for awhile and that's how I recognized it was him just from his normal speaking voice.

I didn't even know he was dead until recently...

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>>88034170
ur'ore the nigger here pal

Rate the shows
Mystery Inc.> Where Are You >What's New > any I may forgot > the one where they're kids >Be Cool > Shaggy and Scooby Doo

>>88026679
Shaggy is perpetually stoned/paranoid and Scoob is a dog who takes after his human friend

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>>88026679
Kids in the 60s were not jaded by browsing the internet and seeing ISIS behead people at age 5, they got scared a alot easier than kids now

>>88034292
I watched the kiddified version of Scooby. It was a fad back then, Flinstones, Tom and Jerry among others. It was ok for a kid I was back then, but given the choice I always picked "Where are you...".

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>>88032721
That's some pretty nice animation.

>>88028403
Damn that background is fukin' kino