Summary of TV Show/Film adaptations[]
Scooby-Doo is an American media franchise based around several animated television series and related works produced from 1969 to the present day. The original series, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, was created for Hanna-Barbera Productions by writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears in 1969. This Saturday morning cartoon series featured a talking Great Dane named Scooby-Doo and four teenagers - Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, and Norville "Shaggy" Rogers - who solve mysteries by exposing seemingly otherworldly ghosts and monsters as non-supernatural criminals.
Two films were made by Raja Gosnell, the well-known director for the two Smurfs movies. The first one (Scooby-Doo: The Movie) was released in 2002 and involved the gang trying to solve a paranormal source on Spooky Island with guest star Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean) while the 2004 sequel (Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed) was about Scooby and the gang trying to save Coolsville from the Evil Masked Figure and the previous monsters they stopped with Seth Green as Velma's girlfriend, Patrick. Two more Cartoon Network TV movies (Scooby-Doo: The Mystery Begins and Scooby-Doo: Curse of the Lake Monster) were followed up with a different cast, director and Frank Welker voicing Scooby.
Shaggy and Scooby were also seen in the second Looney Tunes movie, Looney Tunes: Back in Action complaining about Matthew Lillard portraying Shaggy and that if he does again in Scooby-Doo 2, he and Scooby are going to beat him up.
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Appearances in MAD[]
Season 1[]
- Episode 23 TwiGH School Musical: Scooby and Shaggy make a cameo in Troy's song.
- Episode 24 The Big Fang Theory: Jacob talks like Scooby-Doo when he turns into a wolf.
Season 2[]
- Episode 5 (31) Celebrities Without Their Makeup: Fred makes a cameo without his makeup to look like Gordon Ramsay (Kitchen Nightmares).
- Episode 9 (35) The Scooby-Doo Gang, Ruining Halloween Since 1969: The Mystery Inc. gang ruins Halloween.
- Episode 12 (38) Barry Kirschbaum, Ghost Attorney: The Old Carnival Owner briefly mentions he successfully sued the gang and now owns Scooby-Doo makes a cameo as his pet.
- Episode 13 (39) Spy vs. Spy Kids: Velma and Scooby appear when Rebecca and Cecil Wilson explain why Danger D'Amo and his twin did the crime.
- Episode 14 (40) My Supernatural Sweet 16: The Winchester Bros. car has a sign on the side that says "The Supernatural Machine" in the same style as the Mystery Machine.
- Episode 21 (47) Scooby Snack Fiscal Report: Scooby Snacks get spoofed in the ad.
Season 3[]
- Episode 7 (59) The Mixed Martial Artist: Scooby-Doo makes a cameo through the door saying he is also a talking dog but Jack (Uggie) the Dog (the Artist) attacks him.
Season 4[]
- Episode 13 (91) Downton Shaggy: Shaggy Rogers gets spoofed along with Downton Abbey.
- Episode 21 (99) Old Man Welker disguised as Scooby-Doo: The TV show gets spoofed in the parody with Old Man Welker as the culprit.
Trivia[]
- Grey DeLisle, Matthew Lillard, and Frank Welker do voices in this show.