![]() Whoopsy-Doo is owned by Gaggy Rogers, Shaggy's uncle. He is highly intelligent and the only sibling to wear glasses. Scrappy is the son of Scooby's sister Ruby-Doo. Laff-A-Lympics as a member of the Scoobie Doobies Vampire Bats and Scaredy Cats (The Scooby-Doo Show) The Headless Horseman of Halloween (The Scooby-Doo Show) The Gruesome Game of The Gator Ghoul (The Scooby-Doo Show) Scooby-Dum lives with Ma and Pa Skillet in the Okefenokee swamp of southern Georgia. ![]() Scooby-Dum is a grey Great Dane with buck-teeth who is quite dim-witted, but he longed to be a detective. The Chiller Diller Movie Thriller (The Scooby-Doo Show) She appeared in "The Chiller Diller Movie Theater" which aired on October 1, 1977. Scooby-Dee was an actress, who had a southern accent. ![]() Scrappy's Birthday (The Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo Show) The Curse of the Collar (A Pup Named Scooby-Doo) Howdy-Doo enjoys reading supermarket tabloids newspapers. Horton-Doo is interested in science and monsters. Great-Grandpa Scooby appears as a ghost from the Civil War. Scooby's Roots (The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show) Grandpa Scooby lives at Scooby Manor, which is Scooby's family home. The "Dooby Dooby Doo" Ado (The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries) He is a singer, and one of the only Doo's to have hair on his head. Showboat Scooby (The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries)ĭooby-Doo is Scooby's cousin. The Weredog of Doo Manor (A Pup Named Scooby-Doo)Ĭurse of the Collar (A Pup Named Scooby-Doo) Wedding Bell Boos part 1 and 2 (The All New Scooby and Scrappy Doo Show) The Ghouliest Show on Earth (The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo) And his initial run of episodes was given out to a less than stellar animation house.Dada and Momsy Doo are owned by Mom and Pop Rogers. Evanier successfully refuted their demands in a conference, but Hanna-Barbera would later cave and have another writer water Scrappy down. According to Evanier, Standards and Practices found the little guy “too independent” and wanted im to conform more with his uncle Scooby. Finding the right voice was a torturous process requiring multiple recordings of the entire episode, and a money and personality dispute ended up costing Scrappy his first performer after just one season ( Don Messick, Scooby's VA, ultimately got the part for most of Scrappy's run). But Scrappy came in for trouble before he ever made it to the air. The writers (at least some of them) even enjoyed working with the character. Scrappy did the job he was made for ABC didn’t cancel, and ratings improved. Daphne would occasionally rejoin the cast in certain incarnations, but for much of the 1980s, Scooby-Doo was a three-man team. So much focus was given over to them that, come second season, Fred, Daphne, and Velma were written out. Scrappy’s cries of “Let me at ‘em!” and “puppy power!” (apparently an ad-lib from a rejected voice actor that Barbera took a liking to) sounded relentlessly through every new episode, and the action increasingly focused on the trio of Scooby, Shaggy, and Scrappy. Only now, there was an irascible puppy that wanted to duke it out with the crooks instead of fleeing from them or solving the mystery. It was, at the end of the day, the same old story: spooky mysteries ending with a guy in a mask. On the strength of that script, the series was picked up. Evanier later had cause to doubt the executive's devotion to the Looney Tunes, but he duly took his cues from Henry Hawk and wrote the script for what amounted to an unofficial pilot for Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo. Why Henry Hawk? Because the ABC executive who would decide Scooby's fate was allegedly enamored with the classic Looney Tunes and would approve cartoons based on their connections to the classics. Joe Barbera established the basic idea of a little nephew named Scrappy-Doo, animator Iwo Takamoto (probably) prepared a character design, and writer Mark Evanier developed Scrappy’s personality with Looney Tunes star Henry Hawk as a model. This was untenable to Hanna-Barbera, and they decided that what Scooby-Doo needed was a new star character. Repeition was such an issue even then that ABC was talking cancelation. In 1979, after three series and a range of gimmicks from celebrity guest stars to dimwit cousin Scrappy-Dum, Scooby-Doo was on its last legs. Those Scooby fans who turn their nose up at Scrappy and blame him for bringing the franchise down should know that Scrappy’s the only reason Scooby-Doo survived long enough to reach the age of modern media franchising.
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