Top 100 Animated Series – 24. Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!". IGN. Archived from the original on January 24, 2009 . Retrieved November 1, 2021. Busch, Anita (August 17, 2015). " 'Scooby-Doo' Animated Feature Planned At Warner Bros". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on August 5, 2020 . Retrieved April 17, 2020. Turchiano, Danielle (March 21, 2018). "How 'Supernatural's' 'Scooby-Doo' Crossover Came To Be". Variety. Archived from the original on April 5, 2018 . Retrieved September 24, 2018. Scooby-Doo has maintained a significant fan base, which has grown steadily since the 1990s due to the show's popularity among both young children and nostalgic adults who grew up with the series. [75] Several television critics have stated that the show's mix of the comedy-adventure and horror genres was the reason for its widespread success. [76] As Fred Silverman and the Hanna-Barbera staff had planned when they first began producing the series, Scooby-Doo 's ghosts, monsters and spooky locales tend more towards humor than horror, making them easily accessible to younger children. "Overall, [ Scooby-Doo is] just not a show that is going to overstimulate kids' emotions and tensions," offered American Center for Children and Media executive director David Kleeman in a 2002 interview. "It creates just enough fun to make it fun without getting them worried or giving them nightmares. [77] The Evil Entity is the overarching villain of the series. He is an evil Anunnaki that was imprisoned for many centuries within a crystal sarcophagus, buried beneath Crystal Cove. Like other benevolent members of its race, he came to Earth thousands of years ago at the time of Nibiru, when an alignment weakened the barriers between dimensions and allowed them to cross over. While the other Anunnaki sought to help humankind grow, the Evil Entity desired only destruction and he was imprisoned into a crystal sarcophagus by the other Anunnaki. While imprisoned, the entity attempted to manipulate many mystery solvers throughout the centuries in hopes of setting him free.

Her usual appearance consists of a purple dress, pink pantyhose, purple shoes, and a green scarf. In Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase, she wore a purple and green three-piece suit with matching shoes. As a child, she wore a pink sweater, red skirt, and pink pantyhose with white go-go boots. In The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo, she wore some other purple clothes with purple pants and purple high heels. Interview with Heather North and Nicole Jaffe. In Their Own Words [documentary featurette from The Scooby-Doo/Dynomut Hour: The Complete Series DVD bonus features]. (2001). New York, Los Angeles, CA: Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.Zac Efron voices Fred as an adult while Pierce Gagnon voices his younger self in the theatrical animated film Scoob!. Velma is an adult-oriented animated series which premiered on HBO Max on January 12, 2023. [34] The series is a prequel and spinoff to the main franchise, taking place before the formation of Mystery Inc., and does not include Scooby-Doo himself. Unlike in the previous series and films, the main characters (and main voice cast) in Velma are multi-racial. [35] Film and rerun history [ edit ] Television films, reruns, and direct-to-video films [ edit ]

D'Alessandro, Anthony (April 21, 2020). " 'Scoob!' To Skip Theaters & Head Into Homes; How Director Tony Cervone Got Animated Pic Across The Finish Line In COVID-19 Climate". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on April 21, 2020 . Retrieved April 21, 2020. Top 10 Most Annoying Movie Kids - Movie Feature". TheShiznit.co.uk. 2007-01-22 . Retrieved 2011-08-16. The head of children's programming at CBS, Fred Silverman, came up with the character's name from the syllables " doo-be-doo-be-doo" in Frank Sinatra's hit song " Strangers in the Night". [1] This version of the show lasted for two seasons, with the second season airing under the title The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries. The 1984–85 season episodes featured semi-regular appearances from Fred and Velma, with Frank Welker and Marla Frumkin resuming their respective roles for these episodes. She is the second person, aside from Angel Dynamite (Cassidy Williams), to support the gang in their mystery-solving choice and even gives them an office, though it turns out to be the old janitor's closet, in the town hall. [14] She is later revealed to be in a relationship with Sheriff Bronson Stone, [15] although at the beginning Sheriff Bronson Stone is not thrilled that he was tossed over to be mayor for Nettles. [13] The two are constantly seen out on dates throughout the second season. In " Dark Night of the Hunters" she sent an old colleague to follow the gang where she reveals (to her embarrassment) that she had a nightmare to help the gang retrieve The Heart of the Jaguar and return them safely to Crystal Cove. [16]The film Wayne's World includes an alternate ending called the "Scooby-Doo Ending" in which a character in the film is revealed to have been wearing a mask. It also includes a reference to the iconic line "Let's see who this really is" before removing the mask. When the culprit is revealed to be Old Man Withers, owner of the local haunted amusement park, Withers mutters "And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn't for those meddling kids!" Boomerang Unveils New Original Animated Series 'Scooby-Doo And Guess Who?', 'Yabba-Dabba Dinosaurs!' ". Deadline. May 23, 2018. Archived from the original on May 27, 2018 . Retrieved May 29, 2018. In the first series, notably Where Are You! and New Movies, a running gag is Velma's severe near-sightedness and her trouble with keeping her glasses on her face (usually after falling off while being chased by the villain). The direct-to-video productions continued to be produced concurrently with at least one entry per year. Two of these entries, Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire and Scooby-Doo! and the Monster of Mexico (both 2003) were produced in a retro-style reminiscent of the original series, and featured Heather North and Nicole Jaffe as the voices of Daphne and Velma, respectively. Later entries produced between 2004 and 2009 were done in the style of What's New, Scooby-Doo, using that show's voice cast. Entries from 2010 on use the original 1969 designs and feature Matthew Lillard as the voice of Shaggy, the character Lillard portrayed in the live-action theatrical Scooby-Doo films. Two Scooby-Doo! movies were released in 2016, named Lego Scooby-Doo! Haunted Hollywood and Scooby-Doo! and WWE: Curse of the Speed Demon. A Pup Named Scooby-Doo marks the only series in the Scooby-Doo franchise to reach its fourth season.

Throughout her various incarnations, Velma is usually portrayed as a highly intelligent young woman with various interests ranging from highly specified sciences (which in the "Scooby and Scrappy-Doo" series leads her to pursue a career as a NASA research scientist) or merely being very well read on various and sometimes obscure information, such as ancient Viking writing (as in the third Scooby-Doo series "The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries"). In Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo, Velma is described by her younger sister Madelyn as being " born with a mystery book in her hand". Consequently, Velma is usually the one to figure out the mystery, sometimes with the help of Fred and Daphne. Beatty, Sally (July 23, 2000). "Scooby-Doo, where are you? is everywhere". Daily Record. p.49. Archived from the original on December 4, 2022 . Retrieved December 4, 2022– via Newspapers.com. In 2016, DC launched a new monthly comic book entitled Scooby Apocalypse, with the characters being reinvented in a story set in a post-apocalyptic world, where monsters roam the streets and Scooby and the gang must find a way to survive at all costs, while also trying to find a way to reverse the apocalypse.The two eventually re-team up with Mr. E and Professor Pericles to help the two obtain the three pieces of the Planispheric Disc from the gang, as well as get their hands on the cursed Conquistador treasure beneath Crystal Cove. Stokes, Trey (2007). " The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera". Retrieved on August 12, 2006. Article on the creation of the ride, written by one of its programmers. Each of these episodes features Scooby and the four teenage members of Mystery, Inc.— Fred, Shaggy, Daphne and Velma—arriving at a location in the Mystery Machine, a van painted with psychedelic colors and flower power imagery. Encountering a purportedly supernatural monster terrorizing the local populace, such as a ghost, they decide to investigate. The kids split up to look for clues and suspects, while being chased at turns by the monster. Eventually, the kids come to realize the paranormal activity is actually an elaborate hoax, and—often with the help of a Rube Goldberg-like trap designed by Fred—they capture the creature suit-wearing villain and unmask him or her. Revealed as a flesh and blood crook who used the costume to cover up their crimes, the villain is arrested and taken to jail, often with the catchphrase "if it weren't for those pesky/meddling kids". [17] The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries DVD news: Announcement for 13 Spooky Tales: Ruh-Roh Robot!". TVShowsOnDVD.com. Archived from the original on October 27, 2014 . Retrieved October 27, 2014.

December 16, 2015) "SkelEtor Masters of the Universe Alan Oppenheimer He-Man Phoenix Comicon Fan Fest". Nai Wang. Retrieved February 13, 2023. Scooby-Doo is an American media franchise owned by Warner Bros. Discovery and created in 1969 by writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears through their animated series, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, for Hanna-Barbera (which was absorbed into Warner Bros. Animation in 2001). The series features 4 teenagers: Fred, Daphne, Velma, and Shaggy, and their talking dog named Scooby, who solve mysteries involving supposedly supernatural creatures through a series of antics and missteps. [1] What's New, Scooby-Doo? is the most recent series in the Scooby-Doo franchise to continue with a third season. The Evil Entity is voiced by Clancy Brown, except in the episode "Wrath of the Krampus" where he is voiced by Frank Welker. Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc. gang (based on their classic 1972 incarnation as opposed to their more recent incarnations) appear in the second part of the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode "Bat-Mite Presents: Batman's Strangest Cases" in which they team up with Batman and Robin to rescue Weird Al who was kidnapped by the Joker and the Penguin.Scooby-Doo is the eponymous character in the Scooby-Doo animated television series created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears alongside the popular American animation company Hanna-Barbera. Scooby-Doo is the pet and lifelong companion of Shaggy Rogers and in many iterations, including the original series, is regarded as a unique anthropomorphic Great Dane dog who is able to speak in broken English, unlike most other dogs in his reality, and usually puts the letter R in front of words spoken. Other incarnations, such as A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, present talking dogs like Scooby as quite common. After the Evil Entity is destroyed, in the new timeline, while the gang is going to the Miskatonic University, Nova is still possessed by the Anunnaki and thanks Scooby for his heroic actions. Weekend Box Office preview". January 27, 2006. Archived from the original on March 7, 2012 . Retrieved April 17, 2020. . Neumaier, Joe (Oct 8, 1999). "Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost (1999)". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved 28 June 2011.