Scooby Doo, Where Are You! is the first incarnation of the long-running Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo. It premiered on September 13, 1969 at 10:30 AM EST and ran for two seasons on CBS as a half-hour long show. Twenty-five episodes were produced (seventeen in 1969-1970 and eight more in 1970).
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! was the result of CBS and Hanna-Barbera’s plans to create a non-violent Saturday morning program, which would appease the parent watch groups that had protested the superhero-based programs of the mid-1960s. Originally titled Mysteries Five, and later Who’s S-S-Scared?, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! underwent a number of changes from script to screen (the most notable of which was the downplaying of the musical group angle borrowed from The Archie Show). However, the basic concept—four teenagers Fred, Daphne, Velma, and Shaggy, along with a large goofy Great Dane, Scooby-Doo, solving supernatural-related mysteries—was always in place. Character development was not a major focus of early sitcoms (especially animated cartoons), so little was offered about the personal lives of the Mystery Inc. members before the show, aside from the obvious (i.e. they are high school students). Also, each episode is a self-contained story, with connections to previous or future episode. (A story arc for the franchise did not exist until Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, which is essentially a reboot with everything that WAY didn’t have or wasn’t allowed to.)
Writing
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Scooby-Doo creators Joe Ruby and Ken Spears served as the story supervisors on the series. Ruby, Spears, and Bill Lutz wrote all of the scripts for the seventeen first-season Scooby episodes, while Ruby, Spears, Lutz, Larz Bourne, and Tom Dagenais wrote the eight second-season episodes. The plot varied little from episode to episode. The main concept was as follows:
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The Mystery Inc. gang turn up in the Mystery Machine, en route to or returning from a regular teenage function when their van develops engine trouble or breaks down for any of a variety of reasons (overheating, flat tire, etc.), in the immediate vicinity of a large, mostly-vacated property (ski lodge, hotel, factory, mansion, etc.).
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Their (unintended) destination turns out to be suffering from a monster problem (ghosts, Frankenstein, Yeti, etc.). The kids volunteer to investigate the case.
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The gang splits up to cover more ground, with Fred and Velma finding clues, Daphne finding danger, and Shaggy and Scooby finding food, fun, and the ghost/monster, who gives chase. Scooby and Shaggy in particular love to eat, including dog treats called Scooby Snacks which are a favorite of both the dog and the teenage boy.
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Eventually, enough clues are found to convince the gang that the ghost/monster is a fake, and a trap is set to capture it.
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The trap may or may not work (more often than not, Scooby-Doo falls into the trap and they accidentally catch the monster another way, usually if the plan is explained in detail before attempted execution it fails). Invariably, the ghost/monster is apprehended and unmasked. The person in the ghost or monster suit turns out to be an apparently blameless authority figure or otherwise innocuous local who is using the disguise to cover up something such as crime or a scam.
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After giving the parting shot of “And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for you blasted meddling kids” (sometimes adding “…and your stupid dog!”), the offender is then taken away to jail, and the gang is allowed to continue on their way to their destination.
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God I fucking hate this loser ass mod on this fucking wrestling forum. Its such a 99% progressive place with multiple users with BLM tags in their usernames but this bunny-cop obsessed loser who builds his entire fucking personality and politics around the fact that he likes Judy Hopps wont let us make an incredibly milquetoast joke at the expense of a terrorist organization.
There’s a no politics rule on this site technically but “we arent going to vilify entire police departments” IS A POLITICAL POSITION. HE didn’t say “no politics” he said “Don’t vilify police departments”.
I have complained to the head mod about this mod AGAIN but as much as the head mod shares a lot of my politics the mods are also very much an insider club and I’ve never seen someone get demodded.
This is the mod who responded to my complaints of unfair moderation of the no politics rule with = this btw
lmao what an unhinged loser. why does wrestling attract the absolute dregs of society
99% of the people on that forum are really fucking cool. I love it there, mostly. But this guy…
Update, I couldnt be patient and wait for the head mod to respond to me so i unleashed on him lol. Im just so fucking exhausted of this chode.
He deleted this post and sent me some stupid crybully stuff privately. I also got in touch with the guy he initially scolded and he’s in complete agreement that Clash does not have a moderator’s temperament and said he’s in touch with other mods.
Make him go up to bat for Uvalde PD
is this the bunny cop guy from the subreddit.
I got asked the same question last time I complained about him here lol.
It’s because the idea of there being two of them is too scary.
this has to be an elaborate bit
God I wish. He’s crybulling in my inbox now insisting all he did was enforce the no politics rule despite clearly using the situation to soapbox lol. He’s the worst.
wrestler and forum moderator traumatized by acab, not because of any real life attachment to a police officer or a past incident of crime, but because they have an insane obsession with a bunny cop character from a 2016 children’s movie
Yeah its absurd.