Do you love Scooby-Doo? I love Scooby-Doo. So I was excited to find, in my local HMV, a Scooby film I had not seen before : Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School.
So I bought it and ran home with it. Put the tape on, forward through the trailers, ahhh the film starts. Shaggy’s driving the mystery machine through typically spooky scenery. The focus is on Shaggy and at the bottom of the screen his name is written (it’s the old-style character introduction thing). Camera pans left on to Scooby himself, sitting in the passenger seat. “Scooby” is now written on the bottom of the screen.
A few seconds later the camera pans left again… and down a bit… on to - o lord god please no …
Scrappy fucking Doo!
Yells of disbelief and disgust reverberate through the house. What the hell is the most irritating character evercreated doing in this film?
See, I checked the box THOROUGHLY before purchase. The artwork shows Scooby, Shaggy and what I presume are two young girl ghouls around a cauldron. No Scrappy in sight. The artwork on the back shows Scoob at a blackboard, no Scrappy anywhere, and the blurb refers only to “Scooby and Shaggy”. There is not a mention or a hint of that damned Scrappy featuring in this film.
I can only conclude that Warners Home Video cynically removed all reference to Scrappy from the cover art and text, in an attempt to give true Scooby fans the false impression it was Scrappy-free.
Well it worked and I am BLOODY ANNOYED. I can’t even return the vid as it was on sale (gee, I wonder why) and therefore Sold as Seen.
Oh Hell…I’m sorry, I don’t know whether to join you in cursing, or burst out laughing - I guess I’ll say I hate that little shit Scrappy Doo as well, but I also hate what worthless pussies Scooby and Shaggy were all of the time. When Scrappy Doo can make someone look bad, girlfriend, that’s just wrong…
GAH! I hate Scrappy with a 10 foot tall purple polka dotted passion. One of the highlights of Eddie Izzard’s “Dress to Kill” is about Shaggy and Scooby. The whole time, I kept saying, oh please don’t let this man mention Scrappy.
The only mention was:
“Scrappy? A magnum!” and motions of blowing the little shit away.
Whoever decided to create Scrappy should be burned at the stake, I say.
A co-worker of mine told me she was upset that they made Scrappy a villian in the Scooby Doo movie. I think she’s nuts. Scrappy always was a villian. He made Scooby Doo cartoons miserable to watch. He ruined that show! Fuck him and his “Puppy Power” bullshit!
what I find worse is the new movies that are for home release only, in which ghosts and voodoo, and non mask wearing supercritters actually exist.
there’re 3 that I know of off the top of my head that make me want to scream and rail at the tv everytime the munchins put one of them on,“scoobydoo and the great cyber chase”(the villian is a blue lightning bodied ‘computer virus’), “scooby doo and zombie island” real fucking zombies!(the only saving grace is that fred pulls the head off of one of em-still I dont think that’s terribly appropriate for the age range its aimed at), and "scooby-doo and the witch’s…"something or other , may be cauldron, but I dont remember to tell the truth,(this one shows three teen age girls ina rock band performing tv witchcraft that seems to work, and of course they use the rock band to help promote the witchcraft)
I may be wrong, but I thought one of the (ok, stop laughing)higher purposes behind scooby was to show munchins that monsters and ghosts and such didnt really exist, not to propogate such nonssense.
I much prefer the old scooby(sans scrappy of course) where every villian had a rubber mask and all the witchcraft was special effects.
The first season of Scooby Doo, Where Are You? was great… Lots of double-entendre for the adults.
“Hey Scoob! Look what that last weiner did to me!”
Heh heh.
Things went downhill after that, though. Scrappy was the worst, but there really was only room for one sapient canine in the series. Scooby-Dumb? Argh. Scooby-Dee? What an obnoxious bitch.
What I want to hear is the outtakes of Casey Casem losing it in the studio, berating the other cast members and engineers with outrageous profanity.
You know, as soon as I read the thread title, my first thought was “Scrappy contamination?” Hated that little fucker.
Damn, the new video-release ones have real monsters? That’s awful! I credit Scooby-Doo with starting me on the path to skepticism, and now it’s all credulous X-Files crap. I’m crushed.
yep, thats was my take on Scooby as well, figured it would give the munchins a good dose of skepticism where monsters and ghosts are concerned. It was fine as long as we stuck to the first couple of seasons, ie, no scrappy, no dumdum, and then christmas came round and we already had all the old ones.
dammit
there are times grandparents should be chastised with a stick.
there is another of the “real” mosters type I just remembered as well, but I dont have the title, it was a scrappy episode, a gang of “real” monsters, (a vampire, a mummy, bride of frankenstien , and a couple others ) invited scooby and the gang to come help them get rid of some other critter or bad guy…
damn, another one, Scooby and the Boo brothers, three ghosts are main characters with just scooby, shaggy and scrappy of the gang involved. and shaggy was eating meat too.
apparently after mr casum split.
