Scoobie doo, Scrappy who?

[discombobulator]

When I was yoounger (which i still am) i was (am) completely OBSESSED with Scoobie Doo. I watched the show everyday until my parents got rid of cable. Now I have cable and I'm over my Scoobie addiction, but I did notice I new scooby doo type show. Out of curiousity I checked it out and behold, scoobie doo! That's when I noticed Scrappy, who is, more or less, a mini-scoobie. So what I am wondering is, who is this Scrappy, and what exactly is his relationship with Scoobie?

[mobo85]

You don't know Scrappy-Doo? No offense, but zoinks! You really must have not have had cable for a long time if you've never seen the Jar Jar Binks of Hanna-Barbera. (I don't mind either one.)

Uncle Cecil's trusty staff member Scott has already figured out that Rappy is Rooby's rephew...I mean, Scrappy is Scooby's nephew.

[Road Rash]

Although Scrappy was an annoying little piss, he did speak fluent human english, not dog talk.

[Philosophocles]

Scrappy Doo never really existed as a biological entity. He was simply a recurring hallucination after Shaggy spent too many years as a stoner.

Scooby snacks are a psychadelic mind expanding trip.

[Cisco]

Why does everyone always wonder how Scrappy and Scooby are related? Maybe my memory has failed me, it has been several years since I've seen a Scrappy episode but didn't he consistently refer to the big dog as "Unca Scoob"?

[Ashtar]

Originally posted by Cisco
Why does everyone always wonder how Scrappy and Scooby are related? Maybe my memory has failed me, it has been several years since I've seen a Scrappy episode but didn't he consistently refer to the big dog as "Unca Scoob"?

I often wonder about this myself--and I hardly ever -watched- anything with Scrappy Doo in it. I couldn't stand the little pissant.

[DrFidelius]

Scrappy is clearly the illegitimate offspring of Scooby and Velma. The posture and speech patterns implicate the mother.

This circumstance may have been what pushed Velma away from heterosexual (albeit inter-species) realtionships...

[Darqangelle]

Has everybody noticed that these new characters that are introduced (for the sake of ratings, of course) are usually related, but never directly?

They're always nephews, neices or 2nd cousins or the occassional long-lost brother might show up, only to have him disappear by the end of the episode in which he's introduced?

WHAT is WITH this phenomenon?

The obvious question (which I think was originally posed by Father Guido Sarducci) is "Where are the kids' illigitimate parents"?

"Hey Scrappy, your mom and I want some time off alone, so we're going to leave you with your uncle Scooby for a few months. He's a ghost hunter who lives in a van with four humans and finds himself in various dangerous situations that may be at rick to your safety, but we think it's for the best."

Maybe this was the writers' "out": If the character doesn't do well, then we can send him back to his parents and go back to the original formula. It also frees up any concerns about sexual innuendo within a family environment. No girlfriends or wife for Scooby with their own offspring.

Or maybe Scooby was gay. Ya gotta admit, he always jumped into Shaggy's arms for comfort when he was scared, could be a homosexual connection there.

"Hey Scrappy, your mom and I want some time off alone, so we're going to leave you with your gay uncle Scooby for a few months. He's a ghost hunter who lives in a van with his bestial lover and three other humans..."

[bibliophage]

I feel sorry for Ike and Euty, but not sorry enough to keep this thead here. Off to Cafe Society.

bibliophage
moderator, GQ

[drpepper]

If you go to http://www.jumptheshark.com and read the comments for Scooby Doo, you will see that Dopers are not alone in their venomous hatred of Scrappy. The sheer volume and force of the vitriol directed at that character cracked me up.

Long live the Mystery Machine!

[Legomancer]

While Scrappy has taken up a not-undeserved role as poster boy for the decline of Scooby Doo, I think it should be noted that SD had many attempts to destroy - er "increase the ratings of" the show. There were the awful, awful Scooby Doo "movies" with guest supernovas like Phyllis Diller and Don Knotts. There were Scooby Dee and Scooby Dum. There was the point when everyone was jettisoned except Scooby, Shaggy, and Scrappy. And there was the point where the monsters became real. The show's had a long and tumultuous history. I think there should be an E! True Hollywood episode about it.

[mobo85]

"Of course, there were many other problems. Most of the cast went into rehab. Scooby was given unsuccessful speech therapy at the same time he was at the Betty Ford Center. And I believe Fred was committed to an insane asylum after he ended up on someone's doorstop one day, repeating the words "let's split up, gang." As he was being taken away, he claimed his insanity was caused by aliens and someone named 'Red Herring,' in what the psychiatrist commented was a link to his problematic childhood..."

[RealityChuck]

You can't blame Scrappy Doo for the decline of the show. It stunk from the very first episode. HB has done some pretty lousy kidvid, and the popularity of Scoobie Doo is inexplicable.

[DPWhite]

Originally posted by RealityChuck
You can't blame Scrappy Doo for the decline of the show. It stunk from the very first episode. HB has done some pretty lousy kidvid, and the popularity of Scoobie Doo is inexplicable.

I liked it when I was 10 to 14 or so (they were still fairly new), but boy are they bad now. Just awful. The only good part of any episode was when they pull the mask off and are surprised at who it is and the villian says "and I would have got away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling kids" which is only choice because it is soooo bad.

[Cisco]

Originally posted by RealityChuck
You can't blame Scrappy Doo for the decline of the show. It stunk from the very first episode. HB has done some pretty lousy kidvid, and the popularity of Scoobie Doo is inexplicable.

I also agree. Everybody tries to be all "retro" by saying how much they looove Scooby Doo but I don't buy it. The show is freaking terrible, I mean have these people ever actually watched it? Every episode is exctly the same. And if I hear one more neo-hippie describe their theory that "the gang" was a bunch of stoners, thinking they are being original, I'm gonna scream.

[silent_rob]

I really liked the show when I was a kid. That's the reason I still like it today; nostalgia value. If I started watching it recently, I'd probably agree that the show is pretty bad. But that's like a lot of things from people's childhood.
And I never really watched it because of the plot (why would you? the "clues" never made much sense in the end). I watched it cuz I liked the pup named Scooby-Doo, and Shaggy, to a lesser extent.

[idiot box]

loved that show until that little f*cker scrappy doo showed up. annoying little sob ruined it for me. "puppy power" and all that stuff. i did like scooby dumb though!

a cool parody was south park's "halloween haunt" featuring korn! zoinks!

i'd probably watch it now, if scrappy wasn't in the episode, and if i was on some "meds"

[Dijon Warlock]

Originally posted by Cisco
And if I hear one more neo-hippie describe their theory that "the gang" was a bunch of stoners, thinking they are being original, I'm gonna scream.

But, but, think about it, dude! I mean, jus' look at Shaggy, man, total stoner with those clothes, that walk, the chin fuzz...and they, like, always had the munchies! Whoaa...and those quote-unquote "Scooby Snacks"?

HASH CAKES!!! I'll bet I'm the first person to put all that together!!! *cough*hack* Wait, is that the cops!?

[Dijon Warlock]

Scrappy Doo says: "Neuter your pets!"

And he says it on so many levels.

[puk]

Dijon,

You're getting damned close to getting on my favorite poster list.

and trust me, you don't want to be on that list

[Badtz Maru]

What I don't understand is why they kept Scrappy so long. I don't know a single person who liked him. Even as a young child we would change the channel if it was an episode with Scrappy.

As to the Stoner hypothesis - the real explanation is far more sinister.

[Dijon Warlock]

Originally posted by puk
Dijon,

You're getting damned close to getting on my favorite poster list.

and trust me, you don't want to be on that list

Well, I'm edging toward 1,000 posts...it's about time I got on somebody's list. "Favorite Poster" I can live with.