That’s sweet, but um…what do YOU think they were doing in the back of the Mystery Machine?
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Just wanted to add that the 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo also featured Vincent Price. Too weird!
By virtue of his name alone, I’d say “Shaggy” was gettin’ jiggy wit it quite often…
By far the best guest star: Jerry Reed!!
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All I can say is that I wish I was wealthy enough to be able to pay Eve NOT to write the article. She has not been defiled by Scooby in her youth, yet now must endure its incredible offal-ness and awfulness.
Oh, the pain of it all!
Bucky
Oh my, now I have turned Bucky into Dr. Smith: “Oh the pain, the pain . . .”
Thanks, Riddles—it’ll be in, I think, the Sept. issue (they have a real long lead time). Why doncha write to Movieline, tell them how brilliant Eve Golden is, that she deserves a raise and should take over the late Bad Movies We Love column? Just think what I could do to “Kiss Her Goodbye!”
Everyone is forgetting one of my favorite parts of the show - the profound mismatch between the paranormal event at the beginning of the show and the lame explanation at the end. The original “ghost” would clearly be drifting through the air over rocks and logs with no support below it and lit by some creepy glow. At the end of the show it would come out that it was old man Zimmer walking around in a sheet - no explanation of how he flew through the air or why he glowed. Or there would be a very convincing blob-man who could hurl chunks of his body at people, but at the end it would turn out to be Albert the handyman in a seedy costume with a rubber mask and a zipper up the back. All of which lent a strong “all bets are off” atmosphere to any sense that you could guess what the end would be. It was a show that had no qualms about blatantly changing the facts to fit the plot, and you just don’t find that kind of courage in modern TV shows.
Ok, Velma in not a lesbian - she was Johnny Bravo’s one true love - she’s pining.
Freddy is arich kid who has nothing better to do but spend mummy and daddums money on his friend, van, and crazy adventures.
All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people.
Velma is a big dyke! Please. Great shirt making the rounds of the pride events a few years ago featured Louise from Thelma and Louise alongside Velma, captioned of course “Velma and Louise.”
What was the deal with the version with Shaggy in a red shirt (instead of his traditional and proper green), Scrappy the abomination and some little Mexican-looking kid?
Scooby had a girl cousin who was an actress. She only appeared once or twice, had a Southern accent, and both Scooby Doo and Dum had crushes on her (which was pretty sick for a kiddie show). Anyone remember her name? I’m thinking it was something like “Scooby Doll” or some equally horrid feminized version of the name.
Something I’ve learned from Scooby Doo:
If a horrible monster is chasing me, I can distrat him for minutes at a time by offerng him a menu and seatin him at a table, and playing restaurant. Or by putting a bib on him and cutting his hair. Or by starting to dance with him. He will participate mindlessly, and stop being “dangerous” until I wig out and run again.
Also, don’t forget the lame Rube Goldberg “traps” they area always building to catch the villian. Usually Shaggy and Scooby set them off on themselves, but when they work, it usually involves a rickety cart transversing a narrow ledge and catching the bad guy just so, before dumping quick-dry cement on him and depositing him in an industrial size washing machine…
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Otto, the girl cousin’s name was Scooby Dee, I believe.
I disagree. Shaggy and Scooby could eat an entire hoagie at anytime. Hell, Shaggy or Scooby could eat an entire turkey at anytime.
Notice that when they are offered the snack, they imediattly go into a major case of the shakes. They jones much to hard for it to be a “soft drug” like pot.
Furthermore, once they eat the “snacks”, they change from wussies into fearless warriors. They have enhanced strength, and seem to be impervious to pain.
My theory: Scooby snacks are PCP.
You say “cheesy” like that’s a BAD thing.
FWIW, I found a jpeg of Daphne and Shaggy, um, shagging. Anyone who want to see it can e-mail me and I’ll send it. Don’t quite think it’ll work in your article though, Eve.
Cecil said it. I believe it. That settles it.
“Scooby Dee?” I thought she was married to Ossie Davis . . .
Anyway, I found those episodes I’ll have to view: They are “Foul Play in Funland” (something about an evil robot in an amusement park) and “Bedlam in the Big Top” (a ghost hypnotizes the kids, I suppose in a circus). Do these ring any bells? The video box suggests that Scrappy is not involved, which seems to be a good sign.
Ah yes, the evil clown episode. One of the two or three best!
“Watch the pretty coin of gold, and you will do as you are told!” :eek:
(I can’t believe I still remember that line. I haven’t seen the episode in many, many years.)
OK, I have printed your helpful comments and intend to plagiarize . . . Um, I mean “utilize” them shamelessly when I write the column this weekend. Thanks!
I think this is actually:
Come on Scooby-Doo, I see you pretend to shake and shiver.
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Ukulele Ike
**SCOOBY-DOO was the avatar of all those revolting Saturday morning cartoons of the 1970s, the ones where there’s always a group of four teenage kids and they always have a “rock band” and the goofy one is always the “drummer” and they’re always solving “mysteries.” **
Actually, of all the HB cartoons, I think Scooby-Doo was the one where the kids weren’t a rock band.
As for Scooby talking, that reminded me of the crossover episode with Speedbuggy. Speed, a car, says something and Scooby questions the existence of a talking car. One of the gals in the speed buggy group the says, “This from a talking dog?” Everyone laughs and they go on to solve the mystery.
Scrappy-Doo did spell the end to the series. The Scooby-Doo project comercials that Cartoon Network did as a spoof to the Blair Witch Project were funny. They run into Scrappy in th woods and Daphnie goes screaming through the woods. Fred yells that it’s just Scrapy and Daphnies response is “I know!”
But the worst of the HB cartoons was always Jabber Jaws. It’s pretty much the same as Scoobie except replace the dog with a great white shark that walks on his tail fins, breaths air, is a drummer for the band, and is Curely from the three stooges. That was the worst cartoon ever!
“That was the worst cartoon ever!”
Two words—“Clutch Cargo.”
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Yeah, the folks over at Hanna Barbara were never big believers in richly textured animation, were they?
Is it just me, or did the old Clutch Cargo cartoons sort of creep you out? I mean those completely lifeless characters with the extremely animated lips! Weird!
It’s “Come on Scooby-Doo, I see you, pretending you’ve got a sliver / But you’re not foolin’ me, 'cause I can see the way you shake and shiver.”