# Saw a weird Scooby Doo episode this morning **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** cartoons-animation\ **Created:** [May 18, 2022, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-a-weird-scooby-doo-episode-this-morning/964630 "2022-05-18T17:26:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-a-weird-scooby-doo-episode-this-morning/964630/1 "2022-05-18T17:26:11Z")
Was surfing the boob tube and stopped on Boomerang. There was an episode of Scooby Doo on. One of the new versions, not a vintage 1960’s episode. Anyway, Scoob and the gang end up being rescued by none other than Magilla Gorilla. And the bad guy in the monster costume turns out to be Mr. Peebles, owner of the pet store Magilla was in. And the cops take Peebles away to jail. I was like, far out. When I watched Magilla Gorilla on Cartoon Carnival as a kid Mr. Peebles was a good guy. Just annoyed with his pet ape. These toons now days must be made by and for stoners. That’s all. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-a-weird-scooby-doo-episode-this-morning/964630/2 "2022-05-18T17:36:59Z")
That’s quite inventive. They could do more of this. How about they get chased by someone in the _Scream_ getup, and the reveal shows it to be the producer - Harvey Weinstein. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-a-weird-scooby-doo-episode-this-morning/964630/3 "2022-05-18T17:46:17Z")
Writing credits go to [Caroline Farah](https://twitter.com/carolinecfarah?lang=en). She seems just ecstatic that celebs are reading lines she wrote. Wanda Sykes in the episode you watched, Cher and Carol Burnett more recently. ~Max ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-a-weird-scooby-doo-episode-this-morning/964630/4 "2022-05-18T19:22:02Z")
Yeah, that particular series was a modern riff on the New Scooby Doo Movies of yore, which had the gang team up with, like, Abbott and Costello, the Addams Family, Batman and Robin, Sandy Duncan, etc. Except, of course, with more modern celebs (the OP example notwithstanding): Alton Brown, Malcolm McDowell, Macklemore… ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-a-weird-scooby-doo-episode-this-morning/964630/5 "2022-05-18T20:34:05Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > Except, of course, with more modern celebs (the OP example notwithstanding): Alton Brown, Malcolm McDowell, Macklemore… Really, the Scooby gang are gonna go up against this guy? [![](https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:433/0*ScKNVqcGf3ktciho.jpg) ](https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:433/0*ScKNVqcGf3ktciho.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-a-weird-scooby-doo-episode-this-morning/964630/6 "2022-05-18T20:42:28Z")
No no no, the guest stars aren’t villains… except for Malcolm McDowell. ~Max ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-a-weird-scooby-doo-episode-this-morning/964630/7 "2022-05-18T21:34:00Z")
Weren’t Sonny and Cher in the original series too? They did show up in something Hanna Barbera… ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-a-weird-scooby-doo-episode-this-morning/964630/8 "2022-05-19T06:07:14Z")
The Scooby Doo was on my first trip to Hong Kong in 1983. Scooby spoke Cantonese in a dog accent. I just about died laughing. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-a-weird-scooby-doo-episode-this-morning/964630/9 "2022-05-19T13:20:12Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Weren’t Sonny and Cher in the original series too? They sure were. Well, they were in “The New Scooby-Doo Movies.” Whether that counts as “the original series” is a question too geeky even for me. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saw-a-weird-scooby-doo-episode-this-morning/964630/10 "2022-05-19T13:52:14Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Weren’t Sonny and Cher in the original series too? They did show up in something Hanna Barbera… Yeah, but they weren’t taken away by the police in the end.