I got 7/10. I assumed that anything that seemed too strange for a Scooby Doo episode was real.
I got 7/10.
I have watched far too much Scooby Doo over the years. Score: 90% (9 out of 10)
I blew the castle question though.
Apparently people who take the quiz do well on it though.
The same company, eh? Sounds like a bunch of snake-oil publicity people who deserve a fate such as that meted out to the victims on NCIS. Chester Gould did not create a separate Dick Tracy who was a crooked, dissolute cop; there’s no alter ego of Mr. Chips who behaves like a Simon Legree wannabe. If the company owning the rights to the characters is as you describe, I hope they go belly-up and their policymakers starve to death. :mad:
Yes, I’m sure that Time Warner is doomed to a swift death, along with Microsoft and the Coca-Cola Corporation. :rolleyes:
Venture Bros. is definitely not for everybody, but you really don’t know what you’re talking about here. Basically it’s a parody of Jonny Quest and a lot of similar Hanna Barbera adventure shows that feature clever young boys, brilliant scientists and comic book style supervillains. It’s very stupid sometimes and very funny and clever at others. They did one Scooby Doo episode and I think it was closer to the funny and clever side: combining the Scooby Doo gang with famous serial killers was sick but inspired in my opinion. Everybody’s parodied Scooby Doo, but as far as I know, nobody’s ever done THAT.
My favorite Scooby parody was a commercial on Cartoon Network where the Mystery Machine was run off the road by the Mach 5 (and then, of course, exploded, as cars do in Speed Racer when they get run off the road).
“Dogs should not drive cars, Uh-huh!”
Dude, get over it. It’s not like they created a new series called Scooby Doo: The Dark Side, and run it back-go-back on Saturday mornings with the original. It’s a one-off parody on a separate show in a different time slot with a completely different audience: adults who grew up watching the cartoons as kids watching parodies for humor. It’s pulling a “Simpsons” or “Southpark” on the shows.
As far as the creative team, it is a different set of people entirely writing these shows. They are protected from copywrite infringement for a variety of reasons, one significant one being that the copywrite holder is the same entity (Time Warner), but Time Warner wisely recognizes that they have a lot of markets with different demographics, and catering to one does not interfere with another.
If you don’t care for it, don’t watch it.
10/10. I recognized more of the weird news stories than I did the Scooby Doo episodes.
Besides that, there have been a lot of unauthorized parodies featuring the actual characters that are much worse. (I’m thinking specifically of the TV Funhouse poking fun at the babyification of cartoon characters by having Scooby and his pals as fetuses, and the Family Guy spoof where Frank Welker himself appears as Fred and gives the memorable line, “You know what that means- we’re dealing with one sick son-of-a-bitch!”)
I got 7/10 but I was second guessing myself too much. I got the castle one, but failed on Gene Simmons (who squiks me out) and the snowboard one.
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You mean copyright, not copywrite.
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The key to avoiding Gaudere’s wrath is to use as few words as possible. And to type really, really slowly. And to proofread multiple times. You know, on balance, it’s not really worth the effort.
Watch it? I’d sooner go into a diabetic coma. :mad:
Yeah, I know, it is pretty freaking sweet.
What?
Yeah, as the sugar of lead.
(One Wiki search later) Hah, I didn’t know about that. Neat.
I bet you loathe Al Capp, then. 
What’s New Scooby Doo is awesome.
Shaggy and Scooby Doo Get a Clue, on the other hand, seriously sucks.
And although I’m sure they’ve made more than one episode, I keep seeing the same one.
You’d think the gang would realize that it was never a ghost, and stop being scared when they saw supernatural things. But no, they acted as though it was really a ghost EVERY SINGLE TIME. Gah!
Given that they were high in the midst of every single case, that’s to be expected. I mean, seriously dude–they thought SCOOBY COULD TALK.