Well in fairness Velma and Fred and Daphne were much less likely to believe it was a ghost. It was only Shag & Scoob that were consistently gullible.
With the exception of the Scooby Doo Kids series, in which Fred was the gullible with alien conspiracy theories, while the others were skeptical, including Velma.
I should have disclaimered my post. I am speaking of the earliest series (pre-Scrappy) and What’s New Scooby Doo. I don’t really know all the ones in between.
Who is this Scrappy fella that you guys keep mentioning? There is no Scrappy. There was never any annoying little brat-pup who imposed himself on the gang and generally made a nuisance of himself. None.
And I got the name of the series above wrong, too. It’s “A Pup Named Scooby Doo”. I actually liked it. No supernatural phenomena, weird chasing sequences, a comic Velma, and a very gullible Fred.
One of the few really redeeming qualities of the new movie, aside from the fight between Daphne and the Gimp (which was basically just a fight scene misplaced from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and spliced into the film), was Velma drunkenly talking about how “He wasn’t even a puppy! It was some kind of freakish glandular problem!”
“…and I would have gotten away with it too if it wasn’t for you sons of…(door closes)”
Why? Did Al Capp create dissolute alter-egos for Li’l Abner, Daisy Mae, Mammy Yokum and such? Was Al Capp the same person as Chester Gould?
No, I remember Fearless Fosdick from way back. If I had seen the strip in the last 20 years or so I would have refused to follow it, my notions of right and wrong firmly established by that time. When I was a kid it didn’t matter: I didn’t have any established ethcal values then. I do now.
What exactly do you have against parody? I’m trying to make sense of your posts, but you’re not making it easy.
Are Jackson Public and Doc Hammer (the creators of The Venture Brothers) the same people as William Hanna and Joseph Barbera?
So, basically you’re against parody in any form?
I bet you never read MAD Magazine much as a kid, dougie.
Also, just in case it wasn’t clear, Venture Bros is shown late at night and is not meant to be viewed by children.
FYI, I read Mad from about 1956 (when I was seven) until the early 1990s, when I decided it was getting too hard-edged for me.
The fact that another poster pointed out that The Venture Brothers is on late at night is the most cogent thing I’ve yet seen on this thread. ‘Too late at night for children to see.’ Fine and dandy.
But don’t use the Time-Warner rationale on me; I happen to know the history of the ownership of Mad, from the time Gaines sold it to the Kinney Corporation in 1961. That it is now a Time Warner property is but a coincidence.
That said, I would only add that 1) I was not a real fan of the Scooby-Doo series in the 70s, and 2) if by some quirk of fate I did see the Venturre Brothers at some point (and I would not prolong the effort), I would comment about it to people I know: Don’t watch it unless you have a wide-open approach to “parody” of characters. Or, “could you imagine Mr. Chips in the mold of Simon Legree?”
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Great one!