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Scooby Doo: Scooby-Doo
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Scooby-Doo takes place two years after the dissolution of Mystery, Inc. It seems that competing egos prevented the gang from working together as a team. Now, Emile Mondavarious (Rowan Atkinson, Rat Race, Maybe Baby), the strange creator of Spooky Island, a scary theme park, has what he thinks is a ghost problem. He invites them all separately to come solve the mystery, and once there, they need to relearn what made them friends and successes in the first place. The updated characters retain most of their cartoon trademarks, with some modifications. Daphne (Sarah Michelle Gellar, Cruel Intentions, Simply Irresistible) is still the damsel in distress, but now she is a black belt and channels a little ditziness. Fred (Freddie Prinze, Jr., Summer Catch, Head Over Heels) is a tad more arrogant than before.
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Scooby-Doo is a long-running American animated series produced for Saturday morning television in several different versions from 1969 to the present. The original series, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, was created for Hanna-Barbera Productions by writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears, CBS executive Fred Silverman and character designer Iwao Takamoto. Hanna-Barbera produced numerous spin-offs and related works until being absorbed in 1997 into Warner Bros. Animation, which has handled production since then. Although the format of the show and the cast (and ages) of characters have varied significantly over the years, the most familiar versions of the show feature a talking dog named Scooby-Doo and four teenagers: Fred "Freddie" Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, and Norville "Shaggy" Rogers.
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Bedrock might as well be the, uh, Stone Age for today's young audiences, while the gang at Scooby-Doo maintains its hypnotic appeal. The eponymous dog star's Q rating tops Bugs Bunny's among kids. The franchise's direct-to-video titles consistently hit the best-seller lists. (And yes, in a nod to changing times, Scooby, Shaggy, and Fred do DVD commentary.) Kid-oriented Scooby-licensed video games have been popular since the mid-'90s. In 2000, Scooby-Doo won a mock presidential election held by the Cartoon Network, which still airs an hour-and-a-half of Scooby shows each weekday as part of its "Scooby Universe" package. Unlike the evening "Adult Swim" fare, the Cartoon Network's daytime audience is dominated by tykes.
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Popular subversive interpretations of Scooby-Doo, primarily those involving alleged drug use and sexuality, eventually began to find their ways into Scooby-related productions. The first live-action Scooby-Doo film makes several joking references to Shaggy and Scooby's purported drug use, allegations primarily stemming from Shaggy's beatnik/hippie origins. The film even has Shaggy fall in love with a girl named "Mary Jane" (a common slang term for marijuana) and an early scene of smoke coming out of a vent in the roof of the van (but then showing it's just steam from their cooking). Similarly, an episode of the Adult Swim cartoon Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law finds Shaggy and Scooby-Doo arrested for alleged possession of marijuana. [25]
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On June 14, 2002, Scooby-Doo made his first big-screen appearance in theaters around the United States. The cartoon character Scooby has been around since 1969 entertaining generations of kids (and adults) who have enjoyed watching the mysteries and adventures of Scooby and the gang. The cartoon spawned several series books as well. The Scooby-Doo! Readers has 15 books and the Scooby-Doo Picture Clue series has 20 books so far, while the Scooby-Doo Mysteries total 31 books to date.
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The comedy/adventure Scooby-Doo both plagiarizes and satirizes its ample source material. After an old-school opening scene (mystery solved, ghoul unmasked), Scooby and the gang break up due to severe personality conflicts. Two years later they’re drawn back together by an invitation to do some sleuthing on Spooky Island, a voodoo-themed Spring Break hotspot where carefree college students are being possessed by a strange supernatural force. Actually, the invading "force" is a race of vicious creatures who need human hosts in order to survive in sunlight—and conquer earth! It’s up to Mystery Inc.’s Fred, Shaggy, Daphne, Velma and Scooby to put their differences aside, thwart an old friend-turned-fiend and save the world.
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