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* ScoobyDoobyDoors: It may be one the most frequently referenced sequence in any Hanna-Barbera/Warner Animation production, if not all of Western Animation. Yes, that's right, Scooby Doo is the Western equivalent of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.
** The gag had been used in Looney Tunes shorts long before that. One of the oldest uses was a live-action silent comedy from the early twenties. Amusingly, it took place in a haunted mansion, and the ghost was revealed to be a fake.
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** The gag had been used in Looney Tunes shorts long before that. One of the oldest uses was a live-action silent comedy from the early twenties. Amusingly, it took place in a haunted mansion, and the ghost was revealed to be a fake.
* ScoobyDooHoax
* ScoobyStack
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*** ''[[WesternAnimation/LaffALympics Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics]]'' (1977-1979, ABC) - Renamed ''Scooby's All-Stars'' in second season. Crossover with other Hanna-Barbera characters. 16 Episodes.
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*** ''[[WesternAnimation/LaffALympics Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics]]'' (1977-1979, ABC) - Renamed ''Scooby's All-Stars'' in second season. Crossover with other Hanna-Barbera characters. 16 24 Episodes.
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* TenMinuteRetirement: Happens twice. In the prime time special ''Scooby Goes Hollywood,'' he quits his Saturday morning show to pursue a career in nighttime TV. In the ''13 Ghosts'' episode "It's a Wonderful Scoob," he becomes so traumatized by the episode's Big Bad that he goes back home to his parents. In the first instance, Fred, Daphne and Velma lead a rally for Scooby to return to his cartoon show. In the second, Vincent Van Ghoul shows Scooby the future world without him stopping the villain Time Slime.
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* ''The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries'' (1984-85, ABC) - A continuation of the previous series. 13 Episodes.
* ''The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries'' (1984-85, ABC) - A continuation of the previous series. 13 Episodes.
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* ''The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries'' (1984-85, ABC) - A continuation of the previousseries.series, but with occasional appearances from Fred and Velma (both appearing in two episodes each, including one together, reuniting the gang). 13 Episodes.
* ''The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries'' (1984-85, ABC) - A continuation of the previous
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* ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'' (1988-1991, ABC) - Features a new, more modern style, with the gang solving mysteries as kids. 31 Episodes.
* ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'' (2002-2006, The WB) - A new series, returning to the original format, but with a very contemporary style.
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* ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'' (1988-1991, ABC) - Features a new, more modern style, with the gang solving mysteries as kids. The series sometimes acted as a good-natured self-referential parody of the original formula. 31 Episodes.
* ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'' (2002-2006, The WB) - A new series, returning to the original format, but with a very contemporary style. 42 Episodes.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewScoobyDooMovies'' (1972-1974, CBS. This was the series with all those animated versions of real life celebrities and crossovers with other cartoons. Unlike the other series', the episodes of this series were an hour long.)
* ''The Scooby-Doo Show'' (1976-1979, ABC)
** ''The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Show'' (1976-1977, ABC)
** ''[[WesternAnimation/LaffALympics Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics]]'' (1977-1979, ABC; renamed ''Scooby's All-Stars'' in second season)
* ''Scooby and Scrappy-Doo'' (1979-1980, ABC)
* ''Scooby-Doo/Richie Rich Show'' (1980-1982, ABC. A completely different series from the first one, with only Shaggy, Scooby and Scrappy, paired with animated episodes of comic book character RichieRich)
* ''Scooby-Doo Classics'' (1981, ABC. ''Where Are You!'' replays slotted in after the ''Laverne and Shirley'' cartoon was delayed)
* ''Scooby-Doo/Puppy's Adventures'' (1982-83, ABC. Co-produced by Ruby-Spears with adventures of Weekend Special character Petey the Puppy)
* ''The All-New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show'' (1983-1984, ABC)
* ''The Best of Scooby-Doo'' (1983-84, ABC. repackaging of previous episodes)
* ''The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries'' (1984-85, ABC)
* ''Scary Scooby Funnies'' (1984-85, ABC. 1980-83 replays slotted in after ''Wolf Rock TV'' was canceled after only three telecasts)
* ''WesternAnimation/The13GhostsOfScoobyDoo'' (1985-1986, ABC)
* ''Scooby's Mystery Funhouse'' (1985-86, ABC. New name for ''Scary Scooby Funnies'')
* ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'' (1988-1991, ABC)
* ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'' (2002-2006, The WB)
* ''WesternAnimation/ShaggyAndScoobyDooGetAClue'' (2006-2008, The CW)
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' (2010-present, Cartoon Network)
* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewScoobyDooMovies'' (1972-1974, CBS. This was the series with all those animated versions of real life celebrities and crossovers with other cartoons. Unlike the other series', the episodes of this series were an hour long.)
* ''The Scooby-Doo Show'' (1976-1979, ABC)
** ''The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Show'' (1976-1977, ABC)
** ''[[WesternAnimation/LaffALympics Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics]]'' (1977-1979, ABC; renamed ''Scooby's All-Stars'' in second season)
* ''Scooby and Scrappy-Doo'' (1979-1980, ABC)
* ''Scooby-Doo/Richie Rich Show'' (1980-1982, ABC. A completely different series from the first one, with only Shaggy, Scooby and Scrappy, paired with animated episodes of comic book character RichieRich)
* ''Scooby-Doo Classics'' (1981, ABC. ''Where Are You!'' replays slotted in after the ''Laverne and Shirley'' cartoon was delayed)
* ''Scooby-Doo/Puppy's Adventures'' (1982-83, ABC. Co-produced by Ruby-Spears with adventures of Weekend Special character Petey the Puppy)
* ''The All-New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show'' (1983-1984, ABC)
* ''The Best of Scooby-Doo'' (1983-84, ABC. repackaging of previous episodes)
* ''The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries'' (1984-85, ABC)
* ''Scary Scooby Funnies'' (1984-85, ABC. 1980-83 replays slotted in after ''Wolf Rock TV'' was canceled after only three telecasts)
* ''WesternAnimation/The13GhostsOfScoobyDoo'' (1985-1986, ABC)
* ''Scooby's Mystery Funhouse'' (1985-86, ABC. New name for ''Scary Scooby Funnies'')
* ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'' (1988-1991, ABC)
* ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'' (2002-2006, The WB)
* ''WesternAnimation/ShaggyAndScoobyDooGetAClue'' (2006-2008, The CW)
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' (2010-present, Cartoon Network)
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* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'' (1969-1970, CBS; a (1969-1970 CBS)- The original classic series, and the "bread and butter" of the franchise. 25 Episodes.
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proper "Scooby-Doo Show" opening/closing.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewScoobyDooMovies'' (1972-1974,CBS. CBS) - This was the series with all those featured appearances from animated versions of real life celebrities and crossovers with other Hanna-Barbera cartoons. Unlike all the other series', series, the episodes of this series were an hour long.)
long with commercials (though some syndicated broadcasts split episodes into two standard half hours). Otherwise, this show mostly followed the classic formula. 24 Episodes (or 48 split-episodes).
* ''The Scooby-Doo Show'' (1976-1979,ABC)
ABC) - A return of the original "Where Are You?!" formula, but with a slightly (but noticeably) cheaper budget and occasional appearances from Scooby-Doo's relatives (his cousin Scooby-Dum, and his sister Scooby-Dee). 40 episodes.
**''The NOTE: The original broadcasts of these episodes were featured in package shows like "The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Show'' Hour" (Eps. 1-16), "Scooby-Doo's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics" (Eps. 17-24), and "Scooby-Doo's All-Stars" (Eps. 34-40). Eps. 25-33 were originally shown with the opening titles of "Scooby-Doo! Where Are You?!" (not attached to a package show), and is often seen as a sort of third season of the original series.
*** ''DynomuttDogWonder'' (1976-1977,ABC)
**ABC) - The gang are featured in three crossover episodes.
*** ''[[WesternAnimation/LaffALympics Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics]]'' (1977-1979,ABC; renamed ABC) - Renamed ''Scooby's All-Stars'' in second season)
season. Crossover with other Hanna-Barbera characters. 16 Episodes.
* ''Scooby and Scrappy-Doo'' (1979-1980,ABC)
ABC) - Scrappy's debut. Basically "The Scooby-Doo Show" with Scrappy. 16 Episodes.
*''Scooby-Doo/Richie Rich ''The Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo Show'' (1980-1982, ABC. ABC) - A completely different series from the first one, formula, with only Shaggy, Scooby and Scrappy, paired with animated episodes of comic book character RichieRich)
* ''Scooby-Doo Classics'' (1981, ABC. ''Where Are You!'' replays slottedScrappy being caught in after the ''Laverne and Shirley'' cartoon was delayed)
* ''Scooby-Doo/Puppy's Adventures'' (1982-83, ABC. Co-produced by Ruby-Spears withvarious adventures of Weekend Special character Petey the Puppy)
in seven-minute shorts (three-per-episode). 33 Episodes (99 Shorts).
* ''The All-New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show'' (1983-1984,ABC)
* ''The BestABC) - Return of Scooby-Doo'' (1983-84, ABC. repackaging of previous episodes)
the "mystery" formula, but only with Shaggy, Scooby, Scrappy, and Daphne as the lead characters (though Fred and Velma each appeared in two episodes). 13 Episodes.
* ''The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries'' (1984-85,ABC)
* ''Scary Scooby Funnies'' (1984-85, ABC. 1980-83 replays slotted in after ''Wolf Rock TV'' was canceled after only three telecasts)
ABC) - A continuation of the previous series. 13 Episodes.
* ''WesternAnimation/The13GhostsOfScoobyDoo'' (1985-1986,ABC)
* ''Scooby's Mystery Funhouse'' (1985-86, ABC. New name for ''Scary Scooby Funnies'')
ABC) - A new formula, basically a twist of the previous two shows, featuring new characters (Flim Flam, Vincent Van Ghoul, and villains Weerd and Bogel), the voice of Vincent Price, and was the first Scooby-Doo show featuring an overarching storyline. 13 Episodes.
* ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'' (1988-1991,ABC)
ABC) - Features a new, more modern style, with the gang solving mysteries as kids. 31 Episodes.
* ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'' (2002-2006, TheWB)
WB) - A new series, returning to the original format, but with a very contemporary style.
* ''WesternAnimation/ShaggyAndScoobyDooGetAClue'' (2006-2008, TheCW)
CW) - A big departure from the original formula, featured an overarching story, but only with Shaggy and Scooby (and a few appearances from Fred, Daphne, and Velma), and Scooby portrayed as being more like a cyborg. 26 Episodes.
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' (2010-present, CartoonNetwork)
Network) - The current incarnation. Features a slightly enhanced version of the original design, an overarching plot, a twist on the classic formula, as well as appearances from some other Hanna-Barbera cartoons. 52 Episodes.
**NOTE: A batch of episodes of "The Scooby-Doo Show" made in 1978 for ABC
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* ''The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries'' (1984-85,
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* ''WesternAnimation/The13GhostsOfScoobyDoo'' (1985-1986,
* ''Scooby's Mystery Funhouse'' (1985-86, ABC. New name for ''Scary Scooby Funnies'')
* ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'' (1988-1991,
* ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'' (2002-2006, The
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* ''Scooby And Scrappy Doo'' (1979-1980, ABC)
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[[caption-width-right:350:From left to right: Velma, Shaggy, Scooby, Fred, Daphne.]]
->''"[[TitleDrop Scooby-Doo! Where are you?]]"''
-->--'''Norville "Shaggy" Rogers'''
The original BreakfastClub, a popular SaturdayMorningCartoon from HannaBarbera that premiered in 1969 and lasted in various forms up to the early Eighties (and episodes are again being made today) featuring four teenagers (Fred Jones, Velma Dinkley, Daphne Blake and Norville "Shaggy" Rogers) and their talking dog Scooby Doo (a classic SpeechImpairedAnimal) in a [[CoolCar van called the Mystery Machine]]. Each episode they'd encounter a mystery involving some form of spooky supernatural monster which would more often than not [[ScoobyDooHoax turn out to be a hoax meant to frighten the locals away from the villain's real operation]], and which would be resolved at the end by unmasking the villain, who would inevitably utter "I would have gotten away with it if it hadn't been for YouMeddlingKids, and that dog too." Reportedly also [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar full of drug references]] (hey, it ''was'' TheSeventies), depending on how you read it (what the hell do they put in those Scooby Snacks, anyways?).
Since the 1970s there have been many incarnations, including several direct-to-video movies, a series with real ghosts called ''The Thirteen Ghosts of Scooby Doo'' and a series with prepubescent versions of the cast. One such incarnation added Scooby's nephew [[TheScrappy Scrappy Doo]] (a classic TalkingAnimal) to the cast, which was when the franchise as a whole is considered by some to have JumpedTheShark. (Creator/MarkEvanier, who wrote the pilot episode of ''Scooby & Scrappy Doo,'' told a crowd at San Diego's Comic-Con of how people thought Scrappy ruined Scooby-Doo, to which he would reply, "It's ''Scooby-Doo.'' How do you ruin ''Scooby-Doo''?") After that point the show frequently operated with just Shaggy, Scooby and Scrappy. Daphne often came along for the ride due to PopularityPower at the time. The show has stayed on the air in all its various incarnations because it is consistently the most popular show of choice by focus groups of 6-11 year olds.
"Scooby Doo" is so thoroughly embedded in American popular culture that the ad-hoc vampire-hunting team that formed around Buffy Summers in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' called themselves "The Scooby Gang".[[note]]The ''Scooby Doo'' kids never refer to themselves as such; whenever their group was given a name in-series, it's always been "Mystery, Inc."[[/note]] It has also become Cockney Rhyming Slang for "clue" (as in "Haven't a Scooby, mate").
Has also been made into a series of live-action movies. The first two (starring Sarah Michelle Gellar of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' fame as Daphne and her husband Freddy Prinze Jr. as [[TheDanza Fred]]) were theatrical films. The third and fourth (prequels with a different cast) went straight to video. These were loaded with {{Continuity Nod}}s, and [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] the show's own cliches.
In 2005, the show briefly beat ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' for most episodes produced of an American cartoon.
The most recent incarnations are ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'' (A modernized return to the mystery format) and ''WesternAnimation/ShaggyAndScoobyDooGetAClue'' (which is much flatter animation-wise and rather weird, featuring nanotech Scooby snacks and a [[LampshadeHanging message from Fred]] [no relation] in the title). A new series called ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' premiered July 12, 2010 (containing possible character development, an overarching plot, and a DarkerAndEdgier feel).
Make sure to visit the [[Characters/ScoobyDoo Characters]] page, and don't overlook the [[Analysis/ScoobyDoo Analysis]].
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[[AC: Scooby-Doo Television Series]]
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'' (1969-1970, CBS; a batch of episodes made in 1978 for ABC have been tagged as an unofficial third season but was syndicated under the ''Scooby-Doo Show'' title)
* ''TheNewScoobyDooMovies'' (1972-1974, CBS. This was the series with all those animated versions of real life celebrities and crossovers with other cartoons. Unlike the other series', the episodes of this series were an hour long.)
* ''The Scooby Doo Show'' (1976-1979, ABC)
** ''The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Show'' (1976-1977, ABC)
** ''[[WesternAnimation/LaffAlYmpics Scooby's All Star Laff-A-Lympics]]'' (1977-1979, ABC; renamed ''Scooby's All-Stars'' in second season)
* ''Scooby And Scrappy Doo'' (1979-1980, ABC)
* ''Scooby-Doo/Richie Rich Show'' (1980-1982, ABC. A completely different series from the first one, with only Shaggy, Scooby and Scrappy, paired with animated episodes of comic book character Richie Rich)
* ''Scooby-Doo Classics'' (1981, ABC. ''Where Are You!'' replays slotted in after the ''Laverne and Shirley'' cartoon was delayed)
* ''Scooby Doo/Puppy's Adventures'' (1982-83, ABC. Co-produced by Ruby-Spears with adventures of Weekend Special character Petey the Puppy)
* ''The All-New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show'' (1983-1984, ABC)
* ''The Best Of Scooby-Doo'' (1983-84, ABC. repackaging of previous episodes)
* ''The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries'' (1984-85, ABC)
* ''Scary Scooby Funnies'' (1984-85, ABC. 1980-83 replays slotted in after ''Wolf Rock TV'' was canceled after only three telecasts)
* ''WesternAnimation/The13GhostsOfScoobyDoo'' (1985-1986, ABC)
* ''Scooby's Mystery Funhouse'' (1985-86, ABC. New name for ''Scary Scooby Funnies'')
* ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'' (1988-1991, ABC)
* ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'' (2002-2006, The WB)
* ''WesternAnimation/ShaggyAndScoobyDooGetAClue'' (2006-2008, The CW)
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' (2010-present, Cartoon Network)
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* ''Scooby Goes Hollywood'' (1979, ABC, prime time special)
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheGhoulSchool'' (1988, made-for-TV movie)
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMeetsTheBooBrothers'' (1988, made-for-TV movie)
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheReluctantWerewolf'' (1988, made-for-TV movie)
* ''ScoobyDooInArabianNights'' (1994, made-for-TV movie)
* ''Film/ScoobyDoo'' (live action-movie, 2002)
* ''Film/ScoobyDooMonstersUnleashed'' (live-action movie, 2004)
* ''ScoobyDooTheMysteryBegins'' (live-action made-for-TV movie, 2009)
* ''ScoobyDooCurseOfTheLakeMonster'' (live-action made-for-TV movie, 2010)
* ''Scooby Doo! Spooky Games'' (2012)
[[AC:And too many DirectToVideo animated features to list, so they got their own page.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooDirectToVideoFilmSeries''
[[AC: Frequent Scooby Tropes:]]
* A ''lot'' of running past a WraparoundBackground.
* Velma losing her glasses, in the CBS series. (She's BlindWithoutEm.)
* {{Catch Phrase}}s: "Zoinks!" for Shaggy, "Jinkies!" for Velma, "Jeepers" for Daphne. Scrappy had two: "Let me at 'em, Let me at 'em!" and "Da-da-da-da-da-da, Puppy Power!". Not to forget the infamous "LetsSplitUpGang!" for Freddy, and of course, Scooby's "Scooby Dooby Doo!" and "Rut Roh!" In some of the newer episodes/movies, Scooby responds to any mention of a dog with "Rog? Rwhere?"\\
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The catchphrases are also lampshaded in one of the cartoon movies. After something bad happens they each say their catchphrases, except for Fred, whose catch phrase doesn't fit into that situation and instead laments his apparent lack of a Catch Phrase.
* Shaggy and Scooby [[BigEater consuming]] [[DagwoodSandwich very large sandwiches]].
* Scrappy's attempts to use physical violence against the "ghost", almost always stopped by Scooby grabbing him by the scruff of the neck.
** It actually works a few times in ''Scooby-Doo meets the Boo Brothers''.
* [[DistressedDamsel Daphne getting abducted and tied up.]] Lampshaded in the original series; she's called "Danger-Prone Daphne" more than once.
* A chase sequence through a room with [[ScoobyDoobyDoors a series of random doors with entryways that break the laws of physics.]]
* ScoobyDooHoax -- although a few later movie-length episodes (and ''Thirteen Ghosts'') had the ghosts turning out to be real. As well as the first-season episode "Foul Play in Funland". ''Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island'', the show likes playing with the trope as much as it likes playing it straight.
* Scooby and Shaggy dressing up in costumes and making a short skit to confuse the chasing monster.
* DespiteThePlan - A convoluted plan to catch the villain that never goes as planned.
* TheReveal in the form of a DramaticUnmask at the climax of the episode. "Let's see who [[MonsterOfTheWeek this monster]] ''really'' is!"\\
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Played with in the classic series episode "A Clue For Scooby-Doo." Fred and the gang are about to unmask the Ghost of Captain Cutler to see if it was really Ebeneezer Shark (the beachcomber they interrogated earlier). It turned out to be--thanks to Shaggy's placement of some seaweed--Captain Cutler himself. (Scooby and Velma were the only others to have recognized this denoument, but Fred and Daphne announce it as well, and they weren't even at Widow Cutler's home to have seen the Cutler portrait.)
* TheSummation at the end of the episode, where the gang thoroughly debunks all of the supposed paranormal activity and explain its role in the [[ScoobyDooHoax criminal racket]] they have uncovered.
* [[RedHerring One or more characters who come across as particularly suspicious]], yet turn out to have nothing to do with the actual plot. ''A Pup Named Scooby-Doo'' went so far as to make one a regular supporting character with the actual name "Red Herring".
* The ghosts being real, at least for two series, and WesternAnimation/The13GhostsOfScoobyDoo.
* Scooby [[SecurityCling getting scared and jumping into Shaggy's arms]].
** Amusingly, it's sometimes reversed, with Shaggy jumping into Scooby's front legs.
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* LetsSplitUpGang
* ScoobyDoobyDoors: It may be one the most frequently referenced sequence in any Hanna-Barbera/Warner Animation production, if not all of Western Animation. Yes, that's right, Scooby Doo is the Western equivalent of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.
** The gag had been used in Looney Tunes shorts long before that. One of the oldest uses was a live-action silent comedy from the early twenties. Amusingly, it took place in a haunted mansion, and the ghost was revealed to be a fake.
* ScoobyDooHoax
* ScoobyStack
* ShaggySearchTechnique: Shaggy would often uncover secret passages by sheer accident.
* TheScrappy [[invoked]]
** And, by extension:
*** DamselScrappy [[invoked]]
*** EthnicScrappy [[invoked]]
*** ReplacementScrappy [[invoked]]
*** TemporaryScrappy [[invoked]]
*** TierInducedScrappy [[invoked]]
*** ScrappyMechanic [[invoked]]
*** ScrappyWeapon [[invoked]]
*** AlasPoorScrappy [[invoked]]
*** TakeThatScrappy [[invoked]]
*** RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap [[invoked]]
* YouMeddlingKids
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* AbandonedMine: ''The Scooby-Doo Where Are You!'' episode "Mine Your Own Business". While trying to determine the identity of the scary Miner 49er, the gang explores a spooky old mine.
* AbsurdlyIneffectiveBarricade: Many episodes involve the gang building a barricade, only to discover the door opens OUTWARDS as opposed to inwards.
** Or that the monster was [[WhyThankYouX helping them build the barricade]]...
* ActorAllusion: In an episode of ''What's New Scooby Doo'', when Daphne meets someone hired to impersonate her, she complains she is being played by an extra and asks if SarahMichelleGellar was busy.
** One moment in the live movie might count, if Daphne's line "This must be the secret relic thingy they worship," could be considered BuffySpeak.
* AdaptationDyeJob: In "The Mystery Begins" and "Curse Of The Lake Monster," the normally blonde Fred is a brunette.
* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler:Scrappy-Doo]] in the live-action movie.
* AffectionateParody: ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hUUKT8LwNI Night of the Living Doo]]'', which aired on Halloween in 2001.\\
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As well, ''The Scooby Doo Project,'' a series of interstitials from 1999 spoofing "The Blair Witch Project." Plus Daphne appeared as a member of the Hanna-Barbera tribe in Cartoon Network's "Staylongers" (spoof of "Survivor") interstitials.\\
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A not-so-affectionate parody: "Ring-a-Ding, Where Are You?," one of the shows to which MightyMouse gets juxtaposed in the 1988 episode ''Don't Touch That Dial'' from his Bakshi-produced TV show.
-->'''Mighty Mouse:''' Gosh...I feel my I.Q. dropping by the minute!
* AliensStealCable: [[spoiler:Crystal]] does this in the ''Alien Invaders'' movie.
* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The Japanese version has [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7lGRAA7D3Y this]] as its theme song.
* AmusementParkOfDoom: Every incarnation has at least one of these. One of the earlier examples had a runaway robot mess with the controls. ''The Thirteen Ghosts of Scooby Doo'', had one of the titular villains run one of these.
* AnimalsLackAttributes: Scooby is a boy. Really.
* AnimatedActors: In the 1979 prime-time special ''Scooby Goes Hollywood'', Scooby and Shaggy get sick of their secondary roles in a formula-driven Saturday morning show, and attempt to sell a network executive on giving them a prime-time series of their own. (They pitch a number of pilot shows, all parodies of then-popular series, such as ''CharliesAngels'', ''HappyDays'' and ''TheLoveBoat''.)
* AnthropomorphicShift: Scooby himself was suffering this by the mid-80s. He was seen walking on two legs all the time (it didn't help that his four legged design was not changed) and he was becoming somewhat less of a SpeechImpairedAnimal. It seems to have been reversed beginning with ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'' where he became more of a quadruped again.\\
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When Scooby runs in the early series, his legs don't follow a normal dog's running pattern. Each pair of legs go alternately in a circular motion. The only episode showing him running like a normal dog was "Decoy For A Dognapper," as he and the freed kidnapped dogs run after their captor.
* AntiSneezeFinger: The gang do this to {{Scooby-Doo}} in almost every incarnation.
* ArtisticLicenseChemistry: In the second live-action movie, Scooby freezes the Tar Monster with a ''fire extinguisher''.
* [[BowtiesAreCool Ascots Are Cool]]
* BalloonBelly: Shaggy and Scooby occasionally.
* BeAsUnhelpfulAsPossible: Inverted - the most helpful character usually turns out to be the culprit. He is often the first character you see apart from the gang.
* BeamMeUpScotty: Velma is notorious for always losing her glasses. In the original episodes she only dropped them twice. The same goes for Daphne getting kidnapped, it really didn't occur that often enough to be her recurring character trait in the original series.
** Actually, Velma had her glasses knocked off her face, once by Scooby, the other after bumping her head. A third time, a bat plucked her glasses off and dropped them on Scooby's head,and a fourth instance had her glasses swept off her face from an errant bumper cart. And later, in "That's Snow Ghost," Scooby uses Velma's glasses to see the bundle of dynamite pursuing them on the log behind.
** Velma losing her glasses became a running joke based on her voice artist, Nicole Jaffe, whose glasses fell during a script reading, and she was quoted as saying "I can't see without them."
** Lampshaded in the Johnny Bravo ep "Bravo Dooby Doo" after Velma and Johnny both grope for their displaced eyewear:
--->'''Velma:''' My glasses! I can't see without my glasses!
--->'''Johnny:''' My glasses! I can't be seen without my glasses!
** "Old Man Jenkins" has become the term for the everyman Scooby Doo villain. While there was an suspicious old man named Mr. Jenkins in one episode of the original series, but he turned out to be innocent.
* Music/TheBeatles: Referenced by Shaggy in "The Phantom Of The Country Music Hall" (1972 ep with Jerry Reed):
-->'''Hotel clerk:''' Are you, Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby?
-->'''Shaggy:''' Like, we're sure not the Beatles!
* BerserkButton: Scooby is quite possibly the most cowardly animal in existence, but if Shaggy is in danger, he'll find the courage -- and become a badass to boot.
** If Scooby Doo in Where's My Mummy is any indication, Scooby is also pretty fond of Velma.
* BigDamnMovie: The supernatural will inevitably turn out to be ''real'' in a Scooby-Doo movie, but the basic formula is usually the same.
** Not necessarily. ''Where's My Mummy?'' had a ScoobyDooHoax, albeit a ''very'' elaborate one put on by [[spoiler: Velma, an archaeologist, and an Ardeth Bay expy]]. Which none of them ever think to tell the rest of the Scoobies ''is'' a Scooby Doo Hoax.
*** [[spoiler: Velma]] would explain that [[spoiler: she]] didn't let the others in on the hoax because [[spoiler: it was dangerous and she didn't want anybody to get hurt.]]
** ''Monsters Unleashed'', ''Legend of the Vampire'' and ''Monster of Mexico'' also all ended with a more conventional Scooby-Doo Hoax.
** Halfway through, ''Curse of the Lake Monster'' looks like a ScoobyDooHoax, until the actual ghost of a witch takes [[spoiler: Velma's body as a host and creates her minions of lake monsters]]. This is the second feature-length movie, animated or live centering around [[spoiler: Velma]].
* BigEater: Shaggy, Scooby and occasionally Scrappy.
* BigFriendlyDog: Scooby is a full-grown Great Dane and has never been vicious to anything, ever. Unless you count sandwiches.
** In some of the early stuff, he gets to do some things that the latter episodes would never let him do, due to flanderization. There was the one where Scooby kept bouncing up toward an ape monster and ended up kicking it in the gut and such, just to save an actress. And then there's the infamous "John Wayne" impression in the episode "Hassle in the Castle". Let's not forget the time they were chased by a "haunted coat" (actually a goose under a coat) flying by itself, in which Scooby ended up ''snarling'' and making faces at, to scare it away.
** He still no problem getting riled up and volatile around cats, as well. Scooby has fallen into TookALevelInJerkAss territory in recent episodes of ''Mystery Inc.,'' having had a falling out with Shaggy and nearly one with Velma. He redeems himself with a moment of awesome in "Camp Scare" and having since made up with Shaggy on ''Mystery Inc.'' and is trying to get Velma to like him again.
* BlackBeltInOrigami: In one episode, Shaggy tries to bluff a Chinese ghost by saying "I know Judo, Chop Suey and Chinese Checkers!"
* TheBlank: "The No-Face Zombie Chase Case"
* BlindWithoutEm: Velma
* BlondesAreEvil: [[spoiler:Charlene in ''Scooby Doo and the Monster of Mexico'', and Velma's cousin Marcy in ''A Scooby Doo Halloween''.]]
* BookcasePassage: Plenty of these.
* BodyScreenFillUp: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1Pdsq0K1T4 AN ENTIRE VIDEO WORTH]]
* BroadStrokes: The SharedUniverse they exist in is notably very vague with The Original Series, ''Thirteen Ghosts'' and ''The New Adventures'', taking place firmly within each other, the nineties movies taking place after their retirement from the former adventures, ''A Pup Named Scooby doo'' as a SpinoffBabies prequel and ''What's New Scooby Doo'' and its movies as taking place (ostensibly) with in the same universe. The Live Action Film series and Shaggy and ''Scooby Doo Get A Clue'' are in question however and both ''The Mystery Revealed'' and ''Mystery Incorporated'' take place in Ultimate Universes.
* BrotherChuck: Fred and Velma inexplicably vanish in ''TheThirteenGhostsOfScoobyDoo''. Fred, Velma ''and'' Daphne were absent in the shows made from 1980 through 1982. And then Daphne vanished too, leaving just Shaggy, Scrappy, and Scooby in the various TV Movies.
* BurnTheWitch
* BurpingContest: Between Shaggy and Scooby in the first movie.
* ButtMonkey: Shaggy and Scooby, usually.
* ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes
* CaptainColorbeard: Redbeard in "Go Away, Ghost Ship." He makes a second appearance in 1972's "The Ghostly Creep From The Deep," but in that story, he and his pirate crew are all ghost white and the voice is different (John Stephenson in "Ghost Ship," Lennie Weinrib in "Ghostly Creep").
** One of the TV movies has a variant with a white stripe in his beard: Captain ''Skunk''beard.
* CaptainObvious: Mystery Inc. will often point out things that are happening or just happened that should already be obvious to the viewer.
* TheCastShowoff: The gang themselves but most notably Velma in the movie ''Scooby Doo and the Legend Of The Vampire'' where they pose as contestants in the rock show contest (as The Meddling Kids) and eventually win by default. Velma sings the "Scooby Doo, Where Are You!" theme. Poor child was petrified at first, but as she started singing, she put on quite a show.
** All five members of the gang and some of the other characters sing throughout the 2012 made-for-video feature ''Scooby Doo: Music Of The Vampire''.
* CatchPhrase: Lampshaded in ''Scooby-Doo and the Samurai Sword'', when the team finds out that the normal episode formula [[spoiler:had turned into an EvilPlan]], all of the characters say their catchphrases, ending with Fred:
--->'''Fred:''' "Um, uh...aw, darn it, I ''still'' don't have a catchphrase!"[[hottip:* :He technically does, but "Let's split up, gang!" doesn't exactly work as an expression of shock.]]
* TheCavalryArrivesLate
* ChannelHop: From CBS to ABC in 1976. NBC may even count as ''Dynomutt'' was paired up with ''Godzilla'' for an hour-long show in 1981 on that network and the Scooby gang's appearances in ''Dynomutt'' were subsequently aired.
* CharacterNameAndTheNounPhrase: Most of the DirectToVideo movies are ''Scooby-Doo and the ____________''.
* ChineseVampire: Two jiangshi pursue Daphne in "Mystery Mask Mix-Up."
* ClusterFBomb: This [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rlo3x0NMs5g charming]] bumper for Creator/CartoonNetwork.
* CobwebOfDisuse: In "What the Hex is Going On?", the old Kingston Mansion has these in the background (corners, connecting furniture to walls). Also present in the Vasquez Castle (notably on the portrait) in "Hassle in the Castle".
* ComicBookAdaptation: Scooby has been in comic books since December 1969, published by Gold Key/Western Publishing, Charlton, Marvel, Harvey (reprints from Charlton), Archie Comics and the current publisher DC Comics. The first ten issues of the Gold Key run of Scooby Doo comics featured either truncated or very loose adaptations of TV episodes. Two episodes were made into comic stories ''twice'': "A Clue For Scooby Doo" (Gold Key, DC) and "Spooky Space Kook" (Gold Key, Archie Comics). The first Marvel Comics issue featured a truncated adaptation of the 1976 episode "The Ghost Of The Bad Humor Man."\\
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Zig-zagged: The pilot episode of ''Scooby & Scrappy-Doo'' ("The Scarab Lives!") was loosely based on the first story of Scooby-Doo Mystery Comics #24 (Gold Key/April 1974, "Mark Of The Blue Scarab").\\
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Starting in October 2010, the DC comic began billing itself as ''Scooby Doo, Where Are You!,'' the first time the comic has been billed as such since October 1976.\\
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Gold Key, known for taking continuity liberties, started making the gang ghost breakers for hire starting with issue #14. If this continuity is to be followed as any sort of canon, then issue #21 has the gang with the following Zodiac signs: Scooby--Aries, Fred--Pisces, Shaggy--Leo, Velma--Virgo, Daphne--Gemini. Charlton's stories are best left undiscussed.
* ConspicuouslyLightPatch: When the spot on the floor that the gang is standing on suddenly turns a lighter color, you know that they're about to fall down a trapdoor.\\
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When ''anything'' is colored differently than the other things in the scene (and isn't supposed to be), be it lighter or darker, someone will inevitably grab it or use it in some other way.\\
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It may also follow that if doesn't have an ink (or xerox) line, it's the background. If it has the ink/xerox line, it's a waiting trapdoor.
* ContinuityNod: ''What's New Scooby Doo?'' featured a batch of these during its run. One even to ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo''.
** The monster in the first movie is [[spoiler:TheScrappy himself, wanting revenge for the team dumping him at the start of the movie.]] In the second film, most of the monsters are classic 'Doo bad guys, [[spoiler:as is the real villain.]]
** The ''Mysteries Incorporated'' series starts off with museum exhibits of several of the same villains the second film mentioned. Which can be somewhat confusing to people who watched the premiere, which was ''preceded'' by the second film.
* ContinuityReboot: ''Scooby-Doo!: The Mystery Begins'' deletes everything ''[[WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo A Pup Named]]'' set in the continuity other than it taking place in Coolsville.
** Not necessarily, this was just the live-action version after all. More likely could be considered an AlternateUniverse.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: In ''Aloha, Scooby-Doo'', and probably others.
* ConveyorBeltODoom: A memorable one (''That's Snow Ghost'') had Velma tied to a log heading for a large circular saw.
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Shaggy in "Don't Fool With a Phantom" as he and Scooby are placed on one by the Wax Phantom:
--->'''Shaggy:''' "Not the old ride-on-the-conveyor-belt-into-the-wax routine. Oh, no. Like, that went out with the silent movies, Phantom, old pal."
* ConvictionByContradiction: One ''What's New'' episode has the culprits turn out to be a man and woman pretending to be SickeninglySweethearts to secretly pass information to each other. After the unmasking, Velma says that the first thing that tipped her off was they were too lovey-dovey to be newlyweds as they claimed.
* CoolUncle: Scrappy thinks of Scooby this way, despite Scooby's cowardice.
* CousinOliver: Scrappy-Doo, Scooby-Dum, Flim Flam
* CrazyPrepared: In ''What's New, Scooby-Doo?'', Fred has made enough "special modifications" to the Mystery Machine to put [[StarWars Han Solo]] to shame, including modifying it to transform into a submarine and fitting it with a roof airbag which conveniently enables Shaggy to save Velma when she falls off a highrise movie set in "Lights, Camera, Mayhem". The submarine turned out to be a clue that TheGameNeverStopped.
* {{Crossover}}: There were two episodes which they crossed over with ''{{Batman}}'', and another with ''JosieAndThePussycats''. Also, the characters have appeared on ''JohnnyBravo'' and ''HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw''.
--->'''Johnny Bravo''': "Jinkies? Jinkies....isn't that some kind of breakfast food?"
** They also met Series/TheAddamsFamily once, and Dynomutt and the Blue Falcon twice.
*** The Scooby Doo gang will join Dynomutt and Blue Falcon yet again in the 2013 DVD feature ''Scooby-Doo: Mask Of The Blue Falcon.''
** There was a whole ''season'' (called, confusingly enough, ''The New Scooby-Doo Movies'') where the whole ''point'' was crossovers.
*** On of which was with the Harlem Globetrotters.
*** And the ''Speed Buggy'' gang, as well as TheThreeStooges.
*** And even the characters from the now-forgotten AnimatedAdaptation of ''IDreamOfJeannie''.
*** You could probably count the would-be Scooby Gang from ''TheVentureBrothers'' as well. But that was more a parody.
*** The Addams Family, Batman and Robin (the Adam West version), Don Knotts and the Globetrotters all actually appeared in the opening sequence for that season. Reruns often have people wondering who the heck Don Knotts is.
**** Don Knotts was in an episode parodying TheAndyGriffithShow and an episode where he was a goofy Barney Fife like detective.
**** Not to mention Don Adams of ''Series/GetSmart'' playing an exterminator in the house of LonChaney.
*** There was at least one LaurelAndHardy episode, and two with TheThreeStooges.
** An episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', "Bat-Mite Presents: Batman's Strangest Cases!" features a segment, drawn and animated in the same style as the ''New Scooby Doo Movies'' episodes, with the gang meeting up with Batman and Robin, as well as Music/WeirdAlYankovic. It aired in America on AprilFoolsDay 2011.
** A Wrestling/{{WWE}} crossover is [[http://corporate.wwe.com/news/2012/2012_08_15.jsp planned for 2014]].
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: In one episode with a clown that hypnotizes people (''Bedlam In The Big Top''), Shaggy and Scooby remember what the clown did, so when he tries it on them again, they use mirrors to deflect the spell back at him, thus incapacitating him. That and when they pilot a bulldozer to tackle Steve in Alien Invaders. In addition, there's the mini-golf episode from "What's New, Scooby-Doo?" where Shaggy took the reins to try to solve the mystery for the majority of the episode. In that same episode (''A Terrifying Round With A Menacing Metallic Clown''), Velma goes off cowering with Scooby as her secret fear comes to the surface--she's frightened of clowns.\\
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Shaggy and Scooby-Doo are secretly ninjas. In situations where they can't be the whimpering cowards, they pull amazing feats. In ''Scooby-Doo in Where's My Mummy?'', they leapt from falling platform to falling platform to keep from plummeting to their dooms. ''Scooby-Doo and the Samurai Sword'' also counts towards this.
* CuteIsEvil: In the movie, [[TheScrappy Scrappy]].
* CuteMonsterGirl: In ''Ghoul School'', Shaggy, Scooby and Scrappy become gym teachers for a bunch of them.
* TheDanza: Vincent van Ghoul was voiced by Vincent Price.
* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island'' and ''ScoobyDoo and the Witch's Ghost'' are the darkest of the animated films. Creator/CartoonNetwork made an [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome]] promo for ''Scooby-Doo On Zombie Island'' when they aired it on their animated movie spot. It only used the most thrilling scenes and was set to climactic OminousLatinChanting (possibly ''O Fortuna''). Never before did Scooby-Doo seem so intense.\\
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The new series, ''Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated'', although not much. It's definitely not cynical, but the universe as a whole is a little less idealistic, and the jokes, characters and events are more mature.
* DarkIsNotEvil: The Hex Girls, a spooky-themed rock band that shows up occasionally in 90's-and-later versions (the direct-to-video movies, ''What's New'', and ''Mystery Inc'').
** The Goblin King (Voiced by TimCurry) may be the ruler of all things Halloween, but he's also a fair (though strict) ruler and he [[spoiler: cares deeply for his fairy daughter]].
** This is the twist of Scooby Doo on Zombie Island [[spoiler: the creepy rotting zombies aren't evil, they are trying to warn the visitors of the island so they won't end up like them]].
* DeadlineNews: In the second live-action movie.
* DeadpanSnarker:
** Velma. Especially in later incarnations. She had a choice line in "The San Franpsycho" after the gang is in a motorboat escaping from sharks:
--->'''Velma:''' We're gonna make it! (''a shark takes a giant bite of the boat's aft'') Ah, irony...we meet yet again.
** [[VincentPrice Vincent Van Ghoul]], nearly all the time.
* DeliciousDistraction: Scooby Snacks.
* DesertSkull: In "Mine Your Own Business", there's one of these (with overly ornate horns) atop the sign for the Gold City Guest Ranch.
* DetectivesFollowFootprints: Used constantly.
* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: Usually Shaggy after he makes a comment about the qualification that what they're chasing is a ghost.\\
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Velma, of all people in the episode ''Scooby Doo Meets DickVanDyke'' as she, Fred and Dick see Daphne having fun on a bump-'em cart:
-->'''Velma:''' Hmph, Women. (''realizes what she said'') What am I saying?! I'm one of them!
* DistressedDamsel: In the two shows with the Three Stooges, scripter Norman Maurer seemed to like getting Velma in a nice mess. In ''Ghastly Ghost Town,'' a mysterious figure sends her down into the mine shaft, while in ''The Ghost Of The Red Baron,'' she is sent airborne in a bi-plane she doesn't know how to operate. [[CaptainObvious Oh, and]] '''''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Danger-Prone Daphne]]'''''.
* DistressedDude: Shaggy and Scooby have ended up BoundAndGagged on a few occasions.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Shaggy and Scooby seem to constantly have the "munchies".
* TheDragAlong: Scooby and Shaggy, sometimes literally kicking and screaming.
* {{Drive-In Theater}}: One appears in ''Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf''.
* EagleEyeDetection: Usually done by Velma.
* EasilyForgiven: ''"What's New Scooby Doo"'' occasionally had the culprit be let off the hook if they had arguably sympathetic reasons or if nobody got hurt, even if by their actions the monster would have very nearly killed someone. ''"Roller Ghoaster Ride"'' is a good example of this, involving among other things Fred, Daphne and Velma almost getting diced up by a giant fan thanks to the monster's sabotage, along with tons of dangerous situations coming from ''sabotaging amusement park rides'' which would've ended up fatal if not for dumb luck or quick thinking, with no real consequences for the culprit.
* EditedForSyndication: Footage from act two of the very first episode, "What A Night For A Knight" is missing. It's where the gang is outside the museum as Fred is unable to open the rear door. He gets a ladder out of the Mystery Machine (which must be dimensionally transcendental to hold a ladder) and volunteers Shaggy to climb up and go in through a window high above.
-->'''Shaggy:''' Why me?
-->'''Fred:''' Because that's a small window and you're the thinnest.
** In the first season of ''The New Scooby Doo Movies,'' scenes running roughly a minute and a half were made but not used until season two. The scenes never showed up in syndication, CN/Boomerang airings or DVD releases. Among the scenes were Jonathan Winters flipping a coin with Shaggy to see who would go up to the grist mill window ("The Frickert Fracas"), and Scooby trying to get the kids' attention to tell them he found a secret passage out of Moody Manor ("Guess Who's Knott Coming To Dinner").
** In the 1970-71 season, a minute of footage from season 1 episodes of ''Scooby Doo, Where Are You!'' were cut to make room for CBS's "In The Know" interstitials. ("In The Know" were 2-and-a-half minute educational capsules hosted by JosieAndThePussycats. It would be replaced the next season with CBS's long-running interstitial series ''In The News''.)
* EitherOrTitle: Several episodes throughout had unused Either Or Titles. Among them:
** ''Scooby Doo Meets The Addams Family'' (''Wednesday Is Missing'')
** ''Sandy Duncan's Jekyll And Hyde'' (''Scooby Doo Meets Sandy Duncan'')
** ''Scooby Doo Meets Laurel & Hardy'' (''The Ghost Of Bigfoot'')
** ''The Caped Crusader Caper'' (''The Sying Fluit...er, Flying Suit'')
** ''Scooby Doo Meets Jeannie'' (''Mystery In Persia'')
** ''Scooby Doo Meets Dick Van Dyke'' (''The Haunted Carnival'')
** ''Who Was That Cat Creature I Saw You With Last Night?'' (''Make A Beeline Away From That Feline'')
** ''Terror, Thy Name Is Zombo'' (''Roller Ghoster Ride'')
* EmbarrassingFirstName: Is anyone surprised that Shaggy never references his given name, Norville?
* EverybodyLaughsEnding: "Scooby-Dooby-Doo!" (cue group laughter)
* HairDecorations: Velma has a flower in her hair at the end of "A Tiki Scare Is No Fair" as she does the hula in her Hawaiian grass skirt. For all her bookworm "plain Jane" descriptions, she was really quite adorable.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The wax phantom from "Don't Fool With A Phantom" has captured Shaggy and Scooby and plans to turn them into wax dummies:
-->'''Shaggy:''' But, like, we're ''already'' dummies! Right, Scoob?
-->'''Scooby:''' Du-u-uh, right!
** Also in "Hassle In The Castle": Velma sees and verbally acknowledges that the Shaggy head protruding from half of a magician's saw-in-two box was a dummy head. Shaggy pops up from the other half and says "Somebody mention me?"
* {{Expy}}: [[WeirdAlEffect It's mostly forgotten now]], but the characters of Fred, Velma, Daphne and Shaggy were originally thinly disguised knockoffs of Dobie, Zelda, Thalia and Maynard from ''TheManyLovesOfDobieGillis''.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Scrappy in the live-action movie]]
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: The death of [[spoiler:the cat people]] in ''Scooby Doo on Zombie Island'' goes straight into NightmareFuel. Also the death of the former inhabitants. Being forced to go into a sea where alligators (or crocodiles?) just wait for their meal? Charming.
* The entire gang suffer one at the end of the Scooby Doo project. The last we see of them is the monster coming towards them then the camera cutting out and the annoucert elling us no trace of them was ever found.
* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: In ''Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island'', there are a few examples of this. One zombie has his head ripped off and two get cut in half.
* FauxPaw: Used in the first movie.
* FineYouCanJustWaitHereAlone: How Shaggy and Scooby end up going along 90% of the time.
* FiveManBand
** TheHero: Fred
** TheLancer: Shaggy
** TheSmartGuy: Velma
** TheChick: Daphne
** TheBigGuy: Scooby
* {{Flanderization}}:
** Daphne's [[TheKlutz klutziness]] is turned up to eleven in ''Abracadabra-Doo''.
** ''Mystery Incorporated'' Fred becomes completely obsessed with making traps.
** Scooby's cowardliness, during the first season.
** Velma is normally a bright girl, but she becomes a bit inept (not of her own doing) when she loses her glasses. However, a particular bit of brain fart is puzzling. In "The Ghost Of The Red Baron," she is sent airborne in a bi-plane she has no control of, and she forgets the international distress radio call (followed by an atypical Daphne response):
-->'''Velma:''' Let's see, what was it? January? February?...March? April? ''Mayday!!'' That's it!!
-->'''Daphne:''' That's Velma. What's she calling "mayday" for? Today's June 5th!
** In ''What's New, Scooby Doo?,'' Velma became a bit more as snarky as she was smart, albeit her fear of clowns came suddenly to the surface. And in ScoobyDooMysteryInc, she tacks on cynicism, her obsessiveness to Shaggy and her contempt (as of episode 10) of Scooby.
* FollowTheLeader: Quite a few shows ripped this off. Heck, Hanna-Barbera Studios itself [[SelfPlagiarism Self-Plagiarized]] this formula many times.
* FoodAsBribe: Shaggy and Scooby can be coaxed into doing anything for food, namely Scooby Snacks.
* FootFocus: Daphne in ''Pirates Ahoy!''
* {{Foreshadowing}}: ''Zombie Island'' has several signs linking to the end of the mystery, including one in [[spoiler:one of the chase sequences, where a Zombie gives Shaggy a vine to pull Scooby out, at first, it looks like just a gag involving the whole "Monster helps them to save themselves", but it foreshadows that the Zombies are ''not'' as evil as they're made out to be.]]
* FortuneTeller: In the Where Are You episode "A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts", the gang meets a [[UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} Gypsy]] fortune teller who gives them dire warnings. She turns out to be the episode's {{villain}} in disguise.
* Creator/FrankWelker: Fred is his first role and one of his best known roles, and Frank ''still'' voices the character today many years since he had started. With the passing of Don Messick, Welker voices Scooby, too.
* FreeRangeChildren: The gang probably isn't that old, yet they run all about creation solving mysteries. This wasn't changed at all in ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo''. Well, in ''Pup'' they mostly stayed in one town, at least.
* FunctionalMagic / WhereTheyWere: The conclusion of ''Scooby Doo and the Goblin King.'' The Goblin King permits Shaggy and Scooby (the main heroes) to retain their memories of the events that transpired but he erases the memory of Fred, Velma and Daphne. Shag and Scoob pull up in the van as their buddies' heads clear, not knowing what happened last:
-->'''Daphne:''' Shaggy! Scooby! Where were you two?
-->'''Shaggy:''' (''He and Scooby exchange knowing glances'') Like, you wouldn't believe it if we told you!
* GRatedDrug: Scooby Snacks. Either that, or they're just a very convenient, cheap, salted-chip style appetizers whose demand is fueled by an unspoken drug, ie, marijuana.\\
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This played with in the parody show ''HarveyBirdman''. In the episode "Shaggy Busted." The Mystery Machine is seen smoking up (from an overheated engine, based on the original episode), and we hear Shaggy exclaim "Scooby... doobie!"
* GadgeteerGenius: Velma arguably qualifies, at least in ''What's New, Scooby-Doo?''. where she's capable of building (among other things) a robot dog with a remarkable number of functions and an [=MP3=] player the size of a sugar cube (though the latter lacked earphones). In the same series Fred also at least comes close with his improbably sophisticated modifications to the Mystery Machine.
* GenreBlindness: Particularly in the original series. No, the gang will ''never'' figure out or even guess that the monster is just a guy in a costume right away, no matter that the last few dozen monsters were all guys in costumes. They have to wait until the end of the episode.
** Debatable. Their scared reactions might just be because despite someone being an obvious ScoobyDooHoax, he's still a crook and might want to harm them for getting in his way, and a number of times Fred and Velma express a degree of skepticism on principle.
* GenreSavvy: In the first episode of ''What's New, Scooby-Doo?'', the second they notice the monster, Fred assumes from the start that it's just a costume with a guy inside. Unfortunately, Shaggy shows him that the monster's body is transparent and the Fred's genre blindness returns.
** They latch on to this trope much more firmly in the movies (particularly the live-action ones). [[spoiler:Unfortunately, that's about when the monsters actually ''do'' start turning out to be demons and zombies and whatnot.]]
** In one episode of ''What's New, Scooby-Doo?'', Shaggy and Scooby have the foresight to bring along their own box of Scooby-Snacks. Pity they forgot the milk, though.
** In ''Mysteries Incorporated'', their town has a museum of monsters(all of whom, according to Velma, were guys in masks).
* GenreShift: ''Zombie Island'' transitioned from a straight Scooby-Doo story, to a supernatural horror mystery film.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** In ''A Scooby-Doo Halloween'', Velma's cousin says "I'm 18, able to legally..." [looks at Fred] "...[[DoubleEntendre vote]]."
** Arguably every drug reference in the show. Use of the word "munchies" is not uncommon.
** In ''Curse of the Lake Monster'', Daphne's Uncle says "Well, it looks like I'll have to go back to my old life as a international playboy." Then again, that may have been an element that garnered the movie a TV-PG rating.
** In ''Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island'' Shaggy and Scooby get jobs as customs officers. They were apparently supposed to be searching for contraband foods, and were subsequently fired for eating the contraband. There's no way in hell that the writers didn't know what they were doing there.
*** This troper's interpretation was that they were supposed to be searching for contraband, but instead just searched for food to eat, and were fired for simultaneously abusing their power to get free stacks and failing to actually do their job
* GoneBehindTheBend
* GrowingMusclesSequence: one in each of the first two live action movies. The first happens to a villain and could be viewed as NightmareFuel, while the second happens to Shaggy and is played for laughs.
* HartmanHips: All over the place in Abracadabra-Doo. Made a bit more obvious due to the movie having lots of MaleGaze moments, and including three of the girls showing up in skintight outfits at least once.
* HeWentThatWay
* HeadlessHorseman
* HeavyMithril: The Hex Girls, the witch-themed rock band in ''Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost''. In ''Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire'', they were confused as vampires.
* HeelFaceTurn: Miyumi in ''Scooby-Doo and the Samurai Sword''.
* HeroicBSOD: Velma in ''Scooby Doo And The Goblin King.'' Her brain synapses short-circuit, causing her to collapse and faint after seeing the supernatural maelstrom the Amazing Krudsky had conjured.
* HeroismIncentive: Nearly OnceAnEpisode to get the GenreSavvy Shaggy and Scooby [[LetsSplitUpGang to split up]]. What won't they do for a Scooby snack?
** Shaggy's first taste for a Scooby Snack comes in ''Decoy For A Dognapper.'' As Fred lays out his plan with Scooby as a decoy, Shaggy intercepts the Snack Daphne intended for Scooby:
-->'''Velma:''' What did you do that for, Shaggy?
-->'''Shaggy:''' Because I know who's stuck with the job of taking the decoy on a leash! (''savoring the snack'') Not bad. Not bad at all.
* HeyItsThatSound: "Where Are You" episode "Spooky Space Kook". The flying UFO used the "electronic rattlesnake" noise from the Heat Ray warming up from the 1953 ''TheWarOfTheWorlds'' film..
* [[ValleyGirl Hippie Speak]]: Shaggy
* HollywoodTorches: Shaggy finds and uses one in ''Where Are You'' episode "Spooky Space Kook".
* HonorBeforeReason: Miyumi in ''Scooby-Doo and the Samurai Sword''.
* HurricaneOfPuns: The made-for-TV movies had more than enough of monster puns.
* HypnoFool: [[spoiler: Shaggy is made fearless/normal with the trigger "bad" in ''Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur'']].
* IdiotBall: Every time you see a door that needs to be pushed to be opened, everyone's going to think it's locked.
* ImpactSilhouette: Scooby and Shaggy in ''Where Are You!'' episode "Spooky Space Kook".
* InkSuitActor: Many of the SpecialGuest stars on ''The New Scooby-Doo Movies'': Don Knotts, Jonathan Winters, Sonny & Cher, etc.
** Joe Barbera appeared in the JohnnyBravo episode, and in caricature under psuedonyms in a couple of episodes of ''What's New, Scooby Doo?''
-->'''Everyone''': JOE BARBERA???
-->'''JohnnyBravo''': [[RecognitionFailure ...Who's]] ''[[SelfDeprecation that?]]''
** In ''A Scooby Doo Valentine'' (episode of ''What's New, Scooby Doo?'') the imposters of the gang are unmasked and revealed to be caricatures of their voice actors (Frank Welker, Casey Kasem, Grey Delisle, Mindy Cohn). In fact, the valentine they find as a clue has the gang's names written in the handwriting of the voice talents.
** Ronald Reagan, U.S. president from 1981 to 1989, appears in caricature (voice of Fred Travalena) in the ''13 Ghosts'' episode "It's A Wonderful Scoob."
* InstrumentOfMurder
* InvincibleIncompetent: Two flavors:
** Shaggy and Scooby always seem to end up finding the weekly monster despite their cowardice, laziness, and complete lack of investigative skills.
** Despite the inevitable failure of Fred's convoluted traps to catch the monster, the monster usually ends up trapped by the end of the episode anyway.
* IsItAlwaysLikeThis: The Scooby comic book has an issue where a character asks, "And this happens everywhere you go?" Shaggy responds with, "Well, there was this one time where Fred took us to a flower shop..."
* JumpedTheShark: {{Invoked}} Taken literally in the ''What's New'' episode "Lights, Camera, Mayhem" as Scooby and Shaggy sail over a tank of sharks on a motorcycle, with Velma cracking the obvious punch line:
-->'''Velma:''' Who would ever think that Scooby would jump the shark?
* JustIgnoreIt
* KavorkaMan: It's not so much that Shaggy is a pimp, but many episodes and movies have shown that many an attractive female seems to think Shaggy is hot. Most recent example is the made-for-video movie ''Scooby Doo! Abracadabra Doo,'' which has Velma's kid sister Madelyn with the hots for Shaggy. And now, with ScoobyDooMysteryInc., Velma does as well. One wonders how the next family get-together might go. ("I guess we Dinkley sisters have something in common after all.")
* KissingCousins: One episode of ''The Scooby-Doo Show'' featured Scooby-Doo and Scooby-Dum's cousin Scooby-Dee. Both Doo and Dum found her very attractive. Whether or not the fact that they're all dogs eases the weirdness is up to you.
* LampshadeHanging: ''What's New'' occasionally mixed up the standard formula, while also making fun of it, including a few situations where the culprit turns out to be no one the gang (or the audience) had met before.
** Occasionally? It ''revels'' in hanging lampshades on the tropes of the old cartoon, especially in the movies. Common targets include TheReveal dialogue, quirks of the characters, plot tropes, and potential fakeness of the monster. ''Mystery Inc.'' looks to be headed in the same direction; for instance, it's changing "YouMeddlingKids" into a MadLibsCatchPhrase.
** And we won't even start on ''A Pup Named Scooby-Doo''.
* LandDownUnder: ''Scooby Doo and the Legend of the Vampire''
* LegionOfDoom: second live-action movie ''Monsters Unleashed''.
* LetsGetDangerous: Shaggy and Scooby when anyone they really care about is in trouble. There was even one moment when Velma was captured and Scooby turned down a Scooby Snack saying he didn't need it to be persuaded to help rescue her.
* LighthousePoint
* LimitedAnimation: ''Scooby-Doo'' was infamous for it.\\
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LimitedAnimation is lampshaded in the ''13 Ghosts'' episode "That's Monstertainment." Scooby appears in a mock-up of the MGM opening title sequence where it reads "Ranna-Rarrera" below it and "Limitus Animatus" around Scooby's face.
* LimitedWardrobe
* LiveActionAdaptation
* LongRunner: Still making new episodes/movies, 40+ years later. In those years of the franchise, there have been 416 series episodes (these include eleven-minute and seven-minute installments and Scooby and Shaggy's ''Laff-A-Lympics'' appearances), 10 guest appearances on other shows, two parody spots, 8 specials, 5 made-for-TV movies, two theatrical movies, two commercial shills (2005 spot for Dove shampoo with Velma, Wilma Flintstone and Jane Jetson; 2006 spot for [=DirecTV=] with the whole gang), A movie theater spot (the gang busts Daffy Duck for jabbering on a cell phone in a theater), and (so far) 18 direct-to-DVD movies.
* MacGyvering: Daphne frequently picks locks or otherwise saves the day with everyday items from her purse in ''What's New, Scooby-Doo?''\\
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* MagicFromTechnology
* MagicSkirt: Velma in the first live action movie (where [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Velma_8925.jpg she's dangling upside down by one foot]]--word is that Linda Cardellini had her skirt taped to her legs), and Velma and Daphne in the ''What's New'' episode "Ready To Scare" (the entire gang suspended by their feet).
** Subverted in "Recipe For Disaster," where Velma and Daphne hold their skirts down after a high-power floor dryer (used after the gang gets soaked) is activated.
* MaleGaze: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VheAB2cugus The scene from 0:52 to 0:57 in the prologue of ''Abracadabra Doo.'']] Also, a pretty blatant HartmanHips for added measure.
* ManIFeelLikeAWoman: [[spoiler:In the first movie, Fred switches heads with Daphne, giving him her body]]\\
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In the direct-to-video movies ''Pirates Ahoy'' and ''The Goblin King,'' Shaggy is seen dressed up as Daphne and Scooby is dressed up as Velma.
** Also briefly in the second live-action movie, Shaggy drinks a potion that gives him a female body, and checks himself, or rather, herself out in a mirror.
* {{Meganekko}}: Velma is a classic example.
** Also Madelyne and the birdwatcher's wife/girlfriend in ''Abracadabra Doo''.
** And Velma's aunt in ''A Scooby Doo Halloween''.
* MobileShrubbery
* MonsterClown: Quite a lot of these.
* MonsterMash: In a few of the movies.
* MonsterOfTheWeek
* [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone My God, What Have We Done?]]: Velma's uncle Evan and aunt Meg, when their daughter Marcy turned out to be the VillainOfTheWeek in ''A Scooby-Doo Halloween''. They felt guilty for putting Halloween before their own daughter's birthday.
* MyEyesAreLeaking: Velma towards the end of ''Music Of The Vampire.'' The witch's hypnotic gas is making her eyes water, and Daphne (who is dazed and tied to a swamp altar) thinks Velma is crying.
* MythologyGag: The end of ''The Mystery Begins'' features live reenactments of parts of several Scooby-Doo opening themes, including ''Scooby Doo, Where Are You!'', ''The New Scooby Doo Movies'', and ''What's New, Scooby Doo?''.
** The entire movie is one big Mythology Gag, when you come to think of it.
** A flashback to Velma's childhood in ''What's New, Scooby Doo?'' uses the art style of ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo''. It depicts why she's afraid of clowns.
*** In addition, one of the episodes features Fred and Velma indisposed, leaving only Daphne, Shaggy and Scooby to solve the mystery by themselves, a la all the later shows before WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo.
** In the first episode of ''Mystery Inc.'', Shaggy mentions that he fell asleep watching "a Vincent van Ghoul movie". Vincent van Ghoul was the group's mentor in ''The Thirteen Ghosts of Scooby Doo''.
*** In the same episode, several previous mysteries are seen in a museum, with Velma mentioning a few mysteries, and giving out the motives and identities of the "monsters".
** In ''A Scooby Doo Halloween'', Shaggy is dressed as a werewolf like in ''Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf''.
** In "Curse Of The Lake Monster", the gang receives a check for $10,000 from The Bank of Hanna-Barbera.
*** Also in that movie, Fred and Daphne pretend to be manniquens, dressed in their classic clothing from the cartoons. Fred sees his reflection and contemplate this before saying "nah".
** The 1972 episode with the Three Stooges "The Ghost Of The Red Baron" uses the background music from DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines extensively and almost exclusively.
** The Scooby segment of the April 1st ''Batman: The Brave And The Bold'' episode is not only designed and animated in the same way as the ''Scooby Doo Movies'' episodes with Batman and Robin, but it also has the same animation glitches--Batman's neck is exposed (which Bat-Mite points out to his digust) and another scene shows Batman with a gloveless hand with a ring on his finger.
** In the episode ''Scooby Doo And A Mummy, Too'', Velma is disguised as Cleopatra (to Shaggy's Marc Antony) in an attempt to hide from the mummy. [[spoiler: She actually dresses up as Cleopatra in ''Scooby Doo In Where's My Mummy?'' as part of the ScoobyDooHoax she helps stage.]]
** In "Guess Who's Knott Coming To Dinner," Don Knotts (in the guise of Captain Moody's first mate) identifies Fred as Captain Moody's nephew Ronald. This is probably a nod to Ronnie, which was Fred's original name until he was renamed after CBS programming head Fred Silverman.
** The 2012 special ''Spooky Games'' uses the same premise as the 1973 Scooby Doo Movies episode "The Spirited Spooked Sports Show'' (with Tim Conway)--Shaggy becoming a competitive runner who runs fastest when he's scared.
* NameDrop: In "The Frickert Fracas" (Scooby-Doo Movies ep with Jonathan Winters), Maude Frickert tells Fred he looks like Glen Campbell.
** A name drop through tagline: In ''Scooby Doo Meets The Addams Family,'' Scooby's "I ate the whooooole thing!" referred to the tagline of an Alka-Seltzer commercial prominent at the time, which was "I can't believe I ate the whooooole thing!"
* NamesTheSame: "Roller Ghoster Ride," the unused EitherOrTitle of the ''Pup'' episode "Terror, Thy Name Is Zombo," is also the title of a ''What's New'' episode.
* NerdsAreSexy: Velma has a pretty notable fanbase in certain circles. Being a {{meganekko}} hardly hurts.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: ''What's New'' fairly frequently dropped in thinly-veiled expies of well-known real-life celebrities and fictional characters, including [[DoesThisRemindYouofAnything a professional golfer named Cougar Forest]] and an Australian archaeologist named [[IndianaJones Melbourne O'Reilly]].
** Don't forget the anthropologist studying gorillas named Joan Goodfew.
* NoFourthWall: In ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo''.
* OccultDetective: Though the occult almost always turns out to be someone in a Halloween costume.
* OddballDoppelganger: Scooby has one in his cousin [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/12/Scooby-cousins-1976.jpg Scooby Dum]], who is rather dimwitted.
* OnOneCondition
* OnlySaneMan: or girl, in this case--Velma in ''Music Of The Vampire.'' Although she does get a strange snark in when Daphne disappears and it is learned that the vampire seeks a bride with "beauty and is pure of heart."
-->'''Velma:''' You know, ''I'm'' pure of heart. Does anyone ever think of kidnapping ''me?''
* TheOtherDarrin: The show went through many voice actors. The only cast member to stay consistent throughout the whole series (save for ''A Pup Named Scooby Doo'') is Fred.
* OutdatedOutfit: The gang's original 1969 outfits usually get copied, but a few adaptations give them fashion makeovers.\\
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This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in one of the made-for-TV movies. Fred is seen getting dressed, and he puts on the orange tie he wore in his original outfit. He thinks about it for a few seconds, then says "Naaah," and takes it off.\\
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Lampshaded in ''Scooby Doo and the Cyber Chase'' where the gang meet digital models of themselves from years earlier, who are still wearing the original outfits. For most of the segment, it's the only way to visually tell the two groups apart. Fred also gives himself a comment on the ascot.\\
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The two made-for-TV live-action obviously deviates a a little from the gang's appearances -- Fred has dark hair. This is subverted and lampshaded in ''Curse Of The Lake Monster'': Fred and Daphne pose as mannequins to lose the trail of the creature, and they are both done up as the original cartoon Fred and Daphne. After looking in a mirror, Fred thinks it's a good look. Daphne thinks he's being ridiculous.
* PairTheSpares: Shaggy and Velma in ''Mystery Inc.''
* PantyShot: Daphne and Velma, in quite a few instances. Among these are the following (OrSoIHeard):
** In "Decoy for a Dognapper", while warding off a flock of bats, Velma kicks her knees up high enough to show her panties, but they are colored the same as her skirt.
** In "Scooby's Night With A Frozen Fright", she, Shaggy and Scooby get startled at the door slamming behind them and you can see her panties which are the same color as her dress.
** In ''The Spooky Fog,'' a scene where Velma jumps back after being scared by a small animal, causing her skirt to flip up briefly, was unused during the first season of ''The New Scooby Doo Movies''. It was added in season 2; it has not resurfaced since going into syndication and subsequent Cartoon Network and Boomerang airings.
** In "A Good Medium Is Rare", Velma's skirt rides up as she, Daphne and Fred react at a mysterious figure behind them.[[http://www.myspace.com/deangelostevens/photos/16550865]]
** In the "Mystery of Haunted Island," one occurs when the gang meets the Harlem Globetrotters. A mishap with the door leads to the gang being pulled into a pile with the Globetrotters, where Daphne ends up face-down with her skirt flipped up, exposing her panties underneath her trademark pink tights. [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v32/puffuncle/Daphne.jpg And here's the shot. She's on the left.]]
** In the episode "The Babysitter from Beyond" (''A Pup Named Scooby Doo''), the kids are wedged in a doorway and from behind we can see Velma's and Daphne's white panties. Curiously, Daphne is wearing her panties on the ''outside'' of her tights. Wearing a second pair of panties over one's tights is an old trick to help stop them falling down.
** In "A Bicycle Built For Boo," Velma's skirt flips up after Scooby drops her from the reach of the episode's monster. Given Daphne and Velma's ages in the show, this would fall under innocent panties territory.
** In "Wanted Cheddar Alive," the gang is chasing the guy in the blue suit until Daphne's skirt flips up to show her panties. Meanwhile Daphne and Fred jump up higher then fall down to show Daphne's pink panties.
** In "Mayhem Of The Moving Mollusk," the gang has been thrown into dumpster causing Daphne's dress to get dirty. She calls her butler Jenkins; as Daphne climbs out of the dumpster to show her pink panties.[[http://www.myspace.com/deangelostevens/photos/16011731]]
** In "It's Mean, It's Green, It's the Mystery Machine" from ''What's New, Scooby-Doo'' when the Mystery Machine is chasing the gang and Velma falls over, flipping up her skirt in the process to show her white panties.
** In The 1976 episode "Mamba Wamba And The Voodoo Hoodoo Fred and Velma set the trap On Mamba Wamba causing Velma's Skirt to get flipped up and exposing her red solid panties.
** In the 1976 episode "Scooby Doo, Where's The Crew?", on Prof. Poisson's ship, Velma stands on tiptoe to look into the radio room porthole. Her skirt rides up high enough to show her red lace-trimmed panties.
** In The 1976 episode "There's A Demon Shark In The Foggy Dark", The Gang headed toward Aqualand when they see the demon shark chasing them. They headed to the pool riding on a dolphins' tail and landed in the trampoline to show Velma's red panties and Daphne's black panties.
** In 1978 episode "Creepy Creature Of Vulture's Claw the gang heads to the old aaretaker's cabin to open the door to save Daphne; in the process it showed her black panties.
** In 1984 episode "Scooby's Peephole Pandemonium" after the gang heads to Norman Deathman's bedroom Daphne and Scrappy hide under the bed to show her upskirt of her panties.
** ''Monsters Unleashed'' has Velma jumping into a ship vent funnel, back to the camera. Her orange panties can be seen for a couple of frames.
** Daphne gets one in ''Curse of the Lake Monster.'' Wearing a pleated-skirt tennis outfit, she (as well as Fred and Shaggy) gets knocked backwards by the lake monster.
* ParanormalInvestigation
* ParentalAbandonment: They either have no parents or just very hands-off parents who don't seem to care that their teenagers go all around the world, hunting down villains in Halloween costumes.
** It's possible that they might actually be late teens. Late enough to be considered legal adults and allowed to go off on their own or they're really college age/
* ParentalBonus: Cher was a gold mine for these in her guest appearance on "The Scooby Doo Movies."
-->'''Sonny:''' But this is our delayed honeymoon. You should be enjoying it.
-->'''Cher:''' I ''am'' enjoying it [[OrMyNameIsnt or my name isn't Barbra Streisand.]]
-->'''Sonny:''' But your name isn't Barbra Streisand.
-->'''Cher:''' You catch on quick, big boy!
* ThePeteBest: Everyone knows Scrappy-Doo. Who remembers Scooby-Dum(b)?
** People who watched ''The Scooby Doo Show'' daily on Creator/CartoonNetwork?
* PhraseCatcher: "And I would have gotten away with it too..."
* APirate400YearsTooLate: ''Scooby Doo! Pirates Ahoy!''
* PopularityPolynomial
* PragmaticAdaptation:
** Number one is now contested between ''ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland'' and ''ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated''. Either or both can be considered canon to the original, or to each other (Zombie Island takes place years after either, with Mystery Inc. in their mid-to-late twenties, so it's possible), both are DarkerAndEdgier than the original. Of all the ''movies'' of Scooby-Doo, it's pretty darn unanimous that Zombie Island is number 1.
*** ''Zombie Island'' is definitely canon since it shows the gang having gone separate paths at the start (Daphne a reporter with Fred her cameraman, Velma owning a bookstore, Scooby and Shaggy as airport security) before reuniting. It had been 14 years since they all last appeared together (''Bravo Dooby Doo'' was a spoof and really didn't count). ''Mystery Incorporated'' is a cross between ''Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!'' and ''Melrose Place.''
** ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'', to many, comes in at a very close second. Again, it played with a lot of the conventions of the original, and lampshaded quite a bit of them as well. Again, can be considered canon to the original series.
*** Debatable. The 1979 special ''Scooby Goes Hollywood'' has a flashback scene with the gang (as the teens we know them) discovering Scooby as a puppy at a pet shop. Then again, a 1972 episode of ''Movies'' has Shaggy and Scooby perusing their baby pictures in a photo album.
** ''TheThirteenGhostsOfScoobyDoo'' is another of the much better, and more iconic, series. It still has some of the melodrama of the original series, but at least took a divergence in that it had an overarching plot and didn't have the "guy in a costume" approach to the spooks the original did.
*** Both the above ignore that "Scooby Goes Hollywood" and "13 Ghosts" admit this is just a cartoon and they are actors. "13 Ghosts" also mentioned in the same episode that this time they really were chasing real ghosts and it became too much for Scooby who has a nervous breakdown and quits the show to go back home to his parents.
** A nod should certainly go to ''Scooby Doo in Where's My Mummy?'' for its surprise ending alone. Plus, it was the only feature of the made-for-video Scooby animated films to have gotten a theatrical release.
** ''The New Scooby Doo Movies'' - the first, and direct sequel to the show.
** The only real downside of this series is... well... Scrappy Doo. A consideration for downside should go to season two of ''The New Scooby Doo Movies.'' All eight shows were animated in Australia, and they looked horrible compared to the first season.
* RealAfterAll: Something of a tradition in the movies.
** Also, the coral monster in one episode of ''What's New'' turned out to be...a monster made of coral.
* RealEstateScam: The air base in ''Where Are You'' episode "Spooky Space Kook".
* RecklessSidekick: Scrappy-Doo
* RedEyesTakeWarning: The [[UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} Gypsy]] FortuneTeller in the Where Are You episode "A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts".
* RedHerring: "I didn't do it!" Lampshaded in ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'', with a character [[MeaningfulName named Red Herring]], [[RunningGag who is accused by Fred of ''every'' single crime in every episode]], save the one time where Red was actually the monster and Fred couldn't accuse him because of a prior agreement made with the rest of the gang.
* RelationshipUpgrade: Shaggy and Velma from the looks of it in the new series. Since scuttled as of episode 10, and as a result, Velma is mad at both Shaggy ''and'' Scooby.
* ReplacedTheThemeTune: The later seasons did away with its iconic "Where Are You?" theme song in its entirety. Many fans assert that this change coincided with an overall drop in the show's quality as it preceeded the introduction of The Original Scrappy by one season.
* ReversePsychology
* RoadSignReversal
* RobotMaid: Or Robot Butler, in this case: Robi in ''Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue!''.
* UsefulNotes/{{Romani}}: See FortuneTeller.
* RomanticFalseLead: In the first few direct to tv movies, such as ''Zombie Island and The Witches Ghost'', there would always be at least one character that Fred or Daphne would have a crush on, solely so that the other wound up being jealous and inducing ShipTease.
* RubeGoldbergDevice: In ''Mystery Incorporated'', Fred's skill/obsession is in rigging up traps, which are this type of device. The one we see him try in the first episode works perfectly. [[spoiler:Except it falls a few feet to the side, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny landing squarely on the Scooby Gang]].]]
* ScarecrowSolution: Mystery, Inc. sometimes turns the tables on the hoaxers by doing a little supernatural faking of their own.
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: When CBS brought ''Where Are You!'' back in 1974 after a two-year hiatus, Hanna-Barbera wanted to make new episodes. But CBS felt they could get just as much mileage, if not more, from repeats. CBS would cancel Scooby on August 7, 1976, a full month before the new season began. A week later, Scooby (which moved to ABC a month later) was replaced on CBS with Scooby clone ''ClueClub.''
* SelfOffense
* ShipTease: Between Fred and Daphne, so, so, so, ''so'' much.
** It seems to be heading this way too for Velma and Shaggy in ''Mysteries Inc.''
** In the latest DVD movie, ''Camp Scare,'' Fred and Daphne are seen walking hand in hand into the woods at the start of the first musical number while Velma and Shaggy still have a working and platonic relationship.
* [[ShoutOut/WesternAnimation Shout-Out]]: Several examples
* TheShowGoesHollywood: ''Scooby-Doo Goes Hollywood''.
* SignatureLaugh: Scooby's "heHeHEHeHehe" chortle, often followed by, "Rooby Roo!"
* SigningOffCatchPhrase: "Scooby-Doobie-Doo!"
* SkeletonKey: In the book, ''Scooby Doo! and the Skeleton Key'', Scooby and the gang find an old-fashioned skeleton key - which the ghost of a pirate wants.
* SkintoneSclerae
* SoundtrackDissonance
* SpannerInTheWorks: Shaggy and Scooby act as this in ''Zombie Island''; Samone and Lena dismiss them, and they end up disrupting the ritual long enough for the others to turn the tables.
* SpecialGuest: Luminaries that appeared in cartoon form on the show: Jonathan Winters, Phyllis Diller, Sandy Duncan, Sonny and Cher, Jerry Reed, Davy Jones, Tim Conway, Cass Elliot, and Dick Van Dyke. The Addams Family appearances re-recruited John Astin and Carolyn Jones as the voices of Gomez and Morticia. And Pugsley Addams was voiced by a young lady by the name of -- you may have heard of her -- Jodie Foster.\\
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''What's New, Scooby Doo?'' had guest appearances by hockey's Brett Hull, baseball's Mike Piazza, and music group Simple Plan. Episode 11 of ScoobyDooMysteryInc featured author Harlan Ellison.
* SpeechImpairedAnimal: {{Lampshaded}} in ''Scooby Doo and the Alien Invaders''; [[spoiler:Crystal and Amber [Shaggy and Scooby's love interests in that film] are revealed to be aliens at the end, and Amber, the dog, can [[TalkingAnimal talk]].]]
-->'''Shaggy:''' Like, dig that, Scoob! A talking dog!
-->'''Scooby:''' [[SpeechImpairedAnimal Ryeah]]!
-->'''Fred:''' (dryly, to Velma and Daphne) Yeah, [[DeadpanSnarker imagine that.]]
** The speech-impaired part is a RunningGag in ''Shaggy and Scooby Get A Clue'', where Robi the robot continually referred to Scooby as "Rooby-Roo" and Scooby would try to correct him.
-->'''Scooby:''' Rat's ''Rooby! Roo!''
** This brief but funny exchange from ''Decoy For A Dognapper'':
-->'''Scooby:''' Ri, Raggy.
-->'''Shaggy:''' Ri, Rooby.
* SpinoffBabies: ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'', although technically they're 10-year-olds rather than actual infants.
** According to studio bios from the cast we know, Fred and Shaggy are 17, Daphne is 16 and Velma is 15. WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo would chronologically have Fred and Shaggy at age 10, Daphne at 9, and Velma (who in this series sleeps in a jumper) at 8.
* StalkerWithACrush: In ''What's New, Scooby Doo?,'' Velma has one in the form of an inventor nerd named Gibby Norton.
** In "Bravo Dooby Doo," Velma flirts with Johnny Bravo.
-->'''Velma:''' (''winks to Johnny'') I don't bite!
-->'''Johnny:''' (''points to Daphne'') Yeah...but does ''she''?
** In ''Scooby-Doo: Camp Scare,'' a ranger investigating the destruction of Camp Little Moose flirts with Velma, who is squicked.
* StandInPortrait: Frequently.
* StandardizedLeader: Fred
* TheStoner: Shaggy. Okay, so the show never actively ''says'' he's TheStoner but he's stick thin, scruffy, always hungry, will eat dog snacks, thinks his dog can talk (the others could be humoring him or are probably as wasted as he is), and he's always freaking out. Who ''cares'' if the show never dared to canonise it?
** Only creators Joe Ruby and Ken Spears could vouch for it. The show ''was'' created for the 2-11 age bracket on Saturday mornings after all.
* StonersAreFunny: Shaggy again.
** According to the show's creators, the idea that Shaggy did pot never even entered their heads in the creation of the character. But since it was brought up, a lot of the movies have a tendency to joke about it. And fans believe it.
* StoryArc: "Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated" has one of these, with the mysterious Mister E sending them clues about their latest mystery and challenging them to solve the disapperance of a previous band of mystery-solving teens years ago.
* StoryBreakerTeamUp: The various team ups with characters from other shows.
* StrictlyFormula: There are very, very few cases where it is not a guy in a mask. [[LampshadeHanging Pointed out]] in ''Zombie Island''.
* TheSummation
* SurpriseSlideStaircase: Appears in the ''ScoobyDoo Where Are You?'' episode "Never Ape An Ape Man".
* SyndicationTitle
* TakeThat:
** In the movie LooneyTunesBackInAction, Scooby and Shaggy are seen in a studio cafeteria threatening Matthew Lillard, who played Shaggy in the 2002 and 2004 live-action Scooby theatrical feature films (averted seven years later, when Lillard would assume Shaggy's voice on the cartoon).
-->'''Shaggy''': What kind of performance do you call that? You made me sound like a total space cadet, man!
-->'''Matthew Lillard''': I'm sorry you feel that way. I was just trying to be true to your character.
-->'''Shaggy''': If you, like, goof up on me in the sequel, I'ma coming after ya!
-->'''Scooby''': Reah. And Ri'll rive you a Scooby Snarl! ''[growls viciously]''
** In "Curse of the Lake Monster" the jab about relationships in the end seems to be one directed towards Mystery Inc.
* TakeTheWheel: In ''Monsters Unleashed'', when the gang is being chased by the pterodactyl monster, Freddy asks Shaggy to take the wheel of the Mystery Machine while he tries to shoot the monster down. A little while later, Shaggy gets called to the back of the van so he can help Velma, and he leaves the driving to Scooby. ''To Scooby''. Granted, he's [[SpeechImpairedAnimal pretty intelligent]] as far as animals go, but he's still not ''that'' far up [[SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism the scale]]...
* TalkingAnimal
* TangledFamilyTree: Each series/spinoff seems to insist on introducing (and, with few exceptions, never showing again) more and more relatives of the gang... cousins, uncles, aunts, grandparents, parents (Fred's and Shaggy's parents in ''Mystery Inc.'' are different than was previously presented), and in some spinoffs, even ''siblings.'' At this point, the Rogers, Dinkley, Blake, Jones and Doo family trees' must rival the (Mc)Duck family tree in complexity...
* TastyGold
* ThereAreNoAdults - They either don't have parents or their parents just don't care that their teens travel around the world solving mysteries with a talking dog.\\
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* TheresNoBInMovie
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: ''The 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo''
* ToiletHumor: Shaggy in ''Legend of the Phantosaur'' when the biker picks him up:
-->'''Shaggy:''' And there goes the bladder!
* TookALevelInBadass: Daphne in the current run of feature-length cartoons, ''What's New'' and the live-action films. While sometimes still filling her classic [[DistressedDamsel damsel]] role, she now has martial arts skills, frequently gets the gang out of trouble by MacGyvering their way out of a trap with items in her purse and generally seems no more helpless than Fred or Velma.\\
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** Shaggy turns it up to eleven in ''Legend Of The Phantosaur'', [[spoiler: provided the key word is given to him at the right time.]]
* TotallyRadical: Found in the Live Action movie. It's also sadly found in the made-for-TV movies.
* TunnelKing: Scooby in some episodes
* TwistEnding
* UnintentionalBackupPlan: Common. Often the original trap that is set will not work, but Shaggy and Scooby's incompetence causes it to fail, but yields similar results.
* UnspokenPlanGuarantee
* VagueAge: The Mystery Gang. They're only described as "Meddling Kids," but considering how much time they spend on the road, they almost certainly have to be in their 20s, or late teens at the youngest.
* VerbalTic: Like, Shaggy, obviously. Also of note, Professor Flakey in 1972's "The Caped Crusader Caper", one of two crossovers with Batman and Robin. Flakey's dialogue consists almost exclusively of {{spoonerism}}s and this memorable malapropism:
-->'''Flakey:''' I always liked Shaggy because he's dumb to kind animals!
* VideoWills: The phonograph record in "A Night of Fright Is No Delight".
* WalkingTheEarth: Or ''driving'' it, anyway.
* TheWallsAreClosingIn: In "A Night of Fright Is No Delight", the gang discovered a locked trap door and a nearby organ that appears to control it. Scooby offers to play the organ to see whether they can open the trap door, but when that happens, the gang realizes the walls are closing in on them. As the gang tries to hold the walls back, Scooby desperately plays the instrument more, and then frantically dances on the keys to try to get it to stop the walls, and succeeds by sheer luck.\\
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The message on the sheet music read, "Feed the organ and watch the floor," and Velma deduced that it meant the musical notes F-E-E-D, which she plays and a panel in the floor opens. As to which keys Scooby pushed to stop the walls, that is anybody's guess.
* TheWikiRule: [[http://scoobydoo.wikia.com/wiki/Scoobypedia Scoobypedia]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Miss Mirimoto at the end of ''Scooby-Doo and the Samurai Sword''.
** ''Scooby Doo: Music Of The Vampire'': Shaggy and Scooby are told by swamp hermit Tulie that his prototype for hovering shoes was stolen by the vampire. When the gang catches the vampire, this is never brought back up. Likewise, we never see Jasper Poubelle and his vampire-hunting posse at the conclusion.
* WhoIsDriving: Zig-zagged twice in the episode "Foul Play In Funland." First, Velma and Scooby are in a runaway bumper car which Velma can't control after losing her glasses (and she even taps her foot on the floorboard searching for a brake, which bumper cars don't have). Then, the gang is helping Mr. Jenkins find his recalcitrant robot in a jeep, which Velma's driving. She's only fifteen! Does she have a permit?\\
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** Velma does show some mad skills with the Mystery Machine in ''Scooby Doo: Music Of The Vampire.''
* WhosLaughingNow: In the 2002 movie:
-->'''Daphne:''' ''(having just overpowered Zarkos)'' Now who's the damsel in distress?
-->'''Zarkos:''' Me?
-->'''Daphne:''' Straight up!
* WhoWouldWantToWatchUs: In ''Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase'', the newly redrawn cast mock their original appearances in a video game based on them. (Cyber!Shaggy, however, is wearing his red shirt from a couple of the movies.)
* WhyThankYouX: This happens a lot in ''ScoobyDoo'', especially when Scooby and Shaggy decide to cook or just fool around after splitting up. The monster/ghost makes an appearance handing them something or offering a suggestion before they see it and run for their lives.
** It also happened to Velma when she was in a college lab testing a mummy's bandages to find out if they were really ancient and the mummy handed her a test tube with the right chemical in it. (In retrospect, it's also kind of a clue that the mummy is one of the professors.)
* WitchSpecies
* WildWilderness: Well there are ''several'' locations from swamps to forests to islands to...well you get the point. They have to many adventures to really point this out to often but this trope swings in and out often.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Fred and Velma could be so cruel to Shaggy and Scooby sometimes...
* WonderfulLife
* WraparoundBackground
* YouFailHistoryForever & YouFailReligiousStudiesForever: ''Witch's Ghost'' treats witches and UsefulNotes/{{Wicca}} as two separate WitchSpecies, meaning a) one character claims his ancestor was a Wiccan who was burned at the stake 300 years before the religion was founded ([[spoiler:granted, said character was lying and she really was a witch]]), and b) one of the Hex Girls is "one-sixteenth Wiccan".
** Not to mention that there were never any witches burnt at the stake in America. They were either hanged, crushed with stones, or sentenced to imprisonment.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: They look like teenagers to you? Possibly lampshaded in the Valentine's Day special of ''What's New, Scooby Doo?'' where a flashback shows a much more teenage-looking Shaggy breaking up with his then-girlfriend. (It's a little subjective, but the beginning of ''Zombie Island'' heavily implies the characters are now college-age and subsequent animated versions of the franchise usually seem to tacitly follow suit even if the continuity is often vague...)
* ZettaiRyouiki: Velma.
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[[caption-width-right:350:From left to right: Velma, Shaggy, Scooby, Fred, Daphne.]]
->''"[[TitleDrop Scooby-Doo! Where are you?]]"''
-->--'''Norville "Shaggy" Rogers'''
The original BreakfastClub, a popular SaturdayMorningCartoon from HannaBarbera that premiered in 1969 and lasted in various forms up to the early Eighties (and episodes are again being made today) featuring four teenagers (Fred Jones, Velma Dinkley, Daphne Blake and Norville "Shaggy" Rogers) and their talking dog Scooby Doo (a classic SpeechImpairedAnimal) in a [[CoolCar van called the Mystery Machine]]. Each episode they'd encounter a mystery involving some form of spooky supernatural monster which would more often than not [[ScoobyDooHoax turn out to be a hoax meant to frighten the locals away from the villain's real operation]], and which would be resolved at the end by unmasking the villain, who would inevitably utter "I would have gotten away with it if it hadn't been for YouMeddlingKids, and that dog too." Reportedly also [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar full of drug references]] (hey, it ''was'' TheSeventies), depending on how you read it (what the hell do they put in those Scooby Snacks, anyways?).
Since the 1970s there have been many incarnations, including several direct-to-video movies, a series with real ghosts called ''The Thirteen Ghosts of Scooby Doo'' and a series with prepubescent versions of the cast. One such incarnation added Scooby's nephew [[TheScrappy Scrappy Doo]] (a classic TalkingAnimal) to the cast, which was when the franchise as a whole is considered by some to have JumpedTheShark. (Creator/MarkEvanier, who wrote the pilot episode of ''Scooby & Scrappy Doo,'' told a crowd at San Diego's Comic-Con of how people thought Scrappy ruined Scooby-Doo, to which he would reply, "It's ''Scooby-Doo.'' How do you ruin ''Scooby-Doo''?") After that point the show frequently operated with just Shaggy, Scooby and Scrappy. Daphne often came along for the ride due to PopularityPower at the time. The show has stayed on the air in all its various incarnations because it is consistently the most popular show of choice by focus groups of 6-11 year olds.
"Scooby Doo" is so thoroughly embedded in American popular culture that the ad-hoc vampire-hunting team that formed around Buffy Summers in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' called themselves "The Scooby Gang".[[note]]The ''Scooby Doo'' kids never refer to themselves as such; whenever their group was given a name in-series, it's always been "Mystery, Inc."[[/note]] It has also become Cockney Rhyming Slang for "clue" (as in "Haven't a Scooby, mate").
Has also been made into a series of live-action movies. The first two (starring Sarah Michelle Gellar of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' fame as Daphne and her husband Freddy Prinze Jr. as [[TheDanza Fred]]) were theatrical films. The third and fourth (prequels with a different cast) went straight to video. These were loaded with {{Continuity Nod}}s, and [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] the show's own cliches.
In 2005, the show briefly beat ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' for most episodes produced of an American cartoon.
The most recent incarnations are ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'' (A modernized return to the mystery format) and ''WesternAnimation/ShaggyAndScoobyDooGetAClue'' (which is much flatter animation-wise and rather weird, featuring nanotech Scooby snacks and a [[LampshadeHanging message from Fred]] [no relation] in the title). A new series called ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' premiered July 12, 2010 (containing possible character development, an overarching plot, and a DarkerAndEdgier feel).
Make sure to visit the [[Characters/ScoobyDoo Characters]] page, and don't overlook the [[Analysis/ScoobyDoo Analysis]].
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[[AC: Scooby-Doo Television Series]]
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'' (1969-1970, CBS; a batch of episodes made in 1978 for ABC have been tagged as an unofficial third season but was syndicated under the ''Scooby-Doo Show'' title)
* ''TheNewScoobyDooMovies'' (1972-1974, CBS. This was the series with all those animated versions of real life celebrities and crossovers with other cartoons. Unlike the other series', the episodes of this series were an hour long.)
* ''The Scooby Doo Show'' (1976-1979, ABC)
** ''The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Show'' (1976-1977, ABC)
** ''[[WesternAnimation/LaffAlYmpics Scooby's All Star Laff-A-Lympics]]'' (1977-1979, ABC; renamed ''Scooby's All-Stars'' in second season)
* ''Scooby And Scrappy Doo'' (1979-1980, ABC)
* ''Scooby-Doo/Richie Rich Show'' (1980-1982, ABC. A completely different series from the first one, with only Shaggy, Scooby and Scrappy, paired with animated episodes of comic book character Richie Rich)
* ''Scooby-Doo Classics'' (1981, ABC. ''Where Are You!'' replays slotted in after the ''Laverne and Shirley'' cartoon was delayed)
* ''Scooby Doo/Puppy's Adventures'' (1982-83, ABC. Co-produced by Ruby-Spears with adventures of Weekend Special character Petey the Puppy)
* ''The All-New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show'' (1983-1984, ABC)
* ''The Best Of Scooby-Doo'' (1983-84, ABC. repackaging of previous episodes)
* ''The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries'' (1984-85, ABC)
* ''Scary Scooby Funnies'' (1984-85, ABC. 1980-83 replays slotted in after ''Wolf Rock TV'' was canceled after only three telecasts)
* ''WesternAnimation/The13GhostsOfScoobyDoo'' (1985-1986, ABC)
* ''Scooby's Mystery Funhouse'' (1985-86, ABC. New name for ''Scary Scooby Funnies'')
* ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'' (1988-1991, ABC)
* ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'' (2002-2006, The WB)
* ''WesternAnimation/ShaggyAndScoobyDooGetAClue'' (2006-2008, The CW)
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' (2010-present, Cartoon Network)
[[AC:Other Scooby Productions]]
* ''Scooby Goes Hollywood'' (1979, ABC, prime time special)
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheGhoulSchool'' (1988, made-for-TV movie)
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMeetsTheBooBrothers'' (1988, made-for-TV movie)
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheReluctantWerewolf'' (1988, made-for-TV movie)
* ''ScoobyDooInArabianNights'' (1994, made-for-TV movie)
* ''Film/ScoobyDoo'' (live action-movie, 2002)
* ''Film/ScoobyDooMonstersUnleashed'' (live-action movie, 2004)
* ''ScoobyDooTheMysteryBegins'' (live-action made-for-TV movie, 2009)
* ''ScoobyDooCurseOfTheLakeMonster'' (live-action made-for-TV movie, 2010)
* ''Scooby Doo! Spooky Games'' (2012)
[[AC:And too many DirectToVideo animated features to list, so they got their own page.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooDirectToVideoFilmSeries''
[[AC: Frequent Scooby Tropes:]]
* A ''lot'' of running past a WraparoundBackground.
* Velma losing her glasses, in the CBS series. (She's BlindWithoutEm.)
* {{Catch Phrase}}s: "Zoinks!" for Shaggy, "Jinkies!" for Velma, "Jeepers" for Daphne. Scrappy had two: "Let me at 'em, Let me at 'em!" and "Da-da-da-da-da-da, Puppy Power!". Not to forget the infamous "LetsSplitUpGang!" for Freddy, and of course, Scooby's "Scooby Dooby Doo!" and "Rut Roh!" In some of the newer episodes/movies, Scooby responds to any mention of a dog with "Rog? Rwhere?"\\
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''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'' mercilessly lampooned and lampshaded these. And invented several new ones. And then lampooned and lampshaded ''those''.\\
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The catchphrases are also lampshaded in one of the cartoon movies. After something bad happens they each say their catchphrases, except for Fred, whose catch phrase doesn't fit into that situation and instead laments his apparent lack of a Catch Phrase.
* Shaggy and Scooby [[BigEater consuming]] [[DagwoodSandwich very large sandwiches]].
* Scrappy's attempts to use physical violence against the "ghost", almost always stopped by Scooby grabbing him by the scruff of the neck.
** It actually works a few times in ''Scooby-Doo meets the Boo Brothers''.
* [[DistressedDamsel Daphne getting abducted and tied up.]] Lampshaded in the original series; she's called "Danger-Prone Daphne" more than once.
* A chase sequence through a room with [[ScoobyDoobyDoors a series of random doors with entryways that break the laws of physics.]]
* ScoobyDooHoax -- although a few later movie-length episodes (and ''Thirteen Ghosts'') had the ghosts turning out to be real. As well as the first-season episode "Foul Play in Funland". ''Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island'', the show likes playing with the trope as much as it likes playing it straight.
* Scooby and Shaggy dressing up in costumes and making a short skit to confuse the chasing monster.
* DespiteThePlan - A convoluted plan to catch the villain that never goes as planned.
* TheReveal in the form of a DramaticUnmask at the climax of the episode. "Let's see who [[MonsterOfTheWeek this monster]] ''really'' is!"\\
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Hilariously subverted in the ''What's New'' episode "It's All Greek To Scooby" when Velma triumphantly announces the identity of the Centaur and pulls the mask off...to reveal a character she had never seen before. Velma calls a foul and declares it doesn't count.\\
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Played with in the classic series episode "A Clue For Scooby-Doo." Fred and the gang are about to unmask the Ghost of Captain Cutler to see if it was really Ebeneezer Shark (the beachcomber they interrogated earlier). It turned out to be--thanks to Shaggy's placement of some seaweed--Captain Cutler himself. (Scooby and Velma were the only others to have recognized this denoument, but Fred and Daphne announce it as well, and they weren't even at Widow Cutler's home to have seen the Cutler portrait.)
* TheSummation at the end of the episode, where the gang thoroughly debunks all of the supposed paranormal activity and explain its role in the [[ScoobyDooHoax criminal racket]] they have uncovered.
* [[RedHerring One or more characters who come across as particularly suspicious]], yet turn out to have nothing to do with the actual plot. ''A Pup Named Scooby-Doo'' went so far as to make one a regular supporting character with the actual name "Red Herring".
* The ghosts being real, at least for two series, and WesternAnimation/The13GhostsOfScoobyDoo.
* Scooby [[SecurityCling getting scared and jumping into Shaggy's arms]].
** Amusingly, it's sometimes reversed, with Shaggy jumping into Scooby's front legs.
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!!'''TropeNamer for:'''
* LetsSplitUpGang
* ScoobyDoobyDoors: It may be one the most frequently referenced sequence in any Hanna-Barbera/Warner Animation production, if not all of Western Animation. Yes, that's right, Scooby Doo is the Western equivalent of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.
** The gag had been used in Looney Tunes shorts long before that. One of the oldest uses was a live-action silent comedy from the early twenties. Amusingly, it took place in a haunted mansion, and the ghost was revealed to be a fake.
* ScoobyDooHoax
* ScoobyStack
* ShaggySearchTechnique: Shaggy would often uncover secret passages by sheer accident.
* TheScrappy [[invoked]]
** And, by extension:
*** DamselScrappy [[invoked]]
*** EthnicScrappy [[invoked]]
*** ReplacementScrappy [[invoked]]
*** TemporaryScrappy [[invoked]]
*** TierInducedScrappy [[invoked]]
*** ScrappyMechanic [[invoked]]
*** ScrappyWeapon [[invoked]]
*** AlasPoorScrappy [[invoked]]
*** TakeThatScrappy [[invoked]]
*** RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap [[invoked]]
* YouMeddlingKids
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!!This show provides examples of:
* AbandonedMine: ''The Scooby-Doo Where Are You!'' episode "Mine Your Own Business". While trying to determine the identity of the scary Miner 49er, the gang explores a spooky old mine.
* AbsurdlyIneffectiveBarricade: Many episodes involve the gang building a barricade, only to discover the door opens OUTWARDS as opposed to inwards.
** Or that the monster was [[WhyThankYouX helping them build the barricade]]...
* ActorAllusion: In an episode of ''What's New Scooby Doo'', when Daphne meets someone hired to impersonate her, she complains she is being played by an extra and asks if SarahMichelleGellar was busy.
** One moment in the live movie might count, if Daphne's line "This must be the secret relic thingy they worship," could be considered BuffySpeak.
* AdaptationDyeJob: In "The Mystery Begins" and "Curse Of The Lake Monster," the normally blonde Fred is a brunette.
* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler:Scrappy-Doo]] in the live-action movie.
* AffectionateParody: ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hUUKT8LwNI Night of the Living Doo]]'', which aired on Halloween in 2001.\\
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Also ''Bravo Dooby Doo'', an extremely on-target spoof where JohnnyBravo crossed paths with Mystery Inc.\\
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As well, ''The Scooby Doo Project,'' a series of interstitials from 1999 spoofing "The Blair Witch Project." Plus Daphne appeared as a member of the Hanna-Barbera tribe in Cartoon Network's "Staylongers" (spoof of "Survivor") interstitials.\\
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A not-so-affectionate parody: "Ring-a-Ding, Where Are You?," one of the shows to which MightyMouse gets juxtaposed in the 1988 episode ''Don't Touch That Dial'' from his Bakshi-produced TV show.
-->'''Mighty Mouse:''' Gosh...I feel my I.Q. dropping by the minute!
* AliensStealCable: [[spoiler:Crystal]] does this in the ''Alien Invaders'' movie.
* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The Japanese version has [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7lGRAA7D3Y this]] as its theme song.
* AmusementParkOfDoom: Every incarnation has at least one of these. One of the earlier examples had a runaway robot mess with the controls. ''The Thirteen Ghosts of Scooby Doo'', had one of the titular villains run one of these.
* AnimalsLackAttributes: Scooby is a boy. Really.
* AnimatedActors: In the 1979 prime-time special ''Scooby Goes Hollywood'', Scooby and Shaggy get sick of their secondary roles in a formula-driven Saturday morning show, and attempt to sell a network executive on giving them a prime-time series of their own. (They pitch a number of pilot shows, all parodies of then-popular series, such as ''CharliesAngels'', ''HappyDays'' and ''TheLoveBoat''.)
* AnthropomorphicShift: Scooby himself was suffering this by the mid-80s. He was seen walking on two legs all the time (it didn't help that his four legged design was not changed) and he was becoming somewhat less of a SpeechImpairedAnimal. It seems to have been reversed beginning with ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'' where he became more of a quadruped again.\\
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When Scooby runs in the early series, his legs don't follow a normal dog's running pattern. Each pair of legs go alternately in a circular motion. The only episode showing him running like a normal dog was "Decoy For A Dognapper," as he and the freed kidnapped dogs run after their captor.
* AntiSneezeFinger: The gang do this to {{Scooby-Doo}} in almost every incarnation.
* ArtisticLicenseChemistry: In the second live-action movie, Scooby freezes the Tar Monster with a ''fire extinguisher''.
* [[BowtiesAreCool Ascots Are Cool]]
* BalloonBelly: Shaggy and Scooby occasionally.
* BeAsUnhelpfulAsPossible: Inverted - the most helpful character usually turns out to be the culprit. He is often the first character you see apart from the gang.
* BeamMeUpScotty: Velma is notorious for always losing her glasses. In the original episodes she only dropped them twice. The same goes for Daphne getting kidnapped, it really didn't occur that often enough to be her recurring character trait in the original series.
** Actually, Velma had her glasses knocked off her face, once by Scooby, the other after bumping her head. A third time, a bat plucked her glasses off and dropped them on Scooby's head,and a fourth instance had her glasses swept off her face from an errant bumper cart. And later, in "That's Snow Ghost," Scooby uses Velma's glasses to see the bundle of dynamite pursuing them on the log behind.
** Velma losing her glasses became a running joke based on her voice artist, Nicole Jaffe, whose glasses fell during a script reading, and she was quoted as saying "I can't see without them."
** Lampshaded in the Johnny Bravo ep "Bravo Dooby Doo" after Velma and Johnny both grope for their displaced eyewear:
--->'''Velma:''' My glasses! I can't see without my glasses!
--->'''Johnny:''' My glasses! I can't be seen without my glasses!
** "Old Man Jenkins" has become the term for the everyman Scooby Doo villain. While there was an suspicious old man named Mr. Jenkins in one episode of the original series, but he turned out to be innocent.
* Music/TheBeatles: Referenced by Shaggy in "The Phantom Of The Country Music Hall" (1972 ep with Jerry Reed):
-->'''Hotel clerk:''' Are you, Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby?
-->'''Shaggy:''' Like, we're sure not the Beatles!
* BerserkButton: Scooby is quite possibly the most cowardly animal in existence, but if Shaggy is in danger, he'll find the courage -- and become a badass to boot.
** If Scooby Doo in Where's My Mummy is any indication, Scooby is also pretty fond of Velma.
* BigDamnMovie: The supernatural will inevitably turn out to be ''real'' in a Scooby-Doo movie, but the basic formula is usually the same.
** Not necessarily. ''Where's My Mummy?'' had a ScoobyDooHoax, albeit a ''very'' elaborate one put on by [[spoiler: Velma, an archaeologist, and an Ardeth Bay expy]]. Which none of them ever think to tell the rest of the Scoobies ''is'' a Scooby Doo Hoax.
*** [[spoiler: Velma]] would explain that [[spoiler: she]] didn't let the others in on the hoax because [[spoiler: it was dangerous and she didn't want anybody to get hurt.]]
** ''Monsters Unleashed'', ''Legend of the Vampire'' and ''Monster of Mexico'' also all ended with a more conventional Scooby-Doo Hoax.
** Halfway through, ''Curse of the Lake Monster'' looks like a ScoobyDooHoax, until the actual ghost of a witch takes [[spoiler: Velma's body as a host and creates her minions of lake monsters]]. This is the second feature-length movie, animated or live centering around [[spoiler: Velma]].
* BigEater: Shaggy, Scooby and occasionally Scrappy.
* BigFriendlyDog: Scooby is a full-grown Great Dane and has never been vicious to anything, ever. Unless you count sandwiches.
** In some of the early stuff, he gets to do some things that the latter episodes would never let him do, due to flanderization. There was the one where Scooby kept bouncing up toward an ape monster and ended up kicking it in the gut and such, just to save an actress. And then there's the infamous "John Wayne" impression in the episode "Hassle in the Castle". Let's not forget the time they were chased by a "haunted coat" (actually a goose under a coat) flying by itself, in which Scooby ended up ''snarling'' and making faces at, to scare it away.
** He still no problem getting riled up and volatile around cats, as well. Scooby has fallen into TookALevelInJerkAss territory in recent episodes of ''Mystery Inc.,'' having had a falling out with Shaggy and nearly one with Velma. He redeems himself with a moment of awesome in "Camp Scare" and having since made up with Shaggy on ''Mystery Inc.'' and is trying to get Velma to like him again.
* BlackBeltInOrigami: In one episode, Shaggy tries to bluff a Chinese ghost by saying "I know Judo, Chop Suey and Chinese Checkers!"
* TheBlank: "The No-Face Zombie Chase Case"
* BlindWithoutEm: Velma
* BlondesAreEvil: [[spoiler:Charlene in ''Scooby Doo and the Monster of Mexico'', and Velma's cousin Marcy in ''A Scooby Doo Halloween''.]]
* BookcasePassage: Plenty of these.
* BodyScreenFillUp: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1Pdsq0K1T4 AN ENTIRE VIDEO WORTH]]
* BroadStrokes: The SharedUniverse they exist in is notably very vague with The Original Series, ''Thirteen Ghosts'' and ''The New Adventures'', taking place firmly within each other, the nineties movies taking place after their retirement from the former adventures, ''A Pup Named Scooby doo'' as a SpinoffBabies prequel and ''What's New Scooby Doo'' and its movies as taking place (ostensibly) with in the same universe. The Live Action Film series and Shaggy and ''Scooby Doo Get A Clue'' are in question however and both ''The Mystery Revealed'' and ''Mystery Incorporated'' take place in Ultimate Universes.
* BrotherChuck: Fred and Velma inexplicably vanish in ''TheThirteenGhostsOfScoobyDoo''. Fred, Velma ''and'' Daphne were absent in the shows made from 1980 through 1982. And then Daphne vanished too, leaving just Shaggy, Scrappy, and Scooby in the various TV Movies.
* BurnTheWitch
* BurpingContest: Between Shaggy and Scooby in the first movie.
* ButtMonkey: Shaggy and Scooby, usually.
* ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes
* CaptainColorbeard: Redbeard in "Go Away, Ghost Ship." He makes a second appearance in 1972's "The Ghostly Creep From The Deep," but in that story, he and his pirate crew are all ghost white and the voice is different (John Stephenson in "Ghost Ship," Lennie Weinrib in "Ghostly Creep").
** One of the TV movies has a variant with a white stripe in his beard: Captain ''Skunk''beard.
* CaptainObvious: Mystery Inc. will often point out things that are happening or just happened that should already be obvious to the viewer.
* TheCastShowoff: The gang themselves but most notably Velma in the movie ''Scooby Doo and the Legend Of The Vampire'' where they pose as contestants in the rock show contest (as The Meddling Kids) and eventually win by default. Velma sings the "Scooby Doo, Where Are You!" theme. Poor child was petrified at first, but as she started singing, she put on quite a show.
** All five members of the gang and some of the other characters sing throughout the 2012 made-for-video feature ''Scooby Doo: Music Of The Vampire''.
* CatchPhrase: Lampshaded in ''Scooby-Doo and the Samurai Sword'', when the team finds out that the normal episode formula [[spoiler:had turned into an EvilPlan]], all of the characters say their catchphrases, ending with Fred:
--->'''Fred:''' "Um, uh...aw, darn it, I ''still'' don't have a catchphrase!"[[hottip:* :He technically does, but "Let's split up, gang!" doesn't exactly work as an expression of shock.]]
* TheCavalryArrivesLate
* ChannelHop: From CBS to ABC in 1976. NBC may even count as ''Dynomutt'' was paired up with ''Godzilla'' for an hour-long show in 1981 on that network and the Scooby gang's appearances in ''Dynomutt'' were subsequently aired.
* CharacterNameAndTheNounPhrase: Most of the DirectToVideo movies are ''Scooby-Doo and the ____________''.
* ChineseVampire: Two jiangshi pursue Daphne in "Mystery Mask Mix-Up."
* ClusterFBomb: This [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rlo3x0NMs5g charming]] bumper for Creator/CartoonNetwork.
* CobwebOfDisuse: In "What the Hex is Going On?", the old Kingston Mansion has these in the background (corners, connecting furniture to walls). Also present in the Vasquez Castle (notably on the portrait) in "Hassle in the Castle".
* ComicBookAdaptation: Scooby has been in comic books since December 1969, published by Gold Key/Western Publishing, Charlton, Marvel, Harvey (reprints from Charlton), Archie Comics and the current publisher DC Comics. The first ten issues of the Gold Key run of Scooby Doo comics featured either truncated or very loose adaptations of TV episodes. Two episodes were made into comic stories ''twice'': "A Clue For Scooby Doo" (Gold Key, DC) and "Spooky Space Kook" (Gold Key, Archie Comics). The first Marvel Comics issue featured a truncated adaptation of the 1976 episode "The Ghost Of The Bad Humor Man."\\
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Zig-zagged: The pilot episode of ''Scooby & Scrappy-Doo'' ("The Scarab Lives!") was loosely based on the first story of Scooby-Doo Mystery Comics #24 (Gold Key/April 1974, "Mark Of The Blue Scarab").\\
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Starting in October 2010, the DC comic began billing itself as ''Scooby Doo, Where Are You!,'' the first time the comic has been billed as such since October 1976.\\
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Gold Key, known for taking continuity liberties, started making the gang ghost breakers for hire starting with issue #14. If this continuity is to be followed as any sort of canon, then issue #21 has the gang with the following Zodiac signs: Scooby--Aries, Fred--Pisces, Shaggy--Leo, Velma--Virgo, Daphne--Gemini. Charlton's stories are best left undiscussed.
* ConspicuouslyLightPatch: When the spot on the floor that the gang is standing on suddenly turns a lighter color, you know that they're about to fall down a trapdoor.\\
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When ''anything'' is colored differently than the other things in the scene (and isn't supposed to be), be it lighter or darker, someone will inevitably grab it or use it in some other way.\\
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It may also follow that if doesn't have an ink (or xerox) line, it's the background. If it has the ink/xerox line, it's a waiting trapdoor.
* ContinuityNod: ''What's New Scooby Doo?'' featured a batch of these during its run. One even to ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo''.
** The monster in the first movie is [[spoiler:TheScrappy himself, wanting revenge for the team dumping him at the start of the movie.]] In the second film, most of the monsters are classic 'Doo bad guys, [[spoiler:as is the real villain.]]
** The ''Mysteries Incorporated'' series starts off with museum exhibits of several of the same villains the second film mentioned. Which can be somewhat confusing to people who watched the premiere, which was ''preceded'' by the second film.
* ContinuityReboot: ''Scooby-Doo!: The Mystery Begins'' deletes everything ''[[WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo A Pup Named]]'' set in the continuity other than it taking place in Coolsville.
** Not necessarily, this was just the live-action version after all. More likely could be considered an AlternateUniverse.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: In ''Aloha, Scooby-Doo'', and probably others.
* ConveyorBeltODoom: A memorable one (''That's Snow Ghost'') had Velma tied to a log heading for a large circular saw.
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Shaggy in "Don't Fool With a Phantom" as he and Scooby are placed on one by the Wax Phantom:
--->'''Shaggy:''' "Not the old ride-on-the-conveyor-belt-into-the-wax routine. Oh, no. Like, that went out with the silent movies, Phantom, old pal."
* ConvictionByContradiction: One ''What's New'' episode has the culprits turn out to be a man and woman pretending to be SickeninglySweethearts to secretly pass information to each other. After the unmasking, Velma says that the first thing that tipped her off was they were too lovey-dovey to be newlyweds as they claimed.
* CoolUncle: Scrappy thinks of Scooby this way, despite Scooby's cowardice.
* CousinOliver: Scrappy-Doo, Scooby-Dum, Flim Flam
* CrazyPrepared: In ''What's New, Scooby-Doo?'', Fred has made enough "special modifications" to the Mystery Machine to put [[StarWars Han Solo]] to shame, including modifying it to transform into a submarine and fitting it with a roof airbag which conveniently enables Shaggy to save Velma when she falls off a highrise movie set in "Lights, Camera, Mayhem". The submarine turned out to be a clue that TheGameNeverStopped.
* {{Crossover}}: There were two episodes which they crossed over with ''{{Batman}}'', and another with ''JosieAndThePussycats''. Also, the characters have appeared on ''JohnnyBravo'' and ''HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw''.
--->'''Johnny Bravo''': "Jinkies? Jinkies....isn't that some kind of breakfast food?"
** They also met Series/TheAddamsFamily once, and Dynomutt and the Blue Falcon twice.
*** The Scooby Doo gang will join Dynomutt and Blue Falcon yet again in the 2013 DVD feature ''Scooby-Doo: Mask Of The Blue Falcon.''
** There was a whole ''season'' (called, confusingly enough, ''The New Scooby-Doo Movies'') where the whole ''point'' was crossovers.
*** On of which was with the Harlem Globetrotters.
*** And the ''Speed Buggy'' gang, as well as TheThreeStooges.
*** And even the characters from the now-forgotten AnimatedAdaptation of ''IDreamOfJeannie''.
*** You could probably count the would-be Scooby Gang from ''TheVentureBrothers'' as well. But that was more a parody.
*** The Addams Family, Batman and Robin (the Adam West version), Don Knotts and the Globetrotters all actually appeared in the opening sequence for that season. Reruns often have people wondering who the heck Don Knotts is.
**** Don Knotts was in an episode parodying TheAndyGriffithShow and an episode where he was a goofy Barney Fife like detective.
**** Not to mention Don Adams of ''Series/GetSmart'' playing an exterminator in the house of LonChaney.
*** There was at least one LaurelAndHardy episode, and two with TheThreeStooges.
** An episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', "Bat-Mite Presents: Batman's Strangest Cases!" features a segment, drawn and animated in the same style as the ''New Scooby Doo Movies'' episodes, with the gang meeting up with Batman and Robin, as well as Music/WeirdAlYankovic. It aired in America on AprilFoolsDay 2011.
** A Wrestling/{{WWE}} crossover is [[http://corporate.wwe.com/news/2012/2012_08_15.jsp planned for 2014]].
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: In one episode with a clown that hypnotizes people (''Bedlam In The Big Top''), Shaggy and Scooby remember what the clown did, so when he tries it on them again, they use mirrors to deflect the spell back at him, thus incapacitating him. That and when they pilot a bulldozer to tackle Steve in Alien Invaders. In addition, there's the mini-golf episode from "What's New, Scooby-Doo?" where Shaggy took the reins to try to solve the mystery for the majority of the episode. In that same episode (''A Terrifying Round With A Menacing Metallic Clown''), Velma goes off cowering with Scooby as her secret fear comes to the surface--she's frightened of clowns.\\
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Shaggy and Scooby-Doo are secretly ninjas. In situations where they can't be the whimpering cowards, they pull amazing feats. In ''Scooby-Doo in Where's My Mummy?'', they leapt from falling platform to falling platform to keep from plummeting to their dooms. ''Scooby-Doo and the Samurai Sword'' also counts towards this.
* CuteIsEvil: In the movie, [[TheScrappy Scrappy]].
* CuteMonsterGirl: In ''Ghoul School'', Shaggy, Scooby and Scrappy become gym teachers for a bunch of them.
* TheDanza: Vincent van Ghoul was voiced by Vincent Price.
* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island'' and ''ScoobyDoo and the Witch's Ghost'' are the darkest of the animated films. Creator/CartoonNetwork made an [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome]] promo for ''Scooby-Doo On Zombie Island'' when they aired it on their animated movie spot. It only used the most thrilling scenes and was set to climactic OminousLatinChanting (possibly ''O Fortuna''). Never before did Scooby-Doo seem so intense.\\
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The new series, ''Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated'', although not much. It's definitely not cynical, but the universe as a whole is a little less idealistic, and the jokes, characters and events are more mature.
* DarkIsNotEvil: The Hex Girls, a spooky-themed rock band that shows up occasionally in 90's-and-later versions (the direct-to-video movies, ''What's New'', and ''Mystery Inc'').
** The Goblin King (Voiced by TimCurry) may be the ruler of all things Halloween, but he's also a fair (though strict) ruler and he [[spoiler: cares deeply for his fairy daughter]].
** This is the twist of Scooby Doo on Zombie Island [[spoiler: the creepy rotting zombies aren't evil, they are trying to warn the visitors of the island so they won't end up like them]].
* DeadlineNews: In the second live-action movie.
* DeadpanSnarker:
** Velma. Especially in later incarnations. She had a choice line in "The San Franpsycho" after the gang is in a motorboat escaping from sharks:
--->'''Velma:''' We're gonna make it! (''a shark takes a giant bite of the boat's aft'') Ah, irony...we meet yet again.
** [[VincentPrice Vincent Van Ghoul]], nearly all the time.
* DeliciousDistraction: Scooby Snacks.
* DesertSkull: In "Mine Your Own Business", there's one of these (with overly ornate horns) atop the sign for the Gold City Guest Ranch.
* DetectivesFollowFootprints: Used constantly.
* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: Usually Shaggy after he makes a comment about the qualification that what they're chasing is a ghost.\\
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Velma, of all people in the episode ''Scooby Doo Meets DickVanDyke'' as she, Fred and Dick see Daphne having fun on a bump-'em cart:
-->'''Velma:''' Hmph, Women. (''realizes what she said'') What am I saying?! I'm one of them!
* DistressedDamsel: In the two shows with the Three Stooges, scripter Norman Maurer seemed to like getting Velma in a nice mess. In ''Ghastly Ghost Town,'' a mysterious figure sends her down into the mine shaft, while in ''The Ghost Of The Red Baron,'' she is sent airborne in a bi-plane she doesn't know how to operate. [[CaptainObvious Oh, and]] '''''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Danger-Prone Daphne]]'''''.
* DistressedDude: Shaggy and Scooby have ended up BoundAndGagged on a few occasions.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Shaggy and Scooby seem to constantly have the "munchies".
* TheDragAlong: Scooby and Shaggy, sometimes literally kicking and screaming.
* {{Drive-In Theater}}: One appears in ''Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf''.
* EagleEyeDetection: Usually done by Velma.
* EasilyForgiven: ''"What's New Scooby Doo"'' occasionally had the culprit be let off the hook if they had arguably sympathetic reasons or if nobody got hurt, even if by their actions the monster would have very nearly killed someone. ''"Roller Ghoaster Ride"'' is a good example of this, involving among other things Fred, Daphne and Velma almost getting diced up by a giant fan thanks to the monster's sabotage, along with tons of dangerous situations coming from ''sabotaging amusement park rides'' which would've ended up fatal if not for dumb luck or quick thinking, with no real consequences for the culprit.
* EditedForSyndication: Footage from act two of the very first episode, "What A Night For A Knight" is missing. It's where the gang is outside the museum as Fred is unable to open the rear door. He gets a ladder out of the Mystery Machine (which must be dimensionally transcendental to hold a ladder) and volunteers Shaggy to climb up and go in through a window high above.
-->'''Shaggy:''' Why me?
-->'''Fred:''' Because that's a small window and you're the thinnest.
** In the first season of ''The New Scooby Doo Movies,'' scenes running roughly a minute and a half were made but not used until season two. The scenes never showed up in syndication, CN/Boomerang airings or DVD releases. Among the scenes were Jonathan Winters flipping a coin with Shaggy to see who would go up to the grist mill window ("The Frickert Fracas"), and Scooby trying to get the kids' attention to tell them he found a secret passage out of Moody Manor ("Guess Who's Knott Coming To Dinner").
** In the 1970-71 season, a minute of footage from season 1 episodes of ''Scooby Doo, Where Are You!'' were cut to make room for CBS's "In The Know" interstitials. ("In The Know" were 2-and-a-half minute educational capsules hosted by JosieAndThePussycats. It would be replaced the next season with CBS's long-running interstitial series ''In The News''.)
* EitherOrTitle: Several episodes throughout had unused Either Or Titles. Among them:
** ''Scooby Doo Meets The Addams Family'' (''Wednesday Is Missing'')
** ''Sandy Duncan's Jekyll And Hyde'' (''Scooby Doo Meets Sandy Duncan'')
** ''Scooby Doo Meets Laurel & Hardy'' (''The Ghost Of Bigfoot'')
** ''The Caped Crusader Caper'' (''The Sying Fluit...er, Flying Suit'')
** ''Scooby Doo Meets Jeannie'' (''Mystery In Persia'')
** ''Scooby Doo Meets Dick Van Dyke'' (''The Haunted Carnival'')
** ''Who Was That Cat Creature I Saw You With Last Night?'' (''Make A Beeline Away From That Feline'')
** ''Terror, Thy Name Is Zombo'' (''Roller Ghoster Ride'')
* EmbarrassingFirstName: Is anyone surprised that Shaggy never references his given name, Norville?
* EverybodyLaughsEnding: "Scooby-Dooby-Doo!" (cue group laughter)
* HairDecorations: Velma has a flower in her hair at the end of "A Tiki Scare Is No Fair" as she does the hula in her Hawaiian grass skirt. For all her bookworm "plain Jane" descriptions, she was really quite adorable.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The wax phantom from "Don't Fool With A Phantom" has captured Shaggy and Scooby and plans to turn them into wax dummies:
-->'''Shaggy:''' But, like, we're ''already'' dummies! Right, Scoob?
-->'''Scooby:''' Du-u-uh, right!
** Also in "Hassle In The Castle": Velma sees and verbally acknowledges that the Shaggy head protruding from half of a magician's saw-in-two box was a dummy head. Shaggy pops up from the other half and says "Somebody mention me?"
* {{Expy}}: [[WeirdAlEffect It's mostly forgotten now]], but the characters of Fred, Velma, Daphne and Shaggy were originally thinly disguised knockoffs of Dobie, Zelda, Thalia and Maynard from ''TheManyLovesOfDobieGillis''.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Scrappy in the live-action movie]]
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: The death of [[spoiler:the cat people]] in ''Scooby Doo on Zombie Island'' goes straight into NightmareFuel. Also the death of the former inhabitants. Being forced to go into a sea where alligators (or crocodiles?) just wait for their meal? Charming.
* The entire gang suffer one at the end of the Scooby Doo project. The last we see of them is the monster coming towards them then the camera cutting out and the annoucert elling us no trace of them was ever found.
* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: In ''Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island'', there are a few examples of this. One zombie has his head ripped off and two get cut in half.
* FauxPaw: Used in the first movie.
* FineYouCanJustWaitHereAlone: How Shaggy and Scooby end up going along 90% of the time.
* FiveManBand
** TheHero: Fred
** TheLancer: Shaggy
** TheSmartGuy: Velma
** TheChick: Daphne
** TheBigGuy: Scooby
* {{Flanderization}}:
** Daphne's [[TheKlutz klutziness]] is turned up to eleven in ''Abracadabra-Doo''.
** ''Mystery Incorporated'' Fred becomes completely obsessed with making traps.
** Scooby's cowardliness, during the first season.
** Velma is normally a bright girl, but she becomes a bit inept (not of her own doing) when she loses her glasses. However, a particular bit of brain fart is puzzling. In "The Ghost Of The Red Baron," she is sent airborne in a bi-plane she has no control of, and she forgets the international distress radio call (followed by an atypical Daphne response):
-->'''Velma:''' Let's see, what was it? January? February?...March? April? ''Mayday!!'' That's it!!
-->'''Daphne:''' That's Velma. What's she calling "mayday" for? Today's June 5th!
** In ''What's New, Scooby Doo?,'' Velma became a bit more as snarky as she was smart, albeit her fear of clowns came suddenly to the surface. And in ScoobyDooMysteryInc, she tacks on cynicism, her obsessiveness to Shaggy and her contempt (as of episode 10) of Scooby.
* FollowTheLeader: Quite a few shows ripped this off. Heck, Hanna-Barbera Studios itself [[SelfPlagiarism Self-Plagiarized]] this formula many times.
* FoodAsBribe: Shaggy and Scooby can be coaxed into doing anything for food, namely Scooby Snacks.
* FootFocus: Daphne in ''Pirates Ahoy!''
* {{Foreshadowing}}: ''Zombie Island'' has several signs linking to the end of the mystery, including one in [[spoiler:one of the chase sequences, where a Zombie gives Shaggy a vine to pull Scooby out, at first, it looks like just a gag involving the whole "Monster helps them to save themselves", but it foreshadows that the Zombies are ''not'' as evil as they're made out to be.]]
* FortuneTeller: In the Where Are You episode "A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts", the gang meets a [[UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} Gypsy]] fortune teller who gives them dire warnings. She turns out to be the episode's {{villain}} in disguise.
* Creator/FrankWelker: Fred is his first role and one of his best known roles, and Frank ''still'' voices the character today many years since he had started. With the passing of Don Messick, Welker voices Scooby, too.
* FreeRangeChildren: The gang probably isn't that old, yet they run all about creation solving mysteries. This wasn't changed at all in ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo''. Well, in ''Pup'' they mostly stayed in one town, at least.
* FunctionalMagic / WhereTheyWere: The conclusion of ''Scooby Doo and the Goblin King.'' The Goblin King permits Shaggy and Scooby (the main heroes) to retain their memories of the events that transpired but he erases the memory of Fred, Velma and Daphne. Shag and Scoob pull up in the van as their buddies' heads clear, not knowing what happened last:
-->'''Daphne:''' Shaggy! Scooby! Where were you two?
-->'''Shaggy:''' (''He and Scooby exchange knowing glances'') Like, you wouldn't believe it if we told you!
* GRatedDrug: Scooby Snacks. Either that, or they're just a very convenient, cheap, salted-chip style appetizers whose demand is fueled by an unspoken drug, ie, marijuana.\\
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This played with in the parody show ''HarveyBirdman''. In the episode "Shaggy Busted." The Mystery Machine is seen smoking up (from an overheated engine, based on the original episode), and we hear Shaggy exclaim "Scooby... doobie!"
* GadgeteerGenius: Velma arguably qualifies, at least in ''What's New, Scooby-Doo?''. where she's capable of building (among other things) a robot dog with a remarkable number of functions and an [=MP3=] player the size of a sugar cube (though the latter lacked earphones). In the same series Fred also at least comes close with his improbably sophisticated modifications to the Mystery Machine.
* GenreBlindness: Particularly in the original series. No, the gang will ''never'' figure out or even guess that the monster is just a guy in a costume right away, no matter that the last few dozen monsters were all guys in costumes. They have to wait until the end of the episode.
** Debatable. Their scared reactions might just be because despite someone being an obvious ScoobyDooHoax, he's still a crook and might want to harm them for getting in his way, and a number of times Fred and Velma express a degree of skepticism on principle.
* GenreSavvy: In the first episode of ''What's New, Scooby-Doo?'', the second they notice the monster, Fred assumes from the start that it's just a costume with a guy inside. Unfortunately, Shaggy shows him that the monster's body is transparent and the Fred's genre blindness returns.
** They latch on to this trope much more firmly in the movies (particularly the live-action ones). [[spoiler:Unfortunately, that's about when the monsters actually ''do'' start turning out to be demons and zombies and whatnot.]]
** In one episode of ''What's New, Scooby-Doo?'', Shaggy and Scooby have the foresight to bring along their own box of Scooby-Snacks. Pity they forgot the milk, though.
** In ''Mysteries Incorporated'', their town has a museum of monsters(all of whom, according to Velma, were guys in masks).
* GenreShift: ''Zombie Island'' transitioned from a straight Scooby-Doo story, to a supernatural horror mystery film.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** In ''A Scooby-Doo Halloween'', Velma's cousin says "I'm 18, able to legally..." [looks at Fred] "...[[DoubleEntendre vote]]."
** Arguably every drug reference in the show. Use of the word "munchies" is not uncommon.
** In ''Curse of the Lake Monster'', Daphne's Uncle says "Well, it looks like I'll have to go back to my old life as a international playboy." Then again, that may have been an element that garnered the movie a TV-PG rating.
** In ''Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island'' Shaggy and Scooby get jobs as customs officers. They were apparently supposed to be searching for contraband foods, and were subsequently fired for eating the contraband. There's no way in hell that the writers didn't know what they were doing there.
*** This troper's interpretation was that they were supposed to be searching for contraband, but instead just searched for food to eat, and were fired for simultaneously abusing their power to get free stacks and failing to actually do their job
* GoneBehindTheBend
* GrowingMusclesSequence: one in each of the first two live action movies. The first happens to a villain and could be viewed as NightmareFuel, while the second happens to Shaggy and is played for laughs.
* HartmanHips: All over the place in Abracadabra-Doo. Made a bit more obvious due to the movie having lots of MaleGaze moments, and including three of the girls showing up in skintight outfits at least once.
* HeWentThatWay
* HeadlessHorseman
* HeavyMithril: The Hex Girls, the witch-themed rock band in ''Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost''. In ''Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire'', they were confused as vampires.
* HeelFaceTurn: Miyumi in ''Scooby-Doo and the Samurai Sword''.
* HeroicBSOD: Velma in ''Scooby Doo And The Goblin King.'' Her brain synapses short-circuit, causing her to collapse and faint after seeing the supernatural maelstrom the Amazing Krudsky had conjured.
* HeroismIncentive: Nearly OnceAnEpisode to get the GenreSavvy Shaggy and Scooby [[LetsSplitUpGang to split up]]. What won't they do for a Scooby snack?
** Shaggy's first taste for a Scooby Snack comes in ''Decoy For A Dognapper.'' As Fred lays out his plan with Scooby as a decoy, Shaggy intercepts the Snack Daphne intended for Scooby:
-->'''Velma:''' What did you do that for, Shaggy?
-->'''Shaggy:''' Because I know who's stuck with the job of taking the decoy on a leash! (''savoring the snack'') Not bad. Not bad at all.
* HeyItsThatSound: "Where Are You" episode "Spooky Space Kook". The flying UFO used the "electronic rattlesnake" noise from the Heat Ray warming up from the 1953 ''TheWarOfTheWorlds'' film..
* [[ValleyGirl Hippie Speak]]: Shaggy
* HollywoodTorches: Shaggy finds and uses one in ''Where Are You'' episode "Spooky Space Kook".
* HonorBeforeReason: Miyumi in ''Scooby-Doo and the Samurai Sword''.
* HurricaneOfPuns: The made-for-TV movies had more than enough of monster puns.
* HypnoFool: [[spoiler: Shaggy is made fearless/normal with the trigger "bad" in ''Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur'']].
* IdiotBall: Every time you see a door that needs to be pushed to be opened, everyone's going to think it's locked.
* ImpactSilhouette: Scooby and Shaggy in ''Where Are You!'' episode "Spooky Space Kook".
* InkSuitActor: Many of the SpecialGuest stars on ''The New Scooby-Doo Movies'': Don Knotts, Jonathan Winters, Sonny & Cher, etc.
** Joe Barbera appeared in the JohnnyBravo episode, and in caricature under psuedonyms in a couple of episodes of ''What's New, Scooby Doo?''
-->'''Everyone''': JOE BARBERA???
-->'''JohnnyBravo''': [[RecognitionFailure ...Who's]] ''[[SelfDeprecation that?]]''
** In ''A Scooby Doo Valentine'' (episode of ''What's New, Scooby Doo?'') the imposters of the gang are unmasked and revealed to be caricatures of their voice actors (Frank Welker, Casey Kasem, Grey Delisle, Mindy Cohn). In fact, the valentine they find as a clue has the gang's names written in the handwriting of the voice talents.
** Ronald Reagan, U.S. president from 1981 to 1989, appears in caricature (voice of Fred Travalena) in the ''13 Ghosts'' episode "It's A Wonderful Scoob."
* InstrumentOfMurder
* InvincibleIncompetent: Two flavors:
** Shaggy and Scooby always seem to end up finding the weekly monster despite their cowardice, laziness, and complete lack of investigative skills.
** Despite the inevitable failure of Fred's convoluted traps to catch the monster, the monster usually ends up trapped by the end of the episode anyway.
* IsItAlwaysLikeThis: The Scooby comic book has an issue where a character asks, "And this happens everywhere you go?" Shaggy responds with, "Well, there was this one time where Fred took us to a flower shop..."
* JumpedTheShark: {{Invoked}} Taken literally in the ''What's New'' episode "Lights, Camera, Mayhem" as Scooby and Shaggy sail over a tank of sharks on a motorcycle, with Velma cracking the obvious punch line:
-->'''Velma:''' Who would ever think that Scooby would jump the shark?
* JustIgnoreIt
* KavorkaMan: It's not so much that Shaggy is a pimp, but many episodes and movies have shown that many an attractive female seems to think Shaggy is hot. Most recent example is the made-for-video movie ''Scooby Doo! Abracadabra Doo,'' which has Velma's kid sister Madelyn with the hots for Shaggy. And now, with ScoobyDooMysteryInc., Velma does as well. One wonders how the next family get-together might go. ("I guess we Dinkley sisters have something in common after all.")
* KissingCousins: One episode of ''The Scooby-Doo Show'' featured Scooby-Doo and Scooby-Dum's cousin Scooby-Dee. Both Doo and Dum found her very attractive. Whether or not the fact that they're all dogs eases the weirdness is up to you.
* LampshadeHanging: ''What's New'' occasionally mixed up the standard formula, while also making fun of it, including a few situations where the culprit turns out to be no one the gang (or the audience) had met before.
** Occasionally? It ''revels'' in hanging lampshades on the tropes of the old cartoon, especially in the movies. Common targets include TheReveal dialogue, quirks of the characters, plot tropes, and potential fakeness of the monster. ''Mystery Inc.'' looks to be headed in the same direction; for instance, it's changing "YouMeddlingKids" into a MadLibsCatchPhrase.
** And we won't even start on ''A Pup Named Scooby-Doo''.
* LandDownUnder: ''Scooby Doo and the Legend of the Vampire''
* LegionOfDoom: second live-action movie ''Monsters Unleashed''.
* LetsGetDangerous: Shaggy and Scooby when anyone they really care about is in trouble. There was even one moment when Velma was captured and Scooby turned down a Scooby Snack saying he didn't need it to be persuaded to help rescue her.
* LighthousePoint
* LimitedAnimation: ''Scooby-Doo'' was infamous for it.\\
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LimitedAnimation is lampshaded in the ''13 Ghosts'' episode "That's Monstertainment." Scooby appears in a mock-up of the MGM opening title sequence where it reads "Ranna-Rarrera" below it and "Limitus Animatus" around Scooby's face.
* LimitedWardrobe
* LiveActionAdaptation
* LongRunner: Still making new episodes/movies, 40+ years later. In those years of the franchise, there have been 416 series episodes (these include eleven-minute and seven-minute installments and Scooby and Shaggy's ''Laff-A-Lympics'' appearances), 10 guest appearances on other shows, two parody spots, 8 specials, 5 made-for-TV movies, two theatrical movies, two commercial shills (2005 spot for Dove shampoo with Velma, Wilma Flintstone and Jane Jetson; 2006 spot for [=DirecTV=] with the whole gang), A movie theater spot (the gang busts Daffy Duck for jabbering on a cell phone in a theater), and (so far) 18 direct-to-DVD movies.
* MacGyvering: Daphne frequently picks locks or otherwise saves the day with everyday items from her purse in ''What's New, Scooby-Doo?''\\
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* MagicFromTechnology
* MagicSkirt: Velma in the first live action movie (where [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Velma_8925.jpg she's dangling upside down by one foot]]--word is that Linda Cardellini had her skirt taped to her legs), and Velma and Daphne in the ''What's New'' episode "Ready To Scare" (the entire gang suspended by their feet).
** Subverted in "Recipe For Disaster," where Velma and Daphne hold their skirts down after a high-power floor dryer (used after the gang gets soaked) is activated.
* MaleGaze: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VheAB2cugus The scene from 0:52 to 0:57 in the prologue of ''Abracadabra Doo.'']] Also, a pretty blatant HartmanHips for added measure.
* ManIFeelLikeAWoman: [[spoiler:In the first movie, Fred switches heads with Daphne, giving him her body]]\\
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In the direct-to-video movies ''Pirates Ahoy'' and ''The Goblin King,'' Shaggy is seen dressed up as Daphne and Scooby is dressed up as Velma.
** Also briefly in the second live-action movie, Shaggy drinks a potion that gives him a female body, and checks himself, or rather, herself out in a mirror.
* {{Meganekko}}: Velma is a classic example.
** Also Madelyne and the birdwatcher's wife/girlfriend in ''Abracadabra Doo''.
** And Velma's aunt in ''A Scooby Doo Halloween''.
* MobileShrubbery
* MonsterClown: Quite a lot of these.
* MonsterMash: In a few of the movies.
* MonsterOfTheWeek
* [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone My God, What Have We Done?]]: Velma's uncle Evan and aunt Meg, when their daughter Marcy turned out to be the VillainOfTheWeek in ''A Scooby-Doo Halloween''. They felt guilty for putting Halloween before their own daughter's birthday.
* MyEyesAreLeaking: Velma towards the end of ''Music Of The Vampire.'' The witch's hypnotic gas is making her eyes water, and Daphne (who is dazed and tied to a swamp altar) thinks Velma is crying.
* MythologyGag: The end of ''The Mystery Begins'' features live reenactments of parts of several Scooby-Doo opening themes, including ''Scooby Doo, Where Are You!'', ''The New Scooby Doo Movies'', and ''What's New, Scooby Doo?''.
** The entire movie is one big Mythology Gag, when you come to think of it.
** A flashback to Velma's childhood in ''What's New, Scooby Doo?'' uses the art style of ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo''. It depicts why she's afraid of clowns.
*** In addition, one of the episodes features Fred and Velma indisposed, leaving only Daphne, Shaggy and Scooby to solve the mystery by themselves, a la all the later shows before WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo.
** In the first episode of ''Mystery Inc.'', Shaggy mentions that he fell asleep watching "a Vincent van Ghoul movie". Vincent van Ghoul was the group's mentor in ''The Thirteen Ghosts of Scooby Doo''.
*** In the same episode, several previous mysteries are seen in a museum, with Velma mentioning a few mysteries, and giving out the motives and identities of the "monsters".
** In ''A Scooby Doo Halloween'', Shaggy is dressed as a werewolf like in ''Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf''.
** In "Curse Of The Lake Monster", the gang receives a check for $10,000 from The Bank of Hanna-Barbera.
*** Also in that movie, Fred and Daphne pretend to be manniquens, dressed in their classic clothing from the cartoons. Fred sees his reflection and contemplate this before saying "nah".
** The 1972 episode with the Three Stooges "The Ghost Of The Red Baron" uses the background music from DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines extensively and almost exclusively.
** The Scooby segment of the April 1st ''Batman: The Brave And The Bold'' episode is not only designed and animated in the same way as the ''Scooby Doo Movies'' episodes with Batman and Robin, but it also has the same animation glitches--Batman's neck is exposed (which Bat-Mite points out to his digust) and another scene shows Batman with a gloveless hand with a ring on his finger.
** In the episode ''Scooby Doo And A Mummy, Too'', Velma is disguised as Cleopatra (to Shaggy's Marc Antony) in an attempt to hide from the mummy. [[spoiler: She actually dresses up as Cleopatra in ''Scooby Doo In Where's My Mummy?'' as part of the ScoobyDooHoax she helps stage.]]
** In "Guess Who's Knott Coming To Dinner," Don Knotts (in the guise of Captain Moody's first mate) identifies Fred as Captain Moody's nephew Ronald. This is probably a nod to Ronnie, which was Fred's original name until he was renamed after CBS programming head Fred Silverman.
** The 2012 special ''Spooky Games'' uses the same premise as the 1973 Scooby Doo Movies episode "The Spirited Spooked Sports Show'' (with Tim Conway)--Shaggy becoming a competitive runner who runs fastest when he's scared.
* NameDrop: In "The Frickert Fracas" (Scooby-Doo Movies ep with Jonathan Winters), Maude Frickert tells Fred he looks like Glen Campbell.
** A name drop through tagline: In ''Scooby Doo Meets The Addams Family,'' Scooby's "I ate the whooooole thing!" referred to the tagline of an Alka-Seltzer commercial prominent at the time, which was "I can't believe I ate the whooooole thing!"
* NamesTheSame: "Roller Ghoster Ride," the unused EitherOrTitle of the ''Pup'' episode "Terror, Thy Name Is Zombo," is also the title of a ''What's New'' episode.
* NerdsAreSexy: Velma has a pretty notable fanbase in certain circles. Being a {{meganekko}} hardly hurts.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: ''What's New'' fairly frequently dropped in thinly-veiled expies of well-known real-life celebrities and fictional characters, including [[DoesThisRemindYouofAnything a professional golfer named Cougar Forest]] and an Australian archaeologist named [[IndianaJones Melbourne O'Reilly]].
** Don't forget the anthropologist studying gorillas named Joan Goodfew.
* NoFourthWall: In ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo''.
* OccultDetective: Though the occult almost always turns out to be someone in a Halloween costume.
* OddballDoppelganger: Scooby has one in his cousin [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/12/Scooby-cousins-1976.jpg Scooby Dum]], who is rather dimwitted.
* OnOneCondition
* OnlySaneMan: or girl, in this case--Velma in ''Music Of The Vampire.'' Although she does get a strange snark in when Daphne disappears and it is learned that the vampire seeks a bride with "beauty and is pure of heart."
-->'''Velma:''' You know, ''I'm'' pure of heart. Does anyone ever think of kidnapping ''me?''
* TheOtherDarrin: The show went through many voice actors. The only cast member to stay consistent throughout the whole series (save for ''A Pup Named Scooby Doo'') is Fred.
* OutdatedOutfit: The gang's original 1969 outfits usually get copied, but a few adaptations give them fashion makeovers.\\
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This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in one of the made-for-TV movies. Fred is seen getting dressed, and he puts on the orange tie he wore in his original outfit. He thinks about it for a few seconds, then says "Naaah," and takes it off.\\
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Lampshaded in ''Scooby Doo and the Cyber Chase'' where the gang meet digital models of themselves from years earlier, who are still wearing the original outfits. For most of the segment, it's the only way to visually tell the two groups apart. Fred also gives himself a comment on the ascot.\\
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The two made-for-TV live-action obviously deviates a a little from the gang's appearances -- Fred has dark hair. This is subverted and lampshaded in ''Curse Of The Lake Monster'': Fred and Daphne pose as mannequins to lose the trail of the creature, and they are both done up as the original cartoon Fred and Daphne. After looking in a mirror, Fred thinks it's a good look. Daphne thinks he's being ridiculous.
* PairTheSpares: Shaggy and Velma in ''Mystery Inc.''
* PantyShot: Daphne and Velma, in quite a few instances. Among these are the following (OrSoIHeard):
** In "Decoy for a Dognapper", while warding off a flock of bats, Velma kicks her knees up high enough to show her panties, but they are colored the same as her skirt.
** In "Scooby's Night With A Frozen Fright", she, Shaggy and Scooby get startled at the door slamming behind them and you can see her panties which are the same color as her dress.
** In ''The Spooky Fog,'' a scene where Velma jumps back after being scared by a small animal, causing her skirt to flip up briefly, was unused during the first season of ''The New Scooby Doo Movies''. It was added in season 2; it has not resurfaced since going into syndication and subsequent Cartoon Network and Boomerang airings.
** In "A Good Medium Is Rare", Velma's skirt rides up as she, Daphne and Fred react at a mysterious figure behind them.[[http://www.myspace.com/deangelostevens/photos/16550865]]
** In the "Mystery of Haunted Island," one occurs when the gang meets the Harlem Globetrotters. A mishap with the door leads to the gang being pulled into a pile with the Globetrotters, where Daphne ends up face-down with her skirt flipped up, exposing her panties underneath her trademark pink tights. [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v32/puffuncle/Daphne.jpg And here's the shot. She's on the left.]]
** In the episode "The Babysitter from Beyond" (''A Pup Named Scooby Doo''), the kids are wedged in a doorway and from behind we can see Velma's and Daphne's white panties. Curiously, Daphne is wearing her panties on the ''outside'' of her tights. Wearing a second pair of panties over one's tights is an old trick to help stop them falling down.
** In "A Bicycle Built For Boo," Velma's skirt flips up after Scooby drops her from the reach of the episode's monster. Given Daphne and Velma's ages in the show, this would fall under innocent panties territory.
** In "Wanted Cheddar Alive," the gang is chasing the guy in the blue suit until Daphne's skirt flips up to show her panties. Meanwhile Daphne and Fred jump up higher then fall down to show Daphne's pink panties.
** In "Mayhem Of The Moving Mollusk," the gang has been thrown into dumpster causing Daphne's dress to get dirty. She calls her butler Jenkins; as Daphne climbs out of the dumpster to show her pink panties.[[http://www.myspace.com/deangelostevens/photos/16011731]]
** In "It's Mean, It's Green, It's the Mystery Machine" from ''What's New, Scooby-Doo'' when the Mystery Machine is chasing the gang and Velma falls over, flipping up her skirt in the process to show her white panties.
** In The 1976 episode "Mamba Wamba And The Voodoo Hoodoo Fred and Velma set the trap On Mamba Wamba causing Velma's Skirt to get flipped up and exposing her red solid panties.
** In the 1976 episode "Scooby Doo, Where's The Crew?", on Prof. Poisson's ship, Velma stands on tiptoe to look into the radio room porthole. Her skirt rides up high enough to show her red lace-trimmed panties.
** In The 1976 episode "There's A Demon Shark In The Foggy Dark", The Gang headed toward Aqualand when they see the demon shark chasing them. They headed to the pool riding on a dolphins' tail and landed in the trampoline to show Velma's red panties and Daphne's black panties.
** In 1978 episode "Creepy Creature Of Vulture's Claw the gang heads to the old aaretaker's cabin to open the door to save Daphne; in the process it showed her black panties.
** In 1984 episode "Scooby's Peephole Pandemonium" after the gang heads to Norman Deathman's bedroom Daphne and Scrappy hide under the bed to show her upskirt of her panties.
** ''Monsters Unleashed'' has Velma jumping into a ship vent funnel, back to the camera. Her orange panties can be seen for a couple of frames.
** Daphne gets one in ''Curse of the Lake Monster.'' Wearing a pleated-skirt tennis outfit, she (as well as Fred and Shaggy) gets knocked backwards by the lake monster.
* ParanormalInvestigation
* ParentalAbandonment: They either have no parents or just very hands-off parents who don't seem to care that their teenagers go all around the world, hunting down villains in Halloween costumes.
** It's possible that they might actually be late teens. Late enough to be considered legal adults and allowed to go off on their own or they're really college age/
* ParentalBonus: Cher was a gold mine for these in her guest appearance on "The Scooby Doo Movies."
-->'''Sonny:''' But this is our delayed honeymoon. You should be enjoying it.
-->'''Cher:''' I ''am'' enjoying it [[OrMyNameIsnt or my name isn't Barbra Streisand.]]
-->'''Sonny:''' But your name isn't Barbra Streisand.
-->'''Cher:''' You catch on quick, big boy!
* ThePeteBest: Everyone knows Scrappy-Doo. Who remembers Scooby-Dum(b)?
** People who watched ''The Scooby Doo Show'' daily on Creator/CartoonNetwork?
* PhraseCatcher: "And I would have gotten away with it too..."
* APirate400YearsTooLate: ''Scooby Doo! Pirates Ahoy!''
* PopularityPolynomial
* PragmaticAdaptation:
** Number one is now contested between ''ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland'' and ''ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated''. Either or both can be considered canon to the original, or to each other (Zombie Island takes place years after either, with Mystery Inc. in their mid-to-late twenties, so it's possible), both are DarkerAndEdgier than the original. Of all the ''movies'' of Scooby-Doo, it's pretty darn unanimous that Zombie Island is number 1.
*** ''Zombie Island'' is definitely canon since it shows the gang having gone separate paths at the start (Daphne a reporter with Fred her cameraman, Velma owning a bookstore, Scooby and Shaggy as airport security) before reuniting. It had been 14 years since they all last appeared together (''Bravo Dooby Doo'' was a spoof and really didn't count). ''Mystery Incorporated'' is a cross between ''Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!'' and ''Melrose Place.''
** ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'', to many, comes in at a very close second. Again, it played with a lot of the conventions of the original, and lampshaded quite a bit of them as well. Again, can be considered canon to the original series.
*** Debatable. The 1979 special ''Scooby Goes Hollywood'' has a flashback scene with the gang (as the teens we know them) discovering Scooby as a puppy at a pet shop. Then again, a 1972 episode of ''Movies'' has Shaggy and Scooby perusing their baby pictures in a photo album.
** ''TheThirteenGhostsOfScoobyDoo'' is another of the much better, and more iconic, series. It still has some of the melodrama of the original series, but at least took a divergence in that it had an overarching plot and didn't have the "guy in a costume" approach to the spooks the original did.
*** Both the above ignore that "Scooby Goes Hollywood" and "13 Ghosts" admit this is just a cartoon and they are actors. "13 Ghosts" also mentioned in the same episode that this time they really were chasing real ghosts and it became too much for Scooby who has a nervous breakdown and quits the show to go back home to his parents.
** A nod should certainly go to ''Scooby Doo in Where's My Mummy?'' for its surprise ending alone. Plus, it was the only feature of the made-for-video Scooby animated films to have gotten a theatrical release.
** ''The New Scooby Doo Movies'' - the first, and direct sequel to the show.
** The only real downside of this series is... well... Scrappy Doo. A consideration for downside should go to season two of ''The New Scooby Doo Movies.'' All eight shows were animated in Australia, and they looked horrible compared to the first season.
* RealAfterAll: Something of a tradition in the movies.
** Also, the coral monster in one episode of ''What's New'' turned out to be...a monster made of coral.
* RealEstateScam: The air base in ''Where Are You'' episode "Spooky Space Kook".
* RecklessSidekick: Scrappy-Doo
* RedEyesTakeWarning: The [[UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} Gypsy]] FortuneTeller in the Where Are You episode "A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts".
* RedHerring: "I didn't do it!" Lampshaded in ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'', with a character [[MeaningfulName named Red Herring]], [[RunningGag who is accused by Fred of ''every'' single crime in every episode]], save the one time where Red was actually the monster and Fred couldn't accuse him because of a prior agreement made with the rest of the gang.
* RelationshipUpgrade: Shaggy and Velma from the looks of it in the new series. Since scuttled as of episode 10, and as a result, Velma is mad at both Shaggy ''and'' Scooby.
* ReplacedTheThemeTune: The later seasons did away with its iconic "Where Are You?" theme song in its entirety. Many fans assert that this change coincided with an overall drop in the show's quality as it preceeded the introduction of The Original Scrappy by one season.
* ReversePsychology
* RoadSignReversal
* RobotMaid: Or Robot Butler, in this case: Robi in ''Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue!''.
* UsefulNotes/{{Romani}}: See FortuneTeller.
* RomanticFalseLead: In the first few direct to tv movies, such as ''Zombie Island and The Witches Ghost'', there would always be at least one character that Fred or Daphne would have a crush on, solely so that the other wound up being jealous and inducing ShipTease.
* RubeGoldbergDevice: In ''Mystery Incorporated'', Fred's skill/obsession is in rigging up traps, which are this type of device. The one we see him try in the first episode works perfectly. [[spoiler:Except it falls a few feet to the side, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny landing squarely on the Scooby Gang]].]]
* ScarecrowSolution: Mystery, Inc. sometimes turns the tables on the hoaxers by doing a little supernatural faking of their own.
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: When CBS brought ''Where Are You!'' back in 1974 after a two-year hiatus, Hanna-Barbera wanted to make new episodes. But CBS felt they could get just as much mileage, if not more, from repeats. CBS would cancel Scooby on August 7, 1976, a full month before the new season began. A week later, Scooby (which moved to ABC a month later) was replaced on CBS with Scooby clone ''ClueClub.''
* SelfOffense
* ShipTease: Between Fred and Daphne, so, so, so, ''so'' much.
** It seems to be heading this way too for Velma and Shaggy in ''Mysteries Inc.''
** In the latest DVD movie, ''Camp Scare,'' Fred and Daphne are seen walking hand in hand into the woods at the start of the first musical number while Velma and Shaggy still have a working and platonic relationship.
* [[ShoutOut/WesternAnimation Shout-Out]]: Several examples
* TheShowGoesHollywood: ''Scooby-Doo Goes Hollywood''.
* SignatureLaugh: Scooby's "heHeHEHeHehe" chortle, often followed by, "Rooby Roo!"
* SigningOffCatchPhrase: "Scooby-Doobie-Doo!"
* SkeletonKey: In the book, ''Scooby Doo! and the Skeleton Key'', Scooby and the gang find an old-fashioned skeleton key - which the ghost of a pirate wants.
* SkintoneSclerae
* SoundtrackDissonance
* SpannerInTheWorks: Shaggy and Scooby act as this in ''Zombie Island''; Samone and Lena dismiss them, and they end up disrupting the ritual long enough for the others to turn the tables.
* SpecialGuest: Luminaries that appeared in cartoon form on the show: Jonathan Winters, Phyllis Diller, Sandy Duncan, Sonny and Cher, Jerry Reed, Davy Jones, Tim Conway, Cass Elliot, and Dick Van Dyke. The Addams Family appearances re-recruited John Astin and Carolyn Jones as the voices of Gomez and Morticia. And Pugsley Addams was voiced by a young lady by the name of -- you may have heard of her -- Jodie Foster.\\
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''What's New, Scooby Doo?'' had guest appearances by hockey's Brett Hull, baseball's Mike Piazza, and music group Simple Plan. Episode 11 of ScoobyDooMysteryInc featured author Harlan Ellison.
* SpeechImpairedAnimal: {{Lampshaded}} in ''Scooby Doo and the Alien Invaders''; [[spoiler:Crystal and Amber [Shaggy and Scooby's love interests in that film] are revealed to be aliens at the end, and Amber, the dog, can [[TalkingAnimal talk]].]]
-->'''Shaggy:''' Like, dig that, Scoob! A talking dog!
-->'''Scooby:''' [[SpeechImpairedAnimal Ryeah]]!
-->'''Fred:''' (dryly, to Velma and Daphne) Yeah, [[DeadpanSnarker imagine that.]]
** The speech-impaired part is a RunningGag in ''Shaggy and Scooby Get A Clue'', where Robi the robot continually referred to Scooby as "Rooby-Roo" and Scooby would try to correct him.
-->'''Scooby:''' Rat's ''Rooby! Roo!''
** This brief but funny exchange from ''Decoy For A Dognapper'':
-->'''Scooby:''' Ri, Raggy.
-->'''Shaggy:''' Ri, Rooby.
* SpinoffBabies: ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'', although technically they're 10-year-olds rather than actual infants.
** According to studio bios from the cast we know, Fred and Shaggy are 17, Daphne is 16 and Velma is 15. WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo would chronologically have Fred and Shaggy at age 10, Daphne at 9, and Velma (who in this series sleeps in a jumper) at 8.
* StalkerWithACrush: In ''What's New, Scooby Doo?,'' Velma has one in the form of an inventor nerd named Gibby Norton.
** In "Bravo Dooby Doo," Velma flirts with Johnny Bravo.
-->'''Velma:''' (''winks to Johnny'') I don't bite!
-->'''Johnny:''' (''points to Daphne'') Yeah...but does ''she''?
** In ''Scooby-Doo: Camp Scare,'' a ranger investigating the destruction of Camp Little Moose flirts with Velma, who is squicked.
* StandInPortrait: Frequently.
* StandardizedLeader: Fred
* TheStoner: Shaggy. Okay, so the show never actively ''says'' he's TheStoner but he's stick thin, scruffy, always hungry, will eat dog snacks, thinks his dog can talk (the others could be humoring him or are probably as wasted as he is), and he's always freaking out. Who ''cares'' if the show never dared to canonise it?
** Only creators Joe Ruby and Ken Spears could vouch for it. The show ''was'' created for the 2-11 age bracket on Saturday mornings after all.
* StonersAreFunny: Shaggy again.
** According to the show's creators, the idea that Shaggy did pot never even entered their heads in the creation of the character. But since it was brought up, a lot of the movies have a tendency to joke about it. And fans believe it.
* StoryArc: "Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated" has one of these, with the mysterious Mister E sending them clues about their latest mystery and challenging them to solve the disapperance of a previous band of mystery-solving teens years ago.
* StoryBreakerTeamUp: The various team ups with characters from other shows.
* StrictlyFormula: There are very, very few cases where it is not a guy in a mask. [[LampshadeHanging Pointed out]] in ''Zombie Island''.
* TheSummation
* SurpriseSlideStaircase: Appears in the ''ScoobyDoo Where Are You?'' episode "Never Ape An Ape Man".
* SyndicationTitle
* TakeThat:
** In the movie LooneyTunesBackInAction, Scooby and Shaggy are seen in a studio cafeteria threatening Matthew Lillard, who played Shaggy in the 2002 and 2004 live-action Scooby theatrical feature films (averted seven years later, when Lillard would assume Shaggy's voice on the cartoon).
-->'''Shaggy''': What kind of performance do you call that? You made me sound like a total space cadet, man!
-->'''Matthew Lillard''': I'm sorry you feel that way. I was just trying to be true to your character.
-->'''Shaggy''': If you, like, goof up on me in the sequel, I'ma coming after ya!
-->'''Scooby''': Reah. And Ri'll rive you a Scooby Snarl! ''[growls viciously]''
** In "Curse of the Lake Monster" the jab about relationships in the end seems to be one directed towards Mystery Inc.
* TakeTheWheel: In ''Monsters Unleashed'', when the gang is being chased by the pterodactyl monster, Freddy asks Shaggy to take the wheel of the Mystery Machine while he tries to shoot the monster down. A little while later, Shaggy gets called to the back of the van so he can help Velma, and he leaves the driving to Scooby. ''To Scooby''. Granted, he's [[SpeechImpairedAnimal pretty intelligent]] as far as animals go, but he's still not ''that'' far up [[SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism the scale]]...
* TalkingAnimal
* TangledFamilyTree: Each series/spinoff seems to insist on introducing (and, with few exceptions, never showing again) more and more relatives of the gang... cousins, uncles, aunts, grandparents, parents (Fred's and Shaggy's parents in ''Mystery Inc.'' are different than was previously presented), and in some spinoffs, even ''siblings.'' At this point, the Rogers, Dinkley, Blake, Jones and Doo family trees' must rival the (Mc)Duck family tree in complexity...
* TastyGold
* ThereAreNoAdults - They either don't have parents or their parents just don't care that their teens travel around the world solving mysteries with a talking dog.\\
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* TheresNoBInMovie
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: ''The 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo''
* ToiletHumor: Shaggy in ''Legend of the Phantosaur'' when the biker picks him up:
-->'''Shaggy:''' And there goes the bladder!
* TookALevelInBadass: Daphne in the current run of feature-length cartoons, ''What's New'' and the live-action films. While sometimes still filling her classic [[DistressedDamsel damsel]] role, she now has martial arts skills, frequently gets the gang out of trouble by MacGyvering their way out of a trap with items in her purse and generally seems no more helpless than Fred or Velma.\\
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** Shaggy turns it up to eleven in ''Legend Of The Phantosaur'', [[spoiler: provided the key word is given to him at the right time.]]
* TotallyRadical: Found in the Live Action movie. It's also sadly found in the made-for-TV movies.
* TunnelKing: Scooby in some episodes
* TwistEnding
* UnintentionalBackupPlan: Common. Often the original trap that is set will not work, but Shaggy and Scooby's incompetence causes it to fail, but yields similar results.
* UnspokenPlanGuarantee
* VagueAge: The Mystery Gang. They're only described as "Meddling Kids," but considering how much time they spend on the road, they almost certainly have to be in their 20s, or late teens at the youngest.
* VerbalTic: Like, Shaggy, obviously. Also of note, Professor Flakey in 1972's "The Caped Crusader Caper", one of two crossovers with Batman and Robin. Flakey's dialogue consists almost exclusively of {{spoonerism}}s and this memorable malapropism:
-->'''Flakey:''' I always liked Shaggy because he's dumb to kind animals!
* VideoWills: The phonograph record in "A Night of Fright Is No Delight".
* WalkingTheEarth: Or ''driving'' it, anyway.
* TheWallsAreClosingIn: In "A Night of Fright Is No Delight", the gang discovered a locked trap door and a nearby organ that appears to control it. Scooby offers to play the organ to see whether they can open the trap door, but when that happens, the gang realizes the walls are closing in on them. As the gang tries to hold the walls back, Scooby desperately plays the instrument more, and then frantically dances on the keys to try to get it to stop the walls, and succeeds by sheer luck.\\
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The message on the sheet music read, "Feed the organ and watch the floor," and Velma deduced that it meant the musical notes F-E-E-D, which she plays and a panel in the floor opens. As to which keys Scooby pushed to stop the walls, that is anybody's guess.
* TheWikiRule: [[http://scoobydoo.wikia.com/wiki/Scoobypedia Scoobypedia]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Miss Mirimoto at the end of ''Scooby-Doo and the Samurai Sword''.
** ''Scooby Doo: Music Of The Vampire'': Shaggy and Scooby are told by swamp hermit Tulie that his prototype for hovering shoes was stolen by the vampire. When the gang catches the vampire, this is never brought back up. Likewise, we never see Jasper Poubelle and his vampire-hunting posse at the conclusion.
* WhoIsDriving: Zig-zagged twice in the episode "Foul Play In Funland." First, Velma and Scooby are in a runaway bumper car which Velma can't control after losing her glasses (and she even taps her foot on the floorboard searching for a brake, which bumper cars don't have). Then, the gang is helping Mr. Jenkins find his recalcitrant robot in a jeep, which Velma's driving. She's only fifteen! Does she have a permit?\\
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And after the ride in the bumper car, where is Scooby sitting in the jeep Velma is driving? Shotgun!
** Velma does show some mad skills with the Mystery Machine in ''Scooby Doo: Music Of The Vampire.''
* WhosLaughingNow: In the 2002 movie:
-->'''Daphne:''' ''(having just overpowered Zarkos)'' Now who's the damsel in distress?
-->'''Zarkos:''' Me?
-->'''Daphne:''' Straight up!
* WhoWouldWantToWatchUs: In ''Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase'', the newly redrawn cast mock their original appearances in a video game based on them. (Cyber!Shaggy, however, is wearing his red shirt from a couple of the movies.)
* WhyThankYouX: This happens a lot in ''ScoobyDoo'', especially when Scooby and Shaggy decide to cook or just fool around after splitting up. The monster/ghost makes an appearance handing them something or offering a suggestion before they see it and run for their lives.
** It also happened to Velma when she was in a college lab testing a mummy's bandages to find out if they were really ancient and the mummy handed her a test tube with the right chemical in it. (In retrospect, it's also kind of a clue that the mummy is one of the professors.)
* WitchSpecies
* WildWilderness: Well there are ''several'' locations from swamps to forests to islands to...well you get the point. They have to many adventures to really point this out to often but this trope swings in and out often.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Fred and Velma could be so cruel to Shaggy and Scooby sometimes...
* WonderfulLife
* WraparoundBackground
* YouFailHistoryForever & YouFailReligiousStudiesForever: ''Witch's Ghost'' treats witches and UsefulNotes/{{Wicca}} as two separate WitchSpecies, meaning a) one character claims his ancestor was a Wiccan who was burned at the stake 300 years before the religion was founded ([[spoiler:granted, said character was lying and she really was a witch]]), and b) one of the Hex Girls is "one-sixteenth Wiccan".
** Not to mention that there were never any witches burnt at the stake in America. They were either hanged, crushed with stones, or sentenced to imprisonment.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: They look like teenagers to you? Possibly lampshaded in the Valentine's Day special of ''What's New, Scooby Doo?'' where a flashback shows a much more teenage-looking Shaggy breaking up with his then-girlfriend. (It's a little subjective, but the beginning of ''Zombie Island'' heavily implies the characters are now college-age and subsequent animated versions of the franchise usually seem to tacitly follow suit even if the continuity is often vague...)
* ZettaiRyouiki: Velma.
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