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* TheSeriesHasLeftReality: While the original series starts out pretty grounded in reality (the talking dog notwithstanding), some of the sequel series introduce real supernatural creatures in place of regular guys in masks.

** In the Gold Key Comics, the Mystery Machine is colored pink. In the first issue ("What a Night For a Knight"/"Never Ape an Ape Man"), the MM looks like a box on wheels. Phil [=DeLara=], the main artist of the issue, obviously went off rough storyboards from the episodes (Jack Manning was the other artist--he Drew the Black Knight and the Ape Man).

** In the Gold Key Comics, the Mystery Machine is colored pink. In the first issue ("What a Night For a Knight"/"Never Ape an Ape Man"), the MM looks like a box on wheels.

* RevealShot: from the special ''Scooby Doo, Where Are You Now!'': The studio lights go out and an ungodly monstrous noise is heard. When the lights return, hostess Janel Parrish says she hears the sounds of castanets. Cut to Scooby chattering his teeth then pull back to show him playing a pair of castanets.

* RevealShot: from the special ''Scooby Doo, Where Are You Now!'': the studio lights go out and an ungodly monstrous noise is heard. When the lights return, hostess Janel Parrish says she hears the sounds of castanets. Cut to Scooby chattering his teeth then pull back to show him playing a pair of castanets.

** A 1980 promo for ABC has Scooby entreating a live-action bored little boy to join the parade of ABC stars proceeding down the street of the kid's neighborhood.

* RealEstateScam:
** The air base in ''Where Are You'' episode "Spooky Space Kook".
** Once [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] with, "...98% of our mysteries turn out to be real estate scams."

* 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.

'''Scooby:''' Even prettier than Lassie!

* ''Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?'' will follow the pattern with numerous contemporary celebrities and notable fictional characters as guest stars.: {{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]].]]

** The Scooby-Doo Show episode “The No-Faced Zombie Chase Case” had Velma, Fred and Daphne crash into the Lieutenant, Shaggy and Scooby all together. Cut to the [[MonsterOfTheWeek No-Faced Zombie]] shaking it’s head and sighing as if exasperated by what it just saw.

** The central feature of ''The New Scooby-Doo Movies'' were luminaries who appeared in cartoon form on the show: Creator/JonathanWinters, Creator/DonKnotts, Creator/PhyllisDiller, Creator/SandyDuncan, Music/{{Sonny|Bono}} and Music/{{Cher}}, Music/JerryReed, [[Music/TheMonkees Davy Jones]], Creator/TimConway, Music/CassElliot, and Creator/DickVanDyke. Series/TheAddamsFamily appearances re-recruited Creator/JohnAstin and Creator/CarolynJones 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 -- Creator/JodieFoster.

* SpecialGuest: Luminaries that appeared in cartoon form on the show: Creator/JonathanWinters, Creator/DonKnotts, Creator/PhyllisDiller, Creator/SandyDuncan, Music/{{Sonny|Bono}}] and Music/{{Cher}}, Music/JerryReed, [[Music/TheMonkees Davy Jones]], Creator/TimConway, Music/CassElliot, and Creator/DickVanDyke. Series/TheAddamsFamily appearances re-recruited Creator/JohnAstin and Creator/CarolynJones 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 -- Creator/JodieFoster.\\
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''What's New, Scooby-Doo?'' had guest appearances by hockey's Brett Hull, baseball's Mike Piazza, skateboarder Chris Krug, Steve Harwell of the group Smashmouth, and music group Music/SimplePlan. Episode 11 of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' featured author Creator/HarlanEllison. ''Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?'' will follow the pattern with numerous contemporary celebrities and notable fictional characters as guest stars.
** Inversions: Scooby and the gang are the guest stars in episodes of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' and the CW series ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''.
* 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]].]]

** Once [[LampshadeHanging lanpshaded]] with, "...98% of our mysteries turn out to be real estate scams."

* RealEstateScam: The air base in ''Where Are You'' episode "Spooky Space Kook".

** Happens another way with a villain hunting for a lost-for-100-years federal gold shipment, and when it's found and the guy caught, he declares that it rightfully belongs to him because his great-grandfather was the agent trying to deliver it and died in the disaster that lost both. Velma tells him he's wrong because it's all still government property.

* WithFriendsLikeThese: Fred and Velma could be so cruel to Shaggy and Scooby sometimes...

* WatchWhereYoureGoing: A recurring gag. Usually, it’s Shaggy and Scooby running from the monster crashing into the rest of the gang coming the other way.
** Happens in ''WesternAnimation/TheThirteenGhostsOfScoobyDoo'', with [[LovableCoward Shaggy and Scooby]] on one side and [[TheScrappy Flim-Flam and Scrappy]] on the other.

* TheSeriesHasLeftReality: While the original series starts out pretty grounded in reality, some of the sequel series introduce real supernatural creatures in place of regular guys in masks.

* 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.

* TaxmanTakesTheWinnings: This turned out to be the motive behind one of the MonsterOfTheWeek schemes. The perpetrators had discovered a sunken treasure, and were trying to smuggle it out without declaring it, because if they did Uncle Sam would come in and take more than half of it.

* 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.

* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Bogel and Weerd from ''The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo'', a pair of bumbling ghost minions who bounce their services from demon to demon, but consistently mess up.

* WhyThankYouX: This happens a lot in ''Scooby-Doo'', 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.)

* [[ItsAWonderfulPlot Wonderful Life]]