History WesternAnimation / ScoobyDoo

* LongRunner: Still making new episodes/movies, 40+ years later. In those years of the franchise, there have been 425 series episodes (these include eleven-minute and seven-minute installments), 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) 17 direct-to-DVD movies.

"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".[[hottip:*: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."]] It has also become Cockney Rhyming Slang for "clue" (as in "Haven't a Scooby, mate").

* {{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 Let's split up, Gang!]]" 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?"\\

* 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 ''NeonGenesisEvangelion''.

* ClusterFBomb: This [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rlo3x0NMs5g charming]] bumper for CartoonNetwork.

*** There was at least one {{Laurel and Hardy}} episode, and two with TheThreeStooges.

** A {{WWE}} crossover is [[http://corporate.wwe.com/news/2012/2012_08_15.jsp planned for 2014]].

* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island'' and ''ScoobyDoo and the Witch's Ghost'' are the darkest of the animated films. 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.\\

* 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.

** People who watched ''The Scooby Doo Show'' daily on CartoonNetwork?

* YouFailHistoryForever & YouFailReligiousStudiesForever: ''Witch's Ghost'' treats witches and [[{{UsefulNotes/Wicca}} 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".

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. (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". (The ''Scooby Doo'' kids never refer to themselves as such; their name in the pilot script is "Mystery, Inc." It has also become Cockney Rhyming Slang for "clue" (as in "Haven't a Scooby, mate").

Recently made into a trilogy of live-action movies (starring Sarah Michelle Gellar of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' fame as Daphne and her husband Freddy Prinze Jr. as [[TheDanza Fred]]). The first two movie were theatrical films, the third (which was a prequel and featured a different cast) went straight to video. These were loaded with {{Continuity Nod}}s, and [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] the show's own cliches.

** ''[[LaffAlYmpics Scooby's All Star Laff-A-Lympics]]'' (1977-1979, ABC; renamed ''Scooby's All-Stars'' in second season)

* ''Scooby Doo Where Are You!'' (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)

The original Breakfast Club, 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?).

* LongRunner: Still making new episodes/movies, 40+ years later. In those years of the franchise, there have been 425 series episodes (these include eleven-minute and seven-minute installments), 10 guest appearances on other shows, two parody spots, 7 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) 17 direct-to-DVD movies.

** Not necessarily. ''Where's My Mummy?'' had a ScoobyDooHoax, albeit a ''very'' elaborate one put on by [[spoiler: Velma, an archaeologist, and an Ardeth Bey expy]]. Which none of them ever think to tell the rest of the Scoobies ''is'' a Scooby Doo Hoax.

-->'''Velma:''' Hmph. ''I'm'' pure of heart. Why doesn't anyone think of kidnapping ''me?''

** ''Who Was The Cat Creature I Saw You With Last Night?'' (''Make A Beeline Away From That Feline'')

* 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 alsothe title of a ''What's New'' episode.

*** 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.

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.

*** Heading this way, from the way I saw it, they're already a couple. Actually, they're farther along than Fred and Daphne right now, since so far Fred seems to have no idea Daphne likes him that way.
*** That's within the continuity of the new series. 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.

* 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:

A subversion played straight occurs 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.)

* Another episode (at least I think it was an episode) had them meet up with an odd and suspicious fellow in the middle of the desert at the beginning, who would ''obviously'' turn out to be the monster. But when the monster is unmasked, it's revealed to be "No one we know!" (its a military guy, and the episode continues for several minutes where they try to stop the military from doing whatever it is they were doing that they needed to impersonate a monster for, and also rescue some people). It later turns out that the odd guy in was in the middle of the desert because he was collecting flowers, and was acting suspiciously because he was embarrassed to admit that he pressed flowers in his spare time. The episode broke formula ''completely'', and it looks like the writers had a load of fun doing it.

* LongRunner: Still making new episodes/movies, 40+ years later. In those years of the franchise, there have been 420 series episodes (these include eleven-minute and seven-minute installments), 10 guest appearances on other shows, two parody spots, 6 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) 17 direct-to-DVD movies.

** In the movie LooneyTunesBackInAction, Shaggy is 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: (''to Lillard'')''' Like, you made me sound like a total space cadet, man! If you goof on me in the sequel, I'm comin' after you!

** One moment in the live movie might count, if Daphne's line "This must be the secret relic thingy they worship," could be considered a Buffyism.