History WesternAnimation / ScoobyDooWhereAreYou

The series that started it all featured a gang of four mystery-solving teenagers, consisting of self-appointed leader Fred Jones, intelligent but glasses-losing Velma Dinkley, girly but also cunning Daphne Blake, and gluttonous coward Norville "Shaggy" Rogers, and their talking Great Dane, Scooby-Doo. In each episode, Mystery Incorporated [[MonsterOfTheWeek runs into some sort of paranormal activity]], and it's up to them to solve the case. In nearly every episode, however, it just turns out to be [[ScoobyDooHoax a man in a mask]], though the gang never seems to catch onto this.

The series that started it all featured a gang of four mystery-solving teenagers, and their talking Great Dane, Scooby-Doo. In each episode, Mystery Incorporated [[MonsterOfTheWeek runs into some sort of paranormal activity]], and it's up to them to solve the case. In nearly every episode, however, it just turns out to be [[ScoobyDooHoax a man in a mask]], though the gang never seems to catch onto this.

** This trope was already subverted in the third episode ever to air, 'A Clue for Scooby Doo.' When pulling off the mask, they assume it's the helpful Mr. Shark pretending to be Captain Cutler's ghost, but instead it's the actual Captain Cutler, whom they'd never before met. (Shaggy, Scooby and Velma saw a picture of Cutler on his widow's wall earlier, and it was Shaggy who caught on to who he was.)

* DistressedDamsel:
** Danger-Prone Daphne.
** Velma becomes this in "That's Snow Ghost" when the title monster chains her to a log and sends her towards a buzzsaw.

* AffablyEvil: After the Vazquez castle ghost is revealed to be an ex-illusionist Bluestone the Great, he doesn't give a YouMeddlingKids speech, but he actually manages to be gracious enough to give an encore performance and is quite cooperative when the police take him away.

''Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!'' is a popular animated television series created by Creator/HannaBarbera, launched all the way back in 1969. It consisted of two seasons which originally aired Saturday mornings on Creator/{{CBS}}. The series spawned the famous ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' franchise, which continues to this day, [[LongRunner over fifty years later]], outliving both its creators and the studio that produced it.

* CatchPhrase

* TheCavalryArrivesLate:
** The cops never really arrive until the end.
** Averted in "A Tiki Scare is No Fair" with an agent in his own mask during the whole episode.

*** The way Scooby expresses his signature {{Catchphrase}} "Scooby Dooby Doo!" is more lower pitched and low-key in the earlier episodes by comparison to the more familiar way it's expressed later on in the franchise.

** In "What a Night for a Knight" (1969), the series' first episode, the only character expressing any interest in food is Scooby. Shaggy and everybody else eat nothing. Shaggy is later depicted as a Big Eater. Also in the same episode, the characters Scooby, Shaggy, Daphne, and Velma are called by name. Despite the fact that Fred is hanging with them for most of the episode, his name is not mentioned at all. He also does not interact much with the other protagonists.

*** The depiction of Scooby Doo. His behavior - talking, reading, etc notwithstanding - is more like that of a typical dog (sniffing, barking, etc.) than in later series and films.
*** It's also the only series to ''not'' actually hyphenate the name Scooby-Doo in the title. Promos during the original CBS run ''did'' use the hyphen, however.
*** Velma does not actually utter her exclamatory catchphrase ("Jinkies!") in the show's entire run. She would not until ''WesternAnimation/TheNewScoobyDooMovies''.

** The witch in "Which Witch is Which" was [[CrossDressingVoices voiced by Don Messick]], and thus is [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in that [[spoiler:the witch was really a man named Zeb in disguise.]]

* AbandonedArea: The most common setting of the series.
** AbandonedMine: There's one in the episode "Mine Your Own Business".
** GhostTown: Gold City, also from "Mine Your Own Business".
** HauntedCastle: The primary location in "A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts" and "Hassle in the Castle" naturally.
** HauntedHouse: Of course! Standout examples include "A Night of Fright is No Delight", "What the Hex Going On", and "Haunted House Hang-Up".

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The wax phantom from "Don't Fool With a Phantom" has captured Shaggy and Scooby and plans to turn them into wax dummies:

* ExcitedShowTitle: Despite the fact that the title is a question, and it should be ending with a question mark instead.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Shaggy, Scooby, and the Headless Specter have a chase over the mansion on helium balloons in "Haunted House Hang-Up". Helium gas is not strong enough to lift a person.

* {{Leitmotif}}: There is a central theme in the musical underscore by Ted Nichols, mixed across a ThemeAndVariationsSoundtrack, with a riff that has the same number of notes as the syllable count of "Scooby-Doo, where are you?".

* ExorcistHead: Accidentally and hilariously invoked several years before the trope namer in the 1969 episode "Mine Your Own Business" (a.k.a. the one with Miner 49'er) when due to an animation error, Fred's head turns 180 degrees to look at something behind him, without the rest of his body moving.

* UnconventionalFoodOrder: Shaggy orders sandwiches for the whole gang at the Malt Shop. Liverwurst ala mode. Two notable things about this; first, the restraunt owner does balk at having to make it, and second, this is the first, and only time we see that the whole gang might be eating this bizarre food combination.

** In the episode "Jeepers, It's the Creeper," a baby chick labors under the delusion that it is a dog after imprinting on Scooby.
** The episode "Never Ape an Ape Man" also has the Ape Man disguise himself with a [[LatexPerfection Scooby-Doo mask]] to put on a MirrorRoutine with the real Scooby.

--->'''Shaggy''': N-no, thanks. I just remembered I'm on a strict squirrel-free diet.

-->'''Velma:''' Yuck! His stomach must be made of scrap iron.
-->'''Shaggy:''' Can I help it my first toy was a garbage disposal?

* SweetSeal: Zigzagged in "Scooby's Night With a Frozen Fright". A trio of seals are seen bouncing balls on their noses, and they stand still so Scooby and the gang can run across them without problems... but when the pursuing antagonist caveman tries to do the same, the seals start bouncing ''him'' around.

* PokemonSpeak: The Creeper only says his name over and over.