History WesternAnimation / ScoobyDooWhereAreYou

** The show's first few episodes didn't yet have the episode titles displayed with the now-familiar image of the gang running within a dark landscape. The early episodes have an EpisodeTitleCard on which the [[VillainOfTheWeek Ghost of the Week]] was displayed along with the title. Since these revealed the villains too soon, the production soon settled on the image with the gang running onscreen.

** The show's earliest episodes didn't yet have the episodes' titles presented with the image of the gang running in motion with the title onscreen above them. The early episodes' titles were presented with a static portrait of the VillainOfTheWeek.

* LuckBasedSearchTechnique:

** The show's first two episodes, just described previously, didn't yet have the episodes' titles presented with the image of the gang running in motion with the title onscreen above them. Instead, both had a static portrait of the VillainOfTheWeek with the title.

* RealityEnsues: Scooby might be a CowardlyLion but he is still a fully grown Great Dane (just look how [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/Great_dane.jpg big they can get!]]) and can be quite intimidating if angry. So when he musters up his courage in "Never Ape an Ape Man", the Ape Man quickly backpedals with confronted with a snarling, barking 200 pound hound.
** Similarly, the Puppet Master in "The Backstage Rage" ends up fleeing in panic from an angry Great Dane who is about to rip him to pieces. The gang actually has to ''rescue'' the guy from Scooby.

* RealEstateScam: Frequently the villain's motive.

* HumongousMecha: The Hawaiian witch doctor in "A Tiki Scare Is No Fair" has one in the appearance of a huge Tiki statue, which is obviously an automaton with a henchman operating it from inside, and runs on wheels under the feet for mobility. The eyes are windows or monitor lenses for the operator, so when Shaggy accidentally covers the eyes, the operator can't see and starts flailing the mecha around until it crashes.

* LaughTrack: The original network versions on CBS (and later ABC) used an artificial laugh track, as with many other H-B properties at the time. However, when the episodes entered syndication in 1980, the laugh track was removed, and with the exception of the first two episodes, would not reappear until 1997, when the episodes were remastered for airing on Cartoon Network after the Turner/Time Warner merger the previous year. All home video releases since have used the original network mixes.

* LighterAndSofter: Not by much, but season 2 introduced the peppy songs during chase scenes (Later referred to in APNSC as "the chase musi".)

* BannisterSlide:
** In "A Night of Fright Is No Delight". As the two green ghosts are fleeing Shaggy and Scooby, they jump on to a stair's bannister and slide down in in an attempt to escape.
** Shaggy, Scooby and Velma do this in the song chase scene of "Haunted House Hang-Up."

* BittersweetEnding: "A Night of Fright is No Delight" has the gang spending a night in a haunted house for Scooby to claim a million dollars, which turns out to be worthless Confederate money. No sooner does the gang realize this than they find a floating haunted bone, which Scooby happily chews on.

* GhostlyGape: The Phantom Shadows from "A Night of Fright is No Delight" have orange spots for eyes and a gaping orange mouth.

* {{Tontine}}: In "A Night of Fright is No Delight", a Colonel bequeathed his residence and one million dollars to be evenly split among five beneficiaries. Each beneficiary is required to spend one night at the residence [[OnOneCondition to be allowed to receive their share of the estate]]. The shares of those who fail will go to the beneficiaries who don't fail [[spoiler:The lawyers who informed the beneficiaries about the will try to get rid of them to get the money but they get caught and Scooby-Doo, as the only beneficiary who spent a night at the Colonel's home, inherits the whole estate. Unfortunately, the dollars are Confederate money]].

* UnexpectedInheritance: In "A Night of Fright is No Delight" the plot centered around a Scooby getting the chance at inheriting an unexpected inheritance worth millions - which turned out to be millions in Confederate currency, which was worthless (clearly they never thought of selling all that Civil War memorabilia to museums or other collectors).

* TheWallsAreClosingIn: In "A Night of Fright is No Delight", the gang gets trapped between the encroaching walls of the room they're in. Only Scooby "playing" the piano saved them.

* WorthlessCurrency: Scooby-Doo, upon completing a challenge to stay a whole night in a "haunted" house, inherits a large sum of money from the late challenger. However, it is revealed that the money is all Confederate dollars, rendering it worthless in post-Civil War United States.
* WorthlessTreasureTwist: in "A Night of Fright is No Delight", Scooby alone of all the potential heirs manages to stay the night in the "haunted" castle. Unfortunately, the million dollars that are legally his are all Confederate.

* ConfusionFu: Often during a chase, Shaggy and Scooby (and even Velma once) will find a chance to dress up in some get-up and perform as that character, completely bewildering the villains every time and enabling the pair to escape.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: "A Clue for Scooby Doo" has Shaggy and Scooby underwater (with scuba gear, of course) trying to ward off the ghostly sea diver (the ghost of Captain Cutler) with a cannon on the deck of a sunken ship. Shaggy tries to ignite the cannon's fuse with a match, then forgets matches don't light underwater.

---> '''Shaggy:''' "Pickled Vampire Wings"? Yuck! "Werewolf Snacks"? "Fried Moonbeams"?! Double YUCK, YUCK!! [''boyh slam the fridge door shut with their heads turned away and eyes tightly shut'']

* NotableOriginalMusic:
** Season 2 features several "chase songs" in a bubblegum-pop vein. In the '90s Creator/RhinoRecords put out a CD, ''Scooby-Doo's Snack Tracks'', containing most of these.
** Ted Nichols's incidental music score counts as this too, even if it was frequently recycled throughout the series. However, it hasn't been released to the public yet.

* LittleGirlsKickShins: Velma does it to the Creeper in retaliation for taking away her .