Line #1 YMMV/WhatsNewScoobyDoo


1	* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: In "Fright House of a Lighthouse," is Verona a complete ManipulativeBitch just trying to look good and show up Velma? Or is she genuinely interested in solving the mystery of the skeleton sailors, the mysterious van, and other such incidents out of a genuine passion for mysteries and/or [[spoiler:desire to atone for her crimes as the Creepy Keeper rather than just to avoid suspicion]]?
2	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
3	** One thing most people agree on is the opening theme song by Music/SimplePlan was exceptional and easily the best ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' theme song.
4	** The vast majority of the chase songs across the show are remarkably catchy (albeit on the short side) as seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg5oR2Runw4 here]] for season 1, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjWT4jGU8ww here]] for season 2, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOSlCObCd7g here]] for season 3.
5	* EnsembleDarkhorse:
6	** The possessed Mystery Machine, the Headless Snowman, the Frozen Fiend, the Mummy, The Gold Monster, the scarecrow robots, the Demon Farmer, the Creepy Keeper, the Scooby Snack Monster, the Baseball Specter, the Snow Creature, the Leland Brothers, and the Menacing Metallic Clown are all consistently praised MonsterOfTheWeek villains. In terms of their human alter egos, [[spoiler:Galina, the person behind the Frozen Fiend mask, is one of the most popular culprits for her DarkActionGirl moments, calculating plan, and shipping potential. Verona Dempsey/The Creepy Keeper (given her AlwaysSomeoneBetter rivalry with Velma), AdventurerArchaeologist Susie Smythe/the Centaur, StepfordSmiler Terry/The Roller Ghoster, Marcy the maker of the scarecrow robots (for being a flirty SmarterThanTheyLook FarmersDaughter who is cousins with Velma), corporate spy Trudy/the second Scooby Snack Monster, and NervousWreck MadScientist assistant Monroe Hopper/the fish creature are also memorably entertaining culprits.]]
7	** GentleGiant ex-wrestler the Humungous Hammer, Sonny Les Matines (the friendly yet possibly insane gargoyle-obsessed urban explorer and bellringer from "Ready to Scare"), Prof. Ravenmane in "She Sees Sea Monsters by the Sea Shore" (who gets quite a bit of attention due to being guest-voiced by Creator/MimiRogers, along with being a sexy scientist with a PunnyName that matches her distinctive hair, which Daphne snarks on), Mei Ling and her toymaker friend Louie, and WrenchWench Chris only have a few scenes but are all very fondly remembered suspects.
8	** Race car driver Lupe Chesares from "The Fast and the Wormious," the Ren Faire minstrels from "Large Dragon at Large," the tour group from "Mummy Scares Best," Tommy from "A Scooby Doo! Christmas", and Janey TheFashionista from "Hi-Tech House of Horrors" are all opening haunting victims who show up again later in the episode and make good impressions with the fans.
9	* FandomRivalry: With ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated''. They are two popular, new-millennium modernizations of the series on two polar opposite sides: ''What's New?'' keeps things mostly traditional and more true to real life, while ''Mystery Incorporated'' vastly reworks the personalities, designs, and general series. Both series clearly knew what they attempted to do but clearly rubbed certain sides of the pre-existing fanbase the wrong way. It’s rarer to find someone who liked both equally rather than someone who will claim one was more enjoyable than the other. As time moved on, the Scooby fandom would have further ruffles about what occurred since and whether they improved on WNSD and SDMI.
10	* FriendlyFandoms:
11	** Mostly anyone that's watched this show growing up also grew up with [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou the original show]], ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'', and the movies up to ''[[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheSamuraiSword Samurai Sword]]''.
12	** Likewise, most people in that group that continued to follow ''Scooby-Doo'' also seem to enjoy the newer movies for sharing a similar tone.
13	* HarsherInHindsight: One episode features the gang at a Ride/SeaWorld knock-off called Aqualand where Scooby and Shaggy get dragged underwater by an orca. It's a lot harder to watch when one considers the actual deaths that have happened in those exact circumstances.
14	* HilariousInHindsight:
15	** In the teaser of "Toy Scary Boo", the "living" Spaceman Swinton dolls build a long ladder out of building bricks resembling Franchise/{{LEGO}}, which now have Scooby-Doo sets.
16	** Chris from the episode "Roller Ghoster Ride" bears a striking resemblance in [[{{Tomboy}} design]] and personality to [[WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}} Nikki Wong]].
17	** At one point in "3-D Struction", Shaggy is seen holding a huge gold nugget and proclaiming "We're rich!" while wearing a mining helmet, [[https://old.reddit.com/r/DeepRockGalactic/comments/zsm7wh/come_again_shaggy/ bringing to mind]] the memetic chant from [[VideoGame/DeepRockGalactic Deep Rock Galactic]] under the same circumstances.
18	* ItsTheSameNowItSucks: While some fans appreciated the LampshadeHanging of ''Scooby-Doo'' tropes and the slight difference in characterization, the series has seen criticism for sticking a bit too closely to the formula.
19	* LesYay:
20	** The episode "The Unnatural" has Luis Santiago's publicist, Autumn Summerfield, walk around and examine Daphne in a way that [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything made it look like]] she [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer was checking Daphne out]]. Daphne was noticeably perturbed.
21	** "A Scooby-Doo Valentine" presents Daphne and Velma living together in a single house, with no older relatives of either in sight, when they go back to their home town, lending the whole thing a very domestic feel. [[HoYay The same goes for Shaggy and Fred]], but the unintentional subtext with Daphne and Velma is particularly noticeable because of the conversation Daphne and Velma are seen having over breakfast about Valentine's Day, where Velma lightly vents to Daphne about "the pressure to identify oneself as part of a ''socially-acceptable'' couple" that comes with the holiday.
22	* MemeticMutation: The opening theme song is commonly used in random meme videos around social sites, particularly Website/YouTube videos (e.g. gaming montages), Platform/{{TikTok}}s, and old [[Website/{{Vine}} Vines]].
23	* {{Narm}}: When Freddy tries to pull a courageous YouShallNotPass on the sea monster in "She Sees Sea Monsters by the Sea Shore", he doesn't see the monster for a major clue reason - and then gets bonked on the head by a passing sea turtle, which knocks him out and nearly causes him to drown. The moment isn't played for comedy at all, as Scooby has to save him from imminent death and he's treated seriously like an incident survivor afterwards, but Fred talking about how he got "blindsided by sea turtles" understates how hilariously unheroic the moment made him out to be.
24	* RemadeAndImproved: The series is regarded as being a great modernization of the original show that while not afraid to poke fun at itself, is very faithful to the spirit of the original show, while also improving on it in several aspects (such as making Daphne more proactive and giving Fred more of a personality).
25	* RetroactiveRecognition: The theme song was performed by none other than Music/SimplePlan.
26	* SuspiciouslySimilarSong:
27	** The theme song by Simple Plan has been compared by some to "No Reply" by Music/TheBeatles, with a similar melody but a faster tempo and more modern sound.
28	** A snippet of background music from the episode "The Vampire Strikes Back" sounds like the theme song for ''Series/TheMickeyMouseClub'', of all things.
29	* TearJerker: The show had a noticeable trend of those close to the gang or people they admire being the perpetrator:
30	** The reveal of who the Cat Creature is in “Homeward Hound” hits Shaggy and Scooby hard since [[spoiler: it’s their old [[BigBadFriend friend Meadow]] who they knew for years.]]
31	** Velma has had this happen to her ''four times'':
32	*** In "Space Ace At The Cape", the perpetrator be Velma's favorite scientist.
33	*** In "Large Dragon At Large", the perpetrator is an actor she's a fangirl of and was clearly happy to meet him. Even worse, his entire hoax was for nothing as the treasure was just a tourist trap myth.
34	*** In "Big Appetite In Little Tokyo", has Velma's favorite teacher being the perpetrator and even taking advantage of Velma's intelligence, something even he felt remorseful for.
35	*** In "A Scooby Doo Halloween", the perpetrator was her cousin. At least with her, she had a sympathetic motive, wasn't trying to hurt anyone, and Velma seemed willing to forgive her.
36	* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: While some people praise the show and hail it as a return to "the good old days," this show has received criticism, mostly from those who preferred the older 1970s series, due to changing the character designs and animation, music and sound effects, trying to make it more "hip" and "current," among a few other things. It doesn't detract from the show though and is at most a minor nitpick.
37	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The familial relationship between Velma and Marcy gets little attention in "A Scooby Doo Halloween" beyond their hug during their greeting, and Marcy spends a lot more time feuding with Daphne and flirting with Fred. Given how she and Velma both enjoy science and robotics (while being different in so many other ways) and she is a suspect throughout the episode, their could have been a lot more interactions between the cousins.
38	* UglyCute: The bat that Shaggy and Scooby thought was Fred in "The Vampire Strikes Back".
39	* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
40	** This show nowadays definitely serves as a look at what the early-to-mid 2000s was generally like for teens and young adults and what was popular back then. The opening being done by Music/SimplePlan is definitely the most overt case; they had three songs in the top 20 in 2003, and pretty much never hit that level again.
41	** One episode featured a guest appearance from obscure pop singer [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsay_Pagano Lindsay Pagano]], who at the time was an up-and-coming singer associated with Warner Bros.[[note]]namely, she appeared in multiple ads for [=AOL=] and her most well-known song "Everything U R" was initially the theme song to the short-lived [[Creator/TheWB WB]] sitcom ''Maybe It's Me'')[[/note]] but quickly fell into obscurity outside of reappearing on ''Series/TheVoice''.
42	** Early episodes would sometimes have a brief moment where one of the gang comments on or uses some popular bit of tech at the time, like Velma looking up an address on her computer or Shaggy discussing a CD he burned.
43	** E-Scream in both episode title and setting reference the gaming industry trade event E3. In 2023, E3 would officially be permanently discontinued on December 12th 2023, by the parent company that hosted it, the Entertainment Software Association. The Last E3 having been held previously in 2021, being an entirely virtual event. With many reasons such as [[UsefulNotes/Covid19 The Covid-19 Pandemic]] & [[TechnologyMarchesOn Companies opting to use their own presentation videos online to announce new games]]
44	* VindicatedByHistory: This show was [[BrokenBase controversial]] among fans, many of whom disliked it for its self-aware nature and being too close in tone to the original show while there are some fans who like it for the same reason. Over the years however, several detractors warmed up to the show and appreciated ''What's New'' for being a massive love letter to the franchise as a whole with its clever references to the earlier outings, even having obscure ones. What also helps is [[WesternAnimation/ShaggyAndScoobyDooGetAClue later]] [[WesternAnimation/BeCoolScoobyDoo incar]][[WesternAnimation/{{Velma}} nations]] being seen as much worse.
45	* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The animation is exceptional in the opening, using very smooth transitions between scenes.

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