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''Scooby-doo! Where are you?''

Popular {{Hanna-Barbera}} cartoon from the 1970s (but with episodes still being made today) featuring four teenagers (Fred, Velma, Daphne and Shaggy) and their talking dog Scooby-Doo (a classic SpeechImpairedAnimal) in a [[CoolCar van]] called the Mystery Machine. Each episode they'd encounter a mystery which would be resolved at the end by unmasking a villain, who would inevitably utter "I would have gotten away with it if it hadn't been for YouMeddlingKids." [[SarcasmMode Also full of drug references]] (What the hell do they put in those ScoobySnacks, anyways?).

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. After that point the show frequently operated with just Shaggy, Scooby and Scrappy. Daphne often came along for the ride.

"Scooby Doo" is so thoroughly embedded in American popular culture that the ad-hoc vampire-hunting team that formed around Buffy Summers in ''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 pair of live-action movies, with a third planned (starring Sarah Michelle Gellar of ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' fame as Daphne and her husband Freddy Prinze Jr. as Fred). These were loaded with {{Continuity Nod}}s, and [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] the show's own cliches.

In 2005, the show beat ''TheSimpsons'' for most episodes produced of an American cartoon.

The most recent incarnations are "What's New Scooby-Doo" (A modernised return to the mystery format) and "Shaggy And Scooby Get A Clue" (which is much flatter animation-wise and rather weird, featuring nanotech Scooby snacks and a [[LampshadeHanging message from Fred]] (no relation) in the title).

Frequent Scooby Tropes:
* A ''lot'' of running past a WraparoundBackground.
* Velma losing her glasses. (She's BlindWithoutEm)
* [[CatchPhrase Catchphrases]] -- i.e. "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 "Lets split up, Gang!" for Freddy, and of course Scooby's Scooby Dooby Doo! and Rut Roh!
** ''A Pup Named Scooby-Doo'' mercilessly lampooned and lampshaded these. And invented several new ones. And then lampooned and lampshaded ''those''.
** Also lampshaded in one of the cartoon movies. After something bad happens they each say their catchphrases, except for Fred, who's catch phrase doesn't fit into that situation and instead laments his apparent lack of a Catch Phrase.
* Shaggy and Scooby [[BigEater consuming very large sandwiches]].
* Scrappy's attempts to use physical violence against the "ghost", almost always stopped by Scooby grabbing him by the scruff of the neck.
* [[DistressedDamsel Daphne getting abducted and tied up.]]
* ScoobyDooHoax -- although a few later movie-length episodes (and ''Thirteen Ghosts'') had the ghosts turning out to be real.
** As well as the first season episode ''Foul Play in Funland.''
* Scooby and Shaggy dressing up in costumes and making a short skit to confuse the chasing monster.
* A convoluted plan to catch the villain that never [[DespiteThePlan goes as planned]].
* There is a claim (it may well be an urban legend, but it worked on one test by SilentHunter) that the first character you see apart from the gang will be the villain.
** At least in the original series, This Troper hasn't seen a single episode that this didn't work out to be true.
*** Well, you generally see the MonsterOfTheWeek first, so... But if you look at the first unmasked person seen, it doesn't fly in at least the following episodes: ''A Clue for Scooby-Doo'', ''Mine Your Own Business'', ''Never Ape an Ape Man'' and ''Bedlam in the Big Top''. And in ''What a Night for a Knight'', the first person seen is professor Hyde White (driving the truck) even before the monster appears. He's not the villain ([[spoiler: it's the curator of the museum]]) and the gang spends the rest of the episode looking for him. However, there are plenty of episodes in which this is entirely true.
** [[DaibhidC This troper]] once had a theory that, in episodes with TheScrappy, when he goes charging after the monster and comes back carrying an InnocentBystander, that person is really the monster. He hasn't tested this theory, because that would involve watching the episodes with Scrappy.
* ScoobySnacks
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This show provides examples of:
* AffectionateParody: ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDD9NgoCwos Night of the Living Doo]]'', which aired on Halloween in 2001.
** Also ''Bravo Dooby Doo'' an extremely on-target spoof where JohnnyBravo crossed paths with Mystery Inc.
* AliensStealCable: Crystal does this in the ''Alien Invaders'' movie.
* BigEater: Shaggy, Scooby, and occasionally Scrappy.
* BigFriendlyDog: Scooby is a full-grown Great Dane and has never been vicious to anything, ever. Unless you count sandwiches.
** [[TeamFortress2 YOU MEAN SANDVICHES, LITTLE BABY MAN?]]
* TheBlank: "The No-Face Zombie Chase Case"
* BlindWithoutEm: Velma
* ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes
* CaptainObvious: Mystery Inc. will often point out things that are happening or just happened that should already be obvious to the viewer.
* CartoonCrossovers: There was one episode which they crossed over with ''{{Batman}}'', and another with ''JosieAndThePussycats''. Also, the characters have appeared on ''JohnnyBravo'' and ''HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw''.
** They also met the AddamsFamily once, and the Blue Falcon twice.
** There was a whole ''season'' (called, confusingly enough, ''The New Scooby-Doo Movies'') where the whole ''point'' was crossovers.
*** On of which was with the Harlem Globetrotters.
***And the ''Speed Buggy'' gang, as well as TheThreeStooges.
***And even the characters from the now-forgotten AnimatedAdaptation of ''IDreamOfJeannie''.
***You could probally count the would-be Scooby Gang from ''TheVentureBrothers'' as well. But that was more a parody.
*** The Addams family, Batman and Robin (the Adam West version), Don Knotts and the Globetrotters all actually appeared in the opening sequence for that season. Reruns often have people wondering who the heck Don Knotts is.
* CatchPhrase
**Lampshaded in ''Scooby-Doo and the Samurai Sword'', when the team finds out that the normal episode formula [[spoiler:had turned into a big XanatosGambit]], all of the characters say their catchphrases, ending with Fred:
-->'''Fred:''' Um, uh...aw, darn it, I ''still'' don't have a catchphrase!
*** He technically does, but "Let's split up, gang!" doesn't exactly work as an expression of shock.
* ConspicuouslyLightPatch: When the spot on the floor that the gang is standing on suddenly turns a lighter color, you know that they're about to fall down a trapdoor.
** When ''anything'' is colored differently than the other things in the scene (and isn't supposed to be), be it lighter or darker, someone will inevitably grab it or use it in some other way.
* ContinuityReboot: ''Scooby-Doo!: The Mystery Begins'' deletes everything ''A Pup Named'' set in the continuity other than it taking place in Coolsville.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: In "Aloha, Scooby Doo", and probably others.
* ConveyorBeltODoom
* CousinOliver: Scrappy-Doo, Scooby-Dum, Flim Flam
* DarkerAndEdgier: ''ScoobyDoo on Zombie Island'' and ''ScoobyDoo and the Witch's Ghost'' are the darkest of the animated films.
* DawsonCasting: Is this troper the only one who doesn't think they look like teenagers?
* DeadlineNews: In the second live-action movie.
* DeliciousDistraction: Scooby Snacks
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything (Shaggy and Scooby seem to constantly have the "munchies").
* TheDragAlong: Scooby and Shaggy, sometimes literally kicking and screaming.
* DriveInTheater: One appears in ''Scooby Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf''.
* EverybodyLaughsEnding: "Scooby-dooby-Doo!" (cue group laughter)
* FaceHeelTurn [[spoiler: Scrappy]]
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: The death of [[spoiler:the cat people]] in ''Scooby Doo on Zombie Island'' goes straight into NightmareFuel.
* GRatedDrug: ScoobySnacks.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: What's New Scooby Doo. Daphne's cousin says "I'm 18, able to legally..." [looks at Fred] "...[[DoubleEntendre vote]]." [[FlatWhat Wait, What?]]
* FanPreferredCouple: Daphne/Shaggy. Noticeably in the final seasons where they traveled together with Scooby and Scrappy solving mysteries or battling ghosts, visibly aging and changing clothes, appearance, and van in the final season with no explanation. Surprisingly, (and likely in part to no one willing to admit a Scrappy season had something worth mentioning in it), nobody brings up that the two were together. Seth Mcfarlane also has an unhealthy fixation on Daphne/Scooby, as heard on the FamilyGuy album.
* FetishFuel: Velma is a nerd's dream. {{Meganekko}}, ZettaiRyouiki, whatever other Japanese tropes I'm forgetting. Perfect when coupled with the knowledge that in the newest live-action movie, the Mystery Begins, she's played by the clearly Japanese Hayley Kiyoko.
* FiveManBand
** TheHero: Fred
** TheLancer / TheBigGuy: Shaggy
** TheSmartGuy: Velma
** TheChick: Daphne
** TeamPet: Scooby-Doo
* FollowTheLeader: Quite a few shows ripped this off.
** Heck, HB Studios itself re-used this formula so ''many'' times.
* FridgeLogic (Why haven't they caught on that it's always [[PeopleInRubberSuits Old Man Jenkins in a Rubber Suit?)]]
** The movies did address that.
*** Just in time for that not to be the case.
*** In ''Zombie Island'', there is a whole montage AND song about how the ghosts always turn out to be fake. Again, the real villains turn out to not be the case.
** Another example in ''Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins'': We finally figure out that Scooby Snacks are made with water, flour, eggs, cocoa and dog kibble "for texture". Chocolate is poisonous to dogs. '''Why is Scooby not dead?'''
*** Because [[http://www.talktothevet.com/ARTICLES/DOGS/chocolatetoxic.HTM chocolate isn't THAT poisonous to them.]]
*** Actually, considering that the main reason why dogs die from chocolate is because of their lower tolerance for stimulants than humans, essentially making chocolate dog cocaine, this ''explains a lot''.
* GenreSavvy: In the first episode of What's New Scooby Doo, the second they notice the monster, Fred assumes from the start that it's just a costume with a guy inside. Unfortunately, Shaggy shows him that the monster's body is transparent and the Fred's genre blindness returns.
* HeWentThatWay
* HeyIsThatStillOn: Still making new episodes/movies, 40+ years later.
* [[ValleyGirl Hippie Speak]]: Shaggy
* HurricaneOfPuns: The made-for-TV movies had more than enough of monster puns.
* IdiotBall: Every time you see a door that needs to be pushed to be opened, everyone's going to think it's locked.
* InkSuitActor: Many of the SpecialGuest stars on ''The New Scooby-Doo Movies'': Don Knotts, Jonathan Winters, Sonny & Cher, etc.
* InstrumentOfMurder
* JustIgnoreIt
* LampshadeHanging: ''What's New'' occasionally mixed up the standard formula, while also making fun of it, including a few situations where the culprit turns out to be no one the gang (or the audience) had met before.
* LighthousePoint
* LimitedAnimation: Was infamous for it.
** Oddly enough, it doesn't apply to the first few DTV movies (Zombie Island, Witch's Ghost, Alien Invaders, Cyber Chase) since the animation is quite lively and fluid. Nowadays it's back to looking pretty cheap.
* LimitedWardrobe
* LiveActionAdaptation
* MagicFromTechnology
* {{Meganekko}}: Velma is a classic example
* MobileShrubbery
* MonsterClown: Quite a lot of these.
* MonsterOfTheWeek
* MonsterMash: In a few of the movies
* MythologyGag: The end of The Mystery Begins features live reenactments of parts of several Scooby Doo opening themes, including ''Scooby Doo Where Are You'', The New Scooby Doo Movies, and ''Whats New Scooby Doo''.
** The entire movie is one big MythologyGag, when you come to think of it.
** A flashback to Velma's childhood in What's New Scooby Doo uses the art style of A Pup Named Scooby Doo.
* NightmareFuel: A couple of the monsters were scary to children, but big props has to be given to ''Scooby Doo on Zombie Island'', which had [[spoiler:actual zombies]].
** [[spoiler: The worst is the appearance of the first zombie; a skeleton is half poking out of the wall of a pit Shaggy and Scooby have fallen into, then an ethereal green light goes into it, causing it to wrench itself out of the wall and ''regrow rotting flesh''. The fact that it's an angry pirate (with a rusty cutlass no less) doesn't help matters]].
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: It's mostly forgotten now, but the characters of Fred, Velma, Daphne, and Shaggy were originally thinly-disguised knockoffs of Dobie, Zelda, Thalia, and Maynard from ''TheManyLovesOfDobieGillis''.
* NoFourthWall: In ''A Pup Named Scooby Doo''.
* OccultDetective: Though the occult almost always turns out to be someone in a Halloween costume.
* OnOneCondition
* OutdatedOutfit: The gang's original late-'60s outfits usually get copied, but a few adaptations give them fashion makeovers.
** This is actually [[HangingALampshade 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.
* ParanormalInvestigation
* PopularityPolynomial
* RealAfterAll: Something of a tradition in the movies.
* RecklessSidekick: Scrappy-Doo
* RedHerring: "I didn't do it!"
** Lampshaded in ''A Pup Named Scooby Doo'', with a character [[MeaningfulName named Red Herring]], [[RunningGag who is accused by Fred of EVERY single crime in every episode]] save the one time where he was actually the monster and Fred couldn't accuse him because of a prior agreement made with the rest of the gang.
* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap (Ironically, it's not Scrappy but ''Daphne'' who is rescued in [[TheMovie adaptations]], with her move away from being the [[DamselInDistress capture prone]] DamselScrappy)
** This has translated to some of the new animated movies as well, particularly ''Scooby-Doo and the Samurai Sword''.
*** Daphne's old problem of being capture-prone is lampshaded in ''Scooby-Doo and the Loch Ness Monster'', with multiple references to the Blake family being danger prone.
* ReversePsychology
* RoadSignReversal
* RobotMaid: Or Robot Butler, in this case: Robi in ''Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue''.
* ScoobyDoobyDoors: The TropeNamer.
* ScoobyDooHoax: Again, the TropeNamer.
* ScoobySnacks: Yet again, the TropeNamer.
* ShipTease: Between Fred and Daphne, so, so, so, ''so'' much.
* TheScrappy: [[TropeNamer Need I say it?]] Also an example of a LeeroyJenkins.
* SelfOffense
* ShaggySearchTechnique: [[TropeNamer Take a wild guess]].
* SpeechImpairedAnimal: {{Lampshade}}d in ''Scooby Doo and the Alien Invaders''- 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]].
-->Shaggy: Like, dig that, Scoob! A talking dog!
-->Scooby: [[SpeechImpairedAnimal Ryeah]]!
-->Fred: (dryly, to Velma and Daphne) Yeah, [[DeadpanSnarker imagine that]].
* SpecialGuest: ''The New Scooby Doo Movies'' had a different one each episode.
* SpinoffBabies: ''A Pup Named Scooby Doo'', although technically they're ten-year-olds rather than actual infants.
* StandardizedLeader: Fred
* SyndicationTitle
* TalkingAnimal
* TastyGold
* {{The Other Darrin}}: The show went through many voice actors. The only cast member to stay consistent throughout the whole series is Fred.
* TheresNoBInMovie
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: ''The Thirteen Ghosts of Scooby Doo''
* TotallyRadical: Found in the Live Action movie. It's also sadly found in the made-for-TV movies.
* TunnelKing: Scooby in some episodes
* TwistEnding
* UnspokenPlanGuarantee
* VideoWills
* WhoWouldWantToWatchUs: In one of the made-for-TV movies, the newly-redrawn cast mocks their original appearances in a video game based on them.
* WitchSpecies
* WonderfulLife
* WraparoundBackground
* YouFailBiologyForever: In the second movie, Scooby freezes the Tar Monster with a ''fire extinguisher.''
* YouMeddlingKids: [[TropeNamer sigh...]]
* ZettaiRyouiki: Velma, YouShouldKnowThisAlready
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