* {{Anvilicious}}: "Scooby Dude", the VerySpecialEpisode about drugs:
--> "[[DrugsAreBad Rhugs? Rhuck! Rhtooie!]]"
* AudienceColoringAdaptation:
** This is the show that started the tendency to regard Daphne and her family as extremely rich.
** This also started the trend of Mystery Inc. being from Coolsville.
* BrokenBase: To this day, it remains disputed among fans over whether this continuity was a good show in its own right or an inferior SpinOffBabies adaptation.
* DesignatedVillain: Parodied with Red Herring, who is always at the top of Fred's list of suspects for no good reason. Yes, he's TheBully, but you can't say Fred is being much better with his constant unjustified accusations.
* EnsembleDarkHorse: Red remains one of the most memorable characters in the series.
* FanPreferredCouple: Fred and Red seems rather popular in some circles instead of Fred and Daphne.
* FoeYayShipping: There are a few circles that ship Fred and Red.
* HarsherInHindsight:
** "Scooby Dude" [[VerySpecialEpisode was created]] to show why DrugsAreBad. Years later, Carl Steven, Fred's voice actor, became a drug addict before he was found dead from a heroin overdose in 2011.
** Fred's parents are not seen in this show, unlike the rest of the gang's. This means nothing if you've seen the [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooDirectToVideoFilmSeries direct-to-video]] movie ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooPiratesAhoy'' (where Fred's parents made an appearance and were shown to love and care for their son like good parents should), but ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' and ''WesternAnimation/BeCoolScoobyDoo'' take the absence of Fred's father/parents to depressing levels: [[spoiler:they're villains that also run around in monster costumes... or worse.]]
* HilariousInHindsight:
** The Ice Demon from "Snow Place Like Home" looks very similar to the Phantom Virus from ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheCyberChase''.
** Daphne being the one who tends to [[WouldYouDoItForAScoobySnack offer Shaggy and Scooby Scooby Snacks]], when the ''WesternAnimation/BeCoolScoobyDoo'' episode "Sorcerer Snack Scare" has her objecting to Fred convincing Shaggy and Scooby into risking their necks by offering them Sorcerer Snacks because she sees it as a form of bribery.
** "Dawn of the Spooky Shuttle Scuttle Scare" features a character named Mr. Sinclair... not to be confused with [[Series/{{Dinosaurs}} ANOTHER Mr. Sinclair]].
** "Terror Thy Name Is Zombo" has Fred believing in a cotton candy monster from the National Exaggerator. Come ''Film/ScoobyDooMonstersUnleashed'', there really was one.
** Creator/BJWard voices Velma's mother. Years later she would voice Velma herself in the late [[The90s '90s]] to early [[TurnOfTheMillennium 2000s]], beginning with a guest appearance on ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' and ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland''.
** "Ghost Who's Coming to Dinner" has a scene where Freddie sees a real ghost, mistakes him for [[ScoobyDooHoax a guy in a mask]], pulls his head clean off and [[OhCrap freaks out]]. However, this real ghost is not the actual MonsterOfTheWeek. All this is PlayedForLaughs. The same thing happens again to Fred as an adult in ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland'', except this time it is PlayedForHorror.
* HoYay: Fred and Red. ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' has made a few jokes about it by having some incidentals resemble Red during funny moments involving Fred. In one example, Fred is wrestling with a Red-lookalike at a college frat. When the gang finds them in a spooning-like position, he then mentions that they're going to teach him the "happy tapioca", which according to the Urban Dictionary, is a sex position.
* JerkassWoobie: Red Herring, although he's clearly a jerk and bully to the gang, it's hard to not feel bad for him constantly being accused of crimes he did not commit. Though to be fair he has dressed up as a monster on at least four different occasions
* JustHereForGodzilla: Even when the mysteries and humor lose some of their appeal, the SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic provides a reason to keep revisiting the show (or at least clips of it).
%%ZCE* {{Moe}}: This show's incarnation of Velma. It's easy to see why Scooby is so attached to her.
* ShortLivedBigImpact: The show only lasted a few years, but its brand of self-referential humor would have large impact on cartoons of the [[The90s '90s]], in particular the ones a lot of season 1's crew would move on to (''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'').
* StrawmanHasAPoint: Fred accusing Red Herring in "The Computer Walks Among Us" is founded since Velma's robot embarrassed Red Herring at the contest by spraying him with a hose. Given Red Herring's {{Jerkass}} personality, it wouldn't be a stretch that he would want revenge.
* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: The show's uses of BetterThanABareBulb, NoFourthWall, and RuleOfFunny make it a very different show that is seen by some as better than the original.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSong
** The "Here Comes The Ice Man" song from "Snow Place Like Home" bears some similarity to "My Boyfriend's Back" by the Angels.
** Compare the theme song from this show to the title song from ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors'', the movie version of which had come out only two years prior.
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Several fans of the original cartoon loathe it for its ham-fisted attempts at parody, the overuse of cliché cartoon sight gags, the entire SpinOffBabies angle of the show, and/or [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Fred being turned into an almost-total idiot instead of being at least reasonably competent as in the earlier series]].
* ValuesResonance:
** At the end of "The Schnook Who Took My Comic Book", the gang confronts Mr. Cashmore (one of the suspects who was ultimately proven innocent) about why he was hiding comic books in his car despite him claiming early on in the episode that he hated them. Mr. Cashmore confesses that he actually loves comic books, but is ashamed to admit it because he's a grown man. Rather than make fun of him for being into comic books despite being an adult as was common in the [[The80s '80s]] and [[The90s '90s]], the gang assures him that adults reading comic books is no big deal, with their friend, Selma (also an adult), freely admitting that she still reads comic books too.
** Carol Colossal was a very successful businesswoman who was portrayed as AmbiguouslyBrown, a white secretary was shown working under her and clearly outclassed her white male competitors.
* VindicatedByHistory: This show was lambasted back in its day for its repetitive animation, formulaic nature and for contributing to the trend of "[[SpinoffBabies babyfication]]"[[note]]making kid versions of popular earlier shows[[/note]] that was going on for cartoon franchises in the [[The80s '80s]]. Nowadays it's fondly remembered for being the one of the first ''Scooby-Doo'' series to not take itself seriously by frequently lampshading and parodying the clichés and tropes of the original formula, paving the way for later incarnations.
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