Trivia / Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!

• Beam Me Up, Scotty!:
  • None of the villains actually say, "And I would've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for You Meddling Kids!" word for word, but a few do paraphrase it. (They weren't actually called "meddling kids" until Season 2's "Scooby's Night with a Frozen Fright," when the villain said, "And it would've been mine if it hadn’t been for those meddling kids!")
  • The Creeper does not talk in Pokémon Speak as depicted in other media, such as Scooby-Doo! Night of 100 Frights and Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleashed. He actually says "paper" because he's after a sheet of paper that the gang possesses.
• Cast the Runner-Up: Frank Welker wanted to audition for the role of Shaggy since he had always been cast as the Straight Man and wanted to do a comedic character. Casey Kasem wanted to audition for the role of Fred because he claimed he was not a comedic actor.
• Creator's Pest: We hardly ever see Fred and Daphne searching for clues when the group splits up, because the writers found them boring.
• Edited for Syndication: When the series entered syndication in the early 1980s (through the Program Exchange), the episodes had their laugh tracks removed. If you're used to watching the episodes with the original laugh track intact, then you may find them rather awkward-sounding. Worldvision's syndicated prints from the late 1980s also lacked the laugh track on most episodes, except for the first two ("What a Night for a Knight!" and "A Clue for Scooby-Doo"). This is how Cartoon Network also originally aired the episodes, until Turner made new masters for the show that restored the laugh track around 1997.
• Follow the Leader: The show was originally created to expand upon the success of The Archie Show.
• The Other Darrin: Indira Stefanianna Christopherson voiced Daphne in season 1. She left the show after the end of the first season of the original series (17 episodes) to move to New York to get married, and opted not to reprise her role for the second season. The role was recast with Heather North (the then roommate of Nicole Jaffe, the voice of Velma). North continued to voice Daphne in almost all media until 1998.
• Out of Order: Hassle in the Castle was produced as the second episode of the series and A Clue for Scooby Doo was produced as the third. The episodes were switched for broadcast, but home video releases consistently put them in the initial order.
• Star-Making Role: Voicing Fred kick-started Frank Welker's long career.
• Throw It In!: Velma's famous line, "My glasses; I can't see without them!" was not originally scripted for the show. During a table read for the voice artists, Velma's voice-over actress Nicole Jaffe, who was near-sighted as well, lost her glasses and uttered a variation of what became Velma's famous catchphrase. The writers liked the line so much that Velma losing her glasses became one of the show's trademark gags.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Hanna and Barbera reflected in a later interview that the show was originally just going to be about "a group of teenagers solving crimes", but "we threw in a dog, and he turned out to be the star of the show".
  • The dog was originally a sheepdog named Too Much, but The Archie Show (which was also on CBS) already had Hot Dog, Jughead's pet sheepdog. An H-B staffer raised Great Danes as a hobby, so they made the dog a Great Dane. Fred Silverman chose the name Scooby-Doo after the scatting in one of his favorite Frank Sinatra tunes, "Strangers In The Night".
  • In its developmental stage as Mysteries Five, there were originally five kids who, in a knockoff of The Archie Show, played rock music as well as solved mysteries. Their names were Geoff, Mike, Kelly, Linda, and W.W. (as well as their bongo-playing sheepdog, Too Much). Geoff and Mike were melded to become Fred (originally Ronnie if we go by the storyboards of "What a Night for Knight", which was during the time the show was in develeopment, but renamed after CBS programming head Fred Silverman), Kelly became Daphne, Linda became Velma and W.W. became Shaggy.
  • In the original pitch, Velma and Shaggy were siblings. It showed in the debut episode, "What a Night for a Knight", as Velma has Shaggy's cough medicine at hand, and in "Decoy for a Dognapper", Shaggy keeps a spare pair of glasses for Velma. Fans of Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated can breathe a sigh of relief.
• Working Title: Mysteries Five and Who's S-S-Scared?

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