History ComicBook / LaffALympics

* SolveTheSoupCans: in "The Purple Pig Puzzle," the three teams are given clues as to the whereabouts of a ceramic purple pig with the winning team not only winning the charity money back (which Lucky Starr won earlier) and a cash bonus. The Rottens are the first to obtain their portions of the puzzle but they are unable to solve it. It's Snooper who figures it out--the secret is ''where'' the clues were found. (The purple pig was in Captain Caveman's club.)

* SolveTheSoupCans: in "The Purple Pig Mystery," the three teams are given clues as to the whereabouts of a ceramic purple pig with the winning team not only winning the charity money back (which Lucky Starr won earlier) and a cash bonus. The Rottens are the first to obtain their portions of the puzzle but they are unable to solve it. It's Snooper who figures it out--the secret is ''where'' the clues were found. (The purple pig was in Captain Caveman's club.)

#1 - ''The Meet At Mount Ono'' (Manning) - During the events, Doggie Daddy has a problem with Augie, who sees his dad as a coward who won't scale Mount Ono in the finale.
#2 - ''Trouble At The Track Meet'' (Alvarado, Fitzgerald) - Snagglepuss and Mildew Wolf are replaced as commentators with Roger Rankle, a Howard Cosell expy.
#3 - ''The Miraculous Moon Meet'' (Fitzgerald) - A moon man kidnaps a number of members from all three teams and gets them to compete against him for the Earth.
#4 - ''Take Me Out To The Brawl Game'' (Manning) - The Rottens kidnap the Scooby Doobies' star hitter Captain Caveman, and to hedge their bets they use a remote controlled baseball.
#5 - ''The Day The Rottens Won'' (Manning) - The story of how the Rottens finally won the gold (or did they?) is recapped.
#6 - ''The Discount Of Monty Cristo'' (Armabula) - cameos by Loopy De Loop and Inch High Private Eye. Hokey Wolf is framed for the theft of the Count's magical credit card.
#7 - ''The Purple Pig Puzzle'' (Arambula) - Gambler Lucky Starr wins the charity money from the Laff-A-Lympics games and challenges the teams to locate a ceramic pig for the charity money and a bonus cash prize.
#8 - ''The Beef Of Bagdad'' - special guest stars Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley and Jabberjaw (Arambula, Spiegle) - An evil genie turns Babu into a giant snail. To get him back to normal, Scooby-Doo and his pals venture to Baghdad to obtain a special meat.
#9 - ''Go Rest, Old Man'' (Arambula) - The Rottens disrupt a Western-themed meet as a new young sheriff tries to usurp an elder sheriff.
#10 - ''Now You See Them'' (Arambula, Norris) - Dread Baron uses a ray gun that transports whoever he aims it at to a distant place. When Dynomutt intervenes, he is sent to the planet from where the ray gun originated, sent by two aliens who wager everything they have on the Rottens.
#11 - ''The Toys From Tomorrow'' - special guest stars Elroy Jetson and Jabberjaw (Arambula, Strobl) - Elroy Jetson hides from police in a time machine after getting involved with a gang; he is sent to the present where he gets involved in a Laff-A-Lympics event.
#12 - ''The Ends Of The Earth'' - special guest star Jabberjaw; cameos by Hair Bear, Ed Huddles, the Funky Phantom and the Banana Splits (Manning, Spiegle) - The Yogis (except for Huck Hound) are kidnapped by the Rottens and sent to a far place where a Columbus-era civilization exists.
#13 - Look at the training camps - special guest stars Dick Dastardly and Muttley (Shaw!, Spiegle, Manning) - Yogi looks for a new cook for the Yahooeys, Captain Caveman is captured by a dog catcher, Dick Dastardly visits his brother Dread Baron. Tying all this together is the Rottens' booby-trapped package of prune yogurt.
#14 - (unpublished) - ''The Miniature Meet'' - special guest stars Fibber Fox and Jabberjaw (Arambula) - A college professor gets even for getting slighted from the school's budget with a ray gun that shrinks the Yahooeys and Rottens.
# Special giant sized issue - ''The Man Who Stole Thursday'' - guest stars Professor Gismo from ''Ruff & Reddy'', the Flintstones and cameos from a bunch of H-B characters (almost everybody) - A mysterious figure named Tempus steals Professor Gismo's chronocycle with which he causes Thursdays to disappear from the calendar.

* ArtShift: "The Man Who Stole Thursday" is a long form story drawn by different artists and the shift becomes jarring where certain continuities run. A Dan Speigle page ending with Shaggy radioing to Pixie that he and his friends have located Tempus goes to an Owen Fitzgerald page starting with Pixie retrieving Shaggy's call and the Yogis responding.
** Issue #2, "Trouble At The Track Meet," has its first three pages penciled by Pete Alvarado (uncredited) and the rest penciled by Owen Fitzgerald.

* BeyondTheImpossible: Shaggy's yodelling can attract several pigs including a piggy bank.

** In "The Discount of Monty Cristo", there's a scene displaying the scoreboard as Yogis 60; Scoobys; 40; and Rottens 10. There's a note next to the Rottens' score reading "but they don't deserve it". Later, the scoreboard reads Yogis 70; Scoobys 65; and Rottens 15. The note now reads "and they '''''still''''' don't deserve it"
* TheCameo: Numerous Hanna-Barbera characters can be seen in the stands in some stories. In issue #12, Ed Huddles, Hair Bear and the Funky Phantom share seats in the same row, while Loopy De Loop and Inch High, Private Eye can be seen in issue #6. The Banana Splits appear at the end of issue #12.
* CaptainErsatz: In issue #12, the Rottens have a number of the Yogis kidnapped and replaced with a gang of hard-boiled doppelgangers assuming their names.

** A page in the comics describes the Creeplys as direct descendants of [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones the Gruesomes]] and states that, like their ancestors, like gloomy weather, ants at picnics and monster movies where the monster wins, and hate rock music.

* LiteralMetaphor: Yogi says his team "doesn't know the meaning of the word '''defeat'''... Several of them don't even know the meaning of the word '''cabbage'''! Boy, are they '''dumb'''!".

* MsFanservice: In issue #13, Teen Angel Taffy is wearing a skimpy bikini. (All three Teen Angels are seen in bikinis in issue #9 of ''Scooby-Doo,'' but Taffy leaves very little to the imagination in this instance.)
* MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes: After being saved from a long fall, Hokey Wolf says every sheep he's known passed before his eyes.

** In issue #13, Dread Baron asks Dick Dastardly what he's been doing since Wacky Races. Dick replies "I spent some time [[WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines chasing a pigeon."]]

* OhCrap: Mr. Lucky Starr in "The Purple Pig Puzzle" when he finds out that the Rottens have all the clues to the puzzle of where the ceramic purple pig is but hasn't solved it yet. That's because he bet a bundle on the Rottens to win the contest.

* ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself: Inverted in "The Meet at Mount Ono." Doggie Daddy tries to prove to his son Augie Doggie that he's not too chicken to climb Mount Ono in the last event (especially since the Yogis' participant, Grape Ape, was incapacitated). Babu of the Scoobies offers to help, but Doggie Daddy refuses, saying it's something he has to do himself. And he succeeds.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Sooey Pig (Really Rottens) and Scooby Dum (Scooby Doobies) were left out of the comic book.
* WrongTurnAtAlbuquerque: In the special story "The Man Who Stole Thursday", Tempus tries to leave [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones the Flintstones']] time for present time but arrives at [[WesternAnimation/TheJetsons the Jetsons']] time instead. Tempus believes it happened because he made a wrong turn at the Spanish-American war.

* MythologyGag: "The Man Who Stole Thursday" has Scooby-Doo and the gang searching for Tempus at a comic book convention where an attendee comments about Jerry Sloane being the only person to have drawn the book "The Blue Scarab." This is a call back to issue #24 of the Gold Key ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' comic book "Mark of the Blue Scarab," about comic book artist Jerry Sloane being haunted by his own creation.

** Issue #13 had individual stories from each of the teams' training camps, each story drawn by a different arist--the Yogis by Scott Shaw!, the Scoobys by Dan Speigle, and the Rottens by Jack Manning (inks by Scott Shaw!). In the Scoobys story, Shaggy is talking on the phone to Yogi Bear about a "Prune Yogurt Day" (the single thread connecting the stories) but Dan Speigle obviously couldn't draw Yogi, so a photostat of a Dick Bickenbach drawing of Yogi from an earlier story was used.

# Special giant sized issue - ''The Man Who Stole Thursday'' - guest stars Professor Gismo from ''Ruff & Reddy'', the Flintstones and cameos from a bunch of H-B characters (almost everybody) - A mysterious figure name Tempus steals Professor Gismo's chronocycle with which he causes Thursdays to disappear from the calendar.

#6 - ''The Discount Of Monty Cristo'' (Armabula) - Hokey Wolf is framed for the theft of the Count's magical credit card.

#12 - ''The Ends Of The Earth'' - special guest star Jabberjaw (Manning, Spiegle) - The Yogis (except for Huck Hound) are kidnapped by the Rottens and sent to a far place where a Columbus-era civilization exists.

* In issue #13, Dread Baron asks Dick Dastardly what he's been doing since Wacky Races. Dick replies "I spent some time [[WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines chasing a pigeon."]]

#14 - (unpublished) - ''The Miniature Meet'' -special guest stars Fibber Fox and Jabberjaw (Arambula) - A college professor gets even for getting slighted from the school's budget with a ray gun that shrinks the Yahooeys and Rottens.

* {{Fanservice}}: In issue #13, Teen Angel Taffy is wearing a skimpy bikini.

#10 - ''Now You See Them'' (Arambula, Norris) - Dread Baron uses a camera that transports whoever he aims it at to a distant place. When Dynomutt intervenes, he is sent to the planet from where the camera originated, sent by two aliens who wager everything they have on the Rottens.

#4 - ''Take Me Out To The Brawl Game'' (Manning) - The Rottens kidnap the Scoob Doobies' star hitter Captain Caveman, and to hedge their bets they use a remote controlled baseball.

#8 - ''The Beef Of Bagdad'' - special guest stars Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley and Jabberjaw (Arambula, Spiegle) - An evil genie turns Babu into a giant snail. To get him back to norml, Scooby-Doo and his pals venture to Baghdad to obtain a special meat.

# Special giant sized issue - ''The Man Who Stole Thursday'' - guest stars Professor Gismo from ''Ruff & Reddy'', the Flintstones and cameos from a bunch of H-B characters (almost everybody) - A mysterioys figure name Tempus steals Professor Gismo's chronocycle with which he causes Thursdays to disappear from the calendar.

#1 - ''The Meet At Mount Ono'' (Manning)
#2 - ''Trouble At The Track Meet'' (Alvarado, Fitzgerald)
#3 - ''The Miraculous Moon Meet'' (Fitzgerald)
#4 - ''Take Me Out To The Brawl Game'' (Manning)
#5 - ''The Day The Rottens Won'' (Manning)
#6 - ''The Discount Of Monty Cristo'' (Armabula)
#7 - ''The Purple Pig Puzzle'' (Arambula)
#8 - ''The Beef Of Bagdad'' - special guest stars Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley and Jabberjaw (Arambula, Spiegle)
#9 - ''Go Rest, Old Man'' (Arambula)
#10 - ''Now You See Them'' (Arambula, Norris)
#11 - ''The Toys From Tomorrow'' - special guest stars Elroy Jetson and Jabberjaw (Arambula, Strobl)
#12 - ''The Ends Of The Earth'' - special guest star Jabberjaw (Manning, Spiegle)
#13 - Look at the training camps - special guest stars Dick Dastardly and Muttley (Shaw!, Spiegle, Manning)
#14 - (unpublished) - ''The Miniature Meet'' -special guest stars Fibber Fox and Jabberjaw (Arambula)
# Special giant sized issue - ''The Man Who Stole Thursday'' - guest stars Professor Gismo from ''Ruff & Reddy'', the Flintstones and cameos from a bunch of H-B characters (almost everybody)

The issuesiller/artist in parenthesis):

#12 - ''The Ends Of The Earth'' (special guest star Jabberjaw) (Manning, Spiegle)

The ''Laff-a-Lympics'' comic book series is an adaptation of the cartoon of the same name. The comics were produced by Creator/MarvelComics. All issues were written by Mark Evanier and drawn by many Hanna-Barbera staffers including Jack Manning, Roman Arambula, Owen Fitzgerald and Pete Alvarado.

The issues:
#1 - ''The Meet At Mount Ono''
#2 - ''Trouble At The Track Meet''
#3 - ''The Miraculous Moon Meet''
#4 - ''Take Me Out To The Brawl Game''
#5 - ''The Day The Rottens Won''
#6 - ''The Discount Of Monty Cristo''
#7 - ''The Purple Pig Puzzle''
#8 - ''The Beef Of Bagdad'' (special guest stars Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley and Jabberjaw)
#9 - ''Go Rest, Old Man''
#10 - ''Now You See Them''
#11 - ''The Toys From Tomorrow'' (special guest stars Elroy Jetson and Jabberjaw)
#12 - ''The Ends Of The Earth'' (special guest star Jabberjaw)
#13 - Look at the training camps (special guest stars Dick Dastardly and Muttley)
#14 - (unpublished) - ''The Miniature Meet'' (special guest stars Fibber Fox and Jabberjaw)
# Special giant sized issue - ''The Man Who Stole Thursday'' (guest stars Professor Gismo from ''Ruff & Reddy'', the Flintstones and cameos from a bunch of H-B characters)

#11 - ''The Toys From Tomorrow'' (special guest star Elroy Jetson)

* TheCameo: Numerous Hanna-Barbera characters can be seen in the stands in some stories. In issue #12, Ed Huddles, Hair Bear and the Funky Phantom share seats in the same row, while Loopy De Loop and Inch High, Private Eye can be seen in issue #6.

* ShoutOut: The title "The Discount of Monty Cristo" is an allusion to ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo''.