History Headscratchers / APupNamedScoobyDoo

* I only saw a few episodes of this show as a kid, but there was one episode that particularly stuck in my head... In an [[DrugsAreBad anti-drug episode]] there's this guy who was using dolphins to smuggle drugs or something. Every time drugs were brought up in the episode, one of the characters would go "Eeeew! Drugs!". I know it's a kid show, but who behaves that way? What child, even one who believes DrugsAreBad, has such disgust for illegal substances that simply hearing the word "drugs" revolts them? Did their school invite a speaker from the D.A.R.E program and the characters took the message too seriously? I WANNA KNOW!

** After the Cop (from the Beach Patrol) began chasing Red Herring, Scooby found scuba diving gear in her jeep. Also, after the Headless Skateboarder was captured, Daphne explains that tire tracks from her jeep were at previous monster sightings when explaining why the Beach Patrol Cop might be the Headless Skateboarder. There were clues pointing to TheReveal that the Cop was actually a crook, but they were subtle.

* In "Scooby Dude", the infamous Anti-Drug Episode, what made Velma think the Cop arresting the Crooked Skateboarder/Drug Smuggler was a bad idea? Sure, we learn the Island Surfer was really an FBI agent and that the Cop was in on the Skateboarders Dolphin-Drug Smuggling operations, but nothing in the Episode actually leaned into the Cop being a crook.

** The ages established for the gang in the original series ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'' were not set in stone and the gangs' exact ages have varied depending on the continuity. Scooby's infancy occurring at the same time as the rest of the gang was most likely done for RuleOfFunny. Not every single thing in cartoons has a logical explanation.

*** Even if Thorne wasn't under a contract, his reputation in Hollywood may have already been irrevocably damaged. In a tragic RealLife Example, actor George Reeves, the original Superman on the first-ever live action ''Superman'' show, became so typecast by the role that he couldn't get any other work (the director of one non-Superman movie Reeves made had to cut all of his scenes because the audience kept shouting "SUPERMAN!" whenever he appeared on screen). Plus if he ''had'' walked away from the series or asked for a replacement actor, he likely would have been spun as an egotistical star who thought he was "too good" for the role (he probably also [[MoneyDearBoy made a lot of money]] in the role, and was bitter about not being able to earn an income any other way). Thorne was stuck between "keep making these movies that I hate" or "not make movies at all," and tried to TakeAThirdOption by turning Stinkweed into a real-life villain so he'd be released from the obligations of the role.

** There's an episode of ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'' where we see (via a flashback) the gang at Velma's fifth birthday party, and they look the same as they do in this show. Canon's kind of a tricky subject when it comes to ''Scooby-Doo'' stuff, but does that mean that Velma is five in the show? Then again, don't the characters go to Coolsville High in this show? If Velma is five why is she going to a high school (then again, what would eleven and ten-year-olds be doing going to a high school)?

** What I find confusing about the episode is Vincent Thorne's motivation of committing crimes as Stinkweed because he was sick of making Stinkweed movies. Assuming he wasn't under contract, what was keeping him from simply refusing to appear in any further sequels to the franchise?

** Yeah, Daphne didn't start becoming ditzier until around ''[[WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo]]''. And even then, in that show she was at least smarter than Fred.

** There's an episode of ''[[WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo]] where we see (via a flashback) the gang at Velma's fifth birthday party, and they look the same as they do in this show. Canon's kind of a tricky subject when it comes to ''Scooby-Doo'' stuff, but does that mean that Velma is five in the show? Then again, don't the characters go to Coolsville High in this show? If Velma is five why is she going to a high school (then again, what would eleven and ten-year-olds be doing going to a high school)?

*** While this doesn't help the original example of writers not taking continuity that seriously, this bullet kinda screws up one of this series' hail mary continuity moments. Scrappy is not the child of a brother of Scooby's, Ruby Doo, Scooby's sister, is his mother. She had appeared in the early 80s in a flashback episode and returned in this series as a MythologyGag.

** Well, Scooby must have an older brother, someone has to be Scrappy's father.

* I know this is a cartoon, but aside from the talking dog thing, it is quite realistic. I tried to analyse it a bit, and thought them not aging is because they are NotAllowedToGrowUp, and someone else said that the technology and wacky faces in A Pup could be explained as it was exaggerated as Shaggy is telling the story. However one thing confuses me. In official records Shaggy and Fred are seventeen, Daphne is sixteen, Velma is fifteen and Scooby is seven, and on one site it says that in A Pup Named Scooby Doo, it is six years ago, making the boys eleven, Daphne ten, Velma nine and Scooby one, however in Dog Gone Scooby, Shaggy flashes back to the first case they solved as babies, and as they were in nappies/diapers I think that Fred, Red Herring and Shaggy were two, Daphne was one, and Velma didn't speak so she could have been about three months old or something. The thing is, they had a dog with them, and Scooby would not have been born as that would be eight years from when he was one, so Who. Is, That, Puppy?!

* Does Nasty Doo exist or not? The Doo Family seems to regard him as a real part of the family tree, yet at the end Velma says "there was no Nasty Doo". Does she mean just that the legend of him being a werewolf being bunk or is the whole existence of a Nasty Doo the dog a fabrication?

** Hormones. They do ''crazy'' things to your brain.

* How exactly did Daphne end up losing like fifty IQ points upon becoming a teenager? Fred going from paranoid conspiracy theorist to logical thinker can be passed off as him simply maturing a bit, but Daphne goes from being the most reasonable member of the group after Velma to being TheDitz.

*** No, but the point was that Scooby shouldn't even have been able to stand being able to smell him, at least that's how the guy was set up.

* The episode where Freddy couldn't blame Red Herring for a crime rubbed me the wrong way. Color me biased, but I felt that the rest of the Scooby-Doo Detective Agency were just pricks because, well, it was the first and only time that Red was guilty of a crime and it was Freddy's only chance to be right for once and he wasted it all because of a stupid bet.
** That was the point.
*** It [[JustBugsMe Just Bugged]] Fred too.

* The episode where Freddy couldn't blame Red Herring for a crime rubbed me the wrong way. Color me biased, but I felt that the rest of the Scooby-Doo Detective Agency were just pricks because, well, it was the first and only time that Red was guilty of a crime and it was Freddy's only chance to be right for once and [[MissedMomentOfAwesome he wasted it all because of a stupid bet]].

* This is just something I found odd. Stinkweed was supposed to smell so bad that no one could stand being even close to him. This is made a big deal of when he walks into stores and that's enough to clear everyone out, and Scooby does comment on it later on. However, it's never brought up again. Why make a monster named Stinkweed that's main stict is to smell unbearible horrid and not focus on it at all? Particularally when the main hero is a dog whose nose is their main way to track the bad guys, which could've been a plot point. This just bugs me a tiny bit.

** Did your network cut the part in which Scooby's nose lead to the gang seeing Stinkweed playing with O'Grady's shoes?

* This is just something I found odd. Stinkweed was supposed to smell so bad that no one could stand being even close to him. This is made a big deal of when he walks into stores and that's enough to clear everyone out, and Scooby does comment on it later on. However, it's never brought up again. Why make a monster named Stinkweed that's main stict is to smell unbearible horrid and not focus on it at all? Particularally when the main hero is a dog whose nose is their main way to track the bad guys, which could've been a plot point. This just bugs me a tiny bit.

** According to Wikipedia's list of episodes, there was no anti-drug episode.

* I only saw a few episodes of this show as a kid, but there was one episode that particularly stuck in my head... In an [[DrugsAreBad anti-drug episode]] there's this guy who was using dolphins to smuggle drugs or something. Every time drugs were brought up in the episode, one of the characters would go "Eeeew! Drugs!". I know it's a kid show, but who behaves that way? What child, even one who believes DrugsAreBad, has such disgust for illegal substances that simply hearing the word "drugs" revolts them? Did their school invite a speaker from the D.A.R.E program and the characters took the message too seriously? I WANNA KNOW!

*** It [[JustBugsMe Just Bugged]] Fred too.

* The episode where Freddy couldn't blame Red Herring for a crime rubbed me the wrong way. Color me biased, but I felt that the rest of the Scooby-Doo Detective Agency were just pricks because, well, it was the first and only time that Red was guilty of a crime and it was Freddy's only chance to be right for once and [[MissedMomentOfAwesome he wasted it all because of a stupid bet]].
** That was the point.
*** It [[JustBugMe Just Bugged]] Fred too.

**That was the point.