History ScoobyDoo / TropesAToM

* FootFocus: Daphne in ''Pirates Ahoy!''

** Scientists and technicians tend to have names either related to their field of study, or to science in general (e.g. Professor ''Angstrom'').

** Scientists and technicians tend to have names related to their field of study, or to science in general (e.g. the oceanographers Professor ''Wade'' and Professor ''Angstrom'').

** Professors and scientists tend to have names related to their field of study, or to science in general (e.g. the oceanographers Professor ''Wade'' and Professor ''Angstrom'').

* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler:Scrappy-Doo]] in the live-action movie.

** "Blue Falcon" is [[UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents United States military slang]] for "buddy fucker."

** The 2012 special ''Spooky Games'' uses the same premise as the 1973 Scooby Doo Movies episode "The Spirited Spooked Sports Show'' (with Tim Conway)--Shaggy becoming a competitive runner who runs fastest when he's scared.

* LongRunner: Still making new episodes/movies, 40+ years later. In those years of the franchise, there have been 416 series episodes (these include eleven-minute and seven-minute installments and Scooby and Shaggy's ''Laff-A-Lympics'' appearances), 10 guest appearances on other shows, two parody spots, 8 specials, 5 made-for-TV movies, two theatrical movies, two commercial shills (2005 spot for Dove shampoo with Velma, Wilma Flintstone and Jane Jetson; 2006 spot for [=DirecTV=] with the whole gang), A movie theater spot (the gang busts Daffy Duck for jabbering on a cell phone in a theater), and (so far) 18 direct-to-DVD movies.

*** The Addams Family, Batman and Robin (the Adam West version, later used on ''{{Superfriends}}''), 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.

*** There was one LaurelAndHardy episode, and two with TheThreeStooges.

* HeyItsThatSound: "Where Are You" episode "Spooky Space Kook". The flying UFO used the "electronic rattlesnake" noise from the Heat Ray warming up from the 1953 ''TheWarOfTheWorlds'' film..

** In ''Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island'' Shaggy and Scooby get jobs as customs officers. They were apparently supposed to be searching for contraband foods, and were subsequently fired for eating the contraband. There's no way in hell that the writers didn't know what they were doing there.
*** This troper's interpretation was that they were supposed to be searching for contraband, but instead just searched for food to eat, and were fired for simultaneously abusing their power to get free stacks and failing to actually do their job

*** You could probably count the would-be Scooby Gang from ''TheVentureBrothers'' as well. But that was more a parody.

* The entire gang suffer one at the end of the Scooby Doo project. The last we see of them is the monster coming towards them then the camera cutting out and the annoucert elling us no trace of them was ever found.

**** Not to mention Don Adams of ''Series/GetSmart'' playing an exterminator in the house of LonChaney.

* ActorAllusion: In an episode of ''What's New, Scooby-Doo?'', when Daphne meets someone hired to impersonate her, she complains she is being played by an extra and asks whether SarahMichelleGellar was busy.

--->'''Johnny Bravo''': "Jinkies? Jinkies....isn't that some kind of breakfast food?"
** They also met Series/TheAddamsFamily once, and Dynomutt and the Blue Falcon twice.
*** The Scooby Doo gang will join Dynomutt and Blue Falcon yet again in the 2013 DVD feature ''Scooby-Doo: Mask Of The Blue Falcon.''
** 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.

*** 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.
**** Don Knotts was in an episode parodying TheAndyGriffithShow and an episode where he was a goofy Barney Fife like detective.

*** There was at least one LaurelAndHardy episode, and two with TheThreeStooges.
** An episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', "Bat-Mite Presents: Batman's Strangest Cases!" features a segment, drawn and animated in the same style as the ''New Scooby Doo Movies'' episodes, with the gang meeting up with Batman and Robin, as well as Music/WeirdAlYankovic. It aired in America on AprilFoolsDay 2011.

* CynicalMentor: Vincent Van Ghoul from ''WesternAnimation/The13GhostsOfScoobyDoo''.

* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island'' and ''ScoobyDoo and the Witch's Ghost'' are the darkest of the animated films. Creator/CartoonNetwork made an [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome]] promo for ''Scooby-Doo On Zombie Island'' when they aired it on their animated movie spot. It only used the most thrilling scenes and was set to climactic OminousLatinChanting (possibly ''O Fortuna''). Never before did Scooby-Doo seem so intense.\\

* DistressedDamsel: In the two shows with the Three Stooges, scripter Norman Maurer seemed to like getting Velma in a nice mess. In ''Ghastly Ghost Town,'' a mysterious figure sends her down into the mine shaft, while in ''The Ghost Of The Red Baron,'' she is sent airborne in a bi-plane she doesn't know how to operate. [[CaptainObvious Oh, and]] '''''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Danger-Prone Daphne]]'''''.

* EasilyForgiven: ''"What's New Scooby Doo"'' occasionally had the culprit be let off the hook if they had arguably sympathetic reasons or if nobody got hurt, even if by their actions the monster would have very nearly killed someone. ''"Roller Ghoaster Ride"'' is a good example of this, involving among other things Fred, Daphne and Velma almost getting diced up by a giant fan thanks to the monster's sabotage, along with tons of dangerous situations coming from ''sabotaging amusement park rides'' which would've ended up fatal if not for dumb luck or quick thinking, with no real consequences for the culprit.

** In the first season of ''The New Scooby Doo Movies,'' scenes running roughly a minute and a half were made but not used until season two. The scenes never showed up in syndication, CN/Boomerang airings or DVD releases. Among the scenes were Jonathan Winters flipping a coin with Shaggy to see who would go up to the grist mill window ("The Frickert Fracas"), and Scooby trying to get the kids' attention to tell them he found a secret passage out of Moody Manor ("Guess Who's Knott Coming To Dinner").

* EitherOrTitle: Several episodes throughout had unused Either Or Titles. Among them:
** ''Scooby Doo Meets The Addams Family'' (''Wednesday Is Missing'')
** ''Sandy Duncan's Jekyll And Hyde'' (''Scooby Doo Meets Sandy Duncan'')
** ''Scooby Doo Meets Laurel & Hardy'' (''The Ghost Of Bigfoot'')
** ''The Caped Crusader Caper'' (''The Sying Fluit...er, Flying Suit'')
** ''Scooby Doo Meets Jeannie'' (''Mystery In Persia'')
** ''Scooby Doo Meets Dick Van Dyke'' (''The Haunted Carnival'')
** ''Who Was That Cat Creature I Saw You With Last Night?'' (''Make A Beeline Away From That Feline'')

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The wax phantom from "Don't Fool With A Phantom" has captured Shaggy and Scooby and plans to turn them into wax dummies:

** In ''A Scooby Doo Valentine'' (episode of ''What's New, Scooby Doo?'') the imposters of the gang are unmasked and revealed to be caricatures of their voice actors (Frank Welker, Casey Kasem, Grey Delisle, Mindy Cohn). In fact, the valentine they find as a clue has the gang's names written in the handwriting of the voice talents.

* IsItAlwaysLikeThis: The Scooby comic book has an issue where a character asks, "And this happens everywhere you go?" Shaggy responds with, "Well, there was this one time where Fred took us to a flower shop..."
* {{Jerkass}}: [[spoiler: Jack Riggins]] from ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooSpookyGames'' [[spoiler: all because he didn't want his Olympic Record broken. Can anyone say "spoiled sport"?]]

** Subverted in "Recipe For Disaster," where Velma and Daphne hold their skirts down after a high-power floor dryer (used after the gang gets soaked) is activated.

** In "Curse Of The Lake Monster", the gang receives a check for $10,000 from The Bank of Hanna-Barbera.

-->'''Daphne:''' Shaggy! Scooby! Where were you two?

* AbandonedMine: ''The Scooby-Doo Where Are You!'' episode "Mine Your Own Business". While trying to determine the identity of the scary Miner 49er, the gang explores a spooky old mine.
* AbsurdlyIneffectiveBarricade: Many episodes involve the gang building a barricade, only to discover the door opens OUTWARDS as opposed to inwards.

* ActorAllusion: In an episode of ''What's New Scooby Doo'', when Daphne meets someone hired to impersonate her, she complains she is being played by an extra and asks if SarahMichelleGellar was busy.

* AdaptationDyeJob: In "The Mystery Begins" and "Curse Of The Lake Monster," the normally blonde Fred is a brunette.

As well, ''The Scooby Doo Project,'' a series of interstitials from 1999 spoofing "The Blair Witch Project." Plus Daphne appeared as a member of the Hanna-Barbera tribe in Cartoon Network's "Staylongers" (spoof of "Survivor") interstitials.\\

When Scooby runs in the early series, his legs don't follow a normal dog's running pattern. Each pair of legs go alternately in a circular motion. The only episode showing him running like a normal dog was "Decoy For A Dognapper," as he and the freed kidnapped dogs run after their captor.
* AntiSneezeFinger: The gang do this to {{Scooby-Doo}} in almost every incarnation.

** Actually, Velma had her glasses knocked off her face, once by Scooby, the other after bumping her head. A third time, a bat plucked her glasses off and dropped them on Scooby's head,and a fourth instance had her glasses swept off her face from an errant bumper cart. And later, in "That's Snow Ghost," Scooby uses Velma's glasses to see the bundle of dynamite pursuing them on the log behind.
** Velma losing her glasses became a running joke based on her voice artist, Nicole Jaffe, whose glasses fell during a script reading, and she was quoted as saying "I can't see without them."

** "Old Man Jenkins" has become the term for the everyman Scooby Doo villain. While there was an suspicious old man named Mr. Jenkins in one episode of the original series, but he turned out to be innocent.
* Music/TheBeatles: Referenced by Shaggy in "The Phantom Of The Country Music Hall" (1972 ep with Jerry Reed):
-->'''Hotel clerk:''' Are you, Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby?

* TheBermudaTriangle: There's a few instances.

** If Scooby Doo in Where's My Mummy is any indication, Scooby is also pretty fond of Velma.
* BigBadWannabe: Bogel and Weerd so desperately want to be one of the 13 ghosts from ''WesternAnimation/The13GhostsOfScoobyDoo''.

** Halfway through, ''Curse of the Lake Monster'' looks like a ScoobyDooHoax, until the actual ghost of a witch takes [[spoiler: Velma's body as a host and creates her minions of lake monsters]]. This is the second feature-length movie, animated or live centering around [[spoiler: Velma]].

** In some of the early stuff, he gets to do some things that the latter episodes would never let him do, due to flanderization. There was the one where Scooby kept bouncing up toward an ape monster and ended up kicking it in the gut and such, just to save an actress. And then there's the infamous "John Wayne" impression in the episode "Hassle in the Castle". Let's not forget the time they were chased by a "haunted coat" (actually a goose under a coat) flying by itself, in which Scooby ended up ''snarling'' and making faces at, to scare it away.

* BlackBeltInOrigami: In one episode, Shaggy tries to bluff a Chinese ghost by saying "I know Judo, Chop Suey and Chinese Checkers!"

* BlondesAreEvil: [[spoiler:Charlene in ''Scooby Doo and the Monster of Mexico'', and Velma's cousin Marcy in ''A Scooby Doo Halloween''.]]

* BrotherChuck: Fred and Velma inexplicably vanish in ''TheThirteenGhostsOfScoobyDoo''. Fred, Velma ''and'' Daphne were absent in the shows made from 1980 through 1982. And then Daphne vanished too, leaving just Shaggy, Scrappy, and Scooby in the various TV Movies.

* CaptainColorbeard: Redbeard in "Go Away, Ghost Ship." He makes a second appearance in 1972's "The Ghostly Creep From The Deep," but in that story, he and his pirate crew are all ghost white and the voice is different (John Stephenson in "Ghost Ship," Lennie Weinrib in "Ghostly Creep").

* TheCastShowoff: The gang themselves but most notably Velma in the movie ''Scooby Doo and the Legend Of The Vampire'' where they pose as contestants in the rock show contest (as The Meddling Kids) and eventually win by default. Velma sings the "Scooby Doo, Where Are You!" theme. Poor child was petrified at first, but as she started singing, she put on quite a show.
** All five members of the gang and some of the other characters sing throughout the 2012 made-for-video feature ''Scooby Doo: Music Of The Vampire''.

--->'''Fred:''' "Um, uh...aw, darn it, I ''still'' don't have a catchphrase!"[[note]]He technically does, but "Let's split up, gang!" doesn't exactly work as an expression of shock.[[/note]]

* ChannelHop: From CBS to ABC in 1976. NBC may even count as ''Dynomutt'' was paired up with ''Godzilla'' for an hour-long show in 1981 on that network and the Scooby gang's appearances in ''Dynomutt'' were subsequently aired.

* CharmPerson: Nicara from ''WesternAnimation/The13GhostsOfScoobyDoo''.
ChekhovsGun: From ''WesternAnimation/The13GhostsOfScoobyDoo'', Flim-Flam was selling a concoction known as "Lots of Luck Joy Juice" when we first see him. [[spoiler: One of the ingredients was Wolfsbane, and a splash of it was enough to cure the werewolf villagers that put the gang into a corner.]]