Line #25 HilariousInHindsight/ScoobyDoo


1	These hilarious coincidences are found thanks to YouMeddlingKids.
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3	!!The franchise as a whole:
4	* In the ''Where Are You!'' episode "Foul Play at Funland", Shaggy and Scooby remark about Charlie the robot being like Franchise/{{Superman}}. The next series, ''The New Scooby-Doo Movies'', included [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Batman and Robin]] as guest stars. Eventually, Creator/WarnerBros became the owners of both Franchise/DCComics and Scooby-Doo. Mystery Inc would team with Superman in [[ComicBook/ScoobyDooTeamUp comic books]], and more than five decades since that episode first aired, Superman would be featured with Mystery Inc in animation [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndKryptoToo for the first time]].
5	* At the end of ''Scooby Doo! Pirates Ahoy'', Fred's dad mentions they should give them a trip to the Himalayas for Fred's birthday next year, which Shaggy quickly passes on because he doesn't want to risk a run in with the Abominable Snowman. The next year's movie, ''WesternAnimation/ChillOutScoobyDoo'' saw this happen as the main plot.
6	* ''The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries'' HalloweenEpisode "A Halloween Hassle at Dracula's Castle" saw Shaggy attend a costume party as a werewolf. ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheReluctantWerewolf'' aired four years later.
7	* Creator/CaseyKasem's dispute over wanting Shaggy to be a vegetarian after he had to voice Shaggy in a commercial for Burger King is amusing now that Burger King now promotes a meatless vegetarian burger, and is one of the very few major fast food chains to do so.
8	* A mummy, on the Orient Express. Sorry, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E8MummyOnTheOrientExpress Doctor]], Scooby did it first in the 1980s.
9	* The [[WesternAnimation/TrickOrTreatScoobyDoo 2022 confirmation]] of Velma being lesbian after ''decades'' of her orientation being theorized, in light of the fact that [[Music/HayleyKiyoko the actress who plays her]] in the live action Scooby-Doo prequels is a real life lesbian.
10	** Going back much, much further; Velma was originally based on [[Series/TheManyLovesOfDobieGillis 60s sitcom character Zelda Gilroy]]. Zelda's actress, Sheila James Kuehl, publicly came out as lesbian around 1986 or earlier.
11	* Velma is featured as the brainiest and most intellectual character of the franchise. Sheila Kuehl, the former actress whose [[Series/TheManyLovesOfDobieGillis sitcom character]] was the inspiration for Velma, went on to successful careers first as an attorney, then a law professor, then a State Assemblywoman, then a State Senator, and then a County Supervisor. So then, fictional Velma and real-life Kuehl have ended up being a whole lot alike, with both becoming positive images of brilliance and being LBGT.
12	* In the mid-90s, Creator/CartoonNetwork played a commercial parodying the beginning of ''{{Film/Scream}}'', featuring Daphne being called by a spooky voice that turns out to be Shaggy, asking for some popcorn. After Creator/CaseyKasem retired from voice acting, Creator/MatthewLillard (who was [[spoiler:one of the killers]] in the first ''Film/{{Scream}}'' movie) took over as Shaggy's voice actor.
13	* The iconic, classic look of the Mystery Machine was actually a mix of late 60s Ford, Chevy, Dodge and Volkswagen vans, designed to avoid looking like any one particular manufacturer. By sheer accident, it looks almost exactly like the ''Russian'' UAZ-462 off-road van, produced continuously since 1965.
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15	!!The first live-action film:
16	* The film has shared many similarities to ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014'' and not just the fact they were both written by Creator/JamesGunn.
17	** Rocket/Groot and Scooby/Shaggy are seen by James Gunn as the heart and soul of both franchises.
18	** Fred and Starlord are the slick womanizing leaders that have a dance-off by the climax.
19	** Daphne and Gamora are badass women that know martial arts.
20	** Drax and Velma have the biggest vocabulary of the groups.
21	** A tropical location (Xandar/Spooky Island) is where the climax takes place.
22	* Speaking of Marvel, Shaggy says "[[Film/AvengersInfinityWar I don't feel so good]]" after he ate the plastic sausages.
23	* In "Night of the Living Toys", a 1984 ''New Scooby-Doo Mysteries'' episode. [[spoiler: A woman finds Scrappy cute and tries to put ribbons on him, and which he dislikes immensely. Later when she turns out to be the woman behind the mask, he states that he didn't trust her as soon as she tried to put ribbons on him. Live-Action Scrappy is the one who thinks of himself as cute, and ''he is the villain of this movie.'']]
24	* Most of the Spooky Island demons are voiced by Creator/JessHarnell and sound just like ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot''. Harnell would voice the gaming icon since 2005.
25	* After [[spoiler:Scrappy]] was revealed to be the villain, many ''Franchise/StarWars'' fans suspected that Jar Jar Binks is the main antagonist of the sequel trilogy. Turns out they were wrong. Funnier enough, Creator/FreddiePrinzeJr and Creator/SarahMichelleGellar voiced Kannan Jarrus and the Seventh Sister from ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'' with Prinze returning for a voice cameo in ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker''. There was also a Shaggy expy in the 2003 ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars''.
26	* [[spoiler: Scrappy-Doo's OneWingedAngel form]] bears a strong resemblance to the giant dogs in ''VideoGame/EldenRing''.
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