YMMV / The New Scooby-Doo Movies

• Accidental Innuendo: Bat-milk and cookies for everyone!
  Shaggy: (confused) Bat-milk?
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Just about everyone likes the Globetrotters episodes, especially for the higher amount of action and decent banter in them. Seems even Hanna-Barbera agreed as Scooby has met them the most out of the special guest stars.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The episode that featured The Mamas & the Papas Cass Elliot owning a candy factory, and the many jokes made about her size and being a Big Eater. And the episode's ending had Cass vowing a grapefruit diet. Almost a year later, Cass Elliot passed away at the age of 32 in her sleep from heart failure. Her death was due to prior crash dieting, which brought the 5′5″ Cass Elliot down to 238 pounds, which weakened her heart.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • A wild west Amusement Park of Doom is ravaged by out-of-control animatronics, including a nasty gunslinger. Believe it or not, "Ghastly Ghost Town" predates Michael Crichton's Westworld by a whole year.
  • One episode featuring Batman and Robin had the Joker creeping out everyone at a funhouse using a microphone. One starts to wonder how this Edward G. Robinson–type Joker would sound giving the "One bad day" speech from The Killing Joke.
  • A promo for a Scooby-Doo Movies marathon on Cartoon Network had Shaggy prank calling Daphne in an obvious Shout-Out to Scream. Stu Macher's actor from Scream, who was the original Ghostface, Matthew Lillard, would go on to perform Shaggy in various Scooby-Doo projects.
  • In "The Exterminator" with Don Adams, the gang has a vote on whether they think the house is haunted. Scooby, Shaggy and Daphne vote "yes", and in later seasons, the three of them — along with Scrappy — would have real adventures with ghosts without Fred and Velma, who voted "no".
  • A Franchise with a history of crossing over with Batman, and an episode featuring voice work from both Bob Hastings and Mark Hamill?
  • In "The Spirit Spooked Sports Show" Michael Bell voices the bespectacled Jesse Finster. 18 years later he would voice another glasses wearing man named Finster.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • "The feeble-minded fools." ^Explanation In 2023, it became popular for users of YouTube to upload a clip from "The Caped Crusader Caper" in which Fred attempts to catch the Joker and Penguin off-guard by hiding inside a rolling tire headed straight towards the villains. The Penguin uses the quoted line to laugh off Fred's attempt to trip them up… only for it to work anyway because they failed to notice that Fred was holding a broom out of the tire's sides, sending the two airborne on impact.
  • "Come back here and fight like a man, you vegetable!" ^Explanation A particular scene from "Ghastly Ghost Town" wherein Fred attempts to chase down a person in a cactus costume who has been following he and Daphne around as they wander the desert, with him shouting this line as he does so. The clip gained some notoriety in the late 2010s-early 2020s because of the sheer absurdity of the scene, especially when viewed out of context.
• Spiritual Successor:
  • The Scooby-Doo! Team-Up comic series, which has the same basic principle as this series: Once per Episode Scooby and the gang are called upon and/or team up with a guest (or guests) to solve a mystery. The main difference is that the majority of the guest characters here tend to be DC Comics superheroes (Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, et al.) or fellow Hanna-Barbera characters (e.g., Jonny Quest, The Flintstones, and even HB Funny Animal characters like Secret Squirrel and Quick Draw McGraw) rather than popular celebrities at the time.
  • 2018 would see the announcement of an even straighter successor in the form of Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?, whose premise is essentially that of this show, only featuring more contemporary (and not-so-contemporary) guests such as Bill Nye, Jaleel White (as Steve Urkel), Kenan Thompson, Mark Hamill, and more (plus some old friends like Batman).
• Suspiciously Similar Song: Since Hanna-Barbera couldn't afford the rights to "Sweet Georgia Brown" for the Globetrotters episodes, a soundalike is used. It's the Ted Nichols score from the Globetrotters' own cartoon (1970).
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Despite an episode featuring Josie and the Pussycats (and mention of a benefit concert), we never get any songs from the group, not even their theme song.
• Unfortunate Character Design: The outfits of the villains in "Mystery of Haunted Island" and "Weird Winds of Winona" look like Ku Klux Klan uniforms. Not helping is that the former episode involves a group of white men sabotaging an all-black basketball team.
• Unintentional Period Piece: Likely applies to this more than any of the other Scooby-Doo shows. While modern-day kids will almost certainly know who Batman and Robin, The Addams Family, and The Harlem Globetrotters are, and probably even The Three Stooges (although they may be confused by Curly Joe^note this has to do with the fact that Curly Joe was the last surviving member of the original Stooges as both Shemp and Curly Howard were long dead by the time the crossover happened), Don Knotts, Laurel and Hardy, and Don Adams (or at least his voice), most of the other celebrities and characters will likely just leave them scratching their head as to exactly who they're supposed to be. Similarly, those fans unaware that Jeannie had her own animated spin-off will definitely be wondering why she's hanging out with two teenage boys and a bumbling fellow genie instead of Major Nelson and Major Healey^note Said teenage boys, Corry and Henry are not only stand-ins for Nelson and Healey, but are also expies of Fred and Shaggy.
• Values Dissonance:
  • The Secret of Shark Island has an Undercover Cop Reveal where the cop is Disguised in Drag. He cheerfully claims this is because the villains would never suspect a woman of being an undercover police officer.
  • When the gang investigates at Dick Van Dyke’s carnival, Daphne stops at a photo booth to have her picture taken for Dick to remember the day, indicating she’s attracted to him despite the fact he is old enough to be her father. Given how inappropriate that would be today, it’s unlikely you would see something like it on a children’s cartoon.

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