YMMV / The Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo Show

• Alternate Character Interpretation:
  • Knowing when to fold 'em is a perfectly valid lesson. But Scrappy does have Super-Strength and in every single fight where he gets a chance to hold nothing back, he consistently comes out on top: (and doesn't naively stand still waiting for back up that will never come directly), including an enormous beast made of rock and lava (knocked over and rushed back up to the volcano from whence it came without so much as needing to catch his breath) and a bullfight (Shaggy and Scooby were pretty sure he was a goner ["That poor little pup..."] before the camera cuts back to a very soundly beaten bull and Scrappy without so much as a scratch). Most egregious is that Shaggy and Scooby were there for these victories and still see fit to act like he is completely helpless, especially since running away leaves to dumb luck the question of whether or not the monster will get them. Do they think he is helpless? Are they simply pulling him away because even though Scrappy has the capacity to fight the bad guy, he is a child who shouldn't need that kind of responsibility foisted upon him and doesn't realize what he is getting into mentally?
  • Scrappy: Is he a Boisterous Weakling or a ridiculously overpowered Cloudcuckoolander whose failures happen because he vastly overestimates his opponent's sense of honor and his Uncle Scooby's sense of courage?
• Accidental Aesop: So many of the scrapes the three get themselves in happen because they were too trusting of someone they had only just met, leaving one with the possible lesson of "Be careful of too-friendly strangers".
• Accidental Innuendo: "Let's have it, boys." The tone does not help at all.
• Awesome Art: Generally not, given the Saturday morning limited animation, but the backgrounds for "Scooby Goes West", believe it or not, are actually, dare I say, beautiful.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The two Englishmen in "Bungle in the Jungle". We never see them again, and they don't really contribute to the plot that much. It doesn't stop it from being hilarious, but it comes completely out of left field.
• Bizarro Episode: Identical strangers, aliens, and Animate Inanimate Objects are all things that have appeared on occasion throughout the shorts, but "Punk Rock Scooby" takes it up a notch by combining all above tropes and ending it off with a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment.
• Critic-Proof: Despite having a rocky time getting a DVD release and being a bit of a black sheep among some groups of older fans, it lasted for three seasons in a row (and then its old episodes were repackaged and lasted for two more seasons after that) and generally receives high ratings on modern review aggregation sites.
• Crosses the Line Twice: Dusty getting his badge ripped off? Not funny. Dusty getting his shirt ripped off because Yabba angrily dared the female pirate to do so (not expecting her to take him up on it)? A little funny. Yabba angrily daring her to do the same with Dusty's pants, only for her to take him up on that too? And Scrappy, a young child, standing there with a confused and worried expression like he knows that the pirate is doing something vastly inappropriate, but he can't quite put his paw on it? Pure Cringe Comedy.
• Epileptic Trees:
  • The reason the moon was so large and glowy in "Runaway Scrappy" was a result of Scrappy himself, albeit accidentally. Several times Scrappy has demonstrated above-average durability, strength, and whatnot. Scrappy was so sad that he changed the moon's appearance.
  • The reason Scrappy just let the pirate take him wasn't because the pirate actually had the faintest hope of besting and imprisoning him. Scrappy has tangled with supernatural creatures and busted through solid rock, with all that in mind, it seems positively ludicrous that a crazy old man and a loose fitting burlap sack would keep him down. Why did he? Well, Scrappy does seem to have a very odd picture of Scooby in his mind, so the way he saw it, he was cannon fodder for when the real back up arrived. Further supported when Scrappy believes, later, that Scooby is letting him help. And Scrappy's the one who defeats the pirate at the end of the episode...
• Ensemble Dark Horse: In the faction of the fandom that enjoys this continuity, expect to see a lot of discussion about Ruby-Doo, mainly since she's a surprisingly mysterious character for being Scrappy's mother and Scooby's sister. She only appears in one episode, in the flashback to Scrappy's birth.
• Fridge Brilliance: In "The Old Cat and Mouse Game", Scrappy immediately wanting to fight the (then) harmless cat unprovoked seems like Flanderization, until you remember that dogs '''hate''' cats, and Scrappy's doing what any dog would do!
• Harsher in Hindsight: In "Runaway Scrappy", Scrappy feels rejected and begins to feel that nobody wants him and actually breaks down crying, becoming a woobie. Years later, Scrappy's fears became true.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • "Scooby-Doo 2000" has Shaggy, Scooby, and Scrappy going into the future, where Scrappy finds a rocket powered skateboard. Come 2008...
  • In "Tumbleweed Derby", Dusty, Yabba, and Scrappy enter a horse named "Wildfire".
  • Shaggy pretends to be psychic.
• Memetic Molester: The unnamed ringleader of the river pirates, a very tough old woman who somehow gets away with, in a 1980s children's cartoon, ripping off Dusty's badge, outershirt, and pants (but fortunately not his underwear) onscreen.
  The Disney Dork: I think Dusty is in need of an adult, y'all.
• Narm Charm: It's a very silly series, but that's what makes it so much fun.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Wilbur, the bratty little boy that Shaggy, Scooby, and Scrappy have to look after in "Snow Job Too Small" is played by a young Scott Menville.
  • Future prolific voice actress Tress MacNeille has one of her first voice roles in this series, credited under additional voices during The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour.
• Tear Dryer: Scrappy went through a lot in "Runaway Scrappy", but is found and comforted by Dusty and Yabba at the end.
• The Woobie: Poor Dusty getting his clothes systematically ripped off by a woman because Yabba can't keep his big mouth shut is pure Cringe Comedy gold, but you can't help feeling for the poor man as he's systematically disrobed against his will, all while looking quite terrified.

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