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The example calls him an Ethnic Scrappy, so he's hated for being an offensive racial caricature. It also says that by the time Flim-Flam was introduced, Scrappy himself was Rescued from the Scrappy Heap.
Scrappy's "rescuing" is on account of not being Flim-Flam, so it's debatable if it's truly a rescuing or if it's just that the show went to shit so he's not as bad in comparison.
The Scooby-Doo character named Flim-Flam had a Scrappy status that was worse than the trope namer himself. Why did people hate him?