Scooby Doo, Where Are You! is the first incarnation of the long-running Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo. It premiered on September 13, 1969 at 10:30 AM EST and ran for two seasons on CBS as a half-hour long show. Twenty-five episodes were produced (seventeen in 1969-1970 and eight more in 1970).
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! was the result of CBS and Hanna-Barbera's plans to create a non-violent Saturday morning program, which would appease the parent watch groups that had protested the superhero-based programs of the mid-1960s. Originally titled Mysteries Five, and later Who's S-S-Scared?, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! underwent a number of changes from script to screen (the most notable of which was the downplaying of the musical group angle borrowed from The Archie Show). However, the basic concept—four teenagers Fred, Daphne, Velma, and Shaggy, along with a large goofy Great Dane, Scooby-Doo, solving supernatural-related mysteries—was always in place. Character development was not a major focus of early sitcoms (especially animated cartoons), so little was offered about the personal lives of the Mystery Inc. members before the show, aside from the obvious (i.e. they are high school students). Also, each episode is a self-contained story, with connections to previous or future episode. (A story arc for the franchise did not exist until Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, which is essentially a reboot with everything that WAY didn't have or wasn't allowed to.)
Writing
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Scooby-Doo creators Joe Ruby and Ken Spears served as the story supervisors on the series. Ruby, Spears, and Bill Lutz wrote all of the scripts for the seventeen first-season Scooby episodes, while Ruby, Spears, Lutz, Larz Bourne, and Tom Dagenais wrote the eight second-season episodes. The plot varied little from episode to episode. The main concept was as follows:
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The Mystery Inc. gang turn up in the Mystery Machine, en route to or returning from a regular teenage function when their van develops engine trouble or breaks down for any of a variety of reasons (overheating, flat tire, etc.), in the immediate vicinity of a large, mostly-vacated property (ski lodge, hotel, factory, mansion, etc.).
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Their (unintended) destination turns out to be suffering from a monster problem (ghosts, Frankenstein, Yeti, etc.). The kids volunteer to investigate the case.
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The gang splits up to cover more ground, with Fred and Velma finding clues, Daphne finding danger, and Shaggy and Scooby finding food, fun, and the ghost/monster, who gives chase. Scooby and Shaggy in particular love to eat, including dog treats called Scooby Snacks which are a favorite of both the dog and the teenage boy.
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Eventually, enough clues are found to convince the gang that the ghost/monster is a fake, and a trap is set to capture it.
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The trap may or may not work (more often than not, Scooby-Doo falls into the trap and they accidentally catch the monster another way, usually if the plan is explained in detail before attempted execution it fails). Invariably, the ghost/monster is apprehended and unmasked. The person in the ghost or monster suit turns out to be an apparently blameless authority figure or otherwise innocuous local who is using the disguise to cover up something such as crime or a scam.
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After giving the parting shot of "And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you blasted meddling kids" (sometimes adding "...and your stupid dog!"), the offender is then taken away to jail, and the gang is allowed to continue on their way to their destination.
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"electriccarbattery"
Alright, here's what's gonna happen. Shaggy, Scooby, you're headed upstairs to the library. See if you can find some information relevant to this ghost. You will head straight to the library. No scooby snacks, no dining hall, you see a long hallway with a series of doors? You walk past it. Velma, Daphne, go talk to the people outside, ask them what they know about the owners of this mansion. Fred, you're on trap duty. You catch anyone? You bring them to me, I'll handle it. Understand?
Came out as trans to more friends while drunk, two of them mainly focused on calling me an alcoholic (I am one) and the other gave like the most shitlib response I've ever seen, but like he was fully accepting, he just phrased it in an out of touch liberal way. Idk I'm still glad I did it, I needed to gradually force myself out my comfort zone.
Coming out was one of the hardest things I did, even though I knew my family and ex would be super supportive - good job!
some guy living in Alta California on February 2nd, 1848 wondering why everything suddenly got way less yellow
Death to America. That's all, just saw some courtroom footage and it made me want to
. I first went to court at 11 years old, for skipping school. I dont wanna get to into the details of what happened in juvy but it was fucking awful. Anyway I have horribly intrusive thoughts when I see courtroom footage where the judge is being "epic". Every day living in this country I ask myself "Why do we let them?"
because our day is coming
I generally agree though, judges are the pettiest people on Earth.
Anyone who lives within 100 miles of a US military base should get to vote in US elections.
To include all of Cuba it'd have to be a 650 mile radius of Guantanamo Bay. This would have the side effect of including Puerto Rico, as well as Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and the Bahamas in that radius.
Southernmost base in Florida is in Homestead. To cover the western tip of Cuba from there requires a radius of just under 400 miles.
Puerto Ricans can vote but only if they don't live in PR (also apparently mainland citizens who live in PR can't vote)
We can vote in primaries even in the island though, but of course the only people who bother doing that are
anyway.
let everyone who's affected by us imperialism vote in us elections
CS ethics class where the lecture is just quizzing trolley problem variants and the class voting on who lives.
going off rn
"Oh yeah? You're saying Starfield has no lore or worldbuilding? Heh, you must not have played the one singular questline that features a museum exhibit about the lore and world history, rookie mistake buddy!"
Dunno how you can even engage with people like this.
Apparently instead of writing in-universe books with actual text, the books just get like summaries as their description?
Even real world public domain books like Moby Dick just get like "its about a guy whos angry at a whale, this book was very famous back before humanity went interstellar"
i would love to pirate starfield just to use it to read books
I was talking to a friend of mine about their plans to vacation in China for a month and I was asking what their plan was for lodging. A month of hotel bills would surely rack up fast? No, their plan was to rent an apartment in Shanghai, one of the most expensive cities in China. They found a nice one for $300, and apparently it's shockingly easy to rent and can be done on whatever the Chinese equivalent of Craigslist is in about an hour or so
good lord i hate america
Scooby doo taught me the lengths people will go to in order to profit from real estate. Most of the time it seemed like it was some rich dude trying to scare people away so they could buy it for cheap
Overheard convo:
"I hope the writers strike ends soon, I want to go back to watching SNL"
"... and by 'I hope it ends soon' I mean the workers should get their demands met, of course"