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Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
The New Scooby-Doo Movies
The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour
Dynomutt: Dog Wonder
Scooby and Scrappy-Doo
The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Hour
The Scooby and Scrappy Puppy Hour
Scooby-Doo Mystery Fun House
What's New, Scooby-Doo?

Animal
Cracker

Outfit: blue slacks / collared shirt / ascot / brown monkstrap shoes

Tagline: "Let's split up, gang!"

Plot summary:  Scooby-Doo is the well-mined popular culture city-state that produced not only sixteen-billion versions of itself but sixteen-billion-and-one imitations.  A group of teenagers from an assumedly non-profit mystery solving organization run out of the back of a van, drive around the world in said van, locate whatever, and then immediately flee from it.   Without Scooby-Doo Hanna-Barbera would've spent the seventies scraping the alliterative animal name barrel's bottom so finely that the atoms in the wood would split and we would be the victims of "Chummy Chinchilla," "Grouchy Sharp-Tailed Grouse," and a debilitating nuclear holocaust.

Fred "Freddy" Jones is the ringleader of Mystery Inc., in charge of keeping his three teenage friends and their talking dog out of harms way by leading them headfirst into the problem and solving it via dropping a net on someone from above.  Freddy is supposed to be the alpha male and the brains of the operation (along with Velma), but every single problem they faced (killer bees, Centaur, Demon Circus) would be solved by haphazardly riding mine carts or dropping a net on someone from above.  He'd make a great marriage counselor.  "Try having sex in a speeding mine cart!"  "If you're worried about your child drinking alcohol, throw a net on him."  Since the proliferation of the Internet in the 90s Freddy has taken to just fast-pitching computer monitors at people.  (more)

User Comments: Fred's ascot is an iconic symbol of animation, and no amount of condescending Cartoon Network spoofing or Freddie Prinze Jr. be-ing can erase it's symbolism.  It waves as a flag for the inept but well-intending nosey teenager in all of us.  Every time a teen opens a door or pushes a button they aren't supposed to, Freddy's ascot is there.  Whenever an amusement park owner decides that the best use of his time would be to dress up like a robot, Fred's ascot is there being worn anxiously.  Scooby-Doo is one of the most beloved and important cartoons ever created, and I swear to God if I ever have to hear one more thing about it I'm going to choke out Casey Kasem and hang Freddie Prinze Jr. by his own poorly-acted neckerchief. 

User Rating: 5.7/10 (23,457,778 votes)