Why did they get rid of Scooby-Dum

[rorethedumfan]

Scooby-Dum was one of the best scooby doo characters and they should bring him back. If they do another scooby-doo reboot at least have scooby-dum so it might have a slight chance of being better. thoughts? like why do u think they stopped having scooby dum appear in the show?

[Ark]

I recall a weird Twitter battle where people couldn't even decide on who had voiced him. I suspect securing a voice was part of the issue.

[vakanai]

To be honest in our current culture I'm not sure a character with Dum in their name and who is portrayed as actually "dumb" would fly today. Kind of the whole it's mean to call people dumb or something something cancel culture, I don't know how to explain things well but I think that might be at least partially why. Of course I'm just as likely to be wrong as right on this, can't trust my gut instincts for nothing you know.

[Dyland]

A lot of people hate on Scrappy, but I never found him annoying. Scooby Dum on the other hand... yeah, that one grinds my gears. The definitive "Jar Jar Binks" of Scooby-Doo, imho.

Myself? I'm glad he's gone.

I assume he wasn't super popular with the fans either - and that's why he was canned. But if you like him, that's cool. Maybe he will make a return appearance one day? Who knows.

[barneynedward]

Dum just had no potential staying power as a recurring character. He was a One Note comic relief character added to a series that already had enough comic relief money. The character is practically rip off of Walt Disney’s Goofy and also Edgar Bergen Mortimer Snerd. There just isn’t enough. They can really do with him to justify giving him more appearances.

[Ark]

Wasn't "dum" referring to his "dum dum dum" thing he did? Call me crazy, but I'm not sure he's actually supposed to be the ultimate caricature of "dumb".