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Post by Old School Scooby Fan on Mar 31, 2019 20:02:40 GMT -5
"Comic Book Caper" - because I personally grew up addicted to comic books (in particular, Richie Rich), though never interested in superhero comics.
"Disappearing Car Caper" - because of Scooby using a ray gun, and getting the shrunken cars back to normal size while in the Fearless Detective Agency office, and causing destruction to the building. Plus, the rare appearance of Fearless Shagaford himself.
"One Million Years Before Lunch" - Becayse I like Dula, who developed a crush on Shaggy.
"Basketball Bumblers" - because I like the way the bad team cheated, forcing Shaggy's team to win.
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Post by Old School Scooby Fan on Mar 31, 2019 19:47:56 GMT -5
I have some good news... I am working on enhancing Russ's code for a Scooby-Doo Mystery Plot Generator program i plan to create in C# code, using Visual Studio 2017. Much of the code is developed, based on the criteria data in Russ's Javascript code, but as an added bonus, I added extra criteria to describe a suspevt's physical features, such as gender, skin color (Caucasian, African-American, Hispanic, etc.), hair color and hairstyle, and wardrobe. i even plan on adding a section for randomizing first names (by gender) and last names, using US Census Bureau data from the 1970s and 1980s for first nanes, and use 1,000 surnames to choose from.
If this project is a success, I may take a stab at developing a script generator program, which might take a bit more work, but well worth it in the end!
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Post by Old School Scooby Fan on Mar 26, 2019 5:04:10 GMT -5
I have a feeling that, for DC to reduce the number of comic book titles it publishes, leaving only the core titles, this is a sure sign that the comic book (and print) industry is in decline, and DC appears to be no exception.
Back in the 1980s, you could easily buy a comic book with a $1 bill. Today, you probably need a $10 bill to buy just one issue. No wonder the industry is in decline!
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Post by Old School Scooby Fan on Mar 25, 2019 9:58:11 GMT -5
I like The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show and The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries more than any of the Scooby-Doo short segments from the package series in which Richie Rich and Puppy were involved. The absence of Daphne from 1980 to 1982, plus the changing of format (especially the use of witchcraft and magic spells, and one episode involving Shaggy magically transformed into a frog), made the Scooby-Doo series unwatchable until 1983 when Daphne returned, plus Daphne would definitely be a crush to me.
I also realize, when Daphne returned to the cast in 1983, the foursome would be involved in international crimefighting (which explains the Mystery Machine driving past silhouettes of various world landmarks in the opening theme - segments involved them traveling to Africa, Paris, Norway, Greece, and an extended segment on board an international train), plus there were two segments involving parodies of pop culture from around that time, including the TV dramas General Hospital and The Fall Guy, the movies Poltergeist and Tootsie, microcomputers and video games, and Dungeons and Dragons. There was even an Olympics-themed segment, which was quite fitting for that season, given that the summer Olympics occurred in Los Angeles the following July. I am quite surprised that "Alfalfa's Athlete's Feat" - involving a Ancient Olympics-style pentathlon - from The Little Rascals cartoon spinoff never got rebroadcast during Season 2, but considering that ABC was the official broadcaster of the 1984 Olympics, they may have faced uncertainty regarding possible pre-emptions, which ended up not being the case for the Rascals and Richie.
Though I have to admit, I like the seven-minute segments from The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour more than during The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show, but not the Yabba-Doo segments. Maybe the reason why I like those Scooby segments from that series is because of the recycling of background music used in the Richie Rich cartoon and The Little Rascals cartoon spinoff, plus some of the stories were just downright laughable, particularly the very end of "Disappearing Car Caper".
Based on the trends, it seems as if, by 1983, the writers were running out of ideas, and had to come up with ideas. They probably ended up settling on doing less work by doing parodies of then-current and recent TV shows and movies, stories involving pop culture back in those days, world travels, and also crazy ideas such as involving witchcraft and magic spells. Makes me wonder if Smurfs on NBC sparked such inspiration on the latter?
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Post by Old School Scooby Fan on Aug 31, 2018 16:33:01 GMT -5
Yes, I agree that the absence of Fred, Daphne and Velma is likely due to them being in college from September 1980 (technically, November 1980 due to a voice actors' strike) through Summer 1983, and Daphne had acquired a job in 1983 as a reporter for a teen magazine, while Shaggy was probably unemployed during 1980 and 1981. He did get hired by the Fearless Detective agency in 1982, but he wasn't involved with such agency in 1983 and Daphne rejoined the cast as an reporter also serving as an undercover sleuth.
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Post by Old School Scooby Fan on Aug 28, 2018 13:32:11 GMT -5
I am thinking, in-universe, Fred and Daphne were probably graduated from high school and/or took jobs to help pay for their college tuition, and Velma got a job with NASA. I wonder how Daphne managed to reunite with the three S's in "The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show" in 1983? I heard stories of Daphne rejoining the cast because she was working undercover while serving as a reporter for a teen or fashion magazine - is this true? And would Daphne be 18 years old in this 1983 incarnation, and Shaggy being 19?
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Post by Old School Scooby Fan on Aug 28, 2018 13:20:26 GMT -5
I do have to ask, did "The Secret of Shark Island" ever air on Cartoon Network in the U.S.? If it did air, maybe it was after Sonny Bono's death, and the episode could legally be broadcast since Sonny was deceased and it may imply that it was only he who refused to clear his appearance, and Cher had no problem clearing her appearance.
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Post by Old School Scooby Fan on Jul 21, 2018 21:29:11 GMT -5
Is there any background music from Scooby Doo used on Shirtales and Little Rascals. I know of at least one piece of background music used in all three series. It's usually designated as chase music, particularly in The Little Rascals. I heard such music in the episode "Tiny Terror" during a chase after Butch's baby brother, Spike; and at the beginning of "Science Fair and Foul" when Alfalfa and Spanky were seen running and catching the baseball. I believe I heard this background music in one of the 1982 Scooby episodes.
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Post by Old School Scooby Fan on Jul 17, 2018 10:43:10 GMT -5
I wonder if music rights issues has anything to do with why there has been no home video release of The Little Rascals animated spinoff? Maybe it might have to do with music used in The Little Rascals that was also used in the Scooby-Doo segments from The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour and Shirt Tales, yet the latter got released to DVD a few years back?
It's possible that if the same background music used in multiple series (not multiple incarnations of the same series), music rights issues may prevail. Also, regarding The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour, I did notice some background music on the Scooby segments were also used in the Richie Rich cartoon series. So maybe that might explain why there are no further DVD releases of Richie Rich at this time, yet ironically, many of the Richie Rich segments are available on the Boomerang App (though sadly, not accessible in Canada where I live).
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Post by Old School Scooby Fan on Jul 5, 2018 5:50:37 GMT -5
Were the Archie run of The Flintstones just reprints from the older issues published by Charlton and/or Gold Key, or were they brand new for 1990s?
I remember Harvey Comics publishing The Flintstones for a period between 1992 and 1994, as well as select other Hanna-Barbera characters. Harvey Comics also published Woody Woodpecker, and I did see the stories that ended with the traditional Gold Key "The End" in a circle on the final panel on the final page - which obviously depicts reprints. So I am safely guessing that Harvey's run of The Flintstones was actually reprints.
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Post by Old School Scooby Fan on Jul 5, 2018 5:38:56 GMT -5
It also aired in Canada too. I think those copyright laws Sonny Bono referred to may only apply to the U.S., but doesn't apply to other nations, including the UK and Canada.
CTV Two Atlantic (a network formerly known as Atlantic Satellite Network in Canada) had no problem airing "The Secret of Shark Island", but that was back in 1985. Teletoon Retro (again, in Canada, but now defunct) may also have aired it a few years ago, or they may have purchased the DVD set and only aired the limited run of 15 available episodes.
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Post by Old School Scooby Fan on Jun 17, 2018 6:49:00 GMT -5
I know there are three episodes in the entire spectrum of Scooby-Doo series that have teens underwater Fully-Clothed ("A Tiki Scare is No Fair" from SDWAY, "The Secret of Shark Island" from TNSDM, and "The Creepy Heap from the Deep" from TSDS - the latter of which I discovered yesterday evening). But are there other occurrences of teen sleuths being underwater fully-clothed in other episodes of the Scooby-Doo franchise?
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Post by Old School Scooby Fan on May 21, 2018 16:28:50 GMT -5
I just finished four 11-minute segments from TNS&SDS, and I discovered a pattern among three of them. "Scooby Ala Mode", "Scooby and the Minotaur" and "Scooby Pinch Hits" each had no greater than two clues, while "Who's Minding the Monster?" had Daphne discover a secret passageway plus she discovered a remote control to control Frankenstein, which they used to try to hunt down somebody, and would beep faster or louder when getting closer.
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Post by Old School Scooby Fan on May 21, 2018 8:47:17 GMT -5
Well, I did get a list of clues started. I started from the SDWAY! premiere on Scoobypedia, and used a keyboard command to allow the opportunity to search for clues by keying in "clue" and finding them based on that word.
It's also realized there is a strong likelihood that many clues can be recycled in future plots.
Also, off-topic, but were there actually any clues discovered in later incarnations, such as 1983's The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show? I'm tempted to say yes, as "The Creature Came from Chem Lab" did have the creature's skin and pirated computer games as clues. Or is evidence different from clues?
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Post by Old School Scooby Fan on May 16, 2018 19:12:36 GMT -5
I am wondering if there are any Scooby-Doo cases that are set in a school or college?
The only ones I can think of are:
"Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School" (1988 TV movie)
"The Creature Came from Chem Lab" from The New Scooby & Scrappy-Doo Show
and the SDMI episode which features April Stewart from The Funky Phantom making a cameo appearance.
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