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Post by snesgamer on Oct 16, 2014 18:08:05 GMT -5
My grandpa was an amateur (VHS) video recorder, and I remember him making whole videos of Scooby eps for us to watch together.
Scooby is just one of those things from my childhood I enjoy every bit as much today at 31 as I did at 7 or 8. I see myself being a fan for an indefinite amount of time in the future, I mean if I was going to "outgrow" it I would've thought I would have already - but no sense in "growing up" if you don't have to right? A bit of nostalgia is actually very healthy I think!
I have caught basically every series and episode except for those 7-minute Scooby/Scrappy/Shaggy-only episodes and Get a Clue, both of which I felt deviated too far from the formula (13 Ghosts was cool though, if only for Vincent Price).
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Post by UltimateScoobyFan on Oct 17, 2014 12:32:12 GMT -5
I am the same way! I love scooby-doo just as much at the age of 22 that I did when I was 7. Started for me when I was 7 years old. I watched classic scooby-doo where are you? and I loved it. I remember my mom telling me she watched scooby-doo as a child and that made me think scooby was even cooler! My parents started buying me scooby toys, clothes, VHS tapes. It was all i wanted. I will never forget this one time, when I was 13 years old, it was christmas time and we had not seen our father in a little over a year. So he asked us to make a list of what we wanted. So my typical teenager answers: CDS, band shirts, movies and at the end I put anything scooby-doo. Dad looks at the list and goes, you still like scooby-doo?? And I was like, YES! Here I am, almost 23 years old and I am still collecting memorabilia.
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Post by scoob16 on Oct 17, 2014 12:55:50 GMT -5
I remember catching those Scooby-Doo Show episodes on Greek TV and loved them!! The first I watched must have been "The Fiesta Host Is an Aztec Ghost". I also remember drawing an activity (like a maze or a puzzle) based on the episode I had watched. For example, for the episode mentioned abpve, I had drawn a maze where Scooby and the gang had to get out of the Mayan pyramid!
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Post by ScoobyAddict on Oct 17, 2014 13:37:11 GMT -5
I loved Scooby-Doo since I started watching Saturday morning cartoons years and years ago! My parents used to bring me something Scooby related home from the Warner Brothers store (when the Warner Brothers stores were still around) every time they went to Atlantic City. I love Scooby!! I created my first Scooby site in the 90's. I can't totally remember the year.
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Post by russm on Oct 17, 2014 16:53:50 GMT -5
Well being in my late forties I grew up on Hong-Kong Phooey, Penelope Pitstop, Wacky Races, Road Runner, Banana Splits etc and of course Scooby Doo.
I got back into Scooby Doo when my children were growing up WNSD with my daughter and SDMI with my son. I also started to watch the DTV's, the one that really got me into Scooby (and probably a sectionable crush on Velma) was Where's My Mummy and the rest (plus nearly 400,000 words of fan fiction) is history
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Post by Doo on Oct 17, 2014 17:59:32 GMT -5
I watched Scooby-Doo on the USA network when I was around 8 and I have watched Scooby ever since. I believe the first episode I saw was "A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts" from Where Are You. Now, I have seen every single Scooby episode, movie or special ever made made.
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Post by Maybeth on Oct 18, 2014 15:28:12 GMT -5
Like most kids, I was too, spending lot of time in front of TV. But one of the shows that stands out is, of course, Scooby-Doo!!! I remember being all excited whenever the live action movies were on TV and I realised I must have watched episodes from several shows. (Get A Clue, What's New, Where are you Scooby Doo, 13 ghosts, and of course the Scooby-Doo show, and maybe others too...) But "growing up" made me gradually leave it behind. I got back into Scooby -and this time for good- when my friend, scoob16 talked me into watching "Scooby-Doo Mystery Incorporated". Honestly? I wasn't sure about it... Like, not at all!! But after an episode or two, I loved it!!! And then started watching more intently... And then I somehow got into the fandom!! Thank you scoob16!!
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Post by scoob16 on Oct 18, 2014 15:37:18 GMT -5
Like most kids, I was too, spending lot of time in front of TV. But one of the shows that stands out is, of course, Scooby-Doo!!! I remember being all excited whenever the live action movies were on TV and I realised I must have watched episodes from several shows. (Get A Clue, What's New, Where are you Scooby Doo, 13 ghosts, and of course the Scooby-Doo show, and maybe others too...) But "growing up" made me gradually leave it behind. I got back into Scooby -and this time for good- when my friend, scoob16 talked me into watching "Scooby-Doo Mystery Incorporated". Honestly? I wasn't sure about it... Like, not at all!! But after an episode or two, I loved it!!! And then started watching more intently... And then I somehow got into the fandom!! Thank you scoob16!! No problemo! Glad to be able to expand the fandom!! P.S. I wasn't sure about Legend of Korra either when you suggested it to me, but now I'm hooked!!! ;D
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Post by SpiderScooby on Oct 18, 2014 23:58:34 GMT -5
I think it was the combination of the cartoon network marathons and the oild "Classic Scooby-Doo" VHS tapes that got me into it{I also remember the reruns on USA, mainly the 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo}. I got back into Scooby when The Mystery Begins was announced.
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Post by snesgamer on Oct 19, 2014 21:27:10 GMT -5
I find it interesting that some of you had a "break" period right about that time when watching things like Scooby was "uncool" or probably frowned upon by your peers.
I never quite got to the point where I "gave up" Scooby, but there was definitely a period where I felt kind of awkward watching it as a 15-18 year old. I think when we're teens we have a mistaken idea that "growing up" and "maturing" mean giving up everything we liked as a kid.
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Post by scoob16 on Oct 20, 2014 11:02:09 GMT -5
I find it interesting that some of you had a "break" period right about that time when watching things like Scooby was "uncool" or probably frowned upon by your peers. I never quite got to the point where I "gave up" Scooby, but there was definitely a period where I felt kind of awkward watching it as a 15-18 year old. I think when we're teens we have a mistaken idea that "growing up" and "maturing" mean giving up everything we liked as a kid. You can't imagine what's the pressure like... Being told that you're too old for cartoons... I will never stop watching Scooby, but I prefer to keep a low profile on it...
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Post by Maybeth on Oct 20, 2014 11:06:52 GMT -5
I find it interesting that some of you had a "break" period right about that time when watching things like Scooby was "uncool" or probably frowned upon by your peers. I never quite got to the point where I "gave up" Scooby, but there was definitely a period where I felt kind of awkward watching it as a 15-18 year old. I think when we're teens we have a mistaken idea that "growing up" and "maturing" mean giving up everything we liked as a kid. It's not always about that. Along with the influence of 'outsiders' (friends, school mates) comes the critism of 'insiders' like family. There is that faulse belief, that 'maturity' means letting go of everything you used to like as a kid.... Well, in my opinion, being mature, means being yourself with limits and a further level of understanding and behaving. While immature, means doing what everybody else does, without acknowledging who you are, and what you want! My parents were a bit taken aback thinking I was watching "cartoons", but once they realised I wasn't changing my mind, and that is wht I like, they backed off. (Sorta )
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Post by russm on Oct 20, 2014 15:36:26 GMT -5
I find it interesting that some of you had a "break" period right about that time when watching things like Scooby was "uncool" or probably frowned upon by your peers. I never quite got to the point where I "gave up" Scooby, but there was definitely a period where I felt kind of awkward watching it as a 15-18 year old. I think when we're teens we have a mistaken idea that "growing up" and "maturing" mean giving up everything we liked as a kid. Not a break, if it was on I might watch it but between then and now there's years of doing other stuff so sitting at home waiting for a TV programme to come on is low on the priority list, in my final year at uni the only programme my house would make sure we watched was Blackadder Goes Forth as we had plenty of other stuff to do. I've always enjoyed cartoons and never cared what others thought about it.
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Post by Doo on Oct 20, 2014 17:06:05 GMT -5
I find it interesting that some of you had a "break" period right about that time when watching things like Scooby was "uncool" or probably frowned upon by your peers. I never quite got to the point where I "gave up" Scooby, but there was definitely a period where I felt kind of awkward watching it as a 15-18 year old. I think when we're teens we have a mistaken idea that "growing up" and "maturing" mean giving up everything we liked as a kid. It's not always about that. Along with the influence of 'outsiders' (friends, school mates) comes the critism of 'insiders' like family. There is that faulse belief, that 'maturity' means letting go of everything you used to like as a kid.... Well, in my opinion, being mature, means being yourself with limits and a further level of understanding and behaving. While immature, means doing what everybody else does, without acknowledging who you are, and what you want! My parents were a bit taken aback thinking I was watching "cartoons", but once they realised I wasn't changing my mind, and that is wht I like, they backed off. (Sorta ) Agreed. I think that as long as you like it, it doesn't matter what the "target audience" is, as long as YOU like it. You shouldn't let others define your beliefs or make you feel stupid for watching cartoons, whether it's Dora or Scooby-Doo.
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Post by groovyscooby on Oct 21, 2014 8:36:49 GMT -5
It's not always about that. Along with the influence of 'outsiders' (friends, school mates) comes the critism of 'insiders' like family. There is that faulse belief, that 'maturity' means letting go of everything you used to like as a kid.... Well, in my opinion, being mature, means being yourself with limits and a further level of understanding and behaving. While immature, means doing what everybody else does, without acknowledging who you are, and what you want! My parents were a bit taken aback thinking I was watching "cartoons", but once they realised I wasn't changing my mind, and that is wht I like, they backed off. (Sorta ) Agreed. I think that as long as you like it, it doesn't matter what the "target audience" is, as long as YOU like it. You shouldn't let others define your beliefs or make you feel stupid for watching cartoons, whether it's Dora or Scooby-Doo. Agreed!!!! Don't let others define you, but be firm in your own beliefs and interests
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