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Post by groovyscooby on Oct 21, 2014 8:38:33 GMT -5
I got into it as a kid. I remember watching SDWAY summer between 3rd and 4th grade and WNSD in 4th gr. I also remember watching SDWAY and WNSD when they would have it on in the evenings. I got very into it my frosh yr of college and the rest one could say is history
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Post by mattpricetime on Oct 25, 2014 1:55:35 GMT -5
My Scooby journey begain in 1995, with then four year old me. In the past me and my family lived with my grandmother, and we didn't have cable. So my main cartoon fix was with Disney and Tom and Jerry (which a local channel pretty much spammed back then) but then we moved and got cable, and along with that came Cartoon Network and my first run in with Mister Doo, and the rest was set in stone. I've spoken personally on my ideology on the other discussion. As is i feel nostalgia is one of the most abused words on the internet. As I don't feel in most cases it ever clouds taste. People like what you like. If some people want to get snobbier with age and stop liking cartoons, that's good for them, it's your life. But don't get upset because other people decided not to be as much as a stick in the mud I guess in some respects i've had it luckier, age never changed my parent's taste in cartoons. Nor did it to a lot of other people older than me. Earlier this year I was geeking out with my friend's Dad over Captain Caveman. It was fun, but in my case my tastes just expanded with age. There's very few things I liked when younger i now don't appreciate as much. And one of the most fascinating parts to me are when older discovering how much MORE of the some of the types i like exist that i never knew before. So in a way my maturing didn't limit my tastes, it taught me to treat what i already had as a gateway drug of sorts lol.
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Post by Sophia Peletier on Nov 8, 2014 20:00:32 GMT -5
As a young kid, my younger relatives, siblings, and I really enjoyed the classic Scooby shows. They were frequently on TV, especially "Where Are You", "A Pup Named Scooby Doo", and "The New Scooby Doo Movies". I was always a Daphne fan! I even caught both films in theaters, one during my birthday! As time passed though ('04 or '05?), they stopped showing the classic Scooby shows and switched over to "What's New?". I caught a few episodes here and there but wasn't as drawn in. From then, my only real interaction with Scooby was the first four DTV films (mainly Zombie Island, the only one I actually owned on VHS). I caught the films on Cartoon Network whenever they were on. When I started high school, it had been quite some time since I had seen anything Scooby related. I changed the channel to CN during a weekend while I was bored, and they were going to show "Scooby Doo And The Alien Invaders". I decided to watch it and was amazed by how well-done the movie was. I really appreciated the amazing art design, strong story, and excellent voice work (especially BJ Ward). Not long after that, CN also aired "Scooby Doo And The Monster Of Mexico". It was at the part where they thought the Chupacabra was going after Daphne. When I heard them speak, I was quite shocked at how mature Daphne and Velma sounded. At that point, BJ Ward was embedded in my mind as THE Velma and I was only familiar with Mary Kay Bergman and Grey DeLisle as Daphne becase it had been too long since I'd seen the classic shows. This sparked a new interest in the Scooby series. I was curious as to how the voices changed over the years. I caught a few classic episodes through an "on-demand" video service my cable company provided. I went on the internet and did research on the series, mainly curious about the classics. I decided to do a series marathon and went through every Scooby series and movie up to Mystery Incorporated, excluding Get A Clue. Now, I consider myself to be a major Scooby fan and am not afraid to admit. It has sparked a few interesting conversations with acquaintances and friends. After doing all this research and going through all Scooby shows, I now have a major appreciation for the classic series and am unsatisfied with how WB has handled the series since taking over. I will always see Heather North as the one true Daphne and hope she returns in some capacity for a 50th anniversary reunion along with Nicole Jaffe. The other actresses pale in comparison, especially DeLisle. I'm now torn between whether I like Nicole Jaffe, Pat Stevens, and BJ Ward as Velma best. They all did an excellent job in the role. I'm not very satisfied with Mindy's take on the character, although part of the blame can be on the writing/script. I still enjoyed the modern takes on the series, although I am very annoyed with the voice work and that Heather and Nicole didn't permanently return after 2003. The ARE their respective characters and were PERFECT in the two modern movies they starred in. They would've made me enjoy the modern shows so much more.
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Post by Doo on Nov 11, 2014 18:46:26 GMT -5
I will always see Heather North as the one true Daphne and hope she returns in some capacity for a 50th anniversary reunion along with Nicole Jaffe. Although I don't mind the current voice actors, I like the idea of all the previous voice actors returning for the 50th anniversary too.
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Post by snesgamer on Nov 11, 2014 19:03:28 GMT -5
Of course that unfortunately can't include Kasem now . I read somewhere that Jaffe quit to focus on her "new" marriage. Not to sound judgmental or anything - but it's been 41 years, think she's adjusted yet? Does she just hate the role, or is she just not getting contacted for the job anymore?
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Post by Doo on Nov 11, 2014 20:47:51 GMT -5
Of course that unfortunately can't include Kasem now . I read somewhere that Jaffe quit to focus on her "new" marriage. Not to sound judgmental or anything - but it's been 41 years, think she's adjusted yet? Does she just hate the role, or is she just not getting contacted for the job anymore? It's possible that she would return, after all she returned for Legend of the Vampire & Monster of Mexico.
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Post by Ark on Mar 7, 2016 16:24:02 GMT -5
My aunt would mail us recorded tapes of "Cartoon Network" and "TBS Disaster Area" cartoons. My siblings and I loved the Scooby Doo ones. I think the first episode I ever saw was the one with the Skeleton Men at the Bermuda Triangle. First movie I remember watching was Boo Brothers. There's something endearing about Scooby Doo that I've never seemed to lose since.
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Post by Soupperson on Mar 12, 2016 17:50:31 GMT -5
My mom's twin sister introduced to me it, I believe. She used to watch it with my mom when she was a kid. I was hooked for about the age of 4-9 (I really didn't like Shaggy and Scooby get a clue). I got back into it at the end of '14 (I was 14) when I heard rumors of LEGO getting the license.
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Post by somebody-doo on Mar 17, 2016 9:55:49 GMT -5
I was only like two or three when I started it so I don't remember.
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Post by doobert on Apr 18, 2016 4:27:50 GMT -5
I started watching TV in the mid 90's, growing up and Cartoon Network was still basically the Hanna-Barbera channel back then. I liked a lot of shows that aired (of course), but Scooby Doo especially stuck out for me, mostly for the mystery aspect.
I started renting a lot of Scooby Doo videos, and I was completely hooked as a kid. I especially remember renting Zombie Island when it first came out on video.
When What's New Scooby Doo started airing, I basically watched it from beginning to end, and I saw both of the live-action movies. Every day that I was sick from school, or there was a snow day, I remember trying to see that Scooby Doo hour block that Cartoon Network would air from Monday to Friday, during the mid 2000's. I usually looked forward to The Scooby Doo Show episodes most of all, since I hadn't seen a lot of those, compared to SDWAY (for obvious reasons).
I'm still a Scooby-Doo fan to this day, and I still anticipated the animated movies and the TV shows. It's great stuff, and I can't get enough of it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2019 11:47:00 GMT -5
Love this thread! Fun to read how others got introduced to the franchise.
My first exposure to Scooby was when my grandmother (who herself is a Scooby fan; she even named one of her cats after him in the '70s, but I digress) bought my brother and I VHS tapes of several Scooby films (namely Goes Hollywood, Ghoul School and the first four DTV films) to watch when we were really little. I have many fond memories of those days.
But it wasn't until the mid-2000s when I learned there were shows about Scooby (we didn't get channels that showed any of them until then), and once I watched Where Are You, Pup (usually on whenever I was at school, which is why it felt so special to watch when sick at home) and What's New, that was when I really got hooked. And it's stayed that way since.
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Post by shaggyfan86 on Nov 10, 2019 12:24:19 GMT -5
I can't remember, I was into Scooby even back at the age oh 9. I used to watch episodes on VHS back when Block buster stores still was up. I also watched those marathons Cartoon Network used to during Halloween months. That was back before all those reboots started going on. Shaggy has always been my reason For liking the series though.
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Post by Jinkies on Apr 9, 2020 12:43:19 GMT -5
I got into Scooby as a kid. Most school mornings there would be Scooby Doo reruns on Boomerang, so I would watch an episode or two while getting ready for school. My parents also fed into the addiction by getting me almost every movie they could, plushies, and the mystery machine pez collection with all the characters. It’s been something my dad and I bonded over for years, and it holds fond memories. <3
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Post by wileyk209 on May 3, 2020 15:40:50 GMT -5
When I was in second grade (1995-1996) I really got into Cartoon Network when I saw that we got it in our cable package. I was watching a bunch of different shows on it, from Hanna-Barbera (older stuff to the then-new "What a Cartoon!" shorts), the MGM shorts (Tom and Jerry, Droopy, Barney Bear, etc.) and the Warner Bros. shorts (classic Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, mostly shorts made in the 1940s). And I also enjoyed their old "Mr. Spim's Cartoon Theatre" block (especially since they ran one of my favorite Peanuts features, "Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown!" as part of that block). But then one night in early 1996 (I was seven years old then), I tuned into Cartoon Network and came across an episode of "The Scooby-Doo Show." To be specific, it was the 1976 episode "A Frightened Hound Meets Demons Underground." I remember at first I thought the Demon was kind of creepy, but my dad assured me that the Demon was just a regular guy in a costume. Then near the end when "Albert Tross" came on, my dad (who apparently saw the episode before) pointed out that "Albert" was the one dressing up as the Demon. Then I was even more surprised when "Albert" got unmasked to reveal (SPOILER ALERT!) Sam Crenshaw, and thought it was neat how he had used more than one disguise, as I thought dressing up as/pretending to be monsters and ghosts was fun to do at that age. Plus, Scooby-Doo was a fun and silly character; a huge talking dog that could stand on his hind legs and get into crazy situations. I was a fan of cartoon characters like those, such as Snoopy. Since then, I began to enjoy the other Scooby-Doo cartoons, even "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo!" The only ones I weren't really into were the ones where it was just Shaggy, Scooby and Scrappy (and I'm still not too crazy about those ones either.) I also remember thinking "The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo" was neat when I saw it during that summer, especially since it had real ghosts for a change, and Vincent Price as Vincent Van Ghoul. (I remember when I was almost 10 and seeing the promos for "Zombie Island" stating "THIS time, the monsters are real!" I was like "Yeah, just like they were in 'The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo!'") By later elementary and middle school I kind of drifted away from Scooby-Doo, as I got into Pokemon and certain Nicktoons and some of the then-current Cartoon Network originals (I still have fond memories of watching "I Am Weasel" on Friday nights.) It wasn't until early 2002 when Kids WB began rerunning "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?" to promote the impending live-action theatrical movie (which I surprisingly enjoyed) when I began to get back on the Scooby scene, and Kids WB made it fun with those VH1-style popup thingies during the episodes. (I wish I could find those versions again for certain episodes!) Soon I began watching the older shows frequently on CN all over again, though of course I didn't really like what Warner Bros. Animation was doing to the franchise at the time, except for the early direct-to-video movies, which were much higher-quality.
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Post by Moccles on May 15, 2020 17:30:46 GMT -5
I don't really remember HOW I got into Scooby-Doo. It was my favourite cartoon when I was a child and I never grew out of it!
It's possible that toddler Moccles saw a talking dog on TV and that was it: SOLD!
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