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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2019 8:06:27 GMT -5
That would be a good idea, also why not have Flim Flam and Vincent be in the group too? This way Fred and Velma get more time with those they didn't meet.
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Post by ShaphneLegacy27 on Mar 4, 2019 13:45:29 GMT -5
That would be a good idea, also why not have Flim Flam and Vincent be in the group too? This way Fred and Velma get more time with those they didn't meet. In my split series idea Flim Flam, Vincent, Weerd and Bogel would interact with both groups. Also, a different relative could fill in for Scooby in each episode for the Fred and Velma segments of the split series which would give his relatives more screen time.
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Post by spocklocker on Mar 4, 2019 14:31:46 GMT -5
It would be fun to see some short stories set in different eras of the show. Or even make up some eras that we didn't see on TV, like maybe there was a period where Daphne and Fred were absent and it was Velma leading Scrappy, Shaggy and Scooby. Or a team with only Fred, Velma and Daphne, no comedy characters; we wouldn't accept that for a full half-hour, but 11 minutes, sure, if Scooby and Shaggy were in the first 11 minutes.
There's no reason why there has to be one status quo for the series anyway. If they absolutely have to explain it, they could just have Shaggy introduce "untold tales" from his and Scooby's past.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2019 16:06:55 GMT -5
I would like that idea. We've seen Daphne, Shaggy, Scooby and Scrappy and just Shaggy and the Doos. I presume that Hanna-Barbera had they made another series set during the career years that they would have shown Shaggy and the Doos participating in different adventures in the 90's. 78 episodes featuring Fred, 78 episodes featuring Velma to bring it even with Daphne's lead time, Daphne could be off shooting tv pilots as an explanation for absence. Fred's episodes would be last because they would make the transition to the big 4 more natural and Velma's could have happened at some other time. NASA mysteries would be interesting.
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Post by vakanai on Mar 5, 2019 0:00:47 GMT -5
I'd actually like to see Scooby having more interaction with other members of the gang without Shaggy.
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Post by spocklocker on Mar 8, 2019 14:40:09 GMT -5
One thing I noticed is that in the first season of this format (New Scooby & Scrappy-Doo Show) Daphne was a reporter and Shaggy appeared to be her assistant, but most of the time they weren't even reporting on ghosts or the supernatural, instead they would go somewhere to do an interview and they would just happen to be haunted by a ghost while they were there. And the only change in the next season (New Scooby-Doo Mysteries) is that they mostly referred to themselves as part of the "Scooby-Doo Detective Agency" and were actually called in to investigate paranormal mysteries, so they weren't usually just stumbling onto mysteries the way they used to.
I think I remembered the second season as being better, maybe because it had more full-length episodes and Fred/Velma appearances, but overall I think the first season is better. On TNS-DM you could tell they were already getting tired of the mystery format and wanted to move on to more adventure and comedy, but they couldn't go all the way yet the way they finally did in "13 Ghosts."
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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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