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Scoobert "Scooby" Doo is one of Hanna-Barbera's most iconic characters, debuting in 1969 in Scooby Doo Where Are You! His name comes from scat lyrics at the end of Frank Sinatra'south vocal "Strangers in the Night". In designing the character, Iwao Takamoto studied Great Danes and then gave Scooby the contrary traits.

Scooby-Doo and his friends accept appeared in the following series:

• Scooby Doo Where Are You!
• The New Scooby-Doo Movies
• The Scooby-Doo Dynomutt Hour
• Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics
• Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo
• The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Testify
• The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries
• The thirteen Ghosts of Scooby-Doo
• A Pup Named Scooby-Doo (prequel series)
• What'southward New Scooby-Doo?
• Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Become a Inkling!
• Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
• Be Absurd Scooby-Doo!
• Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?

Contents

• one Personality
• 2 Appearance and Beefcake
  • two.1 Evolution
• three Heroism
• 4 Performers
  • four.1 Television Series
  • iv.ii Films
    • iv.two.1 In Foreign Dub
• 5 Relatives
• half dozen Dearest Interests
• seven Reception
• 8 Trivia
• 9 References
• 10 Gallery
  • 10.1 The New Scooby-Doo Movies
  • x.ii The Scooby-Doo Show
  • 10.3 Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo
  • 10.4 A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
  • 10.5 What'southward New Scooby-Doo?
  • ten.6 Live-Activity Films
  • x.vii Hanna-Barbera Cinematic Universe
  • x.eight Other Media
  • 10.9 Miscellaneous

Personality

Different iterations of Scooby-Doo have been developed and expanded in the various series featuring the characters, many of them contradicting, such as the original series and recent alive-action movies where Shaggy and Scooby-Doo first meet as older teenagers for the first time, contradicting A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, where they know each other from childhood (peculiarly considering that such amounted to a "prequel" series).

In all versions of the grapheme, ‎Scooby-Doo and Shaggy share several personality traits, by and large existence cowardly and perpetually hungry. But their friends (Velma, Daphne and Fred) encourage them to go after the costumed villains, usually with "Scooby Snacks", a beige-like dog treat or cookie snack (usually shaped like a bone or, in later on versions of the cartoons, Scooby'southward canis familiaris tag), though Scooby's inherent loyalty and courage exercise often forcefulness him to have a more heroic stand up.

Scooby has a speech impediment and tends to pronounce most words as if they brainstorm with an "r", though most characters are able to empathise him perfectly. In nearly iterations, he keeps his sentences relatively short, ordinarily using charades for annihilation longer than three or 4 words. His catch phrase, usually howled at the end of every episode, is "Scooby-Dooby-Doo!" or "Rooby-Rooby-Roo". He besides usually says, at least once per episode, "Ruh-roh, Raggy" ("Uh-oh, Shaggy"). His quirky chuckle is ofttimes likewise in an episode, but it inverse slightly when Frank Welker took over the voice of Scooby.

Scooby's vocalization is similar to that of the earlier character Astro from The Jetsons.

Advent and Anatomy

Scooby is brownish from head to toe with several distinctive black spots on his upper trunk. He is generally a quadruped, only displays bipedal 'man' characteristics occasionally. Scooby also has opposable thumbs and tin can utilize his front paws like hands. He has a black olfactory organ and wears an off-yellow, diamond shaped-tagged blueish collar with a stylised "SD" (his initials). He has four toes on each pes and, unlike other dogs, Scooby has simply one pad on the sole of each of his feet (and so that it was easier to draw in the Scooby-Doo Annuals in United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland).

Scooby has a fully prehensile tail he can use to swing from or press buttons. Both his head and tail are malleable and useful as a advice aid or creating a distraction.

Development

Creator Iwao Takamoto after explained that earlier he designed the character, he outset spoke to a Smashing Dane breeder, who described to him the desirable characteristics of a pedigree dog. Takamoto and so drew Scooby as the reverse of this. He said, "I decided to go the opposite [way] and gave him a hump dorsum, bowed legs, small chin and such. Even his color is incorrect."^[1]

According to the official magazine that accompanied the 2002 pic, Scooby is vii years onetime (49 in stereotypical canis familiaris years).

Heroism

In the films listed below, Shaggy and Scooby both showed the power to come up to the rescue and human action every bit "superheroes" when the rest of the gang were in problem (such as being captured) or needed some help:

• Scooby-Doo on Zombie Isle
• Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders
• Aloha, Scooby-Doo!
• Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy!
• Scooby-Doo and the Goblin King
• Scooby-Doo and the Samurai Sword

Performers

Television Series

Don Messick originated the character's voice patterns, and provided Scooby-Doo's voice in every Scooby-Doo product from 1969 until his retirement in 1996. Scott Innes (also so the vox of Shaggy) voiced Scooby-Doo in four tardily 1990s/early 2000s direct-to-video films, and Frank Welker (as well the voice of Fred) took over beginning with What'south New Scooby-Doo? in 2002 and other spin-offs including the live-activeness prequel Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins.

Films

Neil Fanning provided the vocalisation of the computer-generated Scooby-Doo in the offset ii Warner Bros. live-activity feature films. Luke Youngblood is the stand in for the computer-generated Scooby-Doo in the alive-action Scooby-Doo! Curse Of The Lake Monster while Frank Welker voices him. Frank Welker reprised his role as Scooby in the 2020 computer animated film, Scoob! which tells the origins of how Shaggy and Scooby first met. It is the first movie in a planned Hanna-Barbera cinematic universe.

In Foreign Dub

• In Brazil, player Orlando Drummond has been the Portugese vocalism of Scooby-Doo for 30 years,
• In Denmark, Scooby-Doo is voiced past Lars Thiesgaard.

Relatives

Over the class of Scooby-Doo's various spin-offs, various relatives of Scooby were introduced:

• Scrappy-Doo: Scooby's young nephew (and son of Scooby'due south sister Red-Doo), Scrappy is the bravest of Scooby's relatives. Scrappy became a recurring character in the Scooby-Doo series first in 1979, and was noted for beingness quite headstrong and e'er wanting to face up off in a fight against the various villains (unlike his uncle). Scooby and Shaggy were nowadays at Scrappy'south birth.
• Yabba-Doo: According to Scrappy and Yabba-Doo, Yabba is Scooby's brother, a white domestic dog owned by Deputy Dusty in the American Southwest. Different Scooby, Yabba is brave. Different Scooby and Scrappy, his typical custom catch-phrase at the stop is "Yippity-Yabbity-Doooo!!!" (and not "Yabba-Dabba-Doo!", presumably due to another Hanna-Barbera grapheme'south usage of that phrase).
• Scooby-Dum: Scooby's cousin (according to Shaggy in "Headless Horeseman of Halloween"), a blueish-grey Mortimer Snerd-esque domestic dog who longed to exist a detective. Scooby-Dum was rather dimwitted (he'd keep looking for clues fifty-fifty afterward the mystery was solved).
• Scooby-Dee: Scooby'southward distant cousin, a white dog. She spoke with a Southern accent, and was an actress. She appeared only in "The Chiller Diller Movie Thriller".
• Dooby-Doo: Scooby's cousin, a singer. He is one of the few relatives of Scooby-Doo to have homo-like pilus on his caput. He appeared only in "The 'Dooby Dooby Doo' Ado".
• Mumsy and Dada-Doo: Scooby's parents.
• Whoopsy-Doo: Scooby'south cousin, a clown. Owned by Shaggy'south uncle, Gaggy Rogers.
• Ruby-Doo: Scooby's sis, and mother of Scrappy-Doo.
• Skippy-Doo: Scooby's brother. Highly intelligent; he wears glasses.
• How-do-you-do-Doo: Another of Scooby'south brothers. Enjoyed reading supermarket tabloid newspapers. He appears to become a redhead.
• Horton-Doo: Scooby's uncle. Was interested in monsters and science.
• Dixie-Doo: Scooby's cousin and the pet of Betty Lou, Shaggy'south Southern cousin.
• Grandpa Scooby: Scooby's grandfather.
• Bang-up-Grandad Scooby: Scooby's cracking-grandfather.
• Yankee-Doodle-Doo: Scooby's afar ancestor. Not much is known well-nigh him. He appears to have been a Pilgrim.

Dear Interests

• Amber: In Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders, Shaggy and Scooby are abducted by "aliens" and abandoned in the desert. There they meet a wildlife lensman, Crystal and her dog, Amber. Scooby is heart broken when it is revealed that Bister and Crystal are really aliens from some other planet and must go abode, though he and Shaggy quickly forget near them when they find out there is 1 more Scooby Snack box left. Amber and Crystal did seem to have actual feelings for Shaggy and Scooby but don't pursue them due to 'long altitude relationships never working out'. Amber's disguised form is that of a Golden Retriever wearing a red bandana, while her true class is a big, blue reptilian animal with a beak-like mouth. Similar Scooby, she is capable of speech but only shows so at the end of the film and unlike Scooby, she speaks like a normal human.
• Sunset: in the episode "The Vampire Strikes Dorsum", Scooby is caught in a costume and Sunset kisses him. Scooby then giggles.
• Chiquita: in Scooby-Doo and the Monster of United mexican states, Scooby meets upwardly with Chiquita, Alejo's son's pet Chihuahua, when the gang arrives at Alejo's family unit hotel.
• Googy: in Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf, he receives a osculation from her, and so later on at the monster race, he tries to get another kiss, merely is pulled off by Shaggy.
• Sandy Duncan: in The New Scooby-Doo Movies episode "Sandy Duncan's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", Scooby falls for Sandy Duncan at a studio.
• A sled dog: in the "Snow Brute" episode, Scooby falls in love with a sled dog. At the finish, she kisses him.
• Miyumi: in Scooby-Doo and the Samurai Sword, the gang meets upwards with Daphne's foreign friend, Miyumi, in Nihon. Miyumi's amore for Scooby is axiomatic, such equally petting him at the beginning, offering him ten Scooby Snacks inside of a cave while trying to lure him out of a jet, and fifty-fifty kissing him on the nose. Scooby enjoys watching a battle between Daphne and Miyumi, which Shaggy calls a "kung-fu catfight" and Scooby agrees. Also, Scooby hints an interest for Miyumi by asking her to sit down side by side to him in the Mystery Auto during the gang'southward time to come mysteries earlier she declines.

Reception

Casey Kasem, the previous vocalism histrion for Norville "Shaggy" Rogers, said that Scooby is "the star of the prove--the Shaquille O'Neal of the bear witness." Kasem explained, "People love animals more they honey people. Am I right or wrong? They give more than honey to their pets than they give to people. Scooby is vulnerable and lovable and not brave, and very much similar the kids who watch. But like kids, he likes to call back that he's dauntless."^[ii]

Trivia

• The "dog-treat/Scooby Snacks" gag had been used before in several Hanna-Barbera cartoons, including Quick Draw McGraw and Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines. It would afterward turn up in the Crazy Claws segment of The Kwicky Koala Show.
• In Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Become a Clue!, Scooby and Shaggy are not so cowardly equally they were in previous series, although in the episode "Lightning Strikes Twice", Scooby is shown with a severe instance of astraphobia, something he rarely had in the other shows. Scooby-Doo also gains awesome powers by eating sure Scooby Snacks (bone-shaped canis familiaris treats).
• The name Scooby-Doo comes from the last line of the Frank Sinatra song "Strangers in the Night",^[iii] although other singers used the phrase before Sinatra's song was released.
  • As interesting: Fred Silverman, and then-Head of Daytime Programming for CBS, was flying to Los Angeles at the asking of network executives to raise objections over the original live-action format and approach of the series, as went under the working titles Mysteries 5 and Who's Scared?, and to suggest changes. The song, in essence, may accept changed things big time; correct there and and so, such would change to an animated format and make the dog the star, thus softening the potentially darker aspects by making such more than comedic. In the original concept, the canis familiaris, who was supposed to be a bongo histrion via his forepaws, took on a secondary part.
• Scooby-Doo was once impersonated by former N'Sync star J.C. Chasez in A Scooby-Doo Valentine and by David Beckham in an blithe Scooby-Doo promo from the United Kingdom. Scooby was too imitated past a few other people (virtually notably the Ape Homo).
• French names of the characters are different; Velma became Vera and Shaggy Sammy. As for Scooby-Doo, his proper noun was kickoff written "Scoubidou", simply lately, the original spelling has been used for the series and directly-to-video movies.
• Scooby-Doo appears in the Robot Craven episode "Performance: Rich in Spirit", voiced past Dave Coulier (who previously imitated Scooby'southward vocalization in Full House). He is among Mystery Inc. members who end up killed by Jason Voorhees except Velma. Seth Green voices Scooby in the episode "Ban on the Fun", in the segment that parodies the Laff-a-Lympics in the fashion of the Munich massacre. This fourth dimension, Scooby did non get killed.
• In an episode of Robotboy, when Robotboy and his 'mother' escape from constabulary with a big speaker, a dog which looks like Scooby hangs on to the speaker and follows them habitation.
• Scooby-Doo likewise appears in an episode of Drawn Together.
• Scooby and Shaggy make two cameos in an episode of Yin Yang Yo!. In the offset, Shaggy complained about Yin and Yang stealing their montages; Scooby said, "Information technology sucks!"
• Scooby-Doo and Shaggy fabricated a cameo appearance in Looney Tunes: Dorsum in Action, complaining to Matthew Lillard (who played Shaggy) well-nigh his performance in the live-action Scooby-Doo motion-picture show.
• Scooby-Doo appears as a guest in a 2006 video called Kids for Graphic symbol.
• In the Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated series, Scooby started talking in full sentences, instead of just proverb a couple of lines as he did in the older Scooby-Doo series.
• His "birthday" is March 21st, coincident with the Vernal Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the Autumnal Equinox in the Southern Hemisphere.
• "Scooby's Surf Day," equally per the Hanna-Barbera employee calendars of the 1990s, is on the third Wednesday in August.

References

1. ↑ "Scooby-Doo creator dies aged 81". BBC. 2007-01-09. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6243717.stm . Retrieved 2009-11-25.
2. ↑ Sigesmund, B.J. "The Inside Dope." Newsweek. June 14, 2002. Bachelor at Lexis-Nexis.
3. ↑ http://www.toonopedia.com/scooby.htm

Gallery

The New Scooby-Doo Movies

The Scooby-Doo Show

Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo

A Pup Named Scooby-Doo

What's New Scooby-Doo?

Alive-Activeness Films

Hanna-Barbera Cinematic Universe

In the 2020 film Scoob!

Other Media

Miscellaneous

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