There were three different Scooby Doo theme tunes. "Scooby Dooby Doo, where are you/We've got some work to do now" is probably the best known one. Then there's a jazzier theme which has since been sampled by Simon Mayo on Radio 1's Mystery Years, and....yes, by Chris Morris on Blue Jam series 2 (the one that leads into the Good Vibrations "I..." sample). And then there's the theme you mention which I remember although I can't describe it - quite frenetic, and used to be used as the backing music for when the episode title would be flashed up on the "Scooby Dooby Doo" series. I think.
And that's before Scrappy Doo got involved.
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>And that's before Scrappy Doo got involved.
..personally I think Scrappy ruined the whole thing, but I won't go on about that !
Scrappy-Doo deservedly wins the "Hanna - Barbera Character Most Disliked" award. I think he's satan's ambassador on earth.
Exceprt with worse dress sense.
Has anyone seen the legendary one-and-only-one episode of 'Scooby Doo' when it turns out there's a real ghost/supernatural phenomenon involved, rather than just some grown-up pissing about for a laugh?
>Has anyone seen the legendary one-and-only-one episode of 'Scooby Doo' when it turns out there's a real ghost/supernatural phenomenon involved, rather than just some grown-up pissing about for a laugh?
Surely you mean the one where Fred looks in a mirror and sees the devil, whilst Velma peels off all her skin and turns into an enormous thirteen-legged spider, and Scooby turns rabid and bites off Scrappy's head...don't you? Oh, sorry. That was just in my mind.
>Has anyone seen the legendary one-and-only-one episode of 'Scooby Doo' when it turns out there's a real ghost/supernatural phenomenon involved, rather than just some grown-up pissing about for a laugh?
It does exist, I did see it but it was so long ago that I can't remember much about it. The bit of the theme that was sampled in Blue Jam is bloody scary if you ask me, I know there's a site somewhere that has all the themes to download, sadly don't have an address but a search would find it.
I got to see He-Man on cable yesterday for the first time in like 15 years. Forgot how entirely low-quality the animation was, it was just like He-Pants or whatever it was on Round The Bend. Sadly, and this spoilt my day, Skeletor wasn't in the episode...
Can anyone confirm / refute that in the title sequence for the early series, the smoke from the truck is clearly emanating from the windows NOT the exhaust...? (It would fit in with the whole tenor of the show, esp. the character of Shaggy, and the fact that 'Scooby-doo' was 60's hipster jazz slang, etc etc)
Or have I just been taken in by a rather lame attempt to recreate Victor Lewis-Smith's Pugwash / "Seaman Stains" masterstroke? (Come on, how many of you remember thinking, "I don't remember Stains - but there WAS a Master Bates, wasn't there?")
I liked it when the Harlem Globetrotters made an appearance and Im sure Laurel and Hardy were in it once.I also noticed that The Mystery Machine had no side mirrors so Fred must have a been a real danger on the road.I always wanted Scooby Doo,Goober and the Ghostchasers,that lot from the Buford Files,the New Schmoo,Captain Caveman,Fang face,Inch High Private Eye,Grape Ape and all those other one season wonders from Hanna Barbera to all turn up to the same haunted house and for Tex Avery to torch the bastards for ruining the art of cartoons for so long.And alright pedant if some of those werent HB ,they might as well have been.Cheapo crap the lot of em.