wait remember A Pup Named Scooby-Doo well you better because finally I get to talk about my
favorite iteration of Scooby-Doo I tease this over a year and a half ago nearly at this point after
finally looking into Mystery Incorporated which rose high on my list of Scooby-Doo
shows but this this show right here was is and most likely will always be my favorite
version of Scooby-Doo it was around the 20th anniversary of the Scooby-Doo franchise that
this show would come to be and what a change up it was for the series not only joining the
trend of baby figation where we have to make the characters all young and tell the stories from
a more juvenile perspective but also bringing back in characters like main Staples Scooby-Doo
characters that have been previously out of the show for quite some time and it really just kind
of became the Shaggy and Scooby-Doo stories so today I wanted to sit down and talk about
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A Pup Named Scooby-Doo was a mixture of trying to return to form for Scooby-Doo while also keeping
a refreshing comedic side to balance out those who want the old school detective mystery but now
with the cast of characters as kids it boiled down to the younger version of the crew being
more caricature-esque representations pulling out their trademark attitudes catchphrases and
general Vibe they presented in turning it up to 11. at first that does sound exhausting but
thankfully it was anything but it brought this nice Aura of what made the original series so
special but decided to have more fun with it since it's not in line with them being older
they can be wackier because they're kids and that makes sense don't at me shaggy voiced by
Casey Kasem and Scooby voiced by Don Messick are the least affected by amping up who they were as
they already were the least serious and prone to have the most fun in Scooby-Doo in general
Shaggy just feels like Shaggy as a kid who loves to eat food and is scared in plenty of situations
and and with Scooby now being a puppy it's just more of being scared and eating for him too but
on top of that he's even more over the top excited for some Scooby Snacks I don't know what they're
putting in them but by golly this pupper going cuckoo for them Freddy voiced by Carl Stephen
is pretty fun in this iteration of the show he's played up to be this gullible kid who believes
in almost any conspiracy but more specifically he has this conspiracy that the monster of the
week is always somehow red herring which is this guy on the show regardless of if it would make
sense for him to do it or not I mean his name is red herring the jokes baked into the DNA of
the show right there but it never gets old at the end of the episodes as they are all about
to find out who's been behind it all only for Freddy to confidently exclaim that it has to be
red herring he just comes off a lot less smart and it just works for his character in the show
here he's confident but he's clueless Daphne voiced by Kelly Martin is the big old skeptic
to everything constantly denying the existence of ghosts and Ghouls and comes off pretty sassy
most likely due to her background here blatantly coming from well her character isn't much deeper
than that but we appreciate her anyway someone needs to be the skeptic here you gotta control
Freddy a little bit Velma voiced by Christina Lang is pretty much just this little vessel
of adorable I mean how can this ever do any wrong she's smart like usual and pretty much
never causes any problems but somehow is always the one to solve them in the end making it feel
that everyone else being there is there for no reason other than to make me laugh she acts more
like your guide throughout a typical episode to pay attention to any clues and help you as the
viewer solve the mystery while Freddy just blames red herring and Shaggy and Scooby go eat something
it looks like we're all out of Scooby Snack scoob A Pup Named Scooby-Doo will be right back
now back to an eaten freak named Shaggy
when it comes to incarnations of Scooby-Doo there sure seems to be an endless amount of
them from all the different cool and weird series of the franchise but by this point the formula for
Scooby-Doo needed something different to spice things up and oh boy did things get
spiced up when Tom Ruger who already had plenty of experience with the franchise but became hyper
fixated on babyfying things hence why we got A Pup Named Scooby-Doo and then later on when he
left to go work at Warner Bros animation we got Tiny Toons Adventures he just really likes this
trend this new Scooby-Doo show needed to feel new it needed to be fresh for the times and something
that wasn't like the old but still appreciated where it came from the plan was simple take
the classic formula that worked and put it at the Forefront of everything it's kids solving
a mystery but now we keep up with the times and put a big emphasis on some slapstick in general
comedy we have a signature town for all the kids to live in and investigate mysteries in called
coolsville it's a nice backdrop for the episodes to take place in making it feel more homegrown
for the mysteries in our gang here it helps set up a ton of the places that they visit and keeps
everything feeling fresh yet familiar adding on to that it also felt familiar because of seeing
familiar faces constantly from red herring to Daphne's Butler Jenkins it's just nice to feel
something as big and wide spreading as Scooby-Doo feels so small and contained I guess that's why
the baby vacation thing works so well for other shows but here I am glad they didn't go full on
baby and just made them younger a baby solving Mysteries nah that wouldn't be believable until
the Rugrats years later but these kids yeah I believe in them the show premiered on September
10 1988 lasting for Four Seasons and would serve as this final bit of Scooby-Doo TV shows for 11
years with what's New Scooby-Doo not coming out until 2002. I think why I like this show so much
compared to other Scooby-Doo iterations is because of how Charming it is the stakes never feel too
crazy and the cases are more goofy rather than creepy it felt really wholesome and while there
is a big piece of my heart that loves traditional Scooby-Doo this show just found The Perfect Blend
of what I needed when I first saw it as a kid watching it now it feels like home it's warm and
comforting and a nice Breakaway from everything else that I usually watch that's not to say that
the show doesn't have its creepier or spookier moments but it rarely relies on any of that for
the show to function in the way it does I wanted to literally touch on red herring here a little
bit more since he is literally called upon almost every episode by Freddie he's the bully to the
kids around town and at school but somehow is always playing for crimes that he didn't commit
except for that one time that it actually was him and it was the only time that Freddy was trying
not to accuse him since Daphne bet him that he couldn't go through a whole day without doing so
congrats Daphne you played yourself but I do find it funny that he always has a way to get back and
Bully Fred once he is Accused in some shape or form he's really only around because of that gag
but it's a good gag and I appreciate the show's dedication to it but aside from that the monster
or creature or bad whatever of the week really is what's extra fun about the show having to scale
something down to a more ridiculous manner the villains really stood out as a highlight for me
from cheese monster to stinkweed to Dinkley 2000 to big wig and even nasty Dew it felt inventive
and fun with some Twist on classic monster or creature ideas but keeping it to the tone that
A Pup Named Scooby-Doo set but in trying to bring back more classic Scooby-Doo we have the musical
Chase numbers here with new songs each time that actually do relate to whatever is happening this
episode plus we get these shots of just the characters dancing which reminds me of a dance
parody moment from something like Austin Powers and I find it downright fantastic it wouldn't be
a good episode without it but towards the end of the series thanks to Tom Ruger heading over
to Warner Bros animation you can tell the show was losing a bit of steam massively on the production
side going from season one with 13 episodes to season 2 with 8 episodes and then both season 3
and 4 only having three episodes a piece can you even call that a season especially with the long
gaps in between to get the three episodes we had for season three we had to wait 10 months after
the end of season 2. for three episodes then another nine months after those three episodes
to get the final three for season four that's kind of ridiculous and unfortunate but on August
17 1991 A Pup Named Scooby-Doo came to an end I believe we could solve this mystery cheese monster
followed by cartoon theater
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I don't think the show overstayed its welcome Scooby-Doo needs to freshen things up every
once in a while and oh boy did they do that here by the end of the fourth season it definitely
was just more of the previous season so I'm happy that it ended where it did but in the same breath
I think enough time has passed where I'd be down for something similar again if we can have what's
New Scooby-Doo why can't we have what's up Pup Named Scooby-Doo or something like that leave the
naming to the people who get paid for it okay if you're a big fan of Scooby-Doo I think this is a
fun way to watch these characters it's a fun take on these characters and if you're not super into
Scooby-Doo I'd also recommend it it breaks parts of the formula that maybe you weren't a fan of and
just has fun with the property if you like the live action movies which I mean come on they're
Classics especially that first one gosh what a good movie maybe I should cover that sometime
anyway it fits in line with the goofiness of that it was a nice Breakaway from classic Scooby-Doo
and fits right in the middle before we start getting into what I call Modern Scooby-Doo the
stuff that I really grew up with more but oddly I found myself catching reruns of the show that
came before my time and it's great also in 2013 this straight to DVD Walmart exclusive Scooby-Doo
special titled Scooby-Doo adventures the mystery map which was all done with puppets was in fact
a nice little call back to A Pup Named Scooby-Doo and you can tell that right off the bat based on
their designs clothing and overall aesthetic you can just tell the people behind this grew up with
A Pup Named Scooby-Doo and when given the chance got to shine by showing their love for it plus
Scooby is so dang cute here as a puppet I must have one now give it to me I think it's quite
the Testament to the franchise of Scooby-Doo that they aren't afraid to try something new and take
risks with the property sticking to a majority of the base formulas that work but as long as
at the core it's a group trying to solve some sort of mystery than almost any idea or concept
beyond that can work or if you're just trying to make a show that erases the thought of Scrappy
do then Something Like A Pup Named Scooby-Doo can surely do that for you no seriously part of
the reason the show was drastically different was because of the hate towards Scrappy do in
the past I guess sometimes companion look-alike Sidekicks don't always work unless you're Godzuki
what a classic but oddly enough the world has a funny way of as Scooby-Doo was produced by
Hannah Barbera which just like Tom ended up going over to Warner Bros animation being absorbed into
that branch of the company in 2001 so there's that but let me know your thoughts on A Pup
Named Scooby-Doo if you enjoyed this iteration of the franchise or if you didn't tell me your
favorite iteration in the comments thanks so much for watching like And subscribe later
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