This week CineTV is asking about favorite children’s animated shows. I have to say that I have several, but there is one that always floats to the top of the list, and that’s Scooby-Doo. Yes, I wrote about it sometime last year, so I am going to have to cover new territory. And have a bit of fun.
Scooby-Doo title - IMDB
I grew up watching the original first season, and continued on through the era of the Scooby-doo movies that featured guast appearances by various celebrities and some fictional characters like Batman and Robin. These early shows were great fun to watch with good stories. Sure the series followed a formula, but that’s why it worked so well, having a masked villain of the week and solving the mystery. That’s what Scooby-doo was all about both then, and today.
Fortunately, when my daughter, Little Miss was old enough to enjoy Scooby-Doo, I was able to share the Scooby Gang’s adventures with her and my Bonnie Bride as a family. The end result, we have a couple of shelves full of Scooby-Doo DVDs. We may not have all of the shows, but we certainly have a good chunk of them. I think we all have a few favorites, whether from the original era of ghosts and goblins, or more modern stories that were longer movie length episodes like the Phantasaur, or the two Lego Scooby-Doo films. There are so many good episodes and films spanning some 50+ years. Jinkies! Yes, we even have the Scooby-Doo Laugh Olympics. Not a favorite of mine, but hey, we’ve got it.
Fortunately for me, there were some eras of Scooby I missed during their original run, like Scrappy-Doo. Ugh! And some where they didn’t have the whole gang, many of those stories just didn’t work for me when I saw them with Little Miss over the past decade+.
Some of the Scooby-Doo items we have collected - the case with the autographs was signed by several current Harlem Globetrotters, and one of the recoginzed the reason!
Scooby-Doo didn’t just take over our DVD library, but also invaded the house with comic books, which is the core of my daughter’s collection, including a few vintage Gold Key comics, various toys, most of the Scooby-Doo Lego sets (I wish I bought them all when they were in production!), games, and other toys. Hopefully it’s all money well spent. Well, at least the comics and Lego sets were worth it.
Scooby-Doo as a franchise, most of the different series and the more modern direct to video films hold up very well and are still fun to watch. Preferably with some popcorn and root beer and relaxing on the sofa. Except the Scrappy-Doo episodes.
So, if you are looking for something fun to share with your kids, and, if like me, you have fond memories of Scooby-Doo (even with Scrappy), or anyother show, you really should treat them to the glories of what you grew up with and, if it goes well, they will become fans of your childhood favorites too. Just don’t forget to embrace some of their favorites as well. Like Dragons or Tangled the series. It’s a great way to bond with the whole family.
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