Scooby-Doo's Creepiest Capers - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[kylie]

Shaggy is the only character (apart from Scooby himself) to be in every incarnation of the series.

[cameron]

The original names for the characters during the show's development, when it was known as "Mystery Five" or "Mysteries Five," and later "W-Who's S-S-Scared?" Freddy: "Geoff", later "Ronnie" (Freddy was actually identified as Ronnie on the final storyboards for the first few episodes of the series)Daphne: "Kelly"Velma: "Linda"Shaggy:"W.W."Scooby-Doo: "Too Much" (as in: "That's just too much!" a popular catchphrase of the time)

[gabriel]

"Too Much" (later Scooby-Doo) was originally written as a Great Dane, but fearing their creation would be too close to the titular character in the comic strip "Marmaduke," creators Joe Ruby and Ken Spears changed Scooby/"Too-Much" to be a big, sloppy sheepdog (which itself was far too close to "Hot Dog" from the "Archie" comics that inspired the series). After meeting with Hanna and Barbera about the issue, Scooby was changed back to a Great Dane. Character designer Iwao Takamoto went to a dog-breeding colleague at the studio for advice on what elements made up a prize-winning Great Dane, and then preceded to break every "rule" in his design of Scooby, including the double-chin, the bow-legged hind-legs, and the spots on his back (No real Great Dane has spots). Scooby's utter lack of prize-winning characteristics is spoofed in episode 1.5, "Decoy for a Dognapper."

[claude]

In Scooby Doo, Where Are You!: What a Night for a Knight (1969) it's stated that Shaggy is the "swinginest" gymnast at school.

[tom]

The show was originally created to expand upon the success of The Archie Show (1968). Series creators Joe Ruby and Ken Spears and Scooby-Doo writer Mark Evanier have stated that the teenagers were based on characters from another CBS show, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959). Fred was based on Dobie Gillis, Daphne on Thalia Menninger, Velma on Zelda Gilroy, and Shaggy on Maynard G. Krebs (even having similar goatee beards and hairstyles). Another influence was the 1940s radio drama "I Love a Mystery"; the concept was also similar to Enid Blyton's Famous Five books.

[linda]

Originally; like all shows aimed at kids during this period; the teenage characters on this show were all supposed to be in a rock band. Eventually they turned into a roving group of free-lance sleuths. It was never explained, until much later, where the "Mystery Inc." gang lived - or how they supported themselves - between cases; there were no scenes of them getting contacted, hired, or paid with regard to their work.

[fred]

Dr. Steven Long, associate professor in Speech Pathology and Audiology at Marquette University, was asked to identify Scooby-Doo's speech impediment were it real. Scooby (voiced by Don Messick ) does not so much mangle words as add letters or replace letters, usually an R in front of a beginning-vowel, or one for another consonant. Dr. Long calls this process "rhoticization", and diagnosed Scooby with the previously-unknown disorder of "Rhotic Replacement".

[sara]

Originally, the Scooby gang was a rock band, although the concept was soon dropped.

[maureen]

Frank Welker's animation debut.

[jessica]

Velma's famous line, "My glasses; I can't see without them!" was not originally scripted for the show. During a table read for the voice artists, Velma's voice-over actress Nicole Jaffe, who was near-sighted as well, lost her glasses and uttered a variation of what became Velma's famous catchphrase. The writers liked the line so much that Velma losing her glasses became one of the show's trademark gags. Velma loses her glasses in the first episode, Scooby Doo, Where Are You!: What a Night for a Knight (1969), but the actual line is first spoken in Scooby Doo, Where Are You!: Decoy for a Dognapper (1969).

[tom]

A number of rumors about "hidden jokes" and "subliminal messages" surround this series: "Freddy and Daphne go off and have sex when the gang splits up to look for clues. This is why we hardly ever see them actually looking for any clues; we always see Shaggy, Scooby and Velma by themselves." Actually, the reason we never see Freddy or Daphne when the gang splits-up is because creators/writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears found writing for Fred and Daphne (the "straight" characters, in contrast to the more comedic other three characters) boring. Therefore, they would always find an excuse to split the gang up, so that they could focus on writing gags for Shaggy, Scooby and Velma (who in later episodes found herself "splitting-up" with Fred and Daphne, so that the writers could devote even more screen time to Shaggy and Scooby). "Velma is a lesbian; she has a crush on Daphne." Just because Velma's boyfriend is not a member of the gang like Daphne's is does not make her a lesbian. Neither does her being paired with Daphne when Freddy goes off on his own to find clues. The writers actually seem to imply in a number of episodes that Velma and Shaggy are seeing each other (they are often paired together at dances and such in the series). In fact in the later show Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated (2010) Velma and Shaggy were in fact a couple for most of the first season. "Shaggy is a pothead/drug addict. That's why he has the munchies and he always sees the ghosts (hallucinations) before the others." and its variant, "Scooby Snacks contain drugs." The first one may be the only rumor on this list with some truth to it. Shaggy is a "beatnik/hippie"-type character, and beatniks and hippies were known for their "free-thinking" ways, which often included the uses of drugs such as marijuana, LSD, etc. However, not all beatniks and hippies used drugs, and it is very possible, considering this is a Saturday morning television show, that Shaggy was one of those beatniks/hippies that didn't. The second one is completely false: Scooby Snacks are nothing more than regular doggie treats (it's not much of a stretch to imagine a guy who would eat chocolate-covered hot dogs, chocolate-covered corn-on-the-cob, and "liverwurst ala mode" eating doggie treats if you really think about it).

[bernard]

During production of the second season (1970-1971), Casey Kasem became a strict vegetarian, and wanted his character Shaggy to follow suit. Kasem was promised by Hanna-Barbera that his character would become vegetarian from that point on. H-B actually kept their end of the bargain for the 1970-1971 season of the show (as long as one assumes that, in Scooby Doo, Where Are You!: Haunted House Hang-Up (1970), Shaggy's bologna slice is vegetarian bologna and that the pizza he eats in the final scene is vegetarian-safe pizza). In subsequent spin-off series, however, Shaggy is routinely seen snacking on non-vegetarian foods. Kasem put his foot down over this issue in 1995, after he was required to perform Shaggy's voice for a commercial advertising (decidedly non-vegetarian) Burger King Kids Club meals. Kasem refused to perform the voice after that, and did not return to the role until [What's New, Scooby-Doo?](/category/11341/what-s-new-Scooby-Doo)? (2002) with the requirement that (of course) Shaggy be a strict vegetarian in that series, which he is. For the record, Shag's also a vegetarian in the live-action Scooby-Doo (2002).

[alyssa]

These shorts were originally intended just to be scary; but as they were developing them the producers realized they were too scary for children; a comedic element had to be introduced to lighten the show overall.

[duane]

Scooby Doo is pictured on a USA nondenominated ("forever") commemorative postage stamp issued 14 July 2018. The first-day-of-issue ceremony was held at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, in association with the Scooby Doo Doo Good program. Price on the day of issue was 50¢.

[jessie]

Freddy was named after CBS Executive Fred Silverman.

[carla]

This is the very first Saturday-morning cartoon to include a laugh track.

[tamara]

Frank Welker, the voice of Fred, also provides the voices of Megatron and Soundwave on The Transformers (1984), Garfield on The Garfield Show (2008), and the monkey Abu in Aladdin (1992).

[bernard]

A conspiracy theory has emerged that the show takes place after an economic depression. This explains why the "monsters" always turned out to be well respected types of people such as professors, museum creators and celebrities who have fallen into hard times like everybody else.

[lena]

Though consistently a semi-anthropomorphic character in his various incarnations, Scooby shows more dog-like traits in this series than he would in later incarnations, where his characteristics would lean more towards the human side. Things like barking and growling and using charades in place of longer sentences would get used less, and he would begin to say more than three or four words at a time.