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Pup Named Scooby was great. Especially the kid named Red Herring, who Freddy always immediately blamed for whatever was going on.
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Kinda lol that A Pup Named Scooby-Doo establishes all of the gang are trust fund kids. Including the dog.
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May 2, 2023 19:00
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I mean, have any of you ever seen them receive payment for solving a mystery? It looks like they just keep stumbling into pro bono work, something's gotta keep the Mystery Machine gassed up and the Scooby Snax stocked. Being a bunch of trust fund kids slumming it makes as much sense as anything. This was all established before "we're doing it for a reality Ghost Hunter show" was a viable source of income. idk maybe they sell weed to townies on the side or something
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May 2, 2023 19:15
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mind the walrus posted:The boy's club doesn't let people with actual different perspectives write and I know you know this. But writing weird revamps of sixty year old children's cartoons probably fell mostly to old white guys because they were the only people vaguely interested in doing weird revamps of old characters. Mark Russell (who did the Snagglepuss and Flintstones comics) was born in 1971, which just barely makes him the youngest of the writers who took on more than a one-shot for the HB line. Garth Ennis is the only other one born in the 1970s (1970), and everyone else involved were born between 1950 and the mid 1960s. There was exactly one one-shot written by anyone who isn't over 50 now, and I think three written by men who aren't straight cis white ones. There were to the best of my knowledge no women involved writing or drawing them, though the editor of the line was a woman in her fifties. Concurrent to the weird HB books, you had women, LGBTQ people, and people of color (or a combination thereof) working on a bunch of books including books featuring of the Bat Family, Superman, Wonder Woman, the X-Men, the Avengers, the Justice League, Hulk, Black Panther, Ghost Rider, Hawkeye, Captain Marvel, Ms. Marvel, Star Wars, etc. etc. Big Two comics are in many ways still an Old Boys Club, and there are vocal lovely sections of the industry who strive to keep it that way, but "only old white dudes were interested in doing sordid retellings of Ruff & Reddy and Huckleberry Hound, so the actually queer creators were stuck writing Batman and the Justice League" is not much of a data point for that.
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May 2, 2023 19:16
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Sobatchja Morda posted:In case the original post came of as mean-spirited: this is just me trying to explain why I don't get the appeal. If you read it and liked it, that's probably your gain and my loss because you got something out of it and I haven't tried it yet. This is amazing work. As a student of history I can say that I’ve seen hundreds of pictures like this, and have shown little to no emotion. The pictures were just windows to a past I’ve never lived in, people who I never knew or would ever know. But this picture made me stop and evaluate. Putting Snagglepuss in made me actually look at what is really happening. Putting something that everyone is familiar with in a situation that no one knows, and to make people feel those emotions well, that takes amazing talent. Thank you.
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May 2, 2023 19:21
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taiyoko posted:Today I learned that anyone used it to mean anything other than "grumpy/irritable/stubborn"! Like in the "darn kids, get off my lawn!" sense. Also like a person or animal refusing to do something reasonably expected like the kid stubbornly refusing to eat their vegetables or a pack animal that's decided they're not taking one more step. Samovar posted:...what the heck else does it mean? I only know it as that, and so does Google. Around here I have always heard it more in the sense of mischievous, puckish behavior--getting under someone's skin for the joy of it or to push boundaries, not necessarily cantankerous. I got called ornery a lot as a kid, in the same sense that an adult might look at Calvin's (of Calvin and Hobbes) behavior. Like I said, I didn't realize they were the same word for the longest time. E: corroborating source https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=5584
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May 2, 2023 19:29
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Rather be hornery than ornery
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May 2, 2023 20:13
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Asterite34 posted:I mean, have any of you ever seen them receive payment for solving a mystery? It looks like they just keep stumbling into pro bono work, something's gotta keep the Mystery Machine gassed up and the Scooby Snax stocked. Being a bunch of trust fund kids slumming it makes as much sense as anything. This was all established before "we're doing it for a reality Ghost Hunter show" was a viable source of income. It’s always like somebody’s uncle or Mama Cass or someone. You need some kind of in with Mystery Inc most of the time.
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May 2, 2023 20:17
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One of the original pitches that led to Scooby-Doo was titled Mysteries Five. There were five teens in the titular band and their bongo-playing dog called Too Much. They drove around solving mysteries in between gigs. I guess they kept the van but dropped the band part.
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So somewhere between a Famous Five and Monkees ripoff?
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Kevin DuBrow posted:their bongo-playing dog called Too Much. Quoting this for the next time I'm naming a dog
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May 3, 2023 02:59
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Kevin DuBrow posted:There were five teens in the titular band and their bongo-playing dog called Too Much. "You have a dog that plays the bongos" "Yeah, that's Too Much, man"
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Kevin DuBrow posted:One of the original pitches that led to Scooby-Doo was titled Mysteries Five. There were five teens in the titular band and their bongo-playing dog called Too Much. They drove around solving mysteries in between gigs. I guess they kept the van but dropped the band part. Like Jabberjaw? Hanna-Barbera did a huge amount of "recycling" with their hits.
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Lost in the middle of all of the DC HB comics was one called Future Quest, that was actually quite solid. It was a crossover series between like, Johnny Quest, Space Ghost, Birdman, and some of the other older and more niche or obscure HB cartoons. It wasn't trying to be edgy or 'mature' or anything, it was just a fun solid little adventure comic. It's been way overlooked because of books like the Flintstones and the Snagglepuss and all the rest, and it's kind of a shame. Kevin DuBrow posted:One of the original pitches that led to Scooby-Doo was titled Mysteries Five. There were five teens in the titular band and their bongo-playing dog called Too Much. They drove around solving mysteries in between gigs. I guess they kept the van but dropped the band part. Every other HB mystery cartoon ended up getting the band, at least.
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ponzicar posted:Like Jabberjaw? Hanna-Barbera did a huge amount of "recycling" with their hits. As a kid I never really liked the Hanna Barbera stuff, no idea why but maybe it is because so much of the poo poo looked the same. But I do remember Jabberjaw because didn't he have some weird crush on one of the girls in the band? Even as a kid I thought poo poo, she better date him because he's a loving shark, he will eat her otherwise.
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Randalor posted:I've heard some of the Scooby-Doo reboots were actually fairly good. Just not the last one. Hanna Barbera had been rebooting/revamping Scooby Doo since Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics in 1977 and Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo in 1979. A Pup Named Scooby-Doo came out in 1988, 35 years ago. ponzicar posted:Like Jabberjaw? Hanna-Barbera did a huge amount of "recycling" with their hits. Yeah they kept trying to replicate the success of Scooby Doo over and over and over and over with the "3 to 5 teens plus [wacky character] who solve mysteries" format: Goober And The Ghost Chasers, Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels, Speed Buggy, The Funky Phantom, Clue Club, Jabberjaw, The New Shmoo, Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space, etc etc
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Hanna Barbera had been rebooting/revamping Scooby Doo since Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics in 1977 and Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo in 1979. A Pup Named Scooby-Doo came out in 1988, 35 years ago. Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorperated was the latest one I remember supposed to be fairly good, and that was 2010's. That being said, according to Wikipedia, there have been 14 Scooby-Doo series, and I'm honestly not sure if that sounds about 10 too many or 10 too few.
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May 3, 2023 04:04
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Some of those had good episodes but for the most part they were forgettable. Not even necessarily bad just boring.
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Hanna Barbera churned out a massive volume of lovely cheap by-the-numbers cartoons for decade after decade, I can only imagine that the conditions in their production offices were like something out of Glengarry Glen Ross except they were screaming about cutesy cartoon dogs instead of closing real estate deals ABC! Always! Be! Cartoon dogging!
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Hanna Barbera churned out a massive volume of lovely cheap by-the-numbers cartoons for decade after decade, I can only imagine that the conditions in their production offices were like something out of Glengarry Glen Ross except they were screaming about cutesy cartoon dogs instead of closing real estate deals No please don’t be cartoon dogging you’re making it for children
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Is Velma considered part of the official scooby doo canon? And don’t insult my intelligence by saying there is no “official” scooby doo canon, I’m not an idiot
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Velma is anti-canon, it takes the concepts of scooby doo and shits on them on purpose. The less said about that show the better.
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May 3, 2023 04:20
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Anything with Vincent Price is Scooby Doo canon.
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It’s very funny that the internet collectively stopped talking about Velma after the premiere. Clearly it’s just nothing of a show.
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It did bring us this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inJUFqeJehE
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Randalor posted:Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorperated was the latest one I remember supposed to be fairly good, and that was 2010's. That being said, according to Wikipedia, there have been 14 Scooby-Doo series, and I'm honestly not sure if that sounds about 10 too many or 10 too few. Mysteries Inc. is arguably the best Scooby cartoon they've made. It's really fuckin' good.
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Any Scooby Doo that has Harlan Ellison play himself as a recurring character is ok by me.
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Behold, my 14th ghost of scooby-doo.
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I AM GRANDO posted:Any Scooby Doo that has Harlan Ellison play himself as a recurring character is ok by me. Speaking of media and authors that did not age well...
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May 3, 2023 05:49
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oldpainless posted:Is Velma considered part of the official scooby doo canon? I'm still pretty sure the moment the production contract is done it'll join the tax write off graveyard.
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Ongoing strike had me thinking about the last strike which had Dr Horrible and wow, talk about a shitshow of a cast and creative voice with Whedon, NPH and Fillon all being revealed various shades of rot from 'jerk' to 'unrepentant abuser'. At least Felicia Day's still cool?
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Kchama posted:Speaking of media and authors that did not age well... Thought he was just sort of a general rear end in a top hat til I read about his defense of that sexual abuser who ran that con. gently caress off my dude
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Ambitious Spider posted:Thought he was just sort of a general rear end in a top hat til I read about his defense of that sexual abuser who ran that con. gently caress off my dude Don’t read up on Isaac Asimov at cons, then. Genius is so frequently connected to being skullfucked beyond redemption.
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Hong Kong Phooey. Jesus, I assumed it ran for like 8 years or something, because it was on UK kids tv constantly in the 70's and early 80's. There's 16 episodes.
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Torquemada posted:Hong Kong Phooey. Jesus, I assumed it ran for like 8 years or something, because it was on UK kids tv constantly in the 70's and early 80's. There's 16 episodes. I just tried to explain Hong Kong Phooey to my wife the other day (unsuccessfully) and I also assumed it had at least three full seasons according to wikipedia "The original episodes aired from September 7 to December 21, 1974" that's not even half a year
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