Scooby Dooish shows?

[Havenkel]

Why does Boomerang seem to show so many shows like Scooby Doo? The majority of them have the same art style, and a talking animal. (The show with the talking car excluded) I like most of them, but they use them way too much.

[DrTooth]

1970's Hanna Barbera. Nuff said. They pretty much copied their style over and over in that decade. While it can be said that Scooby in its earliest incarnation was meant as a knockoff of the Archies, while it did still borrow a lot of stuff from them, it thankfully never turned into a true ripoff. Hanna Barbera pretty much made quite a few Scooby Doo clones in the 70's. From the obvious, like Clue Club and Goober and the ghost chasers, to the less obvious, like Speed Buggy and Jabberjaw, to the not quite the same show, but same logic, like Josie and the Pussycats and the Chan Clan.

Personally, I love Hanna Barbera, but I'm not a fan of these shows. I love Scooby, myself. But I just can't get into any of the others. I love how Archie Comics published Scooby Doo comics for a time, though. Shows they had no hard feelings.

[zoombie]

Well had the show that became Scooby Doo Where Are You! gone as it was originally planned, it would had been more of a bladent Archie ripoff.

[Dr.Pepper]

I think it was because that Hanna Barbara thought that if people like a show about kids solving mysteries with a dog why not make a show where they were solving mysteries with a shark, car, ghost, ect.

[ROBOTRON]

Why does Boomerang seem to show so many shows like Scooby Doo? The majority of them have the same art style, and a talking animal. (The show with the talking car excluded) I like most of them, but they use them way too much.

Its how anime-ish shows are now. There's about 85028350357 anime type rip-offs now like Scooby Doo-ers were in the 70's.

And yes...there are too many of both.

[DrTooth]

But those knock offs were all from different companies, while the Scooby Doo knockoffs were all HB produced. Sort of like in the 90's when Saban entertainment kept knocking off its own Power Rangers shows (usually by dubbing other japanese Sentai shows)

[Eric B]

Basically, after the slapstick comedies, and the Super Adventures formats were canned by the censors, HB really did not know what to do with themselves. (Hence, the transitional 1968 season). So the new Archie "laugh-in" style comedy was a success, so it would figure they would copy from that. Luckily, after many changes, the show was completely different, and became its own success (The Archies would now blatantly rip off of them with the comic book "Archie, Archie Andrews, Where Are You?"), and then HB would copy the formula, or more accurately, rival networks would demand knockoffs to compete with Scooby. That was a good, new formula which passed the censors. so why go with anything else? Whenever they tried straight comedy, it was basically lame (compared with the 60's classics) and did not last.
It just wasn't the same with all the spalstick censored out.

Also, spinoff studio Ruby Spears copied the formula in many of its shows.

[DrTooth]

Also, spinoff studio Ruby Spears copied the formula in many of its shows.

Mainly because those 2 actually worked on Scooby for a while. They are still credited as "special Thanks" in What's new Scooby Doo and Shaggy and Scooby Doo get a Clue.

[ROBOTRON]

I remember when CBS, NBC, and ABC would compete with each other for the top Saturday morning toon shows...:shrug:

[DrTooth]

Well, that's because we had people in charge of networks that had the spark of incite to care about what they produced, and wanted to be competitive. Unlike the trust fund junkies of today....

[ROBOTRON]

Well, that's because we had people in charge of networks that had the spark of incite to care about what they produced, and wanted to be competitive. Unlike the trust fund junkies of today....

INDEED.

I want my Sat. morning cartoons sandwiched between "Schoolhouse Rock" like the olden days...

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