Ethnic Scrappy: Difference between revisions

** To be fair, they tried to avoid Hadji having magical powers in the first season, instead having him use tricks like controlled breathing. During the second season, demands for the show to be more like the original put in some "latent" powers like spoon bending.

** ''[[Jonny Quest]]'', the original series, is grindingly embarrassing at times due to this. Supposedly, the Zulus throwing spears at the Quest Jet in the closing credits were from an episode that never aired, but that image is crazy enough. The worst that DID air was "The Sea Haunt", where the team were stranded on a ship when the [[Monster of the Week]] smashed their plane. They find the only survivor of the ship's crew—a Chinese cook named Charlie who has a horrible accent, dresses stereotypically (how did they miss giving him a pigtail?), and continually references his "honorable ancestors". They are eventually spotted by DUTCH search parties from Batavia—despite Jakarta (and Indonesia) having been independent for years already. Oy...

* ''The 13 Ghosts of [[Scooby Doo]]'' had Flim-Flam. Despite being a parody of this character type, he was a worse Scrappy than Scrappy himself.

** Eh; while he ''was'' a different ethnicity than the others characters, none of his annoying traits really stemmed from ethnic stereotypes. A better classification might be [[Creator's Pet]]—Flim-Flam wouldn't shut up, and constantly seemed written as though he was trying to upstage the rest of the cast—not a good thing when half of the old cast had already been dropped. His common use of cheap [[Ass Pull]] gags and disguises to foil villains also seems to have been inherited by Scooby and Shaggy once he left, and it isn't much funnier when they do it.