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The original Breakfast Club, a popular [[Saturday Morning Cartoon]] from [[Hanna-Barbera]] that premiered in 1969 and lasted in various forms up to the early Eighties (and episodes are again being made today) featuring four teenagers (Fred Jones, Velma Dinkley, Daphne Blake and Norville "Shaggy" Rogers) and their talking dog Scooby-Doo (a classic [[Speech-Impaired Animal]]) in a [[Cool Car|van called the Mystery Machine]]. Each episode they'd encounter a mystery involving some form of spooky supernatural monster which would more often than not [[Scooby-Doo Hoax|turn out to be a hoax meant to frighten the locals away from the villain's real operation]], and which would be resolved at the end by unmasking the villain, who would inevitably utter "I would have gotten away with it if it hadn't been for [[You Meddling Kids]], and that dog too." Reportedly also [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|full of drug references]] (hey, it ''was'' [[The Seventies]]), depending on how you read it (what the hell do they put in those Scooby Snacks, anyways?).

 

 

''Scooby-Doo'' is so thoroughly embedded in American popular culture that the ad-hoc vampire-hunting team that formed around Buffy Summers in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' called themselves "The Scooby Gang". (The ''Scooby-Doo'' kids never refer to themselves as such; their name in the pilot script is "Mystery, Inc." It has also become Cockney Rhyming Slang for "clue" (as in "Haven't a Scooby, mate").

 

 

 

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* ''[[What's New, Scooby-Doo?]]'' (2002-2006, The WB)

* ''[[Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue!]]'' (2006-2008, The CW)

 

<big>'''Other Scooby Productions'''</big>

* ''[[Scooby-Doo! Music of the Vampire]]'' (2012)

 

* A ''lot'' of running past a [[Wraparound Background]].

* Velma losing her glasses, in the CBS series. (She's [[Blind Without'Em]].)

:''[[A Pup Named Scooby-Doo]]'' mercilessly lampooned and lampshaded these. And invented several new ones. And then lampooned and lampshaded ''those''.

:The catchphrases are also lampshaded in one of the cartoon movies. After something bad happens they each say their catchphrases, except for Fred, whose catch phrase doesn't fit into that situation and instead laments his apparent lack of a Catch Phrase.

* [[Damsel in Distress|Daphne getting abducted and tied up.]] Lampshaded in the original series; she's called "Danger-Prone Daphne" more than once.

* A chase sequence through a room with [[Scooby-Dooby Doors|a series of random doors with entryways that break the laws of physics.]]

* [[Scooby-Doo Hoax]] -- although a few later movie-length episodes (and ''Thirteen Ghosts'') had the ghosts turning out to be real. As well as the first-season episode "Foul Play in Funland". ''Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island'', the show likes playing with the trope as much as it likes playing it straight.

* Scooby and Shaggy dressing up in costumes and making a short skit to confuse the chasing monster.

* The ghosts being real, at least for two series, and [[The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo]].

* Scooby [[Security Cling|getting scared and jumping into Shaggy's arms]].

 

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* [[Frank Welker]]: Fred is his first role and one of his best known roles, and Frank ''still'' voices the character today many years since he had started. With the passing of Don Messick, Welker voices Scooby, too.

* [[Free-Range Children]]: The gang probably isn't that old, yet they run all about creation solving mysteries. This wasn't changed at all in ''[[A Pup Named Scooby-Doo]]''. Well, in ''Pup'' they mostly stayed in one town, at least.

{{quote|'''Daphne:''' Shaggy! Scooby! Where were you two?

'''Shaggy:''' (''He and Scooby exchange knowing glances'') Like, you wouldn't believe it if we told you! }}

** Also, the coral monster in one episode of ''What's New'' turned out to be...a monster made of coral.

* [[Real Estate Scam]]: The air base in ''Where Are You'' episode "Spooky Space Kook".

* [[Reckless Sidekick]]: Scrappy-Doo

* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: The [[Romani|Gypsy]] [[Fortune Teller]] in the Where Are You episode "A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts".

*** Heading this way, from the way I saw it, they're already a couple. Actually, they're farther along than Fred and Daphne right now, since so far Fred seems to have no idea Daphne likes him that way.

*** That's within the continuity of the new series. In the latest DVD movie, ''Camp Scare,'' Fred and Daphne are seen walking hand in hand into the woods at the start of the first musical number while Velma and Shaggy still have a working and platonic relationship.

* [[The Show Goes Hollywood]]: ''Scooby-Doo Goes Hollywood''.

* [[Signature Laugh]]: Scooby's "heHeHEHeHehe" chortle, often followed by, "Rooby Roo!"

 

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[[Category:The Nineties]]

[[Category:The Seventies]]

[[Category:The Eighties]]

[[Category:The Millennium Age of Animation]]

[[Category:Cartoon Network]]

[[Category:Hanna-Barbera]]