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I'm aware of all the negative references in modern productions. But they do not match how the gang interacted with him when he was there, in either 1979 or 1984. (Velma didn't even know who he was? Seriously?) These are all people's neurotic projections of their own personal hatred onto him.

Yeah, what he's describing is for the most part "Scrappy's Birthday" and a few others. There are many other stories where the bad guy comes after them on his own, or they stumble on him (the usual case), or the others do something to anger him ("Scooby and the Bandit" comes to mind), and it's...

That was sort of my thinking when producing this attempt at a meme (didn't know about Gunn then, but he is the one who fits the bill): http://www.erictb.info/rex.png

The episodes are slapstick comedy. Sort of like the old cartoons (the theatrical era, and early TV up to the 60's). I think it's interesting to see them in that new setting, and Shaggy and Scooby are still their same old selves, being frightful and trying to flee.

I see the season before Scrappy as what you described for Shaggy and Scooby, as Fred and the girls were always sending them out to do the dangerous stuff, and kept sending them right back out as soon as they came back together. Scrappy might as well have been added already, and Shaggy and Scooby...

Don't know how I missed this thread from way back in '04. Just saw a screenshot of it in this video: Never thought of Scooby Goes Hollywood as the catalyst for the format change! (Of course, the whole point of that story was about Scooby quitting the business, and yet returning, which is what...

I compare the Keye Luke version to his "Zen Tuo" ghost and zombies role in Scooby: (e.g. "WE WILL BUILD A NEW STOREROOM!")

From what I'm seeing so far, they remind me of classic CN promos, or interstitials, with all the clip mixing. I mean from way before the "Groovies" label was used. In fact, it brings to mind the old TNT Toons promos as well. I had long hoped Boom would become more like classic CN.

Just what I was thinking. I didn't even know it was him. Sometimes, voices like that are not natural, and they have to exert effort to make them, and then they can't after awhile. Like Mel Blanc couldn't do some voices any more toward the end, and then rapper DMC's familiar high pitched voice...

#2, it was probably the month the old season ran out, which would be early Sept. (I remember them dropping all cartoons, and remembered the cartoon season just running to that last week and being replaced by the new lineup).

Wow; those are just like classic CN "all star" promos. Great continuation. This is what I always said they have done on Boomerang, but since they want to change Boomerang into something else altogether, then they should give us this new channel.

When I heard about this one, it was one of the things that made me look forward to the Warner-Turner merger, and the familiarization of the Amblin shows on Cartoon Network with the rest of the WB universe. When this occurred, they instead got horrible airplay (despite seeing the "Monkey Song"...

Spider Man '67 was actually Ray Ellis, who the following year went to Filmation to become the longtime background musician (though usually under pseudonyms).

Actually, they were produced for the original "Mysteries Five" concept, where the gang was a music band, so they would have been produced in 1969. After the music band idea was ditched, the songs produced were then (as a handy afterthought) used for chase scenes in the second season. And so they...

I've always said it was the "people-focus". It was unprecedented in cartoons, which before were either slapstick comedy or action-adventure (and both of which were being increasingly frowned upon for violence). It perfected the "teen"-oriented format Archie started the year before, but with...

Maybe she was trying to emulate the original Bea Benaderet voice, which had some similarty to Betty Boop at times.

Will there still be, on CN? I'd rather have it on BOOM, since that doesn't specify cartoons.

IIRC, it looked to me like the Tribune stations. (which was one of the other proto-"little networks" besides Metromedia/FOX)

When we were growing up, and this stuff was coming out, most of us were not seasoned animation critics (this trend today is retropsective). So whatever was coming out was still new and exciting (and concentrated in that one timeslot, and on three air channels, where today, it's all spread out)...

Boomerang could reinstitute the year by year format they started with, and make that a Saturday block. Especially if they're going to change the rest of their format. They could keep that one slot for classic cartoons.

QUBO had cartoons, right? I was going to ask, that even though NBC was the first to drop cartoons, I did think I remembered them having one of those third party prepackaged blocks )with cartoons) for awhile. By this ime, it was already over for me. Those blocks (most by a single producer, and...

I would say the 20 year mark happens to coincide roughly with the switch from Saturday morning to cable (where the big networks began scaling down drastically, eventually extending their morning shows, and independent stations joined new networks and replaced their weekday AM syndicated slots...

Is there a difference between "direction" and actual "scoring"? Like with "music editor"? I always got the impression Nichols perhaps had a side role like that, while curtin continued to actually compose the music.

So then Johnny Quest was Nichols, right? Space Ghost and the rest of the Super Adventures reused a lot of score from JQ. So basically, the comedic score from the early 60's was Curtin, and the more jazzy "adventure" score (And the Gulliver and Scooby stuff) was Nichols? (And I guess that's why...

Wasn't Battle of the Planets in 1978? (that's the period of Curtin that soulds like). It couldn't be '71, because BOTP was Gatchaman, which was 1972, but the adaptation to BOTP was later.

There's also this old forgotten film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Aventures_des_Schtroumpfs Les aventures des Schtroumpfs (1965) - IMDb But no mention of that name. Maybe it's an alias? Or maybe he played the role in some play somewhere?

Wasn't it both of them? I always wondered who was who.

The entire pre- and post- 48 library finally under one roof, I always hoped the WB would keep the tradition going by having a new network show with those fancy title cards ABC last used. But they never did. (I don't even think they ran their show anymore after that. They had last used just the...

You can tell by the odd sound effects used in the Scooby episodes (which included the "Uncle Fearless" cases).

I just realized that many cable channel names in general mean nothing. It's industry-wide. Like there was a news story this morning on some new reality show about nude dating, and it's going to be on VH1. That was supposed to be a music channel, as was its parent, MTV. The channels went from...

I'm trying to remember exactly when Superfriends was syndicated. I clearly remember Scooby entering syndication in '08, and Pink Panther following in '82, and that by '83-4, Superfriends joined the fray, but can't remember if it had just arrived that season, or if it was the '81 addition (I...

No; the half hour version of the original was only shown in the '76 season I think, and neither half hour nor hour was seen again until syndication, which occurred in the 80's. The others all blended together in the package more than the first one.

No.

That must be what I remembered.

I guess the fact that the cartoon came under CN ownership apparentlyas part of the HB library (and apparently never had that ownwership lombo problem that has kept many other licensed properties off the cable networks) does make the 3D round character with arms seem like an HB character (even if...

Yeah, that's been out, but comes and goes, and hadn't been shown in awhile. CAT22, Mr. Bixby, Big Baby and Nacho Bear are all apart of that rotation.

I don't see why they couldn't have both. It's not like it was the same van remodeled or something. So now they're trying to wipe out that era altogether? They did bring back Vincent Van Ghoul and even made reference to Flim Flam in one episode. So now their appearance had nothing to do with 13...

So they first put EE&E on at horrible times, now get rid of it, apparently not finding it popular enough, right?!

I know the piece you refer to in "The Flying Cat" is also used at the end of "Snowbody Loves Me" (one of the early Chuck Jones Tom & Jerry's). It must be a classical piece. On "Fit To Be Tied", that could be newly made score, though it has such a strong melody it does sound like a reference to...

Oh, wow! Forgot all abut "My Best Friend Plank". I've See "We Must All Get Ready" many times. Not recently, but they used to play it in prime time.