Scooby-Doo (character)
| Scoobert "Scooby" Doo | |
|---|---|
| File:Scooby-Doo eats live sandwich.JPG Scooby-Doo eating a sandwich in What's New, Scooby-Doo? animated series | |
| First appearance | "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!", Ep. 1 "What a Night for A Knight". |
| Last appearance | None |
| In-universe information | |
| Alias | Scooby-Dooby-Doo |
| Nickname | Scooby |
| Species | Great Dane |
| Title | Mr. Doo |
| Occupation | Detective |
| Relatives | Momsy and Dada (parents) Yabba Doo (brother) Howdy Doo (brother) Skippy Doo (brother) Ruby Doo (sister) Granddad Doo (grandfather) Great-Grandfather Doo (great-grandfather; deceased) Dooby Doo (brother) Scooby-Dum (cousin) Scooby-Dee (cousin) Whoopsy Doo (cousin) Dixie Doo (cousin) Scrappy Doo (nephew) Yankee Doodle Doo (ancestor; deceased) |
Scoobert "Scooby"-Doo is a fictional dog and the eponymous character of the popular television series Scooby-Doo. At an early age he was brought to the Mystery Inc. Scooby-Doo is a Great Dane who is the pet and best friend of Shaggy Rogers.
Personality
Scooby-Doo and Shaggy Rogers share several personality traits, including tremendous appetites and tendencies toward cowardice. Due to their said cowardice, Scooby-Doo, as well as Shaggy, would often have to be bribed by their friends (Velma, Daphne and Fred) to go after the costumed villains with "Scooby Snacks," a biscuit-like dog treat or cookie snack (usally shaped like a bone), although sometimes, Scooby Snacks won't work on Shaggy so he may have to be tempted with two Scooby Snacks (or as with some episodes the gang may even have Scooby Snacks Industrial Size). Within the universe of the show, Scooby-Doo was born on the Knittingham Puppy Farm (owned by Mrs. Knittingham). It is also mentioned by Daphne that he doesn't like clams.
Scooby has some difficulty with pronunciation (due to the fact he is a dog), and tends to pronounce most words as if they begin with an "R". His catch phrase, usually howled at the end of every episode, is "Scooby-Dooby-Doo!" He also usually says, at least once per episode, "Ruh-row, Raggy" ("Uh-oh, Shaggy").
Appearance and Anatomy
Scoobert 'Scooby' Doo is brown from head to toe with several distinctive black spots on his upper body. Scooby is generally a quadraped but displays bipedal 'human' characteristics occasionally. He has a black nose and wears a gold, diamond shaped tagged,green collar with an "SD" and has four toes on each foot and unlike other dogs Scooby only has one pad on the sole of each of his feet (so that it was easier to draw in the Scooby-Doo Annuals). According to the official magazine that accompanied the 2002 movie, Scooby is seven years old and is a Great Dane.
Voice cast
Don Messick originated the character's voice patterns, and provided Scooby's voice in every Scooby-Doo production from 1969 until 1996, when Messick retired. Scott Innes (also the then-voice of Shaggy) voiced Scooby-Doo in four late 1990s/early 2000s direct-to-video films, and Frank Welker (also the voice of Fred) took over beginning with What's New, Scooby-Doo? in 2002 and other spinoffs. Neil Fanning provided the voice of the computer-generated Scooby present in the two Warner Bros. live-action feature films.
- Don Messick (1969-1997, till death)
- Scott Innes (1998-2001)
- Frank Welker (2002-present)
- Neil Fanning (live-action films)
Relatives
Over the course of Scooby-Doo's various spinoffs, various relatives of Scooby were introduced:
- Scrappy-Doo: Scooby's young nephew (and son of Scooby's sister Ruby-Doo), Scrappy is the bravest of Scooby's relatives. Scrappy became a recurring character in the Scooby-Doo series beginning in 1979, and was noted for being quite headstrong and always wanting to face off in a fight against the various villains (unlike his uncle). Scooby and Shaggy were present at Scrappy's birth.
- Scooby-Dum: Scooby's cousin, a blue-grey dog. A Mortimer Snerd-esque dog who longed to be a detective. Was rather dimwitted (he'd keep looking for clues even after the mystery was solved).
- Scooby-Dee: Scooby's cousin, a white dog. Spoke with a Southern accent, and was an actress. She is Scooby Dum's girlfriend.
- Yabba-Doo: Scooby's brother, a white dog owned by Deputy Dusty in the American southwest. Unlike Scooby's and Scrappy's, his typical custom catch-phrase at the end is "Yippity-Yabbity-Doooo!!!" (and not "Yabba-Dabba-Doo!", presumably due to another Hanna-Barbera character's usage of that phrase).
- Dooby-Doo: Scooby's triplet brother, a singer. He is one of Scooby's few siblings to have hair on his head.Only Appeared in "The 'Dooby Dooby Doo' Ado" and Scooby Goes Hollywood as known as "The Scoob".
- Momsy and Dada Doo: Scooby's parents.
- Whoopsy-Doo: Scooby's cousin, a clown. Owned by Shaggy (Norville)'s uncle, Gaggy Rogers.
- Ruby-Doo: Scooby's sister, and mother of Scrappy-Doo.
- Skippy-Doo: Scooby's triplet brother. Highly intelligent. He is Scooby's only sibling to wear glasses. He is married to Ruby Doo and the father of Scrappy Doo.
- Howdy-Doo: Scooby's brother. Enjoyed reading supermarket tabloid newspapers. He appears to become a redhead.
- Horton-Doo: Scooby's uncle. Was interested in monsters and science.
- Dixie-Doo: Scooby's cousin and the owner of Betty Lou, Shaggy's Southern cousin.
- Grandpa Scooby: Scooby's grandfather.
- Great-Grandpa Scooby: Scooby's great-grandfather.
Love Interests
- Amber: In Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders, Shaggy and Scooby are kidnapped by the "aliens" and abandoned in the desert. There they meet a wild life photographer, Crystal and her dog Amber. Shaggy and Scooby fall for the pair and their love is expressed in a love song called "Groovy" where Shaggy sings of his plan to marry Crystal and have a Shaggy Jr. while Scooby and Amber have puppies. Scooby was heart broken when it is revealed that Amber and Crystal are actually Aliens from another planet and must go home, though he and Shaggy quickly forget about them when they found out there was one more scooby snack box left.
- Dusk: in the episode The Vampire Strikes Back, Scooby was caught in a costume and Dusk kisses him. Scooby then giggles.
- Chiquita: in Scooby-Doo and the Monster of Mexico Scooby meets up with Chiquita Alejo's son's dog when the gang arrives at Alejo's family hotel.
- Googy: in Scooby Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf he received a kiss from her, then later at the monster race he tried to get another kiss, but was pulled off by Shaggy.
- Sandy Duncan: In The New Scooby-Doo Movies episode: "Sandy Duncan's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", Scooby fell for Sandy Duncan at a studio.
- Jeannie: In The New Scooby-Doo Movies episode: "Scooby-Doo Meets Jeannie", before the Mystery Machine crashes on the road, Scooby looks out the window and notices Jeannie up in the air, waving to him. While in Persia (now referred to as Iran), Jeannie is kidnapped, but Scooby manages to set her free by howling. Jeannie is so grateful, she kisses Scooby.
- Sled dog: In the Snow beast episode, Scooby falls in love with a sled dog. At the end, she kisses him.
Trivia
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- The "dog-treat/Scooby Snack" gag had been used before in several Hanna-Barbera cartoons, including Quick Draw McGraw and Dastardly and Muttley.
- Scooby-Doo appears at times in Cartoon Network's The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy as a character who is described as being in the "wrong show." He has spoken little, some of his lines being, "What am I doin' here, man? I'm just a stinkin' dog!", and "Mandy made fun of the way I talk. I mean look at me! I'm a stinkin' dog!"
- In Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue!, Scooby, as well as Shaggy, are not as cowardly as they were in previous series, although in the episode Lightning Strikes Twice, Scooby is shown with a severe case of astraphobia, something he rarely had in the other shows. Scooby-Doo also has the ability to gain awesome powers by eating certain scooby snacks (bone shaped dog treat)
- The name Scooby-Doo comes from the last line of the Frank Sinatra song "Strangers In The Night",[1] although other singers have used the phrase before Sinatra's song was released.
- Scooby-Doo was once impersonated by former N'Sync star J.C. Chasez in A Scooby-Doo Valentine and by David Beckham in an animated Scooby-Doo promo from the United Kingdom. Scooby was also imitated by a few other people as well (most notably the Ape Man).
- French names of the characters are different; Velma became Vera and Shaggy Sammy. As for Scooby-Doo his name was first written "Scoubidou" but lately, the original spelling has been used for the series and direct-to-video movies.
- Scooby-Doo appears in the Robot Chicken episode "Operation: Rich in Spirit" voiced by Dave Coulier (whom previously imitated Scooby's voice in Full House). He is amongst Mystery Inc. members who end up killed by Jason Voorhees except Velma. Seth Green voices him in the episode "Ban on the Fun" when in the segment that parodies the Laff-A-Lympics in the style of the Munich massacre. This time, Scooby did not get killed.
- Also in an episode of Robotboy when Robotboy and his 'mother' escape from police with a big speaker, a dog which looked extremely like Scooby hangs on to the speaker and follows them home.
