Scooby Doo! Mystery Incorporated - Never Forgotten: a Foster's Home Community

Ccook50 · 04-09-2010, 07:32 AM

With a couple of noted exceptions, Hanna-Barbera's long-running Scooby Doo has remained uniform on its premise of its titular canine star and his four teenage pals busting staged mysteries. When it goes off into another pattern as it did in The 13 Ghosts Of Scooby Doo (1985) and Shaggy & Scooby Doo Get A Clue (2006), it efforts to augment that pattern with a sense of urgency with middling effect.

Cartoon Network had a sneak preview for Scooby's fourteenth show, Scooby Doo! Mystery Incorporated, which starts as a regular weekly series this summer. This series takes the standard premise and turns it sideways, giving it more character interaction than we're accustomed to seeing in the series.

In the past, the gang has lived in a fictional city called Coolsville. In this show, they're in Crystal Cove, where their ghost-busting exploits aren't readily appreciated since (as the pilot notes) the unmasking and arresting of the faux spook does something to cripple the city's economic infrastructrure. (As the very onset of the episode, the gang is locked in jail.) As the story unfolds, we are witness to something between the gang that we'd never thought we'd see: sexual tension. Daphne and Velma try to start romantic sparks with Fred and Shaggy, respectively. But neither of the boys are quick studies: Fred obsesses on his ghost traps while Shaggy's dilemma is twofold--his appetite takes priority, and he's afraid Scooby will get upset if he found out that Velma is coming onto him.

Where The 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo had the common storyline of recapturing escaped ghosts spread out over 13 weeks in individually contained episodes, Mystery Incoporated will be serialized. Once the episode's mystery is wrapped up, it ties in with a teaser at the end (an amulet is discovered early in the pilot but it had nothing to do with the mystery itself--it will carry over to episode two when the series starts up).

The gang is redesigned as their 1969 forms albeit with a somewhat edgier look--Sam Register is the executive producer here--and Velma has little brown bows in her hair. Casey Kasem, Shaggy's main voice since 1969, has been replaced by Matthew Lillard, who played the live Shaggy in 2002 and 2004. (Kasem is pretty much retired now, albeit he played Shaggy's dad in the pilot.)

Two generations of kids have kept Scooby Doo going, and how they'll approach a serialized Scooby show where he and his buddies are frowned upon by the people they're helping, let alone attempting to transcend their team members into possible love interests, is up for grabs. The target age group is 7 to 11, so their votes will count. The rest of us don't count.

antgirl1 · 04-09-2010, 06:47 PM

I'm not really looking forward to this, but I might give it a chance.

And that's a pretty big might.

04-09-2010, 07:32 AM	#1
Ccook50 Foster's Legend Don't forget to turn left at Greenland Join Date: May 2007 Location: Cumming GA Posts: 510	Scooby Doo! Mystery Incorporated With a couple of noted exceptions, Hanna-Barbera's long-running Scooby Doo has remained uniform on its premise of its titular canine star and his four teenage pals busting staged mysteries. When it goes off into another pattern as it did in The 13 Ghosts Of Scooby Doo (1985) and Shaggy & Scooby Doo Get A Clue (2006), it efforts to augment that pattern with a sense of urgency with middling effect. Cartoon Network had a sneak preview for Scooby's fourteenth show, Scooby Doo! Mystery Incorporated, which starts as a regular weekly series this summer. This series takes the standard premise and turns it sideways, giving it more character interaction than we're accustomed to seeing in the series. In the past, the gang has lived in a fictional city called Coolsville. In this show, they're in Crystal Cove, where their ghost-busting exploits aren't readily appreciated since (as the pilot notes) the unmasking and arresting of the faux spook does something to cripple the city's economic infrastructrure. (As the very onset of the episode, the gang is locked in jail.) As the story unfolds, we are witness to something between the gang that we'd never thought we'd see: sexual tension. Daphne and Velma try to start romantic sparks with Fred and Shaggy, respectively. But neither of the boys are quick studies: Fred obsesses on his ghost traps while Shaggy's dilemma is twofold--his appetite takes priority, and he's afraid Scooby will get upset if he found out that Velma is coming onto him. Where The 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo had the common storyline of recapturing escaped ghosts spread out over 13 weeks in individually contained episodes, Mystery Incoporated will be serialized. Once the episode's mystery is wrapped up, it ties in with a teaser at the end (an amulet is discovered early in the pilot but it had nothing to do with the mystery itself--it will carry over to episode two when the series starts up). The gang is redesigned as their 1969 forms albeit with a somewhat edgier look--Sam Register is the executive producer here--and Velma has little brown bows in her hair. Casey Kasem, Shaggy's main voice since 1969, has been replaced by Matthew Lillard, who played the live Shaggy in 2002 and 2004. (Kasem is pretty much retired now, albeit he played Shaggy's dad in the pilot.) Two generations of kids have kept Scooby Doo going, and how they'll approach a serialized Scooby show where he and his buddies are frowned upon by the people they're helping, let alone attempting to transcend their team members into possible love interests, is up for grabs. The target age group is 7 to 11, so their votes will count. The rest of us don't count. __________________ "God forgot to make stupidity painful." --Ivan Stang (Church of the SubGenius)

04-09-2010, 06:47 PM	#2
antgirl1 Baja Blast my Beloved Rapo or Rachel is fine! Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: USA Posts: 1,781	I'm not really looking forward to this, but I might give it a chance. And that's a pretty big might.