04/29/2024
In honor of today's NEW Scooby-Doo Collection🐕🐾👻🚌 launch, here's some FUN FACTS you might not know:
🦴12 versions of the show have been done.
However, the most popular ones was the original ‘Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!’ (1969-1970) and later ‘What’s New, Scooby-Doo? (2002-2006).
🐾Scooby-Do and Papa Smurf.
The voice for Scooby-Doo, Scrappy-Doo and even Papa Smurf is all done by one man named Don Messick.
👓Velma’s line, “My glasses. . . I can’t see without them!” was actually said by the voice actor, Nichole Jaffe at the first reading.
The writers thought that it was cute and so they kept the line.
🥪The voice for Shaggy, Casey Kasem, wanted Shaggy to be a vegetarian.
Casey even quit the show when Shaggy was in a Burger King commercial.
🧟♀️Scooby-Doo is a triplet.
His identical siblings are Skippy-Doo and Dooby-Doo.
🐕Scooby’s speech disorder.
His excessive use of the letter “R” is called rhotacism.
👻Shaggy-Doo and Scooby-Doo appear in every show.
They are the only characters to do so.
🐶Scooby-Doo is perpetually 7-years-old.
🕺Fred’s voice actor has stayed the same.
Frank Welker voiced Fred through every movie and TV show except one in 1988 ‘A Pup named Scooby-Doo’.
😆First laugh track.
This was the first Saturday morning cartoon to feature this
📺Longest running franchise.
This animated series was the longest running Saturday morning show in the United States.
🏆Only two nominations.
Despite its massive success, it has only been nominated for two major awards. One for a Daytime Emmy in 1990 for ‘A Pup Named Scooby-Doo’ and another in 2003 for the voice of Velma, Mindy Cohn, for outstanding performance in An Animated Program.
