Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue!
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| Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue! | |
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| Genre | Animation |
| Creator(s) | Joe Ruby Ken Spears |
| Starring | Frank Welker Scott Menville |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 13 (so far) |
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| Running time | 25 minutes |
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| Original channel | The CW |
| Original run | September 23, 2006 – present |
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| Preceded by | What's New, Scooby-Doo? (2002–2006) |
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Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue! is the tenth incarnation of Hanna-Barbera's long-running Scooby-Doo series of Saturday morning cartoons. It debuted on September 23, 2006 and runs on The CW's Kids' WB! programming block on Saturday mornings. It is produced by Warner Bros. Animation, and is the last cartoon series produced by Joseph Barbera.
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[edit] Storyline
The premise of the show revolves around the fact that Shaggy Rogers's incredibly rich Uncle Albert Shaggleford disappears and names Shaggy as his sole heir for an inheritance. With the help of the inheritance, Shaggy has upgraded the Mystery Machine so that it now has the ability to transform itself into a number of other vehicles.
Dr. Shaggleford had made some enemies before disappearing. Among the most dangerous is the archetypal evil genius out to take over the world--Dr. Phinius Phibes. Dr. Phibes recruits various sidekicks and minions to help him with his plans, among them Dr. Trebla.
It appears that the supposedly-late Dr. Shaggleford was, beyond being rich, an inventor in his own right, and his clueless young heir is now in possession of some very interesting nano technology. The top secret nanotech formula has been mixed in with Scooby Snacks, which, when eaten, cause a variety of day-saving side effects ranging from inflating Scooby to shrinking him down in size.
Shaggy and Scooby-Doo have a mission: armed with an updated Mystery Machine, a loyal robot servant named Robi, their new riches, and the new and improved Scooby Snacks, they must stop the evil plans of Phinius Phibes and save the world.
The format of the show is more action-oriented than the previous mystery oriented format of the past Scooby-Doo shows, and Shaggy and Scooby are not as cowardly as before. The characters have also been re-designed to look like animated versions of how they appeared in the live-action Scooby-Doo films.
[edit] Episode list
The following list is by chronological order.
Show 345-411: "Shags to Riches" (pilot) After inheriting a fortune from Shaggy's Uncle Albert, Shaggy, and Scooby learn that they have been charged with tracking down the bumbling bad guy Dr. Phineus Phibes, who wants Uncle Albert's formula for nano-technology, which is hidden inside Scooby Snacks.
Show 345-412: "More Fondue for Scooby-Doo!" Shaggy and Scooby thwart Dr. Phibes' plan to melt the glacier of Mount Zeryodelwietzen in Switzerland in order to ruin a conference on global warming to be held there.
345-413: "High Society Scooby" Chaos reigns as Shaggy and Scooby crash a country club in order to save three world-renowned inventors from the clutches of Dr. Phibes.
345-414: "Lightning Strikes Twice" From the safety of his spaceship, Dr. Phibes attempts to create an electrical storm that will cover the Earth for all time, and it is up to Shaggy and Scooby to save the world.
345-415: "Party Arty" Dr. Phibes manages to slip a dangerous robot butler into Shaggy's and Scooby's mansion to replace their own "ro-butler," Robi, on the eve of an important mansion-warming party.
345-416: "Smart House" Shaggy and Scooby fight an artificially intelligent computer virus that lodges into their mansion's advanced computer system (dubbed "Smart House"). They must prevent it from corrupting the country's weapons defense systems.
345-417: "Chefs of Steel" During the taping of a cooking show, Shaggy and Scooby find themselves squaring off in the kitchen against the evil Chef Suki Sukihari and his mind-control hibatchi.
345-418: "Mystery of the Missing Mystery Solvers" Shaggy and Scooby are called on to find the world's most famous detectives, all of whom begin disappearing at the Mystery Solvers of the Millennium Awards. As they track the trackers, they discover the event's host is not who he appears to be.
345-419: "Don't Feed the Animals" Dastardly Dr. Phibes turns his attention to the rain forest, which he plans to destroy in his quest for a plant that promises immortality. Shaggy and Scooby team up with a pack of marmosets to fight him.
345-420: "Almost Ghosts" Dr. Phibes uses an invisibility ray on two of his henchmen and sends them to steal a disintegration ray housed in a government facility. Joining the fray are Fred, Velma, and Daphne, who think they are chasing ghosts.
345-421: "Pole to Pole" Shaggy and Scooby enter the "Polar Bear 3000" race across Greenland in order to stop Dr. Phibes from transporting a device that will knock out all electronic and telecommunications equipment on the planet.
345-422: "Big Trouble" Out in the desert, Shaggy and Scooby once again battle Dr. Phibes, who this time has built a monstrous giant robot in his own image.
345-423: "Operation Dog and Hippy Boy" Dr. Phibes assembles the world's most dangerous villains and charges them with getting rid of Shaggy and Scooby. Before the dust clears, however, Dr. Phibes ends up obtaining exactly what he wanted all along: Uncle Albert's top-secret formula.
[edit] Trivia
- Shaggy and Scooby-Doo Get a Clue is getting a second season
- In episode 13, we see that Dr. Trebla is Albert spelt backwards it is still unknown that he is Shaggy's uncle.
- Producer Eric Radomski had this to say about Dr. Phibes: "Dr. Phibes exterior lair is deco influenced, and in the 13th episode, we introduce a feline friend of Dr. Phibes. Ray DeLaurentis would need to confirm, but I believe your assumption is correct. Dr. Phibes is Colonel Klink plus Dr. Evil divided by Strangelove." [1]
- Phinius Phibes gets his name from the Vincent Price villain from The Abominable Dr. Phibes.
- In Episode 2, Shaggy upgrades the Mystery Machine. However, as the Mystery Machine transforms on command (into machines inappropriate for the tasks at hand), it becomes evident that there are still a few bugs to work out.
- Episode 2 introduces Misty Swiss, an agent working for Dr. Phibes. Her character may be an oblique parody of the woman who appeared for years on the Swiss Miss hot cocoa packaging.
- This is the second show in the Scooby-Doo series, after A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, that is not animated or drawn in the usual Hanna-Barbera style.
- With this show, The Scooby-Doo shows have been broadcast on four different networks during nearly four decades. The channels that have carried the Scooby-Doo cartoons are CBS (which aired the original show and the second incarnation) ABC (which aired the following six incarnations) The WB (which aired the ninth), and The CW (which currently airs the tenth).
- This is the first series that Casey Kasem does not voice Shaggy. In this series, he voices Shaggy's rich and on-the-run uncle Albert.
- The changing feature of the Mystery Machine is also in the Chan Clan's van.
- Two of Dr. Phibes sidekicks are parodies of Napoleon Dynamite and Kip Dynamite, Napoleons brother.
