What's New, Scooby-Doo?

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What's New, Scooby-Doo?
A What's New, Scooby-Doo? DVD cover
Genre	Animation
Creator(s)	Joe Ruby Ken Spears
Starring	Frank Welker Casey Kasem Grey DeLisle Mindy Cohn
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of episodes	42 (List of episodes)
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Kids WB
Original run	September 14, 2002 – July 21, 2006
Chronology
Preceded by	A Pup Named Scooby-Doo (1988–1991)
Followed by	Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get A Clue! (2006–present)
Links
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

What's New, Scooby-Doo? was the ninth incarnation of the long-running Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo. A revival of the original show, What's New, Scooby-Doo? aired for three seasons on the WB Television Network's "Kids WB" programming block as a half-hour program, before being put on an indefinite hiatus in 2005. Reruns are shown on the Cartoon Network. Forty-three episodes have been produced so far (fourteen in 2002-2003, fourteen in 2003-2004, and fourteen in 2004-2005, and one in 2005-2006).

The show follows the original mystery-solving formula of the series, with the classic gang encountering monsters who invariably turn out to be people in disguise. Most of the stories make an attempt to modernize the Scooby universe by introducing plots spotlighting modern trends and technology, such as the Internet, resulting in modern-technology jokes similar to that on The Fairly Oddparents. The characters remain mostly the same as always, with a few cosmetic changes (most notably, Fred no longer wears his famous ascot in this series.)

With Don Messick's retirement in 1996 (he died the following year), Frank Welker, the voice of Fred, took over as Scooby's voice. Casey Kasem returned as Shaggy, Grey DeLisle took over Daphne's role, while former Facts of Life actress Mindy Cohn took over Velma's. The new show follows the same format as Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, updated somewhat for the 21st century, but with new-age music genres and all-new, original sound effects to replace the classic Hanna-Barbera sound effects. This was also the first Scooby-Doo series to NOT use the Castle thunder sound effect, replacing it with newer digitally-recorded thunderclaps; only two episodes used Castle thunder. The show was produced by Warner Bros. Animation, the studio famous for bringing Looney Tunes to life, which had by this time absorbed Hanna-Barbera Cartoons. (It should be noted, however, that the copyright notice at the end of each episode credits "Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc." as the author. Also, Joseph Barbera was one of the Executive Producers.)

Contents 1 Episode list 2 DVD releases 2.1 Season Releases 2.2 Volume Releases 3 Trivia 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Episode list

See List of What's New, Scooby-Doo? episodes

[edit] DVD releases

The series was initially released in ten volumes of four or five episodes until the complete series was released. Warner Brothers then announced that they would begin releasing the show in season sets, starting with The Complete First Season, set for release on February 20, 2007.^[1]

[edit] Season Releases

Cover Art	DVD Name	Release Date	Ep #	Additional Information
	The Complete First Season	February 20, 2007	12	Bonus features include Backstage Bloopers with Scooby-Doo and bonus episode "A Scooby-Doo Valentine".
TBA	The Complete Second Season	June 5, 2007	12	Bonus features include a "Speak Scooby" recording session featurette and a bonus episode "A Scooby-Doo Halloween".
TBA	The Complete Third Season	TBA	12

[edit] Volume Releases

The episodes in each volume were at first picked in chronological order but were later picked to be part of a theme. The volumes and the episodes they include in the United States are as follow:

• Volume 1: Space Ape at the Cape (August 19, 2003)
  • "There's No Creature Like Snow Creature"
  • "Space Ape at the Cape"
  • "3-D Struction"
  • "Big Scare in the Big Easy"
• Volume 2: Safari So Goodi! (March 9, 2004)
  • "It's Mean, It's Green, It's The Mystery Machine"
  • "Riv Ras Regas"
  • "Roller Ghoster Ride"
  • "Safari, So Goodi!"
• Volume 3: Halloween Boos & Clues (August 10, 2004)
  • "The Vampire Strikes Back"
  • "Mummy Scares Best"
  • "High-Tech House of the Future"
  • "She Sees a Sea Monster by the Seashore"
• Volume 4: Merry Scary Holiday (October 5, 2004)
  • "A Scooby-Doo Christmas"
  • "Toy Scary Boo"
  • "Homeward Hound"
  • "Recipe for Disaster"
• Volume 5: Sports Spooktacular (June 14, 2005)
  • "The Unnatural"
  • "The Fast and the Wormious"
  • "Wrestle Maniacs"
  • "Diamonds Are a Ghoul's Best Friend"
• Volume 6: Monster Matinee (August 9, 2005)
  • "A Scooby-Doo Halloween"
  • "San Franpsycho"
  • "New Mexico, Old Monster"
  • "Big Appetite in Little Tokyo"
• Volume 7: Ghosts on the Go (November 8, 2005)
  • "Pompeii & Circumstance"
  • "Large Dragon at Large"
  • "It's All Greek to Scooby-Doo"
  • "Ready to Scare"
• Volume 8: Zoinks! Camera! Action! (February 21, 2006)
  • "Lights, Camera, Mayhem!"
  • "E-Scream"
  • "Simple Plan and the Invisible Madman"
  • "A Scooby-Doo Valentine"
• Volume 9: Route Scary-Six (June 6, 2006)
  • "Go West Young Scoob"
  • "Camp Comeoniwannascareya"
  • "Demon Farmer: Farmed & Dangerous"
  • "Fright House of a Lighthouse"
  • "Gentlemen, Start Your Monsters!"
• Volume 10: Monstrous Tails (December 5, 2006)
  • "Uncle Scooby and Antarctica"
  • "Block-Long Hong Kong Terror"
  • "Reef Grief!"
  • "Gold Paw"
  • "A Terrifying Round With A Menacing Metallic Clown"

[edit] Trivia

• The band Simple Plan is heavily connected to What's New, Scooby-Doo? They perform the theme song, and appeared as themselves in the episode "Simple Plan and the Invisible Madman". Two of their songs appeared in chase scenes: "I'd Do Anything" in the episode "It's Mean, It's Green, It's the Mystery Machine", and "You Don't Mean Anything" in "Simple Plan and the Invisible Madman".
• In some episodes, it is seen that Velma is a fan of hockey.
• During 'A Terrifying Round With A Menacing Metallic Clown', the characters are drawn as they are seen in A Pup Named Scooby-Doo during a flashback to Velma's fifth birthday party.
• Also in the episode 'A Terrifying Round With A Menacing Metallic Clown', a character named "Couger Woods" is portrayed as an expert golfer. Both his name and occupation are obvious nudges towards real life golfer Tiger Woods
• Daphne, Velma, and Fred are in all but one episode of the series, and appear less in subsequent episodes of Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue!
• Interestingly, the reveal at the end of "E-Scream" (that Velma is participating in a Holo-Mystery) completely fails to explain the Osomon's presence in the pre-titles, a sequence that seems to take place the night before the gang even arrive at the convention...
• This is the first Scooby-Doo series since 1970 that didn't feature Heather North as the voice of Daphne.
• In the episode "Large Dragon at Large", the dragon that tries to scare Scooby and Shaggy is a machine similar to the one that was the "Snow Creature" in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!.
• In "A Scooby Doo Valentines", after discovering that she was played by an extra, Daphne asks "Why couldn't you get Sarah Michelle Geller?" (Geller played Daphne in the live action movies)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• WhatsNewScoobyDoo.com: Official Warner Bros. Site
• What's New, Scooby-Doo? at the Internet Movie Database

Scooby-Doo characters
Scooby-Doo • Norville "Shaggy" Rogers • Fred "Freddie" Jones • Daphne Blake • Velma Dinkley • Scrappy-Doo • Scooby-Dum
Scooby-Doo series
Scooby-Doo, Where are You! (1969–1970) • The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972–1973) • The Scooby-Doo Show (1976–1978) • Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1979–1980) • Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo / Scrappy-Doo and Yabba-Doo (1980–1982) • The All-New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show / The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries (1983–1984) • The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo (1985) • A Pup Named Scooby-Doo (1988–1991) • What's New, Scooby-Doo? (2002–2006) • Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue! (2006– )
Scooby-Doo movies
Television films: Scooby Goes Hollywood (TV special, 1979) • Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers (1987) • Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf (1988) • Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School (1988) • Scooby-Doo in Arabian Nights (1993)
Direct to video films: Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998) • Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost (1999) • Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders (2000) • Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase (2001) • Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire (2003) • Scooby-Doo and the Monster of Mexico (2003) • Scooby-Doo and the Loch Ness Monster (2004) • Aloha, Scooby-Doo! (2005) • Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy? (2005) • Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy! (2006)
Live-action theatrical films: Scooby-Doo (2002) • Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004)
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