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Scooby Doo, Where Are You! is the first incarnation of the long-running Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo. It premiered on September 13, 1969 at 10:30 AM EST and ran for two seasons on CBS as a half-hour long show. Twenty-five episodes were produced (seventeen in 1969-1970 and eight more in 1970).

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! was the result of CBS and Hanna-Barbera's plans to create a non-violent Saturday morning program, which would appease the parent watch groups that had protested the superhero-based programs of the mid-1960s. Originally titled Mysteries Five, and later Who's S-S-Scared?, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! underwent a number of changes from script to screen (the most notable of which was the downplaying of the musical group angle borrowed from The Archie Show). However, the basic concept—four teenagers Fred, Daphne, Velma, and Shaggy, along with a large goofy Great Dane, Scooby-Doo, solving supernatural-related mysteries—was always in place. Character development was not a major focus of early sitcoms (especially animated cartoons), so little was offered about the personal lives of the Mystery Inc. members before the show, aside from the obvious (i.e. they are high school students). Also, each episode is a self-contained story, with connections to previous or future episode. (A story arc for the franchise did not exist until Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, which is essentially a reboot with everything that WAY didn't have or wasn't allowed to.)

Writing

  • Scooby-Doo creators Joe Ruby and Ken Spears served as the story supervisors on the series. Ruby, Spears, and Bill Lutz wrote all of the scripts for the seventeen first-season Scooby episodes, while Ruby, Spears, Lutz, Larz Bourne, and Tom Dagenais wrote the eight second-season episodes. The plot varied little from episode to episode. The main concept was as follows:

  • The Mystery Inc. gang turn up in the Mystery Machine, en route to or returning from a regular teenage function when their van develops engine trouble or breaks down for any of a variety of reasons (overheating, flat tire, etc.), in the immediate vicinity of a large, mostly-vacated property (ski lodge, hotel, factory, mansion, etc.).

  • Their (unintended) destination turns out to be suffering from a monster problem (ghosts, Frankenstein, Yeti, etc.). The kids volunteer to investigate the case.

  • The gang splits up to cover more ground, with Fred and Velma finding clues, Daphne finding danger, and Shaggy and Scooby finding food, fun, and the ghost/monster, who gives chase. Scooby and Shaggy in particular love to eat, including dog treats called Scooby Snacks which are a favorite of both the dog and the teenage boy.

  • Eventually, enough clues are found to convince the gang that the ghost/monster is a fake, and a trap is set to capture it.

  • The trap may or may not work (more often than not, Scooby-Doo falls into the trap and they accidentally catch the monster another way, usually if the plan is explained in detail before attempted execution it fails). Invariably, the ghost/monster is apprehended and unmasked. The person in the ghost or monster suit turns out to be an apparently blameless authority figure or otherwise innocuous local who is using the disguise to cover up something such as crime or a scam.

  • After giving the parting shot of "And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you blasted meddling kids" (sometimes adding "...and your stupid dog!"), the offender is then taken away to jail, and the gang is allowed to continue on their way to their destination.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Sometimes you just have to watch the Sabaton "Night Witches" animated music video on repeat for a couple of hours until the liberalism leaves yopr body.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Barbie movie should have been gay. What's going on at all those "girls nights"? And Allan is just Ken's "buddy"? Yeah, sure...

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Me, too smart for my own good, knowing I won't keep up a good habit, not bothering to do a good thing once.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

I get like 5 days off now 🤗

But I have to switch back to day shift mode 😫

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

I wanna go back to Tamriel. Sure, it's a metaphysical arena forged from strife to maybe create a crucible within which mortals can exceed the gods, and there are fascist Mer literally trying to unmake reality using logical fallacy breakdancing to retcon theosophy, but I had a cute dunmer husband and a nice little tower in Balmora and the soundtrack was banging and if anyone gave me shit I sword made from the glassy black blood of Lorhkaj that could steal their souls to re-charge my magic flashlight.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

fuck landlords
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[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Real socialist democracy, where you can't vote out the leader and there's suicide nets hanging off of factories

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Real leftism, where you vaguepost about aes

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Scott Steiner is like a parody of what people think wrestlers act like except he's real

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why do i still see posts here that say "deleted by creator" at the side

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated was the best Scooby Doo incarnation

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

any sci-fi plots that explore sociological differences between sapient space-faring predator species, and ones that evolved as herbivores or something? that could be interesting imo

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Sequel to the FBI female body inspector shirt:

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I'm watching the new Ninja Turtles movie and it rocks

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

my whole life is a lie the most notorious hellenophile rant man on total war center is actually albanian limmy-what

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why is this thought is happening to me while watching fcking bbc dinosaur docu

but how wild is reproduction, amiright? you do a lil dance with some bastard and in a bunch of months there's this completely new, completely unknowledgeable lil creature. and its cute and you have to turn it into a real creature. what the FUCK, man smoking-fish

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Oh my god if you play vicky 3 as a minor nation join a major nation's customs union asap because their market will singlehandily float your economy, you can build as much shit as you want, and then steal the people from that customs union.

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Hearing that blizzard released character ages to Overwatch that’s incredibly inconsistent with the established story is the kind of attention to detail that makes me feel right for dropping this game

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The good news: I have a new PC and it has good specs (I think, I don't know anything about hardware)

The bad news: It only has HDMI ports and only one of my monitors can connect to it, so I'm down to 1 monitor rn

Edit: Ok so I used a different HDMI cable and plugged it into a different port on the PC, now the display works but my PC doesn't recognize it (Generic Non-PnP Monitor) and it's stuck on 1024x768 resolution. It's an Acer S242HL monitor, I looked online if it was a driver issue but I read that apparently, drivers for monitors don't really matter?

Does anyone have ideas how to fix this? ;-;

Edit 2: Fixed the issue by using a spare monitor my dad had left over. Was probably a hardware issue, the monitor I used was from 2015.

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Someone smarter than me, is there a way you could download a text file (from pastebin or a similar service) and print its contents from https://www.onlinegdb.com/? I tried using system("wget") which I know is probably not the best way, and it looks like you can't actually download files. But is there some way you could get the contents anyway? Trying to see if there's a funny way to bypass a firewall.

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