Scooby-Doo was a Hanna-Barbera animated series that was originally produced for Saturday morning television. Debuting in 1969 on CBS, the characters have appeared in numerous spin-offs and versions, as well as direct-to-video movies and prime-time specials. Beginning in 1998, Warner Bros. Animation took over production of the animated Scooby-Doo franchise. The characters were brought to the big screen in a live-action adaptation in 2002, with Jim Henson's Creature Shop and David Barrington-Holt as Creative Supervisor/Character Design.

Muppet Mentions

• When Josie and the Pussycats crossed over to The New Scooby-Doo Movies episode "The Haunted Showboat," Melody said of the vessel the gang was following into a cave, "He didn't even say, 'Open, Sesame Street'!"

References

• At the end of a Sesame Street Letter of the Day sketch for the letter Z, Prairie Dawn exclaims "Zoinks!", one of Shaggy's catchphrases in Scooby-Doo.
• In The Muppet Show Comic Book: On the Road issue #4, when Kismet the Toad gets arrested, he says "I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you pesky pigs," referencing a line used whenever the villains on Scooby-Doo were caught.

Trivia

• Scooby-Doo was ranked number 13 in Animal Planet's 50 Greatest TV Animals, beating out Big Bird.

Connections

• John Astin played Gomez Addams in The New Scooby-Doo Movies
• Rowan Atkinson played Emile Mondavarious in the 2002 live-action film
• David Beckham appeared in an Adidas advertisement in the UK with the Scooby-Doo gang (and also dressed up as Scooby-Doo in it)
• Mary Kay Bergman voiced Daphne in several Scooby-Doo videos
• Peter Boyle played "Old Man" Jeremiah Wickles in Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
• Daws Butler voiced Scooby-Dum
• JC Chasez was a guest star on A Scooby-Doo Valentine (and also dressed up as the titular dog in the same special)
• Cher was a guest star on The New Scooby-Doo Movies
• Mindy Cohn is the current voice of Velma Dinkley
• Tim Conway was a guest star on The New Scooby-Doo Movies
• Phyllis Diller was a guest star on The New Scooby-Doo Movies
• Sandy Duncan was a guest star on The New Scooby-Doo Movies
• Dick Van Dyke was a guest star on The New Scooby-Doo Movies
• Cass Elliot voiced herself in The New Scooby-Doo Movies
• Sholly Fisch has written several "Scooby Doo" comic books for DC Comics
• Sarah Michelle Gellar played Daphne Blake in the first two live-action films
• Seth Green played Patrick Wisely in Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
• C. Ernst Harth played Miner 49er in Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, and the Janitor in Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins
• Arte Johnson voiced Weerd in The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo
• Casey Kasem voiced Shaggy on many Scooby-Doo productions from 1969 to 2010
• Don Knotts was a guest star on The New Scooby-Doo Movies
• Matthew Lillard plays Shaggy Rogers in the first two live-action movies and has voiced him in the cartoons since 2010
• Mona Marshall did additional voices in Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo
• Kellie Martin voiced Daphne in A Pup Named Scooby Doo
• Howard Morris voiced Bogel in The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo
• Vincent Price voiced Vincent Van Ghoul in The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo
• Geoff Redknap puppeteered on Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
• Jerry Reed was a guest star on The New Scooby-Doo Movies
• Alicia Silverstone played Heather Jasper-Howe in Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
• John Stephenson voiced various villains in Scooby Doo
• Patrick Warburton voices Sheriff Stone on Scooby-Doo, Mystery Incorporated
• Frank Welker voiced Fred on Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! and its spinoffs, and is also the current voice of Scooby-Doo
• Jonathan Winters was a guest star on The New Scooby-Doo Movies

External links

• IMDb for the 2002 film
• IMDb for Scooby-Doo