Scooby-Doo!: Mystery Incorporated

Anonus

A thread for a boss show clearly made by H-B lovers

Tre

i told you it was good

i haven't seen it all but it's probably the best attempt at modernizing the franchise while keeping its original spirit intact

Anonus

I never really cared for the original Where Are You!; I always thought it was dull, and looking at it now, the LOOK of the show hasn't held up well. It's even more baffling that they went with Filmation Lite; H-B had their own style! I've decided to rewatch it at some point because, well, people my age think it's a classic cartoon for some reason.

Mystery Incorporated is many things Where Are You! is not: reasonably fast-moving, full of funny dialogue, and designed in a style hearkening back to season 1 of Huckleberry Hound.

Salix Babylonika

I don't think it's a "classic cartoon", really, it's just kind of entertaining.

Also MF DOOM sampled it.

Yarrun XIX

I'm actually not a fan of the Incorporated series.

The love triangle between Velma, Shaggy and Scooby felt forced and the plots felt formulaic even for Scooby-Doo standards. 

I liked the episode where Scooby teams up with a bunch of his rip-offs, which is also as far as I got. 

Salix Babylonika

I have never seen the new one, I heard it was rather blase.

Anonus

Sometimes I feel irrational in resenting that Scooby, not Yogi or Huck or the Flintstones or Jonny Quest, is Hanna-Barbera for a lot of people my age, but I won't prattle on about it here. SD:MI's early H-B nods are kind of cathartic for me.

Anonus

As for SD:MI, I heard the romance stuff got better, or was pitched out, later on

Yarrun XIX

I mean, Scooby, Jabber-Jaw, Capatin Caveman and Speed Buggy? Together?

That's a dream that I didn't even know I wanted to come true.

Yarrun XIX

^^ I've also heard that the arc plot becomes more important and less two minutes at the end of every episode going "OooooOOOOOooooh, this is all part of some secret master plot!"

I just can't be bothered to give anymore attention to it.