I watched the cartoons in their many incarnations when I was a child. After all, who didn’t wish that the Mystery Machine would run over the little mutt? Then, having Scrappy Doo turn out to be the villain was an excellent nod to all of us that grew up with Scooby Doo. After all, with modern Hollywood digital effects, this was a breeze. One of the best choices made in its first trip to the big screen was to make the monsters real. The first “Scooby Doo” movie set itself up for failure, but it worked. Who hasn’t referred to the ending of a bad movie as having “a Scooby Doo ending”? But ever since I can remember, they were held up more as the standard for cliches rather than great writing. The old television shows are considered classics by definition of the Cartoon Network. Scooby Doo is not what you would consider a great achievement in the history of American popular culture.
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