Scooby Sales

Welcome back, folks! This is the final week of the Scooby-Doo 50th Anniversary Special on the Furry Waves, and we’re going to end off on merchandise.

Let’s start off with a couple of stuffed animals.

I know, they almost look the same, but besides the colors, you can see some other differences if you look closely enough.

Moving right along, let’s look at some towels…

Though the masks are different, you’ll see that general pose in those last two again as we go on here.

Like some of these clothes.

You know, just in case you ever wanted and snorkeling or SCUBA diving cartoon dog on your chest. Woof.

Alright, time for the meat of this post: books. There’s quite a few of them to go through here.

OK, first up, we have ‘Scooby Doo and the Sunken Ship’.

I gotta say, Scooby must be super confident in his breathholding abilities if he’s planning on exploring that ship without an air tank like in the cover there.

A couple of coloring book pages next…

OK, first of all, that’s an interesting helmet, but secondly, what the sweet hell does he plan on doing to them with that screwdriver?!

‘Scooby-Doo and the Fishy Phantom’ here.

If you look closely here, the monster on the second pic here and the one on the cover are in pretty much the exactly same pose, just with the hands changed.

Here’s the cover for ‘Scooby-Doo and the Deep-Sea Diver’.

There’s no actual pics inside that’d fit in this blog, with Scooby and Shaggy just using the helmet setup at one point.

Here’s another cover…

I think is is just the Deep-Sea Diver book in a different language.

Finally, here’s some stuff from ‘Scooby-Doo and the Tank of Terrors’.

Gotta love how they’re diving in their regular clothes here.

Well, that’s all for now, folks. I do have some more Scooby here, but I’ll keep that for another time.

I hope you enjoyed this special! I’ll be returning to the bi-weekly schedule now, so I’ll see you in two weeks!

The Modern Doo

Welcome back, folks, to the Scooby-Doo month here on the Furry Waves! Today, we’re looking at shows and movies done post 2000.

After ‘A Pup Named Scooby-Doo’, which was part of the ‘age regression’ craze of the 80s and ran from 1988-91, Scooby got off of TV for quite a while, with no regular TV series for over a decade. He did, however, get some movies and specials in that time.

Our first set today comes from one of these, 2001’s ‘Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase’, where-in the gang ends up in a video game… about themselves. One brief scene is the obligatory underwater level.

Edit (June 11th, 2021): Added 1080p versions)

Next up, we have the next regular TV series after ‘A Pup Named Scooby-Doo’, ‘What’s New, Scooby-Doo?’, and specifically, the first season episode ‘She Sees Sea Monsters By the Sea Shore’ (what a mouthful).

(Edit (June 11th, 2021): Added 1080p versions)

Alright, who’s up for a camping trip next? 2010’s ‘Camp Scare’ is the source of our next set.

Scoob’s clearly confident in his breathholding skills.

Also demonstrates that in this next set, from Mystery Incorporated’s ‘The Siren’s Song’ from 2011.

Finally, remember those live-action CGI movies? I actually have a piece from one of those as well. This is from Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster. The final three are from a commercial for it.

(Edit (June 11th, 2021): Added 1080p versions of first eight pics)

That’s all for today, everyone! Come back next week for the final installment when I take a look at various merchandise! See you soon!

The Scrappy Years

Welcome back, folks, to the Scooby-Doo special! Today, we’re going to taking a look at what I call ‘The Scrappy Years’.

In 1979, Scooby’s nephew Scrappy debuted in an attempted to prop up sagging ratings in Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo, and actually succeeded in revitalizing Scooby-Doo. Scrappy would go on to be a regular part of Scooby-Doo until 1985, when Scooby went off of TV for a few years.

(Edit (June 11th, 2021): First four sets replaced with 1080p versions)

OK, first set is from 1981’s ‘Strongman Scooby’, which aired as part of the Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo show. No Scooby in this one, but the bulldog antagonist of the episode.

Next up, we have 1982’s ‘Catfish Burger Caper’, initially aired as part of the ‘Scooby & Scrappy Doo Puppy Hour’.

Next, we have ‘Muscle Trouble’ from the same year and show.

Here, we have ‘No Sharking Zone’, from 1983’s ‘The New Scooby and Scrappy Doo Show’.

Finally, we have ‘Coast-to-Ghost’, from 1985’s ’13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo’.

This is all I have from this time period for Scooby-Doo, cartoon wise.

However, I do have a comic from this time period to show here as well. This is from Marvel Comics’ Scooby-Doo #3, published in 1978.

That’s all for today! Come back next week, when we look at the 90s and the modern era! Until then!

Scooby Dooby Doo!

Welcome, everyone, to the Scooby Doo special!

See, this month is Scooby-Doo’s 50th anniversary. A few of you have been wondering why I haven’t posted anything of Scooby-Doo in this blog? This is why.

Scooby-Doo’s first televised appearance was on ‘Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?’ on ‘What A Night For A Knight’ on September 13th 1969. It’s actually kinda funny; from 1969 to 1976, only 25 episodes of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You, and 24 episodes of The New Scooby-Doo Movies were produced, making for a pretty slow start to Scooby-Doo’s history. After the character moved to ABC in 1976, though, you couldn’t NOT See him, continuing with new shows/seasons every year until 1985.

That’s where I’ll cut the history for now, as entries I have will not cross this point today.

OK, the first series of pics I have is from the New Scooby-Doo Movies episode ‘Lochness Mess’, which guest starred the Harlem Globetrotters.

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Next up, we have ‘There’s a Demon Shark in the Foggy Dark’, from the Scooby-Doo/Dynamutt Hour of 1976, and later repackaged into the Scooby-Doo Show.

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Note the miscolors in the fourth and fifth pics here.

The next episode of both shows is our next set ‘Scooby-Doo, Where’s the Crew?’.

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For the last set for today, we have 1977’s ‘The Creepy Heap From the Deep’, which initially aired as part of the Scooby-Doo’s Laff-A-Lympics block.

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Well, that’s all for today. Tune in next Friday, when the next entry of this special will be posted. Coincidentally, it’ll be the actual 50th anniversary.

Thanks for looking, and see you in a week!

Some More Hanna-Barbera

Welcome back, folks.  Coming off last week’s post on Yogi and Huck, we’re going to take a look at some more Hanna-Barbera stuff today.

Got a couple of things of Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy to start off.  This first one is from ‘A Fish Story’ from ‘A Whitman Comic Book #5’.

And these are from a Yogi Bear Show Bumper.

Don’t drink the punch, kids

Next up is the #1 Super Guy, Hong Kong Phooey!  This set is from ‘Goldfisher’.

And this one is from ‘Batty Bank Mob’.

Here’s a couple of random shots of Mr Jinks….

To end today off, here’s Snooper of Snooper and Blabber in ‘Hula-Hula Hulabaloo’.

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For an in-depth review of this episode, check out Yowp’s.

That’s all for this week, folks! There’s more from Hanna-Barerba cartoons, but that’ll be for another day. See you in two more weeks.

A Bear and a Hound Dog

Welcome back, everyone!  Hope the leadup to the holidays has treated you all kindly, whatever you celebrate.

Alrighty, so this time, we’re taking a look at two of cartoons’ earliest TV superstars, Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound.

While Yogi tends to be more highly regarded, he actually got his beginnings on Huck’s show, the Huckleberry Hound Show, which ran from 1958-1961.  Yogi was a supporting character with his own segment on the show until his popularity ended up being enough to grant him his own show in 1961.  At that point, Huck played second fiddle to Yogi, and it’s been pretty much that way ever since.

If you want more indepth information on early Hanna-Barbera cartoons, including Yogi and Huck, check out Yowp, a blog dedicated to exactly that purpose.

Alright, so we’ll start with Huck.  He doesn’t have a lot, sadly, that I’ve found, but here’s what I do have of him.

The coloring pages are from a 1963 coloring book, and the images are from Random Acts of Geekery, more specifically, this post on it.  No information is available on the comics pages up there.

OK, time for Yogi to step up.  He doesn’t have a ton either, but more than Huck.   Getting right to it, we’ll start with this… thing that looks like it could be a Pog.

These next two are promo pieces for Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Park Campgrounds.

A few comics pages are next…

Alright, moving now into the TV shows, this is from 1958’s ‘The Stout Trout’. (EDIT (March 1st, 2021): Replaced with 1080p versions)

Next, we have a single shot from a 1987 direct to TV special, Yogi’s Great Escape.

Finally, we move into the very ill-fated ‘Yo, Yogi!’, a very bad 90s cartoon starring Yogi and company as teenagers that live in a mall.  Hey, it doesn’t get much more 90s than that.

This one is from ‘Hats Off to Yogi’.  Gotta love the paintball style masks here.

Well, that’s all for 2018!  Happy holidays to you all, and I’ll see you in the New Year!