Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated

[ZariusTwo]

Anyone seen this cartoon? It's basicly Scooby-Doo done with a more grown up edge to it, kind of emulating Buffy, with genuine character progression and development and an ongoing storyline focusing on what happened to the first group to call themselves "Mystery Inc". Each of the Scooby gang go through relationship dramas and must make choices that sometimes hurt the people they care about, whilst encircling all this is the trademark "whodunnit" aspects of the franchise

The finale of the first season was a jaw-dropper. Fred unmasks the creep of Crystal Cove to reveal it's

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His father, the mayor. Then he discovers he was abducted as a child and his real father is somewhere outside of town, so he breaks off his engagment to Daphne and leaves to search for them. Scooby discovers the mascot of the original Mystery Inc, a parrot, has the peice of the treasure the Mayor was seeking, and now Mystery Inc is disbanded with noone to stop him searching out the remaining four peices. In a moment of unexpected badassery, Scooby vows revenge

I recommend you seek out this series and take it all in, it makes you care about this franchise on a completly different scale.

[BubblyShell22]

Okay, where can this be viewed?

[Wildgoose]

I watched it on Youtube...It was something different than the other Scooby Doo shows. The only thing that annoyed me a little bit was that in some episodes they were showing the gang dealing with their romances and they were putting aside the investigations...

[gobo]

They turned Scooby into a soap opera? O_o

[Raph's Girl]

I just LOVE Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated!!!

It has an ongoing plot, some romance (Fred/Daphne, Velma/Shaggy till Shaggy dumps her for Scooby cuz he's not ready for a serious relationship...), they live in a different town (Crystal Cove).

Fred's dad is Fred Jones Sr, the Mayor

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who only became the mayor so he could continue being evil and look for the infamous treasure of crystal cove...yeah. Fred's real parents are the ORIGINAL Mystery Inc from 20 years earlier who had a parrot that betrayed them with Fred sr....but Fred sr turned the tables and sent the bird to Arkham Assylum for Animals that's outside of town. If you ever wondered where Joker's hyena's get sent to. Now you know. *lol*

Daphne's parents are rich and she's got like 4 older sisters who are identical to her. I swear they're all clones of the mom.

Velma's parents run the town museum which is full of costumes that the kids have solved over the last 40+ years. Altho there's also a statue of Scrappy (in his ONLY appearance in the show. Apperantly the kids made a pledge to never mention him ever again. *lol*) and Flim Flam (from the series 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo which just had Shaggy, Scooby and Daphne. Fred explains his disapearance from that series by saying he was at summer camp *lol*)

Shaggy's parents are just...WEIRD rich people. His dad is voiced by Casey Kasem!

There's TONS of cameos by real people and fictional people. Crystal Cove has a college which has professors such as H.P. Lovecraft (or as Ellison calls him, Hatecraft), Harlan Ellison (he's attacked by Cthuhlu in his first appearance! *lol*), and Stephanie Meyer (her books in the show are called Dusk instead of Twilight *lol*)

I loved the ep where Scooby teams up with Speed Buggy, Jabberjaw, Captain Caveman and The Funky Phantom.

The eps have darker turns to them and people even die (mostly off screen but you can hear their screams).

My fave character has to be the Sherrif who's full name is revealed to be Sherrif Bronson Stone (his mom liked to plan things ahead of time. *lol*). He's voiced by Patrick Warburton and HATES that the kids are solving crimes before he does and constantly tries to arrest them. *lol*

But MAN the ending of the season. Woof. Things really hit the fan!! Can't wait for season 2!!

[Brodie]

Originally Posted by gobo

They turned Scooby into a soap opera? O_o

No.

Its really not a huge-huge aspect of it. It exists, and occurs frequently, but is more attributed to character progression/development. Its substantially different than the previous Doo-incarnations, where Velma was just the brains, Fred was brave, and Shaggy & Scooby were hungry.

Its neat.

So, soap opera? ****ing no.

The humor in the show is pretty fantastic. Zarius mentioned it was akin to Buffy, as far as the continuity, and progression, etc. But there is a kind of Self-aware humor that exists in the show, alot like what occurred in Whedon's Buffy & Angel series...maybe more so Angel. But relating this to Whedon-esque in terms of humor seems like a disservice. Its actually a lot funnier, I've found.

I really love the design & animation. And Matthew Lillard as Shaggy is still really good.

[BubblyShell22]

Is this on cable or just on YouTube?