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?

[Raph's Girl]

Originally Posted by BubblyShell22

Is this on cable or just on YouTube?

It airs on Cartoon Network tuesday's at 7:30pm and wednesdays at 6pm.

[BubblyShell22]

Okay. I'll have to remember that and tune in.

[sdp]

This is NOT grown up Scooby Doo, its better written Scooby Doo; its still a kids show. I've only watched up to when they stopped airing new episodes last october but it was a blast and definitely one of my top Scooby shows, it plays with the Scooby tropes without becoming a parody. My only complain about it is that its trying to be a reboot to the franchise, and I don't like that I mean we've had one Scooby continuity since the show started, so far contradictions have been minor but hope they don't write stuff out of continuity. Yeah I know Scooby Doo and continuity I'm a sick bastard.

[Redeemer]

I love this show, its really unique and different. I love that they went back to a classic style for drawing, I jst love this show and cant wait to see the finale!!!

[Raph's Girl]

Originally Posted by sdp

My only complain about it is that its trying to be a reboot to the franchise

That's just it. It's not a reboot. They ACKNOWLEDGE the past. The Crystal Cove museum has costumes and such of their past adventures from the 60's series and from some of the other shows as well such as 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo. Heck Vincent Van Ghoul has a recurring role. Fred even mentioned the reason he wasn't around during that time was cuz he was at Summer Camp.

Yes the parents have different occupations (altho I still think Daphne's dad is a bubble bath baron) and yes they're in another town. But other then that it's basically a continuation of the original stuff.

I love that the show acknowledges the past. Scrappy was even acknowledged in one ep as something they would rather forget completly. *lol* And one of the characters, Alice May, is the supposad daughter of one of the villans of the past.

The show is basically full of love for the various other Hannah Barbara toons as well. From Captain Caveman to even Johnny Quest (still wanna know how Quest Industries fits into one of the subplots....hopefully that'll be dealt with in season 2).

[ThirdMarioBro]

Dear gawd, I'm actually tempted to watch a Scooby Doo cartoon of all things. What is the world coming to?

[Slap-Happy]

I watched that season finale, and all that came to mind was that the bird, Paracles, sounded kind of like Tommy Wiseau. And the fact that Frank Welker can still voice a teenager without my eyebrow being raised.

[Jester]

Originally Posted by Slap Happy

I watched that season finale, and all that came to mind was that the bird, Paracles, sounded kind of like Tommy Wiseau.

[Redeemer]

Originally Posted by ThirdMarioBro

Dear gawd, I'm actually tempted to watch a Scooby Doo cartoon of all things. What is the world coming to?

its coming to good writing and story telling

[NameGoesHere1066]

hmm, maybe I should give this another shot if it is this good. I was kind of put off with the whole Daphne swooning over Fred and he being blind to it and throwing Velma and Shaggy together of all things. I normally can't stand when you have an established group of friends that happen to be a mix of boys and girls and the writers feel the need to pair them up romantically.

Plus I was a little annoyed by Fred being infatuated with traps, I thought it was stupid. I've always liked Freddy and I feel that since the orginal series from the 60's ended writters have gotten in the habit of making him too goofy and dumb. So I thought this was more of the same fare. But from what I've read really sounds badass about him and all the characters. I think I'm definately going to look this up because there are so few shows out there right now with quality writting that still do the hand drawn/digital animtion thing well. I've really been impressed with this shows use of coloring and shadows.

[Raph's Girl]

Originally Posted by NameGoesHere1066

hmm, maybe I should give this another shot if it is this good. I was kind of put off with the whole Daphne swooning over Fred and he being blind to it.

This is from the episode where Daphne gets so super pissed at Fred's obsessions with traps that well she goes a bit emo and writes a song about it!! I just LOVE The Hex Girls (they first appeared in the movie Scooby Doo and the Witch's Ghost and have appeared in several other Scooby Doo films and shows since). I just LOVE this song and Grey Delisle just plain rox!!

[ZariusTwo]

Some second season details

-Fred's biological father will be voiced by Johnny Quest's original Voice Actor
-Blue Falcon and Dynomutt will be making an apperance

[Raph's Girl]

Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

Some second season details

-Fred's biological father will be voiced by Johnny Quest's original Voice Actor
-Blue Falcon and Dynomutt will be making an apperance

That is so funny since Johnny Quest himself had a cameo in the first season! Tim Matheson also voiced Jace in Space Ghost.

Blue Falcon and Dynomutt?! SW33T!!!

Just looked something up. I had forgotten that Blue Falcon and Dynomutt (who was voiced by Frank Welker) did a bunch of team ups in the 70's!