Does Anybody like scrappy


Does Anybody really like scrappy like me...he is not as unpopular as amongst the General(yes,General!) public as the haters and internet people would have you belive.He is a bit Over The Top but i do like him...not as much as mystery inc. but more than say...scooby dum!
I can't belive what the writers did to him in the 1st live action movie!

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I liked Scrappy. When I was a kid, I always liked the younger characters.

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i like scrappy too if they release this series i ll definitly be getting it ;)

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I like Scrappy. He was one of my favourite characters as a kid.

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Goodness, outnumbered by Scrappy fans!

No, I couldn't stand him. I ended up no longer even watching what had been my favourite show.

*cue violins*


Just a painted face on a trip down suicide row

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I didn't cause he was annoying and I couldn't stand the sound of his voice

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I smell a nostalgiatard.

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The "I Hate Scrappy" campaign was invented by revisionist so-called Scooby Doo purists which are probably made up of a majority of people that actually liked the little scamp back in the day but are embarrassed to say so now because its cool to dislike "cute" characters. Personally, I liked Scrappy in the later episodes when he was more of a contributor to the mystery solving than running off after the monsters and Scooby or Shaggy having to save him. I think even the writers decided he should've been written slightly more maturely.

Honestly, those who want to jump on the Scrappy hater bandwagon have to ask themselves, 'If Scrappy was such an awful character, then why wasnt he written off the series after that first season?' instead of being majorly apart of the franchise as well as being the co-star of the series well until its mid-80s cancellation.

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The "I Hate Scrappy" campaign was invented by revisionist so-called Scooby Doo purists which are probably made up of a majority of people that actually liked the little scamp back in the day but are embarrassed to say so now because its cool to dislike "cute" characters.


May be true of some people but I took a loathing to Scrappy from the moment I first saw him and I don't recall being unusual in that respect. He was almost universally loathed by my peer group.

I always assumed that the reason he stayed around so long was Hannah - Barbara had figured my generation would soon be moving beyond cartoons (washed up at 10! *sniff* how cynically enterprising of them!) and with Scrappy they wanted to capture a new, younger, generation. Which, for a few years, they did. But then that generation moved on too, and Scrappy was scrapped.

Just a theory - I don't pretend to have studied this, but my friends and I never liked him and wondered for years why he kept coming back. That was all I could come up with.

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Same here.
Never liked that irritating yapping dog.
Like an annoying little chihuahua that thinks it's tough and won't shut up.

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I guess Scrappy's okay. He's not my favorite character. I don't hate him as much as other people do. Though I do often laugh at some 'anti-Scappy' jokes. He was better in his later years when Don Messick did the voice and he started to mature a bit. You know find clues and help the gang, rather than wanting to splat monsters all the time.

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I loved him. But then again I didn't grow up with the 'old" scooby cartoons.
I was born in 1979.

Although I can understand how people growing up with the original version could hate him.
And knowing the "hardcore" fans hate him makes the movie a lot more funny

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Wanna know what killed the Scooby and Shaggy franchise? SCRAPPY!!!

1. I remember watching the original "Scooby Doo,Where Are You?" series when it premiered in 1969. The original series was a milestone in Saturday Morning history. Still watch the original series today and still love it years later.

2. I never really care for "The Scooby-Doo Movies" neither,that was the deathknell for the gang when the producers decided to bring in guest stars to solve mysteries with the gang,which sucked. I remember watching this one as only the first episode when it premiered in 1972.

3. When they brought in "Scrappy Doo",you can tell that this series was heading toward destruction,and not even that it was heading toward a decline in its audience when the franchise was failing in the ratings. And with all the other installments its hard to tell. The total elimination of the characters Fred,Daphne and Velma were horrible and for one bringing in Shaggy,Scooby,Scooby's Southern cousin-Scooby Dum and that annoying brat Scrappy were the downfall of a once great series.

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To the Scrappy haters out there, think about this: had Scrappy not made his debut in 1979, the Scooby Doo series might had ended right there because there wasn't a new series in 1978. So if anything Scrappy helped kept the series going into the 1980s and beyond. Myself personaly, I also liked how Don voiced Scrappy because he helped created the character's charm. Lennie's version I though was to tough for an animated television series.

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Trying to keep something alive by introducing a small, so-called "cute" character doesn't really help, it just prolongs the suffering before it's death. It's basically a futile grasping at straws, and it shows.

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I'm in total agreement. I thought Scrappy was the worst thing to happen to the Scooby franchise. I can remember being instantly being annoyed by him when I was a kid. The first couple of incarnations of the Scooby cartoons were the best. Heck, I thought most people felt that way until I saw a couple of threads by people who loved Scrappy.

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Come on guys, Scrappy wasn't THAT bad. The reason this show was so bad was not because of Scrappy, but because for 3/4 (3 of 4 seasons) of the show's run, they decided for some reason to ditch the entire mystery thing along with most of the gang.

I loved Scrappy as a kid, and I love Scrappy now as an adult. I can understand some of the reasons why some people don't like him, but people tend to go overboard with their Scrappy hatred.

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Scrappy was great! Courageous, yet too impulsive, he was the perfect counterpoint to the cowardly but sensible Scooby.
What I hated were those damned "meddling kids"--especially that insufferable Fred and Velma. I'm sure it was no accident that they were the first to be eliminated from the franchise.
What would have been a great series would be just Scooby and Scrappy travelling from place to place--"knights errant", if you will--solving mysteries and meeting all kinds of interesting characters. But that would have required imagination--something sorely lacking in Hanna-Barbera toons.

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Or nostalgia.

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Oh joy, another brain-dead nostalgiatard.

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Yeah, I want to stick up for poor little Scrappy-Doo here. He's a cute little puppy, if a wee bit annoying at times. Taken on his own, I don't think he's a bad or unloveable cartoon character at all.

Scrappy doesn't deserve the bad rap, but the fervent Scrappy-hating of the more stridently "purist" branch of the Scooby-Doo Community is one of the more amusing aspects of the Scoob Phenomenon. And the "Post-Modern" use of Scrappy in the first Scooby-Doo (2002) movie was an inspired scream.

The problem as I see it is that Scrappy was over-used. There was just too much of him. He might not have been an unwelcome addition to The Gang had he been a supporting character who knew his place. But he was focused on at the expense of Scooby himself. It seemed as though the original Dog Star was no longer capable of carrying his own show. Instead of enhancing Scooby's communication skills and repertoire of tricks, this yappy little interloper appeared and stole the spotlight. Like many an otherwise adorable puppy before and after him, Scrappy just did not know when to shut up and back off, and made a nuisance of himself.

Although I don't mind Scrappy, a little of him goes a long way. For me, he serves the useful purpose of defining parameters to the World of Scoob. As fond as I am of the Mystery Inc. gang, for practical reasons I need to set limits, and so the Scrappy-Doo shows are where I draw the line.

Now if only I could wave a magic wand and digitally erase Flim-Flam from The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo.......

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I hope he meets up with Micheal Vick someday.

I don't have time to jaw with anyone who won't identify himself!

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More annoying that Snarf but not as annoying as Jar Jar.

I always hated "cute" sidekick characters even as a child I found them condescending.

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