a pup vs. scooby where are you?

For what it was, 1969's "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!" was pretty groundbreaking. In the '60s, Saturday mornings were primarily dominated with violent superhero shows. "Scooby" (along with the live-action "H.R. Pufnstuf") broke the Saturday morning mold, and set off a wave of imitators throughout the '70s (Scooby spawned "Clue Club," "Devlin," "Jabberjaw," etc.; "Pufnstuf" also spawned a slew of live-action shows). Love it or hate it, the original "Scooby" deserves its dues for changing the face of Saturday mornings.

In the mid-80s, it became a trend to take established cartoon characters and reincarnate them as children ("The Flinstone Kids," "The New Archies," etc.) -- "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo" was perhaps the last to cash in on this trend, and was easily the most successful. "Pup" deviated from the others in the genre by all-out lampooning the established characters, and that's what made it memorable. 20 years later (with "Space Ghost Coast to Coast," "Harvey Birdman" and others) it's a bit hard to fathom, but children's shows from the '80s really didn't have inside jokes or anything very appealing to adults. It wasn't until the '90s that television animation became aimed at adults (thanks in no small part to "The Simpsons," which debuted at Christmas '89). And THAT is perhaps the reason that "Pup" feels fresher than it is... with its satire and inside jokes, it was a little bit ahead of its time.

Scooby doo where are you is where it all started. Obviously you guys are to young to like it. And the clothes are the same for Shaggy,Freddy,and Velma

And it did matter what decade they were in

They cant predict the future.

Without that show , this one wouldn't exist

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I like both series, but I tend not to compare them because their very different both in look and humor so there's no real way to compare.