There was literally a whole series that addressed the characters in their younger days, with Casey Kasem and Frank Welker, two of the ORIGINAL voices on the original animated show. Now they're completely ignoring the various animated series. -_-
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shareI just came here to post about this myself. Actually there were 3 original voices, as "A Pup Named Scooby Doo" was the last time Don Messick, the original voice of Scooby, did his voice before his death. Also, Frank Welker voiced Fred's dad, rather than Fred, though he has always voiced adult Fred to this day.
There was even an episode where it flashed back to their first mystery when they were little kids, even younger than they are in this show to begin with. If you ask me this was the funniest Scooby cartoon, a really funny and energetically animated series when there wasn't much like it, a few years before Ren and Stimpy triggered a revival of the true cartoon. It often spoofed the original series as well, not one episode went by without Fred saying "Let's split up, gang!", even if it was at the end of the episode because he was made out to be a total moron. Even Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed referenced Chickenstein, a monster from "A Pup Named Scooby Doo". This just looks pretty bad, and is indeed ignoring the story as it has already been told. This series also told about Shaggy and Scooby's first meeting, not just first mystery, and Scooby's first Scooby Snack. It was the best of the cartoons that made everyone a kid like the Flintstone Kids, Popeye and Son, etc. Well Muppet Babies was awesome but it wasn't based on a cartoon like the others. Heck, Flintstone Kids was screwy, it was more like the 80's when they were kids, they had video games and stuff, then they grow up and it is like the 50's with none of that cool stuff, just TV heh. It also didn't respect its source as much, contradicting the back story told in the original cartoon's flashbacks.
The first two Scooby movies were decent, written by James Gunn who I was a fan of when he was writing B movies (well he still does sometimes). This straight to video junk is just an attempt to cash in. The theatrical releases knew their Scooby at least.
Frank welker didn't voice fred's dad, he was the voice of his paranoid conspiracy theorist uncle.
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Yes, this movie ignored A Pup Named Scooby Doo, but that series was more split continuity anyway, atleast what I remember from it. Kinda like the Flintstones kids cartoon, kinda didn't stay completely with the continuity of the original series. I say let APNSD be, and just enjoy the movie for what it is.
shareI say let APNSD be, and just enjoy the movie for what it is.Exactly. People are making too big a deal out of this. I enjoyed the movie.
I'm pretty sure the live-action series is in a completely different continuity than the original animated TV series: "Where Are You!". I'm suppose to take the "Pup" series as canon to this LIVE ACTION movie series? I don't think so. The live-action movies need it's OWN live-action origin story and it doesn't have to be the same as the one for the original animated show.
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