Scooby-Doo (character)
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Scooby-Doo is a fictional character in the American television animated series Scooby-Doo, about the adventures of four crime-solving teenagers. Scooby-Doo is a Great Dane belonging to the character Norville "Shaggy" Rogers. Scooby-Doo and Shaggy have several personality traits in common, including tremendous appetites and tendencies towards cowardice. Due to said cowardice, Scooby would often have to be bribed by Shaggy's cohorts (Velma, Daphne and Fred) to go after the villains with "Scooby Snacks," a biscuit-like dog treat.
Scooby has some difficulty with pronunciation, and tends to pronounce most words as if they begin with an R. His catch-phrase, usually howled at the end of every episode, is "Scooby-Dooby-Doo!"
He was born on the Knittingham Puppy Farm (owned by Mrs. Knittingham); his "full" first name is Scoobert.
Relatives
Over the course of Scooby-Doo's various spinoffs, various relatives of Scooby were introduced; the list is as follows:
- Scooby-Dum: Scooby's cousin. A Mortimer Snerd-esque dog who longed to be a detective. Was rather dimwitted (he'd keep looking for clues even after the mystery was solved).
- Scooby-Dee: Scooby's cousin, a white dog. Spoke with a Southern accent, and was an actress.
- Scrappy-Doo: Scooby's nephew (and son of Ruby-Doo), Scrappy is the most noteworthy of Scooby's relatives. Scrappy became a recurring character beginning in the late 1970s, and was noted for being quite headstrong, and would always want to face off in a fight against the various villains (unlike his uncle). Scooby and Shaggy were present at Scrappy's birth. In the first live-action movie, he was portrayed as a villain, in response to the public dislike towards his character.
- Yabba-Doo: Scooby's brother, who was owned by a sheriff and lived in the American southwest.
- Dooby-Doo: Scooby's brother, a singer.
- Whoopsy-Doo: Scooby's cousin, a clown. Owned by Shaggy's practical joke-pulling uncle, Gaggy Rogers.
- Ruby-Doo: Scooby's sister, and mother of Scrappy-Doo.
- Mumsy and Dada Doo (also called Mama and Daddy Doo and Mommy and Daddy Doo at various times): Scooby's parents.
- Skippy-Doo: Scooby's brother. Highly intelligent.
- Howdy-Doo: Scooby's brother. Enjoyed reading supermarket tabloid newspapers.
- Horton-Doo: Scooby's uncle. Was interested in monsters and science.
- Dixie-Doo: Scooby's cousin.
- Grandpa Scooby: Scooby's grandfather.
- Great-Grandpa Scooby: Scooby's great-grandfather.
Ancestors of Scooby include Yankee Doodle Doo, who came to Plymouth, Massachusetts aboard the Mayflower with Shaggy's Pilgrim ancestor, McBaggy Rogers.
The extended Doo family's ancestral home was "Doo Manor" (also called "Scooby Manor").
Trivia
- The voice for Scooby-Doo in the TV series was initially provided by Don Messick; following his retirement in 1996, Scott Innes and later Frank Welker took over.
- In the two live-action Scooby-Doo movies, computer-generated imagery was used to portray Scooby-Doo.
- The "dog-treat/Scooby Snack" gag had been used before in several Hanna-Barbara cartoons, including Dastardly and Muttley.