Scooby-Doo



Scoobert "Scooby"-Doo is a fictional character in the American television animated series Scooby-Doo, about the adventures of four crime-solving teenagers or young adults. Scooby-Doo is a Great Dane belonging to the character Shaggy Rogers. Scooby-Doo and Shaggy share several personality traits, including tremendous appetites and tendencies toward cowardice. Due to their said cowardice, Scooby-Doo, as well as Shaggy, would often have to be bribed by their cohorts (Velma, Daphne and Fred) to go after the costumed villains with "Scooby Snacks," a biscuit-like dog treat or cookie snack, although sometimes, Scooby Snacks won't work on Shaggy, so he may get "Shaggy Snacks".

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!" Don Messick originated the character's voice patterns, and provided Scooby's voice in every Scooby-Doo production from 1969 until 1996, when Messick retired. Scott Innes voiced Scooby-Doo in four late 1990s/early 2000s direct-to-video films, and Frank Welker (also the voice of Fred) took over beginning with What's New, Scooby-Doo? in 2002. Neil Fanning provided the voice of the computer-generated Scooby present in the two Warner Bros. live-action feature films.

Within the universe of the show, Scooby-Doo 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:
 * Scrappy-Doo: Scooby's young nephew (and son of Scooby's sister Ruby-Doo), Scrappy is the most noteworthy of Scooby's relatives. Scrappy became a recurring character in the Scooby-Doo series beginning in 1979, and was noted for being quite headstrong and always wanting 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 in a negative light, in response to the public dislike toward his character.
 * Scooby-Dum: Scooby's cousin, a gray dog. 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, even though she was Scooby's cousin, she acted more like a girlfriend.
 * Yabba-Doo: Scooby's brother, a white dog owned by Deputy Dusty in the American southwest. Unlike Scooby's and Scrappy's, his typical custom catch-phrase at the end is "Yippity-Yabbity-Doooo!!!", and not "Yabba-Dabba-Doo!", due to obvious reasons.
 * Dooby-Doo: Scooby's triplet brother, a singer. He is one of Scooby's few siblings to have hair on his head.
 * Mumsy and Dada Doo: Scooby's parents.
 * Whoopsy-Doo: Scooby's cousin, a clown. Owned by Norville's uncle, Gaggy Rogers.
 * Ruby-Doo: Scooby's sister, and mother of Scrappy-Doo.
 * Skippy-Doo: Scooby's triplet brother. Highly intelligent. He is Scooby's only sibling to wear glasses.
 * Howdy-Doo: Scooby's brother. Enjoyed reading supermarket tabloid newspapers. He appears to become a redhead.
 * 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 ancestor, McBaggy Rogers.

Trivia

 * The "dog-treat/Scooby Snack" gag had been used before in several Hanna-Barbera cartoons, including Quick Draw McGraw (with Quick Draw's dog Snuffles) Dastardly and Muttley.


 * Scooby-Doo appears at times in Cartoon Network's The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy as a character who is described as being on the "wrong show." He has spoken little, some of his lines being, "What am I doin' here, man?  I'm just a stinkin' dog!", and "[Mandy] made fun of the way I talk. I mean look at me! I'm a stinkin' dog!"


 * The second-season episode of The Venture Bros. entitled ¡Viva los Muertos! features the entire Scooby-Doo cast re-imagined as famous serial killers and racidals. Scooby's analogue, "Groovy", is possessed by a demon and talks only to "Sonny", Shaggy's double, enticing him to commit murder. The pairing is a parody of David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam", who claimed that his neighbor's dog Harvey was a "high demon" who commanded Berkowitz to kill.