Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-10811146-20150516204009/@comment-252417-20150723200637

You're right. It is in another plane of existence (you're just biased anyway (I'm joking if you couldn't tell)).

It stands on its own outside of regular continuity completely, as does SDMI. The only reason I brought up SDMI was because I was using it as an example of a full Mystery Inc. gang show that wasn't a sequel/midquel/prequel. Also the top people working on the show didn't treat it as a sequel/midquel/prequel (except for when the new timeline occured, and Mitch Watson starting declaring it was a prequel to Where Are You!), I got the feeling that the people working on actually thought they're were doing a canon show, following directly off What's New.

GaC uses flashbacks in one episode from a couple of the DTV movies, as if that tied them together. But the thing that I couldn't accept is, is when they said that Scooby wasn't Shag's first dog, Zoinks was. That just isn't the case in anything that's ever happened. I may have accepted the show, if it weren't for that episode. But the style and characterization changes, the whole concept of the storyline make it impossible to take seriously (not that I don't like it, because I do). It's also impossible to take seriously because it's never been spoken about again (and for the sake of this wiki, let's hope it isn't).

In terms of canon, we're ignoring it. This is evident by the fact the gang have their own independent pages, and not just because I'm making a special history page for it, they're independent because they exist in they're own timeline. If that makes sense.