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AnOminous said:
Why not just put the franchise to rest?

Scooby-Doo died with Casey Kasem.
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If you limit Scooby-Doo to Where Are You? and Zombie Island then you have a 10/10 series. Everything else is predicated on the fact they kept churning out Scooby-Doo media.
 
McMitch said:
If you limit Scooby-Doo to Where Are You? and Zombie Island then you have a 10/10 series. Everything else is predicated on the fact they kept churning out Scooby-Doo media.
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Mystery Inc tried to do something unique, and I feel it would be a loss not to have it around, even with its hiccups. Giving Scooby an overarching narrative is something I am surprised they never went back too. Lot of material you can pull from that, especially if you keep the darker tone.

Obviously, got to throw in the Scooby Project, easily one of the funniest things they have done.

Maybe some of the films as well, would probably say Batman Brave & The Bold, but that is probably due more to Batman B&B being top tier then Scooby.
 
Basic Blond Boy said:
Mystery Inc tried to do something unique, and I feel it would be a loss not to have it around, even with its hiccups. Giving Scooby an overarching narrative is something I am surprised they never went back too. Lot of material you can pull from that, especially if you keep the darker tone.

Obviously, got to throw in the Scooby Project, easily one of the funniest things they have done.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=LdMZm8fAIaY
Maybe some of the films as well, would probably say Batman Brave & The Bold, but that is probably due more to Batman B&B being top tier then Scooby.
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I miss Batman Brave and the Bold so much.
 
Basic Blond Boy said:
Mystery Inc tried to do something unique, and I feel it would be a loss not to have it around, even with its hiccups. Giving Scooby an overarching narrative
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Vyse Inglebard said:
Fixed it
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They’re still all based on the expectation of the audience being aware of Scooby-Doo as a franchise rather than just being a show, being derivative of each other, regardless of quality.
 
Vyse Inglebard said:
Fixed it
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Probably be easier to leave it as Scooby Doo Where are You?, the 90s (pretty much all the best shit), then whichever post-Scooby Doo Live Action project you think is worthwhile. I think for most, Mystery Inc would make it, alongside a few of the videogames: Night of 100 Frights, LEGO Dimensions, Multiversus, etc..

King Metalia said:
I miss Batman Brave and the Bold so much.
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It really completed the trifecta of Batman cartoons. BTAS, The Batman (2004), and Brave & The Bold were really unmatched, and I can't see us getting a Batman that can stand on their level ever again. Will give some credit to Beware, but it being mostly forgotten even passing the nostalgia mark really shows how little of impact it had, then Caped Crusader is just shit.

The end of DC cartoons was really Green Lantern TAS. There were some good ones after, but like Scooby, you can feel the end of an era with that one.
 
Basic Blond Boy said:
-a modern reimagining of the popular cartoon show.
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The death knell of media in the 2020s, that signifies your favorite media / franchise has been fully assimilated into RAY RIGGER RELL.
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In Adult Swim news, Joe Perra is back with a new animated series:

Adult Swim Gives Green Light To Animated Comedy From Dan Licata and Joe Pera, My Two Cars​

Adult Swim is revving up its programming slate with My Two Cars, the only show brave enough to explore what happens when a man owns two cars and all the joy and frustration that comes with it. The animated quarter-hour comedy from co-creators Dan Licata (Saturday Night Live) and Joe Pera (Joe Pera Talks With You) follows a man forced to grapple with an absurdly epic daily dilemma: choosing between his two beloved vehicles.

From the official series description:

Imagine you are lucky enough to own both a PT Cruiser and a Mini-Cooper. Your day-to-day life would be insane! But also hard hard. Keith Asshole does not have to imagine this, and in each episode he has to make the difficult decision which one to drive.

The character of Keith Asshole, an Ohioan navigating the series’ central dilemma, is voiced by Licata.

“Few shows (and fewer show runners) are courageous enough to explore life’s biggest questions,” said Michael Ouweleen, president, Adult Swim. “But Dan and Joe are more than brave enough to confront head-on the perplexity of which car to drive today.”

“It's a simple premise with good characters and great cars,” said Licata and Pera. “We appreciate Adult Swim allowing us to see such a dumb idea through into an entire season.”

My Two Cars is Pera’s second show on Adult Swim, following his acclaimed series Joe Pera Talks With You, which ran for three seasons on the network. Licata is also returning to Adult Swim after writing for Pera’s series and contributing to the animated comedy Teenage Euthanasia.

My Two Cars is animated by Green Street Pictures, the studio behind the Emmy® and Annie Award–nominated Adult Swim series Common Side Effects, as well as the Emmy-nominated Scavengers Reign.

About Dan Licata and Joe Pera

Dan Licata is a comedian and writer. He has written for shows such as Saturday Night Live, Joe Pera Talks with You, and Teenage Euthanasia. In 2024, he released his first comedy special titled For the Boys, which was filmed in front of an audience of 15-year-old boys. He has also performed stand-up on Late Night with Seth Meyers and appeared as Serj Lopecia in the movie Rap World.

Joe Pera is a standup comedian from Buffalo, NY, best known for his Adult Swim series Joe Pera Talks With You, which The Los Angeles Times referred to as “TV’s quietest, most artful comedy.” He has performed on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Conan, as well as on tours across the US and Europe. Other projects include his A Bathroom Book for People Not Pooping or Peeing But Using the Bathroom as an Escape from Macmillan Publishing, a sleep podcast Drifting Off with Joe Pera with composer Ryan Dann as well as a standup special Slow & Steady.

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I guess this is what he chose to do over talking to us. :(
 
The fact that Frank Welker is still going and sounds exactly like he did in 1969 makes me ok with infitinite Scooby Doo just so he can keep going.
 
Crescent Fresh said:
> “This celebrates black culture”
> from Martellus Bennett, one of the blackest names out there
> Martellus uses the pen name “Mr. Tomonoshi” because he wants to be another culture entirely
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It's not only his pen name, it's basically his online persona/brand. He sells bullshit on his own store thats just shitty trinkets you'd see at a hot topic. Most of it is keychains, posters, clothes, a coffee mug, enamel pins, and other shit.
 
Basic Blond Boy said:
I guess this is what he chose to do over talking to us. :(
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I'm just happy we're getting more by Joe Pera. I'll give this show a try solely because he's involved. I quite enjoyed both Joe Pera Talks with You and his podcast, Drifting Off with Joe Pera. He's great at mixing the mundane and the absurd, so this cartoon ought to be a great fit.
 
Moral Decay said:
I'm just happy we're getting more by Joe Pera. I'll give this show a try solely because he's involved. I quite enjoyed both Joe Pera Talks with You and his podcast, Drifting Off with Joe Pera. He's great at mixing the mundane and the absurd, so this cartoon ought to be a great fit.
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Is Joe Pera a right leaning guy? I heard from someone that is what he was going for and his comedy from what I've seen parodies that small town Americana without resenting it.
 
Edgeymcedgename said:
Is Joe Pera a right leaning guy? I heard from someone that is what he was going for and his comedy from what I've seen parodies that small town Americana without resenting it.
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Does it matter if he is? The stuff he makes is good and that's good enough for me. He grew up in Amherst, New York and attended college at Ithaca, and then lived in NYC for a number of years though, so probably not?
 
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