Saturday, April 8, 2017

Saturday Morning Ringside: Scooby-Doo takes up wrestling for the first time (A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, 1990)

From A Pup Named Scooby-Doo:

The Scooby-Doo Detective Agency takes on a case of an attempted hostile takeover of their hometown wrestling promotion. If the episode title, "Wrestle Maniacs", looks familiar, it was used more than a decade later on What's New Scooby-Doo.



Some tropes in this series, such as Shaggy & Scooby's childhood heroes, Commander Cool & Mellow Mutt, didn't carry over to What's New, although, of course, they would become well acquainted with superheroes later on in life, as seen in The New Scooby-Doo Movies.

And, for you comics fans, I don't think anyone would ever have considered that this show's cast has two generations of animated Robins (Casey Kasem & Scott Menville). Like, who would've ever known?

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2 comments:

Goldstar said...

Shaggy and Scooby's outfits for Commander Cool and Mellow Mutt were actually recycled designs for the outfits of Captain Good and Klean Kat (yes, spelled with 'K's instead of 'C' s for some reason) on an earlier H-B cartoon, Yogi's Space Race (1978).

hobbyfan said...

Oh, I DID NOT know that.