How is Scooby Doo still a thing? Let's be honest with ourselves, it makes no sense that this IP has lasted so long

How is Scooby Doo still a thing? Let's be honest with ourselves, it makes no sense that this IP has lasted so long.

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>has lasted so long.
why not?

Every iteration is bland, dishwater tripe that fails to tell an interesting story. The closest it ever got was Mystery Inc, but it wins by default because it had a story at all. I just don't understand why people keep watching these four dweebs and their dog.

i want to see Scooby Doo swallow Shaggy whole, and Shaggy struggles until he is inevitably digested.

Anyways, as to why its survived this long, hell if I know. But remember, every day a new piece of scooby doo media comes out the possibility of scooby doo vore becomes slightly and slightly larger.

It didn't do so great in its original CBS broadcast, but like the Jetsons, it was re-ran over and over for years until it incidentally became pop culture and warranted newer material.

>How is Scooby Doo still a thing?
The premise of "4 people and their dog solver mysteries" coupled with pop culture recognition means that they're inherently flexible, even if they aren't used to their potential.

it's a cultural landmark, basically american Lupin III

They are very adaptable, we just change the clothes a little and that's it, you have a new series

Simple concept with archetypal characters and a flexible plot. All they need is some mystery or a ghost/monster and you basically have a plot

Because just like superhero comics the main focus is usually on the villains not the characters

Look at spiderman 20 years or so without progression even the current run is doing nothing he didn't do before but people still read it.

>thing is popular because people recognize it
Am I the only one who thinks that's really sad?

Mystery Inc was cool and they should have let Gunn do his PG13 scooby doo he wanted.

>PG-13
>Scooby Doo
Fucking excuse you?

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The Live Action movie was originally PG-13 but the studio got mad at them and told them to make it PG.

In fact, the first rating they got for that movie was rated R. However, that was just because of one joke that got misinterpreted.

A PG-13 Scooby Doo sounds fucking retarded.

No, that's just literally the definition of popularity.

Honestly I'm down to see any sort of change in the formula. I mean, the Supernatural Scooby Doo episode was pretty fun.

First of all, no it's not. Second, it's popular for no real reason, that's the issue.

It was the best cartoon on American tv at one point.

>Honestly I'm down to see any sort of change in the formula.
Even edgelord shit?

>I mean, the Supernatural Scooby Doo episode was pretty fun.
No it wasn't. One, it was a crossover, so it's shit by default. Second, it involves Supernatural, so it's especially lacking in merit.

That is objectivly untrue. Scooby Doo has never been, and will never be the best anything.

What shows were beating it in 1969?

>google
... Wow, 1969 was an pretty shit year for animation. Nevertheless.

1970 wasn't any better, and those two years were the entire original run of Scooby Doo. It had basically no competition for the public eye of cartoon watches, thus every kid with a tv at the time was watching it.

>"Scooby Doo. It's better than nothing."

Actually though. That's all you need to be popular in the right circumstance.

Because it's a great, simple concept that leaves itself open to lots of greatness

This was child me's motto watching mid day cartoon network when I'd stay home sick from school.

>ne, it was a crossover, so it's shit by default.
You sound like you totally aren't on the spectrum at all.

This. The characters and concept are really strong.

That's just kind of sad.

So how the hell can this franchise be salvaged into something worth a damn?

Scooby do has had several genuinely good stuff occasionally mixed into it long history of blandness.
Zombie Island, Mystery Incorporated, I actually really like The 13 ghosts.

People on the spectrum love crossovers though.

What Scooby needs is more crossovers, and not just shit like
>insert DC hero here
>insert carbon copy Hanna Barbera mystery group here

Irrationally hating something for the concept instead of how good it is pulled off is totally something someone on the spectrum would do as well.

All crossovers ever do is invite negative comparisons, vs crap, and devaluing of all involved IPs. Crossovers are shit.

>I actually really liked The 13 Ghosts
>Flim Flam
>Scrappy
...

I dunno how are the following still a thing?
>Sesame Street
>Muppets
>Peanuts
>Looney Tunes
>Simpsons
>South Park
>Family Guy
>Archie
>Marvel comics
>DC Comics

It had a Shaggy weed joke. It would have been le epic.

Flim Flam comes out of nowhere, but he's hardly the worst Scooby Doo character.
Scrappy is, but he's balanced out by the inclusion of Doctor Strange.