The third day of the Scooby-Doo postings will be a bit shorter, but that also means that I can talk about the shortest character:
Scrappy Doo
Scrappy-Doo was a character that was created in 1978, after the previous Scooby-Doo iteration concluded, and ABC threatened to cancel the show for a pilot that wasn’t even created yet.
Scrappy seemed to be an instant hit. The ratings of the show seemed to jump, but the formula of the show also seemed to change a lot too.
What I learned from my 10 minutes of research is that Scrappy was just too much change. Along with the fact that Scooby-Doo has a very energetic nephew, this era of Scooby-Doo started to contain actual monsters instead of just people wearing masks.
It was such a drastic shift in style of the writing, that many people just did not enjoy it, and eventually Scrappy-Doo was removed and forgotten about in the 90’s.
Until the first theatrical movie.
Scrappy-Doo returns angry about how he was forgotten about, and becomes the surprise villain at the end. Controlling a robotic Mr. Bean and then becoming a giant monster himself.
As usual, Scooby and the gang unmasked this villain, and the last we ever saw of Scrappy was the police taking him away to Puppy Jail.
Kristopher K. Online 