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Goofus & Gallant: The Movie

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For decades, the characters of Goofus and Gallant appeared on the pages of the Highlights magazine. Goofus was always the kid that did the wrong thing, and Gallant was the good child who did everything correctly.

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But what are their origins? Why did their parents decide to name one of their kids Gallant and the other Goofus? Who does that? What kind of parent sees their newborn children and think: “Oh, this kid is definitely going to be better behaved than the other, so we’ll just give them names to match the personalities that we’re sure they’re going to have.” That’s already setting Goofus up for failure and he hasn’t even done anything wrong yet except be born into a family that hates him.

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What I am announcing today is a film is now in the pre-production stages featuring the characters Goofus and Gallant. It is a film focusing more on Goofus, and what his life became after the stories featured in the Highlights magazine.

Most movies that have classic characters in them are grittier reboots to get the adults who knew them as kids to watch them, and this will end up the same way.

Be sure to go to your local movie theater in late 2025 to see the hit new film Goofus and Gallant: After Hours, where the two kids have grown up and are trying to make it in a life where one kid seems to be doing everything right, and the other is trying to get by, but is getting yelled and is a huge disappointment to everyone.

 

Editor’s Note: Kris does not actually own the rights to the characters Goofus and Gallant, so the film has immediately been cancelled. What a Goofus move!

Atlantis: The Game(s)

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We’re back in Atlantis one more time, months after the theatrical release of Aquaman and my week-long posts of it, because I have purchased two games related to that mythical, forgotten land: “Spongebob’s Atlantis Squarepantis” for the Nintendo DS, and “Atlantis: The Lost Empire” which was originally for the GameBoy Advance. I stumbled my way through this lost city twice to beat the games.

This is a video game review post.

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“What a Night for a Knight” ANALYSIS

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Tomorrow (at the time of this being written and posted), the first ever Scooby-Doo episode will turn 50 years old. Which means Scooby-Doo and the gang will be 50, or because they started out as teenagers, maybe like 67 or something.

Regardless of their actual age, it’s a pretty big deal to have a 50th anniversary of a television show and still be as good and relevant as they are today.

Because of that, I will be putting my previous film classes I took to use and analyze their very first episode: “What a Night for a Night.”

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The Total Chronology of Scooby-Doo

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Some people might not be aware that every iteration of Scooby-Doo and the rest of the Mystery Inc. gang all take place in the same canonical universe. There is no reboots (besides maybe one, but we’ll get to that), and that means that these meddling kids have probably solved over a million mysteries in their teenage and young adult life. That’s actually incredible.

In this post today, I will list out every single version of Scooby-Doo in canonical order. This is not the order of the shows when they were released. In some later versions, the gang is actually younger than they were in the previous. One important thing to note, though:

I will NOT be listing the direct to DVD movies, the television movies, or the crossover episodes with other shows.

Those definitely fall into the canonical realm that is being created, but there are just so many of them, and my rule is if the animation style looks like one of the television shows, it happened somewhere in that general time.

If you have any questions after I go through all of the iterations, feel free to comment or message me with the questions you have, and I will do by best to explain.

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Scooby-Doo Week: Day One

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On Friday, September 13th, Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc. gang will be in media and the public eye for 50 years, with their first episode airing back in 1969 on CBS titled “What a Night for a Knight.”

What astounds me so much is how relevant this character still is today. Even if people haven’t seen every iteration of the show, they still know who the characters are.

I can definitely say that I grew up with Scooby-Doo. I definitely did not watch every single show or movie with the characters, but when it was on television, I always switched to it. I remember many sick days when I was younger and “A Pup Named Scooby-Doo” was on, or one of the movies, or even the original television show sometimes.

It’s something that I still enjoy doing today.

My goal this week is hopefully to get you, the reader of this, to understand more about the cultural and some of the historical impact that Scooby-Doo has, and why he and the gang are still important today.

I plan on writing a different thing each day celebrating these meddling kids, so plan on coming back to read things like:

  • The canonical timeline of every single Scooby-Doo iteration
  • Trying to understand exactly why people hated Scrappy Doo
  • A brief dissection/analysis of “What a Night for a Knight”
  • And more things!

(I don’t want to spoil the ‘mystery’ of everything I’m going to talk about)

Be sure to check back tomorrow for the almost complete list of Scooby-Doo iterations in canonical order!

 

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The Creeper. First Appearance: “Scooby-Doo , Where are You!” Season 3, Ep. 4 “Jeepers, It’s the Creeper”