Scooby doo

Zoinks! It’s Scooby Doo on the front page! Epic win!

How did a cartoon about a nerd, a cheerleader, a jock and two stoners (one being a talking dog), ever get on the air? We don’t know, but someday we’d love to shake the hand of the guy who originally greenlighted Scooby Doo.

Scooby Doo first aired on CBS and can be traced back to Fred Silverman in 1969 who was the head of Daytime Programming for CBS. Silverman was looking for a show that would lead the network away from the superhero cycle and take them into an area of comedy and adventure.

Scooby-Doo was the title star of a long-running Saturday-morning cartoon of the 1970s and ’80s. A comically nervousGreat Dane, Scooby spent each episode hunting ghosts with four human teenagers, including the always-hungry hippie boy Shaggy, the brainy Velma, the buff Fred and the beautiful Daphne. (The group drove around in a van called the Mystery Machine.) In the 1990s Scooby-Doo returned as a nostalgic pop icon for Generation X. A Scooby-Doo feature film was released in 2002, with a computer-generated Scooby cavorting with a live-action cast including Sarah Michelle Gellar as Daphne, Freddie Prinze Jr. as Fred and Matthew Lillard as Shaggy. The film was a hit, and a sequel, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, followed in 2004. To This Day the Scooby doo dog figure is one of the most popular.