Mid 80s to late 90s: the Golden Age of Animated Series?

[Syt]

I watched the 90s version with them all as kids - A Pup Named Scooby-Doo? A couple of writers from that show went on to Tiny Toons and Animaniacs. It was a rather surreal self-parody. I mean, they had a recurring character called Red Herring, FFS.

[Ed Anger]

I had the misfortune to have seen that.

Ugh.

[Viking]

I watched the 90s version with them all as kids - A Pup Named Scooby-Doo? A couple of writers from that show went on to Tiny Toons and Animaniacs. It was a rather surreal self-parody. I mean, they had a recurring character called Red Herring, FFS.

Of course the baddie in scooby doo was named after a logical fallacy. The writers deliberately wrote their show in part to promote scientific thinking and naturalism. There were never any ghosts or anything else supernatural in scooby doo, only con men trying to use the fear of ghosts to scare off gullible people. It's educational tv ffs.

[Admiral Yi]

Of course the baddie in scooby doo was named after a logical fallacy. The writers deliberately wrote their show in part to promote scientific thinking and naturalism. There were never any ghosts or anything else supernatural in scooby doo, only con men trying to use the fear of ghosts to scare off gullible people. It's educational tv ffs.

Spoilers! 

[The Larch]

I read an article on Scooby Doo for its latest anniversary, and they said that the baddie in every single case was always the second guy to be introduced in the episode. Talk about predictability. 

[dps]

I read an article on Scooby Doo for its latest anniversary, and they said that the baddie in every single case was always the second guy to be introduced in the episode. Talk about predictability. 

Well, if that's what it said, the article is wrong.

[Syt]

Of course the baddie in scooby doo was named after a logical fallacy. The writers deliberately wrote their show in part to promote scientific thinking and naturalism. There were never any ghosts or anything else supernatural in scooby doo, only con men trying to use the fear of ghosts to scare off gullible people. It's educational tv ffs.

Uhm, Red Herring was never, ever the culprit, though. He never appeared in an episode. Only at the end, before the resolution, it would be Freddie guessing that it was all done by Red Herring.

[Eddie Teach]

Uhm, Red Herring was never, ever the culprit, though. He never appeared in an episode. Only at the end, before the resolution, it would be Freddie guessing that it was all done by Red Herring.

I don't think that's right.


Google and my very fuzzy recollection says it was this guy.

[Syt]

Uhm, Red Herring was never, ever the culprit, though. He never appeared in an episode. Only at the end, before the resolution, it would be Freddie guessing that it was all done by Red Herring.

I don't think that's right.


Google and my very fuzzy recollection says it was this guy.

Yes, he did. Sorry, my body needs more coffee. I meant to say he never showed up during an episode except at the end.

[Queequeg]

destroyed by fucking hipsters

I can think of about 10 anime movies that are even close to acceptable for hipsters, but beyond that it's actually pretty close to the antithesis of the entire cultural group.   

[Duque de Bragança]

I grew up with Captain Future, a 70s anime version of Edmond Hamilton's 1930s pulp sci-fi stories. One of the first animated series in shown in Germany to feature multi-episode story arcs (most stories were 3-4 episodes), and also featuring people dying. Also, it had a pretty sweet 1970s sci-fi utopia design.

Capitaine Flam, as it was called in France was one of the most popular cartoons back then. Japanese cartoons (can't call them anime if it's pre middle '90s") were extremely popular and still are, among the around 30 crowd.

[Darth Wagtaros]

2 preppies, a stoner, a man hating lesbian and talking dog. And if anybody mentions Scrappy Doo, I'll punch them in the nuts.

You should watch the new one.  The characters are under oath to never mention Scrappy again.

I think Flim Flam is doing 5 life sentences for fraud or smoething.  That's about as far as I'll go in saying anything gooda bout the new one.

[Josquius]

Scrappy Doo is integral to the show for me since I grew up in the 90s. When I saw repeats of the original show from the 70s I was rather confused by his absence.
I was never too big on Scooby Doo as a kid.

Anime and popularity...yes. I liked it before it was popular and the way so many kids these days do...it makes me sad, jealous and slightly snobby. No way is it a hipster thing though.

[garbon]

Scrappy Doo is integral to the show for me since I grew up in the 90s. When I saw repeats of the original show from the 70s I was rather confused by his absence.
I was never too big on Scooby Doo as a kid.

I grew up in the 90s and would say the opposite to each of those sentences.

[derspiess]

Scrappy Doo is integral to the show for me since I grew up in the 90s. When I saw repeats of the original show from the 70s I was rather confused by his absence.
I was never too big on Scooby Doo as a kid.

Get out.  Now.