What's New, Scooby-Doo? - TV-Y
TV Rating: TV-Y
Network: WB Cast: Casey Kasem, Frank Welker, Mindy Cohn
Genre: Children, Cartoons, & Animation
Available on: 
DVD
Common Sense Note
Parents need to know that while there aren't many life lessons to be learned from an episode of this show, kids will enjoy the antics of the Scooby gang as they stumble upon and solve mysteries. Only very young children might find the show's puzzles and monsters frightening.
Families can discuss fears, friendship, and risk-taking, as well as male/female roles and abilities.
Common Sense Review
Reviewed By: Sarah Wenk
The Scooby gang travels the world encountering strange creatures with mild evil on their minds. Each week they solve the mystery, with the help of the ever-hungry and ever-frightened Great Dane, Scooby-Doo (Frank Welker). Most of the actual sleuthing comes from Velma (Mindy Cohn), the sensible girl with glasses, and Daphne (Grey DeLisle), the pretty and smart girl. Freddy and Shaggy (Casey Kasem), the boys in the gang, are much less helpful at the mystery business than their female counterparts, though they do provide substantial comic relief.
WHAT'S NEW, SCOOBY-DOO? is silly and harmless. The most risqué moment in one episode, set in Paris was a "wee wee" ("oui, oui") joke. (One nice touch in this episode was the use of French pop songs in the action sequences.) Although there are some scary situations -- a model is kidnapped by a gargoyle, a wrestler is challenged by a monster -- they are quickly resolved and the scariness quotient is low. Some episodes have cliffhanger endings, which are quickly resolved at the start of the next week's episode.
For kids hungry for more mysteries, check out Cyberchase and the much-more educational History Detectives.
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Social BehaviorThe show's main characters are all white, with the exception of Scooby, a canine. Although the girls on the show exhibit "typical" girl behavior, they are also crucial to solving the mysteries, more so than the boys. |
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