What's New, Scooby-Doo?
- Network: WB
- Genre: Kids' Animation
Common Sense Media says
Silly mysteries with harmless mayhem.
- Network: WB
- Genre: Kids' Animation
What parents need to know
Violence & scariness
Sexy stuff
Language
Consumerism
Drinking, drugs, & smoking
Parents Need to Know
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.
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What's the story?
In WHAT'S NEW, SCOOBY-DOO?, the Scooby gang travels the world encountering strange creatures with mild evil on their minds. Each week they manage to 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.
Is it any good?
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Scooby-Doo is silly and harmless. The most risqué moment in one episode set in Paris, for example, 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're 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.
Families can talk about...
Families can talk about fears, friendship, and risk-taking, as well as male/female roles and abilities.
TV details
| Cast: | Casey Kasem, Frank Welker, Mindy Cohn |
| Network: | WB |
| Genre: | Kids' Animation |
| Topics: | Friendship, Monsters, ghosts, and vampires |
| TV rating: | TV-Y |
| Available on: | DVD |
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I really like this show! 5 stars! But minus ONE star 'cause all the members in "The Gang" are white. Seems a bit rascist to me. (Scooby is an exception)
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The Best Combo
I have ALWAYS loved scooby doo. Litterly my whole room is scooby doo. I am also a huge fan of Simple Plan. I think that having your favorite icon(Scooby Doobey Doo) and my favorite band( Simple Plan) together is awesome. For those of you who don't know, not only does Simple Plan sing the theme, but they were in an episode!!! I hope that this one stays on for a loooooong time.
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Here's whats new, Scooby Doo
I was a big fan of the classic scooby doo series as a child, thogh for most of the reasons parents would find it inappropriate today. Truth is it deals with most of the problems parents would have with the classic series, like suggestions to drug use, pro unhealthy eating (Scooby and Shaggy are vegans now which blows my mind). There still are some semi scary scenes I guess, nothing as traumatizing in my opinion as some of the earlier series though, like that freaky mad doctor with the dancing Dobermans in the sanitarium episode (which still give me chills to think about) Anyway there are plenty of educational moments now too. An ok choice for parents
What other families should know
Too much violence
Educational value
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