Grating Ratings: Scooby Doo Guest Stars
Why and how Scooby Doo got so many guest stars is beyond me. Just to clarify: Technically, the show in question here is The New Scooby-Doo Movies. Here are five guests who appeared on Scooby Doo:
- Batman and Robin: D When you're bringing on other fictional characters from another television series, you know you're scraping the bottom of the barrel for guest stars. Perhaps it made for good entertainment for the kids, but it's just a lousy match-up. A superhero millionaire hanging out with a bunch of hippie kids? Ack.
- Don Knotts: B Don Knotts appeared as his usual bumbling character, being comical in a butt-of-the-joke manner. It worked out well enough, though I thought Don was always drawn more realistically than the rest of the characters on the show.
- Harlem Globetrotters: A- The Harlem Globetrotters were a treat. There were so many of them, you really only knew Curly. They kept the action going and provided a bunch of laughs. The only problem is that their whole shtick is basketball tricks. In the cartoons, Scooby can perform those same tricks!
- Sonny and Cher: C+ I was never a fan of Cher, and I'm not sure the duo came across all that well in Scooby Doo, either.
- The Three Stooges: B+ Somehow, the Three Stooges' slapstick carried over to animation when they appeared on the show. It wasn't quite as edgy as the Three Stooges episodes, but they got the job done.
Please feel free to leave a comment. What do you agree or disagree with, and why? Which Scooby Doo guest stars do you wish were included that I didn't cover here?
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July 29th, 2007 at 01:50
Hahaha. That's awesome.
July 29th, 2007 at 02:16
The all-time classic for those of us of all-time classic age is Jonathan Winters, especially his character of Ma Frickert.
January 29th, 2008 at 22:35
Hellooooo….. Phyllis Diller? She was the all time best of the scooby doo guest stars. we've gotta' pay homage to the founders of modern stand-up comedy.