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What's New, Scooby-Doo?
The What's New, Scooby-Doo? title card
Format	Animation
Created by	Hanna-Barbera Productions (Joe Ruby Ken Spears Sander Schwartz)
Starring	Frank Welker Casey Kasem Grey DeLisle Mindy Cohn
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of episodes	42 (List of episodes)
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Kids' WB
Original run	September 14, 2002 – July 21, 2006
Chronology
Preceded by	A Pup Named Scooby-Doo (1988–1991)
Followed by	Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue! (2006–present)
External links
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

What's New, Scooby-Doo? is the ninth incarnation of the long-running Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo. A revival of the original show Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, What's New, Scooby-Doo? aired for three seasons on The WB Television Network's "Kids' WB" programming block as a half-hour program, before being put on an indefinite hiatus in 2005. Reruns are shown on the Cartoon Network. Forty-three episodes have been produced so far (fourteen in 2002-2003, fourteen in 2003-2004, and fourteen in 2004-2005, and one in 2005-2006).

The show follows the original mystery-solving formula of the series, with the classic gang encountering ghosts and monsters who invariably turn out to be people in disguise. Most of the stories make an attempt to modernize the Scooby universe by introducing plots spotlighting modern trends and technology, such as the Internet, resulting in modern-technology jokes similar to that on The Fairly Oddparents. Another source of humor in the show is the characters' own jibes at the series' long-standing conventions, such as always splitting up into the same two groups. The characters remain mostly the same as always, with a few cosmetic changes (most notably, Fred no longer wears his famous ascot in this series.)

With Don Messick's retirement in 1996 (he died the following year), Frank Welker, the voice of Fred, took over as Scooby's voice. Casey Kasem returned as Shaggy, Grey DeLisle took over Daphne's role, while former Facts of Life actress Mindy Cohn took over Velma's. The new show follows the same format as Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, updated somewhat for the 21st century, but with new-age music genres and all-new, original sound effects to replace the classic Hanna-Barbera sound effects. The show was produced by Warner Bros. Animation, the studio famous for bringing Looney Tunes to life, which had by this time absorbed Hanna-Barbera Cartoons. (It should be noted, however, that the copyright notice at the end of each episode credits "Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc." as the author. Also, Joseph Barbera was one of the Executive Producers.)

Main article: List of What's New, Scooby-Doo? episodes

The series was initially released in ten volumes of four or five episodes until the complete series was released. Warner Brothers then announced that they would begin releasing the show in season sets, starting with The Complete First Season, set for release on February 20, 2007.^[1]

DVDs

The episodes in each volume were at first picked in chronological order but were later picked to be part of a theme. The volumes and the episodes they include in the United States are as follow:

• Volume 1: Space Ape at the Cape (August 19, 2003)
  • "There's No Creature Like Snow Creature"
  • "Space Ape at the Cape"
  • "3-D Struction"
  • "Big Scare in the Big Easy"
• Volume 2: Safari So Goodi! (March 9, 2004)
  • "It's Mean, It's Green, It's The Mystery Machine"
  • "Riva Ras Regas"
  • "Roller Ghoster Ride"
  • "Safari, So Goodi!"
• Volume 3: Halloween Boos & Clues (August 10, 2004)
  • "The Vampire Strikes Back"
  • "Mummy Scares Best"
  • "High-Tech House of the Future"
  • "She Sees a Sea Monster by the Seashore"
• Volume 4: Merry Scary Holiday (October 5, 2004)
  • "A Scooby-Doo Christmas" also known as "Ho-Ho-Horrors!" on the CartoonNetwork.Com Episode Listing
  • "Toy Scary Boo"
  • "Homeward Hound"
  • "Recipe for Disaster"
• Volume 5: Sports Spooktacular (June 14, 2005)
  • "The Unnatural"
  • "The Fast and the Wormious"
  • "Wrestle Maniacs"
  • "Diamonds Are a Ghoul's Best Friend"
• Volume 6: Monster Matinee (August 9, 2005)
  • "A Scooby-Doo Halloween"
  • "San Franpsycho"
  • "New Mexico, Old Monster"
  • "Big Appetite in Little Tokyo"
• Volume 7: Ghosts on the Go (November 8, 2005)
  • "Pompeii & Circumstance"
  • "Large Dragon at Large"
  • "It's All Greek to Scooby-Doo"
  • "Ready to Scare"
• Volume 8: Zoinks! Camera! Action! (February 21, 2006)
  • "Lights, Camera, Mayhem!"
  • "E-Scream"
  • "Simple Plan and the Invisible Madman"
  • "A Scooby-Doo Valentine"
• Volume 9: Route Scary-Six (June 6, 2006)
  • "Go West Young Scoob"
  • "Camp Comeoniwannascareya"
  • "Demon Farmer: Farmed & Dangerous"
  • "Fright House of a Lighthouse"
  • "Gentlemen, Start Your Monsters!"
• Volume 10: Monstrous Tails (December 5, 2006)
  • "Uncle Scooby and Antarctica"
  • "Block-Long Hong Kong Terror"
  • "Great Reef"
  • "Gold Paw"
  • "A Terrifying Round With A Menacing Metallic Clown"

Trivia sections are discouraged under Wikipedia guidelines. The article could be improved by integrating relevant items and removing inappropriate ones.

• The band Simple Plan is heavily connected to What's New, Scooby-Doo? They perform the theme song, and appeared as themselves in the episode "Simple Plan and the Invisible Madman". Two of their songs appeared in chase scenes: "I'd Do Anything" in the episode "It's Mean, It's Green, It's the Mystery Machine", and "You Don't Mean Anything" in "Simple Plan and the Invisible Madman". Also, they were working with Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed.
• This is the first one of the 21st century abd to air on Kids WB.
• In some episodes, it is seen that Velma is a fan of hockey.
• During 'A Terrifying Round With A Menacing Metallic Clown', the characters are drawn as they are seen in A Pup Named Scooby-Doo during a flashback to Velma's fifth birthday party.
• Also during that same scene, a clown says the phrase "Funny-Fun-Fun" which is a reference to a minor character on the 1993 Kid's WB TV series Animaniacs.
• Also in the episode 'A Terrifying Round With A Menacing Metallic Clown', a character named "Couger Forest" is portrayed as an expert golfer. Both his name and occupation are obvious nudges towards real life golfer Tiger Woods
• Daphne, Velma, and Fred are in all but one episode of the series, "Camp Comeoniwannascareya", but Shaggy says "Fred would be proud" after he captures the monster with a Fred-like trap, and repeats "The gang is somewhere spookier" to keep himself from regreting becoming a camp counselor. This trio appears less in subsequent episodes of Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue!
• Interestingly, the reveal at the end of "E-Scream" (that Velma is participating in a Holo-Mystery) completely fails to explain the Osomon's presence in the pre-titles, a sequence that seems to take place the night before the gang even arrive at the convention.
• This is the first Scooby-Doo series since 1970 that didn't feature Heather North as the voice of Daphne.
• In the episode "Large Dragon at Large", the dragon that tries to scare Scooby and Shaggy is a machine similar to the one that was the "Snow Creature" in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!.
• In the episode "Uncle Scooby and Antarctica", the "Antarctic Sea Monster" bears a few similarities with the "Beast of Bottomless Lake" in The Scooby-Doo Show.
• In "A Scooby Doo Valentines", after discovering that she was played by an extra, Daphne asks "Was Sarah Michelle Gellar too busy?". Gellar played Daphne in the live action movies. Former N'Sync member J.C. Chasez also guest-stars, and dresses up as Scooby-Doo in the same episode.
• This was the first Scooby-Doo series to NOT use the Castle thunder sound effect, replacing it with newer digitally-recorded thunderclaps; only two episodes used the 70-year-old Castle thunder, particularly The Vampire Strikes Back.
• Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner make a cameo appearance in New Mexico, Old Monster. a hint that the show was produced by the same studio that produced the classic Looney Tunes cartoons.
• Joe Barbera is caricatured as dog owner "Mr. B." and 1970s character Scooby-Dee makes a quick non-speaking cameo in the episode 'Homeward Hound'.
• In "New Mexico, Old monster", when the bird watcher says that he has seen every rare North American bird and pulls out his checklist, it can be seen on the list a picture of Tweety Bird from Looney Toons.

• Official Scooby-Doo Website
• WhatsNewScoobyDoo.com: Official Warner Bros. Site
• What's New, Scooby-Doo? at the Internet Movie Database