Why is scrappy doo hated

Way to destroy a character that some people may like. Some people are upset that Fred, Daphne, and Velma aren't around when he's there, but of those three the only one I really like would be Velma. She actually helps solve the mystery. Scooby and Shaggy might be there only for comic relief, but they do it well.

Scrappy I think should still be with the gang, because next to Scooby and Shaggy he has more personality than the rest of Mystery Inc. What does everyone else think about him? Grins at his Scrappy reference. D'Snowth Well-Known Member. Joined Aug 8, Messages 40, Reaction score 12, Because he's like the Elmo of the Scooby universe.

Joined Jan 2, Messages Reaction score And it should be noted that they didn't just make him evil in Scooby-Doo 2 , they actually were slowly letting him snap Not for ME, man! Drtooth Well-Known Member. Joined Apr 16, Messages 31, Reaction score 6, Terrible but true fact. The inclusion of Scrappy-Doo actually saved the Scooby-Doo series.

As for reasons why people hate him, well And the worst of all, those dreadful Scrappy-Doo adventures where all he does is annoy some large guy who precedes to chase Scooby and Shaggy around for 7 minutes. Those are some of the worst cartoons of all time.

Shaggy and Scooby-Doo get a Clue looks at them and says "Glad that's not us! He's actually quite likeable, even funny in 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo. That and maybe Flim Flam was more annoying and made Scrappy look better by comparison. I felt like the people writing the shows must have thought we the tv audience were a bunch of idiots. At first it was just the cartoons I noticed. And if you interview professional animators who've been around since the 60's they'll tell you how awful cartoons were on network television in the 80's.

They were so terrible that a 12 year old who'd never questioned anything about popular culture noticed it and stopped watching cartoons. But Scrappy had set off a chain reaction in me. Within the year I found I couldn't stand watching TV at all except for a very few shows. All I could bother with was anime, like Starblazers and Battle of the Planets.

Also dopey, but not so outright condescending as US cartoons at the time. That year I discovered the joy of reading. I became the biggest reader in Junior High School. Science fiction, then fantasy, then adventure and detective novels. I never looked back until I was in my mid 30s. I guess a bunch of people who liked cartoons from my age group went into animation. Now, as a middle aged person I now watch more animation than I did at 13 years old. And very little of it is as godawful as the cartoons of the season.

Or any of the 's or '90s so far as I know. But Scrappy evolved with time, much more rapidly than the original cast had. One season and a cast change later, he had mellowed considerably, becoming more of a wide-eyed and eager young sleuth than a would-be brawler.

His blind, delusional hero-worship of his uncle Scooby gave way to a more realistic but still affectionate opinion of him as well. The shrinking cast would allow him to evolve further. Bland as they were, Fred and Velma did put clues together and solve mysteries, and along with Daphne, they delivered much of the exposition and asked necessary questions. With their departure, and with Shaggy and Scooby still played as comic characters, Scrappy was left to take up the slack, in effect becoming the straight man of the franchise — a younger, more lively, and active straight man who found the idea of ghosts and goblins exciting.

This was most apparent in what could be called the Red Shirt Shaggy era. This period of the franchise began with The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo. Daphne and Flim Flam, a far more obnoxious sidekick than Scrappy ever was were still along for the ride, but when The 13 Ghosts finished its vey brief run, Scooby-Doo persisted as a series of TV movies with Scooby, Scrappy, and a palette-swapped Shaggy mixed up in various supernatural situations.

His red shirt seemed to give Shaggy a little more sense of responsibility, and as the only human in the main cast, he almost had to become more of a detective and straight man.

Were these TV movies any good? But Scooby-Doo is a franchise for kids, and as a kid, I enjoyed Scrappy and the Red Shirt Shaggy era as much as I enjoyed any other Scooby series — that is to say, well enough. If Scrappy was pushed too aggressively when he first appeared — and was a bit too much of a twerp — he became a more tenable character with time.

Fred, Daphne, and Velma would eventually be back to stay, and more recent series and films have tried to graft personalities on to them often at the expense of any meaningful role for Shaggy and Scooby.