Oct 30 2016 47 mins 8
What’s more appropriate for Halloween than Scooby-Doo? Join Afoot as we recount the nearly 50-year history of the show, talk about our favorite and least-favorite eras, praise voice actors, and dissect the problem with the show switching from old men in rubber masks to real ghosts, zombies, and monsters.
Scooby-Doo
Glenn Fleishman with David J. Loehr and Shannon Sudderth
Show Notes & Links
- If you’re really into exhaustive accounts of TV series, check out the very, very, very long Wikipedia entry on the show.
- Fred Silverman was a programming boss at ABC, CBS, and NBC at various times, and shaped our childhoods.
- Harvey Birdman episode with Shaggy look-alikes, “Identity Theft.”
- Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island
- John Belushi appeared as Fred Silverman on several episodes of Saturday Night Live.
- Venture Brothers Scooby-Doo episode, “¡Viva los Muertos!”
- You can get Travis Pitts’ zombie-apocalypse (?) Velma and Scooby-Doo design on clothing via Threadless.
- Speed metal version of the Jabber Jaw theme song.
