Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!: Scooby's Origins

Before I start, I want to thank Scooby-Doo, We Love You for compiling such a great list of all of the episodes, movies, and so on featuring Scooby. There you'll find short, concise summaries of what happens in each episode. It's not exactly what I'm going for here: I'd like to really delve in and analyze how Scooby made me feel then, what's changed in how I feel now, and what I come away with in the end. 


Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! was my first foray into the antics of Mysteries, Inc. Just look at the opening credits below and try not to hear the distinctive bat sounds that opened the show:

This show was classic Scooby at its finest. We're introduced to the gang in the episode "What a Night for a Fright," which has the teens running amok in a museum after-hours when they find a mysterious suit of armor on their way home from the movies. From there, the show took the gang to tons of other locations, from castles to underwater to a ghost town and more.

Cartoon Network has been showing some of these — frustratingly, the same cycle of episodes, it seems — during the day. I'm going to start DVRing them again and rewatching from a more critical perspective. Get excited!