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DemONbEAST: ℍ𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨-𝕃𝕠𝕠𝕟𝕒 𝟚 @therealdoneast.bsky.social · 3h

The ending bit of the segment includes a revised version of the November 1st, 1982 strip that acts as the coda for this story.

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DemONbEAST: ℍ𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨-𝕃𝕠𝕠𝕟𝕒 𝟚 @therealdoneast.bsky.social · 3h

One thing that wasn't in the comic is how Sally felt about wasting her Halloween for nothing, again.

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DemONbEAST: ℍ𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨-𝕃𝕠𝕠𝕟𝕒 𝟚 @therealdoneast.bsky.social · 3h

So, Charlie Brown actually has a chance of winning this. And of course, that would mean either the world is going to end or he's gonna screw it up somehow. And sure enough, the latter happens, and it leads to the punchline...

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DemONbEAST: ℍ𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨-𝕃𝕠𝕠𝕟𝕒 𝟚 @therealdoneast.bsky.social · 4h

I could probably compare whenever they used the comic strip's dialogue but I'd be here all night. But I'm gonna bring up this exchanged between Peppermint Patty & Marcie.

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DemONbEAST: ℍ𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨-𝕃𝕠𝕠𝕟𝕒 𝟚 @therealdoneast.bsky.social · 4h

So, Sally once again shows up and uses this as a way to spend time with her "Sweet Baboo". Because this worked out so well for you in the past, Sally.

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DemONbEAST: ℍ𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨-𝕃𝕠𝕠𝕟𝕒 𝟚 @therealdoneast.bsky.social · 4h

Snoopy was in the tournament in the comic, but not in the show, where he's shanghaied into being with Linus in the pumpkin patch. Regardless, Linus won't be the one human waiting this time...

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DemONbEAST: ℍ𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨-𝕃𝕠𝕠𝕟𝕒 𝟚 @therealdoneast.bsky.social · 4h

They add a bit where Charlie Brown apparently never went bowling before while in the comic strip, it's mentioned he bowled had an average of 85. This is pretty to both have a joke where he somehow managed to get a strike on his first try & to set up what happens later on.

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DemONbEAST: ℍ𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨-𝕃𝕠𝕠𝕟𝕒 𝟚 @therealdoneast.bsky.social · 4h

As a kid, I always looked forward to when this episode came on Nick because I saw it as a sequel to "It's The Great Pumpkin" & Peppermint Patty was my favorite so her being in it led to moments like her reaction to Linus' sales pitch about the Great Pumpkin...

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DemONbEAST: ℍ𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨-𝕃𝕠𝕠𝕟𝕒 𝟚 @therealdoneast.bsky.social · 4h

The show's format was primarily adapting the storylines from the Peanuts comics, some were rather recent. This segment is actually based strips from October 1982, where Linus once again waited for the gift giving gourd while Charlie Brown & Peppermint Patty enter a junior bowling tournament.

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DemONbEAST: ℍ𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨-𝕃𝕠𝕠𝕟𝕒 𝟚 @therealdoneast.bsky.social · 4h

In fact, the season what I'm looking at was the show's second & last, at only five episodes. The show had 18 episodes in total, when the show reran on cable networks like Disney Channel & Nickelodeon, they would put the non-holiday Peanuts specials as part of the episode count.

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DemONbEAST: ℍ𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨-𝕃𝕠𝕠𝕟𝕒 𝟚 @therealdoneast.bsky.social · 5h

This came from an episode of "The Charlie Brown & Snoopy Show", the first proper TV series based on the comic strip. Made after 4 theatrical feature films, 2 stage musicals, & countless TV specials, CBS had hopes for it, but in the ratings did not meet expectations.

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DemONbEAST: ℍ𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨-𝕃𝕠𝕠𝕟𝕒 𝟚 @therealdoneast.bsky.social · 5h

You know what my Halloween watch needs? Some Peanuts, and since I've doing deep cuts so far, let's talk about the other time a Peanuts adaptation made in Charles Schulz's lifetime had Linus waited for the Great Pumpkin...

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DemONbEAST: ℍ𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨-𝕃𝕠𝕠𝕟𝕒 𝟚 @therealdoneast.bsky.social · 14h

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DemONbEAST: ℍ𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨-𝕃𝕠𝕠𝕟𝕒 𝟚 @therealdoneast.bsky.social · 1d

This marathon was meant to lead into the TV premiere of the GOAT, "Scooby Doo on Zombie Island". Had a "Behind The Music" vibe, it had some pretty funny gags. Fred singing "Old Man River" is always amusing.

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DemONbEAST: ℍ𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨-𝕃𝕠𝕠𝕟𝕒 𝟚 @therealdoneast.bsky.social · 1d

I had something else planned for my Halloween thing but I ended up getting into a rant about a franchise that was a major part of my childhood. So, here's the bumpers from CN's 1998 Scooby Doo marathon, "Those Meddling Kids"...
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Those Meddling Kids: 25 Hours of Doo (Scooby-Doo: Behind the Scenes) - Segments Only

YouTube video by Scooby-Doo Archive

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DemONbEAST: ℍ𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨-𝕃𝕠𝕠𝕟𝕒 𝟚 @therealdoneast.bsky.social · 1d

The current state of Scooby Doo was very disjointed with an "adult comedy" that didn't even have Scooby in it, another live-action adaptation for Netflix, some anime inspired project that will either go to Adult Swim or Hulu. And the DTV series seemingly being quietly cancelled after a 25 year run.

scooby doo from the scooby doo cartoon has a blue collar

ALT: scooby doo from the scooby doo cartoon has a blue collar

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DemONbEAST: ℍ𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨-𝕃𝕠𝕠𝕟𝕒 𝟚 @therealdoneast.bsky.social · 1d

The respective writers of those "sequels" immediately got the word out that that's not what their vision & the producers, namely James Krieg, pushed it. Krieg also wrote "Scoobynatural", which I know has its fans but I did not care for it. Especially the unfunny anachronism of Scrappy's cameo.

Jeff Harris @nemalki.bsky.social · 1d

And the less said about Return to Zombie Island and The 13th Ghost, the better.

Making two of the last HB-era Scooby production utterly meaningless and throwing everything both brought to the franchise was... a choice.

A bad choice. A terrible choice. An awful choice.

But a choice.

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DemONbEAST: ℍ𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨-𝕃𝕠𝕠𝕟𝕒 𝟚 @therealdoneast.bsky.social · 1d

Like how Marvel refuses to let Spider-Man grow up, Warner Bros apparently does want Scooby & the Gang to remain meddling kids, even though the status quo for a decade was them being adults who lived on their own & had multiple jobs. Then came the retcons to that alleged sequel to Zombie Island.

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DemONbEAST: ℍ𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨-𝕃𝕠𝕠𝕟𝕒 𝟚 @therealdoneast.bsky.social · 1d

Which includes WBA insisting on a very particular version of how Scooby Doo should be & pushing the showrunner out partway through the second season. And you could see that in projects made post "Be Cool" showed that. Tired meta jokes, celebrity guest stars, & insisting the Gang are teenagers.

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DemONbEAST: ℍ𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨-𝕃𝕠𝕠𝕟𝕒 𝟚 @therealdoneast.bsky.social · 1d

Now, I love "Be Cool, Scooby Doo", I think it has the best takes on Fred & Daphne. (And Grey DeLisle agreed with me on Daphne when I saw her at MomoCon) But that show seemed to be set up to fail between being sent to Boomerang & WB meddling with the production.

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DemONbEAST: ℍ𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨-𝕃𝕠𝕠𝕟𝕒 𝟚 @therealdoneast.bsky.social · 1d

It's around this time, for reasons still never properly explained, after a decade voicing Velma, Mindy Cohn aka "the Good Mindy Velma", was phased out of the role and eventually be replaced by Kate Micucci. I've come to like Kate's Velma, but this happened while Cohn was fighting breast cancer.

a young man is making a funny face and says `` that is not '' with his hands .

ALT: a young man is making a funny face and says `` that is not '' with his hands .

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DemONbEAST: ℍ𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨-𝕃𝕠𝕠𝕟𝕒 𝟚 @therealdoneast.bsky.social · 1d

AND THEN there was a period between Mystery Incorporated ended & criminally underrated "Be Cool, Scooby Doo" went into production where things began to slip further. Remember when they tried to revive A Pup Named Scooby Doo as off-brand Muppets? Off-brand Muppets that stared into your soul?

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DemONbEAST: ℍ𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨-𝕃𝕠𝕠𝕟𝕒 𝟚 @therealdoneast.bsky.social · 1d

Then there were the live action TV films that had Hayley Kiyoko as Velma. Then those random TV specials that use the DTV art style. And the DTV team didn't seem to like SDMI, I think the one time they referenced was the Mystery Machine had a Crystal Cove license plate... Before it exploded.

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DemONbEAST: ℍ𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨-𝕃𝕠𝕠𝕟𝕒 𝟚 @therealdoneast.bsky.social · 1d

And Matthew Lillard would take over the role of Shaggy in both the TV & DTVs with "Mystery Incorporated", a series I have... Opinions on it. And of course, the DTV films starting with "Abracadabra Doo", at which certainly does not even try to follow Derrick J. Wyatt's art direction.

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DemONbEAST: ℍ𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨-𝕃𝕠𝕠𝕟𝕒 𝟚 @therealdoneast.bsky.social · 1d

For example, about the same time the forgotten (for a good reason) "Shaggy & Scooby Doo Get A Clue" aired on Kids WB, the Direct-To-Video movies' cast & art style still used "What's New" for reference. This would go on until Casey Kasem officially retired from the role of Shaggy...

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