#BE COOL SCOOBY DOO SERIES#
Her bubbly enthusiasm throughout the series is infectious and dropped dead funny at times, and she is easily my favourite part of this particular series. She’s also a little nuts.Įach episode will find Daphne displaying some new eccentricity whether it be a fondness for puppets, dressing up as a sports mascot, becoming a mime or even wearing a mustache and Vandyke beard. The character with the biggest change is Daphne Blake ( Grey DeLisle) for no longer is she “Danger-Prone Daphne” a simple damsel who gets gagged and tied to a chair once an episode, but instead she is the moral heart of the team and is the one who rallies the gang when things look their darkest. Shaggy Rogers ( Matthew Lillard) and Scooby ( Frank Welker) change the least from their previous versions as they are still a cowardly duo obsessed with food but as the series goes on they do become a little more self-aware as to what their place in the group actually is, unfortunately for them it mostly involves them being bait for a trap. Velma Dinkley ( Kate Micucci) is still able to rattle off reams of facts and minutia at the drop of a hat but in this incarnation she often finds herself being one-upped by Fred when it comes to solving the mystery.
What makes Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! stand-out from its predecessors is in the way all of the characters are allowed to be funny, and I mean laugh out loud funny not just a random chuckle or two, no longer is Fred Jones ( Frank Welker) the strong straight man of the group instead he’s a mystery obsessed dude who only thinks he is the leader of the group and really only holds this position because the rest of the gang could care less about the position. One of the most notable features of this new run is in how the show’s aesthetics differ markedly from previous versions as the animation style is much looser and freer, more comparable to such contemporary animated shows as Family Guy and American Dad, but the character designs do at least remain basically true to their classic look. This particular incarnation of Scooby-Doo could be considered a reboot as it chronicles the Scooby Gang’s first adventures after finishing up their senior year of high school, and as the series progresses we are “introduced” to the tropes that would be familiar to the legion of Scooby fans. Of course, even dating back to the original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? this series has always had comedic elements to it, even the previous incarnation Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated though much darker still had many moments of brevity, and with Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! the comedy reaches almost Meta levels at times.
Scooby-Doo, everyone’s favourite mystery-solving Great Dane, has been chasing ghosts (or being chased by them) for almost fifty years but with this twelfth incarnation of Scooby-Doo the show takes a decidedly more comedic tone.
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