Tien van de ergste dingen die Hanna-Barbera ooit hebben gemaakt

RDJ134 9 december 2011 om 17:52 uur

Als je net als ik eind jaren zeventig en in de jaren tachtig ben opgegroeit, dan zijn de cartoons van Hanna-Barbera je vast niet onbekend. Want deze maakte al sinds de jaren zestig hele leuke cartoons die vaak in de middag of zaterdag ochtend op de TV waren te zien. Maar ondanks de vele successen hebben ze ook diverse keren de plank gigantisch mis geslagen, en daarom heeft de website Topless Robot deze top tien gemaakt. Waar Scrappy Doo het side kick neefje van Scooby Doo ook op staat, en deze is mede door zijn kreet Puppy Power één van de meest gehate tekenfilm karakters ooit geworden.


6) Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo

Generations of cartoon lovers stand united in their unmitigated hatred of Scrappy-Doo. It is so completely a given that everyone hates Scrappy-Doo that the character was unironically made the villain of the 2002 live-action film and then appeared as a stuffed and mounted taxidermist's model in the current Mystery Incorporated cartoon. If you've only seen the initial cartoons with Scrappy, where he joined the usual Scooby gang characters, it might not be clear to you exactly why people hate Scrappy so much. He's pretty inoffensive in those shows. If you've seen this run of awful cartoons produced in 1979, you will understand a generation's murderous rage at Scrappy-Doo perfectly.



Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo decided to take the basic Scooby-Doo formula, which revolved around a teen gang wandering around solving mysteries, and removed the part where a teen gang wanders around solving mysteries. What the cartoons were left with was Shaggy traveling the world as a sort of itinerant hobo with his two dogs, either working odd jobs or bumbling into trouble in exotic locations. The old Scooby-Doo "rule" that the monsters were never real was broken for the first time in these cartoons, so they could do short, uninspired rip-offs of Abbott & Costello movies.

These cartoons are pretty terrible on a lot of levels. They're excruciatingly repetitive, the comedy is tired at best, and the animation is a complete mess. Even at that, it's really just Scrappy-Doo himself that elevates these cartoons from merely lame to completely fucking awful. This iteration of Scooby-Doo runs for three seasons, a total of 99 6-to-8 minutes episodes, each completely reliant on Scrappy doing mind-numbingly stupid shit all the time to propel what passes for a plot forward. Scrappy will always provoke the monster, force Shaggy and Scooby to chase him around dangerous areas, and generally act like a self-absorbed little shit all the time.



Scrappy usually has no good motivation for his stupidity, often doing things simply because he's bored. So the entire show feels like the adventures of a sadist who tries to repeatedly get his uncle and his legal guardian killed purely for his own amusement. Small children may vicariously enjoy Scrappy's murderous tyranny, but to everyone else these cartoons are an exercise in mounting disgust and rage. Scrappy's god-awful "Puppy power!!" catchphrase and generally terrible dialog just make his behavior irritating in addition to reprehensible.

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