Is 80s Scooby the Best Scooby?

This spooky season has been surprisingly stacked with decent to honestly good media. We gotten some great movies such as Smile and Barbarian, the RE8 DLC coming out just in time for Halloween, and an all new Scooby-Doo movie with Velma finally officially coming out. And in celebration of Velma’s newfound sexual freedom, I wanted to take a look back at the Scooby-Doo franchise. Being around for literal generations, Scooby and the Gang has solved mysteries, busted ghosts and fought against the supernatural more times than I can count. And once you’ve done it all, you start to experiment. 

Scooby has reinvented himself time after time to keep things fresh while staying true to itself. And sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn’t. Looking back, I think there is an underappreciated segment of Doo history that, for the most part, gets overlooked: an era of supernatural experimentation before the 2000s renaissance beginning with Zombie Island. That’s right, we are going to take a look back at Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers, Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School, and Scooby-Doo! And the Reluctant Werewolf. These were the holy trinity of the 80s made for television movies. Changing the Formula I look back on this era of Scooby-Doo fondly. So when the idea to look back on these movies came up, I was super excited to dive back in because these were great Scooby-Doo movies right? Well, yes, yes they are…but there’s some caveats. The gang is not all here, Fred, Velma, and Daphn…