The Scooby-Doo Show/Scrappy-Doo

Scrappy-Doo
The Scooby-Doo Show
Actors	Don Messick Lennie Weinrib
First Appearance	The Scarab Lives!
Last Appearance	Scooby-Doo and the Rleuctant Werewolf
Series Billing	co-star
Episode Count	171

Scrappy-Doo is the brave, impulsive little nephew of Scooby-Doo. Scrappy launches himself with no fear at whatever the faux monster, spook or perilous situation is at hand with his battle cry "P-p-p-p-puppy power!" He views his uncle Scooby with rose-colored glasses, taking Scooby's cowardice as a guise for luring the villains into a false sense of security.

Character History

In a 1980, episode, Scrappy is regaled on his birthday of the day he was born (in a hospital, of all things)--he didn't wait to suckle to his mom till weaning; he chose to join Shaggy and Scooby on their mystery-busting adventures anyway.

Unlike Scooby, Scrappy's vocal dialogue and syntax is completely understandable.

1983's The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show had Scrappy in a middle feature with old west detective relative Yabba-Doo.

Trivia

Scrappy-Doo has long been villified as being one of TV's worst cases of nepotism, and where Scooby fans say the series "jumped the shark." Mark Evanier, who wrote Scrappy's debut episode "The Scarab Lives!" (which was loosely based on the comic book story "Mark Of The Blue Scarab" in Gold Key's Scooby-Doo Mystery Comics no. 25 in 1974 which Evanier wrote as well), told of how fans complained that Scrappy-Doo ruined the franchise. "It's Scooby-Doo," Evanier said. "How do you ruin Scooby-Doo?"

Scrappy was eventually kept out of subsequent Scooby series after 1988, although he would turn up as the main antagonist in the 2002 live-action Scooby-Doo theatrical film ("I'm cuter than any Powerpuff Girl!"), oh-so briefly in an episode of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, and composited as the fear figure the Cartoon Network's interstitials The Scooby-Doo Project.