Scooby Goes Hollywood (1979)
Zoinks! Like Scoob I don’t know if this is worth a look!!
Brief Backstory
In 1969, Hanna-Barbara (already on a very hot streak) aired one of the most beloved shows of the late 1960s, Scooby-Doo Where Are You. For the next decade, Scooby-Doo would go through different changes, like solving mysteries with celebrities. At the turn of the 1970s though, Hanna-Barbera found themselves struggling with constant Scooby-Doo knockoffs such as Josie and the Pussycats (which wasn’t even remotely good), Scooby-Doo went down on hard times with Scrappy-Doo (personally there’s way worse in terms of awful characters) getting Scooby and the gang in trouble for no reason. The same year that Scrappy-Doo did some damage to the crime solvers, another messy cartoon came out named Scooby Goes Hollywood.
Story
Shaggy and Scooby attempt to break out of comic relief with bad results.
Random Facts
One of the last things to come out of Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s.
Doesn’t the crab monster looks similar to Zorak?
There aren’t that many roller rinks where I’m at. Roller rinks were almost extinct when I was born due to how you could rollerblade (aka inline skates) on most surfaces instead of a roller rink and skateboarding (which also usurped rollerblades). As Qui-Gon Jinn says, there’s always a bigger fish.
The theme to the New Scooby Doo Movies is used for a song.
The Super Scooby film has some references to the classic Superman movie from 1978.
Rip Taylor played the Genie in DuckTales Treasure of the Lost Lamp.
Random Opinions
I did some roller skating for skiing practice in Leonardtown’s roller rink. Each time I got finished dad kept encouraging me to go back to rollerblades, particularly because I as far as I know was only on rollerblades as a child, never roller skates. Only trouble is I can’t find any, and if I try to rent rollerblades at the roller rink the damn place is only around for dancing. Fuck dancing on roller skates or rollerblades.
The pinball machine seen during the 1950s scene are the type of pinball machines I prefer. I’m okay with newer machines like Mousin’ Around (which is quite old though) or Funhouse, but those older pinball machines were all about just trying to rack up as many points as possible.
Lavonne? As in Lake Lavon?
Scooby and Shaggy’s cause of wanting to break out of comic relief is sort of like how I left Advance Auto Parts. Got sick of the bullshit.
Where’s Anvil’s March of the Crabs when you need it?
C.J.’s mustache is the same as mine.
Scooby-Doo was one of the most notable cartoons of the yesteryear for me as a child due to how dog-loving my family is.
Scooby your cake theft is nothing compared to how I could down a shake from a diner in Granbury. Drank one in only 15 seconds, but I wouldn’t recommend it unless you want digestive problems.
C.J.? I keep thinking of C.J. from JumpStart 2nd Grade or Carl Johnson in GTA San Andreas.
To the idiot kids near the end of this toon: Go get a life. I know I have one with college and that I’m trying to get some rollerblades to do some rollerblading like I did all the time in the late 1990s. Your parents should get a dog to block the screen (sort of like what mom’s dog does) instead.
Pros
- No Scrappy-Doo in this one. Thank god. He did nothing but get the crew in trouble prior to the 3 movies in the late 80s.
- Animation is decent… for a late 70s cartoon.
Cons
- This is almost like those shitty cheapquels (i.e. Kronk’s New Groove) or crappy Family Guy anthology episodes like Grimm Job in terms of how the plot is. And it’s not very good.
- Yeah yeah yeah I know this was 1979 but disco was about to kick the bucket by this point.
- They got the nerve to play the Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo theme. Scrappy however isn’t even close to being one of my least favorite characters out there.
Rating: 4/10 – Poor
Uninspired, lazy, and not a lot of good humor. I’ve gotten more enjoyment out of school assemblies at my elementary school. Least those were enjoyable without drinking alcohol.
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