Alternate title: Scrappy-Doo and Guess Who.
ABC had Scooby-Doo only a few years and was already considering ending the show. It would have been the end for the show over two networks if they didn’t come up with some idea to freshen the show up. So they came up with Scrappy-Doo. Mark Evanier discusses how they came up with Scrappy, promoted it to Hanna and Barbera as well as ABC, and the various stages of Scrappy’s life he was involved in. Scrappy doesn’t deserve the hate he gets, as we’ve gone over before, but there’s still a trope (wrongfully) named for the character that arguably saved the Scooby franchise.
As a matter of fact Season One of Scooby-Doo And Scrappy-Doo, if you were to watch both, feels like a continuation of The Scooby-Doo Show. The art is the same, the mysteries on display outside of the final episode before the format change would have been a good fit with the previous show, and the only real change was Scrappy being added to the chase scenes with his Scrappy traps (imagine Fred’s traps but without the victory–it’s not like all of Fred’s traps worked as intended) and “PUPPY POWER!” It did also change the way Scooby’s relatives had been named in the previous show, from “Scooby-(X)” to the more familiar and better suiting “(X)-Doo”, so Scrappy has that going for him. It even got packaged with other shows and featured other family members like the previous show. And of course it had its own intro.
