For our final (for now) look into the long-running Scooby-Doo franchise through its logos, we find the series returning to a previous gimmick–the celebrity guest star. The New Scooby-Doo Movies wasn’t the last time for celebrities playing themselves and meeting with the gang. What’s New Scooby-Doo had the occasional guest appearance while the direct-to-video movies has a huge stretch of just teaming up with everyone from the Flintstones to WWE wrestlers to KISS, and even more unusual parings like Bobby Flay and the TV series Supernatural. You know, the adult show where people die rather gruesomely, I hear. Not only has the gang showed up on that show but a direct-to-video Scooby movie had the traveling brothers (I know so little about this show) joining the gang. (I think the TV episode had them traveling into a Scooby cartoon, not unlike that one episode of The 13 Ghosts Of Scooby-Doo where the team went into a Frankenstein sequel parody or that other time where they were sucked into the Sunday newspaper strips.)
Scooby-Doo And Guess Who? would go all-in on this, bringing some of the old celebrities back and teaming the sleuths with current celebs and even DC heroes. For October 2022 Cartoon Network posted a bunch of episodes to the main Cartoon Network channel but usually it’s a Boomerang show, because the station intended for old cartoons would naturally air new ones. I haven’t seen many episodes. My YouTube and DVR backlog was just too heavy. However I have seen enough to know that this really wasn’t as good as the show that inspired it. The modern intro isn’t helping.
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