is a fictional dog and the Eponym ous character of the popular television series '' Scooby-Doo ''. At an early age he was brought to the Mystery Inc. Scooby-Doo is a Great Dane who is the pet and best friend of Shaggy Rogers .
Scooby-Doo and Shaggy share several personality traits, including tremendous appetites and tendencies toward cowardice. Due to their said cowardice, Scooby-Doo, as well as Shaggy, would often have to be bribed by their cohorts ( Velma , Daphne and Fred ) to go after the costumed villains with " Scooby Snacks ," a biscuit-like dog treat or cookie snack, although sometimes, Scooby Snacks won't work on Shaggy, so he may get "Shaggy Snacks". Within the universe of the show, Scooby-Doo was born on the Knittingham Puppy Farm (owned by Mrs. Knittingham).
Scooby has some difficulty with pronunciation, and tends to pronounce most words as if they begin with an " R ". His Catch Phrase , usually howled at the end of every episode, is "Scooby-Dooby-Doo!"
Don Messick originated the character's voice patterns, and provided Scooby's voice in every ''Scooby-Doo'' production from 1969 until 1996, when Messick retired. Scott Innes voiced Scooby-Doo in four late 1990s/early 2000s direct-to-video films, and Frank Welker (also the voice of Fred) took over beginning with '' What's New, Scooby-Doo? '' in 2002 and other spinoffs. Because of this, Scooby's voice sounded very similar to Brain from the Inspector Gadget animated series (Brain was also voiced by Frank Welker). Neil Fanning provided the voice of the computer-generated Scooby present in the two Warner Bros. live-action feature films.
Over the course of ''Scooby-Doo'''s various Spinoff s, various relatives of Scooby were introduced:
- '', Scooby-Doo And The Ghoul School , and Scooby-Doo And The Reluctant Werewolf omitted Scrappy from all promotional material (including the covers), though his part was not cut from any of the films themselves.
- ''-esque dog who longed to be a detective. Was rather dimwitted (he'd keep looking for clues even ''after'' the mystery was solved).
- '' accent, and was an actress, even though she was Scooby's cousin, she acted more like a girlfriend.
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- '' Dooby-Doo '': Scooby's triplet brother, a singer. He is one of Scooby's few siblings to have hair on his head.
- '' Mumsy and Dada Doo'': Scooby's parents.
- '' Whoopsy-Doo '': Scooby's cousin, a clown. Owned by Norville's uncle, Gaggy Rogers.
- '' Ruby-Doo '': Scooby's sister, and mother of Scrappy-Doo.
- '' Skippy-Doo '': Scooby's triplet brother. Highly intelligent. He is Scooby's only sibling to wear glasses.
- '' Tabloid Newspaper s. He appears to become a Redhead .
- '' Horton-Doo '': Scooby's uncle. Was interested in monsters and science.
- '' Dixie-Doo '': Scooby's cousin.
- '' Grandpa Scooby '': Scooby's grandfather.
- '' Great-Grandpa Scooby '': Scooby's great-grandfather.
- '' Dumper Scoots '': A confused lion that thinks he is a dog. Having the same speech pattern as Scooby-Doo he believes he is Scooby's cousin.
- ''Amber'': In Scooby-Doo And The Alien Invaders , Shaggy and Scooby are kidnapped by the "aliens" and abandoned in the desert. There they meet a wild life photographer, Crystal and her dog Amber. Shaggy and Scooby fall for the pair and their love is expressed in a love song called "Groovy" where Shaggy sings of his plan to marry Crystal and have a Shaggy Jr. while Scooby and Amber have puppies. Scooby was heart broken when it is revealed that Amber and Crystal are actually Aliens from another planet and must go home.
- ''Thorn/Dusk'': in the episode The Vampire Strikes Back, Scooby was caught in a costume and Thorn/Dusk kisses him. Scooby then giggles.
- Scooby-Doo appears at times in Cartoon Network 's '' The Grim Adventures Of Billy And Mandy '' as a character who is described as being in the "wrong show." He has spoken little, some of his lines being, "What am I doin' here, man? I'm just a stinkin' dog!", and " Mandy made fun of the way I talk. I mean look at me! I'm a stinkin' dog!"
- The second-season episode of The Venture Bros. entitled ¡Viva Los Muertos! features the entire Scooby-Doo cast re-imagined as famous serial killers and radicals. Scooby's analogue, "Groovy", is possessed by a demon and talks only to "Sonny", Shaggy's double, enticing him to commit murder. The pairing is a parody of David Berkowitz , the "Son of Sam", who claimed that his neighbor's dog Harvey was a "high demon" who commanded Berkowitz to kill.
- In '' Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get A Clue! '', Scooby, as well as Shaggy, are not as cowardly as they were in previous series, although in the episode , Scooby is shown with a severe case of Astraphobia , something he rarely had in the other shows.
- French names of the characters are different; Velma became Vera and Shaggy Sammy. As for Scooby-Doo his name was first written "Scoubidou" but lately, the original spelling has been used for the series and Direct-to-video movies.
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