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What's New, Scooby-Doo? is the ninth incarnation of the long-running Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo. A revival of the original show, What's New, Scooby-Doo? debuted on the now-defunct WB Television Network's "Kids WB" Saturday morning programming block as a half-hour program. Reruns are shown on Cartoon Network. It was the first new Scooby-Doo series since A Pup Named Scooby-Doo ended its run in 1991.

Overview

The show follows the original mystery-solving formula of the series, but done in a more real manner compared to the previous shows, with the classic gang encountering monsters who invariably turn out to be people in disguise. Most of the stories make an attempt to modernize the Scooby universe by introducing plots spotlighting modern trends and technology, such as the Internet. The characters remain mostly the same as always, with a few cosmetic changes (most notably, Fred no longer wears his famous ascot in this series), and a few minor personality changes (most notably Fred being less intelligent than he was in the franchise prior to the late 1980s.)

With Don Messick's retirement in 1996 (he died the following year), Frank Welker, the voice of Fred, took over as Scooby's voice. Casey Kasem returned as Shaggy, Grey DeLisle took over Daphne's role, having previously assumed the role in 2001 for Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase, while former Facts of Life actress, Mindy Cohn, took over Velma's. The new show follows the same format as Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, updated somewhat for the 21st century, but with new-age music genres and unique newly-recorded Foley effects to replace the classic Hanna-Barbera sound effects. The show was produced by Warner Bros. Animation, the studio famous for bringing Looney Tunes to life, which had by this time absorbed Hanna-Barbera Cartoons. (It should be noted, however, that the copyright notice at the end of each episode credits "Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc." as the author).

Cast

Frank Welker as Scooby-Doo and Fred Jones
Casey Kasem as Shaggy Rogers
Grey DeLisle as Daphne Blake
Mindy Cohn as Velma Dinkley

Recurring characters

Eddie Deezen as Gibby Norton
Jeff Bennett as Mr. B

Episode guide

Main article: List of What's New, Scooby-Doo? episodes

Season overview

DVD releases

Volumes

Volume 1: Space Ape at the Cape (August 19, 2003)
Volume 2: Safari So Goodi! (March 9, 2004)
Volume 3: Halloween Boos & Clues (August 10, 2004)
Volume 4: Merry Scary Holiday (October 5, 2004)
Volume 5: Sports Spooktacular (June 14, 2005)
Volume 6: Monster Matinee (August 9, 2005)
Volume 7: Ghosts on the Go (November 8, 2005)
Volume 8: Zoinks! Camera! Action! (February 21, 2006)
Volume 9: Route Scary Six (June 6, 2006)
Volume 10: Monstrous Tails (December 5, 2006)

Complete seasons

The complete first season released in February 20, 2007.

Name	Release date	Special features
What's New, Scooby-Doo?: Complete 1st Season	February 20, 2007	A Scooby-Doo Valentine
What's New, Scooby-Doo?: Complete 2nd Season	June 5, 2007
What's New, Scooby-Doo?: Complete 3rd Season	January 8, 2008

Notes/trivia

The series premiered exactly 33 years after the original series, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!.
The band Simple Plan is heavily connected to What's New, Scooby-Doo? They perform the theme song, and appeared as themselves in the episode Simple Plan and the Invisible Madman. Two of their songs appeared in chase scenes: I'd Do Anything in It's Mean, It's Green, It's the Mystery Machine, and You Don't Mean Anything in the former.
In some episodes it is seen that Velma is a fan of hockey.
In a flashback to Velma's fifth birthday, the characters are drawn as they are seen in A Pup Named Scooby-Doo.
Daphne, Velma, and Fred are in all but one episode of the series, and appear less in subsequent episodes of Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get A Clue!.
This is the first Scooby-Doo series since 1970 that didn't feature Heather North as the voice of Daphne.
The Hex Girls, a band who previously appeared in the direct-to-video films, Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost and Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire, are featured in the episode The Vampire Strikes Back.
The opening and closing credits features silhouettes of the gang running across the screen, similar to the titles in the original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, but for some reason, the opening credit silhouettes omit Fred. Fred is present in the closing credit silhouettes.
This is the second Scooby-Doo series to have the characters drawn in a slightly different animation style (the first one being A Pup Named Scooby-Doo).
In the Halloween episode many ghosts from the original series appear as monsters, for example the Creeper and Werewolf.
This is also notably the final series where Casey Kasem voices Shaggy.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Arabic	مغامرات سكوبي دو	The Adventures of Scooby-Doo

References

External links

TBA

Scooby-Doo series
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! • The New Scooby-Doo Movies • The Scooby-Doo Show Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (first series) • Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (second series) The New Scooby and Scrappy Doo Show • The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo • A Pup Named Scooby-Doo • What's New, Scooby-Doo? Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue! • Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated • Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? • Velma

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-'''''What's New, Scooby-Doo?''''' is the ninth incarnation of the long-running [[Hanna-Barbera]] Saturday morning cartoon ''[[Scooby-Doo (franchise)|Scooby-Doo]]''. A revival of the original show, ''What's New, Scooby-Doo?'' aired for three seasons on the now-defunct WB Television Network's "Kids WB" Saturday morning programming block as a half-hour program, before being put on an indefinite hiatus in 2005. Reruns are shown on the Cartoon Network.
+'''''What's New, Scooby-Doo?''''' is the ninth incarnation of the long-running [[Hanna-Barbera]] Saturday morning cartoon ''[[Scooby-Doo (franchise)|Scooby-Doo]]''. A revival of the [[Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!|original show]], ''What's New, Scooby-Doo?'' debuted on the now-defunct WB Television Network's "Kids WB" Saturday morning programming block as a half-hour program. Reruns are shown on [[Cartoon Network]]. It was the first new ''Scooby-Doo'' series since ''[[A Pup Named Scooby-Doo]]'' ended its run in 1991.
+==Overview==
-episodes have been produced so far, in 3 14-episode seasons (2002-3, 2003-4, 2004-5).
+The show follows the original mystery-solving formula of the series, but done in a more real manner compared to the previous shows, with the classic gang encountering monsters who invariably turn out to be people in disguise. Most of the stories make an attempt to modernize the Scooby universe by introducing plots spotlighting modern trends and technology, such as the Internet. The characters remain mostly the same as always, with a few cosmetic changes (most notably, [[Fred Jones|Fred]] no longer wears his famous ascot in this series), and a few minor personality changes (most notably Fred being less intelligent than he was in the franchise prior to the late 1980s.)
-==About==
-The show follows the original mystery-solving formula of the series, but done in a more "realistic" manner compared to the previous shows, with the classic gang encountering monsters who invariably turn out to be people in disguise. Most of the stories make an attempt to modernize the Scooby universe by introducing plots spotlighting modern trends and technology, such as the Internet (ala ''The Fairly Odd Parents''). The characters remain mostly the same as always, with a few cosmetic changes (most notably, [[Fred Jones|Fred]] no longer wears his famous ascot in this series), and a few minor personality changes (most notably Fred being less intelligent than he was in the franchise prior to the late 1980s.)
 With [[Don Messick]]'s retirement in 1996 (he died the following year), [[Frank Welker]], the voice of Fred, took over as [[Scooby-Doo|Scooby]]'s voice. [[Casey Kasem]] returned as Shaggy, [[Grey DeLisle]] took over [[Daphne Blake|Daphne]]'s role, having previously assumed the role in 2001 for ''[[Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase (film)|Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase]]'', while former ''Facts of Life'' actress, [[Mindy Cohn]], took over [[Velma Dinkley|Velma]]'s. The new show follows the same format as ''[[Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!]]'', updated somewhat for the 21st century, but with new-age music genres and unique newly-recorded Foley effects to replace the classic Hanna-Barbera sound effects. The show was produced by [[Warner Bros]]. Animation, the studio famous for bringing Looney Tunes to life, which had by this time absorbed Hanna-Barbera Cartoons. (It should be noted, however, that the copyright notice at the end of each episode credits "Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc." as the author).
 ==Cast==
-[[File:Whatsnew15.jpg|right|250px|promotional image]]
+[[File:Whatsnew15.jpg|right|250px|Promotional image.]]
 * [[Frank Welker]] as [[Scooby-Doo]] and [[Fred Jones]]
 * [[Casey Kasem]] as [[Shaggy Rogers]]
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 * [[Jeff Bennett]] as [[Mr. B]]
-==Episode Guide==
+==Episode guide==
-:''For a complete guide see [[What's New, Scooby-Doo? episode list]]''
+:''Main article: [[List of What's New, Scooby-Doo? episodes]]''
 ;Season overview
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 ==DVD releases==
 ===Volumes===
-;'''[[What's New, Scooby-Doo?: Volume 1 - Space Ape at the Cape (DVD)|Volume 1: Space Ape at the Cape]]''' (August 19, 2003)
+* ''[[What's New, Scooby-Doo?: Volume 1 - Space Ape at the Cape (DVD)|Volume 1: Space Ape at the Cape]]'' (August 19, 2003)
+* ''[[What's New, Scooby-Doo?: Volume 2 - Safari, So Goodi! (DVD)|Volume 2: Safari So Goodi!]]'' (March 9, 2004)
-* "There's No Creature Like Snow Creature"
+* ''[[What's New, Scooby-Doo?: Volume 3 - Halloween Boos & Clues (DVD)|Volume 3: Halloween Boos & Clues]]'' (August 10, 2004)
-*  "Space Ape at the Cape"
+* ''[[What's New, Scooby-Doo?: Volume 4 - Merry Scary Holiday (DVD)|Volume 4: Merry Scary Holiday]]'' (October 5, 2004)
-* "3-D Struction"
+* ''[[What's New, Scooby-Doo?: Volume 5 - Sports Spooktacular (DVD)|Volume 5: Sports Spooktacular]]'' (June 14, 2005)
-* "Big Scare in the Big Easy"
+* ''[[What's New, Scooby-Doo?: Volume 6 - Monster Matinee|Volume 6: Monster Matinee]]'' (August 9, 2005)
-;'''[[What's New, Scooby-Doo?: Volume 2 - Safari, So Goodi! (DVD)|Volume 2: Safari So Goodi!]]''' (March 9, 2004)
+* ''[[What's New, Scooby-Doo?: Volume 7 - Ghosts on the Go|Volume 7: Ghosts on the Go]]'' (November 8, 2005)
+* ''[[What's New, Scooby-Doo?: Volume 8 - Zoinks! Camera! Action!|Volume 8: Zoinks! Camera! Action!]]'' (February 21, 2006)
-* "It's Mean, It's Green, It's The Mystery Machine"
+* ''[[What's New, Scooby-Doo?: Volume 9 - Route Scary Six|Volume 9: Route Scary Six]]'' (June 6, 2006)
-* "Riva Ras Regas"
+* ''[[What's New, Scooby-Doo?: Volume 10 - Monstrous Tails|Volume 10: Monstrous Tails]]'' (December 5, 2006)
-* "Roller Ghoster Ride"
-* "Safari, So Goodi!"
-;'''[[What's New, Scooby-Doo?: Volume 3 - Halloween Boos and Clues (DVD)|Volume 3: Halloween Boos &amp; Clues]]''' (August 10, 2004)
-* "The Vampire Strikes Back"
-*"Mummy Scares Best"
-* "High-Tech House of the Future"
-* "She Sees a Sea Monster by the Seashore"
-;'''[[What's New, Scooby-Doo?: Volume 4 - Merry Scary Holiday (DVD)|Volume 4: Merry Scary Holiday]]''' (October 5, 2004)
-* "A Scooby-Doo Christmas"
-* "Toy Scary Boo"
-* "Homeward Hound"
-* "Recipe for Disaster"
-;'''[[What's New, Scooby-Doo?: Volume 5 - Sports Spooktacular (DVD)|Volume 5: Sports Spooktacular]]''' (June 14, 2005)
-* "The Unnatural"
-* "The Fast and the Wormious"
-* "Wrestle Maniacs"
-* "Diamonds Are a Ghoul's Best Friend"
-;'''[[What's New, Scooby-Doo?: Volume 6 - Monster Matinee (DVD)|Volume 6: Monster Matinee]]''' (August 9, 2005)
-* "A Scooby-Doo Halloween"
-* "San Franpsycho"
-* "New Mexico, Old Monster"
-* "Big Appetite in Little Tokyo"
-;'''[[What's New, Scooby-Doo?: Volume 7 - Ghosts on the Go (DVD)|Volume 7: Ghosts on the Go]]''' (November 8, 2005)
-* "Pompeii & Circumstance"
-* "Large Dragon at Large"
-* "It's All Greek to Scooby-Doo"
-* "Ready to Scare"
-;'''[[What's New, Scooby-Doo?: Volume 8 - Zoinks! Camera! Action! (DVD)|Volume 8: Zoinks! Camera! Action!]]''' (February 21, 2006)
-* "Lights, Camera, Mayhem!"
-* "E-Scream"
-* "Simple Plan and the Invisible Madman"
-* "A Scooby-Doo Valentine"
-;'''[[What's New, Scooby-Doo?: Volume 9 - Route Scary-Six (DVD)|Volume 9: Route Scary-Six]]''' (June 6, 2006)
-* "Go West Young Scoob"
-* "Camp Comeoniwannascareya"
-* "Farmed & Dangerous"
-* "Fright House of a Lighthouse"
-* "Gentlemen, Start Your Monsters!"
-;'''[[What's New, Scooby-Doo?: Volume 10 - Monstrous Tails (DVD)|Volume 10: Monstrous Tails]]''' (December 5, 2006)
-* "Uncle Scooby and Antarctica"
-* "Block-Long Hong Kong Terror"
-* "Reef Grief!"
-* "Gold Paw"
-* "A Terrifying Round With A Menacing Metallic Clown"
 ===Complete seasons===
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 * Daphne, Velma, and Fred are in all but one episode of the series, and appear less in subsequent episodes of ''[[Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get A Clue!]]''.
 * This is the first ''Scooby-Doo'' series since 1970 that didn't feature Heather North as the voice of Daphne.
-* In the episode ''[[Large Dragon at Large]]'', the dragon that tries to scare Scooby and Shaggy is a machine similar to the one that was the "Snow Creature" in the series ''[[Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!]]''.
+* The [[Hex Girls]], a band who previously appeared in the direct-to-video films, ''[[Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost]]'' and ''[[Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire]]'', are featured in the episode ''[[The Vampire Strikes Back]]''.
-* The [[Hex Girls]], a fictional band that appears in ''[[Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost]]'' and ''[[Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire]]'' are featured in the episode ''[[The Vampire Strikes Back]]''.
 * The opening and closing credits features silhouettes of the gang running across the screen, similar to the titles in the original ''Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!'', but for some reason, the opening credit silhouettes omit Fred. Fred is present in the closing credit silhouettes.
-* This is the second ''Scooby-Doo'' series to have the characters drawn in a slightly different animation style (the first one being ''A Pup Named Scooby-Doo.''
+* This is the second ''Scooby-Doo'' series to have the characters drawn in a slightly different animation style (the first one being ''A Pup Named Scooby-Doo'').
-* In the Halloween episode many ghost from the original series appear as monsters for example the Creeper and Werewolf.
+* In the Halloween episode many ghosts from the original series appear as monsters, for example the Creeper and Werewolf.
-* This is also notably the final series where [[Casey Kasem]] does the role of Shaggy before he retired from the role and it was taken over by [[Matthew Lillard]].
+* This is also notably the final series where [[Casey Kasem]] voices Shaggy.
+==In other languages==
+{| class="wikitable"
+! Language
+! Name
+! Meaning
+|-
+| '''Arabic'''
+| مغامرات سكوبي دو
+| The Adventures of Scooby-Doo
+|}
 ==References==
+{{Reflist}}
-Banks, Clive. "Scooby-Doo". Retrieved from http://www.clivebanks.co.uk/Scooby-Doo%20Intro.htmonSeptember4, 2005.
-Baxter, Joel (2003). The Big Cartoon DataBase. Retrieved from http://www.bcdb.com/cartoons/Hanna-Barbera_Studios/index.html on September 3, 2005.
+==External links==
+* TBA
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