Scooby-Doo has meant the world to me growing up. I was obses..
Published: November 12th 2021, 4:58:10 pm
Scooby-Doo has meant the world to me growing up. I was obsessed with the original series, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, What's New Scooby-Doo, and whatever reruns they'd have of his shows on Boomerang. Today I decided to rank his intros, but it was a lot harder than I had initially thought. Lots of fun, so let's get started.
11. Shaggy and Scooby-Doo Get a Clue
This series was an odd departure in the Scooby-myths where it turned scooby snacks into superpowers. The animation is pretty ugly, but the theme song is annoying as shit. They're literally singing the name of the show over and over as Scooby and Shaggy dance across the screen. It's awful and I'm surprised more people don't talk about it.
10. Be Cool, Scooby-Doo
Another show with terrible designs, but unlike the last one this series doesn't have a bad intro. It's just short and uninspired. Forgettable, but alright to listen to.
9. Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo
This is the classic intro where you have Scrappy open it with "Uncle Scooby?" There's some nostalgia here for me when it comes to the visuals but like Be Cool, it doesn't have any lyrics and can be forgettable. The visuals are what makes it, not the music.
8. The New Scooby-Doo Movies
Classic. This series really takes the gothic atmosphere out of the show and makes it a fun hour-long program with celebrity guests. This theme song focuses on trumpets and drums and has a feel-good care less attitude.
7. The Scooby-Doo Show
Shaggy gets a few lines in this intro song! The Scooby-Doo show mixes fun with gothic sounds very nicely as it brings an upbeat attitude to monstrous chases. Also, I love it when the shark noms on the surf board.
6. Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
This is the latest Scooby show to come out and it really tries to bring back the classic history of the franchise. This intro echos the original Scooby-Doo, Where are You? with a remixed/updated version of the original song. It's really fun and the visuals are perfect. The only bad thing about this is that it's short.
5. The 13th Ghosts of Scooby-Doo
Fully embracing the supernatural, Vincent Price opens this intro with gothic organ music and a banger orchestra setting up the darkest premise yet. It's so different from what has come before and what came later, but it perfectly fits Scooby-Doo as a horror show.
4. What's New Scooby-Doo?
Simple Plan plus the early 00s? Yeah, this was a must watch back in the day. It updated Scooby-Doo to a new millennium while still keeping what worked and what we loved about the original series. Very dynamic and catchy.
3. A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
This was probably the hardest decision on this list because in many ways it follows the formula of many others as being upbeat and catchy, but the new aspect of a deep voice heading up the peppy soundtrack makes it an odd choice that works perfectly.
2. The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries
There was a time in Scooby-Doo history where Scrappy entered the picture and Fred, Velma, and Daphne left. Before the whole gang was reunited, Daphne came back to the show and it was just her, Shaggy, Scooby, and Scrappy, and this was the intro that they used. It is so good. Funky, electro, catchy, cool, seductive, it has everything that makes Scooby-Doo iconic.
1. Scooby-Doo, Where are You?
It's really hard to get better than this. I really tried justifying something else being in the number one spot, and The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries nearly got it, but you cannot compete with the original. It's iconic and holds so much nostalgia for me. There is a strange disconnect in emotions from the singer and arguably this is the most emotionless intro of any Scooby series, and yet it's perfect. So perfect. And it'll stick in your head all day.
Well, that's all for me. What did you think? Which Scooby intro would be your number one?