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Scooby Doo

This is my soap opera, lol!
L-R: Daphne Blake, Shaggy Rogers, Fred Williams, Scooby Doo, Velma Dinkley

Scooby Doo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooby-Doo

From the episode What a Night for a Knight from Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
From top: Shaggy, Fred, Scooby Doo, Velma and Daphne
 -American made cartoon produced in 1969 to the present day.
-The original series was titled Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
-Made by Hanna-Barbera
-This was originally a Saturday morning cartoon featuring a talking Great Dane named Scooby Doo and 4 teens who make up something called Mystery Inc, which consists of Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, and Norville 'Shaggy' Rogers. They investigate crimes by supposedly supernatural creatures and in the end they expose them as people.
-And the funny thing is that in every episode, the person behind the crime they investigate ends up being someone they initially meet in the beginning who was trying to help.
-From 1988-1991, there was a cartoon called a Pup Named Scooby Doo. This wasn't too bad. I liked this one and sadly enough, if it's still on, I watch it.

Creation and Development
-This cartoon was written by 2 head writers at Hanna-Barbera named Joe Ruby and Ken Spears, and strangely enough, the person who drew the characters and designed them was a Japanese-American animator named Iwao Takamoto. Their original idea was that it would be called Mystery 5, and feature 5 teens: Geoff, Mike, Kelly, Linda, her brother W.W. and their dog Too Much, who were all members of a band called Mysteries 5 and when they weren't doing gigs, they were dolving mysteries.
-They came up with the idea that the dog would be a large dog who was scared of his own shadow or a small feisty dog. They had the choice of either a large goofy German Shepherd or a shaggy sheepdog.
-It was finally set as Too Much becoming a Great Dane. They did this to avoid confusion with The Archies, who had a dog named Hot dog.
-When drawing the dog, Takamoto consulted a Great Dane breeder about the features of these dogs, and he proceeded to give the Great Dane for this cartoon a double chin, sloped back, bowed legs.
-When it came to the other people, the character Geoff and Mike were merged into 1 person, later becoming Fred, Kelly was renamed Daphne, Linda called Velma, Shaggy, formerly W.W. and not her brother. Fred Silverman, head CEO at CBS studios was behind most of this and the original title became Who's S-S-Scared? and they came up with the idea to rename the dog Scooby Doo and retitle the cartoon Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?

Original TV run
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
Episode Guide

CBS run
-Debuted on Sept. 13, 1969. The pilot episode was titled What a Night for a Knight. This episode started with Shaggy and Sccoby discovering an ancient suit of armor in the driver's seat of a pickup truck. And they deliver it to a local museum. Later on, they investigate in the museum for clues, thinking that the archaeologist who was transporting the suit may be missing and that suit of armor is alive.
-The original voice set was Don Messick as Scooby,Top 40 radio DJ Casey Kasem as Shaggy, Frank Welker as Fred, Nicole Jaffe as Velma, Indira Stefanannia Christopherson as Daphne.
-They arrived to each mystery in a large, brightly colored van called The Mystery Machine, which was decked out in all kinds of bright color. And for some reason, when they unveil the crook behind the crime, they always say the same thing "...And I would have gotten awy with it too if it hadn't been for you meddling kids!" It's always the same and if you watch Scooby enough, you'll know that the person behind the crime ends up being someone they meet in the beginning.
-In 1970-1971, they started using music to play during chase scenes, music called bubblegum pop songs, some of which sounded eerily too similar to the music of The Beatles.

Characters

Daphne Blake
Sarah Michelle-Gellar as Daphne Blake


Norville 'Shaggy' Rogers


Matthew Lillard as Shaggy
Scooby Doo
Fred Jones



Freddie Prinze Jr as Fred Jones
 Velma Dinkley

Linda Cardellini as Velma Dinkley

The New Scooby Doo Movies
The New Scooby Doo Movies
Episode Guide

-In 1972, they made 1 hour episodes of a show called The New Scooby Doo Movies, which often featured famous people. These famous people would often have some kind of crime plaguing them somehow and they would help solve the crime.

Telefilms, direct-to-video
-There were also TV movies that featured Scooby, some of which were pretty good.
-Some of them include:
1.) Scooby Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf(1988)
2.) Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers(1987)
3.) Scooby Doo and the Ghoul School

Later on, there came some new ones, some of them are pretty good.
1.) Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island(1998), which has them going to the Deep South to investigate a haunted plantation
2.) Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders(2000), which has them traveling to Arizona and Shaggy and Scooby falling in love with a hippie chick photographer named Crystal and her Golden Retriever dog Amber while investigating alien sighting claims.
3.) Scooby Doo and the Cyber Chase(2001), in which the gang gets zapped into a virtual reality computer game
4.) Scooby-Doo and the Witches's Ghost(1999)

Theatre Films
-In June 2002, the first Scooby Doo movie was made. Being cast as the characters were Sarah Michelle-Gellar as Daphne, Linda Cardellini as Velma, Freddie Prinze Jr. as Fred, Matthew Lillard as Shaggy and a CGI dog for Scooby. In the first movie, they go to a haunted amusement park where they are asked by the manager, Emile Mondavarious to investigate the hauntings and possible possessions of the visiting college students by demons.
-In March 2004, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed was released. In this one, the gang attends the opening of a museum to exhibit all their old enemies, such as the 10,000 Volt Ghost, the Black Knight, the Goo Monster, but a masked figure arrives and steals all of them, including the Pterodactyl Ghost.

From the movies



The Muppets

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Muppets

The Muppets are a group of characters created by Jim Henson in 1954-1955. There have been many movies to feature these puppet-like characters, including Muppets from Space, and The Muppets: A Christmas Carol. Sometimes these movies also have famous people in them, like the Christmas Carol movie has Michael Caine in it.

Physical Appearance
-The main characteristic of Muppet characters are wide mouth, protruding eyes.
-They are often molded out of various types of foam, and covered with fleece, fur or any other soft material. They may represent humans, objects, extraterrestrial creatures, mythical beings, realistic animals, robots, imagined creatures, monsters, or other abstract characters.
-They are distinguished from typical dummies/puppets, which are only animated in the head and face. These characters are often made of soft stuff. Sometimes they are full bodied, and voices added later

Operation
-The Muppeteer always holds their Muppet above his head or in front of his body with one hand operating the head and arms and the other manipulating the hands and arms, either with 2 separate control rods or by "wearing" the hands like gloves. One thing about this is all Muppets tend to be left handed. And technology has also intervened, allowing the Muppets to look like they are rowing a boat, riding a bike and even dancing on stage with out the puppeteer.

Characters
-Kermit the Frog














-Animal
















-Miss Piggy
















-Fozzie Bear. He is my favorite

 -Rizzo the Rat

















-Gonzo the Great














-Rowlf the Dog


















-Dr. Bunsen Honeydew












-Beaker. He's sooooooo cute!!

















-Scooter














-Statler and Waldorf













-The Swedish Chef


















-Sam the Eagle


















-Sweetums














-Pepe the King Prawn


















-Robin the Frog

-Other well known ones are also Sesame Street characters, suck as:
-Big Bird
-Oscar the Grouch
-Elmo
-Zoe
-Bert and Ernie
-Snuffleupagus
-Abby Cadabby
-Count von Count
-Cookie Monster
-Grover

Guest Stars
-On the TV show, famous people have been known to show up, such as ZZ Top, and others.
-One of the best loved songs by The Muppets is one sang by Kermit, called Rainbow Connection

Movies
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Muppet_Movie
-Guest Stars:
-Milton Berle: Mad Man Mooney
-Mel Brooks: Prof. Max Krassman
-James Coburn: owner of El Sleezo Cafe
-Dom DeLuise: Bernie the Agent
-Richard Pryor: Balloon Vendor
-Steve Martin: insolent waiter

The Great Muppet Caper
-Completely shot in England
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Muppet_Caper
-Actors/Actresses:
-Charles Grodin: Nicky Holiday
-Diana Rigg: Lady Holiday
-Della Finch: Darla
-Peter Hughes: Stanley
-Tommy Godfrey: bus conductor
-Joan Sanderson: Dorcas

The Muppets Take Manhattan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Muppets_Take_Manhattan
-Final film before his death
-Guests/Actors/Actresses
-Joan Rivers: Eileen
-Vincent Sardi Jr: himself
-Brooke Shields: customer at Pete's Diner
-John Landis: Leonard Winesop
-Gregory Hines: roller skater
-Art Carney: Bernard Crawford

The Muppets Christmas Carol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Muppet_Christmas_Carol
-Produced after the death of Jim Henson
-Guest Stars/Actors/Actresses
-Michael Caine: Ebenezer Scrooge
-Jessica Fox: Ghost of Christmas Past
-Steven Mackintosh: Fred
-Meredith Braun: Belle
-David Shaw Parker: voices Old Joe
-Robin Weaver: Clara

Muppets Treasure Island
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muppet_Treasure_Island
-Released by Jim Henson's son Brian
-Guest Appearances
-Kevin Bishop: Jim Hawkins
-Tim Curry: Long John Silver
-Jennifer Saunders: Mrs. Bluveridge
-Billy Connolly: Billy Jones
-David Nicholls: Capt. Flint
-Danny Blackner: Short Stack Stevens

Muppets from Space:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muppets_from_Space
-6th feature film
-Guest Appearances
-Jeffrey Tambor: K. Edgar Singer
-F. Murray Abraham: Noah
-David Arquette: Dr. Tucker
-Rob Schneider: UFO Mania TV Producer
-Ray Liotta: Security Guard
-Kathy Griffin: female Armed Guard

Muppets Wizard of Oz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Muppets%27_Wizard_of_Oz
-Stars Ashanti, an R&B singer
-Guest Appearances
-Ashanti: Dorothy Gale
-Queen Latifah: Aunt Em
-David Alan Grier: Uncle Henry
-Jeffrey Tambor: The Wizard
-Kelly Osbourne: Dorothy Gale(Extended version)
-Quentin Tarantino: himself



Fraggle Rock
Characters

-Fraggles: humanioid creatures abiyt 18'' with fur in a variety of color and tail like a lion's.
Characters:
-Gobo Fraggle: leader of main 5 Fraggles, level headed and practical
-Mokey Fraggle: highly spiritual, artistic, hippie-type and remains quiet and contemplative.
-Red Fraggle: exhuberant and athletic, best swimmer among the Fraggles
-Wembley Fraggle: Gobo's roommate and  nervous, pathologically decisive
-Boober Fraggle: depressed and worrying, enjoys washing socks, negative and hypochondriac
-Uncle "Traveling" Matt: Gobo's famous explorer uncle, spends time in "Outer Space". Sends postcards to his nephew
-Cave Fraggles: deep in the caves of Fraggle Rock lives another group called the Cave Fraggles, dull and not fun
-Chuchu Fraggle: extremely large yellow teeth
-Clerk Fraggle: responsible for taking attendance at meetings of Fraggle Rock Volunteer Fire Dept.
-Feenie Fraggle: good natured, slow-witted
-Firechief Fraggle: heads the fire dept.
-Gillis Fraggle: wears black jacket and pair of half moon glasses. Resident musician of Fraggle Rock. His name comes from the music arranger Don Gillis
-Herkimer Fraggle: serves as caretaker of Rhyming Rock
-Large Marvin Fraggle: fat Fraggle who loves snacking and swimming
-Lou "Louise" Fraggle: becomes Wembley's girlfriend
-Marlon Fraggle: odd looking, resembles Peter Lorre.
-Rumple Fraggle: wears aviator hat and goggles.
-Tosh Fraggle: Has a pet beast named Beastie, friend of Boobers