As a kid, I really hated Scooby Doo.
I guess the writers of this animated cartoon didn’t think that anyone would notice that every episode had the exact same plot … but I did. A monster appears, Scooby and his friends try to get to the bottom of the mystery and then the monster gets caught — except it’s really just a normal guy dressed as a monster. Yawn.
My disdain for the cartoon aside, the Queen City Theatre Company’s live parody of the show — titled Spooky Dog and the Teen-age Gang Mysteries — should be entertaining when it hits the stage this Thursday. And to get you in the mood for this week’s production, I’m posting a classic Scooby clip:
This article appears in Jan 27 – Feb 3, 2009.
