Scooby-Doo Abridged, when life's a bitch.
Just sit back, relax and unwind.
We've got a mystery, or so it seems.
Just don't read between the lines.
Just sit back, relax and unwind.
We've got a mystery, or so it seems.
Just don't read between the lines.
Scooby-Doo Abridged is an abridged series based on Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! made by Binary Failure. It stars the Scooby Gang as they attempt to solve mysteries regarding what museums are, discover celebrity reality shows, find new writers, learn how to pilot and get actors to break character. Wait, what?!
See, the main thing behind this series is that what the characters go through in each installment of Scooby-Doo Abridged isn't the gang searches for clues and solves the mysteries like the original. Rather, the gang end up going through misadventures related to the original content, as Jerkass Fred, Butt-Monkey Shaggy, Straight Man Scooby-Doo, Velma, and Daphne try to get through the horrible day.
Scooby-Doo Abridged provides examples of:
- The Alcoholic: Fred in "Scooby-Doo Noir".
- Ax-Crazy: Shaggy, if you either threaten to put him in jail or protest against your recent job termination.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: The third episode, where one of the writers gets fired for writing a rather lame pun, and then killed by Shaggy. The gang then has to improvise in order to take care of the fourth robot.
- Catchphrase:
- "Goddammit, I hate cartoons" — Villain of the Week.
- "All right, gang, we have a mystery on our hands. (non sequitur barely related to the plot)" — Fred
- Did You Die?: Inverted. A sailor is telling a story featuring the gang and at one point, Fred asks, "Did we survive?"Velma: "No, we died."
- Early-Installment Weirdness: The first episode actually goes through with the episode proper, albeit with it's own brand of humour, up until the end where the manager calls the gang out for breaking and entering and decides to put them in jail. Episode Two is where the show started going in its own path.
- Gun Nut: Shaggy's preferred weapon for his Ax-Crazy antics is a gun.
- Jerkass: Fred
- Obfuscating Stupidity: Fred pretends to not know that Scooby is right outside the museum with them, rather than left inside the museum, like they all assumed due to an earlier shot in which Scooby was absent, just to pull a prank on Shaggy.
- Only Sane Man: Scooby, as a semi-anthromorphic dog without the ability to talk, can only complain to himself. Also Daphne and Velma, to an extent.
- "Psycho" Strings: Used at the end of the first episode when the manager tells the gang that he's going to put them in jail.
- Running Gag: Velma losing her glasses. She gets sick of the joke by the third episode.
- Shout-Out: Several:
- "A Night for a Dark Knight" starts off with "Barbie Girl" playing. In the same episode, Scooby guards the door humming the Winkie's Song from The Wizard of Oz, albeit off key.
- "Scooby-Doo Noir" is a large one at Ashton Kutcher as the gang assumed the man in the ghost costume to be such. It wasn't. In the same episode, Fred cites The Simpsons as his influence for the trap he sets up in the episode, and then cites Futurama.
- In a later episode, "Madness to the Method", when Daphne asks what show he got this trap idea from, Fred calls her out, saying that he doesn't cite every idea he has from television, then cites a Cyanide and Happiness comic.
