On the whole, 'Scooby Doo and Scrappy Doo' is one of the weakest of the Scooby Doo shows. It did though have a very watchable first season, with the best episodes actually being very good and only one episode being below average. After the first season, the show very quickly went downhill and never really got better despite some watchable shorts here and there. Shaggy and Scooby were always the most interesting characters and didn't mind that they were main protagonists, did mind though that the other protagonist is one of the main reasons as to why Season 2 onward did not work.
"Bungle in the Jungle"/"Scooby's Funzone"/"Scooby's Fantastic Island" is a very weak triple bill. Excepting one or two amusing moments in "Bungle in the Jungle", none of the shorts work that well at all for reasons that are the same in all the previous triple bills and all the following ones. 'Scooby Doo and Scrappy Doo's' shorts had the same problems in pretty much every single short and ones that the show never corrected, so repetition is inevitable.
As said, there are a couple of amusing moments with the best part of the entire triple bill being the part with the Englishmen.
Voice work from all involved is spirited on the whole, Casey Kasem and Don Messick are great as Shaggy and Scooby. Have always liked the theme tune, which is catchy.
However, a lot doesn't work. The animation is very rushed looking and flat with very irregular character designs. The music is nice on its own but doesn't always gel with the action, some of it on the repetitive side. Good gags are very few and only one doesn't fall flat, the rest of the humour suffers from feeling too rehashed and predictable, as well as really corny. Especially in "Scooby's Fantastic Island".
Furthermore, all three stories are paper thin and predictable, reading too much like a stringing along of repetitive gang vs bully action that has no excitement or variety. All the supporting characters are too ordinary and none of the antagonistic characters have enough menace to convince as bullies.
Scrappy dominates far too much to the point where it feels like he is the main character and even more of a problem is that he is also incredibly annoying. Due to negative character traits (namely arrogance, over-zealousness and being pushy) being exaggerated, his behaviour and catchphrases already being incredibly repetitive and his ability to make things worse rather than better by putting Shaggy and Scooby in danger with little remorse or mistake acknowledgement. Messick is great as Scooby, but overdoes it as Scrappy. Scooby has moments but Shaggy has very little to do of note, while neither setting in either short are made good use of. The carnival setting in "Scooby's Funzone" was anything but fun.
Concluding, weak. 3/10.
"Bungle in the Jungle"/"Scooby's Funzone"/"Scooby's Fantastic Island" is a very weak triple bill. Excepting one or two amusing moments in "Bungle in the Jungle", none of the shorts work that well at all for reasons that are the same in all the previous triple bills and all the following ones. 'Scooby Doo and Scrappy Doo's' shorts had the same problems in pretty much every single short and ones that the show never corrected, so repetition is inevitable.
As said, there are a couple of amusing moments with the best part of the entire triple bill being the part with the Englishmen.
Voice work from all involved is spirited on the whole, Casey Kasem and Don Messick are great as Shaggy and Scooby. Have always liked the theme tune, which is catchy.
However, a lot doesn't work. The animation is very rushed looking and flat with very irregular character designs. The music is nice on its own but doesn't always gel with the action, some of it on the repetitive side. Good gags are very few and only one doesn't fall flat, the rest of the humour suffers from feeling too rehashed and predictable, as well as really corny. Especially in "Scooby's Fantastic Island".
Furthermore, all three stories are paper thin and predictable, reading too much like a stringing along of repetitive gang vs bully action that has no excitement or variety. All the supporting characters are too ordinary and none of the antagonistic characters have enough menace to convince as bullies.
Scrappy dominates far too much to the point where it feels like he is the main character and even more of a problem is that he is also incredibly annoying. Due to negative character traits (namely arrogance, over-zealousness and being pushy) being exaggerated, his behaviour and catchphrases already being incredibly repetitive and his ability to make things worse rather than better by putting Shaggy and Scooby in danger with little remorse or mistake acknowledgement. Messick is great as Scooby, but overdoes it as Scrappy. Scooby has moments but Shaggy has very little to do of note, while neither setting in either short are made good use of. The carnival setting in "Scooby's Funzone" was anything but fun.
Concluding, weak. 3/10.
