CassandraCroft posted...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6ubNqkhfVU
I didn't know that this became a running joke, don't know if the scrappy hate was mentioned in the series before the 2002 live action movie.
Since they frequently aired the 60s and 70s cartoons when I was a kid, I'd just watch all of them, from the originals to the ones where it's for some reason just Shaggy and Daphne and Scooby (red shirt Shaggy ever explained?) to finally Pup called Scooby, since the 90s was the apex of "Muppet babies" style cartoons. Some of which were great imo.
And you know what, the cartoons had Scrappy but they also had the equally annoying Scooby Dumb, and while I didn't really care for them, I never really got angry I just watched the show regardless. I once heard that the decision for the plot twist reveal in the 2002 movie was based on the supposed overwhelming fan hate towards Scrappy.