Ranking the Villains | The New Scooby-Doo Movies | Season 1 Part 1 

I'm with you on this, KMR did a fantastic job.

Don't get me wrong. I love Richardson and think he's one of the best voices in the business, but that version of Joker was just... wrong. I just couldn't get past the art style and many of the creative choices for that series.

​@@JoeGoesOver Funny enough, his unique design is exactly what makes him one of my favorite Jokers

The Joker from The Batman 2004 is the second best Joker from any animated media, although I liked the one in the movie Assault on Arkham

The 2004 Joker is a great joker and I will not hear otherwise. Besides our conflicting opinions, great video

You can say that again

And I say with all sincerity that I'm extremely grateful for comments like this! These things are quite a bit of work, all things considered, as it's not my "job", but the hours spent make it all worthwhile reading the comment section. Well, if I ignore the ones under my "Aged Like Milk" uploads, at any rate. Heh. Thank you for watching!

I’m sorry about your health problems Joe I hope you get better soon

Thank you! Sometimes when I'm practicing the script out loud, I discover that I inadvertently created bits that had a bit of rhyme to them.

Yeah because they were entertaining and this maybe this is how I know Batman, Robin, Joker and Penguin for the first time

This is one of the more appropriate times to use the expression "batsh*t" when describing a Scooby episode. Thank you for watching!

Someone was nice enough to upload an old VHS copy to RU-vid they likely snagged off a broadcast episode in the 1990s.

My comment was probably harsher than he deserved, but c'mon. Bare feet? Thanks for watching and commenting!

​@@JoeGoesOver he is more circus like without them

As much as I despise He Who Should Not Be Named on general principle, I do greatly admire Mark Evanier (who played a significant role in that creature's creation), so there are undeniable mixed feelings. It's difficult for me to even pinpoint exactly why I hate him so much, but whenever I hear "Puppy Power!" my teeth hurt.

Probably drinking cold, stale coffee that Hanna-Barbera probably charged him for, too! Thanks for watching and commenting!

Admittedly a cheap shot and while I usually love Kevin Michael Richardson, that wasn't my favorite version of the Joker. Thanks for watching!

@@JoeGoesOver Don’t listen to Batfan103, Mark Hamill and Caesar Romero are the better Jokers.

It's always a mystery why some things unsettle as kids and other things do not, but at least there was no ambiguity as for why the Space Kook was a nightmare. Thanks for watching and commenting!

They really leaned into the whole 'Batman' (1966) aesthetic of goofy names for everything, didn't they? Thanks for watching and commenting!

If the Scooby-Doo series was more realistic, there's no way a giant powder blue van with no side windows painted with hippy flowers wouldn't be pulled over as it passed through literally every small Midwestern town in the country. Imagine Chief O'Hara's response. "Aye and begorrah, Commissioner! What in the Emerald Isle could have possessed the Dynamic Duo to kidnap a group o' wee bairns? What a bunch of blarney! Oh, the saints and angels must surely be waving their shillelaghs in sorrow for such a sad day. Ach." As Commissioner Gordon looks at him with naked contempt (rumor had it that Neil Hamilton REALLY hated Stafford Repp's Irish accent). Thanks for watching!

@@JoeGoesOver I always think it's funny. Scooby is a dog, he should be able to tell it's Carl in the ape suit, etc. right off the bat by scent alone. Could something have happened to his sense of smell?

Batman is known for being accused of kidnapping his Robins when they’re orphans and adopting them afterwards, and even then they only become Robin once they nag him really hard about wanting to fight crime. It could be a hell of a lot worse than that..

I appreciate that. If you're interested in the Three Stooges or other older entertainers like them, www.youtube.com/@HatsOffEntertainment is a great channel devoted to that subject. I recommend him and not just because he has an awesome first name. Thanks for watching and commenting!

@@JoeGoesOver This is fantastic! I've always been more of a Harold Lloyd person, but you really piqued my interest with the discussion of their animated appearances (I've never seen the Three Stooges in animation before). So thank you for sharing. :)

@@JoeGoesOver 1:00: If I were to use RVC based voices for the Stooges, I'd use two voices from the Robotic Stooges (Paul Winchell and Frank Welker as Moe and Curly respectively in "The Robonic Stooges"), and one by Billy West (the voice of Stimpy, who sounded an awful lot like Larry Fine). 24:48: In the actual episode, we do get to see Shaggy and Scooby eating the aforementioned Snack. If it was regular milk, Bruce should've said "Bat Cookies and Milk"; because the Cookies are definitely Bat-Shaped, and I highly doubt Batman would go this low on ethics by having the milk come from bats... I mean, can you imagine how many bats it would take to fill one glass?

I have the height and weight for it, certainly, but I couldn't keep up with the physical demands. Also, I'm a coward who avoids getting hurt, so no dice. Thanks for watching!

Ironically, it was 13 Ghosts of SD that kind of redeem Scrappy in my eyes. He was far from the annoying little pest in that series. Even Daphne leveled up to a competent mystery solver and leader.

Agreed.

Absolutely and they could have more crossovers with other characters

I'm not gonna lie. This series... isn't my favorite. It's not my LEAST favorite, though. I mean, can you imagine if Glen Kennedy had been hired to do THIS series with THIS low budget? *shudder* Thank you for watching and commenting!

⁠​⁠@@JoeGoesOver Although I do enjoy “A Pup Named Scooby-Doo” for being a return to form Scooby-Doo series after 8 years of Scrappy, I can see how Kennedy’s style of exaggerating squash and stretch can be a bit perplexing… but then again, the show was narrated from the perspective of Shaggy Rogers, who is known to be a comic relief character alongside Scooby… don’t know if it was intentional when contrasting with Tiny Toons, which had to switch between Glen Kennedy, Wang Films and Tokyo Movie Shinsha, leading to an inconsistent artstyle (though most people agree that Tokyo Movie Shinsha is best for the job, especially when it comes to their work on Animaniacs). In relation to PNSD, the Scooby Snacks are likely a recycled concept from QuickDraw McGraw, and the shorts containing Snuffles the Dog; Puppy Scoob reacted similarly to Snuffles when tasting the Scooby Snacks, so that could also be intentional. Everyone has their tastes, and not everyone is gonna like the same project. 11:26: I know what she’s thinking of is unrelated to the story, but I think she’s referencing how certain movies use lizards to represent giant monster reptiles. 13:59: Let’s take a moment to realize this depiction of Batman was based off Silver Age Batman (hence the blue in his outfit) the same way Adam West’s depiction was presented. From what I’m guessing, this Batman isn’t one to act all broody and insecure, but he is mature enough to not let it bother him as much, by being non-chalant… I know you’re thinking of the Joker, but still. 16:49: If you ask me, it’s because they already spoiled how it’s gonna fail: the fake money had President Lincoln wear a Turtleneck Sweater.

Len Weinrib and Mark Evanier definitely have a lot to answer for with Scrappy! Well, Mark Evanier is a national treasure, though, so he gets as many passes as he needs. As for age, as Indy says, "It's not the years, it's the mileage." Sadly, I often feel my odometer has rolled over back to all zeroes at least once. Thanks for watching and commenting!

I suppose the only thing I can say in my defense is... YAPPLE DAPPLE!

Syndication is to TV shows what Jack the Ripper was to Victim #5. Thanks for watching and commenting!

Nobody likes being bitten by a dog! Except maybe their romantic partners. And really creepy people.

Funny enough, another thing that led to such poor animation from Hanna-Barbera was them having bitten off more than they could chew by committing themselves to too many simultaneous series, thus forcing animators to cut a lot of corners in order to meet deadlines. I say "funny enough" because that seems to be exactly where the anime industry is at the moment, with more and more series seeing massive drops in quality due to a limited number of studios trying to meet the demand of TV networks and streaming services. Granted, 'Where Are You?' had more than its fair share of off model drawing, wrong coloring, etc., but I'm noticing it a lot more in this subsequent series. As I think I said at one point, I can't devote too much of my videos to pointing out the mistakes (not only would it be quite time-consuming, it also feels a bit... mean), but I will absolutely highlight the ones I find funny or ridiculously egregious. For example, I'm currently polishing the script going over the Addams Family episode and there's a moment in the show when Fred complains about the Mystery Machine and is looking right at it... except the animators forgot to actually include the van in the shot. Fred, Shaggy and Scooby are just staring at an empty space with some tire tracks leading up to it, only for it to immediately appear following a scene transition. I can't NOT point stuff like that out as it's just too funny not to. Thank you for watching, commenting and subscribing!

I'm more of a critic. We're focused more on complaining rather than fixing! 😁 Thanks for watching and commenting!

While I'm no linguist (I barely made it through three years of high school French), several online sources indicated "ngangi" as a Swahili word for "gorilla", including the Swahili Wikipedia page on gorillas. I did find "sokwe" also used as well. Many languages have multiple words for the same thing, with some more used than others. Thanks for watching and commenting!

@@JoeGoesOver You're welcome.

It still wasn’t a gorilla though.

Considering most of the celebrities they got, it's hard to pin down who got paid less. Thanks for watching and commenting!

I had a lot of trouble just getting past his design. The difference between that version of Joker and his traditional depiction was as jarring as the one between comic book Penguin and Tim Burton's version. Thanks for watching and commenting!

@@JoeGoesOver the design is offputting, but i guess it fits the overly-animated aesthetic of 'the batman'. then again, this was my batman growing up so im blinded by nostalgia probably.

Which is like how despite Pierce Brosnan being my favorite Bond, I'll always think of Roger Moore in that role because he was my 007 growing up.

It's weird seeing firearms in a cartoon of that era. I mean, it's not like he directly fired at Scooby and the rest, but still an odd thing to see. Thanks for watching and commenting!

Gunslinger was the only villain from this series that I had herd anything about before watching. Somehow they were talked about more than the fact that joker and penguin were in the series as well.

To be fair to the studio, EVERYONE in Hollywood at the time was doing cultural appropriation at just about all levels. Some better than others. And some worse as well. *stares in Shaggy and Scooby's Chinese restaurant skit* Thanks for watching and commenting!

It's probably best we don't bring up the 'Velma' series. Nothing good can come from that. Re-watching this episode and hearing Fred's "joke" was a bit of a shock. I'm about as far away from being a prude as you can get, but it was so incongruous hearing it in a Scooby episode. Well, having lived through them, all I can say is that was the 1970s. There was an interesting Batman comic in the late 1980s written by Neil Gaiman where the Riddler complained about how violent Joker and Penguin had become. The deleted scene was from someone's VHS upload to RU-vid and the scene with the walking man is from the famous "Ministry of Silly Walks" sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus. Thanks for watching and commenting!

nah not even top 5 Hamill, Romero , Ledger, DiMaggio, and Baker are all better

Thank you kindly! Going forward, I really want to keep my uploads not much more than twenty minutes if possible. This likely means fewer episodes will be covered per video, but hopefully they'll be produced more quickly!

Thank you for watching! ❤

I get that a lot, not gonna lie. I think I'd have gotten along better with that series if they hadn't designed Joker that way. Like many, he's my favorite Batman character, and seeing him like THAT, well... you know. Thanks very much for watching and commenting!

Lucky for Mrs. Baker she was dealing with what were essentially 1960s Joker and Penguin. 1980s Joker and Penguin would not put up with her buffoonery.

I know, right? My late evil grandmother would snap a hip bone like a wishbone during Thanksgiving dinner! Thanks for watching and commenting!

And thank you for watching and commenting!

I get the impression that they wrote a Batman episode but it was too short and with zero "mystery", so the writers tacked on the whole Mrs. Baker aspect. This could also explain why they deleted the scene about the Joker and Penguin being the source of the counterfeit money instead of just the ones who distributed it. I could also be giving the writers too much credit and they just made it up as they went along. Thanks for watching!

Any crossover can be tricky, but in the hands of the right writer, it can be magic. Sadly, the writers here weren't the right ones. Thanks for watching, commenting and subscribing!

I could absolutely see Mark Hamill's version doing that. He turned a guy who road-raged him into a pet project for years, after all! Thanks for watching, commenting and subscribing!

@@JoeGoesOver, and both Tim Drake and Jason Todd too 😢. That one hurts, cause he made not one but two Robins suffer horribly. At least Jason got the sweet release of death from his own suffering. Tim didn’t even get to live free without being used as a puppet..😭

*sigh Yup. That's my bad. I had a friend from out of town visiting the night I uploaded this and was scrambling to get it rendered and published before he came and despite painstakingly re-watching the video several times (which I always do because making mistakes is mortifying for me), apparently I watched it one time too few and missed this blatant error. Here's hoping this doesn't become another "Pericles is a parrot, not an owl" moment because I don't think I could make a good T-shirt out of THIS screw up. Thanks for watching and commenting!

If I wanted to, I could probably produce several videos just mining all the production mistakes I'm finding in this series. This is in addition to laughably bad art where characters look like they were drawn by elementary school students with broken fingers. What keeps me from doing that is not being able to find an entertaining approach. So far, I'm just sticking with the mistakes that I found funny or glaring enough to point out, though on the new video that will (hopefully) be uploaded later tonight, I found a frame that was so ugly I shared it on Twitter. Thanks for watching and commenting!

Thank you for saying so! I took a break while working on my living room and kitchen hallway. Two weeks of that kept me a bit occupied. Working on the next script now!

Thank you for watching! And commenting! And subscribing!

@@JoeGoesOver no problemo :D Thank you for all the amazing content! It's always a pleasure to watch your videos

Thank you very much for your kind words! I have occasionally featured a blooper or two as a final sting before the final "thank you" message, but believe me when I say that twenty minutes of me swearing, rolling my eyes, grunting, swearing, complaining about loud cars and mocking how badly-written my scripts are would get old very quickly. Did I mention all the swearing? Thanks for watching and subscribing!

Thank you for your kind words! And yes, Fred is really a jerk several times in this series. It's almost amazing. Thank you for commenting, watching and subscribing!

Thank you for watching and commenting!

Thank you for watching and commenting! If all goes well, Part 2 will finish rendering and be uploaded later today! It might have been finished this morning, but while watching the final version before making the video public, I discovered a small production mistake that requires me to re-render the video (which takes an hour or two), re-upload (which takes about half an hour) and for RU-vid to render and look for copyright issues (which takes a frustratingly indeterminant amount of time). The mistake itself was very tiny and probably not even something most people would notice, but I'm my own worst critic and THAT guy is a real a**hole, so I don't want to get him angry at me.

It definitely confused me as a kid! Thanks for watching and commenting!

Like many Scooby series, it's not currently available on any streaming services without a subscription (or rental fees). You should still be able to get physical copies of the series on DVD or Blu-ray, but you have to be careful which copy you order as the original DVD release did not contain many of the episodes due to rights issues. I purchased my streaming copy on Amazon Prime Video because the VUDU version won't allow for HD playback on a PC (despite their claims). In fact, I originally used VUDU for my copy but was able to get a refund after proving to them that it wouldn't play on my PC. For obvious reasons I cannot recommend looking on non-official streaming sites or "alternate download locations", but for what it's worth, the versions you'll likely find there are poor copies taken from old Cartoon Network or Boomerang broadcasts. Although, as it's the only way to see it, 'Wednesday is Missing' (Scooby-Doo Meets the Addams Family) can ONLY be watched on pirate sites, as the episode itself still hasn't received an official DVD or streaming release.

@@JoeGoesOverThanks now I can finally enjoy you content again Joe. I hope that you continue this series with the Scooby doo show and then skip scrappy to what new Scooby doo villain ranking.