Night of the Living Doo

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Night of the Living Doo
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Title card
Based on Scooby-Doo
by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears
Written by
Directed by
  • Casper Kelly
  • Jeffrey G. Olsen
Starring
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Producers
  • Ashley Nixon
  • Casper Kelly
  • Jeffrey G. Olsen
Running time20 minutes
Original release
Network Cartoon Network
ReleaseOctober 31, 2001 (2001-10-31)

Night of the Living Doo is an American animated television special that aired on Cartoon Network on October 31, 2001. [1] The cartoon is a comedic parody of a typical episode of The New Scooby-Doo Movies , complete with unlikely guests and a retro style. [2] Its title is a riff on the Night of the Living Dead franchise. [3] The animation was produced by Cartoon Network and broadcast in small segments during commercial breaks of a Halloween Scooby-Doo marathon. At the end of the marathon, the complete special was broadcast in its entirety and was available on the Adult Swim website for a brief period. [4] It has not been released on home video. [5]

Contents

The special features a new opening title sequence combining the opening for The New Scooby-Doo Movies with clips of the special, set to the cover of the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! theme song as performed by Matthew Sweet for Saturday Morning: Cartoons' Greatest Hits . It was nominated for an Annie Award. [6]

In this special the characters are animated in a classic retro style in an effort to parody real episodes. The show is meant to have the 60s feel with modern humor and celebrities. Most of the scenes have the gang's animation directly rotoscoped from certain classic episodes, in some cases even completely re-dubbed footage.

Plot

Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc. gang pick up a hitchhiking Gary Coleman, and the Mystery Machine soon proceeds to break down multiple times, finally leaving them stranded at a haunted castle owned by David Cross. The gang then spends the night at the haunted castle while their van is being fixed, mirroring many original episodes specifically including season two episode five of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, "Haunted House Hang-Up", where the van breaks down outside of a haunted mansion. The show contained multiple references and gags that take jabs at the original show, musical numbers by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, [7] as well as an appearance from Mark Hamill. Finally, the show concluded with a nonsensical ending, with Coleman pointing out all of the plot holes in the story. Scooby interrupts him by licking his face until the episode ends.

Cast

Cultural References

Reception

Mark Pellegrini of AiPT! enjoyed the special and felt that it did not veer too far into various content as it could have. [1]

Accolades

YearAwardCategoryResultRef.
2002 Annie Awards Best Animated Short Subject Nominated [8]

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