Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated

'''Scooby Doo! Mystery Incorporated' is the eleventh incarnation of the popular Warner Bros. and Hanna-Barbera franchise, Scooby-Doo!''.

Summary
Scooby Doo and the gang solve mysteries and stop people committing crimes disguised as monsters in Crystal Cove, a small town with a tourist attraction and with residents that try to keep Mystery Incorporated from telling people the truth about how the monsters are fake so the attraction won't be ruined.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) This is the first Scooby-Doo cartoon to tell a complex story with depth and background given to the concept of Mystery, Inc., while making it more dark and scary than any of the previous Scooby-Doo! shows. It's also currently the most complex story compared to any of the Scooby-Doo television shows.
 * 2) Awesome animation that captures the show's more dark and gloomy atmosphere.
 * 3) Amazing tone and genre that fits the franchise, and it offers a new take on the franchise as a whole.
 * 4) Great voice acting, especially Matthew Lillard as Shaggy (who previously played as Shaggy in the live-action 2002 film).
 * 5) The characters are given more character depth to make them feel more like fleshed-out three-dimensional characters, such as Fred for example, as he's given trap-making as his character highlights, along with his missing parents.
 * 6) *Most of the villains that Mystery Inc. unmask are also more three-dimensional as they have motives that are more relatable and realistic like the first episode having a school teacher robbing a bank because of how underpaid he is as a teacher, and the fourth episode has Bud Shelton wanting to get revenge on Peter Trickell for stealing Bud's beverage product and monetizing on it and Bud didn't even bother to sue him because lawyers take too long.
 * 7) Incredible musical score, especially Daphne and The Hex Girls song Trap Of Love.
 * 8) The monsters and other creatures within the show are super creepy while having terrifying awesome designs to them.
 * 9) It is the first instalment of the series where Scooby and Shaggy act brave towards their fear of monsters and actually fight against them as an act of bravery and courage, which was a great way of derivating them from their previous counterparts where they always acted cowardly towards monsters and tended to act pretty goofy at times too, which in this entry they still do, but Shaggy now has a bit of intelligence in him now and can be brave and helpful during the mystery, and Scooby on the other hand actually acts more serious and mature with him having a grudge against a bad guy for the first time, which hasn't been seen in other entries in the series.
 * 10) It pokes fun at several elements that were in previous instalments while at the same time, paying homage to them in a nice and serviceable way, such as when Daphne saw a statue of Scrappy Doo and Fred later tells her to ignore him and forget about the character itself in disgust which the gag itself is a mockery to the aforementioned infamous character who was hated by many fans alike and is considered to be one of the worst cartoon characters of all time, which is great fan service for old Scooby Doo fans.
 * 11) The series incorporates more adult and mature topics that haven't been seen in the series at that point, and are handled very well for the most part, such as the usage of people actually getting killed by the monsters, and the characters seen kissing each other on the lips on screen, and some of the situations actually being very dark such as the backstory of Fred and Mayor Jones stealing his adoptive son from two fashion models for unknown reasons, which is something that the Scooby-Doo series hadn't touched upon at that point and still is well executed to this very day.
 * 12) Mitch Watson did a fantastic job at directing the series, as he understands the mystery element of the series and tries to expand it with dark elements and more horror like elements to the monsters and how they act in terms of personality and imitation, which makes Mystery Incorporated feel like it was made for the fans who wanted something new after the formula being overused for many years and needing an improvement due to aging problems.
 * 13) Even if it isn't as frequent as previous instalments, the humour is still very well executed and easily one of the best parts of this series to date with the classic jokes still being intact and some of the new jokes still do have the same flare that the franchise normally delivers on.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The romantic relationships are very annoying, repetitive, stereotypical and forced. They amount to nothing but as an attempt of trying way too hard to make it seem more dramatic.
 * 2) It can often get unnecessarily mean-spirited, such as Daphne being hated by her family just for not being as successful as her sisters; Velma being shamed for being ugly and fat in episodes like Grim Judgement and Secret Serum, and, in the episode Night Terror where Shaggy even gloats about kissing Daphne.
 * 3) Some Scooby-Doo fans would be rather disgusted with the amount of changes done in this series, especially with the more darker and serious tone that it offers when compared to the more comical and sillier tone that the previous incarnations had to offer with the more basic stories and wacky shenanigans happening in each series.

Trivia

 * Joe Ruby and Ken Spears, the creators of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, confirmed that they absolutely hated this series and how it turned out, because they felt its tone was both way too dark and way too cynical, and thus failed to understand or capture the essence of the franchise.
 * Similarly, Scott Innes had a conversation with someone, when the series first premiered on TV, and he has expressed distaste for it.
 * Irene Jiminez, the Latin American long-time voice actress for Velma, also disliked the way Velma was portrayed in the series.
 * This is the last Scooby-Doo series to feature Casey Kasem.

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