Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!

***Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!*** is an American animated television series produced by Warner Bros. Animation, the twelfth incarnation of Hanna-Barbera's Scooby-Doo animated series. In the show, the Scooby-Doo gang decide to travel during their last summer break together, encountering havoc-wreaking monsters along the way. Described as having a more comedic tone than its previous incarnation, Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, the show employs character traits from the original 1969 series on top of redesigned character models.

The series was announced in March 2014 to premiere on Cartoon Network. However, a promotional image at the 2015 upfront announced the show to air on Boomerang and the news was later confirmed on June 29, 2015. It was originally scheduled to air on Boomerang, but the series instead premiered on Cartoon Network on October 5, 2015.

On March 7, 2017, it was announced that the remaining unaired episodes would be released on Boomerang's video on demand streaming service. The final eleven episodes premiered on the Boomerang television network in March 2018 and were added to the Boomerang streaming service on September 26, 2018.

## Good Qualities

1. At least the show tries to stay true to the classic mystery-solving formula unlike *Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue!*. And this show is more passable/better than the other bad show above, although it is not good enough to redeem this show.
2. Despite the flanderization, Shaggy and Scooby's personalities are barely even different from their usual selves. Also, there was at least an attempt to give Daphne more of a personality beyond being the "rich, pretty damsel-in-distress who exists purely for fanservice".
3. Catchy theme song despite it being generic.
4. It has some genuinely funny moments, especially how the "meddling kids" line at the end of each episode gets cleverly twisted now and then.
5. They still have well-known voice actors like Frank Welker, Grey Griffin, and Matthew Lillard returning from their original roles and they voice the characters very great.
	* Velma’s new voice actor, Kate Micucci, played Velma quite nicely.
6. Though Scooby-Doo's design looks weird as well, it's passable at best.

## Bad Qualities

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1. The redesigns are very mediocre and look very little to nothing like their original counterparts, and instead look more like Warner Bros. Animation's poor attempt to imitate Seth MacFarlane's art style like *Family Guy*, *American Dad*, *The Cleveland Show* or *Brickleberry's* art style. Also, they are unfitting in the *Scooby-Doo* franchise, as they fit more into an adult cartoon or parody.
2. The main characters have been flanderized badly in this show:
	* Daphne suffers the most flanderization as she's portrayed as an annoying, bumbling idiot. Not to mention she is a huge Mary Sue.
	* Fred dialed up to 11 and is stuck in his ego even more than he was in *A Pup Named Scooby-Doo* and *Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated,* where he is into traps.
	* Velma, despite being the most likable, is now the person hiding in the gang's shadows and no one takes her seriously. And when she has her moments, she is a complete worshipper of technology and science with no moral depths.
	* Shaggy and Scooby have become dumber and worshippers of only food; they even disobeyed Velma not to continue eating a food trap in one of the episodes.
3. Some of the characters are mean-spirited and unlikable for example:
	* The chicken-obsessed tribal man hates the Mystery Inc. crew for no reason in the second episode.
	* Gus is a crabby elderly man who bullies everyone for no reason in the episode "Scream Madona".
	* There's also a strict rich man who forces the crew to stay in the mansion for a family will.
4. Pathetic, cruel, (and sometimes gross) attempts at comedy.
5. Laughably bad dialogue.
6. Very cheap and mediocre animation and sub-par character movements, which is unacceptable, because both Hanna-Barbera's original *Scooby-Doo: Where Are You!* show from 1969 and the direct-to-video *Scooby-Doo* movies have much better animation and character movements.
7. The monsters in this show are dull and nowhere as iconic or memorable as the ones in previous incarnations of the series, as a lot of them have lame designs and don't even look scary in the slightest, and the person who disguises them as them hatches a lot of plans that range from questionable to just downright confusing. Not helping is the fact that the overall tone of the show is way too goofy, colorful, and syrupy for a *Scooby-Doo* show.
8. Daphne's voice can get on some viewers' nerves a bit, as she tends to talk way too much and acts way too bubbly & fast when she's doing it, and even at some points never shuts up, which can make her kind of annoying at times.
9. While catchy, the theme song is generic as it tries way too hard to be modern and hip.