Funky Phantom was released in 1971, and is rightfully the first Scooby Clone. Josie and the Pussycats got released in 1970...it was an Archie Comics creation...on loan to Hanna Barbera.

H-B also had a reputation of making cartoons influenced on what was popular at the time... Some examples: - "Jabberjaw" = Jaws. - "Hong Kong Phooey" = Bruce Lee and Kung Fu movies. - "Devlin" = Evel Knievel. - "These Are the Days" = The Waltons. - "Laff-A-Lympics" = Battle of the Network Stars.

My favorite was The Amazing Chan & The Chan Clan. It blended Charlie Chan, the venerable movie detective of the 1930s and '40s into the Scooby-Doo template by having Charlie travel the world solving mysteries with all his kids in tow--the younger children more actively assisting Charlie in solving the mystery in question while the elder children perform in their own band most of the time.

Honestly, even though Hanna Barbera created several Scooby Doo clone shows one of the few things that made those shows different from Scooby Doo is that not every villain that the characters in these other shows faced was a bad guy wearing a monster mask.

FYI-Shmoo was the creation of Al Capp and it appeared in the Li'l Abner comic strip from 1948 to the strip's demise in 1977. The character later turned up on the 1980s Flintstones series...!

Honestly why hasn't there been a Hannah Barbera kart racing game. Pick which group of characters you play as in their iconic vehicle, obviously staring mostly the teen sleuths but also include the jetsons, Flintstones, wachy races characters, and etc...

Man, I knew of Captain Caveman, Josie, Jabberjaw, Speed Buggy, and The Funky Phantom, but the rest? I never knew they existed!

Suggestion for a followup. SMURFS many, many ripoffs; so many tiny, magical creatures shows.

A lotta of the Scooby Doo ripoffs were totally strange during the time lol.

Of all the HB mystery shows of the 70's, one show that almost nobody seems to talk about is Inch-High Private Eye.

Goober can turn invisible because he's a ghost.

If all of them are made my Hanna-Barbera, why call them rip-offs at all? It's not like they were made by different companies hopping on the Scooby Doo trend of the 1970s! LOL

Really fun and interesting video! However, I do want to mention that sections where you're not showing footage can feel a bit empty visually, partially because your model only has one expression

There's a glut of new ideas at movie studios every year. Take Disney. Strange World, Encanto, Coco, and Raya the Last Dragon are all original IPs. Yes, a lot of sequels and remakes exist, but those allow the studio to have the money to take risks.

You forgot 'The Amazing Clan & the Chan Chan', it basically mixed Scooby-Doo with Charlie Chan.

JabberJaw was voiced voice Frank Welker (Fred from Scooby Doo). In fact he's in a lot of these. Usually voicing the animals.

Many of these shows were part of my childhood - spending Saturday mornings with a bowl of cereal and enjoying shows meant for us kids! Sure, watching many of them now as an adult they're not as good as we thought they were at the time but they did have their charm and some very talented people involved in them. It's true that there were many copycat formulas - after all, Hollywood still does exactly that. If one formula works then milk it for all its worth! Speed Buggy himself was voiced by VA legend Mel Blanc. What's important to note that Blanc had done those automobile choke sounds before - for Jack Benny's radio program in which he did the exact same sounds for Benny's vintage traveling car. The character of Butch Cassidy was voiced by the late Chip Hand, who also did the singing for the music the band played. With the exception of Mr. Socrates (the super computer who sent them n their missions) the format was more or less what was initially intended for Scooby Doo - a band of teens playing gigs and solving mysteries in between. I always thought it odd that a computer would have a dog allergy. Even as a kid I half expected a Wizard of Oz moment in which we learn the computer was just a front for a human who for one reason or another wanted to remain anonymous. I used to think that Goober and the Ghost Chasers and Funky Phantom were inversions of SD, in that ghosts in their encounters were real not always people in masks. Made for an interesting contrast. I don't know why Goober was the way he was but I can't help but think he himself was a ghost dog - or perhaps 1/2 ghost (like Danny Phantom) which would explain his random vanishing act whenever he was scared. It was also nice that none fo them were scared of ghosts and nerdy photographer Gilly was all to happy to ask ghosts to pose for pictures! Josie & The Pussycats was a comic book a good decade before the toon premiered (originally conceived by Dan DeCarlo) and their format did sort of follow the SD format but the comics version had more Archie like adventures, not going up against super villains like in the show. They did have a strong lineup of singers for the songs they recorded for the chase scenes and I picked up the album online - music still sounds awesome after all these years! Clue Club I think was created to replace SD (which changed networks from CBS to ABC) and HB decided to create a slightly younger teenage group of mystery solvers but using forensics to solve them. I like to think some CSI analysts were inspired by Dottie and her lab! The Fonz animated show (along with other iterations of popular shows at ABC at the time like Laverne & Shirley and Mork & Mindy) was just a quick and mercifully brief trend of animated live action shows while using the original actors when possible and putting them in crazy situations they never could do in live action. They were more about time travel though and rumour has it the show was salvaged when HB wanted to bring Dr. Who in animated form to US TV.

I was waiting for you to get to Clue Club. That's my favorite of the Scooby clones, and I personally go so far as to say I prefer it to Sccoby-Doo. While the dogs were great comedy relief, they only talk to each other, not the humans, and the mysteries were just complex enough that you actually had clues to keep track of. The stories were fairly grounded, not supernatural like Scooby or based on spy plots like Josie or Speed Buggy. Plus, I thought it was adorable the way Dottie would always find a way to show up at the end when she was supposed to stay home. Speed Buggy and Josie were tied for second, and maybe the original Scooby Doo. I think Speed Buggy gets the nod because the gimmick is a talking car, not a talking dog. 😄 Josie and the Pussycats had the benefit of being an established property, with already established character relationships. Another commenter has mentioned that the Shmoo is from the Li'l Abner comic book. Why "The New Shmoo" had to split off the character into his own show I don't know, but I understand that like the Jeep from Popeye, the Shmoo was quite popular in his day.

Hanna Barbera controlled 80% of the animation market back then...so it was really more of supply and demand...So they did back then what Disney is doing to Marvel and Star Wars today...milk it for all its worth...but they did produce other types of cartoons during the 70s & 80s...like SuperFriends...Godzilla...The Super Globetrotters...Laff-a-Lympics...The Smurfs...Pound Puppies...Snorks...Shirt Tales...Popeye...Trollkins and Tom & Jerry. They only faced competition once cartoons based on licensed products came around like Transformers...He-Man...G.I.Joe...etc...but they would resurface when Ted Turner bought their catalog to launch Cartoon Network and are experiencing some kind of revival with Scoob! and Jellystone!

An off-beat takeaway from all of these is how commonplace it was for teenage girls to get kidnapped in the 70's. Girl, get a tazer.

I am disappointed you didn't mention Fang Face, another clone but created by Ruby-Spears Animation, the pair who created Scooby-Doo in the first place and retread the property for their own studio.

Hanna-Barbera would repeat this same tactic when Smurfs was released in 1981.

2:55 I don't know why but that original face for Velma looks so unsettling to me.

As a kid, I always assumed Goober was a ghost himself. That would honestly have made more sense.

butch cassidy is code for david cassidy SCHMOO was a old character with pre ww2 merch

Aww I thought you would list all the copycats. I was excited to see them all in one video

You could have a whole series on cartoons and clones in the 80s and 90s ( tmnt, smurfs gijoe, simpsons)

Some of these ideas actually have legs and I was surprised some of the character leads kinda out of the box

I DARE you to do an essay on RICKETY ROCKET...

Was waiting for someone to make a bigger retrospective of the Hanna-Barbera self-ripoff shows.

HOW I IMAGINE A NEW VERSION OF (JABBER JAW & FRIENDS) CARTOON SHOW: First off, I imagine the character Jabber Jaw, is a descendant of Great-White Sharks, who survived being exposed to, radioactive waste that was illegally dumped in the ocean. I imagine that two different types, of Great-Whites, were the only survivors, and each type had offsprings. But sadly from those two sets, of GreatWhite Sharks’s families’s, only eight offsprings of each of them, were able to live longer. In addition over time, as those sixteen sets of GreatWhite Sharks, slowly grew bigger, so did their minds as well. To add some of those GreatWhite Sharks, developed the ability to, understand human language, and later they developed the ability to speak any human language. Plus to add I imagine, some of the GreatWhite Sharks, slowly developed new colors to their bodies, and their eyes developed new colors too. Now many centuries later, in the year2892, a teenage Jabber Jaw, sees a group of human musicians, and saves one from drowning. That very human is both music instrument player, and a gadget maker, his name is (Cleveland “ClamHead” Rogers Kind). It should be mentioned that ClamHead, plays the Bass Guitar, pretends to be an idiot, when really he is an optimistic person. To add ClamHead is Jabber Jaw’s first human friend, later ClamHead becomes his best friend. Plus to add I imagine much later (Jabber Jaw) warms up to ClamHead’s band mates friends. A few years later, the NEPTUNES band, becomes a great success, and earned enough money to afford, taking JABBER with them on concert gigs. But one day on the NEPTUNES, tenth job gig, something mysterious happened, that led to them mixed up in a big problem. In addition Jabber Jaw, is with the band mates, at the time when the, mysterious problem happens, and JABBER helps them out in his own way. I forgot to mention, how I imagine what, Jabber-Jaw looks like; I imagine he has three colors to his body, light-blue, light-grey, and white. In addition I imagine that the color of Jabber Jaw’s eyes are purple, and he has silly traits to his personality.

Velma is essentially a ripoff in its own right

FROM WIKIPEIDA. The shmoo (plural: shmoos, also shmoon) is a fictional cartoon creature created by Al Capp (1909-1979); the character first appeared in the comic strip Li'l Abner on August 31, 1948. The popular character has gone on to influence pop culture, language, geopolitics, human history, and even science.

Y'know, when they inevitably make a new Scooby series, I'd like to see crossover episodes with some of these rip-off shows. They're all under the Hanna-Barbera umbrella so it's not like anyone's gonna stop them. Plus, it could really give these long-forgotten shows new life. It'd be interesting to see how Scooby would interact with Goober or The Shmoo. IDK, it sounds fun. 😏

No Rickety Rocket? Blaaaast Off!

BUT. . .isn't Scooby-Doo a clone of Johnny Quest and Space Ghost in a few ways including mystery solving adventures and animal sidekicks?

A shmoo (plural shmoon) Is a creature from the classic comic strip Li'l Abner. What's 'new' about this one is that I don't think the originals could change shape.

I ended up being compelled to make Josie & The Pussycats in The Sims 4. was also thinking of trying to make The Neptune's but after a while got Sims burn out.

In Jellystone JaberJaw is female and Bleep made a return in one episode staring the kid characters

Josie and the gang should not be in outer space in their second season

Shaggy, Clamhead and Tinker were all related, weren't they?

As masterpainter72 said, Shmoo actually showed up in "The New Fred and Barney Show", in the segment where Fred and Barney decided to become cops for some reason, with Shmoo being their slightly annoying shapeshifting sidekick.

Inch High, Private Eye (1973)

Apropos of nothing but did Goober's legs freak anybody else out? All four of them are jointed like human legs.

Shmoo was a borrowed character from Lil'Abner. I don't fault you for being too young to know that one... If I did not have permanent Mandela effects, I would s￦€aГ "Abbott and Costello meet the Shmoo" was a thing that existed.

What!!?? "Funimation now a days known more for Making Fat Albert." No! Filmation in the 2000's is more famously known for Making He Man & She Ra. where do you think all those memes come from since 2012 ???

Dang man you deserve a lot more subscribers due to the quality of your videos

Mel Blanc did the character of "Speed Buggy", which was his redoing the noises he made when he played Jack Benny's old Maxwell car on the radio. The Shmoo caracter originated in the "Little Abner" comic strip by Al Capp.

At around 1:50, what is that background song from? I have heard that in a video game. I'm sure of it

Meanwhile, in Mexico at that time there were broadcasting chapulín Colorado, Miss Comet, el chavo del ocho, Batman and green hornet

Fun video! Glad I found your channel and I’ll look forward to new cartoon content!

Is it me or do I love Josie and the Puddy Tats (yes, I'm calling it that), Goober and the Ghost Chasers, Captain Caveman and Speed Buggy more than the other Scooby-Doo parodies?

How could you not mention Chan Clan or Fangface?

Love these kind of vids! Great video!

2:54 Ah Velma looks soo cute! ❤ With or without glasses, she's a joy! ❤ I always love looking at these deep dives and retrospective on classic media! There's so many that offer great info and they're always a joy to watch!

All of them are just swell Scooby-Doo knock-offs they're not actually ripoffs they're actually made by the same people Hanna-Barbera

What about my favorite the Mike Tyson Mysteries lol I love that show even though I know it’s a parody but still it’s good lol

it's kinda bizarre seeing all these self rip-offs, but now that I think about it, who was gonna tell Hanna Barbera, no? they essentially cornered the entire market for network tv cartoons, and it was near impossible to compete against them. Hanna Barbera's biggest rip-off artist, was themself.

I feel some of these rip-offs should have comebacks and revivals! Such as Captain Caveman & the Teen Angels, Speedy Buggy, and Fangface!

Toque has a long O sound. But you didn't call it a stupid beanie so I'm stillh appy.

Poor Trick Moon...

The mouth syncing is off putting. But I like the blinking affect. A combination of that with a a more simplistic style of lip synch could work

Whats the song that plays in that jabberjaw bit? Like the background song? That surf rock sound

Stll better than Velma

Funky Phantom and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids are too much like Scooby-Doo. Gobber and the Ghost Chasers was like Scooby-Doo Movies.

These are not rip off As they see made by hanna-braaba they are clones

Missed: "Charlie Chan and the Chan Clan". Well, maybe you are better off not explaining that one.....

There is ONE Scooby-Doo clone I can think of that WASNT made by Hannah-Barbera: Fangface🙂

Are you perhaps going to also make a video on the Flintstones clones? There were the Jetsons, as well as one set in ancient Rome, and I em pretty sure there were at least two other

Bro does anyone remember the amazing chan and the chan clan

Jabberjaw was fun to watch when I was a kid.

...So, do you need somebody to animate the mouth movements on your avatar? It's really bugging me.

What about The Chan Clan ?

It's like, the creator of Scooby Doo/emlpoye/most of employes were opssesed/fans of Scooby and that explains so many phony ghosts, group of teenagers with one non-human.

Gobber,Elmo,Woofer,Elvis and Buford are Scooby Doo wanna-bes and they have Shaggy wanna-bes too Tinker,Skip Gilroy,Clamhead,Gilly, D.D and Alex from Josie and the Pussycats he's a scary-cat like Shaggy and guest what Casey Kesam does he voice too.

Dobie G I L L I S , NOT DOBIE “ GILLS “ 3:28

Thanks for the awesome video! You were right the first video for this topic!

20:17 THAT IS NOT TRUE, i can tell u only watched the 1st episode. pepper looks for clues with d.d and they have snork to snork with each other

9:51 basicly a bass player.... that's how it goes. you have the band and the bassist is the best friend of the frontman. Not very bright, not very talanted, not very good with girls and so on

The funny part is that most of the scooby doo rip offs were made by hanna barbera themselves 😂, though Ruby Spears and Filmation made some rip offs too.

Is it really a ripoff if it’s done by the exact same company?

fangface?

It’s Dobie Gillis , not Dobie Gills

Scooby-Doo 1 Scooby-Doo clones 0

Fun video! I feel like you ought to have an outright tho, just kind of stops all of a sudden. Your a cartoon character after all, you gotta have one! Also, the lip flaps could need more work on matching what your saying, but hey, it’s not terrible so it’s all good

Very very informative!

Enjoyed the video!

Any one of these could of been velma Lmfao

Personally, I have issues with Hanna-Barbera/Ruby-Spears, with their tendency to reuse the same concepts over and over and over... But that's just me. I also have a deep-seated loathing of whiny parent groups. Stop ruining my entertainment, damnit!

Yeah, it's too bad most Studio Executives nowadays are too Scared to even Try to take that Risk, so they just stick to constantly Rebooting older shows, now there's nothing Wrong with Reboots, it's just the way they reboot them mostly turns out to be Crap because of the fact that most of these Executives have gone Woke & are forcing these reboots to follow Woke Ideology and being used as a format to deliver Woke messages instead of simply trying to be Entertaining like the Originals were.

3:27

19:05 I think Hanna-Barbera absolutely deserve their spot in animation & television history but at the same of course their not perfect aside from their various Scooby-Doo ripoffs I think Hanna-Barbera just had a quantity over quality mindset for every iconic cartoon they've made like Tom & Jerry, Scooby-Doo, The Flinstones, The Jetsons, Huckleberry Hound or Yogi Bear there are hundreds of other shows they've made that just aren't very memorable or good that in my opinion feel like overworked animators just throwing around random ideas to see what sticks.

You forgot fangface

it's not really a rip off if it's made by the same people who made the original, that's called, laziness....

Your facial animation needs syncing

Good video but the eyes on your character are trash, why are you constantly looking up and why are each of your eyes blinking out of sync

The reason why I believe the 1970s is the worst decade of cartoons. As the fact, the Japanese's anime that time in the 1970s was 5 times better than western cartoons.

hey if it's made by the same company that made Scooby-Doo then it's not a rip off