Editing Scooby-Doo (section)

==In popular culture==
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As with most popular franchises, ''Scooby-Doo'' has been parodied and has done parodies.
* The [[Cult following|cult television]] and comic book series ''[[Buffyverse|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' features a group of characters that refer to themselves as the "Scooby Gang", who similarly battle supernatural forces and solve supernatural monster mysteries. The show contains obvious influences of ''Scooby-Doo'', where "The Scoobies" use books to look up monsters. [[Sarah Michelle Gellar]], the actress who plays [[Buffy Summers]] on the series, later went on to appear as [[Daphne Blake]] in the live-action films ''[[Scooby-Doo (film)|Scooby-Doo]]'' and ''[[Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sarah Michelle Gellar {{!}} Actress, Producer, Editorial Department |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001264/ |access-date=2024-02-22 |website=IMDb |language=en-US}}</ref>
* Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc. gang (based on their classic 1972 incarnation as opposed to their more recent incarnations) appear in the second part of the ''[[Batman: The Brave and the Bold]]'' episode "Bat-Mite Presents: Batman's Strangest Cases" in which they team up with [[Batman]] and [[Robin (character)|Robin]] to rescue [["Weird Al" Yankovic|Weird Al]] who was kidnapped by the [[Joker (character)|Joker]] and the [[Penguin (character)|Penguin]].
* The song ''Scooby-Doo and the Snowmen Mystery'' was released in 1972 in the United Kingdom by the label [[Music for Pleasure (record label)|Music for Pleasure]].
* The film ''[[Wayne's World (film)|Wayne's World]]'' includes an alternate ending called the "Scooby-Doo Ending" in which a character in the film is revealed to have been wearing a mask. It also includes a reference to the iconic line "Let's see who this really is" before removing the mask. When the culprit is revealed to be Old Man Withers, owner of the local haunted amusement park, Withers mutters "And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn't for those meddling kids!"
* ''[[Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back]]'' has a brief scene where the title characters hitch a ride in the Mystery Machine with Scooby and the gang.
* The [[Filk music|filk]] band [[Ookla the Mok (band)|Ookla the Mok]] open their 2003 album ''Oh Okay LA'' with the song "W.W.S.D.?" ("What Would Scooby Do?"), which proposes a [[Deontological ethics|deontological]] system of [[Ethics|moral philosophy]] based on the actions of Scooby-Doo.
* In October 1999, [[Cartoon Network]] made a ''Scooby-Doo'' spoof of ''[[The Blair Witch Project]]'' called ''[[The Scooby-Doo Project]]''.<ref>{{Citation |last1=Kelly |first1=Casper |title=The Scooby-Doo Project |date=1999-10-31 |type=Animation, Short, Adventure |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0296843/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_the%2520scooby%2520doo%2520project |access-date=2024-02-22 |others=Frank Welker, Mary Kay Bergman, Scott Innes |publisher=Cartoon Network, Primal Screen, Turner Studios |last2=Morris |first2=Larry |last3=Patrick |first3=Steve}}</ref>
* A ''Scooby-Doo'' parody appeared in the ''[[Mad (TV series)|Mad]]'' episode "Kitchen Nightmares Before Christmas / How I Met Your Mummy".
* ''Scooby-Doo'' was parodied on ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "[[Saturday Morning Fun Pit]]", where the characters from Planet Express take on the roles of the gang ([[Bender (Futurama)|Bender]] as Scooby, [[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]] as Fred, [[Leela (Futurama)|Leela]] as Daphne, [[Amy Wong|Amy]] as Velma and [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] as Shaggy).
* The ''[[The Venture Bros.|Venture Bros.]]'' episode "¡Viva los Muertos!" features a thinly parodied version of the gang as aging, gone-to-seed miscreants with the characters matched to corresponding serial killers and radical figures, e.g. Fred being mixed with [[Ted Bundy]] into the composite character "Ted".
* The series is parodied in the animated music video for the song "[[Ghost (Mystery Skulls song)|Ghost]]" by [[Mystery Skulls]].
* The [[animated series]] ''[[Arthur (TV series)|Arthur]]'' has a parody of ''Scooby-Doo'' called "[[List of Arthur characters|Spooky-Poo]]".
* In the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "[[Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery]]", the nu metal band [[Korn]], parodying Scooby and the gang, tackle an invasion of mysterious "Pirate Ghosts". They enlist the help of [[Stan Marsh]], [[Kyle Broflovski]], [[Eric Cartman]] and [[Kenny McCormick]], and after they solve the mystery they perform "[[Falling Away from Me]]" from their album ''[[Issues (Korn album)|Issues]]''.
* The gang was featured in ''[[Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law]]'' where the [[Harvey Birdman|title character]] defends Shaggy and Scooby against possession charges in the 2002 episode "Shaggy Busted".
* After defeating and capturing a pirate crew in the role playing video game ''[[Golden Sun: The Lost Age]]'', one of the imprisoned pirates declares that, "Everything would have been fine if it hadn't been for you meddling kids!"
* In the ''[[Teen Titans Go!]]'' episode "The Cruel Giggling Ghoul", each Titan assumes the role of a Scooby Gang member (with [[Beast Boy]] as Scooby) to investigate a mystery at a spooky amusement park, with the help of [[LeBron James]]. The Scooby Gang later appears in the crossover episode "Cartoon Feud", where [[Control Freak (Teen Titans)|Control Freak]] forces them to compete in ''[[Family Feud]]''. The Scooby Gang later appears in the episodes "Intro" and "Warner Bros. 100th Anniversary".
* The novel ''Meddling Kids'' (2017) by [[Edgar Cantero]] parodies not only ''Scooby-Doo'', but also teen-detective dramas (such as [[the Hardy Boys]], [[Nancy Drew]], and [[The Famous Five (novel series)|the Famous Five]]) in general.
* The CW's television series ''[[Supernatural (American TV series)|Supernatural]]'' crossed over with the ''Scooby-Doo'' franchise in the episode ''[[Scoobynatural]]'', which aired March 29, 2018. The animated collaboration featured the three main characters of ''Supernatural'' ([[Sam Winchester|Sam]], [[Dean Winchester|Dean]], and [[Castiel (Supernatural)|Castiel]]) along with Scooby and the gang as they team up to solve a supernatural mystery.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://variety.com/2018/tv/features/supernatural-scooby-doo-scoobynatural-jensen-ackles-jared-padalecki-interview-1202732177/ |title=How 'Supernatural's' 'Scooby-Doo' Crossover Came To Be |last=Turchiano |first=Danielle |date=2018-03-21 |work=Variety |access-date=2018-09-24 |language=en-US |archive-date=April 5, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180405152810/http://variety.com/2018/tv/features/supernatural-scooby-doo-scoobynatural-jensen-ackles-jared-padalecki-interview-1202732177/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
* Velma made a cameo appearance in ''[[The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part]]'', voiced by Trisha Gum.
* The ''[[Harvey Street Kids]]'' episode "Crush 4U, Where RU?" fully references the ''Scooby-Doo'' series, especially the title.
* Scooby-Doo and the gang appear in the 2021 film ''[[Space Jam: A New Legacy]]''. Their design is the same from ''Scoob!'' They appear among the other Warner Bros. characters in the film.
* Scooby-Doo and Shaggy both appeared in "[[The Official BBC Children in Need Medley]]" in 2009.
* In the ''[[Black Mirror]]'' episode "[[Loch Henry]]", a character sings a line from the opening theme of ''Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!'' when investigating a cellar where murders had taken place.
* The term "Don't have a Scooby" is recognised [[rhyming slang]] for "clue".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.oed.com/dictionary/scooby_n?tab=etymology|title=scooby, n. meanings, etymology and more &#124; Oxford English Dictionary}}</ref>
* The Scooby Gang appeared in the ''[[Jellystone!]]'' third season episode "Frankenhooky". They tie up the [[Goober and the Ghost Chasers|Ghost Chasers]] with a rope before unmasking them to reveal Sooey Pig, Orful Octopus, and Magic Rabbit of the Really Rottens. The Scooby Gang are revealed to actually be [[Cindy Bear]], [[Ranger Smith]], Hardy Har Har, Tubb, and a cotton ball in a jar.