Those Meddling Kids: 25 Hours of Doo

Those Meddling Kids: 25 Hours of Doo
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Production company	Cartoon Network Productions
Distributor	Warner Bros. Television
Release date	October 24, 1998
Starring	Scott Innes Frank Welker Mary Kay Bergman B.J. Ward Keith Eubanks
Producer(s)	Colleen O'Hare Steve Patrick
Screenplay by	Colleen O'Hare Steve Patrick
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Those Meddling Kids: 25 Hours of Doo is a marathon for the American animated television series Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, with eight newly produced segments shown in commercial breaks. It aired on October 24 and October 25, 2001 on Cartoon Network. It was written and produced by Colleen O'Hare and Steve Patrick. The extra hour was due to Daylight Savings.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Announcer (voice only)	Keith Eubanks
Daphne Blake	Mary Kay Bergman
Velma Dinkley	B.J. Ward Pat Stevens Nicole Jaffe
George R. Blake	Frank Welker
Fred Jones	Frank Welker
Scooby-Doo	Scott Innes
Shaggy Rogers	Scott Innes
Penrod Stillwall/Headless Specter	N/A
Asa Shanks	Hal Smith
Green phantom	N/A
Sherlock Holmes
John Watson
Caveman/Professor Wayne	John Stephenson
Mummy/Doctor Najib	Unavailable
Elvis Presley
Daphne's mother (voice only)	Unavaliable
Daphne's prom date (photo)	N/A
Captain Morgan
Mr. Dinkley (photo)	N/A
Mrs. Dinkley (photo)	N/A
Velma's older sister (photo)	N/A
Cha-Cha (photo)	N/A
Debbie Hays (photo)	N/A
Miner Forty-Niner/Hank	N/A
Indian witch doctor/Buck Masters	Unavailable
Scare Pair	Unavaliable
Gypsy/Frankenstein's monster/Dracula	Unavaliable
Zombie/Zeke	N/A
The Creeper	N/A
Ghost Clown	N/A
Sheriff	N/A
Professor Ingstrom	N/A
Black Knight	N/A
George Washington (portrait)	N/A

Organizations

• Mystery Incorporated
• MegaBank (mentioned)
• National Honor Society (mentioned)
• National Associations of Optometrists (mentioned)
• Coolsville Police Department (mentioned)
• Coolsville Chronicle newspaper

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Studio
    • Coolsville
      • Haunted house
      • Coolsville Junior High School (mentioned)

Objects

• Scooby Snax
• Coolsville Chronicle newspaper
• The Hound of Beastville

Vehicles

• Nedley's car
• The Mystery Machine

Music

The music was uncredited.

Songs

1. "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?" - Sundowners
2. "Seven Days a Week" - George A. Robertson, Jr.

Crew credits

• Project coordinator: Evan Adler
• Avid/Online editor: Jon Dilling
• Digital editor: Andrew Pope
• Paint box: Bob Pettit
• Audio engineers: Michael Kohler, Jimmy Gutrie
• HAL: Rob Jameson, Jonathan Sargent
• Animators: Robert Pope, Click 3XS
• Sets: The Studio, New York, NY
• Logo designer: Spin Productions
• Scheduling: Laura Klene
• Axess: Dave Laba
• Infinit: Clare Cushman, Elizabeth Beasley
• Factoid coordinators: Toby Herman, Brian M. Raftrey

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: October 24, 1998 on Cartoon Network

Behind the scenes

• The interviews are done in the style of the then-new VH1 documentary series Behind the Music.
• The segments refer to the gang as Mysteries Inc., which could be Cartoon Network's take on their name, but their actual name is Mystery Incorporated, or Mystery Inc. for short; "Mystery" is not supposed to be a shortened "Mysteries."
• Coolsville was where the gang grew up in the prequel series A Pup Named Scooby-Doo.
• Mr. Blake's check is dated July 28th.
• "Seven Days a Week" was originally in the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode "Scooby's Night with a Frozen Fright."
• Scenes were taken from the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episodes "Mystery Mix-Up," "A Night of Fright is No Delight," "Scooby's Night with a Frozen Fright," and "Scooby-Doo, and a Mummy, Too," "Haunted House Hang-Up," "Decoy for a Dognapper," "Mine Your Own Business," "A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts," "Hassle in the Castle," "Bedlam in the Big Top," "What a Night for a Knight," "Never Ape an Ape Man," The Scooby-Doo Show episode "The Creepy Case of Old Iron Face," and The New Scooby-Doo Movies episode "The Spirit Spooked Sports Show."
• Newspaper clippings refer to the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episodes "What a Night for a Knight," and "Decoy for a Dognapper."
• "Scoobert" was the full name given to Scooby in the A Pup Named Scooby-Doo episode "Curse of the Collar."
• Shaggy being a vegetarian is a reference to how the vegan proud Casey Kasem wouldn't play Shaggy anymore after being asked to do a Burger King commercial.
• "Norville" was the full name given to Shaggy in the A Pup Named Scooby-Doo episode "The Sludge Monster from the Earth's Core."
• Shaggy said "Zoinks" once.
• The romance between Fred and Daphne is alluded to, which was first referenced (outside of any Cartoon Network bumpers) in the Johnny Bravo episode "Bravo Dooby-Doo."
• When Velma talks about Captain Morgan in the footage of "The Creepy Case of Old Iron Face," Pat Stevens's voice is used instead of B.J. Ward's.
• Velma says "Jinkies" once.
• The Coolsville Chronicle is dated May 15th.
• Whether by coincidence or by allusion, the Coolsville Chronicle appears a few years later in issues of DC Comics' Scooby-Doo.
• Special thanks are given to Sharon Adams, Jennifer Davidson, Craig "Sven" Gordon, Fran Hill, Stuart Hill, Pete Johnson, Chris Kelly, Ann McCarthy, Matt McElhannon, Bee Murphy, Larry Morris, Michael Ouweleen, Larry Slowinski, and L'Tashia Way.

Errors

• Daphne's dad is called George R. on his check, although in the A Pup Named Scooby-Doo episode "Horror of the Haunted Hairpiece," his name was Nedley.
• Shaggy always had long hair, so the revelation that he had a buzzcut until he was ten couldn't possibly make sense.
• While this seems to reveal a never before seen older sister of Velma's, she will never be referred to again, and also it was later established in the direct-to-video film, Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo, that she actually had one younger sister called Madelyn (who was also never properly seen again).

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • April 13, 1999: Warner Home Video releases Scooby-Doo's Greatest Mysteries on VHS (excludes part seven).