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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Those Meddling Kids: 25 Hours of Doo''}}
{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Those Meddling Kids: 25 Hours of Doo''}}
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'''''Those Meddling Kids: 25 Hours of Doo''''' is a ''[[Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (TV series)|Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!]]''-themed marathon that aired on the American [[Cartoon Network]] on [[October 24]] and [[October 25]], [[1998]]. The extra hour was due to Daylight Savings. In the commercial breaks, there were also eight newly produced segments done in the style of the then-new VH1 documentary series ''Behind the Music'', with each segment referred to as a "case."
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|prodcompany= [[Cartoon Network Productions]]
|distributor= [[Warner Bros. Television]]
|released= [[October 24]], [[1998]]
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|starring= [[Scott Innes]]<br />[[Frank Welker]]<br />[[Mary Kay Bergman]]<br />[[B.J. Ward]]<br />[[Keith Eubanks]]
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|producers= [[Colleen O'Hare]]<br />[[Steve Patrick]]
|music=
|screenplay= Colleen O'Hare<br />Steve Patrick
|director=
|animation_director=
|previous= Those Meddling Kids: 25 Hours of Doo
|next= The Scooby-Doo Project
|title_card= [[File:Those Meddling Kids title card.png|300px]]
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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]], [[1998]] on [[Cartoon Network]]. It was written and produced by [[Colleen O'Hare]] and [[Steve Patrick]]. The extra hour was due to Daylight Savings.


==Detailed summary==
On [[April 13]], [[1999]], the segments were rebranded as '''''Scooby-Doo: Behind the Scenes''''' (except for part seven, which was excluded) were released on VHS by [[Warner Home Video]].
==Memorable quotes==
==Characters==
{{CastTop}}
|-
|style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Announcer (voice only)
|style="background-color:#aaffaa"| [[Keith Eubanks]]
|-
|style="background-color:#clear"| [[Daphne Blake]]
|style="background-color:#clear"| [[Mary Kay Bergman]]
|-
|style="background-color:#clear"| [[Velma Dinkley]]
|style="background-color:#clear"| [[B.J. Ward]]<br />[[Pat Stevens]]<br />[[Nicole Jaffe]]
|-
|style="background-color:#clear"| [[Nedley Blake|George R. Blake]]
|style="background-color:#clear"| [[Frank Welker]]
|-
|style="background-color:#clear"| [[Fred Jones]]
|style="background-color:#clear"| Frank Welker
|-
|style="background-color:#clear"| [[Scooby-Doo (character)|Scooby-Doo]]
|style="background-color:#clear"| [[Scott Innes]]
|-
|style="background-color:#clear"| [[Shaggy Rogers]]
|style="background-color:#clear"| Scott Innes
|-
|style="background-color:#clear"| [[Penrod Stillwall|Penrod Stillwall/Headless Specter]]
|style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
|-
|style="background-color:#clear"| [[Asa Shanks]]
|style="background-color:#clear"| [[Hal Smith]]
|-
|style="background-color:#clear"| Green phantom
|style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
|-
|style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| [[Sherlock Holmes]]
|-
|style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| [[John Watson]]
|-
|style="background-color:#clear"| [[Professor Wayne|Caveman/Professor Wayne]]
|style="background-color:#clear"| [[John Stephenson]]
|-
|style="background-color:#clear"| [[Doctor Najib|Mummy/Doctor Najib]]
|style="background-color:#clear"| Unavailable
|-
|style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| [[Elvis Presley]]
|-
|style="background-color:#clear"| [[Elizabeth Blake|Daphne's mother]] (voice only)
|style="background-color:#clear"| Unavaliable
|-
|style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| [[List of unnamed Scooby-Doo characters|Daphne's prom date]] (photo)
|style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
|-
|style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| [[Captain Morgan]]
|-
|style="background-color:#clear"| [[Mr. Dinkley]] (photo)
|style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
|-
|style="background-color:#clear"| [[Mrs. Dinkley]] (photo)
|style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
|-
|style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| [[List of unnamed Scooby-Doo characters|Velma's older sister]] (photo)
|style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
|-
|style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| [[Cha-Cha]] (photo)
|style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
|-
|style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| [[Debbie Hays]] (photo)
|style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
|-
|style="background-color:#clear"| [[Hank (Where Are You!)|Miner Forty-Niner/Hank]]
|style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
|-
|style="background-color:#clear"| [[Buck Masters|Indian witch doctor/Buck Masters]]
|style="background-color:#clear"| Unavailable
|-
|style="background-color:#clear"| [[List of unnamed Scooby-Doo characters|Scare Pair]]
|style="background-color:#clear"| Unavaliable
|-
|style="background-color:#clear"| [[Big Bob Oakley|Gypsy/Frankenstein's monster/Dracula]]
|style="background-color:#clear"| Unavaliable
|-
|style="background-color:#clear"| [[Zeke (Where Are You!)|Zombie/Zeke]]
|style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
|-
|style="background-color:#clear"| [[Mr. Carswell|The Creeper]]
|style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
|-
|style="background-color:#clear"| [[Harry the Hypnotist|Ghost Clown]]
|style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
|-
|style="background-color:#clear"| [[Sheriff (Where Are You!)|Sheriff]]
|style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
|-
|style="background-color:#clear"| [[Professor Ingstrom]]
|style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
|-
|style="background-color:#clear"| [[Mr. Wikles|Black Knight]]
|style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
|-
|style="background-color:#clear"| [[George Washington]] (portrait)
|style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
|-
{{CastBottom}}


==Organizations==
==Segments==
* [[Mystery Incorporated]]
* Case One: "[[Those Meddling Kids Get Started]]"
* [[MegaBank]] (mentioned)
* Case Two: "[[That Meddling Dog, Scooby-Doo]]"
* [[National Honor Society]] (mentioned)
* Case Three: "[[Shaggy, That Meddling Hippie]]"
* [[National Associations of Optometrists]] (mentioned)
* Case Four: "[[That Meddling Kid, Daphne]]"
* [[Coolsville Police Department]] (mentioned)
* Case Five: "[[Velma, That Meddling Brain]]"
* ''[[Coolsville Chronicle]]'' newspaper
* Case Six: "[[Fred and That Meddling Ascot]]"
 
* Case Seven: "[[Those Finger-Pointing Villains]]"
==Locations==
* Case Eight: "[[Those Meddling Kids, Together Again]]"
* [[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]]
 
==Production==
===Development===
===Filming===
 
==Music==
The music was uncredited.
 
===Songs===
# "[[Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? (theme song)|Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?]]" - [[Sundowners]]
# "[[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 28]]th.
* "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 (Where Are You!)|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 (TV series)|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 15]]th.
* Whether by coincidence or by allusion, the ''Coolsville Chronicle'' appears a few years later in issues of [[DC Comics]]' ''[[Scooby-Doo (DC Comics)|Scooby-Doo]]''.
* Special thanks are given to Sharon Adams, Jennifer Davidson, Craig "Sven" Gordon, Fran Hill, Stuart Hill, [[Pete Johnson]], [[Casper Kelly|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).


==Critical reception==
==Critical reception==
==In other languages==
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==Home availability==
* In the United States:
** [[April 13]], [[1999]]: [[Warner Home Video]] releases ''[[Scooby-Doo's Greatest Mysteries (VHS)|Scooby-Doo's Greatest Mysteries]]'' on VHS (excludes part seven).
==References==
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Latest revision as of 01:30, 13 February 2023

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Those Meddling Kids: 25 Hours of Doo is a Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!-themed marathon that aired on the American Cartoon Network on October 24 and October 25, 1998. The extra hour was due to Daylight Savings. In the commercial breaks, there were also eight newly produced segments done in the style of the then-new VH1 documentary series Behind the Music, with each segment referred to as a "case."

On April 13, 1999, the segments were rebranded as Scooby-Doo: Behind the Scenes (except for part seven, which was excluded) were released on VHS by Warner Home Video.

Segments

Critical reception

References