Everything is funny – just look closer™

I'm Colin, a geeky photographer (photo blog! | Instagram!) who riffs on everything – including old Scooby-Doo episodes. Turns out, the animators drew some pretty ridiculous things... and it makes the shows infinitely funnier.

[scoobydoomistakes]

"Okay, Fred leads us in from the wide shot, opens the door. Let's go."

Ted the Animator: “Oh, that's not Fred."

Carl the Animator: “...what?"

Ted the Animator: “It's the other one-off guy. The musician."

Carl the Animator: “But it's Fred talking!"

Ted the Animator: “Yeah, but that's not where he's standing in the actual shot."

Carl the Animator: “Fiiiiiiiiine."

Ted the Animator: “...I didn't mean you should teleport him between shots, Carl."

Carl the Animator: “If I've told the writers once, I've told 'em a thousand times: no redundant blonde dudes dressed in white. It just muddies the waters."

[scoobydoomistakes]

*scrolling through post material 10 minutes ago*

"...hold up, why did I save this frame sequence, anyway?!"

"It's not a clean loop I could make go infinite... that painting is dope, yeah, but–"

"..."

"...theeeeere we go."

Feet aren't known for passing under walls [citation needed]

[scoobydoomistakes]

Broke down laughing once I got to the end. This was not the plan.

The plan was to arrange the atmospheric background art in a rough narrative chronology...

...but all it did was create a narrative of visiting a haunted house...

...checking out the wiring for any code violations...

...heading to the basement...

...and presumably getting hammered.

Nah, I take it back. Maybe we just invented the greatest episode of all time.

[scoobydoomistakes]

Caption this.

Our three SDM Lucky Themes™ of the week are "the year 2026", "Oscar nominations", and "rivets" those looking to maximize their score.

[scoobydoomistakes]

You never really know what's goin' on in your house at night.

Well, at least until the robot vacuum starts detecting pets for photos.

Apparently there were all these mysterious animals I wasn't aware of...

...but it certainly proved how much Garth likes their little window, captured a full eight times...

...and Gabe– SERIOUSLY DUDE

THAT'S 33 TIMES

WHAT DO YOU KNOW THAT WE DON'T

But anyway.

If there's one lesson to take away from all this, it's to not worry about that corner cryptid...

...not when there's a suspicious rope right there on the floor.

Seriously though, Gabe? We could generate a 3D scan of you just from every captured angle of sitting by the window. This is an intervention.

–Colin

[scoobydoomistakes]

Better keep scrolling. The longer you linger, the longer they have to wait like this.

[scoobydoomistakes]

"...huh."

[scoobydoomistakes]

Perception is a funny thing.

Can't tell you how many times over the years I must have seen this episode...

...yet somehow I never once noticed...

...cutting from one background to the same dang background.

And okay okay, it was kind of a lie, but it's only an estimate. 3 or 4 times. Hey, not like it was that Batman crossover with the green fountain that spooked me out on VHS.

[scoobydoomistakes]

We are now 37 seconds into the episode.

The faces we've received so far are as follows.

It's been too long, man.

A couple months of Dynomutt: Dog Wonder is apparently all it takes to acclimate to a much lower baseline level of chaos. This is gonna be good.

[scoobydoomistakes]

Nine seconds.

Nine unbelievably-'70s seconds is all it took...

...to get from the very start of the episode...

...to Shag 'n' Scoob disappearing the entire audience behind them between frames.

Continuity schmcontinuity. When you're holding the hotdog of power, reality bends the knee.

[scoobydoomistakes]

For over a decade, I've teased next episodes with a single frame posted the night before.

...for a change, let's get all current-year.

Pick whichever you were drawn to most and pretend it's the only one your feed showed.

Boom. Now we're YouTube thumbnails in 2026.

Only SDM's patented algorithmic A/B engagement-optimizing requires active participation from your audience, thereby driving down engagement. Join our first seed funding round never.

[scoobydoomistakes]

As we close out Dynomutt, this sequence perfectly-encapsulates all we've learned.

Bad guy is ejector-seat'd from vehicle.

Dynomutt's arm–... well. This was as far as the arm animation budget stretched.

I'm so, so sorry, I promise that pun wasn't planned. I'm gonna go sit in the corner.

Bad guy falls.

Robo-dog-arm extends...

...becomes an entire freakin' bed, which got an audible laugh out of me...

...ensnaring him with some questionable transitions...

...and exits the scene with a super-conspicuous cel boundary moving.

This is it.

This is Dynomutt.

As typical low-budget Hanna-Barbera as they come...

...yet undeniably endearing, self-aware, and having fun with its genre.

Not bad for 1976, guys, solid work. You charmed me probably a third more often than you unnerved me, and I can respect that.

[scoobydoomistakes]

In this climactic Dynomutt third-act sequence...

...with the bad guy freezing over the ocean...

...we get an overhead POV shot of this vehicle.

...no, really, that's this entire post.

In over a decade of doing this blog, I can't recall a single other shot like this in a Hanna-Barbera anything.

Maybe it's because Dynomutt crosses over more into action cartoon territory, which we don't look at as much?

Dunno, but if you had told me as a kid that at age 30 I would have such a remarkably-comprehensive exposure to 1970s Hanna-Barbera... well, okay, I'd probably have believed you. But still.

[scoobydoomistakes]

"Why's it gotta be SO many custom frames for a smooth ice melt animation?"

Ted the Animator: “Yeah. Nothing to be done."

Carl the Animator: “...well."

Ted the Animator: “No! No."

Carl the Animator: “Couldn't we fudge it just a liiiiiiittle bit? Start it a teensy bit lower?"

Ted the Animator: “That's a slippery slope my friend."

Carl the Animator: “Nah, see, look look look."

Ted the Animator: “Eh."

Carl the Animator: “It's fine! That's an acceptable discrepancy."

Ted the Animator: “I just don't particularly see that... flowing."

Carl the Animator: “But think of the frames saved!"

Ted the Animator: “Ohhhh dear."

Carl the Animator: “So, so many frames."

Ted the Animator: “And why does the water reset its melting halfway through the–"

Carl the Animator: “SO MANY FRAMES, TED. THINK OF THE FRAMES."

[scoobydoomistakes]

[scoobydoomistakes]

Have some ice atmosphere.

...icemosphere.

Atmoicephere? ...nah, icemosphere.

[scoobydoomistakes]

For the first fractions of a second of this shot, my thought process was

"it's fun Dynamutt is weirdly small here, but it ain't worth a post–

iiiiiiiis what I would be saying if I was a foolish individual."

In future, I'd like to ask all '70s Hanna-Barbera shows to have their minor errors similarly paired with fun loopable moments. Thank you.