A Reunion 40 Years in the Making! Scooby Doo & The Gang....................& Batman!? - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

Brian Damage · 03-15-2011, 10:43 PM

It's a reunion nearly 40 years in the making when Scooby-Doo and his gang team up with the Dark Knight on a delightfully bizarre episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold, airing Friday, April 1 (6:30/5:30c on Cartoon Network). Written by animation and comic book vet Paul Dini and hosted by Paul "Pee-wee Herman" Reubens (who reprises his role as Bat-Mite, a self-described "all-powerful being from the fifth dimension" and devoted fanboy), "Batman's Strangest Cases" celebrates various parodies of the Caped Crusader, including an old Mad magazine spoof, unauthorized Japanese manga and campy Scooby-Doo Meets Batman cartoons from the 1970s.

For that last segment the current cast of Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated was used, including Matthew Lillard as Shaggy and The Facts of Life alum Mindy Cohn as Velma. (Longtime Scooby voice actor Frank Welker plays Fred, Scooby and Batman, while Brave and the Bold star Diedrich Bader tackles other roles in the episode.) Producer James Tucker and his team intentionally avoided modernizing the often crude (and frequently inconsistent) animation style of the original Hanna-Barbera shows. "We took the old model sheets and [our animators] really nailed the style," Tucker says. "It looks, for good or ill, like it was done in 1973.... If you put it up against those old episodes, I don't know if the untrained eye would be able to tell the difference."

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Exclusiv...y-1030668.aspx

sh3k · 03-16-2011, 09:21 AM

This will be amazing and I must say it is going to be one of best reunion of all time !

03-15-2011, 10:43 PM	#1
Brian Damage I'm Rich Bitch Forum Icon Join Date: Feb 03, 2002 Location: What Ain't No Country I Ever Heard Of...They Speak English in What? Posts: 63,108	A Reunion 40 Years in the Making! Scooby Doo & The Gang....................& Batman!? It's a reunion nearly 40 years in the making when Scooby-Doo and his gang team up with the Dark Knight on a delightfully bizarre episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold, airing Friday, April 1 (6:30/5:30c on Cartoon Network). Written by animation and comic book vet Paul Dini and hosted by Paul "Pee-wee Herman" Reubens (who reprises his role as Bat-Mite, a self-described "all-powerful being from the fifth dimension" and devoted fanboy), "Batman's Strangest Cases" celebrates various parodies of the Caped Crusader, including an old Mad magazine spoof, unauthorized Japanese manga and campy Scooby-Doo Meets Batman cartoons from the 1970s. For that last segment the current cast of Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated was used, including Matthew Lillard as Shaggy and The Facts of Life alum Mindy Cohn as Velma. (Longtime Scooby voice actor Frank Welker plays Fred, Scooby and Batman, while Brave and the Bold star Diedrich Bader tackles other roles in the episode.) Producer James Tucker and his team intentionally avoided modernizing the often crude (and frequently inconsistent) animation style of the original Hanna-Barbera shows. "We took the old model sheets and [our animators] really nailed the style," Tucker says. "It looks, for good or ill, like it was done in 1973.... If you put it up against those old episodes, I don't know if the untrained eye would be able to tell the difference." http://www.tvguide.com/News/Exclusiv...y-1030668.aspx
	__________________ The Key to the Kingdom of Heaven: John 3:3 *Money Doesn't Buy Happiness...But I'd Rather Cry in My Private Jet*

03-16-2011, 09:21 AM	#2
sh3k Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Mar 06, 2011 Posts: 400	This will be amazing and I must say it is going to be one of best reunion of all time !