Anyone looking to make a proper Scooby-Doo adaptation please remember:
Fred is the charismatic face of the group and the strategizer. Later adaptations made him a massive himbo who chugs respect for women juice and those have become necessary parts of his character.
Shaggy is cowardly but also incredibly resourceful; let us not forget his skill at ventriloquism. Make Shaggy the skill monkey, who every episode mentions some weird skill he has that's previously unmentioned; that'd be an amazing running gag. Also, bring back the dry humor Casey Kasem injected into the og character.
Scooby is Shaggy's best friend, the other half to his two-man comedy routine. Independently of Shaggy, Scooby is also prone to be a bit mischievous and just kind of a little scamp. Play up both of those things.
Velma is the smart nerdy one, who also had a really dry sense of humor. I don't know why she was turned into the "I'm surrounded by idiots" character because, while as I stated, she always had a dry sense of humor, she was never mean to her friends and never talked down to them, or anyone else. Bring back the chipper Velma from like Witch's Ghost or Zombie Island. Let Velma be a little cutie pie. Also keep her as a lebian
Daphne was... originally really just "The Girly One" but later adaptations have fleshed her out, like making her essentially the muscle of the group, which is just amazing and should continue. She's also been cast as the oddly resourceful one. Shaggy is the skill monkey, Daphne is the one who has a tool for literally any job. Human Swiss Army Knife, which again, would be an amazing running gag.
Have Shaggy and Daphne bounce off-the-wall ideas for a plan together, Fred steps in to ground them, while still using their ideas, and incorporating Velma's theories about the case.
Make references to Flim Flam and Hot Dog Water
A Scooby-Doo adaptation should not be difficult, and must be done with love.
"But if I use the right type it will be more effective!"
I've been enjoying @jelloapocalypse 's playthrough of Skies of Arcadia in general, but also very much for the trans egg Vyse/Vyrsa jokes. Check it out (and a lot of other fun stream VODs over here)
One interesting thing about the JelloApocalypse situation is that it's not like this is the first Dub him and his team have handled, he's been in some absolutely dogshit isekai and has never been this outspoken off-the-clock. But the moment he has to dub a bad series made by and for women, it is suddenly so terrible that he simply will not touch it without reworking it to fit his own tastes, and making sure everyone knows he is the only reason it is good. Strange, that.
If you haven't been watching our Skies of Arcadia playthrough, here's the kind of quality content you've been missing.
We'll be playing the finale this week, but there's still plenty of time to catch up if you want to be there live this Saturday! Check it out here:
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And in case you need more convincing to watch, the longest running bit of the run is that Vyse is a trans woman who hasn't figured out that she's trans yet and everyone else in the cast knows it but her.
OH BOY! Being an Epithet Erased fan has gotten a whole lot harder!
In case you didn’t know Jello helped co-write a dub for an anime called Lovely Complex. He then made a patreon post dunking on the original anime and talking about how he fixed it.
I’m sure the dub itself is fine but rather Jello’s unprofessional approach has screwed over everyone who worked on it.