ITT: Sup Forums stuff you're surprised went on for as long as it did

ITT: Sup Forums stuff you're surprised went on for as long as it did.

Pic related. I have no idea what anyone saw in the original series. Even for its time, it was mediocre compared to other HB cartoons.

I agree.

>it was mediocre compared to other HB cartoons
As a kid, Scooby Doo entertained me A LOT more than other HB cartoons
I feel like a lot of kids would agree with that but perhaps I'm wrong

>stuff you're surprised went on for as long as it did

Did anyone actually watch this or did it just run as long as it did because it was so cheap?

I know it's like beating a dead horse to shit on it at this point, but Family Guy.
Like, I get it, it used to be a good show. But it was just good. I can't believe it's been cancelled and revived twice. What sticks out about it? It's dull, ugly, and doesn't have a single original thing about it. What made it popular enough to warrant an almost 20-year run? Some jokes are funny, even hilarious, but as a show it just blows. If they cancelled it in favor of an animated sketch comedy, then that would've been fine. When it came out, it's gimmick was that it was an edgier Simpsons. Now, most adult shows are edgy, and much more creative than Family Guy.
I can't even call the characters "icons" really, outside of Peter and Stewie. It's not like it's still on because the show is "iconic", which is the only reason the Simpsons are still here.

Not so much "surprised went on" but I'm surprised it exploded in popularity as much as it did in such a short time to the point where it got a Simpsons couch gag cameo within like, what, 8 months after airing?

It's like TTG where they aired it so frequently that kids really had no choice but to watch it, and they thought that meant it's super popular
Or at least that's what I think
Even as a kid with absolute dogshit tastes I really did not like that show but I still somehow watched every episode like twice because it was always on

My brother would watch it a lot on netflix. It was kind of like popcorn to him

This shit lasted five seasons.

I think the public promoted scooby because they had mixed feeling on all the action violent cartoons kids liked at the time

What else was on at the time? Scooby doo had monsters and chase scenes airing in a time when the only other stuff were comedies and shows about musicians.

But the chase scenes were about as engaging as a Flintstones chase scene because they used the exact same technique.

Also cop and detective shows were crazy big in the 70's. Kids weren't against watching shows that were kind of slow and for adults (Like Gunsmoke or Kojak) unlike now where they have such short attention span, if it doesn't have bright screaming colors, they get bored.

I'm surprised RWBY was even made, let alone that it's actually fairly popular.

I think the thing that holds scooby doo up is the semi-archetypal characters work off each other is a predictable but endearing way, like if Shaggy and Velma can be in the same friend group/freelance detective agency as Fred and Daphne than you could be in the gang too.

the shows just comfy man

I can't believe it's still around.

Well if'n you ain't the grand daddy of all faggots, OP.

Scooby doo holds up not because it's good but because it has never really had a bad episoide or show. The formula is also so versatile that it will never ever run out of ideas, can place them in literally any setting, and support any kind of reinterpretation.

They have been to pretty much every modern location on the planet you can think of. They can go to literally anywhere and solve a mystery. You could put scooby and the gang in the year 400 billion or turn them into Neanderthals and have them do the same shick in cave man times

The bad guy can be literally anything, it doesn't even have to make sense. You could have (random noun)-monster and it would make a decent episoide. The plot doesn't matter, the clues don't even have to make sense.

The characters require no development or motive explanation. They don't even need to be introduced since everyone on the planet already knows about them.

It can be as anything from slapstick to serious with light humor. It could probably even work decently as a porno.

200 years from now the franchise will still exist and the character's clothes will seem even more out of place by than. Also Zombie Island will still be considered the best movie even in that year.

Normies wanted magic girls not this.
>unlike now where they have such short attention span, if it doesn't have bright screaming colors, they get bored.
This is false, if that were the case then Voltron:LD would've never exist.

She just wanted to take the throne that she deserved and exterminate water tr*bes and earth k*nkdom sub"""humans""". Whats bad about that? I mean wouldn't you agree to genocide t*rks or ar*bs irl for the glory of God's chosen European people?

First thing you must know is that there wasn't as much shows as we have today, and there was no internet. Scooby Doo is what we had, not what we wanted.

>that episode of Mystery Inc where they meet Jabberjaw, Speed Buggy, Captain Caveman and Mudsy

That's 10/10 character designing

I used to watch it a ton, never understood the hate seeing how bland and unoffensive it is

It had strong ratings. Surprisingly things are aired a lot because they're popular.