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Scooby-Doo first appeared in
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Children's cartoon Scooby-Doo has officially become the most
prolific TV animation in
history, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
Canine
crimefighter Scooby-Doo may have remained seven years old on screen since
he first appeared - but in dog years he would be 245 by now.
The Hanna-Barbera cartoon series has entertained generations of
children - and adults - since 1969, with new versions, spin-offs and movie versions.
William Hanna and Joe Barbera had years of cartoon success behind them,
but wanted to try something different - a series that would incorporate
contemporary human characters.
But the show - under the working titles Mysteries Five and Who's
Scared? - was rejected at first, when TV executives judged the cartoon's
haunted houses, monsters and
eerie locations too scary for children.
Fred Silverman, CBS's head of children's programming, is credited with
softening the tone of the show by making the huge dog a yellow-bellied comedy figure.
He is also credited with coming up with the name for the Great Dane -
Scooby-Doo - reportedly inspired by Frank Sinatra's improvised vocals on
Strangers in The Night, who sang: "Dooby dooby do - be dooby dooby dooby
dooby dooby do."
The show launched in the US on 13 September 1969 with a cast of cartoon
teenagers - the sensible, all-American leader Fred, bespectacled and brainy Velma, pretty Daphne and the
bumbling hippy Shaggy.
The gang travelled throughout the country in their van, The Mystery
Machine, on the trail of supernatural adventures.
Almost every episode followed a certain formula.
The team would arrive in a foreboding spot, to take on a local ghoul ruining things for everyone
else.
After chases, accidents and scares - but no actual violence - the team
would unravel the mystery, usually helped by Scooby-Doo chancing on a lucky clue.
Fred and Velma would reveal that the malevolent presence was actually a
real person, posing as a ghost to scare others away from some selfish
scheme.
And inevitably, the villain would say, as they were led away, that they
would have succeeded in their evil efforts "if it weren't for those pesky
kids".
Their adventures would be punctured by the hilarious and cowardly
antics of Shaggy and Scooby, who invariably ended up in ridiculous scrapes
after splitting off from the rest of the
group.
(Agencies) |
據《吉尼斯世界記錄大全》記載，兒童卡通片《史酷比》已正式成為有史以來最富有創造力的電視動畫片。
自從第一次在熒屏上露面以來，狗偵探史酷比一直都是七歲的樣子，但按狗的年齡來計算的話（人的一年約相當于狗的七年），到現在他已經245歲了。
從1969年起，這部由漢納和芭芭拉制作的卡通連續劇給好幾代兒童和成人帶來了歡樂，包括《史酷比》的新版本、附屬產品和電影版。
威廉姆·漢納和喬·芭芭拉在卡通片制作方面具有多年的成功經驗，但他們仍然想嘗試一些與以往不同的東西——一部融合了當代人類性格特征的卡通連續劇。
但是最初該節目以《五個迷》和《誰在害怕》的片名推出時卻遭到了封禁，因為電視臺的負責人們認為該片中鬧鬼的屋子、各種怪物和可怕場景對兒童來說太恐怖了。
美國哥倫比亞廣播公司（CBS）的兒童節目負責人佛瑞德·西爾弗曼為了使該節目的風格變得溫和一點，把這只大狗改造成一個性格溫順懦弱的喜劇角色。
佛瑞德還為大丹犬起了一個名字——史酷比，據說他是從法蘭克·辛那屈的即興音樂作品《黑夜中的陌生人》中獲得的靈感，這首歌中的唱詞是這樣的：Dooby
dooby do - be dooby dooby dooby dooby dooby do。
1969年9月13日，《史酷比》在美國首播，由一群十幾歲的卡通人物主演，包括判斷力敏銳、具有典型美國風格的領袖人物佛瑞德，足智多謀的眼鏡女孩維爾瑪，漂亮可愛的達芙妮和笨手笨腳、老犯錯誤的嬉皮士夏奇。
這幫人開著一輛名叫“神秘機器”的大篷貨車周游全美國，這是一次追蹤超自然現象的探險之旅。
幾乎每一段情節都遵循一套特定的模式。
這個團隊將到達一個有不祥之兆的地方，和當地的一個以毀壞所有人物品為樂的食尸鬼較量。
在充滿各種意外和驚險的追蹤活動中，事實上并沒有真正的暴力發生，四人小組在總能碰巧發現線索的史酷比的幫助下，揭開最后的謎底。
佛瑞德和維爾瑪將揭示真相：那個壞心腸的鬼怪實際上是一個真正的人，他為了實現某些自私的陰謀，故意扮作鬼怪來嚇唬別人。
每一集中都會有這樣的場景：壞人在被“捉拿歸案”時總會說，“要不是這幫討厭的孩子從中作梗”，他們的邪惡計劃本該成功的。
他們的冒險經歷不免被夏奇和史酷比活潑有趣或膽小如鼠的滑稽動作搶走了風頭，這兩個“活寶”總是在和隊里的其他人分開后陷入荒謬的困境。
（中國日報網站譯） |
Updated: 2004-10-28 10:41