Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! and Shaggy Rogers—and the title character, a semi-anthropomorphic Great Dane named Scooby-Doo. The group travels in a blue and green van with two orange flowers named the Mystery Machine, solving mysteries involving several local legends; in doing so, they discover that the perpetrator is almost invariably a disguised person who seeks to exploit the legend for their personal gain. "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!" is the first incarnation of what would eventually become a long-running media franchise, which primarily consists of subsequent animated series, several films, and related merchandise. "Scooby Doo, Where Are You!" was the result of CBS and Hanna-Barbera's
Scooby-Doo from 2004 to 2005, "Scooby-Doo" held the Guinness World Record for having the most episodes of any animated television series ever produced, a record previously held by and later returned to "The Simpsons". "Scooby-Doo" was published as holding this record in the 2006 edition of the "Guinness Book of Records". In January 2009, entertainment website IGN named "Scooby-Doo" #24 on its list of the Top 100 Best Animated TV Shows. As with most popular franchises, "Scooby-Doo" has been parodied and has done parodies. Scooby-Doo Scooby-Doo is an American animated franchise, comprising many animated television series produced from 1969 to the