It's just that I never really have the time for animated television outside of the stuff that is aimed at my kids. I'd like to think that I'm above that kind of kid stuff, but I am not. I never really watched The Brave and the Bold. Will those two ever learn? But I am a big fan of Batman. Now, the show has embraced its own tropes so hard that the show honestly doesn't work if the characters don't address that the ghost is always something outside of the supernatural. The characters actually thought, with the exception of the intellectual Velma, that they were chasing down real ghosts that could possibly be human. The old show, to my limited knowledge, was all about genuinely solving mysteries. Part of what makes Scooby-Doo weird, especially in the 21st Century, is that that it only works nowadays due to the fact that it is painfully self-aware. Sure, I'd walk around the house saying, "Zoinks, Scoob!" because I sported Shaggy's infamous goatee all throughout college, but I think I like the concept of Scooby-Doo more than I actually like the storytelling. I know that automatically takes away so much of my street cred, but I just never found Scooby-Doo as a brand or as a character entertaining. Regardless, it isn't rated and my son literally told me, "Dad, I'd probably like that when I'm older because it was too scary." My son called me out for being an irresponsible parent when it came to showing him Scooby-Doo. This is the most kid friendly Batman show, mirroring the Adam West Batman more than the Paul Dini and Bruce Timm Batman. Batman fights bad guys, but this is The Brave and the Bold Batman. Scooby-Doo fights people who look like ghosts. There's nothing outwardly offensive in this one. That's technically movie length and it was never an episode of either Scooby-Doo or of Batman: The Brave and the Bold. It's borderline a TV episode put on DVD, but it is an hour and fifteen minutes. Honestly, I went back and forth on whether I should even review this one. Um.not rated, because it can barely be considered a movie.
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