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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) |
据《吉尼斯世界记录大全》记载，儿童卡通片《史酷比》已正式成为有史以来最富有创造力的电视动画片。
自从第一次在荧屏上露面以来，狗侦探史酷比一直都是七岁的样子，但按狗的年龄来计算的话（人的一年约相当于狗的七年），到现在他已经245岁了。
从1969年起，这部由汉纳和芭芭拉制作的卡通连续剧给好几代儿童和成人带来了欢乐，包括《史酷比》的新版本、附属产品和电影版。
威廉姆·汉纳和乔·芭芭拉在卡通片制作方面具有多年的成功经验，但他们仍然想尝试一些与以往不同的东西——一部融合了当代人类性格特征的卡通连续剧。
但是最初该节目以《五个迷》和《谁在害怕》的片名推出时却遭到了封禁，因为电视台的负责人们认为该片中闹鬼的屋子、各种怪物和可怕场景对儿童来说太恐怖了。
美国哥伦比亚广播公司（CBS）的儿童节目负责人佛瑞德·西尔弗曼为了使该节目的风格变得温和一点，把这只大狗改造成一个性格温顺懦弱的喜剧角色。
佛瑞德还为大丹犬起了一个名字——史酷比，据说他是从法兰克·辛那屈的即兴音乐作品《黑夜中的陌生人》中获得的灵感，这首歌中的唱词是这样的：Dooby
dooby do - be dooby dooby dooby dooby dooby do。
1969年9月13日，《史酷比》在美国首播，由一群十几岁的卡通人物主演，包括判断力敏锐、具有典型美国风格的领袖人物佛瑞德，足智多谋的眼镜女孩维尔玛，漂亮可爱的达芙妮和笨手笨脚、老犯错误的嬉皮士夏奇。
这帮人开着一辆名叫“神秘机器”的大篷货车周游全美国，这是一次追踪超自然现象的探险之旅。
几乎每一段情节都遵循一套特定的模式。
这个团队将到达一个有不祥之兆的地方，和当地的一个以毁坏所有人物品为乐的食尸鬼较量。
在充满各种意外和惊险的追踪活动中，事实上并没有真正的暴力发生，四人小组在总能碰巧发现线索的史酷比的帮助下，揭开最后的谜底。
佛瑞德和维尔玛将揭示真相：那个坏心肠的鬼怪实际上是一个真正的人，他为了实现某些自私的阴谋，故意扮作鬼怪来吓唬别人。
每一集中都会有这样的场景：坏人在被“捉拿归案”时总会说，“要不是这帮讨厌的孩子从中作梗”，他们的邪恶计划本该成功的。
他们的冒险经历不免被夏奇和史酷比活泼有趣或胆小如鼠的滑稽动作抢走了风头，这两个“活宝”总是在和队里的其他人分开后陷入荒谬的困境。
（中国日报网站译） |
Updated: 2004-10-28 10:41