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Laff-the-Lympics was a co-headlining section, sustaining Scooby-Doo, of the package Saturday morning cartoon series ''Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. the indicate was a takeoff of the Olympics and the ABC television series Battle of the Network Stars. It featured 45 Hanna-Barbera characters organized into triad teams, A Scooby Doobies, A Yogi Yahooies, & A Really Rottens, which would compete weekly for gold, silver, and bronze medals. 1 year was produced within 1977 - 1978, which was rerun for the 1978 - 1979 season of Scooby's All Stars.
Format
A sporting competitions that the characters would become required to perform inside would typically become funny & quirky versions of Olympic sports and scavenger hunts. From each one section took place around the different location someplace on the planet, including excursions to Africa, Italy, Canada, Washington D.C., and even the North Pole. Apiece episode was presented within the format similar to an Olympic television broadcast, with hosting/announcing duties and colour comment provided by Snagglepuss from The Yogi Bear Show and Mildew Wolf from a It's a Wolf segments of The Cattanooga Cats. Non-competing Hanna-Barbera characters like Fred Flintstone and Jabberjaw made appearances as guest announcers.
A Laff-the-Lympics'' competition was depending upon the point rules. Various cases were worth a certain point sum for a forevirtually all, 2nd, & third place winners, & a team that got a most points per prevent of a half-hour--commonly the Scooby Doobies--was declared the winner & standard the gold laurel wreath. Points can besides become subtracted for treachery & sabotage, which were a specialties of the villainous Really Rottens team.
When by using virtually all Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoons of a 1970s, the basic plot & theme of every episode was mostly generic & insistent. Them "good guy" teams, the Scooby Doobies & a Yogi Yahooeys, were proficient friends & their various team members service cutback helped both more when it had into a jam. A Really Rottens, notwithstanding, universally cheated & pulled grime tricks -- & at long last it would wind higher a losers within virtually all episodes. Generally a Really Rottens would become good on a verge of winning, prior to it would produce a deadly error at a super prevent that allowed one of the more 2 teams to prevent higher at the top. At times, though, a Rottens' cheating system wouldn't actually become against a system, & it've possibly actually gotten a virtually all points inside two or three episodes.
Single a single year of Laff-the-Lympics episodes was produced, which was re-redo in a period of the 2nd year of ''Scooby's 100%-Star Laff-the-Lympics (billed when Scooby's Completely-Stars. A indicate resurfaced within 1980 as a segment of its have, & was run at various more points when you took a 1980s on ABC. It has too been often re-redo inside late years per USA Network, the Cartoon Network, and Boomerang.
Teams
The Scooby Doobies
This team drew primarily from either a 1970s Hanna-Barbera cartoons, particularly the "mystery-solving" series from either Scooby-Doo, whose titular character served when team captain.
characters from either Scooby-Doo:
Scooby-Doo (team captain)
Norville "Shaggy" Rogers
Scooby-Dum
characters from either Dynomutt, Dog Wonder:
Dynomutt
A Blue Falcon
characters from either Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels:
Captain Caveman
Brenda
Dee Dee
Taffy
characters from either Speed Buggy:
Speed Buggy
Tinker
Babu from either Jeannie
Hong Kong Phooey
The Yogi Yahooies
This team drew chiefly from either a 1950s and 1960s Hanna-Barbera cartoons, and is the sole team processed higher totally of anthropomorphic animals. Grape Ape is the only post-1962 character in the line-up.
characters from either The Huckleberry Hound Show:
Yogi Bear (team captain)
Huckleberry Hound
Boo Boo Bear
Cindy Bear
Hokey Wolf
Pixie
Dixie
Mr. Jinks
characters from either Quick Draw McGraw:
Flying Draw McGraw
Snooper
Blabber
Augie Doggie
Doggie Daddy
Yakky Doodle from The Yogi Bear Show
Wally Gator from The Hanna-Barbera New Cartoon Series
The Great Grape Ape from The New Tom & Jerry/Grape Ape/Mumbly Show
The Really Rottens
This team is manufactured higher of villain characters, &, excepting Mumbly, is comprised of original characters.
Mumbly from The New Tom & Jerry/Grape Ape/Mumbly Show (team captain; he bears a strong resemblance to Muttley from Wacky Races)
Dread Baron (he bears the hard resemblance to Dick Dastardly from Wacky Races)
A Dalton Brothers: villanous cowboys:
Dinky
Dirty
Dastardly
A Creepleys, monsters in the mold of The Munsters and the Gruesomes from either The Flintstones'':
Mr. Creepley
Mrs. Creepley
Junior Creepley
A Smashing Fondoo, an evil magician
Magic Rabbit, a Peachy Fondoo's evil pet
Daisy Mayhem, the mean-spirited hillbilly
Sooey Pig
Orful Octopus
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