In my post about the Teen Titans Go! WB 100th Anniversary Special being delayed, I made a comparison to the last-minute scheduling changes that happened with Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated. Ironically, like that series, Cartoon Network pulled the 100th anniversary special from the schedule so last-minute that they didn't give notice to On Demand providers not to post the episode. As a result, Cartoon Network once again accidentally leaked their own special to On Demand providers before it was supposed to air. (It may be worth noting that another Teen Titans Go! episode featuring the group going through classic Hanna-Barbera intros did air in its place last Saturday.) I believe the special has been removed now, but I was able to watch the special before they fixed their mistake. Given it was posted by official means (even if accidentally), I assume it's okay to review the special, but if not, anyone from WB is free to let me know and I'll be happy to take down this review.
I know a lot of Scooby fans were planning to check out the special, so I thought it might be worthwhile to review it on here. I don't have a ton to say about it, hence the title "mini-review," but I do have a few thoughts. This is a spoiler-free review. The most important thing to point out is that Scooby and the gang just make brief non-speaking cameos during the studio tour. The only HB/WB characters with significant roles are Yogi Bear and Daffy Duck. I thought both of them were well-incorporated into the special. The special's premise features the Teen Titans giving a studio tour of WB for the 100th anniversary. When WB's official mascot Michigan J. Frog finds out he's not invited, he goes on a rampage and steals the fabled WB Shield. Yogi, Daffy and the Teen Titans have to go on a quest to find the WB Shield to restore the magic of Warner Brothers. The plot is...fine, I guess. It is pretty typical Teen Titans Go! slapstick humor, which I don't necessarily enjoy. There are some cool references to WB properties such as Friends and The Wizard of Oz, but the references all have a heavy dose of Teen Titans Go!'s humor style. For example, in one scene, they meet the Wizard of Oz. The wizard threatens them, to which they respond by yelling "later loser!!!", then jumping in the Mystery Machine and flooring it. The joke was fine, I guess, it's just not really my cup of tea, and I would say it's a good representation of what the humor is like throughout the episode. One positive of the episode is that I felt Yogi and Daffy fit the tone really well. I can definitely see why they chose those two characters to be the prominent ones, as the antics-filled humor style of the episode matched up quite well with those two characters IMO. I will word this in a way that's not a spoiler, but I was not a fan of the ending either. Without ruining how it ended, the message the audience is left with was basically "the magic of Warner Brothers is within us all" which was really cheesy. Also, instead of "that's all, folks," this episode establishes that Warner Brothers' official new slogan is apparently "that's all, yo!" I presume this means Zaslav will now be concluding all his speeches this way lol. Overall, considering the fact that Scooby and the gang only make brief cameos, I honestly would not bother checking this out unless you are a fan of Teen Titans Go!. Overall, the special was nothing particularly memorable and it's nothing I'd want to revisit. Hopefully this review was helpful to those considering checking this out, and gave you a better idea of if you'd want to check this out or not.
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Carson Maitland - Smith
9/25/2023 10:42:35 pm
I’d watch it for Hanna Barbera and the Looney Tunes
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Gatherer Hade
9/26/2023 05:45:39 am
I'll check it out when it airs here, as I can take TTG type humour in small doses.
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Carson Maitland - Smith
9/26/2023 07:54:33 am
Daffy's my favourite Looney Tune
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9/26/2023 08:33:45 am
That was my bad, I don't know why I worded it that way. I just fixed it, thank you!
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The cop
9/26/2023 12:40:43 pm
I just realized that whatever the next scooby-doo movie is will be the 50th
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9/26/2023 03:01:33 pm
I hadn't thought about that either, but that's cool! I wonder if they will do anything special to celebrate.
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Matt
9/27/2023 07:38:02 pm
I will not be checking this out. I don't like this show at all anyway, but yeah, I don't find about anything about this based off of this review to be worth watching.
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9/27/2023 07:58:29 pm
That will be time well-saved IMO lol. And yeah, the ending did kind of feel oddly like they were trying to be Disney haha. It definitely felt like a pretty big cop-out on the writers' part.
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