Fun Fact of the Week #411

Happy Monday! James is with us to provide today's fun fact, detailing Kevin Smith's odd history with the Scooby-Doo franchise. 

In the 1990s, Kevin was approached by Time Warner to write a film for Scooby-Doo. However, his production partner, Scott Mosier, had no interest in writing for Scooby, so Kevin declined. This is despite Time Warner sending him lots of merch twice in attempt to persuade him to write for Scooby. This was said on the View Askew board a long time ago, but it was taken offline. The archived version of that source can be found here.

In 2001, he decided to feature a parody of the Scooby-Doo gang in his film, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Mark Hamill voices the Scooby-Doo like dog. There was a deleted scene, but it was removed for being too obscene (or should I say it was obscene lol).

In his extremely excitingly titled biography My Boring Ass Life, he makes several Scooby references, including how his friend Jason Mewes watched Scooby-Doo and bought a Scooby puzzle for his daughter, which was extremely hard for his wife and child to put together.

Scooby also was mentioned twice in his show, Comic Book Men. In the episode "Captain and the Clerk," he introduced his show by saying "the only one smart enough to keep Scooby away from Groot." In addition, in the episode "Bats Ahoy!," Kevin and his colleagues have a discussion about if Mystery Inc. were better detectives than Batman.

He and Jason Mewes also had a cameo in Rock and Roll Mystery, and hosted the Comic Con panel that July for the film. You can read an interview about it here, and you can watch their interview at the San Diego Comic Con panel in the YouTube video above.

Possibly because of all the Scooby references, Kevin and Marc Bernadin had an artwork made of them in which they look like Shaggy and Fred, respectively. 

As you can see, Kevin Smith has quite a few more connections to Scooby than you'd expect! A big thanks again to James for researching all of this and finding these links.