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Fun Fact of the Week #430

12/5/2022

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A Nancy Drew book from 1957 called The Haunted Showboat has an extremely similar premise as The New Scooby-Doo Movies episode "The Haunted Showboat" from 1973.  Nancy Drew #35 follows Nancy and her friends solving the mystery of a haunted showboat. The showboat is being renovated for a big gala event, but a ghost attempts to stop the event. Without providing any spoilers, the culprit's motivation also involves making money illegally as it does in the Scooby-Doo episode.
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Lance Alexander Rutt
12/5/2022 03:19:35 pm

Something that fascinates me is how often the "Scooby-Doo Formula" shows up in miscellaneous stories pre-Scooby but AFAIK Scooby is the first to dedicate an entire series to that premise. Which makes sense, since most detective stories don't want every story to have the same evil plot.

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Lance Alexander Rutt
12/5/2022 03:27:33 pm

Here is a list of pop culture (from my memory) that used this trope predating Scooby:

Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew
I Love a Mystery
A Felix the Cat cartoon
The "old dark house" genre of films
The "weird menace" genre of pulp fiction
Jonny Quest

Would love someone to create a comprehensive timeline of this stuff someday. I find it interesting that Joe and Ken have never mention Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys as an inspiration despite those books having been around for decades.

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WildwindVampire link
12/5/2022 04:12:28 pm

That really fascinates me too! I wasn't aware that Felix the Cat used the Scooby trope! And yeah, it is really surprising Joe and Ken never mentioned any of these as influences for Scooby.

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