The Laff-A-Lympics Team Stats Post

Longtime readers of the blog know I'm a huge advocate for unreleased episodes being put out on physical media. I used to get really excited about any new DVD compilations to see if we'd get any new episodes. After the pandemic, Warner Brothers has completely fallen off with putting out any new DVDs. Our last compilation set was the 50 Cartoon Collection in 2019. That's why I'm so excited that they're finally releasing the complete series of Laff-A-Lympics!

My first exposure to the series was owning the four VHS tapes released in 1996. For those that are unaware, Hanna-Barbera released one VHS tape for each of the three teams, plus one generic one titled "Heavens to Hilarity." Each VHS had two episodes. I only saw the eight episodes on the VHS until two volumes came out in 2010. I eventually saw season 2 on Boomerang, although I'm pretty sure it was around 2012 when the Spooky Games DVD came out. It's kinda wild to think I saw half of Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated before I ever saw all of Laff-A-Lympics!

Given it's been 14 years since the last set, I'm so excited they've finally released the rest of the series! In celebration of the DVD coming out tomorrow, I wanted to do a special project to celebrate. If you like sports stats, this post is definitely for you lol. This is basically a post highlighting all the basic team stats for the series.

To start, I wanted to calculate how many times each team won the Laff-A-Lympics! Here's how it breaks down:

Scooby Doobies - 14
Yogi Yahooeys - 7
Really Rottens - 2
Tie between all three teams - 1

Oh, but we're not done there! Let's break it down even further to see how many times each team won a competition. The Scooby Doobies won almost double the amount of events of any other team.

Scooby Doobies - 46
Really Rottens - 29
Yogi Yahooeys - 28
Scoobies and Yogis - 6
Scoobies and Rottens - 2

There was also that one episode ("Africa and San Francisco") where the judges were apparently feeling a mean streak and disqualified every team lol. That event is not counted here, hence the odd number of events.

Finally, let's take a look at how many events each team member participated in. It's a four-way-tie for the player in the most events! Yogi, Captain Caveman, Grape Ape and Daisy Mayhem were all in 19 events over the course of the series. Mr. Jinks and Blabber from the Yogi Yahooeys only participated in three events, which is the least number of events of any member.

Yogi Bear - 19
Captain Caveman - 19
Grape Ape - 19
Daisy Mayhem - 19
The Great Fondoo - 18
Dinky Dalton - 18
Dynomutt - 17
Mumbly - 17
Blue Falcon - 16
Dread Baron - 16
Scooby-Doo - 15
Doggie Daddy - 15
Dirty Dalton - 15
Orful Octopus - 15
Tinker - 14
Shaggy - 14
Quick Draw McGraw - 14
Babu - 14
Taffy Dare - 14
Wally Gator - 13
Scooby-Dum - 13
Huckleberry Hound - 12
Speed Buggy - 11
Magic Rabbit - 11
Hokey Wolf - 10
Dee Dee Skyes - 10
Brenda Chance - 9
Mr. Creepley - 9
Dastardly Dalton - 8
Sooey Pig - 8
Boo Boo - 7
Yakky Doodle - 7
Cindy Bear - 6
Augie Doggie - 6
Mrs. Creepley - 6
Pixie - 5
Snooper - 4
Dixie - 4
Hong Kong Phooey - 4
Junior Creepley - 4
Mr. Jinks - 3
Blabber - 3

This took a while to calculate out, although thankfully the spreadsheet from this 2021 collaborative project I did made it a lot easier than it could have been! I hope you enjoyed checking out these stats.

This is our last Laff-A-Lympics themed post for the week (because of the way the release fell, I stacked all the posts at the beginning of this week). However, there's still a lot of other miscellaneous content to look forward to this week! I'll be making a post on other topics every day for the rest of the week.

​Don't forget to pick up your copy of Scooby-Doo! Laff-a-Lympics: The Complete Series, which is out today!