''Laff-A-Lympics'' is an American

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television series produced by

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. The series premiered as part of the

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program block ''

Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics ''Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics'' is a two-hour Saturday morning animated program block produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and broadcast on ABC from September 10, 1977, until October 28, 1978. The block featured five Hanna-Barbera series ...

'', on

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in 1977. The show is a spoof of the

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and the ABC primetime series ''

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'', which debuted one year earlier. It featured 45 Hanna-Barbera characters organized into teams (the Scooby Doobies, the Yogi Yahooeys, and the Really Rottens) which competed each week for

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, and

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medals. One season of 16 episodes was produced in 1977–78, and eight new episodes combined with reruns for the 1978–79 season as '' Scooby's All-Stars''. Unlike most cartoon series produced by Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s, ''Laff-A-Lympics'' did not contain a

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. ''Scooby’s Laff-a-Lympics'' was originally owned by

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currently owns the series through its two in-name-only units,

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and

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. The "all-star" cast was mostly made up of characters from other Hanna-Barbera series. The "Scooby Doobies" included characters from ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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''; the "Yogi Yahooeys" had characters from ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. The only original characters were some members of the Really Rottens. In 1978, Hanna-Barbera produced another "all-star" show with a similar theme, titled ''

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''.

Format

The sporting competitions in which the characters are called upon to compete are often comical or offbeat versions of

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s, races, or scavenger hunts. Each segment is set in a different location around the world. Episodes are presented in a format similar to an Olympic

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broadcast, with an unseen announcer. Hosting duties and

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are provided by

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and

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(from '' It's the Wolf!'' segments of ''

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'' voiced by John Stephenson impersonating

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). Snagglepuss and Mildew wear animated versions of the contemporary yellow jackets of

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announcers. Other Hanna-Barbera characters such as

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and

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made appearances as guest announcers and judges. Other non-competing characters include parents of contestants (interviewed by Mildew before the events) and various

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s and creatures that serve as antagonists during the events. The "

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" teams, consisting of the Yogi Yahooeys and the Scooby Doobies, are cooperative and loyal. The Really Rottens, however, always cheat. Typically, the Really Rottens would be poised to win before making a fatal error at the last moment, allowing one of the other two teams to end up on top. Occasionally, though, the Rottens' cheating was not actually against the rules, resulting in their winning (overall, the Scooby team dominated, winning 14 times, against seven victories for the Yahooies, two for the Rottens, and a three-way-tie in the final episode). Only one complete season of ''Laff-A-Lympics'' episodes was produced, with eight new episodes combined with reruns for the second season of ''Scooby's All Star Laff-A-Lympics'' (billed as ''Scooby's All-Stars''). When it premiered in the fall of 1977, the series consisted of several segments, including "Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels" (which led the two-hour program and later was spun off into its own half-hour show), "The Scooby-Doo Show" and "Dynomutt, Dog Wonder" (both of which featured a small number of newly produced segments alongside repeated segments from earlier seasons) and the "Laff-A-Lympics" segments themselves. The show resurfaced in 1980 as a half-hour series on its own (without the "Captain Caveman", "Scooby-Doo" and "Dynomutt" cartoons) simply titled ''Laff-A-Lympics'' and was later rerun on ABC in 1986. In later years, it has been frequently rerun on

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and

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, often during the time periods when the

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were held (until 2014).

Teams

The Scooby Doobies

This team drew mainly from the 1970s Hanna-Barbera cartoons, particularly the "mystery-solving" series derived from ''

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'', whose titular character served as team captain. The early production art for the series showed Jeannie from the '' Jeannie'' series and Melody, Alexander, Alexandra, and Sebastian the Cat from ''

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'' as members of the "Scooby Doobies" team. However, legal problems with

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, Screen Gems' successor, prevented this. Hanna-Barbera owned Babu, but Columbia controlled all rights to Jeannie's image, including her cartoon form at the time, until

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purchased Hanna-Barbera in 1996. As a result of these issues, Babu appeared alone as a member of the "Scooby Doobies". Similarly,

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and the ''Josie'' characters were replaced by characters from ''

''. Among the members of the Scooby Doobies are:

The Yogi Yahooeys

This team drew mainly from the 1950s and 1960s Hanna-Barbera cartoons and is the only team of characters made up completely of

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s. Grape Ape is the only post-1962 character in the line-up. Among the members of the Yogi Yahooeys are:

The Really Rottens

This team is composed of villainous characters that frequently cheated by either giving themselves an unfair advantage in a contest or sabotaging the other teams (and usually had points deducted from their score as a result). With the exception of Mumbly and the Dalton Brothers, all of the members are original characters. Originally,

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and

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were planned as the leaders of the Really Rottens; however, they could not appear as those characters were co-owned by

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. In their place, Hanna-Barbera used the existing character Mumbly and created the new character Dread Baron. Prior to ''Laff-A-Lympics'', on his original show, Mumbly was a heroic detective rather than a villain. Following the character's revision as the villainous team leader, he remained a villain in ''

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'', which is also Dread Baron's only other role. The Dalton Brothers appeared in 1950s and 1960s shorts (including the 1958 short ''Sheriff Huckleberry Hound'', which featured appearances by Dinky, Dirty, and Dastardly Dalton, as well as their other brothers Dangerous, Detestable, Desperate, and Despicable). However, they were given new character designs for the ''Laff-A-Lympics'' series. After ''Laff-A-Lympics'', Dinky reappears in ''

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'' with brothers Stinky (who bears a resemblance to Dastardly Dalton from ''Laff-A-Lympics''), Finky, and Pinky. Among the members of the Really Rottens are:

Cast

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as Yogi Bear, Augie Doggie, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Wally Gator, Snagglepuss, Mr. Jinks, Dixie, Hokey Wolf, Super Snooper, Blabber Mouse, Scooby-Dum, Dastardly Dalton *

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as Boo Boo Bear, Pixie, Ranger Smith, Scooby-Doo, Mumbly, Dirty Dalton, Mr. Creepley, Junior Creepley, Announcer *

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as Cindy Bear * John Stephenson as Doggie Daddy, Mildew Wolf, Dread Baron, The Great Fondoo *

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as Jabberjaw, Yakky Doodle, Tinker, Dynomutt, Magic Rabbit, Sooey *

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as Captain Caveman, Speed Buggy, Barney Rubble * Bob Holt as Grape Ape, Dinky Dalton, Orful Octopus *

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as Dee Dee Skyes *

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as Brenda Chance, Daisy Mayhem * Laurel Page as Taffy Dare, Mrs. Creepley *

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as Hong Kong Phooey *

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as Blue Falcon *

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as Fred Flintstone (earlier episodes) *

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as Fred Flintstone (later episodes) *

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as Shaggy Rogers *

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as Babu

Episodes

Season 1 – ''Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics'' (1977)

Season 2 – ''Scooby's All-Stars'' (1978)

Home release

VHS

In 1996, four VHS editions of the show were released in the US on the

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format, each containing two episodes for a running time of approximately 50 minutes: * ''Heavens to Hilarity, This Is It, Sports Fans!'' * ''Yippee for the Yogi Yahooeys!'' * ''On Your Marks, Get Set — Go Scoobys!'' * ''Something Smells Really Rotten'' At the same time a "bumper special" VHS tape was released in the UK on the

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format containing the following episodes (these UK episodes were the US episodes divided in two, with just one location per episode): * "Grand Canyon" * "Ireland" * "Israel" * "Swiss Alps" * "Tokyo" * "Acapulco" * "Baghdad" * "Florida" * "China" * "Italy" * "Kitty Hawk"

DVD

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(via

and

) released episodes 1–4 on

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on January 19, 2010, as ''Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics Volume 1''. Episodes 5–8 were on a second DVD titled ''Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics Volume 2'', released the same day by

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and by other stores on October 19, 2010. A two-disc DVD set entitled ''Scooby-Doo! Laff-A-Lympics: Spooky Games'' was released on July 17, 2012. The set contains an all-new Scooby Doo special, "Spooky Games", plus 12 episodes of ''Laff-a-Lympics'' – including episodes 9–16, which complete the first season, plus four earlier first-season episodes which appear on Volume 1 and 2. The set also includes an UltraViolet digital copy of the 12 contained episodes. Later in the year, the Warner Brothers shop renamed this release ''Laff-a-Lympics: The Complete First Collection''. On July 4, 2016, Volume 1 and Volume 2 were released separately in Region 2, as was a 'Gold Edition' with the previously released ''Spooky Games'' DVD; this Region 2 version of the ''Scooby-Doo! Laff-A-Lympics: Spooky Games'' DVD is only a separate version of the first disc from the R1 set, containing "Spooky Games" and four further episodes; therefore, only 12 episodes are currently available in R2, as of July 2016. Region 4 received Volume 1 and 2 in July 2010.

Other media

Comic books

In March 1978,

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produced a comic book series based on the cartoon. Creative staff for the comic book included

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, Carl Gafford,

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, Jack Manning, Owen Fitzgerald and others. The series lasted 13 issues. A ''Laff-A-Lympics'' comic book was also published in Australia in 1978 by Sydney-based K.G. Murray Publishing Company. From 1980 to 1982, various ''Laff-A-Lympics'' stories were reprinted in '' Laff-A-Lympics Annual''

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books in the United Kingdom by Fleetway. An updated Laff-A-Lympics called the "Superstar Olympics" appeared in ''Hanna-Barbera Presents'' #6 in 1996. The Superstar Olympics featured

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Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy are Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters who debuted on ''The Quick Draw McGraw Show'' and appeared in their own segment. The segments centered on the misadventures of a dachshund father-and-son team. Doggie Daddy (vo ...

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Boo Boo Bear Boo-Boo Bear is a Hanna-Barbera cartoon character on ''The Yogi Bear Show''. Boo-Boo is an anthropomorphic dwarf bear who wears a blue bowtie. Boo-Boo is Yogi Bear's constant companion (not his son, as sometimes believed), and often acts as hi ...

, Chopper,

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, the

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Hokey Wolf ''Hokey Wolf'' is a Hanna-Barbera cartoon about the adventures of a con-artist wolf who is always trying to cheat his way into the simple life. He is often accompanied alongside by his young, diminutive, sidekick son Ding-A-Ling Wolf, both of who ...

Huckleberry Hound Huckleberry "Huck" Hound is a fictional cartoon character, a blue anthropomorphic coonhound that speaks with a North Carolina Southern drawl. He first appeared in the series ''The Huckleberry Hound Show''. The cartoon was one of six TV shows to ...

Magilla Gorilla Magilla Gorilla is a fictional gorilla and the star of ''The Magilla Gorilla Show'' by Hanna-Barbera that aired from 1963 to 1965. Character description Magilla Gorilla (voiced by Allan Melvin) is a fun-loving yet trouble-prone anthropomorphic go ...

Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks ''Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks'' is a Hanna-Barbera cartoon television series that featured as a regular segment of the television series ''The Huckleberry Hound Show'' from 1958 to 1961. Plot The cartoon series stars two mice, the bow-tied Pix ...

Quick Draw McGraw Quick Draw McGraw is a fictional anthropomorphic horse and the protagonist and title character of '' The Quick Draw McGraw Show''. He is a white horse, wearing a red Stetson cowboy hat, a red holster belt, a light blue bandana, and occasion ...

Ranger Smith John Francis Smith, more commonly referred to as Ranger Smith (and known as Mr. Ranger by Yogi and Boo-Boo), is a fictional park ranger first appearing in the 1958 ''Yogi Bear'' cartoon series. The character is Yogi's main antagonist, and appears ...

Secret Squirrel ''Secret Squirrel'' is a cartoon character created by Hanna-Barbera and also the name of his segment in ''The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show'', which debuted in 1965. He was given his own show in 1966, titled ''The Secret Squirrel Show'', but was ...

Snooper and Blabber ''Snooper and Blabber'' is one of the three segments from '' The Quick Draw McGraw Show''. This show was produced by Hanna-Barbera between September 19, 1959 and October 20, 1962, and consists of 45 episodes. History Snooper and Blabber form a p ...

Squiddly Diddly Squiddly Diddly is an anthropomorphic animated octopus created by Hanna-Barbera, who was featured in his own cartoon segment on ''The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show'' beginning in 1965. Fictional character biography The round-headed, sailor-hatted ...

Top Cat ''Top Cat'' is an American animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and originally broadcast in prime time on the ABC network. It aired in a weekly evening time slot from September 27, 1961, to April 18, 1962, for a single season of ...

, Touché Turtle,

Wally Gator Wally may refer to: Music * Wally (band), British prog rock band ** ''Wally'' (album), a 1974 album by Wally * ''La Wally'', an opera by Alfredo Catalani Other uses *Wally (given name), a list of people and fictional characters *WALLY, a propose ...

Wilma Flintstone Wilma Flintstone is a fictional character in the television animated series ''The Flintstones''. Wilma is the red-headed woman married to caveman Fred Flintstone, daughter of Pearl Slaghoople, and mother of Pebbles Flintstone. Her best friend is ...

, and

Yogi Bear Yogi Bear is an anthropomorphic animal character who has appeared in numerous comic books, animated television shows and films. He made his debut in 1958 as a supporting character in ''The Huckleberry Hound Show''. Yogi Bear was the first ...

Games

A ''Laff-A-Lympics'' hand-held

pinball Pinball games are a family of games in which a ball is propelled into a specially designed table where it bounces off various obstacles, scoring points either en route or when it comes to rest. Historically the board was studded with nails call ...

game was released in 1978. The game featured Scooby-Doo, Captain Caveman, Dee Dee, Taffy, Blue Falcon, Yogi Bear, Boo-Boo Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Grape Ape, Mumbly, Dread Baron, Mr. Creepley, Dalton Brothers, Snagglepuss, and Mildew Wolf. In 1979, Hanna-Barbera released a ''Laff-A-Lympics''

Old Maid An old maid is a spinster. Old maid or Old Maid may also refer to: Games *Old maid (card game), a simple game popular around the world, existing in many variants *, a German card game (variant of ) whose name translates as 'old maid' Film * ' ...

card game that included Scooby-Doo, Shaggy Rogers, Dynomutt, Blue Falcon, Hong Kong Phooey, Yogi Bear, Boo-Boo Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Grape Ape, Quick Draw McGraw, Pixie and Dixie, Yakky Doodle, Mumbly, Dread Baron, Snagglepuss, and Mildew Wolf.

Other appearances

Dread Baron and Mumbly appear in ''

''. While Don Messick reprised Mumbly, Dread Baron was voiced by

Paul Winchell Paul Winchell (''né'' Wilchinsky; December 21, 1922 – June 24, 2005) was an American actor, comedian, humanitarian, inventor and ventriloquist whose career flourished in the 1950s and 1960s. From 1950 to 1954, he hosted ''The Paul Winchell S ...

. Dinky Dalton appears in the ''

Yogi's Treasure Hunt ''Yogi's Treasure Hunt'' (originally titled ''The Funtastic Treasure Hunt'') is an American animated television series and the fifth entry in the ''Yogi Bear'' franchise produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, featuring Yogi Bear and various other ...

'' episode "The Return of El Kabong" voiced by

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He is shown to be with his brothers Desperate Dalton and Despicable Dalton. Dinky Dalton appears in ''

'' voiced by

Allan Melvin Allan John Melvin (February 18, 1923 – January 17, 2008) was an American actor and impressionist, who was cast in hundreds of television episodes from the 1950s to the early 1990s, often appearing in recurring roles on various series. Some of th ...

. As mentioned above, he has brothers named Finky Dalton (voiced by

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), Pinky Dalton (voiced by Charlie Adler), and Stinky Dalton (voiced by Michael Bell). This same line-up also appeared in an episode of ''

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'' with Dinky voiced by

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, Finky voiced by

Tom Kenny Thomas James Kenny (born July 13, 1962) is an American actor and comedian. He is known for voicing the titular character in ''SpongeBob SquarePants'' and associated media. Kenny has voiced many other characters, including Heffer Wolfe in ''R ...

, Pinky voiced by

Diedrich Bader Karl Diedrich Bader (born December 24, 1966) is an American actor and comedian who is best known for his comedy roles. He has appeared as a series regular in television sitcoms ''The Drew Carey Show'', ''American Housewife'', and '' Outsourced'' ...

, and Stinky voiced by

Billy West William Richard Werstine (born April 16, 1952), known professionally as Billy West, is an American voice actor. His voice roles include Bugs Bunny in the 1996 film ''Space Jam'' and several subsequent projects, the title characters of '' Doug'' ...

. The Dread Baron appears in ''

Jellystone! ''Jellystone!'' is an American animated streaming television comedy series developed by C. H. Greenblatt for HBO Max. The series is produced by Warner Bros. Animation and features reimagined versions of various characters by Hanna-Barbera. It pr ...

''. He was seen in "Jailcation" where he was apprehended by the Jellystone Police Department and became an inmate at Santo Relaxo.

Cultural references

* ''Laff-A-Lympics'' was parodied in the ''

Robot Chicken ''Robot Chicken'' is an American adult animated stop motion sketch comedy television series, created and executive produced for Adult Swim by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich along with co-head writers Douglas Goldstein and Tom Root. The writers, ...

'' episode " Ban on the Fun". In a segment that parodies ''Laff-A-Lympics'' in the style of the

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, the Yogi Yahooeys are taken hostage and murdered by the Really Rottens. In retaliation, the Scooby Doobies alongside Snooper and Blabber arm themselves and kill the Really Rottens. The sketch itself lampoons the theatrical trailer for

Steven Spielberg Steven Allan Spielberg (; born December 18, 1946) is an American director, writer, and producer. A major figure of the New Hollywood era and pioneer of the modern blockbuster, he is the most commercially successful director of all time. Spie ...

's 2005 film ''

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...

''. The sketch featured Blue Falcon, Boo-Boo Bear, Captain Caveman, Daisy Mayhem, Dinky and Dirty Dalton, Doggie Daddy, Dread Baron, Dynomutt, The Great Fondoo, Hong Kong Phooey, Huckleberry Hound, Mumbly, Quick Draw McGraw (as El Kabong), Snagglepuss, Scooby-Doo, Scooby-Dum, Scrappy-Doo (who was never a member of the Scooby Doobies), Shaggy Rogers, Snooper and Blabber, Wally Gator, and Yogi Bear. * The series was also parodied in the ''

Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law ''Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law'' is an American adult animation, adult animated television sitcom created by Michael Ouweleen and Erik Richter for Cartoon Network's late-night programming block, Adult Swim. A Spin-off (media), spin-off of '' ...

'' episode " Grape Juiced" with Grape Ape voiced by

John Michael Higgins John Michael Higgins (born February 12, 1963) is an American actor and comedian whose film credits include Christopher Guest's mockumentaries, the role of David Letterman in HBO's '' The Late Shift'', and a starring role in the American vers ...

and Beegle Beagle voiced by

Doug Preis Doug Preis is an American voice actor, best known for his role as Phil Funnie, Chalky Studebaker, Willie White, Walter "Skunky" Beaumont, Bill Bluff and Vice Principal Lamarr Bone on '' Doug''. Roles * '' Doug'' - Mr. Phil Funnie, Chalky, Willi ...

. In that episode, Grape Ape is accused of using steroids at the recent Laff-A-Lympics event. Yakky Doodle, Grape Ape's teammate from the Yogi Yahooeys, also makes a cameo appearance as a witness during Grape Ape's trial. The Magic Rabbit makes a cameo in the episode "SPF" as a victim of

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. * The Really Rottens (consisting of Mumbly, Daisy Mayhem, Mr. Creepley, Orful Octopus, and the Dalton Brothers) made a cameo appearance in ''

The Cleveland Show ''The Cleveland Show'' is an American animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane, Richard Appel, and Mike Henry for the Fox Broadcasting Company. A spin-off of ''Family Guy'', the series centers on Cleveland Brown, his new wife Donna Tubbs, a ...

'' episode " Ship'rect". In the episode, Mumbly is the captain of a boat crewed by the Really Rottens in a Floaterboat Race.

References

External links

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Laff-a-Lympics Event Results
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