''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'', on ABC 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 laugh track. ''Scooby’s Laff-a-Lympics'' was originally owned by

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, Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution currently owns the series through its two in-name-only units, Warner Bros. Family Entertainment 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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'', ''

Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels ''Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels'' is an American animated mystery comedy series created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears and produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for ABC. The series aired during the network's Saturday morning schedule from ...

'', ''

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'' and '' Dynomutt, Dog Wonder''; the "Yogi Yahooeys" had characters from '' The Yogi Bear Show'', ''

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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 commentary are provided by Snagglepuss 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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, Jabberjaw 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 " good guy" 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 USA Cartoon Express,

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and

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, often during the time periods when the

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and

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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 '' Josie and the Pussycats'' 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 Warner Bros. 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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''. 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 Dick Dastardly were planned as the leaders of the Really Rottens; however, they could not appear as those characters were co-owned by Heatter-Quigley Productions. 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 '' The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound'' 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 * Julie Bennett 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 * Vernee Watson-Johnson as Dee Dee Skyes * Marilyn Schreffler as Brenda Chance, Daisy Mayhem * Laurel Page as Taffy Dare, Mrs. Creepley *

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as Hong Kong Phooey * Gary Owens as Blue Falcon * Alan Reed as Fred Flintstone (earlier episodes) * Henry Corden 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 PAL 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 Warner Bros. Family Entertainment) released episodes 1–4 on

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1 DVD 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, Scott Shaw!, 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 Atom Ant,

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, Betty Rubble, Boo Boo Bear, Chopper,

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, Dick Dastardly,

, the

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, Hokey Wolf, Huckleberry Hound, Jabberjaw,

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, Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks, Quick Draw McGraw, Ranger Smith, Secret Squirrel, Snagglepuss,

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, Top Cat, Touché Turtle, Wally Gator, Wilma Flintstone, and

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Games

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

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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''

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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. Dinky Dalton appears in the '' Yogi's Treasure Hunt'' episode "The Return of El Kabong" voiced by Stacy Keach, Sr. He is shown to be with his brothers Desperate Dalton and Despicable Dalton. Dinky Dalton appears in '' The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound'' voiced by

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

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), Pinky Dalton (voiced by

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), 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 Christopher Judge, Finky voiced by

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, Pinky voiced by Diedrich Bader, and Stinky voiced by

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. The Dread Baron appears in '' Jellystone!''. 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 ''

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'' episode " Ban on the Fun". In a segment that parodies ''Laff-A-Lympics'' in the style of the 1972 Munich massacre, 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

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's 2005 film ''

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''. 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 ''

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

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and Beegle Beagle voiced by Doug Preis. 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 ''

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

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