The franchise is always kid-oriented because the premise is one of the most ridiculous that gained popularity: four young adults (or high schoolers/college-aged students) drive around solving mysteries with a talking dog.
They did have one darker franchise, Mystery Inc., that basically mixed the show's premise with Twin Peaks, The X-Files, Lovecraft and was overall a huge deconstruction of the general premise. From what I've seen of it, it's very violent but received constant pushback because of its dark themes.
"ScoobyNatural" is what would happen if you took these over-the-top characters, woke them up to a "reality" that monsters are real and they actively hunt them down while cracking jokes along the way. Basically, the general premise to "Supernatural." Being animated, they could get away with much crazier premises that Mystery Inc. had done before like Scooby as Robocop. The animation team behind that show, "ScoobyNatural" and most Scooby shows is very talented with pleasing designs and very little off-model drawings. They could get away with gore, the occasional crude joke and heavier plots.
Their comedy wouldn't also be limited to what their actors could do like in "Supernatural." Shaggy could still eat ginormous sandwiches, Fred can be obsessed with traps and Velma can keep her catchphrases.
TL;DR ScoobyNatural was great, and adding its maturity to the darker plots of Mystery Inc. would make a very fun, ridiculous show.
Submitted March 30, 2018 at 01:02PM by jelatinman https://ift.tt/2E7Jo1n
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