The Boomerang Network is playing a marathon of Scooby Doo episodes over the next several hours as a way of advertising the new live-action Scooby Doo movie that will be shown on Cartoon Network in short order.
You have to give Hanna-Barbera credit. When they discovered that they had a successful formula in the Scooby Doo TV show, they duplicated that in as many shows as possible. Scooby Doo launched practically a ton of copycat shows to include perhaps one of the worst of all times: Jabberjaw. This show, originally created by the studio of Ruby and Spears, was so bad that it only ran for two years and the second year was all reruns of the first year.
The gimmick? The young adults (2 boys & 2 girls) are a band looking for a drummer. Along comes a great white shark who talks like Rodney Dangerfield and sounds like Curly (Jerome Howard) of The Three Stooges and can play drums like Melody Valentine (Josie and the Pussycats). With his arrival, history is made as the band, The Neptunes, is formed and ready for all sorts of wacky undersea adventures just like Scooby Doo (I’m sure that how the show was sold to ABC).
Two years later, Jabberjaw was history until Cartoon Network commissioned the group, Pain, to do the wonderful music for what is now one of my favorite cartoon shorts. As Biff sings in the cartoon, they did everything that Scooby Doo did and they got no respect. And Biff is right, but this cartoon is excellent payback.
Insufficient polar bear for that level of OMGWTF.
Actually, there is as this was the original intro to the mess that was Jabberjaw.
I do so love the “punk rock” band look of the group in the other vid.