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One easter bollock inScoob!shows that the Hanna - Barbera villainDick Dastardly ( Jason Isaacs)finally stopped the desired Yankee Doodle Pigeon at some stage before the events of the movie . Scoob!takes the Mystery Inc. gang on an dangerous undertaking of worldwide proportions when Shaggy ( Will Forte ) and Scooby ( Frank Welker ) split apart from the group and get levy by the Blue Falcon ( Mark Wahlberg ) , Dee Dee Skyes ( Kiersey Clemons ) , and Dynomutt ( Ken Jeong ) . The raw epic team sails in search of the three dog skulls of Cerberus that Dastardly is gathering to retrieve his wiener , Muttley ( Billy West ) , from the underworld .
Dick Dastardly and his canine friend Muttley are two of the most famous characters from the Hanna - Barbera cartoon . Their origin traces back to the TV showWacky race , which premier in September 1968 , one full year before the entry ofthe original Scooby - Dooseries . In the show , 11 racer had to contend against each other to gain ground the title of " World ’s Wackiest Racer " and Dastardly always end up losing because the snare he lay out up for the other racers backfired on him . AfterWacky Races , Dastardly and Muttley got their own show titledDastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines , which revolve around their attempts to take hold of Yankee Doodle Pigeon and prevent him from pitch messages to the enemy side . likewise toWacky Races , Dastardly ’s intricate traps always backfire on him , causing the Pigeon to flee from his compass .
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More than 50 years later , it seems like the most - impossible quest to hitch the elusive bird is a thing of the past tense . One of the manyHanna - Barbera easter eggs inScoobshows a stuffed pigeon lying on the shrine Dastardly constructed for the missing Muttley when the scoundrel explains to Daphne ( Amanda Seyfried ) , Velma ( Gina Rodriguez ) , and Fred ( Zac Efron ) how he lose the dog . The figure has the accurate same risque helmet , goggles , and red kerchief as the original Yankee Doodle .
This make sense within the context of the movie . Most of thedifferences betweenScoob!and the original cartoonstem from the fact that the film aimed to create a shared Hanna - Barbera creation where the grapheme have progressed past their original adventures . The Mystery Inc. gang is tackling a supervillain instead of a regular low - graduated table whodunit , the original Blue Falcon has retired , and even the Mystery Machine beget a high - tech update at the end of the film . It only makes signified for the motion-picture show ’s primary villain to go from chasing a speedy pigeon to attempting to unleash the dog - pocalypse .
With such a drastic modernization of the franchise , some things inScoobwere bound to make no sense . detail like Scooby ’s ancient heritage , the three Cerberus skull , and Dick Dastardly ’s portal to the Scheol might test the audience ’s break of disbelief . But other little contingent like the overeat Yankee Doodle Pigeon in Dick Dastardly ’s Muttley shrine prove thatScoob ’s ambition of a shared Hanna - Barbera cinematic universecan really have more deepness than it gets credit for .
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