The WORST episodes of A Pup Named Scooby-Doo

Every episode of A Pup Named Scooby-Doo ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of A Pup Named Scooby-Doo!

For more than a decade, it looked as if this would be the final weekly Scooby Doo series. Following the unsuccessful run of The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo, the creators went back to the drawing board and turned the original "Mystery Inc." characters into small children, who now worked under the title of "The Scooby Doo Detective Agency." Gone were the days of a pup named Scrappy-Doo, this series ushered in the age of a pup named Scooby-Doo! Although they would have been this age in the '50s or '60s, the kids were far more like kids of the '80s, with computers, skateboards, and gadgets that were popularized far later. As in the original series, the villains of this series were always bad guys in rubber masks, a concept that they had gotten away from when Scrappy entered the show and the ghosts became real. More cartoonish than the rest of the shows, the characters seemed to nod back to the old Warner Bros. cartoons -- complete with bugging eyes, gaping jaws, and a myriad of hijinks an

Last Updated: 10/4/2024Network: ABC (US)Status: Ended
Dog Gone Scooby
star
6.05
87 votes

#1 - Dog Gone Scooby

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/21/1989

The gang accidentally gives Scooby the cold shoulder. Feeling they no longer need him, Scooby runs away. Realizing how cruel they were, the gang goes on a city-wide search for Scooby.

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Curse of the Collar
star
6.21
106 votes

#2 - Curse of the Collar

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/9/1989

The gang goes along with Scooby to his parents' house. Scooby's parents give him their heirloom, a special collar. Everything seems okay until the ghost of a long dead dogcatcher who was arrested when he tried to steal that collar off of a young Scooby comes to continue what he started years ago.

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The Story Stick
star
6.34
125 votes

#3 - The Story Stick

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/19/1988

The gang is camping out in the woods where they learn about the totem monster. Things take a serious turn when the legend comes to life and the totem monster wants them off his land.

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Now Museum, Now You Don't
star
6.57
122 votes

#4 - Now Museum, Now You Don't

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/29/1988

Fred, Daphne, and Velma help Shaggy and Scooby clear their names when they're framed for stealing a bunch of Japanese swords with a curse that attracts a Samurai Warlord Ghost and encounter the ghost at the same time.

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Ghost Who's Coming to Dinner
star
6.69
137 votes

#5 - Ghost Who's Coming to Dinner

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/12/1988

It's Halloween and the gang gets set out for trick or treating. At their friends the Johnsons' house, they learn that there is a real ghost living there. The ghost is a sweet one or so they think. The ghost of a long dead pirate comes demanding the Johnsons move away. The real ghost asks the gang to help save his house.

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A Bicycle Built for Boo!
star
7.59
250 votes

#6 - A Bicycle Built for Boo!

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/10/1988

While putting up Shaggy's papers for his morning route, Scooby runs into a green monster that steals Shaggy's bike. The gang traces it to a haunted house where they find a room full of counterfeit money.

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The Sludge Monster from the Earth's Core
star
7.67
170 votes

#7 - The Sludge Monster from the Earth's Core

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/17/1988

The Coolsville bank is robbed. The janitor says that he saw a monster in the vault but nobody believes him and he is accused of the robbery. He's proven right when Scooby finds the monster inside his doghouse.

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The Return of Commander Cool
star
7.70
98 votes

#8 - The Return of Commander Cool

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/16/1989

The doctor tells everybody to just play along with Shaggy's amnesia. So now Shaggy thinks he's Commander Cool. When he finally gets his memory back he doesn't remember what just happened.

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For Letter or Worse
star
7.71
136 votes

#9 - For Letter or Worse

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/8/1988

The gang go to the TV studio to appear on their favorite game show, but everything changes when the ghost of a long dead gangster appears.

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Wanted Cheddar Alive
star
7.93
162 votes

#10 - Wanted Cheddar Alive

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/24/1988

At the Scooby Snack factory, where Scooby's food is being made a strange accident occurs at the cheese lab. The workers are all chased away by a strange cheese creature demanding that Scooby Snacks stop being made.

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The Wrath of Waitro
star
8.00
56 votes

#11 - The Wrath of Waitro

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/27/1991

Commander Cool and Metal Mutt try to stop an evil caterer from taking over the world through his outrageous dishes.

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The Were-Doo of Doo Manor
star
8.04
57 votes

#12 - The Were-Doo of Doo Manor

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 8/31/1991

The curse of the Were-Doo (Scooby family faints) threatens Scooby's family home.

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The Spirit of Rock 'n Roll
star
8.11
90 votes

#13 - The Spirit of Rock 'n Roll

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/23/1989

Daphne is excited about going to hear her favorite rock singer Buddy. That is until the ghost of a long dead rock singer comes and kidnaps Buddy.

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Robopup
star
8.12
92 votes

#14 - Robopup

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/26/1988

The gang goes to spend a wonderful weekend at Daphne's house. They befriend her security guard who's helping Daphne try to find the thief that's in her house. Shaggy and Scooby soon discover that the thief is a dead chef that was fired years ago.

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Chickenstein Lives
star
8.15
97 votes

#15 - Chickenstein Lives

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/30/1989

Freddy and the gang are visiting the company that prints a magazine that Freddy enjoys reading. Suddenly it takes a serious turn when one of the magazines so called fictional characters comes to life.

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Snow Place Like Home
star
8.17
170 votes

#16 - Snow Place Like Home

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/22/1988

The gang heads down to a snowy mountain for the weekend. Their fun is turned into a disaster when a monstrous creature shows up to turn them into ice.

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Night of the Boogey Biker
star
8.29
73 votes

#17 - Night of the Boogey Biker

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/8/1990

Fed up with Freddy always blaming Red Herring for each mystery, the gang orders him to try to survive with out blaming Red Herring for each crime.

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Wrestle Maniacs
star
8.30
91 votes

#18 - Wrestle Maniacs

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/3/1990

The Gang attends the studio of CWF (Coolsville Wrestling Federation) but CWF is turning into GWF (Ghost Wrestlers Federation) when the ghost of a long dead wrestler shows up to ruin their fun.

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The Schnook Who Took My Comic Book
star
8.43
140 votes

#19 - The Schnook Who Took My Comic Book

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/1/1988

Scooby and Shaggy are at the Coolsville comic book convention where they learn their old friend has been saving the #1 comic book of Commander Cool for them. They find themselves in trouble when one Commander Cool's enemies comes to steal the comic book.

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Scooby Dude
star
8.50
155 votes

#20 - Scooby Dude

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/5/1988

The gang heads down to the beach where Velma's aunt works to help solve the mystery of her dolphins' disappearance. They also learn of a mysterious stranger prowling around the beach.

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Catcher on the Sly
star
8.50
56 votes

#21 - Catcher on the Sly

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/20/1991

A dog-catcher named Buster McMuttMawler tries many attempts to capture Scooby-Doo.

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The Babysitter from Beyond
star
8.54
142 votes

#22 - The Babysitter from Beyond

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/15/1988

Scooby and Shaggy go to see a scary film while dropping off Shaggy's baby sister at the sitters, but they are horrified when they find the sitter is hideous. What's worse is that the monster movie character has come to life and an escaped convict is on the loose.

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Horror of the Haunted Hairpiece
star
8.56
59 votes

#23 - Horror of the Haunted Hairpiece

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/6/1990

Daphne's parents decide that its time for her to get a job. so they assign her to manage the video arcade at the Coolsville mall. Her job takes a dreadful turn when a strange hair monster terrorizes The Gang.

Writer: Laren Bright
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Lights...Camera...Monster
star
8.62
125 votes

#24 - Lights...Camera...Monster

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/3/1988

Freddy is doing a new film edition to the Stinkweed series. He runs into the actor who plays Stinkweed who claims that he's being framed for some strange incidents.

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Dawn of the Spooky Shuttle Scare
star
8.68
68 votes

#25 - Dawn of the Spooky Shuttle Scare

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/8/1990

One of Velma's experiments is picked to be launched into space, but an astronaut ghost terrorizing the place thinks otherwise.

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