“It's got kind of a slacker appeal, a no-resistance story line.” Animators and children's TV creators around the world must see Scooby and ask themselves: Why can't my crappy show become iconic?
“Dog Gone: Scooby-Doo creator Iwao Takamoto died this week, but his legacy lives on. [1]”
But it wasn't as if the creators of Scooby-Doo [2] were perfect— far from it and I can prove it with one word (or is it two?):
Scrappy-Doo [3].
But despite that, Scooby-Doo did reach iconic status.
Somehow.
[1] http://www.slate.com/id/2157397/?nav=ais
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooby-Doo