Scooby-Dum

Scooby-Doo character


name = Scooby-Dum
gender = Male
species = Talking dog (Great Dane)

Scooby-Dum is an animated cartoon dog created by Hanna-Barbera Productions, who appeared in four episodes of the ABC Saturday morning cartoon series "The Scooby-Doo Show" between 1976 and 1978. He was voiced by Daws Butler.

Scooby-Dum, a Blue Merle Great Dane with spots, buck teeth, and a generally dim-witted demeanor, is Scooby-Doo's cousin. Dum lives with Ma and Pa Skillet,in the Okefenokee swamp of southern Georgia. Whenever Doo and Dum greet each other, Scooby-Doo yells, "Scooby-Dum" and Scooby-Dum says, "Scooby, doobie, doo." They then do a special handshake involving two high fives. Whenever he heard the word "Clue", he would invariably pull out a magnifying glass and, intoning the opening four notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, chant "Dum dum Dum DUM!", even after a mystery is solved. The character of Scooby-Dum was partially derived from that of Mortimer Snerd, one of comedian/ventriloquist Edgar Bergen's popular radio and puppet characters.

Dum made his first appearance during the "Scooby-Doo" half of "The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour" on September 25 1976, in an episode entitled "The Gruesome Game Of The Gator Ghoul". In this episode, Scoobies Doo and Dum, and the Mystery Inc. gang of Fred, Daphne, Velma, and Shaggy, help solve a mystery involving an alligator monster who is trying to put an end to the Skillets' production of their popular "Finokey Fizz" soft drink.

Dum appeared in one more 1976 episode of "Scooby-Doo", "The Headless Horseman of Halloween"(in which he was mistakenly referred to as Scooby-Doo's brother), which first aired on October 9 1976. He made two appearances in 1977, when "The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour" was expanded into "Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics": "Vampire Bats and Scaredy Cats" on September 17 1977, and "The Chiller Diller Movie Theater" (also featuring Doo and Dum's female distant cousin Scooby-Dee) on October 1 1977. Dum also appears in all of the "Laff-A-Lympics" segments of "Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics" as a member of the "Scooby Doobies" team, marking his final appearances in any medium.