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  • The cult television and comic book series Buffy the Vampire Slayer features a group of characters that refer to themselves as the "Scooby Gang," or sometimes the "Scoobies," who battle supernatural forces of evil. Sarah Michelle Gellar, the actress who plays Buffy on the show, later went on to appear as Daphne Blake in the live-action Scooby-Doo films Scooby-Doo and Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed.
  • Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc. gang (based on their classic 1972 incarnation as opposed to their more recent incarnations) appear in the second part of the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode "Bat-Mite Presents: Batman's Strangest Cases" in which they team up with Batman and Robin to rescue Weird Al who was kidnapped by The Joker and The Penguin (this part of the episode is itself a reference to the Dynamic Duo's team-ups with the Mystery Inc. gang in The New Scooby-Doo Movies, both which involve them foiling the plans of Joker and Penguin). It also includes a parody of the "Safety Tips" segment which is itself a reference to the The Superfriends, another Hanna-Barbara cartoon with ties to Batman.
  • "Scooby-Doo and the Snowmen Mystery", vinyl LP released 1972 in the UK, Stereo, 33 ⅓ RPM, LP, from the label Music for Pleasure – MFP 50086.
  • In the film Dark Shadows, Barnabas Collins is watching TV and Scooby-Doo is on. After watching it for a few minutes he concludes that it is a stupid "play"- not realizing that it's a cartoon.
  • The film Saturday Morning Massacre was written to be a dark parody of the Scooby-Doo series.
  • The film Wayne's World includes an alternate ending called the "Scooby Doo Ending" in which a character in the film is revealed to have been wearing a mask. It also includes a reference to the iconic line "Let's see who this really is" before removing the mask.
  • The Filk band Ookla the Mok open their 2003 album Oh Okay LA with the song "W.W.S.D?" ("What Would Scooby Do?) which proposes a deontological system of moral philosophy based on the actions of Scooby Doo.

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