It was a good idea, but the execution was lacking.
In 1999, Cartoon Network decided to try a parody of the hit film, "The Blair Witch Project". Unfortunately, while The Scooby-Doo Project was heavily promoted, the network didn't do themselves or their viewers any favors with how this turned out. I'll explain after you look at the video.
On one hand, this was a way to mark Scooby's 30th anniversary, using recycled footage, and reuniting the original cast, save for Don Messick (Scooby), who'd passed away a couple of years earlier. Archived footage and dialogue were used and re-edited, it seems.
Unfortunately, Cartoon Network missed one important detail.
To better sell The Scooby-Doo Project to viewers, CN had to completely sell out, and pull reruns of the franchise from the umpteen spots it had on the schedule for the duration of the promotion, which, I thought, would've been better suited to tie into a then-pending network premiere of the 2nd film in the ongoing DTV series, "Scooby-Doo & The Witch's Ghost", which introduced the rock group, the Hex Girls (featuring Jane Weidlin of the Go-Go's), who would go on to appear on Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated years later. If you subbed in, say for example, Funky Phantom, Amazing Chan & The Chan Clan, Clue Club, etc., shows that weren't currently on the schedule and have since been largely ignored by CN, for those Scooby reruns that were already played into the ground by this point, CN could've mined and milked the drama better than they did. Because they didn't, this project laid an egg.
Rating: C--.
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