Toons After Dark: Scooby-Doo, Where Are You Now? (2021)

 This is the sort of thing the CW should've considered doing 2 years ago, but didn't.

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You Now? is both a celebration and a meta-special honoring the long running franchise, now 52 and still going strong. It's kind of like a goofy take on This is Your Life, with a predictable mystery mixed right in, and comments from producers Tony Cervone and Mitch Watson, historian Jerry Beck, and others. Frank Welker (Fred/Scooby, the latter role since 2002) confirmed what we've all known, that the original Scooby-Doo was his first cartoon job, all the way back in 1969.

Guests include Olivia Liang (Kung Fu), passed off as a martial arts instructor for Shaggy (Matthew Lillard, fresh from Good Girls), Weird Al Yankovic, and Cheri Oteri (ex-Saturday Night Live), who plays the villain of the piece. Lillard, Grey Griffin, and Kate Micucci all appear as themselves toward the end of the show. Archived footage with Speed Buggy, Great Grape Ape, and the original Jr. Super Friends, Wendy & Marvin, had new voices dubbed over. Archived footage with Scooby and Mystery, Inc. was scattershot, mixing in various series iterations and DTV's.

Perhaps the only archived footage not dubbed over involved Batman (Diedrich Bader), using material from Batman: The Brave & The Bold, from the look of things. It comes off as a sneaky plug, without saying so, for DC's current Batman & Scooby-Doo Mysteries limited series.

Here's a short featurette:

I don't know what the ratings were when this aired last week, but it might not have been too good.

Rating: C for Cheesy.