Clue Club

This short-lived cartoon by Hanna-Barbera seem like it was derived from Walt-Disney or some underground comic book. What I enjoyed the most about this cartoon is the bigger dog (Whoofer) always trying to show the little dog (Whimper) how to become a good bloodhound. But at the end it always backfires. This cartoon is another Scooby Doo rip-off but each episode makes you think.

I got up early this morning and saw "Clue Club" as part of Cartoon Network's "Boomerang" program. I remember this show from when I was a kid. I liked it then. I can't see what I ever saw in it.

The program is sloppily edited, it looks like bits were cut out of it, which may contribute to the overall badness. The lead teen, Larry is a personalityless dork, not that any of the other kids have a personality to speak off. The dogs are kinda funny, but not as funny as Scooby, and where did they get a deerstalker hat in dog size anyway?

The episode I saw revolved around a character named "Uncle Salty" being framed for a diamond theft. The sheriff literally runs him in based on the fact that he was...walking around at the time. I won't go into the mystery here, it's the standard crap, I solved it halfway through. There was also something about a sea monster, though, again, with all the cuts, it didn't even impact the plot much.

Don't waste your time. Go with the best, the original, Scooby.

As a kid growing up in the mid-1970's,I can remember watching this show since it came on Saturday Mornings,and Sunday Mornings during its run (It came to a halt on Sunday Mornings when CBS executives yanked it off the air and replaced it with educational and informative programming) for most of the decade. The show featured a group of teenagers who solve crimes with the help of two bloodhounds(Woofer and Whimper),but here is the catchy part,it had a nice premise to it,but it was a total rip-off of Scooby Doo since in this one had a Velma like character that had a computer center in the family garage. There were a lot like that in the 1970's that copy cat the Scooby formula,and this was one of them. See some of the episodes and you'll know what I mean.

Could it be that Hanna Barbara Got the idea for these 2 dogs from the Walt Disney Cartoon movie the Aristocats ? Because I am watching the show for the first time in my life right now on boomerang . I have seen most of Hanna Barbaras shows on t.v most of them I seen as a kid in the 80's after school. Like Scooby Doo,Flintstones, Speed Buggy, Etc. It could very well be possible that Hanna Barbara got into a kind of creative mood and decided to combine the 2 dogs from aristocats and put them into a Scooby Doo setting. Just watch the 2 dogs from this cartoon and then watch the 2 dogs from Aristocats and let me know if you too can see the resemblance.Personally if I was Disney I would of been a bit upset.

While I am a huge fan of Scooby-Doo, in the early days of the said series, its mysteries were easy to know who-done-it since there were almost no other suspects to pick. Instead, in Clue Club, you find several suspects and even the cases were more ambitious in the sense of the trick by the criminal to make the robbery.