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Clue Club is another show in the long line of Scooby-Doo clones made by Hanna-Barbera in an attempt to capitalize on the success they had with the great dane by making shows using the formula of teenage sleuths and an animal sidekick solving mysteries involving criminals disguised as monsters or ghosts.

The show revolves around the Clue Club, Larry, Pepper, D. D., and Dottie, as they solve mysteries. As this is a Scooby-Doo clone, the four teens (Dottie is left to hold the fort due to her being 13 years old) are joined by two dogs by the name of Woofer and Wimper, who while they are talking dogs, they do not talk directly to the other Clue Club members, instead communicating in barks and other dog noises.

Now this is a neat Scooby clone. As the characters can be compared to Mysyery Inc. (Larry is Fred since he is the leader, Dottie, despite being in base on communications, is Velma, Pepper is basically Daphne, and D. D. is Shaggy while Woofer and Wimper are both Scooby), it is still a good cartoon, as the voice acting is neat, the storytelling is on par with Scooby, and Woofer and Wimper are actually good comic relief.

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.

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.

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.