| Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo! Meets Courage the Cowardly Dog | |
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| Original broadcast | September 14, 2021 (digital and DVD) October 7, 2022 (Cartoon Network) October 8, 2022 (HBO Max) |
| Country | United States |
| Network | Cartoon Network |
| Directed by | Cecilia Aranovich |
| Preceded by "Scooby-Doo! The Sword and the Scoob" |
Succeeded by "Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!" |
Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo! Meets Courage the Cowardly Dog is an American animated direct-to-video film produced by Cartoon Network Studios and Warner Bros. Animation and distributed by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and the thirty-sixth entry in the direct-to-video series of Scooby-Doo films. The film is a crossover between the Scooby-Doo franchise and the Cartoon Network show Courage the Cowardly Dog. It was released on September 14, 2021 on DVD and Digital Video. It premiered on Cartoon Network on October 7, 2022 and on HBO Max on October 8, 2022.
Synopsis[]
When Scooby-Doo and the gang come to the middle of Nowhere, Kansas, the backwoods hometown of Courage and his owners, Eustace and Muriel Bagge, they find a strange object linked to a giant cicada monster and her wacky winged warriors.
Voice Cast[]
- Frank Welker as Scooby-Doo and Fred Jones
- Matthew Lillard as Shaggy Rogers
- Grey Griffin as Daphne Blake and Frau Glockenspiel
- Kate Micucci as Velma Dinkley and Velma's Tablet
- Marty Grabstein as Courage and Clown/Mr. McGill
- Thea White as Muriel Bagge and Rich Old Lady
- Jeff Bergman as Eustace Bagge, Computer and Mayor
- Paul Schoeffler as Katz, Le Quack and Narrator
- Jeff Bennett as General and Self Help Book
- Chuck Montgomery as Lieutenant and Mr. Glockenspiel
Trivia[]
- This is the first movie based on Courage the Cowardly Dog since the show ended in 2002.
- The film includes a lot easter eggs and references to all of the episodes of the original show.
- While Marty Grabstein and Thea White reprised their roles as Courage and Muriel, Jeff Bergman voiced Eustace due to the deaths of Lionel Wilson in 2003 and Arthur Anderson in 2016. Bergman originally voiced Eustace in one of the promos for Cartoon Network's 20th anniversary in 2012. This film also marks the last time Thea White voiced Muriel before she died on July 30, 2021.
- John R. Dilworth, the creator of the Courage the Cowardly Dog was not involved in this film, nor was his studio Stretch Films.
- Tracy Mark Lee (the film's animator and artist) says that the film's original premise was originally pitched as an episode of Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?.
- The film's title was leaked in December 2019 on TCM's website under the prototype name Scooby-Doo! and Courage the Cowardly Dog.