Character Elimination

Character Elimination is an animated series. It first aired in 2014 and 2015 on Cartoon Network on Saturday morning.

The Super Blue Guys
This team drew mainly from the movies and TV shows and is the only team made up completely of anthropomorphic    characters. Among the members of the Super Blue Guys are:

The Super Red Guys
This team drew mainly from movies and TV shows and is the only team made up completely of anthropomorphic characters.

Among the members of the Super Red Guys are:

Voice Cast[edit]

 * Julie Bennett – Cindy Bear[12]
 * Joe Besser – Babu[12]
 * Mel Blanc – Barney Rubble, Captain Caveman, Speed Buggy[12]
 * Daws Butler – Yogi Bear, Augie Doggie, Blabber, Dirty Dalton, Dixie, Hokey Wolf, Huckleberry Hound, Mr. Jinks, Quick Draw McGraw, Scooby-Dum, Snagglepuss, Super Snooper, Wally Gator[12]
 * Scatman Crothers – Hong Kong Phooey[12]
 * Bob Holt – Dinky Dalton, Grape Ape, Orful Octopus[12]
 * Casey Kasem – Shaggy Rogers,[12] Mr. Creeply
 * Don Messick – Scooby-Doo, Mumbly, The show's Announcer, Boo Boo Bear, Creeply Jr., Dastardly Dalton, Pixie[12]
 * Gary Owens – Blue Falcon[12]
 * Laurel Page – Mrs. Creeply, Taffy Dare[12]
 * Marilyn Schreffler – Brenda Chance, Daisy Mayhem[12]
 * John Stephenson – Doggie Daddy, Dread Baron, Mildew Wolf, The Great Fondoo[12]
 * Vernee Watson – Dee Dee Sykes[12]
 * Frank Welker – Dynomutt, Jabberjaw, Magic Rabbit, Sooey Pig, Tinker, Yakky Doodle[12]

Special Guest Stars[edit]

 * Alan Reed – Fred Flintstone (first appearance)[12]
 * Henry Corden - Fred Flintstone (replaced Alan Reed after his death)[12]

Comic books[edit]
Laff-A-Lympics#1.In March 1978, Marvel Comics produced a comic book series based on the cartoon. Creative staff for the comic book included Mark Evanier, Carl Gafford, Scott Shaw, Jack Manning, Owen Fitzgerald and others. The series lasted 13 issues. A Laff-A-Lympics comic book was also published in Australia in 1978 by Sydney based K.G. Murray Publishing Company. From 1980–1982, various Laff-A-Lympics stories were reprinted in Laff-A-Lympics Annual hardback books in the United Kingdom by Fleetway.

An updated Laff-A-Lympics called the "Superstar Olympics" appeared in the Hanna-Barbera Presents #6 comic book in 1996. The Superstar Olympics featured Atom Ant, Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy, Barney Rubble, Betty Rubble, Boo Boo Bear, Chopper, Cindy Bear, Dick Dastardly, Fred Flintstone, Grape Ape, Hokey Wolf, Huckleberry Hound, Jabberjaw, Magilla Gorilla, Muttley, Peter Potamus, Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks, Quick Draw McGraw, Ranger Smith, Secret Squirrel, Snagglepuss, Snooper and Blabber, Squiddly Diddly, Top Cat, Touché Turtle, Wally Gator, Wilma Flintstone, and Yogi Bear.

Games[edit]
A Laff-A-Lympics hand-held pinball game was released in 1978. The game featured Scooby-Doo, Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels, Blue Falcon, Yogi Bear, Boo-Boo Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Grape Ape, Mumbly, Dread Baron, Mr. Creepley, Dalton Brothers, Snagglepuss, and Mildew Wolf.

In 1979, Hanna-Barbera released a Laff-A-Lympics Old Maid card game that included Scooby-Doo, Shaggy Rogers, Dynomutt, Blue Falcon, Hong Kong Phooey, Yogi Bear, Boo-Boo Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Grape Ape, Quick Draw McGraw, Pixie and Dixie, Yakky Doodle, Mumbly, Dread Baron, Snagglepuss, and Mildew Wolf.

Cultural references[edit]

 * Laff-A-Lympics was parodied in the Robot Chicken episode "Ban on the Fun." In a segment that parodies Laff-A-Lympics in the style of the 1972 Munich massacre, the Yogi Yahooeys are taken hostage and murdered by the Really Rottens. In retaliation, the Scooby Doobies alongside Snooper and Blabber arm themselves and kill the Really Rottens. The sketch itself lampoons the theatrical trailer for Steven Spielberg's 2005 film Munich. The sketch featured Blue Falcon, Boo-Boo-Bear, Captain Caveman, Daisy Mayhem, Dinky and Dirty Dalton, Doggie Daddy, Dread Baron, Dynomutt, The Great Fondoo, Hong Kong Phooey, Huckleberry Hound, Mumbly, Quick Draw McGraw (as El Kabong), Snagglepuss, Scooby-Doo, Scooby-Dum, Scrappy-Doo (who was never a member of the Scooby Doobies), Shaggy Rogers, Snooper and Blabber, Wally Gator, and Yogi Bear.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Robot_13-0">[13]
 * The series was also parodied in the Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law episode "Grape Juiced" with Grape Ape voiced by John Michael Higgins and Beegle Beagle voiced by Doug Preis. In that episode, Grape Ape is accused of using steroids at the recent Laff-A-Lympics event. Yakky Doodle, Grape Ape's teammate from the Yogi Yahooeys, also makes a cameo appearance as a witness during Grape Ape's trial. The Magic Rabbit makes a cameo in the episode "SPF" as a victim of CyberSquatting.
 * The Really Rottens (consisting of Mumbly, Daisy Mayhem, Mr. Creepley, Orville Octopus, and the Dalton Brothers) made a cameo appearance in The Cleveland Show episode "Ship'rect". In the episode, Mumbly is the captain of a boat crewed by the Really Rottens in a Floaterboat Race.

VHS[edit]
In 1996, four VHS editions of the show were released in the USA on the NTSC format, each containing two episodes for a running time of approximately 50 minutes: At the same time in the UK a "bumper special" VHS tape was released in UK on the PAL format containing the following episodes<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-14">[14] (The UK episodes of this series were the US episodes divided in two with just 1 location per episode):
 * Yippee for the Yogi Yahooeys!
 * On Your Marks, Get Set—Go Scoobys!
 * Something Smells Really Rotten
 * Heavens to Hilarity, This is it, Sports Fans!
 * Grand Canyon
 * Ireland
 * Israel
 * Swiss Alps
 * Tokyo
 * Acapulco
 * Bagdad
 * Florida
 * China
 * Italy
 * Kitty Hawk

DVD[edit]
The first four episodes were released on Region 1 DVD on January 19, 2010, as Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics, Volume 1. Target released an exclusive second volume with the next four episodes on the same day titled Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics, Volume 2.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-DVD_15-0">[15] The volume would released to other stores on October 19, 2010.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-16">[16] A new DVD entitled ''Scooby-Doo! Laff-A-Lympics: Spooky Games'' was released on July 17, 2012. the set contains an all-new Scooby Doo special "Spooky Games", plus 12 episodes of Laff-a-Lympics on a 2-disc set, to complete the first season following up from the first two volumes. This new set includes an UltraViolet digital copy of all 12 contained episodes.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-17">[17] There have been no official Region 2 releases of this series to date. However, a Region 2 version of the ''Scooby-Doo! Laff-A-Lympics: Spooky Games'' DVD has been released, being only a separate version of the first disc from the R1 set. therefore, only 4 episodes are available on Region 2, but missing the 1st 8 episodes of the series, which would be the 1st 2 volumes that have yet to be released in that region.

Region 4 has got Volume 1 and 2 in July 2010.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-18">[18] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-19">[19]

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External links[edit]

 *  Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics  at the Internet Movie Database
 * Laff-a-Lympics Event Results