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The episode "Speed Buggy Went That-a-Way" was featured on the Warner Bros. Presents DVD compilation Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1970's Volume 1 and released on May 26, 2009. [43] As part of the Warner Bros. Home Entertainment's Archive Collection, the complete Speed Buggy series was made available on DVD as a four-disc set. [3]
The episode is a satire of how many classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons are rip-offs of one another (e.g. Scooby-Doo, Jabberjaw and Speed Buggy are all mystery-solving cartoons involving objects/animals as focal characters who can talk, and how certain members of each mystery solving team look like each other, like Shaggy, Clamhead and Mr. Tinker ...
Johnson and Buzzi adapted and reprised the roles they had originated in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, with much of the adult innuendo (including Tyrone's original last name Horneigh) being removed to keep the cartoon family-friendly.
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Like a great deal of Hanna-Barbera's 1970s output, the format and writing for Jabberjaw was similar to that for Scooby-Doo, [3] Josie and the Pussycats and Speed Buggy. [4] The show also drew inspiration (in the use of a shark as a character) from the overall shark mania of the mid-1970s [5] caused by the then-recent film Jaws.
All the human mystery solvers are taken hostage by Lord Infernicus, while Scooby, Jabberjaw, Speed Buggy, Captain Caveman and J. Wellington "Mudsy" Muddlemore try and stop him. They discover that Infernicus has turned the humans into guinea pigs , then discover he's trying to take them out of Crystal Cove via train.
Fans of One Piece might remember Buggy from the original anime and manga, but new fans are discovering him in the live-action adaptation. Find out who Buggy is from One Piece here.
The series premiered as part of the Saturday-morning cartoon program block Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics, which consists of 24 episodes, on ABC on September 10, 1977. [1] The show is a spoof of the Olympics and the ABC primetime series Battle of the Network Stars , [ 2 ] which debuted one year earlier.