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There are some cartoon characters that have a permanent shield of double-thick steel around them. When you think they're finally gone, they come back in a new form.

Take our pal Scooby-Doo, for example. Scooby and his Mystery Inc. friends have been with us since 1969. That's 37 years, kids; 259 in dog years (you knew I had to throw in that joke, didn't ya?). Since then he's been paired with Fred, Daphne, and Velma, the Scooby-Doobies (From Laff-a-Lympics), Dynomutt, Vincent Price and, ahem, Scrappy-Doo. After leaving Saturday mornings in the late '80s, he returned with the entire Mystery Inc in What's New Scooby-Doo for the Kids WB.

Now he's back again in this fall's 'Kids WB on the CW' (catchy, ain't it?) in Shaggy and Scooby-Doo Get a Clue. In this show... well, perhaps you should jump to find out what it's all about, and also see some of the other new series premiering next fall on Kids WB.

When it was first announced that the WB would be airing a new animated series featuring updated versions of the classic Looney Tunes characters, it caused a small uproar. Many thought the old characters were being discarded forever for a sleeker, hipper design. This was not the case. The characters in Loonatics Unleashed would be completely new, pimped out versions of their ancestors. Now, after all this time, the first episode has hit the airwaves.

NPR, despite not being able to tell the difference between "Donald" and "Daffy" Duck, have an interesting interview with the president of Warner Brother's animation about the upcoming Loonatics Unleashed, a futuristic version of Looney Tunes set 700 years in the future. The new characters are not updated versions of the classic characters, but rather whole new characters with awesome super powers. Perhaps the creators are trying to appeal to a young audience hooked on kinetic, anime-style fare like Yu-Gi-Oh and whatnot? The show is also getting some flak from purists, including an eleven-year-old boy who gathered signatures to stop Warner Brothers from making changes to the original characters, which Warner Brothers never did in the first place, so I guess it worked.