Dying to undo the moment when all fell apart
I decided to do a pointless trivia on Scooby-Doo! I don't know much about the series so this may be very short. Despite being a popular reference to the series, no villain in the original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! series ever said the exact phrase "And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it hadn't been for you meddling kids." Most villains referred to the gang as "meddlers", rather than "meddling kids", and they often simply said nothing as they were taken away. The closest the original series comes to the line is in the episode "A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts", where the villain says "I'd have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn't for those blasted kids and that dog !" However, the phrase does appear in some of the newer series, as a nod to the fandom. When discussing the show's success, character designer Iwao Takamoto said "And I got away with it thanks to those meddling kids and their dog." The...