Scooby’s All-Star Laff-A-Lympics Blu-ray review
Mar 29, 2026- Permalink
With the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics fresh in our minds, it’s the perfect time for Warner Archive to release Scooby’s All-Star Laff-A-Lympics on Blu-ray. The Laff-A-Lympics were part of a two-hour block of five Hanna-Barbera cartoons that ran on the US ABC network between September 1977 and September 1978. This release contains all 24 of the Laff-A-Lympics episodes, which featured three teams – the appropriately named Scooby Doobies, the Yogi Yahooeys, and the villainous Really Rottens – as they competed for medals in a variety of winter and summer Olympic sports and other activities. Forget Howard Cosell, these sporting events were hosted by Snagglepuss and Mildew Wolf. I remember watching these cartoons as a kid and rooting for the good guys. Thanks to Warner Archive and Allied Vaughn, I had a chance to take a look at this set.
The 1080p AVC encoded digital transfer is presented in a 1.33:1 aspect ratio. Warner Archive’s team did their usual magic assembling the best of the original elements that were out there for their scan. The animation lines are crisp and the colour palette really pops. There really is no grain present, so I’m assuming that some digital cleanup had to be done on the elements that they were able to assemble for this project. I think the video presentation looks great and I’m just amazed that so much love was shown to preserving a Saturday morning cartoon that some companies would just shrug off. Kudos to them.
On the audio side of things, there’s an English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono soundtrack. Subtitles are available for English SDH. The soundtrack is bright and dynamic. Dialogue is clear and prioritized in the mix and both the score and sound effects sound great as well.
The 24 episodes of the show are spread over three Blu-ray discs. There is no digital code. There’s one special feature, Scooby Doo: Spooky Games which sees the gang heading over to England to compete and deal with a haunted statue.
The Scooby’s All-Star Laff-A-Lympics Blu-ray hit me right in the nostalgia section and I will be spending time getting reacquainted with the shenanigans. With great audio and video, this set is recommended.