Skate On By.

Norman Maurer worked as a story writer/editor for Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s...he was also the son-in-law of Moe Howard of The Three Stooges. Maurer's sons (and Moe Howard's grandsons) are frequent Hanna-Barbera (and other studios) cartoon writers Jeffrey Scott and Michael Maurer.

The Stooges had a successful cartoon version in the 1960s produced by Cambria Productions with Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly-Joe De Rita voicing their likenesses. The original Curly (Jerry) Howard died in 1947 and his replacement and brother Shemp Howard died in 1955. Joe Besser replaced Shemp for the final batch of Three Stooges shorts before Columbia Pictures shut down their Stooges shorts production in 1957. Moe Howard and Larry Fine both passed away in 1975.

For the Three Stooges' appearances in the "Scooby Doo Movies", Pat Harrington Jr. played Moe, and Daws Butler played both Larry and Curly.

Norman Maurer had wanted to develop an updated "Three Stooges" cartoon series in the 1970s and pitched an idea titled "Superstooges" with Larry, Curly, and Moe as super heroes. He finally sold the idea to Hanna-Barbera as "The Three Robonic Stooges". It also helped that a familiar voice actor who can perform a funny Curly Howard voice was still fresh in Hanna-Barbera's executives' minds from the previous "Jabberjaw" series.

Andy Heyward also worked for Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s as a story writer and editor and was instrumental in the creation of "Laff-A-Lympics" with his vast knowledge of Hanna-Barbera characters. Heyward worked on "Dynomutt" and "The Three Robonic Stooges" series...and when he became executive producer of DIC Productions, he must have enjoyed working with "robotic" comedy characters with extending limbs to revive the concept for "Inspector Gadget".

Paul Winchell played Moe's voice. Winchell and his ventriloquist dummy Jerry Mahoney were the hosts of a compilation film with classic Three Stooges highlights in 1960 titled "Stop, Look, and Laugh!"

Frank Welker played Curly...sounding like a funny cartoon shark a lot. Welker would use the same voice to play Sparerib in Ruby-Spears' "Dingbat and the Creeps" segment in the "Heathcliff" ABC series.

Joe Baker played Larry. He later played Benjy Grimm/The Thing in "Fred and Barney Meet The Thing" and used a Lou Costello imitation as the voice of Hula Hula in Ruby-Spears' "Plastic Man" cartoons.

Ross Martin played Agent "0-0-0"...he had previously played secret agent/master of disguise Artemis Gordon in "The Wild Wild West" series.

H-B did a pilot "The Banana Splits in Hocus Pocus Park" as an ABC Superstar Movie then with the live-action Banana Splits gang getting animated for the bulk of the movie. Unfortunately, the series didn't sell... (hold that bus...oh never mind, the bus left without them)