Hi everyone! To celebrate the 500th week of posting these weekly fun facts, I'm super excited to share that this week's fun fact was written by a very special guest writer. That guest is none other than the amazing John Dusenberry, who was a story artist for SCOOB!, and the head of story for Scoob! Holiday Haunt. John shared not one, but four fun facts with us, including a few previously unshared details about Holiday Haunt.
A huge thank you to John for guest writing this week's fun fact! It was so fun getting to talk to him and getting to learn this behind-the-scenes info about the film, and I'm excited to share that this isn't all! I had the pleasure of doing a full interview with John about his experience working on SCOOB! and Scoob! Holiday Haunt. Be sure to check back tomorrow for my full interview with John!
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Today marks a very special occasion: it's officially been 500 weeks in a row that I've been posting these fun facts. I can't believe it's been close to 10 years I've been posting these! Back when I started writing these on September 29, 2014, I don't think I ever thought I'd be continuing these a decade later, but I have a lot of fun coming up with these each week, and it's evolved into being one of my favorite things about doing this blog.
Full disclosure, I do have another surprise to celebrate the 500th fun fact that isn't quite ready yet, and I'm so excited to hopefully share that with you all soon. In the meantime, I did still want to do something special to commemorate the day, since posting these 500 weeks in a row is such a huge milestone. I was thinking about how during the pandemic, I did a number of different more involved projects for fun facts, and I haven't done something like that in a long while now. Thus, for this special fun fact, I wanted to do a little research project that I don't believe has been done in the past. I was curious which country the gang had traveled to the most, and through my research, it turns out the answer is a three-way tie between Scotland, France and Japan. The gang visited each of those three countries 6 different times. To figure this out, I calculated out how many times the gang has traveled internationally. I included "The Night Ghoul of Wonderworld" as them traveling to the UK, even though the resort was technically in North America. I also included it if the gang traveled to a landmark on another continent that is not in one specific country (i.e. the Amazon River, Andes Mountains, etc.) Just for fun, since I'd already written out all the countries they'd visited, I also counted how many times the gang has visited each continent. Below is a full breakdown of how many times the gang has visited countries and continents outside of the US. A couple notes before we get into the breakdown:
North America (outside US) = 12 Mexico - 7 Canada - 4 Haiti - 1 South America = 5 Brazil - 2 Argentina - 1 Andes Mountains - 1 Amazon River - 1 Europe = 45 Scotland - 6 France - 6 Romania - 5 England - 4 Italy - 4 Greece - 4 Ireland - 2 Switzerland - 2 Austria - 2 Netherlands - 2 Norway - 2 Russia - 2 Denmark - 1 Germany - 1 Spain - 1 Poland - 1 Africa = 12 Egypt - 4 Morocco - 2 Tanzania - 1 Sahara Desert - 1 Malawi - 1 *Note: In the Laff-a-Lympics episode "Africa and San Francisco," the competition takes place in Africa but a specific country was not named. In addition, the gang visits jungles in Africa in "A Bungle in the Jungle" and "Scooby of the Jungle," but the specific country the jungles are in isn't named in either episode. All three of these episodes are included in the above total for the continent. Asia = 21 Japan - 6 China - 4 Himalayas - 3 Turkey - 2 India - 2 Arabian Peninsula - 2 Iran - 1 Iraq - 1 Thailand - 1 Israel - 1 Australia / Oceania = 4 Australia - 3 New Zealand - 1 Antarctica = 1 Misc. North Pole - 3 South Pole - 2 Sargasso Sea - 1 It was a lot of fun tackling a bigger research project like this again, so I hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I did writing it up! In "Mine Your Own Business," an animation error shows Fred's head turning 180 degrees when he notices Daphne fell down the mine shaft.
In "The Scary Sky Skeleton," Eddie Drake is a probable reference to Edwin Drake, the very first person to drill for oil in the US. Amelia is also likely a reference to Amelia Earhart, the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean via plane in 1932.
Scooby-related questions have appeared 60 different times on Jeopardy! between 1984 and the present day. You can check out all the different questions on the Hanna-Barbera Wiki. Thanks to James for sharing this link with me and inspiring today's fun fact!
There are three amusing instances in Laff-a-Lympics season 1 of characters accidentally showing up in the audience cheering for themselves, even though they are competing in the event. The first instance happens in "The Sahara Desert and Scotland," which shows the Teen Angels are cheering for themselves in the crowd, despite the fact that they are currently participating in the Fill Up The Oasis Contest. In "India and Israel," Yogi appears in the audience cheering for himself in the Reed Boat Race. Lastly, in "The Grand Canyon and Ireland," Dastardly Dalton is shown cheering for himself during the Catch the Leprechaun Contest (Leprechaun-test? lol).
In Laff-a-Lympics, there were multiple times where a team received the wrong medal in the awards ceremony. In all three instances of this, the Yogis benefitted from the wrong medal being given out.
In "Acapulco and England," the Yogis and Rottens tied, but the Yogis are the only team that get the silver medal, whereas the Rottens get the bronze medal. Similarly, in "Egypt and Sherwood Forest," the Rottens were shown with the bronze medal despite that they were in second place, and the Yogis received the silver medal even though they were actually in last place. In "New York and Turkey," the Scooby Doobies came in second place but got the bronze medal. The Yogis lost, but were given the silver medal. Besides the Laff-a-Lympics parody and the Scooby-Doo cameo I posted about last week, Jellystone! season 3 had a number of other Scooby references.
In "Wednesday Is Missing," all of the actors from The Addams Family show reprised their roles except for two. Wednesday and Pugley's original actors, Lisa Loring and Ken Weatherwax, did not return to voice their characters from the original series, and were replaced by Cindy Henderson and Jodi Foster, respectively.
In "A Good Medium Is Rare," Phyllis Diller had five ex-husbands. In real-life, at the time of this episode's airing, she had only divorced one man and was currently married to another.
Phyllis married her first husband, Sherwood, in 1939. She was married to him for 26 years, and divorced him in 1965. Later that year, she married actor Warde Donovan, who she was still with when "A Good Medium Is Rare" aired. In 1975, she divorced Warde due to his problems with drinking, and was single for the next 10 years. In 1985, she married Robert Hastings, who she remained with until his death in 1996. Phyllis did not remarry again after her third husband's passing. |
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