The family that appears at the beginning of "The Creeping Creatures," "Night Terrors" and "Stand and Deliver" parodies the Griswold Family, from the famous National Lampoon's Vacation franchise of films. In "Creeping Creatures," the wife is voiced by Beverly D'Angelo, the same person who played the wife Ellen in this franchise. You also may remember from Fun Fact #373 that Beverly D'Angelo began her career painting animation cels for Hanna-Barbera.
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The original television airing of LEGO Scooby-Doo! Knight Time Terror did not have "LEGO" in the title card (it was just titled Scooby-Doo! Knight Time Terror). The title card was later changed for the Haunted Hollywood DVD release.
Despite never being given a name in "A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts," many fans refer to the gypsy in the episode as Carlotta. She's even referred to as such in "The Creeping Creatures" from Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated. However, Carlotta wasn't a fan-made or retconned name; it actually came one of the official Gold Key comics released in February 1972. #10 of the Scooby-Doo...Where Are You comics, "The Ghosts of Grimstone Manor," featured an adaption of the classic "A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts" plot. In the comic, the gypsy is given the name of Carlotta, even though she was not named in the episode. A model sheet recently listed on eBay also alludes to the fact that the name Carlotta may have been on an early draft of a script for the episode.
Many fans were surprised that Abe Lincoln was credited as the guest star in "A Mystery Solving Gang Divided," rather than The Funky Phantom Crew, who had significantly more presence in the episode than Abe did. Character designer Tracy Mark Lee revealed on his Instagram page that The Funky Phantom Crew were originally supposed to be the main guest stars in the episode, but they were told by WB that Abraham Lincoln needed to get the guest star credit. According to Tracy, this change was made so that the Funky Phantom Crew showing up would be more of a surprise reveal.
The trap in "Silver Scream" (from Be Cool, Scooby-Doo) is a recreation of a scene from Buster Keaton's 1928 silent film, Steamboat Bill Jr.
The studio's name, Fletcher Studios, may also be a reference to the Flynn-Fletchers, which is the last name of the family in another of head writer Jon Colton Barry's shows, Phineas and Ferb. Another reference to the show would later be included in the next episode, "Fright of Hand," where "big laundry" is included on Daphne's to-do list (which is an in-joke from Phineas and Ferb). In "The Sword, The Fox and the Scooby-Doo!" from Guess Who, Mark Hamill's backstory in the episode about going to high school in Japan was not made up for the episode. Hamill graduated from Nile C. Kinnick High School in Japan in 1969, which he attended because his father was stationed in the Army.
Similarly, the plot of Steve Buscemi being a firefighter in "Fear of the Fire Beast!" is also based on his real life. Buscemi was a firefighter in New York for four years from 1980-1984. According to Maxwell Atoms' blog, Scooby-Doo! The Sword and the Scoob was originally planned to be the end of the Curse of the 13th Ghost/Return to Zombie Island trilogy. However, this was changed for an unknown reason.
Elsa Frankenteen from Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School was named after Elsa Sullivan Winchester, the first-ever actress who played the Bride of Frankenstein.
"The Vampire Strikes Back" from What's New, Scooby-Doo? had a special WB Halloween "Unsolved Mystery" promotion attached to the episode. As the episode aired on October 18, 2003, viewers were asked to go on KidsWB's website to guess the culprit. Anyone who correctly guessed would be entered in a sweepstakes to win a free copy of Scooby-Doo! Night of 100 Frights for X-Box. Six winners were chosen, five of them winning a copy of the game. The remaining winner was given the grand prize, which was a copy of the game and a free X-Box.
I am not clear whether or not the villain was revealed the same day, or if they didn't air the ending of the episode until the next week when the winner was revealed on October 25, 2003. The press release for this special promotion from 2003 can be found here. An early alternate storyboard animatic of the opening credits for Moon Monster Madness reveals that the film was originally titled Scooby-Doo and the Space Menace in early stages of production. You can watch the storyboard animatic of the alternate opening on the Vimeo page for the writer and director of the film, Paul McEvoy.
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