Outside of The Mystery Begins and Curse of the Lake Monster, Robbie Amell's other breakout role into the acting world was starring on the teen sitcom True Jackson V.P. During his time on the show, he crossed paths with a surprising amount of other actors who have connections to Scooby!

He got to work with Nick Palatas again on the episode "Mad Rocks," where he played Skeet. In the episode "Little Buddies," Laura Marano (who plays Carol in Daphne & Velma) guest-starred as Molly. Speaking of other live-action films, Robbie also worked alongside J.P. Manoux in the episode "True Royal." J.P. voiced Scrappy Rex in the first live-action film.

The episode "Pajama Party" featured two guest stars with connections to Scooby. The episode's plot was centered around the characters meeting John Cena, who appeared in Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery. This is also the only episode where the main character (True Jackson)'s mother appears. She's played by Vivica A. Fox, the voice of Angel/Cassidy from Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated.

This week's poll is a tweaking of an idea from Shadowscooby! He'd suggested a Pup vs. Be Cool poll after the poll from last week. Although I'm sure they'll still be the front runners, I thought it'd be fun to include the few other comedy-focused Scooby series we've gotten. Obviously, all Scooby-Doo series feature comedy as an element. The argument could be made that certain series are a bit sillier than others (13 Ghosts, for example), but I chose to exclusively include series where there's a significant focus on the element of comedy. I think this poll question could lead to some interesting discussion, so I'm looking forward to seeing everybody's answers in the comments!

Time to check in the results from last week's poll! Besides "The Wrath of Waitro," all episodes got a fair amount of votes. However, "The Ghost of Mrs. Shusham" wins the poll with ease, getting nearly double the votes of any other option.

What is your favorite short episode from a traditionally 22-minute series?
The Ghost of Mrs. Shusham - 16
Pizza O'Possum's - 9
The Curse of Half-Beard's Booty - 8
Night of the Boogey Biker - 8
Dawn of the Spooky Shuttle Scare - 4
Catcher on the Sly - 4
The Wrath of Waitro - 1

Following HBO Max removing nearly all Scooby content (Scoob! and Trick or Treat are still hanging on, for some reason), there has been nowhere to stream the majority of series from our favorite cartoon canine. The only way to watch most Scooby content this past year has been through physical media or digital download.

CordCutters finally gave us some great news on this yesterday! At some point in the near future, Tubi will be adding nearly all Scooby-Doo series to their platform, along with a number of other Cartoon Network shows. Tubi announced they will begin adding more cartoons beginning March 1, but did not give a specific date for when the Scooby shows will be added.

However, they've shared all of these shows will be added at some point:

• The New Scooby-Doo Movies
• The Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show
• The Scrappy shorts
• The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show
• The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries
• The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo
• A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
• Shaggy and Scooby-Doo Get a Clue!
• Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
• Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!

This just leaves Laff-A-Lympics and Guess Who as not being available on streaming. Where Are You, The Scooby-Doo Show, and What's New have already been streaming on there for a while. Currently, it's unknown whether "Wednesday Is Missing" will be streaming alongside the rest of its series, since it was available on HBO Max before their Scooby library was purged.

I'm so happy to see most Scooby shows will be streaming again. In the age of streaming, it was ridiculous imo that Scooby was almost completely unavailable to watch anywhere. I hope the Scooby content remains up through this upcoming merger!

I've been waiting for this announcement since 2019! Those who have been visiting the blog for a long time will remember that I get so excited when they put unreleased episodes on DVD or Blu-Ray. After the Scooby-Doo! 50 Cartoon Collection in 2019, Scooby physical media basically dropped off the face of the Earth, beyond the DTVs and multi-feature packs of films that had already gotten released. This was presumably due to the rise of streaming with the pandemic. Those in charge of Warner Brothers' main physical releases seemed to deprioritize putting out unreleased episodes after that point, except for current releases.

After all this time, we're finally getting a new complete series set for an unreleased series. Warner Archive announced today that Scooby's All Star Laff-a-Lympics: The Complete Series is coming to Blu-Ray on March 31, 2026! The set will include all 24 episodes of Laff a Lympics. It's priced at $24.98 in the US, and will feature all episodes in 1080p HD. All of season 1 had been previously released over the course of 2010-2012. Volumes 1 and 2 were released in 2010, and a set that included the second half of season one - Scooby-Doo! Laff-a-Lympics: Spooky Games was released during the 2012 Summer Olympics. Until now, no episodes of season 2 were released on physical media.

So that collectors who want to conserve shelf space aren't missing out, this set will features the 2012 special Scooby-Doo! Spooky Games as a bonus feature. The special had previously been released on the Scooby-Doo! Laff-a-Lympics: Spooky Games set.

Thank you to Scoobsies for sharing this news! Here's the full press release from Warner Archive:

COMING TO BLU-RAY ON MARCH 31st FROM THE WARNER ARCHIVE COLLECTION!
SCOOBY'S ALL STAR LAFF-A-LYMPICS: The Complete Series (1977-1978)

1080p HD
MSRP: $24.98
A 2-SET (BD-50)
24 episodes
Running Time: 550 Minutes
COLOR
Aspect Ratio: 16x9 1.33:1 with side mattes
Audio: DTS-HD MA 2.0 MONO
Subtitles: ENGLISH SDH
NOT RATED

SPECIAL FEATURE: "SCOOBY-DOO! SPOOKY GAMES" (2012) Made-for-video special. (16x9 1.78:1 aspect ratio/DTS-HD MA 2.0 STEREO)

Sports, spoofs, and shenanigans abound when three teams of favorite Hanna-Barbera characters – the Scooby Doobies, the Yogi Yahooeys and the Really Rottens 0compete for glory in all 24 original episodes of this fan-favorite series. Hosted by yellow-jacketed commentators Snagglepuss and Mildew Wolf, the fractured face-offs feature other animated immortals joining Scooby Doo including Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear, Wally Gator, Dynomutt and many more. Hilarious events include Skateboard Polo and the Three-Legged Kilt Race, plus nontraditional challenges like the Fill up the Oasis Race and the Big Ben Tower Climb. From one outrageous contest to the next, this action-packed collection is an absolute medal-winner!! This Blu-ray collection brings together all the episodes from this fan-favorite, remastered in High Definition. The collection also includes the 2012 special "SCOOBY-DOO! SPOOKY GAMES" as a special feature, which revisited the "Laff-a-Lympics" with Scooby and his pals.

In 2004 and 2005, National Geographic produced three Scooby-Doo shorts as a part of their Kid Y series. The shorts were each themed around the Scooby-Doo DTVs at the time: Loch Ness Monster, Aloha and Where's My Mummy. The shorts used the settings of the aforementioned movies to teach the audience about geography.

The first short, "Inside Scoop" talks about the mystery of the Loch Ness Monster, and some of the fake monster sightings. The second short, "Hula Hullabaloola," teaches the audience about the geography of Hawaii. The third short, "The Curse of the Lost Lunch," provides interesting facts about Egypt and King Tut. A fair warning, the rap breaks in the third short are quite cringey. However, they're made up for by Bigfoot's sick guitar solo in the first short lol.

Going along with the shorts article from Friday, it seemed like a fun idea to do a poll covering the shorts from traditionally 22-minute series! There are seven in total: five from Pup, and two from Be Cool.

The results for last week's poll were quite evenly spaced! Looks like the OG indigenous spirit episode, "Decoy for a Dognapper," is our winner! Here are the full results:

What is your favorite episode featuring an indigenous spirit as the villain?
Decoy for a Dognapper - 9
​Watch Out! The Williwaw! - 6
The Story Stick - 6
New Mexico, Old Monster - 6
Attack of the Headless Horror - 6
The Fiesta Host Is an Aztec Ghost - 5
The Haunted Showboat - 3
A Bum Steer for Scooby - 3
​Game of Chicken - 3
The Hairy Scare of the Devil Bear - 2

Over the years, we've had a number of Scooby-Doo episodes with shorter runtimes than the average 22 minutes. In my opinion, this has been to middling success. We have shows like Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! and The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show that were able to pull the concept off quite well. We also have lousy attempts like The Richie Rich / Scooby-Doo Hour and The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo Puppy Hour, plus a mixed bag of attempts in A Pup Named Scooby-Doo. More recently, we've also had a couple series of web shorts, with the LEGO shorts from 2015 and 2016, and the 2020 Playmobil shorts. As we look towards a potential series of shorts with Scooby-Doo! Gokko, I thought it would be fun to provide my thoughts on all of the previous Scooby-Doo shorts.

So what is the right balance for a well-written Scooby short to strike? This article analyzes what I feel the answer to that question is. We'll first go series by series, and conclude with a review of the positive and negative aspects of each style of shorts.

The Richie Rich / Scooby-Doo Hour
For those who follow along with the weekly polls, I've been quite vocal about my dislike of these shorts. In the early 1980s, there seemed to be a push at Hanna-Barbera for more comedy-focused cartoons. As a result, the mystery aspect was entirely dropped from the show. Most shorts were run-around antics where the guys inadvertently getting into mischief around town, sometimes with a monster, but other times with a "bully" or someone who's angered by their mischief.

My issues with a lot of these shorts can be boiled down to two factors: the characterizations and the lack of substance. These types of antics-heavy plots often led to the guys doing something ridiculous, then not taking any responsibility for it. At their worst, we see Shaggy and Scooby catfishing a girl, being racist at the Taj Mahal, and taking no responsibility after ignoring all rules and insulting people.

​Do I believe the writers intended to shift the direction of Shaggy, Scooby and Scrappy's characters here? No. It seems more like the writers were so focused on trying to create comedy moments that they didn't think about how the guys' characters would come off. Unfortunately, this means the characters are essentially empty plot vessels, who are seen as malleable to whatever the situation requires to create comedy.

This wasn't an issue specific to Scooby. Other Hanna-Barbera shows airing at the time had similar creative mindsets, such as The Flintstones Comedy Show and the Richie Rich segments. I actually recently rewatched Richie Rich for the first time since I was younger, and was surprised how bad they were. The writing had the same "we're not gonna think this out more than 30 seconds ahead" energy that I dislike in the Scrappy shorts. The short I watched, "Mischief Movie," involved a prankster friend of Richie's being kidnapped by the hidden nation of "Obscuria," who have suddenly come out of hiding. When they arrive, Richie discovers that the leader rules through pulling pranks on his citizens. The leader is revealed to be scaring everyone by making the townspeople think he is a giant jack-in-the-box, who they are all terrified of. The plot is genuinely one of the most ridiculous things I've ever seen lol. It comes off like the writers approached it as a roleplay where different writers wrote 15 second intervals at a time, without reading what any of the previous writers had written. It was truly up there with the Yabba-Doo short "Law and Disorder" for how little thought was put into making the writing even the slightest bit cohesive lol.

This example perfectly represents one of my biggest issues with these shorts. In essence, the writing often feels like a random stream-of-consciousness, where the writers are just building the plot direction from scene-to-scene without looking at the big picture of making sure the episode is cohesive.

This perfectly segways into discussing my other issue. What I love about the Scooby-Doo formula is that the mysteries are compelling, the characters are well-developed and interesting, and the situations the gang finds themselves in keep you on the edge of your seat. These shorts...have none of that imo lol. The characters aren't really likable here, and the plot has very little substance to it. The plots are often mindless mess-around style antics with no depth. To me, most of these shorts have some major "we're making everything up as we go" energy lol.

Despite not liking most of this series, there are a few shorts that are appealing to me. I feel like "A Fit Night Out for Bats" is a perfect example of what these shorts could have been. There's no "mystery," but the short pulls in so many elements of the classic Scooby-Doo formula. The short begins with the Mystery Machine getting a flat tire, just as it did in so many of the more traditional series. They go into a spooky house for help, and are chased around by a vampire. The house has a similar atmosphere to many of the mysteries, which is really cool and notable for these shorts. Although it's just a simple chase, the presence of the monster and the atmosphere makes the episode feel like a shortened version of a classic Scooby episode. It's balanced in a way that's really fun, and even has some comedy moments with Sylvester being a rather quirky vampire. This feels like a bite-sized version of a Scooby episode that has all of the fun of any other classic episode, and could have been a great direction for these shorts. Many of the other shorts that have a decent atmosphere, a good monster, and a plot with a logical structure are my favorites.

The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo / Puppy Hour shorts featuring Scooby, Shaggy, and Scrappy are pretty much in the same vein. There is the added elements of the guys working for Fearless Detective Agency, and an emphasis on Shaggy being a teenager. Ultimately, these elements don't really change how the shorts are written. While the occasional short has some level of atmosphere, most of them don't. It's mainly the same mess-around style antics that The Richie Rich / Scooby-Doo Hour was riddled with.

The Yabba-Doo shorts were written the same way. It's a cool effort as a spin-off, but the formula is a bit of a mess. The plots of these are all so similar, both to each other and previous Hanna-Barbera shows about stopping bad guys. There's nothing that really stands out about these. The same issue with characters being used as plot vessels is present here. (see: Deputy Dusty's inexplicable angry tirade against Scrappy so they could have a "runaway episode" lol) In most of these, the comedy isn't all that funny. These episodes feel repetitive and unmemorable when watching several at a time.

That said, there are episodes that manage to be so badly written that they're funny. "Slippery Dan, the Escape Man" and "Up a Crazy River" both fall into this category for me. Both feature delightfully quirky villains, which helps the poorly thought out writing be more amusing than it would have otherwise been. There are some of the Richie Rich Hour shorts that fall into this category for me too (most prominently "Sir Scooby and the Black Knight," "Surprised Spies," "Scooby-Doo 2000," and "Hothouse Scooby"). I think a campy show of Scooby shorts like these would be awesome, and there's absolutely a place for something like that to be explored in the Scooby franchise. That said, based on the writing style of the rest of these, it feels more like the writers accidentally stumbled into making campy gold, rather than intending to approach these episodes with a different tone.

The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show is a breath of fresh air for many fans. The chaos of the 1980-1982 shorts is thankfully not present here, and the writing feels like a return to form for the franchise. This series features Daphne (who is reintroduced), Shaggy, Scooby and Scrappy solving mysteries together. It's framed under the loose premise of Daphne being a reporter looking for mystery stories. The spooky atmospheres are back. The gang's dynamic feels like a return to how it was portrayed in the first four series. Thankfully, the weird malleability of the characters for the purposes of plot is dropped. Shaggy and Scooby are back to their traditional dynamic. Although Fred and Velma aren't here, Daphne and Scrappy seem to take on the role of being the investigators. The one pronounced difference here is that the mysteries are written to be simpler. The clues are much more overt and easy to figure out. Overall, this feels like an adaption that stays faithful to the main formula, while tweaking it just enough for the series to have its own identity.

A Pup Named Scooby-Doo had just five shorts, but this is what makes it so interesting to analyze! The five attempts at adapting the series into shorts are such a mixed bag, because arguably, they were written with different approaches. The three 11-minute shorts include "Night of the Boogey Biker," "Dawn of the Spooky Shuttle Scare," and "The Ghost of Mrs. Shusham." These shorts are approached as shortened versions of regular episodes. They have almost all the same tropes and structure as the 22-minute episodes. The episodes all start with the gang discovering the mystery, meeting the suspects, finding clues, and of course, lots of silliness along the way. The episodes arguably manage their time very well. The plots are written in a way where they don't feel rushed, and are consistent with the vibe of the rest of the series.

There were two other shorts towards the end of the series. "The Wrath of Waitro" is a seven-minute short, and "Catcher on the Sly" clocks in at only three minutes. With "Catcher on the Sly," it feels like the writers threw in the towel immediately on trying to make it faithful to the show's tone. The short is essentially a Tom and Jerry romp, where Scooby is chased around Shaggy's yard by Buster Mcmuttmauler on his bath day. Although it is silly, it doesn't really feel faithful to the rest of the series. The tone is completely different, and it doesn't even make an attempt to approach the writing in a way that's consistent with the rest of its series.

"The Wrath of Waitro" is better, but to me, it still feels oddly off from the rest of the show. To me, this is mainly the result of the different characterizations. Shaggy and Scooby are uncharacteristically brave as Commander Cool and Mellow Mutt, and Fred and Daphne's appearances feel a bit obligatory. Moreover, the writing attempts to establish a different vibe that feels like it's loosely inspired by the show's tone, but it doesn't feel super connected to the rest of the series. It's a fun one-off, but I'm not disappointed that we didn't get other episodes in this vein.

Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! had two 11-minute shorts towards the very end. The head writer, Jon Colton Barry, has stated that these shorts were a "backdoor pilot" of sorts, to see if a third season comprised of 11-minute episodes would work. However, JCB had no involvement in one of the shorts, and very little involvement in the other. Because of this, these two shorts make for really interesting analysis!

"Pizza O'Possum's" is a short I don't particularly like, but it objectively does pretty well with adapting the Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! formula for a shorter length. Like the A Pup Named Scooby-Doo shorts, it takes a balanced approach to remaining faithful to the previously established tone of the series, while trimming the plot details down to fit an 11-minute length. My issues with the episode stem from the characterization of the gang, and the different humor style. Daphne is characterized as being a bit sadistic at one point, taunting Velma with her video game addiction, so that she'll be the bait. Considering Daphne is characterized in every other episode of this series to be kind and thoughtful, this comes off as a bit jarring, to say the least. The humor also feels like a pivot back towards the campy '70s style humor. I like this style of humor in their respective shows, but it doesn't feel like a fit with the tone of Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!. Besides these two issues, "Pizza O'Possum's" otherwise has an excellent atmosphere, one of the season's creepiest monsters, and a solid mystery. There's a lot of good in this episode, but the rest of the series is so high quality that the issues here make this one stand out in a negative way for me.

On the other hand, "The Curse of Half-Beard's Booty" has grown to be one of the best shorts in the franchise. The goofy premise of Captain Cutler asking the gang for help with a mystery is really fun, and I think it fits well into the quirky, ridiculous tone. The villain and atmosphere are both excellent. This feels like a very faithful adaptation of the series' vibe that uses its length well.

In 2015 and 2016, WB released 16 Scooby-Doo web shorts using LEGO animation. Rather than featuring full mysteries, these shorts feature the gang getting into different situations. Most of the shorts show a part of mystery in-progress, but some show the unmasking. A few of the shorts feature the gang merely getting into non-monster related situations, such as building a food machine, getting into a confrontation with a bully, and building the Mystery Machine out of bricks.

From a corporate sense, the goal of producing these shorts was to showcase different fictional scenarios you could imagine while playing with the Scooby-Doo LEGO sets. Every LEGO short featured some aspect of one of the five LEGO playsets released in 2015, whether it be one of the villains, or an object like the Mystery Machine. In that sense, these shorts are fun, but the one-minute runtime does not allow them to be much more than a fun little snippet. As somebody who prefers longer-form content, these shorts aren't something I return to, but I think they did a good job with the runtime they had.

​The same goes for the two Playmobil shorts in 2020. These shorts use the same writing style as the LEGO shorts, by showing a brief snippet of a situation the gang has gotten themselves into. One short has the gang review a line-up of monsters to discover who "the popcorn thief" is, only to discover that it's Scooby. The other short features Shaggy and Scooby trying to pick out a monster movie to watch, which is full of references to Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? villains. I like the LEGO shorts a bit better for staying truer to the tone of the franchise. While somewhat cute, the Playmobil shorts feel a bit too cheesy for my tastes.

Having reviewed all the shorts in the franchise, there are some common themes in the shorts I found to be good. I'm usually a strong advocate for Scooby media that tries something new, but I don't think shorts are the best place to radically reinvent the formula. My favorite shorts were the bite-sized adaptations of the franchise's core formula, that were tweaked to feel balanced despite the shortened runtime. In my opinion, the Richie Rich Hour shorts, the Yabba-Doo shorts, and the non-11 minute Pup shorts didn't have enough time to experiment with something totally new. The short runtime didn't allow for an opportunity to create something both different and compelling in a way that felt true to the franchise. As a result, none of them felt in alignment with the typical tone of the franchise.

The few Richie Rich Hour shorts I liked were all because they felt like an interesting and logical reimagining of the Scooby franchise for a seven-minute format. Shorts like "A Fit Night for Bats" and "Moonlight Madness" were so excellent because they felt like bite-sized adaptations of the classic Scooby formula. This is why The New Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo Show was such a step up from the seven-minute shorts. They took a formula that worked and felt consistent what had been previously established in the franchise, and slightly adapted it in a balanced way for an 11-minute format. Although it dabbled more into spy plots, The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries also felt like a great adaptation. The quirky tone and spooky premises still felt like a logical extension of the franchise's core formula.

Similarly, I preferred the LEGO shorts to the Playmobil ones in the sense that they built something interesting from what the franchise had previously established. The Playmobil shorts were cute, but the premises felt far more corny than something we'd see in a traditional Scooby-Doo mystery.

The most enjoyable shorts also approached the shorter runtime in a balanced way. At times, some of the Richie Rich Hour and Yabba-Doo shorts felt like they were padded for time. In most of the shorts, it didn't feel like the writers thought about the big picture of where the plot was going. It felt like they viewed the runtime as a hindrance, and an excuse to pad the plot with random chaos. The difference between A Pup Named Scooby-Doo's shorts perhaps best represents the point I'm trying to make. I enjoyed the 11-minute shorts, because it seemed the writers thought of the shorter runtime as something that could be approached with balance. There was clearly significant thought put into how to make a shorter episode that remained consistent with the general vibe of the series.

"Catcher on the Sly" and "The Wrath of Waitro" feel like the writers didn't see any possibility to make a typical episode with the runtime they had. While there's absolutely a place for novelty episodes, "The Wrath of Waitro" feels oddly disconnected from the rest of the series in many ways. In my opinion, the shorts that were most successful viewed the runtime as an opportunity to be approached with balance, rather than a difficulty that couldn't stay consistent with the franchise's formula. 

All of that said, what am I hoping for with Scooby-Doo! Gokko? I'm not a Tom and Jerry fan, but I watched a few of the Tom and Jerry Gokko shorts in research for this article. From the three shorts I saw, they seem to be approached as brief snippets of situations. If Scooby-Doo! Gokko is going to have a one-minute runtime, I think showing a part of a mystery like the LEGO shorts did is probably the best direction. I will admit, the LEGO shorts aren't super memorable to me, but I think it's all that a one-minute runtime allows for. Showing a full mystery at 20x speed and having all the gang's voices chipmunked wouldn't work so well lol.

If for some reason Scooby-Doo! Gokko has a longer runtime, I'd love to see it approached as a simplified mystery like The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show. The show does a wonderful job adapting mysteries for a shorter runtime, and is a great example that demonstrates that there is potential in a shortened runtime. Having Scooby-Doo! Gokko be like "A Fit Night Out for Bats" or "Moonlight Madness" also feels like a good option. If the 1980-1982 shorts were more like that, I feel it would fix most of my issues with them. It's a shame that they went another direction, and tried to pivot towards something that felt devoid of the heart of the franchise.

That said, I may not be the best person to speak to this. I'm not the biggest fan of the cultural shift towards short-form content, and have never fully understood TikTok lol. I also don't have any level of interest of heavily antics-based cartoons like Tom and Jerry. My dislike of the 1980-1982 shorts and "Catcher on the Sly" isn't meant to say that type of cartoon is inferior or anything like that. However, I do feel that those types of antics aren't a good fit with the Scooby franchise.

If we are indeed getting full series of Scooby-Doo shorts with Scooby-Doo! Gokko, I don't think it's something that I'll be super excited about if it's in the vein of the Playmobil and LEGO shorts. That said, I'm glad to see them continually adapting Scooby for new audiences and societal changes in media consumption. I'm not as excited for this as I am the live-action series or Go-Go Mystery Machine, but I'm interested to see what they come up with!

In the 1980s, episodes of The New Scooby-Doo Movies were split into two-part episodes for syndicated half-hour reruns. The episodes would be cut off at a random point of suspense halfway through the episode, followed by a bumper telling the audience they could watch part 2 of the episode tomorrow. You can check out an example with "The Frickert Fracas" in the YouTube video above, courtesy of SpaceHunterM.

(Credit also goes to them for this info, which they commented in a post on this blog a couple of years ago.)

I chose to focus the poll question on just indigenous legends. Katazuma qualifies because he was from an ancient indigenous culture (the Aztecs). So that the scope of this poll is clearly defined, I'm not including the two non-spirits from The New Scooby-Doo Movies. Also, in case there's any confusion, the Witch Doctor from "A Tiki Scare Is No Fair" does not count here since it's a Hawaiian legend, not from an indigenous culture. Same with "Mamba Wamba and the Voodoo Hoodoo," which derives from Africa.

The results for last week's poll were all over the map. Two unlikely winners pull in the lead to win by a single vote!

What is your favorite episode with a tree or plant monster?
American Goth - 9
Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo! - 9
Camp Comeoniwannascareya - 8
The Hot Dog Dog! - 6
Scoobra Kadoobra - 5
Lights...Camera...Monster - 4
Hothouse Scooby - 2
Returning of the Key Ring! - 2

The official Scooby-Doo Instagram announced that the complete series of Pup is now available on digital! Earlier last year, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo season 3 was removed from all digital download sites. Seasons 1 and 2 have still been available throughout the past year, but season 3 has not been watchable anywhere online for the past year. Season 3, along with the rest of the series, has now been remastered and available for digital download once again on Amazon, Fandango and YouTube. It is also available on Apple TV, but for some reason is not remastered on that service.