Wicked episode!
This episode absolutely blew me away and is my favorite of the series so far. The Hex Girls were great as always, and their repeated new catchphrases "Wicked" and "Rock and roll!' were interesting. I was surprised how aggressive they made Thorn in this episode, but it was funny. I loved that Thorn actually needed her own tranquilizer gun (held in an "in case of Thorn" fire extinguisher box), and that she wrecked her own house 8 times last week because she "just felt like it" haha. I really didn't mind that the Hex Girls had edgier personalities than in the past; it was a fun personality quirk, and I wouldn't be offended if it became a recurring character trait, but I also wouldn't mind if it didn't. It was a fun combo of them being "spooky" but also edgy. Luna and Thorn acting all girly under the cursed guitar (which makes people act the opposite of their typical personalities) was pretty humorous, as well. I loved their new song "I Put a Curse on You!". It was reminiscent of "I'm A Hex Girl," but a little blander than some of their other songs. Still super catchy though! I thought it was a really fun reference to have the picture of the "younger versions" of the Hex Girls feature their original Witch's Ghost designs. The villain was super neat too, one of the best of the series, if not the best. She was super creepy, with the yellow eyes and zombified face. The gang also all had a lot of personality in this episode, which I appreciated. Amazing episode for the gang interacting with each other with some sweet moments thrown in there, and I'd love to see more episodes like it! And with that, we have a new #1! Star-Studded Scoreboard: 1. I Put a Hex on You! 2. The Sword, The Fox and the Scooby-Doo! 3. One Minute Mysteries! 4. Dance Matron of Mayhem! 5. Elementary, My Dear Shaggy! 6. Too Many Dummies! 7. When Urkel-Bots Go Bad! 8. What a Night, for a Dark Knight! 9. Attack of the Weird Al-osaurus! 10. The Cursed Cabinet of Professor Madds Markson! 11. A Run Cycle Through Time! 12. The Nightmare Ghost of Psychic U! 13. The Wedding Witch of Wainsly Hall! 14. Revenge of the Swamp Monster! 15. The Scooby of a Thousand Faces! 16. Now You Sia, Now You Don't! 17. The New York Underground! 18. Hollywood Knights! 19. Fear of the Fire Beast! 20. Quit Clowning! 21. Peebles' Pet Shop of Terrible Terrors! 22. Ollie Ollie In-come Free! 23. The Fastest Food Fiend! 24. A Mystery Solving Gang Divided
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Update: The release date has been pushed back to June 10, 2020.
On Amazon France, a complete season 1 DVD has been listed for release on May 6, 2020. The DVD set will include all 26 episodes of season 1 and will be a four disc set, running 572 minutes. While no DVD release has been announced for any other region, and half of season 1 still not even aired in the US, do you think the rest of the world will also get that DVD release soon? Thanks Gross108 for bringing this to my attention! According to NerdBot.com, some very dedicated fans under the joint name "Meddling Kids Productions" are creating a brand-new Scooby-Doo live action spinoff that mirrors the darkness of Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated. According to the trailer, it seems that this will be reminiscent of darker shows like Riverdale or the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. You can check out the trailer above.
Here's the official description of the show: Set in the small town of Coolsville, Ohio we follow Fred Jones, a high school baseball star who tragically just buried his parents. Determined to prove that his parents were murdered by supernatural forces, Fred’s search inadvertently crosses his path with that of resident hipster nerd Velma Dinkley, wealthy socialite Daphne Blake, rebel stoner Norville “Shaggy” Rogers, and his dog, a retired K-9 unit Great Dane named Scooby-Doo. When Coolsville is attacked by a dark force from its past, these unlikely heroes must defy the social hierarchy and unite to fight back and save their town. Here's the cast list: Daphne: Jessica Chancellor Fred: Dade Elza Velma: Dayeanne Hutton Shaggy: Chris Villain Scooby Doo: Thor Von Shultz Seth Sommers: James Tolbert Miner 49er: Hank Starr Phantom Racer: Elias Zuno Vampiers: Lenox Knight, Tony Noto, & Sonny Ace Ravers: Riley Blomquist, Hannah Watt, & Jon Nowinski Hex Girls: Brittany Mason, Arielle Diaz, & Erin Alderdice I think this is a really cool idea and I wish the people making it the best of luck! What are your thoughts on this show? Tony Cervone, the head writer for SCOOB!, just posted an image of the Space Kook on Instagram, saying his original laugh track was the last sound to be edited into SCOOB! The Messick Family apparently helped the original Space Kook sound be rediscovered, and it hasn't been used in 50 years now.
What do you think of the Space Kook? I think he looks amazing! This was a great episode!
I liked Malcolm McDowell, who acted as sort of a Marty McFly figure in this episode. I actually laughed out loud at a joke in Guess Who for once, the one where Malcolm was shouting "time machine" over and over into the aluminum can to make it sound like he was echoing lol. Only part I didn't like was that part at the end where Malcolm was like "hey, let's party!" It felt like they just didn't know how else to wrap it up since they went so big with the time travel, but nonetheless it was a dumb line. It was weird seeing Scooby being evil in the year 4646 and Shaggy fighting him, but them changing history was a super cute moment. Shaggy being an all-powerful cyborg was pretty neat haha. The dystopian universe looked really cool, albeit it felt that the whole time travel thing felt a bit rushed. The Chronobeast was an interesting pick for a villain. I liked his design a lot; definitely one of the better designed villains of this series. Star-Studded Scoreboard: 1. The Sword, The Fox and the Scooby-Doo! 2. One Minute Mysteries! 3. Dance Matron of Mayhem! 4. Elementary, My Dear Shaggy! 5. Too Many Dummies! 6. When Urkel-Bots Go Bad! 7. What a Night, for a Dark Knight! 8. Attack of the Weird Al-osaurus! 9. The Cursed Cabinet of Professor Madds Markson! 10. A Run Cycle Through Time! 11. The Nightmare Ghost of Psychic U! 12. The Wedding Witch of Wainsly Hall! 13. Revenge of the Swamp Monster! 14. The Scooby of a Thousand Faces! 15. Now You Sia, Now You Don't! 16. The New York Underground! 17. Hollywood Knights! 18. Fear of the Fire Beast! 19. Quit Clowning! 20. Peebles' Pet Shop of Terrible Terrors! 21. Ollie Ollie In-come Free! 22. The Fastest Food Fiend! 23. A Mystery Solving Gang Divided Certainly not the best episode, but I think the tone and the villain took this episode a long way. Having the entire setting of the episode be in the old Wainsly Hall mansion at night was super creepy. Moreover, I think the villain was one of the scariest of the entire series so far. The lore that she was a bitter woman left at the alter was interesting, especially since we don't tend to get a lot of lore with Guess Who. She had a pretty creepy design too! It's definitely worth noting that about how the witch tricks them into eating the sweet potato pie that makes them have lucid dreams about her wedding is terrifying! Clearly, the witch is somehow able to control exactly what they are dreaming about then, which raises both the fear-factor, and a lot of questions! Jeff Foxworthy as a guest star was decent. The running gag of Jeff trying to prove that Fred, Shaggy and Scooby were all "country boys" got really irritating after a while, but with the exception of that, I didn't mind Jeff's presence in the episode too much. The creepy vibe of the episode and the witch's lore/design definitely made up for it in my book. Shaggy and Scooby eating that hundred-year (or more) old buffet was disgusting! I also thought them being so intrigued by the bug zapper kinda weird. Also, if you don't like door scenes, this episode has an extended door scene that lasts at least a minute which you can tell was just a ploy to fill time. They also made a very obvious and regrettable typo in the credits, since last I checked, there's no such thing as a "Contruction Foreperson" lol. You can also see by the credits that they still aren't naming any minor characters (with the exception of one), which is quite unfortunate. Star-Studded Scoreboard:
1. The Sword, The Fox and the Scooby-Doo! 2. One Minute Mysteries! 3. Dance Matron of Mayhem! 4. Elementary, My Dear Shaggy! 5. Too Many Dummies! 6. When Urkel-Bots Go Bad! 7. What a Night, for a Dark Knight! 8. Attack of the Weird Al-osaurus! 9. The Cursed Cabinet of Professor Madds Markson! 10. The Nightmare Ghost of Psychic U! 11. The Wedding Witch of Wainsly Hall! 12. Revenge of the Swamp Monster! 13. The Scooby of a Thousand Faces! 14. Now You Sia, Now You Don't! 15. The New York Underground! 16. Hollywood Knights! 17. Fear of the Fire Beast! 18. Quit Clowning! 19. Peebles' Pet Shop of Terrible Terrors! 20. Ollie Ollie In-come Free! 21. The Fastest Food Fiend! 22. A Mystery Solving Gang Divided Really fun episode!
Maddie was a cute guest star, and seemed super energetic in the role. I don't feel like we've gotten that with every guest star in this series, so it's always a pleasure when we get a really good one like this one. The location, her haunted dance studio, was a fun change of setting as well. The villain, Madame Zobrinsky's ghost, was super neat too! I liked how the majority of the episode tried something different with Maddie trying to teach Shaggy and Scooby how to dance to break the curse that the ghost put on Maddie. You could argue that this episode was off-pace, but I honestly like the episodes that do something different than the norm (such as the Flash one), so naturally I loved this episode. Maddie's energized contributions to this episode, in conjunction with the change of pace with this episode, made this one of the best episodes of the series so far. Star-Studded Scoreboard: 1. The Sword, The Fox and the Scooby-Doo! 2. One Minute Mysteries! 3. Dance Matron of Mayhem! 4. Elementary, My Dear Shaggy! 5. Too Many Dummies! 6. When Urkel-Bots Go Bad! 7. What a Night, for a Dark Knight! 8. Attack of the Weird Al-osaurus! 9. The Cursed Cabinet of Professor Madds Markson! 10. The Nightmare Ghost of Psychic U! 11. Revenge of the Swamp Monster! 12. The Scooby of a Thousand Faces! 13. Now You Sia, Now You Don't! 14. The New York Underground! 15. Hollywood Knights! 16. Fear of the Fire Beast! 17. Quit Clowning! 18. Peebles' Pet Shop of Terrible Terrors! 19. Ollie Ollie In-come Free! 20. The Fastest Food Fiend! 21. A Mystery Solving Gang Divided In "Stake-Out at the Take-Out" from The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo Puppy Hour, the guys go to Big City Airport, which places this series in the same location as where Dynomutt and Blue Falcon reside. This brings up a number of continuity and location questions in regards to the Scrappy-Doo years.
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Also, the order for these is a bit wacky, it seems. In Spain, The Hex Girls was episode 20, however, all other countries and Amazon seem to agree that Jeff Dunham and Darci Lynne Farmer is the 20th episode. I'm going to go with the majority here and say Jeff and Darci is episode 20, and I can always update this post later if need be. I will continue to post one review per day! This was definitely the creepiest episode so far! Crazy Carl was a super creepy villain, especially when he was following them all around town and popping up in their motel at night. Tons of classic horror elements were used in this episode, which I loved! However, I thought the running gag of everyone thinking Scooby was a dummy and Shaggy was his ventriloquist got old after a while. Crazy Carl looked quite like the Joker, though that wasn't touched upon or referenced in any way beyond his appearance. Crazy Carl's voice kinda sounded like an old 50's gangster or something haha. I thought it was interesting that Simone was used again in this episode. This is the third time she's been a minor character in an episode. The old lady and her son (who reminded me of Lurch) were super creepy too, and the chase scene between them in the haunted house with them only amped up the spook-factor for me. I didn't like that they used the door gag again in this episode, it's getting quite old now. The guest stars were decent as well, but Darci Lynne Farmer seemed to completely overshadow Jeff Dunham in the episode. Jeff hardly got any lines and kinda seemed like he was just there, without any purpose. It was interesting how each of their ventriloquist dummies seemed to be minor characters. This was a great episode though due to the excellent use of horror elements, so I'm ranking this #4/20. A picture of Crazy Carl is also included below. He also has extending arms that he can grab people with. Star-Studded Scoreboard: 1. The Sword, The Fox and the Scooby-Doo! 2. One Minute Mysteries! 3. Elementary, My Dear Shaggy! 4. Too Many Dummies! 5. When Urkel-Bots Go Bad! 6. What a Night, for a Dark Knight! 7. Attack of the Weird Al-osaurus! 8. The Cursed Cabinet of Professor Madds Markson! 9. The Nightmare Ghost of Psychic U! 10. Revenge of the Swamp Monster! 11. The Scooby of a Thousand Faces! 12. Now You Sia, Now You Don't! 13. The New York Underground! 14. Hollywood Knights! 15. Fear of the Fire Beast! 16. Quit Clowning! 17. Peebles' Pet Shop of Terrible Terrors! 18. Ollie Ollie In-come Free! 19. The Fastest Food Fiend! 20. A Mystery Solving Gang Divided Honestly, I've gotta go with the classic The New Scooby-Doo Movies series. I'm probably somewhat biased, given I have such fond memories of growing up with them as a kid, but I still say that series does the dynamic between the guest stars and the gang best without either overshadowing the other.
Here are the results for last week's poll: What is the best song in Scooby Goes Hollywood? Scooby-Doo, We're Missing You - 18 Ruby Cool Guy - 8 Move Over - 6 Gotta Have Time - 4 |
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