SCOOBY-DOO, WHERE ARE YOU? #105
written by SHOLLY FISCH art and cover by WALTER CARZON You might think the biggest dangers of going online are spam, scams, and celebrity news. But not when a mythological monster shows up to threaten the star of a popular internet vlog IRL (in real life)! Scooby and the gang will need all of their investigative skills—and awfully thick skins—to survive the nasty barbs of...the Internet Troll! ON SALE 06.17.20 $2.99 US | 32 PAGES FC | DC Note: The release date has been postponed due to shipping restrictions because of COVID-19. See more info here.
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Hi all, I've been getting lots of mixed responses regarding my Guess Who reviews. If you haven't heard, I was lucky enough to have a friend offer to let me use his HBO Spain subscription, which is currently uploading one new episode per day. I wish I could provide you all with links, but I cannot due to HBO's block on downloading or recording any files. Some people have told me they're loving the spoiler-free reviews, so they know some info in advance on the episode. Others want me to hold the reviews back until they are released in the US, or online where everyone has access to them. That's why I decided to set up this poll, seeing what people think. This will be in the same format as the weekly polls, however, I'm just going to do a quick one-day poll and announce the results when I post next week's poll tomorrow. Once again, do not think that voting "Yes" (or "No") a million times is going to make that option win. I have it set up so if anyone votes more than one time from the same IP address, all their votes are deleted, including the first one (so you're actually worse off than if you would have just voted one time like everyone else). Unfortunately, I'm still getting notifications of a few people doing this on the weekly polls, so I wanted to make sure that this was clear. Thanks everyone, and happy voting! ***This is a spoiler-free review.**
For those who didn't read my comments on the Hex Girls post, I have been lucky enough to see these episodes through a friend in Spain's subscription to HBO Spain. While I would love to share these, there is no way for me to provide a link to these or download them off of HBO. HBO Spain has a block up on downloads or recordings, and you need to pay for a subscription from Spain to view them. I was incredibly lucky that my friend had allowed me access to his HBO account, and I apologize that I am not able to share links with you. I enjoyed this episode! Steve was a really solid guest star and he had a lot of good moments, most prominently where he redeems his love for chipmunks at the end haha. Speaking of the ending, it ends differently than a lot of other episodes have, and I enjoyed that. The Fire Beast was a pretty cool looking villain. But again, Fred, Daphne and Velma had interchangeable lines which I don't really like. They also used a variation on that door gag for the fifth or sixth time in a row now, which is getting old. Having visited Italy last summer, I also noticed quite a lot of unfortunate stereotypes in this episode. I'd say Steve was the best part of this episode and the Fire Beast had a cool design, but nothing special with the gang really. This places 14/19 on the scoreboard, since it wasn't a particularly offensively bad episode, but it was also pretty lackluster in general compared to most others. I'm also including a villain pic at the bottom of the Fire Beast, in case people are interested. Star-Studded Scoreboard: 1. The Sword, The Fox and the Scooby-Doo! 2. One Minute Mysteries! 3. Elementary, My Dear Shaggy! 4. When Urkel-Bots Go Bad! 5. What a Night, for a Dark Knight! 6. Attack of the Weird Al-osaurus! 7. The Cursed Cabinet of Professor Madds Markson! 8. The Nightmare Ghost of Psychic U! 9. Revenge of the Swamp Monster! 10. The Scooby of a Thousand Faces! 11. Now You Sia, Now You Don't! 12. The New York Underground! 13. Hollywood Knights! 14. Fear of the Fire Beast! 15. Quit Clowning! 16. Peebles' Pet Shop of Terrible Terrors! 17. Ollie Ollie In-come Free! 18. The Fastest Food Fiend! 19. A Mystery Solving Gang Divided When the image of the Hex Girls from Guess Who were revealed recently, many fans felt the Hex Girls looked very off. However, thanks to Ruben MG from the ScoobyAddicts forum, three more images of the Hex Girls from "I Put A Hex On You!" from Guess Who were found. I think these images look a ton better than the original image they released. Take a look, both at the picture above and the two below. What do you all think?
In "The Nightmare Ghost of Psychic U!" (from Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?), Whoopi being a psychic was a reference to the 1990 film Ghost, where she played the main character who was also a psychic.
Thanks to Scoobyfan4ever for coming up with this fact! Yesterday, the SCOOB! official Instagram account was sadly hacked by a random person in Iraq who deleted all their posts, unfollowed everyone, and then posted a picture of themselves. Luckily, the account was reclaimed today and all content was able to be recovered by Instagram. Here is the picture the hacker posted:
My favorite has always been "Gotta Have Time"...even if it is a bit odd to have Cherie singing about being in love with a dog haha.
Here are the results for last week's poll: What is your favorite chase song from Where Are You? Daydreamin' - 13 Seven Days A Week - 12 Pretty Mary Sunlight - 9 Love The World - 7 Tell Me, Tell Me - 6 Recipe For My Love - 5 I Can Make You Happy - 5 Also, be sure to check out the newly leaked Muttley image from SCOOB! (somehow they have their site protected from taking any screencaps, so I can't post it on here) thanks to BTVA. Thanks so much to Becker for sharing this! Check out this one minute sneak-preview of "Space Station Scooby!" featuring Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson. Unfortunately, we don't get to see Neil at all in this preview, though so far, it's looking like a great episode!
Currently, "Space Station Scooby!" is set to air as the finale for season 1, if the order found on Amazon Prime last week is correct. In this essay, I'm going to argue that Shaggy, Scooby and Scrappy are homeless. In numerous episodes throughout The Richie Rich / Scooby-Doo Show, Shaggy, Scooby and Scrappy are hinted to be living out of the Mystery Machine, doing daily rituals that would normally be done in one's house. Going through all 60 shorts in the series, I will discuss the numerous times in which the gang is hinted to live out of the Mystery Machine, and ultimately, demonstrate that they are intended to be homeless, or traveling from place to place, in this series. This essay is not an attempt to disparage or make fun of anyone who is homeless, rather, it is simply an editorial essay pointing out a relevant factor that's present through the entire show. Let's begin with "Scooby in Wonderland." Scooby, Shaggy and Scrappy are shown to be sleeping in their van, not in sleeping bags, but in what appears to be full-size beds. While it may have been possible these could be beds somewhere else, as they look like beds you'd have in a house, the first seen actually pans into the Mystery Machine, which shows that they are sleeping in their van. Scrappy and Scooby have one bed, while Shaggy sleeps in the other. Our next short that has some evidence of this is "Scooby's Trip to Ahz," which has the gang watching "The Wizard of Oz" on TV...out of their parked van. It seems a bit odd that they would just randomly park their van to go watch television. This could maybe be explained, if it weren't for the numerous other episodes that have evidence of them living out of the van. In "Scooby's Luck of the Irish," Scooby, Scrappy and Shaggy are eating Irish stew in the woods. The stew was clearly shown to be made with an old pot, heated by fire, telling me that they don't have an oven or any other means of cooking it. It seems quite odd to be eating stew out in the woods, especially when it's dark, even though no evidence was shown of them living out of the van in this episode. In quite possibly the most pitiful example, "Scooby and the Beanstalk" begins with the gang eating baked beans in an empty field. It begins to rain, however, and the beans are ruined. Shaggy claims there is nothing else to eat because that was all they had. Afterwards, they go and sleep in the van, hungry. If anything, this seems like a very clear example of them being homeless. While these four are all the evidence we have of them living out of the van, it seems to happen often enough for it to be a possibility. What makes this a further possibility is how many jobs they have in this series. Spoilers: it's a ton. Nine out of the sixty episodes in the series has the guys getting jobs. These jobs include the following. In "The Chinese Food Factory," they get jobs as night watchmen at a Chinese food factory. In "Stuntman Scooby," they get jobs as stuntmen on the set of a film. "Scooby's Three Ding-A-Ling Circus" has the gang working as carnival workers selling food. "Surprised Spies" has them hired by the FBI to be professional spies. The guys get jobs as a magician's assistants in "Backstage Scooby." The gang is working on cleaning space shuttles in "Scooby Saves the World." Shaggy, Scooby and Scrappy get jobs as foremen building the Vampire State Building in "Hardhat Scooby." The very next episode, "Canine to Five" has them working for a scientist who turns into a werewolf. They start their very own gardening service, the Triple S Gardening Service in "Hothouse Scooby." Finally, "Scooby Doo 2000" has the guys cleaning Big Ben in England. So why are the gang homeless? We don't exactly know for sure obviously, but my thoughts are that they are traveling the world out of their van. They seem to bring their van to quite odd places such as an Arabian temple (which would require cross-ocean travel). The gang travels to locations in this series, including the old west, England, Arabia, Egypt, the Himalayas, Mexico, Scotland, the Amazon jungle, an unnamed prehistoric island, the Swiss Alps, Italy, Hawaii, Alaska, Carlsbad (Bad Carl's) Caverns, Paris, India, somewhere in the South, The Great Wall of China, and England for a second time. While maybe not the most solid, undeniable argument I've ever made, I think the evidence for the gang traveling the world living out of their van in The Richie Rich / Scooby-Doo Show is pretty decent, and is definitely my head canon for the series. I think it's an interesting twist that the writers chose to write them this way, and I'm admittedly not sure why, other than maybe they wanted to keep that element of the Mystery Machine from the original format as a home base for the guys in their travels. Keep in mind, we never do see the gang's homes in the 1969-1979 series either, though they are not shown to be living out of the van through context clues as they seem to be in this series. If going hungry because your baked beans cooked in a bucket got soggy doesn't mean you're living in a van, I don't know what does.
The final trailer for SCOOB! was just released today, which you can watch above! I have to say I'm really looking forward to this! Though this was many of the same scenes as the original trailer, I thought all the new scenes were really cool, and I really liked the voices for Dick Dastardly, Dee Dee Sykes, Blue Falcon and Dynomutt.
If you have thoughts on the trailer, let me know in the comments below! |
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