 For the first time ever in a poll, we had a four-way tie between several unlikely candidates! I expected "Curse of the Collar" or "The Sludge Monster from the Earth's Core" to win, but I did not think the other ones would get that many votes. All of these will advance to the Winner's Circle poll in June!
The Sludge Monster from the Earth's Core - 5 Wanted Cheddar Alive - 5 Snow Place Like Home - 5 Curse of the Collar - 5 A Bicycle Built for Boo - 4 The Were-Doo of Doo Manor - 4 The Babysitter from Beyond - 3 Scooby Dude - 3 Robopup - 2 Chickenstein Lives - 2 Mayhem of the Moving Mollusk - 2 The Ghost of Mrs. Shusham - 2 The Adventures of Commander Cool and Mellow Mutt: The Wrath of Waitro - 2 For Letter or Worse - 1 Now Museum, Now You Don't - 1 Ghost Who's Coming to Dinner? - 1 Lights...Camera...Monster - 1 Return of Commander Cool - 1 The Computer Walks Among Us - 1 Dawn of the Spooky Shuttle Scare - 1 Wrestle Maniacs - 1 0 votes: The Schnook That Took My Comic Book, The Story Stick, The Spirit of Rock N Roll, Night of the Living Burger, Dog Gone Scooby, Terror Thy Name Is Zombo, Night of the Boogey Biker, Horror of the Haunted Hairpiece, and Catcher on the Sly
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 WB does not publish official sales figures for direct-to-video films. However, I recently found a site that seems to be reliable that has estimated sales numbers for some of the Scooby-Doo DTVs. The site shows Abracadabra Doo made 4.5 million dollars in DVD and Blu-Ray sales, and Camp Scare and Curse of the Lake Monster have made 3.5 million dollars. Some of the recent DTVs, on the other hand, have not done nearly as well. The site shows Happy Halloween to have made about $600,000, and Sword and the Scoob made $900,000. Straight Outta Nowhere and Trick or Treat made $400,000, which is a tenth of what Abracadabra Doo sold. While I am still bummed out that David Zaslav has been cancelling so much Scooby content, this site seems to shine a bit of light on why. If these figures are accurate, Scooby-Doo films were only making 10% of what they did 10 years ago, so WB was not making much money off of them. You can navigate through the numbers on the site here, but only a select amount of Scooby-Doo films and DTVs are included. It also shows the box office for the first two live action films, and shows that Monsters Unleashed (180 million) made only 2/3 of the amount of money that the first film (27 million) made.
 It seems like last week's results were pretty spread out, but there was a surprisingly close race for the winner!
That's Monstertainment! - 12 To All the Ghouls I've Loved Before - 11 Scooby in Kwackyland - 7 Scoobra Kadoobra - 5 The Ghouliest Show on Earth - 4 Me and My Shadow Demon - 3 It's a Wonderful Scoob - 3 Horror Scope Scoob - 3 Reflections in a Ghoulish Eye - 2 Ship of Ghouls - 2 A Spooky Little Ghoul Like You - 2 When You Witch Upon a Star - 0 Coast to Ghost - 0  Courtesy of GamesRadar+, here is the one Scooby-Doo comic solicitation for July 2023!
THE BATMAN AND SCOOBY-DOO MYSTERIES #10 Written by IVAN COHEN Art and cover by DARIO BRIZUELA $2.99 US | 32 pages ON SALE 7/11/23 All aboard the Mega-Mystery Cruise! Amateur detectives attend a new convention held on the high seas—part escape room, part dinner theater, there’s a mystery to solve in every room. In the buffet, the mystery is “How many shrimp can Scooby-Doo eat?”! But when an actual pirate tries to take the ship, he’ll find more trouble than he anticipated!  Some very sad news today, as Variety has reported that Scooby-Doo writer Duane Poole has passed away. Duane was 74, and passed away on April 1 after a long battle with cancer. Duane was one of the main writers for season 1 of The Scooby-Doo Show, and wrote Scooby Goes Hollywood. He was also a story editor for The Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show, and wrote "Shiver and Shake, That Demon's a Snake!" and "Lock the Door, It's a Minotaur."
Besides his work on Scooby, he also wrote for tons of other Hanna-Barbera shows and other cartoons, including A Flintstones Christmas, The Great Grape Ape, The Smurfs, Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, C.H.O.M.P.S., and Alvin and the Chipmunks. Duane went to the University of Washington. His first job was working for King World Productions, but he moved to Los Angeles when he received a job offer to be a writer at Hanna-Barbera Studios. Poole also worked with the team of the popular show The Love Boat. In his later years, Poole moved on to write TV movies and theatrical productions. You can see all the animation, TV, movies and theatrical projects that he wrote on his website here. While I'm always sad when an influential person who has worked on Scooby dies, this one hits particularly hard for me as Duane is actually a Scooby-Doo writer that I have gotten the honor of talking to, and I did an interview with him for the blog only about a year ago. Duane was super nice, and admittedly, it was one of my favorite interviews I have done for the site. Duane seemed like such a nice, down-to-Earth guy, and it was so much fun getting to hear about all of his experiences writing for various Scooby-Doo projects. Duane was an influential figure for the franchise, whom without, we would not have the amazing series that is The Scooby-Doo Show season 1, The Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show, and Scooby Goes Hollywood. RIP Duane, you will be greatly missed!  Hallmark has just announced that they are releasing a collectible Scooby-Doo ornament for the 2023 holiday season. The ornament is named "Frightened Friends" and features Shaggy in Scooby-Doo's arms. The ornament will be released on October 14, 2023, and will be $20.99. Here's the official description:
Scare up some laughs and relive the mystery and adventure with Scooby-Doo and friends with this fun Christmas tree ornament. You can almost hear Scooby exclaiming "Ruh-roh-raggy!" when you hang this design featuring the mystery-solving canine holding his pal Shaggy, with both featuring expressions that look like they just saw a ghost.
 "The Spooky Case of the Grand Prix Race" is perhaps one of the most obscure instances of a Scooby episode not being released on home media. However, I recently discovered the episode was released exclusively on VHS in Italy in 1996 as Scooby-Doo! Il Gran Premio. The bonus episode on the VHS is another unreleased episode of The Scooby-Doo Show, "Creepy Cruise." The VHS was also released in Greece. Here's a picture of the back cover:   It was a close race last week between two of the most beloved Scrappy episodes, but one of them just barely edged the other one out! Here are last week's results:
Happy Birthday, Scooby-Doo! - 12 A Halloween Hassle at Dracula's Castle - 11 The Nutcracker Scoob - 7 Ghosts of the Ancient Astronauts - 5 Scoo Be or Not Scoo Be? - 4 Sherlock Doo - 3 Night of the Living Toys - 2 South Pole Vault - 2 A Night Louse at the White House - 2 Showboat Scooby - 2 Scooby's Peep Hole Pandemonium - 1 The Hand of Horror - 1 The Stoney Glare Stare - 1 The Dooby Dooby Doo Ado - 1 0 votes: Mission Un-Doo-Able, The Bee Team, A Code in the Nose, Doom Service, A Scary Duel with a Cartoon Ghoul, and EIEIO A 20-second short mashing up Scooby-Doo and Looney Tunes has been released to WB Kids' official YouTube page. The short is titled "Acme Fools." You can check out this short in the video above.
The 2004 Scooby-Doo Internet game Horror on the High Seas started with a cut scene of Shaggy and Scooby waking up on a cruise ship with a pirate ship next to them, without us knowing how they got there. However, it was recently uncovered that the game originally had a much longer original cut scene at the beginning that was removed before the game came out. This one minute long lost cut scene gave backstory to how Shaggy and Scooby became trapped on the boat. It also mentioned that Fred, Velma and Daphne were in Transylvania solving a mystery at a castle, which gave a backstory to why they do not appear in the game. It is unknown why the original cut scene was removed, but it can be watched in the YouTube video above. Thanks to Becker for coming up with the idea for this week's fun fact!
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