 Last month, we had a cryptic announcement that a "special episode" of Velma is coming from the LinkedIn page of a storyboard artist. Not many details were provided at the time, but now, a listing revealing more information about the special has popped up on the Entertainment Identifier Registry. According to EIDR, we will be getting a Velma Halloween special. The listing was entered into the database on October 25, 2023. The special will air sometime in 2024, presumably around October for Halloween.
It is unclear if the Halloween special is a part of season 2, or if it's a separate episode that isn't a part of any season. According to character designer Dinah Kalaha's resumé, character designing for season 2 began in November 2022 and just wrapped up in October 2023. This confirms that a season 2 was planned before the show had aired.
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 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.
 Here are the results for last week's poll:
What is your favorite episode taking place on a movie set? Sandy Duncan's Jekyll and Hydes - 14 Scooby-Doo! Stage Fright - 10 Never Ape an Ape Man - 6 Scooby Goes Hollywood - 5 The Chiller Diller Movie Thriller - 4 Happy Birthday, Scooby-Doo! - 4 Lights! Camera! Mayhem! - 4 That's Monstertainment - 3 The Vampire Strikes Back - 3 Total Jeopardy! - 3 The Exterminator - 2 Poodle Justice - 2 Silver Scream - 2 Scooby-Doo and the Gourmet Ghost - 2 Movie Monster Menace - 1 The Fall Dog - 1 For Letter or Worse - 1 Lights...Camera...Monster - 1 The Movieland Monsters! - 1 Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island - 1 0 votes: Stuntman Scooby, Scoobsie, A Scary Duel with a Cartoon Ghoul, Horror Scope Scoob, Chefs of Steel, LEGO Scooby-Doo! Haunted Hollywood, The Dreaded Remake of Jekyll and Hyde!  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).  I interpreted the definition of "movie set" loosely, and included sets of TV shows as well here. "That's Monstertainment!" and "The Movieland Monsters!" are also included, since the gang were physically in movies in those two episodes.
I'm a bit surprised on our winner for last week's scarecrow poll! I would have expected to to be "The Frickert Fracas," but our winner was actually Spooky Scarecrow, with Frickert Fracas coming in second! Spooky Scarecrow - 18 The Frickert Fracas - 15 Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo - 14 A Scooby-Doo Halloween - 12 Eating Crow - 12 Courtesy of GamesRadar+, we have the solicitations for the two Scooby-Doo comics coming out in February 2024!  SCOOBY-DOO WHERE ARE YOU #126 Written by DEREK FRIDOLFS Art by VALERIO CHIOLA Cover by DEREK FRIDOLFS $2.99 US | 32 pages ON SALE 2/6/24 It’s a girls’ night out for Daphne and Velma, with Scooby tagging along, and they’re excited to attend a book club event for the release of Twice Bitten, the latest supernatural teen romance novel. But when the book’s dreamy star materializes off the page into reality looking to take a bite of some hearts, it’s up to the girls to solve this case before the event is ruined.  BATMAN AND SCOOBY-DOO MYSTERIES #2
Written by J. TORRES Art and cover by SCOTT JERALDS $2.99 US | 32 pages ON SALE 2/6/24 Come to Slaughter Swamp and get a selfie with Solomon Grundy! For the adventure tourism crowd, that’s a potent lure, and there’s a real estate developer who has big plans…and a lot of swamp to profit from! Will Batman and the gang from Mystery Inc. figure out what’s going on in time to save some Gothamites from a zombie disaster?
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.  Our two Where Are You episodes took the top two spots in last week's poll results, but one of them got over double the votes of the other! On the other end of things, I'm surprised that "Terror Thy Name Is Zombo" and "Menace of the Manticore" got no votes, while "Scooby's Fun Zone" and "Robot Ranch" each got votes.
Foul Play in Funland - 21 Bedlam in the Big Top - 9 Big Top Scooby-Doo - 4 Scooby-Doo & KISS: Rock and Roll Mystery - 4 Into the Mouth of Madcap - 4 Scooby-Doo (2002) - 3 Night Ghoul of Wonderworld - 2 The Ghouliest Show on Earth - 2 Roller Ghoster Ride - 2 Ghastly Ghost Town - 1 The Haunted Carnival - 1 Scooby's Fun Zone - 1 Robot Ranch - 1 Go West Young Scoob - 1 0 votes: Scooby's Three Ding-a-Ling Circus, Misfortune Teller, The Crazy Carnival Caper, Terror Thy Name Is Zombo, Shaggy and Scooby World, Menace of the Manticore  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.
 "The Headless Horseman of Halloween" takes the win for last week!
The Headless Horseman of Halloween - 24 Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo! - 16 Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers - 13 A Scooby-Doo Halloween - 12 LEGO Scooby-Doo! Haunted Hollywood - 4 Scooby Dude - 3 |
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