 Fun Fact #25 talked about milestone episodes (100th, 200th, 300th, etc.) counting the episodes only, and Fun Fact #216 expanded on that by listing the milestone episodes including movies and specials. Juan made a suggestion to expand even further on those two fun facts by seeing what the milestone episodes if the 7 and 11-minute episodes were counted by grouping them into the 22-minute episodes that they aired as (so counting three 7-minute shorts, and two 11-minute shorts as one episode).
Only including episodes (not movies and specials), the 100th episode of the franchise would remain the same, "Africa and San Francisco" (Laff-a-Lympics). The 200th episode would be "The Ghouliest Show on Earth" (The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo). The 300th episode would be "Revenge of the Man Crab" from Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated. The 400th episode would be "Professor Huh? Part 6 ¾," the series finale of Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!. If we didn't count Laff-a-Lympics (and still didn't count movies and specials), this is how it would change: 100. When You Wish Upon a Star Creature (The Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show) 200. Horror of the Haunted Hairpiece (A Pup Named Scooby-Doo) 300. House of the Nightmare Witch (Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated) 400. A Run Cycle Through Time! (Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?) If we included all media, including movies, specials and Laff-a-Lympics, the 100th episode would still be "Africa and San Francisco." This is how the remainder would change: 200. Coast to Ghost (13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo) 300. High Society Scooby (Shaggy and Scooby-Doo Get a Clue!) 400. Game of Chicken (Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!) 500. Scooby-Doo and the Sky Town Cool School! (Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?)
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 With Thanksgiving this week, I wanted to do a special poll to celebrate the holiday.!We already did a food-themed monster poll in 2021, so I thought this would be the next best thing! We'll resume the globetrotting poll series next Sunday with a new continent.
Last week's poll was pretty close! Here are the final results: What is your favorite episode featuring a monster made of junk? Junkyard Dogs - 23 Art of Darkness - 17  Besides the debates about episode order of several episodes throughout the franchise (i.e. "Hassle in the Castle" and "A Clue for Scooby-Doo"), there are a number of minor inconsistencies in episode titles. While some are confirmed wrong by the title cards, others are a bit more uncertain. For those episodes that don't have a title card, I don't have any official confirmation for what the correct title is, but I thought it would be a fun project to document all of the different inconsistencies that I'm aware of.
 Scott Innes has just posted a TikTok video sharing some exciting news! Scott posted a video of him in the studio, recording lines for Scrappy-Doo for a new project. No details have emerged about this new project or its release date yet. Check out Scott's TikTok video here!
Thanks to Threephantomrey and Scoob16 on Instagram for sharing this news!
We're taking a brief break from the globetrotting polls this week to do one that's been saved as a draft since September! It was originally one of the daily polls, but I switched it out with a different idea at the last minute. Shadowscooby suggested this poll idea a few weeks later, so I decided to still post this one.
Taking a look at the results from last week's poll, it looks like "Jeepers, It's the Jaguaro!" will be representing South America in the final round! What is your favorite episode in South America? Jeepers, It's the Jaguaro! - 20 Lost Soles of Jungle River! - 16 Ghosts of the Ancient Astronauts - 8 Ghastly Goals - 8 South America and Transylvania - 5 The Old Cat and Mouse Game - 3  GamesRadar+ has just published DC's comic lineup for February 2025. It looks like that includes one Scooby comic, and confirms that the third series of Batman and Scooby-Doo Mysteries will publish its final issue next month. Based on the name on the desk, looks like the villain might be a distant relative of Don Knotts? haha SCOOBY-DOO, WHERE ARE YOU #132 Written by SHOLLY FISCH Art and cover by RANDY ELLIOTT $2.99 US | 32 pages ON SALE 2/5/25 Mystery Inc. never expected that when they went to investigate a haunted courtroom, they’d wind up prosecuted by a ghostly judge. Unless they can unmask the gavel-wielding ghost and clear their names, they might just get sent up the river…Styx! While there are no other comics being released in February, an alternate cover for Multiversus #6 (released on November 27) was posted on Dan Mora Chaves's Instagram. (Thanks to Juan for bringing the post to my attention!) Check out the cover below:   One aspect of this blog I haven't done as much recently is non-news articles. It's a part of this site I really enjoy doing, but it's become a more occasional thing these past couple years. This was for a few reasons, partially personal reasons, but also because I wasn't feeling particularly inspired about any ideas for articles. I was thinking this past week about how it's something about the blog that I miss doing, so I've decided to start up again with posting monthly articles. I will likely do rankings sometimes, but I also don't necessarily want them to become just posting rankings of things every month. Like I mentioned in the 10th anniversary post, the articles I've most enjoyed posting on here have been the ones that are creative projects (i.e. the evolution of technology in Scooby article and the history of the online fandom one), so I'm planning for there to be a balance of different types of articles. For no reason other than I've been rewatching Buffy the Vampire Slayer lately, I thought it would be fun to restart doing articles by doing a ranking of the vampire episodes and films in the franchise. We've got 19 total episodes, so here we go!  19. Vild Vest Vampire This is my favorite episode of the Yabba-Doo shorts, but that isn't saying all that much considering I find many of them to be amongst the worst episodes of the franchise. The vampire here is kind of neat, and I thought his ability to turn people into zombies was cool. His design leaves something to be desired imo, considering he's just a guy with a hat and a moustache lol. The main reason this is above the other Yabba shorts for me is the supernatural element, but the rushed plot doesn't come anywhere close to the level of most of the rest of these for me. I also thought the ending of everybody bathing in washtubs outside the town's "Fost Office" (yes, there's a typo in the sign lol) was a bit of an odd way to end it.  18. Music of the Vampire I'll be honest, this has never really been one of my favorite Scooby movies. I feel like there have been films/episodes where the musical aspect has been done well in the Scooby franchise; Scooby Goes Hollywood and "The High School Wolfman's Musical Lament!" being the two that come to mind. To me, the musical parts of the film felt a little forced in, and didn't really fit with the plot like they did in the aforementioned two examples. This is my bottom 10 Scooby films.  17. Coast to Ghost I do like the aesthetic this episode offers, and it's a really cool premise! I like the idea of the gang traveling cross-country to save Vincent and race against the clock, and the museum was an excellent setting. I really like Rankor's design as well. However, there are a number of confounding writing decisions that bring this one down for me. It's odd to me how Rankor is subservient to SAPS considering he is supposed to be one of the 13 most powerful ghosts in the world. Him not only willingly going into the chest, but thanking the gang and calling them "pals" is also a rather mind-boggling writing choice lol.  16. Who's Minding the Monster? The plot of this one involves Daphne, Shaggy and the dogs babysitting for Dracula and his wife, because their usual babysitter, Frankenstein, has abandoned them. While Daphne and Scrappy search the woods for the babysitter, Shaggy and Scooby realize that they are sitting for a werewolf baby. While I thought the plot was interesting, the execution felt all over the place, and divulged too much into antics at times. The vampire designs were also pretty mediocre imo, and I also thought Dracula's nickname for his wife being "Poopsie" was rather dumb. It's by no means a bad episode, but not one I return to a lot.  15. Hard Hat Scooby This one is pretty fun! The plot of Shaggy and the dogs not realizing their foreman is a vampire is a really good plot, and it's one of the more memorable shorts. The vampire's design is nothing super special, but I thought it was cool for what it was.  14. Super Scary Movie Night This Get a Clue episode utilizes one of my favorite tropes of having all the Universal Monsters teaming up. The vampire only makes a few appearances in this episode, so it doesn't stand out to me as much as a vampire episode. Still, it's a really fun episode regardless - having the Universal Monsters invade Shaggy and Scooby's mansion during their scary movie marathon was a very unique plot, and it manages to feel very reminiscent of the Scooby formula. The money-hungry mummy has always amused me as a villain, so that is also a bonus in this episode's favor lol.  13. A Fit Night Out for Bats I've always found this short cute! This episode is a rare episode of the seven-minute episodes that's able to build a spooky atmosphere. Sylvester is also an excellent villain, arguably one of the best of these shots. His quirk of being pouty of having to drink tomato juice because there's no blood around is kind of endearing, haha. This is my favorite Scrappy short.  12. Me and My Shadow Demon I love the atmosphere of this episode! Morbidia's castle is really creepy, and is one of the best settings of this show imo. Morbidia was a great villain with a neat design, although I wish her screen time hadn't been so limited. The Shadow Demon is one of the coolest villains of the series, so I would have loved for him to get his own episode, and have Morbidia get more of a focus in her own. Another minor nitpick I had with this one is that I wasn't a fan of the songs. Overall though, this is one of my favorites of the series for its amazing atmosphere and excellent villains.  11. The Secret Serum This episode isn't among my favorites of its series, but it is still really good. The vampire's design here is neat for how much it stands out compared to the other vampire designs of the franchise. The mystery is really solid, and the quest aspect of the gang having to find the ingredients really raises the stakes (no pun intended lol). I also loved the added twist of Daphne believing the vampire is her mom.  10. I Left My Neck in San Francisco We've reached the top 10, and it gets really tough from here! This has always been one of my favorites of The Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo Show. The Lady Vampire is a great villain with a cool design, and the fact that Daphne is the prime suspect makes this one very interesting. The San Francisco setting is also really well-done, and the mystery in this episode is overall amongst the strongest of its series.  9. Scooby's Peep Hole Pandemonium Most people would probably put this one above "I Left My Neck in San Francisco," but I've always had a huge soft spot for this one. I think it is both one of the best and most underrated Scrappy-Doo episodes of the franchise. Daphne having to sneak into a spooky house to get a story sets up a really interesting premise for the episode. Norma's house is an amazing setting, and it arguably is able to create one of the strongest atmospheres of any 11 minute episodes in this era. Norma and Franklin Stein in particular are excellent villains, and even though the mummy isn't as creepy as they are, the mystery surrounding her is interesting. What I love most about this episode is the twist at the end after the reveal. The execution of the twist is amazingly done, and I'm especially impressed with it considering how action-packed the rest of this 11 minute episode is.  8. Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf Many of you know that I have a huge soft spot for the Superstar 10 films. This is my least favorite of them, but that is definitely a relative term as it's still one of my favorite films of the franchise. Shaggy being captured by Dracula and turned into a werewolf is such a cool plot, and I love the atmosphere of the castle. While I would have put this film in my top 5 films of the entire franchise a few years ago, it has gone a little in my rankings. In recent rewatches, I've felt the racing antics bog down the plot just a bit in the second half, but it's still a top-notch film. Another thing that brings this one down a little for me in terms of this ranking is that I've never been crazy about Dracula's design.  7. How to Train Your Coward This one didn't stand out to me quite as much when I first watched it, but it's really soared up in my rankings in recent rewatches. The vampire's design in this episode is extremely creepy, more so than a lot of the vampires in the franchise imo. The castle is also a really strong setting here. This episode's strongest point is easily the humor, which I feel is really on-point alongside the rest of the beginning of season 2. The first half of season 2 is where Be Cool shined the most in terms of humor imo, and this episode is a great example of that. This episode also exemplifies another core aspect of the series, that being how character-driven it is. Shaggy and Scooby threatening to leave reinforces how important each of the gang member's roles are very well.  6. A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts I had a really tough time deciding what didn't make the top 5. Regardless of this one not making it, it's still an iconic episode. This is one of the first episodes that come to mind for me when I think of a Scooby-Doo vampire episode, mainly because of the iconic villain and setting. I love the vampire's design here, and the fact that there are three monsters running around makes the stakes feel a lot higher. Franken Castle has such a strong atmosphere as the setting, and feels like it fits these monsters perfectly. The mystery here is interesting and quite well-written too, especially considering the lack of suspects in the episode.  5. The Vampire Strikes Back This is an iconic What's New episode. I go back and forth between this, "It's Mean, It's Green, It's the Mystery Machine" and "Simple Plan and the Invisible Madman" being my favorite from the series, but this is my current favorite. The castle setting is immaculate, and is arguably the darkest and creepiest setting of this show. The amount of detail put into the vampire's design and the pupil-less eyes make him look really creepy. The mystery here is also intricate and very well-written. And if all that wasn't enough, we also have my favorite recurring characters, The Hex Girls, in this episode!  4. Legend of the Vampire Speaking of The Hex Girls, they're here again in this episode! This is easily a top 10 Scooby film for me. The Yowie Yahoo has the scariest vampire design of the franchise imo, and the fact that he is so giant and has such a deep voice makes him feel nightmarish. The Wildwind Vampires' designs are also amazing! I loved the mystery surrounding the singers disappearing from the music festival, and the fact that recurring characters you know and love (The Hex Girls) are here make you even more invested in the mystery. The film also feels very cinematic, and manages to be a smooth transition from the iconicness of the Mook era where it doesn't feel like a significant downgrade or anything.  3. Ghoul School I really debated where to put this one, since the only reason this qualifies is because of Sybella and her father. It is my favorite Scooby movie, but it also didn't feel fair to put it above two other episodes which I love and come to mind much more for the theme. The plot of the guys teaching at a monster school is so much fun, and I really like the slow burn of Shaggy and the dogs getting to know and trust the girl ghouls over the first half of the film. While some might find the fact that Revolta doesn't really appear much until the second half to be poor pacing, I feel like the film is structured perfectly. The slower first half allows the atmosphere of the school to feel more cozy, and makes Revolta's kidnapping of the girl ghouls feel so much more impactful than it otherwise would have. In terms of the vampires, Sybella has always been my favorite of the girl ghouls, and I like her dad's design as well.  2. A Halloween Hassle at Dracula's Castle I've mentioned before that the episodes with Universal monsters teaming up are always amongst my all-time favorites, and this one is certainly no exception. This episode is a masterpiece, and is definitely my favorite Halloween episode of the franchise. Dracula's castle is the most atmospheric setting of this show imo. Even the short scene with the costume is able to create a spooky atmosphere, with Fred and Velma's alien prank and the howling winds at the beginning of the episode. The plot is really cool too, where the gang is surprised by the partygoers all being real monsters, only for the real monsters to ask for help about the ghost that they're afraid of. This is one of my favorite episodes of the franchise, but one episode manages to beat this as my favorite vampire episode.  1. Vampire Bats and Scaredy Cats
The second season of The Scooby-Doo Show is collectively my all-time favorite season of a Scooby-Doo show, due to the whole season being full of amazing episodes. This episode rises to the top of the season for me as my favorite episode. The atmosphere of the hotel is super dark and creepy, especially considered the gang is on an isolated island in the middle of the night. Some scenes in particular, like Lisa's transformation and the vampire calling Lisa in the dark room, stand out as being some of the darkest scenes of the franchise up to that point. The vampire is an excellent villain and his design is very creepy. It's also worth noting that the culprit's motivation is also probably the most dark and twisted of the franchise. Scooby-Dum is also in this episode, but despite his goofy aesthetic, he manages to fit in really well with this episode and does not detract from the tone at all. This is an iconic episode and, even to this date, remains one of the darkest episodes of all-time for the franchise. With that, those are my rankings! I had a lot of fun putting this article together, and I hope you enjoyed reading it. I looked back at the vampire poll we did back in 2021, and it looks like that was before people started doing rankings in the comments. If people want to share their own rankings in the comments, I'd love to read them!  Joe Barbera and William Hanna worked for another famous company before creating Hanna-Barbera.
William Hanna started his career in construction, but he lost that job due to the Great Depression, and got another job working as a car wash attendant. Hanna's sister's partner convinced him to apply for a job in the Harman Eising animation studio. He later moved to Metro Goldwyn Meyer, where he met Joe Barbera. Joe Barbera started his career working in the ink and paint department of Fleischer Studios in 1932. In 1937, he and William Hanna were asked to join Metro Goldwyn Meyer, and created Tom and Jerry together. They worked there for twenty years and eventually ran the studio, but their division shut down in 1957, causing them to lose their jobs. This is what prompted them to start their own animation studio.  This week, we move on from Australia to South America! Last week, I mentioned that all countries with two episodes or less on a continent would be grouped together into their own poll. Technically, the gang visits Brazil three times, with the third time being for just one event in "South America and Transylvania." The other event in South America takes place in Argentina. South America is a bit of an odd case in the sense that Brazil and Argentina are the only two countries the gang has visited, plus a couple landmarks that are not in countries (those being the Amazon River and Andes Mountains). I didn't think it made sense to have "South America and Transylvania" appear in a Brazil poll, then have it appear again the very next week to represent Argentina to face off against the two non-country landmarks. Given the limited amount of options here, I decided to make the South America episodes all one poll.
Since we've already gone through two continents now, we'll be taking a short break from this poll series for a couple of weeks. Next week, we'll do a poll that someone suggested that's been saved in the drafts for quite a while now, and without spoiling the theme itself, we'll do a food-related poll for Thanksgiving the following week. As expected, Legend of the Vampire scores the win for Australia/Oceania by a huge margin. It's officially our first option to move ahead to the final round to represent its continent! What is your favorite episode in Australia/Oceania? Legend of the Vampire - 52 Reef Grief - 6 Scooby Roo - 5 France and Australia - 0 French Riviera and New Zealand - 0  In "Gates of Gloom," Ricky is shown looking at a photo album at the beginning of the episode. The album has a caption next to Cassidy's picture that shares an interesting piece of background info that was never verbally discussed in the series. The caption mentions that Cassidy, Ricky and Professor Pericles were in a triangle just like Shaggy, Scooby and Velma were in the first season. The caption (pictured above) reads:
Thinking of Cassidy again. Remembering when we first met. Professor Pericles was there and I could tell he was jealous. He didn't want to share me with anyone. Credit goes to Juan for spotting this Easter egg. |
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