Scooby-related questions have appeared 60 different times on Jeopardy! between 1984 and the present day. You can check out all the different questions on the Hanna-Barbera Wiki. Thanks to James for sharing this link with me and inspiring today's fun fact!
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There are three amusing instances in Laff-a-Lympics season 1 of characters accidentally showing up in the audience cheering for themselves, even though they are competing in the event. The first instance happens in "The Sahara Desert and Scotland," which shows the Teen Angels are cheering for themselves in the crowd, despite the fact that they are currently participating in the Fill Up The Oasis Contest. In "India and Israel," Yogi appears in the audience cheering for himself in the Reed Boat Race. Lastly, in "The Grand Canyon and Ireland," Dastardly Dalton is shown cheering for himself during the Catch the Leprechaun Contest (Leprechaun-test? lol).
In Laff-a-Lympics, there were multiple times where a team received the wrong medal in the awards ceremony. In all three instances of this, the Yogis benefitted from the wrong medal being given out.
In "Acapulco and England," the Yogis and Rottens tied, but the Yogis are the only team that get the silver medal, whereas the Rottens get the bronze medal. Similarly, in "Egypt and Sherwood Forest," the Rottens were shown with the bronze medal despite that they were in second place, and the Yogis received the silver medal even though they were actually in last place. In "New York and Turkey," the Scooby Doobies came in second place but got the bronze medal. The Yogis lost, but were given the silver medal. Besides the Laff-a-Lympics parody and the Scooby-Doo cameo I posted about last week, Jellystone! season 3 had a number of other Scooby references.
In "Wednesday Is Missing," all of the actors from The Addams Family show reprised their roles except for two. Wednesday and Pugley's original actors, Lisa Loring and Ken Weatherwax, did not return to voice their characters from the original series, and were replaced by Cindy Henderson and Jodi Foster, respectively.
In "A Good Medium Is Rare," Phyllis Diller had five ex-husbands. In real-life, at the time of this episode's airing, she had only divorced one man and was currently married to another.
Phyllis married her first husband, Sherwood, in 1939. She was married to him for 26 years, and divorced him in 1965. Later that year, she married actor Warde Donovan, who she was still with when "A Good Medium Is Rare" aired. In 1975, she divorced Warde due to his problems with drinking, and was single for the next 10 years. In 1985, she married Robert Hastings, who she remained with until his death in 1996. Phyllis did not remarry again after her third husband's passing. "Gates of Gloom" from Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated features Daphne, Fred and Scooby saying famous action movie quotes at pivotal points in the episode. Scooby saying "They drew first blood, not me" is a reference to the film First Blood with Sylvester Stallone. Fred and Daphne's exchange of "What have I done?" "What you had to do. What you always do, turn traps into a fighting chance to live" is a parody of a famous quote from Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.
This wasn't the first time the series parodied famous films, though. Although there are some parodies that were obvious, two of the notable full-episode examples of parodies that you may not be aware of include that "The Midnight Zone" was a parody of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, which featured a very similar plot of robots taking over a city, and a holographic head turning out to be a corpse in a chair. "Nightfright" from Scooby-Doo Mystery Incorporated also parodies the movie Fright Night, which is a famous horror movie that came out in 1985, one month before The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo began airing. There are a few instances in Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated where a character is credited despite that they should not have been. In "Where Walks Aphrodite," two referees are credited to Matthew Lillard and Tony Cervone, but there is only one referee, and he does not speak in the episode. There is also a guard credited in "Scarebear" and a reporter credited in "All Fear the Freak," but no such characters appear in the episode (although the reporter is credited to Nolan North, who played the reporter in the previous episode, "Pawn of Shadows").
**Spoiler warning: This fun fact contains spoilers for the Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! episode "Night of the Upsetting Shorts"**
We have another Be Cool fun fact to go along with the conclusion our Daphne Quirk polls! At the beginning of "Night of the Upsetting Shorts," the Ape Man is watching the gang seconds after they walk into the nursing home with Grammy and her friends. This leaves a large plot hole in the episode, as Grammy is the culprit, and could not have been watching the gang as the Ape Man while she was still with them. In some European countries, in "Mysteries in the Disorient Express," the scene where Daphne sticks earplugs up her nose was cut due to worries that children might mimic this behavior.
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