 Outside of The Mystery Begins and Curse of the Lake Monster, Robbie Amell's other breakout role into the acting world was starring on the teen sitcom True Jackson V.P. During his time on the show, he crossed paths with a surprising amount of other actors who have connections to Scooby!
He got to work with Nick Palatas again on the episode "Mad Rocks," where he played Skeet. In the episode "Little Buddies," Laura Marano (who plays Carol in Daphne & Velma) guest-starred as Molly. Speaking of other live-action films, Robbie also worked alongside J.P. Manoux in the episode "True Royal." J.P. voiced Scrappy Rex in the first live-action film. The episode "Pajama Party" featured two guest stars with connections to Scooby. The episode's plot was centered around the characters meeting John Cena, who appeared in Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery. This is also the only episode where the main character (True Jackson)'s mother appears. She's played by Vivica A. Fox, the voice of Angel/Cassidy from Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated.
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In 2004 and 2005, National Geographic produced three Scooby-Doo shorts as a part of their Kid Y series. The shorts were each themed around the Scooby-Doo DTVs at the time: Loch Ness Monster, Aloha and Where's My Mummy. The shorts used the settings of the aforementioned movies to teach the audience about geography.
The first short, "Inside Scoop" talks about the mystery of the Loch Ness Monster, and some of the fake monster sightings. The second short, "Hula Hullabaloola," teaches the audience about the geography of Hawaii. The third short, "The Curse of the Lost Lunch," provides interesting facts about Egypt and King Tut. A fair warning, the rap breaks in the third short are quite cringey. However, they're made up for by Bigfoot's sick guitar solo in the first short lol. In the 1980s, episodes of The New Scooby-Doo Movies were split into two-part episodes for syndicated half-hour reruns. The episodes would be cut off at a random point of suspense halfway through the episode, followed by a bumper telling the audience they could watch part 2 of the episode tomorrow. You can check out an example with "The Frickert Fracas" in the YouTube video above, courtesy of SpaceHunterM.
(Credit also goes to them for this info, which they commented in a post on this blog a couple of years ago.)  Last week's fun fact about The New Scooby-Doo Movies guests that are still alive inspired me to do another cool little research project! A comment in that thread made me curious about if The New Scooby-Doo Movies and Guess Who featured younger or older guest stars. To find out the answer to this, I made a spreadsheet with the ages and career fields of every guest stars from each series, as well as the DTVs. Obviously, I did not include fictional guest stars in this.
The New Scooby-Doo Movies featured entirely guest stars that were in their 20s-50s when the series aired. The series had a mostly equal distribution of guest stars in their 20s, 30s and 40s. Six guest stars from the show were in their 40s, and there were five guests stars in their 20s and 30s. The series also included two guest stars in their fifties, and two comedy duos that had already died before the series began. Guess Who included a much larger age distribution. The series had a couple teenage guest stars, and guest stars as old as their 80s. However, the average guest star in the show was in their 50s. The series included 12 guest stars currently in their 50s. Surprisingly, the amount of guest stars over 50 was nearly double the amount of guest stars in their 40s and under. 30 guest stars were 50 or older, while 19 were under 50 years old. Here's the full age breakdown for Guess Who: Teens - 2 20s - 4 30s - 6 40s - 7 50s - 12 60s - 9 70s - 6 80s - 4 210s - 1 (Abraham Lincoln lol) For fun, I also calculated the recent crossover DTVs. This includes WrestleMania Mystery, Rock and Roll Mystery, Curse of the Speed Demon, Gourmet Ghost, and Happy Halloween (Elvira is not included because she is a fictional character). Most guest stars were in their 30s, but this is heavily influenced by the distribution of WWE wrestlers. Here's the age breakdown for the crossover DTVs: 20s - 2 30s - 11 40s - 9 50s - 4 60s - 3 I also thought it would be interesting to calculate what types of guest stars each series included! Because some of the guest stars fit into multiple categories, I chose whichever career was most emphasized in the episode. The only discrepancy is that I labeled Cher as "comedian" for "The Secret of Shark Island," whereas I labeled her as "Singer" for "Cher, Scooby and the Sargasso Sea," since that's what she's known for now. The New Scooby-Doo Movies featured a more equal distribution of types of guest stars. It's a healthy mix between comedians, actors, singers, and The Harlem Globetrotters lol. Guess Who was much heavier on the actors. Nearly half of the show's guest star were actors, with a smaller majority being singers, athletes and comedians. There was also a smaller sampling of guest stars that had career types that didn't fit into any of the above four categories. I didn't calculate stats for this on the DTVs, since each crossover movie had a different type of guest star, thus kinda defeating the purpose of calculating the stats. Here's how it breaks down: The New Scooby-Doo Movies Comedian - 6 Athlete - 6 (entirely made up of the Harlem Globetrotters) Actor - 5 Singer - 4 Guess Who: Actor - 21 Singer - 8 Athlete - 6 Comedian - 6 Magician - 2 (Penn and Teller) Scientist - 2 (Bill Nye & Neil DeGrasse Tyson) Celebrity Chef - 1 (Alton Brown) Dancer - 1 (Maddie Ziegler) Model - 1 (Gigi Hadid) President - 1 (Abraham Lincoln) Ventriloquist - 1 (Darci Lynne Farmer) YouTuber - 1 (Liza Koshy)  Geese Ausbie from the Harlem Globetrotters is one of four remaining guest stars from The New Scooby-Doo Movies who is still alive. In their three episodes, the Globetrotters were voiced by voice actors, rather than themselves. Ironically, Geese's voice actor, Johnny Williams, is also the only one of the Globetrotters' voice actors to still be alive. Thanks to Scoobsies for sharing this fun fact!
The other guest star voices from The New Scooby-Doo Movies who are still alive include: The Addams Family
Josie and the Pussycats
Jeannie's Group
Phil Luther Jr., who voiced Tinker, may also still be alive. I was unable to find any information on his birth or death date online.  Back in the classic era, it was common for Hanna-Barbera to occasionally use recolored versions of character design to save money. Nine villain designs were reused as separate 13 villains during the classic era. 12 of them were recolored versions of the original villains, but one (the viking from "The Curse of the Viking Lake") was reused without any changes to its coloring or design. Seven from Where Are You are reused, and The New Scooby-Doo Movies and The Scooby-Doo Show have one villain from each series reimagined. In the modern era, Scooby-Doo series have started reimagining classic Scooby-Doo villains for purposes of nostalgia. The 2015 series Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! and 2019's Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? did this several times throughout the series. The modern era has reimagined 17 classic designs as 21 new villains. I did not include classic villains making brief cameos (which has also become extremely common), villains that look similar but aren't direct reimaginings, or classic villains making a reappearance (Cyber Chase) in this count. Note that I did include "A Haunt of a Thousand Voices!" because it's framed as a sort of tease that these villains are oddly familiar to the gang, but it's never acknowledged that they're the same villains from cases the gang had previously solved. The modern era reimagines 13 Where Are You villains, and two villains each from The New Scooby-Doo Movies and The Scooby-Doo Show. It's worth noting that the Butler 3000 seems to possibly be a reimagining of Charlie the Robot. "Me, Myself and AI" has a similar plot to "Foul Play in Funland," and there's also a reference to Charlie mid-way through the episode. However, the design is different enough that it's unclear whether or not it was intended to be a direct reimagining of Charlie, or of "Foul Play in Funland" in general. If you counted him, this would bring the count up to 22 new villains. You can check out side-by-side comparisons of all the reused villains below: Classic Era
Modern Era
 There have been so many cool projects on here that I've totally forgotten about. While looking for poll ideas recently, I found an old fun fact categorizing all of the different monster types in a spreadsheet. This fun fact was from September 2020, so there's been a fair amount of Scooby media since then! The spreadsheet was never updated to include Guess Who season 2, five films, a special, or Velma. Given that, I figured it was time to give the original data an update! There were 60 villains from these pieces of media that I added to the spreadsheet. As a reminder, each multi-hyphenate monster is categorized by its primary category (i.e. the Ghost Monster is categorized under "Ghost"). In the previous fun fact, I joked about how Scooby loves making ghosts of monsters, but little did I know that we'd be getting a villain called the "Ghost Monster" from "The Movieland Monsters!" just a short eight months later haha. Multiple of the same monster in the same episode (i.e. the Shark Men from "Cher, Scooby and the Sargasso Sea!") are listed as one villain. The live-action films and the LEGO movies weren't included last time, but I added them in this time. In the past five years, we've had an alien, 7 animals, 2 beasts, a clown, 2 dinosaurs, a dragon, a Frankenstein's Monster, a gargoyle, nine ghosts, a ghoul, a gooey creature, a Greek Legend, a knight, a mummy, a group of Mystery Inc. doppëlgangers, a pirate, 3 plants, 4 robots, a scarecrow, a skeleton, 2 snow monsters, a zombie, 12 non-ghost humans, and 4 miscellaneous monsters that didn't fit into a given category. It's been five years in the making, but here is the updated count of each type of villain! Ghosts and animals are still the most common type of villains. Alien - 19 Animal - 68 Beast - 22 Cat Creature - 5 Clown - 9 Cryptid - 9 Demon - 29 Dinosaur - 10 Dragon - 9 Frankenstein's Monster - 10 Gargoyle - 5 Ghost - 162 Ghoul - 12 Gooey Creature - 17 Greek Legend - 17 Headless Creature - 8 Indigenous Spirit - 11 Knight - 8 Misc. Monster - 41 Mummy - 23 Mystery Inc. - 5 Non-Ghost Human - 51 Pirate - 9 Plant - 10 Robot - 27 Scarecrow - 5 Sea Monster - 39 Skeleton - 17 Snow Monster - 8 Stone Monster - 7 Vampire - 20 Vehicle - 5 Werewolf - 17 Witch - 15 Wizard - 10 Zombie - 19 Here's the updated pie chart of how all the percentages all come out!  It was really fun to rediscover this project! Now that I've found this again, I definitely want to continue updating this as new Scooby content comes out. If you for some reason notice any errors, please let me know in the comments! If you want to download my spreadsheet for calculating this data, you can do so here: 
 Before their appearance in The New Scooby-Doo Movies, there was a full Laurel and Hardy television series produced by Hanna-Barbera. The show ran from 1966-1967 and produced 156 total shorts. The series was developed by Larry Harmon, who voiced Laurel on the show. The series was originally conceived in 1961 when Laurel was still alive; however, Larry Harmon and Jim MacGeorge provided the voices for them due to Laurel and Hardy both passing away by the time the series was greenlit.
Outside of this series and The New Scooby-Doo Movies, MacGeorge and Harmon would go on to voice their characters one more time. This ironically has another parallel to a different New Scooby-Doo Movies guest star! Their only other voice role for these characters was in Get Smart, which starred Don Adams as the lead actor.  "The Nutcracker Scoob" pays brief homage to another Dickens novel besides A Christmas Carol. In 1839 (four years before writing A Christmas Carol), Dickens published a novel called Nicholas Nickelby, which Mr. Nickelby's surname is a reference to.
Happy holidays, everyone! Hope all who are celebrating enjoy the festive season!
 Besides Daphne and Velma's cameos, there are only five episodes featuring female characters in the entire Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue series. With the exception of a couple background characters that don't have speaking roles, every other character in the series is a male. The female characters in the show are:
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