According to A Podcast Named Scooby-Doo's interview with Ryan Fosley, if Jabberjaw would have been in SCOOB!, they were considering having pop singer Lizzo be the voice of Jabberjaw.
In addition, when rewatching the film the other day for the third anniversary, I also noticed that during the scene where the gang is eating fries, the exterior shot shows the gang is in the R&S Coffee Shop. I'm presuming this was a mistake, as coffee shops generally do not serve fries and soft drinks (that would more likely be a diner).
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In a recent interview with Wizards of Waverly Pod, Hayley Kiyoko shared several details about her role playing Velma in Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins and Curse of the Lake Monster. Playing Velma was apparently Hayley's first time ever acting. After she finished with the role, she worried that she wouldn't be able to get other roles due to executives pigeon-holing her for the Velma-like haircut she had at the time. Hayley also mentioned that after playing Velma, she did not want to play any more roles as a high school student. However, she would go on to play roles as a high school student in Wizards of Waverly Place and the Disney Channel Original Movie Lemonade Mouth. You can check out the full interview here (although what I shared above were the only parts specifically related to her role as Velma).
In the hit 1966-1968 sitcom The Monkees (which you may recognize Davy Jones from), each episode had a classic romp in which The Monkees ran away from whomever the villain of the week was. Some episodes even included The Monkees getting into situations that involved monsters, such as "I Was a Teenage Monster" in which they run into a mad scientist who has created a Frankenstein-like monster, and "The Monstrous Monkee Mash" where the Monkees meet the Universal Monsters in a castle. The few episodes that included monsters had a "Scooby Dooby Doors" like romp in which The Monkees got into various antics running away from the monsters, while a chase song played in the background. You can view the romp from "I Was a Teenage Monster" on the YouTube video above. (Note that similarly to a few Scooby-Doo episodes from that era, there is a depiction of an indigenous chief in a way that wouldn't be seen as acceptable today in the chase scene)
Thanks to Tom Holste for inspiring the idea for this fun fact! The likenesses of several U.S. presidents have appeared in Scooby-Doo episodes. Ronald Reagan appeared in "It's a Wonderful Scoob" from The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo. George W. Bush (along with vice president Dick Cheney) appear in the Shaggy and Scooby-Doo Get a Clue! episode "Scooby Dudes," in a brief scene where George Bush gets chili dumped on his head, while Dick Cheney simultaneously has a heart attack. (It was a very odd political commentary to include in the show lol) George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant and Theodore Roosevelt also appeared as ghosts in "A Night Louse at the White House" from The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries. Washington also appears at the end of a flashback in Scooby-Doo and the Gourmet Ghost, and Lincoln appears in the Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? episode "A Mystery Solving Gang Divided" as a ghost.
Both Reagan and Bush also had their favorite foods appear in their episodes. As mentioned a long time ago in Fun Fact #91 (back from July 2016), Ronald Reagan had a jar of jellybeans on his desk as a reference to his love of jellybeans. According to a cookbook written by one of George W. Bush's cooks at the White House, one of the Bush family's favorite recipes was Texas chili. The episode "Scooby Dudes" takes place in Texas, so presumably, the chili George Bush had dumped on him at the BBQ Cookoff may have been a reference to his love of chili, similar to the jellybean reference they included for Reagan. A storyboard for "Chefs of Steel" shows that Get a Clue may have originally had the series title a bit switched around at one point in production, as Scooby-Doo and Shaggy Get a Clue. Thanks ScoobyDooUK for suggesting this fun fact idea!
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.
"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:
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!
Alex Super from "Mamba Wamba and the Voodoo Hoodoo" (The Scooby-Doo Show) was voiced by Mickey Dolenz. This is particularly interesting and notable because Mickey was in a famous 1960s band, The Monkees, with another famous Scooby-Doo guest star, Davy Jones, who guest starred in The New Scooby-Doo Movies ("The Haunted Horseman of Hagglethorn Hall").
The first five episodes of The Scooby-Doo Show were the first episodes in the franchise not to use Hoyt Curtin's classic score for Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? throughout the episode. "Scared a Lot in Camelot" re-used a 1968 score from another Hanna-Barbera show, The Banana Splits, but the reintroduction of Curtin's classic score didn't happen until "The Harum Scarum Sanitarium." Following this episode, Curtin's original score would be used throughout the rest of the series.
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