​There are a lot of excellent Scooby-Doo seasons out there, but the one I feel is the most forgotten yet deserves the most praise is the second season of The Scooby-Doo Show. Compared to the rest of the series, the eight episodes in season 2 had a consistently noticeable darker tone to it which I feel was so well executed. There were genuinely some of the creepiest plots in the franchise in this season, which makes it all the more unfortunate that four of these episodes haven’t even made it to DVD yet. In this post, I want to give my review of the season episode-by-episode.
 
“The Curse of the Viking Lake,” while not the darkest episode of the season, definitely had some pretty creepy moments in it. The episode focuses on the premise of Velma’s uncle being kidnapped by Viking ghosts. As a kid, I always found the idea of Viking ghosts and their ghost ship pretty unique, and still do to this day. The mystery begins quickly in the episode, with one of the most frightening scenes happening right away…Daphne having no mouth! Haha, just kidding…though there was a very odd animation error in which the animators somehow forgot to draw Daphne’s mouth for part of a scene. The actual scene I was going to refer to was Scooby being watched by the Viking in Velma’s uncle’s cabin, but disappearing any time Scooby looked. It’s pretty creepy that the Vikings were still hanging around Velma’s uncle’s house despite the fact that they’d already kidnapped him! It’s even more creepy that the Viking is literally somehow able to open the window from the inside despite his full body being outside at the time…like how is that even possible? lol This episode also did a great job with having the entire atmosphere be very creepy despite the gang going to multiple places: Velma’s uncle’s cabin, the museum, the ghost ship, and finally the Viking cave. I always found the cave to be especially creepy, and also demonstrated how elaborate the villains’ plan was given they hung a picture of the Viking God Odin and prayed to it, despite not actually being real Vikings. There are no weak episodes in this season, which is rare, but if I had to rank them, this one would probably be on the lower end of the season rankings compared to the others.

​Moving on to “Hang in There, Scooby-Doo,” we get a little reprieve from the dark tone, but not much. I think much of the episode taking place during the day made a difference here, but nonetheless, some of the settings were still pretty creepy. The episode centers around the gang entering a hang-gliding competition, but Scooby is captured by a ghostly pterodactyl and they have to search through a spooky cave to find him. Though the cave was spooky, I found the hotel scenes even creepier, particularly the part where the pterodactyl ghost is watching them from the window as well as the scene with Mr. Morguely burning the papers outside. The latter scene had a particularly spooky tone because at one point, the background music completely stops and just has the gang looking for clues in silence. There’s not really a lot to say about this episode, other than the setting of the cave (and the hotel) really made this episode for me. Otherwise, this one would kind of stand out from the rest of season 2 given the mystery itself didn’t have a very dark tone like the others.

​“The Creepy Heap from the Deep” again has one of the most terrifying premises in the Scooby franchise. The gang’s beach party is interrupted by a sea monster, and they have to run up to safety at a creepy old house on a cliff. They discover a captain lives there and he tells them the sea monster they saw is a legendary creature named the Creepy Heap from the Deep, who steals souls. That in itself is an incredibly frightening plot for a series technically targeted at children. However, it gets much creepier when the gang leaves the captain alone for a moment, but return to find out the monster has stolen his spirit. As a kid, the utterly blank and ghostly look on Captain Clemens’s face when his soul is stolen freaked me out so much, in addition to the fact that he scrawled a message on the desk that at first look appears to be in his own blood. However, when it’s shown from a different angle, it looks more like it was written in the dust on the table, but still, it’s pretty creepy. Later, when Shaggy and Scooby are alone watching the captain in the house, the spiritless captain gets up and says that now that his spirit is stolen, he has to steal others’ spirits. A brief chase ensues, until Shaggy and Scooby become trapped in a room with the soulless captain trying to break down the door yelling “I must have your spirits!” I was honestly scared of the captain when I was younger because of this scene. Despite me holding this episode in high regard, I feel like the quality dips a little after the “room” Shaggy and Scooby are in is revealed to be an elevator which allows them to escape. I really wish they would have just stayed in the creepy house on the cliff the entire episode, because that was one of the spookiest haunted houses there is in Scooby-Doo IMO. The rest of the episode takes place on a submarine, but the captain somehow gets much less creepy to me. If I may make a comparison to in Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated here, I found the captain’s digression to be really similar to The Freak’s. In “Pawn of Shadows,” The Freak holds a giant knife and recites creepy, threatening rhymes. However, in the next episode, “All Fear the Freak,” he speaks broken English and can barely put a sentence together, as well as no longer holding a knife. This always bothered me so much, because they his characterization perfect in “Pawn of Shadows” so I don’t know why they made him so much less scary in “All Fear the Freak.” Anyway, I feel very similar about the captain in the second half of this episode. The captain just kind of makes vague threats (“You will never leave!”) and at one point, a recycled sound effect from the zombie in “Mamba Wamba and the Voodoo Hoodoo” is used in place of his voice. That just always bummed me out because like The Freak, they had the captain’s characterization perfect in the first half of the episode, so I don’t know why they watered it down so much later. Despite my criticism here, I still hold that episode in high esteem because of how terrifying the first half of the episode is.

​“The Spooky Case of the Grand Prix Race” is arguably the most famous Scooby-Doo episode that hasn’t yet made it to DVD. The episode focuses around the gang investigating the Grand Prix Race of 1977 after some drivers disappear. A phantom racecar driver then appears and kidnaps Shaggy, and the gang has to get him back. I really liked how experimental this episode felt. Despite that a race isn’t typically thought of as a dark place for an episode to take place, the entirety of the episode takes place at night (except the very end) which makes it kind of eerie. I also loved how they had Shaggy be the one kidnapped instead of Daphne. At this point, it was almost a given that if anyone was going to be kidnapped in the episode, it was going to be Daphne, so it was nice to see that trope switched up. I thought the Phantom Racer was a very creepy-looking villain as well, and arguably, was the most dangerous foe the gang had fought yet. Most of the villains simply tied people up, but the Phantom Racer attempted to seal Shaggy up in a brick wall forever, which is pretty dark for a Scooby episode! Though I loved the creepy atmosphere of the episode taking place at night in general, the old abandoned house the Phantom Racer brought Shaggy into was super terrifying! They never did end up explaining where that phantom bone at the end came from though haha.

​“The Ozark Switch Witch” is another creepy one just because it takes place at an isolated cabin in the woods, and everyone knows that by law, isolated cabins in the woods have to be creepy haha. I loved Witch McCoy as a villain and it was a very elaborate plan on her part to replace all the Hatfields with frogs so quickly. Her lair in the woods was so spooky looking! The zombie was…meh. I don’t want to complain about him because he wasn’t bad, he just wasn’t in the episode enough. He was in one scene before they trapped him, so he felt kind of tacked on, which is unfortunate because I think he could have had a lot of potential as a villain if he were used more.

​“Creepy Cruise” is the final episode in the season, and while the plot was very unorthodox, it still has its appeal just due to its dark tone, strange monster, and super elaborate plan. You have to be super dedicated to literally build a time machine (even if it didn’t work) just to swindle people out of their money lol. The creepy bug monster from 6984 was a really interesting villain! And yes, he was from 6984 even if they didn’t say it in the episode. I’ve seen so many sites that say he’s from 6977, but the professor does indeed say “five thousand and seven” (years in the future) right before the monster came out, which would make it 6984 given the episode was released in 1977. Anyways, the ship was a pretty spooky setting, however, that one scene where Shaggy and Scooby dress up to trick the monster at the costume ball is really dumb IMO and does not fit the tone of the rest of the episode at all. It’s the only scene in season 2 I don’t like. There’s just no reason for it to be in there and it feels like time filler. Fun fact though, when I watched this episode on the USA network as a kid (on some VHS tapes my parents recorded), they actually had this scene completely cut (presumably for extra commercials)! I did not know this scene existed until it was rerun on Boomerang when I was a teenager. Normally I would hate the idea of a network cutting a scene out just for extra commercial time, but in this case, I like their edited version better lol.

​Despite having some of the most amazing monsters in the franchise, like the vampire, the Creepy Heap and the captain, I think it’s safe to say in analyzing the season as a whole that the dark atmosphere and creepy settings are really what make this season as good as it is. It’s really unfortunate these episodes have not been released on DVD (or across scattered DVDs for a few), because this is one of the most memorable and best Scooby seasons in the franchise IMO. The day we get a season set for these episodes will be a very happy day for myself and I’m sure many other Scooby fans! 

This was such a fun, nostalgic episode! It was so much fun having Cher back and it's really sweet that she invited Scooby on her yacht for his birthday. The atmosphere/setting of the episode was amazing. This felt like a perfect combo of "The Secret of Shark Island" and "A Clue for Scooby-Doo." Even if they didn't officially call it a "graveyard of ships" like they did in "A Clue for Scooby-Doo," it was a really cool how they reused that concept in this episode. I noticed they also reimagined the scene from "A Clue for Scooby-Doo" where they inflate Scooby's diving suit, so it can be popped and launched at the monster. Cher's yacht also looked a little similar to the one the gang saw disappear in "A Clue for Scooby-Doo."

Cher was an all-around amazing guest star. You could definitely tell her voice aged, but nonetheless, it didn't make it any less nostalgic. She seemed a lot more friendly in this one, as she was very irritable and sarcastic in "The Secret of Shark Island," but that didn't bother me. I loved that they even mentioned their adventures from "The Secret of Shark Island" a couple times in this episode; I have to admit I wasn't expecting that and was a little worried Cher wasn't going to recognize them. It was really funny that Cher said she didn't want to deal with any more Shark Men the next time they got together haha. I kind of wondered if they'd reference Sonny at all, but given his death, it probably would have been too awkward and sad to mention.

I loved the Shark Men as well. They looked very similar to the original villains and the motive behind them dressing up was even pretty similar.

Overall, this was a wonderful episode that is definitely one of my favorites purely due to how nostalgic it was. It didn't quite make my top 10 episodes, but it was incredibly close!

Star-Studded Scoreboard:
1. I Put a Hex on You!
2. Total Jeopardy!
3. The Horrible Haunted Hospital of Dr. Phineas Phrag!
4. The Last Inmate!
5. The Dreaded Remake of Jekyll & Hyde!
6. Dark Diner of Route 66!
7. The Sword, The Fox and the Scooby-Doo!
8. One Minute Mysteries!
9. Dance Matron of Mayhem!
10. Returning of the Key Ring!
11. Cher, Scooby and the Sargasso Sea!
12. Elementary, My Dear Shaggy!
13. Too Many Dummies!
14. When Urkel-Bots Go Bad!
15. The Feast of Dr. Frankenfooder!
16. The Internet on Haunted House Hill!
17. What a Night, for a Dark Knight!
18. Attack of the Weird Al-osaurus!
19. The Cursed Cabinet of Professor Madds Markson!
20. A Run Cycle Through Time!
21. The Nightmare Ghost of Psychic U!
22. A Fashion Nightmare!
23. The Wedding Witch of Wainsly Hall!
24. The 7th Inning Scare!
25. The Crown Jewel of Boxing!
26. Scooby On Ice!
27. Lost Soles of Jungle River!
28. Caveman on the Half Pipe!
29. A Moveable Mystery!
30. Revenge of the Swamp Monster!
31. The Scooby of a Thousand Faces!
32. Now You Sia, Now You Don't!
33. The High School Wolfman's Musical Lament!
34. The Tao of Scoob!
35. The New York Underground!
36. The Phantom, the Talking Dog, and the Hot Hot Hot Sauce!
37. The Lost Mines of Kilimanjaro!
38. Hollywood Knights!
39. Fear of the Fire Beast!
40. The Hot Dog Dog!
41. Quit Clowning!
42. Peebles' Pet Shop of Terrible Terrors!
43. Space Station Scooby
44. Ollie Ollie In-come Free!
45. The Fastest Food Fiend!
46. A Mystery Solving Gang Divided

I thought this was an average but enjoyable episode! Jessica Biel's presence in the episode didn't seem super prominent to me, she sort of felt like she was just there. I was a little disappointed by the villain being just a plain gorilla (though, spoilers, it was funny that it ended up being a gorilla in a gorilla suit) haha. The masked person was kind of a lame villain as well, as they've done that so many times. I liked the jungle setting as well, and it was cool how they reused the audio clip from the island in "Hassle in the Castle" at the beginning of this episode again (just like in "Lost Soles of Jungle River!"). Scooby and the leopard cub was also super cute and reminded me a lot of Scooby with the chick in "Jeepers, It's the Creeper" and the frog in "Mamba Wamba and the Voodoo Hoodoo."

Overall, it was an interesting episode but it wasn't anything special, even though it was by no means a bad episode. This ranks 36/45 for me.

Star-Studded Scoreboard:
1. I Put a Hex on You!
2. Total Jeopardy!
3. The Horrible Haunted Hospital of Dr. Phineas Phrag!
4. The Last Inmate!
5. The Dreaded Remake of Jekyll & Hyde!
6. Dark Diner of Route 66!
7. The Sword, The Fox and the Scooby-Doo!
8. One Minute Mysteries!
9. Dance Matron of Mayhem!
10. Returning of the Key Ring!
11. Elementary, My Dear Shaggy!
12. Too Many Dummies!
13. When Urkel-Bots Go Bad!
14. The Feast of Dr. Frankenfooder!
15. The Internet on Haunted House Hill!
16. What a Night, for a Dark Knight!
17. Attack of the Weird Al-osaurus!
18. The Cursed Cabinet of Professor Madds Markson!
19. A Run Cycle Through Time!
20. The Nightmare Ghost of Psychic U!
21. A Fashion Nightmare!
22. The Wedding Witch of Wainsly Hall!
23. The 7th Inning Scare!
24. The Crown Jewel of Boxing!
25. Scooby On Ice!
26. Lost Soles of Jungle River!
27. Caveman on the Half Pipe!
28. A Moveable Mystery!
29. Revenge of the Swamp Monster!
30. The Scooby of a Thousand Faces!
31. Now You Sia, Now You Don't!
32. The High School Wolfman's Musical Lament!
33. The Tao of Scoob!
34. The New York Underground!
35. The Phantom, the Talking Dog, and the Hot Hot Hot Sauce!
36. The Lost Mines of Kilimanjaro!
37. Hollywood Knights!
38. Fear of the Fire Beast!
39. The Hot Dog Dog!
40. Quit Clowning!
41. Peebles' Pet Shop of Terrible Terrors!
42. Space Station Scooby
43. Ollie Ollie In-come Free!
44. The Fastest Food Fiend!
45. A Mystery Solving Gang Divided

I found this to be a very average episode. The monster was super cool, but Lucy's inclusion felt sort of run-of-the-mill. The "Scooby Dooby Doo and Lucy Lucy Liu" joke got old after a bit. The joke with Velma's call in Italian went on a bit too long. Overall, this was by no means a bad episode, but it was very average and nothing particularly memorable. This ranks #32/43 for me.

Star-Studded Scoreboard:
1. I Put a Hex on You!
2. Total Jeopardy!
3. The Horrible Haunted Hospital of Dr. Phineas Phrag!
4. The Last Inmate!
5. The Dreaded Remake of Jekyll & Hyde!
6. Dark Diner of Route 66!
7. The Sword, The Fox and the Scooby-Doo!
8. One Minute Mysteries!
9. Dance Matron of Mayhem!
10. Elementary, My Dear Shaggy!
11. Too Many Dummies!
12. When Urkel-Bots Go Bad!
13. The Feast of Dr. Frankenfooder!
14. The Internet on Haunted House Hill!
15. What a Night, for a Dark Knight!
16. Attack of the Weird Al-osaurus!
17. The Cursed Cabinet of Professor Madds Markson!
18. A Run Cycle Through Time!
19. The Nightmare Ghost of Psychic U!
20. A Fashion Nightmare!
21. The Wedding Witch of Wainsly Hall!
22. The 7th Inning Scare!
23. The Crown Jewel of Boxing!
24. Scooby On Ice!
25. Lost Soles of Jungle River!
26. Caveman on the Half Pipe!
27. A Moveable Mystery!
28. Revenge of the Swamp Monster!
29. The Scooby of a Thousand Faces!
30. Now You Sia, Now You Don't!
31. The High School Wolfman's Musical Lament!
32. The Tao of Scoob!
33. The New York Underground!
34. The Phantom, the Talking Dog, and the Hot Hot Hot Sauce!
35. Hollywood Knights!
36. Fear of the Fire Beast!
37. The Hot Dog Dog!
38. Quit Clowning!
39. Peebles' Pet Shop of Terrible Terrors!
40. Space Station Scooby
41. Ollie Ollie In-come Free!
42. The Fastest Food Fiend!
43. A Mystery Solving Gang Divided

I really liked this episode! It felt very The New Scooby-Doo Movies like to me with it just being Shaggy, Scooby and the guest star for most of the episode. I thought the Mud Men were amazing villains, and Axl Rose was a great guest star. The real star of the episode for me was the settings, however. Both of them had such a creepy vibe to it and really made the episode for me.

Note that I have labeled this episode #49 because that's what the Boomerang streaming service URL lists it as. I can rearrange the episodes if need be once the rest gets released.

For the first time in a long time, let's update the rankings! This one ranked very highly for me, at #6/42.

Star-Studded Scoreboard:
1. I Put a Hex on You!
2. Total Jeopardy!
3. The Horrible Haunted Hospital of Dr. Phineas Phrag!
4. The Last Inmate!
5. The Dreaded Remake of Jekyll & Hyde!
6. Dark Diner of Route 66!
7. The Sword, The Fox and the Scooby-Doo!
8. One Minute Mysteries!
9. Dance Matron of Mayhem!
10. Elementary, My Dear Shaggy!
11. Too Many Dummies!
12. When Urkel-Bots Go Bad!
13. The Feast of Dr. Frankenfooder!
14. The Internet on Haunted House Hill!
15. What a Night, for a Dark Knight!
16. Attack of the Weird Al-osaurus!
17. The Cursed Cabinet of Professor Madds Markson!
18. A Run Cycle Through Time!
19. The Nightmare Ghost of Psychic U!
20. A Fashion Nightmare!
21. The Wedding Witch of Wainsly Hall!
22. The 7th Inning Scare!
23. The Crown Jewel of Boxing!
24. Scooby On Ice!
25. Lost Soles of Jungle River!
26. Caveman on the Half Pipe!
27. A Moveable Mystery!
28. Revenge of the Swamp Monster!
29. The Scooby of a Thousand Faces!
30. Now You Sia, Now You Don't!
31. The High School Wolfman's Musical Lament!
32. The New York Underground!
33. The Phantom, the Talking Dog, and the Hot Hot Hot Sauce!
34. Hollywood Knights!
35. Fear of the Fire Beast!
36. The Hot Dog Dog!
37. Quit Clowning!
38. Peebles' Pet Shop of Terrible Terrors!
39. Space Station Scooby
40. Ollie Ollie In-come Free!
41. The Fastest Food Fiend!
42. A Mystery Solving Gang Divided

Note that this review contains spoilers so I would not recommend reading it if you haven't seen the film yet.

I really liked this film a lot! The setting of both the town of Norville and the kingdom of Camelot was really cool and genuinely felt mysterious. I didn't even really mind that the time travel was all fake, to be honest. The explanation for why it was fake made total sense and didn't feel like a cop-out like the two sequel movies from 2019. I did kind of like the twist at the end (both of them, actually), especially the one where no one knew where Merlin came from or who he was. I didn't really like how ridiculous they made Merlin (or the fact that King Arthur has "posh king" jewelry like a rapper would have lol)

The villain was excellent! I loved how creepy she was and how she could shape-shift into a dragon. That Black Knight was genuinely pretty spooky too once he had his helmet off, and I would have liked to see more him!

I liked how they dove into Shaggy's ancestry for this one. It's cool to know a bit more about his family, even if we didn't get to meet any additional members. I assume the Camelot ancestry was on his mom's side though since she gave him the amulet. His dad's side must be the one with the werewolf curse we saw in "Moonlight Madness" (The Richie Rich / Scooby-Doo Show) haha.

Velma was a lot more likeable in this film, IMO. Even though she was still skeptical, it wasn't over-the-top like it has been in the past three films. I didn't really like the characterization of Daphne though. Her quirkiness felt incredibly forced to me, especially how she thinks reality is a simulation. The writers of Be Cool and Maxwell Atoms did a good job, but the writer for this film really just didn't capture the quirky Daphne I like.

Lastly, I felt like all the references were super cool. The ones I caught were the airport guy's name being HB, the gang being from Crystal Cove again (interesting they seem to have switched the location in the main canon), Barney Rubble, and then all the flashback scenes we see when the gang is time traveling. I caught scenes from the following episodes: Moon Monster Madness, Happy Halloween, Where's My Mummy?, Zombie Island, Beach Beastie, the A Pup Named Scooby-Doo and Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! intros, the first episodes of Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated and The New Scooby-Doo Movies, "A Night Louse at the White House" from The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries. A scene from Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels is also shown. I thought it was super interesting how much they made Thundarr the Barbarian a part of it! For those who haven't seen the show though, it's actually pretty dark and is nothing like how silly it's portrayed in the film.

Overall, I found this to be a really good movie and as good as Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo! 

This was such an amazing episode and a perfect way to honor Alex Trebek. It was so cool they released this episode early. 

The way they structured this episode like a game of Jeopardy was super unique and original, and it was so fun to see them do something different and creative. You could tell a lot of love was put into this episode. Alex Trebek was an amazing guest star, and I really liked Max Kilobyte as a villain as well. It was interesting to have a villain that wasn't really fully a villain all the time, as in, he was calm and unthreatening unless someone was beating him. I liked how they worked a re-imagining of the classic bit with Scooby running into the robot in a barrel as well!

This was one of the best episodes of Guess Who and it will be rated as such: I'm placing this at #2. After a rewatch of the Kristen Schaal episode, I'm also moving that one way up to #3, moving everything else down a spot.

Star-Studded Scoreboard:
1. I Put a Hex on You!
2. Total Jeopardy!
3. The Horrible Haunted Hospital of Dr. Phineas Phrag!
4. The Last Inmate!
5. The Dreaded Remake of Jekyll & Hyde!
6. The Sword, The Fox and the Scooby-Doo!
7. One Minute Mysteries!
8. Dance Matron of Mayhem!
9. Elementary, My Dear Shaggy!
10. Too Many Dummies!
11. When Urkel-Bots Go Bad!
12. The Feast of Dr. Frankenfooder!
13. The Internet on Haunted House Hill!
14. What a Night, for a Dark Knight!
15. Attack of the Weird Al-osaurus!
16. The Cursed Cabinet of Professor Madds Markson!
17. A Run Cycle Through Time!
18. The Nightmare Ghost of Psychic U!
19. A Fashion Nightmare!
20. The Wedding Witch of Wainsly Hall!
21. The 7th Inning Scare!
22. The Crown Jewel of Boxing!
23. Scooby On Ice!
24. Lost Soles of Jungle River!
25. Caveman on the Half Pipe!
26. A Moveable Mystery!
27. Revenge of the Swamp Monster!
28. The Scooby of a Thousand Faces!
29. Now You Sia, Now You Don't!
30. The High School Wolfman's Musical Lament!
31. The New York Underground!
32. The Phantom, the Talking Dog, and the Hot Hot Hot Sauce!
33. Hollywood Knights!
34. Fear of the Fire Beast!
35. The Hot Dog Dog!
36. Quit Clowning!
37. Peebles' Pet Shop of Terrible Terrors!
38. Space Station Scooby
39. Ollie Ollie In-come Free!
40. The Fastest Food Fiend!
41. A Mystery Solving Gang Divided

I don't really know what order to put this episode in, since it aired as the season 2 premiere in the UK, so I'm just going to say it's episode 40 for now and can always change it later if we find out it's a different order.

I really enjoyed this episode. Jason Sudeikis was a good guest star and the plot was pretty unique. The Snakeman Monster looked like a recolored version of the Snake Demon from "Shiver and Shake, That Demon's a Snake!" (The Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show).

It seemed like there were references galore in this episode! I was shocked Chen's Coffee from SDMI was referenced on that coffee cup, and did anyone else notice that the jungle sounds in the opening few seconds were archived audio from the noises when the gang gets on the island "Hassle in the Castle"?

I was a little surprised they mentioned Fred and Daphne possibly liking each other in this. I believe this is the first time Guess Who has done that. 

Not the most amazing episode, but it was an enjoyable one. This ranks at #23/40 for me.

Star-Studded Scoreboard:
1. I Put a Hex on You!
2. The Last Inmate!
3. The Dreaded Remake of Jekyll & Hyde!
4. The Sword, The Fox and the Scooby-Doo!
5. One Minute Mysteries!
6. Dance Matron of Mayhem!
7. The Horrible Haunted Hospital of Dr. Phineas Phrag!
8. Elementary, My Dear Shaggy!
9. Too Many Dummies!
10. When Urkel-Bots Go Bad!
11. The Feast of Dr. Frankenfooder!
12. The Internet on Haunted House Hill!
13. What a Night, for a Dark Knight!
14. Attack of the Weird Al-osaurus!
15. The Cursed Cabinet of Professor Madds Markson!
16. A Run Cycle Through Time!
17. The Nightmare Ghost of Psychic U!
18. A Fashion Nightmare!
​19. The Wedding Witch of Wainsly Hall!
20. The 7th Inning Scare!
21. The Crown Jewel of Boxing!
22. Scooby On Ice!
23. Lost Soles of Jungle River!
24. Caveman on the Half Pipe!
25. A Moveable Mystery!
26. Revenge of the Swamp Monster!
27. The Scooby of a Thousand Faces!
28. Now You Sia, Now You Don't!
29. The High School Wolfman's Musical Lament!
30. The New York Underground!
31. The Phantom, the Talking Dog, and the Hot Hot Hot Sauce!
32. Hollywood Knights!
33. Fear of the Fire Beast!
34. The Hot Dog Dog!
35. Quit Clowning!
36. Peebles' Pet Shop of Terrible Terrors!
37. Space Station Scooby
38. Ollie Ollie In-come Free!
39. The Fastest Food Fiend!
40. A Mystery Solving Gang Divided

Given this episode is a direct sequel to "Sandy Duncan's Jekyll and Hydes" from the original The New Scooby-Doo Movies series, Curse of the 13th Ghost and Return to Zombie Island got me really worried about how this episode would be. After watching it, I personally loved this episode and thought they did an amazing job. If this were what Curse of the 13th Ghost and Return to Zombie Island were like, I think it would have made fans at least somewhat happier. 

I loved the tons of references to the original episode all throughout. These were the ones I caught: Velma and Fred's comments about turning at different landmarks at the beginning, the lights falling (an illusion to the lamppost nearly falling on Sandy), the angry director, Scooby making eyes at Sandy Duncan, the mummy and pyramids, the door scene where there is a saloon and a desert, Daphne being a stunt double, Bill Billington (the actor playing Mr. Hyde) as a suspect, luring Mr. Hyde out, and the dinosaur is possibly a reference to the dragon.

Zalia Z. Fairchild making a reappearance was unexpected but very cool. The production stills showing clips from the original episode (and pictures of the Ghost of Hyde from Where Are You) was super neat, and kinda reinforced that the villain of this episode was almost a combo between the elements of the Sandy Duncan Mr. Hyde and the Ghost of Hyde from Where Are You. The updated versions of the dresses Sandy and Daphne wore in the original episode were fun.

One thing I noticed is that the mummy from Liza Koshy's video, which also featured the Wolfman and Caveman from previous episodes, appeared in this episode. That maybe me wonder if maybe that episode was meant to come after this one.

Speaking of the mummy though, it was neat how they played upon both the original episode and the New Scooby-Doo Movies' use of several villains per episode in general, but also made it their own by including two new villains: a dinosaur and a giant manta ray. The inclusion of them mixed with the two villains from the original episode (albeit redesigned) was a perfect balance to me.

Sandy was once again a great guest star. She seems like such a sweet woman and she definitely did as good in this episode as she did in the original. 

I thought the ending of them making the movie in space was really dumb though.

While this episode did have a lot of similarities to the original episode, it was done well enough where I didn't feel it was just a rehash of what had already been done. If they are going to make sequels to Scooby material, they're getting closer to the way it should be done IMO. 

This one was such a good episode, it makes top 3 for me, knocking Alton Brown's episode out of its short-lived run in the top 10.

Before I conclude this post with my rankings, I want to also say that I really enjoyed this first half of the season and it makes me excited for the remaining 13 episodes! We actually already know seven of the guests we're getting, between KISS, Lucy Liu, Dynomutt and Blue Falcon, Jessica Biel, Alex Trebek, and Sean Astin. In addition, we know Jason Sudeikis, whose episode "Lost Soles of Jungle River!" has already aired in the UK. Some people are also suspecting the voice actors themselves will be a guest star due to a post made by Tracy Mark Lee a while back. The other six are unknown at this time.

I'm not sure if we'll get another episode like this one. Not many of the guest stars are still alive, though Dick Van Dyke, Cher and one Harlem Globetrotter are still alive. I don't think we'll get the single Harlem Globetrotter, but I'd love if we got another Cher episode!

The highlights of this first half of the season for me were "The Last Inmate!", "The Horrible Haunted Hospital of Dr. Phineas Phrag!" and this episode.

Star-Studded Scoreboard:
1. I Put a Hex on You!
2. The Last Inmate!
3. The Dreaded Remake of Jekyll & Hyde!
4. The Sword, The Fox and the Scooby-Doo!
5. One Minute Mysteries!
6. Dance Matron of Mayhem!
7. The Horrible Haunted Hospital of Dr. Phineas Phrag!
8. Elementary, My Dear Shaggy!
9. Too Many Dummies!
10. When Urkel-Bots Go Bad!
11. The Feast of Dr. Frankenfooder!
12. The Internet on Haunted House Hill!
13. What a Night, for a Dark Knight!
14. Attack of the Weird Al-osaurus!
15. The Cursed Cabinet of Professor Madds Markson!
16. A Run Cycle Through Time!
17. The Nightmare Ghost of Psychic U!
18. A Fashion Nightmare!
​19. The Wedding Witch of Wainsly Hall!
20. The 7th Inning Scare!
21. The Crown Jewel of Boxing!
22. Scooby On Ice!
23. Caveman on the Half Pipe!
24. A Moveable Mystery!
25. Revenge of the Swamp Monster!
26. The Scooby of a Thousand Faces!
27. Now You Sia, Now You Don't!
28. The High School Wolfman's Musical Lament!
29. The New York Underground!
30. The Phantom, the Talking Dog, and the Hot Hot Hot Sauce!
31. Hollywood Knights!
32. Fear of the Fire Beast!
33. The Hot Dog Dog!
34. Quit Clowning!
35. Peebles' Pet Shop of Terrible Terrors!
36. Space Station Scooby
37. Ollie Ollie In-come Free!
38. The Fastest Food Fiend!
39. A Mystery Solving Gang Divided