This was another decent episode, and they worked in Macklemore well despite the fact that he is a rapper in a baseball episode. I loved the monster design, very original! It was a super cool reference how there's a picture of Bluestone the Great being unmasked on Macklemore's wall, as well as a video of the Cat Mummy from the Ricky Gervais episode. Him wanting super strong calves was kinda weird lol. I think, while not an amazing guest star, Macklemore did a pretty good job. I found the "everyone's angry in baseball" jokes to be kinda weird though.

One question though: is the old man that the Zombie Mascot kidnapped just dead then? He was never found, and the stadium blew up at the end without ever explaining what happened to the guy lol. 

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

This was a fun and different episode! Boy, that title is clunky as heck though, so much so that I thought the title was just translated wrong when we first heard about it from the German site.

The villain was pretty neat, especially with the haunted instruments and the fire. The spooky setting added a lot to this episode, IMO. Can we all agree we don't need to hear Shaggy say "bros" every again though? lol Scooby asking "what's a newspaper?" also felt dumb and like it was written by older individuals thinking "those crazy kids using their iPhone 27s and 9G smartphones!" I can't imagine kids don't even know what a newspaper is...

I liked Liza as a guest star. I'd just recently become familiar with her in the Netflix movie "Work It" which was just released this past August, and was a film I liked. I'll admit, without ruining the culprit, I briefly suspected Liza as the villain because I thought she was trying to make a publicity stunt for a viral video. Speaking of her videos, I enjoyed the one at the beginning where the Caveman from two episodes ago and the Werewolf from season 1 showed up. That was a cool addition!

Frank Welker didn't annunciate enough when he said "Woah! Check out that Koshy bump!" (referring to Koshy's publicity bumping up the videos popularity) as I had to turn the subtitles on to understand what he'd said there. Admittedly, I originally heard Fred say "Woah! Check out that Koshy bum!" and was like, that doesn't seem appropriate for a children's show lol!

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

I really liked the robot as a villain in this episode! Even though robots have been done before, this was a fun change for the series. Laila Ali was another guest star that seemed super into the role and that made for an enjoyable episode. This is another one that easily could have been a What's New episode. Also, why does Shaggy imagine Scooby when he's meditating and trying to think of his inner self? That's kinda odd haha.

The villains, for me, have been very easy to guess though. I've guessed pretty much all of them and the mysteries haven't been too difficult to figure out.

These last two reviews have been kinda short, but honestly there's not too much to say for them. They're very average episodes, though I felt Laila's was slightly better than the last two because she was more into her role. This has been a pretty good season though so far, and it's definitely a bit of an improvement over some of last season's episodes. No episodes besides "The Hot Dog Dog!" have made it into the bottom of my rankings thus far.

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

This was another enjoyable episode! I was surprised that they reused the caveman from Where Are You's design, because that makes two episodes in a row that the villains were just reused Where Are You designs. It also makes two winter episodes in a row, which I believe is a franchise first! The Caveman was a great villain, and felt more menacing than the Where Are You because of the forcefulness of hitting things with his club, where he was actually able to destroy things and shake buildings whereas I don't think that was the case in Where Are You.

Chloe was a good guest star. Overall, no complaints about the episode! It almost felt like it could have been a What's New episode, honestly. For me, this episode is right below the last one.

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

This was another great episode! I enjoyed Tara as a guest star and the wintery setting of this episode was fun. It was really interesting how they had Simone appear again! For the fifth time in this series! The writers must really like her haha.

It was an interesting choice on the animators' part to just reuse the Snow Ghost design completely for the villain, but I didn't mind it. It also seemed like the old woman's Snow Devil legend may have been a reimagining of Fu Lan Chi's story from the original "That's Snow Ghost" episode.

That reference to Flim Flam and 13 Ghosts was awesome! I was shocked they chose to reference it two episodes in a row! 

My only gripe with the episode is that it felt a bit too much time was spent having the Snow Devil chase after the skates. The trap started at the 14 minute mark and lasted almost 5 minutes of just the villain chasing the gang for those skates.

This ranks as #18/34, so a pretty average episode but overall an enjoyable one to watch.

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

I liked this episode! Tim was a really good guest star and seemed into his role, and he had a nice presence in this episode. The monster was really cool as well, and solved the mystery of the zombie bellhop (or as we assumed) that appeared briefly in the clip show from "The High School Wolfman's Musical Lament!" My only gripe with the episode is that there didn't feel like there was great pacing in terms of the mystery. 

I loved the reference to 13 Ghosts with Shaggy's red shirt! That was so clever!

This episode was good, though it wasn't amazing and charted just above mid-way at #16/33.

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

I really liked this episode! This one was a nice take on the classic Frankenstein story and had a very original monster! The deep lore around the monster was a breath of fresh air and is something we didn't really get in the last episode with the gargoyle.

I thought Alton Brown did a great job as a guest star. He seemed super into the role and provided a great addition to the gang. Though I sort of suspected the villain was Alton himself, I thought it was a neat twist to have (almost) everyone be the villain.

This is definitely one of the better episodes of this season so far and would definitely recommend it. Still can't get into that intro though, it's so annoying I have to skip it every time. :P

How does this one rank up? This one actually cracks my top 10 just barely, knocking out "What a Night, for a Dark Knight!"

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

I think this episode was a slight improvement upon the Joey Chestnut one, but not much. The plot was completely reused from "Ready to Scare" from What's New, Scooby-Doo?, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. I didn't feel like too much original was done with it that hasn't already been done before, however.

I liked the element of Gigi Hadid being Velma's friend from criminal psychology class. Overall, Gigi was a pretty good guest star! I got annoyed by the "Gigi Hadid!!!" song with holy music playing in the background. That could have been a one-time joke, and didn't need to be done over and over like they did. 

I enjoyed how they started out with the gang already working to solve the mystery, instead of them running into it. It provided a nice change of pace. On the other hand, the mystery did seem a bit rushed in this one and some of the jokes (especially the monkey ones) seemed a bit kiddish for my liking. ​I'm also still not enjoying the constant door scenes every single episode, but I imagine that will probably be a trope throughout the entire series.

Overall, this was a decent episode but was middle-of-the-road for me and not anything super special. Ironically, the episode lands right in the middle of my current rankings, at #16/31.

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

Overall, this was another average episode. I really liked the Tree Monster as a villain! As a whole, they're doing a great job coming up with some very original monsters in this season. However, Joey Chestnut kinda felt like he was just there and didn't have much of a role. He almost felt like a side character to me. Fred and Daphne also seemed to have very few lines, unfortunately. This definitely was not a bad episode, it just wasn't particularly memorable in any way.

Also, did anyone else think Scooby being in a hot dog bun was a little disturbing lol? Scooby's song with lyrics such as "boil me until I burst" was also kinda disturbing haha.

On a related note, maybe I'm a monster for doing this, but honestly I like both ketchup and mustard if I eat a hot dog, not just mustard.
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This ranks towards the bottom, at #24/30.

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

I feel there are some guest stars in this show who are just kind of there without much purpose, and are kind of bland in their line delivery. Kristen Schaal was absolutely not that guest star. I felt she really shined in the role, and despite not knowing anything about her, her quirkiness and desire to try to find out which member of the gang she was most like really added a lot to the episode and made it feel cool and different. I loved that twist at the ending too where she tries to steal the van! Btw, I'd totally be down for her replacing Fred for a few episodes haha.

Other than Kristen, I thought the setting was super creepy, and the Phineas Phrag Monster design was super original. Honestly, this felt to me like it could have been an episode of The New Scooby-Doo Movies, and it really seemed like they put a lot of love into this episode and making it true to the original tone, rather than making it seemed like forced nostalgia like certain other episodes have. I hope we see more episodes like this, and especially more guest stars as passionate about their role as Kristen. Episodes like the Kacey Musgraves one were decent plot-wise, but to me, Kacey just really didn't seem like she was into her role, and this episode shows us a stark contrast to that because of how into her role Kristen Schaal was.

For these reasons, this one is another really high ranking one for me, just below Maddie Ziegler's episode at #6.

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