We're back to a much bigger poll again this week! It was a surprisingly close race last week between Cyber Chase and Monsters Unleashed, but the former won by just a couple votes! Here are the full results for our 2000s ghost poll:

Cyber Chase - 13
Monsters Unleashed - 10
Big Scare in the Big Easy - 7
It's Mean, It's Green, It's the Mystery Machine - 7
The Unnatural - 5
Fright House of a Lighthouse - 4
A Scooby-Doo Halloween - 3
The San Franpsycho - 3
3-D Struction - 2
Roller Ghoster Ride - 2
Samurai Sword - 2
Mystery Begins - 2
Riva Ras Regas - 1
Lights, Camera, Mayhem - 0
Wrestle Maniacs - 0
Diamonds Are a Ghoul's Best Friend - 0

Before looking through which episodes would be options, I was expecting this week's poll to have a lot more options than the 1990s poll, but we have another smaller set this week of only 16 episodes/films! I had never deeply thought it about it before, but when making this poll, I was surprised to realize how much What's New, Scooby-Doo? diversified the types of villains as compared to The New Scooby-Doo Movies and The Scooby-Doo Show, which had a ghost practically every other episode lol. 

Witch's Ghost completely blew all the other options out of the water and won last week's poll, which I don't think was unexpected to anyone lol. Here are the full results for our '90s poll:

Witch's Ghost - 73
Bravo Dooby Doo - 9
The Ghost of Mrs. Shusham - 6
Dawn of the Spooky Shuttle Scare - 2
Wrestle Maniacs - 1

Compared to the last two, we have an extremely light poll this week! I think the winner will probably be obvious, but it would be interesting to see if it comes out differently. Boo Brothers won our 80's poll for last week! Here are the full results of last week's poll:

Boo Brothers - 8
A Halloween Hassle at Dracula's Castle - 4
That's Monstertainment! - 4
Terror, Thy Name Is Zombo - 4
Scoobygeist - 3
The Nutcracker Scoob - 3
To All the Ghouls I've Loved Before - 3
Scooby Ghosts West - 2
​A Fright at the Opera - 2
Wedding Bell Boos - 2
Scoobra Kadoobra - 2
Me and My Shadow Demon - 2
Scooby's Roots - 1
Lighthouse Keeper Scooby - 1
Scoobsie - 1
Scooby Pinch Hits - 1
Sherlock Doo - 1
Ghost Who's Coming to Dinner - 1
Robopup - 1
The Spirit of Rock 'n' Roll - 1

0 votes: Scooby's Luck of the Irish, Scooby a la Mode, The Scooby Coupe, Scooby Roo, Scoo-Be or Not Scoo-Be?, Doom Service, A Night Louse at the White House, Showboat Scooby, Reflections in a Ghoulish Eye, Ship of Ghouls, A Spooky Little Ghoul Like You, When You Witch Upon a Star, It's a Wonderful Scoob, Scooby in Kwackyland, Coast to Ghost, The Ghouliest Show on Earth, Horror Scope Scoob, Ghoul School, A Bicycle Built for Boo, and Curse of the Collar

We started off a tad lighter this week because the Scrappy shorts barely had any ghosts, but the premise of The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo automatically qualifies that entire series, which beefed up the poll quite a bit again!

The results for our 1969 and 70s poll are in, and "A Night of Fright Is No Delight" moves ahead to the final round!

A Night of Fright Is No Delight - 10
Guess Who's Knott Coming to Dinner? - 6
Spooky Space Kook - 5
Hassle in the Castle - 4
A Clue for Scooby-Doo - 3
Haunted House Hang-Up - 3
The Diabolical Disc Demon - 3
The Loch Ness Mess - 2
High Rise Hair Raiser - 2
To Switch a Witch - 2
A Menace in Venice - 2
The Neon Phantom of the Roller Disco! - 2
What the Hex Is Going On? - 1
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Werewolf - 1
Go Away Ghost Ship - 1
Mystery Mask Mix-Up - 1
Don't Fool with a Phantom - 1
The Ghostly Creep from the Deep - 1
The Haunted Horseman of Hagglethorn Hall - 1
The Mystery of Haunted Island - 1
The Spirit Spooked Sports Show - 1
The Exterminator - 1
Scooby-Doo, Where's the Crew? - 1
The Ghost of the Bad Humor Man - 1
The Curse of the Viking Lake - 1

0 votes: Mine Your Own Business, Decoy for a Dognapper, Bedlam in the Big Top, That's Snow Ghost, The Spooky Fog, The Ghost of Bigfoot, The Ghost of the Red Baron, The Haunted Showboat, The Haunted Carnival, The Fiesta Host Is an Aztec Ghost, Watt a Shocking Ghost, Scared a Lot in Camelot, The Harum Scarum Sanitarium, A Bum Steer for Scooby, The Ghost that Sacked the Quarterback, The Spirits of '76, The Chiller Diller Movie Thriller, The Spooky Case of the Grand Prix Race, A Highland Fling with a Monstrous Thing, The Creepy Case of Old Iron Face, Don't Go Near the Fortress of Fear, The Night Ghoul of Wonderworld, Rocky Mountain Yiiiii! and The Sorcerer's a Menace

September 3, 2014 is the day this site and blog first went online, so today is the site's 9-year anniversary! To celebrate, I'm excited to announce a special weekly poll series that will be happening over the next two months!

Ghosts are the most common villain in the Scooby franchise, and we've been doing a lot of villain polls lately. However, there are so many ghosts in the franchise that trying to do a single "best ghost" poll would likely explode everybody's brains with the amount of options lol. On another non-Scooby related site I'm a part of, I've been hosting some polls where the options are divided up by decades. This gave me the idea of doing a "ghosts by the decades" poll tournament to celebrate the site's anniversary, Scooby's anniversary month and Halloween. Each week, we'll go in chronological order and vote on the best ghost episode from each of the decades.

Since there are only a limited number of ghost episodes from a single year in the 1960s, I've combined it with the 1970s. Even though some decades will be lighter (like the 1990s and 2020s), those will still be their own individual polls, since there is a decent amount of options amongst multiple years and series/films. Some sets will have a ton of options (50+), because there are so many ghost episodes throughout the franchise, including many episodes where the villain is the ghost of something else (i.e. the Ghost of Redbeard, the Ghost of a Werewolf, etc.)

Once we've made it through all the decades, we will do a final Winner's Circle round pitting the winning option(s) from each week's poll up against each other, which will determine the best ghost episode in the Scooby-Doo franchise! If there is a tie for the winner, all winning options will advance to the final round. Our Winner's Circle round will happen October 15, and will also mark the 200th weekly poll on the site.

I'm really excited to kick off this poll tournament, and I hope you all are excited about this as well!

Here are the results from last week's "best skeleton episode" poll:
Boo Brothers - 15
A Creepy Tangle in the Bermuda Triangle - 13
The Spooky Fog - 8
El Bandito - 8
Mystery Solvers Club State Finals - 6
The Scary Sky Skeleton - 5
Happy Birthday, Scooby-Doo! - 4
The Legend of the Gold Microphone! - 4
Man in the Mirror - 3
​Reluctant Werewolf - 2
Curse of the Collar - 1
The Spirit of Rock 'n' Roll - 1
Night of the Boogey Biker - 0
​Gentlemen Start Your Monsters - 0

It was a close race between three options in last week's poll! Here are our final results:

What is your favorite Scooby-Doo episode taking place in Latin America?
The Fiesta Host Is an Aztec Ghost - 13
Scooby-Doo and the Monster of Mexico - 12
Jeepers, It's the Jaguaro - 10
Scooby-Doo! Ghastly Goals - 6
El Bandito - 6
South America and Transylvania - 4
3-D Struction - 4
Dark Night of the Hunters - 4
Twenty Thousand Screams Under the Sea - 2
The Dinosaur Deception - 2
The Fast and the Wormious - 2
Don't Go Near the Fortress of Fear -  1
Scooby's Bull Fright - 1
The Mark of Scooby - 0

Thanks to Shadowscooby for suggesting the idea this week's poll! Here are the results for last week's poll:

The Secret of Shark Island - 24
There's a Demon Shark in the Foggy Dark - 16
Some Fred Time - 14
The Creepy Case of Old Iron Face - 9
Cher, Scooby and the Sargasso Sea - 6
No Sharking Zone - 4

"Aloha, Scooby-Doo!" wins last week's poll with 48 votes, which is double the votes that the second place option, "A Tiki Scare Is No Fair," got (24 votes). "Hawaii and Norway" came in third place with five votes, and only one person voted for "South Seas Scare."

I don't think there's any way the middle two options will win, but it will be really interesting to see whether Tiki Scare or Aloha wins!

Last week, 32 people voted that only the significant options should be included in the polls, whereas 26 voted that all possible options should be included. Given the results, moving forward, only the significant options will be included in the weekly polls. I would consider "significant" to mean that the setting/villain appears for more than just one or two scenes. That said, everyone is still more than welcome to make suggestions if they feel an option should count, but keep in mind that if they only are in a scene or two, they will likely not be included. This was admittedly the option I hoped would win, since some questions could have a lot of potential options depending on the setting/villain, and this narrows it down so that the amount of options don't get too overwhelming. Thank you so much to everybody for giving your feedback on this!

We're going to do a very different type of poll this week! This is a poll I actually wanted to do last week following the museum poll, but I was on vacation, so I decided to hold it back until this week, since this is a poll where I wanted to be able to check a couple times throughout the day to respond to any potential discussion.

We've been doing a lot of "what's your favorite episode involving a certain type of setting/villain?" questions for the weekly polls lately. In the past few weeks, there has been a lot of debate in the comments about whether every possible option should be included in the poll, or if the options should be limited to only episodes/films where the type of setting or villain in the question plays a significant role in the overall plot. For example, two weeks ago with the museum poll, episodes like "Chiller Diller Movie Thriller" and "The Spooky Case of the Grand Prix Race" where a museum played a small role in the episode were suggested as options. There was also some discussion over whether episodes including Alcatraz should count as a museum since it is one in real-life, even though none of the episodes presented Alcatraz as a museum.

I really appreciate when you all remind me if I've forgotten an option, or propose a potential option that people might want to choose. There are definitely times where I forget to include an episode, and I'm sure there will be times in the future where I forget options again.

Two weeks ago, we started with 10 options for the museum poll, and we ended up with 26 different options by the end of the week. I was thinking it would be a good idea to do a poll like this to see people's preference of how broad you want the poll options to be, just so there's less confusion over what should count. I think it would be good to have most of us on the same page, so people aren't having to go back and revote multiple times because options keep being added. I'm sure I'll still forget to include an option somebody thinks should count every once in a while, and I'm happy to still add options as needed.

In the past, I've tried to limit it to only options where the setting/villain play a prominent role in the plot, so that the amount of poll options don't get too overwhelming for people. However, I am open to making the polls include all possible options if that's what most people on here would prefer. The results of this poll will determine how I approach the options for weekly polls in the future. Obviously, the results of this poll won't please everybody, but I think it would be nice to establish what the majority of people on the blog want, so I can write up these polls with a clearer idea in mind of what everybody thinks should and shouldn't count.

If you have any thoughts you want to share on this issue, feel free to share them in the comments!

Here are the results for last week's poll:
What is your favorite Scooby episode spotlighting an aspect of American history?
The Loch Ness Mess - 19
Witch's Ghost - 12
The Spirits of '76 - 9
To Switch a Witch - 7
Gourmet Ghost - 7
A Mystery Solving Gang Divided - 5
Vote Velma - 3
Big Scare in the Big Easy - 2
World of Witchcraft - 2
Sweet Dreams Scooby - 1
A Night Louse at the White House - 0