Fun Fact of the Week #408

7/4/2022

We're doing a bit of a deep dive for this week's fun fact! There were a number of series that had different DVD release strategies in the UK as compared to the US. After the release of The Best of the New Scooby-Doo Movies DVD in 2006, the UK released a stand-alone "The Best of the New Scooby-Doo Movies volume 1" DVD in 2007 featuring only "Ghastly Ghost Town," "The Dynamic Scooby-Doo Affair," "The Frickert Fracas" and "Guess Who's Knott Coming to Dinner?" As a random aside, you can also currently buy it on Amazon UK for less than a euro!

The international volume sets also had different covers for Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated than the US versions, although oddly season 1 volume 3 is the same, besides a minor difference in the placement and design of the logo. Moreover, season 2 was split into four subtitled volumes, rather than two parts. Volumes one and three are Danger in the Deep and Spooky Stampede respectively and have the same covers, but Season Two Volume Two: Bad News Baby, and Season Two Volume Four: Mayan Monster Madness are different. It's probable that the season 2 covers might be from Australia, because of the logos on the front being different from the ones used in the UK. I have to say, I kind of like these designs a little better. You can view the differences below.

Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! also had some unique covers in the UK (note: the second cover might be from Australia due to the logos being different), and season 1 was divided into four volumes rather than two parts. While volume 1 had the same cover as Spooky Kooky Fun and volume 3 had the same cover as Teamwork Screamwork in the US, volumes 2 and 4 had completely new covers never before released in the US.

I briefly covered back in fun fact #118 way back on January 9, 2017 that What's New, Scooby-Doo? had a completely different release strategy in the UK. Instead of having unique names, the volumes were simply named after episodes. Not only that, but the episode arrangement was completely different. Volumes 1-6 included all season 1 and 2 episodes in order (excluding holiday specials, which appeared in later volumes), with four to five episodes in each volume. Starting with volume 7, season three episodes were released in a random order, more closely aligning with how they were released in the US. Here's how the episodes were released in the UK by volume:

Volume 1: Space Ape at the Cape
There's No Creature Like Snow Creature
Space Ape at the Cape
3-D Struction
Big Scare in the Big Easy

Volume 2: Safari So Goodi!
It's Mean, It's Green, It's the Mystery Machine
Riva Ras Regas
Roller Ghoster Ride
Safari So Goodi!

Volume 3: Lights, Camera, Mayhem!
She Sees Sea Monsters by the Sea Shore
Toy Scary Boo
Lights, Camera, Mayhem!
Pompeii and Circumstance

Volume 4: Mummy Scares Best
The Unnatural
Big Appetite in Little Tokyo
Mummy Scares Best
The Fast and the Wormious

Volume 5: Homeward Hound
High-Tech House of Horrors
The Vampire Strikes Back
Homeward Hound
The San Franpsycho
Simple Plan and the Invisible Madman

Volume 6: Recipe for Disaster
Recipe for Disaster
Large Dragon at Large
Uncle Scooby and Antarctica
New Mexico, Old Monster
It's All Greek to Scooby

Volume 7: Ready to Scare
A Scooby-Doo Valentine
Wrestle Maniacs
Ready to Scare
Diamonds are a Ghoul's Best Friend

Volume 8: E-Scream
Block-Long Hong Kong Terror
Gold Paw
Reef Grief
E-Scream

Volume 9: Fright House of a Lighthouse
Fright House of a Lighthouse
Go West, Young Scoob
Farmed and Dangerous
Camp Comeoniwannascareya

Volume 10: Gentlemen, Start Your Monsters!
A Terrifying Round with a Menacing Metallic Clown
Gentleman, Start Your Monsters!
A Scooby-Doo Christmas
A Scooby-Doo Halloween

Here are the UK volume covers. I particularly like the cover for volume 9; the Creepy Keeper looks terrifying without any pupils in its eyes.

Moreover, five "double feature" volumes were made, combining a set of two volumes into one DVD. Volumes 1 and 2 were combined and titled "Scary Space and a Swinging Safari"; volumes 3 and 4 were titled "Movie Monsters and a Magic Mummy;" volumes 5 and 6 became "Top Dog and a Hot Dog; volumes 7 and 8 were titled "Ghouls, Fools and a Grief on a Reef; and finally the amalgamation of volumes 9 and 10 was called "A Spooky Case and a Mad Race." The only images I could find have a watermark over it, but you can still see the volumes.

I hope you enjoyed reading this fun fact! It definitely took quite a bit of research, but it was a lot of fun doing all of it and writing this up.

27 Comments

Shadowscooby

7/4/2022 09:11:57 am

When I was younger I was very interested to see that the UK had their own WNSD dvd covers. Ready To Scare looks the same as Ghost On The Go and The Creepy Keeper look different on The Fright House Of A Lightshouse dvd

WildwindVampire link

7/4/2022 10:16:04 pm

Nice! Your suggestion about them about a year ago is actually what inspired me to do research into these :)

Mr Neither

7/4/2022 11:45:46 am

Less than a pound (shipping not included). Yeah, UK releases suck, I got most of mine from the States along with hacking a dvd player to make it region 0/free. Anyway, here's mine for this.

The UK's WNSD releases also included 4 promo dvds that each contained, I believe, two of the first 8 episodes of the series. WOW, I FOUND THE TV ADVERT,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2SrmavRujY, Second, the ten individual were boxed together in a mystery machine style box that if the lid was lifted, would play the intro song (until it ran out of batteries).

WildwindVampire link

7/4/2022 10:18:17 pm

I actually wasn't aware you could hack players to make them region-free, that's interesting.

The TV advert is super cool, thanks for sharing! I didn't realize that promo DVDs were included in these. What was the point of including those two of the first 8 episodes again if they were already on the volume sets? Or did you mean the first eight of Where Are You?

Greybishop

7/5/2022 02:17:27 am

My (extremely limited) understanding is that DVD and BluRay players are ALL region free at the physical level, it's just a layer of programming that region locks the player.

While I've seen and heard of plenty of places that you can find the hacks for various players, Amazon has a reasonable priced Sony region free BluRay that I own (model 1700) and swear by.

I also own a Samsung region free DVD player and while it plays everything you throw at it, it's noisy as hell. You need to dial up the tv volume by 20% or more to cover it. The Sony is whisper quiet and for $155 USD, it's a decent deal. Just be sure you get one that's already region free since the same model is available region locked.

I use my players a LOT, so in the 3-5 year range I often have to replace them. I've had the Sony for at least 3 years with zero issues. At this point if it failed tomorrow I'd buy the same one again. Five stars.

WildwindVampire link

7/5/2022 10:38:42 am

That's super interesting! My understanding of what makes a player region-bound is also pretty limited, so I didn't know it was just a matter of programming.

That's surprising they'd make the Samsung player so noisy haha. Is that just because the programming has been removed, or is it just an attribute of the player itself?

Mr Neither

7/5/2022 01:40:16 pm

Yes, there was a website that provided codes for such things that then allowed you to change regions. Certain DVD players were often easier to hack than others.

I think it was all about advertising and getting kids interested in the series.

WildwindVampire link

7/5/2022 07:26:32 pm

Oh wow, I didn't realize it was an easy as hacking it with a code. That's really interesting!

Scoob16

7/5/2022 01:58:43 am

The What's New volumes came to Greece in their UK DVDs and honestly they're my whole childhood! I especially love the "Mummy Scares Best" cover, since it's my favorite episode of the series.

WildwindVampire link

7/5/2022 10:31:35 am

I was so surprised about how much better the UK covers were compared to the US ones, in my opinion. The artwork is so much more detailed in the UK ones IMO. The "Mummy Scares Best" cover looks amazing and is one of my faves too, but I'd have to pick the "Fright House of a Light House" cover as my favorite. The Creepy Keeper looks so terrifying with no pupils in his eyes!

James Dixon

7/5/2022 06:30:29 am

The season 2 covers of SDMI look Australian to me. The second cover of Be Cool also doesn't look completely UK, cause it has logos that you wouldn't find on a UK DVD cover.

WildwindVampire link

7/5/2022 10:34:51 am

I hadn't noticed those different logos, but I think you're right. It was actually a bit difficult researching these, because a lot of sites seemed to incorrectly list covers as being from the UK that clearly weren't (i.e. the covers were in Spanish). It's been a few weeks since I wrote this up, but I believe those had listings on Amazon UK so I just presumed they were UK and didn't think about the logos being different. I just updated the post mentioned they're probably from Australia. Thanks for pointing that out!

Matt

7/5/2022 01:00:53 pm

I’ve always considered getting some dvds from other regions, but don’t actually have the means to watch them LOL

WildwindVampire link

7/5/2022 07:25:40 pm

Same haha, although I guess there really isn't any DVD from another region that has content I couldn't already get in the US. It's one of the few things I might be kinda cool to collect (I'm not a collector), but I haven't really prioritized it.

Lamont

7/16/2022 11:22:35 pm

They always clump Fred, Daphne and Velma together in the background on these covers lol

WildwindVampire link

7/17/2022 12:47:46 pm

I've noticed that too haha.

Shadowscooby

7/21/2022 07:28:37 pm

Last year I shared with you guys The Scooby Doo Show episode in WNSDs volume set dvds: Halloween Boos and Clues, Merry Scary Holiday, Sports Spooktacular, Monster Matinee, Ghosts On The Go, Zoinks, Camera, Action, Route Scary Six and Monstrous Tails.

I would like to share with you guys the similarities and connections that episodes of TSDS that fall into each of these volume set themes with WNSD episodes already in those volume set themed dvds.

WildwindVampire link

7/21/2022 10:33:46 pm

Thank you so much for sharing all of these! I hadn't noticed a lot of these, but it's cool to see there were so many similarities!

Shadowscooby

7/21/2022 07:34:56 pm

Halloween Boos and Clues:
The Specter watches over the gang on top of the construction building and laughs. The Demon Shark watches over the gang on top of the cliff. The Mummy of Pharaoh Scamses watches over the gang and Melbourne on top of the pyramid.

In The Headless Horseman of Halloween, there’s a butler named Tarloff. In High Tech House of Horrors, there’s a robot butler named Jeeves.

There’s A Demon Shark In The Foggy Dark, Scooby Doo Where’s The Crew, The Creepy Heap From The Deep, and She Sees Sea Monsters By The Seashore are all aquatic adventures and the gang or half of the gang all wore scuba gear in all of those episodes

There’s Aqua World in There’s A Demon Shark In The Foggy Dark. There’s Aqua Land in She Sees Sea Monsters by the SeaShore. Professor Beaker is a biologist. Maura Ravenmane is marine biologist.

The Soulless Captain Clemens, The Creepy Heap and Scooby get shot out from under the sea and land on the beach. I think of that to Motoshandu getting washed up on the beach.

The Ghost of Captain Pescado, Octopus Monster and Kelp Monster get their feet tied together when they are trapped. The Vampire from the Vampire Strikes Back gets his feet tied together when he is trapped.

First Mate Carp, McFinn and McGil are tied up in rope after being caught. Crunchy (Charles Granville) is tied up in rope after being caught

Vampire Bats and Scared Cats and The Vampire Strikes Back have a lot of similarities:

The gang going to a building visiting a friend for a special occasion. A hotel to see their freeing Lisa on her 18th birthday. A castle to watch the Hex Girls perform their new music video.

Vampires running around the the building. Bats flying around.

Creepy characters I.e. Mr. Dracul and Rengfield. Dracul loves coffins. Rengfeild loves beetles and chamber music.

Pictures of people in both episodes. The camera zooms in on characters.

Daphne in bed and the vampires trying to get her. She screams for help and the rest of the gang come to help her.

Members of the gang disguising them selves as the victims, Shaggy as Lisa Velma and later Daphne as one of the Hex Girls. to catch the vampires. Both plans didn’t go so well ( well they successfully caught the first vampire from Strikes Back) caught the vampires anyway.

Culprits wanted the building for their own selfish reasons. Uncle Leon wanted to stop his niece from getting control of the hotel that he ran for 18 years. Steve and Stu Fortescu they wanted to ruin Owen Decastle’s business and get their family castle back from him.

How Gramps The Vamps makes Lisa his vampire minion. I think of that to Mummy of Pharaoh Scamses making the people his zombified minions. There’s also another somewhat similar scene. Vampire Lisa is chasing Shaggy, Scooby Doo and Scooby Dum they hide in a closet she keeps on running. They think there home free but Gramps The Vamps is right behind them. Shaggy and Scooby are chase by their zombie friend they hid in those vases but the mummy comes out and scares them.

Creepy Cruise and High Tech House of Horrors talks about the future. A time machine. A futuristic house. The Future Monster picks up Shaggy and Scooby. Jeeves pick up Shaggy and Scooby. Theres intense scenes in both episodes. The Time Machine pulling the monster back. Shari going haywire when everybody ignores her.

In Creepy Cruise, Shaggy and Scooby are sitting back in chairs and wearing sunglasses. They’re doing the same thing in She Sees Sea Monster by the Seashore.

In both episodes, Scooby dress up as the monster (future monster, Jeeves) scares Shaggy, and eats his food.

Professor Von Klemp and Simon Grady escaping after being caught. I think of that of Prince Kazal al Famir trying to escape.

The Creepy Heap making Captain Clemens his soulless minion. I think of that to Scamses making people his zombified minions.

In To Switch A Witch, there are twins Arlene Wilcox and her twin sister who was the Ghost Witch. There was a clue about Gemini that means twins. In the Vampire Strikes Back, Steve and Stu Fortescu are twins. There’s was also a clue they discovered about them being twins.

Shadowscooby

7/21/2022 08:56:23 pm

Merry Scary Holiday:
The Gruesome Game of The Gator Ghoul, Shaggy, Scooby Doo and Scooby Dum eat up Funky Fitters at Ma and Pa Skillets Showboat Restaurant. Recipe For Disaster, Shaggy and Scooby eat up Scooby Snacks at the Scooby Snack Factory.

Scooby interacting with Scooby Dum i guess is like his interactions of the Secret Six Puppies. Gruesome Game is Scooby Dums first appearance. Homeward Hound is the Secret Six Puppies first appearance.

Scooby Dum was looking for clues led him to the foot of the Gator Ghoul. Shaggy was licking snack batter that led to the foot of the Scooby Snacks Monster. Secret formulas in both episodes. Simon Stingy is like Moss T Meister except Mr. Meister had a change of heart at the end of the episode.

Watt A Shocking Ghost, the town is Winter Haven. A Scooby Doo Christmas, the town is Winter Hollow. Both towns have WH. The ghost story in Watt A Shocking Ghost is kind of similar to the ghost story from A Scooby Doo Christmas. Both towns have a sheriff.

Voltner used an electrical suit for the The 10,000 Volt Ghosts costume. Penelope Bailey used a hazard suit for the Scooby Snacks Monster costume.

Ghost of Dr Coffin and his henchmen gets trapped in the bread wrappers by going through he machine. The Scooby Snacks Monster get trapped in a Scooby Snacks box by going through the machine. Evils Dogs in the Dr. Coffin episode. Evil Dog( Scooby imposter) in Homeward Hound.

The No Face Zombie Chase Case takes place at the Dilly Dally Dolly Toy Co. Toy Scary Boo takes place at Happy Toyland in the mall. Both the episodes opening are kind of alike. It’s eerie at night. The No Face Zombie walks and is moaning then brakes into the coin shop and steals a rare coin. The Spaceman Toys brake out of thier boxes and start running amuck. Someone who worked at the toy place was the culprit, Mr. Dilly, Mr. Claphammer. There’s an elevator in both episodes. The gorilla tried to escape but failed. Mr. Claphammer tried to escape but failed.

The Ghost of A Bad Humor Man takes place at the Happy Humor Ice Cream Co. Factory. Recipe for Disaster takes place at the Scooby Snacks factory. Shaggy and Scooby eat a lot of ice cream and Scooby Snacks from those episodes. They also get into a situations. Bad Humor Man they get overflown with milk, trapped in a freezer. Recipe for Disaster they get trapped in Scooby Doo batter. They also almost get cut by the fan and almost went intro the fire. Mr Grizzly ( Sammy The Shrimp) drives the gang on a golf cart. Ernest drive the gang on a golf cart.

The Gang stop the ice cream phantoms from opening the doors by drying the vans in front of both sides. Fred stops the headless snowman from leaving by blocking the way with the Mystery Machine.

In The Spirits of 76, Mr Clive, Mr. Willit and their henchmen were drilling through the wall so they can steal all the money. The locomotive was to cover the noise of the drill. Mr. Claphammer drilled through the floor to get the paintings he stole from the old art museum and the living toys was a diversion so no one would hear him.
Mr. Clive is a security guard and he was a culprit. Mr Claphammer is a security guard and he was a culprit.

Make A Beeline From That Feeline has a cat creature. Homeward Hound has a cat creature. Both cat creatures fell for a trick. In both episodes, members of gang thought they saw the cat creature but it was just a regular old cat.

A friend of one of the members of the gang turned out to be the culprit. Professor Greer was a friend of Velma and he was the Mantis. Meadow was a friend of Shaggy’s and she was the cat creature.

Professors were culprits. Professor Greer, Professor William Fagan Higgiason.

Shadowscooby

7/21/2022 09:36:47 pm

Sports Spooktacular:
The Unnatural is like a remake of The Ghost That Sacked The QuarterBack. Both episodes takes place at a sport field (Football, Baseball) where an important event is happening. Both episode have a new stadium built over the old one. The Gang is congratulated at the end of both episodes for solving the mystery. There’s fireworks in both episodes.

Flash Franger won the the game for his team twice. I think of that of Luis Santiago braking the home run record.

The Rambling Ghost and The Baseball Specter both have skeletal features. Rambling Ghost has a skull face. Baseball Specter has skeleton legs.

The Rambling Ghost’s snarls and The Frozen Fiend’s snarls sound kind of the same.

The Football Players running from the Rambling Ghost. I think of that to the hockey players skating away from the Frozen Fiend.

The Spooky Case of The Grand Prix Race and The Fast and The Wormious are both racing episodes. In both episodes, they go underground: The Phantoms Racer’ lair, Wormtopia. Scooby with the the bone reminds me of him with the trophy.

The Phantom Racer has the same personality as the Baseball Specter.

The Phantom Racer shoves Shaggy and Scooby in an antique car and pushes them down the hill. That’s just like Titanic Twist picking up Malunchi Crunche’s trailer with Shaggy and Scooby in it and pushing it down the hill.

Jimmy Pelton is training and then Anthos the Warlock and Devil Hound appears. Anthos throws the staff at him and threatens him. Luis Santiago is training, then the Baseball Specter appears, threatens him and throws flaming baseballs at him.

Nick And John Thomas are brothers and they were culprits. Curt and Connie Crunch are brother and sister and they were culprits.

After they catch John Thomas, it transitions into the next scene. Kind of reminded me of the transition scene after they caught Bob Taylor.

Jimmy Pelton winning the tennis match reminded of Luis Santiago braking the home run record.

There’s locker scenes in The Ghost That Sacked The QuarterBack, The Warlock of Wimbledon, and Diamonds Are A Ghouls Best Friend. Three of them have someone looking for someone in the lockers.

All sports episodes have the gang dress up as athletes. Well The Scooby Doo Show it’s Shaggy and Scooby that dress up as athletes. What’s New Scooby Doo, the whole gang dresses as athletes.

There’s famous sports athletes in all episodes. Flash Granger, Crunch Connor, Bulldog Pratowski, Carl Conover, Jimmy Pelton, Luis Santiago, Lupe Chesares, Roberto Torres, Malaunchi Crunch, Humungous Hammer, Sparrow Man, Sugar, Spice, Bret Hull, Nicolai.

Shadowscooby

7/22/2022 04:37:31 am

Monster Matinee:
The Fiesta Host Is An Aztec Ghost and A Scooby Doo Halloween are kind of alike in a way. They are in Mexico for a fiesta, Banning Junction for a Halloween party.

The ghost of a person who ran the town. Katazuma was a king. Hank Banning founded Banning Junction. I think of the stone creature to the scarecrows. Both villains came to life. Professor Stonehack and his wife wear masks that scare Shaggy and Scooby. Shaggy wore a mask that scared Scooby in A Scooby Doo Halloween.

The Ghost of King Katazuma was a giant at times. He made a giant foot print. The 30ft Shaggy Monster/Shagzilla made a giant footprint.

The Steam Demons terrorizing the city of Seattle. I think of that to the The 30ft Shaggy Monster terrorizing Tokyo.

Shaggy and Scooby were being chased by the Demon of Seattle on a cable car. Fred and the passengers we’re bing attacked by the San Franpsycho on the tram car.

Albert Tross was the second disguise of Sam Ferran. The Mystical Shaman was the second disguise of Col Henry Thornwald.

Watch Out The Williawa and New Mexico, Old Monster have similarities. Both episodes takes place in a Native American reservation. They are a visiting someone who’s close to a member of the gang. Velma’s Uncle Dave Walton. Shaggy’s childhood friend Jimmy Proudwolf.

The villains are giant bird monsters: Williawa, Wakumi. Both their names begin with W. If Williawa calls your names you will be it’s next victim. If you climb on the Wakumi’s mountain, it will carry you away.

Both bird villains are defeated when Scooby gets on them and the whole costume comes apart. They are then revealed to be flying vehicles. The Williawa was a balloon. The Wakumi was a great big glider.

Scooby sees both owlmen from the windows. I think of that to Daphne seeing one of the scarecrows through the window.

The Old Sea Dog tells the gang to get off Diablo Island, fog comes then he disappears. The Mystical Shaman tells the gang to turn back, fog comes and he disappears. The Old Sea Dog was the disguise of Commander Stern. The Mystical Shaman was the disguise of Col Henry Thornwald.

A Creepy Tangle In The Bermuda Triangle there’s a UFO picking up planes. In New Mexico Old Monster, the government scientists discovered a UFO like object. There was even a flash of light form a UFO at the end of the episode.

The Creepy Case of Old Iron Face and The SanFranpyscho features ghosts of prisoners, old abandoned prisons, sharks, the use of a magnetic device to capture the monster that has metal on him. The gang were also on a boat.

Inspector Armandez is kind of like Lt. Keiko Tanaka. Both of them take their job seriously. Both were following the gang.

Scooby and Shaggy were playing in the sand. Scooby rose out of the sand and Shaggy said a sand ghost but it was just Scooby. I think of that to Jimmy saying to Shaggy remember our days in the sand box. Scooby was covered in sand to pose for Shaggy’s statue for the museum.

Shadowscooby

7/22/2022 04:43:50 am

Ghosts On The Go:
The Black Knight has a serious looking face, just like the Zombie Gladiator. They also rarely talk. I heard the Black Knight talk once saying “ yes master” and the Zombie Gladiator was laughing when he got Fred.

Scared A lot in Camelot has a castle, Large Dragon At Large has a castle. Both episodes talk about King Arthur and The Knights of The Round Table. There were ghosts of the round table in the Camelot episode. Jamison Steven Ripley was the star of The Round Tabled Gang, a teen show about King Arthur.

Culprits from both episodes were after treasure. Zarko and his henchmen were trying to steal Uncle Shagworthy’s jewels. Jamison Steven Ripley was hunting for the Glassburgh treasure.

Uncle ShagWorthy was reading the book until the Black Knight came and he said “no no like a can’t be”. I think of that to Lysander Demas saying “oh please no no no” when the Centuar was trying to harm him.

In Scared A lot in Camelot, they are visiting Shaggy’s Uncle Shagworthy who has been kidnapped. In Ready To Scare, they are visiting Daphne’s cousin Danika who has been kidnapped.

In A Highland Fling With A Monstrous Thing, there’s people running away scared in the beginning. I think of that to the people running away from the Zombie Gladiator.

A Highland Fling With A Monstrous Thing and Large Dragon At Large both take place in Scotland. Both episodes have a castle. The LochNess Monster breathes smoke. The Glassburgh Dragon breathes fire. The LochNess monster scared Aggie McDuff in the opening. I think of that to the Glassburgh Dragon scaring those two music players. Jamie Craigmore and Jamison Steven Ripley. Both their names are almost alike

Scooby plays bagpipes at the end of A Highland Fling. At the end of Large Dragon At Large, we hear bagpipes playing.

A Menace In Venice and Pompeii and Circumstance both take place in Italy. Scooby acted as a gondolier in A Menace In Venice. In Pompeii and Circumstance, one of the city’s the gang visits is Venice. Scooby pretended to be a gondolier. Both the episodes end with the gang enjoying lunch and something funny happens with Shaggy and Scooby. They fall in the water with all their food. They accidentally kissed each other when eating spaghetti.
In both episodes, the gang were in danger of sinking.

Mario was hunting for the Doge’s treasure. Jamison Steven Ripley was hunting for the Glassburgh treasure.

A Menace In Venice and It’s All Greek To Scooby Doo are very similar to each other. Both feature medallions and the monster wanting to get the medallions that would lead it to something.

The Ghostly Gondolier was stealing all 4 medallions that will lead him to the Doge’s treasure. The Centaur wanted the medallion because it would lead him to the lost city of Atlantis.

A member of the gang had possession of the medallion. Daphne had one of them in A Menace In Venice. Shaggy had the medallion in It’s All Greek To Scooby Doo.

Someone is following the gang but they just wanted to return something of theirs.
The gondolier just wanted to return Fred’s car keys. The scary looking man just wanted to return Daphne’s purse.

In A Menace In Venice, Shaggy and Scooby were pretending to be part of the bell tower. The Ghostly Gondolier operated it with them hitting the bell, they’re ears wear starting to ring. In Ready To Scare Sonny is the bell operator, they Shaggy and Scooby were hiding in the bell he rang it and the noise was bothering them.

Also in A Menace In Venice, Scooby was flying through the air on that statue. That the closest thing to the Gargoyle from Ready To Scare.

Shadowscooby

7/22/2022 04:54:43 am

Zoinks Camera Action:
Mamba Wamba appears and disappears in a puff of smoke. The Faceless Phantom appears and disappears in a puff of smoke.

Mamba Wamba and The Voodoo Hoodoo and E-Scream has zombies. Mamba Zombie and Zombie Lyla. The Zombie Teenagers.

Mamba Wamba and The Voodoo Hoodoo has a band ( The Alex Super Experience) and each band member were kidnapped one by one. Simple Plan and The Invisible Mad Man has a band (Simple Plan) and each band member were kidnapped one by one. Also someone who was associated with the band turned out to be one of the culprits. Roger was the band manager, Lyla was part of the Alex’s band. Zeke Zillon was the roadie for Simple Plan.

Mamba Wamba, Mamba Zombie and Zombie Lyla get trapped in a net. The Demonic Mystery inc get trapped in a net.

The Chiller Diller Movie Thriller and Lights, Camera, Mayhem are similar. Both episodes involve a remake of a movie. The gang get a free pass on set because someone in their family works on the set/at the studio. The phantoms of the actors appears and doesn’t want the remake to happen.

At the end of both episodes, the gang go to a special event. Chiller Diller, they go to the movie awards, Lights, Camera, Mayhem they go to the movie premiere. They are all dressed in fancy clothing. Shaggy says “wow can you believe us at the movie awards”. Daphne said “a real life movie premiere talk about glamorous. Scooby Dee won a reward and said she wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for her cousins Scooby Doo and Scooby Dum. Vincent, Chip, and Old Pete/Rip Bannon have a big hit and they wouldn’t have gotten away with it without the wonderful meddling kids and Scooby Doo.

The Scooby Dee clone is kind of like the Demonic Mystery Inc Clones. Scooby Dee kissing Scooby Doo and Scooby Dum is the closest thing to A Scooby Doo Valentine.

The Gang get a pass to Decade Records because their friend Jimmy Lewis who’s a musician is recording there. They get a pass to Piranha Studios because Velma’s aunt is the cheif accountant executive there. The security guards (Joe, Old Pete) question them then they let it slide after it’s been confirmed.

The Phantom (Disc Demon) and the Faceless Phantom outfits are both purple.

Tony Synes being scared by the phantom about to get him reminds me of Mike and Sheila bing scared by the Evil Shaggy Clone.

Joe the security guard is like Officer Mike. They both take their job seriously. They don’t seem to like the gang all that much.

Scooby crashing into that juice machine. Reminds me of him in that popcorn machine.

Mamba Wamba and The Voodoo Hoodoo, The Chiller Diller Movie Thriller, The Diabolical Disc Demon, Simple Plan and The Invisible Madman and A Scooby Doo Valentine has someone or some people kidnapped and they end up being found and rescued.

Shadowscooby

7/22/2022 05:07:33 am

Route Scary Six:
A Bum Steer For Scooby and Go West Young Scoob both features cowboys, cows, the use of the branding iron, and the gang getting lassoed.

In A Bum Steer for Scooby, they visit Daphnes Uncle Matt Blake. In Fright House of A Light House, they visit Fred’s Uncle Carl.

The Curse of Viking Lake and Fright House of A Light House are similar to each other. Both involve the gang, visiting the relative of a gang member, Velma’s Uncle John Maxwell, Fred’s Uncle Carl. Both episodes take play at a lake (Viking Lake, Lake Michigan).

In Hang In There, Scooby Doo, Fred is competing in a hang gliding contest. In Gentleman Start Your Monsters, Fred is competing in a car race.

The Ozark Witch Switch takes place on a farm. Farmed and Dangerous takes place on a farm. There’s dogs on the farms. Hatfield dog, Secret Six puppies. Other animals on the farms. Ma Hatfield rings for supper. Mr. B rings for dinner. How the gang dresses up as ghost of the Hatfields kind of looks like the ghost story from Farmed and Dangerous.

Shaggy and Scooby driving Uncle Mattt Blake’s truck away from Tamuka is kind of like them driving Fred’s race car away from the Skeleton Racer.

Ma Hatfield told the gang about Spider Mountain. Dr. Flegg told the gang about Black Rock. Both those places are said to be haunted.

Velma, Shaggy and Scooby roll off the mountain and into the lake after escaping the Ghost of Witch McCoy. The gang fall off the cliff on their horse wagon after escaping Cole Steel and his gang.

The Pterodactyl Ghost roaring and putting his hands up in the air and the Ghost of Witch McCoy laughing and putting her hand ups in the air reminds me of the Creepy Keeper laughing and putting his hands in the air.

Mr. Bohannon, Zeke Hankins trying to escape is kind of like Crusty McPete trying to escape.

Aggie Wilkins owns a shop in town and she was the culprit. Verona Dempsey owns a shop in town and she was the culprit.

Scooby dressed up as a witch to fool the Ghost of Witch McCoy. Scooby dressed up as a mermaid to fool the Creepy Keeper.

These titles have Scooby’s name in it: A Bum Steer For Scooby, Hang In There, Scooby Doo, and Go West Young Scoob.

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7/22/2022 05:14:04 am

Monstrous Tails:
A Scary Night With A Snow Beast Fright and Uncle Scooby and Antarctica are similar to each other. Both take place in a cold place, The North Pole, Antarctica. Both episodes features scientists, Professor Krueger, Dr Armand Zola who were both victims of the monster. The Snow Beast pick up Professor Krueger and carried him away. The Fish Fiend threw Dr. Zola in the freezing water.

When the gang first encounter the Snow Beast, they ran away. The Snow Beast looked at Scooby and went after him. They he looked at Chief Manook, grabbed him and carried him away. Daphne then said “huh he got Cheif Manook”. When they first encounter the Fish Fiend, he looks at Shaggy, chases, grabs and carry’s him away. Fred tackled the fiend, then he gets chased and grabbed by him. Daphne then says “that things got Fred”.

Also when they encounter the Snow Beast the second time, they actually scatter just like they did with when they encountered the Fish Fiend their second time.

Both episodes have Scooby freezing and animal helps him. The Female sled dog thawed him out by using her nose to melt the ice. Little Pete saved Scooby by going into water save him from going into the water and getting him out of it.

The culprits turn out to be the assistants of the scientists. Jean Pierre Baptiste was Professor Kruegers assistant. Monroe Hopper is Dr. Zola’s assistant.

There was a walrus in the Snow Beast episode. There was a seal in the Uncle Scooby episode.

Scooby is kissed by the animals. The Female Dog kissed Scooby after sliding across the ice and colliding on to the icebergs. Little Pete kissed Scooby after he saved him the the water and the fiend.

The Snow Beast picks up Professor Krueger and Chief Manook and carries them away. The Hong Kong Dragon picks up Mei Ling and he flys away with her.

The Snow Beast made a giant foot print. The Coral Creature made a giant foot print. The Snow Beast was trying to find Scooby in the igloos. The Coral Creature was trying to hit the gang as each ones head popped out of the sand.

The Tar Monster comes out of the tar and then walks to the archeological site. I think of that to the Fish Fiend coming out of the water and walking towards the way station. The Tar Monster scares away all of the Professor’s workers. The Fish Fiend scares all of the way station workers. Stoner was Professor Brixton’s assistant and he was the culprit. He used scuba gear to swim through the tar pool. Monroe Hopper is Dr. Zola’s assistant and he was the culprit. He used scuba gear to swim in the water.

In The Tar Monster, there’s a guy, Kareem who’s a government official. He has a bunch of guards around the archeological site. That’s kind of like in Gold Paw, there at Fort Knox and there’s a bunch of military guards.

The Jagurao scared the tribe in the beginning of the episode . I think of that to the Fish Fiend scaring the workers in the beginning of the episode.

In Jeepers It’s The Jaguaro, they were going to the carnival in Rio de Janerio. In Block Long Hong Kong Terror, they were in Hong Kong celebrating the Chinese New Year parade. Also, Luis was the co pilot of Jose and he betrayed him. He’s partners with Luis in a diamond mining scheme. Jose was kidnapped by Jagurao or Barney. They try to escape but Fred stops them by taking out the spark plugs. Mei Ling was kidnapped by the dragon. Wu and the acrobats betrayed her by kidnapping her and stealing the ring from her father’s shop. Wu and the acrobats were ready to fight but Fred stop them with the book, literally.

Barney is Australian. Reef Grief takes place in Australia.

The opening of Scooby’s Chinese Fortune Cookie Caper kind of reminded me of the opening of Uncle Scooby and Antarctica. Like, the Moon Monster was standing above the water and then walked towards the temple. The Fish Fiend came out of the water then walked towards the way station.

How the Moon Monster escapes in the canoe. I think of that to the Fish Fiend escaping into the water after shutting off the power.

Scooby’s Chinese Fortune Cookie Caper and Block Long Hong Kong Terror take place in China. Kim Chow Ling, Harold Ling, and Mei Ling all have the same last names. Kim was betrayed by his Uncle Chin Wong Sing who wanted to steal his nephews inheritance. Mei Ling was betrayed by Wu and the acrobats who stole a ring from one of her father’s stores. After Scooby eats his sandwich, his neck begins to stretch. I guess that’s kind of like him accidentally swallowing the Ling Ming Candy Ring.

The Moon Monster turns people into stone if they fall under his shadow. The Gold Monster turns people into gold statues by touching them. Uncle Chin Wong Sing is turned into stone even though he’s actually the Moon Monster. Drill Sergeant Payne is turned into a gold statue even though he’s the Gold Monster.

The Beast Is Awake In Bottomless Lak

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7/22/2022 01:26:12 pm

The Beast Is Awake In Bottomless Lake and Uncle Scooby and Antarctica feature fish monsters. The opening of Bottomless Lake is kind of like Uncle Scooby. Like it’s shows the lake and the beast coming out of it and roaring. In Uncle Scooby, it shows the way station and the water, the fish fiend comes out of the water. The Beast grabs Scooby by the tail. The Fish Fiend pulled Scooby on his leg and pulled him into the water. Velma’s takes of the costume of the Beast. She also takes off the costume of the Fish Fiend.

The gang go scuba diving in The Beast Is Awake In Bottomless Lake. They go scuba diving in Reef Grief. In the beast episode, there’s an underwater tunnel base. In Reef Grief, there’s an underwater tunnel base. In the Bottomless Lake episode, Shaggy, Scooby, the Beast, and the henchmen all get washed up on land. In Reef Grief, the gang, everybody that was sucked into the sand, and Rhama Yam were all washed up on the beach.

Julie and her henchman were smuggling gold. There’s gold in Gold Paw. In the beast episode, there were loud noises that sounds like thunder that was really the clay to drive people away from the lake. In Gold Paw, Drill Sergeant Payne did explosives to drive Sue Krose away.

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