"Gates of Gloom" from Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated features Daphne, Fred and Scooby saying famous action movie quotes at pivotal points in the episode. Scooby saying "They drew first blood, not me" is a reference to the film First Blood with Sylvester Stallone. Fred and Daphne's exchange of "What have I done?" "What you had to do. What you always do, turn traps into a fighting chance to live" is a parody of a famous quote from Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.
This wasn't the first time the series parodied famous films, though. Although there are some parodies that were obvious, two of the notable full-episode examples of parodies that you may not be aware of include that "The Midnight Zone" was a parody of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, which featured a very similar plot of robots taking over a city, and a holographic head turning out to be a corpse in a chair. "Nightfright" from Scooby-Doo Mystery Incorporated also parodies the movie Fright Night, which is a famous horror movie that came out in 1985, one month before The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo began airing.
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James Dixon
2/5/2024 12:21:49 pm
"Battle of the Humungonauts" was based on a Japanese monster movie. "Words Get Stuck in My Throat" came from the movie.
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Alexandra RuttW
2/5/2024 03:19:23 pm
War of the Gargantuas. I remember randomly seeing that episode in middle school and I couldn't believe how specific the references were (I was a monster movie nerd at such a young age).
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Alexandra Rutt
2/5/2024 03:20:29 pm
I even noticed that the singer was wearing the same color dress 2/5/2024 06:08:40 pm
I'd actually done that one as a fun fact a long time ago, way back in January 2017, which is why I didn't mentioned it here. https://scoobysnax1.weebly.com/blog/fun-fact-of-the-week-1215533120 I probably should have mentioned why excluded it in the post, though, that was my bad. I was also amazed at how many references they made to the movie!
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