Fun Fact of the Week #569

In Fun Fact #448, it was discovered that the Scooby PC game Horror on the High Seas had an unused prologue that wasn't included in the game. In my post where I revisited the Scooby Flash games, Becker shared that one of the other PC games has another lost opening scene!

Mayan Monster Mayhem had an unused prologue featuring an additional scene giving more context to the game. The scene shows Shaggy and Scooby making chili at home, and discover they're missing a hot pepper as one of the ingredients. Despite the game featuring other cutscenes, this prologue was never available with the game on the WB website for an unknown reason. When it was available on WB's site, the game started with Shaggy and Scooby speaking to the head of the Culpepper Hot Sauce Factory.

Speaking of revisiting things, this is off-topic, but I have a recommendation of something I've been enjoying to go with this week's fun fact! I used to listen to podcasts quite frequently during the pandemic, but I haven't had as much time to in the past few years. A couple weeks ago, I rediscovered the short-lived Scooby podcast Scooby-Doo and Sister Too. I believe I'd listened to a couple episodes when it first was released, but never checked out the full 18 episode series until now.

The podcast features two sisters (Liz and Lydia), who have little in common outside of liking Scooby, reviewing Scooby episodes and films together. I've been absolutely loving the podcast these past couple weeks! It's really interesting to hear reviews from fans who haven't seen as much of the franchise. Since a lot of the review podcasts are from fans who have watched the episodes and movies frequently, it's interesting to hear their thoughts from only having seen the episodes/films once or twice before, or in some cases, getting their very first impression. I love the overall relaxed vibe of the podcast, and the humor and silliness is right up my alley lol. You can tell they both had a blast recording all of these episodes! If you haven't checked out their podcast already, I would highly recommend giving them a listen!