I must say that this was an excellent episode! One of my favorites so far. Weird Al was a great guest star. His accordion songs were all pretty funny and didn't get old, and I particularly liked when he started playing the theremin instead. I'll admit I'm a fan of Weird Al in general, so this episode just worked for me. The dinosaur was a pretty cool-looking villain. I enjoyed the twist at the end where there were actually two dinosaurs, though it of course made it pretty easy to guess the culprits. Nothing much to say about the gang this week, other than it seemed fitting for Shaggy and Scooby to be fans of Weird Al. It bothered me a bit though that Shaggy kept repeating some variation of "It's that crazy dinosaur!" Just seemed like lazy writing to me. I enjoyed the location of the camp, and especially the mines. Definitely was a good setting for a villain such as this. I'm not sure if anyone else has noticed, but Boomerang and TV guide sites have screwed up on the titles of both of the last two episodes now. The title card reads "The Fastest Food Fiend!" for episode 9, though Boomerang and other sites call it "The Fastest Fast Food Fiend!" (there was no extra "Fast" in the title). With this episode, Boomerang and other TV guide sites have been referring to it as "Attack of the Weird Al-Losaurus!" (with an extra 'l'), though the title card clearly says "Attack of the Weird Al-osaurus!" with only one 'l'. Always frustrates me when they mess up stuff like this, since you know the wrong title is probably going to be the one remembered and included in show records a decade or so down the road. And also makes it tough for me, as I've had the incorrect title now for both episodes and then later had to change it to the correct one once I saw the title card. Now it's time to update our Star-Studded Scoreboard! Note that since this review did technically go up 2 days after episode 11's, you can check out the now-updated scoreboard on that review post. Star-Studded Scoreboard: 1. Elementary, My Dear Shaggy! 2. When Urkel-Bots Go Bad! 3. Attack of the Weird Al-osaurus! 4. The Cursed Cabinet of Professor Madds Markson! 5. Revenge of the Swamp Monster! 6. The Scooby of a Thousand Faces! 7. Peebles' Pet Shop of Terrible Terrors! 8. Ollie Ollie In-come Free! 9. The Fastest Food Fiend! 10. A Mystery Solving Gang Divided And to make up for the fact that this review is posted a bit late, and out-of-order, I'll tag two of my favorite Weird Al Yankovic songs on to the end of this review. Enjoy!
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Peralaan
9/9/2019 06:28:23 pm
Kinda sad that Amish Paradise and Foil aren't either of those videos
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9/9/2019 06:32:24 pm
I haven't seen Foil actually! I enjoyed Amish Paradise as well, though those two were my favorites. It was hard to pick just two videos, I wanted to link so many more haha!
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IkeDaKil
9/10/2019 06:30:48 am
https://vimeo.com/358904935
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IkeDaKil
9/10/2019 08:45:18 pm
I totally agree with you on all of your statements, but one major thing I didn't like is when Al started playing his accordion and making "Chase Scenes" every time the dinosaurs appeared
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9/10/2019 10:08:52 pm
I've heard a few other people say that they thought Weird Al's songs were annoying in this episode. Pup was a more silly, zany series which is why a lot of the villains had the odd catchphrases you pointed out.
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