"Quit Clowning!" turned out to be a great episode in some ways, but a very poor one in other ways.
First off, the location and atmosphere of this episode really makes it feel like a classic New Scooby-Doo Movies mystery, more so than any of the previous episodes IMO. Fred, Daphne and Velma acted a ton like they did in the New Scooby-Doo Movies. The villain, Pazzo the Clown, was genuinely super creepy and I like how it looked similar to the Ghost Clown from Where Are You. The references to Thundarr the Barbarian and the Herculoids on the wall of the TV station were really cool as well! I thought it was super cool they had Daphne wear Jeannie's costume as a disguise. Jeannie appeared in "Mystery in Persia" from the original The New Scooby-Doo Movies, which is a pretty obscure reference and I'm impressed they went with it! I didn't enjoy Kenan Thompson though. His jokes were painfully unfunny, and I think I may have lost an IQ point or two listening to his poor attempt at rapping. His charisma and personality were good, but all his jokes were very cringeworthy. I would have enjoyed the episode more if a different celebrity than Kenan was in it, as he really dragged the episode down IMO. No other complaints with the episode really, other than Velma's hearty laughter at the kid getting pied in the face was a bit awkward. It really wasn't funny at all, so I'm not sure what the writers were thinking there. I'm putting this one just above "Peebles' Pet Shop of Terrible Terrors," but Kenan really dragged this episode down from being any higher than that. I feel bad ranking him above Wanda Sykes, who was actually a good celebrity, and Ricky Gervais, who wasn't as offensive as Kenan, but I'm ranking it here solely due to the rest of the episode being pretty good. "Quit Clowning!" is also a pretty dumb title IMO. 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. Now You Sia, Now You Don't! 8. Quit Clowning! 9. Peebles' Pet Shop of Terrible Terrors! 10. Ollie Ollie In-come Free! 11. The Fastest Food Fiend! 12. A Mystery Solving Gang Divided
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IkeDaKil
9/14/2019 08:56:16 pm
Is it just me or did them capturing the monster felt odd...
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9/15/2019 09:22:58 am
I guess the monster capture didn't feel too odd to me. On Boomerang, all Scooby episodes are free all weekend to celebrate the anniversary so maybe they're doing the same thing on VRV?
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Greybishop
9/15/2019 10:55:26 pm
Well, it is fairly unusual for a Scooby monster to catch themselves, so I see IDK's point.
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9/16/2019 07:47:31 am
That's a fair point. I agree the villain was super creepy, though I thought Kenan's jokes really dragged the episode down.
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Samuel Kirkwood
9/19/2019 12:41:47 pm
Finally came up on Kim! Although Keenan was very meh, I'd never even heard of him before this episode, I think that actually played to his advantage as he didn't end up dominating the episode and just added a small bit of comic relief with Shaggy and Scooby. Some bits were a little cringy here and there, Keenan's impersonations, but I liked the villain here and it was an intriguing mystery with a good variation of suspects. I actually rate this episode quite highly, say around 5th as it felt like more focus was given to the gang especially Daphne, Velma and Fred. 1 more episode to go!
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9/19/2019 05:46:07 pm
Wow, took a long time to get online! I was able to watch this one through the Boomerang app, thanks to all Scooby content being free to everyone last weekend for the anniversary. Wouldn't really say Kenan was "meh," I honestly thought he was very annoying.
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Bigscoobydoofan
6/10/2020 02:01:26 pm
I actually felt bad for the boy who got pied in the face :/
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