This week, we've got possibly the most classic question in the entire Scooby franchise: which episode did the "haunted house" trope best? I tried to go broad and pick any episode that someone could possibly think would fit the trope. Since this poll question has so many different options, I've divided it up into three by decades. The first poll (this one) will consist of the 1960s and 1970s episodes. The second poll will feature the 1980s episodes and "Bravo Dooby Doo," which is the only haunted house episode from the 1990s. The third poll will feature 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s. After all three of those polls are done, we'll take the three winning options from each poll and pit them against each other, just like we did with the sports polls and the villains-by-season polls.
If you feel there is any episode that fits this theme that I missed, please let me know in the comments! Note that I did not include haunted castles in this list, since we already had a "castle" setting poll back in October. Looks like Urkel got the short end of the stick again with last week's poll results on best adaptation of the "giggling green ghosts" design, getting only 2 votes for his episode, "When Urkel-Bots Go Bad!" "Where There's a Will, There's a Wraith" and "The Ghost of the Bad Humor Man" both tied for third place with eight votes each. "Scoobynatural" was our second place choice with 11 votes. As expected, "A Night of Fright Is No Delight" is our winner, and blew all the other options away by getting an impressive 51 votes!
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Becker
1/15/2023 09:16:24 am
Is there really no TSDS and SD&SD episode with a haunted house? Interesting.
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1/15/2023 10:39:24 am
I don’t think there is, unless you count those brief scenes from “Mamba Wamba and the Voodoo Hoodoo” in the southern plantation, but I wouldn’t really consider that a haunting.
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Matt
1/15/2023 12:23:25 pm
Also the brief High Rise Hair Raiser, but I wouldn’t count that either
Mr Neither
1/15/2023 01:38:36 pm
The Ghoul, The Bat and The Ugly? 1/16/2023 09:32:29 am
@Matt I thought about "High Rise Hair Raiser," but I also don't think it would count.
Mr Neither
1/16/2023 10:36:31 am
@wildwind it wouldn't get my vote but thought it deserved a shout.
Shadowscooby
1/15/2023 10:57:59 am
I liked all these haunted houses. I say the darkest one is in What The Hex Is Going On.
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1/16/2023 09:33:13 am
Yeah, I agree that's the darkest one, although "A Night of Fright Is No Delight" also feels very dark to me.
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Mr Neither
1/15/2023 01:39:12 pm
For some reason I leaned towards Nowhere to Hyde.
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1/16/2023 09:33:48 am
Interesting, that one doesn't really come to mind for me when I think of haunted house episodes, but it's still a great episode!
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Mr Neither
1/16/2023 10:38:10 am
Not sure why I leaned towards it but I think because it's full of suspense and twists and turns. 1/16/2023 11:05:38 am
Agreed, it was definitely a very suspenseful episode, particularly when Shaggy is kidnapped.
Matt
1/15/2023 01:46:52 pm
This is an ELITE list. All of these episodes are good to exceptionally excellent. With that being said, SOMETHING has to be in last
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1/16/2023 09:43:07 am
Yeah, this is an incredible set of episodes! There are no bad or mediocre episodes here. I'm not going to count "The Ghoul, The Bat and the Ugly" since it doesn't really come to mind with haunted house episodes for me, but I did include it in the poll in case others do.
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Mr Neither
1/16/2023 10:40:58 am
Personally, for me, the issue with What the Hex is that the whole episode doesn't solely focus on the manor compared to others.
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1/16/2023 11:04:46 am
Yeah, that's what made it a little lower for me as well. Still an amazing episode though.
Jacob Staggs
1/15/2023 04:37:00 pm
My choice is Haunted House Hangup but Nowhere to Hyde and A Night of Fright is No Delight are close contenders.
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Shadowscooby
1/15/2023 08:11:02 pm
What The Hex Is Going On:
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1/16/2023 09:45:19 am
I don't know if I'd consider this one the darkest of the series, but I do really like this episode! The Ghost of Elias Kingston was a great villain. His power of being able to turn people old was so creepy! I also thought him telling Uncle Stuart to come was spooky. The bit with Scooby being a swami was funny. I liked the trap in the episode too! I wasn't surprised it was Uncle Stuart either.
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Shadowscooby
1/16/2023 10:17:01 am
Maybe saying this is the darkest episode was a bit much. I was just thinking about the ghost’s curse. Turning people old even to the point when they become a skeleton. 1/16/2023 11:04:10 am
Oh I absolutely agree the ghost's curse of turning Uncle Stuart so old that he became a skeleton is super dark, and one of the darkest things in this series. In terms of overall tone, I feel like "A Night of Fright Is No Delight" was a bit darker than this one.
Matt
1/16/2023 11:28:21 am
I actually agree that this is one of the darkest episodes of the series with The Backstage Rage probably being the only one that comes to mind as darker 1/16/2023 12:47:12 pm
"The Backstage Rage" is definitely one of the darkest ones. I've never really thought of this one as particularly dark personally, but I can see how someone would.
Shadowscooby
1/15/2023 08:11:41 pm
Haunted House Hang Up:
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1/16/2023 09:46:51 am
This is one of my favorite episodes of Where Are You! I really liked the Headless Spectre as the villain, and he's one of my favorites of this series. I agree his laugh and the painting were really creepy, as well as that holding hands scene. Asa Shanks's ghost is one of the worst costumes of the franchise lol. It was quite obvious it was him. I liked that "heads is mustard, tails is plain" joke haha.
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Shadowscooby
1/15/2023 08:12:21 pm
Guess Who’s Knott Coming To Dinner:
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1/16/2023 09:48:54 am
This is one of my favorite episodes of the entire franchise! Don Knotts is an iconic guest star. I've always found it interesting that they never actually say it's Don Knotts in this episode. I liked Don's disguises. The late night snack bit too, that's one of my favorite parts of the episode. I loved the Ghosts of Captain Moody! They were amazing villains. The scene where Don's switching back and forth between the ghost and Captain Moody's human form is cool.
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Jayden
1/16/2023 09:10:40 am
Wednesday is missing had a very weak plot and villain but the setting really made up for it. While the episode isn't one of the best of it's series (TNSDM), there are so many strange and wacky things going on. So I just went with that.
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1/16/2023 09:34:44 am
I've got a great appreciation for that episode too. The setting really made the episode for me as well.
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