Weekly Poll #341

Becker

6/28/2026 10:36:09 am

Don Knotts for sure

ZoinksDude

6/28/2026 10:38:09 am

i have to pick the voice cast of the gang especially Frank Welker since he's been with the franchise since day one

i think second place would be Tim Conway and third would be Don Knotts, honestly there are a lot of good picks in this poll

Shadowscooby

6/28/2026 10:45:30 am

Like the singer poll, this one is really tough. The roaster here is pretty strong. I say the voice actors, it’s cool that they get to interact with the characters they voice and they were having a lot of fun in their roles.

WildwindVampire link

6/28/2026 01:06:19 pm

Even though the episode went down a lot for me on rewatch, I agree that the guest stars were very strong here. It was a lot of fun seeing them interact with the gang!

Matt

6/28/2026 12:00:16 pm

I am going to skip my full ranking this week for two reasons: 1. Time constraints 2. I don’t really feel like ranking that many Guess Who guest stars anyway, so I will rank my top 5

5. Tim Conway- Pretty much the same as I mentioned last time, he is an absolute riot in this episode

4. Don Adams- I really appreciate that he plays a bit of a different role than usual for the guest stars, with how he turns out to be more serious and less scared than many of them do, but he still manages to be absolutely hilarious with that. I have grown to appreciate this episode more for sure, and Don may be the single biggest reason why, along with the house setting of course

3. Don Knotts- How could I KNOTT put him in the top 3 here? In seriousness, while he isn’t my absolute favorite solo guest star like he is for many, there is a reason why he has become an icon of the series, he is awesome and the best part of his episodes, especially The Spooky Fog

2. Dick Van Dyke- Another all time favorite guest star for me here, Dick has such an amazing mix of humor and charisma that he just fits in perfectly. Like my number one, he is another guest star who fits in strongly with both Shaggy and Scooby as well as Fred, Velma, and Daphne

1. Jonathan Winters- I’ll just refer to my comment last week. Jonathan Winters was an absolutely amazing guest star

WildwindVampire link

6/28/2026 01:12:56 pm

4. You make a great point here that his dynamic with the gang is different from other guest stars in this series. I totally agree that his personality is really entertaining here. He strikes a great balance of being serious, but in an amusing way. It's one of the reasons I feel the guest stars from the original series are so much stronger than Guess Who. Almost all of them are written to be much more complex than the majority of guests in Guess Who. (I know I won't get any argument from you on that lol)

2. Agreed, most of the strongest guest stars for me are the ones that have strong charisma with the entire gang and Shaggy and Scooby separately (although Davy Jones is an exception, since his chemistry is strongest with the girls). Dick Van Dyke is definitely one of the best examples of that imo.

Matt

6/28/2026 04:59:01 pm

4. Completely agreed

2. I just now noticed, but seeing the results of last week and that Jonathan Winters will be advancing to the next round already, I will cast my vote for Dick Van Dyke for the sake of variety in the next round. Though, I think it is safe to say Don Knotts will win here anyway and it will be a very deserving win, but I’ll still give Dick Van Dyke some love regardless because he also deserves it

Super happy to see Jonathan won last week btw. I didn’t think he would win, but I am very pleasantly surprised to see he did

WildwindVampire link

6/28/2026 07:50:08 pm

2. Yeah, there was a glitch where it didn't show what I'd typed for the results this morning. I fixed it when I posted my rankings. I'm a bit surprised Jonathan won too! I was thinking for sure it would go to Tim Conway. Wasn't expecting to see Phyllis get that high either, but any of them would have been worthy winners imo. I'd be happy with any of my top four winning this poll, but I agree there's Knott much of a chance that Don isn't winning lol.

Matt

6/29/2026 07:01:35 am

2. My guess was probably Laurel and Hardy since that is such a popular episode of the series, and they are also great but I am glad it was Jonathan

WildwindVampire link

6/28/2026 01:05:10 pm

This was a huge list! It took me a half hour to type this up lol. Really good roster this week.

26. George Takei - Hard pass. The compliments were to the point where it felt like the gang was bending over backward to please him, and it got weird quickly. It was enough to make one say "ohhh my," but not in a good way lol.

25. Kenan Thompson - I gave my thoughts on him in last week's poll. His humor wasn't very funny, and I'd consider it one of my least faves of Guess Who.

24. Jessica Biel - Not bad, just unmemorable. Jessica didn't feel like she had much of a role in this episode.

23. Wanda Sykes - See 24. My thoughts are pretty much the exact same.

22. Tim Gunn - This was a pretty good episode! Tim was an enjoyable guest star. Putting him a bit lower because it was one of those early season 2 episodes that didn't have the greatest writing.

21. Whoopi Goldberg - She had cute chemistry with Scooby! A lot of the Guess Who guest stars from this point on are very close to each other in my rankings.

20. Elvira - Not super memorable despite appearing in three different Scooby films. However, her hair being a monkey might have boosted her a bit lol.

19. Billy Dee Williams - The Cool School gimmick was cute!

18. Christian Slater - On rewatch, the musical didn't work quite as well for me as it did the first time. Still a decently good episode though.

17. Malcolm McDowell - He did a good job. The time machine was cool!

16. Steve Buscemi - A small step up from the previous group. He had good charisma and seemed very engaged with the role.

15. Morgan Freeman - I want to put him higher, but the writing of his episode brought it down for me on rewatch. The documentary style of the episode was a neat approach, although I think they could have done more with it. On rewatch, I wasn't the biggest fan of how the documentary angle felt like it was used to further the series' trope-pushing. It wasn't a huge issue, but I would have liked to see them go more in-depth.

14. Frank Welker, Kate Micucci, Grey Griffin and Matthew Lillard - Despite that this episode was the biggest dropper in my recent Guess Who rankings, the voice actors themselves were a really strong aspect of this episode. The tongue-in-cheek jokes were enjoyable and well-executed.

13. Alex Trebek - It was really fun that they did a Jeopardy episode!

12. Mark Hamill - Mark was a great guest star! His chemistry with Shaggy and Scooby was excellent.

11. Sandy Duncan - Sandy has a lot of chemistry with Scooby and Daphne, but it's not as well developed with the rest of the gang. I love her as a guest star, but she is on the lower end of the OG guest stars for me (which is to say she was still really good, because The New Scooby-Doo Movies roster is stacked with awesome guest stars).

10. Sean Astin - While Guess Who struggled imo with the consistency of guest stars, there's a group that were really strong. Sean was an excellent guest star and seemed super engaged with his role. I loved the Lord of the Rings references! Him becoming hypnotized whenever somebody says "ring" was very amusing.

9. Kristen Schaal - Kristen is another example of a very strong guest star who was super engaged with her role. I really enjoyed her pretending to be each member of the gang. I thought it was really cool of her to respond to my review on Twitter when the episode first came out.

8. Jason Sudeikis - It's all just tropes and filler! Seriously, that line was so funny to me lol. I think it is the best line of Guess Who. Jason is an incredible guest star, and I love how this episode is centered around his quest.

7. Carol Burnett - She and Terry Bradshaw feel like original New Scooby-Doo Movies guest stars to me. Carol has a lot of charisma and her character was really well written in this episode.

6. Phyllis Diller - Not trying to be a snob for the originals, but the OG series has such a stacked roster that 6 of the 7 here rise to the top.

5. Don Adams - Very underrated guest star. Despite his sarcasticness at times, I think he has really great charisma and works so well within the plot of this episode.

4. Tim Conway - He was my pick last week, but three rise above him this week. Super hard to choose between him and Jonathan, so I'm giving the edge to the latter this week.

3. Jonathan Winters - Super hard to choose between him and Tim, so I'm giving the edge to Jonathan this week.

2. Dick Van Dyke - Completely agreed with Matt on the stellar balance of charisma and humor. One of the best Scooby-Doo guest stars of all time for sure.

1. Don Knotts - Lots of great choices here, but I could KNOTT pass up this opportunity to vote for my second-favorite Scooby-Doo guest star of all time lol.

Weekly Poll #341

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