Almost missed this episode,glad it airs twice.
Am I the only one that thought the uniforms Fred made looked cool? :ninja:
Almost missed this episode,glad it airs twice.
Am I the only one that thought the uniforms Fred made looked cool? :ninja:
Okay, so when Scooby said "Choke on it" I nearly died.
This last episode was good, for the hilarity, and the parody (war of the gargantuas)
If you haven't seen the movie, at least check out the trailer:
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Strange, strange movie…...
So, hey. A new episode snuck up out of nowhere and what an episode. An extended Terminator/Aliens parody, a whole bunch of references to The Silence of the Lambs, a reference to the Friday the 13th series, and Fred being as hilariously insensitive as ever.
That was probably the single best thing to ever come out of the franchise and has to be one of the single best episodes of any animated show to come along in years.
So, hey. A new episode snuck up out of nowhere and what an episode. An extended Terminator/Aliens parody, a whole bunch of references to The Silence of the Lambs, a reference to the Friday the 13th series, and Fred being as hilariously insensitive as ever.
That was probably the single best thing to ever come out of the franchise and has to be one of the single best episodes of any animated show to come along in years.
Agreed, that was an epic episode. Heck, for some reason I thought it felt like Cujo before it went all Terminator on us. And I'm really surprised they would reveal the parrot living in that asylum…though not as with it escaping at the end.
I'm freaked out by how that used to be the Mystery Inc's Mascot. Makes you question what Scooby will end up as.
And the Yogi Bear Cameo made me laugh.
The new episode was awesome :D
The scene with Professor Pericles and Scooby Doo fighting the Robot Dog was also awesome
Someone needs to call the Mystery Machine!
Sometimes, it's hard to tell if Fred is being a prick or is just that clueless.
"Velma, set your milky whiteness for stun!"
I haven't been following this lately, mainly due to the computer crashing. I'll have to torrent the season when this one is over. OR, get the DVD if that has a good chance of happening.
I watched the opening again to see if I had missed anything. Indeed I had for there was a Mama Cass cameo in the crowd scene along with a couple of other familiar faces. The singer from the Humungonauts episode for one and somebody sitting next to Cass that looked extremely familiar, but who I couldn't quite identify in the second or so he was on screen.
I think I saw Pebbles from the beach episode reappear.
Yeah, I thought I saw Mama Cass in the front row.
Honestly I didn't expect Mr. E to appear at the Dinkley's shop this time but other than that it wasn't as good as last week…but last week was just epic.
Monday's episode had more funny moments overall though thanks to Fred. His comments to Velma at the pool and the whole "juice box" incident were hilarious.
"By Grabthar's Hammer, Fred! The Rogers kid picked a dog over a girl!"
Apparently Velma wasn't bluffing about that threat. Also, a Galaxy Quest reference and a whole episode about Harlan Ellison being, well, Harlan Ellison (with a side reference to A Boy and His Dog, no less)? It's pretty clear who the writers' target audience is and it sure isn't kids 2-11.
"By Grabthar's Hammer, Fred! The Rogers kid picked a dog over a girl!"
Apparently Velma wasn't bluffing about that threat. Also, a Galaxy Quest reference and a whole episode about Harlan Ellison being, well, Harlan Ellison (with a side reference to A Boy and His Dog, no less)? It's pretty clear who the writers' target audience is and it sure isn't kids 2-11.
The episode was bizarre, but I didn't notice the Ellison stuff since most of it was surrounded by all the Cthulu/Lovecraft parody that essentially just says "it's just some guy's fictional stories, get over it Lovecraft fans, the elder gods aren't going to walk the Earth anytime soon".
Finally got to see this, Ellison was great.
Apparently Velma wasn't bluffing about that threat. Also, a Galaxy Quest reference and a whole episode about Harlan Ellison being, well, Harlan Ellison (with a side reference to A Boy and His Dog, no less)? It's pretty clear who the writers' target audience is and it sure isn't kids 2-11.
Tell me about it. Loved Ellison's grammar lecture with shaggy.
"Jinkies is not actually a word!"
Velma should have had a "Friends of Ellison" badge.
Also I want a copy of "My fiction is better"
In the chest at the end of the ep: "The numbers are bad, the numbers are bad!!!!"
I thought today's villain was pretty lame and the people that were attacked were just idiots. Can Cicada's even hurt anyone?
Well, would you want bugs crawling on your eyes and into your various bodily orifices?
Well, would you want bugs crawling on your eyes and into your various bodily orifices?
No but I wouldn't completely overreact.
Oh and the jealousy of Fred in this episode was funny.
Just a reminder: after the customary scheduling idiocy by Cartoon Network that has resulted in the second half of Season 1 being relabelled Season 2, Scooby Doo Mysteries Inc returns with a new episode (that aired about six or seven months ago in some countries) in eight minutes.
That…was a weird one. I really did like the team-up of a bunch of old HB mystery mascots and the DJ actually doing something worthy of being the suspected member of "the old mystery team". But...I think the only reason Funky Phantom did it was because he was rather pathetic and obscure compared to the others. But hey, any episode with Jabberjaw and Captain Caveman teaming up for an attack had to be awesome.
@Tokoro:
But hey, any episode with Jabberjaw and Captain Caveman teaming up for an attack had to be awesome.
I think I missed out.
Well, it reruns on Saturday, right?
Cap was awesome.
Captain Caveman no can read modern ink symbols. Modern ink symbols mock Captain Caveman!
Scooby had the best line in the show though with his "Who died and left you in charge?" to Funky Phantom.
This week episode…was awesome. Sure part of that had to do with me seeing "The Wild One" a few weeks back, but there was just so much in this episode that it just made me feel more like the show was back compared to last week's little respite.
Heck I'm a bit surprised they remembered Crystal Cove had a Chinatown! (and yes, that was used in an episode of the original "Where Are You?" so it's not out of nowhere)
It's a dancing bug!
Sheesh, Fred, even I can tell it's a fish.
Glad to see Velma's not a heartless bitch who'd let Scooby die just so she'd have a chance at getting back with Shaggy.
Flim-Flam serving fifteen to twenty-five years in prison.
The gang having made a pact to never speak of Scrappy Doo ever again.
Best Scooby-Doo series ever.
As funny as those jokes were, it sort of continues to throw around where exactly this is supposed to be. I mean, Vincent Van Ghoul is alive and well (and in Hollywood; BTW I loved the Vincent Price homage they gave him in that episode, right down to his cooking obsession), yet everything with Scrappy and Flim-Flam existed. Sure I laughed but I was sort of hoping the best way to not acknowledge something ever happened is…well...not acknowledging it.
While I laughed at the FlimFlam gag, the Scrappy one felt like they stretched it too far, and for too long. I think it'd have made a better gag for another episode, and with Scooby around.
That said, I'm loving the recurring characters/locations in this show.
@Tokoro:
BTW I loved the Vincent Price homage they gave him in that episode, right down to his cooking obsession), yet everything with Scrappy and Flim-Flam existed.
Not necessarily everything; at best, we know that Flim-Flam hung around with the gang during a summer when Fred wasn't around. And we don't know what the deal with Scrappy is at all.
The whole scene heavily suggests that something really bad happened to him (Daphne's expression of utter horror upon seeing that Scrappy statue is what sold the moment for me); hopefully it involved a piano and one of Fred's traps not working as planned.
Not necessarily everything; at best, we know that Flim-Flam hung around with the gang during a summer when Fred wasn't around. And we don't know what the deal with Scrappy is at all.
The whole scene heavily suggests that something really bad happened to him (Daphne's expression of utter horror upon seeing that Scrappy statue is what sold the moment for me); hopefully it involved a piano and one of Fred's traps not working as planned.
Homage to the movie perhaps? He peed on Daphne.:wassat:
I really need this series on Dvd or something, I don't have time to watch it. But I want to.
Could refer to the movie and it could be a different set of circumstances but the whole show and such has just been so much. Heck, until recent revivals (essentially Zombie Island onwards…maybe even "A Pup Named..."), Velma and Fred were not even associated with the team. Daphne they got back in some of the early 80s ones (which still had Scrappy) but Fred and Velma were just not considered part of what people thought they watched the franchise for.
I didn't say I hated the gags, I just feel somehow that they are trying too hard to say that every series prior to this one actually happened. "Where Are You" is fine considering the museum and being the original and I like some of the nods to the early 70s guest stars and the Vincent Van Ghoul and Hex Girl usage, but the whole Scrappy & Flim-Flam bit just makes it like "well it all happened...sort of".
I have a question… does the old mystery inc look like them? I thought it was gonna be some cool reincarnation thing going on....
That would be the only way to explain THE CELL PHONES.
@Tokoro:
Could refer to the movie and it could be a different set of circumstances but the whole show and such has just been so much. Heck, until recent revivals (essentially Zombie Island onwards…maybe even "A Pup Named..."), Velma and Fred were not even associated with the team. Daphne they got back in some of the early 80s ones (which still had Scrappy) but Fred and Velma were just not considered part of what people thought they watched the franchise for.
I didn't say I hated the gags, I just feel somehow that they are trying too hard to say that every series prior to this one actually happened. "Where Are You" is fine considering the museum and being the original and I like some of the nods to the early 70s guest stars and the Vincent Van Ghoul and Hex Girl usage, but the whole Scrappy & Flim-Flam bit just makes it like "well it all happened...sort of".
I'm still waiting for them to officially have Redd Herring in this show. We've seen a dude who looks like he could be a High School age, but it hasn't been confirmed.
Finally. A place to keep track of this thread.
I watched Scooby Doo on Zombie Island this morning.
… oh god I love that movie.
'Cause it's terror time again
They've got you running through the night
Yeah it's terror time again
And you might just die of fright
It's a terrifying time~
Finally. A place to keep track of this thread.
At least until the activity going on in the other threads gets it sent back to the cellar.
You are a buzzkill.
Then consider yourself off my radar.
My day suddenly looked better now.
Replying to this in the Scooby thread instead of the Family Guy thread for on-topicness.
What's New Scooby-Doo is particularly infuriating as it totally threw out any of the advances made by Zombie Island and Witch's Ghost (and, to a lesser extent, Alien Invaders and Cyber-Chase) to go right back to the same tired plots that drove the franchise into the ground before and all of the films since have had the exact same cookie-cutter storylines as well.
Mysteries Inc or not, we're still getting things like Camp Scare and Legend of the Phantosaur that are the exact same story as any given episode of What's New Scooby-Doo. Of course, there was the one about the Goblins, but that seemed like a callback to those really weird '80s movies with Scrappy-Doo than anything else.
A quick check of wikipedia reveals that, while the writers have been pretty random, all four of those originals that you mention, (the first four) were all directed by Jim Stenstrum. So if I had to hazard a guess, I'd say he probably had something to do with the quality of those.
Also, crazy to see that Zombie Island came out in 98! I still remember it as probably the best thing Scooby ever did (up until Mysteries Inc) though its been so long I don't remember the details of why specifically.. It was self aware, had real monsters, an amazing theme song (and its teeeeerror time again…) and was based off a rejected Swatkats script.
Have they really been cranking out one of those a year since then?
@ Ubiq, those movies (don't remember Alien Invaders though) were awesome! Makes me wanna rewatch some of my childhood…
I've also realized I've fallen behind in Mystery Inc. I've read a summary of the cliffhanger of the first season and am glad that there is an overarching plot, but has the series as a whole held up?
@RobbyBevard:
Replying to this in the Scooby thread instead of the Family Guy thread for on-topicness.
The Family Guy thread is a great place for off-topic discussion; they're the message board equivalent of cutaway gags.
Also, crazy to see that Zombie Island came out in 98! I still remember it as probably the best thing Scooby ever did (up until Mysteries Inc) though its been so long I don't remember the details of why specifically.. It was self aware, had real monsters, an amazing theme song (and its teeeeerror time again…) and was based off a rejected Swatkats script.
How much more specific than that do you really need to get?
Anyway, those four films having a single director behind them does explain a lot, but the decline in quality has a lot more to do with the fact that What's New Scooby-Doo came out the year after Cyber Chase and the powers-that-be realized that the old formula worked now. This was simply because kids hadn't been regularly exposed to it for over a decade and even longer when you take into account the fact that A Pup Named Scooby-Doo was actually self-parody and the DTV films of the same era didn't use it. If you discount APNSD on those grounds, it'd been almost two decades since the guy in the suit formula had been widely employed.
As a side note, it's odd to go back and watch A Pup Named Scooby-Doo because of the references to the Scooby-Doo Detective Agency; it's easy to forget that Mysteries, Inc. was actually a Cartoon Network block featuring Scooby-Doo and similar shows with the name sticking for Scooby and the Gang.
Have they really been cranking out one of those a year since then?
There was a two year break between Cyber-Chase and Monster of Mexico/Legend of the Vampire/whichever it was, but since then, yes. One a year.
Has there been any word on whether or not we're actually getting a second season of Mysteries Inc? I'd hate for it to end, especially like that.
And without Redd Herring.
I think the last we heard was them discussing the second season at comic-con a few months ago.
Has there been any word on whether or not we're actually getting a second season of Mysteries Inc? I'd hate for it to end, especially like that.
And without Redd Herring.
They're supposed to be working on it though there's not been any news as to how many episodes or even when.
And we've almost certain seen Red Herring numerous times so far; he's just never been named or had any dialogue.
As a side note, it's odd to go back and watch A Pup Named Scooby-Doo because of the references to the Scooby-Doo Detective Agency; it's easy to forget that Mysteries, Inc. was actually a Cartoon Network block featuring Scooby-Doo and similar shows with the name sticking for Scooby and the Gang.
I for one haven't forgotten damn I feel old as dirt right now.