Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated/Recap/S1/E20 The Sirens Song

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It's Friday night and while Freddy and Velma are on a date and Shaggy and Scooby are pigging out, Velma is bored and wants a mystery. When she gets an anonymous tip about an abandoned oil rig and a missing sardine boat, she goes to investigate alone...and finds the mysterious tipster is actually a mermaid.

Tropes used in "The Siren's Song":

• Enthralling Siren: Though she's referred to as a mermaid, she has an enthralling voice so she's meant to evoke this.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Part of the plot is pushed by Velma feeling like a fifth wheel - Daphne has Freddy and Shaggy has Scooby, while she has no one to hang out with on Fridays.
• Logical Fallacies: "Sometimes you have to kill the environment to save it!" Mystery Inc all together: "Uh, no, I don't think that's right."
• Scooby-Doo Hoax: Of course - except this episode has both the villains and the good guy (Amy the mermaid) perpetrating a hoax for two different reasons.
• Sirens Are Mermaids: Amy is always referred to as a "mermaid" and never as a "siren," yet the episode's called "The Siren's Song." Perhaps because "The Mermaid's Song" doesn't have the same ring to it.
• Take That, Scrappy!: Literally. "Look away, Daphne! We promised we'd never speak of it again."
  • Also against Flim-Flam. "Twenty-five to life is a long time, even for a pre-teen con artist."
• Wham! Episode: The end cements this as one, as we get a very big twist: Angel Dynamite is actually Cassidy Williams, one of the original Mystery Inc.