Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated: Difference between revisions

{{quote| ''"The new ''[[Scooby -Doo]]'' cartoon is quite vexing because it is genuinely entertaining and funny for the exactly the reasons [sic] the writers intended rather than because of camp value or [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]."''}}

The newest{{when}} addition to the ''[[Scooby -Doo]]'' franchise, which premiered July 12, 2010, with a sneak peek shown April 5, 2010.

After Scooby and friends solve many mysteries around their home of Crystal Cove<ref>There is an actual Crystal Cove in California, about 40 miles south of Los Angeles along the coast on the Pacific Highway. Whether or not the show's locale is based on it is not clear.</ref>, the town, whose thriving tourist industry is, as it turns out, based on the supernatural, decides it's had enough of them debunking prospective tourist attractions and cracks down on the Scooby gang's mystery solving. It doesn't work. [[Hilarity Ensues]].

Now has a [[Scooby Doo Mystery Inc{{PAGENAME}}/Recap|recap page]].

* [[Achilles in His Tent]]: {{spoiler|Episode 26: When Fred realizes that his [[Was It All a Lie?|whole life has been a lie]], he leaves town and declares Mystery Incorporated to be dead. Good thing for him and the gang that Mr E has [[The Determinator|Scooby]] pegged; once he works out his issues, the title character will speed along [[Ten-Minute Retirement|the process of getting things back to normal]]}}.

* [[Added Alliterative AppealAlliteration]]:

* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]: The locals treat the gang as, at best, a nuisance and, at worst, a group of destructive vigilantes owing to their inconvenient habit of saving a town filled with stupid, submissive and greedy jackasses from themselves.

* [[Alternate Continuity]]: Rather than follow in the footsteps of ''What's New, Scooby-Doo?'' or ''[[A Pup Named Scooby -Doo]]'', the show instead focuses on a new continuity that is still a continuation of the old show, but with a few differences.

* [[An Arc]]: For the first time since ''[[The 13 Ghosts of Scooby -Doo]]'', there's an underlying/overarching plot going on in the background of the otherwise episodic mysteries.

** Actually, yes they have, as of Episode 19: [[The Fly|The Mutant Bee]], [[The Abominable Dr. Phibes|The Repellant Dr. Phobos]] (Doubles as a bit of [[Actor Allusion]]) and [[Haunted Castle|The Castle of Gummy Discharge]] and "Me, Zombie".

* [[Berserk Button]]: Don't use "like" in a grammatically incorrect fashion in Harlan Ellison's presence. Or ask him about H.P. Hatecraft.

** [[Johnny Quest]] and the gang show up Episode 25. [[Word of God]] says [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|they'll show up again in the second season.]]

* [[Can You Hear Me Now?]]: Subverted. The gang has cell phones that work when they are stranded in Gatorsburg, but {{spoiler|they reach indifferent parents who are unwilling to help}}.

{{quote| '''Velma's Dad:''' Are you trying to destroy our business?<br />

* [[Crazy Prepared]]: In Episode 21, Fred explains to Velma that he gave the Planespheric disc piece {{spoiler|to Shaggy and Scooby causebecause they'd be the last person to have it.}} Episode 26 reveals that Shaggy and Scooby do have it in a bed/fridge that they keep in the case that they don't get an evening snack before bed.

* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: The villain in episode 7. Not only did The Phantom have the foresight to sabotage Fred's trap, when Shaggy and Scooby attempt their typical escape via [[Scooby-Dooby Doors]], he simply ''sets fire'' to the van they're in.

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Ala ''Zombie Island'' and ''Witch's Ghost''. It's definitely not cynical, but the universe as a whole is a little less idealistic, and the jokes, characters and events are more mature with some monsters intent on actually ''killing'' the gang. This perhaps explains Shaggy's [[Lovable Coward|behavior]]. The kids are also less goody-two-shoes than they used to be. A lot of the villains are more violent, aside from the aforementioned bus incident.

** In episode 17 the villain becomes fed up with Mystery Inc. both beating his traps, and believing that they are trying to steal from him, tries to stab them repeatedly with a fire poker. In addition the traps he placed them in would have been fatal, if not for Fred's genre savvy.

** The Manticore in episode 21 is strongly implied, at the start of the episode, to have killed two people and possibly more. It also tried to kill Mystery Inc. by picking them up and dropping them.

{{quote| '''Velma's Mother''': "Good thing I have this spare key so I can search your room when you're not home. ([[Beat]]) Oops, did I just say that out loud?" }}

** Fred's magazine "Traps Illustrated" has a woman in a bikini on the cover. His reaction to Daphne finding it is similar to someone hiding porn. It's a reference to ''Sports Illustrated'' with its famous swimsuit issues, though Fred's [[I Read It for the Articles|"I read it for the articles"]] invokes ''Playboy''.

** You'd think that after being saved from an [[Eldritch Abomination]], even a faux Eldritch Abomination, would make the [[Harlan Ellison|rescued party]] grateful enough to spare you a lecture on proper grammar.

* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: One of the background characters is a classmate known as "That weird girl, Hot Dog Water." In an episode 18 flashback, she says she's gluten intolerant.

** Gus, or "G-man" from episode 7 is basically the eccentric Ronnie "Z-man" Barzell from [[Beyond the Valley of Thethe Dolls|a certain creepy schlock film]]. That may make him a case of [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]], actually. In addition to looking exactly like Z-man, he talks with his faux-British accent and mannerisms, as well as being a record producer with a taste for alt bands.

** Jason Wyatt from episode 10. What with being a nerd, having great scientific know-how, and adores/admires Velma... It's "What's New Scooby Doo?"'s new form of Velma-stalker Gibby Norton!

* [[Fan Disservice]]: Episode 24, when Night Ranger takes his shirt off to use a bale of hay for a punching bag ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]). Daphne pretty much speaks for the viewers when she asks "why did he have to take his shirt off?"

* [[Four-Temperament Ensemble]]: The gang appropriately [[ColourColor-Coded for Your Convenience|match their own color schemes]]. Daphne is Sanguine (Red Hair) as she is the most optimistic and cheerful of the group, Velma is Choleric (Yellow Sweater), she exhibits leadership when solving the mystery but is rather pushy, and a rather violent Tsundere at her worst. Shaggy is Phlegmatic (Green Shirt) is the Non Action Guy who runs away from anything spooky, and is only there to react to the situations. Fred is Melancholic as he is obessessive (when it comes to traps) and emotionally high strung (when Daphne is in danger). He wears... white, rather than black, kinda crashes that color coded bit. Scooby fits into Supine (Blue Collar), as he is rather non-confrontational.

{{quote| '''Fred:''' Oh what the heck, going to the prom with a friend will be more fun than with a date anyway. Right?<br />

** Shaggy and Velma. Shaggy dumped Velma in favor of Scooby, then had a change of heart and wanted to try the romance thing with Velma again. She responded at first, but decided they should stay "just friends"... later revealing that she is still hurting over being dumped for Scooby, and apparently afraid if she took Shaggy back he'd do it to her again.

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: This happens to Fred after Daphne is kidnapped by the crab monster and when a teacher has supposedly died (see [[Ptitle Main/Faux Death|Faux Death]]). {{spoiler|Fred gets a serious case of this in Chapter 26.}}

* [[Hot Mom]]: Daphne's mom - which makes sense, considering her daughters form an [[Improbably-Fundamentally Female Cast]] all by themselves.

* [[Irony]]: Scooby and Shaggy, the scaredy cats of the team, love to watch horror movies.

* [[Keep It Foreign]]: More like Keep It Retro. In the flashback in Episode 25 of the original Mystery Inc, which was supposed to be "20 Years Ago" (i.e. 1991), it had a distinctly 50's look to it, which complimented the 70's look of the rest of the show. In seems like everything has been culturally time-shifted about 40 years.

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Doesn't quite beat ''[[A Pup Named Scooby -Doo]]'' yet, but it's certainly up there, which, coupled with its more-sharp-less-goofy humor, gives the show an interesting style.

* [[Missing Mom]]: In Episode 23, Scooby accidentally knocks a photo off Fred's mantel; his {{spoiler|admiring the pretty woman in photo was cut short when Shaggy told him that that's Fred's mom who left town when Fred was very young; Scooby apologizes for being out of line and Freddy waves it off with a sad smile and talking about how he one day hopes to tell her in person that she is pretty.}}

* [[Morality Kitchen Sink]]: The delineation between good guys and bad guys isn't nearly as clear-cut this time around; the problem is that [[Genre Blind|the Gang can't quite see that]] just yet.

** Shaggy and Scooby love watching [[Vincent Price|Vincent]] [[The 13 Ghosts of Scooby -Doo|Van Ghoul]] movies.

** The Monster Museum in the beginning of Episode 20 sees a statue of [[The 13 Ghosts of Scooby -Doo|Flim-Flam]] (who Daphne described as getting 25-to-life, despite being a pre-teen con artist), and when she sees a statue of ''Scrappy Doo'':

{{quote| '''Daphne:''' Wow! I haven't seen--<br />

'''Fred:''' Look away, Daphne! [[Take That, Scrappy!|We all promised each other that we would never speak of it. Not ever!]] }}

** The high-tech costume and superweaponry {{spoiler|Alice May}} used in her Oblivia the Obliteratrix disguise were supplied to her by a man on Destroido's payroll: [[Jonny Quest|Benton Quest]].

** Mr. E, whose identity is a mystery.

* [[Race Lift]]: Luna of the Hex Girls. She's a couple shades darker than her recent appearance on [[What's New, Scooby -Doo?]], but closer to her original appearance.

* [[Running Gag]]:* [[Once an Episode]], when the villain has been unmasked and does the classic [[You Meddling Kids]], it will be [[Playing with a Trope|played with]] in some way.

{{quote| '''Daphne:''' (''winks to Scooby'') They actually put it off till next week so you could get better...but we haven't told Fred yet.}}

{{quote| '''Freddie:''' It looks like a mystery to me, and I think that's just a little more important than school.}}

{{quote| '''Scooby:''' I think I already did. (''Shaggy and Van Ghoul distance themselves from Scooby slightly'')}}

{{quote| '''Shaggy:''' A couple of late night jalapeño stuffed clam poppers and it's another all-nighter on the porcelain--<br />

{{quote| '''Crewman:''' But isn't that haunted?<br />

* [[Took a Level Inin Badass]]: Scooby Doo is a lot braver and more proactive here than in other incarnations. Particularly in the season 1 finale and the season 2 premiere.

* [[Took a Level Inin Jerkass]]: Velma and Scooby both due to the "love triangle" between them and Shaggy. Shaggy seems to inadvertently bring out the worst in both of them.

* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: Scooby, Angel and the gang in Episode 16; Mister E's legman arrives at the end of the episode to tell them they've not only been played, they may well have [[Doomed Hometown|unleashed the very destruction]] they were supposed to prevent.

* [[The Virus]]: In Episode 16, a woman with a huge grudge against the town tried destroying it by making the locals mad with love.

* [[Was It All a Lie?]]: In Episode 18, Shaggy asks [[False Friend|Mai Le]] this after she'd been caught with the ruby she'd come to Crystal Cove to steal; the answer "YesSorry, you fool'dude'!" devastated him.

* [[Where's the Fun In That?]]:

{{quote| ''Shaggy'': Can you give us a straight answer?<br />

* [[You Are What You Hate]]: The greeter at the medieval fair professes nothing but contempt at the pirates who attend on the outside, but in private secretly wishes to be one.

{{quote| '''Episode 2: ''' ''' {{spoiler|Gunther Gator}}:''' If it weren't for you meddling [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness|juveniles with your unauthorized investigation of our synthetic gator accessories.]]<br />

'''Episode 3:''' ''' {{spoiler|Rung Ladderton}}:''' If it weren't for you meddling... peers.<br />

'''Episode 6:''' ''' {{spoiler|Alice}}:''' If it weren't for you meddling.... schoolmates .... of mine.<br />

''' {{spoiler|Maxwell the copy boy}}''' uses it straight in episode 15 but the gang say it doesn't apply; that's because ''' {{spoiler|a group of video game designers who dress up as [[Noble Demon]] Orks on motorcycles}}''' are the people who actually captured him. <br />

''' {{spoiler|In Episode 18, Fred interrupts the speech while Scooby agrees that it's been run into the ground.}}'''<br />

''' {{spoiler|Episode 19 has the bad guy thank the meddling kids because after he gets out of jail, he'll be able to collect the rights for the movie based on his time as a jackass in a rubber mask messing with people.}}''' <br />

'''Episode 20''' has the perps saying if it wasn't for {{spoiler|the mermaid that tipped Velma off about the mystery earlier}}.<br />

'''Episode 21''' has the perp gets a card from a fortunetelling machine which reads, "''Meddling kids and a dog will foil your plan''" which satisfies Fred, who felt there was something missing when it wasn't said by the perp out loud.<br />

'''Episode 22''' has the culprit calling the gang "those meddling sycophants."<br />

'''Episode 23:''' Averted as the culprit was {{spoiler|Professor Pericles, who took off with the disc piece Fred's dad had--and apparently took from Pericles years ago.}}<br />

'''Episode 24:''' Fred tells his dad that perp "wouldn't have gotten away with it if it weren't for us meddling kids."<br />

'''Episode 25:''' {{spoiler|Alice May calls Angel a "meddling sassy pants."}}<br />

'''Episode 26:''' {{spoiler|Mayor Jones calls Fred "my meddling son." Which is then subverted when we find out about Fred's past.}}<br />

* {{spoiler|Except he didn't say "my meddling son" he said "my meddling...Fred." In such a sad tone that coupled with his quick utterence of loving Fred at the start of the episode, it was a bit of a tearjerker (unless you think that the mayor was just acting to try and gain sympathy since he knew it was all coming apart, in which case it was just a jerkish ploy)}}<br />