#Kelp Monster Mystery Episode

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The Scooby Doo Show S1 E13 - 16

13. Scooby Doo, Where’s the Crew? 

Rounding out season one, we open with a cute episode following the gang getting chased by a menagerie of oceanic monsters on a cruise ship. 

In my previous review, I mentioned how perfect I felt episode twelve was at detailing a good Scooby mystery, and I think this episode does the complete opposite, instead building up a winding storyline of set pieces that boils into a single enjoyable soup. Although I prefer the more mystery oriented episodes, when these even looser plots are done well, they’re always a blast, and this is no exception. There’s still a solid through line to this episode, the characters move from beat to beat attempting to get help, it feels more oppressive to them, in contrast to most stories where the gang are actively seeking out the monsters. Rather, here, there is a real sense of danger, from the bleak ocean setting evoking a complete isolation, blended with the cramped ship with the monsters hiding around every corner. When the gang are able to call for help, you truly feel an impending sense of doom, as much as possible for Scooby at least. 

Here’s a fun fact about the gang, in this episode it is revealed that they are all trained scuba divers, so that’s something! The previous episode also had an important plot thread strung on Shaggy’s ability to scuba dive, so I guess that's just the vibe the writers were in at the time. In a similar vein, there’s a scene here where Fred gets angry at the gang for not getting to sleep on time that I absolutely adore, he’s painted as such a righteous dork and it’s so much fun. 

However the highlight of this episode is undoubtedly the villains, or one of the villains in particular. Back in my reviews of The New Scooby Doo Movies, I mentioned a lot about how overstuffed many episodes felt with monsters, how they could fit several into a single forty minute storyline and yet give none any time to shine, and when paired with fairly uninteresting designs, their inclusion felt misplaced and muddled. In contrast, this episode uses three villains perfectly, rotating between them constantly, always providing them with something new to do. All of them fit into unique archetypes, all incredibly visually interesting, and ultimately, it feels just as strong, if not stronger, than other iconic groups of Scooby villains (such as those in A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts or Which Witch is Which?)

The Kelp Monster feels evocative of The Wax Phantom, a clumpy large mass of a character built of a single material. What elevates him is the eerie glowing effect seen on other villains such as The Spooky Space Kook and The 10,000 Volt Ghost. I adore how gloopy the design feels, with this extending to his droopy eyes and mouth, he truly feels like a hulking monster. He fits into the archetypical monstrous villain who attacks because they know nothing else, his face is thoughtless, and as such, he is void of any humanity, his size denotes his strength above humans too, and therefore, what he lacks in his humanity is doubled in his strength, crafting a theoretically scarier character, one who cannot be reasoned with, who can only do harm. 

The Ghost of Captain Pescado is a fairly simple ghostly pirate design, however unlike many Scooby villains labelled “ghost”, here we see an incredibly ghoulish design, his skin is luminous yellow, carved similarly to the 1925 Phantom (of the Opera). His grey hair and blending of a pink jacket and blue trousers create a cohesive design that pops against the backgrounds, and even if The Ghost of Redbeard will forever be the most iconic Scooby pirate, I have a soft spot for Pescado, which is Spanish for fish, a naming convention spread across this episode with Mr. Carp, Mr. McFinn and Mr. McGil obvious examples of the oceanic semantic field spread across their names. 

Finally, my favourite is The Octopus Monster. Instantly this little creature has grown on me in such a profound way, and I’d probably place the monster in my top ten villains throughout any Scooby property I’ve visited for this blog! It’s an octopus with legs, it's shaded in a blend of sea greens. In contrast to the Kelp Monster, the Octopus Monster is oozing with personality, his eyes and large eyebrows alone denote his cunningness, however moreover, the animation for the character is a delight, I adore watching him chase the gang, he’s so cool! All in all, the three blend together to be maybe my favourite group of villains in an episode so far. 

Before wrapping this one up, I want to mention a timeline issue, as in this episode, the gang refer to going to school, despite them establishing in episode one of Show, that they had graduated. Looking at the Scooby timeline is a mess anyway, with other details spread across the series meddling with what we know is true (such as Scooby Dum being labelled as Scooby’s brother in his second appearance despite us already establishing he’s his cousin). Of course, it doesn’t matter too much, but it’s always weird how they detail specific elements of continuity while then completely going against it at other points. Oh well :) 

14. The Ghost That Sacked the Quarterback

I’m not the biggest fan of sports settings, and this episode is no different, the constant American Football shenanigans prove too much for me, constantly getting in the way of me truly enjoying myself. Oh well! It’s still a good episode, but definitely the least good of the season in my eyes. 

However, the Rambling Ghost is a great monster design! Gowned in a snowy white  American football jersey, the creature has an elongated, ghoulish face, this shape complimented greatly by the large helmet atop his head. His scarlet eyes are bulging, slightly too large for his face, which once again, goes on to create a menacing appearance, only enhanced by the tattering of his sleeves. 

Other than that, I don’t have loads to say - I enjoy when Scooby transforms, it’s fun! 

15. The Ghost of the Bad Humour Man

Good going Shaggy. Crashing the mystery machine. Hope the joke was worth it. 

In this episode, we follow the gang as they crash into an ice cream factory, deciding to enter the building to use their phone, they suddenly find themselves surrounded by the three technicolour phantoms. 

This is an example of a Scooby Doo episode where everything that happens is totally the gang's fault  - they did not need to get involved! In fact, they crashed the van into this building, and proceeded to break inside! I love it! 

On the topic of Shaggy, he gets to shine here, not only in his crashing of the Mystery Machine, but also because he ends up inadvertently dressing as one of the ghosts, mistaken as one by both the gang and the ghosts themselves, and it’s a lot of fun to watch unfold. 

What is less fun is the phantoms themselves, simple recolours of the Green Ghosts from A Night of Fright is No Delight. I’m not a big fan of pointless recolours, even if the concept of vanilla, chocolate and strawberry themed ghosts is funny and ultimately wins me over. I just wish they were more unique! This is maybe my favourite recolour just because of how silly it is, but it’s a recolour nevertheless. 

To me, this setting is a better version of the one seen in The Haunted Candy Factory, which was still done well there! But placing the gang in a food factory will always be fun to me, the jokes write themselves, and I appreciate how here they fixate on Shaggy in a unique way - of course he does like the food, but there are more facets to him as a character, and his mix up is truly the highlight of this episode. 

16. The Spirits of ‘76

Rounding out what might be my favourite season of any series I’ve watched for the blog so far, is The Spirits of ‘76, the year the episode was released. 

Unfortunately this is one of the weaker episodes! We follow the gang getting locked inside the Splitsonian Institute overnight to investigate a group of alleged ghosts haunting the building. 

I enjoy a museum setting for Scooby, even if I don’t think this is the best use of one we’ve seen so far, although a classic trope I always adore is the fake out statue. 

This group of villains do very little for me - I think they’re my least favourite of the season. The Ghosts of William Demont, Benedict Arnold and Major Andre are a group of old men wearing American Revolutionary costumes, and that's pretty much it! They’re all named after real people from the war (I believe, there’s some muddy information online) and I don’t particularly find any all too interesting to discuss! 

Velma is definitely the stand out character of this episode, and I think ending here shouldn’t understate just how strong this season has been! Even this episode was good, although not interesting for me to discuss. 

Thank you for reading this review! I'm having a lot of fun going through this series! Following on from New Movies, I was worried some of these seasons would be frustrating to wade through, but truly I am having just as much fun, if not more, watching Show as I did Where are You. I'm hoping to get a bonus review out this Friday! So keep an eye out for that :)

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[brightgreendandelions]

slugcat chronicles episode 8 -- i fucking hate monster kelp

slugcat dies to a mysterious force in the dark right near a shelter. he is in the dark, because apparently monster kelp likes to eat lanterns, and slugcat keeps forgetting which of his hands is the right one (he is dyslexic)

turns out that shelter is surrounded by two monster kelps

slugcat barely makes it to the next shelter, but doesn't have enough food...

going thru memory crypts while starving is a very bad idea

yeah of course... starving slugcat couldn't throw the flashbang in time

after many attempts and losing all of his 7 karma (and two karma flowers) slugcat finally makes it past the kelp with enough food

[ladyofdecember]

Epic Halloween Episodes List

Hey all! This is my list of Halloween episodes of TV shows I’ve thrown together. I got a lot of these from Wikipedia. Feel free to add on to it if you like!!

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Malcolm in the Middle Halloween Halloween Approximately

Brooklyn 99 Halloween Halloween II Halloween III Halloween IV Halloveen

Friends The One With The Halloween Party The One with Phoebe's Birthday Dinner

Parks and Rec Greg Pikitis Meet 'n' Greet Halloween Surprise Recall Vote

The Simpsons Multiple episodes with one every season but Treehouse of Horror V is the best

Community Introduction to Statistics Epidemiology Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps Paranormal Parentage

Bob's Burgers Full Bars Fort Night Tina and the Real Ghost The Hauntening Teen-a Witch The Wolf of Wharf Street Nightmare on Ocean Avenue Street Pig Trouble in Little Tina Heartbreak Hotel-oween

Stranger Things Trick or Treat, Freak

Glee The Rocky Horror Glee Show

Boy Meets World Boys II Mensa Who's Afraid of Cory Wolf? The Witches of Pennbrook And Then There Was Shawn

Sabrina The Teenage Witch A Halloween Story A River of Candy Corn Runs Through It Good Will Haunting Episode LXXXI: The Phantom Menace The Halloween Scene Murder on the Halloween Express

Beetlejuice Laugh of the Party and Bewitched, Bothered & Beetlejuiced

The Jetsons Haunted Halloween

Tiny Toon Adventures Tiny Toons Night Ghoulery The Horror of Slumber Party Mountain Toons From The Crypt

Ed, Edd n Eddy Ed, Edd n Eddy's Boo Haw Haw

Teen Titans Go! Halloween Scary Figure Dance Halloween v Christmas Contest Monster Squad! Witches Brew Ghost with the Most

Phil of the Future Halloween

Invader ZIM Halloween Spectacular Spooky Doom

Spongebob Squarepants Scaredy Pants / I Was a Teenage Gary Graveyard Shift Ghost Host The Curse of Bikini Bottom Ghoul Fools Don't Look Now / Seance Shmeance The Legend of Boo-Kini Bottom The Night Patty The Ghost of Plankton A Cabin in the Kelp Spookiest SpongeBob Scenes Countdown Special

Star Trek The Original Series Catspaw

Riverdale Chapter Sixty-One: Halloween

Scrubs My Big Brother

3rd Rock From The Sun Scaredy Dick

Futurama The Honking and Murder on the Planet Express

It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia Who Got Dee Pregnant?

The Mick The Haunted House

Saved by the Bell Mystery Weekend

Sister Sister Halloween

The Addams Family Halloween with the Addams Family Halloween, Addams Style

American Dad Best Little Horror House in Langley Falls Poltergasm

The Big Bang Theory The Middle Earth Paradigm The Good Guy Fluctuation The Holographic Excitation The Imitation Perturbation

Liv and Maddie Kang-a-Rooney Helgaween-a-Rooney Haunt-a-Rooney

South Park Pinkeye Spookyfish Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery Hell on Earth A Nightmare on Face Time Goth Kids 3: Dawn of the Posers Sons a Witches The Scoots Tegridy Farms Halloween Special

That 70's Show Halloween Too Old to Trick or Treat Too Young to Die Workaholics A TelAmerican Horror Story

House MD Guardian Angels

Two and a Half Men The Ol' Mexican Spinach

[katiethekwasolover101]

1. Dashi Dog.

2. Probably the Kelp Monster Mystery episode (in which she introduces her little sister Koshi to the crew).

3. I initially saw Shellington and Peso as my two favourite characters, but somehow, Dashi grew on me as I watched more Octonauts content featuring her. She’s sweet, cute and… just amazing in general.

hey I'm doing a thing.

respond to this post with:

1. who your favourite Octonaut is,

2. what your favourite episode is for them (it doesn't NEED to be an episode ABOUT them, it just needs to have them doing something important),

3. (optional) explain why.

thank you <3

[valmos]

New Scooby Movies 7-8

Episode 7: Sandy Duncan’s Jekyll and Hyde

Guest Star(s): Sandy Duncan

Monster: Myriad of (Silent film star ran around changing costumes inhumanly fast)

Interest: I have no clue who Sandy Duncan is. She was the lady fox in The Fox and the Hound, but can’t even remember what she sounds like due to it being a long time since I saw that movie. ... So apparently there are two Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde movies (and they are making a third), yet in that one Where Are You episode, nothing seemed to exist. Are these movies based on their case? Doesn’t seem so, though the group seems to have been invited to the set? Scooby thinks he is in love with Sandy Duncan. Duncan’s stand in looks exactly like Daphne. I am sure in no way is she going to get hurt or leave forcing Daphne to fill the role as stand in.  Seems the gang was called in due to the possible ghost on set, guess they are making a name for themselves. Oh look. Sandy Duncan’s stand in is walking off the set and everyone is looking at Daphne to replace here. Who could have seen such a crazy twist! (At least it wasn’t A Tale of Two Cities level of bad) Smokey the bear exists in the Scooby universe. .. So much cartoon logic going on in this episode. Shaggy might not know his left from his right. Scooby tells Shaggy to turn left, he turns right. Daphne gets kidnapped. There was a trap, kinda. More like a plan of deception, The gang all get to be extras in the movie.

Episode 8:The Secret of Shark Island

Guest Star(s): Sonny and Cher

Monster: Shark people

Interest: Back seat of the Mystery Machine is show.Sonny and Cher are broken down on the side of the road on their way to a second honeymoon. They are arguing and it is really uncomfortable, especially considering they got a divorce a couple of years after this episode aired. Shaggy.. somewhat recognizes them. He knows they are a famous couple but doesn’t know their names.Velma, Daphne and Fred do though. Daphne and Velma ride in the back so Sonny and Cher can ride in the front. The hotel receptionist recognizes Scooby from TV, but I can’t make out exactly what he says, and he may be mistaken as he seems a little senile. Velma knows at least some Spanish. “Technically it’s not a boat, it’s a kelp dredger” Fred over here flexing his nautical knowledge again, and being an asshole. Cher wants to fuck a shark person? ...??? And insinuates  they have big dicks? .. I... Wha? I had to rewind that to make sure it really happened. I don’t think anything in Scooby-Doo will top that. I should just stop watching right now. “Maybe I can use these lids as shields,” says Fred  two seconds before using them a cymbals. Fred’s uncle was 1st cymbalist in the Marine Corp band.

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