#peter lorre lookalike

[cocoabubbelle]

Watching “Scooby Doo, Where Are You?” (1969-1970 CBS) + Thoughts

Episode 17: That’s Snow Ghost

Here we are, folks! The final episode of this first season! Will I be able to hear the iconic phrase? Let’s watch and see!

I like the animation for the snow! The design for the “monster,” however…

Animation Goof: weird shadowy effect behind the Scooby Gang in the van. Was there some lint or something behind their cel models???

Mr. Greenway, the innkeeper, is suspicious to me because (unless there is a shorty in charge of the monster like there was in the Miner episode) he has the build for the Monster we saw earlier. Doesn’t help that his laugh is off putting. To be fair, my suspicions are mostly because my inner child vaguely recalls a face that looks like his as one of the unmasked culprits in the series. I could be wrong though 🤷‍♂️

Peter Lorre, is that you????

I giggled when Scooby joined in Mr. Leach’s (Lorre-lookalike) odd laugh even though he was doing it admittedly out of nervousness.

Nothing says gracious host that laughing maniacally after warning your guests that a ghost might get you if you don’t take the right precautions.

Were the backgrounds for the snow banks painted with oil or acrylics? The brush strokes look very nice! 😊

Cue Let’s-pull-up-the-blinds-and-not-register-the-monster-looking-in-as-we-check-the-window-is-secure-before-pulling-the-blinds-back-down-but-then-realizing-what-we-saw gag.

Scooby stacked on top of Fred on top of Shaggy on top of Velma running like a headless chicken before they all grab a dumbfounded Daphne as they escape out the door. 😅 Also, Velma confirmed to be the strongest of the Scooby Gang?

Mini Shaphne because it is Shaggy’s green sleeved arm that grabbed Daphne as they escape(?). I rewound this part several times to make sure; It could be an animation goof since the placement of the arm would indicate that this is supposed to be Fred, but the size of the sleeve in the wrist area is closer to the ones belonging to Shaggy’s coat than it is to the ones belonging to Fred’s.

Wee! Snow Mobiles!

Somehow, Fred and Daphne are able to hide inside their clothes before their clothes hide down with them. Shaggy and Velma hide normally as Velma helps Scoob hide correctly.

Random, but you’d think the animators would bother to add some gloves to the Scooby Gang’s winter outfits even if it’s just coloring the hands a different color. I keep wincing every time I see their bare hands doing anything outside in the snow.

Scooby’s hammerspace summons a hospital cart so he doesn’t have to go ahead to find the monster. It doesn’t work.

Velma complaining about Scooby’s method of stealth as if she could do better.

Shaggy assumes the East Asian stuff they find in what is presumably the Snow Ghost’s cave is from Chinatown. Velma clarifies they are from Tibet.

It’s not the Snow Ghost’s cave; it’s Fu Lan Chi’s (yes, that’s his name.)

The yeti in the flashback looks cooler than the current Snow Ghost.

Friendly White Timber Wolf? Not so friendly if you swiped his bone without asking [Scooby.]

Goofing off leads Velma getting kidnapped and Shaggy falling down a trap door.

Whoever is the Snow Ghost is homicidal and crazy because WHO CHAINS A TEENAGE GIRL TO A LOG TO BE SAWED IN HALF?! He even tried to stop Scooby from freeing Velma!!

Scooby has beaver blood somewhere in his family tree 🦫

Snow Whackjob can’t take a loss and sends dynamite after the two.

Shaggy is mistaken as a ghost because of white paint. How come the Monster let him be (besides apparently covering him in white paint) while trying to outright murder Velma?

Just when we think Danger Prone Daphne strikes again, we see that she had found a hollow log to hid in while Fred and Velma hid behind normal logs.

Extended chase scene involving Ghost, Shaggy and Scooby.

Shaggy and Scooby get harmlessly frozen into human/dog-sicles instead of dying.

Freddy’s trap to catch the ghost fails before it can begin.

Snow Ghost tries to toss Scooby off a ledge, but discovers that Scooby also has Koala and Monkey blood by how he refuses to let go and fall to his death.

Shaggy to the rescue!

Aha! It was Mr. Greenway! Also, Mr. Leach is an accomplice.

Sheriff/Deputy looks handsome.

Funny Squirrel and Scooby moment.

Day 17 of no “And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for you meddling kids.” AAAAARRRRRGH!!!!

[unspectacularmarvels]

Because who wouldn’t want a blonde Peter Lorre lookalike standing outside their cafe, proffering dubious-looking cake?  (Currently on display/ sale at the antiques hut by the aquatic store at the Staunton Harold estate, North West Leicestershire, the name of which escapes me...)

[bob-beaky]

The gangsters have stolen the very valuable, siiiiiiigh, Maltese budgies and hope to hide them in the castle. I don’t think this has anything to do with the movie  Maltese Falcon apart from the name and starring a Peter Lorre lookalike but at least it is a funny story in its own right. 

[theniftycat]

So, here we have a Peter Lorre lookalike, a German waiter and some music people.

Gahhhhhhh.

[froskii]