#thirteen ghosts of Scooby doo

[scoobypineapple]

Oh yeah little note to all the thirteen ghosts girlies that ik follow me, we got Vincent merch 🥳🥳🥳

[frogsndogs]

okay random headcanon:

Mortifier was a con man, using stage magic to get away with his tricks. After Vincent loses him he becomes a bit of a recluse, and goes searching for the chest once he loses it but then along his travels he finds a child with a mischievous smile, some quick words who tries to con him out of some measly pocket change.

And for a minute Vincent doesn't see Flim Flam he sees Mortifier, the friend he lost.

[mbat]

honestly? the intro for thirteen ghosts is pretty good. also i just specifically love the 'only YOU can return the demons to the chest!' 'like, why us?' 'because YOU let them out!' like idk what it is about it but its just rly fun

[xxviviennevincentxx]

Scream (1996)

SLC Punk! (1998)

Senseless (1998)

Thirteen Ghosts (2001)

Scooby-Doo (2002)

Five Nights at Freddy's (2023)

[spookytuesdaypod]

whenever he pops up in a movie we go 👏👏👏😍

[jyrinestories08]

Matthew Lillard the Ghost King

[ohlookapan]

If anyone needs to laugh today, I BEG of you to go on Etsy and look at all the Matthew Lillard (or really any person you're hyperfixating on) stuff they have. I mean come on, you can get such amazing things like:

Now if you'll excuse me, I have a Christmas list to sprint to.

[ceruleanwhore]

Hot take of the day is that Scrappy Doo doesn’t deserve all the hate he gets, but not all of that hate is baseless. For younger people who didn’t grow up watching all of the older SD series from the 70s and 80s, Scrappy hate is merely inherited rather than coming from opinions people have shaped themselves. However, for those who did grow up watching Scrappy Doo in the 80s, there’s a few reasons to hate him.

First off, SD content was being produced left and right through the 80s and everything that came out between 1979 and 1988 featured Scrappy Doo. This includes four seasons of Scooby Doo and Scrappy Doo (s2 and s3 ran as Scooby Doo and Richie Rich and s4 was Scooby & Scrappy Doo Puppy Hour), two seasons of The New Scooby and Scrappy Doo Show (s2 ran as The New Scooby Doo Mysteries), The Thirteen Ghosts of Scooby Doo, and the three movies, Boo Brothers, Ghoul School, and Reluctant Werewolf. Secondly, out of all that content, only the first season of Scooby Doo and Scrappy Doo plus the “Happy Birthday, Scooby Doo” episode of New Scooby Doo Mysteries actually included the whole gang. The entire rest of those series and movies cut out main characters, typically Fred and Velma and often Daphne as well, though she did show up in Thirteen Ghosts and The New Scooby and Scrappy Doo Show. 

Thus, for a decade, Scooby Doo was oversaturated with Scrappy and this pugnatious puppy came at the price of beloved main characters. Also, without the rest of the gang there, the balance was off and Scrappy got proportionately more attention than any members of the gang ever really did while there were still five main characters in the show. I also think that part of the problem is that, with fewer characters, there’s less variety in what we get as the audience since the interactions and dynamics between the characters are then limited. It doesn’t help that one of the three Scooby Doo and Scrappy Doo clips in each episode of the Puppy Hour program featured Scrappy Doo with Yabba Doo and Deputy Dusty, and even Scooby and Shaggy didn’t make it into these, so it really was like Scrappy was taking over and even replacing Scooby Doo himself.

Another problem is that three seasons of Scooby Doo and Scrappy Doo and both seasons of The New Scooby and Scrappy Doo Show were made and aired differently so, instead of half hour episodes like with Scooby Doo! Where Are You? all five of those seasons were comprised of 8-12 minute long clips. This negatively affected the overall quality of the writing, since it’s hard to cram a mystery story into such a short amount of time. Writing at this time also suffered from the network basically throwing everything at the wall and seeing what stuck, trying to continue profiting off of the franchise the way they had when it first aired. This is why Thirteen Ghosts has arguably the most annoying character, Flim-Flam, because Temple of Doom had just been released and they were trying to mimic that film in a few ways to draw in a similar audience, so they copied Indiana Jones’ annoying sidekick, plus the plane crash.

As a result, Scrappy Doo ended up being associated with the decade-long separation of the iconic main cast as well as bad writing and then, to top it all off, he took up too much focus and space so people also just got sick of him. I’d also add that Scrappy was a rather poorly developed character since all he really was supposed to be was a plot device, and that shows in his characterization. The only purpose of Scrappy Doo was to literally pick up Shaggy and Scooby and throw them into danger, so it’s no wonder that his characterization is so flat and underdeveloped, relying far too heavily on catchphrases and situational comedy. This poor characterization is only made worse by the short length of the episodes that, by virtue of how they’re constructed, concentrate all of Scrappy’s antics and make them all just that much more repetitive than they would’ve been in longer episodes. Even if he only says “puppy power” two or three times in an episode, there’s three 8-minute episodes in a program, so that then becomes more like six to nine times per ‘episode’, and it’s no wonder everyone hates his catchphrases so much.

Something else worth noting is that the audience was inundated with Scrappy for a decade but, at the end of that time, we got A Pup Named Scooby Doo, which aired in 1988. That and the aforementioned three movies that came out in ‘87 and ‘88 were really the last SD content released until a decade later when Zombie Island came out in 1998. People had way too much Scrappy Doo, he left a bad taste in their mouths, and then all they got coming out of Scrappy’s reign was Pup Named Scooby Doo and then Arabian Nights in 1994 to cleanse their palates. It also would’ve been frustrating to see Boomerang release poor quality content featuring Scrappy at the expense of the gang, back to back, for a whole decade just to dry up and stop releasing stuff as soon as they start to dial back on the stuff people didn’t like and fix their problems.

However, the real problem is that even though it would be easy to fix his character, as they did with the previously mentioned Flim-Flam, the powers that be simply won’t do that and instead keep villainizing him, which all started with The Scooby Doo Project in 1999. Scrappy Doo shows up in the woods in the middle of this short and Daphne literally runs away screaming and, when Velma calls after her telling her that it’s just Scrappy, Daphne yells, “I know!” and keeps running. There’s other scenes like that but I think this is what really paved the way for the 2002 Scooby Doo movie that literally made this puppy into a demon. Since then, we’ve gotten a couple Scrappy references in SD media, which usually isn’t as overt and is more like “we don’t talk about him” than overt hate, until season two of the infernal Velma show in which Scrappy murders Velma, whose ghost then murders him. Absolutely none of that is validated by Scrappy Doo’s characterization or writing in the 80s while he was still an active part of the franchise but, rather, it all comes from how people reacted to Scrappy at the time all that was airing and how they’ve talked about him since.

Anyway, I’m not saying that Scrappy is actually great and everyone should like him, but I do think that it’s time to revisit his character and I think that, as the powers that be continue to produce SD content, they would do well to come back to Scrappy and fix his character instead of continuing to shit on him. There’s a good reason why people don’t like him but really, it all boils down to the network handling their franchise poorly, so I think it’s only fair that they should fix the same problem that they made. Scrappy has a rather bad place in Scooby Doo history, but that doesn’t mean that he can’t be fixed and redeemed and it definitely doesn’t mean that he should continue to be so intensely hated and mocked by the very people who made him. After all, he’s just a puppy.

[azazelflare]

New crackhead headcanon these three are triplets with one braincell.

Thanks @captain-knuckleduster

[cheezybreadowo]

Have some Matthew Lillard :)

[miaanaisssss]

when i met matthew lillard i didn’t know what to expect. he is one of my biggest childhood idols and i was super nervous about seeing him. the experience then didn’t feel real and as i run it back in my head, it still doesn’t. He is one of the most kind and understanding people i’ve ever met (especially cause i was absolutely sobbing). Although i didn’t get to say much to him, so much was communicated with just one huge hug.

thank you matthew, for always being there no matter how i was feeling, even if you were just on a screen. never change, my friend, never change

love you 🤍🤍

~Mia

[scoobypineapple]

mass hallucinations from oxygen deprivation caused by the high altitudes of the Himalayas

[frogsndogs]

a little late, not perfectly written, drabble about the thirteen ghosts with some of my own headcanons and the like for the anniversary :)

Logically, Vincent knows that he’s old. He’s been around since a little before Stonehenge so he knows he’s one of the older people around. The kids especially make sure he knows it, teasingly calling him “old man” and joking that he wouldn’t know how to use a computer (he does, sort of. Not really - but Flim Flam handles all that these days).

But he also knows he doesn’t look it. He looks in the mirror and he’s about middle aged, 40, maybe 50 on a bad day (he’s been having less and less of those though, recently). He’s been that way since the start of his movie career. According to the kids there’s already “memes” going around, joking that he and some others actors are immortal. If they only knew how true they were. Some of the others that are joked about mention it to him at the parties he attends. That Keanu fellow is always very polite.

Then there are the days that he feels old. The days that he looks over Daphne’s shoulder as she scrolls through Tumblr or the way he balks at how many ingredients Shaggy can get, or some days even the way Scooby jumps on him makes his bones creak. Then there’s Flim Flam and Scrappy. 

He took Flim Flam in because he reminded him of old times - of Mortifier. But from the moment he stepped foot in his house he filled it with an unmatched youthful energy, one that Vincent hadn’t felt for centuries. Flim Flam made him feel alive again - made him feel like a new parent instead of an age old warlock. He proved that there were still things left for Vincent to learn, still a whole new world to see. (Or well, a whole new way to see the world.)

Scrappy is a ball of energy too - always talking, ready to fight. Flim Flam’s loud too, but sneakier, Scrappy hasn’t learned when to back down yet. He has the innocence of youth that Film Flam is missing (something that he desperately wished to give back to the boy) and Vincent feels a pang of worry that he’s going to lose that. He knows that he lost that - somewhere along the way he stopped thinking life was all flowers and roses. But for now Scrappy is a ball of fluff and energy and with the demons back in the chest maybe he’ll stay that way for a little while longer.

And Mortifier’s back. He doesn’t know what being in the chest and then the mirror did to him, but he’s back and he looks exactly the same and Vincent didn’t think twice - he really should have though - before wrapping his arms around him. He looks middle-aged too, but there’s something about him, maybe the twinkle of his eye or the jingle in his laugh and Vincent doesn’t think he’s aged a day since they met. 

Logically Vincent knows that he’s old. But with all these new beginnings he can’t help but feel it’s only been a couple years since Stonehenge. 

[mbat]

ive been watching scooby doo and the thirteen ghosts, im only on episode 3 so far. its about what i expected from an 80s cartoon but its fun!

i just mostly think its weird seeing daphne without a headband

[skull-pun]

What can I say the man has range

[stumachersfavoritegirl]

“Open your mouth”

Tim (The Cure, 1998)