The Backstage Rage

Get ready to feel some anger behind the curtain this week as we watch "The Backstage Rage". What should you really keep in a violin case? Where does Shaggy go to look for clues? And what items are instrumental to catching the villain this week? All this and more await inside the Scooby Zone.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Hello and welcome to the Scooby Zone, the podcast where the train will just have to watch out for itself as we watch an episode of Scooby-Doo Media. I'm Rob. And I'm Katie. And today we'll be watching the Backstage Rage. Episode 9 of Scooby-Doo. Where are you?

SPEAKER_01 0:20

Man, we're getting up there, guys. Episode 9. Ooh. It'll be a good one. Definitely.

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Time to rage, have some rage backstage.

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I guess we gotta have some rage anyway. Some more it's gotta be backstage. Where else would you have it? Man.

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And we'll leave, you know, and if they're nice and appropriate, we will read them on air. Unless you don't want us to and tell us that, then we won't. Yep. Say anonymous. Right.

SPEAKER_01 1:16

Well, we could all say from an anonymous sender. We could also do it that way too and not let them be known. You know, but then whoever it is is gonna know who it was. So you know.

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But yeah, what?

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Who three followers? Three followers. Yep. We're getting up there. I mean, we're gonna probably get more as we go along, hopefully.

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It probably is more than three at this point, I'll be honest with you guys.

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Probably is. Yep.

SPEAKER_00 1:45

Uh but boy. You know, all episodes of Scooby-Doo Where are you are available on DVD, on Blu-ray. As of recording, they are up available on the streaming service to be. Yep, definitely up there, guys. I know we're not always consistent on telling you guys how you can watch the episodes. No, we might not be, but for sure we we will for sure let you know physical releases that will pertain to it. Streaming is a little more iffy. You know, rights with streaming shows can vary from time to time.

SPEAKER_01 2:37

Yep.

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And you know, we don't wanna tell you that it's not there or tell you that it's there when it isn't there. Yeah, by the time you're hearing anything.

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Yep.

SPEAKER_00 2:50

Pretty much. But yeah. No, the backstage rage. This is one that I quite remember.

SPEAKER_01 2:58

I remember it very fondly too. Well, because growing up we had the greatest mysteries, and that was always the last episode on here. We always that was one I remember a lot because that's how I watched Scooby-Doo back then was on VHS tapes because it wasn't out any other way at the time. So yeah, just those handful of ones out back then is what you watched. I mean, you didn't really have it out like we have it now. You know, so that's how we watched it, and that's how we're gonna watch it this time around.

SPEAKER_00 3:28

No, if I if my memory is serving me correctly, like this one is like it's kind of a trip of an episode. I think so too. Yeah, not as much as what the heck's going on. No, not in the one. Yeah, but it's kind it's it's up there, yeah. You know, all right. Um, yeah, so you know, we're gonna go ahead, split up, look for some clues, watch the episode, and we'll be right back to tell you all about how much rage was backstage.

SPEAKER_01 4:04

Hopefully, there's a lot.

SPEAKER_00 4:15

That was the backstage rage, and boy, is it rage-inducing.

SPEAKER_01 4:20

I know, or so much rage. Who thought there would have been so much rage backstage? I never would have thought of that. Oh gosh.

SPEAKER_00 4:30

Uh all right. So let's go ahead.

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All right, let's get into it, guys.

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We open with Shaggy and Scooby are walking home from a pizzeria with some nice pizza pie.

SPEAKER_01 4:41

Yeah.

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Where, you know, Shaggy talks how he always wanted to be like a pizza chef. Yeah. Takes the pizza out of its box and spins it on his finger like you would a basketball.

SPEAKER_01 4:51

You would a basketball.

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Scooby then takes bites out of it as it's spinning around, leaving Shaggy his finger.

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Yep.

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When all of a sudden, a car rolls by, hitting a bump, which causes a violin case to fall out of it. Yep. You know, Shaggy and Scooby go up to it, pick it up, and find out that it's really heavy. It's full of money. You know, they open it and yeah, like Katie said, it's full of money. It's full of money. Shaggy tells Scooby to guard it while he calls up Fred and the rest of the game. And while Shaggy's doing that, Scooby sees a girl dog with a wounded paw. Yep. So he sets the violin case down and goes over to help. While he's over there, the violin case is taken. And so is the girl dog. Yep. And Scooby notices that the case is gone, and he goofed. He goofed. Yep. Fred and the others arrive, and Scooby tells them what happened. Yep. They look around and they find a puppet control. Yep. That says Pietro's puppets on it. Yep. Scooby then thinks that the girl dog he saw was a puppet.

SPEAKER_01 6:15

Oh, it's a puppet. Which makes sense with how she was lifted up so fast like that.

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So they decide that, you know, it's not making a whole lot of sense that, you know, there's a puppet control, a violin case full of brand new $20 bills. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 6:37

You know, some sounds fishy here.

SPEAKER_00 6:39

Some doesn't sound right, you know. And they end up deducing counterfeiters. Yep. Which makes sense with the brand new $20 bills and a violin case.

SPEAKER_01 6:49

Right. Why would there be money in a $20?

SPEAKER_00 6:54

So, you know, they head off to the Strand Theater, where, you know, Pietro's Puppets is located. And they plan on getting Scooby on audition for a trained dog act. They arrive and they talk with the doorman who's controlling a puppet. And, you know, they're just talking while Scooby, you know, sniffs around, gets frightened by a witch puppet. Who's about to hit him with a broom? Yep. He tackles into Shaggy. Shaggy. Yep. Landing right by a dresser where there's a brand new $20 bill sticking out. Yep. Shaggy points it out to Fred. And Fred tells Shaggy to hide it. Yep. And they basically leave. Yep. They decide to leave. Yep. Taking the $20 bill with them. Like you know, if it's that that was a genuine $20 bill, right? I think it was supposed to be, yeah. So they just stole $20 from that guy.

SPEAKER_01 8:05

Yep. Well, with the with a $20 file in case, you know, it's yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:13

Don't steal guys.

SPEAKER_01 8:14

No, don't steal money. Nope. Even if it's sticking out of a dresser, it'll steal money. Yeah.

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You know. While they're driving in the van, you know, Velma and Daphne are kind of concerned that they left in such a hurry. They didn't look for any clues. Yep. Fred tells Shaggy to show them the clue. Yep. Where Velma concludes it's a real $20 bill. Yep. And it was probably planted there to keep them from going back to look around. Yep. And so what do they do?

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They go back.

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They go back. Yep. You know. The door is unlocked and the doorman is asleep. So they go in sneaking past him. Yep. And they begin to just search around. Yep. They split up. Fred and the girls going one way, Shaggy and Scooby going another. Yep. Shaggy decides to check the clues closet to look for clues.

SPEAKER_01 9:22

Definitely. Well, he's now he's an expert searcher of clues, you know. He's gotta be an expert.

SPEAKER_00 9:27

What is Shaggy not an expert?

SPEAKER_01 9:28

I know. He's always an expert in something. Man. I never knew he was an expert in so many things. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:36

Um as they are split up, stuff stuff is falling from the ceiling.

SPEAKER_01 9:44

Yep. Which that is a safety concern, guys. Don't go into don't go to the backstage where you know stuff's gonna be falling from the ceiling. Be careful, guys.

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You know that you know, while Fred and the girls are searching somewhere, a sandbag is cut and falls on almost falls and hits Velma. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 10:01

Could have tackled her down.

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Yep.

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You know, depending on how it landed.

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Shaggy and Scooby end up walking into a dressing room area. Yep.

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That clearly says keep out. Yep. Listen to look at the signs, guys. Don't just randomly walk into a part of a room. He's an expert on not reading signs.

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Shaggy finds a hat and cape, kind of like Zorro.

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He's the cloaked cavalier.

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And puts it on, and Scooby immediately notices that there's another one standing by the door.

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Not Shaggy's reflection. Yep.

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Scooby points it out to Shaggy, in which they run off to go find the others. Yep. Where they have also noticed the cloaked cavalier.

SPEAKER_01 10:52

Mm-hmm.

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They end up on a stage and they see him in a prompter's box.

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Yep.

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That to get Scooby to go look under there, they decide to give him a Scooby snack. No strings attached. Just catch. Daphne throws it into the prompter's box.

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And that makes Scooby very upset because.

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Whether that was Daphne deliberately doing it. Or she just missed. Or she's just that danger prone that she missed.

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Honestly, it could go either way with the but we'll count that one as a Scooby snack for Scooby. Yep.

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So Scooby goes down, and you know, he tells them that it's filled with violin cases.

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Mm-hmm.

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The rest of the game follows. And they're all empty.

SPEAKER_01 11:51

Hmm. What about the one that had the $20? Where's that one?

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They then hear organ music. Yep. Figuring somebody is playing the big organ on stage. Yep. They go back up to the stage, and they see the phantom, the cloaked cavalier. Playing the organ, where he suddenly disappears. Yep. And then there's a Viking and a pirate figure letting out battle cries, scaring them. When a girl poodle is walking across the stage. Yep. Scooby goes after her. Saying that's the one. That's the one. Yep. And brings back showing it is a puppet with a faceplate of a $20 bill engraving is sticking out of it.

SPEAKER_01 12:40

Yep.

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Which is a big clue. For you know, the counterfeiting ring.

SPEAKER_01 12:46

Right. Definitely a big clue.

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They decide they're gonna go take it to the doorman so they can get the authorities. Yep. Where they find out that the doorman is a puppet.

SPEAKER_01 12:57

No.

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Yep.

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I couldn't fathom that.

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You know. At that moment, a bird comes down and takes the engraving plate. And they decide they're going back to the violin room.

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Yep.

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And going over it again. For another go-over. Yep. Yep. They find a giant harp case that they open up, revealing a hidden door.

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A hidden room.

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And inside the room is a printing press.

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Printing press with new $20 bills right next to it.

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Freshly printed.

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Hmm.

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The cloaked cavalier finds them, gives chase. Yep. They go up a ladder that leads back up to the stage, but before they can go up, the cloaked cavalier stands on the door. Yep. So they're a little stuck. Where Fred gets the brilliant ideas like one man's not too heavy. So if they all push, they'll throw them off. I mean You're on a ladder, Fred. How are all of you going to be up at the same height on the ladder?

SPEAKER_01 14:05

It's Scooby logic, remember? It doesn't have to make sense, but he is right. They all can push up against the one man and it will be able to get up and out of there.

SPEAKER_00 14:14

Yep. They, you know, so they all push up after he has conveniently already stepped off. So they're pushing up on nothing. On nothing, which when the Viking and Pirate show back up to scare them, in which they point out that they're most likely puppets.

SPEAKER_01 14:34

Right. Everything else was puppets. Why wouldn't they be puppets too?

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You know, and which means that there's gotta be a puppet master. Yep. Scooby spots the cloaked cavalier working the puppets from a catwalk up uh above the stage and goes chasing up after it. Old Scoob's got him on the run. Yep. Fred unties a rope to help Scooby out. Yep, dropping the cloaked cavalier down where he falls into a drum that's already been broken in the middle.

SPEAKER_01 15:09

Yep.

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And Shaggy then covers him with a giant tuba. Trapping the cloaked cavalier.

SPEAKER_01 15:17

Yep, definitely.

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We then cut to a cop car. The gigane is explaining what's going on to the cops. And the doorman, Mr. Pietro, the puppet master. Yep, the puppet master is in the back. And basically, you know, he became really suspicious when he did his puppet act for them.

SPEAKER_01 15:40

Yep.

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You know. That you know, the real hero is Scooby.

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Yep.

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And they can't find him because he's behind them wearing top hat and cape. Yep. In which, you know, Velma once again calls him a ham.

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What a ham.

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And that is where we end this episode.

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Yep, definitely.

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It's another short one, you guys.

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It is, but it's a good one.

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Fun, short, straight to the point. Yep. You know. Alright. Well, we got a Scooby snack to add to our snack list.

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Yep.

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Which brings our total to 19 plus one stage snack.

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Yep.

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Alright. So, on the Manifest of Monsters. Oh, he's. Ooh, yeah, where are we gonna put this? Alright. Well, let's go over the list. Alright, let's go over that list first. Alright, well bottom of the barrow is still at number eight is the eight man. Yep. Mm-hmm. After that, it's at number seven. We've got the Faz Kaz Castle Ghost. Yep. Six is the Black Knight Ghost.

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Yep.

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Five is the Minor 49er.

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Mm-hmm.

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Four is the Indian Witch Doctor. Three is the ghost of Captain Cutler. Yep. Number two is Charlie the Robot. Charlie the Robot. Yep. And number one is the ghost of Elias Kingston. Yep. So where would you put Pietro the Puppet Master?

SPEAKER_01 17:14

I think he would be in the top three. Because of how destructive he is, how he's knocking everything down. He's trying to Yeah. Um I would think he's top three. Unless you think he's a little below that. I think he's at least top three.

SPEAKER_00 17:30

Well, he's not wearing the same outfit as he does normally. Right. When the game interacts with him. So that immediately puts him above minor 49er.

SPEAKER_01 17:38

It it does, yeah.

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Um he is very involved, which is more than the Indian witch Doctor had going for him.

SPEAKER_01 17:48

Right.

SPEAKER_00 17:51

You know. I I don't know, maybe above Charlie? Yeah, put him as number two.

SPEAKER_01 17:58

Yeah. Yeah. No, I think that's what I meant. Like top three. I didn't know where we were gonna put him, but like, you know, my own. Because I don't think he's quite as he's not good as Elias Kingston. But he's better than better than Charlie. But yeah, yeah, I definitely definitely agree with that one because how he just knocks everything down, cuts everything down, and you know, he knows his way around the backstage, you know, he knows what he's doing and everything. You know, so yeah. Okay, alright.

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So you know, and you know, there wasn't really a trap for the Fred Jones failure files. No, there wasn't.

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But then there wasn't one with the dogs either, and yet that they somehow made it to the list.

SPEAKER_00 18:39

So it was a pretty But they didn't kind of trap them with a drumming tube.

SPEAKER_01 18:45

It's up there then. Alright. Alright, let's get the list going here.

SPEAKER_00 18:49

Yeah. At the bottom we've got the giant slide from Never Ape and Ape Man. Yep. After that, we've got the instant suds. Yep. Then we've got the dogs. The biplane. The biplane from the first episode. Yep. Their fake train that they made from a hand cart, a headlight, and Shaggy's vocal performance.

SPEAKER_01 19:10

Yep, which was pretty stellar.

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He's an expert in that. Then we've got the crate and the giant magnet. Yep. The crazy special effects nonsense. Definitely. And then we've got, you know, the better mouse trap from a suit of armor and crossbow.

SPEAKER_01 19:26

Yep. A cannonball and old string. Yep. Alright.

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So you know the drum and the tuba.

SPEAKER_01 19:36

Um hmm. I mean, I mean, I don't know if it'd make the top three, but I think it's probably better than the fake train with how good it's not a plan, but it did, but you know, with Scooby going and chasing after him and actually getting him. You know, I think it was a pretty good, you know, quote unquote trap. Yeah. You know, they were able to get him, but it's not as obviously it's not as good as Crate and the Magnet, not as good as a special effects. Better mouse trap, but it's I think it would be better than a fake trip because there's no crashing. Well, the I mean the monster falls, villain falls down, but yet there's no extra something else running into him, too, at the end. So I would probably put him at what number four? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:25

That's that seems pretty solid. All right. You know, it seems like you know, it goes a lot better for them when they don't have a plan. It does, doesn't it? You know, they just win it.

SPEAKER_01 20:35

That seems like a good option.

SPEAKER_00 20:39

All right. All right. Okay. And now for the table of snacks. Yep. You know, so how many Scooby snacks does this episode bring to the table, do you think?

SPEAKER_01 20:55

I mean, I think it's a pretty, you know, a pretty good episode. I mean, it's I mean, I would even say it's you know better than foul play and fun. Even though I know that was your favorite. I think that might even be better. I mean, not uh not like a huge amount better, but I think it's still you know a little bit better.

SPEAKER_00 21:13

I mean, there's a reason why this one is on Scooby-Doo's Greatest Mysteries. Like this is a fan favorite too.

SPEAKER_01 21:19

It definitely is.

SPEAKER_00 21:20

You know, on a lot of people if it's on that VHS tape. Yep. You know, it's you know, it's a quick, solid, to the point episode. Um, like I don't want to give it a four because that's like I mean we gave the last one a full case.

SPEAKER_01 21:42

Well, right.

SPEAKER_00 21:42

A lot of these are just kind of like solid four episodes. Like But like a there wasn't a lot of hijinks either in this year.

SPEAKER_01 21:55

Yeah, there wasn't, was there?

SPEAKER_00 21:56

That I think would have raised it a little higher for me. You got a point. But honestly, what do you think?

SPEAKER_01 22:02

Like what, like you want to do a high three? Is that what you want to do?

SPEAKER_00 22:06

No, like I think this is a lot better than a three.

SPEAKER_01 22:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 22:11

You know, so I mean if you're comfortable giving it a four.

SPEAKER_01 22:14

Yeah, I mean yeah, we can give it a four. That's a good, you know, that's a pretty good option.

SPEAKER_00 22:19

Yeah. Nice big showing. Yep. You know? Uh you know, it's weird it wasn't a ghost of any kind. No, it wasn't a ghost. It was a guy that was a puppet master. Right. Which means I think this is like what the second or third non-ghost?

SPEAKER_01 22:39

It might be, yeah. You've got a point there.

SPEAKER_00 22:41

Was the Indian witch doctor supposed to be the ghost of an Indian witch doctor?

SPEAKER_01 22:45

I don't think so.

SPEAKER_00 22:47

Or just an Indian witch doctor. I know he had the ghost of Geronimo projection.

SPEAKER_01 22:51

Right, but that didn't really.

SPEAKER_00 22:53

Yeah. So okay. Alright. So that was the backstage rage. Pretty good episode. Yep. Next week we've got the Bedlam in the big top.

SPEAKER_01 23:09

Oh, the ghost clown episode.

SPEAKER_00 23:11

Yeah. We can talk more about thoughts and feelings about the ghost clown then.

SPEAKER_01 23:16

Yeah, definitely.

SPEAKER_00 23:17

Because I've got some thoughts and feelings about the ghost clown. Alright. So we will be back next week with that. Alrighty. Until then, just remember you guys. They would have gotten away with it too. If it weren't for those meddling kids.