Spooky Space Kook

Join us this week as we travel to a long time ago (in 1969) to the final frontier (of an abandoned air field) as we watch the Scooby-Doo Where are You episode "Spooky Space Kook". What sport equipment does the ghost's air craft remind us of? What area of study is Velma completely useless in? And where is the best place to hide a key? All these answers and more await inside the Scooby Zone.

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Hello, and welcome to the Scooby-Zone, the podcast where breakfast is served as we watch a bit of Scooby-Doo media. I'm Rob. And I'm Katie. And today we'll be watching Spooky Space Kook, episode 15 of Scooby-Doo. Where are you?

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Oh, episode 15, guys.

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It's my favorite one.

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I was gonna say it's your favorite episode.

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Yeah, so I'm gonna be biased with the monster.

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You're gonna definitely be biased with the and bias of the ranking, too. Most likely. Most likely. We'll see what happens. Yeah, we'll see if we go you'll break even on this one. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty good episode.

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Yeah. It's a great episode.

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Well, I said, you know.

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You know, this I swear, like, this is the episode that I usually think is as the quintessential Scooby-Doo episode.

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Yeah, yeah, I can see that.

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Um like I think all of the jokes are just like spot on on this episode.

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Yeah.

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Oh, geez.

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I think it's at the Scooby Zone.

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I think so. That probably sounds about right. So quote us on that though, guys. Right. Apparently we don't. Oh man.

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Clearly, somehow you did.

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Yes, we would. How many times we have to say we'd love to hear from you, and yet nobody's doing anything. It's like, come on, guys.

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They try their best.

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I suppose, but only one person commented who was last week's guest host, who?

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Well, a few weeks back.

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A few weeks back. Yeah, a few weeks back. Yep.

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But still. We'd love to hear from you guys. You know, any questions you have for us, any comments you want to share with us. You know, what you think we can improve on.

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If there is anything, but I don't want to toot my own horn. There might be some things.

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Yep. Um, so I think that is all of the fun, easy jobs to start.

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I think so too.

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So uh, you know, I think we should be about ready to watch the episode. You guys can too.

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Yep.

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Uh Scooby-Doo Where Are You is still on Tubi. Yep, if you're using streaming services, otherwise the entire series is available on DVD and Blu-ray.

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Yep. Or VHS for some of those who have VHS, but I don't know if Spooky Cook was on VHS. Unless he's on a different one, I don't have anything for them per se.

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Yeah, I'd have to look at how many of the Cartoon Network's classic Scooby-Doo VHS tapes there were. I mean, I have a whole bunch of them, but yet none of them are the spook spooky space kook, so maybe that one didn't I want to say it did make the cut, but but maybe it It would be weird because you know, there's 25 episodes of Where Are You, which would equate to You know, 12, 13 VHS tapes. Right. Depending on how they wanted to break those up.

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Yeah. But then there are some that are duplicates too, so that doesn't help. Like there are some that have more you know, more episodes repeating on certain ones or whatever, so that doesn't it doesn't help either.

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It just seems weird that out of all of the Scooby-Doo episodes available from 1969 to the early nineties, yeah. That they wouldn't at least do all of Where Are You?

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Like Right, why wouldn't you? I mean, back in the back in the day, VHS taste was how people watched stuff. That was home entertainment, you know, that was a huge thing.

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And I feel like Scooby-Doo Where Are You is like the purest form of Scooby-Doo that is protected by pop culture obsession.

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Yeah, that's definitely true.

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You know, when something gets big enough to be a part of pop culture, it's always remembered in its like most basic form.

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Yep.

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You know, because yeah, you can talk to people who don't know anything about Star Wars. They'll know who Darth Vader is.

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Right. They'll somehow know who he is.

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But they won't know who like Ventress is.

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Right. Well, yeah. You have to watch the Clone Wars series in order to watch that, in order to know her. You know, but I mean it's just Yeah.

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You know, or exp or you know, they'll dive into any of the expanded universe.

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Yeah, yeah.

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But the series is also available digitally for purchase on you know platforms like Amazon Prime, yep, Fandango, which used to be Voodoo, possibly iTunes, not 100% sure on that. You know, if you guys look for it, you can find it. Anyways, we're gonna go split up and look for some clues, and we will be right back. And we're back. That was spooky space kook, and it was more silly than spooky.

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I know, definitely more silly than spooky. Yep, got that right.

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But I guess silly space kook doesn't sound as Scooby.

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No, it does. It has to be spooky space kook. That sounds better.

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Alright. Okay, let's go ahead and take this from the top.

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Yep.

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You know, we open up seeing a flying ship, spaceship, pan across the sky. And you gotta say, you know what, it looks like a badminton birdie.

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It does, doesn't it? You got that one right, huh?

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You know, just a little more beaten up.

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A little more beaten up, must have been thrown, tossed around a few times.

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Yeah, which is weird. I would have expected a lot more spaceship designs in like the late 60s, early 70s to be more like flying saucers.

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Right. You know, something like that was the time for that.

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Something more like quote unquote lazy.

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Yeah.

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You know?

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Yep.

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Because yeah, like we're still a good couple of years out before a lot of the more bigger sci-fi things, I think.

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Yeah, or before that.

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I don't know when Star Trek came out.

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That one I won't be able to tell you. I don't know much about the older, older Star Trek.

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But even then, like, I think the original Enterprise was this like a big oval-shaped thing with more ovals.

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Something like that.

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Oh well, this is Scooby.

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This is Scooby, not Star Trek. We shouldn't get the two somehow confused.

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Right. We then see a glowing ghost in a spacesuit.

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Yep.

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Walk up to the screen, just laughing.

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Laughing, laughing himself silly?

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Yep. You know, where the inside of his domed helmet then flashes red as he laughs.

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Yeah, of course.

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Um you know, if his spacesuit kind of looks like Buzz Lightyear's just missing the buttons.

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Yeah, it does.

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So does this mean the space kook is the ghost of Buzz Lightyear?

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It might be. He was thinking of that way.

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Or, you know, just coincidence. I could be further proof George Lucas, you know, watched Star Wars, because he helped create Pixar.

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Yeah, that is true. Yep.

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Yeah, at least he helped create the software for Pixar.

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Right. Yep, of course, you know that little tab in information.

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Yep.

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Uh-huh. Oh.

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You know, we then cut to Mr. Inc. driving down the road when all of a sudden the mystery machine just stops.

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Yep.

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Where it's not broken down.

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Nope, not yet.

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Fred just forgot to put gas in it.

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Fred, it's your mystery machine. Why did you not fill it up on the way out of town?

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Why'd you not have a spare can of gas?

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That that is true too. I'm like, what are you doing, Fred?

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Uh whoops. You know, they spot a farmhouse nearby, so they think, hey, maybe they've got some gas they can give us or sell us. So they go talk to the old farmer.

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Yep.

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When he brandishes a gun at them, telling them to get off his lawn.

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I mean, that'd be a way to get me to get off someone's lawn and holding up a shotgun.

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He's sick of them reporters coming up onto his property.

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Yeah, well, I would be sick too, sick of it too, if they were coming up day and night, you know.

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They're told that, you know, reporters have been bothering him ever since it showed up.

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It, what's it?

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It.

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Okay, okay.

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That there was a mysterious aircraft landing near the abandoned airfield, and then all of a sudden it came out of it, and that's kind of scaring everyone off.

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Sounds like it's scaring everyone off.

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Well, the game manages to get gas from the farmer. Yep. And Fred decides to drive him to the old abandoned airfield.

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What a great idea, Fred. Definitely a great idea there.

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Yeah. They see that it's locked and figure, well, nothing they can do.

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No.

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When the wind blows open the gate.

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Opens up. Creeks open.

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It wasn't locked, it was just closed.

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Yep, it wasn't locked.

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So, you know, maybe some light trespassing on their part this time.

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Yeah, light trespassing. Well, it wasn't locked, so you know, the wind opened it up.

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They follow some glowing footprints to a shed where they hear a humming sound.

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Hmm.

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Shaggy goes up to the window. Fred asks what he sees, and he sees Scooby-Doo's inside.

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What would Scooby-Dooby doing in the in the room?

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You know, that's a good question. Shaggy turns around to ask Scooby and asks how, you know, how to get inside.

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And how do you get out so fast?

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When, you know, it's determined that, oh, the window's just that dirty.

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Yep, of course it is. Mm-hmm. Yep.

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You know, the door's unlocked, so they go in and they find generator that's still warm. Which must have been the source of the humming stone. Yeah. I'm curious as to what the because we're never told really what that generator is powering.

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Right. We're not ever talking.

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Unless it's just providing energy to the whole thing.

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It could be. Yeah, that could be what it's doing. Yeah. That would make sense.

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But I would assume with some of the other things we see later, like it would still consistently be running. Right. I don't know how generators work.

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I wouldn't know either, but you know, they usually power up a house, you know, they power up Yeah. You know, they power up certain things like that. So But that's a big gen it's a big generator for doing a whole airfield.

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Yep. You know, they look outside and see a ghostly spacecraft touching down.

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Uh oh.

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And so they split up to investigate.

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Of course they do. What else are they gonna do?

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Yep. Shaggy and Scooby are wandering around. Shaggy pulls out some peanuts, which Scooby then steals.

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All of what's in his hand, not just two or three.

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Yep, so Shaggy is like, let's see you do that again, wise guy. Yep. Pours some more peanuts into his hand and tosses them for Scooby to catch them.

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And he goes over, he runs over so excited to go get them.

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Yep, when they're caught by the ghost.

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Who's laughing about it?

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Yep.

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Maybe he was hungry too. Maybe because you know, someone ate his dinner. Maybe he's hungry and wants the peanuts.

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He didn't either Scooby didn't eat his dinner yet.

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Well, maybe he doesn't know that. He's coming over for a snack. Maybe he's hungry.

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So Shaggy and Scooby run off. They hide in a broken down plane in pilot hats.

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Yeah.

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So you can add air pilots to the cowardly costume compendium. Yep, of course. You know, when the space kook comes up behind them, and in order to expertly get away, Shaggy deploys the emergency raft.

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Yep.

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Which inflates and pushes Shaggy and Scooby out the nose of the plane's cockpit. Yep. Where they then land on the propeller of a nearby plane. And go and you know, ditch the ghost.

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Yep. Do a pretty good job at that. Maybe they're experts in ditching ghosts too.

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We got to fret and the girls outside of machine shop.

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Yep.

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In which you know they go inside.

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Right.

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Either Daphne or Velma asks where they are. It's like the sign outside said machine shop.

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I said machine shop. Why wouldn't you know that?

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Yeah. And Daphne remarks how it's all dirty inside with you know, all greasy, and Fred notices that it's fresh grease.

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Hmm.

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You know, they're observing, you know, trying to figure out like why the grease is fresh. When you know what was you know, these tools have been used recently. When all of a sudden Fred gets hoisted up by a crane, and you know, he calls down, you know, asks to get him down. There has to be a button or a switch somewhere. Right. And points out, like, Velma, surely you know what it is.

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But that's not her cup of tea.

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Velma's like, mechanics aren't my cup of tea.

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Right.

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And don't call me Shirley.

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Like, don't call me Shirley. Okay.

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It's an episode at an airfield. There had to be an airport uh airplane joke in here somewhere.

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There had to be somewhere. Yep.

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You know, so they go off to find Shag and Scoob, and Fred remarks how he feels like a side of beef.

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Yep.

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Or a slab of beef.

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I think it was side of beef. Yeah, I feel like a side of beef.

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So Shaggy and Scooby find where all the parachutes are kept.

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Yep.

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They, you know, they go inside and they see a dummy wearing a parachute descending from the ceiling. Whoops. So they go hide in a pile of parachutes.

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Well, where else would you hide?

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You know. I think Shaggy comes up first, and then Scooby comes up with a parachute over looking like a ghost.

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Yep.

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You know, Shaggy remarks that there's a ghost, hides under a parachute, while Scooby takes his parachute off and sees Shaggy looking like a ghost. And so they both run out with parachutes over them.

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Yep.

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Right past Daphne and Velma.

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Of course.

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Who remarks out, you know, two ghosts, one of which has paws.

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Right. Well, who else would that be if they had paws?

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Figure it's Shaggy and Scooby.

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Right.

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And comment how you must have scared yourself silly.

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We were just looking for you guys.

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You know, so they go and get Fred down. So Shaggy's gotta be an expert in mechanics. If he was able to get Fred down, if the others couldn't.

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No, of course not. Well that's not her cup, that's not the cup of tea.

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While they're standing there, you know, Fred was trying out his Luke Skywalker cosplay by removing his left hand.

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And Shaggy's laughing at him as he's holding.

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Yeah. I think Shaggy's laughing because I think he told a joke how Fred could have scared the ghost.

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Right, oh man.

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But, you know, Fred mentions how, you know, Shaggy, you were pretty vague on describing the ghost.

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Right.

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Shaggy's like, well, you could say he looked something like that. Pointing right at the ghost walking towards them.

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Yep.

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Shag and Scoob run off.

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Yep.

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Fred comments, you know, in a case like this, Shag and Scoob did exactly the right thing. Let's scram.

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Let's scram. Yep. They all take a chapter, uh take a page out of Scooby and Shaggy's book.

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Yep. Shaggy and Scooby end up in the mess hall.

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Yep, they do.

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Shaggy, surprisingly, doesn't know that mess hall equals kitchen.

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How could he not? They love the kitchen. How could they not know the mess hall?

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I think it has to do with Shaggy's not in the military.

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Oh, okay, that would make sense, but you know.

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That I'm fairly confident that this abandoned airfield was an airfield for the Air Force, if anything else.

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It could be.

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You know, with all of the military stuff around.

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Right. Yeah.

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Um. You know. So they go inside, they start scouring for food.

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Right.

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Scooby opens the fridge and finds a jar of olives.

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Yep.

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A thin of ham. And a small rotisserie chicken.

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Yep.

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Scooby eats the ham and the chicken. And 99.9% of the olives.

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Like, when did he eat the olive? You saw me eat the ham. You saw me eat the chicken. When did he eat?

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I don't know, but at least he left one for Shaky.

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He always leaves the olive. Haven't you noticed that in some of the episodes? At least you left me the olive.

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You know, Shaggy remarks how, you know, you found a clue, Scooby-Doo. What would a ghost from space keep ham and chicken around for? Yeah, what would Why would he do the ghost from space don't eat? I don't know.

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Maybe a ghost doesn't know that. Does a ghost know that?

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Yeah.

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Although they had to deal with Redbeard last week, so Shaggy should have the assumption that ghosts eat. Because he had to cook ghost pirates too. Yep. You know, they go outside to go find the others to let them know what they found. They see the ghost. They run back into the mess hall. Scooby decides to make a clean getaway by hiding in an automatic dishwasher. When Shaggy accidentally steps in a bucket. Yep. And when trying to shake the bucket off his foot, turns on the dishwasher.

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So he's an he's an expert in washing a dog?

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He's an expert at using an automatic dishwasher to wash a dog.

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He knows the button to hit, he knows how to start it up.

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Right.

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Oh man.

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Scooby comes out, Shaggy makes a joke about a clean getaway.

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Isn't it didn't he say pristine getaway? He said clean getaway. Oh, I thought he said pristine.

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Because Scooby just got cleaned.

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Well, right, but you know.

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We cut uh Fred and the girls. You know, they're not too worried about running back into the space kook. So they're wandering around, come across a barrel with a newspaper inside.

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That's what you decided. No, it is Fred a bit.

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Yeah. And it's got glowing dots on it. Oh. That turn out to be glowing fingerprints.

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Oh, okay.

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There's nothing too spectacular in the paper other than um, you know, one article that was made special attention to either by circling or underlining it about mysterious aircraft at the airfield.

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Yep. Dear Fred, you gotta hold it like this. Like, really? Why don't you do a hold like this? Okay.

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You know, we cut back to Shag and Scoob. They're coming out of some trash cans they were hiding in.

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They're an expert hiding in trash cans now, too. They're an expert hair.

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Scooby makes a loud noise. Shaggy tells them to be quiet. They hear some more crashing. Shaggy repeats to be quiet, and Scooby points it wasn't him. It was the ghost.

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It was the it was the ghost. It wasn't me.

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They go hide in the supply depot. They use a key to lock the door. Shaggy tells Scooby to hide the key.

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Yep.

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Scooby does expertly hides it out a window when they notice a back door.

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Yep.

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So they push a desk in front of it.

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Of course. That would definitely work. Why wouldn't it?

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Wouldn't you know that? The door opens the other way.

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Oh, it does? Oh man.

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So the ghost opens the door the other way. So they run to the door that they locked.

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Okay.

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Shaggy asks Scooby for the key. Scooby tells Shaggy he hid the key out the window.

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You threw the key out the window.

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They have to get that key quick.

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I know.

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They jump out the window, grab the key. Now, what would you do in this situation? And what do you think is the correct thing to do? Is it A, you're outside, just run off, or B, jump back in where the ghost is to unlock the door you locked to run outside.

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I mean, we're talking about Scooby logic. I'm gonna go with B. We're gonna run over to go back.

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Well, that's what Shag and Scoob do too, so that's gotta be the correct choice.

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That's gotta be. There's no other way to do it.

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And that moment is what I just find as like the perfect moment to kind of define the ridiculousness of Scooby-Doo.

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Yeah, I definitely agree with that one.

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I don't know how many times they do off brand versions of this gig.

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Yeah, I don't know. I guess we'd have to see.

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But like it's like this this is a gig that sticks out in my mind. Yeah, they barricade themselves in a place. Turns out that there's another way in that they overlook.

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Yep.

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And they now have to convoluted get themselves out.

SPEAKER_02 23:39

Uh-huh. I don't know about this way out, but alright.

SPEAKER_01 23:45

You know. You know, they eventually run into Fred and the girls, and they end up at the Airfield's motor pool. They find a Jeep that has gasoline in the exhaust pipe.

SPEAKER_02 24:05

But it has flat tires on it. How is it supposed to go anywhere?

SPEAKER_01 24:08

You know, that's a good question. And Fred and Shaggy discover like there's an extra set of wheels underneath.

SPEAKER_02 24:17

Is it wheels or wheels?

SPEAKER_01 24:19

Wheels. You know. The Jeep then drives off by itself.

SPEAKER_02 24:25

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 24:26

Right as the space kook comes out of the back of a truck. A truck. And then a bunch of the other doors around the motor pool open up to reveal more space kooks.

SPEAKER_02 24:37

Jumping jelly beans.

SPEAKER_01 24:39

Yep. Uh-huh. Yep. You know, they run off. Shaggy and Scooby run up a tower where Shaggy finds a microphone and a tape recorder, and it's gotta be hooked up to the sound system.

SPEAKER_02 24:57

Right.

SPEAKER_01 24:58

You know, we gotta get Fred and the girls up there on the double.

SPEAKER_02 25:01

Yep, on the double.

SPEAKER_01 25:02

So Scooby pulls out a bugle and does a bugle call. Attracting the attention of the ghosts.

SPEAKER_02 25:08

Of course I would attract the attention of the ghosts.

SPEAKER_01 25:10

They pile a bunch of chairs on top of the door.

SPEAKER_02 25:14

How would the chairs be able to go?

SPEAKER_01 25:16

But that doesn't keep the ghost out.

SPEAKER_02 25:17

No, of course not.

SPEAKER_01 25:18

So as a last resort, they use a parachute and jump from the tower.

SPEAKER_02 25:23

Only as a last resort.

SPEAKER_01 25:25

Yeah. It's at this point the farmer has arrived on the scene with the sheriff.

SPEAKER_02 25:30

But the sheriff.

SPEAKER_01 25:31

You know, he called the sheriff when he saw the kid's van parked outside the airfield and got worried for him.

SPEAKER_02 25:38

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 25:39

When they see the space kook running.

SPEAKER_02 25:42

In the opposite direction?

unknown 25:43

Yeah. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 25:45

And, you know, they chase after him. He goes into a wind tunnel.

SPEAKER_02 25:49

That's definitely a bad idea, that one.

SPEAKER_01 25:52

They close the door and they immediately turn it on.

SPEAKER_02 25:55

Of course they do. Come on, Freddie. Turn it on.

SPEAKER_01 25:58

Basically, the wind tunnel blows the costume off the ghost.

SPEAKER_02 26:02

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 26:02

And it is a person we have not seen at all this whole episode.

SPEAKER_02 26:06

No, we haven't we don't know exactly.

SPEAKER_01 26:09

The farmer tells us that it's Henry Bascombe, who's his neighbor.

SPEAKER_02 26:13

Ah, his greedy neighbor, that's right.

SPEAKER_01 26:16

You know, they figure, you know, he was using rubber boots to make the strange glowing tracks.

SPEAKER_02 26:21

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 26:21

They figure the projector and sound system that Shaggy and Scooby found was used to create the ghost ship.

SPEAKER_02 26:29

Right.

SPEAKER_01 26:30

You know, the flying chip and the sound effects. Yep, all the sound effects. Yep. You know, they figure, you know, it's probably stuffed gummies. All of the space kooks they saw, and the Jeep was probably remote controlled. That would sound about what they couldn't figure out is why. But the sheriff has the answer for that.

SPEAKER_02 26:50

Yep, sheriff, it's good. The sheriff is good this time around.

SPEAKER_01 26:54

He tells them that, you know, there's plans on the airfield opening back up and they needed more land for jets.

SPEAKER_02 27:02

Right.

SPEAKER_01 27:03

So the plan was that the you know, the ghosts would scare everyone off so they could buy up the land cheap.

SPEAKER_02 27:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:15

You know, that is essentially the end of the episode.

SPEAKER_02 27:20

Yep. That sounds like the end of it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:23

No, and what an episode it was.

SPEAKER_02 27:27

Of course it was. It was your favorite episode. It is.

SPEAKER_01 27:29

You know.

SPEAKER_02 27:31

Definitely.

SPEAKER_01 27:33

So we get fun responsibilities.

SPEAKER_02 27:36

Yay, fun responsibilities.

SPEAKER_01 27:39

Well, there are no Scooby snacks at all in this episode.

SPEAKER_02 27:43

No, but apparently there are peanuts. That doesn't count. We're not gonna add those peanuts.

unknown 27:48

Nope.

SPEAKER_02 27:49

Well, he only eats a certain amount and then the ghost gets the other half.

SPEAKER_01 27:52

So Yep. So I forgot to write down what our current snack intake total was.

SPEAKER_02 27:59

Oh gosh.

SPEAKER_01 28:01

So we'll have that for you next week, because it didn't change at all from last week. No. Because I mean the you know, the peanuts weren't a bribe or anything.

SPEAKER_02 28:12

No, they weren't, but you know, they were hungry, so they wanted to eat something, you know.

SPEAKER_01 28:16

So now we can go straight to the Scooby-Zone Manifest of Monsters.

SPEAKER_02 28:21

Ooh, the Manifest. Oh boy. All right.

SPEAKER_01 28:23

The current Manifest of Monsters.

SPEAKER_02 28:27

Oh, there's a lot of them.

SPEAKER_01 28:28

Yes. At 18, the bottom of the barrel, we've got Frankenstein's monster.

SPEAKER_02 28:34

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 28:35

Above him at 17, we've got the Ape Man. Of course. The Fortune Teller at 16.

SPEAKER_02 28:42

Fortune teller.

SPEAKER_01 28:42

Vasquez Castle Ghost at 15. Yep. 14 is the witch. Yep. 13 is the Black Knight. 12 is the Mummy.

SPEAKER_02 28:52

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 28:52

11 is the Minor 49er. 10 is the Indian Witch Doctor.

SPEAKER_02 28:58

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 28:59

9 is Captain Cutler. 8 is the Werewolf. 7 is Charlie the Robot. Yep. 6 is the Ghost Clown. 5 is Redbeard the Pirate.

SPEAKER_02 29:11

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 29:12

4 is Pietro the Puppet Master. Or the Cloaked Cavalier.

SPEAKER_02 29:16

Cloaked Cavalier. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 29:19

3 is the Franken Vampire.

SPEAKER_02 29:22

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 29:22

2 is the Zombie.

SPEAKER_02 29:24

The Zombie.

SPEAKER_01 29:25

And so far the best ghost is the ghost of Elias Kingston.

SPEAKER_02 29:30

Yep. He's the best so far.

SPEAKER_01 29:32

You already know where I want to play Space Kook. So.

SPEAKER_02 29:37

You want to put him in first, don't you?

SPEAKER_01 29:39

I think he he's a good ghost.

SPEAKER_02 29:42

Well, I'm I'm not saying that he isn't a good ghost, but however, he's he didn't really do any grabbing. He didn't really get to catch anything.

SPEAKER_01 29:51

You want to get technical about it. He hoisted Fred up into the air.

SPEAKER_02 29:54

I suppose he hoisted Fred for like a side of beef. But I mean, you gotta go back to Elias Kingston. He he taught them off camera. He's at least not he can be higher up, but I don't think he's at least not first place yet. No one has been a lot of things.

SPEAKER_01 30:11

Like I said, there I hey, I said that there'd be some biases here. So like a lot of this is being deferred to you right now.

SPEAKER_02 30:18

Oh great, so it's on me now to figure out what it is.

SPEAKER_01 30:21

No, it's like okay. Well, okay, we've got 18 on the list so far.

SPEAKER_02 30:27

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 30:28

Is he top half or bottom half?

SPEAKER_02 30:31

I'd put him, I'll put him in the top half. Okay, so I don't know exactly where he wanna put.

SPEAKER_01 30:38

Okay, so halfway number nine is Captain Cutler.

SPEAKER_02 30:43

Right.

SPEAKER_01 30:44

I honestly even unbiasedly, I do think that he's better. He's better. Like his design. I think design alone puts him up into the top five.

SPEAKER_02 30:58

Yeah, I agree.

SPEAKER_01 31:02

You know, his yeah, his design is just so on point.

SPEAKER_02 31:07

Right.

SPEAKER_00 31:13

He's definitely b better than Redbeard.

SPEAKER_02 31:16

Yeah, I don't agree with that.

SPEAKER_00 31:23

I don't want to say he's better than the vampire. The puppet master and the vampire.

SPEAKER_02 31:30

Right, no, I I don't agree with that one too.

SPEAKER_01 31:33

I think it's then a matter of do we think he's better than Zombie?

SPEAKER_02 31:42

I mean, they both had grab times. I mean it was. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:58

But the space coop had it where he made it look like there were more of him.

SPEAKER_02 32:04

Right. So what, you want to put him at number two? Is that what you're telling me? Put him at least at number two? Icause we know he hasn't beaten out Elias Kingston. I know you're biased on him, and so I understand. But I think he's just because looking at everything Elias Kingston did, yeah. How good he was off camera.

SPEAKER_01 32:25

Come on, it's one of those things. It's like if we excluded Zombie because of being a quote unquote henchman, I think it'd be no contest of Space Koop being at number two. But because the zombie, even despite being a henchman, was just as involved as the witch.

SPEAKER_02 32:50

Yeah, if not more.

SPEAKER_01 32:52

Yeah. That he more he did more of the that even with my biased perspective.

SPEAKER_02 32:57

At least he made the top three, yeah, the top five. You know, at least he did probably better than you. Well, you wanted to be number one, obviously, but I'm like, I don't know, I don't know if we're ever gonna I don't know if we're gonna get anything to get past Elias Kingston. Honestly, I didn't think he was gonna be you know what I mean? I didn't think he was gonna make that you know what I mean, because I didn't watch the episode that much, but yet seeing how much he grabbed off camera, it's like this guy deserves the top spot. I mean, I don't I mean we'll see what happens in further episodes, but yeah, it's I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 33:30

It's definitely it's one of those things where it's like thinking of what ghosts I know 100% for sure are coming up, right? Because there are so many ghosts where I think their designs beat out Elias Kinston's design, right? Yeah, but like trying to remember like what they do.

SPEAKER_02 33:54

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 33:56

You know, it's like do they do anything that I would constitute better than grabbing Shaggy off screen a couple of times?

SPEAKER_02 34:05

Yeah, that's quite a few. I don't know why. You really like grabbing Shaggy a few times.

SPEAKER_01 34:09

That if I think of it, I think there may be for sure one contender that I think could beat out Elias Kinston.

SPEAKER_02 34:25

Okay. I'll take your word on that one. We'll see what happens when we get to that Pacific episode.

SPEAKER_01 34:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 34:32

That's all it is, folks. We'll wait and see.

SPEAKER_01 34:35

Yeah, so at number three we three, we have the space coupe.

SPEAKER_02 34:39

There you go. We made the top.

SPEAKER_01 34:41

You know it's crazy to think we've got ten episodes left after this one of Where Are You?

SPEAKER_02 34:48

Well, it's actually ten more monsters.

SPEAKER_01 34:50

You know, minimum of ten more.

SPEAKER_02 34:52

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 34:54

Maximum of I think eleven, because we'll probably mystery mask mix up, we will probably split. Oh, right, the henchman and the Yeah, I know it's the scare pair and I don't even remember the name of the main ghost.

SPEAKER_02 35:12

Yeah, we'd have to.

SPEAKER_01 35:16

But that is a matter for another time.

SPEAKER_02 35:21

It is.

SPEAKER_01 35:22

Now we move to the Fred Jones failure files.

SPEAKER_02 35:25

Hey, the Fred Jones failure. Wait, it wasn't really much of a tri- Oh, okay, so we're gonna call this one the wind tunnel?

SPEAKER_01 35:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 35:31

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 35:31

You know, because they did trap him in there.

SPEAKER_02 35:34

I guess they well, he walked in by himself. But they just trapped him in there. I mean, it did work. I mean, it did work off a hit.

SPEAKER_01 35:43

No, like it'll be it'll be interesting when we go through this at the end of the series.

SPEAKER_02 35:49

To see where everything lines.

SPEAKER_01 35:51

Yeah, and see how many like are just crazy contraptions and how however many are just a matter of convenience.

SPEAKER_02 35:58

Right.

SPEAKER_01 35:59

But all right, the Fred Jones failure files at 15 is the tapestry shag you try to trap a vampire with.

SPEAKER_02 36:07

Well, not the best one.

SPEAKER_01 36:09

No. 14 is just a big slide. A big slide. 13 is instant suds. Yep. 12 is a stampede of dogs.

SPEAKER_02 36:19

Right.

SPEAKER_01 36:19

11 is a biplane homicide from Scooby in a museum. 10 is Scooby-tying a vampire up by his feet. Empire Strikes Back style. You know.

SPEAKER_02 36:34

I love it.

SPEAKER_01 36:35

A good number of years before that movie came out.

SPEAKER_02 36:38

Right. So he so George Lucas must have watched watched the Gaggle of Galaxy Ghost figure that one out.

SPEAKER_01 36:46

Yep. Nine is beating the ghost with a drum and a tuba after he falls from some scaffolding.

SPEAKER_02 36:52

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 36:54

Eight is using a crate and a giant magnet to stop a robot.

SPEAKER_02 36:58

It it somewhat works, but it's until sabotage. Until sabotage happens. Hypnotize the ghost clown and thinking he's a chimp.

SPEAKER_01 37:12

Yep, making him hypnotize himself. You know. Six is lawnmower basketball, you know, riding a lawnmower, crashing into a ghost into something.

SPEAKER_02 37:23

He's always crashing. He must try to must want to make them into a ghost. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 37:29

Number five is probably one of my favorites, is the automatic pogo stick.

SPEAKER_02 37:35

No, it's a jackhammer.

SPEAKER_01 37:38

You know, four is just a chandelier, just old trap or werewolf.

SPEAKER_02 37:43

But it works. I mean, honestly, it must be a very heavy. Well, it's an old chandelier, so it might be very heavy, which makes sense. And he seems to have some difficulty getting it off. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 37:53

Three is some special effects nonsense that was used to catch the best ghost.

SPEAKER_02 37:58

The best ghost ever, so far.

SPEAKER_01 38:00

Number two is the better mouse trap. Better mouse trap. You know, which is just all sorts of complex.

SPEAKER_02 38:07

Complex shenanigans.

SPEAKER_01 38:09

And so the best trap is, you know, just a money pit.

SPEAKER_02 38:14

Money pit.

SPEAKER_01 38:14

You know, smacking a witch and a zombie with a tree branch onto a cart into an armored car.

SPEAKER_02 38:20

And it works.

SPEAKER_01 38:21

Using money as bait.

unknown 38:23

Money, money, money.

SPEAKER_01 38:25

So where do you think a wind tunnel falls onto this list?

SPEAKER_02 38:30

I mean, man, I mean it's it's not like as much shenanigans as like a lot of the upper ones. You know what I mean? Yeah. I mean, I'm not saying it's a low one, but yet I'm honestly I think it's at least like in the seven. Like seven, eight, nine, like in that. I think it's in that kind of thing.

SPEAKER_00 38:53

Okay, about midway.

SPEAKER_02 38:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 38:55

Now okay. I mean, unless you think Do we think it's better or worse than the mirror?

SPEAKER_02 39:05

I mean, I know the mirror is just hypnotizing the ghost, but I mean I I mean I don't honestly see it being better than any of the six. Like six like the top six. You know what I mean? Like I mean, it's I mean, it's not as much shenanigans as well.

SPEAKER_01 39:22

Do we think it's better or worse than just throwing a tuba after he falls into a drink?

SPEAKER_02 39:27

I I think it's probably better than drumming a tuba. I mean, honestly.

SPEAKER_01 39:31

Do we think it's better than trying to use a giant crate that the robot runs through, or then a giant magnet? If it all wasn't sabotage, it might have been Honestly, because of the absurd dimensions of that magnet, like that's a giant acne magnet.

SPEAKER_02 39:50

Like, yeah, that's right, it's acne. So you can't.

SPEAKER_01 39:52

Honestly, that one should have been up higher than it should have been.

SPEAKER_02 39:55

Well, we had other we had a bunch of other traps come in the way of it that were better than that one.

SPEAKER_01 40:01

Well, yes. Yes, but also, you know, sabotage.

SPEAKER_02 40:07

I know. If it wasn't sabotage, it would have probably would have been at least in the top three and top five. I mean, honestly, that's what I'm thinking. At least have been there.

SPEAKER_01 40:17

Yeah. So, you know, that's not a nice respectable number nine.

SPEAKER_02 40:21

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 40:22

And all about the middle of the list right now.

SPEAKER_02 40:25

Right. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 40:27

Alright, so then for the table of snacks, how many snacks do you think this episode brings to the table?

SPEAKER_02 40:33

Oh boy. I you are gonna be up there. I alright.

SPEAKER_01 40:38

I will say my opinion first. Okay. You know, in my perfectly biased opinion, uh-huh. And my reasons for my biased opinion.

SPEAKER_02 40:50

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 40:51

I do think that this is a five.

SPEAKER_02 40:53

Okay, here we go.

SPEAKER_01 40:54

And here's the thing. Yes, it is missing, you know, the iconic, would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for those meddling kids line and a musical chase sequence. But besides those two points, this hits every single point that I think of when it comes to classic Scooby-Doo.

SPEAKER_02 41:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 41:17

You know, maybe minus Velma losing her glasses, but as I discovered, that actually doesn't happen all that often. No. You know, we get the mystery machine kind of quote unquote breaking down. You know, we've got this shaggy and Scooby shenanigans, you know, they wear a sort of costume hiding from the ghost. They have that ridiculous mix-up when running away, where it's like you threw the key out the window. What you're outside, just keep running.

SPEAKER_02 41:48

Just keep running. But no, we gotta run back. Go back in. Yep. You know.

SPEAKER_01 41:55

You know, you know, Daphne being danger prone.

SPEAKER_02 41:58

Of course, but at least she didn't at least she wasn't the one who got Fred up that time. You think it would have been ever who did that.

SPEAKER_01 42:07

No, and like the the extent of her danger proneness really in this episode is just her being kind of dumb.

SPEAKER_02 42:13

Yeah, yeah, I agree.

SPEAKER_01 42:15

You know, but like but like this is like one of the episodes that I think is like, yeah, if you've never watched Scooby before and want to know just like how ridiculous it can get, like, this is the best episode.

SPEAKER_02 42:30

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 42:31

So that's why I think this one's a five. But you know, I mean This is an equal podcast.

SPEAKER_02 42:37

I yes, an equal podcast, of course it is.

SPEAKER_01 42:40

So what do you think?

SPEAKER_02 42:42

I mean, I'm I would go for giving it a five. I mean, not because I'm trying to be, you know, it working agreement, but you know, I mean, you make some solid points. You know, like you say, it's someone you would show someone who hasn't seen it before that would be able to see all the Scooby shenanigans. You know, that's the classic Scooby, you know, like you say, but yeah, I mean I minus the other stuff it doesn't have, but yeah, I mean it we'll get that stuff later. Apparently later on than I thought we were gonna get it, but you know, we'll get the other stuff later on. But yeah, I mean I I guess we'll give this one a five.

SPEAKER_01 43:20

Yeah, and I think I mean I feel like there may have been some previous episodes we've ranked that we may have been a little too I don't want to say harsh on.

SPEAKER_02 43:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 43:32

But I also think that you know while they were good episodes, like they they were still missing like one of those like iconic key components that really like push it into like a yeah, this is like a top episode, like right, yeah. If we were to make like a list of like the ten best episodes, it's like I don't know if they would really fall in the top five of that ten list.

SPEAKER_02 44:00

Right, yeah, they probably wouldn't.

SPEAKER_01 44:02

You know, but so you know, I think this may be our first five since what a night for a night.

SPEAKER_02 44:11

Yeah, I think so. Cause I yeah, I think I gave it a five, didn't I? Well, it is a really iconic episode.

SPEAKER_01 44:18

I mean Yes.

SPEAKER_02 44:19

I mean, I believe that, you know, even though it's the pilot.

SPEAKER_01 44:22

You know, it took like what, 15 episodes? Fifteen episodes. 14 more episodes from the pilot, so to get number five. Whoops. So now here's the real question.

SPEAKER_02 44:32

Oh boy.

SPEAKER_01 44:33

Do you think we'll get another five before we get to the end of Where Are You?

SPEAKER_02 44:38

I mean, I I I could definitely see at least like maybe one more. At least one more. Yeah. I think I could see that happening. I don't know if you're I don't know if you're thinking the one I'm thinking of.

SPEAKER_01 44:49

Probably M.

SPEAKER_02 44:50

Oh, you think so? You're gonna challenge that one, huh?

SPEAKER_01 44:54

I guess we'll just have to find out next week when we watch a night of fright is no delight. Which is a delightful episode title to say.

SPEAKER_02 45:02

It is. Well, it depends on which one we're gonna rate, but you know, definitely might be up there too.

SPEAKER_01 45:08

So yeah, guys, we'll be back next week with a night of fright is no delight.

SPEAKER_02 45:14

Oh, alright.

SPEAKER_01 45:15

And all the fun that comes with that episode.

SPEAKER_02 45:18

Yep, and then the fun after the episode, too.

SPEAKER_01 45:21

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 45:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 45:24

So until then, just remember they would have gotten away with it too.

SPEAKER_02 45:28

If it weren't for those meddling kids.