History Headscratchers / ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated

** [[ThatsNoMoon That's no moon,]] [[spoiler: That's Nibiru.]]

** It's probably that he had just run out of the toxin and grabbed him so he could paralyze him later. Perhaps as a way to lay the false trail further [[spoiler: on his wife.]]

* The motive of the guy behind the Man Crab makes no sense whatsoever. [[spoiler: He wanted to get back at this guy for stealing his formula for bottled water, but when asked why he didn't just sue the guy, he said that would take too long. & building a sophisticated robotic man crab suit & digging an elaborate system of tunnels took HOW long?]]

*** Foreshadowing, perhaps?[[spoiler: Episode 26 reveals that Fred is not the Mayor's actual son...]]

** It helps that Mr. E's message delivery guy [[spoiler: is the CEO of the company that makes the chips]].

*** It could be seen as a subtle clue that [[spoiler: that's not Fred's real family]].

** [[FridgeHorror Or maybe a hint that]] [[spoiler: Mayor Jones had been prepared to kidnap ''Ricky and Cassidy's'' kid, too, had the pair of them ever reconciled, produced one, and then returned to town.]]
*** [[spoiler: [[FridgeLogic Fred having a mysterious black sibling might raise more questions than Mayor Jones would want out there, to be honest]]. And actually, wasn't it implied that Ricky/Mr. E never actually left?]]
*** [[spoiler: Adoption is a thing, as are interracial couples. Plus, Mayor Jones didn't have any apparent trouble accounting for suddenly having a baby ''Fred'' on hand with no mother in sight, did he? He'd bluff his way through.]]

** There's also the fact that we don't know what the nature of the treasure is yet. It could be a lot more than just gold. [[spoiler: Ed Machine did mention that Pericles finding the treasure could mean "the end of Crystal Cove".]]

** it was revealed recently that [[spoiler: the curse of the treasure affects animals more than humans and drives them to seek the pieces and bring them together so that Nibiru can be unleashed, so it's possible Pericles himself [[UnwittingPawn isn't entirely aware of what he's doing.]] Either that or he is and is just [[OmnicidalManiac insane.]] ]]
** [[spoiler: There is no treasure. There is only NIBIRU.]]

* If [[spoiler: Mayor Jones]] wanted Pericles out of the way so much why didn't he just kill him?

** The episode itself had an explanation: [[spoiler: He pinned the disappearance of the original Mystery Incorporated on Pericles and made it so even if Pericles did decide to tell the truth about the mayor to anyone, they would think Pericles was lying to get out of his prison sentence.]]

* In episode 30, [[spoiler: at the Blakes' party for the newly-returned Brad and Judy Chiles, Fred's parents state they are happy Daphne's parents remember them after all these years. Does this mean they knew about Fred Jones Senior stealing Fred away from them as a baby?]]

* In episode 34, what happened to the crazy boron miner? She disappears right after showing the ship to the gang, suggesting she might be working with Dark Lilith, but she's never mentioned again. It's like as soon as she served her purpose in the story she stopped existing! [[spoiler: Since Hot Dog Water stole the lucky soccer ball to lure Fred to the mountain and said ball ended up in the miner's possession, was she working for Hot Dog Water?]]

* The Crybaby Clown's motivation in his second episode: Does it make even the slightest lick of sense? To recap, [[spoiler: Baylor Hotner has been cast in a horror movie about a monster clown, and to get into the role he decides to go terrorize a random town dressed in the movie costume and kidnap all these people to help him make the film? Is there any reason at all why he can't just ''hire'' a crew, being, you know, a rich and famous movie superstar? And just why did he even kidnap Daphne when Daphne had mere hours before willingly agreeing to go with him to Hollywood? Also, with the reveal in his second episode in mind, just why was the extorting money from the town government in his first episode? Furthermore, what [[QuestionableCasting insane casting agency]] decided that this universe's equivalent to Taylor Lautner was the perfect actor to play a morbidly obese diaper-wearing MonsterClown PsychopathicManchild?]] Considering that all this serves as a major plot point to [[spoiler: get Daphne back into the gang]], this seems to kind of transcend the boundaries of what the RuleOfFunny can excuse.

** And one more thing that bugs me: [[spoiler: Once the movie was released, wouldn't Baylor's identity as the Crybaby Clown be compromised? Wouldn't the people of Crystal Cove look at the movie poster and say "Hey, isn't that the maniac who was terrorizing our town last year? And what's this? All the people he kidnapped are working on the film, too? He's played by Baylor Hotner, you say? Hmmm..."]]
** [[spoiler: The Nibiru Entity]] canonically warps people close to it so that "dress up in a stupid costume and scare people" becomes a logical plan, regardless of their end goal. [[spoiler: Baylor]] probably came to Crystal Cove specifically because of that reputation, figuring that one little monster clown was going to get lost in the shuffle since they have a new monster every week or so. Once he got there and started the charade, he probably started getting affected, and his plan changed from "do some character research" to "might as well assemble me an entourage since I've already got the costume...." Also, since [[spoiler: the Nibiru Entity]] specifically needs the gang together, it makes sense that it would manipulate [[spoiler: Baylor]] in such a way that it would drive Daphne back to the others. Their relationship probably started as real (at worst, he might have had the publicity angle of "small-town girlfriend" in mind) before the corruption took hold.

** The explanation for Crybaby Clown ceasing his acts of terrorism is simple: [[spoiler: Hotner had enough practice for the part and moved on to his next phase. The extortion was just part of the act; he didn't want the money at all.]] The gang might have even gotten a little credit that their attempt at a capture led to a final explosive act and then no more since they don't seem to be universally hated as they feared.
** [[spoiler: Blame Nibiru. The entity corrupts people to make Mystery Inc. advance finding it so it can be unleashed. In this case, Crybaby Clown was a threat needed to bring the gang back together after they'd been split up at the end of Season 1. Now why does it focuses on Baylor, who can say?]]

** RuleOfCool / RuleOfFunny? If that's not good enough for you: [[spoiler: Nibiru]]/The Curse has some degree of RealityWarper powers to be able to repetitively recreate these mystery solvers groups of five platonic archetypes. It is not unreasonable that it also keeps putting people into a "monster" archetype for the current mystery solvers to play off of and that it gives these "monsters" the necessary strength to pull off their role.

*** Also, their extreme negative personality shifts can now be explained by [[spoiler: the loss of their good side to the Sitting Room. They did care about Fred and fear for his safety in the first episode they appeared in, but when they joined Perilces afterward, the curse corrupted them and their good sides got trapped in the Sitting Room. Thus they're now ruthless and willing to do whatever it took to get the treasure.]]

** Gates of Gloom: Go along with Pericles' [[spoiler: capture and planned mass-murder of the townspeople, and are starting to act hatefully toward ''each other''. Their final redeeming quality, they're [[SickeninglySweethearts love for one another]], has been rubbed out.]]
** Through the Curtain: Play a vital part in [[spoiler: the murder of Hot Dog Water. Now they are completely irredeemable.]]
** Come Undone: [[spoiler: Willingly offer to serve the evil entity...who accepts this offer by eating them. Thus Brad and Judy meet their ends. Except for their new reality incarnations, of course, who never become corrupted or commit any of these acts, so all's well that ends well.]]

* The finale of the show was great except for one part at the end. Why is it that [[spoiler: the gang just up and leaves at the end apparently without telling anyone? I could understand before why they might have before with Crystal Cove being a CrapsackWorld and all, but now that the Entity is RetGone and everyone is nice and kind to them, isn't that good reason to stick around for at least a little longer? Or at least give a decent goodbye and explain to their friends and family why they are leaving?]]
** Their friends and family [[spoiler: no longer needed them. It's like Superman said to his Golden Age counterpart in Infinite Crisis: a perfect world wouldn't need heroes like them, and cleansed, Crystal Cove was now that world.]]

** Also, I'm sure they did end up telling everyone [[spoiler: that they were leaving. However, as literally, nobody else in their entire town had memories of their old timeline, they couldn't have told them that they killed an inter-dimensional entity and thus turned the world into a sunny place where everyone got their happy ending. I'm sure what they did tell them was that they were accepted into college, and thus decided to road trip over there so they could spend time together on the way.]] It's a perfectly logical out, and technically not a lie.
** They probably ''had'' to leave, before people started asking them awkward questions, e.g. [[spoiler: why Fred the "star player" is suddenly no good at soccer (because the ''original'' Fred was too busy trap-making and mystery-hunting to practice), or why Shaggy the "gourmet chef" suddenly can't cook anything more complex than pizza (because the altered-history one, unlike the original, wasn't a slacker and actually ''studied'' cooking)]].

*** Sera said that it was the alligators that changed the neon hotel sign to "The Dog Dies." That's pretty supernatural. [[spoiler: It probably means at least some of them are related to the Anunnaki.]]
*** [[spoiler: The finale reveals that the Nibiru Entity has a lot of crocodilian-headed minions. Perhaps it had one of its previous corrupted teams open a gateway to a lesser prison realm where the good Annunaki had banished a bunch of those, before their final capture of the Entity itself. The team in question failed to reach the prison itself, the dimensional barriers not being low enough yet, but they ''did'' manage to open a rift to a sub-dimension that was chock full of alligators, the same as the complete Disc could access realms filled with pure elements.]]

** The gang means "mystery" in a very specific sense, i.e. a ScoobyDooHoax. [[spoiler: These will be rare in the new world.]]

* In episode 21, ''Menace of the Manticore'', [[spoiler: Hot Dog Water]] sets up a fake website to sell Mayor Jones an ancient Persian temple that's supposedly haunted by a manticore. If the website is fake, then ''where the hell did the temple come from''? And on a lesser scale, how did it get to Crystal Cove?
** Being Velma-level of smartness, [[spoiler: Hot Dog Water]] found a large cavern, built the fictional temple there, make the website, waited for Mayor Jones Sr to take the bait, and then secretly brought it up after Mayor Jones Sr. brought the fictional temple to Funland.

* If Fred was onto the ruse from the beginning in "Man In The Mirror", why did he lead [[spoiler: Brad and Judy]] to the actual location of the Planispheric Disk at all? They didn't know where it was, so he could have led them anywhere.
** He probably knew he could only maintain the ruse of not being aware of the truth for so long, at which point [[spoiler: Brad]] might well have abandoned the deception and led his friends into an ambush on the ''villain's'' choice of ground. He brought them to the factory because he knew it offered loads of opportunities to spring old machinery on the opposition as Improvised Traps, which is probably why he'd selected it as a good hiding spot in the first place.

* In "Web of the Dreamweaver", why did Herbert Feist see The Dreamweaver in the ColdOpen. [[spoiler: We later find out that he was never under its spell and was, in fact, the mastermind behind the attacks]], so what happened there?

** For "Dreamweaver", it could be that the opening sequence represents an actual, legitimate dream that Herbert had, of being menaced by [[spoiler: the C&C character which he was already planning to impersonate. The bit of the dream in which he crashed his car was so thrilling that he staged it for real soon after.]] For "Dark Night", it's possible that Enrique didn't realize Angie's phone wasn't video-enabled during the call, and he staged the vine attack under the assumption she'd be watching what was going on.