History Headscratchers / ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated

* 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 [[WTHCastingAgency 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.
** WTHCastingAgency for the last point, as you said. Happens all the time in real life. And as for why he did all this, I just assume he was a MethodActor who was so dedicated to mastering the role, he became lost in it. Plus, why waste money hiring people when he can get them for free, while he practices his role? He's killing two birds with one stone.

* Just what was the point of the Entity being buried behind four separate pocket dimensions if it did nothing to hinder his influence? And just how did these conquistadors create whole dimensional rifts beneath Crystal Cove? Finally, why was the only inhabitant of these EldritchLocations this one attacking RockMonster with no explanation of what its purpose was?

*** If the story was true that Alice May was a little girl when those meddling kids arrested her father and she'd waited years to take revenge, then it's just a huge WhatAnIdiot moment for the gang for not realizing that this could not be possible since they haven't aged that much from when they allegedly caught the Creeper. I imagine that Alice May was laughing her ass off on the inside the whole time because they were seriously falling for it. And the poor suckers ''still'' don't catch on the next time they encounter her, too!

* Just what was the point of the Entity being buried behind four separate pocket dimensions if it did nothing to hinder his influence? And just how did these conquistadors create whole dimensional rifts beneath Crystal Cove? Finally, why was the only inhabitant of these EldritchLocations this one attacking RockMonster with no explanation what it's purpose was?

** Speculation going into episode 2: The Mayor's take upon seeing the locket could lead to him tying into the "Mister E" in an attempt to scare the gang out of solving the mysteries?

*** True, but you'd think that they'd at least make a bigger effort on solving them, even if their only help comes from a group of teens.

** They probably take care of the sort of stuff the Mystery Inc. crew wouldn't be able to handle, as in...well...stuff you're not going to find mentioned on a kids show.

*** Fred's "special treatment" isn't exactly unrealistic. I recall a customer who shared with me an anecdote from his time in law enforcement in Alaska. A time or two, he'd been chewed out because some trouble-maker he'd arrested happened to be of the same blood as a politician. As for the "other bosses", the whole town seems to favor the tourism dollars brought in by the "monsters" in their city, sooo...he's kind of doing what they want by turning a (mostly) blind eye. That, and there's the RuleOfFunny to consider.

* All the adults of Crystal Cove want to keep the money rolling in, so they resist solving every mystery to attract more tourists. ...The town has a TALKING DOG. The other dog we see doesn't talk, Velma has to give an entire lecture to justify a talking parrot. This isn't usual. Sell tickets to sit and have a chat with Scooby, and you can just pay him for food.

*** I took the Creeper nod as this: They DID stop the Creeper, but it was maybe two or three years ago at best. It's heavily implied in the pilot that the gang has long since made a habit of solving mysteries. Heck, maybe the further nods in the said pilot (the ones Thelma lists off in her parents' "museum") were also foiled by those meddling kids (or their predecessors...now THAT'D be a fun twist).

*** If the story was true that Alice May was a little girl when those meddling kids arrested her father and she'd waited years to take revenge, then it's just a huge WhatAnIdiot moment for the gang for not realizing that this could not be possible since they haven't aged that much from when they allegedly caught the Creeper. I'm imagining that Alice May was laughing her ass off on the inside the whole time because they were seriously falling for it. And the poor suckers ''still'' don't catch on the next time they encounter her, too!

* How is it a bunch of geeks dressed up as biker orcs were able to completely trounce and run off a real biker gang? Scare tactics might explain it if the bikers had seemed at all intimidated. But a LatexPerfection mask does not enable you to throw someone bodily through a glass door. And if the logic is that somehow dressing up like orcs made them stronger like orcs, then in that world cosplayers are the world's single most powerful fighting force. ;)

** 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.]]

** Maybe he heard Fred coming and it was an act. His over-reaction to being startled suggests he wasn't.

*** Flim-Flam and Scrappy did make cameos... of the TakeThat variety: both as statues in the museum, with Flim-Flam, apparently is serving 25-life for fraud of some kind, and Scrappy... well...

* From the Season 2 premiere we're given the Baby-Clown, a huge fat clown looking thing that drives around blowing up buildings and neighborhoods with bombs that look like milk bottles and at one point demands money from city hall or else he'll cause more damage, essentially making him a terrorist. So what does the new mayor do? Get the police or the national guard? Of course not. Instead, she summons 4 teenagers and a talking dog known for solving mysteries and building traps. Can someone explain what kind of sense that makes?

* Another minor one from the season 2 premiere but why does Velma take it personally that the gang left her? Shaggy and Scooby were involuntarily sent away and Freddy left to find his parents, but she acts like they only left to spite her. The only member of the gang who walked out on her was Daphne, who flat out told her that she was entirely at fault for Mystery Inc breaking up. And yet Daphne doesn’t get chewed out.

* 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 agreed 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 [[WTHCastingAgency 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.

*** [[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.]]

** It's the major reason others involved have tried slowing walking that concept back in the years after because it doesn't entirely make sense. It's mostly because the series crafter was someone who didn't have a superb knowledge of Scooby-Doo or Hanna Barbera in general. MI works fine as a DarkerAndEdgier AlternateContinuity but it's very hard even with a cosmic retcon to see the characters at the end of MI being the ones in WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou. A BroadStrokes version, fine. The original one straight up, still way too much AdaptationDeviation.

* Why did Pericles kidnap the whole town to dig for him? Do they not have an army of superhuman robots that would do the same thing faster and more efficiently? Granted, he could do that out of simple sadism, considering how the Nibiru's influence corrupted him by that point...

** Or to lure the gang in, not only did they have the keys, but he believed Scooby-Doo needed to die to let Pericles gain the power of the entity. With time running out presumably he figured abducting the town would not only give him free labor, as suggested above, but draw the gang to him where either he could capture them, or he could let them lead the way.

* Who is telling the truth regarding Porto's actions? We know for certain he took one of the pieces and tried to blow up half the town, but what was his actual reason why? Friar Serra believed he was out to steal the disc for himself, but then why leave one piece in the place you were planning to blow up? Especially now if you are just one donkey getting that piece back would have become much harder without meddling friars. Either Porto was rather stupid or it's possible to make the argument he was deliberately trying to keep the pieces apart. Serra claims the betrayal always starts with the animal, and we do certainly see this was the case with Pericles. But is it possible Serra was projecting that given we never see the others in action?

** Professor Pericles already had some knowledge before he ever even came to Crystal Cove, probably from his interactions with Abigail Gluck. Though it appears Oswald Burrlington was the first to do a lot of the homework on the subject. There doesn't appear to be proved whether he deliberately lead them to find the scroll, but once they had it he did still seem to need Mayor Jones to help him figure something out. Since his jailbreak, it appeared Pericles knew just about everything he needed to know except that possession was a one-way street.

** 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 when she called, and he staged the vine attack under the assumption she'd be watching what was going on.

* If the best part and aspects of Cassidy and all those other people are trapped in the Sitting Room,why did she start trying to help the new Mystery Inc.? Shouldn't she have not cared since only the most negative parts of her were left?

** It's also possible that these "good" sides are not their ''whole'' good side. Mr E also shows a conscience after this point- multiple times he tried to stop or refused to help Pericles, opposed the slaughter of the citizens of Crystal Cove, and agreed with Hot Dog Water that he expected more from himself before protesting against her murder. He also sacrifces himself to save the new Mystery Incorporated in the end, so his good side wasn't entirely erased, either. Mayor Jones also helps the gang out even though his "good side" has been sealed in the Red Room since before Fred was born.

* The Sheriff and Mayor clearly recognize the locket that Daphne found as being something connected to the larger mystery of Crystal Cove. Why did the Sheriff not take the opportunity to seize it as "evidence"?
** Speculation going into episode 2: The Mayor's take upon seeing the locket could lead into him tying into the "Mister E" in an attempt to scare the gang out of solving the mysteries?

** As the locket had no actual connection to the mystery ''immediately at hand'', Stone would've only had to give it back to Daphne sooner or later anyway. The caves under Crystal Cove are open to the ocean, so all sorts of junk probably winds up down there, including plenty of stuff that'd have nothing to do with ''any'' mystery.

* Crystal Cove's tourism. Why on earth would they build their entire tourist attractions around mysteries, which the 'police' don't solve? And might I ask, if so, do they not investigate mysteries with MURDERS involved?
** I don't recall any mysteries with murders involved yet. We have no idea if they were trying to find the people abducted by the man crab, or if they were trying to cure the people attacked by the slime monster, but no one died from the ghost trucker. If you've got a lot of mysterious creatures in your town, it makes perfect sense to build an industry around it. It's not like they've actually refused to arrest anybody.

*** Also real life towns uses famous crimes as tourists attractions. So this isn't really that far fetched.

* The Police is run and paid by the government, not to mention how there is a branch that actually investigates crooked officers (such as our ''beloved'' sheriff). Point is... Why do the police there even care about the town not solving the mysteries, the citizen still have to pay the tax, and thus the police officers get paid. And also, WHY hasn't the Crystal Cove Police Department been fired and replaced?

*** Fred's "special treatment" isn't exactly unrealistic. I recall a customer shared with me an anecdote from his time in law enforcement in Alaska. A time or two, he'd been chewed out because some trouble-maker he'd arrested happened to be of the same blood as a politician. As for the "other bosses", the whole town seems to favor the tourism dollars brought in by the "monsters" in their city, sooo...he's kind of doing what they want by turning a (mostly) blind eye. That, and there's the RuleOfFunny to consider.

** Maybe he couldn't? From an outside standpoint, we know it happened because the subplot would be left hanging, but from an inside, it may have had to do with how much of the toxin he had in total or if he even had any of it on him at the time. Since it was close to the end of the fair, he may have had nothing left since the goal was to implicate his wife, and one or two pirates left isn't really going to stop that after attacking a full theater full.
** It's probably that he had just ran 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.]]

** Wait, didn't the previous Vampire episode (''The Secret Serum'') end at Darrow College? At the end of that, when the gang went there separate ways, that meant '''''no one went back home in the van!!''''' They went home by other means and since their parents dropped them off the van has been sitting in the parking lot the whole time.

* All the adults of Crystal Cove want to keep the money rolling in, so they resist solving every mystery in order to attract more tourists. ...The town has a TALKING DOG. The other dog we see doesn't talk, Velma has to give an entire lecture to justify a talking parrot. Clearly this isn't usual. Sell tickets to sit and have a chat with Scooby, and you can just pay him in food.

* Just what are the ingredients of Scooby Snacks that makes them appealing to both man and beast? That's always bugged me.
** Strangley, Scooby Snacks haven't even been ''mentioned'' in this series yet. But if you really want to know, Shaggy goes over his recipe when he invents them in the live-action ''The Mystery Begins'' movie.
** Wrong show, this one doesn't really have Scooby Snacks. But if you have dogs, you'll know they love human food.
** Scooby snacks have showed up a couple times now. And Shaggy is the only human who seems to like them. Generally speaking, no other human even tries to eat Scooby Snacks -- it's jut part of Shaggy's bond with Scooby and their mutual BigEater status.
** Some dog-owners ''do'' like dog food/treats. It's not impossible IRL for someone to like their dog's treats. I always assumed they just didn't have much flavour to a human, maybe tasting how they smell, but maybe resembled something like shortbread to Shaggy in flavour, since as I recall, he's demonstrated stronger tastebuds like those of a professional chef, so could pick out the subtle flavouring.
** This troper LOVES beef jerky, and more than once in my youth I've nearly bought dog jerky treats thinking they were beef jerky for humans. There's probably not much difference between the two but, given what I know about Department of Agriculture regulations for (human) food preparation standards vs. pet food standards, I have never had the courage to find out just how much difference.
** Frankly, this trooper likes the show so much, I didn't even notice the lack of Scooby Snacks until this site pointed it out.

* Almost everywhere in the United States of America, Sheriffs are elected county officials. The only place in the USA a sheriff is answerable to a mayor is in New York City. [[WildMassGuessing Is it a clue?]]

** It should be noted that this wouldn't be the first time a writer didn't do the research. And, you know, this particular case is actually pretty much kosher. So NYC is technically the only city in the US where the Sheriff answers to the mayor. In this universe, maybe it's NYC and this dinky little town. Heck, with all the monsters that show up, it actually makes sense that this would happen. Maybe originally the police department was too scared to investigate a case involving a monster, which pissed off the Mayor enough to just straight up ORDER the sheriff to get his ass in gear or he'd be out of the job, even if he technically didn't have the authority to do so. The sheriff complied, even if he didn't have to. After that, enough precidence had been set for that sort of thing to be alright with the public (and that Mayor no doubt got major points for doing that after the monster was demasked, with the sheriff looking very stupid as well). With the sheriff's office decredited and the mayor's office empowered, the mayor became the sheriff's boss directly. FridgeBrilliance is your friend.

** "Dead Justice" reveals that 'Sheriff' is actually the character's ''legal first name''. Possibly his job title was originally "Chief of Police", but his given name caused enough confusion that it got conflated with his title for convenience.
** Joe Barbera grew up in New York. If you go back you'll find examples in Scooby and other HB works where the Sheriff answers to a Mayor. Its more a grandfathered trope. But given Crystal Cove is a fictional small town, who is to say it can't have a custom system? Not with standing the possibility some real small towns may have less formulaic political and law enforcement relationships.

* In one episode, a girl's alibi is that the gang sent her father to jail. The girl looks very little in her flashback. As this series is a prequel or a ContinuityReboot, why on Earth would they remember something which I think was from an older Scooby-Doo show? At very least, this is a MindScrew.

** This bugs me for a different reason. She was a young girl in the flashback of the gang(as teens) catching The Creeper, in the present day she is the same age as the gang who are still teens, lolwut?

*** I took the Creeper nod as this: They actually DID stop the Creeper, but it was maybe two or three years ago at best. It's heavily implied in the pilot that the gang has long since made a habit of solving mysteries. Heck, maybe the further nods in said pilot (the ones Thelma lists off in her parents "museum") were also foiled by those meddling kids (or their predecessors...now THAT'D be a fun twist).

*** If the story was indeed that Alice May was a little girl when those meddling kids arrested her father and she'd waited years to take revenge, then it's just a huge WhatAnIdiot moment for the gang for not realizing that this could not be possible since they haven't aged that much from when they allegedly caught the Creeper. I'm imagining that Alice May was laughing her ass off on the inside the whole time because they were seriously falling for it. And the poor suckers ''still'' don't catch on the next time they encounter her, too!
*** They only show the little-girl version of her for about half a second at the start of the character's self-recounted flashback; in every subsequent shot of her plotting, she's plainly a teenager like the gang. Chalk it up to UnreliableNarrator-slash-symbolism: she may have been older, but within the context of her (fake) story, she'd have ''felt'' like a little girl whose daddy was being taken away.

*** A bunk-bed takes up just as much floor space as a regular one. But I could buy the bed itself as a trap, like, "I'll put a dummy in the lower bunk and sleep in the upper one. Then, if someone comes to attack me in my sleep, a trigger will make the upper bunk fall on the lower one, trapping the bad guy!"

*** [[spoiler: Adoption is a thing, as are interracial couples. Plus, Mayor Jones didn't have any apparent trouble accounting for suddenly having baby ''Fred'' on hand with no mother in sight, did he? He'd bluff his way through.]]

*** It a Squicky What Happened to the Mouse moment, Danny never DOES say what happened to his family's bodies.
** Well he did have a headquarters set up and was spying on the original Mystery Incorporated after they snooped around the ruins, so he could very well could have done raids on the surface at some point, and since he was so out of touch with reality and time he probably didn't notice any modern conveniences or what not.
*** There's no implication that he ever went up to the surface to spy on the original Mystery Inc. It seems more like he planned his traps based around behaviors he observed when they came to the manor.

* How is it a bunch of geeks dressed up as biker orcs was able to completely trounce and run off a real biker gang? Scare tactics might explain it, if the bikers had seemed at all intimidated. But a LatexPerfection mask does not enable you to throw someone bodily through a glass door. And if the logic is that somehow dressing up like orcs made them stronger like orcs, then in that world cosplayers are the world's single most powerful fighting force. ;)

*** It is possible for someone who is not terribly muscular to use a stronger opponent's force against them. If the Wild Brood were charged by the bikers, they could use that momentum to deftly toss them out the windows.

** They did recognize him. When he shows up again in episode 26 they know him by name and know he works with Mr. E. There was no on-screen scene where they discussed this between episode 20 and 26, but it probably happened off-screen.

** They had finally gotten their table after a two hour wait. There was no food ordered yet.

** Maybe there's something in particular he wants from the treasure. That or he wants to be the shadow controlling the whole world through money, connections and bribes. Sounds like him...

** There's also the fact that we really 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".]]
** If a parrot can talk he can probably spend money. And while he may not especially ''need'' riches to get everything he needs, the same is true of anybody who's rich. He could buy a big house, a voice-activated TV, fancy food ...
** Actually 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.]] ]]

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

** Maybe he heard Fred coming and it was an act. His over-reaction to being startled suggests he really wasn't.
*** Maybe its regret?

* I had heard rumours that Flim-Flam and Weerd and Bogel were ''supposed'' to make a cameo (on a fan forum) but is this really true? Where would it fit into the show? Or is this just someone's FanFic presented as reality?

*** Flim-Flam and Scrappy did make cameos... of the TakeThat variety: both as statues in the museum, with Flim-Flam apparently is serving 25-life for fraud of some kind, and Scrappy... well...

* Why is there speculation on one Scooby-Doo fansite about Fred's underwear? Is it really even ''necessary'' to speculate on this?

* From the Season 2 premiere we're given the Baby-Clown, a huge fat clown looking thing that drives around blowing up buildings and neighborhoods with bombs that look like milk bottles and at one point actually demands money from city hall or else he'll cause more damage, essentially making him a terrorist. So what does the new mayor do? Get the police or the national guard? Of course not. Instead she summons 4 teenagers and a talking dog known for solving mysteries and building traps. Can someone explain what kind of sense that makes?
** Well, Crystal Cove's police force was essentially paralyzed by the attacks, as evidenced by him blowing up all their cars in the teaser. As for the national guard, well, think of how that call would go. "We need you to come in to stop a giant man baby clown from blowing up the town." "Is this some kind of sick joke?"
*** Its a bit like someone calling in Literature/SherlockHolmes because they know InspectorLestrade is sub-par. The regular police don't know how to handle "mysteries" whereas Mystery Inc. have made a living out of this for quite a while.

* Another minor one from the season 2 premiere but why does Velma take it personally that the gang left her? Shaggy and Scooby were involuntarily sent away and Freddy left to find his parents, but she acts like they only left to spite her. The only member of the gang who actually walked out on her was Daphne, who flat out told her that she was entirely at fault for Mystery Inc breaking up. And yet Daphne doesn’t get chewed out.

* I just thought of this in regard to the time frame mash up present in this universe. We are shown that computers, the internet, and even internet cell phones exist in this universe. So with all these things at his disposal, why didn't Fred just check directories online when he found out about Brad Childs and Judy Reeves? Surely it would make things much easier than going door to door for months asking for them. Is such a strategy even possible in our world?

** We don't see him knocking on doors in desperation until months after he resolved to find his parents, and--as stated--they were using aliases specifically so that no one could find them. Fred probably started out with a logical plan (search engines, phone books, etc.), but since he hit a dead end there, he was left with no alternative other than knocking on doors. Velma probably could have figured out another way to sniff them out, but he wasn't speaking to Velma at the time.

* Why isn't Cartoon Network showing the second season in the US? Seriously, the premier was on demand for a few weeks, but no more new ones have been put on and not even that one actually aired.
** Season 2 started off with the first five episodes broadcast one-a-day from July 30 to August 3. Currently unknown is whether they'll continue with this pattern, or if they'll go back to Monday evenings.

** I think they knew them back in high school and didn't have anything to do with them when they left town. Which would explain why Brad and Judy seemed legit surprised the Blakes would throw them a welcome home party.

** It's hard to say with how his motivations changed throughout the series, but depending on the point in the show you're at, he could be trying to stop Pericles or Fred Sr. from getting their hands on it, trying to wrap up the mystery that's gone unresolved since he was a kid, or being corrupted by the Nibiru Entity's influence.

* 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 pupose 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 possesion, 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 terrorise 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 for why he can't just ''hire'' a crew, being, you know, rich and famous movie superstar? And just why did he even kidnap Daphne when Daphne had mere hours before willingly agreed 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 [[WTHCastingAgency 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 transgend the boundaries of what the RuleOfFunny can excuse.

** And one more thing that bugs me: [[spoiler:Once the movie was actually 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 terrorising 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 actually 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 myself 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 off 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 it focused in on Baylor, who can say?]]

* Why are they using [[EarthShatteringKaboom ''Nibiru'']] as a plot point? One, it's nightmarish (did I just answer my own question?) and two, it's either feeding (or reviving) the Nibiru Collision fanactics!]
** It helps add to the creep factor if its a "real" thing.
** The ''Scooby Doo'' franchise has put its own twist on SadlyMythtaken monsters and creepy UrbanLegends for decades. Using "Nibiru" is just them playing around with a myth that's a bit less antique than werewolves or mummy's curses.

* One thing that always bothered me in the series was that everytime someone wears a monster costume they suddenly gain super strength. In some cases its understandable, such as the monster being a robot, or large men like the Humongonauts, but are the humans in this series superhuman or something? They destroy walls, wood, in the case of the environmentalists, jump really high,and all kinds of destruction without a single bruise. As for the Freak of Crystal Cove, how the heck was Mayor Jones able to teleport so fast? I know this is a cartoon but this is stretching it.

** RuleOfCool / RuleOfFunny? If that's not good enough for you: [[spoiler:Nibiru]]/The Curse clearly 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 is 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.

* Now, I absolutely love this new Scooby-Doo. But this has bothering me ever since they showed up, and after ''Man in the Mirror'', it's even more confusing for me. So, Mayor Jones kept baby Fred as leverage against Brad and Judy. Presumably, the idea was - Stay away from Crystal Cove or I hurt your son. Well, given that it's now conclusively been proven that Brad and Judy don't care an iota for Fred, ''why'' exactly did they stay away all these years? If they are prepared to go to the extreme lengths of getting extensive plastic surgery to the extent of looking like their son and their son's girlfriend aged up, why didn't they do that before and sneak in under Jones's nose?

*** Also, their extreme negative personality shifts can now be explained by [[spoiler:the loss of their good side to the Sitting Room. They clearly 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.]]
*** Exactly. In retrospect, Brad and Judy are two of the most interesting villains in the show due to how they're good people in their debut episode, if dim-witted and unprepared to finally be parents to their long-lost son, but when they make their FaceHeelTurn, their level of evil literally rises with each passing episode.
** Art of Darkness: Consider joining Pericles for Fred's own good, but are poring over old maps and documents related to the treasure which suggest greed as a factor too. Let Cassidy off with a warning when she tries to stop them, since they still consider her a friend. Kind of {{Jerkass}}y, but not too bad.

** The Man in the Mirror: Get plastic surgery to resemble Fred and Daphne and attempt to MindRape Fred into giving the Disc's location away. When this backfires, Brad physically fights his own son. If there was any doubt that Fred's welfare was no longer important to Brad and Judy at this point, Brad even responds to "Why'd you do it?" with "For the treasure! What else?" Pure greed is their only motive now.
** Gates of Gloom: Go along with Pericles' [[spoiler: capture and planned mass-murder of the townspeople, and are starting to act hateful toward ''each other''. Their final redeeming quality, their [[SickeninglySweethearts love for one another]], has been rubbed out.]]

** Come Undone: [[spoiler: Willingly offer to serve the evil entity...who accepts this offer by eating them. Thus do 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 than 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 apparantly 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 good bye 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.]]
*** When they get together for the first time, they remark how much things have changed; They've been thrown into a completely different universe where people's lives have turned out very differently. While there are a lot of similarities, it is no longer their lives. I think they react pretty well considering their lives and loved ones have literally been ret-gonned into recognizable but really different people.
** 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 accepting 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.

** Just a theory but perhaps the planetspheric disks act somewhat similar to the [[TheLordOfTheRing Olne Ring]] in that besides corrupting whomever holds them to the point where they'll do anything to get them, it also prolongs their lifespan which is why the conquistador was still alive centuries after he should have been dead. Come to think Danny Darrow from episode 17 seemed to be pretty spry for an old man who'd spent most of his life isolated in a buried house with no available means of nourishment. It's possible that the one disc he'd been holding was giving him youthful energy which was how he was able to survive for so long though having only one piece meant he didnt get eternal youth like the conquistador. Given that the pieces are enchanted by Nibiru himself so that anyone who comes across them is driven to free him, making it so that the wielder gets immortality means they're less likely to discard them.
** Alternately, the conquistador whom the friars encountered was a ghost, same as the one that briefly appeared in the wreck of their former ship. He died in the wilderness while carrying the two pieces, was unable to rest in peace knowing they might be found by the evil or unsuspecting, and finally passed the Disc parts on to the monks assuming that holy men would be able to resist Nibiru's influence.

** The episode with the ghost of Friar Sera strongly implied that the alligators were some kind of supernatural phenomena. Given that Mystery Incorporated shares a setting with WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest, that's probably not the only supernatural phenomena hanging around, although it might be the strangest.

*** [[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, prior to 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, same as the complete Disc could access realms filled with pure elements.]]

* Seriously! How can there exist a world without ANY mysteries.

* Others might have said it, but how can this be a prequel to the original franchise if "future" cases are shown to have ''already happened?'' Velma clearly describes the Miner 49er, the Creeper, Captain Cutler, and Charlie The Robot as they originally played out. The Hex Girls, Vincent Van Ghoul, Scrappy, and Flim-Flam are already known to the gang. New timeline means happy endings for everyone, so are [[FridgeHorror these guys just doomed to repeat their past crimes, regardless of Nibiru being gone? Will the gang just lose their memories in a semi-time loop?]]
** Quite possibly the culprits of those original crimes were inclined to behave that way even ''without'' the Entity's influence, and all the curse did in their instances was to ''attract them to Crystal Cove'', rather than having them play out their hoax-plots all across the country as per the other series. As for the gang having foreknowledge of those cases, it's unclear how many of them the Scooby Gang had actually investigated themselves, and how many were the work of the previous Mystery Incorporated team. In which case, Velma might be the only one to remember the details of those instances ... meaning that her "brilliant" solutions to who was to blame for those crimes in the new universe are just her ''remembering'' whodunnit, and then going through the motions of investigating so she could acquire evidence to convince the authorities.
** Vincent and the Hex Girls don't seem to have been personally acquainted with the Scooby Gang until they actually meet in their respective episodes; they're just celebrities which (respectively) Shaggy and Velma are fans of.
** It's the major reason others involved have tried slowing walking that concept back in the years after because it doesn't entirely make sense. It's mostly because the series crafter was someone who didn't have a super knowledge of Scooby Doo or Hanna Barbera in general. MI works fine as a DarkerAndEdgier AlternateContinuity but it's very hard even with cosmic retcon to see the characters at the end of MI being the ones in WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou. A BroadStrokes version, fine. The original one straight up, still way too much AdaptationDeviation.

** Mr. E is the only one who could have been behind it. He sent them there with a clue, and wanted them to remain overnight to solve the mystery. He might have used the duplicate Mystery Machine to make the theft easier (the one the Obliteratrix used later).

*** We have no idea how far away they were and how long it took for them to learn the truth. It doesn't seem like they were in contact with Mr. E, Pericles, or Cassidy beforehand, so it's not like any of them told them "Hey, it's safe to come home". Maybe it took some time for the Mayor to be actually put to trial and locked away officially, and they wanted to make sure. Maybe they were waiting for Fred to come back, because they knew he'd left town, but not why or where he'd gone to.

* If the conquistadors named Crystal Cove after the sarcophagus, and the entity's influence was erased from history, shouldn't there not be a crystal cove? Furthermore, since the the Fraternitas' donkey blew up and sunk half the town into the ocean, wouldn't Crystal Cove or its equivalent be in a different spot altogether?
** The nature of the magical retcon applied to the town appears have undone the evil aspects of the Entity's influence while retaining the good aspects -- the city, the people, the friendships, etc. The new town might be bigger, or there might be some other explanation for the missing land.
*** Plus, if Porto was able to destroy a good portion of Crystal Cove with mere explosives, it means that the land was unstable to begin with. All it would have taken was an earthquake or a landslide in the past (of the new reality) and hence, Crystal ''Cove''.

* 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 if fake, then ''where the hell did the temple come from''? And on a lesser scale, how did it get to Crystal Cove?

* A Meta headscratcher: why, during the reality reset, is Brad and Judy still Fred's parents? Fred Sr. clearly loves him, and it would have just as easily been a case of a single-parent adopting.
** The reality reset needs to redeem everybody and purge them of Nibiru's influence. That influence and the hunt for the treasure surrounding it took everything away from Brad and Judy; Their son, their ties with their friends, their home and identities, and eventually their morality, sanity, faces, and even their love for each other. What makes it fair for them not to have the lives they would've without a cosmic horror corrupting the world around them when everyone else gets to live in happily ever after, including one of their victimizers?

* Why did Pericles kidnapped the whole town to dig for him? Do they not have an army of superhuman robots that would do the same thing faster and more efficiently? Granted, he could do that out of simple sadism, concidering how the Nibiru's influence corrupted him by that point...
** Faster, but not necessarily ''cheaper'' in resources. Even superhuman robots need fuel or a power supply, and Pericles may have had a better use in mind for the energy it would've used up to make them dig that much. Plus, keeping the townsfolk enslaved and digging ensures that his enemies can't make use of their assistance or risk just blowing the whole town to hell as a last-ditch option: not with a town-full of hostages on site.
** Or to lure the gang in, not only did they have the keys, but he believed Scooby Doo needed to die to let Pericles gain the power of the entity. With time running out presumably he figured abducting the town would not only give him free labor, as suggested above, but draw the gang to him where either he could capture them, or he could let them lead the way.

* In "Web of the Dreamweaver", why did Horbert 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?
** On that topic, same question about the archaeologist in "Dark Night of the Hunters." The ColdOpen we see doesn't fall in line with the reveal at the end. ''Possibly'' chalk it up to us seeing the gang's interpretation of what happened, rather than the actual events. In the former case, he might have actually used the technology on himself (sort of like [[WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug Hawk Moth akumatizing himself to avoid suspicion]], he overpowered himself in a specific way to create deniablity). In the latter, he probably used sound effects to put on a convincing show over the phone, and what we see is Velma's assumption (fleshed out by the details she later learns about the priestess's appearance).

* Who is telling the truth in regard to Porto's actions? We know for certain he took one of the pieces and tried to blow up half the town, but what was his actual reason why? Friar Serra believed he was out to steal the disc for himself, but then why leave one piece in the place you were planning to blow up? Especially now if you are just one donkey getting that piece back would have become much harder without meddling friars. Either Porto was rather stupid or it's possible to make the argument he was deliberately trying to keep the pieces apart. Serra claims the betrayal always starts with the animal, and we do certainly see this was the case with Pericles. But is it possible Serra was projecting that given we never see the others in action.
** Based on what we see, the Entity tries to affect the animal most because he wants to posses the animal. From what we see this worked on Pericles and not on Scooby and Spot. Serra seems to believe it did work on Porto. The problem is that Porto made a really dumb choice if this was true. So it's not unreasonable to wonder if Porto was trying to reject it.
** Secondary problem though is that the Alligators say "The Dog Dies" in the same place the alligators killed Porto. Are we supposed to interpret that as the alligator killed Porto so he couldn't become possessed by the entity? If so they are trying to suggest the gang kill Scooby similarly. Serra is also interpreting it this way. But wouldn't this make the alligators against the entity? They are trying to kill his vessels before they can become his vessel. Unless you interpret Porto's death as an execution by rebelling against the entity. But if that's the case, why kill Scooby?

** Professor Pericles clearly already had some knowledge before he ever even came to Crystal Cove, probably from his interactions with Abigail Gluck. Though it appears Oswald Burrlington was the first to really do a lot of the homework on the subject. There doesn't appear to be proof whether he deliberately lead them to find the scroll, but once they had it he did still seem to need Mayor Jones to help him figure something out. Since his jailbreak it appeared Pericles knew just about everything he needed to know except that possession was a one way street.
** The other kids seemed to genuinely be clueless about the treasure and disc up until they got forced to leave. They did investigate the Darrow Mansion but there's no real explanation of why they were there. Based on his younger self being trapped in the sitting room it's a fair guess to say once Ricky learned Pericles betrayed him he devoted a lot of time and research into the Mystery. Cassidy having gotten clued in when she returned. But without either the scroll or Pericles' knowledge it probably put them both often into dead ends.
** Brad and Judy seemed to have not really done anything about it once they left town and the just mere attempt at coming back that cost them their son.

** WTFCastingAgency for the last point, as you said. Happens all the time in real life. And as for why he did all this, I just assume he was a MethodActor who was so dedicated to mastering the role, he became lost in it. Plus, why waste money hiring people when he can get them for free, while he practices his role? He's killing two birds with one stone.

*** They only show the little-girl version of her for about half a second at the start of the character's self-recounted flashback; in every subsequent shot of her plotting, she's plainly a teenager like the gang. Chalk it up to UnreliableNarrator-slash-symbolism: she may have been older, but she very much ''felt'' like a little girl whose daddy was being taken away when she witnessed his arrest.

* Professor Raffalo said he staged his "disappearance" by sticking himself to the ceiling. How exactly did that work?
** It must have been staged for the benefit of the janitor, and Raffalo should have expected to be found stuck to the ceiling by him, and taken to the hospital. That's not a disappearance and it would have interfered with his future activities as the Slime Mutant.

*** Its a bit like someone calling in SherlockHolmes because they know InspectorLestrade is sub-par. The regular police don't know how to handle "mysteries" whereas Mystery Inc. have made a living out of this for quite a while.

* Another minor one from the season 2 premiere but why does Velma take it personally that the gang left her? Shaggy and Scooby were involuntarily send away and Freddy left to find his parents, but she acts like they only left to spite her.

* In "Web of the Dreamweaver", why did Horbert Feist see The Dreamweaver? We later find out that he was behind it and that he faked being under its spell to divert suspicion from himself, so what happened there? Did he project its image into his own dream for no reason?