History WesternAnimation / ScoobyDooPiratesAhoy

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** ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'' popularized the idea of the five Navy airplanes disappearing over the Triangle because they were taken by [=UFO=]s.

** ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'' popularized the idea of the five Navy airplanes disappearing over the Triangle because they were taken by UFOs.

* ShoutOut: The ScoobyDoobyDoors chase on the pirate ship, with Captain Skunkbeard trying to chase Scooby and Shaggy, is entirely done in the way WesternAnimation/YosemiteSam (as a pirate) had tried chasing WesternAnimation/BugsBunny in a couple of their cartoons, and also ends with getting shot by a cannon hidden behind one door.

* ThemeTuneCameo: When Shaggy and Scooby-Doo dress up as Daphne and Velma to try and get into the costume ball, an instrumental arrangement to the theme to ''WesternAnimation/TheNewScoobyDooMovies'' briefly plays. Also doubles as a clever CallBack.

* RealityEnsues:
** A mystery cruise targeted towards normal tourists are not particularly challenging for a group of expert mystery solvers, as a result the gang go through a week's worth of mysteries in 2 days.
** Fred and his dad, Skip, engage in some {{Flynning}} to fend off Sea Salt Sally the Pirate, showing off their swords. She shoots off their blades as a NoNonsenseNemesis.

** Fred and his dad engage in some {{Flynning}} to fend off Sally the Pirate, showing off their swords. She shoots off their blades as a NoNonsenseNemesis.

* MythologyGag:
** The "villains" in the mystery games that the cruise puts on, and are all quickly unmasked by the gang (to the mounting frustration of the ship's crew and the other passengers), are [[TheCameo cameos]] of villains from ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'' -- the Ghost of Captain Cutler, the Ghost Clown, and the unnamed werewolf (from the "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Werewolf?" episode).
** Daphne, Velma, and Fred's outfits at the costume party (CatGirl, BedlahBabe, and cowboy respectively) are the exact same ones they each wore in seperate episodes of ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo''.

* TheDogWasTheMastermind: [[spoiler:Skunkbeard/Wellington was a puppet of the first-mate/Mysterio the whole time.]]

* ContinuityNod: During a montage of the Mystery Inc. gang solving all the mysteries staged by the cruise crew, we see them unmasking the Ghost Clown and a werewolf that were both seen in ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou''.

* WholesomeCrossdresser: Scooby-Doo and Shaggy try dressing like Velma and Daphne, respectively, to get into the costume party.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The MythologyGag cameos become hints to what the gang will uncover during the mystery. [[spoiler:Like the Captain Cutler Ghost, the pirates have a hidden base inside a cavern and store a salvaged shipwreck there; and the villain is a master hypnotist, like the Ghost Clown.]]

* ParentService: Daphne dresses as a CatGirl and Velma dresses as a Harem Girl/ BedlahBabe in the costume ball, most likely to provide fanservice for older viewers.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The MythologyGag cameos become hints to what the gang will uncover during the mystery. [[spoiler:Like the Captain Cutler Ghost, the pirates have a hidden base inside a huge cavern in which a salvaged shipwreck is kept; and the villain is a master hypnotist, like the Ghost Clown.]]

** The "villains" in the mystery games that the cruise puts on, and are all quickly unmasked by the gang (to the mounting frustration of the ship's crew and the other passengers), are all recreations of villains from back in ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'', including the Ghost of Captain Cutler, the Ghost Clown, and the unnamed werewolf (from the "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Werewolf?" episode).

** Fred and his dad engage in some {{Flynning}} to fend off Sally the Pirate, showing off their swords. She shoots of their blades as a NoNonsenseNemesis.

The tenth feature in the ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooDirectToVideoFilmSeries'', ''Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy!'' was produced by [[Creator/WarnerBros Warner Bros. Animation]], featuring pirate ghosts in an attempt to [[FollowTheLeader cash in on the then-current pirate trend]] started by Disney's ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest''.

* DickDastardlyStopsToCheat: It's likely that Rupert would have helped [[spoiler:Wellington]] if the latter had asked politely for his navigational skills. Instead,

* HiddenDepths: It turns out that Fred is a good fencer. He manages to fend off several pirates with a stolen sword and tosses one to his dad. Mr. Jones doesn't get to

* NoSenseOfDirection: While tied to the mast, Mr. Jones explains that the pirates think he's Rupert, and want him to navigate the star chart. Fred is confused, saying his father couldn't find his way to the bathroom. His dad apparently told the same thing to the pirates.

* RealityEnsues: A mystery cruise targeted towards normal tourists are not particularly challenging for a group of expert mystery solvers, as a result the gang go through a week's worth of mysteries in 2 days.

* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParent: Fred’s mom and dad embarrass him in front of his friends by treating him as if he's still a little kid.

* CryingWolf: In a sense. The Scooby Gang start the plot on a mystery cruise, where the captain and the organizer set up every ScoobyDooHoax in the book to stump them but get seen through every time. Unfortunately, they end up so desensitized that when a real mystery falls into their laps they don't initially believe it.

* HostageHandlerHuddle: The BigBad and his crew capture Rupert Garcia hoping to make use of his skills as an astrocartographer but he proves unable to aid them, so his crew huddle up and brainstorm how to punish Rupert:

-->'''Rupert:''' Let him go.