History WesternAnimation / TheNewScoobyDooMovies

** Homer Pipaqueak is correct to suspect someone in Captain Moody's family of an attempted InheritanceMurder, something he's quick to lampshade once the case is closed.

* WasntThatFun: After accidentally getting sent on a wild sled ride down the ski slopes, Laurel thanks Hardy and asks if they can do it again.

** In "Scooby-Doo Meets Laurel and Hardy", the hotel clerk mentions that some hotel guests had disappeared prior to the episode's start, but this is never elaborated on.

* CallASmeerpARabbit: In "Scooby Doo Meets Laurel and Hardy", the innkeeper calls the spook of the week the ghost of Bigfoot. However, he then describes it as coming into existence when a meanspirited mountain man froze to death, rather than having anything to do with the cryptid.

--> '''Scooby''': ''[[SarcasticDevotee Dumbbell]]''.

* BookDumb: Shaggy comes across as relatively uneducated in this series. In one episode, he and Scooby go to a corn field. He doesn't realize it is corn until Scooby decides to collect an ear of corn and peel it back to eat the cob. Shaggy gets confused and asks why the corn is wrapped in "this green stuff". A disbelieving Scooby tries to explain that is corn in its natural state, but Shaggy doesn't believe him. In "The Caped Crusader Caper", Shaggy mistakes a deer for a horse and says he's never seen a horse with wood growing out of its head before.

* DeusExMachina: Shaggy normally does not have an allergy to hay or hayfever, but in "The Haunted Horseman of Hagglethorn Hall" he has one, and it's never mentioned again in the series. In previous episodes, he functioned normally around hay.

** In "The Weird Winds of Winnona", the town has shrunken down to barely a dozen people as a result of the titular winds. When the gang needs the Mystery Machine fixed, the local farmer tells them that the last mechanic in town sold his garage and moved away two weeks ago.

* TyrannosaurusRex: "Ghastly Ghost Town" features a robot ''T. rex'' named Tyrone.

** ''Weird Winds of Winnona'' plays with this. The gang and the Speed Bugs capture the masked criminals and the evidence, but prior to the unmasking, the local sheriff is the one to interpret the evidence to figure out the villains real estate scam and identity before the gang suspects that person.

** The endings of "The Secret of Shark Island," "The Ghostly Creep from the Deep," and "The Haunted Showboat" have [[spoiler: an UndercoverCopReveal]] and show that the authorities were aware of the villains' schemes and ably investigating them independently of the gang.

!!Tropes in the''The New Scooby-Doo Movies'':

** The endings of both “The Secret of Shark Island” and “The Haunted Showboat” have [[spoiler: an UndercoverCopReveal]] and show that the authorities were aware of the villains' schemes and ably investigating them independently of the gang.

** 2018 would see the announcement of an even straighter successor in the form of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndGuessWho'', whose premise is essentially that of this show, only featuring more contemporary (and not-so-contemporary) guests such as Bill Nye, Jaleel White (as [[Series/FamilyMatters Steve Urkel]], Kenan Thompson, Mark Hamill, and more (plus some old friends like Batman).

* BootstrappedTheme: The theme song would be resurrected without lyrics in 1979 for ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooGoesHollywood'' and ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndScrappyDoo and become the theme song for the whole franchise for most of the next decade.

* AccidentalAthlete: This is weaponized with Shaggy and Scooby when their being chased by ghosts and Velma's old school is in need of star athletes to keep a donor for backing out. Shaggy and Scooby-Doo easily break several records when promptly motivated, although Tom Cownway surpasses them at the end with how fast he ends up running the obstacle course (to try and reach the pool at the end) after accidentally setting his pants on fire.

* PoliceAreUseless: Often played straight, given the shows format, although ''Weird Winds of Winnona'' Plays with this. The gang and the Speed Bugs capture the masked criminals and the evidence, but the local sheriff is the one to interpret the meaning behind a map to figure out the villains real estate scam and notice the culprits name on it before the gang suspects that person.

* RightBehindMe: In "The Haunted Horseman of Hagglethorn Hall" Shaggy declares his sucipiciosn about Creech the butler, saying he has a imrinal fas right as Creech comes in behind him.

--> '''Davy:''' Well I know one thing, he's behind ''you''.

** In ''The Fricket Fracass'', [[spoiler:Vernon the farmhand left to get the police due to his confusing it was getting with the scarecrow and the mysterious intruders]].

* GlassShatteringSound: The evil djinn Jadal imprisons Jeannie in a bottle. The gang eventually finds the bottle, but it is protected by a force field. Scooby manages to yell loud enough to shatter the bottle. Now free, it is a simple matter for Jeannie to dispel the force field.
* InkSuitActor: Just about every celebrity who appeared on this show voiced their animated counterparts.

* RecycledAnimation: Like [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou its' predecessor]], the show would frequently reuse animation, including many of the same stock poses, walk and run cycles from said show.

** Don Adams three regular assistants quit prior to his episode rather than go exterminate the supposedly haunted house.
** Every one of Dick Van Dyke's employees has quit before the beginning of ''The Haunted Carnival''.
** In ''The Ghost of the Red Baron'' the crop dusting pilot attacked by the Red Baron in the opening scene quits rather than go back up there after his narrow escape.
** In ''The Haunted Candy Factory'', the gang and Cass Elliot find the factory foreman locked in a closet by the monsters and he quits and leaves as soon as they let him out. [[spoiler:Subverted since he was one of the culprits though]].
** In ''The Weird Winds of Winnona'' the town has shrunken down to barely a dozen people as a result of the titular winds. When the gang needs the Mystery Machine fixed, the local farmer tells them that the last mechanic in town sold his garage and moved away two weeks ago.

* SkewedPriorities: After being captured, the culprit in [[spoiler:"The Frickert Fracass"]] is more outraged at being mistaken for one of the other suspects (a fairly idiotic character).
--> [[spoiler:'''Simon Shaky''']]: How dare you mistake me for [[spoiler:Vernon]]!