History WesternAnimation / TheScoobyDooShow

''The Franchise/ScoobyDoo Show'' is a popular sequel animated television series created by Creator/HannaBarbera. This is the second spinoff of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou''; this returned the show to half-hour mysteries without weekly guest stars.

This show's history is a turbulent one: It was shifted into block shows throughout the 1970s, but since then the 1976–78 episodes, originally paired with ''WesternAnimation/DynomuttDogWonder'', have been known as ''The Scooby-Doo Show''.

* CatchPhrase:

* TheCavalryArrivesLate: As usual for the series.

* DramaticUnmask[=/=]TheReveal: At the end of every episode.

''The Scooby-Doo Show'' is a popular sequel animated television series created by Creator/HannaBarbera. This is the second spinoff of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou''; this returned the show to half-hour mysteries without weekly guest stars.

'''Shaggy:''' ''Hang around for Scooby-Doo!\\
That's my pal!''\\

Scooby-Doo is here again, away we go!\\
While Scooby-Doo is runnin' from a spooky ghost\\

Hey! Come and get involved till the mystery is solved\\
Hang around for Scooby-Doo!''

->''Hey! Come and get involved till the mystery is solved\\
Hang around for Scooby-Doo!\\
That's my pal!\\
Scooby-Dooby-Doo!''

Hey! Come on get involved till the mystery is solved\\

While Scooby-Doo is running from a spooky ghost\\

->''While Scooby-Doo is running from a spooky ghost.\\

Hey! Come on get involved till the mystery is solved.\\
Hang around for Scooby-Doo.''

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:In "The Creepy Case of Old Iron Face", the escaped convicts Mama Mione was harboring fled the area before the gang showed up, and there's no indication they were ever captured]].

* AbhorrentAdmirer: "The Ozark Witch Switch" has Scooby get unwanted admiration from the Hatfields' mangy-looking dog.
* AccidentalHero: In "There's a Demon Shark in the Foggy Dark", the whole purpose of the ScoobyDooHoax is because the villain's plans have been thwarted by the parks manager refusing to sign a shipping order which inadvertently keeps stolen pearls from being smuggled out of the country.

* AnimationBump: The opening scene of "The Diabolical Disc Demon" is noticeably more dynamic and fluid than the rest of the episode or the entire show for that matter.
** The same goes for the elevator scene in "Make a Beeline Away from That Feline." At times it feels similar to the early Scooby-Doo direct-to-video movies by Creator/WarnerBros Animation.

* ArtifactOfDoom: The staff of the warlock Anthos.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory:
** In "The Spirits of '76" the John André ghost is dressed like an American soldier, when André was a British officer.
** There are many, many inaccuracies in "To Switch a Witch." For starters, there were no burnings in Salem. Secondly, 1778 is far too late for any official witchcraft executions. The last person executed for witchcraft in the British Isles, for example, was executed in 1727. The practice was already dying by the time of the Salem Witch Trials in 1692.
* BedsheetGhost: The Technicolor Phantoms have this look. Shaggy gets mistaken for the Chocolate one at one point, too.
* TheBermudaTriangle: "A Creepy Tangle in the Bermuda Triangle" takes place there.
* BigDamnHeroes: The opening scene of ''The Frightened Hound Meets Demons Underground'' has a crane operator seeing a fellow construction worker menaced by the titular monster swing down the beam attached to his crane, allowing his coworker to grab it and then be yanked to safety.
* BigEater: Scooby and Shaggy, obviously. Dum also smacks away on a fair amount of hamburgers in ''Vampire Bats and Scaredy Cats''.
* BlandNameProduct: "The Gruesome Game of the Gator Ghoul" features a popular soft drink entitled "Kookie" Cola. Oddly averted later in the same episode when Shaggy, Scooby, and Scooby-Dum, while making a recipe, directly reference Tabasco Hot Sauce by name.
* BorderPatrol: ''The Harum Scarum Sanitarium'' and ''The Beast is Awake at Bottomless Lake'' both have cops patrolling the Canadian-American border stop the gang at the beginning of the episode, while on the lookout for some kind of fugitive robber and also first informing them of the recent monster sighting. [[spoiler:The One in ''The Harum-Scarum Sanitarium'' is an imposter and the bad guy though]].

* CanadaEh: The only part of "The Beast Is Awake in Bottomless Lake" that comes close to pulling off TheThemeParkVersion of Canada is the mountie, and the fact that he and a shopkeep share a slight French accent.
* CartoonyTail: Scooby-Doo is a Great Dane and has a tail like one◊, but it often curls and waves like that of a cat.

* CoffinContraband: Subversion in "The Harum-Scarum Sanitarium": Doctor Coffin is smuggling gold as fake cadavers with wigs and sheets with gold to simulate the body shape.

* ColorCodedCharacters: Take one guess what colors the Vanilla, Strawberry and Chocolate Phantoms are.

* CrustyCaretaker: Harry Keeble in "The Creepy Creature of Vulture's Claw" has been working at the gardens for most of his life, has mixed feelings about their new owner, doesn't run away when a monster is haunting the place and is constantly gruff to visitors.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Arlene Wilcox's sister goes through a lot of trouble against her, all for being left out of the family will. To the point that Arlene would have been sentenced as a witch. (Doubly so since Arlene didn’t even know the sister existed, thus she couldn’t have known about her absence from the will.)

* EitherOrTitle: "Make a Beeline Away From That Feline", also goes by the less popular name, "Who Was That Cat Creature I Saw You With Last Night?".
* EpisodeTitleCard: Absent from the 1976 season, but brought back for the five '77 episodes and all sixteen from '78. Somewhat of spin on the classic episode titles from the bulk of ''Where Are You!'', with the gang in the distance disembarking from the Mystery Machine into a creepy mansion.

* EvilLaugh: The Ghostly Gondolier.
* EvilUncle: [[spoiler:Leon]] in [[spoiler:"Vampire Bats and Scaredy Cats"]] and [[spoiler:Chin Wong Sing]] in [[spoiler:"Scooby's Chinese Fortune Kooky Caper"]].

* FeudingFamilies: In the BackStory of "The Warlock of Wimbledon", Jimmy Pendleton's ancestor accused the Anthos family of witchcraft and they cursed his family to suffer misfortune. Centuries later, during the episode, two Anthos descendants try to bankrupt the last Pendleton so that he'll be left homeless while they buy his ancestral estate.
* FluffyTheTerrible: "The Harum-Scarum Sanitarium" has guard dogs named Cuddles and Schoonkums.
* GhostTown: Old Seattle underneath the new one in "The Frightened Hound Meets Demons Underground".
* GiantFootprintReveal: Early in the episode "The Fiesta Host Is an Aztec Ghost", the Mystery Machine falls into what Velma thinks is a giant chuckhole. Shaggy points out that the chuckhole is actually a giant footprint, but Fred tells him that nobody is tall enough to make a footprint that size.
* HauntedCastle:
** In "Scared a Lot in Camelot", Shaggy's Uncle Shagworthy has imported one to the States.
** Also in "A Highland Fling with a Monstrous Thing"
** Plus a Haunted Chinese Palace in "Scooby's Chinese Fortune Kooky Caper"
* HeadlessHorseman: Who do you think is the bad guy in "The Headless Horseman of Halloween"?
* HeavySleeper: A mysteriously absent suspect [[spoiler:Dr. Tewksberry]] in [[spoiler:"The Harum-Scarum Sanitarium"]] turns out to have been trying to sleep through it all.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In "A Highland Fling with a Monstrous Thing", the Ghost of Finnian [=McDuff=] literally is snatched up by his own fake Loch Ness Monster.
* HollywoodVoodoo: Mamba Wamba and the Voodoo Hoodoo, in spades. [[note]]Just for starters, Baron Samedi, the lord of the dead in real-life voodoo, ''prevents'' people from becoming zombies.[[/note]]
* TheIgor: Dr. Tewksberry might have been one in ''The Harum Scarum Sanitarium'', being a bald, hunchbacked man who was the assistant of a doctor with some strange experiments, although Tewksberry has outlived his employer and comes across as a gracious host and harmless presence.
* InflatingBodyGag: In "The Beast is Awake in Bottomless Lake", Shaggy and Scooby inflate themselves with an air hose to scare the MonsterOfTheWeek. This also enables them to float until they open their mouths and let the air out.
* ItWasHereISwear: In "High Rise Hair Raiser", Shaggy at first doesn't see the "Recter! Recter!" on the building. But on the second time, Scooby tries to tie the Specter to the beams to be sure this trope doesn't strike twice.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:In "The Creepy Case of Old Iron Face" the escaped convicts Mama Mione was harboring fled the area before the gang showed up, and there's no indication they were ever captured]].
* KissingCousins: "The Chiller Diller Movie Thriller" featured Scooby-Doo and Scooby-Dum's cousin Scooby-Dee. Both Doo and Dum found her very attractive. Whether or not the fact that they're all dogs eases the weirdness is up to you.

* LivingStatue: King Katazuma brings one to life.
* LovableCoward: In addition to Shaggy and Scooby, there's Eric Arby from "The Creepy Creature of Vulture's Claw", a soft-spoken assistant botanist. He fled due to fear of the monster, but came back out of concern at Professor Greer being left alone (although he still bolts off again when he hears a distant roar).
* MisplacedWildlife: In "Jeepers! It's the Jaguaro", gorillas are shown living in the Amazon. Interestingly, while Jaguaro has the body of a gorilla, he also has the head of the saber-toothed cat ''Smilodon'', which did live in South America.
** Possibly an invoked example: The gorillas in question are shown sitting on a ''human-built'' treetop platform, and even have a hammock to sleep in. Given the local tribe's reverence for Jaguaro, the natives might conceivably have stolen the apes from a zoo because they ''resembled'' the creature they worship, at least from the neck down.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The Diabolical Disc Demon strongly resembles a Music/{{Kiss}} member.
** HilariousInHindsight: Kiss themselves would later be guest stars in a 2015 direct-to-video animated movie.
* NonProtagonistResolver: In "A Bum Steer for Scooby", a pair of adults capture the primary haunting culprit after his last encounter with the gang and also save the gang during their encounter with another villain. More specifically, the gang lassoes one villain, then TheDragon (an un-costumed goon) lassoes the gang, then gets lassoed himself by Daphne's uncle and the sheriff, who have the main MonsterOfTheWeek handcuffed in the backseat of the sheriff's car.
* NotAMask: In "The Headless Horseman of Halloween", Shaggy falsely thought the Headless Horsemen was wearing an Elwood Crane mask. Nope, it really was Elwood.
* NotNowWereTooBusyCryingOverYou: In "The Tar Monster", Shaggy thinks that the Tar Monster got Scooby Doo and is fairly oblivious as the dog comes up.
-->'''Shaggy:''' I'll never forget you, old buddy, old pal. (''The real Scooby approaches. Casually'') Oh hi, Scoob. Oh, he was like a brother to me!
* NotQuiteDead: The 10,000 Volt Ghost is supposed to be the ghost of Mr. Voltner, except it's actually the not-so-dead Voltner in the disguise.
** Also played with in "The Headless Horseman of Halloween", Cousin Elwood fakes his own death to make it look like the Horsemen took his head. But in this case he was the Horsemen.

* ObfuscatingDisability: In "The Ghost of the Bad Humor Man" the ice cream factory owner has a cast and crutches which he doesn't seem to need. [[spoiler:He's hiding his money in the cast out of fear the Phantoms will steal it]].

* OminousFog: The demons in Seattle have it as their calling card.
** Also plenty in "A Highland Fling with a Monstrous Thing"
* OurCryptidsAreMoreMysterious:
** Meet the Gator Ghoul, that's the ghost of a cryptid.
** The giant owl, Willowaw, and his Owl Men
** A Loch Ness Monster appears in this season, too.
** The Snow Beast may be an {{Expy}} of the Partridge Creek Monster.
* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: Daphne's Aunt Olivia believes that at night, she turns into a Cat Creature.

* ParentalBonus: As Shaggy tells Scooby, "Like, I told you not to accept gifts from strangers, especially cat creatures. Which is about as strange as you can get!"
* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: "Mamba Wamba in the Voodoo Hoodoo" goes through a lot of trouble to introduce us to The Alex Super Experience and even features a new animal companion in a frog, this was either an aimed pilot or a recycling of an unsold meddling kids show.
* PteroSoarer: The Pterodactyl Ghost, which resembles a humanoid pterosaur. Justified in that it's not a real pterosaur.
* PublicSecretMessage: Musical variant in "The Diabolical Disc Demon". When the VictimOfTheWeek needs to reveal who is attempting to steal his music for their own without letting the person know, he conceals their name within his latest studio recording--not in the lyrics, but the actual musical notes, since their scale letters spell it out: [[spoiler:A-C-E D-E-C-A-D-E]]. So only someone familiar with music and the scale would be able to figure out his message. Unfortunately for him, that includes the villain, which is why once he figures it out, he attempts to steal the recording and harasses anyone who has a copy of it in the costume of the titular demon.
* PunnyName:
** In ''The Tar Monster'' one of the local workers "Ben Gazi" seems to be named after the city Benghazi.
** In "A Frightened Hound Meets Demons Underground," there is a sailor named Albert Tross (albatross), [[spoiler:a pseudonym for Sam Crenshaw]].
* PursuedProtagonist:
** ''The Diabolical Disc Demon'' opens with terrified songwriter Tony Symes being chased by the demon through the studio.
** "The Spooky Case of the Grand Prix Race" begins with a racer conducting time trials when a ghostly racer appears, quickly chases him down, and kidnaps him.
* RealAfterAll: While the Specter was fake in "High Rise Hair Raiser", the supposed real house the criminals use seemed to have had a real spell book.

** The zombie from "Mamba Wamba and the Voodoo Hoodoo" has the same character model as the famous one from ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'''s "Which Witch is Which?", except with different-colored eyes and clothes.
** Aggie Wilkins in "The Ozark Witch Switch", likewise, has the same character model as Netty Crabb from "High Rise Hair-Raiser" but with different colored eyes and clothes.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Subverted with the Gator Ghoul's yellow eyes that are so powerful they change the tint of the screen when it's shown looking at something.

* RoboticReveal: The No-Face Zombie in the "No-Face Zombie Chase" episode turns out to be a robot controlled by Mr. Dilly.
* ScarecrowSolution: Shaggy somehow finds the Future Creature Costume to fake out the real crooks.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere:
** In "Scooby Doo Where's The Crew" the three crewmen of the ship announce their intention to head back to shore in the launch to get away from the monsters and Shaggy and Scooby very nearly accompany them. [[spoiler:Of course, since those three crewmen are the culprits, they were staging the whole thing.]]
** In "Mama Wamba and the Voodoo Hoodoo", band manager Roger runs out of the plantation house when he sees a voodoo doll of himself, supposedly signifying he will be turned into a zombie. The gang tries to follow him but finds his hat floating in a pond outside. [[spoiler:He's one of the culprits and faked his flight and abduction, though.]]
** Prior to "The Gruesome Game of the Gator Ghoul", all of the workers at the showboat restaurant quit out of fear of the gator except for the bookkeeper and a dishwasher. [[spoiler:The bookkeeper is the culprit.]]
** In "The Spooky Case of the Grand Prix Race," one of the race car drivers says that he's leaving after another driver is kidnapped, although three other drivers affirm that they're staying. [[spoiler:Unusually for the show, the man who leaves because of the kidnapping is innocent and one of the other three drivers is the culprit.]]
** In "The Ozark Witch Switch", a villain pulls this during the climax. The fake zombie tries to flee when he thinks the gang have magical powers and have turned his partner into a frog. He runs right into the gang's trap.
** In "A Scary Night with a Snow Beast Fright," the gang encounter the eponymous monster when they travel to an Inuit village to meet a professor. Upon arriving, they learn that the professor was recently kidnapped by the monster. Everyone else in the area has already fled except for the native chief and the professor's assistant, both of whom are packing up their belongings and preparing to leave as well. [[spoiler:Chief Manook is kidnapped by the monster before he can make good on his plans to flee, and Jean-Baptiste the assistant turns out to be the culprit.]]
** In "The Creepy Creature of Vulture's Claw" all of Professor Greer's employees besides Harry Keeble ran away from the creature (although Eric Arby came back).
** All of the local workers besides Ben Gazi the foreman and several military guards ran away after the Tar Monster's first appearance in the titular episode.
* SeparatedAtBirth: Part of the explanation in "To Switch a Witch"; Arlene has a secret twin sister from whom she was separated early in life.
* ShadyRealEstateAgent: Clyde Dickerman from "The Creepy Creature of Vultures Claw" is a scowling man whose always snooping around, makes no secret about how he's confident the monster will force Professor Greer to sell him the gardens, and is speculated as wanting to tear the gardens down for something like a shopping center. [[spoiler:Actually, it's because he knows there's oil there. That being said, he isn't the one dressing up as a monster in that episode and its actually Professor Greer whose trying to scare everyone away so he can get the oil]].
* ShoutOut:
** In one episode, Shaggy calls Scooby "[[Franchise/SherlockHolmes Sherlock Bones]]".
** In "Whatta Shocking Ghost", Scooby does an imitation of Series/{{Columbo}} when [[MakesSenseInContext interrogating a parrot]].
** In "Scared a Lot in Camelot", Scooby attempts to do magic by spouting the magic words "[[WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}} Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo!]]"

* SigningOffCatchPhrase: "Scooby-Doobie-Doo!"

* StrangerBehindTheMask: "To Switch a Witch" ends with the reveal that the witch is the previously unknown twin sister of the gang's friend.
** The Strawberry and Chocolate Phantoms are unnamed henchmen for the main villain, who is the Vanilla Phantom.
** The Mamba Zombie is also an unnamed henchman.

* SuperPersistentPredator: Either the Diabolical Disc Demon was on purpose stalking Shaggy and Scooby or else it's a odd coincidence the others don't see him until he's caught.

* TakenForGranite: The Moon Ghost leaves at least one statue in its wake.

* TelepathicSprinklers: Happens in "The Ghost of the Bad Humor Man" when Shaggy and Scooby are trapped in a storage freezer and try building a bonfire to warm up. The flames trip one of the fire sprinklers, which causes ''all'' the sprinklers in the freezer to activate, and then [[FromBadToWorse the water freezes and becomes snow due to the cold temperatures]].
* TimeMachine: Which sends back a creature from five thousand years into the future.
* TookALevelInBadass: Downplayed, but Scooby-Dum comes across as a little more useful and less prone to mistakes in "Vampire Bats and Scaredy Cats".

* TRexpy: The Snow Beast resembles a furry ''Tyrannosaurus''. (Curiously, this was before the first discoveries of feathered dinosaurs.)
* UndercoverWhenAlone:
** At the beginning of "[[spoiler:To Switch a Witch]]", a [[spoiler:cemetery caretaker]] is working alone when he sees the MonsterOfTheWeek, screams, and runs away. It later turns out that he and the person in the monster costume are partners, raising the question of why he acted so terrified before there were any witnesses around.
** "[[spoiler:The Creepy Heap from the Deep]]". Once the gang goes on their way, a character bolts his door to keep out the monster and then seems shocked and terrified when the monster appears behind him. This makes little sense once it turns out that he and the person in the monster costume are working together.

* VehicularSabotage: When one of the villains in "Jeepers, It's the Jaguaro" tries to escape in an airplane, Fred reveals he took the liberty of removing all the sparkplugs from the engines.

* WildWilderness: In "Jeepers, It's the Jaguaro".
* WitchDoctor: One of the Native American design appears in "A Bum Steer for Scooby".
* WitchHunt: One is waged in "To Switch a Witch".
* WormInAnApple: At the end of "The Harum-Scarum Sanitarium", Scooby bites into an apple and encounters an angry worm. The worm then eats the whole apple.

* YouShallNotPass: When Fred and the girls are cornered by the Technicolor Phantoms, Fred tells Daphne and Velma to run for it and he'll try to hold them off. Luckily, Shaggy and Scooby burst in and save the day.
* YourSizeMayVary: A particularly ridiculous example in "Jeepers, It's the Jaguaro": The titular monster was depicted as giant, up until the reveal of who it really is, when the normal-sized villain emerges from the waterfall without his suit, but still wearing the mask.

** Prior to "The Gruesome Game of the Gator Ghoul", all of the workers at the showboat restaurant quit out of fear of the winter except for the bookkeeper and a dishwasher. [[spoiler:The bookkeeper is the culprit.]]

** In "The Ozark Witch Switch", a villain pulls this during the climax. The fake zombie tries to flee when he thinks the gang have magical powers and have turned his partner into a frog. He runs right into the gang's trap.** In "The Creepy Creature of Vulture's Claw" all of Professor Greer's employees besides Harry Keeble ran away from the creature (although Eric Arby came back).

* PursuedProtagonist: ''The Diabolical Disc Demon'' opens with songwriter Tony Symes being frantically chased by the demon through the studio.

** In "The Creepy Creature of Vulture's Claw" all of Professor Greer's employees besides Harry Keeble ran away from the creature (although Eric Arby came back).