History WesternAnimation / WhatsNewScoobyDoo

* AlphabeticalThemeNaming: The Dinwittie siblings, Andy, Mandy, and Randy.

* FriendlyPlayfulDolphin: Becky the orca in "She Sees Sea Monsters by the Sea Shore", who got a little ''too'' friendly and playful with Shaggy and Scooby.

* InsufferableGenius: Velma in this series sometimes comes off as condescending towards those who aren't as intelligent as she is.

* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: In "Safari, So Good!" Scooby and Shaggy flee from a crocodile that tries to eat them, only for it to end up swallowing their rubber raft and [[InflatingBodyGag comically inflating]]. Later during the chase sequence, Fred and Daphne briefly get surrounded by jungle demon crocodiles.

* TotemPoleTrench: In the episode "Gentlemen, Start Your Monsters", Jimmy and his sister Cindy wore a jumpsuit, with one on the other's shoulders.

* UnexpectedKindness: In "It's All Greek to Scooby", the crew thinks that a man with a scary face is the villain since he's chasing them and yelling in Greek. ActuallHeants to return Daphne's purse.

* AmbiguousSituation: The gang doesn't call the cops on [[spoiler:Terry for framing her sister Chris in "Roller Ghoaster Ride" as well as sabotaging the family theme park]]. They say that it's up to [[spoiler:Terry's family to determine her punishment. Chris goes to notify their mother, which makes Terry chase after her and beg her not to do that]]. We ultimately don't find out what happens to the perpetrator.

* AntiSneezeFinger: In "Simple Plan and the Invisible Madman", a fallen pepper shaker causes pepper to fall on Scooby's nose. After Shaggy uses this technique on him, Scooby promptly sneezes anyway... and blows the villain across the room. This proves beneficial, as said villain was about to hit the pair with a jukebox, and the sneeze results in ''him'' being flattened by it.

* DinnerOrderFlub: In "Pompeii and Circumstance", Fred is continually misreading his Italian phrasebook. As a result, he orders a potted plant at a restaurant.
* DisappointedInYou: In "Roller Ghoster Ride", [[spoiler:Chris says this upon learning her sister Terry plotted against her.]]

* EvenNerdsHaveStandards: Velma's opinion of Gibby is that he's too geeky for her.

* FarmersDaughter: Velma's cousin Marcy is one of these but without the overly protective father.

* FormerChildStar: The Mystery Machine used to belong to the Mystery Kids, a musical group that starred a brother and a sister. They appear in the episode "It's Mean, It's Green, It's the Mystery Machine", where their mother has been attempting to arrange a return to stardom for them. [[spoiler:They decide at the end that [[CelebrityIsOverrated they're happier being nobodies]].]]
* FormulaBreakingEpisode: "Camp Comeoniwannascareya" does not feature the entire gang; only Shaggy and Scooby as camp counselors to a group of children, who team up to solve the mystery. Though Shaggy mentioned the three are off solving a mystery elsewhere.

* TheGameNeverStopped: This happens at the end of [[spoiler:"E-Scream"... From Velma's point of view, at least.]]
* GenderMisdirection: The gang once went to an amusement park without knowing anything about its owners other than their names (Chris and Terry) and their fame obtained by building the park's rides. The gang (mostly Shaggy) expected Chris and Terry to be men but it turns out they're girls.

** Subverted with Terry in "Roller Ghoster Ride". While she avoids being arrested for sabotaging her sister's theme park rides because the group somehow deduce that the rides were only made to ''look'' sabotaged but were still completely safe (which doesn't line up at all with her derailing a roller coaster with Shaggy and Scooby on it and almost getting the others killed by a giant fan by removing the safety net), it's implied that she's about to be in big trouble with her parents, since her sister has gone off to tell their mom about everything (Terry is last seen running after her, begging her not to say anything). Plus, her family can still fire her or call the cops on her.

Additionally, this series is no longer produced by the original Creator/HannaBarbera Productions (which ceased to exist by 2001), instead, it was produced by its then-parent company, Creator/WarnerBros

* AllForNothing: The crook of "Large Dragon At Large" ended up believing in the legend of the dragon, and using it to his ends to try to scare everyone off while he searched for the treasure. Turns out the legend was [[spoiler: just a bunch of tourist trap malarkey, to the point of the person who cooked it up shaving his eyebrows and claiming the dragon torched them]] -- so the entire usual ScoobyDooHoax ends up being a free trip to jail and a complete waste of the perp's time.

** One episode introduces a girl named Verona Dempsey who plays this to Velma (all while being bitchy to her). [[spoiler: It turns out Verona is one of the episode's two villains.]]

* ArtisticLicenseLaw: In "Roller Ghoster Ride", the titular monster hops on rides more than once to tamper with them ''while riders are on them'', putting them in mortal danger. In one case, a car on the Rocket Coaster ride is derailed from the track and sent flying into the water. [[spoiler: Terry was the perpetrator behind the mask]], but she doesn't go to jail onscreen; [[spoiler:Chris goes to tell their mother to determine a suitable punishment]]. While this could be explained through SoftWater, the skydiving simulator that almost sliced up Fred, Velma, and Daphne is far more egregious. Fred and Daphne point out that she didn't do anything illegal. In real life, she would've certainly been arrested for attempted murder ''at the very least''.

** "Reef Grief!" features a giant Coral Monster. [[spoiler: Though it's actually '''not''' the main antagonist in disguise, and is indeed real. The only reason it even attacks was due to the Big Bad mining through its home]].

** [[KillerRobot The robot servant]] and [[spoiler: The ''' house''' itself, which was the villain the whole time]] in "High-Tech House of Horrors".

** The Baseball Specter [[spoiler: (and this time, it's not [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheCyberChase a ghostly virus]])]] in "The Unnatural".

* ClassyCatBurglar: [[spoiler: Trudy]] in "Recipe for Disaster", who has ''ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}'' like reflexes, and wears a dark suit and mask around, while the train to [[CorporateWarfare steal the Scooby Snacks recipe]].

* ContrivedCoincidence: One episode involving a mummy has the ancient word to breaking a hypnosis spell being “relp”, which is exactly what Scooby screaming for help sounds like.

* CorruptedCharacterCopy: Susan Dinwittie from "It's Mean, It's Green, It's the Mystery Machine!" is a villainous version of Shirley Partridge of ''Series/ThePartridgeFamily.'' Both are mothers of folk-style musicians who wear their blonde hair in a bob. However, the band was originally the kids' idea. Shirley had to be coaxed into joining and she never let their life as celebrities get in the way of being a loving mother and keeping her kids on the right path. Susan Dinwittie is an obsessive StageMom who neglects her only non-musical child [[spoiler: and was willing to cause all sorts of destruction with the Mystery Machine to help the others return to fame.]]
* CreatorKiller: In-Universe, "Lights, Camera, Mayhem" has the Creator/KeanuReeves-esque star not wishing to star in the remake of ''Spy Me a River'', which is poorly written and cheesy. To make matters worse, the ghost of the original star attacks the set. [[spoiler: It turns out the phantom was both the director since it would tank his career and the original star since it made a mockery of the original, and both are allowed to go free since they hadn’t hurt anyone.]]

* CruelElephant: One of the animal demons in "Safari, So Good!" takes the form of an aggressive elephant that unsuccessfully tries to capture Daphne. [[spoiler: Subverted in that it's just a normal elephant hypnotized into acting vicious.]]

* DarkestAfrica: In the episode "Safari So Good!", it's not stated which part of Africa the gang travel to, with their guide Robbie being a student at a college in Cape Town (which is in South Africa) and accompanying t-shirt designer Lloyd [[spoiler: who is an undercover police officer from the Malawi police]], but the reserve they visit is predominantly jungles with a few MisplacedWildlife.

* DisappointedInYou: In "Roller Ghoster Ride", [[spoiler: Chris says this upon learning her sister Terry plotted against her.]]

* EnlightenedAntagonist: The Ancient One from "Big Appetite in Little Tokyo" is a ghost who looks like an old wizard, and who demands that the scientists at a Tokyo factory abandon their plans for a new wharf because it would be a threat to the simple traditional Japanese way of life. [[spoiler: The ending implies that he might be RealAfterAll, and the scientists eventually decide to respect his wish.]]

* FormerChildStar: The Mystery Machine used to belong to the Mystery Kids, a musical group that starred a brother and a sister. They appear in the episode "It's Mean, It's Green, It's the Mystery Machine", where their mother has been attempting to arrange a return to stardom for them. [[spoiler: They decide at the end that [[CelebrityIsOverrated they're happier being nobodies]].]]

* TheGameNeverStopped: This happens at the end of [[spoiler: "E-Scream"... From Velma's point of view, at least.]]

* GentleGiant: The [[spoiler: "Coral Creature"]], which [[spoiler: turned out to be one of the few (if not only) times where the monster was real]].

* HumongousMecha: All of the gigantic monsters [[spoiler: (minus the Coral Creature)]] are this, whether it's ascetically or through a reveal.

* KillerGorilla: Played with in "Safari, So Good!". One of the jungle demons takes the form of an aggressive gorilla, [[spoiler: which is just an ordinary gorilla that's been BrainwashedAndCrazy]]. Normal gorillas are portrayed as docile just like in real life.

* LatexPerfection: Typically avoided in this series in favor of the villains using makeup, animatronics, holograms, etc. Though there are a few exceptions in this series, such as in the intro, and in "A Scooby-Doo Valentine" when the gang is framed by rubber-masked impostors, and Scooby is unmasked to reveal [[spoiler: J.C. Chasez of Music/{{NSYNC}}]]!

* {{Notzilla}}: An episode has a giant monster named "Shagzilla". He's supposed to be Shaggy cursed to transform into a Godzilla parody at night ([[spoiler: Actually, it's a giant robot built by the villain of the week, and Shaggy is duped into believing he is the monster because, while he is asleep, he is made up as the monster and placed on a Tokyo maquette.]]).
* ObfuscatingDisability: Invoked in one episode, by [[spoiler: our villain of the day, Avalanche Anderson, to prevent anyone from knowing that he was behind the Snow Creature.]]

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: [[spoiler: In "E-Scream", this is what tips Velma off to the fact that she's in a virtual reality game: Freddy doesn't want to split up, Daphne is okay with wearing mismatched shoes, and Shaggy and Scooby are perfectly willing to be bait for a trap even without being offered Scooby Snacks. Shaggy saying "Toinks!" instead of "Zoinks!" is just the final nail in the coffin]].

* RefugeInAudacity: The villain behind the [[GiantFlyer Wakumi]] from "New Mexico, Old Monster" ([[spoiler: The Shaman/Colonel Henry Thornwald]]) fully explains his motives despite said motives [[spoiler: being [[GovernmentConspiracy highly classified, kept secret from even the Government]][[note]]The Colonel was researching an extraterrestrial breakthrough[[/note]]]], because no one will believe a bunch of [[YouMeddlingKids Meddling Kids]]. Somewhat {{Subverted}} in that he still gets arrested, but it's not revealed if anyone outside the gang believes the story.

* RobotClown: The MonsterOfTheWeek in "A Terrifying Round With a Menacing Metallic Clown" is, as the title indicates, a giant robotic clown. It starts used as an obstacle on a mini-golf course, then comes to life to terrorize golfers. [[spoiler: It turns out to be controlled by Mayor Snipper, who specifically built it to scare people away from the golf course because he believes that golf ruined his son's life.]]

* ScarecrowSolution: [[spoiler: In "Camp Comeoniwannascareya", Counselor Gray masquerades as the Toxic Terror to protect the camp from becoming an adult resort.]]

** You'd think the BigBad of "High-Tech House of Horrors" would be some sort of hacker or [[KillerRobot Jeeves]]. However, in reality, it's actually [[spoiler: S.H.A.R.I., the AI inside the House, That's right, the '''haunted house''' itself was the villain the whole time]].

** In "Camp Comeoniwannascareya", the Toxic Terror is, of course, [[ForegoneConclusion a person in a suit]]. The trope becomes more literal though when [[spoiler: Scooby and Shaggy alongside their wards actually ''help'' Counselor Grey at the end to scare off the greedy camp director that was going to take down the camp to make a resort.]]

* SheatheYourSword: In the episode "High-Tech House of Horrors", Velma discovers that [[spoiler: S.H.A.R.I., the house's AI and MonsterOfTheWeek, thrived on getting attention from people by attacking and terrorizing them, and deduced that the way to defeat it is not to proactively find a way to deactivate it, but to simply refuse to give it what it wants. As such, Velma directs everyone to sit on the floor and do nothing, prompting the AI to scream at them to pay attention to it until it overloaded and fried its circuitry]].

* StageMom: Susan Dinwittie. She's more concerned with making her FormerChildStar kids Andy and Mandy famous again than they are and neglects her other son Randy. [[spoiler: Once it's revealed she made their former van seem haunted as a publicity stunt, Andy and Mandy decide they're happy as has-beens.]]

** In the amusement park episode, the gang points out that [[spoiler: Terry may have been busted for framing Chris, but since she committed her stunts on her family property in the amusement park ''and'' designed the rides to make sure no one was hurt from the supposed sabotage, she technically got away with it. Fred even has some respect that she didn't want to hurt anyone. It would be up to her family if they want to either fire Terry or press charges. Chris, instead of doing so, thinks a better punishment is telling their mother. Cue Terry going OhCrap and chasing after her sister, [[DontTellMama saying that they don't have to get Mom involved]]]].

** In "Lights, Camera, Mayhem", since everyone hates working on ''Spy Me A River'', including the diva Chip Hernandez Jr. as well as the stunts coordinator and makeup crew, the crew agrees to not [[spoiler: call the police on the director after he's revealed as the real ghost and the original Rip Bannon reveals himself as the mysterious samurai. Fred even points out he saved Shaggy and Scooby from a near-deadly fall, meaning he didn't want to hurt anyone. The crew decides to cancel the production in favor of a new movie called ''The Modem II'' and the director thanks the meddling "kids" for intervening]].
** Janet Lawrence in "Space Ape At The Cape" has been working on space data, ordering people not to see her work even if they have clearance, and studying a so-called alien egg. The alien seems to hatch and grow overnight, running wild at the space station. [[spoiler: It turns out that a bit of reality undoes the scheme: Janet's research wasn't ready, and the alien scam was to keep her from being found out. She was being snippy even to her coworkers, who assume that she was stressed about the rampaging alien but misunderstood. Velma realized that the "egg" was dehydrated organic material, thanks to Shaggy playing with the food dehydrator, and Janet added water to make her fake egg explode. To top it all off, Janet's supposed alien find attracted the attention of the FBI, who was interested in the possibility of galaxy life, and said agent realizes in a matter of days that Janet's work was fraudulent]].
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: It's mentioned that [[spoiler: if Shaggy is cursed to become a Godzilla monster and rampage through the city, either he could turn himself in to the police and they could watch him see if he's the suspect while lawyering up to prevent possible framing. The gang vetoes that by running away from the officer wanting to take them into custody, and deciding to go on the lam. It turns out that was the right call since Velma's professor was framing Shaggy in revenge]].

* TheUnfavorite: Randy Dinwittie in "It's Mean, It's Green, It's the Mystery Machine". His mother only cares about making his siblings Andy and Mandy [[FormerChildStar famous again]] and his accomplishments mean nothing to her except when she can use his skills to improve Andy and Mandy's career [[spoiler: no matter if it's by hook or by crook]].

* YouMeddlingKids: Parodied in nearly every episode as well; instances include having twin villains say it in unison (in "The Vampire Strikes Back") and a young kid calling the gang "meddling grownups" (in "Gentlemen, Start Your Monsters"), and another villain referring to them as "interloping adolescents" before [[LampshadeHanging Velma corrects him]] (in "There's No Business Like Snow Business"), another villain has called them "meddling teenagers", etc.

** You'd think the BigBad of "High-Tech House of Horrors" would be some sort of hacker or [[KillerRobot Jeeves]]. However, in rea, quality, it's actually [[spoiler: S.H.A.R.I., the AI inside the House, That's right, the '''haunted house''' itself was the villain the whole time]].

** In a more non-monster example, in "Homeward Hound", the big bad's dog (which is a small dog, oddly enough) is disguised as an [[EvilTwin evil version of Scooby Doo]]. Oh, and in case you're wondering, excluding a lack of a collar, [[PerpetualFrowner constant scowl]] and more aggressive behavior, '''[[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/scoobydoo/images/b/bf/Scooby_impostor_%28Homeward_Hound%29.png it's actuallnvincing disguise]]''' Yeah, ''' that''' Scooby is '''small dog in disguise'''.

** Janet Lawrence in "Space Ape At The Cape" has been working on space data, ordering people not to see her work even if they have clearance, and studying a so-called alien egg. The alien seems to hatch and grow overnight, running wild at the space station. [[spoiler: It turns out that a bit of reality undoes the scheme: Janet's research wasn't ready, and the alien scam was to keep her from being found out. She was being snippy even to her coworkers, who assume that she was stressed about the rampaging alien but misunderstood. Velma realized that the "egg" was dehydrated organic material, thanks to Shaggy playing with the food dehydrator, and Janet added water to make her fake egg explode. To top it all off, Janet's supposed alien find attracted the attention of the FBI, who was interested in the possibility of galaxy life, and said agent realizes in a matter of days that Janet's work was fraudulent]]. 

* PantyShot: Velma in "It's Mean, It's Green, It's the Mystery Machine". But you've gotta not blink or you'll miss it. (For the record, they're white as opposed to matching her skirt color as before.)

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: "Camp Comeoniwannascareya" does not feature the entire gang; only Shaggy and Scooby as camp counselors to a group of children, who team up to solve the mystery. Though Shaggy mentioned the three are off solving a mystery elsewhere.

** In "Hi-Tech House of Horrors", Shaggy and Scooby are presumably killed when crushed into cubes by the trash compactor, only for them to be completely unharmed. Shaggy notes that they're used to hiding in small spaces, bringing to mind their iconic "filing cabinet" gag from the classic series where they both fit inside a drawer of sorts.

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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: In "Roller Ghoster Ride", the titular monster hops on rides more than once to tamper with them ''while riders are on them'', putting them in mortal danger. In one case, a car on the Rocket Coaster ride is derailed from the track and sent flying into the water. [[spoiler: Terry was the perpetrator behind the mask]], but she doesn't go to jail. While this could be explained through SoftWater, the skydiving simulator that almost sliced up Fred, Velma, and Daphne is far more egregious. Fred and Daphne point out that she didn't do anything illegal. In real life, she would've certainly been arrested for attempted murder ''at the very least''.

** Subverted with Terry in "Roller Ghoster Ride". While she avoids being arrested for sabotaging her sister's theme park rides because the group somehow deduce that the rides were only made to ''look'' sabotaged but were still completely safe (which doesn't line up at all with her derailing a roller coaster with Shaggy and Scooby on it and almost getting the others killed by a giant fan by removing the safety net), it's implied that she's about to be in big trouble with her parents, since her sister has gone off to tell their mom about everything (Terry is last seen running after her, begging her not to).

* CreatorKiller: In-Universe, "Lights, Camera, Mayhem" has the Creator/KeanuReeves-Esque star wish not to star in the remake of ''Spy Me a River'', which is written and cheesy. To make matters worse, the ghost of the original star attacks the set. [[spoiler: It turns out the phantom was both the director since it would tank his career and the original star since it made a mockery of the original, and both are allowed to go free since they hadn’t hurt anyone.]]

* CoveredInMud: In the episode "Reef Grief!" Spencer Johnson covers the sandcastle competitors with mud so they can build his underground freeway.

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* ActionGirl: Daphne Blake plays this up a lot more than she did in previous shows -- she's the one to usually get the gang out of a jam and can defend herself really well.

** In Velma's case, it might also be influence of the LiveActionAdaptation, since Linda Cardellini as her was an example of NerdsAreSexy.

* AllForNothing: The crook of "Large Dragon At Large" ended up believing in the legend of the dragon, and using it to his own ends to try to scare everyone off while he searched for the treasure. Turns out the legend was [[spoiler:just a bunch of tourist trap malarkey, to the point of the person who cooked it up shaving his own eyebrows and claiming the dragon torched them]] -- so the entire usual ScoobyDooHoax ends up being a free trip to jail and a complete waste of the perp's time.
* AlphabeticalThemeNaming: The Dinwittie siblings, Andy, Mandy and Randy.

** One episode introduces a girl named Verona Dempsey who plays this to Velma (all while being really bitchy to her). [[spoiler:It turns out Verona is one of the episode's two villains.]]
** Velma herself was this to a kid named Elliot Blender, who appeared in two episodes as both a SoreLoser, a RedHerring and an all around JerkAss.

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: "Camp Comeoniwannascareya" does not feature the entire gang; only Shaggy and Scooby as camp counselors to a group of children, whom team up to solve the mystery. Though Shaggy mentioned the three are off solving a mystery elsewhere.
* AnimalWrongsGroup: Frida Flora in "Farmed and Dangerous" wanted to take the Secret Six puppies to protect them from the Demon Farmer. Though she becomes a suspect when it's revealed that whoever possesses the puppies, owns the farm and even tried to take them by force. Fortunately the puppies trap her inside a silo. Presumably she gave up (if unwillingly) when the Demon Farmer was caught.

* ArtisticLicenseLaw: In "Roller Ghoster Ride", the titular monster hops on rides more than once to tamper with them ''while riders are on them'', putting them in mortal danger. In one case, a car on the Rocket Coaster ride is derailed from the track, and sent flying into the water. [[spoiler: Terry was the perpetrator behind the mask]], but she doesn't go to jail. While this could be explained through SoftWater, the skydiving simulator that almost sliced up Fred, Velma, and Daphne is far more egregious. Fred and Daphne point out that she didn't do anything illegal. In real life, she would've certainly been arrested for attempted murder ''at the very least''.
* ArtShift: In contrast to the usual Creator/HannaBarbera style, the characters are redesigned in Warner Bros. Animation's typical "house" style of the time for this series (resembling a show produced by [[Creator/SonyPicturesTelevision Adelaide Productions]], such as ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlack'' and ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' -- both of which also aired on Kids' WB). It hits some characters more strongly than others, like Velma's totally redesigned body shape. And it advertised itself with Fred missing his ascot.
** The earlier episodes of the series had a lot more deliberate animation for the characters, particularly with a lot of motion frames for characters mid-talking, though at the same time the art played more fast and loose with keeping characters on-model. The further the series went along, the more consistent the character designs became and less moments of those idle animation bits. This also reflected in the direct-to-video movies in the era, with an early one like ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheMonsterOfMexico'' having the earlier animation quirks, while something like ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheSamuraiSword'' was more consistent with the later seasons.

** "Reef Grief!" features a giant Coral Monster. [[spoiler: Though it's actually '''not''' the main antagonist in disguise, and is indeed real. In fact, the only reason it even attacks was due to the Big Bad mining through its home]].

** [[ItMakesSenseInContext Glowing Safari Animals]] in "Safari, So Goodi!".

** [[KillerRobot The robot servant]] and [[spoiler: The '''house''' itself, which was the villain the whole time]] in "High-Tech House of Horrors".
** A monster '''made of Scooby Snacks''' in "Recipe for Disaster".

** The scarecrows in "A Scooby Doo Halloween".

* BackBlocking: In "Big Appetite in Little Tokyo". When a bunch of angry Japanese villagers are crowding around the gang, one of them in a light grey shirt fills the screen.

* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Occurs in the Halloween episode with redhead Daphne, brunette Velma and Velma's blonde cousin, Marcy.

* TheCameo: WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadrunner [[https://youtu.be/uEI2-GEfQKs both make a very brief appearance]] in the beginning of "Old Monster, New Mexico".

** The glowing lion and leopard in "Safari, So Goodi!".

* ClassyCatBurglar: [[spoiler: Trudy]] in "Recipe for Disaster", who has ''ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}'' like reflexes, and wears a dark suit and mask around, while train to [[CorporateWarfare steal the Scooby Snacks recipe]].

* CreatorKiller: In-Universe, "Lights, Camera, Mayhem" has the Creator/KeanuReeves-esque star wish not to star in the remake of ''Spy Me a River'', which is terribly written and cheesy. To make matters worse, the ghost of the original star attacks the set. [[spoiler:It turns out the phantom was both the director since it would tank his career and the original star since it made a mockery of the original, and both are allowed to go free since they hadn’t hurt anyone.]]

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Fred Jones. While some of the movies had been toying with this to push him away from his original flat everyman characterization, this was where the new characterization really started to take hold.

* CoveredInMud: In the episode "Reef Grief!" Spencer Johnson covers the sand castle competitors with mud so they can build his underground freeway.

* CruelElephant: One of the animal demons in "Safari, So Goodi!" takes the form of an aggressive elephant that unsuccessfully tries to capture Daphne. [[spoiler:Subverted in that it's just a normal elephant hypnotized into acting vicious.]]

* DarkestAfrica: In the episode "Safari So Goodi!", it's not really stated which part of Africa the gang travel to, with their guide Robbie being a student at a college in Cape Town (which is in South Africa) and accompanying t-shirt designer Lloyd [[spoiler: who is really an undercover police officer from the Malawi police]], but the reserve they visit is predominantly jungles with a few MisplacedWildlife.
* DemotedToExtra: Scooby-Doo himself, in most cases, and sometimes Shaggy. Typically the show would shift focus onto Fred, Daphne and Velma, but one major exception was the episode '"Camp Comeoniwannascareya", which did ''not'' feature Fred, Velma or Daphne at all; it just featured Shaggy and Scooby-Doo as the main characters (Fred is only mentioned in it).

* DinnerOrderFlub: In "Pompeii and Circumstance", Fred is continually misreading his Italian phrase book. As a result, he orders a potted plant at a restaurant.
* DisappointedInYou: In "Roller Ghoster Ride", [[spoiler:Chris says this upon learning her own sister Terry plotted against her.]]
* DisguisedInDrag: Briefly, in "Fright House of a Lighthouse". During the musical chase scene, the Creepy Keeper passes by a fisherman, a large fish, and a barrel to get to Shaggy and Scooby. The aforementioned people/items turn out to be Daphne, Velma and Fred (respectively) in disguise, with Daphne including a fake beard in her fisherman costume.

* DorkKnight: Yet again, Fred. Apparently he's the only one who can't see how much he keeps making a fool of himself.

* DistressedDude: At least twice, Fred has been put in real danger and had be rescued by Scooby.

* FakingTheDead: In "Riva Ras Regas", the magician Rufus Raucous is revealed to have faked his death so he could have a normal life, his ghost really being his former assistant in disguise.
* FarmersDaughter: Velma's cousin Marcy is one of these, but without the overly protective father.

** When Scooby and Shaggy enter a scene, you ''know'' the first thing they'll say will be food-oriented. Then again, it isn't really that different from their other portrayals.
* FoodAsBribe: How the gang usually persuade Shaggy and Scooby to be monster bait. In one episode, they use Scooby Snacks to persuade Shaggy and Scooby to be literal bait -- the two end up dressing like octopi.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: In "Go West, Young Scoob", the gang come across blueprints for an android resembling Dr. Fleg and assume that the scientist intends to make a robotic double of himself. It later turns out that Dr. Fleg himself is a robot and that John Lawman is actually human and the real founder of Cyber Gulch.

* TheGameNeverStopped: This happens at the end of [[spoiler:"E-Scream"... From Velma's point of view, at least.]]
* GenderMisdirection: The gang once went to an amusement park without knowing anything about its owners than their names (Chris and Terry) and their fame obtained by building the park's rides. The gang (mostly Shaggy) expected Chris and Terry to be men but it turns out they're girls.

* HolidayPardon: In "A Scooby-Doo! Christmas", the monstrous Headless Snowman had been going around the small town of Winter's Hallow every Christmas and destroying people's homes, making it reach the point where Winter's Hallow [[ForbiddenHoliday refuses to even celebrate Christmas]]. When unmasked as the Snowman, the remorseful Professor Higginson admitted to his motive of wanting to find his family's stolen gold, and told the town sheriff to turn him in... until a young, idealistic kid named Tommy suggests that, because it's Christmas, everyone should just forgive the professor. They do.

** Brett Hull, Mike Piazza and skateboarders Chris Klug and Ryan Sheckler are among the celebrities to appear on the show in cartoon form. In "A Scooby Doo Valentine", the Hollywood extras who disguised themselves as the human members of the gang are unmasked to be caricatures of their voice actors -- Frank Welker (Fred), Grey [=DeLisle=] (Daphne), Casey Kasem (Shaggy), and Creator/MindyCohn (Velma), with former Music/{{NSYNC}} member J.C. Chasez disguised as Scooby-Doo.

* ItWasADarkAndStormyNight: Surprisingly only done on ONE episode: "The Vampire Strikes Back", it starts off as your classic Scooby-Doo thunderstorm (complete with crackles, pops and vinyl hiss on the first couple of lightning flashes), but then it gets more realistic and LOUD, and then after the loudest thunder crash of them all (when Fred leaps down from a tower to save Daphne near the end), the storm abruptly ''comes to an end''.
* JoinUsDrone: In "Mummy Scares Best", the titular mummy causes his victims to chant "join us" when going after others. This ends up happening to Fred, Daphne and Velma when the gang explore one of the pyramids.

** Played for laughs in "Lights! Camera! Mayhem!", where the villain gets off scot free because ''everybody agrees with him'' (including the gang). Instead, they end up covering up his crimes and thinking up a solution that gives everyone what they want, complete with the catchphrase being played with as the bad guys thanks "those wonderful, meddling kids."
* KillerGorilla: Played with in "Safari, So Goodi!". One of jungle demons take the form of an aggressive gorilla, [[spoiler:which is just an ordinary gorilla that's been BrainwashedAndCrazy]]. Normal gorillas are portrayed as docile just like in real life.

* LatexPerfection: Typically avoided in this series in favor of the villains using makeup, animatronics, holograms, etc. Though there are a few exceptions in this series, such as in the intro, and in "A Scooby-Doo Valentine" when the gang is framed by rubber-masked impostors, and Scooby is unmasked to reveal [[spoiler:J.C. Chasez of Music/{{NSYNC}}]]!

* LetsSplitUpGang: In pretty much every episode. The show does occasionally break the pattern of the two groups: Fred, Daphne and Velma in one group and Scooby and Shaggy in the other.

* LivingToys: Apparently living toys are [[MonsterOfTheWeek the monster of the episode]] in "Toy Scary Boo". It also has a [[OneSceneWonder gumball machine]] that growls, for some reason.
* LoopholeAbuse: When none of the racers in "The Fast and the Wormiest" can get their cars to the finish line, all of them run on foot to cross it, are stopped short when they all trip over each other, and Scooby wins by reaching his paw over the line.
* LosingAShoeInTheStruggle: This happens to Daphne three times. First time she loses a shoe in "E-Scream", then in "Big Scare in the Big Easy" and finally in "Recipe for Disaster".

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The Ancient One in "Big Appetite in Little Tokyo". Considering he isn't brought up when the actual villain of the week is arrested, everyone is left wondering if he was a hoax by a third party or if he really was a ghost who wanted the factory to be moved. Whatever he was, he got his wish, so it became a moot point.
* MiniGolfEpisode: The episode "A Terrifying Round with a Menacing Clown" features Shaggy competing in a competition at "Putt Putt Paradise", a mini-golf course haunted by a clown-shaped course obstacle that seemingly comes to life an attacks the mini-golfers.
* MisplacedWildlife: "Safari, So Goodi!" features lions, giraffes, zebras, impalas, warthogs, and cheetahs living in a jungle rather than the savannah. At one point, ''jaguars'' make an appearance (although they're most likely meant to be leopards, with the spots in their rosettes being an animation error).
* MonsterClown: A [[HumongousMecha giant, mechanical version]] of this attacks a mini golf course in "A Terrifying Round with a Menacing Metallic Clown". This is more of a problem than usual because Velma has a phobia of clowns.

* MsFanservice: Daphen goes a few episodes wearing a bikini and other attractive outfits.
* MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels: Fred's attempts to use an Italian phrase book in "Pompeii and Circumstance". And in "Ready To Scare", only with French.

* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: In "Safari, So Goodi!" Scooby and Shaggy flee from a crocodile that tries to eat them, only to for it to end up swallowing their rubber raft and [[InflatingBodyGag comically inflating]]. Later during the chase sequence, Fred and Daphne briefly get surrounded by jungle demon crocodiles.

* NonstandardCharacterDesign: Most of the human characters are drawn quite realistically (in Warner's typical "house" animation style of the time), and even Fred, Daphne and Velma had been redesigned a bit to fit with the show's art style (Velma noticeably [[AdaptationalAttractiveness got slimmer and more shapely]].) But Shaggy still retained his classic semi-cartoonish design (albeit with eye sclera now), and the cartoony Scooby-Doo still stuck out from the rest of the realistically-drawn animals in the series (aside from the cartoony-looking penguins and seal in "Uncle Scooby and Antarctica"). Although, this series is still cartoony compared to the first four of the WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooDirectToVideoFilmSeries, which the rest of the films follow until ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheSamuraiSword''.
* NotHimself: Shaggy's bravery in "A Terrifying Round with a Menacing Metallic Clown", if only because he didn't want a monster stopping him from winning the mini-golf tournament. In the same episode, Velma goes off cowering with Scooby as her childhood fear of clowns comes to the surface. Rather than a perfect swap, though, Shaggy acts more like a second Fred (much to his annoyance) instead of taking over Velma's spot. Though they revert back to their old selves, along with Velma facing her fears.

* {{Notzilla}}: An episode has a giant monster named "Shagzilla". He's supposed to be Shaggy cursed to transform into a Godzilla parody at night ([[spoiler:Actually, it's a giant robot built by the villain of the week, and Shaggy is duped into believing he really is the monster because, while he is asleep, he is made up as the monster and placed on a Tokyo maquette.]]).

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: [[spoiler:In "E-Scream", this is what tips Velma off to the fact that she's in a virtual reality game: Freddy doesn't want to split up, Daphne is okay with wearing mismatched shoes, and Shaggy and Scooby are perfectly willing to be bait for a trap even without being offered Scooby Snacks. Shaggy saying "Toinks!" instead of "Zoinks!" is just the final nail in the coffin]].

* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: "Riva Ras Regas" features Fred, Shaggy and Scooby in a steam room with the suspect. The suspect can't see them, Fred disguises his voice via an Elvis impression, the suspect believes it to be Englebert Humperdink.

* RaceLift: When the Hex Girls debuted in ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheWitchsGhost'', Luna was AmbiguouslyBrown. But when the band reappears in "The Vampire Strikes Back", she has a much lighter complexion that matches Thorn and Dusk's skin.

* RefugeInAudacity: The villain behind the [[GiantFlyer Wakumi]] from "New Mexico, Old Monster" ([[spoiler:The Shaman/Colonel Henry Thornwald]]) fully explains his motives despite said motives [[spoiler:being [[GovernmentConspiracy highly classified, kept secret from even the Government]][[note]]The Colonel was researching an extraterrestrial breakthrough[[/note]]]], because no one will believe a bunch of [[YouMeddlingKids Meddling Kids]]. Somewhat {{Subverted}} in that he still gets arrested, but it's not revealed if anyone outside the gang believes the story.
* RevealingContinuityLapse: "E-Scream", most members of Mystery Inc. start behaving heavily out-of-character: Fred doesn't tell the gang to split up but instead they all go together, Daphne goes around wearing mismatched shoes without worrying of her look and Shaggy and Scooby offer themselves as bait for the monsters with no need of bribing them with Scooby Snacks. All these changes (plus the fact that Shaggy says "Toinks" instead of "Zoinks") end up to make Velma realize she is actually in a VR simulation.
* RhinoRampage: One of the glowing animals in "Safari, So Goodi!" is a rhino.
* RobotClown: The MonsterOfTheWeek in "A Terrifying Round With a Menacing Metallic Clown" is, as the title indicates, a giant robotic clown. It starts out disguised as an obstacle on a mini-golf course, then comes to life to terrorize golfers. [[spoiler:It turns out to be controlled by Mayor Snipper, who specifically built it to scare people away from the golf course because he believes that golf ruined his son's life.]]

* ScarecrowSolution: [[spoiler:In "Camp Comeoniwannascareya", Counselor Gray masquerades as the Toxic Terror to protect the camp from becoming an adult resort.]]

* ScoobyDooHoax: Naturally, the gang deal with monsters that are actually criminals wearing disguises. However:
** "Reef Grief" subverts it; the monster ''is'' real, but it has nothing to do with the (human) villain's plot. The villain was unintentionally pissing it off by making too much noise underwater. It's actually pretty friendly otherwise, and it even saves Scooby from drowning when escaping the villain's CollapsingLair.
** Pretty consistently, if the monster is some kind of robot or techno-terror (like hostile robot or a [[AutomatedAutomobiles Killer Mystery Machine]]), it's real. This is consistent with the occasional way-out science-fiction explanations for the more conventional hoaxes.
** Some monsters are actually remote-controlled instead of someone riding them like vehicles or being in a costume.
** You'd think the BigBad of "High-Tech House of Horrors" would be some sort of hacker or [[KillerRobot Jeeves]]. However in reality, it's actually [[spoiler: S.H.A.R.I., the AI inside the House, That's right, the '''haunted house''' itself was the villain the whole time]].

** In a more non-monster example, in "Homeward Hound", the big bad's dog (which is small dog, oddly enough) is disguised as an [[EvilTwin evil version of Scooby Doo]]. Oh, and in case you're wondering, excluding a lack of a collar, [[PerpetualFrowner constant scowl]] and more aggressive behavior, '''[[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/scoobydoo/images/b/bf/Scooby_impostor_%28Homeward_Hound%29.png it's actually very convincing disguise]]''' Yeah, '''that''' Scooby is '''small dog in disguise'''.
** In "Camp Comeoniwannascareya", the Toxic Terror is, of course, [[ForegoneConclusion a person in a suit]]. The trope becomes more literal though when [[spoiler:Scooby and Shaggy alongside their wards actually ''help'' Counselor Grey at the end to scare off the greedy camp director that was going to take down the camp to make a resort.]]

* SheatheYourSword: In the episode "High-Tech House of Horrors", Velma discovers that [[spoiler:S.H.A.R.I., the house's AI and MonsterOfTheWeek, thrived on getting attention from people by attacking and terrorizing them, and deduced that the way to defeat it is not to proactively find a way to deactivate it, but to simply refuse to give it what it wants. As such, Velma directs everyone to sit on the floor and do nothing, prompting the AI to scream at them to pay attention to it until it overloaded and fried its circuitry]].

* ShoutOut: Enough references to other works to warrant [[ShoutOut/WhatsNewScoobyDoo its own page]].

* StageMom: Susan Dinwittie. She's more concerned with making her FormerChildStar kids Andy and Mandy famous again than they are and neglects her other son Randy. [[spoiler:Once it's revealed she made their former van seem haunted as a publicity stunt, Andy and Mandy decide they're happy as has-beens.]]

** In the amusement park episode, the gang points out that [[spoiler:Terry may have been busted for framing Chris, but since she committed her stunts on her family property in the amusement park ''and'' designed the rides to make sure no one was hurt from the supposed sabotage, she technically got away with it. Fred even has some respect that she didn't want to hurt anyone. It would be up to her family if they want to either fire Terry or press charges. Chris, instead of doing so, thinks a better punishment is telling their mother. Cue Terry going OhCrap and chasing after her sister, [[DontTellMama saying that they don't have to get Mom involved]]]].

** In "Lights, Camera, Mayhem", since everyone hates working on ''Spy Me A River'', including the diva Chip Hernandez Jr. as well as the stunts coordinator and makeup crew, they crew agrees to not [[spoiler:call the police on the director after he's revealed as the real ghost and the original Rip Bannon reveals himself as the mysterious samurai. Fred even points out he saved Shaggy and Scooby from a near-deadly fall, meaning he didn't want to hurt anyone. The crew decides to cancel the production in favor of a new movie called ''The Modem II'' and the director thanks the meddling "kids" for intervening]].
** Janet Lawrence in "Space Ape At The Cape" has been working on space data, ordering people not to see her work even if they have clearance, and studying a so-called alien egg. The alien seems to hatch and grow overnight, running wild at the space station. [[spoiler:It turns out that a bit of reality undoes the scheme: Janet's research wasn't ready, and the alien scam was to keep her from being found out. She was being snippy even to her own coworkers, who assume that she was stressed about the rampaging alien but misunderstood. Velma realized that the "egg" was dehydrated organic material, thanks to Shaggy playing with the food dehydrator, and Janet added water to make her fake egg explode. To top it all off, Janet's supposed alien find attracted the attention of the FBI, who was interested in the possibility of galaxy life and said agent realizes in a matter of days that Janet's work was fraudulent]]. 
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: It's mentioned that [[spoiler:if Shaggy really is cursed to become a Godzilla monster and rampage through the city, either he could turn himself into the police and they could watch him to see if he's the suspect while lawyering up to prevent possible framing. The gang vetoes that by running away from the officer wanting to take them into custody, and deciding to go on the lam. It turns out that was the right call since Velma's professor was framing Shaggy in revenge]].

* TallyMarksOnThePrisonWall: When the gang get arrested in "A Scooby-Doo Valentine", Fred is seen using a knife to carve five tally marks into the wall of his cell and stating that they've been locked up for five hours.
* TeenDrama: Has some traits of this at times, in addition to the usual mystery-solving formula. Not that surprising, given the show aired on Creator/TheWB.

* TookAThirdOption: In "Light, Camera, Mayhem", when it's found out that [[spoiler:''both'' of the would-be ghosts in the director and the original film's star don't want the movie to be, combined with the remake's newer head star himself wanting out as well, the episode's resolved by all three agreeing not to press charges since no one actually got hurt, and simply cancelling the film production altogether.]]

* UnexpectedKindness: In "It's All Greek to Scooby", the crew thinks that a man with a scary face is the villain since he's chasing them and yelling in Greek. Actually, he just wants to return Daphne's purse.

* TheUnfavorite: Randy Dinwittie in "It's Mean, It's Green, It's the Mystery Machine". His mother only cares about making his siblings Andy and Mandy [[FormerChildStar famous again]] and his accomplishments mean nothing to her except when she can use his skills to improve Andy and Mandy's career [[spoiler:no matter if it's by hook or by crook]].
* UnroboticReveal: In the episode "Go West, Young Scoob", John Lawman at first seems to be one of the animatronics created by Dr. Fleg for Cyber Gulch, even having a scene where he stutters and repeats himself as if he were malfunctioning. When Dr. Fleg is revealed to be a robot once Velma shorts him out with a splash of water, the same water does not affect John Lawman, revealing that he's actually human and the true founder of Cyber Gulch.

* WhamShot: Shaggy being visible ''right through'' the ice-creature he's standing behind in the series pilot: proof positive the baddies in this version of the franchise have moved beyond rubber suits.

* WinsByDoingAbsolutelyNothing: In "High-Tech. House of Horrors", the gang defeats the super computer by just sitting down. Velma realized it wanted attention, when they wouldn't give it to it, the computer suffers a breakdown.

* YouMeddlingKids: Parodied in nearly every episode as well; instances include having twin villains say it in unison (in "The Vampire Strikes Back") and a young kid calling the gang "meddling grownups" (in "Gentlemen, Start Your Monsters"), and another villain referring to them as "interloping adolescents" before [[LampshadeHanging Velma corrects him]] (in "There's no Business Like Snow Business"), another villain has called them "meddling teenagers", etc.

** The episode "Simple Plan and the Invisible Madman" pays homage to ''WesternAnimation/TheNewScoobyDooMovies'', where celebrity guest stars in animated form helped the gang solve cases.

** The flashback scene of Velma's birthday party in "A Terrifying Round With A Menacing Metallic Clown" is designed in the style of ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo''. It explains Velma's fear of clowns -- the clown hired for her party destroyed her prize gift, a set of encyclopedias, and it made Velma run off crying.

** Daphne's [[MsFanservice already lovely body]] is even more [[ImpossibleHourglassFigure curvatious and buxom]] than in previous incarnations.

* AntiSneezeFinger: In "Simple Plan and the Invisible Madman", the titular "invisible madman" sprinkles pepper on Scooby's nose. After Shaggy uses this technique, Scooby promptly sneezes anyway... and blows the villain across the room. This proves beneficial, as said villain was about to hit the pair with a jukebox, and the sneeze results in ''him'' being flattened by it.

** In "A Terrifying Round With a Menacing Metallic Clown'", the art style suddenly shifts to a giant homage to ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'' during a Velma flashback to why she's so afraid of clowns.

* HolidayPardon: In "A Scooby-Doo! Christmas", the monstrous Headless Snowman had been going around the small town of Winter's Hallow every Christmas and destroying people's homes, making it reach the point where Winter's Hallow [[ForbiddenHoliday refuses to even celebrate Christmas]]. When unmasked as the Snowman, the remorseful Professor Higginson admitted to his motive of wanting to find his family's stolen gold, and told the town sheriff to turn him in...until a young, idealistic kid named Tommy suggests that, because it's Christmas, everyone should just forgive the professor. They do.

* SixthRanger: Often the gang might be joined for parts of the investigation and/or chase scenes of an episode by guest character (like the kids in "Camp comeoniwannascareya") or previous victims who they rescue from the MonsterOfTheWeek, like Janey from "Hi-Tech House of Horrors" and Leon from "New Mexico, Old Monster".

* StatingTheSimpleSolution: It's mentioned that [[spoiler:if Shaggy really is cursed to become a Godzilla monster and rampage through the city, either he could turn himself into the police and they could watch him to see if he's the suspect while lawyering up to prevent possible framing. The gang vetoes that by running away from the officer wanting to take them into custody, and deciding to go on the lam. It turns out that was the right call since Velma's professor was framing Shaggy in revenge]]. 

The ninth incarnation of ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'', the show lasted for three seasons, airing from 2002 to 2006. Essentially a modernized (as well as more realistic) version of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou''--it also parodies many conventions from the older series of the franchise.

* ActionGirl: Daphne Blake plays this up a lot more than she did in previous shows--she's the one to usually get the gang out of a jam and can defend herself really well.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Most noticeably with Velma - who is given a cute face and an attractive figure here (whereas her original design had her be very plain and appeared slightly overweight) - and to a lesser extent Shaggy, who probably benefits more from the less rough art-style.

* AllForNothing: The crook of "Large Dragon At Large" ended up believing in the legend of the dragon, and using it to his own ends to try to scare everyone off while he searched for the treasure. Turns out the legend was [[spoiler:just a bunch of tourist trap malarkey, to the point of the person who cooked it up shaving his own eyebrows and claiming the dragon torched them]] - so the entire usual ScoobyDooHoax ends up being a free trip to jail and a complete waste of the perp's time.

* AnimationBump: The WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner cameo in "New Mexico, Old Monster." Even though it was simply animated in Korea (by Creator/LottoAnimation, to be exact), many have found it to be animated much better than ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'' and ''WesternAnimation/WabbitALooneyTunesProduction'' a decade later.
* AntiSneezeFinger: In ''Simple Plan and the Invisible Madman'', the titular "invisible madman" sprinkles pepper on Scooby's nose. After Shaggy uses this technique, Scooby promptly sneezes anyway... and blows the villain across the room. This proves beneficial, as said villain was about to hit the pair with a jukebox, and the sneeze results in ''him'' being flattened by it.

* ArtisticLicenseLaw: In ''Roller Ghoster Ride,'' the titular monster hops on rides more than once to tamper with them ''while riders are on them'', putting them in mortal danger. In one case, a car on the Rocket Coaster ride is derailed from the track, and sent flying into the water. [[spoiler: Terry was the perpetrator behind the mask]], but she doesn't go to jail. While this could be explained through SoftWater, the skydiving simulator that almost sliced up Fred, Velma, and Daphne is far more egregious. Fred and Daphne point out that she didn't do anything illegal. In real life, she would've certainly been arrested for attempted murder ''at the very least.''
* ArtShift: In contrast to the usual Creator/HannaBarbera style, the characters are redesigned in Warner Bros. Animation's typical "house" style of the time for this series (resembling a show produced by [[Creator/SonyPicturesTelevision Adelaide Productions]], such as ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlack'' and ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures''- both of which also aired on Kids' WB). It hits some characters more strongly than others, like Velma's totally redesigned body shape. And it advertised itself with Fred missing his ascot.

** In ''A Terrifying Round With a Menacing Metallic Clown'', the art style suddenly shifts to a giant homage to ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'' during a Velma flashback to why she's so afraid of clowns.

** ''The Fast and the Wormius'' has a giant Sand Worm.
** The monster in ''Big Appetite in Little Tokyo'' is "Shag-Zilla", a Kaiju-fied '''Shaggy'''.
** ''Large Dragon at Large'' has, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a large dragon at large]].
** ''New Mexico, Old Monster'' has a gigantic eagle-like bird as its monster.
** ''A Terrifying Round with a Menacing Metallic Clown'' Features a gigantic metallic clown. Also counts as a villainous example of a HumongousMecha.
** ''Block-Long Hong Kong Terror'' also features a dragon, this time a Chinese one.
** ''Reef Grief!'' Features a giant Coral Monster. [[spoiler: Though it's actually '''not''' the main antagonist in disguise, and is indeed real. In fact, the only reason it even attacks was due to the Big Bad mining through its home]].

** Of all things, '''[[AutomatedAutomobiles the Mystery Machine]]''' invokes this trope in ''It's Mean, It's Green, It's the Mystery Machine''.
** [[ItMakesSenseInContext Glowing Safari Animals]] in ''Safari, So Goodi!''.
** [[LivingToys Evil toys]] in ''Toy Story Boo'', which also featured a gumball machine that snaps at Shaggy like an attack dog in one scene.
** [[KillerRobot The robot servant]] and [[spoiler: The '''house''' itself, which was the villain the whole time]] in ''High-Tech House of Horrors''
** A monster '''made of Scooby Snacks''' in ''Recipe for Disaster''.
** An Abominable (literal) Snowman in ''A Scooby-Doo! Christmas''.
** The Baseball Specter [[spoiler: (and this time, it's not [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheCyberChase a ghostly virus]])]] in ''The Unnatural''.
** The scarecrows in ''A Scooby Doo Halloween''.
** The Demon Farmer in ''Farmed & Dangerous''
** A man made of solid gold in ''Gold Paw''
** An Ice-bodied Hockey player in ''Diamonds Are a Ghoul's Best Friend''
** The [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever Giant Bird]] from ''New Mexico, Old Monster''
** [[KillerRobot Killer robot]] Cowboys (led by Cold Steel) in ''Go West, Young Scoob''
** [[EvilTwin Mystery inc. Doppelgangers]] in ''A Scooby-Doo Valentine''.
** The [[VisualPun Monster Truck Driver]] in ''Gentlemen, Start Your Monsters!''
* AutomatedAutomobiles: The Mystery Machine in ''It's Mean, It's Green, It's the Mystery Machine'', where it attempts multiple times to kill the very people who ride in it.

* BellyDancer: Velma and Daphne disguise themselves as belly dancers in the episode, "Mummy Scares Best". Scooby even joins in on the action in an attempt to distract a group of hypnotized tourists from harming Velma and Daphne.
* BerserkButton: In ''Fright House of a Lighthouse'', Freddy tells Shaggy and Scooby that the MonsterOfTheWeek was badmouthing Scooby Snacks; this gets them riled up enough to be bait ''without'' the usual bribe.

* BigStormEpisode: ''The Vampire Strikes Back''.
* BlandNameProduct: Like many large arenas in America, the stadium in ''The Unnatural'' is named for its corporate sponsor -- the "Cookie Co."

* BoundAndGagged: Daphne in ''Big Scare in the Big Easy''.

* BunnyEarsPicturePrank: In ''A Scooby-Doo Halloween'', Scooby maneuvers two of the pumpkin-headed scarecrows into position to have their picture taken with Shaggy, who's dressed as a werewolf. When he hands them the photo afterward before he and Shaggy run off, the picture shows Shaggy giving them both rabbit ears.

** The glowing lion and leopard in "Safari, So Goodi!"

* CreatorKiller: In-Universe, "Light, Camera, Mayhem" the Creator/KeanuReeves-esque star wishes not to star in the remake of ''Spy Me a River'', which is terribly written and cheesy. To make matters worse, the ghost of the original star attacks the set. [[spoiler:It turns out the phantom was both the director since it would tank his career and the original star since it made a mockery of the original, and both are allowed to go free since they hadn’t hurt anyone.]]

* EnlightenedAntagonist: The Ancient One from ''Big Appetite in Little Tokyo'' is a ghost who looks like an old wizard, and who demands that the scientists at a Tokyo factory abandon their plans for a new wharf because it would be a threat to the simple traditional Japanese way of life. [[spoiler: The ending implies that he might be RealAfterAll, and the scientists eventually decide to respect his wish.]]

** When you look at it, Daphne (being much more fashion-conscious than before - even though she's still sharper than Fred, and still more competent than she was in the original series) and Velma (who must always be right and, whenever she's wrong, the script will find a way to prove her right at the end of the day...with a few notable exceptions) qualify as well.

* FoodAsBribe: How the gang usually persuade Shaggy and Scooby to be monster bait. In one episode, they use Scooby Snacks to persuade Shaggy and Scooby to be literal bait--the two end up dressing like octopi.

* HolidayPardon: In "A Scooby-Doo! Christmas," the monstrous Headless Snowman had been going around the small town of Winter's Hallow every Christmas and destroying people's homes, making it reach the point where Winter's Hallow [[ForbiddenHoliday refuses to even celebrate Christmas]]. When unmasked as the Snowman, the remorseful Professor Higginson admitted to his motive of wanting to find his family's stolen gold, and told the town sheriff to turn him in...until a young, idealistic kid named Tommy suggests that, because it's Christmas, everyone should just forgive the professor. They do.

** Brett Hull, Mike Piazza and skateboarders Chris Klug and Ryan Sheckler are among the celebrities to appear on the show in cartoon form. In "A Scooby Doo Valentine," the Hollywood extras who disguised themselves as the human members of the gang are unmasked to be caricatures of their voice actors -- Frank Welker (Fred), Grey [=DeLisle=] (Daphne), Casey Kasem (Shaggy), and Creator/MindyCohn (Velma), with former Music/{{NSYNC}} member J.C. Chasez disguised as Scooby-Doo.

* ItWasADarkAndStormyNight: Surprisingly only done on ONE episode: "The Vampire Strikes Back," it starts off as your classic Scooby-Doo thunderstorm (complete with crackles, pops and vinyl hiss on the first couple of lightning flashes), but then it gets more realistic and LOUD, and then after the loudest thunder crash of them all (when Fred leaps down from a tower to save Daphne near the end), the storm abruptly ''comes to an end.''

* LosingAShoeInTheStruggle: This happens to Daphne three times. First time she loses a shoe in E-Scream, then in Big Scare in the Big Easy and finally in Recipe for Disaster.

* MiniGolfEpisode: The episode "A Terrifying Round with a Menacing Clown" features Shaggy competing in a competition at "Putt Putt Paradise," a mini-golf course haunted by a clown-shaped course obstacle that seemingly comes to life an attacks the mini-golfers.

** The flashback scene of Velma's birthday party in "A Terrifying Round With A Menacing Metallic Clown" is designed in the style of ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo''. It explains Velma's fear of clowns--the clown hired for her party destroyed her prize gift, a set of encyclopedias, and it made Velma run off crying.

* RaceLift: When the Hex Girls debuted in ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheWitchsGhost'', Luna was AmbiguouslyBrown. But when the band reappears in "The Vampire Strikes Back," she has a much lighter complexion that matches Thorn and Dusk's skin.

** You'd think the BigBad of ''High-Tech House of Horrors'' would be some sort of hacker or [[KillerRobot Jeeves]]. However in reality, it's actually [[spoiler: S.H.A.R.I., the AI inside the House, That's right, the '''haunted house''' itself was the villain the whole time]].

** In a more non-monster example, in ''Homeward Hound'', the big bad's dog (which is small dog, oddly enough) is disguised as an [[EvilTwin evil version of Scooby Doo]]. Oh, and in case you're wondering, excluding a lack of a collar, [[PerpetualFrowner constant scowl]] and more aggressive behavior, '''[[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/scoobydoo/images/b/bf/Scooby_impostor_%28Homeward_Hound%29.png it's actually very convincing disguise]]''' Yeah, '''that''' Scooby is '''small dog in disguise.'''

* SheatheYourSword: In the episode ''High-Tech House of Horrors'', Velma discovers that [[spoiler:S.H.A.R.I., the house's AI and MonsterOfTheWeek, thrived on getting attention from people by attacking and terrorizing them, and deduced that the way to defeat it is not to proactively find a way to deactivate it, but to simply refuse to give it what it wants. As such, Velma directs everyone to sit on the floor and do nothing, prompting the AI to scream at them to pay attention to it until it overloaded and fried its circuitry]].

** Since everyone hates working on ''Spy Me A River'', including the diva Chip Hernandez Jr. as well as the stunts coordinator and makeup crew, they crew agrees to not [[spoiler:call the police on the director after he's revealed as the real ghost and the original Rip Bannon reveals himself as the mysterious samurai. Fred even points out he saved Shaggy and Scooby from a near-deadly fall, meaning he didn't want to hurt anyone. The crew decides to cancel the production in favor of a new movie called ''The Modem II'' and the director thanks the meddling "kids" for intervening]].

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Happens sometimes with people terrorized by monsters in the ColdOpening's, such as the previous safari in " Safari So Good", skateboarder Rich Curman in "San Franpsycho", and the second burglar in "Recipe for Disaster".

* AntiVillain: Used several times, a first for the franchise. Every once in a while, the characters would run into a villain with sympathetic motives - generally, these folks would be let off because "nobody got hurt" (though not for lack of trying, sometimes) or the case just dropped without fanfare.

* MsFanservice: Daphen goes a few episodes wearing a bikini and other attractive outfits.

* BunnyEarsPicturePrank: In ''A Scooby-Doo Halloween'', Scooby manuevers two of the pumpkin-headed scarecrows into position to have their picture taken with Shaggy, who's dressed as a werewolf. When he hands them the photo afterward before he and Shaggy run off, the picture shows Shaggy giving them both rabbit ears.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Sometimes the criminals ''don't'' go to jail owing to a few factors:** In the amusement park episode, the gang points out that [[spoiler:Terry may have been busted for framing Chris, but since she committed her stunts on her family property in the amusement park ''and'' designed the rides to make sure no one was hurt from the supposed sabotage, she technically got away with it. Fred even has some respect that she didn't want to hurt anyone. It would be up to her family if they want to either fire Terry or press charges. Chris, instead of doing so, thinks a better punishment is telling their mother. Cue Terry going OhCrap and chasing after her sister, [[DontTellMama saying that they don't have to get Mom involved]]]].

* InjuredLimbEpisode:Fred breaks his leg in "There’s No Creature Like Snow Creature".

* DigestiveSoundtrackUsage: Shaggy has a ringtone of the show's theme song in "Fright House of a Lighthouse".

* DiegestiveSoundtrackUsage: Shaggy has a ringtone of the show's theme song in "Fright House of a Lighthouse".