History WesternAnimation / WhatsNewScoobyDoo

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Episodes with the characters in beachwear have Fred and Daphne barefoot, Velma in sandals, and Shaggy in one camp or the other depending on the episode. While the beach is hardly an unusual place for one to be barefoot, their investigations usually take them away from the beach at least once and they [[LimitedWardrobe remain in the same outfits]], including bare feet if applicable.

* OffModel: The series dips into this a lot throughout the series with the characters' faces, with some of the Creator/DongWooAnimation-helmed episodes drawing them in an {{Animesque}} style in several shots. The Season 1 episodes by Creator/WangFilmProductions are also quite crude in many instances.

** Roller Ghoster starts with a zoom on the titular villain, then midway through the episode, zooms into Velma's mouth, fading to when her uvula stops wiggling.

* OnceASeason: In each of the three seasons of the show, their is a special set around a certain holiday.

** Velma gets in on the action, too, getting some swimsuit scenes as well, and also dresses up as a BellyDancer with Velma in "Mummy Scares Best".

* ClassyCatBurglar: [[spoiler:Trudy]] in "[[Recap/WhatsNewScoobyDooS2E9RecipeForDisaster 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]].

* 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]].

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

* ActorAllusion: In "A Scooby-Doo Valentine", Daphne laments that the fact that she was impersonated by an extra (who, ironically, [[InkSuitActor resembled her voice actor]], Creator/GreyDeLisle), saying, "What, Creator/SarahMichelleGellar wasn't available?" Sarah Michelle Gellar played Daphne in the LiveActionAdaptation of the franchise.

* 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.
* AlphabeticalThemeNaming: The Dinwittie siblings: Andy, Mandy, and Randy.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter:
** 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.]]
** 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.
* AmbiguousSituation: The gang doesn't call the cops on [[spoiler:Terry for framing her sister Chris in "Roller Ghoaster Ride" as well as sabotaging their family's theme park]]. They ultimately decide to leave it up to [[spoiler:Terry's family to determine how she should be punished. Chris runs off to notify their mom about what Terry did, which makes Terry chase after her sister and beg her not to do that.]] We ultimately don't find out what happens to the perpetrator.
* AnachronismStew: In "Go West, Young Scoob" a middle-aged character is shown in a flashback to have owned a laptop as a kid.
* AngryAngryHippos: In "Safari, So Good!", one of the aggressive glowing animals is a hippopotamus.
* 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.
* 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", 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.

* 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''.
* 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 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.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Occasionally episodes have this trope as MonsterOfTheWeek:
** "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. The only reason it even attacked was due to the actual villain mining through its home]].
* AttackOfTheKillerWhatever: A lot of them:
** 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 Good!".
** [[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.
* BackBlocking: In "Big Appetite in Little Tokyo". When a bunch of angry Japanese villagers is crowding around the gang, one of them in a light grey shirt fills the screen.
* BedlahBabe: In an episode called called "Mummy Scares Best", a waitress is shown walking dressed like that as Mademoiselle Chantal is presenting Daphne and Velma as bellydancers.
** In another episode called "E-Scream", somewhere you can see a woman dressed like that.
* 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", which is set in a castle during a large storm.
* BlandNameProduct: Like many large arenas in America, the stadium in "The Unnatural" is named for its corporate sponsor -- the "Cookie Co."
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Occurs in the Halloween episode with redhead Daphne, brunette Velma, and Velma's blonde cousin, Marcy.

* 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.
* TheCameo: WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadrunner [[https://youtu.be/uEI2-GEfQKs both make a very brief appearance]] at the beginning of "New Mexico, Old Monster".
* CatsAreMean:
** The glowing lion and leopard in "Safari, So Good!".
** The MonsterOfTheWeek in "Homeward Hound" is a cat creature.
* CastingGag: The episode "New Mexico, Old Monster" had former Shaggy, Creator/BillyWest, using his Shaggy voice for Shaggy's childhood friend and race-swapped {{Doppelganger}} Jimmy Proudwolf.

* 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.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: Inverted in "Big Scare In The Big Easy". Velma held dry ice with her bare hands like they were normal ice cubes. Dry ice has to be at least -78 degrees Celsius to stay frozen which would've necrotized her flesh.
* 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.]]

* CoveredInMud: In the episode "Reef Grief!" Spencer Johnson pulls the sandcastle competitors down through the sand, covering them with mud in the process, so they can build his underground freeway.

* 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.]]
* DarkerAndEdgier: Certain episodes, at least. The backstory for the two ghost brothers in "Big Scare in the Big Easy", for instance, states that they killed one another in a duel in the family graveyard. The provided flashback shows the two brothers loading their pistols on-screen, and ends with the sound of a gunshot.
* 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.

* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: Shaggy has a ringtone of the show's theme song in "Fright House of a Lighthouse".
* DinnerOrderFlub: In "Pompeii and Circumstance", Fred is continually misreading his Italian phrasebook. For example, at the end of the episode, 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.]]
* 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.

* DramaticThunder: Played straight in "The Vampire Strikes Back".

* EitherOrTitle: The second season's "High Tech House of the Future" also goes by "High Tech House of Horrors".
* ElvisImpersonator: Fred’s attempt at this sounds more like Music/EngelbertHumperdinck, according to someone who knew Elvis.
* 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.]]

* EvenTheDogIsAshamed: In "Simple Plan and the Invisible Madman", the suspects' rock-and-roll band playing is [[DreadfulMusician so awful]] that Scooby burrows into the snow to hide from it.
* EverybodyDidIt: In "Simple Plan and the Invisible Madman", it's shown that all the suspects were in on the plan.
* 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 being his former assistant in disguise.
* FarmersDaughter: Velma's cousin Marcy is one of these, but without the OverprotectiveDad.
* FelonyMisdemeanor: {{Inverted}} in "It's Mean, It's Green, It's the Mystery Machine", where a rogue Mystery Machine drives half a mile down the freeway, against traffic and with Fred and Shaggy inside, before it's stopped by police. The verdict? Since nobody got hurt, we'll call it a malfunction and just impound the van.

* FiveManBandConcert: {{Subverted}} in the episode "The Vampire Strikes Back", since the gang helps in the music video of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ckb6iGVPpts "Petrified Bride"]] but as actors, not as musicians (like in previous installments).

* ForbiddenHoliday: "A Scooby-Doo Christmas" has the gang staying at a place called Winter's Hollow due to a roadblock. Despite it being Christmas Eve, most people in the town had decided to stop celebrating Christmas forever thanks to the yearly attacks by the titular snowman.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In "Go West, Young Scoob", the gang comes across blueprints for an android resembling Dr. Fleg and assumes 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 human and the real founder of Cyber Gulch.
* 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 living like normal teenagers]].]]
* FormulaBreakingEpisode: "Camp Comeoniwannascareya" does not feature the entire gang--Shaggy and Scooby are shown working as camp counselors at a children's summer camp, and they team with the group of kids they're assigned to solve a mystery at their camp. While Freddy and the girls don't make a physical appearance, Shaggy claims that they're off solving mysteries 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 initially assumed that Chris and Terry were men, but it turns that they're girls (and sisters at that).
* GentleGiant: The [[spoiler:"Coral Creature"]], which [[spoiler:turned out to be one of the few (if not only) times where the monster was real]].
* GreenEyedMonster: Velma towards Verona Dempsey (see AlwaysSomeoneBetter above), Daphne towards Velma's cousin Marcy due to she and Fred fawning over each other, and Fred towards anyone stealing his thunder at making traps.
* GreenGators: "Safari, So Good!" had green crocodiles.
* 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.

* HypocriticalHumor: In "A Scooby-Doo Valentine", Daphe and Velma are shown wearing [[InstitutionalApparel orange prison jumpsuits]] when Officer [=McBride=] interrogates them. Daphne pleads that she doesn't want to go to jail because she doesn't want to wear the same clothes every day, when, like many cartoons, the main cast of ''Scooby-Doo'' [[LimitedWardrobe always wear the same clothes]].
* InjuredLimbEpisode: Fred breaks his leg in "There’s No Creature Like Snow Creature".

** 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.
** One-shot character Mr. Wackypants ("Riva Ras Regas") greatly resembles his voice actor, Rip Taylor.
** As does Gibby, the nerd who had a crush on Velma, resemble his v.a., Creator/EddieDeezen.
* InsufferableGenius: In this series, Velma can sometimes come off as consdescending towards those who aren't as intelligent as her.
* ItWasADarkAndStormyNight: Surprisingly only done on ONE episode: "The Vampire Strikes Back", it starts 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 explores one of the pyramids.
* KarmaHoudini:
** 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). After all, Terry's family could still have her arrested for what she did (or, at the very least, fire her).
** 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 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 [[GentleGorilla gentle]] just like in real life.

* LaughTrack: A laugh track is used in the Halloween special.

* LighthousePoint: In "Fright House of a Lighthouse".
* LivingToys: 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, is stopped short when they all trip over each other, and Scooby wins by reaching his paw over the line.

* 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 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 and attacks the mini-golfers.
* MisplacedWildlife: "Safari, So Good!" 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.

* MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels: Fred's attempts to use an Italian phrasebook in "Pompeii and Circumstance". And in "Ready To Scare", only with French.
* MythologyGag:
** The flashback scene of Velma's childhood birthday party in "A Terrifying Round With A Menacing Metallic Clown" features the gang designed in the style of ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo''. It explains her fear of clowns - the clown hired for her party destroyed her prize gift, a set of encyclopedias, and it made Velma run off crying.
** 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. Same with the Halloween episode that features Music/{{KISS}}.
** When the Scooby Gang impersonators are revealed in "A Scooby-Doo Valentine", Daphne complains about them not being able to get Creator/SarahMichelleGellar (who ''did'' play Daphne in the movies) to play her.
** "Camp Comeoniwannascareya" seems to be one to the late 70s/early 80s era of the franchise, in which Shaggy and Scooby starred in the show without the rest of the gang, mostly by themselves[[note]]Sometimes with Scrappy-Doo[[/note]].
** In "A Scooby-Doo Halloween", Shaggy's costume is a werewolf, making him resemble his appearance in ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheReluctantWerewolf''. The same episode includes a LaughTrack, which was used in every episode of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou''.
** In one episode, part of the background music is the same as the "malt shop" music from the original series.
** In "[[Recap/WhatsNewScoobyDooS2E3HighTechHouseOfHorrors 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.

* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: In "Safari, So Goodi" 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.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed:
** Vincent Wong and Chip Hernandez Junior from "Lights, Camera, Mayhem" are [[{{Expy}} Expies]] of Creator/JohnWoo and Creator/KeanuReeves.
** A celebrity golf champion named Cougar Forest in "A Terrifying Round With a Menacing Metallic Clown" is a reference to Tiger Woods.

* 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 to their old selves, along with Velma facing her fears.
* NotSoFakePropWeapon: In "Large Dragon at Large", the villain is sabotaging a Renaissance Fair. One of the things he does is replace the prop lances with real ones just before a joust.
* NotUsingTheZWord: The Roller Ghoster has several similarities to a [[GripingAboutGremlins gremlin]], being a furry green monster who tampers with the technology of amusement park rides, but is only ever referred to as a "ghost" despite not possessing any ghostly qualities.
* {{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.]]
* OffModel: The series dips into this a lot throughout the series with the characters' faces, with some of the Creator/DongWooAnimation-helmed episodes drawing them in an {{Animesque}} style in several shots. The Season 1 episodes by Creator/WangFilmProductions are also quite crude in many instances.
* OnceAnEpisode: Nearly all the parodies of the old series (especially spoofing the "meddling kids" line.)
* 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.

* ProWrestlingEpisode: "Wrestle Maniacs" has the gang investigate a monster interfering with a wrestling tournament.

* 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 than matches Thorn and Dusk's skin.
* RecycledTitle: "Wrestle Maniacs" shares its title with an episode of ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo''. Interestingly, both series' episodes revolve around wrestling and feature characters voiced by Creator/JimCummings.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: The evil clones of Mystery, Inc. in "A Scooby-Doo Valentine" have red eyes.
* 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 about 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 making Velma realize she is actually in a VR simulation.
* RhinoRampage: One of the glowing animals in "Safari, So Good!" 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 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.]]
* RoboticReveal: In "Go West, Young Scoob", the alleged creator of the Cyber Gulch animatronics Dr. Fleg turns out to be a robot himself when Velma destroys him by splashing water at him.
* ScarecrowSolution: [[spoiler:In "Camp Comeoniwannascareya", Counselor Gray masquerades as the Toxic Terror to protect the camp from becoming an adult resort.]]

* SheCleansUpNicely: When Velma gets [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BRxqIwXlxLc/U-DId6sWKbI/AAAAAAAAfpA/MOHvU74vsLc/s1600/vlcsnap-2014-08-05-07h32m38s57.png shoved inside a makeover machine by Daphne]]. Parodied slightly in her reaction.
-->'''Velma:''' [[UnnecessaryMakeover I feel like I'm wearing ten pounds of makeup]] and these shoes are so tight and...\\
'''Sees herself in the mirror'''\\
'''Velma:''' [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5ggtJRVYxvs/U-DIio3rRNI/AAAAAAAAfps/e-WZIbn9tOE/s1600/vlcsnap-2014-08-05-07h32m43s110.png Wow, I'm hot!]]
* 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]].

* SpaghettiKiss: Scooby and Shaggy have an accidental one in "Pompeii and Circumstance", much to their disgust.
* 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.]]

* 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]]]].
** To a lesser extent, one kid who has been too short to go on any of the rides asks why [[ArentYouGoingToRavishMe he wasn't considered a suspect]]. Fred and Velma break it to him gently that he was too small to fit into the monster costume, even if he had been wearing stilts. Scooby and Shaggy cheer him up by saying that he can go on the ride that ''they'' designed, and they all enjoy the giant fudge sundae that the car deliberately gets stuck in as part of the design.
** 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]].
* SurvivalMantra: In"Camp Comeoniwannascareya" Shaggy and Scooby are taking the summer off to serve as camp counselors and find themselves in the middle of a pretty terrifying mystery. This repeatedly causes Shaggy to repeat to himself:
--> '''Shaggy:''' The Gang is somewhere creepier. The gang is somewhere creepier.
* SwappedRoles: Shaggy and Velma in "A Terrifying Round with a Menacing Metallic Clown", with Shaggy being uncharacteristically fearless and laser-focused on solving the mystery so he can get back to stomping losers at the mini-golf tournament as quickly as possible, while Velma's [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes phobia of clowns]] means she's the one running and hiding from the monster with Scooby.
* TallyMarksOnThePrisonWall: When the gang gets 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.

* 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 got hurt, and simply canceling the film production altogether.]]
* TotemPoleTrench: In the episode "[[Recap/WhatsNewScoobyDooS3E11GentlemenStartYourMonsters Gentlemen, Start Your Monsters]]", Jimmy and his sister, Cindy, wore a jumpsuit, with one on the other's shoulders.
* UncannyFamilyResemblance: All Daphne needs to look identical to her cousin Danica is a wig. She says that her Uncle Julius also resembles Danica when he wears heels.
** Velma looks like her cousin Marcy's parents, especially in contrast to Marcy herself, ironically.

* UnexpectedlyRealisticGameplay: PlayedForLaughs. In the episode "E-Scream", Fred plays a driving game that ends when the car he's driving runs out of gas.
-->'''Fred:''' Out of gas? Wow, this ''is'' realistic!
* 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 human and the true founder of Cyber Gulch.

* WackyRacing: Fred enters the [[CoolCar Mystery Machine]] in one of these in the episode "The Fast and the Wormious". Because this is Scooby-Doo, the already bizarre race gets interrupted by a large worm monster, which turns out to be one of the racers.
* WhamLine: "Riva Ras Regas" features the gang investigating the ghost of a magician who was buried beneath a collapsing building during an act gone wrong. When they catch one suspect off-guard while he's taking a steam bath, he inadvertently drops quite the bombshell.
--> '''Fred:''' You know anything about this ghost business with that magician fellow?
--> '''[[SecretKeeper Del Stone]]:''' That's no ghost. [[FakingTheDead Rufus Raucous would have to be dead to be a ghost.]]
* 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 has moved beyond rubber suits.

* WickedToymaker: In "Toy Scary Boo", a wicked toymaker uses living toys to wreak havoc in a mall as a cover for his real crime.
* WinsByDoingAbsolutelyNothing: In "High-Tech. House of Horrors", the gang defeats the supercomputer by just sitting down. Velma realized it wanted attention when they wouldn't give it to it, the computer suffers a breakdown.
* WorfHadTheFlu: "A Terrifying Round With a Menacing Metallic Clown" reveals Velma having a crippling phobia of clowns, though she didn't have this problem back in ''Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!'' against the Ghost-Clown.
* 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..
* YouMustBeThisTallToRide: The episode "Roller Ghoster Ride" has a RunningGag that involves a young boy being told that he is too short to go on certain rides, such as the Sky-Diving Simulator, the Slingshot, and the Rocket Coaster. Also, he's ruled out as a suspect for being too short for the costume. In the end, after the villain of the episode is caught, the boy gets to ride with Shaggy and Scooby on the food-based ride that they'd designed for the amusement park.

* LighterAndSofter: Compared to the original shows and the early direct-to-video movies, this series is more light-hearted and ''really'' tones down the scariness of the villains, though a few (e.g. the [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/scoobydoo/images/8/8b/San_Franpsycho.png San Franpsycho]] and the [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/scoobydoo/images/5/59/Creepy_Keeper.png/revision/latest?cb=20160918125157 Creepy Keeper]]) have rather scary designs.

* LighterAndSofter: Compared to the original shows and the early direct-to-video movies, this series is more light-hearted and ''really'' tones down the scariness of the villains, though a few (e.g. the [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/scoobydoo/images/8/8b/San_Franpsycho.png/revision/latest?cb=20230206142755 San Franpsycho]] and the [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/scoobydoo/images/5/59/Creepy_Keeper.png/revision/latest?cb=20160918125157 Creepy Keeper]]) have rather scary designs.

* LighterAndSofter: Compared to the original shows and the early direct-to-video movies, this series is more light-hearted and ''really'' tones down the scariness of the villains.

* 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).

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

* CastingGag: The episode "Old Monster, New Mexico" had former Shaggy, Creator/BillyWest, using his Shaggy voice for Shaggy's childhood friend and race-swapped {{Doppelganger}} Jimmy Proudwolf.

* SuperOCD: Daphne.

* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: A young penguin accompanies the gang in "Uncle Scooby and Antarctica".

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

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: The monster of '"3D-Struction" is a ''Tyrannosaurus rex''-like Ghost.

* HotScientist: Dr. Maura Ravenmane from the episode "She Sees Sea Monsters by the Sea Shore" is a very attractive marine biologist.

* 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.

* AgeLift: In the production bible of the original series ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'', the characters were teenagers, with Fred and Shaggy being the oldest at 17 and Velma being the youngest at 15. While most of the subsequent series have hinted toward the characters becoming older, [[VagueAge but it's never explained just how old they are.]] If the show's ValentinesDayEpsiode is anything to go by, they must be at least 18 or older (since they're all shown to be living on their own)[[note]]Daphne and Velma live together in one house while Fred, Shaggy and Scooby live together in another house back in their hometown[[/note]].

* YouMustBeThisTallToRide: The episode "Roller Ghoster Ride" featured a few scenes that had a young boy being told that he was too short to go on certain rides, such as the Sky-Diving Simulator, the Slingshot, and the Rocket Coaster. Also, he was ruled out as a suspect for being too short for the costume. In the end, after the villain of the episode was caught, the boy gets to ride with Shaggy and Scooby on the food-based ride that they'd designed for the amusement park.

** "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]].

* AgeLift: In the production bible of the original series ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'', the characters were teenagers, with Fred and Shaggy being the oldest at 17 and Velma being the youngest at 15. While most of the subsequent series have hinted toward the characters becoming older, this is the first series that explicitly leans toward the gang being in their late teens/early 20s (they're at least legally old enough to be living on their own).

* VagueAge: While they're still often referred to as "kids," this series explicitly shows that the (human) members of the gang are at least legally old enough to be living on their own, as the ValentinesDayEpisode shows that Daphne and Velma are living together in one house while Fred, Shaggy and Scooby are living together in another house.