Line #168 Headscratchers/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated


1	* If the best part and aspects of Cassidy and all those other people are trapped in the Sitting Room, why did she start trying to help the new Mystery Inc.? Shouldn't she have not cared since only the most negative parts of her were left?
2	** Possibly those were the best parts of the people they were ''when they became trapped''. Cassidy managed to reform and become a better person again ''after'' this happened to her.
3	** It's also possible that these "good" sides are not their ''whole'' good side. Mr. E also shows a conscience after this point- multiple times he tried to stop or refused to help Pericles, opposed the slaughter of the citizens of Crystal Cove, and agreed with Hot Dog Water that he expected more from himself before protesting against her murder. He also sacrificed himself to save the new Mystery Incorporated in the end, so his good side wasn't entirely erased, either. Mayor Jones also helps the gang out even though his "good side" has been sealed in the Red Room since before Fred was born.
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5	* Just what was the point of the Entity being buried behind four separate pocket dimensions if it did nothing to hinder his influence? And just how did these conquistadors create whole dimensional rifts beneath Crystal Cove? Finally, why was the only inhabitant of these {{Eldritch Location}}s this one attacking RockMonster with no explanation of what its purpose was?
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7	* The Sheriff and Mayor recognize the locket that Daphne found as being something connected to the larger mystery of Crystal Cove. Why did the Sheriff not take the opportunity to seize it as "evidence"?
8	** Speculation going into episode 2: The Mayor's take upon seeing the locket could lead to him tying into the "Mister E" in an attempt to scare the gang out of solving the mysteries.
9	** RevealingCoverup: If they had taken it, the group would have known it was important and tried to get it back/ investigate it. As the episode showed, they are not above doing illegal things to solve a mystery. Maybe they'd hope the gang would just discard it, thinking it was unimportant.
10	*** Answer: By the end of Season 1, this trope is more or less confirmed as to why Mayor Jones didn't do anything about the locket, as it turns out that he was an enemy to the locket's owners (though he is not Mr. E). However, Sheriff Stone is innocent and was genuinely confused as to what the locket was.
11	** As the locket had no actual connection to the mystery ''immediately at hand'', Stone would've only had to give it back to Daphne sooner or later anyway. The caves under Crystal Cove are open to the ocean, so all sorts of junk probably wind up down there, including plenty of stuff that'd have nothing to do with ''any'' mystery.
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13	* Crystal Cove's tourism. Why on earth would they build their entire tourist attractions around mysteries, that the 'police' don't solve? And might I ask, if so, do they not investigate mysteries with MURDERS involved?
14	** I don't recall any mysteries with murders involved yet. We have no idea if they were trying to find the people abducted by the man crab, or if they were trying to cure the people attacked by the slime monster, but no one died from the ghost trucker. If you've got a lot of mysterious creatures in your town, it makes perfect sense to build an industry around it. It's not like they've refused to arrest anybody.
15	*** True, but you'd think that they'd at least make a bigger effort to solve them, even if their only help comes from a group of teens.
16	*** I said that before I saw "Song of Mystery." From a realistic standpoint, the way the town treated that was reprehensible and inexcusable. Chalk it up to RuleOfFunny, I guess.
17	*** Also real-life towns use famous crimes as tourist attractions. So this isn't that far-fetched.
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19	* Why is the moon always full in Crystal Cove?
20	** ThatsNoMoon,[[spoiler:That's Nibiru.]]
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22	* The Police are run and paid by the government, not to mention how there is a branch that investigates crooked officers (such as our ''beloved'' sheriff). The point is... why do the police there even care about the town not solving the mysteries, the citizens still have to pay the tax, and thus the police officers get paid. And also, WHY hasn't the Crystal Cove Police Department been fired and replaced?
23	** They probably take care of the sort of stuff the Mystery Inc. crew wouldn't be able to handle, as in...well...stuff you're not going to find mentioned on a kids' show.
24	*** Murders, non-paranormal thefts, petty larceny, vandalism, domestic violence, traffic law violations, fights... there's a whole lot of stuff that doesn't involve the paranormal or teenage vigilantes.
25	** Okay, so apparently the Sheriff doesn't even know who his boss is. He thinks it's the mayor... Did he even GO to school?
26	*** Technically, so long as Mayor Jones pays his taxes, he ''is'' the sheriff's boss (or at least one of them).
27	*** Which is why Fred is getting special treatment? Or why his other bosses are being ignored?
28	*** Fred's "special treatment" isn't exactly unrealistic. I recall a customer who shared with me an anecdote from his time in law enforcement in Alaska. A time or two, he'd been chewed out because some troublemaker he'd arrested happened to be of the same blood as a politician. As for the "other bosses", the whole town seems to favor the tourism dollars brought in by the "monsters" in their city, sooo...he's kind of doing what they want by turning a (mostly) blind eye. That, and there's the RuleOfFunny to consider.
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30	* Why didn't the Scary Gnome paralyze Shaggy as well?
31	** He was dressed as a pirate, duh.
32	*** Exactly. So why ''didn't'' he paralyze Shaggy?
33	** Perhaps, he didn't want to paralyze Shaggy in the woods where no one might find him and simply planned on paralyzing him later after dragging him back to the fair.
34	** Maybe he couldn't? From an outside standpoint, we know it happened because the subplot would be left hanging, but from an inside, it may have had to do with how much of the toxin he had in total or if he even had any of it on him at the time. Since it was close to the end of the fair, he may have had nothing left since the goal was to implicate his wife, and one or two pirates left isn't going to stop that after attacking a full theater full.
35	** It's probably that he had just run out of the toxin and grabbed him so he could paralyze him later. Perhaps as a way to lay the false trail further [[spoiler:on his wife.]]
36	** Shaggy'd already knocked himself cold against a tree, and he was far enough from the Fair-proper that the gnome could haul him off without being spotted. Possibly it was ''always'' part of the villain's plan to abduct one of the pirate-dressed fairgoers, and Shaggy just happened to be conveniently placed for that.
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38	* The motive of the guy behind the Man Crab makes no sense whatsoever. [[spoiler:He wanted to get back at this guy for stealing his formula for bottled water, but when asked why he didn't just sue the guy, he said that would take too long. And building a sophisticated robotic man crab suit and digging an elaborate system of tunnels took HOW long?]]
39	** [[DontExplainTheJoke Yes, that's the joke]]
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41	* At the end of ''The Shrieking Madness'', the gang goes back to their van. Which really shouldn't have been there because they were all dropped off by their parents.
42	** Wait, didn't the previous Vampire episode (''The Secret Serum'') end at Darrow College? At the end of that, when the gang went their separate ways, that meant '''''no one went back home in the van!!''''' They went home by other means and since their parents dropped them off the van has been sitting in the parking lot the whole time.
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44	* All the adults of Crystal Cove want to keep the money rolling in, so they resist solving every mystery to attract more tourists. ...The town has a TALKING DOG. The other dog we see doesn't talk, and Velma has to give an entire lecture to justify a talking parrot. This isn't usual. Sell tickets to sit and have a chat with Scooby, and you can just pay him for food.
45	** [[BigEater With Scooby's appetite?]]
46	** Considering that Crystal Cove has an asylum specifically for dangerous animals, a talking dog probably isn't that out of the ordinary.
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48	* Just what are the ingredients of Scooby Snacks that make them appealing to both man and beast? That's always bugged me.
49	** Strangely, Scooby Snacks haven't even been ''mentioned'' in this series yet. But if you want to know, Shaggy goes over his recipe when he invents them in the live-action ''The Mystery Begins'' movie.
50	** Wrong show, this one doesn't have Scooby Snacks. But if you have dogs, you'll know they love human food.
51	** Scooby snacks have shown up a couple of times now. And Shaggy is the only human who seems to like them. Generally speaking, no other human even tries to eat Scooby Snacks -- it's just part of Shaggy's bond with Scooby and their mutual BigEater status.
52	** Some dog-owners ''do'' like dog food/treats. It's not impossible IRL for someone to like their dog's treats. I always assumed they just didn't have much flavor to a human, maybe tasting how they smell, but maybe resembled something like shortbread to Shaggy in flavor, since as I recall, he's demonstrated stronger tastebuds like those of a professional chef, so could pick out the subtle flavoring.
53	** This troper LOVES beef jerky, and more than once in my youth I've nearly bought dog jerky treats thinking they were beef jerky for humans. There's probably not much difference between the two but, given what I know about Department of Agriculture regulations for (human) food preparation standards vs. pet food standards, I have never dared to find out just how much difference.
54	** Frankly, this trooper likes the show so much, that I didn't even notice the lack of Scooby Snacks until this site pointed it out.
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56	* This exchange:
57	--->'''Sheriff Stone:''' "Fred, Fred, Fred. If you weren't my boss's son, I would not hesitate to make you disappear. Forever."
58	--->'''Fred:''' "I believe you."
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60	* Almost everywhere in the United States of America, Sheriffs are elected county officials. The only place in the USA a sheriff is answerable to a mayor is New York City. [[WildMassGuessing Is it a clue?]]
61	** Or is it CreatorProvincialism?
62	** It should be noted that this wouldn't be the first time a writer didn't do the research. And, you know, this particular case is pretty much kosher. So NYC is technically the only city in the US where the Sheriff answers to the mayor. In this universe, maybe it's NYC and this dinky little town. Heck, with all the monsters that show up, it makes sense that this would happen. Maybe originally the police department was too scared to investigate a case involving a monster, which pissed off the Mayor enough to just straight up ORDER the sheriff to get his ass in gear or he'd be out of the job, even if he technically didn't have the authority to do so. The sheriff complied, even if he didn't have to. After that, enough precedence had been set for that sort of thing to be alright with the public (and that Mayor no doubt got major points for doing that after the monster was demasked, with the sheriff looking very stupid as well). With the sheriff's office discredited and the mayor's office empowered, the mayor became the sheriff's boss directly. FridgeBrilliance is your friend.
63	*** Foreshadowing, perhaps? [[spoiler:Episode 26 reveals that Fred is not the Mayor's actual son...]]
64	** "Dead Justice" reveals that 'Sheriff' is the character's ''legal first name''. Possibly his job title was original "Chief of Police", but his given name caused enough confusion that it got conflated with his title for convenience.
65	** Joe Barbera grew up in New York. If you go back you'll find examples in Scooby and other HB works where the Sheriff answers to a Mayor. It's more a grandfathered trope. But given Crystal Cove is a fictional small town, who is to say it can't have a custom system? Notwithstanding the possibility, some real small towns may have less formulaic political and law enforcement relationships.
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67	* In one episode, a girl's alibi is that the gang sent her father to jail. The girl looks very little in her flashback. As this series is a prequel or a ContinuityReboot, why on Earth would they remember something which I think was from an older Scooby-Doo show? At the very least, this is a MindScrew.
68	** Oh and the story wasn't true, I know, but then why did the gang believe it as though they remembered it?
69	** It's called a ContinuityNod.
70	** This bugs me for a different reason. She was a young girl in the flashback of the gang (as teens) catching The Creeper, in the present day she is the same age as the gang who are still teens, lolwut?
71	*** Because the story was fake.
72	*** I took the Creeper nod as this: They DID stop the Creeper, but it was maybe two or three years ago at best. It's heavily implied in the pilot that the gang has long since made a habit of solving mysteries. Heck, maybe the further nods in the said pilot (the ones Velma lists off in her parents' "museum") were also foiled by those meddling kids (or their predecessors...now THAT'D be a fun twist).
73	** Did she ever actually say she was a little girl, or did the show just do it so we'd catch on?
74	*** If the story was true that Alice May was a little girl when those meddling kids arrested her father and she'd waited years to take revenge, then it's just a huge IdiotBall moment for the gang for not realizing that this could not be possible since they haven't aged that much from when they allegedly caught the Creeper. I imagine that Alice May was laughing her ass off on the inside the whole time because they were seriously falling for it. And the poor suckers ''still'' don't catch on the next time they encounter her, too!
75	*** They only show the little-girl version of her for about half a second at the start of the character's self-recounted flashback; in every subsequent shot of her plotting, she's a teenager like a gang. Chalk it up to UnreliableNarrator-slash-symbolism: she may have been older, but within the context of her (fake) story, she'd have ''felt'' like a little girl whose daddy was being taken away.
76	** It is implied multiple times that a BroadStrokes version of ''Where Are You'' did happen in this universe; most notably how the Dinkleys' museum features a bunch of monsters from the original series. Presumably, though, stuff like ''Zombie Island'', ''What's New'', and ''A Pup Named Scooby-Doo'' didn't happen here.
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78	* How did Mr. E get the notes into Shaggy's bag of Nature Slivers?
79	** Either he had to sneak up on Shaggy and Scooby and drop two notes into a bag of chips Shaggy had opened and was eating (without him noticing anything), or they had to be put into the bag before it was sealed.
80	** It helps that Mr. E's message delivery guy [[spoiler:is the CEO of the company that makes the chips]].
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82	* Why does only-child Fred have a bunk bed in his room? (First seen in "Beware the Beast from Below").
83	** Did he once have a brother? Maybe one who was killed by his traps?
84	*** A lot of only children have bunk beds for different reasons. mostly if a friend stays over. Or maybe he just wanted more room on the floor for his traps and figured bunk beds were the way to go.
85	*** A bunk bed takes up just as much floor space as a regular one. But I could buy the bed itself as a trap, like, "I'll put a dummy in the lower bunk and sleep in the upper one. Then, if someone comes to attack me in my sleep, a trigger will make the upper bunk fall on the lower one, trapping the bad guy!"
86	*** Adding to that, Fred figured that if he couldn't have a smaller bed to have more trap space, he'd just go with a bed he could easily turn into a trap instead.
87	*** It could be seen as a subtle clue that [[spoiler:that's not Fred's real family]].
88	** I'm an only child and once had a bunk bed. I don't recall any particular reason for it. I'd choose which bed to sleep in at night.
89	** [[FridgeHorror Or maybe a hint that]] [[spoiler:Mayor Jones had been prepared to kidnap ''Ricky and Cassidy's'' kid, too, had the pair of them ever reconciled, produced one, and then returned to town.]]
90	*** [[spoiler:[[FridgeLogic Fred having a mysterious black sibling might raise more questions than Mayor Jones would want out there, to be honest]]. And actually, wasn't it implied that Ricky/Mr. E never actually left?]]
91	*** [[spoiler:Adoption is a thing, as are interracial couples. Plus, Mayor Jones didn't have any apparent trouble accounting for suddenly having a baby ''Fred'' on hand with no mother in sight, did he? He'd bluff his way through.]]
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93	* Professor Ruffalo said he staged his "disappearance" by sticking himself to the ceiling. How exactly did that work?
94	** It must have been staged for the benefit of the janitor, and Ruffalo should have expected to be found stuck to the ceiling by him, and taken to the hospital. That's not a disappearance and it would have interfered with his future activities as the Slime Mutant.
95	*** He's specifically shown looking out into the hallway just before he winds up on the ceiling. In retrospect, it's obvious he was checking that the janitor was nearby, and probably due to clean the science classroom after finishing up in the hallway.
96	** If he wasn't found, and just ate himself free, much of the value of his alibi attack would have been lost.
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98	* Given that, in Mystery Inc continuity, Vincent Van Ghoul is a horror actor who needs to tinkle (and Ep 19 was seemingly his first meeting with Shaggy & Scooby)... how did the gang meet Flim-Flam (seen as a statue in 20)?
99	** This is a whole new continuity. Flim-Flam's story may be entirely different.
100	** Maybe this is the real Van Ghoul, and the ghost just [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith took a form Shaggy and Scooby would be less afraid of.]]
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102	* Something about episode seventeen just bugs me: The Darrows supposedly lived many years in the buried mansion before only Danny was left. How did they survive? What did they eat? It wouldn't bother me so much if it wasn't for Danny being alive after 75 years and still being somewhat athletic. He would need some kind of food down there to still be so fast.
103	** Rats.
104	*** It is a Squicky What Happened to the Mouse moment, Danny never DOES say what happened to his family's bodies.
105	** Well he did have a headquarters set up and was spying on the original Mystery Incorporated after they snooped around the ruins, so he could very well have done raids on the surface at some point, and since he was so out of touch with reality and time he probably didn't notice any modern conveniences or whatnot.
106	*** There's no implication that he ever went up to the surface to spy on the original Mystery Inc. It seems more like he planned his traps based on behaviors he observed when they came to the manor.
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108	* How is it that a bunch of geeks dressed up as biker orcs were able to completely trounce and run off a real biker gang? Scare tactics might explain it if the bikers had seemed at all intimidated. But a LatexPerfection mask does not enable you to throw someone bodily through a glass door. And if the logic is that somehow dressing up like orcs made them stronger like orcs, then in that world cosplayers are the world's single most powerful fighting force. ;)
109	** It's standard in the Scooby universe than MusclesAreMeaningless. Either everyone who puts on a monster costume is stronger than they look, or ClothesMakeTheSuperman and disguises magically confer strength and fighting ability.
110	** These ''are'' geeks maybe they turned their costumes into a sort of PoweredArmor to help look the part?
111	** So [[UnfortunateImplications being geeky means you can't be strong?]]
112	*** Did you see the flashback look at the Wild Brood out of their costumes? None of them were psychically shown to have the muscle to do that, not even the evil one.
113	*** It is possible for someone who is not muscular to use a stronger opponent's force against them. If the Wild Brood were charged by the bikers, they could use that momentum to deftly toss them out the windows.
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115	* Why didn't the kids recognize the CEO they spoke to in episode 20 as the "associate of Mr. E" from episode 16? He was unmasked and stood fairly close to them on the earlier occasion. Shaggy and Scooby dived into the free samples of Dummy Gummies, so they don't count, but what about Velma?
116	** They did recognize him. When he shows up again in episode 26 they know him by name and know he works with Mr. E. There was no on-screen scene where they discussed this between episodes 20 and 26, but it probably happened off-screen.
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118	* Why didn't Daphne get a to-go box in episode 19? The mansion was probably far away enough for her to at least fight her hunger off a little while.
119	** They had finally gotten their table after a two-hour wait. There was no food ordered yet.
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121	* Why does Pericles want the treasure so badly? He's a bird! He can't spend it and even if he could what would he buy?
122	** Maybe there's something, in particular, he wants from the treasure. That or he wants to be the shadow controlling the whole world through money, connections, and bribes. Sounds like him...
123	** Let's not forget that he'd probably find something appealing about outsmarting all those humans out there; if only it weren't for that dog he can't quite figure out, his life would be gravy pie.
124	** There's also the fact that we don't know what the nature of the treasure is yet. It could be a lot more than just gold. [[spoiler:Ed Machine did mention that Pericles finding the treasure could mean "the end of Crystal Cove".]]
125	** If a parrot can talk he can probably spend money. And while he may not especially ''need'' riches to get everything he needs, the same is true of anybody rich. He could buy a big house, a voice-activated TV, fancy food ...
126	** It was revealed recently that [[spoiler:the curse of the treasure affects animals more than humans and drives them to seek the pieces and bring them together so that Nibiru can be unleashed, so it's possible Pericles himself [[UnwittingPawn isn't entirely aware of what he's doing.]] Either that or he is and is just [[OmnicidalManiac insane.]] ]]
127	** [[spoiler:There is no treasure. There is only NIBIRU.]]
128	*** Or rather, the treasure is useless.
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130	* If [[spoiler:Mayor Jones]] wanted Pericles out of the way so much why didn't he just kill him?
131	** He still had a difficult puzzle to solve to find the treasure. Possibly he thought the bird could be persuaded to talk and give him more clues, given enough time in solitary confinement to become desperate.
132	** The episode itself had an explanation: [[spoiler:He pinned the disappearance of the original Mystery Incorporated on Pericles and made it so even if Pericles did decide to tell the truth about the mayor to anyone, they would think Pericles was lying to get out of his prison sentence.]]
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134	* Given the revelations of episode 26, why was Mayor Jones brooding over that picture?
135	** Maybe he heard Fred coming and it was an act. His overreaction to being startled suggests he wasn't.
136	*** Maybe it's regret?
137	** Maybe the woman in the picture ''did'' have meaning for him, just not the meaning he'd brought Fred up to believe it had. It could be that the woman in it was someone Jones Sr. once had a fling with, who left him years ago to become a model and appear in magazine photos. The fact that she was blond enough for him to pass her off as Fred's "mother" made it convenient.
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139	* I had heard rumors that Flim-Flam and Weerd and Bogel were ''supposed'' to make a cameo (on a fan forum) but are these true? Where would it fit into the show? Or is this just someone's FanFic presented as reality?
140	** I never heard of the rumor but Weerd and Bogel could work as human henchmen for Pericles or some other bad guy.
141	*** Flim-Flam and Scrappy did make cameos... of the TakeThat variety: both as statues in the museum, with Flim-Flam, apparently serving 25-life for fraud of some kind, and Scrappy... well...
142	--> '''Fred:''' ''"We promised we would never speak of that. Never, ever."''
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144	* Speaking of Scrappy, am I the only one who thinks it's kind of a waste of Potential to bring him and Flim-Flam up as a TakeThat gag...and then ''never'' mention them again? The same honestly goes for past villains like Creeper and Space Kook. You could explore how the Entity affected them, or where they are now.
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146	* Why is there speculation on one Scooby-Doo fansite about Fred's underwear? Is it even ''necessary'' to speculate on this?
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148	* From the Season 2 premiere we're given the Baby-Clown, a huge fat clown-looking thing that drives around blowing up buildings and neighborhoods with bombs that look like milk bottles and at one point demands money from city hall or else he'll cause more damage, essentially making him a terrorist. So what does the new mayor do? Get the police or the national guard? Of course not. Instead, she summons 4 teenagers and a talking dog known for solving mysteries and building traps. Can someone explain what kind of sense that makes?
149	** Well, Crystal Cove's police force was essentially paralyzed by the attacks, as evidenced by him blowing up all their cars in the teaser. As for the national guard, well, think of how that call would go. "We need you to come in to stop a giant man-baby clown from blowing up the town." "Is this some kind of sick joke?"
150	*** It's a bit like someone calling in Literature/SherlockHolmes because they know InspectorLestrade is sub-par. The regular police don't know how to handle "mysteries" whereas Mystery Inc. has made a living out of this for quite a while.
151	*** It's odd, though, because a man baby clown isn't a supernatural threat or monster. Why is he treated differently than any other psycho on a rampage? When he threatens the town with bombs and such, why doesn't Sheriff Stone just draw his gun and cap him to save lives?
152	** Because the show isn't about the police or the national guard.
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154	* Another minor one from the season 2 premiere but why does Velma take it personally that the gang left her? Shaggy and Scooby were involuntarily sent away and Freddy left to find his parents, but she acts like they only left to spite her. The only member of the gang who walked out on her was Daphne, who flat-out told her that she was entirely at fault for Mystery Inc breaking up. And yet Daphne doesn’t get chewed out.
155	** Well, perhaps it was still too soon for her to think rationally, so perhaps she was just stewing in denial over the whole Angel business.
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157	* I just thought of this regarding the time frame mash-up present in this universe. We are shown that computers, the internet, and even internet cell phones exist in this universe. So with all these things at his disposal, why didn't Fred just check directories online when he found out about Brad Childs and Judy Reeves? Surely it would make things much easier than going door to door for months asking for them. Is such a strategy even possible in our world?
158	** Because he's Freddie Jones. Velma or Daphne probably WOULD have, but Fred couldn't think of anything more efficient than a worldwide house-to-house search.
159	** IIRC, it's established a few episodes later that they were using aliases.
160	** We don't see him knocking on doors in desperation until months after he resolved to find his parents, and--as stated--they were using aliases specifically so that no one could find them. Fred probably started with a logical plan (search engines, phone books, etc.), but since he hit a dead end there, he was left with no alternative other than knocking on doors. Velma probably could have figured out another way to sniff them out, but he wasn't speaking to Velma at the time.
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162	* Why isn't Cartoon Network showing the second season in the US? Seriously, the premier was on demand for a few weeks, but no more new ones have been put on and not even that one aired.
163	** Season 2 started with the first five episodes broadcast one a day from July 30 to August 3. Currently unknown is whether they'll continue with this pattern, or if they'll go back to Monday evenings.
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165	* In episode 30, [[spoiler:at the Blakes' party for the newly-returned Brad and Judy Chiles, Fred's parents state they are happy Daphne's parents remember them after all these years. Does this mean they knew about Fred Jones Senior stealing Fred away from them as a baby?]]
166	** Maybe they knew them before Fred was stolen and didn't have any contact with them by the time it happened?
167	** They may have known that the Chiles had a baby, but assumed they brought their kid along when they left town. If Brad and Judy aren't inclined to bring up their visibly-absent kid in conversation, the polite and not-very-curious Blakes aren't going to butt in and ask about their son's whereabouts, in case it's something embarrassing like rehab or juvie.
168	** I think they knew them back in high school and didn't have anything to do with them when they left town. This would explain why Brad and Judy seemed legit surprised the Blakes would throw them a welcome home party.
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170	* Why does Mr. E need any treasure or money? Have you seen his lair? He's loaded!
171	** It's hard to say how his motivations changed throughout the series, but depending on the point in the show you're at, he could be trying to stop Pericles or Fred Sr. from getting their hands on it, trying to wrap up the mystery that's gone unresolved since he was a kid, or being corrupted by the Nibiru Entity's influence.
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173	* In episode 34, what happened to the crazy boron miner? She disappears right after showing the ship to the gang, suggesting she might be working with Dark Lilith, but she's never mentioned again. It's like as soon as she served her purpose in the story she stopped existing! [[spoiler:Since Hot Dog Water stole the lucky soccer ball to lure Fred to the mountain and said ball ended up in the miner's possession, was she working for Hot Dog Water?]]
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175	* The Crybaby Clown's motivation in his second episode: Does it make even the slightest lick of sense? To recap, [[spoiler:Baylor Hotner has been cast in a horror movie about a monster clown, and to get into the role he decides to go terrorize a random town dressed in the movie costume and kidnap all these people to help him make the film? Is there any reason at all why he can't just ''hire'' a crew, being, you know, a rich and famous movie superstar? And just why did he even kidnap Daphne when Daphne had mere hours before willingly agreeing to go with him to Hollywood? Also, with the reveal in his second episode in mind, just why was the extorting money from the town government in his first episode? Furthermore, what [[QuestionableCasting insane casting agency]] decided that this universe's equivalent to Taylor Lautner was the perfect actor to play a morbidly obese diaper-wearing MonsterClown PsychopathicManchild?]] Considering that all this serves as a major plot point to [[spoiler:get Daphne back into the gang]], this seems to kind of transcend the boundaries of what the RuleOfFunny can excuse.
176	** QuestionableCasting for the last point, as you said. Happens all the time in real life. And as for why he did all this, I just assume he was a MethodActor who was so dedicated to mastering the role, he became lost in it. Plus, why waste money hiring people when he can get them for free, while he practices his role? He's killing two birds with one stone.
177	** And one more thing that bugs me: [[spoiler:Once the movie was released, wouldn't Baylor's identity as the Crybaby Clown be compromised? Wouldn't the people of Crystal Cove look at the movie poster and say "Hey, isn't that the maniac who was terrorizing our town last year? And what's this? All the people he kidnapped are working on the film, too? He's played by Baylor Hotner, you say? Hmmm..."]]
178	** [[spoiler:The Nibiru Entity]] canonically warps people close to it so that "dress up in a stupid costume and scare people" becomes a logical plan, regardless of their end goal. [[spoiler:Baylor]] probably came to Crystal Cove specifically because of that reputation, figuring that one little monster clown was going to get lost in the shuffle since they have a new monster every week or so. Once he got there and started the charade, he probably started getting affected, and his plan changed from "do some character research" to "might as well assemble me an entourage since I've already got the costume...." Also, since [[spoiler:the Nibiru Entity]] specifically needs the gang together, it makes sense that it would manipulate [[spoiler:Baylor]] in such a way that it would drive Daphne back to the others. Their relationship probably started as real (at worst, he might have had the publicity angle of "small-town girlfriend" in mind) before the corruption took hold.
179
180	* So...if they didn't catch Crybaby Clown in 201, and he didn't just go away, why is Crystal Cove no longer empty and neigh-dystopic by 202?
181	** The explanation for Crybaby Clown ceasing his acts of terrorism is simple: [[spoiler:Hotner had enough practice for the part and moved on to his next phase. The extortion was just part of the act; he didn't want the money at all.]] The gang might have even gotten a little credit that their attempt at a capture led to a final explosive act and then no more since they don't seem to be universally hated as they feared.
182	** [[spoiler:Blame Nibiru. The entity corrupts people to make Mystery Inc. advance finding it so it can be unleashed. In this case, Crybaby Clown was a threat needed to bring the gang back together after they'd been split up at the end of Season 1. Now why does it focus on Baylor, who can say?]]
183
184	* Why are they using [[EarthShatteringKaboom ''Nibiru'']] as a plot point? One, it's nightmarish (did I just answer my question?) and two, it's either feeding (or reviving) the Nibiru Collision fanatics!]
185	** It helps add to the creep factor if it's a "real" thing.
186	** The ''Scooby-Doo'' franchise has put its twist on SadlyMythtaken monsters and creepy UrbanLegends for decades. Using "Nibiru" is just them playing around with a myth that's a bit less antique than werewolves or mummy's curses.
187
188	* One thing that always bothered me in the series was that every time someone wears a monster costume they suddenly gain super strength. In some cases, it's understandable, such as the monster being a robot, or large men like the Humongonauts, but are the humans in this series superhuman or something? They destroy walls, wood, in the case of the environmentalists, jump high, and all kinds of destruction without a single bruise. As for the Freak of Crystal Cove, how the heck was Mayor Jones able to teleport so fast? I know this is a cartoon but this is stretching it.
189	** The strength thing, haven't you ever heard of an exoskeleton?
190	** RuleOfCool / RuleOfFunny? If that's not good enough for you: [[spoiler:Nibiru]]/The Curse has some degree of RealityWarper powers to be able to repetitively recreate these mystery solvers groups of five platonic archetypes. It is not unreasonable that it also keeps putting people into a "monster" archetype for the current mystery solvers to play off of and that it gives these "monsters" the necessary strength to pull off their role.
191
192	* Now, I love this new Scooby-Doo. But this has bothered me ever since they showed up, and after ''Man in the Mirror'', it's even more confusing for me. So, Mayor Jones kept baby Fred as leverage against Brad and Judy. Presumably, the idea was - Stay away from Crystal Cove or I hurt your son. Well, given that it's now conclusively been proven that Brad and Judy don't care an iota for Fred, ''why'' exactly did they stay away all these years? If they are prepared to go to the extreme lengths of getting extensive plastic surgery to the extent of looking like their son and their son's girlfriend aged up, why didn't they do that before and sneak in under Jones's nose?
193	** They lacked the smarts without leadership. Before they returned, Pericles had to get out of the asylum to lead them, and Mayor Jones had to be locked up to give them a free hand. As for Fred, they may have secretly welcomed Jones taking the rug rat off their hands so they could develop their career as trappers and bounty hunters.
194	*** Also, their extreme negative personality shifts can now be explained by [[spoiler:the loss of their good side to the Sitting Room. They did care about Fred and fear for his safety in the first episode they appeared in, but when they joined Pericles afterward, the curse corrupted them and their good sides got trapped in the Sitting Room. Thus they're now ruthless and willing to do whatever it took to get the treasure.]]
195	*** Exactly. In retrospect, Brad and Judy are two of the most interesting villains in the show due to how they're good people in their debut episode, if dim-witted and unprepared to finally be parents to their long-lost son, but when they make their FaceHeelTurn, their level of the evil rises with each passing episode.
196	** Art of Darkness: Consider joining Pericles for Fred's good, but are poring over old maps and documents related to the treasure which suggest greed as a factor too. Let Cassidy off with a warning when she tries to stop them since they still consider her a friend. Kind of {{Jerkass}}y, but not too bad.
197	** Grim Judgement: Bond with Fred so they can later manipulate him into giving up the Planespheric Disc pieces. Cruel, but still done with semi-good intentions.
198	** Scarebear & Wrath of Krampus: Try to manipulate Fred and steal the Disc pieces. The natural follow-up to before, and the official turn to flat-out villainy, though they still bring up that they want Fred safe.
199	** Aliens Among Us: Blow up City Hall. This is just criminal, but at least nobody was inside at the time.
200	** The Horrible Herd: Shoot a missile at a helicopter with passengers inside, ''including Fred''. This is the point where it becomes clear that their previous good intentions [[MoralEventHorizon aren't with them anymore]].
201	** The Devouring: Betray Ricky to Pericles, who implants cobra venom in his spine. Brad and Judy watch Ricky's pain with evil smirks. Before, they were willing to give Cassidy a pass because she was an old friend. Now old friendship is worth squat to them.
202	** The Man in the Mirror: Get plastic surgery to resemble Fred and Daphne and attempt to MindRape Fred into giving the Disc's location away. When this backfires, Brad physically fights his son. If there was any doubt that Fred's welfare was no longer important to Brad and Judy at this point, Brad even responds to "Why'd you do it?" with "For the treasure! What else?" Pure greed is their only motive now.
203	** Gates of Gloom: Go along with Pericles' [[spoiler:capture and planned mass-murder of the townspeople, and are starting to act hatefully toward ''each other''. Their final redeeming quality, their [[SickeninglySweethearts love for one another]], has been rubbed out.]]
204	** Through the Curtain: Play a vital part in [[spoiler:the murder of Hot Dog Water. Now they are completely irredeemable.]]
205	** Come Undone: [[spoiler:Willingly offer to serve the evil entity...who accepts this offer by eating them. Thus Brad and Judy meet their ends. Except for their new reality incarnations, of course, who never become corrupted or commit any of these acts, so all's well that ends well.]]
206
207	* The finale of the show was great except for one part at the end. Why is it that [[spoiler:the gang just up and leaves at the end apparently without telling anyone? I could understand before why they might have before with Crystal Cove being a CrapsackWorld and all, but now that the Entity is RetGone and everyone is nice and kind to them, isn't that good reason to stick around for at least a little longer? Or at least give a decent goodbye and explain to their friends and family why they are leaving?]]
208	** Their friends and family [[spoiler:no longer needed them. It's like Superman said to his Golden Age counterpart in Infinite Crisis: a perfect world wouldn't need heroes like them, and cleansed, Crystal Cove was now that world.]]
209	*** When they get together for the first time, they remark how much things have changed; They've been thrown into a completely different universe where people's lives have turned out very differently. While there are a lot of similarities, it is no longer their lives. I think they react pretty well considering their lives and loved ones have been ret-conned into recognizable but different people.
210	** Also, I'm sure they did end up telling everyone [[spoiler:that they were leaving. However, as literally, nobody else in their entire town had memories of their old timeline, they couldn't have told them that they killed an inter-dimensional entity and thus turned the world into a sunny place where everyone got their happy ending. I'm sure what they did tell them was that they were accepted into college, and thus decided to road trip over there so they could spend time together on the way.]] It's a perfectly logical out, and technically not a lie.
211	** They probably ''had'' to leave, before people started asking them awkward questions, e.g. [[spoiler:why Fred the "star player" is suddenly no good at soccer (because the ''original'' Fred was too busy trap-making and mystery-hunting to practice), or why Shaggy the "gourmet chef" suddenly can't cook anything more complex than pizza (because the altered-history one, unlike the original, wasn't a slacker and actually ''studied'' cooking)]].
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213	* According to Velma's tour speech in "Beware The Beast From Below," a garrison of Spanish conquistadors vanished from the coast in 1630, and the missionary town vanished into the sea in 1765. How could monks whose lives were contemporary with the latter event meet a conquistador from the former (as told in "Theater of Doom") when the two events were separated by more than 130 years?
214	** Just a theory but perhaps the planetspheric disks act somewhat similar to the [[TheLordOfTheRing One Ring]] in that besides corrupting whoever holds them to the point where they'll do anything to get them, it also prolongs their lifespan which is why the conquistador was still alive centuries after he should have been dead. Come to think Danny Darrow from episode 17 seemed to be pretty spry for an old man who'd spent most of his life isolated in a buried house with no available means of nourishment. It's possible that the one disc he'd been holding was giving him youthful energy which was how he was able to survive for so long though having only one piece meant he didn't get eternal youth like the conquistador. Given that the pieces are enchanted by Nibiru himself so that anyone who comes across them is driven to free him, making it so that the wielder gets immortality means they're less likely to discard them.
215	** Alternately, the conquistador whom the friars encountered was a ghost, the same as the one that briefly appeared in the wreck of their former ship. He died in the wilderness while carrying the two pieces, was unable to rest in peace knowing they might be found by the evil or unsuspecting, and finally passed the Disc parts on to the monks assuming those holy men would be able to resist Nibiru's influence.
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217	* Since it now seems to be established that Crystal Cove is on the west coast, probably southern California, how did a huge bunch of alligators end up in Gatorsburg?
218	** They mined them and there was talking about gator wells too so [[MindScrew alligators were a natural "mineral" deposit apparently]]. No laughing. This is the official explanation from the episode.
219	** The episode with the ghost of Friar Sera strongly implied that the alligators were some kind of supernatural phenomenon. Given that Mystery Incorporated shares a setting with WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest, that's probably not the only supernatural phenomenon hanging around, although it might be the strangest.
220	*** Sera said that it was the alligators that changed the neon hotel sign to "The Dog Dies." That's pretty supernatural. [[spoiler:It probably means at least some of them are related to the Anunnaki.]]
221	*** [[spoiler:The finale reveals that the Nibiru Entity has a lot of crocodilian-headed minions. Perhaps it had one of its previous corrupted teams open a gateway to a lesser prison realm where the good Annunaki had banished a bunch of those, before their final capture of the Entity itself. The team in question failed to reach the prison itself, the dimensional barriers not being low enough yet, but they ''did'' manage to open a rift to a sub-dimension that was chock full of alligators, the same as the complete Disc could access realms filled with pure elements.]]
222
223	* The pieces of the planespheric disk do some odd things when you look at their shapes carefully. The friars in ''Theater of Doom'' saw two pieces marked with "U" shapes. But one of those pieces ends up on the galleon in the mountains, and a piece with a triangle mark ends up in the sea. Also, in ''All Fear the Freak'' the piece Velma takes into the caves is not the Darrow piece, but the Jones piece that should have been in the hands of Pericles. Are these animation blunders or is there a further mystery here?
224	** One episode reveals that the disc does in fact change over time, but it's probably just animators not paying attention.
225
226	* Seriously! How can there exist a world without ANY mysteries?
227	** Or is Crystal Cove "the entire world" and more mysteries lie outside the town? Things always happen crimes will always be committed. Mysteries WILL always be happening.
228	** The gang means "mystery" in a very specific sense, i.e. a ScoobyDooHoax. [[spoiler:These will be rare in the new world.]]
229	** The gang are technically paranormal investigators, hence why they keep going after ghost sightings and supposed cryptid appearances.
230
231	* Others might have said it, but how can this be a prequel to the original franchise if "future" cases are shown to have ''already happened?'' Velma clearly describes the Miner 49er, the Creeper, Captain Cutler, and Charlie The Robot as they originally played out. The Hex Girls, Vincent Van Ghoul, Scrappy, and Flim-Flam are already known to the gang. A new timeline means happy endings for everyone, so are [[FridgeHorror these guys just doomed to repeat their past crimes, regardless of Nibiru being gone? Will the gang just lose their memories in a semi-tame loop?]]
232	** Quite possibly the culprits of those original crimes were inclined to behave that way even ''without'' the Entity's influence, and all the curse did in their instances was to ''attract them to Crystal Cove'', rather than having them play out their hoax plots all across the country as per the other series. As for the gang having foreknowledge of those cases, it's unclear how many of them the Scooby Gang had investigated themselves, and how many were the work of the previous Mystery Incorporated team. In which case, Velma might be the only one to remember the details of those instances ... meaning that her "brilliant" solutions to who was to blame for those crimes in the new universe are just her ''remembering'' whodunnit, and then going through the motions of investigating so she could acquire evidence to convince the authorities.
233	** Vincent and the Hex Girls don't seem to have been personally acquainted with the Scooby Gang until they meet in their respective episodes; they're just celebrities which (respectively) Shaggy and Velma are fans of.
234	** It's the major reason others involved have tried slowing walking that concept back in the years after because it doesn't entirely make sense. It's mostly because the series crafter was someone who didn't have superb knowledge of Scooby-Doo or Hanna Barbera in general. MI works fine as a DarkerAndEdgier AlternateContinuity but it's very hard even with a cosmic retcon to see the characters at the end of MI being the ones in WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou. A BroadStrokes version, fine. The original one straight up, still way too much AdaptationDeviation.
235
236	* Who stole the Mystery Machine's engine in episode 1.2 (the one with the gator people)?
237	** Mr. E is the only one who could have been behind it. He sent them there with a clue and wanted them to remain overnight to solve the mystery. He might have used the duplicate Mystery Machine to make the theft easier (the one the Obliteratrix used later).
238
239	* Why DO Brad and Judy return?
240	** Because they can now that Fred Jones Sr. is in prison.
241	*** They waited quite a long time after that, while Fred wandered around looking for them (and growing a long beard). They came back only after the gang had collected one of the Pieces of the Planispheric disk and was about to collect another. Coincidence?
242	*** We have no idea how far away they were and how long it took for them to learn the truth. It doesn't seem like they were in contact with Mr. E, Pericles, or Cassidy beforehand, so it's not like any of them told them "Hey, it's safe to come home". Maybe it took some time for the Mayor to be actually put to trial and locked away officially, and they wanted to make sure. Maybe they were waiting for Fred to come back because they knew he'd left town, but not why or where he'd gone to.
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244	* If the conquistadors named Crystal Cove after the sarcophagus, and the entity's influence was erased from history, shouldn't there be a crystal cove? Furthermore, since the Fraternitas' donkey blew up and sunk half the town into the ocean, wouldn't Crystal Cove or its equivalent be in a different spot altogether?
245	** The nature of the magical retcon applied to the town appears to have undone the evil aspects of the Entity's influence while retaining the good aspects -- the city, the people, the friendships, etc. The new town might be bigger, or there might be some other explanation for the missing land.
246	*** Plus, if Porto was able to destroy a good portion of Crystal Cove with mere explosives, it means that the land was unstable, to begin with. All it would have taken was an earthquake or a landslide in the past (of the new reality) and hence, Crystal ''Cove''.
247	*** Indeed, the sheer scope of the cavern network under the town is so extreme that it was probably the Entity that was preventing them from collapsing. Without its presence, wave erosion and California earth tremors would have kicked off the area's subsidence as a natural process, long before there ''was'' a Crystal Cove settlement.
248	** In the retcon, Crystal Cove was probably named for the clear water ''in'' the cove, just like all the people who didn't know about the sarcophagus presumably thought it was.
249
250	* In episode 21, ''Menace of the Manticore'', [[spoiler:Hot Dog Water]] sets up a fake website to sell Mayor Jones an ancient Persian temple that's supposedly haunted by a manticore. If the website is fake, then ''where the hell did the temple come from''? And on a lesser scale, how did it get to Crystal Cove?
251	** Being Velma-level of smartness, [[spoiler:Hot Dog Water]] found a large cavern, built the fictional temple there, make the website, waited for Mayor Jones Sr to take the bait, and then secretly brought it up after Mayor Jones Sr. brought the fictional temple to Funland.
252	** Or she salvaged a "castle" set piece from the Royal Knights Faire after the scandal of "The Grasp Of The Gnome" put that attraction out of business, and repainted it to look Persian.
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254	* In episode 51 "Through the Curtain", how did Pericles' group get through the inter-dimensional sea?
255	** They were accompanied by robots that could operate underwater.
256	*** But more to the point didn't the sea form ''over'' the maze that came before it? How did they even ''get'' to the sea?
257	*** We saw that the bad guys were already in the Earth zone when the flooding began. Presumably the water eventually reached them too, and they were washed out the same opening as the gang.
258
259	* If Fred was onto the ruse from the beginning in "Man In The Mirror", why did he lead [[spoiler:Brad and Judy]] to the actual location of the Planispheric Disk at all? They didn't know where it was, so he could have led them anywhere.
260	** He probably knew he could only maintain the ruse of not being aware of the truth for so long, at which point [[spoiler:Brad]] might well have abandoned the deception and led his friends into an ambush on the ''villain's'' choice of ground. He brought them to the factory because he knew it offered loads of opportunities to spring old machinery on the opposition as Improvised Traps, which is probably why he'd selected it as a good hiding spot in the first place.
261
262	* A Meta headscratcher: why, during the reality reset, are Brad and Judy still Fred's parents? Fred Sr. loves him, and it would have just as easily been a case of a single-parent adopting.
263	** The reality reset needs to redeem everybody and purge them of Nibiru's influence. That influence and the hunt for the treasure surrounding it took everything away from Brad and Judy; Their son, their ties with their friends, their home and identities, and eventually their morality, sanity, faces, and even their love for each other. What makes it fair for them not to have the lives they would've without a cosmic horror corrupting the world around them when everyone else gets to live happily ever after, including one of their victimizers?
264
265	* Why did Pericles kidnap the whole town to dig for him? Do they not have an army of superhuman robots that would do the same thing faster and more efficiently? Granted, he could do that out of simple sadism, considering how Nibiru's influence corrupted him by that point...
266	** Faster, but not necessarily ''cheaper'' in resources. Even superhuman robots need fuel or a power supply, and Pericles may have had a better use in mind for the energy it would've used up to make them dig that much. Plus, keeping the townsfolk enslaved and digging ensures that his enemies can't make use of their assistance or risk just blowing the whole town to hell as a last-ditch option: not with a town full of hostages on site.
267	** Or to lure the gang in, not only did they have the keys, but he believed Scooby-Doo needed to die to let Pericles gain the power of the entity. With time running out, presumably he figured abducting the town would not only give him free labor, as suggested above but draw the gang to him where either he could capture them or let them lead the way.
268
269	* I've noticed that the Mystery Machine's license plate seems to consistently read '345-600'. Is there any significance to that number, meta or otherwise?
270
271	* In "Web of the Dreamweaver", why did Herbert Feist see The Dreamweaver in the ColdOpen? [[spoiler:We later find out that he was never under its spell and was, in fact, the mastermind behind the attacks]], so what happened there?
272	** On that topic, the same question about the archaeologist in "Dark Night of the Hunters." The ColdOpen we see doesn't fall in line with the reveal at the end. ''Possibly'' chalk it up to us seeing the gang's interpretation of what happened, rather than the actual events. In the former case, he might have used the technology on himself (sort of like [[WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug Hawk Moth aromatizing himself to avoid suspicion]], he overpowered himself in a specific way to create deniability). In the latter, he probably used sound effects to put on a convincing show over the phone, and what we see is Velma's assumption (fleshed out by the details she later learns about the priestess's appearance).
273	** For "Dreamweaver", it could be that the opening sequence represents an actual, legitimate dream that Herbert had, of being menaced by [[spoiler:the C&C character which he was already planning to impersonate. The bit of the dream in which he crashed his car was so thrilling that he staged it for real soon after.]] For "Dark Night", it's possible that Enrique didn't realize Angie's phone wasn't video-enabled during the call, and he staged the vine attack under the assumption she'd be watching what was going on.
274	** Similar deal with the gluten monster.
275
276	* Who is telling the truth regarding Porto's actions? We know for certain he took one of the pieces and tried to blow up half the town, but what was his actual reason why? Friar Serra believed he was out to steal the disc for himself, but then why leave one piece in the place you were planning to blow up? Especially now if you are just one donkey getting that piece back would have become much harder without meddling friars. Either Porto was rather stupid or it's possible to make the argument he was deliberately trying to keep the pieces apart. Serra claims that betrayal always starts with the animal, and we certainly see this was the case with Pericles. But is it possible Serra was projecting that given we never see the others in action?
277	** Based on what we see, the Entity tries to affect the animal most because he wants to possess the animal. From what we see this worked on Pericles and not on Scooby and Spot. Serra seems to believe it did work on Porto. The problem is that Porto made a dumb choice if this was true. So it's not unreasonable to wonder if Porto was trying to reject it.
278	** Secondary problem though is that the Alligators say "The Dog Dies" in the same place the alligators killed Porto. Are we supposed to interpret that as the alligator killed Porto so he couldn't become possessed by the entity? If so they are trying to suggest the gang kill Scooby similarly. Serra is also interpreting it this way. But wouldn't this make the alligators against the entity? They are trying to kill his vessels before they can become his vessel. Unless you interpret Porto's death as execution by rebelling against the entity. But if that's the case, why kill Scooby?
279
280	* How much did the Original Mystery Incorporated know along the way?
281	** Professor Pericles already had some knowledge before he ever even came to Crystal Cove, probably from his interactions with Abigail Gluck. Though it appears Oswald Burrlington was the first to do a lot of the homework on the subject. There doesn't appear to be proof whether he deliberately lead them to find the scroll, but once they had it he did still seem to need Mayor Jones to help him figure something out. Since his jailbreak, it appeared Pericles knew just about everything he needed to know except that possession was a one-way street.
282	** The other kids seemed to genuinely be clueless about the treasure and disc up until they got forced to leave. They did investigate the Darrow Mansion but there's no real explanation of why they were there. Based on his younger self being trapped in the sitting room it's a fair guess to say once Ricky learned Pericles betrayed him he devoted a lot of time and research into the Mystery. Cassidy had gotten clued in when she returned. But without either the scroll or Pericles' knowledge it probably put them both often into dead ends.
283	** Brad and Judy seemed to have not done anything about it once they left town and the just mere attempt at coming back cost them their son.
284	* Why is Dead Justice seen as a villain? Yes, tecnically he is a vigilante... Just right Mistery Inc. Aside for the death treaths that he doesn't need to do and onestly seems to be putted there so that they can call him the bad guy, he is just capturing criminals, just like our heroes does. Heck, at one point the mayor appointed him sheriff, from them onward he is just doing his job, Mystery Inc have no right of arresting him unless they can prove the death threats and even then i don't know if it would be enough to justify his capture. The only difference between him and the gang is that he is doing it to spite the Sheriff, but regardless of the motive, he was only doing good for the city and he was objetivly a better sheriff than Bronson, he doesn't feel right to me to call him a villain just because he make a single person lose a job he was terrible at, just by doing it better. It's also weird that the mayor was fully ok whith him, and suddenly he decide to arrest him just because he turns out to be a guy in a mask. If he was doing it to cover up some crimes that would have make sense, but as it his it just seems that the writers took a character that was doing a somewhat jerkish but still ultimately good think and shove in the death threats to paint him as a villain.
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286	* Were the Kriegstaffebots really Nazi in origin given that Abigail Gluck -- who was a member of the ''Benevolent'' Lodge of Mystery -- made them to help her and Professor Pericles find the fifth and sixth pieces of the Planispheric Disk? Admittedly, for a time she lived in Bavaria, Germany in the 1930s, but they were built in the underwater lab off the coast of Crystal Cove. I find it hard to believe that the show really meant to imply that one of the mystery-solving "heroes" was a Nazi, or at least a Nazi sympathizer. Professor Pericles, on the other hand...

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