Spoofy-Doo

Let's split up, gangs!^note Clockwise from top left: The original Mystery Inc., Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids, The Groovy Gang, Snooper Dog and the Clue Crew.

Have a problem in your home town? Tired of that creepy house around the corner scaring away visitors? Got a murder to solve that can't be done by The Real Spoofbusters? Call the Mystery Gang and they'll solve your problem in one night.

These cool cats are generally a group of youngsters, typically Kid Heroes or teens to young adults — however, experienced adults are more than capable of falling into this trope, unusual as it may seem. Usually a close-knit group, the Mystery Gang stumbles into trouble that often isn't solved by normal means. By this, we mean incidents that'd get only a passing glance from naysayers — supernatural mysteries are extremely common for this type, but so are everyday horrors like disappearances or murders.

Scooby-Doo is one of the most recognizable Saturday-Morning Cartoon franchises of all time, with a simple yet memorable concept of teenagers and their pet dog solving crimes. Because of this, parodies of the concept are practically a staple of any popular TV show. That said, this particular notion had a boost by the franchise's creators, Hanna-Barbera; for better or worse, they were notorious for recycling a winning formula to the point that "gang of amateur sleuths and their mascot" is practically a recognized Sub-Genre in its own right. Key elements encountered in most of these parodies and imitations include:

• The gang most often consists of a Five-Man Band either directly expying the gang or any other adolescent Stock Characters of the time, but smaller and larger ensembles can work. They may also a Teen Pop band in the vein of Josie and the Pussycats. ^note  Coincidentally, the Scooby-Doo Gang themselves were briefly conceptualized as a music band, but that element was dropped to avoid ripping off The Archie Show.
  • A talking Non-Human Sidekick / Plucky Comic Relief. Quite often a Lovable Coward.
    • A parody of Scrappy-Doo to serve solely as the butt of the joke.
  • The guys of the gang often have an Adventure Duo-esque dynamic; The Leader is typically a handsome all-American type similar to Fred Jones. Often a Standardized Leader, jock (typically lovable and/or dumb, or jerkish in darker parodies), or even gay if what everyone says about the ascot has a grain of truth to it.
  • The other guy is often a hippie, beatnik, or member of any such unkempt subculture similar to Shaggy Rogers. Most likely a G-Rated Stoner (or out-and-out stoner in more adult takes).
  • Often there a Two Girls to a Team, possibly Light Feminine and Dark Feminine, Tomboy and Girly Girl, etc. One is them is often a Girl Next Door or Class Princess similar to Daphne Blake, and usually the Fred-analogue's girlfriend.
  • The Smart Guy of the gang is often a Bespectacled Cutie (prone to loosing them), often on the short side and sporting a sweater of some sort, similar to Velma Dinkley. Often either contrasted or composited with the above archetype.
  • If including elements and archetypes from any of the show's H-B followers, there's likely to be a Sassy Black Woman similar to Valerie Brown from the aforementioned Josie, or perhaps a Lovable Alpha Bitch to form a Betty and Veronica dynamic with one of the nicer girls.
• A '70s-style van to serve as their Signature Team Transport, like the classic Mystery Machine.
• Aesthetics steeped in The '60s and/or The '70s, when the original show took place.
• Imitating the show's recurring pattern: splitting up to search for clues, a few chase scenes, and setting a trap for the Villain / Monster of the Week.
• Said monsters appearing to by typical ghosts and ghouls, only to be revealed as "old man Jenkins" masquerading to disguise his criminal activities.
• Running Gags such as Scooby-Dooby Doors, a Scooby Stack, a Cold Touch Surprise, or the team goofball accidentally finding a clue.
• An unmasking scene, usually where the team Gasp! and state the perpetrator's name in unison, followed by The Summation linking the clues to the culprit, who invariably curses "You Meddling Kids" for thwarting him.
• Cheap Limited Animation as was common in Hanna-Barbera productions, often with wraparound backgrounds.

Sub-Trope of Stock Parodies.

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Examples

Warner Media

• In The Batman And Scooby Doo Mysteries issue #8, the Dynamic Duo are working with "Ranger and the Wraith Wranglers", a group of Mystery Inc. lookalikes: Duke, a rich Ambiguously Brown youth with a British posh accent (maybe Indian); Sensei, a blond karateka; Specs, a Black and Nerdy girl; Bongo, an even Beatnik-ier version of Shaggy, and Ranger, a Doberman (instead of a Great Dane, as Scooby-Doo is). They were robots operated by Batgirl, created as Mystery Inc.'s decoys while Batman was conducting an investigation on Deathstroke.
• Supernatural had long been compared to Scooby-Doo, as its protagonists drove around in a Cool Car chasing ghosts and solving mysteries. This culminated in a full-on crossover episode called "ScoobyNatural" with Sam, Dean and Castiel getting plunged into the animated world of Scooby-Doo and solving a mystery with the gang. Unfortunately, the Supernatural gang brought the violent reality of their world into the animated one, causing trauma for the animated characters.
• Hanna-Barbera may as well have been doing this to themself, given how many cartoon shows they made seemed like carbon copies of Mystery Inc. Examples include...
  • The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan extended this to nineteen people, and made this into a family affair.
  • Both halves of The Buford Files and the Galloping Ghost — the former had a lazy bloodhound, while the latter had a ghost prospector.
  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids
  • Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels — the goofy mascot is Captain Caveman, and his entourage expy both Josie and the Pussycats ^note which was owned by Archie Comics; the main reason H-B handled that particular Animated Adaptation is because Filmation was too busy with all the rest and Charlie's Angels.
  • Casper and the Angels may fit the Teen Angels formula: Casper the Friendly Ghost and another larger ghost are the mascots for two female cops. Together, They Fight Crime! in space.
  • Clue Club is basically Scooby-Doo but with two dogs.
  • Dynomutt, Dog Wonder is basically a robotic Scooby-Doo as the sidekick to a Batman Parody.
  • The Flintstone Comedy Show: One of the segments was Pebbles, Dino, and Bamm-Bamm, involving teenaged versions of Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm solving mysteries around Bedrock with Team Pet Dino.
  • The Funky Phantom: Scooby-Doo with a ghost from The Revolutionary War!
  • Goober and the Ghost Chasers is Scooby-Doo mixed with ghost-chasing amateur reporters (interestingly, this one actually introduced some elements that would later be used in Scooby-Doo).
  • Jabberjaw has their gang solve underwater cases. The Cartoon Network Groovies version of them are instead a ska band that lives above land, ironically making them closer to a typical Mystery Gang.
  • Josie and the Pussycats is about a band that constantly runs into trouble on tour. Unlike their comic counterparts, which mostly stick to Archie-style humor, the animated Pussycats were reworked into a mystery and adventure series, with Sebastian even being upgraded from Alexandra's familiar to the Team Pet. The cliche of a mystery gang being in a band was codified by them.
  • Speed Buggy is basically Scooby-Doo with a talking dune buggy.
  • The New Shmoo (1979): the comic strip Shmoo is reinterpreted as a bowling pin-shaped white Cartoon Creature that helps three human columnists to solve mysteries.
  • Even the Super Friends got in on the trend with the "Junior Superfriends", two teenagers named Wendy Marvin and their "Wonder Dog". They in turn were expied into the Wonder Twins and the monkey Gleek, who had actual superpowers and were enough of a better fit to become Canon Immigrants in the greater DC Comics.
    • Most of the above examples demonstrate Expy Coexistence; among other crossovers, they were frequent guest stars on The New Scooby-Doo Movies, and one of the teams on Laff-A-Lympics was the Scooby-Doobies, which gathers Scooby and Shaggy, Speed Buggy and his human driver, and Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels.
• As H-B's successor, Cartoon Network (and [adult swim]) have often lampooned the concept:
  • Aqua Teen Hunger Force: The 100th episode features Shake, Frylock, and Meatwad facing a monster who represents the 100th episode who wants them to give it to him. To escape, they end in a show called "Aqua Unit Patrol Squad" (this was some time before they would use the title as part of the New Season, New Name joke) which resembles Scooby-Doo (and some Hanna-Barbara toons in general) with Meatwad even resembling Scooby and the group suddenly having a Velma expy named Tabitha.
  • One of the many "Cartoons That Never Made It" was Heidi and the Yodelers, a "Josie and the Pussycats" pastiche that yodels and solve crimes/mysteries. There are three yodeling girls (a redhead girl, a Black girl with a huge Afro, and a girl with whitish-blonde hair), a diminutive bearded man, a shirtless blonde guy, and an Alexandra expy.
  • Johnny Test: The episode "Johnny Dukey Doo" is a parody of Scooby-Doo with Dukey as Scooby, Johnny as Shaggy, Susan and Mary as Daphne and Velma, and Gil as Fred. Gil even changes into Fred's attire as part of his proclaimed "ghost hunting gear".
  • Mike Tyson Mysteries is [adult swim]'s send-up of both Mystery Gangs and '80s Celebrity Toons. Mike and his adoptive daughter Yung Hee are even accompanied by a Funky Phantom-esque ghost companion, the Marquess of Queensberry. There’s also a talking animal sidekick (Pigeon) and a Mystery Mobile that the team drives from one case to the next.
  • The New Teen Titans (2003) short "Turn Back The Clock" sees the Titans opposing Mad Mod's attempt to warp time. They find themselves resembling the Scooby-Doo gang when they enter the 70s; specifically with Robin as Fred, Starfire as Daphne, Raven as Velma, Cyborg as Shaggy, and Beast Boy as Scooby.
  • Steven Universe: Promotional art◊ for the episode "Gem Hunt" has the Crystal Gems cosplaying as the Scooby gang, with leader of the group Garnet as Fred, the feminine Pearl as Daphne, Bookworm Connie as Velma, Steven as Shaggy, and Amethyst shapeshifted into Scooby-Doo.
  • The Venture Bros.: The episode "¡Viva los Muertos!" features a team of middle-aged mystery solvers who combine the Scooby Gang with infamous criminals from the '60s and '70s. Ted, Fred combined with Ted Bundy, is cheerfully abusive to the others and threatens the wrath of God if they don't obey him. Patty, Daphne combined with Patty Hearst, was abducted by Ted and just wants to see her family again. Val, Velma combined with Valerie Solanas, cynically spouts radical feminist talking points. Sonny, Shaggy combined with David Berkowitz (Son of Sam), is a mentally ill man who hallucinates that their dog Groovy can talk, telling him to kill for some unholy higher power. Ted controls Sonny using "Groovy Treats", which is just Sonny's medication. The group enters the Venture Compound in search of a mystery, assuming that it must be abandoned, only to be killed by Brock for trespassing.
• Animaniacs: In "Back in Style," as Warner Bros. Pictures is suffering financial woes in The '60s and seventies, the Warner siblings are loaned out to a parody of Hanna-Barbera to do cameos in the studio's Limited Animation TV cartoons. One such show is Uhuru, Where Are You?, featuring the titular dog, Bristly (a Shaggy parody who says "Zink!" when startled), Phoebe (a combination of Daphne and Velma), and an unnamed Fred parody (voiced by Animaniacs regular Frank Welker for good measure). While investigating a haunted house, the Warners bungle the investigation by riding on Uhuru, and then dance to "cheesy fake rock songs" (in a parody of the bubblegum rock songs that accompanied the chase scenes in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!'s second season).

Film

• Disney's take on Big Hero 6 resembles a superhero take on the concept, consisting of five college students and their Non-Human Sidekick (in this case a medical robot) solving a mystery surrounding a Malevolent Masked Man. Their ranks even include a G-Rated Stoner and a Light Feminine and Dark Feminine duo.
• Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back: During their hitchhiking travels, Jay and Silent Bob enter a van featuring the Totally Not The Scooby-Doo Gang; Shaggy, Fred, Daphne, and Velma are listed in the credits respectively as “The Dude”, “The Guy”, “Redhead Beauty”, and “Bookish Girl”.
  Jay: Zoinks, yo.

Literature

• Meddling Kids is a dark deconstruction of the Scooby-Doo canon. It features a former group of mystery-solving teens who are now adults dealing with serious psychological issues (one of them is an alcoholic, another is in a mental hospital, and the team leader, based on Fred from Scooby-Doo, is dead, having committed suicide). Eventually it turns out that the said issues have to do with the repressed traumatic memories of having encountered a real Eldritch Abomination during their last investigation.
• The Famous Five may be the Ur-Example. This series by Enid Blyton was so popular that she ended up writing many more books than she had intended, which meant that the characters seem to not age and remain children for a long time. The Famous Five consisted of two boys, two girls (one a girly girl, the other a tomboy) and their dog, Timmy. They were Meddling Kids who solved serious crimes, often facing gangsters and foreign spies.
• Although they're not teens and don't have a mascot, the team roster of the Ghost Finders reads like an adult Expy of the Scooby Gang: JC is Fred, Melanie is Velma, Kim is Daphne, and Happy is Shaggy.

Live-Action TV

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Buffy and her companions have been referred to both in-universe and out as the Scooby Gang. And while there is a fair bit of mystery to their adventures, the monsters they face are unambiguously real and end up being killed rather than unmasked.
• Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide: The episode "Secrets" is a whole shout-out to Scooby-Doo, squeezing practically every running gag on that show into its 11-minute runtime. This includes Ned pretending to be a ghost in Loomer's locker, a Scooby-Dooby Doors sequence with Loomer chasing Ned and Cookie around, Lisa doing the "Velma losing her glasses" bit (complete in an orange outfit), and Suzie saying "You Meddling Kids" at the end of the episode.

Tabletop Games

• An RPG actually called Meddling Kids (2004), from Pandahead Productions, let players create their own group of mystery-solving teens, with the GM playing the "Wild Card" (the mascot character).
• GURPS:
  • The Mysterious Five, cut material from Discworld Roleplaying Game, but included in the "Designer's Notes" column in Pyramid Magazine vol 2. They appear to be four familiar-looking young people and a dog, who travel the Disc refusing to believe magic exists and trying to pull the "masks" off trolls and zombies. What they actually are is even stranger than that.
  • A scenario in Pyramid Magazine vol 3 #101 was "Terry Toucan and the Puzzle Pals in: The House of 10,000 Sock Monkeys", described as "a cock-eyed homage to the old Hanna-Barbera cartoons, where a wholesome group of kids and their semi-intelligible animal companion solved mysteries through curiosity, grit, and dumb luck". Unfortunately, this time the monsters are real. Even more unfortunately Terry Toucan hates the Puzzle Pals and is trying to get them killed.

Theatre

• The Solve-It Squad Returns! features a former gang of teen mystery solvers who reunite 20 years later to solve the murder of their talking animal mascot Cluebert. Interestingly, Scrags, the Shaggy, became a serious By-the-Book Cop in the wake of his dog's death, while Esther, the Velma, became The Stoner and Addled Addict because she couldn't handle her own intelligence, in a reversal of what you'd expect. Meanwhile, Gwen, the Daphne who also acted as Fille Fatale, became a floundering actress, and Keith, the Fred, never really matured past his teens and staged the whole case to get everyone back together.

Video Games

• Yandere Simulator: The Photography Club is modeled after the Mystery Gang, with the characters being lookalikes and having familiar-sounding names, although their Scooby-Doo Expy is a kid who sometimes claims to be a dog who's been turned into a human by magic. If you fly under the radar and keep the school's overall atmosphere high, they're just a bunch of slackers goofing off together. However, if you give them reason to believe there's a Serial Killer in school, they suddenly become your worst nightmare: hyper-vigilant sleuths who travel in a pack, actively look for clues, and keep an eye out for suspicious behavior, and always have cameras on them. If they suspect you personally, it'll get even worse, since even if you clean up all the evidence, they'll take to stalking you to catch you in the act and ensure you can't get away with it again.
• In one of the endings of M:I-2: LeChuck's Revenge, the game's villain Zombie Pirate LeChuck turns out to be a masked goon, and is unmasked in a typical You Meddling Kids scene. One of the characters then chews on a huge sandwich and says "Rooby-Dooby-Doo".

Visual Novels

• A Real Party's cast is comprised of Captain Ersatz versions of the Scooby-Doo team, revolving around the five of them investigating a haunted mansion to stop the Rat King.

Web Animation

• In Homestar Runner, The Homestar Runner Mystfit-steries by Youbetterbelieveit Chimenez is a big parody. They first appeared in the Strong Bad Email "high school" as a "flashback" to the Homestar gang's high school years, but they appear later in the 2020 Halloween special Halloween Hijinks after the "real" short has nothing of note to offer. Both appearances have them be Better than a Bare Bulb lampoons of a typical SD episode, with their second appearance having the group, now A Group of Random Teens, trying to solve the mystery of a masked villain who had killed Councilman Zonepermit (the King of Town). They also have a band they play in, and invite that episode's culprit to play with them despite knowing he just killed a man. Homestar is the clueless but fearless leader, Strong Bad plays the skinny snarker who keeps trying to take off Homestar's pants, Marzipan is the eye candy of the group, and Strong Mad mostly just hung around Strong Bad.
• Mystery Skulls Animated was conceived as an Affectionate Parody of Scooby-Doo; the first video, "Ghost", introduces a three-person group, that being Vivi Yukino, Arthur Kingsmen, and Mystery, Vivi's pet dog. Arthur represents Shaggy, Vivi is a mix of Daphne and Velma, and Mystery the dog represents Scooby himself. Towards the end of the video, it's revealed that there was a fourth member representing Fred, Lewis Pepper, who was killed during an investigation and now seeks revenge as a ghost, wrongly believing Arthur to be the culprit.
• RWBY Chibi had a segment called "The Mystery Bunch" with Team JNPR and Zwei standing in for the gang. Ren is Fred, Pyrrha is Daphne, Nora is Velma , Jaune is Shaggy, and Zwei is Scooby.
• Saturday Morning Watchmen has Ozymandias' lynx Bubastis be designed to be closer to Scooby, down to appearances and a cowardly demeanor. During their part of the theme song, they were described as a "couple of crime-solving superstars", when they both got spooked by a mummy and ran away through the Hanna-Barbera stock sound.

Webcomics

• El Goonish Shive: Ellen and Nanase are the Meddling Teenagers and earned some reputation after a while. Eventually they meet and start working with Charlotte, thus completing the bonus initial reference.
• Sluggy Freelance: The guest-artist arc "Sluggy Freelance: Where Are You?" has the cast of the comic disappear. Characters from other webcomics are brought in to audition for the parts, only to find themselves in improvised costumes that resemble those of the Scooby-Doo characters. The penny begins to drop when they find themselves standing by a brightly-painted builders' van with "The Masonry Machine" written on the side.

Web Original

• SCP Foundation has a file, SCP-K9-J-EX, about a seemingly haunted Victorian Mansion that contains a hallway which can, when pop music is played, produce a non-Euclidian effect where a person or persons entering the hall can emerge in random groupings in various doors throughout the hallway. It was investigated by special team Mu-5, aka "Meddling Kids", wherein it was revealed to be a hoax by Professor Jenkins to get the property at rock-bottom prices. The file has since been closed and labeled "Solved".

Web Video

• Critical Role released an April Fools' Day video in the middle of their Kickstarter for The Legend of Vox Machina , titled an "Animatic Sneak Peek!", that depicted the Vox Machina characters in the Scooby-Doo style solving a "Scooby-Doo" Hoax. Trinket the bear, who can normally only be heard by Vex using a spell, becomes a talking animal for the occasion.

Western Animation

• Danny Phantom: In "Million Dollar Ghost", many ghost hunter teams try to catch Danny for Vlad's proposed reward. One of those are the Groovy Gang and their mascot Scaredy Cat.
• The Fairly Oddparents has a lot of examples of this. Considering that Butch Hartman worked at Hanna-Barbera while on Cartoon Network, expect a lot of examples:
  • One of the shows Timmy and the gang visit in "Channel Chasers" is a cartoon called Snooper Dog and the Clue Crew, a Scooby-Doo parody with a No Celebrities Were Harmed version of Snoop Dogg as the title character. Snooper Dog's design notably resembles Goober from the short-lived Goober and the Ghost Chasers show.
  • The episode "Dread n' Breakfast" features a Scooby-Dooby Doors sequence, and two characters similar to Shaggy and Scooby are shown running alongside them.
  • Earlier, in "Twistory", Timmy manages to defeat Benedict Arnold, who says "And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for that meddling kid."
  • In "Fairly OddPet", Wanda turns down Cosmo's idea of a vacation in a haunted amusement park, and he calls "Sorry meddling kids, you're on your own!" as a Mystery Machine-esque van drives off.
  • "The Wand That Got Away" is basically a full Homage to the old Scooby-Doo episodes, with Timmy as Fred, Cosmo as Shaggy, Wanda as Daphne, Baby Poof as Velma, and Sparky as Scooby (who keeps saying several Scooby-Doo Catchphrases as a Running Gag) driving around in a Mystery Machine-esque van to try and find Cosmo's missing wand.
  • The episode "Let Sleeper Dogs Lie" reveals that Sparky had many owners before Timmy and his fairies. This includes the blatant parody of Mystery Inc. (along with Dorothy, Captain Ersatz of Charlie Brown and, the most important, Denzel Crocker — along with Cosmo and Wanda).
• Ruby-Spears:
  • Fangface was Ruby-Spears's attempt to follow Hanna-Barbera's Scooby-Doo formula: Four mystery-solving teens drive around in a customized vehicle. However, the twist is that one of the teenagers becomes a werewolf, who fits the role of requisite Team Pet. Later on, they add the requisite Scrappy-Doo version, a human baby who becomes a werewolf named Fangpuss.
  • Rickety Rocket: in this futuristic series, four African-American teenagers build a run-down rocket that can talk. Together, the group operate a detective agency.
• Farzar: In the episode "Save the Reaper Demons", The S.H.A.T. Squad gets chased around a sanctuary by a reaper demon and they do a Scooby-Doo chase sequence, complete with some catchy 60's pop music, a Scooby Doo doors gag, and breakaway gags with the characters doing stuff such as riding a rollercoaster, going water skiing, and playing music in a band. It was later revealed that this entire sequence was just Scootie's drug-induced hallucination.
• Arthur: In the episode "The Rat Who Came To Dinner", Mr. Ratburn stays at Arthur's house, where he shows him his collection of Spooky-Poo videos, which has a kangaroo instead of a dog, and four anthropomorphic characters similar to Shaggy, Fred, Daphne, and Velma.
• Wander over Yonder: The episode "The Cartoon" features a show called The Mystery Kids' Mysteries, which seems to be a cross among Scooby-Doo, Gravity Falls and The Jetsons. It features a mystery-solving gang of alien kids with a talking dog sidekick and the catchphrase "Crikeys" riding in a hippie-esque spaceship called "The Mystery Ship" and investigating the case of a haunted sweater.
• Futurama: One of the segments of the episode "Saturday Morning Fun Pit" is a fairly straightforward parody of Scooby-Doo called Bendee-Boo and the Mystery Crew, with Bender being Scooby, Fry being Shaggy, Amy being Velma, Leela being Daphne, and Hermes being Fred. The segment itself pokes fun at general conventions of the show such as Limited Animation, the repeat-pan backgrounds, the Laugh Track, and the Scooby-Dooby Doors gag.
  Theme Song: Bendee, Bendee-Boo, what's wrong with you? You're such a lousy mascot. No one understands a single word you say. Not even the jerk in the ascot.
• Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures: In "Don't Touch That Dial", the title character is Trapped in TV Land, and as the young viewer channel-surfs, Mighty Mouse ends up in Ring-a-Ding, Where Are You?, featuring four teenagers in stereotypical 1970s fashions (with the Shaggy parody, Scuzzy, saying "Yoinks!" in a deadpan manner) and their scruffy talking dog. Scuzzy and Ring-a-Ding also drive around in a Speed Buggy–esque vehicle, and the parody includes jabs at the Scooby-Dooby Doors gag, the show's Limited Animation (complete with Wraparound Background spoof), the Laugh Track, and the Dramatic Unmask at the end of each episode (the gang tries to unmask Mighty Mouse, thinking he's the "Rat Monster of Gruesome Gulch", only to accidentally rip his head off his neck).
• South Park features a parody in the Halloween Episode "Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery", starring the metal band Korn in the roles of Mystery Incorporated as they investigate why pirate ghosts are haunting the town (which they are blamed for). They have their own mascot, Nibblet, whose more similar to Scrappy in that he generally gets in the way of the investigation and only manages to help uncover the culprit's identity in the end. To complete the reference, they're all drawn in the style of Where Are You!, contrast to everyone else in the episode.
• Drawn Together, which stars a Cast of Expies of well-known cartoon concepts, has Foxxy Love as the "mystery-solving musician". She's a Blaxploitation-style parody of Valerie Brown, who was shown to have toured with a team of similar ladies called "the Foxxy Five".

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