Crystal Cove's renowned artist Randy Warsaw is under attack, with his assistants being turned into gold statues! However, when Mystery Inc is recruited into his employ, it's up to Daphne to solve the mystery on her own.
The episode provides examples of:
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Brad and Judy Chiles. Cassidy pleads with them to drop their search for the treasure, only for them to casually make it clear they don't care about anything else and tell her to go away.
- Blatant Lies: Butch's fake motive gets zero traction.Butch: Alright, look, I did it for art.
Warsaw: That can't be right, can it?
Butch: Okay, that's a lie. - Blind Without 'Em: Downplayed example, Velma can still somewhat see without her glasses, but a lot of details are lost.
- The Glasses Gotta Go: Warsaw breaks Velma's glasses after deciding to make her his muse. Unusually Velma seems to genuinely consider wearing them less often as she doesn't even wear her spare pair until she makes a mistake.Velma: So what do you think of my portrait, Sheriff Stone? Mayor Nettles?
Stone: You must appreciate the perspective, the bold line, the playful impasto.
Nettles: It, uh, looks like a triangle.
Velma: <frowns, puts on glasses and turns to look at the painting> Oh, Jinkies. - Hidden Depths: Sheriff Stone is quite knowledgeable on the subject of fine art.
- Hollywood Tone-Deaf: Scooby’s singing sucks. Lampshaded by the culprit.Oh, and your singing stinks! Nobody understands a word you're saying!
- Mad Artist: Randy Warsaw is a non-villainous example (although he is a jerk), being more interested in an art piece featuring him being consumed by the art monster than stopping it. The villain, Butch Firbanks, is doing all this simply because he wants revenge on Warsaw for having changed his style and music.
- Monster of the Week: Junk, a modern art piece come to life as a golem, which terrorizes its creator's art shows and turns people it consumes into gold statues.
- Mythology Gag: Averted. For the first time in this new series, Velma loses her glasses. Instead of the classic "I can't see without my glasses!" she only comments that her vision is now "blurry".
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Randy Warsaw for Andy Warhol, Sunday Around Noonish for The Velvet Underground, with Butch and Eeko serving for Lou Reed and Nico.
- Noodle Incident: Shaggy recalls a time when he was stuck in a mannequin factory.
- Shirtless Scene: More like shirtless episode, Fred spends 2/3rds of the episode without one.
- Shout-Out: The culprit's real name is Hans van Shanengruber.
- Stating the Simple Solution: Velma points out that Warsaw could just melt down the art that's attacking people. However he refuses to destroy his own art.
- Cassidy: Listen up, boppers. Because I've got a brand new radio show coming at you right now. Across the airwaves. It's all about the truth. Evil resides in Crystal Cove. So, stay tuned and maybe, just maybe, we'll all get through this thing alive.
