A camping trip gets interrupted by howls and strange tracks, which soon put the gang on the trail of a werewolf's ghost.
This episode includes examples of the following tropes:
- Artistic License – Biology: Velma identifies the footprints as belonging to a wolf by their shape. However, wolves are digitigrade (walking on their toes), whereas the footprints are shaped as plantigrade (heels touching the ground).
- Big Shadow, Little Creature: Variant — Shaggy and Scooby see what looks like a gigantic monster, only for it to turn out to be a little mouse whose size was distorted from the water-filled bottle it was behind.
- Bond One-Liner: After using a giant net to save Shaggy and Scooby from a waterfall, Fred quips that he, Daphne, and Velma caught something impressive without the need for bait.
- Coincidental Accidental Disguise: After the end of the musical chase scene, Shaggy and Scooby fall into a stash of wool, getting covered in it. Consequently, when Fred and the girls see them, they mistake the two for more ghosts and run for it, to Shaggy's confusion.
- Conflict Ball: For some reason, Fred and Velma interrogate Shaggy as though he's giving them confusing information when he tells them that the flat cars with the barrels disappear into a "pop top barge", much to his annoyance as it means they now have to go back to the place he and Scooby just escaped to prove it. Velma even accuses him of "talking in riddles", which baffles him.
- End-of-Episode Silliness: Scooby-Doo briefly spooks Shaggy wearing the shaved werewolf mask the bad guy had worn.
- Gag Haircut: Trying to fool the werewolf, Shaggy and Scooby disguise themselves as barbers. Shaggy gives the werewolf a short, patchy haircut, irritating him.
- Green and Mean: The werewolf's green complexion is the only indication that he's a ghost.
- Inevitable Waterfall: Shaggy and Scooby use a barrel as an impromptu boat to escape the werewolf, but that quickly becomes only one of their problems when they see they're approaching a waterfall. Fred, Daphne, and Velma rig a massive net to pull out them and the werewolf.
- Informed Species: If it weren't for the gang stating otherwise, you would have assumed the werewolf was some sort of goblin, which is not helped by his green complexion that signifies his supposed ghostly state. The only indications of him being part-wolf are his wolf-like noises, teeth, and claws. Of course, it may be justified by being just a costume.
- No Name Given: Unlike the other villains in the series, the man in the werewolf costume isn't given a name. The "Scooby-Doo Encyclopedia" book lists said man as Frank Welker, after his voice actor.
- Not Using the "Z" Word: Zig-zagged. The werewolf is referred to as a ghost, but the fact that he supposedly walked out of the grave makes him more akin to a zombie. Although he does act like he's a live werewolf, more like a ghost than a zombie.
- Our Werewolves Are Different: For starters, this one is supposed to be a ghost. Though he's also a guy in a costume.
- Pun: When Shaggy asks what kind of tent Scooby is using, he answers that it's a pup tent.
- Save the Villain: After saving Scooby and Shaggy from a plummet down a waterfall, the gang also has to save the werewolf when he's hanging for dear life onto his stuck canoe.
- Shout-Out: At one point, Shaggy and Scooby come up through a trap door to find the gang, and quip "Well well, Dr. Livingstone and friends, I presume?
" - Stranger Behind the Mask: The werewolf turns out to be a sheep rustler the gang hadn't met before.
- Suddenly Voiced: The werewolf mostly growls, howls and snarls, as expected, but when he's hanging onto his canoe stuck on a rock at a waterfall, he breaks character and starts crying out in his normal voice "Help! Save me!"
- Unspoken Plan Guarantee: When the trap goes awry and Shaggy and Scooby are caught between the werewolf and a waterfall, Fred tells Daphne and Velma that he's got an idea. The scene cuts back to Shaggy and Scooby, leaving it ambiguous what Fred's plan was until the other three catch Shaggy and Scooby with a giant net.
- Wolf Man: The werewolf falls on the more humanoid side of the spectrum, more so than the one seen in "A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts".
- You Just Had to Say It: Of the "original speaker" variant. Shaggy comments that he wishes he knew what the werewolf has to do with everything. When Fred answers that they'll figure it out, Shaggy groans, "Oh, why don't I just keep quiet?" Scooby agrees.
