While visiting Velma's friend Professor Greer at the Vulture's Claw Botanical Gardens, the gang encounters a seven-foot mantis that's driven away his workers.
This episode includes examples of the following:
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: The Monster of the Week is a gigantic praying mantis.
- Crusty Caretaker: Harry Keeble has been working at the gardens for most of his life, has mixed feelings about their new owner, doesn't run away when a monster is haunting the place and is constantly gruff to visitors.
- Lovable Coward: Eric Arby, a soft-spoken assistant botanist. He fled due to fear of the monster, but came back out of concern at Professor Greer being left alone (although he still bolts off again when he hears a distant roar).
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: All of Professor Greer's employees besides Harry Keeble ran away from the creature (although Eric Arby came back).
- Shady Real Estate Agent: Clyde Dickerman is a scowling man whose always snooping around, makes no secret about how he's confident the monster will force Professor Greer to sell him the gardens, and is speculated as wanting to tear the gardens down for something like a shopping center. Actually, it's because he knows there's oil there. That being said, he isn't the one dressing up as a monster in that episode and it's actually Professor Greer whose trying to scare everyone away so he can get the oil.
