Scooby-Doo, Haunted Holidays is a 30 minute Scooby-Doo special released on direct to video in 2012.
While the gang is attending a Christmas parade, they come across a maniacal snow creature who lives in the haunted house across the street. As the legend has it, the creature was formed after the old man next door swore revenge on the toy factory being built on the other side of the road, due to it attracting too many unwanted guests. Now it's up to the gang to stop the creature and save the toy factory before the Snowman ruins everything.
Tropes Present:
- Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: When Fred and Daphne are looking for clues, Fred finds a stash of rockets and gets sidetracked for a moment, excitedly asking Daphne if he can keep them like a little kid.
- Bad Santa: Downplayed; the Santa Claus from the parade isn't evil, but he is a major jerk who hates Christmas. He considers playing Santa beneath him, given that he's "an actor."
- Batter Up!: The Sinister Snowman gets creamed by an elf on the Christmas glockenspiel when he sticks his head between its hammer and the bell it's supposed to ring while menacing Shaggy and Scooby.
- Big Eater: Scooby and Shaggy as usual stuff their mouths with food constantly, seen at the beginning during the parade.
- Big "NO!": Shaggy yells, "No!" when the Snowman freezes Scooby.
- Blind Without 'Em: When the Snowman attacks the gang at the Haunted House, Velma loses her glasses. When she puts them back on and sees the monster, she wishes she didn't.
- Cast as a Mask: Fred Tatasciore voices the Sinister Snowman while Crispin Freeman voices Fabian Menkle.
- Chekhov's Gun:
- Fred and Daphne find silver iodide and rockets in the attic of the Haunted House. The Sinister Snowman used them to seed the clouds and make snow when he wanted it.
- Velma finds a postcard in the same mansion. It turns out to explain the owner's fate.
- Christmas Special: It's a TV special taking place during Christmas.
- Crisis Catch And Carry: The Sinister Snowman freezes Scooby during its initial attack, keeping him from running away. Shaggy gives his ice block a push start and then rides it into the toy store.
- Dramatic Thunder: When the Sinister Snowman attacks the parade, a thundersnow blows in, snowing people into the toy store.
- Every Car Is a Pinto: When the snow creature first attacks during the parade, he shoots a beam of ice at a car that causes it to roll into the bandstand and explode. Because it wouldn't be a Scooby-Doo cartoon produced and directed by Victor Cook without Stuff Blowing Up now, would it?
- Giant Hands of Doom: A giant hand trying to smash our heroes happens courtesy of the Snowman's voluntary shapeshifting.
- Giant Spider: A giant spider form is also done through the Snowman's shapeshifting.
- The Grinch: The fake Santa Claus. Especially during the beginning and the end. In the middle, however, he's not actually there; that's the real Santa Claus.
- Harmless Freezing: The Snowman's main attack is freezing people with ice breath. This isn't shown to be fatal.
- Haunted House: There's a particularly conspicuous one across the street from the toy store. It's not really haunted, though. The old guy who supposedly turned into the snow creature actually just moved to a tropical island.
- Improvised Weapon: When Fred slightly thaws after he and the girls are attacked by the snowman in the elevator, he presses the button so that the elevator doors crush the remainder of the ice.
- Mythology Gag:
- The gang are drawn in their classic winter outfits used way back since the 1960s.
- Scooby and Shaggy get to meet Santa Claus, a Hanna-Barbera tradition the likes of Yogi Bear and Fred Flintstone have done in the past.
- During the chase scene, it mimics a scene/the opening of The New Scooby-Doo Movies.
- No One Gets Left Behind: When Scooby gets frozen during the Snowman's initial attack, Shaggy goes back and pushes/slides his ice block to the safety of the toy store.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: One big clue that Santa's the genuine article comes when he addresses Scooby as "Scoobert" and Shaggy as "Norville." Since they're currently being attacked by a giant carnivorous snowman, nobody notices.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: The Snowman has red eyes.
- Santa Claus: There's a fake one who despises the holidays. But the real one shows up and saves the day.
- "Scooby-Doo" Hoax: The snow monster is really Fabian Menkle in a disguise.
- Sexy Santa Dress: Daphne and Velma's elf costumes. Not exactly a Santa dress, but they are skintight.
- Shout-Out: At one point, Scooby skids into a large stack of rabbit dolls in boxes. Atop the display is a rabbit statue that resembles Bugs Bunny.
- Snowlem: The Monster of the Week is a living snowman.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: One of the Snowman's powers is to take on different forms.
