History WesternAnimation / ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated

[[quoteright:300:~~AnimatedSeries ActionAdventure, {{Mystery}}, {{Horror}}, {{Dramedy}}, BlackComedy~~]]

!!The show provides examples of:
* SeventiesHair: In abundance.
* FiveFiveFive: A radio version - Angel Dynamite's station is the extremely impossible AM 104.2.
* AchillesInHisTent: [[spoiler: Episode 26: When Fred realizes that his [[WasItAllALie whole life has been a lie]], he leaves town and declares Mystery Incorporated to be dead. Good thing for him and the gang that Mr E has [[TheDeterminator Scooby]] pegged; once he works out his issues, the title character will speed along [[TenMinuteRetirement the process of getting things back to normal]]]].
* ActorAllusion: This isn't the first time PatrickWarburton play a [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy lawman.]]
** In Episode 4, David Faustino plays a down-on-his-luck guy named Bud. [[MarriedWithChildren Huh, where have we seen that one before?]]
** The mother of Velma's StalkerWithACrush Jason is played by Jessica Walter, who played one herself in ''PlayMistyForMe''.
** In episode 18, James Hong's character takes on the guise of a [[BigTroubleInLittleChina powerful Chinese wizard]].
*** [[WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures James Hong as a Chinese wizard, you say?]]
*** [[Series/{{Charmed}} Yes, we do.]]
** Of course, the Creator/HPLovecraft {{Expy}} is played by JeffreyCombs.
** From "The Night the Clown Cried", Crybaby Clown is voiced by MarkHamill, who has [[SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker much experience]] with voicing clowns.
*** Crybaby Clown also seems like an allusion to Hamill's role as Macendale/Hobgoblin on ''WesternAnimation/{{Spider-Man The Animated Series}}'', since the villain is more practical-minded than Joker, and both [[spoiler:are shallow pretty-boys who romance the local rich girl who is fed up with her distracted ex/potential beau and turn to destructive crime waves in the name of money/fame. Both Daphne and Felicia Hardy are made to feel like fools when their date is unmasked.]]
** Early on in season two, Velma seems to have become pretty good friends with Hot Dog Water. It probably doesn't hurt Hot Dog Water's voice actress Linda Cardellini has a bit of a [[Film/ScoobyDoo past relationship]] [[Film/ScoobyDooMonstersUnleashed with Velma]]...
** Ricky Owens's teenage voice actor was Scott Menville who played Shaggy in ShaggyAndScoobyDooGetAClue
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal:
** Daphne and her sisters: Daisy, Dawn, Dorothy, and Delilah.
** In Episode 12, HarlanEllison spouts out a paragraph about the monster, full of "f" words (but not ''the'' [[PrecisionFStrike F Word]]).
* AdrenalineMakeover: Principal Quinlen in "The Mystery Solvers Club State Finals". She starts off as very nervous and upset but the frantic pace and perils of the mystery causes her to lose her ponytail, glasses, and the top buttons of her blouse, and gains a more adventurous attitude.
* AdultChild: Sheriff Stone, complete with personality as well as wearing kiddy pajamas with a police style bed.
* AdultsAreUseless: In Episode 2 none of the parents can give the kids a ride home, for reasons such as "I just got comfortable" and "It's dark out there". The kids were stranded alone in a small suspicious town that had recently been having people disappear.
** Not all adults are. Velma's mom knows a lot about the supernatural and the gang goes there when they don't have a lead on monsters. And in episode 25, Professor Hatecraft helps the kids [[spoiler: even going as far as to stand up to the monster of the week.]]
** In the season 2 premiere, the only slightly competent adult is the new mayor, who immediately agrees [[spoiler:on the disguised Velma's advice]] to help get Mystery Inc back together to deal with a new threat to Crystal Cove. Every other adult is completely useless, holding out for a hero, and immediately willing to pay off the villain to go away.
* AffectionateParody: The second half of episode 10 is a shameless parody of the ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' films. Several shots are almost identical to those used in the film, such as [[spoiler: only half of the Fright Hound's face being pulled off]] or [[spoiler: the fully robotic body rising out of the fire, without a scratch on it.]] Oh yeah, and there's also the mech from ''Franchise/{{Alien}}s''.
* AllJustADream: The events of [[spoiler:"The Mystery Solvers Club State Finals"]].
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Velma and Daphne are having serious problems with Shaggy and Fred, respectively.
** Episode 24: [[spoiler: Fred finally gets the message. He proposes to Daphne.]]
** [[spoiler: Episode 26 gets Daphne to reveal they are engaged but when Fred finds out about his past, let's just say that these two won't be married for quite some time.]]
** Episode 30: [[spoiler: Daphne now simply wants to be friends with Fred.]]
** Episode 31: [[spoiler: Scooby falls for Brad and Judy's cocker spaniel Nova, and he asks the two people about love that he shouldn't: Fred and Velma.]]
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: The locals treat the gang as, at best, a nuisance and, at worst, a group of destructive vigilantes owing to their inconvenient habit of saving a town filled with stupid, submissive and greedy jackasses from themselves.
** As Velma states in the season 2 premiere, "The town hates us when we're not needed, cheers us when we are".
* AllUpToYou: Scooby Doo and the other non-human {{sidekick}}s have to solve the mystery when the teenage sleuths are abducted in "The Mystery Solvers Club State Finals".
** Taken literally in Episode 26. [[spoiler: The gang has broken up due to Fred going to find who he is, Daphne chewing out Velma for her keeping Angel's identity all to herself and Shaggy being sent to military school. Scooby swears to Pericles that he's going to bring the gang back together to hunt him down.]]
*** [[spoiler: Episode 27: It's Velma who has taken the initiative. Disguised as a mysterious stranger, she tells the new mayor of Crystal Cove, Janet Nettles, to get Mystery Inc. to solve the mystery of the Crybaby Clown. Scooby escapes from the farm and is rescued by Mayor Nettles, then he springs Shaggy from military school. The disguised Velma then rescues Fred from being blown up by the Crybaby Clown before revealing herself. Daphne has a new boyfriend and now she thinks mystery solving was all a waste of time.]]
*** Velma and Scooby tackle the mystery in episode 33 themselves when Fred, Shaggy and Daphne are otherwise preoccupied.
* AlmightyMom: In Episode 20, how did Velma's mom know she had a visitor in her room (which she has to keep secret since [[spoiler: the friend is a mermaid]])? Mom spies on her through her blog.
* AlmostKiss:
** Between Shaggy and Velma in Episode 2.
** In Episode 13 Daphne puckers up to kiss Fred, who suddenly gets conveniently [[LookADistraction distracted]] after seeing his dad, the Mayor.
* AlternateContinuity: Rather than follow in the footsteps of ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'' or ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'', the show instead focuses on a new continuity that is still a continuation of the old show, but with a few differences.
* AmbulanceCut
* AnachronismStew: At the Ren Faire in episode 8, a number of people attend the medieval event as ''pirates''. The staff are none too happy about this.
** The show itself is stylistically set in what looks to be the 60s or 70s, vinyl records and the like have their place but such futuristic marvels like cassette players, compact discs and cellphones make appearances. Despite the presence of Laptops, desktops by in large are bulky and resember computers from the early 80's.
* {{Animesque}}: Watch the "Trap Of Love" music video and tell me it doesn't look like gothic lolita anime.
* AnswerCut: In Episode 8 when the Queen says they must keep out the pirates because "Who knows what shambling low-lives will arrive?". Enter Shaggy and Scooby dressed as pirates.
* AnArc: For the first time since ''WesternAnimation/The13GhostsOfScoobyDoo'', there's an underlying/overarching plot going on in the background of the otherwise episodic mysteries.
* ArcWelding: Happens more and more frequently as the show goes on.
* ArcWords: "This has all happened before", [[spoiler:"Nibiru..."]] and [[spoiler: "The dog dies.."]]
* ArtEvolution: The characters designs are done in a much sharper, more stylistically simplistic way than ever before. Lampshaded in the second episode, when Daphne out of the blue asks Velma what happened to her hair.
* ArtifactOfDoom: The Conquistadors' Treasure and the Planispheric Disk that leads to it are implied to be the reason Crystal Cove is cursed. There is some evidence that the curse may be real [[spoiler:in "The Hodag of Horror" one piece manipulates its owner so it can be reunited with the others.]]
** [[spoiler: A Conquistador's spirit appears at the end of episode 34 once the gang takes off with the fifth piece. The spirit slowly disappears as it laughs, so yes, there could be a menacing curse.]]
** [[spoiler: And it's all coming together...the centerpiece of the Conquistadors' Treasure, on which Crystal Cove was founded upon, is a SealedEvilInACan, who has cursed the Disk to corrupt people and animals into seeking out all the pieces and finding the treasure, unleashing him from imprisonment, and causing ''doomsday'' to happen.]]
* ArtShift: Episode 14 has the cast appear [[ThickLineAnimation as they did]] [[MythologyGag in the original series.]] There also appears not to be any ConspicuousCGI.
* AsHimself: HarlanEllison voices [[SelfDeprecation an unflattering portrayal of himself]] in Episode 12.
* AsbestosFreeCereal: Destroido makes chips made of landfill waste and gummies made of lead.
* AscendedExtra: Hot Dog Water as well as Gary and Ethan.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: While not quite near 50 feet, Episode 9 features a pair of creatures dubbed Humungonauts.
* {{Auction}}: The ColdOpening for the eleventh episode. $34 raised, and all we see auctioned off are: front-row tickets to a ladies roller derby, and a [[InsistentTerminology spoooooky]] painting.
* BabaYaga: Featured in Episode 28
* BarBrawl: Episode 15: "The Wild Brood" starts off with a bar brawl between biker-punks and the orc-like Wild Brood. Asses get kicked.
* BeardOfSorrow: [[spoiler: After the events of the Downer Ending and his continued failure to find his parents, Fred begins season two sporting his "hobo look".]]
* BedlamHouse: [[ShoutOut Animal Asylum]] [[Franchise/{{Batman}} For the Criminally Insane.]]
* BerserkButton: Don't use "like" in a grammatically incorrect fashion in Harlan Ellison's presence. Or ask him about H.P. Hatecraft.
** Although the Hatecraft thing is debatable. [[spoiler: The two are planning to write a book together after the Char Gar Gothikon thing has been dealt with.]]
* BigBad: The first season's is revealed to be [[spoiler: Mayor Jones]].
** BigBadEnsemble: The abovementioned [[spoiler: Mayor Jones]] and Professor Pericles in the first season.
** BigBadDuumvirate: Professor Pericles and Mr. E in the second season.
** BiggerBad: [[spoiler:Nibiru, the SealedEvilInACan that's the source of the Curse of Crystal Cove.]]
* BigEater: Shaggy and Scooby, of course.
** Daphne at the end of Episode 19, after not eating anything all day. Shaggy even remarks that this is the one time anyone has eaten more than him or Scooby.
* BigFancyHouse: Daphne's residence, naturally. Though it's interesting to note that in this incarnation, ''all'' of the lead characters come from wealthy families.
* BiggerOnTheInside: Lampshaded type 1, for the locker that is "big enough" for the huge Man-Crab costume.
* BigNo: Fred has one after it is revealed that the rest of the team won't go to the Mystery Solving contest due to Scooby being sick.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: Daphne alludes to the Blakes being this, what with family meetings with shrinks and her mom being temporarily committed.
** [[spoiler: Fred's family is incredibly screwed up. His adopted father turned out to be a villain, who was only keeping him around as leverage to keep his actual parents at bay. However, his actual parents aren't much better as they made no attempt to contact him during their exile and, it's strongly implied they are just using him to get to the treasure.]]
* BlindWithoutEm: Velma in episode 32. She even lampshades it after Randy Warsaw removes her glasses with the idea of her being an art inspiration and she looks at herself in a mirror.
-->'''Velma:''' I look hot blurry!
* BMovie: The [[VincentPrice Vincent Van Ghoul]] movies. He's starred in at least 400, we can assume they were cranked out fast and on a low budget. Their titles include ''[[TheFly The Mutant Bee]]'', ''[[TheAbominableDrPhibes The Repellant Dr. Phobos]]'' (Doubles as a bit of ActorAllusion) and ''[[HauntedCastle The Castle of Gummy Discharge]]''.
* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler: Happens to EVERYONE of the main cast in the finale. [[DownerEnding Yeah.]]]]
* BreatherEpisode: Episode 40, with Blue Falcon and Dynomutt. Mind you, Blue Falcon is a walking homage to Franchise/{{Batman}} as written by FrankMiller, but the whole thing is basically played for laughs and but for a sole scene has no immediate effect on the rest of the series.
* BroadStrokes: Contains many echoes of the original series in a modern setting.
* BrownBagMask: Sheriff Stone dons one to conceal his identity after he loses his job in "Dead Justice".
* ByWallThatIsHoley: During the Humongonaut fight in episode 9.
* CallBack: This may or may not be intentional, but in episode 41, "Theater of the Doomed," [[spoiler: the ghost of the friar warns them to heed the alligator's warning, and says "The dog dies" before vanishing. In episode 2, "The Creeping Creatures," the episode with the alligator monsters, the gang visits The Drowsy Gator. Pool, Food and Sundries. Certain letters in the neon sign die out to spell "The dog dies." ]]
* TheCameo:
** [[TheFlintstones Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm]] make an appearance at the beginning of episode four.
** Yogi Bear shows up at the end of Episode 10.
** WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest and the gang show up Episode 25. WordOfGod says they'll show up again in the second season.
** A ''Mystery Incorporated'' version of [[WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated Sari Sumdac]] shows up in a crowd shot of "The Hodag of Horror" and again in a flashback near the end of the episode.
* CampGay: The Hex Girls' manager in episode 7.
** And the play director in episode 41.
* CanYouHearMeNow: Subverted. The gang has cell phones that work when they are stranded in Gatorsburg, but [[spoiler: they reach indifferent parents who are unwilling to help]].
* CaptainColorbeard: Scooby uses the pirate name 'Dogbeard' in "The Grasp of the Gnome".
* CaptainErsatz: Mr. E's van, the Enigma Machine, is a dark, poorly painted version of the gang's Mystery Machine.
* CarMeetsHouse: In "Mystery Solvers Club State Finals", Principal Quinlan gets into her office by driving SpeedBuggy through the wall. Of course, it is a FeverDreamEpisode.
* TheCastShowoff: Daphne gets to sing, not one, but TWO songs in the episode "In Fear Of The Phantom". GreyDeLisle knocks both right out of the park.
* CatchPhrase: The old standards appear.
** Velma - "Jinkies!"
** Shaggy - "Zoinks!"
** Scooby Doo - "Scooby Dooby Doo!"
** Professor Pericles uses "Hello, Children!" each time he meets the gang.
* TheCavalryArrivesLate: Lampshaded.
* CerebusRetcon: Freddy's motive for his trap addiction; [[spoiler:Mayor Jones lied to him saying that his mother left them and Fred thinks that traps keep people from running away]]. Essentially [[spoiler:Mayor Jones' humorous neglect gets this when its revealed that he is basically keeping Fred his hostage]].
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Rampant throughout this series, in the case of both Mystery Inc. and the supporting characters.
** A subtle example would be Velma's parents. In the first few episodes, they appeared to be just as thoughtless as the other parents, but as the show progressed the gang would go to Velma's mom for advice on the supernatural. She even helps them during a case involving a headless zombie, and once offered to "take care" of Shaggy after he chose Scooby over Velma (she was kidding). Granted, Velma's mom still got in a couple of snarky comments here and there, but her reveal that she actually reads Velma's blog is something you'd expect of a typical parent. And, by the disastrous events of the last episode, the Dinkleys are the only parents shown comforting their child and not making the situation worse.
* CityOfAdventure: Crystal Cove.
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Not just the Man-Crab, but every villain in costume seems to gain awesome agility and strength.
* CluelessDetective:
** About half the time, the gang's leads are off and they learn who the monster is at the same time the audience does. Jason even calls them out on jumping to conclusions when they accuse him in Episode 10.
** Episode 2. There are only 3 people in this ghost town. There are 3 alligator people scaring visitors away. Who could the alligator people possibly be?
** [[spoiler: Everyone except Velma in episode 33. She's the only one who suspects the cemetery groundskeeper to be the Graveyard Ghoul, which it turns out to be, and nobody else believed her.]]
* CluelessMystery: Episode 15.
* CodeName: Episode 31 [[spoiler: has the gang communicating via walkie-talkie with the code names "Smart Girl" (Velma), "Smokin' Hottie" (Daphne) and "Scarf Boy" (Fred).]]
* ComedicSociopathy: After causing a patient to flat-line due to a panic attack, all the gang merely walks out with Freddy commenting that the questioning had gone well.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Daphne's mother mentions that she's been taking night classes to become a notary, and states that knowledge is more important than beauty. Then she says that she's going to find out what a "notary" actually is before the final.
* ComplimentBackfire: "Oh Velma, you're very pleasant when you aren't trying to be smarter than everyone else."
* ConspicuousCG: Most non-human motion tends to do this, especially moving cars.
* ContinuityNod: Bordering on AlternateContinuity Nod, to boot.
** Velma's family owns a museum filled with "monsters" that have haunted Crystal Cove - many of which the gang has debunked.
*** In fact, in the pilot she's guiding a tour through the museum, and is reprimanded by her parents for ruining the tour by revealing who was under the masks when they were finally caught.
** Episode 6 can be considered a huge one of these, considering [[spoiler: the villain is Alice May, who poses as Alice Carlswell, daughter of the gang's iconic villain "The Creeper"]].
** An in-series nod in Episode 10. The Mystery Machine runs out of gas and slows down, and Daphne says "Don't tell me the engine is missing again!" referring to when Mr. E removed it in episode 2.
** Another in-series nod in Episode 15. After the cold open, the episode starts off at the Tiki nightclub, where Sheriff Stone congratulates Mayor Jones for re-opening the club after it was destroyed by the Humongonauts from Episode 9.
** Yet another in-series nod in Episode 20; simply put, Scooby still has no idea what, if anything, Skipper Shelton is talking about.
** More in-series references: The two teens who got abducted from Episode 4's Man-Crab reappear as victims of the Manticore. As well as the owner of the amusement park wondering how they're going to sell their stock of Que Horrifico shirts and Char Gar Gothikon plushies.
** Episode 24 has Daphne worry whether her seafood allergy from Episode 4 will act up with all the oysters around.
** Episode 25 not only has Hatecraft show up again, [[spoiler: Alice May is back messing with the gang in a different costume.]]
** Episode 38 has the gang visiting the local jail. Watch the background; every inmate is one of the previous villains.
* CoolCar: The Mystery Machine, especially with the improbable moves it pulled out against the ghost truck, as well as the rather impossible jump-flips it did while trying to shake off the Fright Hound.
** And that's not to mention the Enigma Engine from the previous Mystery Inc. Gang.
* CowboyEpisode: "Dead Justice"
* CPRCleanPrettyReliable: In one episode, Fred rescue Daphne from the rising water of a [[DeathTrap swimming pool]]. Fred ask her if she's alright. Daphne, who is unharmed, take advantage of the situation and tells Fred to give her CPR. [[ChasteHero It doesn't work.]]
* CrazyPrepared: In Episode 21, Fred explains to Velma that he gave the Planespheric disc piece [[spoiler: to Shaggy and Scooby cause they'd be the last person to have it.]] Episode 26 reveals that Shaggy and Scooby do have it in a bed/fridge that they keep in the case that they don't get an evening snack before bed.
* {{Crossover}}: "The Mystery Solvers Club State Finals" features Scooby-Doo teaming up with the sidekicks from ''WesternAnimation/SpeedBuggy'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Jabberjaw}}'', ''WesternAnimation/TheFunkyPhantom'' and ''WesternAnimation/CaptainCavemanAndTheTeenAngels''.
** Episode 25 reveals that [[WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest Quest Laboratories]] is a subsidiary of Destroido. And episode 38 shows that Destroido is owned by Ricky Owens/Mr. E.
** Season 2 is set to feature more of the Quest family, along with [[DynomuttDogWonder Dynomutt and Blue Falcon]] (those two will appear in episode 40).
** Episode 37 features Tom and Tubb from the old Moby-Dick cartoons, along with their pet seal, [[NamesTheSame also named Scooby]] (Moby has been reimagined as a whale-shaped sub). And their fathers are referred to as being [[SealabTwentyTwenty Paul Williams and Michael Murphy]].
** In a recent commercial at AMC Theaters, the Gang find the one guy who didn't turn off his cell phone: [[WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow Daffy Duck]].
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass:
** Say what you will about Fred when it comes to teenage life, but he shows total competence when there is a mystery to be solved.
** Scooby and Shaggy. They're still the lovable cowards, but both of them will go and stop the monsters roaming around town.
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: The villain in episode 7. Not only did The Phantom have the foresight to sabotage Fred's trap, when Shaggy and Scooby attempt their typical escape via ScoobyDoobyDoors, he simply ''sets fire'' to the van they're in.
** Episode 17 dealt with Fred and the villain out matching the other, both having encyclopedic knowledge of traps and their workings.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Ala ''Zombie Island'' and ''Witch's Ghost''. It's definitely not cynical, but the universe as a whole is a little less idealistic, and the jokes, characters and events are more mature with some monsters intent on actually ''killing'' the gang. This perhaps explains Shaggy's [[LovableCoward behavior]]. The kids are also less goody-two-shoes than they used to be. A lot of the villains are more violent, aside from the aforementioned bus incident.
** In episode 17, the villain becomes fed up with Mystery Inc. both beating his traps, and believing that they are trying to steal from him, tries to stab them repeatedly with a fire poker. In addition the traps he placed them in would have been fatal, if not for Fred's genre savvy.
** In episode 24, the villain shoots at them repeatedly and openly threatens to kill them, marking one of the few times the word "kill" has been used in the franchise.
** [[spoiler: And now in episode 25, we find out there's a monster known as the Freak of Crystal Cove that has caused the mess and states that he will end everything. Angel states that they had to leave or else the Freak would harm/kill their friends and family. Oh and the Monster of the Week destroyed the Mystery Machine[[note]]Actually a replica of the Machine[[/note]] in front of Mystery Inc.!]]
** [[spoiler: How about the season finale? Mayor Jones took Fred away from his real parents and was the Freak of Crystal Cove, Pericles has two of the disc pieces and the gang is being split up!]]
** The monster of the Season 2 premiere acts more like a domestic terrorist, driving around town randomly blowing up buildings and neighborhoods, and at one point demanding a ransom from city hall to get him to stop.
** Episode 37 features a decomposed corpse, and two kids casually talking about being how they were abandoned by their parents, sometimes even for weeks on end.
** [[spoiler: Episode 41 features a ghost/re-animated corpse of Friar Gabrielo Serra raising from the grave to warn the children of Nibiru. In his story it shows the town of Crystal Cove being destroyed, and sinking into the sea. Furthermore he says that his pet Porto, was responsible showing him planting dynamite all around the town, and ultimately met his fate when he was dragged away by alligators, the second part is not shown on screen however.]]
** The Season 2 episode "Heart of Evil" features classic Hanna-Barbera superhero the Blue Falcon. This version, however, looks and acts like he got bitten by a radioactive FrankMiller (his bulk closely resembles a certain hero in a certain [[TheDarkKnightReturns acclaimed graphic novel]]). Dyno-Mutt still the same, though.
* DeadpanSnarker: Velma, in spades, Shaggy on occasion, and, remarkably enough, ''Scooby'' in some very memorable moments.
* DeconReconSwitch: The show points out how a team of mystery solving teenagers [[{{Deconstruction}} are likely to have obvious dysfunction in their personalities and roles, as well as how life-threatening their profession is]], [[{{Reconstruction}} but at the same time showcases that they are willing to get better about these problems and move forward, and that they're effective in their profession]].
* DespiteThePlan: Averted every few episodes where Fred's traps actually work. Lampshaded in episode 9.
* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: Velma's mother has this moment after she just bursts into her daughter's room:
--> '''Velma's Mother''': "Good thing I have this spare key so I can search your room when you're not home. ({{Beat}}) Oops, did I just say that out loud?"
* DisabilityImmunity: In "Where Walks Aphrodite", Angel Dynamite is immune to Aphrodite's pheremone attack because she suffers from anosmia (i.e. she has no sense of smell).
* DoesNotLikeMen: Marcy (aka Hot Dog Water) seems to take it as a sign of weakness to need help from a man.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: The female vampire MonsterOfTheWeek in episode 11.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:
** Fred's magazine "Traps Illustrated" has a woman in a bikini on the cover. His reaction to Daphne finding it is similar to someone hiding porn. It's a reference to ''Sports Illustrated'' with its famous swimsuit issues, though Fred's [[IReadItForTheArticles "I read it for the articles"]] invokes ''Playboy''.
** In episode 7, the Hex Girl's manager used to be the manager of a singer called Fancy Pants. After he was dropped by his old label, the manager mentions that Pants "went down the rabbit hole". Consider for a moment what that's slang for, and what some rock stars get involved with when their career hits a rocky patch...
** In episode 8 Shaggy and Scooby watching the Renaissance Fair announcer who says he hates pirates secretly dresses up like one. It's made to seem like watching him dress up in women's clothing. Even Scooby says his "brain needs a shower".
** Episode 25: Hatecraft's novel about Char Gar Gothikon is supposedly [[AllAnimeIsNaughtyTentacles a major hit in Japan]]...
** For a non-sexual one let's go back to episode 21 with Angel and Velma. [[spoiler: Angel tells Velma to keep the identity of her as Cassidy Williams a secret.]] Now compare that to the first 10 episodes with Velma's relationship with Shaggy. We all know that keeping secrets never leads to anything good. [[spoiler: Specifically because the gang is broken up and Daphne has blamed Velma for causing this for keeping Angel's identity a secret.]]
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: For a season finale no less! The Mayor was the freak who caused all of the mess in the first place, Pericles has 2 of the 6 Planespheric Map pieces, the gang is broken up, and Fred is off on his own to find his real parents. Here's hoping to Scooby fulfilling his promise to get the gang back...]]
** [[spoiler:And the second season premiere, if you can believe it, ends on ''another'', nearly as grim a downer ending where TheBadGuyWins, Fred's confidence is destroyed and Daphne refuses to come back to mystery solving.]]
** [[spoiler: Episode 37. Cassidy, from all indications, did not survive the detonation of the undersea city while trying to free the submarine's tail. Plus, Professor Pericles has made off with the sixth piece of the Planispheric Disc, giving him three pieces and the gang three pieces.]]
*** [[spoiler: [[WordOfGod Tony Cervone]] confirms on Twitter that Cassidy did not survive.]]
* DudeWheresMyRespect:
** The gang's attempts at solving crimes are not met with enthusiasm. ''{{Justified|Trope}}'', in that curtailing the crimes would lessen the town's revenue stream. [[ShapedLikeItself It's their stream of revenue!]]
** You'd think that after being saved from an EldritchAbomination, even a faux Eldritch Abomination, would make the [[HarlanEllison rescued party]] grateful enough to spare you a lecture on proper grammar.
** The MotiveRant for "Lord Infernicus" in "Mystery Solver State Finals".
* EarlyBirdCameo: Skipper appears in episode 3. In the next episode, he's a prime suspect.
** Mr. Chen, as well as his cafe, are introduced in episode 15. They are featured in a more prominent role three episodes later.
** Hot Dog Water made a brief appearance in episode 16 when Velma recognizes her in class affected by Aphrodite. She then makes another cameo in episode 18. Episode 21 had her be an employee [[spoiler: and attacker]] of the amusement park that the manticore attacks. [[spoiler: She then went on to get a major role in the second season.]]
** There is also Ernesto and his group of environmentalists. They first appear in episode 12. They appear again in episode 20 [[spoiler: as the Fish Freaks]].
** This is possibly the case with the [[WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest Quest Team]], who were first seen [[spoiler: in the Obliteratrix's confession flashback]]. Season 2 was announced as having them in an episode.
* EarthquakesCauseFissures: The cold open in Episode 17 starts off with this during a flashback, swallowing a mansion up underneath it. An earthquake appeared at the end of the episode, but it's not stated what happens after that.
* EldritchAbomination: Char Gar Gothicon, monster of "The Shrieking Madness".
* ElegantGothicLolita: The Hex Girls' new look for the series.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first episode had the gang talk to their parents to show off certain quirks of theirs, such as Fred's obsession with traps and Velma's sardonic attitude.
* EverybodyLaughsEnding: In "Nightfright", Vincent Van Ghoul starts the laughter at the end of the episode with an EvilLaugh and everyone else joins in.
** Scooby, the gang, Blue Falcon and Dynomutt at the end of episode 40.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: One of the background characters is a classmate known as "That weird girl, Hot Dog Water." In an episode 18 flashback, she says she's gluten intolerant.
** [[spoiler: Hot Dog Water returns in season 2, filling in for Daphne's spot. It has been noted that Velma will allude that she and HDW possibly had a "relationship."]]
** [[spoiler: She reveals her real name in episode 28. It's Marcy.]]
* EveryProperLadyShouldCurtsy: The Bjorkland girls in episode 33.
* EvilCounterpart: Professor Pericles to Scooby Doo.
* EvilTwin: The Fright Hound in episode 10, to Scooby.
* EvilVersusEvil: Professor Pericles vs. Mr. E. vs. [[spoiler: Mayor Jones.]]
** Not as of seasons 2, seeing as [[spoiler: Mayor Jones is in prison and E and Pericles have teamed up.]]
* {{Expy}}:
** Design-wise, Alice May is a blatant one for [[Franchise/{{Spider-Man}} Gwen Stacy]]: same hairstyle, hairband, and green-striped clothes.
** Gus, or "G-man" from episode 7 is basically the eccentric Ronnie "Z-man" Barzell from [[BeyondTheValleyOfTheDolls a certain creepy schlock film]]. That may make him a case of GettingCrapPastTheRadar, actually. In addition to looking exactly like Z-man, he talks with his faux-British accent and mannerisms, as well as being a record producer with a taste for alt bands.
** Jason Wyatt from episode 10. What with being a nerd, having great scientific know-how, and adores/admires Velma... It's "What's New Scooby Doo?"'s new form of Velma-stalker Gibby Norton!
** Ernesto from Episode 20 is a die-hard environmental protestor. He is also CheGuevara, even down to his ''first name''.
** Dr. Rick Spartan is a [[CompositeCharacter composite]] of and stand-in for DocSavage, [[Literature/KingSolomonsMines Allan Quatermain]] and IndianaJones.
** Episode 30: [[spoiler: Chareline is a cartooned version of Paula Deen. The fantasy game Shaggy and Sheriff Stone referred to, ''Crypts and Creatures'', is a stand-in for ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons.]]
** Angel Dynamite is pretty much Scooby Doo's version of [[Film/AustinPowers Foxy Cleopatra]].
** Episode 40: Blue Falcon is turned into a CaptainErsatz of FrankMiller's Batman. Velma even lampshades the dubious need of a vigilante.
** Scooby Snacks looks like a different color scheme for a box of Cheez-Its.
* FaceHeelTurn: Former members of mystery solving teams have a habit of becoming enemies to the next generation. Professor Pericles, and Mr. E to the current Mystery Inc, just as Danny Darrow became one to the original Mystery Inc.
** Considering that it happened to the original Mystery Inc crew, it may end up happening to Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby.
* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: Averted in episode 10. Not that it does the guards any good against the Fright Hound, a robot who is ImmuneToBullets.
* FanDisservice: Episode 24, when Night Ranger takes his shirt off to use a bale of hay for a punching bag (ItMakesSenseInContext). Daphne pretty much speaks for the viewers when she asks "why did he have to take his shirt off?"
* FantasticRacism: Hilariously played with the Wild Brood. Everyone treats them suspiciously, but this is due to the fact that they are [[BadassBiker a motorcycle gang]] and not because [[OurOrcsAreDifferent they are Orcs]]. [[spoiler:However, when they take off their masks to reveal that they are video game developers and geeks, Sheriff Stone suffers a full-on panic attack and asks them to put their masks back on.]]
* FearsomeCrittersOfAmericanFolklore: The Hodag appears as a MonsterOfTheWeek in Season 2.
* FetchQuest: Dramatically subverted in episode 16. [[spoiler: Sure Scooby does get the stuff he needs to save the gang, but Pericles also gets what HE wants and played Scooby like a piano.]]
* FlamingSkulls: Lord Infernicus.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: A fair amount so far, much of it related to hinting at the mysterious history of Crystal Cove and the identity of Mr. E.
** First, we have the locket from episode 1. Members of the original Mystery Inc. had them and it was considered their symbol. [[spoiler: It was Judy's locket and the picture inside are actually Fred's real Parents, which explains Mayor Jones' expression when he saw it!]]
*** Also take a good note at what Velma states about Crystal Cove's early history: it was found by Spanish Conquistadors. [[spoiler: Guess what's important about them about 24 episodes later!]]
** Then there's the newspaper clipping in episode 4. Part of it was cut off and Angel seems as if she knows something. [[spoiler: She does, because the part cut off showed her when she was still known as Cassidy Williams.]]
** Episode 6 shows someone [[spoiler: getting Alice May to escape from jail. Said man is actually Ed Machine, the head of Destroido, who has relationships to Mr. E]]
** Episode 10 has Professor Pericles spouting out that the gang has to keep an eye on those close to them; especially Fred. [[spoiler: In episode 21, the Mayor is looking for something and Mr. E comments that Fred is getting in the way of saving the remaining members of Mystery Inc. Plus in episode 23, Pericles states that the Mayor stole something important from him, but said Mayor is in denial.]]
*** [[spoiler: Mayor has a good reason; he made a deal with Pericles who would betray his gang. Then he betrayed Pericles and stole the disk piece. Then Pericles stole it back at the 26th episode and now Mayor Jones is going to be arrested.]]
** Episode 12 has the Darrow Family Trunk filled with secret documents. [[spoiler: Episode 17 lead them to meet up with Danny Darrow and episode 25 finally told them what they were looking for.]]
** Episode 16 has Pericles and Scooby teaming up and gathering items for an antidote. One of the places was at the old Spanish Church [[spoiler: which holds the entrance to where the Haunted Treasure resides!]]
** Here's another one: "I guess we're not a team anymore." [[spoiler: Velma, you don't know what you caused.]]
** A minor one. In the cold opening flashback of episode 17, Danny Darrow as a little boy is wearing a white beard as his Halloween costume.
*** Speaking of Danny Darrow, he nicknames Fred as Big Chin Man [[spoiler: because he's really seeing Fred as the original Mystery Inc; member Brad Chiles, who happens to ''be'' Fred's father!]]
** In episode 2 the lights that light up the letters of the The Drowsy Gator's sign flicker in such a way to read "The dog dies!", a simple little scene to scare Scooby. [[spoiler:In episode 41 the mummy of Friar Sera, a member of a previous Mystery Inc. group hailed for saving Crytal Cove from an earthquake along with the group's donkey Porto, tells the group the real story. That Porto in fact had been corrupted by a piece of the Planispheric Disk and destroyed Crystal Cove. In every group the animal member has been the one to be corrupted and betray everyone leading Friar Sera to declare "Heed the warning of the aligators! The dog dies!" while pointing at Scooby.]]
* ForWantOfANail: [[spoiler: The tension between Angel and the gang probably could've been avoided if either Angel or Velma explained about Angel's real identity sooner.]]
* ForbiddenFruit[=/=]GRatedDrug: Chocolate to Daphne.
* ForkliftFu: Scooby uses a forklift to take on the robotic fright hound in "Howl of the Fright Hound".
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The gang appropriately [[ColourCodedForYourConvenience match their own color schemes]]. Daphne is Sanguine (Red Hair) as she is the most optimistic and cheerful of the group, Velma is Choleric (Yellow Sweater), she exhibits leadership when solving the mystery but is rather pushy, and a rather violent Tsundere at her worst. Shaggy is Phlegmatic (Green Shirt) is the Non Action Guy who runs away from anything spooky, and is only there to react to the situations. Fred is Melancholic as he is obessessive (when it comes to traps) and emotionally high strung (when Daphne is in danger). He wears... white, rather than black, kinda crashes that color coded bit. Scooby fits into Supine (Blue Collar), as he is rather non-confrontational.
* FreezeFrameBonus: Sheriff Stone's pad during the first gnome victim's interview.
** The complete recipe for "Countess Hagula's Youth Juice" from ''The Secret Serum'' is readable in freeze-frame.
** Count Evallo's rejected work permit in episode 33.
* FriendVersusLover:
** Velma vs Scooby over Shaggy. At first it seemed that Shaggy was using Scooby as a scapegoat to hide his fears of commitment, but it turned out his fear of telling Scooby was pretty well founded.
** Also, Fred and Daphne.
---> '''Fred:''' Oh what the heck, going to the prom with a friend will be more fun than with a date anyway. Right?\\
'''Daphne:''' *sigh* I'll take what I can get.
** The Fred and Daphne thing has been averted as of episode 24. [[spoiler: Fred has proposed to Daphne and the two plan to marry once they get to college.]]
*** Not anymore! [[spoiler: Thanks to Mayor Jones' actions, he took Fred away from his real parents and now Fred is a) going to go search for them, b) broke up the engagement and c) broke up Mystery Inc.]]
** Shaggy and Velma. Shaggy dumped Velma in favor of Scooby, then had a change of heart and wanted to try the romance thing with Velma again. She responded at first, but decided they should stay "just friends"... later revealing that she is still hurting over being dumped for Scooby, and apparently afraid if she took Shaggy back he'd do it to her again.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Scooby is harassed by an angry squirrel in the first episode, while the rest of the gang are talking to Prof. Raffalow.
** "Scarebear" has Scooby and Shaggy be chased by a mutant owl while Daphne and Fred hit on each other.
* TheGenericGuy: Deliberately avoided. Even Fred, the [[RenamedTropes former Trope Namer]] himself, is given a much more developed personality than ever before.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: [[Radar/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated Enough examples for its own page.]]
* GenerationXerox: Their have been many versions of Mystery Inc., each having four people and a mascot, each having some variation on the name Mystery incorporated. In some case their are even a close resemblance between the group members.
** More directly the Fred inherited his parents trap obsession; and Angel when she was younger, was nerdy, wore glasses and was in love with owner of the mascot, Ricky Owens, which obviously mirrors Velma.
* GottaCatchEmAll: The six pieces of the Planespheric Disk. [[spoiler: As of the season 1 finale, Pericles has nabbed off with two of them. The other four pieces should be snapped up in season two as producer Mitch Watson has noted on his Facebook page that the series will only go 52 episodes.]]
** [[spoiler: As of episode 31, Scooby and the gang have pieces three and four. Professor Pericles calls a powwow in regards to this.]]
** [[spoiler: Episode 34 has the gang possessing piece no. 5 now.]]
** [[spoiler: Episode 37 has Professor Pericles with piece no. 6.]]
** [[spoiler: In episode 39, the good guys now have all six pieces, having retrieved the other three from Mr. E's lair thanks to a ScoobyDooHoax [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome the gang themselves set up.]]]]
* GrowlingGut: A RunningGag with Daphne in episode 19.
* HandsGoDown: "Can anybody tell me what photosynthesis is? ... And PLEASE don't say plant farts."
** Subverted in episode 36. [[spoiler: In the Burlington mansion, the gang wants to get some sleep but Velma wants to check out the library. "Who can sleep with all those books?" She asks. The others raise their hands.]]
* HannibalLecture: The gang gets one in "Howl of the Fright Hound", from a prisoner in [[spoiler:the city's Animal Asylum: Professor Pericles, the mascot-pet--of the original Mystery Inc]]!
* HellHotel: The one place to stay overnight in Gatorburg invokes this. [[spoiler: Deliberately, as it's the home of a group of counterfeit gator-skin product scammers]].
* HeroicBSOD: This happens to Fred after Daphne is kidnapped by the crab monster and when a teacher has supposedly died (see FauxDeath). [[spoiler: Fred gets a serious case of this in Chapter 26.]]
** [[spoiler: Scooby and Fred are paralyzed in disbelief when they see Shaggy and Daphne kissing in episode 36 (they were both under a dream hypnosis). Velma snaps Scooby and Fred out of it by telling them they were only dreaming.]]
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Shaggy and Scooby, played mostly straight but also hilariously subverted. On chapter 9, with the FriendVersusLover between Scooby and Velma, Scooby used phrases like ''"You are cheating on me!"'' or ''"I gave him the best years of my life"''.
* HistoryRepeats: [[spoiler:Any group of mystery solving teenagers will eventually become attached to the Mystery of Crystal Cove, the Planespheric Disk, and Nibiru.]]
* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: Please Scooby, after all that has happened in episode 26, you better bring the gang back together to stop Pericles!]]
** [[spoiler: 3 episodes later, it happens]]
* HotDad: Daphne's dad, too.
* HotMom: Daphne's mom - which makes sense, considering her daughters form an ImprobablyFemaleCast all by themselves.
* AHouseDivided: Episode 11 has Velma say "I guess we're not a team any more."
** In Episode 26 [[spoiler: Fred and Daphne develop a resentment toward Velma for keeping Cassidy's/Angel's secret. Fred also breaks off his engagement with Daphne to look for his real parents, Shaggy's parents plan to send him off to military school and Scooby to a farm, and the girls are grounded.]]
* HyperspaceArsenal: Episode 25 has Shaggy [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] the fact that Obliteratrix's costume has no pockets so where are all her weapons coming from?
** {{Justified|Trope}}: [[WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest Dr. Quest]] [[AWizardDidIt did it]]. No, really - she stole tech from Quest Labs.
* ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: Shaggy does a version of this: "I'm an eater, not a fighter."
* ImpossiblyCoolClothes: Averted by Fred's team uniforms in episode 9. Fred's the only one who thinks they look any good.
* InMediasRes: "Howl of the Fright Hound" begins at the climatic action.
* IndyEscape: Episode 22. A rolling idol head nearly runs over a DamselInDistress. Subverted because [[spoiler: she set up the whole fake temple and knew what to expect, and her leg was not injured as she pretended]]
* InnocuouslyImportantEpisode: Episode 2 of Season 1, "The Creeping Creatures", was more or less a self-contained episode, not really related to the mystery of Crystal Cove. [[spoiler: "Theater Of The Doomed"]], however, has [[spoiler:the ghost of Friar Gabriello]] repeat the words of the SignsOfDisrepair ("The Dog Dies") from that episode.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Episode 20. "We have to destroy the environment to save it!"
* {{Irony}}: Scooby and Shaggy, the scaredy cats of the team, love to watch horror movies.
** And not just any horror movies; they're known to watch a marathon of Vincent Price's horror movies (More than 400 but less than 500 no less) whenever the one week marathon passes by.
* {{Jetpack}}: Both of the Kung Fu wizards who turned Crystal Cove into a battle ground in episode 18 had jet-packs in their costumes enabling them to fly.
* KarmaHoudini: The Cicada Monster's main motivation was to get back at the company for putting LANDFILL WASTE in their snacks! And it seems like everyone is A-Ok with this!
** Subverted. Several episodes later, it's revealed they often get sued for their products and most of Mystery Inc. consider them terrible.
** Justified later when it is revealed they have Corporate Diplomacy (basically they are their own country) and therefore cannot be sued.
* KeepItForeign: More like Keep It Retro. In the flashback in Episode 25 of the original Mystery Inc, which was supposed to be "20 Years Ago" (i.e. 1991), it had a distinctly 50's look to it, which complimented the 70's look of the rest of the show. In seems like everything has been culturally time-shifted about 40 years.
* TheKrampus: Was the central figure in episode 39.
* LampshadeHanging: Doesn't quite beat ''APupNamedScoobyDoo'' yet, but it's certainly up there, which, coupled with its more-sharp-less-goofy humor, gives the show an interesting style.
* LargeHam: The Phantom in episode 7. He booms in rhyming couplets and even threw in a "sayeth" for good measure.
** Vincent Van Ghoul in episode 19.
* LaserHallway: Played straight in episode 21.
* LavaIsBoilingKoolAid: Dead Justice's backstory has him chasing his nemesis into a volcano, then sticking his arm out from underneath just to handcuff him.
* LeavingYouToFindMyself: [[spoiler: Fred's reaction to [[TheReveal his adoptive father's revolting backstory]] was to break things off with Daphne so he could search for his birth parents.]]
** [[spoiler: It's made even worse when he states that Mystery Inc. is dead; basically he's giving up everything he had right then to find his past. Can't really blame him since the past 17 years of his life have been a lie.]]
* LetsJustBeFriends: Episode 22 has [[spoiler: Velma give Shaggy the 'I don't feel the same way about you I used to' speech]] at the end of the episode; it's an ache [[spoiler: that even pizza can't cure. But then Shaggy says 'Well, let's see if it can!' and goes back to his chipper self.]]
** [[spoiler: And once Velma spilled the beans about Angel in episode 25, and Shaggy being sent to military school, who knows if they ARE going to still be friends?]]
* LetsSplitUpGang: Perhaps taken literally on episode 11. At the start, Daphne and Velma split up from the boys and Scooby. Their rejoining to the rest of the mystery is edgy at best. The end has them all going separate ways [[spoiler: being watched by Mister E's assistant from episode 6]].
* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: Fred to Daphne about Scrappy-Doo.
* LoveAtFirstSight: The Orc asks this to Velma after she fixes one of their motorcycles. Velma, being the DeadpanSnarker that she is, blatantly tells him that she does not find him attractive.
* MagicSkirt: In episode 18. The White Wizard carries Mai Le off by her feet, rendering her upside down, but her skirt doesn't fall over. And again later after Mai Le gets hung upside down in the snare set on the Blake yacht (which was disguised as Mai Le's escape vessel).
** Averted in the Man-Crab episode when Velma visibly tries to keep her skirt down after being flung into the air by the Crab.
* MayContainEvil: In "When the Cicada Calls", Destructdo is making snack foods that contain toxic waste landfill.
* [[MonsterSobStory Man in a Rubber Mask Sob Story]]: It's a little hard not to feel bad for at least a few of the villains, especially [[spoiler: Grandma Moonbeam]].
* MeaningfulName: Possibly Professor Pericles. The Greek general/politician he's named after was supposed to have a slightly deformed head. Professor Pericles has a greatly inflated head, and an evil scar.
* MegaCorp: Destroido, the company run by [[spoiler: Mr. E]], which seems to exist solely to ruin the environment and create dangerous products. Also, according to Sheriff Stone, it is its ''own sovereign country'', thus preventing him from arresting anyone involved in it.
* MindScrew: The episode "Night Terrors".
* MissingMom: In Episode 23, Scooby accidentally knocks a photo off Fred's mantel; his [[spoiler: admiring the pretty woman in photo was cut short when Shaggy told him that that's Fred's mom who left town when Fred was very young; Scooby apologizes for being out of line and Freddy waves it off with a sad smile and talking about how he one day hopes to tell her in person that she is pretty.]]
** [[spoiler: So pretty that she came out of a magazine! Fred's parents are Brad and Judy from the original Mystery Inc; the Mayor took their son away and 'promised' the parents he'd protect him!]]
* [[spoiler: TheMole: Hot Dog Water / Marcy]] in season 2.
* MoodLighting: ''Extensively''. Most obvious example is the chase scene in "Creeping Creatures".
* MoralityKitchenSink: The delineation between good guys and bad guys isn't nearly as clear-cut this time around; the problem is that [[GenreBlind the Gang can't quite see that]] just yet.
* MythologyGag:
** Shaggy and Scooby love watching [[VincentPrice Vincent]] [[WesternAnimation/The13GhostsOfScoobyDoo Van Ghoul]] movies.
*** Van Ghoul is the specter-besieged central figure of episode 19, "Nightfright."
** Velma's parents run a supernatural tour of the city, which references many ghosts from the original series, such as The Miner 49'er. When Velma's forced to work as a tour guide, she takes great pleasure in explaining to the gaping tourists just how fake each and every one of them were.
** Velma's mother is wearing an unused Alex Toth design for Velma's outfit in the original ''Scooby Doo'' cartoon.
** A Don Knotts caricature can be seen amongst the tourists in episode 1, and he appears again at the beginning of episode 9. Knotts famously guest-starred on ''The New Scooby-Doo Movies''.
** Nugget Nose AKA ''The Galloping Ghost'' (a very obscure 1978 Hanna-Barbera feature from ''Yogi's Space Race'', an equally obscure show) can be seen during the historical montage about Gatorburg.
** Mama Cass Elliot, another ''The New Scooby-Doo Movies'' guest star, is one of the attendees at the auction for a painting. Amazing feat, as she has been dead since 1973.
** In "Secret of the Ghost Rig", while in her bedroom knitting an ascot for Fred, Daphne hums the theme from ''The New Scooby Doo Movies''.
** The haybaler scene from the 1970 episode ''Jeepers, It's The Creeper'' is re-created, save for [[{{Filler}} the baby chick that mistakes Scooby as its mother]].
** The episode 7, "In Fear of the Phantom", The Hex Girls of two Scooby-Doo Movies and ''What's New Scooby-Doo?'' make a reappearance. Not only that, but they sing some of the songs from those appearances.
** Also in that episode was Harry the ventriloquist's dummy. Shaggy threw his voice a few times in the classic series.
** In episode 8, Velma calls Daphne by her old nickname "Danger-prone Daphne" after she falls into the hidden door inside a tree.
** Like the ''What's New'' episode "Large Dragon At Large", Velma bristles at the thought of wearing an Olde English maiden's outfit. Unlike the ''What's New'' episode, she doesn't wear one.
** In a web game tie-in, one sidequest has Shaggy and Scooby collecting scattered pages of a play script. Shaggy notes that the play's set in a town called "Coolsville" (from ''A Pup Named Scooby-Doo'' and the live-action movies) and the main suspect is named Red Herring (also from ''Pup'').
** Suzie Chan, from TheAmazingChanAndTheChanClan, appears in episodes 6 and 16.
*** A poster of her and Stanley can be seen on HP Hatecraft's wall in episode 25.
**** Along with a poster of [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep Prez Rickard]], the Teen President of the United States from an obscure 1973 DCComics series (and later, ''ComicBook/TheSandman'').
** The Monster Museum in the beginning of Episode 20 sees a statue of [[WesternAnimation/The13GhostsOfScoobyDoo Flim-Flam]] (who Daphne described as getting 25-to-life, despite being a pre-teen con artist), and when she sees a statue of ''Scrappy Doo'':
---> '''Daphne:''' Wow! I haven't seen--
---> '''Fred:''' Look away, Daphne! [[TakeThatScrappy We all promised each other that we would never speak of it. Not ever!]]
** Episode 21: Linda Cardellini, [[Film/ScoobyDoo Velma]] from the live-action theatrical Scooby Doo movies, is the voice of Hot Dog Water. That makes two members of that cast giving voices to this animated edition.
** The high-tech costume and superweaponry [[spoiler: Alice May]] used in her Oblivia the Obliteratrix disguise were supplied to her by a man on Destroido's payroll: [[JonnyQuest Benton Quest]].
** The pose for the yearbook photo of the original Mystery Inc is similar to a pose that Scooby's Mystery Inc had in ''Scooby Doo, Where Are You?'' theme song.
*** The current-day Mystery Inc also strikes that pose at one point.
** Episode 27: Crybaby Clown tells the gang that Mano Tiki Tia (original series ep "A Tiki Scare Is No Fair") and the Ghost of Redbeard ("Go Away Ghost Ship'' and ''Ghostly Creep From The Deep") are nothing compared to him.
** Episode 37: The seal named Scooby was seen eating a box of snacks with Scooby written on it. Also, he and his friends are from the ''Moby Dick'' segments of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon ''Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor'', and their fathers are from the Hanna-Barbera cartoon ''Sealab 2020''.
** Episode 39: Charlie The Robot from the original ''Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!'' cartoon plays a key role in the mystery.
** In "Heart of Evil" there is a Scooby Snacks box on the table.
* NamesTheSame: Scooby-Doo meets Scooby the seal.
* NecktieLeash: Janet Nettles does this to Sheriff Stone
* NeverSayDie: Averted. They don't say it often, but they are able to say it, usually for the sake of a gag.
** And in episode 19 "Time for you to die!" is part of the monster's '''catchphrase'''!
** "Next time I see you, I shoot to '''kill'''!"
** [[spoiler: Fred: "Mystery Inc. is dead!"]]
** [[spoiler: Professor Pericles from episode 33: "Cassidy must be silenced...forever."]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: In "Scarebear", the MonsterOfTheWeek is trying to expose [[MegaCorp Destroido]] as the corrupt company it is, only for the gang's usual exploits to stop him.]]
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Episode 25 features [[StephenieMeyer Regina Wentworth]], young author of the popular ''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} Dusk]]'' series of vampire romance novels.
** The first three episodes of season 2 feature Daphne dating [[TaylorLautner Baylor Hotner.]]
* NonuniformUniform: In episode 9 Fred gets the gang team uniforms that make them look like a 70s Japanese supergroup. They're all similar white jumpsuits except that the color of the trim, piping, and ascot of each corresponds to a color of their previous outfits. It only lasts the one episode.
* NoodleIncident:
** Daphne recalls how her dad was once found naked gnawing on a soup can when her mom was out of town.
** In another episode Daphne talks about how every time her mother would sleep in their backyard treehouse, her family brings in a doctor or someone with authority to "work things out". Then they lock her away for a few months. In another, they have it to where Daphne mentions they used to have a lot of Faberge eggs, but she kept trying to boil them.
** In episode 25, she mentions how one of her older sisters trained chickens to spell out her name as part of being engaged.
* NoOSHACompliance: The abandoned steel mill in episode 10. Lampshaded by Fred.A
* NotADate: In episode 35 Sheriff Stone and Mayor Nettles insist that their obvious dates are stakeouts.
* NotWearingTights: The villain in episode 17 has no secret identity. He doesn't reveal himself because he mistakes them for the first Mystery Inc, who already know him.
* OfficialCouple: Velma and Shaggy are dating, but Shaggy does not want to be public about it. As of episode 10 [[spoiler:the relationship seems to have been scuttled]]. Fred and Daphne date and as the show progresses [[spoiler: they get engaged and, at the end of the first season, they split up as Fred goes to find his real parents]].
** As of the season 2 premiere, [[spoiler: Fred and Daphne has sunk. Daphne has moved on in her life away from Fred and mysteries, and Fred just needs a big hug right now.]]
*** Perhaps not. [[spoiler:Since then, Daphne has rejoined the gang after she was kidnapped by the Crybaby Clown, who turned out to be her new boyfriend, though she hasn't yet decided whether to take Fred back or not.]]
** [[spoiler: It looks as if Mayor Nettles and Sheriff Stone are becoming an item now. This exchange after they wrap up what caused the destruction of Cassidy's radio station:]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Mayor Nettles:''' Van Ghoul, here we come!]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Sheriff Stone:''' (''casually'') I'll get my smoker.]]
* OhCrap: In Episode 39, the old Mystery, Inc gets this when they finally get the disk pieces Freddy was hiding. [[spoiler: The entire episode was a trap set by Freddy, whom they didn't think knew of their plans or was smart enough to trick them. He planted fake disks to be stolen while they stole Prof. Pericles' pieces, and they left a video disc in place of the pieces to explain everything.]]
* OminousLatinChanting: Follows [[EldritchAbomination the monster]] in episode 12.
* {{Otaku}}: Fred is a serious Trap Otaku
** Shaggy could be seen as a Food Otaku.
* OurGnomesAreWeirder: The Scary Gnome in episode 8. It attacks Renaissance Fair-goers dressed as {{pirates}}.
* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: Totally alien blue looking mermaid, [[spoiler: but as usual for this series is just a [[ScarecrowSolution woman in a costume.]] ]]
* OurOrcsAreDifferent: The "Wild Brood" 'Orcs' are leather-wearing bikers, led by a smooth-talking [[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft Thrall]] {{Expy}}.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Episode 11's monster is searching for ingredients for an eternal-youth potion.
* OutGambitted: [[spoiler:The previous Mystery Inc. in 39 thought they'd gotten the Planispheric Disk pieces Mystery Inc. had, only to find out the pieces they'd stolen were ''fakes'' and ''Mystery Inc.'' was behind the MonsterOfTheWeek in their own successful plan to steal the pieces they had.]]
* OutOfTheInferno: The Frighthound. The fire burns away its Scooby Doo disguise.
* OutrunTheFireball: An industrail-size propane tank explodes in a construction yard in episode 9, forcing this on the gang.
* PantyShot: Velma gets one in episode 33. As in the original ''Where Are You!'' series, they're the same color as her skirt.
* ParanoiaFuel: [[invoked]] "Beware those close to you...."
* ParentalNeglect:
** The gang's parents seem to put their happiness before their kids. Velma's mom (as shown in a picture) cares a lot more about her horses than her own daughter, Shaggy's parents think of him as an embarrassment, Fred's dad was thrilled at the idea of his son dying at the hands of the cicada monster, and Daphne's mother told her right to her face that sometimes she wishes they had a boy instead.
** ALL the parents of Crystal Cove fit in this trope. When their children are "spookified," they abandon them!
** [[spoiler: Mayor Jones just has to be ''the worst'' out of them. For starters, he's not Fred's real dad. Fred's real father and mother aren't much better, though they are at least doing it for Fred's own good.]]
* ParentService
* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: Velma hacks a computer using this.
** The password on Fred's laptop: "Trappin' Guy."
* ThePictureCameWithTheFrame: It is revealed in Episode 26 that [[spoiler: the picture of Fred's MissingMom is a magazine photo. The Mayor isn't even his real father. His parents are Brad and Judy from the original Mystery Inc]].
* PunnyName:
** Rung Ladderton, who sells ladders.
** Skipper Shellton, who runs a clam restaurant.
** Rusty Gnales (Nails), construction contractor.
** Mr. E, whose identity is a mystery.
* RaceLift: Luna of the Hex Girls. She's a couple shades darker than her appearance on ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'', but closer to her original appearance.
* [[spoiler:RealAfterAll: Episode 41, the friar's ghost really was trying to warn them. And from the looks of things, the overall mystery of the disk, might actually be supernatural too.]]
** You also see [[spoiler:the ghost of the Captain of the Conquistadors]] in a previous episodes, who [[spoiler:turns to bone and fades away laughing evilly]].
* RealityEnsues: Episode 33 when Sheriff. Stone tells Velma and Scooby about all the unlawful arrest charges against him from the gang's incorrect assumption of who was behind the monster of the week. When Stone finally thinks he's got a legit tag, the perp [[spoiler: (Count Evallo)]] claims diplomatic immunity.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Mayor Nettles in season two who, unlike the previous mayor and most of the adults in general, is generally supportive of Mystery Inc.'s actions. In fact she actively worked to get the group back together in the season two premiere.
* {{Reconstruction}}
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: In Episode 17: Danny Darrow, the last survivor of the Darrow family, had booby-trapped his mansion in order to keep hold of a clue to the Haunted Treasure. Upon realizing that he'd wasted his life, he told the gang to take it and escape from the collapsing dwelling. His last words were "I hope it brings you more happiness than it ever did me."
** Episode 37 [[spoiler: starts with the gang still not trusting Angel/Cassidy. At the climax, after Professor Pericles sets off explosions destroying the underwater city, Cassidy stays behind to unhook the claw holding the Moby Dick submarine tail so the gang can escape. Everyone presupposes that Cassidy did not survive as Scooby (the seal) finds her diving helmet, shattered.]]
* RedEyesTakeWarning: The Fright Hound in episode 10.
* RelationshipReveal: The show decides to stop holding back, taking the long implied tease between Fred and Daphne and less-teased-but-not-entirely-fanon thing between Shaggy and Velma and canonizing them, in about as blatant a way as they could get away with.
* RememberTheNewGuy: A character that was not seen until an episode acts like they have been well known. Though expect this character being the bad guy.
* RetroUniverse: Inspired by ''Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?'' and [[TheSixties the 1960s]], with 21st century tech and snark. Which some have decided to dub "Cyber-Funk".
* RhymesOnADime: The Phantom [[spoiler:and the Freak of Crystal Cove]]. Dark Lilith, as well.
* RubeGoldbergDevice: Freddy's traps have gotten a ''lot'' more elaborate.
* RunawayTrain: Played straight near the end of "The Wild Brood", complete with knocked-out engineer, the brakes failing, destroyed bridge and the locomotive completely demolished in an explosion.
* RunningGag: OnceAnEpisode, when the villain has been unmasked and does the classic YouMeddlingKids, it will be [[PlayingWithATrope played with]] in some way.
** Velma is ''still'' upset Shaggy broke up with her.
* SassyBlackWoman: Angel Dynamite [[spoiler: a.k.a. Cassidy Williams]]. Also, Lady Marmalade in episode 23 and [[spoiler: Gorgeous G in episode 29]].
* SeriesHiatus: Has had one, and is currently on its second.
* ScoobyDoobyDoors: It only took seven episodes for them to reappear in the episode "In Fear of the Phantom".
* ScoobyDooHoax: It wouldn't be a Scooby-Doo show without it.
** Averted in episode 17. Instead of a human in a fake ghost costume, the antagonist was the deranged surviving member of a lost family.
** [[spoiler:The gang stages their own hoax in episode 39 in order to steal the other three pieces of the Planispheric Disc from the old Mystery Incorporated.]]
* SdrawkcabName: All of the "Wild Brood" bikers in have these, from smooth-acting leader Odnarb, to Foog and Dren, to the disgusting Gabtraf. Justified because [[spoiler: they are role-playing nerds who chose these names on purpose]].
* [[spoiler: SealedEvilInACan: Nibiru, who is sealed inside the crystal coffin of the Conquistedor's Treasure, and is heard laughing from inside it at the end of epiosde 39.]]
* ShadowArchetype: Hot Dog Water is what Velma would be like if she didn't have any friends to help her.
* ShadowDiscretionShot: Spoofed. Fred assures Scooby they wouldn't leave him behind at the Mystery Solvers State Finals, but then excuses himself to go sob and wail -- but we hear him and see his shadow [[{{Angst}} angsting]].
-->'''Daphne:''' (''winks to Scooby'') They actually put it off till next week so you could get better...but we haven't told Fred yet.
* ShadowOfImpendingDoom: In episode 4 the shadow the kids mistake as the Man Crab turns out to be an actual little crab. Painful none-the-less - it pinches Scooby's nose.
* ShipTease: Velma/Shaggy; Velma/Hot Dog Water in an alternate opening, where she clutches a photo of Velma to her chest just like Daphne normally does of Fred.
* ShirtlessScene: This is becoming increasingly frequent for Fred in Season 2. "Art of Darkness" even becomes a [[WalkingShirtlessScene Walking Shirtless Episode]] for him.
* ShouldntWeBeInSchoolRightNow: The gang is still in high school, but cuts class frequently.
-->'''Freddie:''' It looks like a mystery to me, and I think that's just a little more important than school.
* ShoutOut: Enough for [[ShoutOut/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated its own page.]]
* SignsOfDisrepair: '''The''' '''D'''r'''o'''wsy '''G'''ator. Pool, Food and Sun'''d'''r'''ies'''.
** [[spoiler:And it's proving to be a potential sign of what could happen later. In episode 41, we find out that a group of mystery solvers 500 years ago had a pet donkey who detonated the settlement of Crystal Cove into the sea and tried to take off with a piece of the Planispheric Disc before he was attacked by an alligator. The mummy of Friar Gabriella Serra (and he's a real spook this time) warns the gang "this has all happened before" and presages that Scooby, being the animal of the team, will die as warned by the alligator.]]
* SkunkStripe: Velma's Mom.
* StalkerWithACrush and StalkerShrine: Velma's got one in her old lab partner, Jason. The tubby little dork's bedroom walls are a virtual to her. It's somewhat subverted in the end of episode 10 when Velma confesses she has someone she likes and that the two be 'friends'.
** Fred turned into one in the second season towards Daphne, even giving his Teddy Bear Daphne-like hair.
* StealthPun: "Hey there, Delilah."
** Also, Lady Marmalade the barista's "mocha-choca-lattas."
* StrongFamilyResemblance: The gang's families traits were clearly passed on.
* StuffBlowingUp: An alarmingly high rate too, compared to the older shows; there have been cars, trains, houses exploding, even ''the Mystery Machine'' [[spoiler:but it turned out the blowing up van was a decoy to upset Fred and the gang.]]
* SuperOCD: Fred makes a multi-page schedule for Daphne so he'll know where she is every minute of the day. Like Series/{{Monk}}, he [[spoiler:got it because of the loss of a loved one, in Fred's case his abandonment by his mother]].
* TailorMadePrison: Professor Pericles is kept in a special isolated cell (visually based on Magneto's cell from the ''Film/XMen'' movies) in the maximum security animal asylum.
* TaintedVeins: These show on on the Gnome's victims in Episode 8.
* TakeThat: Episode 20 has one against [[TheScrappy Scrappy Doo]] and [[ReplacementScrappy Flim Flam]]. It's mentioned that Flim Flam was given 25 to life for being a con artist, even as a ''preteen.'' Scrappy gets a quick [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain "We all promised each other that we would never speak of him."]]
* TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat: Parodied in episode 17, where [[spoiler: Danny Darrow]] says that his tape is pre-recorded as they can't trick him, but then they point out ''he did indeed answer them'' and he just the charade.
* TeamRocketWins: [[spoiler: Episode 27: Crybaby Clown gets away, leaving Crystal Cove in virtual ruins and Scooby, Shaggy, Fred and Velma completely defeated.]]
** [[spoiler: The perp of Episode 33, Count Evallo, gets off on a technicality--he had diplomatic immunity.]]
* TheTeaser: Each episode begins with one where the MonsterOfTheWeek attacks a victim.
* ThereWasADoor: Mr. E states this to Mystery Inc. and Blue Falcon when the latter barges in and knocks out all of his security.
* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: Jabberjaw lampshades how, now that they were near water, he can actually be useful.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Ethan (thin red-haired guy) and Gary (large brown-haired guy), team-mates of Fred that keep showing up together.
** They are voiced by Mitch Watson (producer and writer) and Tony Cervone (supervising producer) respectively, making these [[CreatorCameo Creator Cameos]].
* [[spoiler: ThoseWackyNazis: Flau Gluck builds an army of Nazi Robots to aid her in her search for the disc pieces. Given her design choice, she must have had some affiliation with the Nazi Party. What verifies this as opposed to, using Nazi imagery to scare others away is the time period; sometime during the 1940's. The presence of Nazi Robots off the Coast of America would have assuredly triggered a response by the Navy, which would defeat the purpose.]]
* ThrowDownTheBomblet: Done repeatedly by the Obliteratrix in "Pawn of Shadows".
* [[DramaticThunder Thunderous Confrontation]]: Done near the end of "The Shrieking Madness".
* TitleDrop: The gang eventually finds out that the kids who vanished from Crystal Cove long ago were a mystery-solving crew much like them, who called themselves "Mystery Incorporated." [[MythologyGag Fred likes the name]] and the group adopts it. When the Scooby show was first developed in 1969, this was their unofficial - and unused - team name.
* ToiletHumor: Episode 11 has this all over the place, with mentions of Daphne's mom getting "the squeakers", talk of throwing "poo" on plants, and French "oui-oui" jokes, the first two of which show up in the first ten minutes.
** Episode 19 has Vincent Van Ghoul saying he's so scared of facing Nightfright that he has to tinkle.
--->'''Scooby:''' I think I already did. (''Shaggy and Van Ghoul distance themselves from Scooby slightly'')
** Episode 23:
--->'''Shaggy:''' A couple of late night jalapeño stuffed clam poppers and it's another all-nighter on the porcelain--
--->'''Scooby:''' (''disdainfully'') Shaggy! Please!
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Velma and Daphne, who are, of course, best friends.
* TooDumbToLive: "Those are radioactive symbols, meaning whatever's inside is ''dangerous''. Meaning we need to open it right away. Don't want whatever's in there to mess up our schedule."
** Episode 20: A fisherman and his crewman find their net empty, so the captain plans a venture to Dead Man's Point.
--->'''Crewman:''' But isn't that haunted?
--->'''Captain:''' Aye, 'tis what they say. And we may not even make it back alive. But don't forget, we're fishermen. We do stupid things all the time!
* TookALevelInBadass: Scooby Doo is a lot braver and more proactive here than in other incarnations. Particularly in the season 1 finale and the season 2 premiere.
** Also the monsters in this series are more threatening and do more damage than in previous shows, causing lots of collateral damage and being willing to murder people who get in their way. And that's not even getting to the main villains.
** Shaggy in episode 40. He will kick your ass if you mess with Scooby-Doo. The others put up a good fight with Zin's goons as well.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Velma and Scooby both due to the "love triangle" between them and Shaggy. Shaggy seems to inadvertently bring out the worst in both of them.
* [[TortureCellar Torture Mansion]]: The ruins of the Darrow Mansion in Episode 17 is this, complete with ominous music.
* TownWithADarkSecret: Crystal Cove has a long and storied history of mysterious happenings, as well as an alleged curse. And if "Mister E" is to be believed, the gang have just invoked the curse again. Regardless, it becomes clear by the end of the pilot episode that something is very ''wrong'' with Crystal Cove.
** That very wrong thing [[ArtifactOfDoom is a treasure hidden by the conquistadors]]; it's said that trying to find it could well bring about the destruction of the world.
* TrainJob: "The Wild Brood"
* TrapMaster: Fred, to the immediate tee, and [[spoiler:Danny Darrow, Episode 17's villain.]]
* TrickArrow: The Obliteratrix uses them to attack Mystery, Inc. in "Pawns of Shadow".
* {{Troperrific}}
* TrueCompanions: Fred already thinks of the gang as this, stating in episode 8 that the relationship of the group as a whole is more important than the individual romances within and that they're going to be together their "whole lives".
* TurnInYourBadge: In Episode 24, Mayor Jones fires Stone in favor of a vigilante in a rubber mask. [[spoiler: He gets it back thanks to the gang.]]
* TwoScenesOneDialogue: The gang talk to their parents this way in the beginning of the first episode.
* UngratefulBastard: [[spoiler: Dr. Zin]] in "Heart of Evil".
* UnwittingPawn: Scooby, Angel and the gang in Episode 16; Mister E's legman arrives at the end of the episode to tell them they've not only been played, they may well have [[DoomedHometown unleashed the very destruction]] they were supposed to prevent.
** Velma in episode 21. Angel plants an eavesdropping bug in her sweater collar so Mr. E can find out who has the disc piece.
* ViciousCycle: Ever since the ArtifactOfDoom was left behind in Crystal Cove, it has manipulated groups of intrepid mystery solvers throughout the town's history in a bid to free itself. [[spoiler:And in each case, the animal companion always betrayed the others.]]
* TheVirus: In Episode 16, a woman with a huge grudge against the town tried destroying it by making the locals mad with love.
* VocalDissonance: Technical issue: the credits of episode 38 have Jeff Bennett as the voice of Mr. E. It's not readily clear if this was a typo or Lewis Black has been replaced--it still sounds the same.
** Must have been a typo. Episode 39 has Mr. E voiced by Black.
* TheWarHasJustBegun: The last line in episode 26: [[spoiler: "I'll get the gang back together, Pericles. We'll be coming for you, or my name isn't Scooby-Dooby-Doo!"]]
* WasItAllALie: In Episode 18, Shaggy asks [[FalseFriend Mai Le]] this after she'd been caught with the ruby she'd come to Crystal Cove to steal; the answer "Yes, you fool!" devastated him.
** Fred to Angel in episode 25.
** Fred [[spoiler:about his whole life]] in episode 26.
** And Sheriff Stone to [[spoiler: Mayor Jones about being the Freak of Crystal Cove.]]
* WhamEpisode: Episode 13 reveals that [[spoiler: the guy who has been helping Mr. E is the head of a company that puts landfill in their snack products. This can be verified through the voice credits [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0569501/ here]] ]].
** Episode 21. [[spoiler: Confirms the reveal above, confirms the identity of Cassidy Williams and shows that she is spying on the gang for Mr. E, shows Mayor Jones is after something, and reveals the face and identity of Mr. E.]]
** Episode 23. [[spoiler: We finally get some information about Fred's MissingMom. Mayor Jones turns out to have been hoarding a piece of the disc which he stole from Professor Pericles. The MonsterOfTheWeek turns out to BE Professor Pericles who has hijacked Fred's traps to use against him and his father. The gang FAILS to catch him since he pulls a booby trap on them shortly after the unmasking and makes off with the disk.]] Phew...
** Episode 26. [[spoiler: Mayor Jones was the Freak that drove off the original Mystery Incorporated, and made them leave town afterwards; he also convinced Pericles to betray the original Mystery Incorporated. Freddie is actually the son of Brad and Judy. And the whole gang is broken up as Pericles gets away with both known pieces of the Disk.]]
** Episode 27/Season 2 Premiere. [[spoiler: Daphne's moved on from Fred, Fred's plan ''fails'', TheBadGuyWins, and the town is up in flames and fireworks. ''[[ItGotWorse And this is just the premiere!]]'']]
** [[spoiler: Episode 30 has Fred's real parents--Brad Chiles and Judy Reeves--show up at the end. Then in episode 31, they're nowhere to be found after the Hodag dognaps their pet Nova, only for them to show up at the end with Cassidy and Mr. E (Ricky). They've all been assembled for a discussion on the disc pieces by Professor Pericles.]]
** [[spoiler: In episode 37, Cassidy ''dies.'']]
** [[spoiler: Episode 39 has the gang working to solve a typical mystery... only at the end, it's revealed THEY set it up in the first place to distract the original Mystery Incorporated, with the help of four former villains (including ''Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!'''s Charlie the robot. Their real intention was to get the last three pieces of the Planispheric Disk from the original Mystery Incorporated, assembling the full disk at last.]]
** And ''then'' in Episode 41, the gang discovers [[spoiler: that there was yet ''another'' foursome of mystery solvers with an animal companion back during the earliest days of Crystal Cove, and like the first Mystery Incorporated, the animal companion betrayed them.]] I ''really'' wouldn't want to be Scooby at this point.
* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "Mystery Inc. is dead."]]
** [[spoiler: "Don't expect me home for dinner...ever."]]
** And right before that: [[spoiler: "If you're watching this, you're probably wondering what's happened to your pieces of the Planispheric Disc. In a word you've been conned, scammed, bamboozled." ]]
** [[spoiler: "The dog... ''DIES!''"]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In episode 13 the gang visits a victim in the hospital and asks for information on the Cicada monster. They end up giving the poor guy a heart attack, his monitor flatlines, and they sneak off as the nurses are rushing in the crash cart. His fate is never revealed.
** Episode 21: We never know what happened to Brenda and Dylan after the Manticore attacked them in the cold opening.
*** Brenda and Dylan show up in episode 35 and discuss their hospitalization and therapy.
** Episode 26: We don't know what became of Ed Machine after Professor Pericles visits him. We just see lights flashing and hear Ed in what sounds like agony.
*** The latter two may fall under GoryDiscretionShot.
*** [[WordOfGod Tony Cervone]] clarified on Twitter that Pericles killed Ed Machine.
* WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys: Being thoroughly convincing up until the inevitable unmasking, the monsters are (almost) always asked where they get their get the resources to ''be'' monsters in all but physical constitution. The explanations are usually utterly ludicrous.
* WheresTheFunInThat:
-->'''Shaggy''': Can you give us a straight answer?
-->'''Mr. E''': Where's the fun in that?
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: All we know is that Crystal Cove is a town near the Pacific founded by conquistadors; possibly somewhere in California.
** It is. It's south of Los Angeles proper along Pacific Coast Highway (California highway 1) between Newport Beach and Dana Point.
* WhiteAndGreyMorality: Episode 20. "We have to destroy the environment to save it!"
** Episode 32: [[spoiler: Cassidy pleads with Brad and Judy to place Fred's interests first; that the search for the treasure has destroyed everything the team originally stood for. They turn a deaf ear so Cassidy leaves them.]]
* WhoIsDriving: In episode 27, Scooby barrels a tank into the barracks at the military school where Shaggy is attending so he can break him out.
** Shaggy operates Blue Falcon's Falconcar in episode 40.
* WholePlotReference: Chargargothicon was a reference to the many ''[[Creator/HPLovecraft Necronomicon]]'' [[FanDumb forgeries]]. The names have been changed to protect the innocent... and for some reason implicate Robert E. Howard.
** "Where Walks Aphrodite" is basically ''InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers'', down to the inhuman shriek.
* WhoWouldWantToWatchUs: At the end of "Nightfright."
* WilhelmScream
* WorkingWithTheEx: There's some tension in the team after Shaggy breaks up with Velma in Season 1. In Season 2, [[spoiler:Daphne returns to the team]], but emphatically wants to remain JustFriends with [[spoiler:Fred]]. It is also revealed that [[spoiler:Cassidy/Angel Dynamite]] used to be the object of affection of [[spoiler:Ricky/Mr. E]].
** In episode 37, [[spoiler:just before sacrificing herself, Cassidy is asked by Daphne about her relationship with Ricky. She tells Daphne that ended a long time back and in Fred's case, she urges Daphne to not make the same mistake.]]
** [[spoiler: There's something about Velma, being Cassidy's counterpart, that Mr. E seems to fancy. In episode 33, he wants her to join his side again. She refuses.]]
* TheWormThatWalks: The Cicada Creature, shaped like ''and'' made of cicadas, in episode 13.
* XMeetsY: ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'' meets ''TwinPeaks''.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: The greeter at the medieval fair professes nothing but contempt at the pirates who attend on the outside, but in private secretly wishes to be one.
* YouMeddlingKids: Lampshaded in the ''first episode'', and then becomes a MadLibsCatchPhrase.
-->'''Episode 2: ''' '''[[spoiler: Gunther Gator]]:''' If it weren't for you meddling [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness juveniles with your unauthorized investigation of our synthetic gator accessories.]]
-->'''Episode 3:''' '''[[spoiler: Rung Ladderton]]:''' If it weren't for you meddling... peers.
-->'''Episode 6:''' '''[[spoiler: Alice May]]:''' If it weren't for you meddling.... schoolmates .... of mine.
-->'''[[spoiler: Maxwell the copy boy]]''' uses it straight in episode 15 but the gang say it doesn't apply; that's because '''[[spoiler: a group of video game designers who dress up as NobleDemon Orks on motorcycles]]''' are the people who actually captured him.
-->'''[[spoiler: In Episode 18, Fred interrupts the speech while Scooby agrees that it's been run into the ground.]]'''
-->'''[[spoiler: Episode 19 has the bad guy thank the meddling kids because after he gets out of jail, he'll be able to collect the rights for the movie based on his time as a jackass in a rubber mask messing with people.]]'''
-->'''Episode 20''' has the perps saying if it wasn't for [[spoiler: the mermaid that tipped Velma off about the mystery earlier]].
-->'''Episode 21''' has the perp gets a card from a fortunetelling machine which reads, "''Meddling kids and a dog will foil your plan''" which satisfies Fred, who felt there was something missing when it wasn't said by the perp out loud.
-->'''Episode 22''' has the culprit calling the gang "those meddling sycophants."
-->'''Episode 23:''' Averted as the culprit was [[spoiler: Professor Pericles, who took off with the disc piece Fred's dad had--and apparently took from Pericles years ago.]]
-->'''Episode 24:''' Fred tells his dad that perp "wouldn't have gotten away with it if it weren't for us meddling kids."
-->'''Episode 25:''' [[spoiler: Alice May calls Angel a "meddling sassy pants."]]
-->'''Episode 26:''' [[spoiler: Mayor Jones calls Fred "my meddling... Fred," tying into the revelation that he's not actually Freddy's birth father.]]
-->'''Episode 28:''' [[spoiler: Curator Vronski would have gotten away with it "if it wasn't for you decadent bourgeois teenagers and your slobbering democracy-loving dog!"]]
-->'''Episodes 17 and 34''' avert this. The antagonist in episode 17 was swallowed by an earthquake, while in episode 34, [[spoiler:Hot Dog Water--unmasked by Velma as the perp--simply hands Velma the disc piece and leaves. The rest of the gang was still covered in debris from the galleon wreckage.]]
-->[[spoiler: Professor Pericles delivers the line straight in episode 37, attributing those "meddling kids" to his failure to eliminate Cassidy.]]
--> AMC cell phone reminder: The entire audience says, "Keep it down, you meddling kids!"
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: At the end of Episode 18, [[spoiler: it turned out that the girl the dude in the costume was chasing was also after the Dragon's Heart ruby; she'd used [[LawfulStupid Shaggy]]'s crush on her to manipulate [[BatmanGambit the gang into taking out the competition.]]]]
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** Episode 25: Hatecraft's novel about Char Gar Gothikon is supposedly [[NaughtyTentacles a major hit in Japan]]...
** For a non-sexual one let's go back to episode 21 with Angel and Velma. [[spoiler: Angel tells Velma to keep the identity of her as Cassidy Williams a secret.]] Now compare that to the first 10 episodes with Velma's relationship with Shaggy. We all know that keeping secrets NEVER leads to anything good. [[spoiler: Specifically because the gang is broken up and Daphne has blamed Velma for causing this for keeping Angel's identity a secret.]]

* ActingForTwo: FrankWelker is pulling double-duty as Fred and Scooby again, as well as providing menacing sounds the various non-speaking monsters make.
** He's also Daphne's dad. Try not to think about all the ways you can make that creepy.

* SeriesHiatus: Has had one, and is currently on it's second.

** It is. It's along Pacific Coast Highway (California highway 1) between Newport Beach and Dana Point.

*** Perhaps not. [[spoiler:Since then, Daphne has rejoined the gang after she is kidnapped by the Crybaby Clown, who turned out to be her new boyfriend, though she hasn't yet decided whether to take Fred back or not.]]

After Scooby and friends solve many mysteries around their home of Crystal Cove[[note]]There is an actual Crystal Cove in California, about 40 miles south of Los Angeles along the coast on the Pacific Highway. Whether or not the show's locale is based on it is not clear.[[/note]], the town, decides it's had enough of them debunking prospective tourist attractions and cracks down on the Scooby gang's mystery solving. It doesn't work. HilarityEnsues.

* ArcWords: "This has all happened before" and [[spoiler:"Nibiru..."]]

* FiveFiveFive: A radio version - Angel Dynamite's station is 104.2, and FM stations always end in an odd digit.
** Though the station is noted as being an AM, which are typically on lower bands anyway.

* BigBad: The first season's is revealed to be [[spoiler: Mayor Jones]], while [[spoiler: Professor Pericles]] is shaping up to be the next season's.
** BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler: Jones]] and [[spoiler: Pericles]].
** [[spoiler:In season 2, the original Mystery Inc minus Angel Dynamite.]]

** That very wrong thing [[ArtifactOfDoom is a treasure hidden by the conquistadors]]; it's said that trying to find it could well bring about the destruction of the city.
*** Episode 20: [[spoiler: Velma appears to be on the verge of unraveling this giant enigmatic knot.]]

-->'''Episode 6:''' '''[[spoiler: Alice]]:''' If it weren't for you meddling.... schoolmates .... of mine.

** [[spoiler: Mayor Jones just has to be ''the worst'' out of them. For starters, he's not Fred's real dad.]]

* WhamEpisode: Episode 13 reveals that [[spoiler: the guy who has been helping Mr. E is the CEO of a company that puts landfill in their snack products. This can be verified through the voice credits [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0569501/ here]] ]].

** In episode 17 the villain becomes fed up with Mystery Inc. both beating his traps, and believing that they are trying to steal from him, tries to stab them repeatedly with a fire poker. In addition the traps he placed them in would have been fatal, if not for Fred's genre savvy.

** In episode 23 the villain shoots at them repeatedly and openly threatens to kill them, marking one of the few times the word "kill" has been used in the franchise.