Line #7 WesternAnimation/LegoScoobyDooHauntedHollywood


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3	''LEGO Scooby-Doo! Haunted Hollywood'' is the first Scooby movie to be done entirely in Lego style animation, starting the WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooDirectToVideoLegoFilmSeries. The movie involves the gang winning the chance to check out Brickton Studios, an old Hollywood movie studio. It's there that they encounter three ghosts (a mummy, a zombie, and a HeadlessHorseman) that threaten to shut down the studio. Now the gang has to investigate and make a movie in order to save the studio.
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5	!!''LEGO Scooby-Doo! Haunted Hollywood'' provides examples of:
6	* AdamWesting: The Elvira-like Drella Diabolique is voiced by [[Creator/ElviraMistressOfTheDark Elvira herself]].
7	* AlternateContinuity: This film being set in its own canon seems to be the case. The minor villain at the beginning is [[WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo Verona Dempsey]], the gang lives in [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated Crystal Cove]][[note]]assuming it's their hometown[[/note]], and Daphne's personality is similar to her ''WesternAnimation/BeCoolScoobyDoo'' incarnation.
8	* ArtShift: The first movie to be done in Lego style animation.
9	* BadBadActing: Shaggy and Drella, who both start their first scene reading their lines in a monotone, and Daphne, who spends her time as an extra staring blankly right down the camera.
10	* BadBoss: Fred's stint as a film director has him become one, promising Shaggy and Scooby that he would never put them in ''real'' danger because they're his friends but also having them perform all of the dangerous stunt work with only one helmet for protection. Velma eventually tells him that he's a brilliant director, but only when it comes to traps.
11	* ContinuityNod: The gang find a movie set of Grimsley Manor and Velma remarks that they know there aren't any zombies there because they've been to Grimsley Manor on one of their previous cases. This is a callback to the TV special ''Lego Scooby-Doo! Knight Time Terror''.
12	* DeadpanSnarker: Aside from Velma, as per the norm for modern Scooby-Doo productions, Drella also unleashes the snark at every available opportunity, which is no surprise given her voice actor.
13	* DenserAndWackier: Considering the animation, it's no surprise that this is one of the sillier installments of the franchise.
14	* TheDogWasTheMastermind: As per tradition for the ScoobyDooHoax, [[PlayingWithATrope but with a small twist to it]]. [[spoiler:The mummy and the zombie turn out to be the friendly staffer Junior, who wanted to honor his actor father's legacy. Meanwhile, the HeadlessHorseman averts this with his true identity being the unpleasant businessman Atticus Fink, who is established as wanting Brickton Studios to shut down from the start.]]
15	* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler:Unlike Atticus, who was maliciously trying to lower property value and gets arrested, Brickton tells the police to forgive Junior because he never purposely caused any damage and was motivated by walking in his father's footsteps.]]
16	* {{Expy}}:
17	** The late, classic horror film star, Boris Carnac, is this of Creator/BorisKarloff.
18	** Miss Diabolique, the gothic actress mainly known for a show where she adds funny commentary to classic horror movies, is this to Creator/ElviraMistressOfTheDark.
19	* FoundFootageFilms: InUniverse, the studio is saved when the gang decides to repurpose security camera footage of the ghost attacks into this kind of film and it's incredibly successful.
20	* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In the first shot, a poster for [[Film/AttackOfThe50FootWoman Attack of the 15 In. Woman]] [[Main/AttackOfThe50FootWhatever can be seen]]
21	* GambitPileup: It turns out that the three monsters have conflicting motivations. The HeadlessHorseman [[spoiler:is the businessman Atticus Fink, who wanted the studio to shut down so he could buy it for a song and turn it into a parking lot]], while the other two [[spoiler:are the same guy, "Junior" AKA Boris Carnac Jr., who was aghast at the studio filming romantic comedies to make ends meet and wanted it to return to making monster movies like in his father's time]].
22	* HeroismIncentive: Shaggy and Scooby's arc in this movie is about the two giving up Scooby Snacks in order to avoid being used as monster bait. Naturally, [[StatusQuoIsGod they go back to eating them in the end]], since they ended up as bait regardless.
23	* ImprobableHairstyleSequence: Drella goes through one with Scooby as the stylist while getting ready to film the movie, which is more plausible than most examples as they're LEGO minifigures, so he just swaps out her hair piece.
24	* KarloffKopy: Deceased horror actor Boris Carnac is obviously named for iconic horror actor Creator/BorisKarloff, though he also has elements from Lon Chaney Sr. in his nickname being "The Man of 999 Faces" (a play on Chaney's nickname as "The Man of a Thousand Faces") and having a son named Boris Carnac, Jr. in reference to Lon Chaney Jr.
25	* MaltShop: The gang visit one called "Walt's Malts", which kicks off the plot as Scooby and Shaggy's appetites scare off the contestants for an eating contest, meaning they win the grand prize trip by default.
26	* MeaningfulName: Atticus Fink, the unpleasant and contemptible businessman, truly is a fink.
27	* PrimaDonnaDirector: After he is assigned as a film director, Fred starts getting delusions of making an artistic film (at one point answering Velma's query about a scene that doesn't make sense by claiming that it's art, and doesn't need to explain everything), and has pretty strict expectations of the gang to perform their jobs well. He only snaps out of this mindset after the HeadlessHorseman destroys the camera footage.
28	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Brickton's only remaining cast and crew quit out of protest after the HeadlessHorseman disrupts the shoot of the studio's latest romantic comedy, much to his chagrin.
29	* ShoutOut: Shaggy and Scooby's goofing off montage has the former try on a Franchise/{{Batman}} costume.
30	* TakeThat: Brickton assigns Fred as the director of the movie after the original quits, with Fred being reluctant to take the role as he has no "artistic point of view or any original ideas". Brickton just assures him that means he's a natural.
31	* YouMeddlingKids: This series staple is used in a few different ways;
32	** Played for laughs at the opening act when Shaggy says it ''for'' Verona Dempsey, as he gets fed up with the usual shtick of him and Scooby being used as monster bait.
33	** Played straight at the end with [[spoiler:Atticus Fink, after he is unmasked as the HeadlessHorseman]].

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