Awesome / The Mad Scientists' Club

• Every single one of the club's Scooby Doo Hoaxes is breathtakingly elaborate, complex, and requires every member of the gang to contribute some neat tricks, but "The Flying Sorcerer" is probably the best, given how they create a remote controlled UFO, have it fly over the firehouse and pretend to deposit two little green men (a disguised Freddy and Dinky), who then escape without being seen, and also send hundreds of smaller balloon flying saucers into the sky.
• In The Big Egg, Harmon and Henry are both in full chess master mode while trying to steal a dinosaur egg from each other, leave behind a fake, or fake a dinosaur hatching, and while Henry ultimately wins (maybe), Harmon gets some grudging admiration from the spectators when he reveals his full plan.
• In "The Great Gas Bag Race," the Mad Scientists' Club's hot air balloon finishes the race about an hour ahead of any of the few other contestants who actually finish (several balloons got blown into trees on takeoff and deflated, and others get stuck trying to navigate through the hills).
  • When the club's balloon seems like it can't get unmoored during takeoff and is about to get thrashed around and wrecked, Zeke Boniface cuts the last rope just in time.
• In "The Telltale Transmitter":
  • The gang stumbles across a bank robbery and convince a deputy to go with them to where they think the crooks are making a boat getaway, then shine a bunch of lights to make it look like a whole Posse is there and make the thieves surrender.
  • Dinky tricks the bank robbers into taking his radio (which has a homing beacon) by making sure they notice it and then begging them to let him keep it.
  • Dinky escapes from a hideout the robbers left him in and then gets help by using a combination of tricks he's read about that were used by the escape artist Harry Houdini and the Native Americans.
• Harmon Muldoon outsmarts the club in "The Cool Caravan" by using some fake radio relays to make them think that he and his gang are trapped inside an underwater cavern when they're really raiding the Mad Scientists' Clubhouse.
• In "The Great Confrontation," Dinky, Freddy, and Zeke's dog Kaiser Bill chase two of Harmon's buddies out of a boat and then take it for themselves to escape from an island where Harmon marooned them as the latest step of his Escalating War with the Mad Scientists' Club. Then the club lures Harmon and his right-hand man Stony into a boxcar and lock it right before it leaves for the next town, with it taking hours for Harmon and Stony to get home.
• In The Big Kerplop!:
  • Colonel March proves that the missing atom bomb isn’t irradiating crops by helping himself to a bunch of local-grown watermelon in plain view of the press.
  • The club, the Air Force, and some local geologists team up to find a tunnel leading to the underground cavern, pump it out, and safely remove the bomb.
• In "The Big Chunk of Ice":
  • Charlie and Mortimer survive an avalanche that hits while they are rappelling down into a crevasse, rescue another climber, and help rescuers navigate their way to them.
• Dinky recognizes the two main villains of the book even through blurred photos and clever disguises by picking up on a mole one has and the way the other ties his shoes. His Sherlock Scan abilities end up being praised by three professional Great Detectives.
  • After returning to America, the club ends up boobytrapping their clubhouse to catch some international crooks, and when one of them nearly escapes the trap, he finds a detective waiting outside, having disabled the gang's getaway car.